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GLOAM Bring The Wild West To BIGSOUND · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: How are you welcome to heavy mag good.
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  Speaker 2: How are you thank you for having.
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  Speaker 3: Me yeah yeah busy busy busy busy but you know
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  Speaker 3: that means if i'm busy then live music scene is.
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  Speaker 1: Well and thriving so it's.
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  Speaker 2: Good yeah love to hear it how are you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah i'm yeah good good so rowan you're from the
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  Speaker 3: bangalore and um you guys are going to be making
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  Speaker 3: up your syllables to brisneyland for big sounds.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, correct. No, we're super excited. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Is it a first time for you guys on
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  Speaker 1: being a lineup?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. First time at Big Sound. Yeah. Yeah. We don't
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  Speaker 2: have heaps of experience on the East Coast in general,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest, being from Perth.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We made the trip over there last year. So we're
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  Speaker 2: excited to get back over there. Nice.
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  Speaker 1: Well, someone's heard you and liked what they sound. I
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  Speaker 1: heard that.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like the sound that you guys do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hopefully.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. No, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: So Big Sound is great. And you've been saying to
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  Speaker 3: a lot of bands, it's just such a good platform there.
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to give you guys that um you know space
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  Speaker 3: to be able to showcase what you do and they
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  Speaker 3: say bring it to the east coast and that's a
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  Speaker 3: really good thing i've you know found they're bringing bands
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  Speaker 3: from everywhere like you spoke with one from arnhem land
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  Speaker 3: guys from tassie just before and yourselves you know from
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  Speaker 3: perth and i think um indigo blazer when i'm being
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  Speaker 3: yet to interview from um wa as well so yeah
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  Speaker 3: it's nice it's good to see them all coming together
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  Speaker 3: for yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's so good i'm super excited yeah i'm sure we'll
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  Speaker 2: make lots of new friends and see lots.
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  Speaker 3: Of great oh yes Yeah, that's a cool thing that
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  Speaker 3: you say, you know, the community that music brings. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of people, you know, keen to see,
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  Speaker 3: check each other out, which is.
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  Speaker 1: Always really nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. It'll be good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So for yourselves, anyone that you're keen to check
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  Speaker 3: out while you're over here?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's definitely a few. Yeah. Yeah, you mentioned Indigo before.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely keen to check them out. Somehow I actually haven't
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  Speaker 2: caught them in Perth before, so I'll definitely need to
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  Speaker 2: make a point of going and checking them out. whether
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  Speaker 2: in Brizzy. So I would definitely go check them out.
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  Speaker 2: There's a band called Blue Diner, who I think are
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  Speaker 2: from Brizzy as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, nice, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That are pretty sick. Definitely want to see them for sure.
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  Speaker 2: They're kind of like a sort of Midwest-y gaze kind
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  Speaker 2: of band.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, cool, cool.
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  Speaker 2: Should be good, yeah. There's another band called Win Big.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I spoke to them the other day. They're really
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  Speaker 1: cool guys, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, dope, hell yeah. Yeah, yeah. So keen to see
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  Speaker 2: them for sure. I really like. their take on the
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  Speaker 2: sort of hardcore genre at the moment. It feels pretty. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They're a bit punk sort of the hardcore punk kind
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  Speaker 3: of feel from what I was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like they're doing something a bit different in
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  Speaker 2: that space, which is super exciting. Yeah. Um, and there's, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: there's a few others for sure. I could go on
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  Speaker 2: forever about a few of the artists playing there, but
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  Speaker 2: there's so many.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And you've got the two slots that you playing in
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  Speaker 3: Brazil while you're at big sound. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So Tuesday night where, um, We're playing at, I think, Crowbar,
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  Speaker 2: was it? Oh, nice.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good venue.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, super psyched on that. I think we might be
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  Speaker 2: first on that night from memory. I think we're on, like,
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  Speaker 2: 7 and 15 or something.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, cool, cool.
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  Speaker 2: Which is kind of nice. Yeah, yeah. Get the show
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  Speaker 2: done early and then we can, you know, float around.
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  Speaker 1: Party on. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe have a beer or two, see how we go.
