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Time And A Place For Everything With NICK From FAKE NEWS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hey guys, sneak from fake News here just to join you for a few
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  words. Talk about a new EP called Time and Place. It's just been
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  released. It's pretty bloody good. If you haven't had a listened to it
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  yet, you probably should because you will enjoy it. Promise me. Thanks
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  for join us, IVAD, and I'm going to reiterate at that point and
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  saying you're not full of shit, because I've heard it and it is pretty
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  bloody good. Thank you, bores. It Also News released the new EP,
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  Time and Place a couple of days ago. Now, mate, So
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  how does it feeled. I finally have it out there for the world to
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  judge. Oh, it's great. Yeah, we've been hanging on to it
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  for too long. You know, it's been sitting there, wait and just
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  getting all the pieces in place. You know that you've got to have to
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  release the music. And you know, we had a couple of singles come
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  out and the lead up to it, and yeah, that was all good.
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  But it's great to get the EP out there and just this is it.
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  This is what we've been working on, you know, like and just
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  to see people's reactions to it and you know, like it. It's been
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  going pretty well, and that's what we expected. Like, we haven't changed
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  our style much in a way, Like we've just stuck with the tried and
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  true formula that that we love and that other people love. So yeah,
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  you can't go wrong with that. Well, you mentioned that process that you
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  go through before releasing it, you know, like the time to take the
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  singles and all this other crap. But what's that period like for you,
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  mate, Like do you sort of sit back and listen to it and hear
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  things and go, fuck, maybe I should have done that, or do
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  you put it to bed and just move on because you know there's nothing you
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  can do about it. Uh, yeah, it's not that there's nothing you
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  can do about it. You can do something about it if you really want.
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  But once we've recorded like that and it's done and everything's set, it's
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  don't want to go back on it. You know, there's always something that
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  you're going to say, Oh Jesus, wish i'd have done that there.
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  We could have done that there, But in the grand scheme of things,
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  it doesn't really make that much a difference. And most of the time we're
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  the only people that will ever know that, you know, we're the ones
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  that scrutinize it probably more than anyone else. No, we're definitely happy with
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  the overall product. You know, like we recorded it over twelve months ago
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  now, like the start of the guitars and drums and stuff anyway, So
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  you know, it's been a long, long process in the make and I
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  forgot how to play the song has been that long if it's something to do
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  in his spare time. So tell us a bit more about the EP from
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  a musical point of view, Abandon and what you were going for with it.
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  Yeah, Look, we're just trying to continue on what we started,
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  you know, like we've had a couple of releases Previous and Double Gone well,
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  and you know, I've been getting great acclaim all over the place for
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  it, and you know, we're just trying to do what we do,
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  what we enjoy, you know, the things that come naturally to us.
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  And yeah, we're not trying to step outside the box and write some completely
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  different, weird, strange album just to do something different. You know,
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  We're just we're out just to make good music that we enjoy and that other
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  people enjoy. And you know, I think we've we've sort of hit it
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  with that you know, like it's it's right along the lines of what we've
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  done previously without being the same songs. You know, we obviously don't want
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  to release the same album over and over again, but we want to stay
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  true to to what we're doing, which, yeah, I think we have
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  along those lines. Bro, Like, how what sort of difference is it?
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  They might be subtle, but what sort of differences are there musically between
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  this CP and last year's Take Me Away? Yeah, subtleties. I guess
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  they're not that far removed from each other, like even time wise, probably
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  a little bit differently vocally, like you know, Tim sort of took his
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  time with getting the vocals down and just just changed your things. We wrote
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  a couple of ones just to make it that little bit edgy, you stand
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  out a bit more, And I think that's that's kind of come through,
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  Like there's a couple of songs on there that certainly are you know, a
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  little bit different to what we've done before in that way with the vocal wise,
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  But yeah, it's just with the production, you know, the recording.
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  We take our time to get it right, you know, like we're
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  thinking about what we're doing when we're going in to do it, So we're
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  just try and try and make our mark in that way, you know,
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  like we get it right the first time sort of thing and just let it
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  go from there. But yeah, look, really it's it's what comes naturally.
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  Like we're not forcing anything, We're not trying to be something we're not.
