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Pushing Forward With SHAUN DIVINEY From SHORT STACK · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  This is Shorn from short Stack and you are speaking with Heavy mag I'm speaking
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  with Heavy mage job. So shaw Stack will and truly have a full calendar
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  this year, and you're about to hit the road on your regional Ish tour
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  and any spots that you guys haven't toured before, and we are most looking
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  forward to hitting up most of it. We haven't been to like a lot
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  of them, like Townsville and Kansas stuff, we haven't been there in over
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  ten years. But like Taglan think it is, there's a wipe home and
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  pronounce some of the cities, but there's like Puraka in Adelaide, never been
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  there, and then the Western Australian ones. I don't think we've been to
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  those specific ones either, so it's yeah, it's pretty cool. Yeah awesome.
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  Where are you most looking forward to playing? We have it. We
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  playing show in Penrith years ago and we're playing back there again at the Panthers.
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  It's a pretty cool venue and there's like a skydiving thing there thoughts like
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  indoor skydiving. That's pretty cool, awesome, So after a show Shini shindigs.
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  Yeah, yeah, A couple of you guys are also on the bill
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  for Good Things twenty twenty three. How does it feel to be on such
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  an amazing lineup representing the Aussie music? Clearly we are representing the heavier side
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  of things, which is good. It's good to see heavy music finally getting
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  the representation that deserves. No, it's it's yeah, we're speaking of that
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  before. It's going to be heat of fun. We're like, yeah,
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  really looking forward to it. It's our last one, last like set of
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  shows for ages. I don't think we got anything really planned after that,
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  so yeah, it's always fun to sort of anything to with a bang.
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  Yeh? Is there anyone on there that you're really looking forward to playing with?
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  Or surprise that they're on there and you get to share the stage for
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  them all that boy like bucket list material fast like when we were like teenagers
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  who won't seeing them, And I've seen them so many times, so it's
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  pretty cool to like have them their limp biscuits too, Like that's pretty sick.
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  Yeah, Like I didn't think I would ever see Olympus in my life,
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  but it alone be like playing the festival with them, So yeah,
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  I hope looking forward to seeing us too. I'm sure they're so excited to
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  see can't wait. So you guys have served up that pop punk realist with
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  your new release Shotgun Wedding. It's got all subtle notes to all your influencers
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  in the music industry. Is this a taste of what's to come from short
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  Stack or what's on the horizon from you? Yeah? Pretty much. We're
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  just making music. It's really fun to play. I think another way of
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  like playing a bit more live that someone's really written as like a fun life
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  song to play. I think because it's like super easy to play. So
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  yeah, the last album was pretty hard because we like did it on the
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  studio, whereas this one. This time around, we're like, I just
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  trying to hit the easy music. So yeah, it's like the easier,
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  the better for us. Better. Yeah, And what's in the work for
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  you guys? Are you wanting to release an album or are you just kind
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  of going to do single releases and do the tours and then see how that
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  kind of pairs. Yeah. I have no real desire to do another album
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  again, I think just because like we sort of go in the studio and
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  do like a song for a whole bunch of the times, whereas an album,
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  I feel like I feel we approach an album kind of differently to a
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  lot of other bands. We usually are like, oh, we've got a
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  couple of singles and we're just like have fun with it, whereas now we
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  just keep on, you know, sort of releasing singles, which is good,
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  kind of pushing this to make the songs as best they can be rather
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  than being like we really need like a track nine, Like fuck, let's
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  just do some acoustic you know, like a sort of makes it the best
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  it can be. Yeah, true, and that relaxed approach normally brings out
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  the best music as well. It kind of like hate what about Yeah,
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  definitely no pressure, which is sick. Yeah, it gives you that that
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  creative space instead of just pressure we need to do this by this deadline and
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  get it out now exactly. And albums are so expensive and record levels don't
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  like making them. Yeah, fair enough to So what does your setlist look
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  like these days? Do you kind of change it depending on show to show
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  and who the audience is going to be, or how do you guys attack
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  that A little bit of it, Like we've got the staples, We've obviously
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  got to play like planets and stuff like that, but The thing which is
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  kind of cool to us is like people seem to like the new stuff just
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  as much because I like the old stuff, I guess, which is surprising
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  to us because we're like, you know, when I go see fans that
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  I like, I am like, if I go see Blink they just played
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  like, dude wrench, I'd be like, fucking sweet, bit like I
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  don't care, just play too drench. But yeah, we're surprised by like,
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  like there's some people that don't really like us from like a new album,
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  which is each fucking weird because we play like Shimmy and Gogo and all
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  these songs that like, you know, people sort of know us for and
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  they like don't get into it as much as some of the new ones.
