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Marcus Bridge: Northlane · The BlackSheep Podcast: Presented by HM Magazine

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The same consistent stuff. Awesome. Today we've got Marcus from North Lane with
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us, and uh, Marcus, I'm super stoked about the new EP.
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We'll talk about that in a little bit, but before we get in all
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of that, how are you doing today? I'm doing well. It's been
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pretty hot here for the last little bit, but it's starting to cool down
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now, so I'm enjoying that kind of cool away a little bit. Yeah,
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just chilling. Where in Australia are you? I live in Melbourne,
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been here for sixty years, so yeah, it's pretty up and down with
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it. He never know, you're gonna get classic vibe love it. I
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gotta I gotta say. I love the environment that you're in. It feels
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very very peaceful this this area here, Yeah yeah yeah. Your room,
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yeah, it looks my little studio rooms is where I kind of it's kind
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of like an off color. Yeah. I've got some like what do you
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call them led lights here behind me and they're kind of letting off some some
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peach. I'd say. Yeah. It kind of looks like the like that
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Turnstile album or something like that, kind of look like that's the vie.
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It looks like it looks like a place where you know, here's the deal,
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Mason, and I see a lot of people's you know, studios or
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like little practice areas, and everyone's got like their own little vibe. But
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this might be the vibeest of them all. Damn. I mean I made
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it look nice for the podcast, of course, didn't want to look thank
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ye. I appreciate it, but I know it's a vibe. This is
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where I kind of do most of my stuff during the day, so but
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I have it be chill. I love it. I mean it's quite literally
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your office then basically, so you want to pretty much make sure your office
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is swanky. That's the one Marcus, before we get into your own like
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personal history getting involved with north Lane, I got I gotta ask every time
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we invite an Aussie on the podcast. It just feels like Australia is such
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like a foreign world to US Americans, especially where Colin and I are from
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the Midwest in America, and I feel like the like the most dangerous thing
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that exists in the Midwest is maybe like a tornado that might happen like once
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a year or something like that, but there really isn't like any dangerous animals
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or anything, but Australia is a hotbed. Like it feels like right now,
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where you're sitting, you probably are surrounded by like a like a freaking
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like not a cobra, but like a tiking or something brown snake, yeah,
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brown snake. Like You're just you're probably and surrounded by like a million
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like translas or whatever too. So it's just like it feels like in any
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place you could step in Australia, you could just like be dead in a
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second. So anyway, have you encountered any like very dangerous animals just going
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out, you know, out and about your day. Maybe you're doing some
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yardwork and all of a sudden there's a brown snake ready to ready to and
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north Lane? Yeah, luckily I haven't. I mean that's the thing with
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we do have all of these pretty gnarlly animals and creatures around, but I
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mean unless you're out in the bush and stuff, you don't really see them.
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I guess. Also, just growing up here, you never really you
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just know to avoid them or what to do with them. I guess.
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So for me, I guess we're kind of desensitized to them. And I
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mean I'm still here like thirty years later, so I haven't died yet.
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But Steve Irwin is a brown snake and that's true. But but I'm pretty
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sure that didn't happen in Australia. I'm pretty sure he was somewhere else,
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that's true. So that's that's probably it was somewhere. It was somewhere offshore,
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so yeah it was. And he was like doing the opposite of avoiding
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them exactly. He was getting real close. So that's that's a rare a
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rare occasion. And have you ever gone to his zoo or whatever it is
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that he well, now it's like it's a sun that like like operates it
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or whatever. Right, Yeah, he's pretty much just taking it up.
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And I saw a video the other day of him like jumping fences and stuff
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going from crocodile enclosure to crocodile enclosure. So but I've not I've not been
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there before. I would I would like to go, but it's like in
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this it's in this part between Queensland and New South Wales. We have to
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like you need to make a stop there, and it's like kind of in
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a random spot, but I'd like to go for sure. I saw like
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a Twitter meme the other day that was like, name a form of nepotism
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or like an example of nepotism that you actually support, and it was Steve
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Irwin. Uh and you know obviously he died and then his son taking over,
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and it's like, yeah, that's a form of nepotism. I'll get
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behind that one. Yeah, he's uh, what's what's his name against Steve
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Owens, son of a petive mind? Blank. But he's like out,
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he's a golden child. He's for sure, you can't he's untouchable. He's
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just too sweet. He like you're justin Bieber or something. Uh yeah,
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but like way more sweet. You know. He's just like one of those
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kids, like he's just like a good, good dude. Yeah, like
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a harmless, good, hot kind of vibe guy. His dad just like
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his dad exactly. I always had a crush on his daughter. Yeah,
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actually actually his wife first. Oh yeah, his wife was the act.
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Yeah. I don't remember what her name is, but man, yeah,
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but his daughter now she's she's cute. She's married, but yeah, she's
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cute. Good. I'm glad they're I'm glad they're a happy family. Yeah,
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yeah, they I mean that could have totally you know, I don't
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know, like that could have become like the Kardashian family in Australia, but
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it's turned into like the most wholesome family and even though their dad's death,
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you know, that was a big thing, didn't seem to ruin them.
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So anyway, we're not here to talk about Steve Irwin. We're here to
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talk about North Lane. Uh, Marcus, let's hear about just kind of
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your own personal history of getting involved in North Lane. So we had Nick
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on a couple of years ago, and obviously he's kind of one of those
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original members of the band, but you came into the band a couple albums
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after the band had started and everything, and so you're kind of, I
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wouldn't say like new to the band by any any stretch of the imagination.
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At this point, you're almost you've been in the band almost like ten years
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even or maybe ten years now something at the end of the year, you're
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not new. But yeah, tell us a little bit maybe even before like
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north Lane, like how did you get involved in music? And then we
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can maybe like take you know, take that story up to where you're at
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north Yeah, Well, I grew up in Sydney, and kind of was.
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I've been playing music since since I was like fourteen thirteen fourteen, and
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I guess pretty much since I started playing music, it's kind of the main
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thing I've always kind of gravitated towards and just found kind of comfort and joy
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and doing and you know, grew up touring locally and just doing you know,
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the local grind with kind of some emo kind of style bands and that
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kind of thing. Yeah, I guess I just grew up like a mad
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emo kid. So that was my kind of introduction to coming into like music
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and playing live and grew up you know, around the same kind of area
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as North Than like they would be playing shows locally, like five minutes down
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the road. And I think Nick actually lived like where I grew up,
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he lived like twenty minutes away. So in the end, it was Australia.
