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What Happens When The Lights Go Out With STUART RUDD From THE SUPERJESUS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  You know it's ready from received as you're listening or watching. Have been man
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  awesome, thanks man. So we'll jump straight into things. You've got your
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  National Lights Out to kicking off this weekend in Sydney and it's a monster.
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  You've got a lot of stops in there. So are you keen to get
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  the ball rolling head back out there again? Yeah, yeah, we are.
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  I mean if we did our first run earlier in the year and then
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  we had a bit of time off and we're all sort of doing different things.
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  We're still writing songs actually throughout Alms, so this is a nice break
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  to get out on the road and so it's a really good break and we're
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  always you know, champing out the bits to sort of get out there and
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  we love it. Yeah, it's you, it's your thing. Definitely surprised.
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  Well, we're gonna we're gonna play a few new songs you know,
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  on the set and and change things up a little bit, perhaps some songs
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  we haven't heard a while, some of our older staff and it's just been
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  about everything, you know. We like to keep it interesting ourselves too,
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  so yeah, of course, yeah, absolutely, Well on that No Lights
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  Out is a great song like you guys are really sounding fucking great. Thank
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  you. Yeah, appreciate it. No, it really is awesome our long.
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  I was getting into it earlier today, So talk about it now,
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  talk about an album. Is it in the works or are you just happy
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  drip feeding this tasty singles for the time being. We're definitely shooting for an
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  album. So we've we've been in the studio and we're what do we do?
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  I think we've recorded about sixty seven songs, so we're the way we
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  do. You think you're just stick on your album and everyone's single and go
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  by, but we figured do a single, anchory ankey and keep recording.
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  So we're back in into the same and we should have it done by then.
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  Yeah, excellent. So I was just sort of drip feeding while we're
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  yeah, yeah, tell you about We've always sort of talked about it,
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  and I was, I'm from the whole I like to do sort of album
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  sort of thing. And Sarah's so quick and always busy and just wants to
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  jump into things so quickly. It's like, let's do single, let's get
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  it out of the lets too, and I'm down for that. Yeah,
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  But I thought if we can just apply ourselves a little bit more we can
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  get an album out of it, which is what we've done. And I'm
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  you know, stoked that we're at that point. Yeah. No, absolutely
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  enjoy the process. So it's getting out there and it's out there now.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. So it has to be an amazing
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  feeling to share something so successful with someone like Sarah who's become practically family to
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  you. I feel amazing things you've accomplished and all the accolades that you've got
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  under your belt. What's the proudest moment that you always circle back to and
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  just go, I can't believe that we did this, you know. We
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  were rehearsing last night. Yeah, and and there's certain parts of songs that
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  we tend to just look at each other and it's just moments no words are
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  needed, and it's there's accompliments, there's there's things on the way that you're
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  accomplished that you kind of go, that's awesome, and we're you know,
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  half five kind of moments and stuff of that. We dig it. I
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  think I think during our first album was a high highlight for us, you
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  know, or our first DP. Now, last night Sarah was talking to
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  me about how the first time she heard down again on the radio and as
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  she was in a terrible mood, and so we reminisced about stuff on this
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  all the time. So when we're actually playing the moments, we look at
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  each other and you'll see a smile and if it's like we're sort of thinking
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  the same thing at the same point in the song or whatever, it's just
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  done. It weird, but we've had a working relationship for what, you
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  know, a few years now, and and yeah, yeah, so I
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  would say, i'd say just getting the first sort of EP or album done,
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  and then I would say, it's just the long journey. You're still
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  doing it. I'm really proud of the fact that we're still out there and
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  still doing it. Yeah, oh you should be. It's like it's a
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  it's a huge thing, and not many people can say that they've done that,
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  like, yeah, yeah, it's done. Sharing those moments that you
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  just look at each other on stage and just go yeah, like, you
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  can't teach, You've got to actually do it, you know, it's so
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  right, Yeah you can't. You can't. That that comes from just grinding
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  it and grinding it near after year, you know, doing the same thing
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  so here. Oh that's so cool. I love it. So yeah,
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  yeah, last time I spoke with Sarah actually was in December, and it
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  was right before you guys went on New Money tour and there was a lot
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  going on, like you guys were recording. There's new band members getting thrown
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  into the mix, so how are you kidding? Yeah it was. She
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  was really excited though, like it was like a yeah, let's do this,
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  which is amazing. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, it's
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  really good. How's it alls like settled in? You feel? Like I
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  said, yeah, it's it's it's doing great and and you know, so
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  we we have new band members, so we talk. Yeah, we'll happen
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  to talk about that too. So yeah, we've got a new John and
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  Murray and Sheridan he's from and the working guy Camp who's was on my sort
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  of radar there for a bit and Don't have joined the band and and they're
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  fantastic players. We've been blessed actually to have players that are so great to
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  play with this whole time. And eventually, you know, it's some kid,
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  I think it's a football team or whatever. You know, some people
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  would sort of drift off and some wantn't be around to write and some don't.