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  We're just doing what we do, playing punk rock and having a bloody
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  good time doing it. Oh yeah, right now, there's only six tracks
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  on the EP, mate, so I want to run through them all one
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  by one with you and just tell us a bit more about this song and
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  how it represents fake news in twenty twenty four. So you start off with
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  moving On. Yeah, moving On, Well, that was obviously the first
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  single we did. The main clip for that was kind of the the title
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  track in a way, you know, like when we had all the tracks
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  there, we figured, oh, this is this is the first single,
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  I think, you know, it just had that that catching us to it,
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  that popping us to it. You know, it's got nice driving guitars
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  and drums. You know, it's not like it's overly soft or poppy,
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  but you know, the lyrics are positive also uplifting, which is what we
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  always try and do you know, like try and send a positive message out
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  and just yeah, just just get that out. People spread it, spread
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  it around. But you know it's again, it's just it just falls into
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  place, like what we do just just work. So I don't know,
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  it's just always been that way ever since we've been in the band. You
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  know, like we're just do what comes and actually do what feels good,
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  and it comes out on the songs. It shines through. You know,
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  like every song is independently a little bit different to each other, but they're
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  all collectively sort of in the same basket, you know. Yeah, okay,
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  second track is no weakness, sounds like it could be off a Cobra
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  Kai. Yeah, that was our inspiration. Now, yeah, this one,
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  that song's ballt area. You know, like we've had that song in
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  the wings for a while and never really did anything with it, and yeah,
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  we kind of put it, resurrected it again and put it out to
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  Tim and said, hey, you know, let's let's get something going for
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  this because this is high energy, high output song. Like from the second
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  it starts to the second it finishes, it's it's a go it gets you
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  movement, it's it's a mosh put moshpit monster that one, you know,
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  so yeah, like it's it can be classed as a hardcore song in some
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  ways, but the vocals obviously we don't do necessarily hardcore per se, but
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  it's still along those sort of lines, you know, like it's the very
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  differing tracks, you know, when you come from the first track of of
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  radio to then the second track with no weakness. It's really smashing the faces,
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  like whoa Wand I wasn't expecting that one. This is off, you
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  know, it's off like a rocketl Well, speaking of radiote, that one's
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  up next, So I tell us a bit about that one. Yeah,
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  yeah, Radio. That's that's again. Another one we sort of had waiting
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  in the wings and it's just just too good to not use, you know,
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  so we yeah, we've got Timmy to sit down, let's put some
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  vocals to this fella. And you know, it was just well the opposite
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  vocals had come out with We're like, whoa, that is super poppy,
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  you know, that is something that could be on the radio, you know,
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  and that's kind of what he was going for. Like when when he
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  heard the song, he's like, oh yeah, okay, I've got an
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  idea for this, and it's let him do his thing and yeah, come
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  back with it. And it's like, oh yeah, you've kind of captured
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  that. It's it's definitely kind of the epitome of pop punk, I think
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  that song. But yeah, there's still some some pretty chunky wrists in it
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  and stuff, but it's got that really popp feel to it and people love
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  it. You know. It's made to made to make people sing along,
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  you know. That's that's the idea of it. It's to sing a long
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  song. Wait there you got not giving up? Yeah, not giving up.