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It's kind of a small world and you kind of see all of these
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other people and see these bands and play shows with these bands and stuff.
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So for me, it was just, yeah, the constant grinds, growing
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up doing the kind of local thing, just doing it for the fun of
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it, but also hoping that one day it would be my career and I
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guess when the North Lane opportunity came up, I was still kind of doing
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that and just yeah, kind of hoping that something was coming. And I
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guess I was lucky enough to get this opportunity. Were you in any like
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sign bands before North Leane is like? Or was it really like kind of
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you know, you just knew some guys and fortunately were talented enough to make
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the cut. Yeah. I mean, so I wasn't in any sign bands
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or anything, but I guess in terms of Australia, I'd been doing it
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for quite a while, and that being said, in the grand scheme of
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things, I was still quite green and new to it all. But I
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mean, I guess for me, I I think for the guys, it
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was it was like I showed that it was all that I wanted to do
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it. It was like I was passionate about and so I was going to
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give my all too. So they ran like an audition process thing to get
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me to join or to get someone to join, and I was lucky enough
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to kind of come out on top of that. But yeah, it's it's
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I guess for me, it was just about making music my entire life,
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and I was lucky enough to kind of have that drive and that ability to
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show them that I was ready to do this for the long haul. You
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know, I'm still here ten years later. Yeah. What's it like kind
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of going from someone who's not not in the band, you know, not
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necessarily like a founding member or anything like that, but you kind of end
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up becoming a founding member in a different way, and that you are founding
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a new sound, You're founding a new relationship. I'm sure that you're actually
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friends with the guys in North Plane, right, you know, whereas before
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it, you know, you were just a really good talent that they said,
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Wow, this is this is what we want. What's it like kind
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of coming in and helping transform the sound, whether intentional or not, maybe
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they wanted you to keep the kind of the same sound. What what's been
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your experience behind that kind of situation? Yeah? Absolutely, I Mean for
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me when I joined, I definitely I didn't want to come in and just
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try and force my way in there and like force what I thought I wanted
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onto the songs. I wanted to make sure I was, you know,
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working with the guys and making sure that, yeah, that the vision was
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kind of working together and that also when it came to playing live and playing
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the old songs, for me, it was just about, I guess,
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just doing them justice and making sure that those old fans weren't just being like,
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who's this new guy coming along and just like singing everything when it should
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be screamed, you know, or something like that. Like I didn't want
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to kind of alienate a bunch of people that had, you know, grown
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up and loved this band. So for me, it was just a matter
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of kind of, you know, taking my time and finding where I sat
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within the band and where I kind of felt like I could push the sound.
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And as time has gone on, I feel like we do have obviously
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the different periods, but we've picked up so many new fans with this new
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sound that it's kind of, you know, that's all that some people know,
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which is really cool to kind of be a part of something. Yeah,
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like you said, something new, the new kind of wave of north
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Lane and something a bit different and something that kind of differentiates itself from what
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was done before. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think it's a
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really interesting perspective in America. Mason and I are in are in the scene.
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You know, we kind of follow things pretty closely. I don't think
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three years ago either of us had heard of north Lane, and now that's
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like you ever hear about. But you guys have been around for so long
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and in Australia, I mean, you guys are you guys are pretty darn
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big, I would say, So, it's it's kind of interesting to see
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how this change in sound and everything like that has progressed and started to become
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worldwide on a completely different level. Absolutely, I mean, yeah, it's
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for us. We've always been wanting to, you know, push us sound
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and push the band as far as we can. And with that being said,
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like we also want to be doing something that feels fresh to us and
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something that yeah, hopefully resonates with people. And it seems like it has
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and people are starting to, yeah, want a bit more of it.
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So I don't know's it's always I guess the goal to keep pushing it as
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far as we can, and you're having more people kind of come on board
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like yourselves, and yeah, it's it's all just yeah, it's good.
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Did you feel like there was a point where you could start seeing that north
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Lane was starting to gain some traction in other parts of the world again.
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Like, I think even by the time that you got into the band,
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certainly Australia knew about you guys, and you guys could do Australia really well.
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But obviously it's exploded beyond Australia, and so yeah, did you kind
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of get a sense of maybe when you were starting, when you maybe started
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the band, or maybe it was a little later, but there must have
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been a point where it's like, oh, wow, like there's actually really
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something here and we can kind of go anywhere in the world and we're gonna
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have great shows and people who love us, and there must have been a
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point where it felt like that was starting to become the case. Yeah,
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I mean, I think it's been pretty steady for us since I joined,
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Like we've I feel at first we had kind of something to prove and we
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had to show like that we were able to survive, you know, a
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big change in the band. But from there, Yeah, like it feels
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like it's been a steady, a steady growth. I guess for us,
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maybe Alien was the point where we could definitely see everywhere people were kind of
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excited about this album. We're excited to come out and see us. It
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shows and like from there, it feels like people have embraced kind of the
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new sound we've kind of been trying to do and have embraced like us pushing
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that further. So yeah, I think for us, it's probably around that
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the time we released Alien, But that being said, it feels like it's
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always been pretty steady, which which I like. I feel like it's it's
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nice to feel like we've kind of been growing and been earning what we've gotten,
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as opposed to maybe just having like a moment and being like, oh,
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well, how do we maintain this moment and not kind of just disappear.
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So I feel like I'm really happy with what we've been able to achieve.
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One thing I really like about North Leane is it has felt like you
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guys have been at sort of a cutting edge of like where metalcore is going
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in terms of sound, and I think that's been the case for a little
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time now, and you're starting to see a lot of other metalcore bands starting
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to adopt like a very similar ish sound, and again, I think a
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lot of that is credited to you, and certainly there's other bands out there,
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like like North Lane that are kind of doing a similar sound. But
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yeah, I'm curious like what maybe like your thoughts on that of like maybe
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maybe you have like a sense of feeling like, oh, like we were
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starting to do something kind of interesting and different, and now we're starting to
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see like a lot of our peers like maybe do something similar or but yeah,
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I'm thinking, you know, thinking of bands like like Loathe or you
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know, Silent Planet's new album kind of has a lot of this kind of
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electronic genty just you know, just interesting kind of experimental nature, and certainly
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I think North Lane has been doing that for a few albums now, and
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so yeah, I'm curious like what your thoughts are on kind of feeling like
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you're part of this movement within the broader metalcore community that is doing something kind
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of like different and interesting and we haven't really heard a lot like it quite
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before. Yeah, I mean I feel like that's you know, a side
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effect of kind of technology changing and the ability to do this stuff being like
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a lot more accessible. Like I feel like, I don't know, I
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think it's people. I think one thing, I think those are people.
