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Brothers in Rock: SISTERS DOLL's Journey From Collie To Global Stardom · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Ossie from Sister's Doll and yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: the lead guitarist.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful, awesome.
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  Speaker 3: You're probably sick of this question, but there's no better
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  Speaker 3: way to kick off an interview, I guess with an
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  Speaker 3: annoying question.
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  Speaker 2: How did you guys get the name Sister's Doll?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I know, we do get asked out a lot
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  Speaker 1: actually because it's interesting, but the story ain't that exciting.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, when we began, were like, we want
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  Speaker 1: to do the whole glam rock thing, you know, do
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  Speaker 1: the whole We're a little bit more out there. We're
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  Speaker 1: a lot more colorful, and we'd wear them like pretty
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  Speaker 1: heavy makeup with pink blush and things like that, and
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  Speaker 1: we're like, okay, we want to be in that, like
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  Speaker 1: that glam veins. So at the time we were loving
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  Speaker 1: like Twisted Sister and we're looking at New York Dolls
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  Speaker 1: logo and we're like, I think Brennan now singer, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, how about Sister's Doll. We'll just try to
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  Speaker 1: come up with stuff and that He just blurted it out,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, it's kind of got good, good
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  Speaker 1: syllables to it. You know, Sister's doll people to chant
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  Speaker 1: it out and we're like, okay, we'll go with that,
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  Speaker 1: and that stuck for the past fifteen years now.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, oh that's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: So there's no real sort of story about some pig
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  Speaker 3: doll of someone's sisters or anything that.
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  Speaker 1: No, we played on the concept a bit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with the first album being Dollhouse and the second album
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  Speaker 1: was all old up and the third album now has
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  Speaker 1: a song called baby Doll, and yeah, we kind of
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  Speaker 1: kept it in that with that, within that concept a
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  Speaker 1: little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: And can you tell us about the inspiration behind your
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  Speaker 3: latest album, Scars.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. I mean, inspiration wise, it was kind
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  Speaker 1: of we hadn't released an album for a good The
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  Speaker 1: last the second album we released in twenty seventeen, so
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  Speaker 1: it's been like a good once that five six years
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  Speaker 1: before we've released like an album, and we'd released a
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  Speaker 1: single during that time. But it was like, it's time
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  Speaker 1: to release an album, I think, you know, like people
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  Speaker 1: were craving it, craving some new material, and we we
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  Speaker 1: were always writing a lot, and we sort of during
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  Speaker 1: COVID actually we sort of built like a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a studio at home so we could dammle up some
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  Speaker 1: music and some songs and sort of do some pre
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  Speaker 1: production stuff and that's basically what it was. Was just
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  Speaker 1: like the inspiration was just what we're gone through at
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  Speaker 1: the time, of what we've been through in our past lives.
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  Speaker 1: Hence why the album's called Scars, because each song sort
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  Speaker 1: of represents a scar of our lives that we've been through,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So and that's basically the inspiration. It was
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  Speaker 1: just we felt like it was time to release the
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  Speaker 1: new music, which we did and yeah, all of it
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  Speaker 1: began just with in this room literally like doing pre
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  Speaker 1: production and demoing up a bunch of songs. We got
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  Speaker 1: in touch with a producer, Ricky Ray out of Lighthill
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  Speaker 1: Sound Studios and he's very well respected in the Melbourne scene,
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  Speaker 1: in all of the Australian music industry. He does a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff. So yeah, that's just how it started.
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  Speaker 1: We got in touch with him, he said, send me songs.
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  Speaker 1: He just keep sending me songs and we're constantly demoing
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  Speaker 1: and we picked the best out of a lot and
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  Speaker 1: it is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah awesome. And I was watching a clip from
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  Speaker 3: You Guys way back in the day and it was
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  Speaker 3: an American I believe you guys were going in around.
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  Speaker 2: An American town.
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  Speaker 3: It looked like Las Vegas. I could be totally wrong,
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  Speaker 3: but you guys were so young. Did you guys experience
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  Speaker 3: that success so rapidly and quickly overseas.
