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Putting The KA-BOOM Back Into Music With JOSH MORGAN From FIST · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I am the main singer, the main songwriter for.
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  Speaker 2: Fist, and we are Fist, which is the stupidest being
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  Speaker 2: name we could have come.
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  Speaker 1: Up with, but it's stuck.
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  Speaker 2: And we've got our single coming out Kaboom Motherfucker. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if you have to bleep that or not
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  Speaker 2: coming out that's what we want coming out on the seventeenth,
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  Speaker 2: and then kicking off with the tour which is going
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  Speaker 2: all up and down the coast.
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  Speaker 1: There's three shows but all four shows, but it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a lot of driving.
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  Speaker 3: Fantastic Broth. Thanks for joining us today. O preasure to speak.
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  Speaker 2: Again anytime, anytime.
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  Speaker 1: Anything's good, anything's good.
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  Speaker 3: So Fist Our premiering your debut studio single couple Motherfucker
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  Speaker 3: through Heavy this Wednesday, June fifteenth at four pm Queensland time,
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  Speaker 3: before the official release on Fridays. So it's a nice
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  Speaker 3: little late Christmas present for fans.
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  Speaker 2: Ah well, I mean it's it's a very late Christmas present.
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  Speaker 2: It should have been out the year before, but we're
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  Speaker 2: finally getting into it. We did a live album so
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  Speaker 2: we could try cover up and you know, get as
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  Speaker 2: much out of those songs as we can before we
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  Speaker 2: have to actually pay all the money to record them.
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  Speaker 1: So it's about time we're finally getting something done. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure people are very happy with it.
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  Speaker 3: And everything about the song streams danger mate, from the
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  Speaker 3: title to the way it's written in capitals, Like it's
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  Speaker 3: definitely making a statement for FIST moving forward, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, which was okay, kind of unexpected. It was this
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  Speaker 2: song was almost left on the cutting floor. What we
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  Speaker 2: almost well, I almost deleted this whole song, Like I
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  Speaker 2: wrote this by myself in the just in my room,
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  Speaker 2: fucking during COVID, and I was this close to deleting
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  Speaker 2: it because the chorus doing the kaboom I've never written,
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  Speaker 2: like writing down the words kaboom just seems stupid. And
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, this is this is a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a dumb song. I don't think I don't think
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  Speaker 2: this is worth it. I'll show the guys just in case.
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  Speaker 2: And they were like, if you delete that, man, Nah,
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  Speaker 2: that's a great song. Let's fucking let's do it. And
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  Speaker 2: everyone seems to love it. It's the one people remember
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  Speaker 2: was this close to being deleted.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, there you go, better admit made. I was a
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  Speaker 3: little disappointed that you left the vowels out of the
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  Speaker 3: spelling and motherfucker. But I got to give you the
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  Speaker 3: betnef of the doubt and say, maybe it was a
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  Speaker 3: typo you're not getting soft?
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  Speaker 2: Uh oh, the title was that was months of like,
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  Speaker 2: so we're trying to get it so it's perfect for
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  Speaker 2: search engine optimization and whatnot, which is why the vowels
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  Speaker 2: are left out, because we'll get more hits if it's
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  Speaker 2: not an actual.
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  Speaker 1: Swear word, which is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: But and there was no other songs called well, there
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  Speaker 2: was a few called kaboom, but without anything else on it.
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  Speaker 2: So we've all right, that's how people remember the name
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  Speaker 2: of the song. Let's call it that, and we'll put
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  Speaker 2: in the little little part so it step separates us
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  Speaker 2: from everyone else. So that's that's the reason there's no
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  Speaker 2: vowels not getting soft.
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  Speaker 3: Yet I get to say, like that could be the
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  Speaker 3: real reason. Let's the official reason is because of vows
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  Speaker 3: we're working on your on your keyboard and that way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 2: By the single, send us money because we need new keyboards.
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  Speaker 3: More about the song from a musical point of view
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  Speaker 3: and what you're going for.
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  Speaker 2: With it, Well, originally It was called Hindrance because I
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  Speaker 2: was writing a short EP and it was the last
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  Speaker 2: track on the EP, and I was like, I need
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  Speaker 2: something and this this thing has just been an absolute
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  Speaker 2: hindrance to me.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I named it for.