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These days, there's so much more able to like grasp like new sounds or
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like, for example, like a synth sound like I feel like when I
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was younger, as would not have been able to know how to achieve that
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within like you know, fl studio or able to know whatever. I'd be
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like, how am I meant to make that sound? And now I think
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we just have the tools and the ability to do so much more. And
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I think it's exciting to be able to, yeah, be at a point
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where bands are like, well, I can actually create these different sounds,
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and I know what I'm doing and I know how to make this work with
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what we've been doing already, and I think it's just for me, it's
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exciting to see bands trying to do something different. I think there's a bunch
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of other bands who have done like even if it's just in their production style
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and choices. Like, I think there's definitely a change in how bands are
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approaching things. Like something that pops into mine is like the newest like Amure
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albums, Like they are pretty classic Amure, but like the production on that
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has this like futuristic kind of I don't know, I don't know quite how
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to explain it, but yeah, it's it's got this particular sound to it
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that's more than just you know, just the heavy riffs. And I think
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just all of these different bands doing that and finding their own way of bringing
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like a more futuristic sound to the music is yeah, really exciting. And
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I guess if we have had any hand in any band kind of being more
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ready to do that, then that's that's exciting as well. M I do
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remember, you know, and I'm sure you grew up with a lot of
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this too, where you know, in the like mid two thousands, it
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felt like a lot of these metalcore bands were like wanting to implement some kind
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of electronic sound or kind of this futuristic production. I think under Oathe did
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it actually really well with like Chris's programming and everything, but you sell a
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lot of other like metal bands, and I don't want to like name names,
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but it felt like the whoever was like the keyboardist was sort of like
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there's two different songs going on. In one song, there's like whatever the
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keyboardist is doing, and maybe that's like during the court, like the chorus
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or whatever, and then like all the heavy stuff is happening in the verses,
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and it just felt like two different songs that they're just like melding together.
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And yeah, well, sorry, yeah, every band, everybody had
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a micro quote. Yeah right, it was interesting. I mean at the
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time, like nobody had heard anything like that. But I think at some
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point you realize, like, all right, there's like it feels like there's
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two different songs going on at the same time, and it really doesn't overall
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is like a cohesive song. But but it does feel like now you're starting
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to see a lot of these bands, including again yourselves, like implementing or
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incorporating these electronic and futuristic kind of production styles into the music in a way
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where it doesn't feel like this these are two different songs going on at the
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same time, it like feels like one cohesive song. And again, it
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felt it's taken metalcore, I think, a while to figure out how to
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do that well. But I again, I think north Lane is one of
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those bands that has like figured that out and was probably one of the kind
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of first bands where it's like, all right, this really is starting to
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feel like this is where this is how this like electronic production should go on,
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like be implemented or incorporated with heavy music. Well, I think as
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well, like with electronic music, it has grown so much and has had
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so many different periods of like like I don't know distinct styles where yeah,
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I feel like back in the day, like the period you're talking about.
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Yeah, Like I said, all all these bands kind of just had like
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a microcorg and would use very similar presets. Is that kind of synth sound
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thing? But it was It wasn't because they wanted to have synth in a
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song, but maybe they didn't know what kind of style that was meant to
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suit. Whereas I think with with what we've got now and what with particularly
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what John our guitarist and main ryder does, like he's got so much knowledge
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and he's like he's deeply passionate about like electronic music and very particular styles of
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it and how that works with our music and how the tempos interact. And
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I think that's another important thing that like you can't maybe have a drum and
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bass style song and it be like too slow. You know, it has
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to be a certain temper, it needs to be a certain way. And
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I think that's like really important to understand that it's like not just about having
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synths and and electronic stuff in the back, it's about like making that actually
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that style of electronic music interact with what we're doing and making sure that it's
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yeah, cohesive. So yeah, that's very important to us. Yeah.
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I think it's such a challenging thing too, because when you're when you're making
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heavy music, a lot of times you're not talking about things that are squeaky
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clean, right, We're talking about sounds that are generally a little bit muddy,
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generally I don't know how to put it. I guess they're not They're
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not clean, right, I mean it's it's usually very, very difficult to
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try to make things sound like they're well produced, like like something that that
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would be almost cinematic in nature. You guys have kind of cracked the code
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on that. I think, you know, Mason and I we've grown up
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with music where we really really like the flaws and music we like, you
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know, tempos that maybe aren't perfect, right, we like, uh,
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we like imperfection, and we find ourselves to be purist in that. But
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when we listen to north Lane, it's the exact opposite of that. I
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mean, everything is is dead on and everything is so crisp and clear.
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You can hear every single element, and every single time you listen through you
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can hear every element individually, which is very, very difficult to do.
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It's it's a massive undertaking to try to make that sound come through well and
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not be kind of put offish. Absolutely, and yeah, that's once again
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that's John working meticulously on like all this. Yeah, layers and layers of
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stuff for this, uh, these arrangements, Like he'll he'll pull his hair
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out just working on this for months leading up to like the studio, and
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even in the studio he'll still be coming up with new things. And then
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when we're mixing in he's like like stressing out so much about how each layer
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is mixed and like everything has to be He's just a certain way and just
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perfect for him. And that is another thing that we're really lucky to have
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is someone like him who is so yeah, it's so so intent on the
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details being right and yeah, just making sure that everything is being heard,
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because everything he does is for a purpose, not just for like filling it
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up. It's like, well, I like want these downs to be here,
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and they do kind of give you a certain feeling. If if that's
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not there, it's missing something. So yeah, he's a madman. So
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your role here then, where do you feel like you bring like the most
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value to the band. Well, for me, I feel like it's about
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like when he is like working on these songs and sending these instrumentals over obviously
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like starting to come up with vocal ideas, but then through that maybe feeling
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like structurally something could change, maybe feeling like, well maybe a verse could
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be extended, or maybe we need to move this section somewhere else Like that.
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Times maybe I'll cut something up and just write a song to a cut
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up version of the song, and then hopefully that spurs on something else for
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him. But for the most part, the collaboration comes together when we're like
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in the studio, and yeah, it's just obnestly it's little things like I
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don't like to get in the way of John because he does have a vision
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for it. But for me, it's just like about making sure that there's
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room to, I guess, write a song vocally and making sure that there's
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something that's easy to digest or not even easy, but something interesting there.
