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Taming The Psycho With REDHOOK · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Is that a song that insurance Sunday. It's just after a breakthrough year in
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  twenty twenty three, Sydney CA millions of rock red Hook understanding. We had
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  a quiet start this year, but that all changed earlier this month with the
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  release a new single, Screen Too and a couple of show announcements, the
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  first of which will be Women in Rock at Nordon's Music Factory in Tolounder this
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  weekend. Thanks for our sponsors. Rady Heavy corded the band last night of
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  practice to find out just what they've been up to. Gooday, it's Alex,
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  Hey, it's Ned Hey, I'm Emmy and we're from Red Hook.
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  We're so excited to be heading back to the Sonshrine Coach this Saturday, coming
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  to Caloundra for the very first time to play a gurogy little festival called Women
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  in Rock at the Norton Music Factory. Dope Dazz, thanks very much for
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  Johnny, guys. Will let me say that's probably the most professional intro I've
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  ever had. Well done. Oh we didn't We didn't square enough. We
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  should have more read returned to Queensland this weekend. The headline of Women in
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  Rock at Norton Music Factor in Caloundra. See you pretty much already answered my
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  question. But you haven't played there before, not in Toloundra, not.
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  I don't think I've even been to Calandra, so I'm pretty excited to check
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  it out. Just beautiful marouchar door mate. I think that's the extent of
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  our Sunshine Coast adventures when I was a kid. You's are going to love
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  this place. I took Franklin Bok there and they reckon it's the best back
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  line they've ever They even they even had the picks for the band as back
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  line, like they do everything. As the name suggests. The Night showcases
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  some of Australia's women in rock, including Crave, Joey, Verity, Vipers,
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  Syndicate, Acid Cherry and Miss Elc. So have you played in any
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  of those guys before? Yeah, we actually have, not like as a
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  full band, but Siena from Crave jumped out with us on our headline tool
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  last year to do guess He's on imposta, So really really excited to see
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  her band Crave play live. I've also seen Joe Lee play just like at
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  a random gig when I was just up in up on the Gold Coach and
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  she's fucking rad. So excited to see her again. And yeah, I
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  just really stoked to see all the all the talents, the awesome fem talent
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  that Sunshine Coast has to offer. Well, I'll let you in a little
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  secret here. The girls have actually seen Crave before at a Christmas show and
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  they loved them. So you guys are going to have to be on a
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  game to impress some more than Crave. Oh yeah, all right, the
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  gauntlet has been thrown. Well, I trust, I trust your girl's judgment.
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  They're usually pretty pretty good critics, so let's go. All right,
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  So what's the actual story behind the show? And then the name Women in
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  Rock Low? Was it an initiative led by the venue or did the band
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  s put it together? Yeah? So I think we just got shit up
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  by the venue to be a part of it. And you know, supporting
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  fem talent, especially in the heavy space has always been really important to me.
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  And I'm the band of course, and the dudes, I think what
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  was it David from Hostile Entertainment he's helping put this together as well. Yeah,
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  he's an absolute legend. Yeah, lovely guy. So we're yes that
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  they've invited us along and looks like it's going to be a really really cool
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  show. Yeah, like playing and also yeah, just playing like regional shows
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  and like kind of grassroots at you know, grassroots venues and supporting Like yeah,
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  that sort of level of the industry is always really important to us and
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  will always be important to us. So yeah, we're just excited. We're
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  just excited to meet some new people and you know, play a new venue
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  and have a good time. Now I asked this question with the utmost respect.
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  But you get to celebrate and have fun, aye, because it's women
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  in rock. But what happens with Alex and Nedlock? Do they just kind
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  to stand there and have bananas for an animal or something like what's coming?
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  Usually what is it? We get the you know what, the what is
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  it? The circus where they have you sit on just above like a pool
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  of water, and the pretty fun I usually just throw bananas at him anyway
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  on Saturday night, bas No, I think that honestly though, like the
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  gender thing, I think it's important that we kind of just normalize the diversity.
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  Like I love the way that this event is like shining the spotlight on
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  like fem artists, but at the same time, like it's also just important
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  to normalize like you know, all of us rock it out together, you
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  know what I mean, Like does that make sense? But this is probably
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  one of the only serious questions you'll ever get from me. But this is
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  something that's close to your heart and me, like the whole women in rock
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  thing, Like you've done a lot of advocating and raising public awareness, but
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  have you noticed a shift in mentality and behavior from what you're doing, Like
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  is it actually making a difference? I think so. I definitely think so.
