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Adding The Cherry On Top With HOLLY And JOE From ARABELLA AND THE HEIST · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I'm Joe.
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  Speaker 2: I went from Arabella and the Heist and we've just
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  Speaker 2: released song Maraschino. It's a dance punk track.
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  Speaker 3: Very nice, Gonna says for joining us today, Thank you
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  Speaker 3: too much. As you say Arabella and the Heighst. You
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  Speaker 3: released your latest song, Mattichino a couple of weeks ago
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  Speaker 3: on September twelfth, So how's the only reception been for it?
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  Speaker 2: Been really great? Actually, I've been really excited to see
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  Speaker 2: other people have been excited about it, because it's it's
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  Speaker 2: one thing to be in the studio and be like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we're making this fusion punk dance thing and you're really
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  Speaker 2: excited about it, and then when it actually comes out
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  Speaker 2: and other people are excited about it, you're like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we went into the cryptic manic episode.
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  Speaker 3: The press release calls it your wildest and most electrifying
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  Speaker 3: single yet, would you agree with it?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's probably our most chaotic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, definitely, I think. And yeah, we kind of
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  Speaker 1: started embracing the electronic electric side a bit more with
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  Speaker 1: this one, starting with Ruckers and kind of moving forward.
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  Speaker 4: So nice.
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  Speaker 3: Nice, And so you you mentioned the electronics, So tell
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  Speaker 3: us a bit more about the song from a musical
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  Speaker 3: point of view, and what you were going for this
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  Speaker 3: sun Around.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's the song was actually it's It came through
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Now drummer. Actually he sent through the bare bones
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  Speaker 1: of the song and he'd been playing around on MIDI tracks,
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  Speaker 1: so it was kind of like a MIDI dancy thing,
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  Speaker 1: and then we went into the studio rehearsal and kind
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  Speaker 1: of transposed it onto guitars, bass and drums and kind
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  Speaker 1: of worked from it from there. So it always had
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  Speaker 1: basic in the electronic synthy sounds, so we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: keep some of that element but bring us as a
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  Speaker 1: live band into it and kind of fuse those sort
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  Speaker 1: of two elements.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So, Hey, how would you say it differs musically
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  Speaker 3: to your previous two singles, Electric nineteen seventy six.
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  Speaker 2: I would think it probably we leaned into like especially
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  Speaker 2: with the samples and the synths and everything. I think
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  Speaker 2: we've we've found our niche in that kind of dance thing,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that's just come from playing songs like
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  Speaker 2: Electric and zemon A six nine live and the energy
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  Speaker 2: in the in the Martian and the dance or we've
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  Speaker 2: been wanting to just harness.
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  Speaker 1: That more and I think those two previous songs, we
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  Speaker 1: went into it kind of going how are we going
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  Speaker 1: to play these songs live? So they're very much just
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  Speaker 1: guitars and bassed drum vocal, whereas this newer stuff with
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  Speaker 1: sort of going that doesn't matter. We can figure that out.
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  Speaker 1: We might even play it differently, but we make like
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  Speaker 1: a dancey, fun song in the moment, and it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: We're not trying to constrict ourselves to just what the
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  Speaker 1: four of us can play at the one time. We're
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  Speaker 1: just going, Okay, what can we add to this to
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  Speaker 1: make it cool and fun and different?
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  Speaker 3: And you mentioned that you want to try and capture
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  Speaker 3: the energy of the dance for in a song, So
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  Speaker 3: how will you use that to do in the studio?
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  Speaker 4: Like it doesn't sound like it would be.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard at times, especially when you're doing the same
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  Speaker 2: drum track over and over and over and over. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because especially we're doing a dance track, the sinking of
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  Speaker 2: elements can be like very important. So trying to maintain
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  Speaker 2: the energy is saying you need to be aware of.
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  Speaker 2: But I think we're a pretty high energy group of people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good The press release also mentions that
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  Speaker 3: the song captures a new edge for the band. So
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  Speaker 3: is that with the symps and the electronics are talking
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  Speaker 3: about or is it a bit broader than that?
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  Speaker 1: I think so, and I think us kind of leaning
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  Speaker 1: more into the less of the generic kind of straightforward
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  Speaker 1: punk rock stuff that is everywhere in Melbourne and us
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  Speaker 1: trying to go, Okay, how do we do that because
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  Speaker 1: there's so many bands that are doing that great? How
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  Speaker 1: do we do our take on that that isn't the
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  Speaker 1: same thing that other people are already doing really good?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Right, cool? Cool?