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And it's not just kind of maybe I'm just jamming the parts into where the
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music is because that's all there is, you know. It's about making sure
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there's there's still a song there, Yeah for sure. Well along those lines,
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let's talk about the new EP Mirrors Actually, yeah, let's let's hear
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just kind of like what what inspired the the impt you know, what was
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the impetus for trying to you know, start you know, doing EP.
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It's been a little while since you guys have done an EP, and then
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obviously the last album I think was twenty twenty two, so it's been you
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know, just a couple of years now since you guys have released anything,
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and so yeah, I just love to hear kind of where you guys are
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at when it comes to new music and what you guys were kind of going
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into this new EP with what was there new sounds? Yeah, just whatever
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kind of anything that you want to pull out when it comes to the EP.
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I'd love to hear. Yeah. Well, I think for for us,
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yeah, after doing what is it for three or four albums and I
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don't a feeling like like when we do an album, we we'd always want
25:48
to have like a theme or a message or something that ties everything together,
25:52
and that that's either through the songs like what they've written about, or even
25:57
if that's just how it sailed. And I think that's always like an exciting
26:04
challenge and something that's like, you know, quite rewarding to get done,
26:10
you know, writing ten songs that might loosely at least like follow some kind
26:14
of message or theme. And because for us this time around, we wanted
26:18
to have a bit more freedom to just do, you know, whatever came
26:22
to mind and not feel like the songs have to be tied together in a
26:25
certain sound, or feel like all the songs have to be about the same
26:29
kind of thing, or Yeah, I think for us, we just wanted
26:32
to have a bit more freedom to try and explore all of the different sounds
26:37
that we've kind of had over the years. So yeah, for us,
26:42
it was just an exciting time to just experiment and not kind of be held
26:48
down by like what's what do we expected to do? What's coming next,
26:52
and like what's like how are we going to change the sound? It was
26:55
more of a chance to like reflect on our sounds and and try some try
27:00
some new things by like mashing old things together. So yeah, I don't
27:07
know, it was just like a new experience and it's exciting. Love it.
27:12
Do you think that do you think that this is a sign you guys
27:17
want to keep exploring then, or do you want to go off in another
27:19
direction. Well, I'm not sure. I feel like maybe moving forward.
27:25
I don't know. We might do do an EP again, we might do
27:27
another album. I think I think there will be a time when we definitely
27:32
like this is the time to do an album. But I mean, in
27:36
the meantime, we're trying out the EP thing and I think it's been it's
27:40
been a good experiment as well. Of I guess moving with the times as
27:44
well as streaming and stuff is kind of taken over. It's it's a lot
27:49
more. It's a fast paced kind of industry now and you kind of have
27:55
to be constantly presenting yourself out there. So maybe it's way forward as well
28:00
doing this kind of thing. We're just releasing singles and stuff, but I
28:03
mean I love recording albums as well, So I don't know. We'll see
28:07
what happens. We kind of just like to see what happens, and we'll
28:11
kind of change with the times if need be, and change it up if
28:15
also need be, So we'll see how we go. Sure, what do
28:19
you feel about that like kind of EP cycle that seems to have been kind
28:26
of created because of streaming? Obviously we all kind of probably grew up with
28:30
albums being kind of the dominant centric way of releasing music, and I'm sure
28:37
each one of us love albums for the kind of long form of it.
28:42
Yeah, that there's like kind of this long cohesive story that's being told or
28:47
or whatever it might be. But yeah, I'm curious, like as a
28:51
fan of music for yourself, like knowing that there's like this business side of
28:55
navigating what that's going to have to be like, but also knowing like you're
29:00
a lover of music, like what is it? What does it mean for
29:03
you to kind of navigate that balance of recognizing the business side, but also
29:07
I'm guessing there is like this album part of you that's like I just really
29:14
love albums. So I'm just curious, like how do you navigate that balance?
29:18
Yeah? Absolutely, I think there's obviously an argument for both. Like
29:22
I think with albums, you put so much time into it, and then
29:27
you know you will play maybe you know, you might play six or seven
29:32
songs on the album tour, but as time moves forward, you'll play two
29:36
or three of those songs long term, And I feel like it it doesn't
29:41
feel like wasted time. But it feels like you could be spending time working
29:45
on maybe five really good songs that are going to stand the test of time,
29:49
as opposed to trying to fill out an album that all ties together.
29:52
But maybe people don't have the time to listen to the whole thing or want
29:56
to hear every song every time. So what I've also noticed is that with
30:03
EPs and everything kind of moving a bit quicker, music is obviously then coming
30:08
out a lot quicker. I feel like bands are releasing a lot more music,
30:12
and a lot more impactful music, I guess because they're able to spend
30:18
more time just on individual songs or on just these kind of smaller periods or
30:25
sessions. Recording an EP then you know, stressing out for a year or
30:30
two getting the next album ready, making sure you know, track eight is
30:36
as good as it can be, but like you're burnt out, you know,
30:38
like that kind of feeling. So I don't know for us as well,
30:44
this was like exciting for us to record an EP. It felt like
30:47
there was a lot less pressure on, Yeah, maybe feeling like a song
30:52
wasn't quite there yet and we had to really like rush to make sure that
30:56
it worked, Like with five or six songs, like we're just able to
31:02
just really focus and hone in on each one and make sure that everything was
31:06
perfect. And I'd like to think that other bands have the same experience of
31:10
feeling a lot more satisfied with their work in the end and a lot more
31:15
just like, yeah, we actually really nailed these four or five songs,
31:18
as opposed to we nailed these six or seven songs and these other three songs
31:25
like ninety there. Maybe I don't know, but we always have that feeling
31:30
when we're trying to finish the album. It's like damn, which we had
31:32
just another week or two just to iron out those things. But yeah,
31:37
with this, it feels like you can just get it, get it done
31:38
and really hone in on it. Do you feel like like like Australia,
31:45
like the prison that Australia is, you know, being kind of stuck in,
31:49
you know, one quadrant of a hemisphere. Do you feel like you're
31:53
able to get out now? I know what we talked last time, It
31:59
seemed like it was a struggle to try to get out and tour elsewhere.
