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Sonic Intensity With CONNOR & ETHAN From TRIPLE KILL · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hello, I'm Connor A Keen. I played drums for Triple Kill. Hello,
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  I'm Ethan I played bass for Triple Kill. And we've got an album
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  dropping on the twenty fifth of August, Black and Dawn. It's all happening
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  then, Oh, thanks for joining us to save me. I think I
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  had a problem, Chris, thanks for having us pleasure say, as you
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  mentioned, Triple Kill will unleash your new album, Black and Dawn this Friday,
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  August at twenty fifth. So how you feel about it? Ah X,
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  It's an understatement for sure, but also geez exhausted and we're not even
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  touring yet. The amount of work we've put in behind the scenes to get
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  this thing out is it's a lot, you know, especially especially in this
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  last month. I think we've we've put out like three music videos in the
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  last months while also practicing and getting ready for tour. So and never friends,
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  it's possible. Way, So tell us a bit more about the album
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  from a musical point of view and what you're going forward with it. Okay,
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  at least do you want to just start start us on that one?
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  Yeah? Okay, well yeah, we wanted to obviously advance our own skills
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  so having that that thing that kept us all locked inside for a couple of
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  years, it really allowed us to kind of take a moment practice what we've
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  got and kind of develop some new skills or try some more challenging things that
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  we hadn't touched on before in the way of at least writing something. So
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  this album is definitely from a musical standpoint, is something that we have advanced
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  on, something something news for us, something a bit more challenging in the
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  way of our writing. And then the themes are just things that we love,
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  which I think kind of you'd be good to expand on that one.
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  Yeah, yeah, sure, so yeah, I think along with what Ethan
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  said, we've certainly tried to have this album be a step up for us
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  musically and in each of our own departments, while also looking back at the
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  stuff that we really like about the first album, the stuff that we feel
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  like has stood the test of time, and expand up on those kind of
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  hone in on the stuff that we feel like worked the most in the first
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  album. And also, I mean again Ethan alluded to the whole you know,
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  global pandemic malarkey, and it did leave us with a lot of time
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  to kind of reflect on this triple kill thing and what we want to do
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  with it next and the I guess validity and necessity of what we do.
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  We we write really escapists, kind of fun first music, but after you
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  know, the pandemic and everything, and after we all kind of felt a
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  little bit at sea personally and collectively, we found ourselves going is that enough
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  and ultimately decided like, yes, escapism is great, and it's it's something
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  that we've all gotten a lot out of. So we still want to write
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  music that's largely inspired by you know, movies and comic books and video games
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  and the stuff that we love. But we we want to be able to
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  accurately kind of capture or nail down what exactly we love about those properties,
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  what we've thought was what reached us, you know, what we felt was
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  vital or life affirming or just exciting about it, and have that be reflected
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  in the in the in the music and in the lyrics. More so than
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  the first album. I think the first album will kind of content to just
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  go this is a cool lyric, and it's about this. This time,
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  we kind of sat with the why of it all a little bit more and
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  it was fun. It was it was a great way to write. It
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  was the first time I think we wrote with real intent, and I think
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  it comes across so far in the responses that we've gotten from music that we've
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  released so far, or you know, stuff that we've shown to friends,
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  they've gone, oh it really feels like this, or I really get the
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  sense of this from this music, and it's like, oh my god,
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  you know, maybe we're not hacks. The album opens with the title track
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  and an extended intro. There's delicate, ambient and dreamy like three things that
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  Triple Killed definitely are not. So what was the thought process behind starting Yeah,
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  that's really cool, thank you. I think the thought process there was
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  kind of deliberately wanting to do that to showcase a different side of us,
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  and I don't know, give it, give it a go, like see,
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  like, hey, can we can we do this? And in practice
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  we found I think we can. Like we really like the way that the
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  album opens, and it's it's been exciting to show people little little glimpses of
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  that side of us so far and have them, I mean, not outwardly
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  rejected. Good. I think I like what you did with it too,
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  Like because a lot of bands are sort of doing that lately, like they're
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  putting something a bit left to center to start the album and then going into
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  their normal stuff. But they do that as just like a minute minute and
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  a half intro and then go into the next song. But you actually weave
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  it into the first song, so so to six minutes long. But it's
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  a different touch to to sort of turn it into a song having it just
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  to stand alone entity. Yeah, well we've done the standalone in stro Thing.
