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Defiance Through Music With KARLY JEWELL · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, rock As it's color duel Eli is.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you doing car You're good to speak to you tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm good man, I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: I bet you. The reason you are excited is because today,
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  Speaker 2: during the twentieth you're dropping your new album. There's a
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  Speaker 2: duel in town. So how you feel has been a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a long campaign. How are you feeling it?
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, this is so exciting to have this album
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  Speaker 3: out now.
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  Speaker 1: Look, I've been hanging on to these songs for a
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  Speaker 1: little while, you know, almost two years. It sounds like
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  Speaker 1: a long time to do.
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  Speaker 3: An album, but it actually only took I figured out
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  Speaker 3: it only took about fourteen days.
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  Speaker 1: To actually record this whole album.
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  Speaker 3: But it was just a couple of trips backwards and
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  Speaker 3: forwards to Brisbane to get it done in between touring
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  Speaker 3: the two tours we did to Japan and yeah, now
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  Speaker 3: it's finally out. Obviously we you know, released a few singles,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, to share the whole album is just unreal.
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  Speaker 2: I mention is now, tell us a bit more about
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  Speaker 2: the album from musical point of view, like dive into
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  Speaker 2: it for us, tell us what you were going for?
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  Speaker 3: Look, you know, I definitely wanted to write like an
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  Speaker 3: album with you know, all the good pop and the rock,
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  Speaker 3: and but you know what, I just kind of I
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  Speaker 3: am me and I do write sad songs. I've had,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a lot of life experience and that's where
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  Speaker 3: these songs come from, you know, And I just really
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  Speaker 3: stayed true to myself. It's got a bit of everything
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  Speaker 3: for everyone, I think, because I don't write as a
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  Speaker 3: box artist like rock only. You know, there's there's the
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  Speaker 3: elements of the pop, there's the elements of electronic. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's melodic, it's it's hard hitting, it's upbeat, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: sad as you know what I mean. So there's there's
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  Speaker 3: highs and lows in here, and it's just like it's
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  Speaker 3: a yeah, it's pretty magic man. It's it's got something
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  Speaker 3: for everyone in there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now I've talked today. You've released the singles Birds, Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: It in the Dark. So are they a good sony
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  Speaker 2: for presentation of what to expect you? Are they just
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  Speaker 2: just a little teaser?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I mean I think those songs kind of wrap it
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  Speaker 3: up as well. Like I mean, you go from sad
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  Speaker 3: Girl to burn is like a huge rock ballad, and
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  Speaker 3: then you've got in the Dark, you know, which is
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  Speaker 3: this like kind of dark electronic kind of just you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's a ride that one itself, it's really emotional. And
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  Speaker 3: then you've got other side, which is just a banger,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So it really I think it explains itself
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  Speaker 3: that that's the kind of stuff you're going to get
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  Speaker 3: in this album. It's it's a little bit of everything,
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  Speaker 3: and I just love you know, mixing things up and
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  Speaker 3: you know, keeping it all in there.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a signature sound?
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  Speaker 3: So, I mean it doesn't you know, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be mew.
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  Speaker 2: You're actually speaking about those signature down I guess. But
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  Speaker 2: how have you developed that over the years to get
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  Speaker 2: to this point.
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  Speaker 3: Staying true, just just being me, not trying to be
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  Speaker 3: like other people, and not trying to write songs to
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  Speaker 3: please people. I'm just writing for myself. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of a lot of this stuff as well.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it has that kind of that country rock.
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  Speaker 3: And when I say country rock, when you go to
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  Speaker 3: like you know, places like Nashville and stuff, you're hearing
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  Speaker 3: these like big rocks like country songs, but they sound rock.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I grew up around country music, and
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  Speaker 3: I guess like that country sound kind of does come
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  Speaker 3: through that rock kind of sound. You know, they have
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  Speaker 3: that element and that's just you know, me being me
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  Speaker 3: and as a kid and just you know, so I
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  Speaker 3: guess that's what my soul sounds like. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's just me, that's who I am.
