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The Odd World Of OCEAN GROVE With DALE TANNER · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Today.
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  Speaker 2: This is Dale Tanner from Op and Grove Come and
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  Speaker 2: Cheat live from the Chicago Cub's Home Stadium. We're currently
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  Speaker 2: on tour right now with Dawn Hill in North America
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  Speaker 2: and at the end of that tour coming home back
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  Speaker 2: to Australia and we will be playing.
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  Speaker 1: Four very special shows.
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  Speaker 2: It's part of the Odd Label Australia to us and
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  Speaker 2: so we're going to be playing Brisbane, Sydney, Marlmon and
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  Speaker 2: Adelaide and it's.
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  Speaker 1: Going to be two albums in full.
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  Speaker 2: We're playing Black Label in full and we're playing Odd
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  Speaker 2: World in full, some of our oldest material, some of
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  Speaker 2: our newest material all in one and it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a very special night.
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  Speaker 3: I can't lay fantastic, Dale, thanks for joining us on
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  Speaker 3: what must be a sensational day for you.
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  Speaker 4: May that looks fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: It's mate, Prince. The sun is out today, it is
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  Speaker 2: Golden Hour. We're at the baseball can't complain.
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  Speaker 3: Nice as you say when you finished yet set and
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  Speaker 3: then watching this all around the world. Bro, are you
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  Speaker 3: coming back to Australia to do the Odd Label? Headline
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  Speaker 3: tourist picks off in Brisbane. I made the twenty third
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  Speaker 3: in Sydney and Melbourne. So how's the prep going over there?
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  Speaker 4: Mate?
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  Speaker 3: Like you're obviously playing a big way over there, so
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  Speaker 3: you'd be landing back home fitting ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: We've you know, we actually ah here they come to
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  Speaker 2: watch out.
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  Speaker 1: It was yeah, we've yeah, here we are, Yeah, jump
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  Speaker 1: on in there we go. This is Micah. Who else
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  Speaker 1: you go are?
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  Speaker 2: You're oh you got Benny guys?
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  Speaker 1: All right boys?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, he said, welcome to straight out.
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  Speaker 4: Have a couple of beers for me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got that all right? Yeah you heard that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We've been playing some of the old stuff at soundcheck
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  Speaker 2: and it's really exciting. You know. The boys kind of
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  Speaker 2: got on stage and I get to sort of stand
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  Speaker 2: just on the on the floor and like I'm a
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  Speaker 2: participant in it and and sort of kind of witness
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  Speaker 2: what it's going to be like. And I'm hearing these
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  Speaker 2: songs that we haven't played live in a very long
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  Speaker 2: time once again being performed.
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  Speaker 1: But with this new life and this energy that.
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  Speaker 2: We have now as at the current live band, it's
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  Speaker 2: just these songs will be performed in a way that
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  Speaker 2: they've never been performed before. And there's all six of
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  Speaker 2: us are going to be on stage. You've got Luke
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  Speaker 2: Tuccie Holmes is going to be joining us this too,
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  Speaker 2: as well as Matt Running Touch Hoot. He's going to
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  Speaker 2: be on sort of Z Day some depth guitar vocal,
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  Speaker 2: and Luke's gonna be out there with me on vocals.
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  Speaker 2: And it's going to be really a really special moment
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  Speaker 2: to finally come together in this full circle moment after
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  Speaker 2: all these years, you know, ten years we're on this
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  Speaker 2: tour and there's some people that are coming up to
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  Speaker 2: be at the show and they're like, I've been waiting
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  Speaker 2: since Black Label to see you guys, And I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: that's a ten years, Like that's significant, Like that's an
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  Speaker 2: incredible thing to just to be part of. To think
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  Speaker 2: that someone's been waiting for so long for something that
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  Speaker 2: we're doing. And so I think it's very very special
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  Speaker 2: that Australia is getting these one off fun shows and I,
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  Speaker 2: as I said, I cannot wait.
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  Speaker 4: Straight now.
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  Speaker 3: As you mentioned, you're going to be celebrating the ten
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  Speaker 3: year anniversary of Black Label as well as the most
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  Speaker 3: recent one Odd World. But was it always planned to
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  Speaker 3: play those two releases together or was it more a
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  Speaker 3: case that you work out the running lift of Odd
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  Speaker 3: World and you realize you needed about one more EPs
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  Speaker 3: worth of stuff to Flessy out of the set.