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  Speaker 1: At the time. When we first went to America as
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  Speaker 1: a band, we were there for about three weeks and
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  Speaker 1: we were based sort of in LA for the three weeks,
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  Speaker 1: and we did shows at the Whiskey and there was
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  Speaker 1: like a music seminar we went to and we did
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  Speaker 1: we went to Vegas and things like that. And during
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  Speaker 1: that time, we're only there for three weeks. This was
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  Speaker 1: like in twenty twelve, I think it was. And during
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  Speaker 1: that short amount of time were there were creating a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a buzz, like people were trying to get
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  Speaker 1: in touch with us, and we met a lot of
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  Speaker 1: agents and publicists and things like that, and during that
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  Speaker 1: short time were there, like things were starting to happen.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it was we had management at the
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  Speaker 1: time that wasn't very fitting for us, and it kind
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  Speaker 1: of held us back a little bit. But then we
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  Speaker 1: were very young too. But the experience we had there
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  Speaker 1: was great. It was starting to grow, but we're only
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  Speaker 1: there for the three weeks, and then we never went
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  Speaker 1: back for like for years until only recently recent years
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  Speaker 1: been going back a little bit more what's the word occasionally,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but a bit more frequently, sorry to sort
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  Speaker 1: of touch the masses there because they seem to love it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, that must have been crazy, so young experience
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  Speaker 3: that at the time, I can imagine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, Like I mean at the time, I think
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  Speaker 1: I was like fourteen or something, and there was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: publicists and agents all keen on us, and like they're like,
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  Speaker 1: we need to move here, like we they gave us
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  Speaker 1: a tour around like this apartment complex to like live, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't obviously go through with it, but at the
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  Speaker 1: time it was like it was tempting and we just
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  Speaker 1: and then we went through a rough patch after that
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  Speaker 1: with personal band reasons and management and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: so it kind of held us back. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're stronger than ever now, so whatever happens now, who knows.
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  Speaker 3: And you know what, it might not have worked out
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  Speaker 3: in the end anyway, if you did jump on.
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  Speaker 1: That, maybe not. Yeah, maybe I'm sure there was a
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  Speaker 1: reason for it that it didn't happen, So.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 3: And how do you balance your distinct sound whilst exploring
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  Speaker 3: new musical territories.
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  Speaker 1: That's a really good question. Good. It's basically like the
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  Speaker 1: four of us have a we have about each individual
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  Speaker 1: sort of like personal taste. Like collectively collectively we know
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  Speaker 1: we love Kiss and Van Halen and Motley Crue and
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  Speaker 1: all the big guys, you know, but personally, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: Brass is heavy into like Machine Gun, Kelly and I
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  Speaker 1: love like Post Malone. You know, Brennan's Brennan's quite into
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  Speaker 1: our singer. He's quite into he likes a lot of
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  Speaker 1: country stuff and things like that. Like he's very lyrically driven,
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  Speaker 1: so a lot of that stuff touches him a bit.
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  Speaker 1: And say Jay younger brother who's recently joined, is a
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  Speaker 1: bass player now he's he's got his own taste too.
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  Speaker 1: So we whatever comes out of us is pretty much natural,
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  Speaker 1: like whatever we're writing in the in the moment, Like
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  Speaker 1: Brennan will bring some lyrics to me and a song idea,
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  Speaker 1: so you just you really go with what fits the song.
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  Speaker 1: And with all the music we do, it's not like
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  Speaker 1: we don't try to write like, oh, this is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a heavy song. We're gonna let's try write a
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  Speaker 1: let's try to write a hit, let's try write this
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. It's just like, whatever comes through us in
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  Speaker 1: that moment is what comes through. And I guess like
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  Speaker 1: just by like, all our influences come through within that.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I hope you can't hear my.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, it sounds fine.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely, you can definitely hear all those influences in your music.
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  Speaker 2: But I think what's great about you guys is that there's.