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  Speaker 2: I just sort of touched on this a bit before.
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  Speaker 2: But you actually wrote most of the album up here
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  Speaker 2: in Brisbane, didn't you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, I write a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: songs here in my bathroom because there's great acoustics, so
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  Speaker 3: that you know, most of these songs come from the
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  Speaker 3: shower of the bathroom. This is where they start and
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  Speaker 3: still will actually get like, you know, a little here
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  Speaker 3: and there, like in the bathroom with the nice acoustics.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, what do you think of this one?
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  Speaker 1: Stuart?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I sent him in and then we build
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  Speaker 3: a track. Juel in Town was the most special because.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I knew I had the nine.
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  Speaker 3: Songs that were ready to go for the album and
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  Speaker 3: this one particular song was unwritten.
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  Speaker 1: But I knew I had one.
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  Speaker 3: More story to tell and it had to be this
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  Speaker 3: and it was the most important. And Stewart actually said
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  Speaker 3: to me Carlia, do you want to send over a demo.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a demo yet.
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  Speaker 2: Night.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even know how to play whatever the malady
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  Speaker 3: I was trying to create or anything. And I said
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  Speaker 3: to him, you know what, I'm just going to sing
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  Speaker 3: it to you when I get there. And he was like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: this would be fun because I.
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  Speaker 1: Had, you know, what I had was my life.
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  Speaker 3: Growing up and growing up around music and being so
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  Speaker 3: inspired by my late grandfather and all the things he
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  Speaker 3: told me. I was like, there's an unwritten song here.
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  Speaker 3: I just need to to get to Brisbane and then
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  Speaker 3: I can, you know, start creating that music that I
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  Speaker 3: can hear in my head, you know, and then I
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  Speaker 3: write the song.
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  Speaker 1: So it actually went like.
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  Speaker 3: I sang the idea to Stewart and I didn't even
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  Speaker 3: have my lines in play check because I wasn't sure
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  Speaker 3: how it would fit it. I had to hear the
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  Speaker 3: bed for it to lay in, you know, and we
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  Speaker 3: started building this mega track just from the.
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  Speaker 1: Melody, you know, just me singing along and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And then Stuart was building this track me so I
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  Speaker 3: will come up in the morning and you know, we'll
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  Speaker 3: start on the vocals and that and I said, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go write the song. And I stayed up
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  Speaker 3: until four am, and I wrote the song. I had
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  Speaker 3: an app and in the morning we went up to
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  Speaker 3: the studio. I smashed the fucking song out.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how it, you know. I just had this
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  Speaker 1: story they were all ready to tell.
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  Speaker 3: And and my pop used to always say to me
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  Speaker 3: before any show.
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  Speaker 1: I'd always really, he'd say, let them.
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  Speaker 3: Know there's a jewel in town vibe and I say, oh, right, Pop,
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  Speaker 3: And that was just our thing, you know. And and
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  Speaker 3: this is my first album I've done without him and
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  Speaker 3: all these songs, and he's passed and it just meant
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  Speaker 3: the world. And I just knew. I knew when I
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  Speaker 3: wrote the song that would be the title track for
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  Speaker 3: the album.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's beautiful. That's beautiful. Now. You just got back
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  Speaker 2: from a tour of Japan as well, So how did
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  Speaker 2: that go?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? That was amazing? It was so good.
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  Speaker 3: We played a different venue this time in Osaka, which
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  Speaker 3: it had the longest name.
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  Speaker 1: I still can't say it, but that was so cool
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  Speaker 1: to like, do it? That is it? Crimson?
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  Speaker 2: What a great venue, isn't It's my favorite place? And
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  Speaker 2: I was job walking there and they let the girl
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  Speaker 2: behind the barge and he puts in the freezer for
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  Speaker 2: me and.
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  Speaker 1: The bar manager there was just what.
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  Speaker 3: We absolutely loved him, so yeah, it was amazing. We
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  Speaker 3: ended up in Forkiyama and that was meant to be
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  Speaker 3: a few days off, but we ended up playing there
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  Speaker 3: at Live Mayhem.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, guys it at that venue.
