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Keep Turning That Shit Up With ADY MATT From TESTEAGLES · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, I'm eighty from Test Eagles. We are back
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  Speaker 1: on the road for the first time in a million years.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing our twenty fifth anniversary for our album Non
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  Speaker 1: Comprehenders and yeah, I don't know, October November.
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  Speaker 2: We're here stuts in October, beautiful mate, thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Saying yeah, good good, How are you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Good brother?
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  Speaker 3: Good, nice fresh. Starting today around lunchtime, I'm feeling good.
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  Speaker 1: It is a little bit a little bit early, a
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  Speaker 1: little bit early.
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  Speaker 2: I just got an.
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  Speaker 3: Interview request before they wanted to be to talk to
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  Speaker 3: them at eleven am each time, and I looked at
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  Speaker 3: the calendar and it was like one am in the morning,
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  Speaker 3: Brisbane time.
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  Speaker 2: It's like that that.
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  Speaker 1: Would that would be my peak time. I'd be ready
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  Speaker 1: to go.
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  Speaker 2: Are you before, you're bitch right now? Are here a
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  Speaker 2: bit before? And by then?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just rolled out of bed man, That's why
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  Speaker 1: I got my coffee. Coffee going here looking fresh and
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  Speaker 1: good brother, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: So as you said, Test Eagles are back with a
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  Speaker 3: bit of a spaced out runner shows.
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  Speaker 2: It starts with most deferent Clubhouse, I'm not joy the night.
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  Speaker 3: Then it's Adelaide Melbourne and he before winding up in
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  Speaker 3: Britie on November thirteen. So getting close now, I wrote,
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  Speaker 3: how rehearsal's.
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  Speaker 1: Going, Yeah, pretty good, pretty good. We played a show
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  Speaker 1: last year for the first time in like twenty years
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  Speaker 1: or something ridiculous, and then that was a nightmare trying
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  Speaker 1: to get ready for that, Like we had our doubts.
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  Speaker 1: We hadn't like played properly for a really long time.
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  Speaker 1: But this time around, you know, we've kind of kept
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  Speaker 1: it together ever since we did that one off show
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  Speaker 1: and we've been jamming. We built this really cool rehearsal space,
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  Speaker 1: and so we get to do this all day every
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  Speaker 1: day basically, So it's got us like really firing and
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  Speaker 1: we're getting to try out new ideas, different things. And
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  Speaker 1: given the fact we're going to play non comprehenders from
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: start to finish on these shows, we get to play
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  Speaker 1: a song called Ocean for the first time ever because
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  Speaker 1: we never played that even back in the day.
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  Speaker 3: A right, and actually raised a good point because you
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  Speaker 3: hadn't play that album front and back, But did that
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  Speaker 3: pose any difficulty to re learn because when you wrote
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  Speaker 3: the album, you wouldn't have had it in back in
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  Speaker 3: your mind that you're ever gonna have to play the
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  Speaker 3: whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: One day, ah, I know, right, I know, right, the
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  Speaker 1: opening song in particular, Teas and Style. I mean, that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't even that wasn't even really a song, like when
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  Speaker 1: we made that up in the studio in like a
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  Speaker 1: couple of minutes because I don't know, I think we
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to breathe. You know, when you like concentrate
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  Speaker 1: on trying to track down all these songs that you've
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  Speaker 1: planned out for months and it's all like very serious.
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  Speaker 1: We just like, I don't know, we had we had
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  Speaker 1: a break. We just wanted to kind of let loose
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. So we got in there and just
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  Speaker 1: kind of bashed and like jammed and like just made
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  Speaker 1: sit up on the spot. That ended up becoming Teas
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  Speaker 1: in Style, and it's pretty it's a bit noisy and
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  Speaker 1: messy and a bit yeah, unplanned. I guess you can
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  Speaker 1: kind of probably hear it. So when we come to
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  Speaker 1: play that live, like I think we did it once
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  Speaker 1: or twice back in the day, we did it for
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  Speaker 1: the original album launch and maybe that was about the
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  Speaker 1: only time we ever played that as well, So getting
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  Speaker 1: it together this time was pretty difficult. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: we have all the time in the world to get
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  Speaker 1: ourselves organized, and technology these days makes it a little
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  Speaker 1: bit easier too.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And we won't do it on this too much, bro,
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  Speaker 3: But the reason the tour is faced out is to
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  Speaker 3: look after the health and base play Dave.