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  Speaker 3: Not one of those influences that I can be like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: they've just ripped off kiss or you know, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 2: You've combined them all and made it your own.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we try to, you know, like and again it's
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  Speaker 1: not like we don't try to sound like people like
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  Speaker 1: we get a lot of we do actually get a
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  Speaker 1: lot of comments saying like, oh, I hear a lot
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  Speaker 1: of kiss harmonies and it sounds like kiss, and like
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  Speaker 1: does it We're like, really, we don't hear any kiss
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  Speaker 1: in our music at all, Like maybe a little, but
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  Speaker 1: we don't it just you know, but it naturally comes through,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, And if that's what people hear, that's what
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  Speaker 1: they hear, but no, it's never We don't try to
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  Speaker 1: sound like people. We try to sound like us. And
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  Speaker 1: we feel like with this album we've sort of really
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  Speaker 1: found our sound and it's just it all naturally comes through.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever we feel is what we feel. And yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 3: And then so I suppose going back to your very
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  Speaker 3: early days your childhood, was that music being that type
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  Speaker 3: of music being played a lot at home and is
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  Speaker 3: that what got you into that genre?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. Our dad was. He was a
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  Speaker 1: music musician. He played in a lot of cover bands
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  Speaker 1: and he had his own original stuff too. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like growing up, like I think the first music I
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  Speaker 1: heard when I came in from the hospital, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like being born was probably kissed cranking on the speakers.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Like, but we my dad, our dad
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  Speaker 1: was you know, we had all the kiss Rememberabilier in
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  Speaker 1: our house. We have the kiss pinball, We have the
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  Speaker 1: kissed posters everywhere, like just you know's we have were
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  Speaker 1: brought up and you know, but he didn't crank and
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  Speaker 1: everything things from like Van Halen, Yeah, yeah, kiss def Leppard,
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  Speaker 1: even some Shania Twain, Like there's a whole variety of
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  Speaker 1: stuff he'd crank. So we'll just we just had that
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  Speaker 1: variety in US. And I mean obviously the main core
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  Speaker 1: genre was rock and roll, so that's it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: just naturally in us. We don't we didn't choose that genre.
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  Speaker 1: We just it's what we felt like we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: do because that's what we looked up to as kids.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it chose you. The genre chose you exactly, great
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  Speaker 2: way to put it.
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  Speaker 1: You said it better than me.
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  Speaker 2: That's great, and you did briefly touch on it before
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  Speaker 2: you like post Malone.
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  Speaker 3: Is there any other musical artists that you like that
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  Speaker 3: may be a bit of a surprise given the music
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  Speaker 3: you make.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, Like I'm influenced by a lot of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: Like like, honestly, you know, I don't know how rock
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  Speaker 1: and roll fans wold feel about this, but like Sabrina Carpenter,
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  Speaker 1: I think some of her music's great, even some music
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  Speaker 1: by like Olivia Rodrigo or where the four of us
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  Speaker 1: acquorded to young Blood as well. We feel like he's great,
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  Speaker 1: really keeping that spirit alive a rock and roll But
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  Speaker 1: you know, you've got to listen to everything. I think
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  Speaker 1: when you're in a band, you can't be stuck in
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  Speaker 1: the one genre because even like a lot of funk
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  Speaker 1: and jazz stuff as well a lot of classical music
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  Speaker 1: and things like that, so that kind of gets brought
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  Speaker 1: into our musics, even some Flamenco guitar playing and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of that sort of in that in that vein
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  Speaker 1: of Flamenco playing with like the acoustic I level that
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  Speaker 1: classical stuff. And hence why intro is a little bit
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  Speaker 1: like the intro to the album is I try my
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  Speaker 1: best to do like a bit of Flamenco guitars, like
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  Speaker 1: a fast acoustic guitar thing going on, And that's just
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  Speaker 1: what I'm into and what I like. And again for
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  Speaker 1: the four of us, there's a different taste that we're
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  Speaker 1: all into and we sort of bring to the band
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  Speaker 1: just just naturally. And if it works, it works, If
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, awesome.
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  Speaker 3: And can you share a memorable experience you've had during
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  Speaker 3: a previous tour.