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  Speaker 3: And we mentioned the previous singles Electric and nine in
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  Speaker 3: seventy six. Are all three of them together? Are they
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  Speaker 3: stand alone singles or are they part of a bigger picture.
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  Speaker 2: They're They're part of something that's coming in.
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  Speaker 1: It is it is, it is in the It is
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  Speaker 1: a thing.
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  Speaker 2: There is a big There is a large body of work,
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  Speaker 2: and it is on the horizon. We can't quite make
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  Speaker 2: it out yet, but it's there.
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  Speaker 3: I won't push you on it. I will ask you
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  Speaker 3: know that Masino.
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  Speaker 4: Is a little bit different.
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  Speaker 3: Like you say, it's got those elements in it, But
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  Speaker 3: which are the three songs? Is the rest of whatever
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  Speaker 3: we're doing gonna sound more like.
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  Speaker 1: To be honest, it is a very big mix. It
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  Speaker 1: probably will. It's if you take the original the first
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  Speaker 1: two that you're talking seventy sixty nine electric and then
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  Speaker 1: Maraschino and Ruckus and kind of potentially the one that
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  Speaker 1: we have come next, it will kind of be like
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  Speaker 1: a blend of that. So there will be the mixture
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  Speaker 1: of the kind of straightforward punk songs, there will be
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  Speaker 1: the rock mixed with the electronic, and then even maybe
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  Speaker 1: certain songs that don't have any live instrumentation on them
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  Speaker 1: at all.
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  Speaker 4: We're just be.
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  Speaker 2: Able to show that for us, like Punker's, the genre
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  Speaker 2: is more about the energy than the instrumentation, and and
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  Speaker 2: that can come in many forms. But the album and
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  Speaker 2: I will call them and as a whole does have
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  Speaker 2: it is us. So when negating the use of instruments
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  Speaker 2: to create the sound and more using the energy to
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  Speaker 2: create a sound and whatever means that comes through.
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  Speaker 1: Well and sticking with whatever gets recorded is us. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what it is. We're not going to try and
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  Speaker 1: pigeonhole ourselves.
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  Speaker 4: That's good.
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  Speaker 3: And the other side of this thing, too, guys, is
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  Speaker 3: you've got a reputation for your unapologetic live performances. Like
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  Speaker 3: one observer stated that your gigs tita on the edge
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  Speaker 3: of madness, like awesome, but it sounds terrified at the
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  Speaker 3: same time.
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  Speaker 2: I think that comes from my uncoordination. That's merely just
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  Speaker 2: me not having spatial awareness.
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  Speaker 1: No matter how much I try, I can't stand still
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  Speaker 1: on the stage. So I'm flavoring myself around and it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of just a it's just us just letting it
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  Speaker 1: loose and kind of just go and this is us
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  Speaker 1: and again unapologetically us, and yeah, kind of not too
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  Speaker 1: much deal with it, but yeah, deal with it. Here
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  Speaker 1: we are.
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  Speaker 3: I was talking to some of your photos and there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of live shots on there, and it looks
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  Speaker 3: like it's you don't leave anything behind. I put it
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  Speaker 3: that way when you go up there.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's the plan, and that's that's I think for
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  Speaker 1: me especially, that's what I enjoyed. Go and see bands doing.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see you for performing doing. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: care if a band plays their songs wrong. If it
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  Speaker 1: looks like they're having fun and they're energetic, that's what
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  Speaker 1: I kind of enjoying a live show.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of live you've got the single launcher, the old
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  Speaker 3: bar in fitz Roy on October fourth, So tell us
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  Speaker 3: a bit more about that and where to get tickets.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, we are playing oh by yeah October fourth with
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  Speaker 2: the Strip and with one Bat, two bands where super
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  Speaker 2: excited to be playing with and tickets aren't.
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  Speaker 1: Us tics Maybe mush Chick tickets in open Arabella and
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  Speaker 1: the hest Old Bar promotion stuff.
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  Speaker 4: What does the rest of.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty five leading into twenty twenty six look like
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  Speaker 3: for Arabella and the Heist?
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  Speaker 2: Well, music, the trains that the train's not stopping. We're
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  Speaker 2: just continuing this mission of trying to show people what
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  Speaker 2: we're what we're about and the sound that we're putting
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  Speaker 2: out at the.
