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No Need To Pump The Brakes With MACKA From COSMIC PSYCHOS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hi, I'm Maca. I playing Cosmic Psychos with Rossberry Knight and Dean John
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  Maller from December one to three. We do forty years of Cosmic Psychos at
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  the Theatre Royal in Castle, Maine and at the moment we're on tour till
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  Harroween Halloween in America. Yeah if Maaca, thanks for taking time out to
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  day to speak with us, brother, no problem. The festive season takes
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  on greater meaning than ever this year, mate, when Sandy gets his martial
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  orders in favor of three of the good counts of Australia. When the Cosmic
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  Psychos as a band leave the dirty thirties and enter the naughty forties. So
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  should I be saying congratulations or commiserations? Mate, we're getting old. I
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  think you'd probably say both. Chris, I think there's either side to it,
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  you know. Yeah, yeah, no, it's good and you know
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  we've seen a few things good and bad, but now we're always still going
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  and it's good fun. So that's good, you know. And a typical
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  psychos fashion made yeare having three parties over consecutive nights to commemorate the occasion at
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  the Theater i Arel on December first, second, and third. Like,
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  I can't remember the last time I pulled a triple bendal like that. Mate,
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  He's just set the bar pretty high. Yeah, it depends on what
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  the record is. The bar might be low. We'll see, hmm.
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  Yeah. But no, no, no, we're looking forward to it.
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  There's some great bands playing and all that sort of stuff. I mean,
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  we've got people coming from overseas to do it, like Pat Todd, he's
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  nearly seventy and he hasn't even been to Australia yet. This is his first
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  trip. Blowers, Dead Clampits. I can't tell you the secret ones.
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  That's still a secret. Yeah, can't give us any any hints. No,
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  I'm not a an arson, it's not kiss There you go. They
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  couldn't afford to play with you, mate, Fucking well maybe that's the case,
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  Crease, But looking through it, like you guys have hand picked different
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  bands to play with you for every show. So on Friday you've got the
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  Chats who was Affordable Repayments and Dead Clampets. On Saturday you've got Pat Todd
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  from the US, the Prize, the touch Our Charts, Southeast Desert Medal
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  and Boo boodle Boys and special guests, and on the Sunday there's Unknowns,
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  Meat Beaters and Kate five like for the band shows and Freddy potential reason made
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  or they just the first one is to say, yes, no, we
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  tried to make it so that it's sort of represented some of the stuff that
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  had gone over over the time, you know. So, and they're all
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  good people and all that sort of stuff, which all adds to it to
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  be pretty fun, you know. So, Yeah, there's probably another twenty
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  five band we would Yeah, we could have put on another twenty five bands,
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  but the party would have been going for two weeks and that probably is
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  a little bit too far outside our comfort zone. Yeah. Yeah. At
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  the local brewers love Shack are getting behind the party two with Cosmic Psychos branded
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  beers, like does that beer have to be taste tested and approved by you
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  guys in the band first? Oh? Bloody? Well hope. So yeah,
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  I'm sure it'll be worked out, Chris, Yes, yes, do
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  you think they'll they'll actually end up bringing out that as a as a permanent
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  thing. I guess, like to commemorate the band, don't know, I
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  don't know. I mean maybe if people want to drink the beer. But
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  no, I don't know on that one. I'm sorry, they should thank
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  you. I also understand there's going to be events and after parties around Castlemaine
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  as well. Is there much more to tell about that? Yet? Not
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  too much that I'm now at this stage unless you can enlighten me. Well,
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  I'll be getting back off the rock the boat cruise on the first,
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  and i'll be in Sydney for the first in the second, so I reckon
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  I might just make at least one of those shows. Good on you mate,
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  good work. Are you going to be playing different sets every night over
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  those three nice mates? Yeah, that's the goal. That's the goal.
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  Yeah, yeah, we're going to try and play three different sets. You
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  might even hit your gang green dream. You'd actually ride them all out and
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  then have set sets. So you're just gonna play what the crowd wants.
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  Right them out with a sharpie, no problem. He's actually taken bets to
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  see who's going to be the last man's standing over the three days, or
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  you're going to be pacing yourselves. No, I don't think we need any
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  bets, but you know, Digger is a betting man, so he'll probably
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  put money on it. That wouldn't surprise me. But no, we'll be
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  okay, we'll pace it until we fall over, you know. No,
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  I'm not sure if it's coincidence or not made of its fate. But last
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  year on the first weekend in December, you're playing at Good Things Festival.
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  This weekend you're putting on well, this year you're putting on your own mini
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  festival. Mate. That's that says a lot about how good you can't sta
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  oh, I don't know. We're just you know, it's good that that
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  can happen, and that's good, you know. So, I don't think
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  it's got anything to do with how good ass cancer are. Universal appeal to
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  the band. They made like one years of playing at a major international festival
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  on that weekend, and the next year you're celebrating forty years of being a
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  band. It's pretty cool. Yeah, no, thank you. Yeah,
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  just to clear it up, made in case people are getting the wrong idea.
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  It's not a fair well party. Is that it's just a celebration of
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  forty years. No, no, no, there's other shows sort of on
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  the horizon as far as I know, So if people want us to play
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  and ask us, it will probably keep doing it, I suppose, but
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  no, I don't think it's the end of the band, shouldn't they If
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  you got any any fresh material to play for us made or you're just going
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  to stick to the back catalog, we might work out a couple of Mountain,
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  a piece that sort of came out, and we haven't done much of
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  that. We've played a couple a couple of times, but now Ross is
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  going to come up and we're going to work it out, and hopefully Dean
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  Wild too if he's not too busy. So we'll work it out when we
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  get home from America. Cool. Before we let you go and get back
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  to you to your party mate, have you started three different Spotify playlists based
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  on bands we speak to you so using your own songs? Can you give
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  me songs for a playlist to get the party started, playlist to save your
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  marriage, and a playlist that could potentially end your marriage. Save your marriage
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  would be I'm Up, You're Out, Dead, Brew Gang, Green Dream,
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  and come On Can awesome very much. Marriage would be pub nice stating
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  to go to the pub, drink, the man who drank too much,
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  drinking with the ESAs and lost Cause awesome and party started, Party started,
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  Um a set of chats covers. There you are that will perform WADA's brother.
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  I may will enjoy the rest of your time over in America. Mate.
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  We'll look forward to seeing you back here in early December. The parties
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  on December first, second, and third at the Royal Theater. So get
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  yourself longer and party onlike we're forty years old. Yeah, or thirty or
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  twenty five or seventy yep, I'll be doing the latter, mate. Thank
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  you very much. Did you see again? Bro? Thank you