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  Like not I'm not trying to say anything that I've done is has made
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  a different Like have you been a big contribution? I just think yeah,
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  I think it's important, and I think like it's all about like representation and
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  visibility. And I've definitely just been in the industry, you know, over
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  the past, like even just five years, I think there's been a big
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  shift, like you just see it with like there's just been this explosion of
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  talent for you know, like fem artists in the in the you know,
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  punk rock and heavy space. Like I've never been more inspired by other women
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  around me. Like I think I might have said this to you before and
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  like one of the last times we chatted. But growing up, like I
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  all of my influences were dudes, because there wasn't really anybody who, like
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  any artists who kind of spoke to me that were women. I didn't see
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  myself in anyone. But like more than ever now, I think, like
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  I think the next I think it's kind of a positive blow and effect for
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  the next generation. Like I think we've still you know, we still have
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  a long way to go, but I'm definitely noticing positive changes. And I
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  think like even just stuff like not all the time, but a lot of
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  time, like festival promoters and stuff, they take this stuff into account when
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  they're when they're booking lineups and they do try to sort of champion more local
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  talent. And that's how it's going to change, is like events like this
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  championing talent from the grassroots, so that that has like a you know,
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  trickle lot effect up the ladder till we get to that headlighter level. That's
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  the dream. That's the dream. It's actually an interesting point too, like
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  you mentioned having equality across the board, Like from from a writer's point of
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  view, it's difficult sometimes because this event's called Women in Rock, and it's
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  celebrating women in rock, which is great. But then if I call someone
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  a female fronted band, all of a sudden, I'm doing the wrong thing
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  when we really just trying to make a point that it's it's a different sort
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  of a band, like it's it's about finding that balance in and between respect
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  and not easy. It's one of those it's one of those weird things.
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  Hey, I think I think different people have It's like with anything in twenty
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  twenty four. Different people have just different sensibilities and are going to be uncomfortable
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  with different language. I've got no problem being referred to as a female fronted
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  band because I think as a journalist, like something you know, people don't
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  a lot of people probably don't realize this, but like when you're when you're
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  writing about a band, like, regardless of who they are, you want
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  to sort of identify, you know, we'll call you know, like what
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  genre are they like? It's like things that sort of make them unique and
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  special. And you know, I guess being female fronted is still somewhat unique
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  and special, particularly in our scene. So I guess I know, I
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  know it kind of I do understand like both sides of the coin. It's
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  a bit of a mindfield. I find that with my lyric writing to you
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  know, using certain words and certain things. You're like, oh, it's
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  just going to upset anyone, or yeah, I get in trouble just for
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  saying good morning. So I'm in this Yeah, well it's probably because you
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  don't have pants on. How do you know? I thought you could only
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  see me from the top up. We're all canceled, so turn anything else
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  you're up this way? Or is it just frying fly out for the one
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  show? Ooh, we actually are. We're filming a cups of music videos
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  while we're up there, which really excited about. Yeah, yeah, yes,
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  can you tell me more? Yeah? Well, yeah, we got
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  a whole lot of a whole lot of new music cooking which we're really excited
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  about. And yeah, so we're saying we're gonna be saying for a few
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  days and shooting some stuff around like the Gold Coast in Brisbane with our boy
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  Colin Jeff from Tennis Thas Media who Yeah we've worked with a low bloody love
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  that guy. And yeah we're really excited. All right, I won't push
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  anymore, but thank you guys, at least your new single Screen Too,
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  a couple of weeks ago. Mates, that's a reception been for that pretty
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  sick. Yeah, Yeah, a lot of people come out of the woodworks
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  that are like just in love with it. It's got, yeah, so
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  many cool elements that are drawing different people in from different areas. So it's
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  been cool. Yeah, I think people like the fans seem to really like
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  it when we do like heavier shit, so we got to keep them happy.
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  Like the last song we released was Tourists, which was kind of more
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  of a straight rock vibe, so we've got to keep reminding people that we
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  can do heavy shit as well. Yeah, missing someone here? Like,
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  was there a scream one and I didn't notice? I know that's confusing,
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  So we Screamed Too is a sequel to our song Cure for Psycho that I
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  think came out in like twenty twenty, and I wanted to call it Cure
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  for Psycho Too, but I got people didn't The team didn't like that,
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  so we just called it Screen Too. But I mean there's like lots of
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  there's lots of I guess like I'm a big geek and like Cure for Psycho
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  had a lot of like scream references like Sidney Prescott bitch, I mean this
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  for the sequel, and so I was like, well, I'm going to
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  do I'm going to do a sequel fair enough, could just touch on this
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  before. But it is also one of the heaviest songs that you've released.