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  Speaker 4: So you were that way.
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  Speaker 2: I think the way the way that it came about
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  Speaker 2: was we we were in a predicament where we had
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  Speaker 2: so much Yeah, it was a good predicament to be
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  Speaker 2: and we had so many two opportunities coming up, and
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  Speaker 2: our year was filling up. Twenty twenty five was filling
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  Speaker 2: up in such a way that there weren't many windows
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  Speaker 2: that we could actually make this work.
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden we found ourselves being in
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  Speaker 1: a type.
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  Speaker 2: Position where we didn't know when we were going to
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  Speaker 2: actually be able to do an Australian tour to celebrate
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  Speaker 2: Odd World as an album in tandem with wanting to
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  Speaker 2: celebrate ten years out of ear of Black Label and
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  Speaker 2: so we were like, well, we can't really do both separately.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't we just do them together?
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  Speaker 2: And so that's kind of just how it came about,
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  Speaker 2: was that it was it was like, Okay, well we
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  Speaker 2: want to celebrate Black Labels because that was such a
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  Speaker 2: significant release for us, and we love the idea of
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  Speaker 2: really almost like a live re release of that record
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  Speaker 2: for people to experience that live us for ten years,
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  Speaker 2: you know, or so that we haven't really played a
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  Speaker 2: lot of those songs. It felt like a really cool
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  Speaker 2: thing to do. And then and then yeah, a new album.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it is that full circle moment where
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  Speaker 2: we've gone back to those roots, those black label rats,
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  Speaker 2: he taste roots and kind of really really push that
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  Speaker 2: into our music now here on onorld.
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like the perfect time to do such a thing.
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  Speaker 2: It seems bold, and I like that because it's how
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  Speaker 2: often do you get to experience a full record from
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  Speaker 2: two full records from artists and ten years apart.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's funny an.
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  Speaker 2: Experience, and so I'm really starting to see how it's,
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  Speaker 2: how it's going to feel, how it's going to go.
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  Speaker 2: We've never played any show like this, so it's a
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  Speaker 2: very special occasion.
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  Speaker 3: There's actually been quite a bit of music great with
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  Speaker 3: the Notion Grove in the ten years separating these two releases.
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  Speaker 3: So was that notice of what of you guys when
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  Speaker 3: you had to go back and land these old songs,
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  Speaker 3: like could you sort of tell how far you've advanced?
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  Speaker 3: And said?
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  Speaker 1: If anything, it was just.
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  Speaker 2: A lovely surprise to know that three years of touring
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  Speaker 2: and the experience that we've been able to gain through
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  Speaker 2: all these years of our career, and you can grow
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  Speaker 2: that now returning to these songs, not only do they
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  Speaker 2: feel fresh again, but we have so many more notes
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  Speaker 2: in our belt and means of vocalists that alone, everyone
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  Speaker 2: else as new musicians have really excelled so so much
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  Speaker 2: in the last few years that I haven't said. I
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  Speaker 2: can stand there and watch these songs being performed and people, Wow,
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  Speaker 2: our bands are really in for a treat, Like, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever quite heard that these songs
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  Speaker 2: perform like this before, And it gives your chills almost
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  Speaker 2: thinking like maybe this is just like what it was
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  Speaker 2: all meant to be all along, is that we're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to return to this and actually these songs still work
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  Speaker 2: perfectly with what we're doing right now. And isn't that
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful thing that we can hopefully just reintroduce along
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  Speaker 2: the line.
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  Speaker 1: And be able to do these fun things.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's just what makes it exciting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and now you're gonna have to be like playing
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  Speaker 3: all the songs in chronological order, or are you going
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  Speaker 3: to mix them up a bit, so people don't know
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  Speaker 3: what's coming.
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  Speaker 2: Now that I'm going to keep an absolute secret, and that's.
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  Speaker 1: Probably if we gather from our response what that means.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'd like to see what people would prefer,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not formally putting out a questionnaire, but I'd
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  Speaker 2: be interested to see who would prefer back to Front
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  Speaker 2: or you know, a set list that's curated in a
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  Speaker 2: way where on what old black label actually works, intendem
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  Speaker 2: and compliment one another throughout the set.