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  Speaker 1: Experience? H Oh, that's a good question. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: there's so many. I feel like a memorable experience. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we we were touring Australia. We're going up into touring
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  Speaker 1: up the East coast and we had like a Toyota
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  Speaker 1: Highest it was the van that we had, and it
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  Speaker 1: was like a twelve seat of van, and we had
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  Speaker 1: this massive trailer attached to it was like a two
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  Speaker 1: ton one ton trailer. I don't know how big it was,
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  Speaker 1: but it was huge. It's bigger than the van. And
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  Speaker 1: this van of ours was really old, and we're like
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  Speaker 1: traveling like really uphill steeps and things like this, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, and we traveled like on the road for
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  Speaker 1: like eight or six weeks straight with like no breaks,
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  Speaker 1: and we're playing at this time, we're playing to like
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  Speaker 1: rock a better venue and played on maybe like two
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  Speaker 1: people or ten people if we're lucky, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: even even our tour manager or already at the time
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  Speaker 1: was all we were playing to. You know, like yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So we did that for weeks, and we're living off
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  Speaker 1: fast food and takeaway and you know, things like that,
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  Speaker 1: and like we were so wrecked out. I think our
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  Speaker 1: van broke down maybe three times on this tour. And
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  Speaker 1: on our way back, we're about two hours away or
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  Speaker 1: an hour and a half away from home, and a
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  Speaker 1: van fully broke down. And I think the clutch of
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  Speaker 1: the of the van because it was a manual van.
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  Speaker 1: The clutch broke down, so we're stuck on strand on
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  Speaker 1: the side of the road for like hours until we
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  Speaker 1: had the Finally, because we're in the middle of nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: we had the you know, the car repair or whatever
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  Speaker 1: you call it, the tow truck to come pick us up.
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  Speaker 1: And we had hardly eaten. We were so thin, just
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  Speaker 1: eaten like crap for the whole tour. And I think
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  Speaker 1: our mom at the time had to come pick us up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, and she said she saw us and she
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  Speaker 1: was like, you just looked so unwell. And that's a story,
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  Speaker 1: just a lot of breakdowns, and yeah, there's endless stories that,
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  Speaker 1: but off the top of my head, that's the one
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, mum having to save the day.
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  Speaker 1: She came and saved day. I have another story, can
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  Speaker 1: I say another story? Yeah, this one just comes to me.
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  Speaker 1: This is probably a bit more funny. Well. Performing at
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  Speaker 1: a at a local pub in Bunbury, Western Australia, and
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  Speaker 1: I was probably like maybe twelve or thirteen at the
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  Speaker 1: time and me and my Brennan, my brother will front
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  Speaker 1: row at the front of the stage. Am I doing
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  Speaker 1: our thing And there's this older woman sort of like
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  Speaker 1: grabbing our legs and trying to grope us and things
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  Speaker 1: like that. She's probably like her sixties or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm really young at the time. Even Brennan was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and she was very doing a lot of
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  Speaker 1: gestures and things to us. And then she hadn't seen
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  Speaker 1: her for the rest of the night. And then someone
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  Speaker 1: comes up comes up to me at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the show while we're trying to pack up, and she's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: some woman's here. She says she's your mum and she
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  Speaker 1: really needs to see you, and she's locked herself in
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom. And I was like, my mum was actually
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  Speaker 1: there at the show this night, and I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my mother's here. She's you know, like I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what you're talking about. Yeah, and then she's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: she's claiming you or her son, and she really needs
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  Speaker 1: to see you guys, and she's locked herself in the bathroom,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like okay. And I was like I
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  Speaker 1: had no idea who this woman is. And then this
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  Speaker 1: lady created a big scene. The security guards had to
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  Speaker 1: come drag her out the toilet and she was like
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  Speaker 1: screaming at the top of her lungs, like I need
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  Speaker 1: to see my sons, they're my kids. And she ended
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  Speaker 1: up getting tasered. She got tasered to get out of
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  Speaker 1: the venue because she was so like in belief that
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  Speaker 1: we were her sons. And yeah, so that was that
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  Speaker 1: was a good one.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that was a lucky miss as well. I feel
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  Speaker 3: like that could have gone very south.