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  We did that for the EP, and we did it for the first
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  album. And as much as I mean, I think a lot of the
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  first album and especially the EP was written with inner room kind of jamming stuff
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  out and just going with what felt good, not necessarily considering if it was
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  if the story of the song necessitated that part being there or whatever. Whereas
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  we had a clear idea of what the first track was going to be about
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  and the story that we wanted it to tell, and the character that is
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  kind of that Rodney's singing from the perspective of is at his lowest point at
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  the start of the song, so it kind of made sense to start there
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  and then build it up. We wanted it to be like a I don't
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  know, I guess representative of our own states of mind during the lockdown,
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  and certainly we keep saying like during the pandemic and stuff, and that it
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  stuck with us right up until I think I've really only shook the the emotional
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  hangover of those couple of years in the last couple of months maybe, So
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  we wanted the start of the song to kind of reflect that, but then
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  build into something hopeful and yeah, uplifting. So from a personal point of
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  view, we'll ask if you guys separately on this one, but from a
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  personal point of view, how does the album? How is it an improvement
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  on your debut? H Ethan July to get first? Yeah, yeah,
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  yeah, great, yeah, good job. Well, I mean from a
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  personal perspective for myself, when it was joining Triple Kill with the EP,
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  I was just there to kind of be like, I was really excited to
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  be a part of a band again, really excited to just kind of play
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  the tunes, and I was just kind of following along with what was kind
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  of already written and what we had been doing as a group. So it
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  was just kind of following whatever the guitars do or anything like that, whereas
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  I'm just the bassist. I'm just going to follow that. When we hit
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  onto Age Rebellion, it was more simple playing because I wanted to think about
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  how We're going to do this live and how I'm going to be able to
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  be able to do backup vocals or like, keeping that simplicity there to get
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  myself through it when we were Then with this album, I really wanted to
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  give myself more of a challenge. I'm good at my instrument, I'm good
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  at what I do, and I can do that live. Why why should
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  I be trying to hinder myself? And I really pushed through with some new
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  techniques, new interesting things that I hadn't done before, and felt more inclined
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  to speak up and kind of put my thoughts and what I wanted to write
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  into my pieces, which I feel like it has come off really well,
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  And I feel a lot more attached to this album on an emotional level than
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  I get I had with the previous ones, Like I still love our previous
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  work and I will forever, but there's something that's just got me more attached
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  to this music with this album. Yeah. Nice, Yeah, I think
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  I think everybody's really gone that that extra mile to make sure that their individual
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  parts were pushing there, you know, their skill set forward. Oh man,
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  Well yeah, fundamentally. Instrumentally it's it's it's the best stuff we've ever
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  written. And I think again coming back to that writing with intent and that
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  intent being kind of like stick in the landing for the most part by the
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  sounds of it, I think that's something that the previous album just didn't really
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  have. The intent was fundamentally just like, hey, this is fun.
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  We hope it makes people move, and it did that, but anything else
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  I think that people got out of the music, It was like not necessarily
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  on the page, you know, which is that's that's half the fun of
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  releasing art is seeing what other people get out of it. But yeah,
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  this time, a more concerted effort was made to capture something about each of
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  these these properties that we like and make sure that that was in the song
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  and was on the page. And I'm proud of that for sure. That's
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  that's something I excited to take into the future releases as well. That kind
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  of mindset and that approach cool and you guys also recently supported night Flight Orchestra
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  in Melbourne and say how is that insane? Oh my god, Yeah,
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  man, wonderful, so wonderful. I mean we already had tickets as as
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  fans of the band to see that show anyway, so when we up the
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  email, we were all like giddy with excitement to be supporting, you know,
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  let alone direct support for them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, do
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  you want to add anything? It was just like probably one of my highlights
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  for being in this band is just getting to being able to have played the
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  show and then getting praise after like having the drummer of Night Flat Orchestra come
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  up and like just sit there with me for a good like fifteen twenty minutes
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  as we were just talking back and forth about like what he was doing with
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  the tour and stuff, and then he just had nothing but just really nice
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  things to say. He was apparently like he was up the back upstairs of
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  Max Watts and he was just watching through the curtains for everything that we did,
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  and he just loved our energy, loved what we were doing, and
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  he said he felt like he was a part, like he was a part
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  of the crowd, and I was just like, that's that's the nice stuff
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  that that's going to sit with me for a really exciting Rodney was riding high
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  all evening. After we came off stage. He was wrapping some cables or
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  whatever. We're in this Elvis costume that he's been that we had made for
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  one of the music videos, and Beyond comes up and like taps him on
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  the shoulders, like that was really good man, and Rodney thinking it was
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  just you know, Screw or one of our mates or whatever, turns around
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  like hey thanks mate, star struck and like, yeah, it was really
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  really ride and high on that for the rest of the night and on on
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  a personal level that a personal note, like it was just really wonderful having
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  so many friends and you know, punters and family there as well. I
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  had two of my younger sisters there, one of which only turned eighteen last
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  year, so this was her first time seeing me perform live. And she
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  also happens to be a huge night Flight fan. This was a band that
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  we shared listen to music in the car over lockdown and stuff when we go
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  for like you know, a drive within the five K radios with Chuck Knight
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  fly on. So this was like real special on every conceivable level. That's
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  as well done and now you're about to head out on the riff and tour
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  with this good mate Thorpe. Samega that kicks off in Ballarat on Algus the
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  twenty fifth, before going through Gold Coast, Brisbane, Amber, Sydney and
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  Melbourne and Sydney and finishing in Melbourne on September nine. So it's a decent
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  runner shows. Yeah, yeah, real decent. It's it's a weird one.