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  So that's kind of where we're at with her. So the past members,
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  you know, decide to to go in their direction and what have you,
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  and we sort of we're happy that we found some people to fill the
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  shoes, because there are big shoes to fill. Those guys were group,
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  were great players, and we've we've got some great players back in. So
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  the whole five of the band is actually on part of each other. It's
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  like we're all rolling. It's really good. It's exciting, it's it's musical,
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  it's creative, it's organic, you know, it's great. That's cool,
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  and it's hard to have people slot in that are on the same page
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  as you as well, and it actually works like I would imagine that would
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  be absolutely terrifying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you've worked really hard to
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  get where you are, so to be trust in the new members. I'm
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  the worrier, yeah yeah, so I'm the dog that worries. Yeah,
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  Clays like guy that sits back. Now I'll come up. Maybe I'll let
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  me think about it twenty four hours, you know. So yeah, it
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  was a bit of a worry, but we yeah, we didn't get this
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  far from just sort of yeah, I'm not taking risks and not not sort
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  of you know, forging forward really you know, yeah we got a risk
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  in to keep going. Hey, yeah for sure. Yeah, so super
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  Jesus. In my opinion, it's a massive Australian icon and like a staple
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  to the Australian diet if you like, do you find that you're all big
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  og fans they they're moving with you, or do they still come back and
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  just pine for your old staff and go like, we don't get it,
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  we just wanted to. We're very yeah, I dig it. We're very
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  lucky. I mean I saw so we did Assume twenty anniversary, twenty five
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  anniversary, Yeah we So we did that and there was a lot of people
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  out nostalgically sort of going back to that album, which was cool, and
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  a lot of staying around. And we do have people from there that have
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  just gone with the band, you know, and we see them the whole
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  way. It's really it's really you know, great that we can take one
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  of writers and they're enjoying it. You know, we ask a lot of
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  questions too, you know, we don't just sort of frown up our own
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  ask but when it comes to sort of writing music. You know, we
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  tend to bounce it off people and see how they feel, and you know,
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  I mean we get a tick. Yeah, it is sufd us and
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  I think the DNA of mccleoud and myself sort of writing songs and what have
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  you. It's always going to be there. And you know, once they're
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  sort of starts singing on it, it is SuDS. Then these people and
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  most of the people that do come along have been there to the long holes.
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  We're very lucky. Yeah, that's cool. You must see a lot
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  of familiar faces at your show. I've been seeing this guy for years.
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  Yeah right, Yeah, it's totally right. And when you see them are
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  old places too, And I thought saw you was in Melbourn in nineteen ninety
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  eight and every what are you doing in Perth? Yea, So all of
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  a sudden you're on the level now where oh you know, I got married
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  and somebody who's got kids and yeah, so you hear everybody's life, yeah,
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  for sure sort of things sometimes. So it's kind of cool. And
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  what also is great is people sort of the connection that people have with certain
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  times of the band. So listening to over that album came out. I
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  was going through UNI when this album came out. I was I was working
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  overseas or you know, saying you hear about it. You hear everyone's you
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  know, sort of thing about what the music has meant to them. So
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  it's kind of cool. That is cool. It's like you've quite literally soundtracked
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  their life and just take them straight back to that moment again, which is
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  yeah, yeah, it's really cool, I hope. So yeah, Okay,
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  so I've been following your social media and seeing your pure excitement and enjoy
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  like the photos you put up together. You guys are having a good times.