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  Speaker 2: Geez.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know it was pretty intense, but she
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  Speaker 1: was just she was on she was very intoxicated on whatever.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That was scary for me that song because I was
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  Speaker 1: only young. I don't know who this woman. I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen her in my life.
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  Speaker 2: But that don't make a good like mini movie or
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  Speaker 2: something that's insane, I know, right, Christ have you had
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  Speaker 2: any following that?
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  Speaker 3: Have you had any like weird or cool fan interactions
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  Speaker 3: since then?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's been like a whole bunch of again, like
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  Speaker 1: so many to try and think off the top of
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  Speaker 1: my head. It is hard to remember one time, a young,
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  Speaker 1: a young girl. She was just off the top of
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  Speaker 1: my head. This first one that has come to my
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  Speaker 1: head sause I find it cool. She's she was like
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  Speaker 1: a deaf girl. She was deaf and she'd come to
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  Speaker 1: our shows all the time and she was a huge fan.
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  Speaker 1: And there was one time where she come up to
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  Speaker 1: us and she's holding this little this little some little
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  Speaker 1: machine and we're like, oh, watch this, and she's like,
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  Speaker 1: can you, like you know, Jess, can you sign her?
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  Speaker 1: Her guardian was there like translating, but said like, can
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  Speaker 1: you sign this for me? And we're like, oh she was.
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  Speaker 1: She was like go to her hearing aid and we're
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: like okay, yeah, so we like to sign it for
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  Speaker 1: her and and then she put it right back on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's a cool experience. We've had people buy a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of shit for us, like a lot of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of gifts and things like that, and it's it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's there's endless stories. But off the top of
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  Speaker 1: my head, that's what's come to my head.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's beautiful. What a beautiful story.
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  Speaker 1: If you think, yeah, at a moment, I always remember,
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: it's a beautiful moment. I always remember. And that was
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: like that was a good ten years ago now, but
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: it always sticks with me that because it's like, well,
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: this younger who is maybe like nine or something, was
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: hands us to a little hearing aid to sign for
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: it was really cool. It's going to make me cry,
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: I know, right to touch.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: Oh do year? Outside of music, what are some of
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: your favorite hobbies or activities?
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, I do. I like to work out a lot
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: of stuff, same as my younger brother. He's my younger
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: brother's actually in the band the Basse play his personal trainer,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: so we we exercise a lot and do a lot
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: of working out, as well as the other boys too
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: in their own time, but me and him are pretty
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: heavy on it and do it pretty constantly. So that's
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: quite a quite a hobby. I guess I'm not here
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: to try to look like a bodybuild or anything. It's
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: just to keep it, you know. No, Yeah, that's right. Yeah,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: So there's a bit of that. But as well, I'm
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: quite I'm myself. I'm just I'm quite obsessed with the
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: guitar a little bit and music in general. So I'm
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: always doing something on guitar or always writing something, or
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: I've got amps and things like that and different guitars.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I'm always I'm always on the guitar. That's a big
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: thing I do. So that's it really is as well
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: as in the band. It's just a personal hobby of
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: mine I enjoy doing.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. And I heard you guys have got
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: a huge USA two of coming up.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: How do you guys do about that? Yeah, we're good,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: We're excited for it. I mean, I've looked at the
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: tour poster recently and I was like, I already feel
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: tired looking at that. But it is what it is,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: and we're we're excited for it. There's there's We've got
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: the Monsters of Rock Crews coming up next month or
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: next I think we take off on the seventh of March,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: which is like next Thursday, I think anyway, but it's
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: going to be intense, and but it's each time we
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: do a tour overseas is always like a great experience.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: We have some great stories that come out of it.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: So yeah, we're excited for all that. I just recently
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: purchased a camera for myself, like a nice, a nice
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: good camera, because I want to document all this stuff,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: and so I'm excited for that too, So to see
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: what sort of stories come out of it.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, that's awesome.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: And is there one place in particular that you've always
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: wanted to play or that you're excited to play.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like we love going to LA all
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: the time because the vibe there is always great, especially
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: when we do shows there. People are really into it