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  Speaker 1: Beer or ten.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that. We'll see what happens. Yeah. And
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  Speaker 2: then Thursday night, I think we've got the closing shift
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  Speaker 2: at Tomcat.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, cool.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a fun little dive bar kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 1: It's yeah. Quintessential dive bar. It's great venue.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I haven't actually looked at too many photos
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  Speaker 2: of each venue yet, but they sound like the kind
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  Speaker 2: of two different ends of the spectrum.
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  Speaker 1: They very much are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Crowbar is a bit bigger. It's been around for a bit.
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  Speaker 3: It was, yeah, it was, if I believe it's not
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  Speaker 3: the same building, it was definitely right next adjacent. Used
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  Speaker 3: to be the zoo, which was very big in bed.
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  Speaker 3: busy for a long time um i'm pretty sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah no it sounds like they're all pretty they're all
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  Speaker 2: within stone throw of each other that sounds.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah the valley is good like that you sneak around
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  Speaker 3: and one's not too far you're saying from the other
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  Speaker 3: and yeah it's good good vibes now it's awesome so
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  Speaker 3: you guys obviously very excited to be coming and doing
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  Speaker 3: that um what else have you got on your roster
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  Speaker 3: for the rest of the year have you got new
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  Speaker 3: music coming out or more.
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  Speaker 2: Gigs yeah sure thing we just dropped a um we
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  Speaker 2: just dropped a seven inch that came out through last
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  Speaker 2: year which is pretty cool nice nice So that one's
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  Speaker 2: just kind of been doing the rounds a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: which is super nice. We've got a couple of shows
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  Speaker 2: over here coming up. We're promoting it for a venue
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  Speaker 2: in Perth. So we're on Big Sound and offered to
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  Speaker 2: put on a bit of a fundraiser for us because
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty expensive to get over to the East Coast
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  Speaker 2: from Perth.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's really cool. Yeah. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, which is cool. That's awesome. Yeah, we got that
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  Speaker 2: one in like the weekend before we fly. So it's
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  Speaker 2: on August 28th. Yeah, excellent. Yeah, which will be good.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out for that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Is that going to be held? Well, you may as
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  Speaker 3: well let everyone know while you're on the platform.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's fine. It's at a venue.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be at a venue called Milk Bar. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Somewhere like, I think it's around three, 400 cap rooms.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Local bands and also the touring bands come
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  Speaker 2: through and fill it up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Nice. Nice. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we've got a couple of headline shows
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  Speaker 2: that we haven't announced yet that will be happening in
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  Speaker 2: Perth after Big Sound. And we're going to do another
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  Speaker 2: one in Albany, which is like on the coast.
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  Speaker 1: I've been to Albany. It's a nice little seaside cold town.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Well, a couple of us are from there originally,
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  Speaker 2: so we kind of want to do a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a– take the band down there. There's a fun little
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  Speaker 2: DIY venue down there that a couple of graphic designers
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  Speaker 2: work out of. And they've built a bit of a
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  Speaker 2: skate park in the warehouse there, and they've built a
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  Speaker 2: little stage. Yeah, cool. Yeah. Super DIY kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: So excited for that one. It should be pretty special,
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  Speaker 2: but outside of that, no, I think that's, um, we're
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  Speaker 2: pretty busy between those few bits and bobs and trying
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  Speaker 2: to get some new material written and that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: Big sounds a bit of, um, logistics going to you
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  Speaker 2: know taking a van over over there.
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  Speaker 3: But so you said you're based in the albany area
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  Speaker 3: are you over in w oh.
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  Speaker 2: We used to be yeah so i grew up down
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  Speaker 2: in albany yeah so you used.
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  Speaker 1: To the three four hour drive to get anywhere yeah
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  Speaker 1: literally yeah i lived.
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  Speaker 3: In mount barker and so albany was the biggest town
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  Speaker 3: and i actually ended up in hospital at albany oh
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  Speaker 3: no way yeah they removed my appendix when i was
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  Speaker 3: on holiday.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay glad you survived that one but i.
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  Speaker 3: Did i did that was lovely mind you though All
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  Speaker 3: credit to the staff there at the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, no, it's a lovely little town.