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  Speaker 4: If I was a betting man.
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  Speaker 3: I'd put money on the fact that you get to
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  Speaker 3: chop and change him up a bit, because you guys,
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  Speaker 3: you get us to get too bored if you knew
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  Speaker 3: what was coming night after night the same.
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  Speaker 2: So that my opinion, well, you must go to the
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  Speaker 2: races every now and then.
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  Speaker 4: Then, Chris Cool I'm heading there right after this now.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, now you've already sold out the Brisbane show that
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  Speaker 3: Adelaide venues had to be upgraded. It's still a month
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  Speaker 3: out from the shows, bro, So that's got to be
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  Speaker 3: a good feeling in itself so far out.
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  Speaker 4: That that you've got that support back at home.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, definitely, it is. It's really nice.
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  Speaker 2: We've been you know, we've been all across Europe now
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  Speaker 2: all across North America, and we haven't and.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't played an O D show in.
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  Speaker 2: Australia this year, and it's really nice to think, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: the first show sorry, no, correct, I'm wrong saying that
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  Speaker 2: we actually did with the data and then supporting men
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  Speaker 2: in Brisbane.
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  Speaker 1: And that was an excellent show.
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  Speaker 2: And so we get to return to sold out Brisbon
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  Speaker 2: trol of our own and that's a very special theme.
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  Speaker 2: That's the only show you know that we've played. So
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  Speaker 2: it really does feel like the first first shows first
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  Speaker 2: too obvious year, and yeah, Brisbane's always been really great
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  Speaker 2: to us, and that's going to be a ripping show
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  Speaker 2: to kick things off. And then yeah, we make our
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  Speaker 2: way down the coast and kind of do the Jaker
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  Speaker 2: down to Sydney, Melbourne and then Adelaide.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be it's going to be read.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, so final final warning on all the tickets,
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, a couple of them. As I said,
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  Speaker 2: venue upgrades and sold out, there's only there's only sort
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  Speaker 2: of I think ten tickets remaining.
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  Speaker 1: Nice work, but it's a good time, thank you, right,
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  Speaker 1: So just.
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  Speaker 3: Say, say some blokes can dragged along the shows by
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  Speaker 3: his missus or the other way around, and they don't
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  Speaker 3: know too much about how you grave what two songs
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  Speaker 3: off eature release?
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  Speaker 4: Should they listen to you first?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know what to expect.
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  Speaker 1: So they do, or they don't know what to expect.
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  Speaker 3: They do know, Yeah, like they come along, They've got
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  Speaker 3: no idea.
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  Speaker 4: They're just there to make their partner happy. What what
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  Speaker 4: what two songs could they prepare with?
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  Speaker 1: With you having it for great fans too, it is,
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  Speaker 1: but I would say that life Safe bet.
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  Speaker 2: And what we've been selling on this to are in
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  Speaker 2: terms of our vinyl has been Odd.
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  Speaker 1: World and Slip Phone Fantasy.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's in terms of they're coming to a live
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  Speaker 2: show and what to expect. It's at the moment, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a nice marriage.
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  Speaker 1: Of those two albums.
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  Speaker 2: We do still play tracks from other albums and reference
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  Speaker 2: you know. So we've only got thirty minutes you know
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  Speaker 2: on this on this particular run, so we're really trying
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  Speaker 2: to cram in as much as we can each night.
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  Speaker 2: And it seemed to be connecting and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people coming out and sort of thinking like, oh, like
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was aware of this album, but I wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't aware that you were the same band that
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  Speaker 2: did that album, because each album has changed from one
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  Speaker 2: to the next, and so many different stories of where
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  Speaker 2: chronologically people have jumped on. As I said, some waiting
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  Speaker 2: ten years since the Black Label, some that have listened
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  Speaker 2: to us for the first time in the car on
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  Speaker 2: the way to the show, and they're going, wow, fuck,
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  Speaker 2: I love this, like give me a CD, like you've
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  Speaker 2: got CDs like unreal, And so I would say those
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  Speaker 2: two right now anyway, that's all I can go off,
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  Speaker 2: and it's it seems to be connecting with the audience
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  Speaker 2: over here.