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  So I've noticed that steadily music is getting progressively heavier. Like is it poincidental
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  or are you're deliberately going down that path? Oh that's a good question.
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  I mean, I think we just keep trying to. Like I think that
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  one of the aims that we have in our band is like when we write
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  shit, like we we just kind of try and top ourselves in every direction.
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  So we're like, how can we Like, yeah, this song was
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  sick, Like what can we do that's like even cooler or even sicker?
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  And for me as well, like I'm learning to like I'm getting better at
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  screaming, Like I'm not great at it, but I'm definitely getting better.
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  I think like when Red Hook first started, every time I tried to scream,
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  I sounded like a chipmunk getting tinged. I was like, so,
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  and bring you an album shirt in on Saturday I'm going to bring you an
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  album shirt on Saturday. Yeah, So I think it's also that it's kind
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  of like I'm keen. Yeah, I'm really keen to like do more of
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  that style of vocal and get better at that. So yeah, we're it's
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  fun. It's fun to just challenge ourselves as how far we can bloody push
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  it. Yeah. I was going to ask you if it's a standlone single
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  or part of a new album cycle. But from the way you answered that
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  last one about the video, is he going to tell me to get fucked?
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  So we'll concentrate on the last album. I haven't spoken to you guys.
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  I can, but I'm not going to ask you about it. But
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  I haven't actually spoken video since Postcards from a Living Hell came out. So
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  how was the response? Was it everything you expected? Oh? It was
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  so so much more than we could have ever expected. Like, I think
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  we all kind of felt like we were punching above our wait a little bit
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  early with that album came out, because you know, it's the first album
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  we're a completely independent band, so to like, you know, get just
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  even stuff like you know, like getting Triple J feature album, like charting
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  on Aria like this was all stuff that was like beyond our wildest dreams,
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  and you know, obviously even more. I think the biggest the thing that
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  I was stoked on the most about the album though, is always just you
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  know, the biggest the most important thing is that the fans like it.
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  And I don't think there's a single song on the album that like wasn't someone's
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  favorite, which I love. There's like a little something that's special to everyone.
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  So I feel like that's the most satisfying thing as an artist. I
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  think I read through quite a few of the reviews, like you had reviews
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  from metal Hammer and Loudwise, some of the biggest publications in the world were
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  jumping on Graham Hold and not one person that I read anyway you had anything
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  negative to say. It's there's got to be a good feeling. Yeah,
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  it does feel good. Yeah, we're not shit, not title shit.
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  Everyone who bullied me in high school stuck on that. Yeah, Okay,
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  that's good. It's good. It's a good feeling. It was very our
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  hearts were very, very full. Now we just have to try and do
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  it again. I'm not asking you anything about that. Don't try and make
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  me. You know, we don't have like a new album coming or anything
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  like, why would you like, why would you assume that, you know,
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  just just just like quit it, just forget about it myself out.
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  So your next show after this weekend is Great Southern Nights in Wollongong with north
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  Lane, Key Flip and I can't even read my writing, uh huh all
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  fark music and more sounds like a lot of fun. Yes, yeah,
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  well it's I guess it's more of a not per se like collective. It's
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  not like we're all playing with those artists but the headliner, which yeah,
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  yeah, I would love to play with Northlane one day. It's basically like
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  it's this new South Wales government initiative which is really really cool. We basically
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  like just injecting a bit more money into the into the live live music economy
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  and like local venues here, so they've just yeah, it's just like this
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  just I don't know how long it runs for. It's the entire month of
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  March, but it's just like all these different shows in like venues across Sydney
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  and Wollongong and it's around somewhere. Yeah, it's really it's really cool.
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  We spoked to Yeah, we really stoked to be involved and we've got we're
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  just doing a headliner in Woollongong with some some close mates days like these who
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  are originally from Brisy Busy Boys. Yeah, they Exodus, they betrayed you.
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  They're living in the Gong now in the goal. Yeah. And our
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  good friend like some good mates vows called the Art who were really interesting.
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  They're a really interesting band, Like they were huge, like I think around
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  the early two thousands and they've pulled with like you know, the you are
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  like manson Lincoln Park, like Steel Panther like and yeah, they're really really
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  awesome and they're about to sort of make a little bit of a comeback.
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  So really excited to have them on board. Nice And if I know you
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  guys, you've got more short shows planned for the future too or booked.
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  Can you talk about them or we cut cutting that one? Gee we can.
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  We can tell you that you are definitely right and we will be announcing
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  some things, some stuff and some things for a little bit later in the
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  year. Thanks very much, guys, We'll see you in a couple of
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