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EIVØR: Darkness, Drums And The Space Between · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Good evening.
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  Speaker 1: Hi. It worked.
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  Speaker 3: How about you? Welcome to Happy Mag.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good. I'm good. You've been having a lot of
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  Speaker 3: happen for yourself lately, which is pretty exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. There's stuff going on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. You want to tell the good people here at
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  Speaker 3: Happy Mag all about it and what you've done and
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  Speaker 3: Give us the dates, as they say.
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  Speaker 2: Well, right now I'm on tour in Europe on a summer,
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  Speaker 2: like a festival tour.
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  Speaker 3: Excellent.
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  Speaker 1: And we were having a day off today.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm just enjoying the, you know, peace and quiet
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  Speaker 2: in my hotel room.
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  Speaker 3: Nice. All places.
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  Speaker 1: And chatting to you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that was wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we played a festival called Brutal Assault.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: In Czech Republic a few days ago.
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  Speaker 3: And was that good?
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  Speaker 1: One of the coolest festivals I've played for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome. So cool. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The festivals get over there, get pretty big, don't they?
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  Speaker 3: They're pretty wild numbers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's intense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they do.
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  Speaker 3: Lots of, lots of fun. Very enjoyable. So I hear.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's great. Yeah. It's a hard day off
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  Speaker 3: in the hotel room. It's always good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Today's the day off. Otherwise we're traveling in a bus
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  Speaker 1: and it will take us to Holland.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: After this tomorrow, actually. So yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's good.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's plenty of other stuff going on, of course.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: You've had a new release. So tell us all about that.
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  Speaker 3: That's exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I finished an album a few months ago and
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  Speaker 2: I've released two.
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  Speaker 1: Songs so far. Yeah. And it's exciting.
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  Speaker 2: It's always exciting to release new material. Horrifying and exciting at.
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  Speaker 3: The same time. Yeah, because it's like releasing your works
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  Speaker 3: into the public to be absorbed. You never know how
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  Speaker 3: it's going to go, but. I imagine it's been well
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  Speaker 3: received so far. You've got a bit of a legend
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  Speaker 3: status by all what I understand with yourself and the
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  Speaker 3: pagan Nordic scene. Tell us a little bit about that
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  Speaker 3: so some of our listeners might not be too familiar
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  Speaker 3: with that side of heavy metal, which is its own
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  Speaker 3: genre and cult status.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny because I've never seen myself as a, like
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  Speaker 2: a metal artist or like.
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  Speaker 1: Any specific genre, really.
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  Speaker 2: But the music I create kind of connects with that
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  Speaker 2: world somehow a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's maybe also through, like you mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: the Nordic.
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  Speaker 2: Aspect of it, like the dark, there's a darkness in
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  Speaker 2: the Nordic sound.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. And just even pagan themes as well. I
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  Speaker 3: think there's a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And the Nordic mythology, which is like a big part
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  Speaker 2: of my Faroese folk.
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  Speaker 1: Music, where I come from.
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  Speaker 2: So it's always been something that inspired me and kind
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  Speaker 2: of found its way into my music somehow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's quite unique in itself.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's also the cinematic aspect of it, which
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  Speaker 2: is kind of a.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's also like a quite metal-y thing. In my head,
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it is. Yeah, yeah. There's a
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  Speaker 3: lot to, you know, work with the themes, which, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like you say, they are, you know, that metal scene
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  Speaker 3: sort of, they'd like to draw from that. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's mystic influences and, you know, messages that they put
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  Speaker 3: out and, you know, they imply a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, being too direct, I guess, is the way
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  Speaker 3: they get room to play. with that kind of thing,
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  Speaker 3: which is cool. And being a female, female fronting metal band,
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  Speaker 3: we love that. That's awesome. And so, so you've released two,
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  Speaker 3: two new songs. Is that right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have released two.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And what's the reception been like so far? Has
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  Speaker 3: it been, were received by fans?
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  Speaker 1: I think so.
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  Speaker 2: It's felt really good to, to share these songs with
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  Speaker 2: the fans and, And now, you know, you don't really
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  Speaker 2: get to kind of really test it or feel it
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  Speaker 2: until you play it live, which I'm doing now. We've
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  Speaker 2: been touring for a week now and played like almost
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  Speaker 2: every day.
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  Speaker 1: This is our first day off, I think.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just wonderful to like share this live.
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  Speaker 1: Moment with the audience and to play the new songs
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  Speaker 1: and kind of.
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  Speaker 1: And see that they are, like, receiving it well. That's nice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that is. That's good. And, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: admire anyone who can do a tour on a bus
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  Speaker 3: with their crew. You guys have got to have a
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  Speaker 3: good relationship. I imagine it gets pretty bad sometimes. Close combined.
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  Speaker 1: You have to see each other every morning, every day,
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  Speaker 1: every night.
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  Speaker 3: And it sounds like you've got a big tour on
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  Speaker 3: at the moment, which is, you know, good, but, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's also taxing as well after a while, so... How
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  Speaker 3: long is it going for that you are.
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of switch, you know, when I go on tour,
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  Speaker 2: I go into this totally different bubble where I'm like.
