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A Law Unto Themselves With SCOTTY MCLAUGHLIN From UNWRITTEN LAW · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: This is Scottie Mac from Unwritten Law.
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  Speaker 2: We're gone up to come and tour for Hotter than
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  Speaker 2: Hell and uh yeah we're looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: October.
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful Scotty, thanks for joining us, Bray, thank you way so.
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  Speaker 3: Unwritten Law return to Australia this October and November. We're
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  Speaker 3: running show starting in Perth on October eleventh, before going
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  Speaker 3: through Victoria, South Australia and Queensland, finishing up a Nudgey
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  Speaker 3: Beach hotel on November the third. Like I know, you
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  Speaker 3: living and made, so it's not much of a spread
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  Speaker 3: stretch for you. But the other boys are packed and ready.
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  Speaker 2: To be ready to come over just about I've been
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  Speaker 2: telling them to start packing and limit their supplies. This
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  Speaker 2: is the shortest tour we've done in like I think
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  Speaker 2: ten years. Usually we do a month here. This is
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  Speaker 2: the quickest little thing we're doing a long time now.
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  Speaker 3: The boys pretty much got go bang set up at
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  Speaker 3: your place when they come over, so.
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  Speaker 1: They have to drin much pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely we leave a lot of things in each
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  Speaker 2: other's countries, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Save on that baggage right now, Are you going.
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  Speaker 3: To be doing your own side shows? Plus the runners
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  Speaker 3: part of Hotter than Hell. So we'll start on Hotter
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  Speaker 3: than Hell. Liked going to be huge with yourselves. There's Regurgitator, Lessen, Jake, Jevidi,
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  Speaker 3: the Bennies and more like. It's almost got like a
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  Speaker 3: walk to a kind of field of it, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: It does? It does?
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  Speaker 2: I mean I was looking up all tour postas from
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  Speaker 2: like the nineties and it's the same bands for the
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  Speaker 2: most part.
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  Speaker 1: It does have a little old feel to it.
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  Speaker 4: My friends are wrong, that's the only thing. Missen.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: We did Hotter than That with him last time though,
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  Speaker 2: so we ticked that box.
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  Speaker 3: If you guys played with all they bands on there before,
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  Speaker 3: like I know, you spent a bit of.
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  Speaker 2: Time, I think, so I'm pretty sure looking back, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Regurgitator is one that might have been missed.
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  Speaker 1: To be honest, they've had some breaks that we've not
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  Speaker 1: been around for us, so I.
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  Speaker 2: Think everybody else, I know Jebediah going way back, there
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  Speaker 2: were on all the same festivals and I think there'll
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  Speaker 2: be a few familiar faces.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, are you guys say he's not any strangers
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  Speaker 3: to tour in Australia. You've been here to repair bit.
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  Speaker 3: But but people that might not have seen you before.
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  Speaker 3: What can fans expect from an unwritten all live show.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this time we are for the festivals, especially doing
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  Speaker 2: the Black Album. That was what we're doing part of
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  Speaker 2: the thing, a couple of the side shows. We might
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  Speaker 2: we we don't know if we're going to do it
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  Speaker 2: the whole time yet. It depends how people want to
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  Speaker 2: hear it, I guess, but it seems to be at
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  Speaker 2: the moment that people want to hear a bit of
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  Speaker 2: Black albumit of Elva, we're kind of focusing on what
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  Speaker 2: people want to hear. Last time we were here for
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  Speaker 2: the record, so we kind of played a lot of
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  Speaker 2: new songs and we'll probably do a couple of this time.
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  Speaker 1: But we're really trying to help promote and.
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  Speaker 2: Do those era albums because they're all turning twenty and
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  Speaker 2: thirty years old.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Oh, done it a little bit?
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  Speaker 3: A little bit now, you mentioned you're going to be
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  Speaker 3: playing the Black Album in full, So I've done it
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  Speaker 3: before a few times.
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  Speaker 4: But when you first start, like, is it a hard
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  Speaker 4: thing to do to learn an album front to back?
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  Speaker 3: Like when you made it, you wouldn't have actually thought
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  Speaker 3: that one day you'd have to play the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. That's true for sure. I mean it's a
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  Speaker 2: funny one for me specifically because I grew up listening
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  Speaker 2: to that album before I joined the band, and so
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  Speaker 2: for me, it was like something I used to sit
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  Speaker 2: and do regularly was play that album straight.
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  Speaker 1: Through on guitar.
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  Speaker 2: But I know the guys I've never done that in
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  Speaker 2: their life before, and so when we started doing it, it
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  Speaker 2: was kind of like, well, and some of the songs
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  Speaker 2: had never been played before even you know, like outside
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  Speaker 2: of a studio.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that album. So that's twenty six this year.
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  Speaker 1: That album, I think so still like it like this.