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  Speaker 2: And I wrote it in like probably two three hours,
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing pretty much, and I guess the main
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  Speaker 2: main theme was just getting sick of everyone telling everyone
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  Speaker 2: else how to do their shit, Like it's very much like,
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  Speaker 2: we'll do it our own way. I'm sick of all
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  Speaker 2: how it's all supposed to be done and all the
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  Speaker 2: rules behind all songwriting and shit like that. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have to be you don't have to be set in stone,
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  Speaker 2: like if you're a metal band, you don't have to
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  Speaker 2: just play metal songs.
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  Speaker 1: You can do other shit makes it interesting. It was
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  Speaker 1: very much a coming to terms with like.
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  Speaker 2: The status quo, like not break trying to break what
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  Speaker 2: everyone else is sort of doing, and very chromatic, so
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  Speaker 2: it was just like this is I hope this I
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  Speaker 2: hope this song pisces people off a little bit for
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  Speaker 2: a backfired.
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  Speaker 3: And at the moment she hasn't got a music video,
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  Speaker 3: but is there one coming?
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  Speaker 1: Or I believe there is one? Rowan was talking about
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  Speaker 1: getting one done.
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  Speaker 2: I did a home budget one, a very sort of
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  Speaker 2: crappy one that people seem to enjoy. So it got
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  Speaker 2: taken down a few times because of some of the
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  Speaker 2: extra clips that I added to it, not copyrte offensive
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  Speaker 2: content or whatever that was into it. So there is
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  Speaker 2: like a bit of a music video already that was
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  Speaker 2: very home done with the with the demo song. But no,
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  Speaker 2: at the moment, there is no no music video coming
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  Speaker 2: out just yet. I think we're looking into getting an
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  Speaker 2: artist to do sort of a cartoon cross with us playing,
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  Speaker 2: but we've been having a fair bit of trouble finding
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  Speaker 2: the right artist to help us out with that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's an idea out of left field where you
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  Speaker 3: should have it like a like a Batman comic and
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  Speaker 3: the big word thing.
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  Speaker 2: I was going, come, yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely, that's
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  Speaker 2: that's the sort of artwork that would be over the
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  Speaker 2: top a pal.
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  Speaker 3: Does she stand alone single matter or is it part
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  Speaker 3: of a bigger picture?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Well, a bit of both, I guess, because we're under
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  Speaker 2: the we're under the impression that the album's albums are
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  Speaker 2: sort of on the way out, and it's very much
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  Speaker 2: releasing singles now. So the goal I guess that we're
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  Speaker 2: working with is releasing singles month by month and then
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  Speaker 2: at the end of like a run, say ten signal
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  Speaker 2: singles or whatever, then we can piece that together into
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  Speaker 2: an album.
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  Speaker 3: It's a way to do it these days.
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  Speaker 1: A yeah, and get it mastered separately after the fact.
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  Speaker 2: You know, some songs might not it might not make it,
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  Speaker 2: But singles I think are the way to go, especially nowadays, because.
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  Speaker 3: People haven't got the attention to sit.
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  Speaker 1: Down to listen to an album right.
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  Speaker 3: Indeed, now people out there like they might hear or
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  Speaker 3: they might read that this is your debut single and
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  Speaker 3: just assume that first still have your musical baby teeth made.
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  Speaker 3: But you've been tauring extensively live since June in twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty three. Was there was there a reason why you
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  Speaker 3: decided to tour heaps before you put the music out,
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  Speaker 3: and most mens put music out then tour for it.
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  Speaker 3: But you've done it, asked about face, Well.
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  Speaker 2: I've always thought that the songs songs change quite a
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  Speaker 2: bit if you play them live.
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  Speaker 1: For us.
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  Speaker 2: They always have they We play them live a thousand times,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like, okay, some things here are really working,
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  Speaker 2: some aren't. So we wanted to make sure we knew
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  Speaker 2: exactly what we were going to put it down on
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  Speaker 2: her like onto paper, so that at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day we were happy with it and things wouldn't change.
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  Speaker 2: But also being broke musicians is a big part of
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  Speaker 2: the reason, Like it's expensive to get shit done well
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  Speaker 2: if you want it done really well.
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  Speaker 1: And doing all.
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  Speaker 2: Those gigs was able to give us like because we
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty dollars, you know, two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty dollars split between the three guys, it doesn't really
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  Speaker 2: we're not in it for that. So we just put
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  Speaker 2: all of our money back into a band fun and
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  Speaker 2: we just saved up for the time, like over all
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  Speaker 2: those shows and made sure we got at our chops
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  Speaker 2: so when we went into the studio, we knew what
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  Speaker 2: we were doing.
