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United In Metal With DEXX & JACKIE From BEYOND THE DARKNESS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  I'm Jackie Green. I'm the owner and promoter of Beyond the Darkness, and
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  I'm Dex her partner, the co promoter will Beyond the Darkness. Beautiful guys,
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  thanks for joining us today. Thank you my absolute pleasure. So Beyond
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  the Darkness returns to the back room in Anelie on September fourteenth for a bumper
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  night of music featuring in Grave Sentiment, Void Matter, Crave, in Effigy
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  and heaps more bands. Mate, Like, September might still be five or
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  so months away, but the way this year has been going, it's it's
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  going to go by pretty quick. Oh absolutely, yeah, yeah, what
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  what we're where the end of April now, so it creeps up fairly quick.
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  Yeah, And I think it's important to point out here with these two
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  because like with the I guess, with the current state of festivals coming through
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  Australia and the way COVID has left everything, like a lot of people these
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  days are leaving it to the last minutes to buy tickets for things like this,
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  But when it's a local show like this, it's important for people to
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  get out there and buy tickets earlier and so you can sort of engage what's
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  going on at Bit the Bitch Nationals, it doesn't really matter, but with
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  a local event, it's really important to get behind and get your tickets early.
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  Yeah, exactly right. But we noticed with even with last year's event,
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  that left probably to bed the last month and then the tickets just started
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  flying out the door. But yeah, it's often good to secure them now
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  because then you know you've got them and you can get them at the fairly
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  good price. Yeah. Now, before we start talking about the actual day,
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  I think it's important to discuss the reasons behind Beyond the Darkness. So
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  sorry to bring it up, Jackie, but can you please tell us a
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  bit more about the day and why you started it? Yep, okay.
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  So on the twenty second of April twenty twenty two, my husband David died
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  of a sophageal cancer. It just came on. He had a thirteen month
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  battle. We tried everything, threw everything at it, and then he got
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  a secondary cancer. Once most people get a secondary cancer, there's not much
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  you can do. So I lost him. I really didn't know what I
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  was going to do. I suppose my whole world was turned upside down and
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  we just floated the idea we wanted to do something to really celebrate his first
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  year anniversary, and so I've floated the idea on Facebook and said to people
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  what do we think and Brian said, let's put on the show, and
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  so it was born from there right. As much of events like this are
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  great for raising money for charities such as the GI Cancer Institute, it's just
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  important as important that they raise awareness as well, because no matter how bulletproef
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  we think we might be, like the things like cancer like they don't discriminate,
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  No, they don't. That don't matter who you are, what age
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  you are. David was only forty seven, so I think part of that
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  the awareness is people in our sort of age group, in that forties to
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  fifties age group, to not be complacent about things. If something is not
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  right, go and get it checked out, damn straight. Now, this
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  for me the second beyond the Darkness after a successful debut last year. So
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  is it any easy to put together with a benefit of twelve months experience or
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  is it still a pain in your heart? As all the musicians know that,
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  I deal with clucking musicians. That's all I can say. Chris,
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  It like hurting cats. You learn a lot of different things, different tricks
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  of the trade, and you know how to deal with things differently, but
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  it's always putting things together. Is does this work with this? Is?
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  What are we going to do in terms of that band and that band do
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  they mesh together? And finding you like to put on originals bands. You
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  get a lot of people that come through who have their covers bands and they're
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  great, but it's always great to showcase that original talent for sure. Yeah.
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  Important lately that there's been a lot of backlash about a lot of festivals
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  and a lot of promoters like when things have gone par shap when they put
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  on But it's not an easy thing that whether you're it's a smaller scale with
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  pub bands to a major international event. Like there's so much that goes on
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  behind the scenes when you're trying to put a festival together and all the support
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  people can give you, it all helps. Definitely, Oh absolutely, And
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  we thank you too, Chris, because getting it out there is important.
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  That's not easy. We learnt that last year. It was not easy.
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  Well, we're all here for to help each other out, isn't it.
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  So when you're putting together the light up like what sort of criteria you've got
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  when it comes to selecting bands, Like you mentioned, you've got the covers
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  come in. You've mentioned like they've got to sort of flow together. But
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  it's not just a matter of just going I like them, them and them
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  and them. Is it like there's a bit of a process involved, exactly
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  right, Because I mean you can like twenty different bands, but they might
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  not suit the show on the night, they might not gel together and they
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  don't flow. To go to try and chew who's the most supposed current bands,
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  those that are going to draw your crowd, ones that appear good on
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  stage, have great stage presence, and everything like that, because we have
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  seen some bands. I'm not mentioning names or nothing, but we're like,
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  wow, really you're wondering why you're not getting anywhere? Have it? You
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  put some fucking effort in and maybe someone might throw you onto a show because
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  there's some bands out there that just don't get it. I've seen some bands
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  on festival lineups and that they don't do any promotion at all. They just
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  get there on the day and you know that they bring five extra people.