32:02
Has that been easier now? Yeah? I think so. I Mean there
32:08
was obviously the lockdown and stuff, and that kind of took a took a
32:13
toll on everyone, But I guess since then everything's been pretty much back to
32:19
normal. And yeah, I feel like now it's more so just waiting for
32:22
the right time and opportunities as opposed to just like waiting for an offer at
32:27
all. So yeah, I feel like it's obviously still quite difficult and expensive
32:31
to get over there, but as time has moved forward, like we're able
32:37
to at least hold our own and make it work and make you know,
32:43
still make a career out of it. So yeah, it's exciting that we're
32:46
able to still do this ten years into what I've been in, like ten
32:52
years into being in north Lane, and they've been at it for almost fifteen
32:55
years. So yeah, it's exciting that we're still doing it, and it's
33:00
it's it's luckily like bigger than ever, so we're able to do it more
33:05
comfortably than than just a couple of years ago. So it's it's exciting.
33:09
Do you have a do you have a dream location that you guys would like
33:13
to play? Ooh, dream location? I don't know why. I I
33:21
always feel like you guys would like do absolute bonkers numbers in like South Korea
33:27
or Japan or something like that. Yeah, well, yeah, we haven't
33:30
done anywhere like South Korea, but we've done Japan a couple of times,
33:36
and I, yeah, Japan's one of my favorite places to play and travel
33:39
too. Just last time we were in Japan, my partner I had just
33:45
stayed on for another couple of weeks afterwards because like, yeah, we're here,
33:49
we're not leaving, let's just stay for a little while. So anytime
33:52
I can get back to Japan, I would love to be going there.
33:55
One of my favorite places. That's cool. So what's what's the dream look
34:00
that you want to go play? Are? Yeah? Thinking about that.
34:06
It's a tough one. I mean, I don't even specific location, but
34:12
like somewhere on a beach would be really nice. Somewhere like a really nice
34:15
beach. I've been noticing actually, and I feel like it's just like older
34:21
punk bands in Australia starting to do it. But there's like a band called
34:25
The Living End. I'm not sure if you've heard of them, but I've
34:29
seen them doing like these kind of like seven day retreat things on like a
34:35
little tropical island just off the coast of Australia recently. I feel like they
34:39
do it every year. Cool and it's definitely like just for like rich old
34:45
people. But I love how punk. It's so unpunk. It's crazy.
34:51
But it's just like I can just imagine them standing on the beach and they're
34:53
like in their board shorts, in their trunks, just kind of one of
34:58
the guys plays double bas just by this by the beach, just like,
35:02
Oh, wouldn't that be lovely? You play for like you play for like
35:06
an hour every day and then the rest of the time you just relaxing.
35:10
That's definitely like when I'm probably does Yeah, absolutely, that's like the when
35:15
I'm old dream. That's when I'm like, I'm still doing music, but
35:19
I'm just wanting to chills that. I love it. When you guys come
35:24
to America, what feels like the most stereotypical American city or venue or like
35:36
place you guys visit, Like, what what feels like when you like,
35:37
whenever you think about an American the average stereotypical American, Like, where is
35:44
that for you guys when you come to visit? Yeah, I guess that's
35:47
the different the different style of American. But I feel like we spend a
35:52
lot of time in Jersey, so I guess you go to a load of
35:57
that kind of I'm glad you said Jersey and not yah. Yeah, like
36:01
that kind of short vibe. I don't know, it's something like I also
36:07
I always get excuse me, I also get that vibe like everyone's really nice.
36:12
But if you were to say something like a bit too I don't know,
36:15
communist, not yeah, yeah, bit too communist communist, then you
36:20
get like, wherever you are, they'd be police there all the time.
36:23
They'd be like they're up to something. You know. It's like, that's
36:28
not that's not how police react here. They don't go, yeah, they
36:31
go, let's put a gun on them exactly. Oh my goodness. So
36:37
but I mean that being said, it's always nice going there. Everyone's always
36:43
nice as long as I'm nice as well. I mean, I'm always nice.
36:45
I don't know why they would be nice to me. Is there is
36:50
there a place that you guys eat in America that you you aren't able to
36:53
get in Australia where whenever you get to the US, you're like, gotta
36:57
go to this place to eat. Yeah. I feel like there's a couple
37:00
of places what what pops out? We didn't used to have five guys,
37:06
but we do now, so I guess that's off the list. But Australia
37:10
okay, Yeah, there's a couple of them now that being said, like
37:15
one of them is okay, but the other one's like not very good.
37:17
And I feel like America is just way better at making an American burger.
37:22
Who who would have thunk it? But what else is there? I mean,
37:25
Chipotle I like getting as well. There's something else I just know.
37:30
I just can't think of Wingstop. I love really stop. It's that crazy,
37:38
that's so wild. That is all the answer I was expected, no,
37:46
because we don't really have boneless wings here really like, I really like
37:51
chicken strips and chicken strips, but it's like something different about aless wing to
37:58
a chicken strip though to a tender it's something different there. So I don't
38:04
know. I like, I like the sauces to the mango habit the mango
38:07
hab anero on there. That's that's a good one. You guys been do
38:12
a waffle house yet? When you go to the South, I've been a
38:15
couple of times. Yeah, I think the guys have like a pretty hectic
38:17
story about of course that's the whole point of waffle House. Yeah, yeah,
38:23
I'm pretty shared with us. Last time Northland was on Oh yeah,
38:27
Nick probably told you ye walking to the place and there was in a crossfire.
38:34
Yeah, so weld. I'm so glad I wasn't there. But that's
38:38
like the that's the prototypical waffle House story. Like if you if you don't
38:43
have that story visiting in waffle House, then you haven't really been to waffle
38:45
House. Right then, I guess I haven't really been because I had I
38:49
had like a good you know, scrambled egg or where was a scrambled egg,
38:53
had the hash browns and a waffle and it was it was good.
38:57
I enjoyed my meal. I was. I was not in a shootout.
39:00
So if you're not eating waffle House, if you're not eating a scrambled egg
39:06
and absolute fear that you might not make it out alive, then you haven't
39:09
visited waffle House. Okay, I'll have to try again. And I say
39:14
that as somebody who has gone to waffle House once and was not fearing for
39:17
my life. Yeah, you gotta go to the cediest place you can they
39:22
can find. Oh my gosh, all right, uh Marcus, you ready
39:29
for your top five most influential albums? I think so. I actually did
39:35
prepare for this and pulled up like I've got like an iTunes like a list
39:39
of all my favorites. You still have iTunes? Wow? I do two
39:45
thousand and nine. Haven't seen you in a while. Well, I'm an
39:49
Apple Music user. But also when you're like bouncing stuff down, it's way
39:52
easier to put on your phone if you use Apple Music because its just your
39:57
Apple Music library. So yeah, Apple Music. I think it's ten nine
40:02
a month. Maybe it's ten bucks. That's my ad for Apple Music.