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  We do like the one date in Ballarat this Friday and then have nearly
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  a week off and then it's like four days back to back and then a
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  week off and then Melbourne. So it's going to be good. Wrapping up
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  in Melbourne I think feels feels right, Yeah, definitely. I'm very excited
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  to like starting it in Victoria, Like starting in Ballarat and then ending in
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  Melbourne just feels like a really good way to run this tour mm and it
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  means we'll all have worked out any kinks by the time we get true True
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  True. And what can your fans expect from your those shows, guys,
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  Ethan, do you want to? I mean, look, we've got we're
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  playing in the Gold Coast for the first time, so I feel like we're
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  going to have a really high energy show going to happen there, just to
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  make a really good first impression there. But in the way of this tour,
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  we've got a stack of new songs that we've not played live to an
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  audience before. So it'd be really nice to get a couple of these tracks
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  out and let people experience the theatrical state that we're gonna be providing these songs.
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  And I'm I think I'm quest fast is going to be a going to
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  be an interesting one. I personally just had my costume show up this evening
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  and Melbourne and oh my god, have you got a handy inflatable pig?
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  Yeah? Boy? And that's going to be fun to play in excellent.
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  So we've got something exciting to show people. Yeah, very exciting. And
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  I would say, like I mean, like Ethan said, we're going to
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  be playing a bunch of this material that we've never gotten to play live before.
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  But that's not to say like it might be a bit shaky, Like
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  these shows are going to be a celebration of the fact that we've got here
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  and we're getting to play this music and share this music with people finally,
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  Like it's just going to be wonderful. And I think I think people are
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  going to feel that the moment they walk into the room. We're going to
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  try and bring that the moment we hit the stage. We want people to
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  feel that that sense of celebration and to feel appreciated and valued as punters.
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  We will go out of our way to make sure that that's apparent. And
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  where can people get tickets for these shows? We'll find out more information.
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  I believe we've got tickets for all of these shows on the band camp on
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  the Triple Kill dot bandcamp dot com. That's right, We've got all tickets
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  currently discounted on our band camp, so you can't get them for a bit
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  cheaper coming straight through us. And that'll have info for all our shows as
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  well as the new album and some sick new merch. Hmm yeah, awesome.
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  Well, before we let you go, I've started three new Spotify playlists.
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  Who have you just based on songs from people I've interviewed, So using
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  songs at your own, I want you to give me one song that's going
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  to get the party started, one song that's going to save your marriage,
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  one song that could potentially end your marriage, well from from our album or
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  just from any any any of your albums. It has to be one of
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  your songs. Okay, okay, So a song to get the party started?
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  Ethan, you want to pick that one year they the party? Guy?
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  Well, I've got those loud shirts, surely that so I have these.
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  I have this one very specific loud rainbow shirt. Who's got this image
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  of hey Man just printed on him. So if I was to pick one
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  song to be like, what's the song to get the party started? It'd
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  probably be Weight of a Turnier on our new album, which is just about
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  Hem and the Musters in the US. Yeah, yeah, love that,
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  I would say. So the song to save the marriage? Is that?
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  The next one song to save the marriage? Some save the marriage? I
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  would say Dust the single that we just released and the final track on the
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  album. It's got an overall hopeful message, one of you know, trying
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  to remain present and I think you know that can that can be something to
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  remind us solves to do when things seem dire in a relationship or otherwise,
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  Hey, that could help. I'm not saying it's going to save the marriage,
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  but it'll hope the conversation, it'll be a story. You know,
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  he begged me not to leave and started playing some man from Melbourne. Naturally
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  I left. Well here's a chance to pick one that could potentially end of
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  the marriage. Well uh oh oh, come on, let's let's let's go
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  with where it started. As if you're playing a song that blades to someone
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  in an attempt to save the marriage, it's I guarantee you it's not going
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  to help. But babe, don't leave. We've gotta let it rip.
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  Yeah, beautiful being such a good sports beow that your album Black and Drawn
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  is out on August at twenty fifth this Friday, and i'd listener before the
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  synerge. Guys. Really well done, quality piece of colitis fair music,
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  says hopefully, I'll be thanks so much, Thanks so much, Chris's beautiful.
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