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  Speaker 2: So, how's he doing? Is he right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, no, he's actually his health's been on the
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  Speaker 1: improve a bit. But yeah, you make a good point. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he you know, he needs he's got to get dialysis
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  Speaker 1: like now, like a few times a week, so and
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  Speaker 1: even flying he is like a little bit of an
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  Speaker 1: issue for him. So you know, we just got to
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  Speaker 1: manage it properly. We don't want to pushing too hard.
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  Speaker 1: We won't to do anything that's like bad for his health.
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  Speaker 1: But he is super excited to be a part of it. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I've never seen him like so like glow so hard
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  Speaker 1: with the just the idea of being on stage again
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  Speaker 1: and playing shows. It means so much for him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it gives him a real like purpose. So yeah, it's cool.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad he's out there doing it, But you know,
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  Speaker 1: it caused us a couple of little We've got to
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  Speaker 1: do some unusual things. We're playing some week nights and
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  Speaker 1: having some weird gaps because of it. It's all worth
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  Speaker 1: It wouldn't be a.
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  Speaker 3: Bass player if they were had message playing stuff somewhere,
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  Speaker 3: would it.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great point. So true.
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  Speaker 3: The music world is vastly different these days from when
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  Speaker 3: you left in two thousand and eight. So have you
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  Speaker 3: made any adjustments to your live show or is that
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  Speaker 3: going to be a stepmaking time as well?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we struggled with this on for a while. We
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  Speaker 1: weren't sure if we should just do exactly the same
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  Speaker 1: as what we used to or if we should spice
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  Speaker 1: it up a little. We've ended up making a few changes,
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  Speaker 1: mainly due to all the different technology available, and it
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  Speaker 1: gives you, like all these ideas, and we kind of
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: sat down and had to chat about it together and thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know, back in the day, like if we never stopped,
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  Speaker 1: we were always kind of looking for the latest like
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  Speaker 1: bit of equipment and the latest like tricks and things
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  Speaker 1: to do. So I guess that's kind of how we
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  Speaker 1: justified changing now. We're just like if we never got
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  Speaker 1: out of it, we would be completely different now than
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  Speaker 1: to what we were then. So we've embraced some new
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  Speaker 1: technology which is letting us do some little bit of
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  Speaker 1: extra things. So I think it's a way better shory
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  Speaker 1: than we ever could have done back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, it makes it probably more entertaining and interesting.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that you're twenty five years older, Bro, I
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  Speaker 3: know what, I can't do as many things now as
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  Speaker 3: like a twenty five years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's really really interesting. I'm probably like, on
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  Speaker 1: a personal note, I'm like way fitter now than I
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  Speaker 1: ever used to be, So I think I think that's good,
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  Speaker 1: like some personal maturity and development there. This kind of
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  Speaker 1: makes it easier for me as a drummer to play
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  Speaker 1: and perform and everything else. But I know, like Paul
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  Speaker 1: Maddie on the vocals in particular, I think his vocal
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  Speaker 1: cords when it comes to like screaming and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, but I think like mentally as well,
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  Speaker 1: like I was saying before about maturing, like we all see,
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  Speaker 1: we see music a little bit differently now as well.
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  Speaker 1: We see and I maybe even performing, but music definitely
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  Speaker 1: we see it in a different light than we used to.
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  Speaker 1: We were so young and dumb in the day, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and now we're just old and done.
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  Speaker 3: That's actually a good point you made that very like
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  Speaker 3: you see music differently, you see life differently. So these
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  Speaker 3: songs were written in a completely different period of your life.