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  Speaker 3: So by the time we get into the studio and
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  Speaker 3: record all those songs that you've been playing live for
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  Speaker 3: a long time, like how much have they changed from
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  Speaker 3: when you first started then you've taken them live.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them don't change at all, some of them
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  Speaker 2: will change. Something will completely scratch and get rid of
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  Speaker 2: because they just don't work. For us, but for Kaboom,
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  Speaker 2: I think that stayed pretty much the same the whole
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  Speaker 2: way from demo to to.
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  Speaker 1: Release, except for the bowels.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, except except for the vowels. Yeah, you're right right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so that that one definitely change. Didn't change at all
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  Speaker 2: really and honestly probably yeah, not too many changed that much,
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  Speaker 2: but there's definitely some things that it's like because I
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  Speaker 2: write a lot of the songs and I will bring
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  Speaker 2: them to the band and the guys will learn. They
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  Speaker 2: usually start off with what I've written, because I'll write
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  Speaker 2: the bass and drums and things like that for them,
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  Speaker 2: and they'll take sort of inspiration from that, but very
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  Speaker 2: much change it over the time. So if I've written
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  Speaker 2: a new song, we can pretty much get it on
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  Speaker 2: like playable for live in a few weeks, But then
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  Speaker 2: after a few months they'll really put their own taste
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  Speaker 2: into it and their own little spin on their parts
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  Speaker 2: instead of just using what I've written.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big part of the reason too.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you guys pretty much sein his high school. When
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  Speaker 3: you've put the band together, playing in a little town
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  Speaker 3: in Nelson Bay, he's sort of gone through the whole light.
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  Speaker 3: You've decided to make music your career, Like it's a
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  Speaker 3: couple of years on from it now, Like was it
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  Speaker 3: easier than you thought it was gonna be or was
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  Speaker 3: it harder or.
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  Speaker 1: I mean bits and pieces, it's.
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  Speaker 2: It's definitely fucking difficult, especially the business side, which I
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  Speaker 2: can't can't mend row enough, Like Rowan does an amazing
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  Speaker 2: job on the business side, and like we we owe
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  Speaker 2: him a lot to that that that's been like we've
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  Speaker 2: only really he started knuckling down.
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  Speaker 1: I guess about June when we started doing lots of gigs.
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  Speaker 2: He was like, I'm over this. So I'm getting too
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  Speaker 2: old to be telling people I'm in a band. I
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  Speaker 2: need to actually be doing something with it instead of
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  Speaker 2: just playing in a room once every few weeks. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's and I mean, I've been writing music since I
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  Speaker 2: was in high school, so I've always thought that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all my songs are the best, I'll get famous one
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  Speaker 2: day without ever doing anything. Now we're actual doing something
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  Speaker 2: so that you can actually have a better chance at that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I gotta say, like heaps of bands come
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  Speaker 3: across my desk here and I don't get a chance
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  Speaker 3: to listen to all of them. But you guys. From
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  Speaker 3: the very first time I heard your music, and it's like,
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  Speaker 3: we're just fucking maniacs. You know, there's something about the
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  Speaker 3: music that was pretty chill. It mate, like for everyone
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  Speaker 3: else out there, he's never heard of this before. Tell
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  Speaker 3: us a bit about yourselves and what you do do.
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  Speaker 1: This has always been a tough question, what genre, What
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  Speaker 1: do we sound like?
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  Speaker 3: Just yes, yeah, your approach to music and your ferocity, and.
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  Speaker 1: It's like fun fun.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of bands, too many bands get up there
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  Speaker 2: and they're like, oh, this next songs for anyone who's
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: been through heartbreak, and they get real serious about it,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like, I don't know you well enough to
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  Speaker 2: fucking connect with you on that level. I'm here either
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  Speaker 2: just at the pub having a few drinks or I'm
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: here to have some fun. So that's that's been one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent of the focus the whole time is have
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  Speaker 2: fun and make put on a show where people can
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  Speaker 2: have fun. So like, if we're not perfect one night,
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  Speaker 2: we make a few mistakes, it doesn't matter. We lean
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  Speaker 2: into it. And same with the music, Like when we
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  Speaker 2: write it, I'll listen to it a bunch of times
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: in the car and you know, as after a demo
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  Speaker 2: is done and if something's not working, like if I
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: get bored or I feel like I'm not paying attention,
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: my brain picks up on that and I go, Okay,
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: there's something here in this song that's made me lose interest.
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  Speaker 2: I need to figure out how to just retain interest.