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  Yeah, that's another one that's that's probably i'd say a Darren Crowe special,
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  that one he's that's that's cut from his lines. But yeah, it's
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  it's another song that we just started writing and it just come together. So
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  we crazy like bust busted the rift down and it was done to set off
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  to Timmy and Timmy's got vocals to it in no time at all, you
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  know, and it just again it just just fits, just works doing what
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  we do. But he's got that some powerhouse vocals in there, you know,
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  like really really good chance to exercise his vocal range and and that through
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  that song and you know, he's busting it out, and we've been playing
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  that song live a couple of times, and it is it's just so fun,
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  like really really sort of hits home. I think resonates with a lot
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  of people, just with the message that it's sending to, you know,
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  sweet okay. Second last is Rewind Rewind. Yeah, well this was this
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  song is a bit of a dark horse, you know, like we sort
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  of had it. They're sitting there and it's probably different the most different,
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  I guess, to all the other songs. It doesn't sort of fall along
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  your normal three or four bar called punk song and that and Tim with the
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  lyrics, he did something completely different to what we're initially expecting because again,
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  he had some lyrics there to start, and he wasn't quite happy with him,
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  and he went away and rewrote him and we sort of didn't really hear
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  it properly until he was laying down the vocals and we got it back and
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  I was like, oh, okay, that's different. And it took me
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  a few goes for it really sunk in. I was like, man,
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  this is good, Like it really is one of those songs that grows on
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  you, you know, now it's one of my favorites. You know,
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  like there was just so left field when we first did it, I was
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  like, oh, okay, is this this is different? Right, I
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  hope. But then, like I say, as you listen to it a
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  couple of times, like, man, this is a good song. Hey,
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  I think it's going to be another one of those sort of under underdog
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  creat favorites. Yeah. You finish up with even Destruction, which I'm hoping
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  isn't a cover of a Screaming Jets cover for Destruction it is, it is
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  certainly a cover. Yeah. There we we were just playing around with a
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  few things and thought, oh, this is this is fun, Like you
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  know, it's it was a song that was written fifty years ago, you
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  know, about things that's happened in the world and what's going on, and
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  how you look at it and listen to the lyrics and it's so relevant with
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  what's going on nowadays still. You know, it was written in a completely
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  different time, completely different era, but yet the things that that's going on
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  and happened and it just seems to come back around. And it was just
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  there were like, all right, man, this is cool, let's chuck
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  it on there why not, right right? I didn't notice that there's no
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  song on there called Time and Place, which means the titles got to have
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  a little bit more Significance's what's the what's the meaning there? Well, I
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  guess it's just it's for us, Like this was the album we did this
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  time, this Place. It's about where you are here, you are at
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  that time, at that place. You know, wherever you are, whoever
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  you are, whatever you're doing. You know, everyone has their own their
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  own feel for things, things, what they're doing, things they're going through,
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  you know, and this was just a time and place for for I
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  guess what we were right and going through. And you know it's it's just
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  a bit of a play on the with the album cover, you know,
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  obviously the time travel thing and the Dolorean and what's cool everything go back and
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  obviously you know it's got the even Destruction song on a song from fifty years
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  ago that's kind of coming there and reborn with a bunch of punk songs that
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  you wouldn't necessarily expect to see it with. But yeah, that's right,
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  and everything's got a timer's place, and you know, this was our time
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  and place for this EP and it just just we're throwing names out there and
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  it kind of stuck and it sort of works in well, So yeah,
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  we are. We're quite happy with it and that's what that's what ended up
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  on the cover. If you're happy, I'm happy. Brother. So you've
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  got any shows coming up to promote the eph Actually we played show on Saturday
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  at a festival up the coast, but we're doing next shows not till July.
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  We're doing boat cruise in Brisbane. It's yeah, New Farm, at
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  least from New Farm. Some paddle steamer there. That should be pretty cool.
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  Yeah, it's called Swell like yeah boat show you that should be should
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  be a bit of fun, just cruising around the river, playing some drinking,
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  some beers, trying not to fall off. Yeah, that's yeah.
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  We'll hope, we'll see, we'll see. I'm sure that they have people
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  go overboard on this. There's always the first time in there. If anyone's
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  going to do it, it will probably be there on you already. Brother.
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  All right, man, Well thanks very much for your time. Time
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  and place is out now and where caon people get themselves hold of a copy
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  of it anywhere you look. That's where we are. Spotify, Apple Music
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  iTunes. We haven't done any physical copies of this one. We thought CDs
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  not. People aren't really into that anymore. Vinyls just not so much.
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  You're probably going to save that for the next full length. But we'll wait
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  and see. But you type in fake news time and place and guarantee you
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  you'll be having to listen to it. Srida's brother, Right, will not
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  check my diary. And if I'm in chound for that paddle cruise, I
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  might break me togs on it and come down and have a beer. Yeah
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  right, I'll keep an away for you. Bring a spare life jacket,
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  so I say, just Walksta not gonna swim the bigtime she went to again?
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  Oh God, you so it's not Can says time don't swim up that
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  she's tell a wood it's like to be doun't go in for my God got
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  frock God, I'm not I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. Play the
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  factor, show play the fact of what's again? God? You pull solids
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  consisted, John slip up my dog tun on wood its we toss. I'm
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  not going for some time. Not gods not comes back God game, I'm
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  not getting funny Kid, not so modays, not coming to just I lot.
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  Don't thinks that for that, I'm not jet, I'm again, I'm
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  not GAT. Don't do, not budge