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  Speaker 3: It's, you know, you've got the, you know, because isn't
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  Speaker 3: it where, is it Albany where the cruise ships come
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  Speaker 3: in or is that?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty popular on the cruise ship route. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so every now and then. It's good for the local economy,
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  Speaker 2: like cafe and like bar economy. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But no, it's a super cool little town. Yeah, one
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  Speaker 2: day I definitely plan to land myself back down there.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's like you said, like, It's pretty hard
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  Speaker 2: being in the music scene and being sort of like
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  Speaker 2: four or five-hour drive from the capital city.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I spoke with Murtis and they're another band from Big
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  Speaker 3: Ten and they're smack band in the middle of Arnhem
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  Speaker 3: Land in Northern Territory.
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  Speaker 1: So they, again, just to get.
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  Speaker 3: To Darwin, like the closest city is like a flight
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  Speaker 3: near four-hour, six-hour drive.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that, dare I say, like, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we complain over in Perth that it's pretty hard to
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  Speaker 2: get bands coming through. But I feel like I see
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  Speaker 2: Darwin on touring process even less than Perth.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, I was saying, and we had a
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  Speaker 3: band from Tassie that I spoke to earlier and I think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, on the, on the scope of things, when
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  Speaker 3: people tour, the people that get left out, obviously, you know, Darwin,
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  Speaker 3: but sometimes it makes the bill, but it's Tassie and Canberra. They,
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  Speaker 3: they really seem, they get jibbed more than you guys
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  Speaker 3: in Radelaide and Perth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I guess the, I guess promoters perhaps just expect people
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  Speaker 2: to drive to Sydney or Melbourne.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's timing and logistics and they're not going
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  Speaker 3: to get, you know, the ticket sales, but I love,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's a few bands that have done it
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  Speaker 3: this year. They've done, you know, like Gurg and Phil
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  Speaker 3: Jamison and even in Spiderbait, they've done like.
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  Speaker 1: The regionals of the regionals, which is just really fucking cool. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're getting out there and putting it out and you're getting,
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  Speaker 1: taking it to the good people.
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  Speaker 2: I think so. I also think that people from those
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  Speaker 2: towns just have like a, not saying that people in
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  Speaker 2: Perth and the capital cities don't appreciate live music, but
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  Speaker 2: when you take it to a smaller town, it's just
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  Speaker 2: like the love just feels like a bit of a
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  Speaker 2: different level. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Definitely. It's a bit special, isn't it? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it's really cool i guess you just got to
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  Speaker 2: have a different um level of passion for it to
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  Speaker 2: keep it you know yeah against so many odds i
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  Speaker 2: guess being in a town or a city.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's it yeah and it becomes a logistics because
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  Speaker 3: you know we live our country's so freaking big you
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  Speaker 3: know you talk to artists you know from states you
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  Speaker 3: know uk europe and everywhere and it's um just blows
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  Speaker 3: their mind to think you know they're um because they're
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  Speaker 3: used to a tour bus but yeah if you bus
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  Speaker 3: it around here it's like no the you tour over
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  Speaker 3: here and you jump on a plane it's like what.
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  Speaker 2: It's yeah yeah it's not super feasible to the same degree.
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  Speaker 3: Mind you it's hard like yourselves you know you're coming
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  Speaker 3: all the way over here big sound and it's you
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  Speaker 3: know larger a lot of the time most you know
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  Speaker 3: people good the people our audiences they don't really may
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  Speaker 3: not realize that you know it's um the cost of
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  Speaker 3: everything that goes into just taking your stuff on the
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  Speaker 3: road other than you know your immediate local area Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, you're bang on the money there. It's really easy
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  Speaker 2: to like be disconnected from it. I don't think I
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  Speaker 2: really had an appreciation for it until we started Gloam,
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  Speaker 2: like the bands that would come over and do shows
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  Speaker 2: in Perth from the East Coast that maybe are not
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  Speaker 2: quite big enough to be like sort of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously selling out venues and that sort of thing. I
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  Speaker 2: definitely didn't quite have an appreciation for it, but it's
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  Speaker 2: really given a different value to like ticket purchases in
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  Speaker 2: my mind. Like they really are the sort of kings
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  Speaker 2: of the scene, you know what I mean? Because the
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  Speaker 2: music scene doesn't exist unless people are willing to Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And get out. And that's where it started.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we lost that pop culture there for a
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  Speaker 3: reasonable amount of time where a lot of the up
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  Speaker 3: and coming bands, you know, cut their teeth, so to speak.