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  Speaker 1: And and.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, don't get me wrong, I like an album
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  Speaker 2: like the Rhapsody Shapes is up there for for me
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  Speaker 2: as one of the you know, most most proud things
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  Speaker 2: I have created with friends. And so there's there's lots
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  Speaker 2: of elements, cities, but right now that that would be
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  Speaker 2: my response.
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  Speaker 4: Nice never rutten out of time, bro.
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  Speaker 3: So I get to cut a few questions because I've
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  Speaker 3: got a new segment that I've never done with you before.
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  Speaker 4: It's a new segment. Let's go photo bomb.
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  Speaker 3: So basically before we had a chat. I've gone through
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  Speaker 3: social media. I found a couple of photos I want
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  Speaker 3: to know a little bit more about. So I've got
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  Speaker 3: this one here.
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  Speaker 4: Mate.
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  Speaker 1: You were you're listening to my Twitter last time? I
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  Speaker 1: remember that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well I've gone deeper this type.
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  Speaker 1: Yea, you got deeper, You've got a level deeper.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 3: So first and first, who the fuck let Melbourne supporter
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  Speaker 3: on stage?
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  Speaker 4: Ah?
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  Speaker 1: Is that? Is that a direct jig? Are you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: There is?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm looking at the photo now.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Mate? Rob the great Man? Robbed? You brought that up?
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  Speaker 1: That is iconic, Chris? Yeah? Is he not doing a shoey?
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  Speaker 2: But a had he out of that hat?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Look tweet's foreigner and Rob he got around the deep
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  Speaker 2: and might I say, I am, I'm so happy to
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  Speaker 2: see that best lub in the league. I'm a des fan,
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  Speaker 2: throw on two seam of the Red and Blue and
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  Speaker 2: that is why today I'm like Cubs red and blue?
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  Speaker 1: How could I say no?
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  Speaker 4: And he's doing a hattie? You got a shoey?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely? Yeah? Correct you on that one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, this is all right, Now.
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  Speaker 4: Life on the raid. Life on the raid can be
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  Speaker 4: pretty hard, mate.
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  Speaker 3: But if you guys ever have to resort to sleeping
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  Speaker 3: like this again, let have you know and we'll sell
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  Speaker 3: off some sign merch to get you somewhere better.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's go, let's go. That's yeah, that's not where
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  Speaker 1: we're sleeping. We brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: So we parked up, we pucked up. We're on the
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  Speaker 2: way to We're in Arizona. We're on the way to
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  Speaker 2: uh the Grand Canyon. And we we stopped at this
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  Speaker 2: yes dead or off off the side of the highway,
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  Speaker 2: and the sun was rising, the moon was setting, full
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  Speaker 2: moon was setting, and there was this own part that
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  Speaker 2: looked like it was going into infinity. It was quite mantiful,
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  Speaker 2: and the mountains were pink and perfle in the sky
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  Speaker 2: was orange and tangerine, and it was like, I've just
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  Speaker 2: been working up. I only had thirty minutes sleep in
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  Speaker 2: the first maun of sleep, this whole two of that
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  Speaker 2: I've had and and it was just it was like
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  Speaker 2: a fever dream.
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  Speaker 1: It was fighting tredible.
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  Speaker 2: And all these photos taken in putting this one of
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  Speaker 2: the lad just hanging out in a bit of a Wasteland.
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  Speaker 5: Said, lads, all right, they're back. Yeah, yeah, boys, what
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  Speaker 5: d that's naughty?
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  Speaker 2: I know, Jesus, Jesus, probably for a buddy book.
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  Speaker 1: I got you all right.
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  Speaker 3: All right, well you go back to your game, brother,
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  Speaker 3: but thanks so much for your time mate the tour.
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  Speaker 3: The tour does kick off here on by the twenty
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  Speaker 3: thirty Brisbane. Now am I going to come along and
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  Speaker 3: say today if I can get into the sould house,
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  Speaker 3: it'd be good to have you back on home Home soil.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, but Mane, you're on the guest list guaranteed. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: anytime you enjoy the game, our friend will catch you
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  Speaker 2: up stats
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  Speaker 1: For the DePaul Chris appreciate it.