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  Speaker 3: They really helped us on the last tour and we
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  Speaker 3: just wanted to go back and hang out and they said,
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  Speaker 3: no way, You're not coming here without doing a show.
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  Speaker 1: So uh. They actually we got their band together.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, we did a show and it was really
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  Speaker 3: cool because we got to do, you know, new songs
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  Speaker 3: for the album and we did some covers. It was
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  Speaker 3: just like a big party. G I think our step
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  Speaker 3: went for like just over an hour. It was so
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  Speaker 3: much fun. But such a beautiful place. The people are beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: I absolutely love Japan.
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  Speaker 2: You did, and you've been focusing on Japan a bit lately,
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  Speaker 2: But I've also previously towed the US playing at which
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  Speaker 2: the Go Go and vipery, which most people want to
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  Speaker 2: do at least once in their life, but you play
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  Speaker 2: their head back or are you sort of more focusing
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  Speaker 2: on this side of the world for now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what kind just wherever music takes me,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if it's calling out to me over there,
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  Speaker 3: that's where I'm going to go. Japan has just been unreal,
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  Speaker 3: and you know that that's where.
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  Speaker 1: The streaming's coming from, that's where the people are, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Looking and we just made this connection over there that's
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  Speaker 3: like just it's unbreakable and it's nothing like I've ever had,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, it would be stupid not to spend
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  Speaker 3: a lot of time there. And the bands we've met
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  Speaker 3: are just wild, Like I just can't believe how amazing
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  Speaker 3: it is over there. But I'm definitely looking at going
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  Speaker 3: back to the US this year, which I haven't announced yet,
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  Speaker 3: but I will.
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  Speaker 1: Be going back there and I will be heading back
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  Speaker 1: to Japan.
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  Speaker 2: Nice. Now closer to home, You've got a couple of
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  Speaker 2: album launch shows this weekend too. You got one tonight
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  Speaker 2: live and intimate Birthday album launch and then tomorrow night
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  Speaker 2: you got the live and loud album launch, So runners
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  Speaker 2: through both of them. Men.
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  Speaker 3: So you know this comes from my pop started the
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  Speaker 3: country music festivals in Australia and.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I need my own
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  Speaker 1: there's a duel in Town Festival.
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  Speaker 3: There's so much to this album and it's so special
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  Speaker 3: that I just can't deliver it in one night. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, our acoustics show that I do, it's pretty special.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty healing, and we all tend to cry, and
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  Speaker 3: it's just on another level. And I was like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's something about going to a gig fist pumping and
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  Speaker 3: you know, the yellown and slam and beers and shots,
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  Speaker 3: but there's something about like just being live and intimate
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  Speaker 3: and you know, having no shoes on, you know, that
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  Speaker 3: grounding energy, sitting around seeing sad songs, maybe people pry
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  Speaker 3: and something. Yeah, and it's it's my birthday as well,
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  Speaker 3: and I wanted to do something really special, and our
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  Speaker 3: acoustic show is really special, and I wanted to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: really let people know who I am and strip it
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  Speaker 3: back and do some of the songs, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: way we need to deliver them.
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  Speaker 1: And then on the Saturday night.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna go for live and loud in your phace,
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  Speaker 3: hard rock as you know, me all over the stage.
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  Speaker 2: Where it did, I didn't see where it was.
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  Speaker 1: We're having it at Scotty's Garage.
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  Speaker 2: O beautiful, perfect place.
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  Speaker 4: What a place and uh and yeah we we do
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  Speaker 4: have some more shows to announce as well, which I
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  Speaker 4: can do it now that the album's out.
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  Speaker 3: So we also have a barbecue on Sunday, which is cool.
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  Speaker 3: We're just going to hang out back at Scotty Scara,
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  Speaker 3: so it's actually a three day festival surprise.
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  Speaker 1: The Sunday we're having a barbecue.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to have an acoustic gem out of the back.