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  Speaker 3: And when you've got some promoters that are willing to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, fund and put a few bands on, you know,
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  Speaker 3: put shows on so you guys can do that.
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  Speaker 1: It's really, we love that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah no it is good yeah we really yeah yep
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  Speaker 2: no you're yep being in a band you very quickly
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  Speaker 2: learn who who cares about music for the right reasons
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  Speaker 2: i think and absolutely a lot of good ones out
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  Speaker 2: there which is really nice yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It is it is and it's a passion you know
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  Speaker 3: like some people are fortunate enough to have the funds
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  Speaker 3: to you know to back that passion and and do
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  Speaker 3: that and it's just it's a very selfless act and
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  Speaker 3: they don't do it for the clout or the credit.
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  Speaker 1: That's for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And we love that. We love that for sure. And obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you know, social media, it's love it or not. It's
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  Speaker 3: how you promote yourself and getting out there. And so
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  Speaker 3: how do you find your feedback, you know, being connected
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  Speaker 3: on the other side of the country from probably a
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  Speaker 3: lot of your listing, um, base is that yeah do
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  Speaker 3: you track that is that being.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah for us yeah to be honest i try and
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  Speaker 2: like definitely to some degree yes i try and not
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  Speaker 2: go down the rabbit hole too.
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  Speaker 3: Much yeah you don't want to pay too much mind
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  Speaker 3: to it but obviously it's good to know you know
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  Speaker 3: where it's tracking it's i.
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  Speaker 2: Think so yeah especially being sort of um in the
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  Speaker 2: alternative scene as well it's like i don't really i
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  Speaker 2: I don't think myself, I would say that the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the band feels similarly, want to let sort of
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: like common social media trends become an influence on our
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  Speaker 2: artistry in the alternative scene so much. It just, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't feel like it goes hand in hand with our,
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  Speaker 2: with sort of the music we're making perhaps. So just
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  Speaker 2: circling back to your question is, I try not to
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  Speaker 2: pay too much attention to what does well for other
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  Speaker 2: artists and what Yeah, I also think that if you
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  Speaker 2: pay lots of attention to the numbers, you might, you know,
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  Speaker 2: make yourself sick. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, kind of just, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: let the music kind of just exist out there to
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  Speaker 2: some degree and just be happy and proud of it.
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 3: And there is an organic sense to it, even though,
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: you know, it is like new tech and all that, because,
• 11:28
  Speaker 3: you know, you can find yourself on a playlist somewhere
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  Speaker 3: or on, you know, coming up on just a random,
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  Speaker 3: and that's just by the algorithm, the evil algorithms we all,
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  Speaker 3: you know, shy away from. But it can be a
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  Speaker 3: way how, you know, you can find that, um, that
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  Speaker 3: little pockets of like, you know, fans, which is always good.
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  Speaker 1: And you do see that happen from time to time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. We've definitely had that. I definitely, we definitely have,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Spotify algorithms and YouTube and music algorithms to
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  Speaker 2: thank for a lot of, for a lot of what
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  Speaker 2: we've accomplished so far, I think. So I can't talk
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  Speaker 2: a little bit too much.
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  Speaker 3: Even bands have been doing it, you know, for some time.
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  Speaker 3: It's the ones that are still, relevant in doing it
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  Speaker 3: they've adapted to that change and i think yeah that's
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  Speaker 3: probably would be harder than stepping out and that being
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  Speaker 3: how it is i guess yeah you're.
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  Speaker 2: Probably right actually yeah yeah if you had if you'd
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  Speaker 2: done it for a long time and not had to
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  Speaker 2: worry about that and then you all of a sudden
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: have this whole you know separate part of being an
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: artist yeah we just put out a like a four
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  Speaker 2: track seven inch record um yeah yeah that's been released
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  Speaker 2: on final through through last ride records which is cool
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  Speaker 2: yeah excellent um Yeah, so that's been really cool. I
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  Speaker 2: think we're all really, really proud of the music we
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: made this time around.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, nice.