40:09
Answering to my list, So I've got actually like one hundred albums. Here
40:15
me listen more. Well, let's not do I'll find the Yeah, I'll
40:17
list I'll listen my top five. Okay, where do I start? I
40:25
guess I'll start with under Oath to find the great line because of course I've
40:30
been getting not back into it, but I feel like every now and then
40:34
I just have a period of watching what's it called the Survive Kaleidoscope Live DVD.
40:40
I remember getting that when I was like in eighth grade. Same I
40:45
had, Yeah, I got it when I was a kid, and I
40:46
feel like that was like so influential for me, just like wanting to play
40:53
live music and like I started playing drums and singing because of like Aaron and
41:00
and I guess with that as well, I had like the Deluxe to Find
41:02
the Great Line as well that had the like studio diaries and on that end,
41:07
I was like and then there was that guy that was talking about how
41:09
he like saw a UFO. Remember that right at the end. Oh yeah,
41:13
yeah, absolutely, Oh who is that? What was his name?
41:15
Yeah? Random dude, Like it was like Area fifty one or whatever.
41:20
Yeah, but I feel like that, like that little DVD as well,
41:24
like was so inspiring for like wanting to be in a band and go to
41:30
the studio. And I don't know, I feel like in so many ways,
41:34
under Oath was like inspiring to me. So yeah, that's to Find
41:38
the Great Line for me was a big wake. Yeah, probably one of
41:43
one of the more cited albums that we get that are there. I'm sure
41:47
it is one of those two, but yeah, yeah, we I would
41:51
say out of all the episodes that we've done, under Oath is listed in
41:55
probably the top like probably a top five listed band for good reason and for
42:00
good reason. Absolutely yeah, we agree. Okay, I guess I'll pull
42:06
up Green Day American Idiot. Oh okay, because I was thinking about this
42:13
the other days. I've been listening to it a lot recently. Is it
42:15
just because you're an RC that you really love American Idiot? Well? Maybe
42:20
probably, I feel like it's But for me, it was like like I
42:24
just remember being like how old had I've been, maybe ten, nine or
42:29
ten, and like the internet had just kind of come to our school,
42:32
you know, like it was we were still on dial up. YouTube didn't
42:37
exist yet. I remember like like I don't even think it was Google.
42:40
I think it was Yahoo, like yahooing how far behind is Australia? Oh
42:45
man, it would have been yeah, what was that two thousand and two?
42:50
It was two thousand and four, of course, but like two thousand
42:51
and three or four, and pretty much finding like a Windows business so old
42:57
Windows media player link to be oh yeah, like the like fun little swirls
43:02
of whatever the screensaver exactly. I got to stream like a really low quality
43:07
version of the song, and I remember the video coming on like our music
43:13
channel and stuff, and I don't know, just being really really hooked by
43:16
it and being like this is I don't know, this is kind of like
43:21
dark and cool but pop punky. I don't know. It's like my first
43:23
introduction to that kind of more we'll call it edgier pop punk, you know,
43:30
kind of that kind of thing, and it was more like my first
43:32
understanding of like that kind of thing. Like I knew Blink and stuff,
43:37
but I think for me Green Day was like, oh what the hell is
43:39
this? What is this kind of music? It's not just like on the
43:43
radio music. It's like a bit a bit edgy in a way. So
43:47
yeah, I'll put American idiot on there. Yeah, all right, what
43:53
got nextll one? Well, this is tough. This is tough. There's
43:57
so many let's say, all right, I'll go Blue Sky Noise by Circus
44:06
of Vive. Oh okay, oh random, yeah, But I don't know.
44:14
I feel like everyone else has like a different favorite Circus of Vive album,
44:16
but Blue Sky Noise for me, it was just like every every song
44:21
and there is just like so perfectly written. I don't know. For me,
44:23
that's just like my that kind of music and that what that album captured
44:30
is just like my sweet spot for the kind of stuff I like listening to.
44:34
I don't know, I don't I can't quite put my finger on it.
44:36
But obviously Anthony Green's voice is really really good and all the melodies on
44:43
there insane. And I also remember watching it was either AOL or was AOL
44:49
MySpace transmissions. I think it was like some live performances of them playing it,
44:54
and just like how perfect it sounded with live as well, and how
45:00
well Anthony sung. And I think that also solidified for me. I was
45:04
like, Oh, this band's not just like a band that recorded a good
45:07
album. They're like, actually so legit. Yeah, so yeah, I
45:12
don't know if that one. I feel like I also came in a bit
45:14
late on that album. It was like, I think they've been around for
45:17
ages and that al would have probably been out for five years. And then
45:22
my friend was like, you gotta listen to this album and I'm like,
45:23
okay, I'll give it a shot. And I was like, oh,
45:27
I'm an idiot. I'm way way too late to this train. So but
45:31
yet it's stuck with me. Anthony played at Furnace Vestis last year and so
45:37
did Turnstile, and I was like backstage for Turnstile, and I just remember
45:42
watching Anthony. I think it was like maybe like his kid or something,
45:45
but they were just jamming out so hard to turnstyle, and I'm like,
45:50
this dude, he loves music like he just it doesn't matter if it's an
45:53
old band or a new band. He's all in, all in, that's
45:59
great. Yeah, he's Yeah, he works hard as well. He like
46:02
releases so much music. It's kind of wild. It is, what have
46:07
I got next? Two more? So I'm mu sure of this is honestly,
46:13
maybe it is like so, I had a friend or a friend who
46:16
like had a DVD with all of this. It was like a Metal Hammer
46:21
DVD. It must have come with like a metal Hammer magazine. And I
46:24
had all these music videos for different kind of two thousand and five two thousand
46:30
six, like metal and metalcore bands and stuff, and I remember seeing so
46:37
I got reminded of this because you were talking about imperfections in music. But
46:39
I remember seeing hand of Blood by Bullet from my Valentine. I don't think
46:44
that's I don't think that's on the Poison, but I'm going to say it's
46:47
on the deluxe version of the Poison. And so I'm gonna say the poison
46:52
by Bullet for my Valentine. I remember seeing that and like kind of being
46:58
like, so, I don't know. That was like kind of a heavier
47:01
but still catchy kind of introduction to like riffy metal. I guess if that
47:07
makes sense. It was actually like I was, my ears were still young
47:12
and too scared of anything heavier, so I feel like it was like the
47:16
perfect introduction. Same with that and like Event Sevenfold and those kind of bands
47:20
that tray you like that those kind of bands are on that as well.