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  Speaker 3: You know, everything goes older, you know, the longer you
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  Speaker 3: away from it, but that album seems to be going
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  Speaker 3: strength to strength, and people keep falling in love with
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  Speaker 3: new parts of it all the.
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  Speaker 1: Time, I think.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, especially that band with that album. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they were one of the first American bands like that
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  Speaker 2: to come down. You know, it was Pennywise blinking them,
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  Speaker 2: and so people's eyes were on them and even me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that album it's just the start of it.
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  Speaker 2: It turns into this listening experience, you know, and there's
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  Speaker 2: so many tracks on there that are so memorable that
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  Speaker 2: I think the guys really enjoyed playing it through front
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  Speaker 2: of back, something they never thought they would do for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And you guys claimed the Black album before Metallic or
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  Speaker 3: even fucking thought of it.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I think. I mean it has different ends to
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  Speaker 1: everybody too.
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  Speaker 2: We call it the Black Albums, and people call it
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  Speaker 2: self tired, some people call it whatever they want.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the tickets have been selling that well for
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  Speaker 3: Hot and the Hell, Like I know, the Brisbane shows
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  Speaker 3: had to be moved from the back room and Atlie
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  Speaker 3: to a bigger venue at the nudgeb shchel mate. So
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  Speaker 3: it just shows not only music, but that style of music.
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  Speaker 3: It's still alive and well, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: It is?
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  Speaker 2: It is And like you know, some of those people
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  Speaker 2: that were listening back then have grown up and had
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  Speaker 2: kids and other kids are into it too, and so
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  Speaker 2: that's really cool, and like it's really nice we get
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  Speaker 2: to play some all ages stuff too because those kids
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  Speaker 2: love coming out and I remember I was a kid
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  Speaker 2: that wasn't allowed into shows for a little while.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing worse, you know, No.
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  Speaker 3: That's that sort of died off of fair recent years
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  Speaker 3: and the all ages shows. A lot of it's got
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  Speaker 3: to do with liquor licensing laws getting stricter and shits.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of factors, but the fact is that
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  Speaker 4: it's been gone for a while and it needs to
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  Speaker 4: come back.
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  Speaker 2: It is, And like every time we announce the tour,
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  Speaker 2: it's the most messages we get is people going, we
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  Speaker 2: can't see you guys, can you please try and add
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  Speaker 2: an all ages show? And yeah, and it is you
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  Speaker 2: Obviously it's expensive or for whatever reason, but it's the
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  Speaker 2: most request we get is to open it up. And
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  Speaker 2: so hopefully I think the festivals this time are I
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  Speaker 2: think check that. But yeah, I mean some of them
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  Speaker 2: can finally come and see the band, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: who knows?
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  Speaker 4: Can I have a be with you and party.
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  Speaker 1: On maybe if they're of age.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 3: The beauty about first of all, is quite often bands
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  Speaker 3: here that people don't know too well. So just say
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  Speaker 3: someone's coming along to Hotter than Hell that don't know
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  Speaker 3: much about Unwritten Law. What three songs would you tell
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  Speaker 3: them to listen to get engaged in?
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  Speaker 2: What do you expect I mean, especially playing that album
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  Speaker 2: the three for Me, you got to come in with
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  Speaker 2: harmonic because it's just that song changed my life, then
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  Speaker 2: straight into teenage suicide. So bang bang and then jump
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  Speaker 2: to learn some theme and then that's a wrap as
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  Speaker 2: far as I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 3: Wait easily now, aside from Hotter than Hell, you've also
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  Speaker 3: got your own shows in Perth, Adelaide and Queensland and
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  Speaker 3: Sydney and Sydney too and Sydney too, So like you
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  Speaker 3: did sort of touch on this before, But how are
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  Speaker 3: they going to be different to the festival shows You
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  Speaker 3: might not be playing.
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  Speaker 4: The whole album.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess like it depends what kind of flak
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  Speaker 2: we get, because originally we thought the festivals were for
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  Speaker 2: their album and we'll do whatever we want the other shows.
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  Speaker 2: But already we're sort of getting people saying, but you're
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  Speaker 2: going to do that at the other show too, right,
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  Speaker 2: So you know we might do one too. I think
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  Speaker 2: we're going to change it up a little bit. We're
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  Speaker 2: not going to do the same thing every night, that's
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  Speaker 2: for sure. I mean, there's a lot of songs to
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  Speaker 2: pick from with this band. It's kind of fun to
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  Speaker 2: change it up. But you know, if people want to
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  Speaker 2: hear it, we'll play it.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks From a personal point of view, bro, and I
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  Speaker 3: hate to ask you to pick sides, but would you
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  Speaker 3: prefer that or at a pub headlining gig.
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  Speaker 4: There's a bit more intimate this.