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  Speaker 2: So what's the like revisiting them now to land them
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  Speaker 2: all again?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really interesting. I think some parts are kind
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  Speaker 1: of just like what what is this song? Like I
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  Speaker 1: was so disconnected from one or two of them. I
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  Speaker 1: was just like, is this even us? What do we do?
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty funny, But I was like, I reckon, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty proud of most of it, Like I reckon.
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  Speaker 1: The album stands up pretty well, Like the recordings pretty nice.
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  Speaker 1: I really like our general message of the band kind
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  Speaker 1: of almost surprising because I like half forgotten about it.
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  Speaker 1: But I think most of the songs, the lyrics and
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  Speaker 1: everything are pretty important by nothing too serious, but what
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  Speaker 1: I mean like that we're just like kind of positive,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's all about kind of trying to do
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  Speaker 1: your best in life and enjoying what you've got and
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  Speaker 1: you know, and being the best you can. Generally, I
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  Speaker 1: think that's you know, having a good time. It's pretty lighthearted,
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  Speaker 1: you know, nothing serious, but yeah, I don't think there's
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  Speaker 1: like too much to like be like we were terrible
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  Speaker 1: little teenagers. And see, yeah, not too. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's too cringy. I'm sure some people think we're a
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  Speaker 1: bit cringy here, man. I do kind of cringe about
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  Speaker 1: the I do kind of cringe about the band name,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I did wonder about that, but it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't gonna asked.
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  Speaker 1: It's fine. Like when we first started, we were like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, fourteen and fifteen, and we were doing the
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  Speaker 1: band as a joke, like we weren't taking it seriously
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  Speaker 1: at all, and someone dared us to call it that
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  Speaker 1: because I thought it would be funny when we advertised
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  Speaker 1: it or whatever, and we kind of got popular in
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  Speaker 1: our local scene quicker than we thought, and then we
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  Speaker 1: always had it in there. Everyone knows this now we
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: can't change it, like when we do the gig when
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: we started taking it more seriously.
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  Speaker 2: So that's funny.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do. I fully cringe over the name, but
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  Speaker 1: it is what it is. In some ways, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: I guess we don't take it too seriously still, so.
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  Speaker 3: They've got three testes in the mate, so you do
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  Speaker 3: all right, right. Compliensis came out in two thousand, which
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  Speaker 3: was the album that really lodged you guys.
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  Speaker 2: But he actually formed an Adelade in nineteen ninety four, is.
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  Speaker 3: A chechno rock outfit, which it's a style that wasn't
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  Speaker 3: so popular back then. So where did the sound of
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: the idea for test Egels come from?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think we grew up in that age where
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  Speaker 1: we loved like rock and metal, but we also loved
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  Speaker 1: like rap and hip hop music, you know, like we
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  Speaker 1: were listening to NWA and Napalm Death at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: Like grade eight in high school was Ozzy Osborne Obituary,
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  Speaker 1: No Come De Yeah, n w A, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: a lot of hip hop stuff, but then you also
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  Speaker 1: had like Aerosmith and Rundy and see doing that crossover.
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  Speaker 1: And then you had an Trax and Public Enemy oh
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  Speaker 1: so much Public Enemy. So there was kind of that
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  Speaker 1: crossing that like became new metal, I guess eventually, But
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  Speaker 1: I like to think that all the guys that ended
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: up in new metal bands were probably similar kids to us,
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  Speaker 1: where we both like those but both those kinds of
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  Speaker 1: music were on the outer you know. It wasn't the
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  Speaker 1: popular pop music it was. They were both to be edgy,
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  Speaker 1: so we followed both along and yeah, I guess it's
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  Speaker 1: just comes together as what it is. But then also
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: we got a real interesting electronic music maybe through like
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  Speaker 1: defeche Node and stuff like that. Yeah, I think Depeche
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  Speaker 1: Node was probably the big one. I played a concert
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  Speaker 1: for like a music school when I was like learning
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  Speaker 1: dry as like a thirteen year old, and part of
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: the show was these guys that did basically a full
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: depeche Mode like cover app and both me and Maddie
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  Speaker 1: were watched it from the side of the stage because
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  Speaker 1: you know, that was in drum machines, and we were
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  Speaker 1: just like, oh my god, what is this music? Like
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  Speaker 1: this is amazing and they had like the full scense going,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and everything. And I really think it was
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  Speaker 1: that week because we played like a few nights in
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  Speaker 1: a row that was that was hugely impactful for us.