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  So it's really that's kind of cool. That's really cool. Do you find
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  it's the same kind of your fans from ten, fifteen years ago or who's
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  showing up? Yeah, some of them, definitely. Definitely there's a lot
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  more dudes now. Like when I first came out, it was pretty much
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  like all chicks, but now there's like a heap of does, which is
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  which is pretty cool. Yeah, I remember all my mates in high school
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  were psycho a for you guys, Yeah, it'd be freaking out how lucky.
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  How lucky I guess which asshole was like for my interviews. Having the
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  opportunity now to kind of do a full circle moment and share the music world
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  with your kids, how has it been for you? Like it would be
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  fucking miles away from MySpace days and touring back then crazy, it was like
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  a different life, you know what I mean, Like it really wasn't that
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  long ago. It was only like ten or three years ago. So yeah,
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  but obviously their life minas pretty for us, and we're just getting our
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  kids to come. That was like a huge thing for us of like we
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  could have ended it there, and then you know, like we're we're definitely
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  not. We're very We're very aware of how fortunate we are to be able
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  to be doing us for as long as we are, because there's a lot
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  of bands that, you know, don't get to be that lucky. We
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  haven't figured out why people still want to come and see us yet. We
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  never figured out why they wanted to see us like in the first place,
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  so we're very grateful for it. So that kind of rolls into your comeback
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  tour. I was curious how it felt like when you guys were like,
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  all right, let's fire it up again, let's go, and then you
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  sell out, Like it must have been a freaking crazy, amazing feeling to
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  know that people were just waiting for you to come back. Yeah, it
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  was. It was very humbling, and we didn't know, like, we
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  didn't know if anyone would come. We'd be stoked, like two hundred people
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  there, you know when we got to like we just got put the songs
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  again and then you know, then just go back to not doing it anymore.
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  So yeah, it was very Yeah, it was like the best surprise.
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  That's a good surprise to have. It would suck to fire it back
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  out and then no one shows up. So we got Halloween coming up.
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  Are you blowys going to fire up and revive the hair and the eyeliner and
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  give the appiece of the Masses apiece the Masses? Yeah? Yeah, maybe
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  Andy's got pretty long hair. I'm very boring these days, a little conservative
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  bain, a bit of private school by hair cut. But yeah, Andy's
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  very is the rock and roll. But yeah, that's that's apparently he's camp.
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  Yeah that's his camp. He can keep it. Yeah, hell yeah,
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  bro, you guys have released Stack as a new Black on vinyl.
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  Get me back to two thousand and nine. Did it absolutely blow your fucking
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  socks off that it just went straight to number one on the Aria of Charts
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  and just went bang. Yeah, it was pretty crazy. Like one or
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  two of the songs on there I wrote in like high school, which is
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  like fucking mental, So like, yeah, we we had such minimal expectations
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  for it, and then yeah, it's sort of like set up everything that
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  we've kind of done since, so it always holds a very special purpose in
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  our heart. And like you know, we still play the songs from it
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  now, like Spaceway and stuff like that. So yeah, it's fun.
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  It was insane. We we didn't think. We didn't think it would happened
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  for sure. We didn't think anything. A top ten, Yeah, was
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  number of one. Fuck, that's a been pretty ship week. There was
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  no like Metallica album or something. You look back, Oh that's golden.
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  Yeah. So I've seen you guys played Unified three, Yeah, which one
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  of your songs actually absolutely just pops. Like you know obviously when you when
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  you start first called, the crowd just goes fucking nuts. What was the
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  biggest song. I think everyone knows everyone knows Planets, I think, so
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  that's why it's like it's definitely the most popular songs. That one always goes
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  down really well. But yeah, when we play we play Spaceway last,
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  and that's always like keeps fun. It's just like pretty fast, pretty fun.
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  Once again, everyone kind of knows it from in the day. So
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  yeah, that's pretty sick. Yeah, that's cool if you guys sit back
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  at all and like go back over your videos and just indulge and go,
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  what were we doing? Yeah, so cringey. You weren't alone though.
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  Everyone was doing that had the same bloody style. Yeah, that was the
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  thing. It wasn't unique to us. We just looked like every other boguin
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  that we knew. Yep, that's awesome. Well, everyone can catch you
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  and you're coming up tours for your regionalist tour and good things at the end
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  of the year, And I think where can guys go to grab some tickets?
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  I think our website I should definitely know that, But our website sounds
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  about right. I'm Instagram on Instagram. You're fine, I'm just just search
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  short stack. You'll find the tickets. Yeah, awesome man. We'll all
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  the best on everything coming up and I look forward to see you guys playing
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  good things. Thank you so much for your time, cool, thank you
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  to catch you later. Bite bite, bite