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  Like again, you can't fake it. It just it pours out of
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  you. You've kind of wrote into this for me, But how do you
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  keep like the fire burning? Yeah? Well, I'm I'm sort of the
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  guy. I'm a fan of the bed. Yeah, okay, first and
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  foremost. And Sarah will be the first one to tea you there. So
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  when she needs to sort of feel feel, you know, stoke for five,
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  which should come to me, and I will say, look, we've
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  got this, We've got that. And I think just that relationship has kind
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  of worked and it radiates. So we go into rehearsory or we're gone on
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  staff and it just sort of works and we're still spreads out that people are
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  there. You know, we're still looking at each other going wow. You
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  know. So I think I think when you sort of enjoying it for right
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  reasons, it's not hard. You know. People think we just enjoy Yeah,
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  yeah, take it right, and we enjoy it and we've got a
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  good Yeah, we've been through a lot of shit together and yeah, just
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  just from bands and just being in a band, you know, like like
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  many stories out there, I guess, so yeah, we just we just
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  keep keeping five sort of banding and keep writing songs and keep focused. That's
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  that's what it is. That's cool. It supposed being in a band is
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  like literally a relationship. If you've got to attend to it, you need
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  to have respect, you need to It's brutal, Yeah, breaks your heart
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  in places. Yeah. Yeah, I mean it's I question my sanity something.
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  I love that. Do you have anything left on your bucket list to
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  tick off? Or are you just happy doing what you're doing. I'm happy
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  doing what I'm doing. A sort of don't sort of set too many goals
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  to go and do it. I mean, I think my next goal would
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  be to get down now I the captain when that comes out, you know.
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  So, yeah, there's not too much that I'm not grateful for or
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  whatever. A big time love that good answer. So curiosity question. You
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  said, Sarah's a busy bee. She's always run around doing things, and
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  she's a very creative person, so she's doing a lot. What do you
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  do in the downtime, so to speak, when she's off doing Sarah things?
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  What do you guys do? Oh? Yeah, well, I'm sort
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  of like, I've got music sort of studio at home, so I'm always
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  in there sort of yeah, yeah, just a set up, you know.
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  But it's it's kind of good. And some people a steffactive with that.
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  And I've been playing a few shows here and there with different sort of
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  people and you know, yeah, it's pretty really good. I just playing
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  a show recently with Rob Riley from Rose Tabby and I was so good and
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  and yeah, and Paul Wheel from ice House he was on drums and we
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  had Dave Gleee and singing. So it gives us just you know, when
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  you get to those to these sorts of people that they're all individuals known do
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  their own thing, and they've been in it for years. You know,
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  the real life is it's just fantastic. So I've been doing stuff like that,
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  and it might say just writing songs and trying to be credit for them
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  for the album, and so that's what attend. Yeah, that's awesome,
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  Like you've got access to all these amazing people and yeah, I cont so
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  what are you doing? Let's do something? Oh yeah, yeah, man,
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  the stories. Yeah, when's the memoir coming out? Yeah? Exactly
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  right, imagine. Oh that's awesome. So Heavy started up doing a little
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  Spotify playlist from bands that we've been interviewing. Would you mind partaking? Sure?
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  Sure? All right. So I've got three songs to name, and
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  one of them is the name. When you're getting ready to go and party?
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  What's your go to song? Chuck it on? Get you in the
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  mood every time I'm ready to go. You know what, I've been listening
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  to a lot of Cherry Leaving, love It anything from here? Ye?
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  Tick that works? One song you might use to save your marriage. That's
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  a tough one. I don't know. Probably some Rod Stewart, perhaps,
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  I don't know Rod Stewart. Nice do you put the wig on? Yeah,
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  the old the old faces. Yeah, all right, and last one
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  is a song that could potentially end your marriage. What's the ultimate destroyer?
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  Old destroyer would be here? Uh? Good, good question. I'm not
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  sure. Probably some of that's how I paid tend to just get getting the
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  bali around the joint week Yeah, totally. Oh that's awesome. Oh well,
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  thank you so much. I've really enjoyed this and I was really fould
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  to meeting you as well, so I'm absolutely stoked. Yeah yeah, thanks
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  very much for him, think great, excellent, all the best on your
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  tour. I'm gonna I'm gonna try to get to the Zoo next Sunday in
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  Brisbane. Come watch her so yeah yeah yeah, come up and say hi
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  if you take it out well yeah, I'd love to do that for sure.
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  Awesome, all the best. It was nice to meet you again.
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  All nice to meet you too, mate. Bye, okay, say yeah bye