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  Speaker 3: There's another muso there. I'll get up, do some covers,
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  Speaker 3: just a good gem Q and I take some photos,
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  Speaker 3: thank everyone and hang out.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like a perfect weekend. Yeah. Nice. Now before we
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  Speaker 2: let you go, Carly, I'm not sure if I put
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  Speaker 2: you through this or not yet, but I've got a
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  Speaker 2: new segment I've started called photo Bob, So basically i'll
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  Speaker 2: troll on your social media before we have a chat.
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  Speaker 2: Oh god, what we were about?
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  Speaker 1: So all.
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  Speaker 2: I've heard of an expression putting a gun to someone's
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  Speaker 2: head before, but I've never seen it take in quite
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  Speaker 2: so literally.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, that's my friend Marius.
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  Speaker 3: This was at one of my old work parties. I
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  Speaker 3: was like nineteen twenties, so we all dressed up. I
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  Speaker 3: actually won the best dressed that night. So yeah, it
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  Speaker 3: was like the gangster kind of nineteen twenties party.
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  Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like he's quite happy about putting now this
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  Speaker 2: next one. I don't know what's going on here, but
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  Speaker 2: there's got to be a story behind it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: So this, you know, I was the first Australian artist
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  Speaker 3: to ever play the Swon Festival.
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  Speaker 1: Here in Melbourne, and.
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  Speaker 3: I actually got invited to play and they actually had
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  Speaker 3: like models and everything and it was it was it
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  Speaker 3: was so cool because we were playing like Sid and Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: And they were like girls modeling.
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  Speaker 3: And it was just like it was in the town
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  Speaker 3: Hall in Clayton, so it was really huge venue. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we played like this World Peace festival and there was yeah,
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  Speaker 3: all of these different artists and it was wild.
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  Speaker 1: It was crazy. But yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and after that then we got invited to another
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  Speaker 3: World Peace festival that I had in Chile, but obviously
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  Speaker 3: we couldn't go it because it was short notice. But
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  Speaker 3: I was the first Australian artists play that's so On
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  Speaker 3: music festival, so that was pretty cool and it just
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  Speaker 3: you know, really showed that music brings people together. It
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  Speaker 3: doesn't matter what culture, what your background is anything. Music
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  Speaker 3: is music and it brings everyone together and that's what
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  Speaker 3: makes it so special.
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  Speaker 2: Well said carl Well said. Now there's a Jewelings out
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  Speaker 2: is out today. It is as Carlie says it said,
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  Speaker 2: it covers a lot of ranges the album. It's not
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  Speaker 2: just rock, it's not just top this stuff. It's just
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  Speaker 2: it's a fucking good album. So where do people get
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  Speaker 2: a hold of it and find out more about what
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  Speaker 2: Carlie Jewel Bands are up to?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know what, you can head to the big Cartel.
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  Speaker 3: You can buy the album there, you can stream it,
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  Speaker 3: save it, share it, make reels to tag me in it,
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  Speaker 3: help me get it out. Catch us at a gig
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  Speaker 3: in Melbourne, catch us at a gig in Japan. We're
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  Speaker 3: on all the social media's head to X music as well.
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  Speaker 3: You'll see myself and all the other X me the
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  Speaker 3: artists which we you know often put shows together. And honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I can't thank him and everyone EX Music enough for
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  Speaker 3: everything I've done.
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  Speaker 1: You Chris as.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know a lot of people don't know, but
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  Speaker 3: you actually helped me out in Brisbane as I was
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  Speaker 3: going there backwards and forwards to record the album, and
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  Speaker 3: you got to kind of watch these big tracks unfold,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, Chris Quick, sneak in and have
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  Speaker 3: a listen to this. So to share that journey with
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  Speaker 3: you guys, you know, I really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: It's an absolute honor.
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  Speaker 2: My mother's all mine. Sweet, Thanks very much for best
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  Speaker 2: of luck with it all, and happy birthday. I'm sorry
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  Speaker 2: I can't beat here this weekend. I've got the bloody
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  Speaker 2: kid just like everything.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, that's okay, we'll be back up that way.