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  Speaker 1: And we've got mega into like depeche Mode and the
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: Cure and all that kind of stuff and got a
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: lot of influence from that.
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  Speaker 3: When when it came to bringing all that together for
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  Speaker 3: your music, they may like there wasn't really much you
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: could compare it to or use as a platform. So
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: how did you know when you'd gone too far? In
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  Speaker 3: one direction or not far and another like how did
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: you find the balance or did you think you never
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  Speaker 3: really did?
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  Speaker 1: No, we totally didn't. That was one of our biggest problems,
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  Speaker 1: Like we didn't really fit in anywhere. Like we had
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  Speaker 1: some stuff that was kind of heavy, but we weren't
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  Speaker 1: really like we weren't metal really at any stage, but
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  Speaker 1: some of our songs kind of are. And then we
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: have a couple of rap songs and chill a bit
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: of a poppy like whatever. So I think we were
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  Speaker 1: pretty confusing, like schizophrenic kind of band and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of I think a lot of people couldn't connect with
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  Speaker 1: us to that. But then at the same time, other
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  Speaker 1: people like appreciated us for it. Like I know, personally,
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  Speaker 1: I really didn't like bands that everything kind of sounded
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  Speaker 1: the same or you knew what to expect, you know.
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  Speaker 1: That was just kind of like boring to me. So
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  Speaker 1: we thought we're just going to keep it interesting and
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  Speaker 1: mixing it up. But the other thing is is like
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  Speaker 1: we didn't really like each other that much, like at
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  Speaker 1: the start, like we all liked different music, like even
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: though like we kind of appreciated it, like not really
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  Speaker 1: like I was like when I was like really young
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  Speaker 1: if it had to be like really really super heavy
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  Speaker 1: or like I just said, it was stupid, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Like I loved like Morbid Angel, and I was just like,
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of what I want to do. And I
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  Speaker 1: had my own dance playing that kind of music. We
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  Speaker 1: would do some like Slayer and stuff like that. But
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  Speaker 1: Maddie he was into uh, you know, Nirvana and like
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  Speaker 1: mud Honey and some Dead Kennedy's and stuff like that
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  Speaker 1: as well, and I was just like, oh, yeah, how
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  Speaker 1: can you listen to that shit? I mean, I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: it now, but when I was like thirteen, I was like, oh, yeah,
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: that's crap. Where's it? Where's the double kicks and the
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  Speaker 1: blast and stuff? And then d probably was a lot
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: more heavily influenced by hip hop stuff, you know, So
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: we each brought our own kind of interests and styles
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  Speaker 1: into it. I think a lot of bands have that
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  Speaker 1: thing where they get together because they all have the
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: same favorite bands and the same favorite music like that exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But we didn't really get along in that musical way,
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  Speaker 1: so I think it made it interesting but also hard
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  Speaker 1: to get understand or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: You released overlps between ninety four and two thousand, But
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't until you dropped Your and That Shit Up
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  Speaker 3: in ninety ninety nine that things started to really take off.
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  Speaker 2: But was that song so much different to what you
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: had been doing?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we were kind of we were guided by
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: technology a little bit because when we first started doing
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: the electronic stuff, we had this Achi SA one stampler
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: and it was really really super basic, like you could
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: only do the most basic stuff with it. But then
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: as new equipment got released, we would like buy it
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: and then try whatever we could do with it, and
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: it all kind of happened so fast. I'm looking back
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: at it now. It happened so fast because it was
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: like that month we'd be like writing this because this
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: is the year that we had, and then we'd buy
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: a new thing like later, and that would like influence
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: how we'd like put a song together, because you know,
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: there's more things we could do. There was a few
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: things like before Turn that Shit Up that was similar,
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  Speaker 1: but Turn that Shit Up was just one of those things,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was wasn't We kind of got lucky
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: with it. It just happened. It was like a natural thing.