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  Speaker 3: You just.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you.
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  Speaker 2: Do and you do it every day and it's... I
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  Speaker 2: don't worry about... I'm often less stressed when I'm on tour,
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 1: For some reason.
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  Speaker 3: You just realize you can't control, you know, anything else
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  Speaker 3: outside of what this bus, you know, what's happening right now. Yeah. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: You just go with it. And all that matters is
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  Speaker 1: that you play a great show every night.
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  Speaker 3: For sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: So this tweet that you're currently on at the moment,
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  Speaker 3: how long have you got left with that? Whereabouts else
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  Speaker 3: will it take? You said Holland tomorrow? you're off to.
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  Speaker 2: Holland and then i uh we're going back to germany
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  Speaker 2: i think after that nice uh.
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  Speaker 1: And then i have a you know the bigger tour
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  Speaker 1: later this year yeah yeah in october i'm going to
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  Speaker 1: the u.s and oh that's.
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  Speaker 2: Exciting then around europe next year and hopefully i'll be
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  Speaker 2: back in australia.
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  Speaker 3: Soon yes yes i've heard some gossip about it Oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: gossip was always good. You heard it first here at
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  Speaker 3: Heavy Man, guys. We like that. An exclusive. So you've
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  Speaker 3: been out on the here before. How many times have
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  Speaker 3: you guys been out here?
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  Speaker 1: We've been twice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, nice.
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  Speaker 1: And we absolutely adore it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so nice.
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  Speaker 1: Just can't wait to come back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's... Such an amazing audience there.
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  Speaker 2: It's so cool to play in Australia.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's just fun and the people.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's nice to hear. Magical.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, we've got a pretty good medical scene down here
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  Speaker 3: and the fans, they love it. And, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: bands that do come out, they find this. And often
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  Speaker 3: they're quite surprised at just, you know, how many fans
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  Speaker 3: that they have down here, which is always nice. And
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  Speaker 3: we embrace it all.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. so that's exciting yeah so you're going to be
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  Speaker 3: a busy girl you're not going to have time to
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  Speaker 3: do much so hopefully writing some music in between there
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  Speaker 3: some more new stuff or just going to focus on
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  Speaker 3: what you've got at the moment and belt out the hits.
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  Speaker 2: I think probably now I'm going to just focus on
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  Speaker 2: the live aspect of it because it's been a lot
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  Speaker 2: of studio work the past you know the past year
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  Speaker 2: and also touring in between so it's been So now
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm, for a while, just going to enjoy
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  Speaker 2: playing new material and doing.
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  Speaker 1: The live side of it, which is a very different
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  Speaker 1: setting in the brain.
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  Speaker 2: It's much more outrovert, you know, you're like connecting with people.
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  Speaker 1: And when you're in the studio you're like in your
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  Speaker 1: own little.
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  Speaker 3: Space yeah yeah um like you said they're two completely
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  Speaker 3: different things they're both you know just as amazing but
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  Speaker 3: and it's just you know being performing live imagine it
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  Speaker 3: would be at the level that you're doing it and
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  Speaker 3: the amount that you're doing it you'd have to be
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  Speaker 3: almost match fit for the time you're doing it so
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  Speaker 3: I'd be like all right I've got it now and
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  Speaker 3: it's time to have a break but yeah it's it's
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  Speaker 3: a lot I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think There's always stuff to learn, but it's really
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  Speaker 2: one of my favorite things to do, to play live.
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  Speaker 2: It's where the music really makes sense, when you kind
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  Speaker 2: of have the audience with you, because it gets this
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  Speaker 2: extra dimension.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that connection, and for yourself, the stage presence. So
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  Speaker 3: with your production, is it quite theatrical, your live stuff
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  Speaker 3: as well, that you do? It is quite... Why?
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe some people would say that, yes.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's so much a plan that it's
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be theatrical, but.
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  Speaker 1: It's quite dreamy, I would say.
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  Speaker 2: I like to take people or invite them into some
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  Speaker 2: kind of dream state where they can dream, like their
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  Speaker 2: own dreams, like where there's space to kind of interpret
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  Speaker 2: things yeah and feelings and situations and.
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  Speaker 1: It's um um yeah it's quite basic also my setup my.
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  Speaker 4: Production is yeah you know we have a great band
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  Speaker 4: and we have Good lights and good sound and that's like.
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  Speaker 1: The main thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then what else do you need?
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  Speaker 3: That's it. No, it would be good to see. So
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  Speaker 3: no pyrotechnics, you know, or anything extra in the background.
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  Speaker 1: I would love, I would love that. I would love
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  Speaker 1: to have fire and all those things on stage.
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  Speaker 2: But we've had it a few times for like special occasions,
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  Speaker 2: for special shows. So I guess it depends what kind
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  Speaker 2: of stage you play.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the venue would depend on a lot, I would imagine,
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  Speaker 3: because those things are dangerous. I've seen some accidents. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to set the house on fire.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. No, you have to do that. My great photography
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  Speaker 3: as a concert photographer, I'm like, oh, that might be
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  Speaker 3: all right. Not when it goes too fast, seriously. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: that's amazing. So you're more touring for next year, which
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  Speaker 3: is the U.S. So you guys have been to the U.S. before,
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  Speaker 3: or is it going to be a first for yourselves?