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  Speaker 2: There's good and bad to both. The festivals are cool
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  Speaker 2: because there's you know, you can kind of just rock up.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of things are done for you. You
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  Speaker 2: play the bigger crowds, let's you know, less work going
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  Speaker 2: into it. Whereas the headline shows are cool because you
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  Speaker 2: play for longer.
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  Speaker 1: Usually you get a bit more intimate. You can change
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  Speaker 1: it up a bit.
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  Speaker 2: It like, especially festivals now it is more of a
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  Speaker 2: thing around the world to be playing an album or
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  Speaker 2: a specific thing. Club shows there for anybody, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for us to play whatever too.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, so pick aside.
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  Speaker 4: Very diplomatic.
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  Speaker 3: We spoke before about the back room and I only
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  Speaker 3: missing out on hot of the hell because it's had
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  Speaker 3: to move to a bigger venue. But the plus side
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  Speaker 3: that is, I see you guys have been announced here
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  Speaker 3: on October seventy eight.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, so we're I mean that just happened to
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  Speaker 2: work out in our favor the way we're doing the tour,
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  Speaker 2: and we've done the back room I think the last
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  Speaker 2: two times, you know, and we love it. There and
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  Speaker 2: the Sweet Little Spot, And so when it came up
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  Speaker 2: that we could add that to our own.
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  Speaker 1: Shows, we figured why not. You know, yes, if you.
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  Speaker 4: Got the support bands and stuff lined up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm waiting right now.
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  Speaker 2: I believe Premiere the guys bringing us out. They've been
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  Speaker 2: throwing us all the ideas and we've kind of led
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  Speaker 2: it to them. And there's so many good local bands
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  Speaker 2: choose from these days, it's kind of.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot to take on.
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  Speaker 4: Bith. Your brother is unwritten Lawa and toured Australia.
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  Speaker 3: We said before so many times pretty much the only
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  Speaker 3: country that you've toured more is the home state of
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  Speaker 3: the US. So what is it about Australia like you Libby?
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  Speaker 3: So that's given, But what is it about Australia that
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  Speaker 3: keeps the rest of them coming back? Because it's a
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  Speaker 3: long fucking way for them.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I kind of, like I said before, they
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  Speaker 2: were one of the first ones to come out in
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  Speaker 2: that wave, you know, the Taylor Swift, the Tailor Swift,
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  Speaker 2: Tailor Steel Wave.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I actually counted the other day for
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  Speaker 2: another interview that this is their twenty first time as
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  Speaker 2: a band setting foot on the soil, and uh, I
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  Speaker 2: couldn't find another band from that air that has done
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  Speaker 2: that many, to be honest, So there's something.
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  Speaker 1: There's something there.
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  Speaker 3: Before I let you go, brother and started a new
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  Speaker 3: segment where before I spoke to you, I went and
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  Speaker 3: strolled through your Facebook page and I've got a couple
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  Speaker 3: of photos that I want to shame.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, sorry, behind him all right?
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  Speaker 4: This one here? What the hell there? I mean?
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  Speaker 1: These are what these shows in San Diego used to
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  Speaker 1: look like. They were in the hills. They were in
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  Speaker 1: parking lots.
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  Speaker 2: These guys used to carry their gear up into the
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  Speaker 2: mountains and you know, hundreds of kids would walk up
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  Speaker 2: the mountain and play in a parking lot and they
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  Speaker 2: would just play until I got shut down, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like that's that's how this band started. There was Blink
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  Speaker 2: was doing the same thing, you know, playing in back alleys.
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  Speaker 4: That looks like a highway behind you there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the safe is not a word this band understands.
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  Speaker 4: The other one I've dug up is one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is actually in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 2: There was a garage sale because every few years we
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  Speaker 2: have storage units full of backdrops and old merch and
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  Speaker 2: gear and everything. And once every few years when it's overflowing,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes we open it up and we have a little
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  Speaker 2: side of the road pop up shop.
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  Speaker 1: And this was one of the last ones we did.
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  Speaker 2: I think there you got what's that on the bin?
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  Speaker 2: We we have looks like I mean, there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of backdrops there. I see that would have been a
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  Speaker 2: probably the warp tour tent from whatever year.
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  Speaker 1: That was probably a lot of merchandise in there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they learn out.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's about time to have another one of those.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, we're overflowing yet again.
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  Speaker 4: During the car park of the back room and anally
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  Speaker 4: bade you get heaps of peaple.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, there you go. That's a great ideas.
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  Speaker 3: Were thanks for your time today, rather be the pleasure
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  Speaker 3: I'd written. Law will be here through October and November.
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  Speaker 3: Check out their socials to see where near you and
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  Speaker 3: I'll be at the back room brother, So it cuts
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  Speaker 3: you up and never be at end.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely can't wait. Man, Thank you, I don't you
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  Speaker 1: take care