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  Speaker 1: We we'd actually finished the album and the Underdog was
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: going to be the single, and the record company said, oh, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you need to do a B side for Underdog, and
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: so we had to go back into the studio and
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: we went in there with no idea what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do. We're like, oh, let's just write a song.
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  Speaker 1: And we booked it for one day and yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: wrote turn that shit Up in like I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: twenty minutes, half an hour and just recorded it and
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  Speaker 1: then yeah, as soon as soon as the day was
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  Speaker 1: over and we sent it out to everyone, I was
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: just like, oh, no, this is your new single. Now,
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  Speaker 1: now we need to go back in and record more
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  Speaker 1: B sides.
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  Speaker 3: So imagine if they hadn't told you to go and
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: do a B side then and write those single, different.
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  Speaker 2: Things might have been for you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, exactly. It's amazing. I think I don't
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  Speaker 1: really quite understand. I think the good songs do flow
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  Speaker 1: really easily, where like some songs you can like work
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  Speaker 1: on for months and months to try and get right,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe just like beating a dead horse kind of thing,
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  Speaker 1: because you try, maybe you're taking an average idea and
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: you're trying to make it good. So it's just hard work,
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  Speaker 1: whereas it just like just came out so quick, Turn
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  Speaker 1: that Shit Up and yeah and I was crazy reaction
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: so amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well Turn that Shit Up and Underdog like after that,
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: people lost their shit over you guys.
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  Speaker 2: They love you.
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  Speaker 3: But did the success of those two songs make it
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: more confident going into the full album or were you
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: still a little bit what didn't put more pressure on
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  Speaker 3: your going into it or was it easier?
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, I mean, like I said, we recorded, the album,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: was finished, and then we wrote Turn that Shit Up
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: and added that to it, and we thought Underdog was
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: about the release.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Did you think people are getting into your guys more
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: because of those two songs?
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Ah ah Nah. We had no confidence. Hey we were.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: I think we were just not really confident then about anything.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: I don't think like we're kind of confident playing on
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: stage because we just played so many shows, but as
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: far as whether people would like us or not, we
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: were always a bit like worried and likes so scary
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: putting out new music and you know, you know there's
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: going to be a whole bunch of people that are like,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, first up, so I hope this and you
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: probably listen to that more than the people are like,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: oh I love this, but I remember the like album
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: went number one in Adelaide and I think it was
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: number eight something nationally, And the morning we found that out,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: we're just like, like, mine's blowing, Like how did this happen?
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: We did like one hundred interviews that day, even with
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: like the six o'clock news in Adelaide, like the whole lot.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: It was just like, well, wind all of a sudden,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: we just mind blowing crazy.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Well then, not Comprandous was your only release before you
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: disbanded in two thousand and eight. But did you have
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: any new written, any new material written that was sort
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: of left unrecorded or untouched.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, definitely, we had heaps of it. We had
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: some legal issues with a kind of a record company
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: and a publishing deal and all sorts of stuff, so
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: we had we had some issues with like who would
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: own the music that we'd write from there on, So
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: even though we did actually write and record stuff, it
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: was just complicated. We couldn't really put anything out. But
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: we recorded a whole bunch of stuff and it's still
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: there unreleased. Some of it's pretty cool. We had an
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: amazing experience where we've got to record a song with
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Burnon Reed from lid in color. Yeah, he played he
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: played guitar. He played guitar on one of our songs.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: And it's crazy that we never released it, you know,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: It's just I mean, maybe one day, I think we
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: probably have to get it mixed again and maybe maybe
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: updated a little bit, because that was back in two
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: thousand and three or something we recorded it.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: So have you spoken about it as a band, releasement
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: or doing anything.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: We haven't really like totally settled on what we're going
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: to do. I think we might do with like a combination,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: but I mean, the music world's so different now as well.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I understand it. To me, it
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: seems like you can just so true. But I think
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you need to do an album
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: now right. You could just put out some songs here