47:24
But you just reminded me before talking about imperfections because there's a part and Hand
47:29
of Blood where like the drums go just like a little bit too quick out
47:32
of one section, and I'm just like it always sticks out to me,
47:36
like years later, I'm just like, I've never on hear this like one
47:39
part where where it goes really quick for a second and then gets back in
47:44
time. But yeah, for me, that that album kind of was like
47:47
also like an introduction to like tuning lower than Drop Cea. I was like,
47:54
oh that's I I mean, sorry, lower than Drop Deer. It
47:58
was like I could go to Drop C and then I feel like my final
48:02
one was like, oh I can go to drop B my final album on
48:06
this list, It's like, oh, I can go even lower to drop
48:09
B or maybe even lower than that, and that album We're just getting scary
48:14
at that point, yeah, is yeah, you're just demons at that point
48:19
forgetting I am conjuring up demons. But yeah, my last my last album
48:23
is Volume three by Slipknot Wow. Yeah, Subliminal Versus. And that album
48:30
for me was just like a big and I think it was like it came
48:35
at the perfect time for me, like kind of growing growing out of being
48:40
like a kid into like a teenager, so still like a kid, but
48:44
you know, like not just being like a little child, kind of being
48:46
like, oh no, the world sucks. There's I have to deal with
48:51
like problems and stuff now as I'm getting older. That's kind of shitty,
48:55
but I feel like I, yeah, I had like an old iPod that
48:59
had that album on it and I would just listen to it like on the
49:02
way to school every day. And for me, like Corey Taylor is one
49:07
of the like, if not the best, kind of heavy vocalist and like
49:14
heavy frontmen like in terms of his charisma and his ability to put on a
49:16
show, and like from from day one kind of hearing that album and then
49:23
exploring the rest of their music, it was like, Okay, this is
49:28
this is the real deal, and like this is some some inspiring, inspiring
49:31
stuff for for a little kid just getting into heavy music. So yeah,
49:37
I think that's yeah for me, those five albums. There's probably a couple
49:42
more that are maybe in the same level of influence for me, but I
49:46
think that's a good mix, beautiful mix. You were You're kind of a
49:52
metal head through and through, aren't you. Yeah, I was just about
49:53
the same. Like you like guitars, I mean, I like I like
49:59
music a lot, you know, and I like I do like like all
50:02
like the instrumentation of stuff as well. I think being a vocalist, it
50:07
might come off like, you know, this guy just sings, but I
50:09
do like all like I play drums like for at least an hour every day.
50:14
So it's like I kind of just love music. As dorky as that
50:20
sounds, and as cliche as that sounds as well, I just love music
50:22
so much, you know, it's just my life. But yeah, I
50:28
just feel like for me, I just love being like getting deep into that
50:31
kind of stuff and you like that random bulle of my Valentine drum thing,
50:36
Like I love that stuff and it just like makes me more excited about music
50:39
knowing that that stuff can be there. Yeah, So there's one There's one
50:45
thing I meant to ask you before we uh, before we moved into the
50:50
albums, and that is how often do you go on and look at comments
50:54
about your guys's music? A way too much? Yeah, probably way too
51:02
much. I mean, especially since like when we release new music obviously,
51:07
like I want to be I just want to see, like make sure people
51:12
like aren't completely hating it. But then it's still like, once I start
51:15
going down that rabbit hole, I'm like, oh no, I should have
51:19
I should have quit while I was ahead. They like it, Okay,
51:22
they like it, don't don't look at those two comments that suck. My
51:25
favorite comments that I see on your guys' videos is how everyone wants to have
51:30
sex with your voice. Oh my gosh, I hear. I've seen it
51:34
so parental control on my YouTube. Yeah you might. I don't know.
51:38
It's either that or it's like it's like, yeah, his voice like scratches
51:43
that itch. I've never been able to scratch, It's like, wow,
51:45
nice, Yeah, that's very kind perfection right there. Well, I do
51:51
you see those comments at all? Or what I mean? No, I
51:54
guess I honestly, that's the thing. It's like I probably do see them,
51:58
but then I go straight to theative ones. I'm like, fuck you
52:01
get get like you're such a millennial. I know what's wrong with me.
52:08
No, but I do appreciate those comments. It's just I feel like I
52:12
also take I have a hard time accepting compliments, and I just you know,
52:17
I'm in the end, I'm just doing what I like to do,
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and I just kind of want to just do that. So for me,
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it's it's nice if people are into it, but I kind of have a
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hard time just being like, oh thanks. As a vocalist, aren't you
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like required to take compliments? Really well, I guess I guess I'm one
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of the odd ones. I don't know. I'm such in like a weirdo,
52:39
Like I'm like quite I'm quite introverted and like I feel like when I'm
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on stage it's like I have white line fever for the hour or however long
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we play, and then when I'm off stage, I'm so boring it's just
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like a normal simple dude. You know, I get it? Do you
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get do you get white line fever back stage on a mirror's edge if you
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know what I mean? Oh my gosh, no, not I not I
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No. North Lane is a clean band. Guys were clean. No one
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knows Candy Straight's Edge, Straight Edge. Well, Josh non alcoholic beers,
53:22
so oh wow, Yeah, that's it's Josh loves the Heineken zero. So
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we're on our way, man, he could have at least picked a good
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beer. Does Fosters have an alcoholic free one? Oh? I hope not.
53:37
That'd be awful. I don't think we have much Fosters over here.
53:40
I think you've like you've imported it all so you can have it as like
53:45
an old Wow are you serious? So what what's what's the main Australian beer?
53:51
So? I feel like it's kind of regional, but like VB,
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which is Victoria Bitter, Melbourne Bitter, is there two E's Two's is a
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big brand here is the effort of Two's. Those like the kind of bigger
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ones. But then there's so many other like smaller Aussie brands that quite big
54:09
here as well. Cooper's I guess is big here as well. Yeah cool,
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let's yeah, best stuff I always wondered. I like Australia is kind
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of an enigma, as Mason was saying earlier, like to us, it's
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so weird because culturally you guys are so similar I think in a lot of
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ways, but then also very very different in many more ways. But anyways,
54:36
let's talk. Let's talk what you'd like to plug? What do you
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want to plug? The album or the the EP comes out April twelfth,
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right, yes, April twelfth, he comes down. That's got I guess
54:45
two or three new songs I guess you haven't heard yet, and that we've
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also got a US tour coming up with invent Animate. Heck yeah, that's
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gonna be fun. We've also got thorn Hill and wind Waker, who are
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another a couple of Aussie bands. So that's that's exciting. It's very exciting.