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  Speaker 2: We kind of like came into the studio a lot
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  Speaker 2: more prepared this time rather than.
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  Speaker 1: Is that even a thing? Has anyone come to the
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  Speaker 1: studio prepared?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, previously we definitely left a lot of room
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  Speaker 2: to experiment with them, who's our producer. And this time
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  Speaker 2: we just kind of wanted to like do the whole
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: pre-production process together. Once we had it all written more
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: or less, we did it a little bit differently. We
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: have like an in-ear monitoring rig now that we use live.
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: So we're able to use that to sort of isolate
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: guitars and drums in the studio, not the jam room,
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: the studio. And we were able to like record what
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: felt like, we were able to record drums isolated whilst
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: we were all in the room playing together. So for George,
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: who's our drummer, Um, we find that he's found that
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: he plays a lot, a lot better and gets better
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: takes when it just feels like we're jamming rather than just,
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: you know, and going through and, you know, so yeah.
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: So we're able to capture drums in a bit of
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: a unique way this time. Definitely the chemistry kind of
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: goes out the window with your bandmates to some degree,
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: I think. And, um, No, I like to think that
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: it shows in the end product as well. But yeah,
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: definitely safe to say we all enjoyed the process of
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: recording a lot more this time around. Yeah, for sure.
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it sounds like you guys have got all
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: that happening for yourselves, which is good. You know, you've
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: got to be able to make those networks and connections
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: and to do that. So obviously it shows for the
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: rest of the year and next year. What's your calendar
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: look like?
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I haven't thought heaps about next year. I've
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: got a couple of things we want to do, but
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: nothing super locked. But I think, yeah, getting to sitting
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: down and work on some new music is definitely at
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: the top of the agenda. You know, we've just kind
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: of like got a bit of the new music's out
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: and done a few bits and bobs around that. Obviously
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: get a big sound out of the way. And then, yeah,
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: when we come home, I think we'll try and get
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: in a room and think about what we want our
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: new stuff to sound like for sure.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, awesome.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: Awesome.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: No, it should be good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Excited about it.
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and doing shows like that, you know, gives you
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: that inspiration to come back and make some new music
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: and some new, yeah, new ideas, I guess, from getting
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: out and around and meeting others and seeing other people
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: doing things. It's always, I think, from talking to most bands,
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: they're keen to get into it after they do the
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: Big Sound Week.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: And get out of the way.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: But, like, getting, yeah, that drive and inspiration to just
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: keep going and doing what they do.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, definitely. I think we're, we're very excited. The
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: prospect of maybe making some connections with some, some promoters
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: and booking agents to entice some more shows coming through.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: It's quite hard to facilitate yourself when you're, you know,
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: locked into the other side of the country and getting
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: over there to play some shows, get on people's radars.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: So having a, you know, someone to vouch for us,
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: it's already, but even if it doesn't, we'll just keep
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: doing our thing. And if something winds up in the future, then.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: I think you guys have got the right attitude.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: You know, you've, You've got the goods, you've got the sound,
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: and then if you meet the right people and the
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: music gods make things happen, you leave it up to
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: them and just, yeah.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: It's always exciting. That's good.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: Well, congratulations on obviously ending up on the Big Sound Bill,
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: which will be good.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: You're staying for the week, are you?
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. So we fly in the day before Big
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Sound kicks off, and then we're flying out on the 5th.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: So I think, yeah, I can't remember what that looks
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: like on the week of.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: I love it. It's the good stuff. It's the good
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: shit that we embrace here at Heavy.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you'll be in the valley yourself.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm hoping to get there, yeah, definitely, and catch
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: you guys for sure.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: It's all one big happy family, even behind the scenes,
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: which is one cool thing about music.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm getting that vibe, yeah, especially around big sounds.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: It's been real nice, yeah. Yeah, that's how it is
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: on the larger scale, which is really cool.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: So dive in and enjoy, and we embrace you with
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: our big, long music metal arms.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sick, and I love it, hell yeah. Yeah.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: For sure.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much for having a chat with
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: us today, Rowan, and all the best. And we look
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: forward to seeing you.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: I'm excited.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: We'll see you there.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: You will. Take care. Thanks, Rowan.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Bye.