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: and there on until deal with it. But it seems
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: you have to have a video for every song now
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: as well or something. So I think we'll figure it out.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: It shows how ahead of your time you guys were, though.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: If you've got a song with Vernon Reed like colorations
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: and popular nowadays, back then, they weren't so you're doing
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: colabris before collabs are even cool.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think we played We kind of played
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: with Jungle Funk kind of, but we had some different
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: acts and stuff going on that we do. Mardi had
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: like an electronic act. We all had like different kind
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: of things in the scene, and we became good friends
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: with a couple of the guys and live in color
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: so when they would come to town, we could kind
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: of hang out or whatever. So it was more of
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: like that that vibe really just like you know, it's
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: when you play music with someone, you really connect with
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: them on a different level, Like when you're jamming out
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: and you're playing you play a little thing and they
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: play a little thing dark and you kind of like
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: inspiring each other in a jam. The's just different kinds
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: like special relationship and it's and it's so cool for us.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: It was amazing for us to do it with them
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: because like we were like twelve and thirteen, like watching
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: them on the Grammys and stuff, just being like, oh,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: idolizing these people, and then I guess ten years later,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: like jamming out with them, it's like amazing, brother dream. Yeah, yeah,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: it was. It was sur real, so real, hard to understand.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: We mentioned earlier that you came back last year for
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Croth and Fury in Adelaide, that you've at that stage
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: you were just coming back for a one off show,
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: but now you've got a full tour, Like, is it
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: more daunting coming back now taking it out of the
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: road rather just playing a festival that you know they
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: seek some other bands there and it's not just you.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's a little bit scary. Like again, we
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: probably still full of self doubt. So we kind of
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: feel like I've been having nightmare. It's about you know,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I get on stage and there's like two people there
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: or something, because it's like, does anyone like remember us?
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: O care? But I know I'm being silly with self
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: doubt because you know, thickets have been selling really well
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: and Adelaide sold out others again pretty close, I think,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: so we're doing pretty well there. But yeah, you have
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: some some doubts when it's more like you're saying there's
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: more of attention on us and like where you're kind
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: of like we've got to play longer, like we're kind
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: of the main thing now. Yeah, we don't get to
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: hide behind other games. So it's it's trickier, but we're
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: more ready now, you know. We it was a lot
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: of work getting ready for Froth, but now we're back
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: in the game, you know.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: So I love you the Gold Coach show, brother, so
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: you guarantee at least one person there.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I love it. The best person there is, too.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: An You not going to surprise us by playing any
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: new songs. You haven't got anything new whipped out for the.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Children, I don't think though we have been. We have
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: been playing some new songs, but I think the plan
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: is to do a couple of the classics and then
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the album and then a few I would like, yeah,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the old old stuff. So we get requests in the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: d ms all the time or you have to play this,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: and you have to play that. I guess we do
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: have that missed out? Do you think for people? We've
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: heard some pretty amazing stories actually from old fans who
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: all sorts of stuff, you know, people that are like, oh,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: my me and my husband we met at one of
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: your shows back in ninety ninety six, and now we've
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: got kids and they're going to come to the show,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: and oh, can you play this song because that's the
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: one we used to really love and so We've got
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: to kind of be respectful for that. I think this
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: is like, this is a bit of a nostalgia tour,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: being the anniversary thing, and I think to use up
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: some of our set time with things that people have
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: never heard might be like not the right thing to do.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: So if we're going to do that, that would perhaps
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: be a thing further down the track. Yeah, no, brother,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Well we'll leave you with that. Might It's been a
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: pleasure to speak with you. I'll definitely be at the
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: gold Coacht Show. Where can people go to find out
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: more about the tour and get tickets?
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: That's such a great question. You can check out our socials.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: We've got links everywhere there on Instagram and Facebook. We
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: even have a TikTok now start doing much. But you
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: can check that out. I guess if you're a child,