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: Make the songs as fun as possible, and make our
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: live shows as fun as possible. And that's the compliment
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  Speaker 2: we get the most. People tell us where we're a
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  Speaker 2: lot of fun. I might not be the best band,
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  Speaker 2: but we're fun. That's the main thing. Our shows are fun.
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  Speaker 3: And people have got a chance to see that for
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  Speaker 3: themselves starting this week. You got to show in Sydney
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  Speaker 3: on January seventeenth, which it's this Friday. Come and we
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  Speaker 3: seehit in camera our Central Coast and Newcastle mate. So
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  Speaker 3: what can people expect? Like, we've got the fun I aspect,
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  Speaker 3: but what else can people expect when they come along?
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  Speaker 3: To get fisted.
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  Speaker 2: And plenty of dumb fucking jokes. That's the reason the
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  Speaker 2: band's called Fist. The content rights itself. You say that
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  Speaker 2: at the end of every show, you know we've been fisted,
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  Speaker 2: and you've been fisted, or you've been a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: loose assholes, the jokes right themselves and we Yeah, probably
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: they can expect a bit of comedy as well.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely, people like find out more about the band themselves
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  Speaker 3: or listening to the music you've got coming out to
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  Speaker 3: the best place.
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  Speaker 2: We are on all of the socials, the best one
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  Speaker 2: at the moment probably would be Instagram. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: one that gets the most attention from us because we're
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  Speaker 2: old now and TikTok's kind of difficult.
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  Speaker 1: For old people.
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  Speaker 2: YouTube, We've got a bit coming out there and got
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  Speaker 2: live album on Spotify, which is live album is very
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: well mixed, thankfully, it does a good job at conveying
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  Speaker 2: what we're about. Yeah, definitely the Instagram and the YouTube,
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  Speaker 2: because we're going to be having videos and we're constantly
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: putting out short videos and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Content that is fun, not just like hey comes see
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: us wear cool next next. Yeah. Yeah, before you came over, We've.
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: Got a new segment called photo Bomb, So basically I
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  Speaker 3: troll through your social media before we speak and I
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  Speaker 3: picked out a couple of photos. I want to talk
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  Speaker 3: about about. This one. I want to know was this
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  Speaker 3: taken at the start of the bender or after it?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, that would have been at the start. Yep, that
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  Speaker 2: was definitely at the start, because the idea was make
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  Speaker 2: sure you're wearing your nice clothes. We've got to take
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: band photos, and taking band photos sucks, like stand in
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  Speaker 2: line with three of your best mates and look serious.
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  Speaker 1: We can't do that. We can't do that at all.
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  Speaker 2: So I was like, let's just get on the beers,
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  Speaker 2: get on the pier, and we'll see what comes out
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully we get some good photos and.
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  Speaker 3: Know about the photos. What happened after that? Where did
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  Speaker 3: you go and what did you do?
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  Speaker 1: Ah? What day was that?
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  Speaker 2: That's out the back of Rowan's apartment. Hey, yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: just probably we stayed at his place and just got
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: hammered after that. I'd say there's a lot of those
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: nights though, so it gets a bit.
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  Speaker 3: There are those bins full of beer bottles by the
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  Speaker 3: end of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well they're the fish and chip shop bins, so
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  Speaker 2: they get pretty mad at us when we fill it up.
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  Speaker 3: I've found one more photo for you, and I want
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  Speaker 3: to know have you got any more photos of this night?
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  Speaker 3: Because I reckon it would have been a pearler.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be completely honest with you, that one
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  Speaker 2: was all rolling by himself, so he had a solo
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  Speaker 2: night doing all that. Yeah. Yeah, we've got a couple
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  Speaker 2: of big rubber fists that well his property. We don't
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: use them too much, but they come out for shows
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: and I'm sure he used them that night a bit.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: And I think we should actually come out with real lube,
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: like that's a fake bottle. He's done up for the photo,
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: but I reckon we should start selling real fist lube.
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  Speaker 3: Second time you've disappointed me in one interview, mane fake lube.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean the idea is that our lube that
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  Speaker 2: we sell is just row and spit, So it's not
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  Speaker 2: it's not really fake, but it's it's it's not the
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  Speaker 2: best quality, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, unfortunately went on the next rated show, so we're
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: gonna have to pull it up there, mate, But the
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: Sigretuer is out officially on Friday. Check it out through
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  Speaker 3: Heavy from four pm on Wednesday afternoon. Mate, And thanks
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: for your time. Were sure let me come to Brisbane.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: Make sure you let me know.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll get a mailing list going