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  Speaker 1: Moment, playing more shows, finishing off more songs. Absolutely that
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  Speaker 1: kind of yeah, just pushing forward.
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  Speaker 3: Before I let you go, guys, I've got a new
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  Speaker 3: segment I've started called photo Bombs. So basically, I've trotted
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  Speaker 3: through your social media before you got a chat, and
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  Speaker 3: I picked out a couple of photos that I want
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  Speaker 3: to know more about. It's just like I found this
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  Speaker 3: one to be a little bit strange because to me,
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  Speaker 3: it's just a photo of black boots on an elevator.
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  Speaker 4: But if I missing something more.
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  Speaker 2: That's definitely Joe's shoes.
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  Speaker 4: That's me.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know where did you find that?
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  Speaker 4: I think we were.
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  Speaker 3: I was watching Why the hell what am I missing?
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  Speaker 3: Like what else is in there?
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  Speaker 2: I think we're worthy statically driven band and if something,
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  Speaker 2: if something moves me, then it gets posted. And at
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  Speaker 2: the time, I think there was something about Joe's shoes,
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  Speaker 2: which those are the shoes you now wear live on stage,
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  Speaker 2: so maybe this was a foreshadowing. You weren't wearing them
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  Speaker 2: on stage at the time, so this image is a
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  Speaker 2: foreshadowing of what's to can't well.
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  Speaker 3: I actually kept scrolling through because I thought it might
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  Speaker 3: have been it before and after shot, and the next
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  Speaker 3: one his shoelacers would have been brought in.
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  Speaker 2: It on his face.
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  Speaker 3: And the second one I've found it's a pretty cool one,
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  Speaker 3: like it's awesome actually, like you're throwing a head kick
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  Speaker 3: at Al made a there looking unfaith with his hands
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  Speaker 3: in his pocket, so I really know if you're going
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  Speaker 3: to short or he's got a lot of trust.
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  Speaker 1: To be honest, she was that that is me in
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  Speaker 1: the photo. Yeah, she was saying, look how high I
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  Speaker 1: can kick, and I was kind of just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that is that is average. That is an average kick.
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  Speaker 1: Neither impressed or disappointed is what that is.
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  Speaker 2: I have this, I have this frame on my wall.
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  Speaker 2: I love this photo. I think I love it because
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  Speaker 2: I think it sums up the energy of a lot
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  Speaker 2: of especially on stage, of just like I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: do this thing that's probably not a good idea, and
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  Speaker 2: goes like fucking do it.
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  Speaker 3: See how I got Whatever happens happens, But it's on
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  Speaker 3: you on the right with his hands up like.
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  Speaker 2: Look like he's like, what's going to happen? That's Luke,
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  Speaker 2: our current drummer base play.
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  Speaker 1: So in this photo Luke there on the right hand side,
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  Speaker 1: he was actually our drummer at that point in the band.
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  Speaker 1: This was years ago now and he's recently come back
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  Speaker 1: on board as our bass player.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So these two lads here have watched My watch My
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  Speaker 2: Shenanigans for nearly six years now.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, And the captain on the post said that
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  Speaker 3: if anyone that could kick higher than you, they got
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  Speaker 3: a free beer that night.
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  Speaker 4: Was there that's still many takers? Was there any anyone taken?
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  Speaker 2: I think we did actually have a few takers, and
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  Speaker 2: we did have a like a dancer coming out do
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  Speaker 2: me on that one. But I think that as a
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  Speaker 2: as a thing. I think that's running high.
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  Speaker 4: Sty've got a bad height there, like you've got some style.
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  Speaker 2: Six foot tall, so that's not a bad height to
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  Speaker 2: get to.
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  Speaker 3: That's well done, mate, But I wouldn't be just standing
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  Speaker 3: there with my hands in my pockets like that. Might
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  Speaker 3: I want to turn around and run by.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't actually think she would get that high.
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  Speaker 4: So all right, guys, well thanks for chat. It's been
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  Speaker 4: a pleasure speak with you. Mattistino is out now.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently there might be some more music coming out later
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  Speaker 3: on this year, but hopefully you guys make it up
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  Speaker 3: to Brisbane sooner.
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  Speaker 4: I'll come down to a beer with it, and.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Touch and scam and I curse the man.
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  Speaker 5: I meet some young car when it kicks out.
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