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  So bad. But in this day and age, it's all about everyone working
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  together. And that comes from the bands on social media promoting it, people
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  word of mouth talking about it like it's sort of it's it's the music industry
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  is coming back together again, I think. But it's still going to take
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  a lot of sustained effort from everybody getting involved together to do it exactly.
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  And there's no room for ego in this process either, because if you've got
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  an ego, I just won't deal with your plane. It's simple and bands
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  copdate email. When that's it, I'm done with you see it later.
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  Things. It must sort of give you a lot of satisfaction as well to
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  see bands like Engraved, who sort of played at an earliest slot last year
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  and this year they've proved that much that you've offered one of the one the
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  headline petitions, so thinks like that got to give you a bit of personal
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  satisfaction to your help and nurture that sort of scene as well, exactly.
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  And we followed him a few times, we saw a couple of their shows
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  in Brisbane, we drove down to the Gold Coast and then we actually pulled
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  Dan aside and we offered him the spot of the headliner, and he was
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  blown away and said well, we know what you did for us last year,
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  and we know you're growing now and you're actually going to grow more.
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  So we thought Barrett Bang, let's give him the headline, and that's exactly
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  what we did. Good stuff, And this is it, like you've got
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  how many bands and there so eight ten bands over the days, So are
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  you putting them all on the one big stage at the back room or are
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  you going to have the two things on the main stage. Yep, I
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  was so hoping you were going to say that. That's how we ran with
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  the seven last year, and there was minute change. It was worked beautifully
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  and in that time we usually run actions and stuff like that, trying to
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  raise money and things like that. So as much as you're like, in
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  principle it's a great idea to have one band stop and there another band stop,
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  and they're like, you just don't get a break order, you know,
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  like old time is like me, I need to go and sit down
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  and recuperate between bands. I can't just bounce from under the other we hear.
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  We so just say someone can't make it on the actual day on September
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  the fourteenth, but they still want to make a donation can't they do that?
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  And how they can? There's an immemoriam page on the g I can
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  stitute it's an institute website and they can actually go in there. It's under
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  Dave dash Green and they can donate directly to that page. Very and we
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  sort of touched on this before too, but it's also a fair bit cheaper
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  if you do buy tickets in advance. I think like from every it's what
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  twenty five dollars pre sale or forty dollars on the door, which is a
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  significant increase. So where can people go to buy tickets and find out more
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  information? Go straight to the Facebook page, straight to the Instagram page,
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  any of the posts have all got the hyper links. Has got to hit
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  the links or go to the bios. The links are all there. Yeah,
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  and it's it's that simple. Yeah, I want to go through the
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  other way. It's on the Live at your Local page and on the otis
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  page as well. Beautiful. Now, before we wrap up, guys,
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  we're going to have to give you a show a bit of a plug too,
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  Like you guys have got the Odds Fest with Dix and Jackie O the
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  Yeah, I know, I'll how to get into that bit too. But
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  the jacket says, so what is it? Is it a podcast? Is
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  it a music says? What do you guys do? It's a live radio
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  stream that's streamed from here straight to the US of A. Okay, and
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  broadcasts all around the world. Wow, and what the interview band little this
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  sort of stuff. We play the latest hard rock and metal releases each time
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  that we're on because we used to do the show weekly, but it just
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  become too much of ature. I mean, I've been doing the show myself
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  now for twenty years. Jackie jumped on board just under two years ago.
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  And but yeah, we just played the latest music that's out there because a
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  lot of people don't know the awesome music that's out there today. There's a
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  lot of bands that don't get airplay. So we did talk to save people
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  at the bottom of listening to someone talk through their music radio. We don't
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  want to talk over the song, so we just don't do it. Yeah,
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  right, And how to how to band submit music to here and then
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  get on we'll get airplay they can get they can get hold of us through
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  Spotify because we're on Spotify as well. There's got to look for the os
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  fest with Dex and Jackie G and they can submit through there because the email
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  address is up there. Heretiful goes all right, well, thanks for time
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  tonight. Just been a proasure speaking with it. Beyond the Darkness is on
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  September fourteenth at the Backroom in Adelie. It's a benefit concert for the gi
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  Cancer Institute. But above all it's a great day with great music and even
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  greater people. So cant you tick us early because that doesn't autly holds five
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  or six hundred in the backroom, so hopefully we get get a bit of
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  a decent turnout. Yeah, caps so yeah, it's a great venue.
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  To it and describe it. I think it's probably one of Brisbane's best venue's
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  is a little bit further out the most, but I love to get out
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  there and check it out. I think we'll say I don't want to travel,
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  but it's a great venue and get on it.