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I love Legend of Zelda too, so you know, wind Waker is
55:10
gonna be great. Dude, I love Windwak. They're the We did a
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regional like kind of country run in Australia last year and they're just like such
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a fun bunch of guys and I'm really excited to have them over Thorn really
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great too, and the invent Animate dude, they're funny. Yeah, yeah,
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I'm really excited to tour with that. I haven't got to tour with
55:34
them with with their Marcus yet, so it'll be the meeting of Marcus is
55:37
Ah. You know that's gonna be a good time. It's time, It's
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time it happens. Are you guys gonna have new merchant stuff like that coming
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with the new tour and new EP and stuff. Uh, yeah, absolutely,
55:51
I'm sure. I think at the moment, I'm not sure if pre
55:53
orders are done yet, but we had some pre order vinyl stuff that had
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some exclusive merch. But yeah, as you go out on to it,
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there will be a bunch of new new stuff to support the album, support
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the EP and beautiful Yeah, awesome, wonderful, Well, Marcus, anything
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else you'd like the plug? Well, I mean, I was kind of
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teasing it earlier, but I've been lucky. I've been lucky enough. I
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guess this won't really apply to the Americans, so hopefully some Australians are listening.
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But I've been I've been lucky enough to be asked to do like a
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resident kind of guest spot at Australia Zoo. So you've never been, but
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they want you to come. Yes, it was actually part of the reason
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they wanted me to come. They wanted me to come out and kind of
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just like witness it all for the first time with the Irwin's, which is
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crazy. It's kind of like a dream come true for Australian to be able
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to go to the place and like, I don't know, get to do
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like interactions with the animals and stuff. Like it's kind of insane. So
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that'll be happening in August. Wow, you're like straight royalty now straight see
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straight see, I'm trying to put like an American Aussie accent there. Straight
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uh. Yeah, So that's ridiculous, but there'll be some more details on
57:19
that pretty soon. How many do you guys pronounce it ari's or ari or
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a r I? A wait, what are the like the the the like
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Australian like music awards thing. Oh yeah there it's Aria yeah, Aria,
57:37
Aria yeah yeah, Ariyah yeah. Do you do you? So you guys
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just have to win three of those and then all of a sudden you start
57:44
getting invited to the Australian zoo. I think that must that must be the
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prerequisites. Yeah, you gotta have the three arias and anymore though, and
57:52
they're like getting a bit too a bit too big for your boots there,
57:59
Steve. Even you wouldn't have four arias three? Are you gonna like hold
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like the most metal animal you can imagine? Or like what's the I mean,
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yeah, I'm not sure what they're gonna have me do. I mean,
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because I'm sure there's a lot of dangerous stuff there too, And I
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mean I'm sure i'll get to go like kind of hold the koalas and maybe
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they'll let me do like a like a seal show, like one of the
58:22
sea lion things. I bet you. I think you should talk them into
58:28
letting you scream with the howler monkeys. Oh my gosh, that would be
58:31
fine. Yeah, I'm just I'm interested to see what they'll let me do
58:34
and not to terrify the animals, because it would be cool to do some
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screaming. But what if, like what if the zoo breaks loose? What
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if what if the tigers get out of their cages? What if they what
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if? I don't want to talk myself out of getting this Australia Zoo things.
58:47
So they're gonna be like, don't cause trouble. What if they say,
58:52
all right, you're gonna go hang out with the orangutang and the orangutang's
58:57
very hungry and you have to have ten bananas in your pocket. If you
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can make orangutan observatory with and get to the other side without that a rangutang
59:09
catching you, you win a million dollars. What are you gonna do?
59:15
I mean, I guess I have to give it to go. But on
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a rangutan is like quite terrifying. They like, yeah, they're awful there.
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I was giving his arm like ripped off. Yeah. I don't know
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if i'd want to. It's amazing that if i'd want to, if i'd
59:30
want to do that, maybe, yeah, i'd scope it out. I'm
59:32
sure they wouldn't allow me to do that, but I would. I would
59:36
give it a shot. But you know, I would take my chances if,
59:39
like, if the ringuting doesn't have anything to like a rngu tan off
59:43
of, I'm gonna take my chances because I for sure I'm gonna be able
59:45
to win a foot race against an a rngutan. I wonder how quick an
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a rangutan is because I reckon it gets down on all falls though and goes
59:52
full like yeah, but the whole point is like being bipedal, We're we're
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gonna be able to run faster than they can. I don't think you will,
1:00:00
but I will say Mason was a collegiate football player, so okay,
1:00:05
and track trackster, so maybe maybe. So if anything, we're gonna get
1:00:09
caught by the orangutank first while you're zipping ahead, you get yeah, yeah,
1:00:15
so I'll be able to win a million. Yeah that's good. Well,
1:00:21
uh looking, I'm looking forward to uh seeing the many pictures of you
1:00:25
at the Australian Zoo. You know how, there's like that meme of like
1:00:28
when American bands come to Australia and then they take a picture of the qualas,
1:00:31
Like there's gotta be an Australian version of that when you guys come to
1:00:35
America. So you guys are gonna be coming to America soon. You guys
1:00:37
gotta like take a picture of I don't know, like an eagle, Like
1:00:42
what what is it that you guys would take a picture of? Even,
1:00:44
Yeah, I guess an eagle feels like the most American thing that'll like going
1:00:49
in like sasquad. Maybe maybe an alligator or something out in Florida or something
1:00:53
that's like it's either an alligator in Florida or an eagle anywhere else, or
1:00:58
like a yeah, or a Florida or a Florida man, the Florida man,
1:01:02
Yeah, the local truth Beast. Yes, I love it. Well,
1:01:08
Marcus, thank you so much for chatting more about your history in North
1:01:13
Lane, uh, and chatting about the new EP. We're super super stoked
1:01:15
for it. And uh yeah, I know you guys are going to be
1:01:17
coming to Minneapolis, so hopefully we can see you guys sometime this summer.
1:01:22
Absolutely, thank you so much for be time. I appreciate it. Thank you,