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: and there the followings growing there. It's it's always exciting.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Then there's always good stories that come out of it.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: But as well, especially this this monster is a rock
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: cruise thing we got going on. We're super excited for
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: that because we're playing with like heroes of ours, especially
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of Extreme and Nuno Bettancourt who's
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: a guitarist and he's like one of my biggest influencers
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: and idols. And so I'm going to be like stuck
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: on a vote with those guys for five days, like
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try bump into them. I don't know what
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: I'm going to do, but you got it. Yeah, we're
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: super excited for that. But there's not I mean just
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: those those guys. There's like George Lynch, who's another guitarist
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I'm heavily into. There's Uh, there's like just endless artists
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: that are on there that are there were big influences
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: for us growing up. So we're excited for that.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's wicked, And do you have any pre show
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: rituals or routines that help get you in the zone.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Hmmm. Yeah, my my little pre show rituals will just
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: sit there and I just feeling my guitar like going
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: up and down, up and down the neck like constantly.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: That's just for a warm up side of things. Uh.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: There is a little bit of a ritual. We haven't
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: actually spoken of this, but we kind of just naturally
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: do it before we go on stage. When we're on
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: stage ready to start, we all have to fist bump
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: each other nice. And if we don't or if for
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: me any if we don't, if I don't touch each
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: of their fists, I feel like something something Yeah, bad luck,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: you know. I mean that was like if I don't
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: perform with this bracelet, Oh, if I don't perform with this,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I feel weird, Like I have to have it.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: What can you what's on it?
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: It's a it's just a regular bracelet. Yeah, so it's
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: like a chain bracelet. I got to like my eighteenth
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: birthday or something. I don't know when it was, but
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: that's just always kept it. And then there's a little
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: madellion on there that a friend of mine gave to
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: me that I've added tour that you keep you safe and.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, shoot, oh that's wicked. When you guys are touring,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: do you still like party hard after you guys have
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: come off a tour or in between, or do you
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: like to keep it relaxed so you can recharge.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: If we've come off a tour or a show, how
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: about both both for a show Before a show, we
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: don't like to drink at all or be intoxicating in
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: any intoxicated in any way, because the show is very
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: important to us and putting on the shows what we
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: care about the most, because when we're on stage, just like,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: this is what we're here. You know, this is an
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: important thing and it's very serious to us, and we
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: like to give a good show and not be intoxicated
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: while doing so. But after the show, if we're not
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: packing down a whole bunch of equipment because we have
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: a pretty we did our album MO it's recently in Melbourne,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: and we have the drums that spin, we have you know,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: some pyrotechnic stuff and there's a lot that goes into
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: the show stuff. We have a show like that, there's
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: a lot to pack down. It takes like a good
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: hour or so. A good couple of hours to sort
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: of everything packed up, and then we may have a
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: long drive home or so for those sort of shows,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: we don't really get to party afterwards as much as
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: we'd probably like to. But you know, we have the
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: shows where we have minimal equipment and we can kind
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: of pack up quickly and we're like, all right, let's
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: head to yeah, the next bar and sort of kick
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: on afterwards. And but yeah, but on a tour, like yeah,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: we're always it's like that, depending on how the show is.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: If we don't have much equipment, if we've got a
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: quick pack up, yeah we'll kick on and party on
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: it it afterwards. And yeah. But yeah, once tour is done,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: we all go back to our personal personal jobs and
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: everything like that. So we can't continue on that life
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: after a tour.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, I can imagine.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: And speaking of personal jobs, last question, yeah you just
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: mentioned it. Do you have a personal another side job aside.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: From the band. Yeah, I do. I just work at
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: a like a JB high fives.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Well yeah, yeah, perfect person for it.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah it's good, it's fitting.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, I lovely Ossie. It's been such a pleasure, pleasure,
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: pleasure to talk to you today. Thank you so much
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: for your time and best of luck with the tour.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much appreciate it. Thanks for doing