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  Speaker 1: No, I've been there a few times.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, nice.
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  Speaker 1: A few times on tours.
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  Speaker 2: And I've done, like, I've toured for such a long time.
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  Speaker 2: And I've done so many different types of tours. I've
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  Speaker 2: done van tours in the US where we're driving for
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  Speaker 2: 14 hours straight to the next show. I've tried quite
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  Speaker 2: a few different types of touring during the years.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just excited now to go there and get
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  Speaker 1: to travel in a nightliner because it's just easier.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And you get to sleep.
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  Speaker 3: Yes yes because it's again it's a fairly big country
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  Speaker 3: as well when you're going in advance.
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  Speaker 1: Long distances yes.
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  Speaker 3: Wild it's like australia like you want to try it
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  Speaker 3: by van you want to do that by no exactly
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  Speaker 3: it's crazy like from syria a long way i was
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  Speaker 3: blown away by the system though in australia you know
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  Speaker 3: you can just fly you fly.
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  Speaker 2: Between yeah the cities and um And we were just
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  Speaker 2: all like, oh, they're so nice to us at the airport.
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  Speaker 2: We're used to, like, there always being such cons at
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  Speaker 2: airports everywhere, like, in the world.
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  Speaker 1: But in Australia, they're very good to musicians. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they are, actually. And even in domestic airlines, it's
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  Speaker 3: like we get free baggage and, like, it was music related. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, oh, yes, it's fine. Just put all your
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  Speaker 1: baggage there.
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  Speaker 3: It is. It's actually one of those odd things that, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: airlines and musicians, they kind of, you know. Notoriously, it
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  Speaker 3: can be bad, but for some reason here.
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  Speaker 1: They usually hate us.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because we have so much luggage.
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  Speaker 3: Australia's taken the right approach for one thing we got right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Out of many that I'm sure we definitely haven't.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that you definitely do have.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. Well, no, that's exciting. So more tours, new music,
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  Speaker 3: which is out, which congratulations. We all love to hear that.
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  Speaker 3: I gave it a bit of a listen before in itself.
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  Speaker 3: It's definitely got that intense mystique sound about it. Would
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  Speaker 3: you describe it very different from the other stuff that
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  Speaker 3: you've done before? Or is it just similar, just new inspired?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's different.
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  Speaker 2: Every time I make a new album, it has to
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  Speaker 2: be different because otherwise I wouldn't be bothered.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to make the same album again. So
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  Speaker 1: there's always some kind of curiosity.
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  Speaker 2: That drives me and on this particular album I think
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  Speaker 2: it's a curiosity that caught me when I did my
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  Speaker 2: last album which was out like almost three years ago.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of opened up a new creative era for
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  Speaker 1: me I think.
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  Speaker 2: A few just new elements that I was excited to
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  Speaker 2: work with.
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  Speaker 1: A bit more cinematic.
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  Speaker 2: Atmospheric combined with the like very drum heavy and dark atmospheres,
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  Speaker 2: which I've also explored a lot on this new album,
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  Speaker 2: but maybe in a slightly different, with a slightly different approach.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bit more up-tempo maybe. Like more, there are
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  Speaker 1: more drums on this album.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I like drums.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. They sound good. Drums and bass. It
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  Speaker 3: just gives it that core, like that, that body.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, drums and bass.
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  Speaker 3: It's just, yeah. And when it's live too, it's just like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: it just goes through your system. It's definitely to be experienced.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm a fan of that myself. So well done.
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  Speaker 3: It was a good one. Yeah. So that's exciting. So
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  Speaker 3: thank you for having a chat with us today, Heavy.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for having me. And we look forward to
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  Speaker 3: hopefully in the pipeline seeing you back down under very soon.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 3: We will receive. Yes. And no doubt we will chat
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  Speaker 3: again in the near future.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, hopefully.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: It was a pleasure chatting with you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, likewise, likewise. Well, thank you so much and congratulations
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  Speaker 3: and enjoy the rest of your day time over there,
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  Speaker 3: is it, at the moment? Yeah. Oh, yes. It's almost
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  Speaker 3: 3 o'clock. Oh, yes. I forgot. That's a huge time difference.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I literally just woke up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I hate this. That can be me on most
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  Speaker 3: days after a big weekend. It's okay. Zero judgment here.
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  Speaker 3: We call them rock star hours, and sometimes they're nice.
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  Speaker 3: It's less people in the world when we're awake when
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  Speaker 3: everyone else is asleep. On tour, I....
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  Speaker 1: My day is turned upside down.
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  Speaker 3: I would imagine, indeed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you enjoy the rest of the tour and all
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  Speaker 3: the best for that and with next year as well
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  Speaker 3: and with the U.S. And, yeah, congratulations on the new album.
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  Speaker 3: Go and give it a listen.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Now it's out and, yeah, you'll no doubt will enjoy it.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. No worries. You take care. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Bye. Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 4: Bye.