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Living In Sin With MATT And Luke From KODEM · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Tell me what it's all. Luke Jones, vocalist for CoDeeN.
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  Speaker 2: Online as well as Maddie Simmons, He's our main guitarist,
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  Speaker 2: writes all the epic riffs and sends them to me
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  Speaker 2: and I'll try and put some lyrics to them, and and.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we just that's that's what we do.
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  Speaker 3: Nice right, And who else? We got to a gay mate?
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  Speaker 4: Are you going good?
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  Speaker 3: Very good?
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  Speaker 5: Very good?
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  Speaker 3: So we're here today with some very exciting news because
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  Speaker 3: Coadum unleash your debut single, Tatooed Sin is Friday, August
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  Speaker 3: and twenty ninth. So how are the nerves?
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  Speaker 4: Boys with pumps? Super pump. This was our first track
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  Speaker 4: that that I sent to Luke in his truck many
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  Speaker 4: years ago, just go and reaching out to him and saying, hey,
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  Speaker 4: you know, like, you know, would you like to write
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  Speaker 4: some tunes. This is the very first one that we,
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  Speaker 4: you know, worked on, so we're pretty pretty pumped to
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  Speaker 4: get it out out there.
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  Speaker 3: Finally, absolutely no, So I can tell us a bit
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  Speaker 3: more about it from a musical perspective and what you
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  Speaker 3: were done for.
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  Speaker 4: This one is a riff that I've been playing this
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  Speaker 4: rift for years and years with you know, the thoughts
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  Speaker 4: of putting something to it. But it's kind of a
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  Speaker 4: bit like Carnival, you know, a bit of tools sort
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  Speaker 4: of inspired, you know, like referee riffage, and you know
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  Speaker 4: it's got some yeah, you know, I guess perfect circle
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  Speaker 4: sort of vibes to it.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what's you about lyrically?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 1: To you you Luke, It's it's about.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose, trying to be accepted and trying to, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: make your way through life challenges, I suppose, and trying
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  Speaker 2: not to be rejected, you know, everything that goes along
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  Speaker 2: with those those feelings that that that the life throws
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  Speaker 2: at us.
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  Speaker 1: And with a symbolic you know, representation of of being
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  Speaker 1: a permanent.
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  Speaker 2: Fixture on you know, in somebody's life or in somebody's
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  Speaker 2: psyche as a tattoo, but not quite being accepted and
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  Speaker 2: not quite you know, making it to that that end goal.
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  Speaker 1: Of of there just being full acceptance, I suppose.
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  Speaker 3: And you're going to be dropping it with a music
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  Speaker 3: video too. So does the video tie in with the lyrics.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it does. It's there's a there's a
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  Speaker 1: fair bit of what would you say, abstract I suppose,
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  Speaker 1: like there's a there's a bit.
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  Speaker 2: There's there's some manic parts in there that I think
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  Speaker 2: Maddie Gills captured pretty well, especially in the breakdown towards
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  Speaker 2: the end of the of the song.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a there's a part in there that it's.
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  Speaker 2: About stop calling and stop calling and just because the.
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  Speaker 1: The guy that's being called can't take it anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, it's it gets pretty manic in there, So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's it is a representation of the of
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  Speaker 2: the lyrics as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, now, as you mentioned, this is your debut single,
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  Speaker 3: so as the band, what sorts of things do you
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  Speaker 3: sit out and discuss or work through going into your
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  Speaker 3: first ever release, Sam, this is you.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we've just been really excited about, you know,
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  Speaker 4: getting our music out there really, so you know, we've
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  Speaker 4: you know, we've been working in the background for about
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  Speaker 4: three three or four years now, probably just slowly like
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  Speaker 4: building our songs together. So you know, we're just really
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  Speaker 4: excited to finally get the get the tunes out into
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  Speaker 4: the public. You know, like our fans have been asking
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  Speaker 4: for a recording for a while, so we've we're pretty
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  Speaker 4: cup to get it out there.
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  Speaker 3: Thank God, you haven't been playing live for over two
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  Speaker 3: years without releasing any music, So what was the thought
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  Speaker 3: process by that? Was that a deliberate thing? What did
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  Speaker 3: it just work out that way?
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  Speaker 4: It's been a slower process recording. We've worked with our
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  Speaker 4: engineer Lee Rolf and right in the middle of recording
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  Speaker 4: he you know, he moved house and moved his studio
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  Speaker 4: and it was pretty pretty well time just there for
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  Speaker 4: a little bit, so we were waiting for him to
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  Speaker 4: you know, finished moving, to finish off that stuff. But
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  Speaker 4: we really wanted to use him because he's I've got
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  Speaker 4: a great sound for like heavy music.
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  Speaker 2: So and he knows us, well, yeah, we've don't leave
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  Speaker 2: for a long time, so he's he's a he's a
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  Speaker 2: part of the furniture, really, isn't he?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Absolutely, But it means that we've had a lot
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  Speaker 4: of time to play live and you know, hoping a
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  Speaker 4: sound even more so we're looking forward to, you know,
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  Speaker 4: doing some more gigs.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of live, right on the streets, you guys are
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  Speaker 3: pretty damn good on stage. So run us through a
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  Speaker 3: typical code of live show and what people can expect
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  Speaker 3: if we come to see us.
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  Speaker 4: General awesomeness really like you know, I believe you know
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  Speaker 4: you know, for the record, I don't think Luke's done
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  Speaker 4: a show without with his shirt on yet, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a little bit inspired by you know, my shirt off.
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  Speaker 4: But but look, you know, looks looks a bit like
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  Speaker 4: I Pop. You know, you're gonna probably probably see some
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  Speaker 4: skin and some tats.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's it's high energy.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, although we although you know, we know
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  Speaker 2: our craft, we we do tend to get lost in
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  Speaker 2: the moment, you know, in a good way, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And there it's the crowd definitely fools, the yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: energy that that we exub that's for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Nowato City is also your debut release for your new label,
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  Speaker 3: X Music. So what sorts of things to sign it
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  Speaker 3: with a growing, austrained label like that open up for
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  Speaker 3: you guys.
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  Speaker 4: We're really excited to work with Tim. Yeah, he's been great.
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  Speaker 4: I think I'm working alongside the acts that are on
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  Speaker 4: the label too. We've done a few gigs now with
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  Speaker 4: the guys and they've they've got some fantastic bands and
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  Speaker 4: we're really looking forward to, you know, working working with
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  Speaker 4: him in the future. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually read it quite from Tim and the
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  Speaker 3: press release. He's a guy music in case anyone doesn't know.
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  Speaker 3: But he said, you, guys add a different dimension to
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  Speaker 3: ex music's family. You think that's a good thing. What
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  Speaker 3: does he mean by that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope the yeah probably references our music. Probably,
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  Speaker 4: you know, there's some you know, a different vibe about it,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I guess compared to the other bands, you know, hopefully, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he's referring to the epics of our bands.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't really have a bad bone in his body,
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  Speaker 3: that man, does he Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially coming from Tim as well. He's he's been
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  Speaker 2: in the game a long time. So to to have
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  Speaker 2: a comment like that from Tim, that's where that is
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  Speaker 2: a badge.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Now you started seeing standalone single guys, So she's part
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  Speaker 3: of a bigger picture.
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  Speaker 4: We've we've got another single coming out from maybe about
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  Speaker 4: six weeks after this one called Sorrow Down, and after
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  Speaker 4: that we've got the ep coming out so on the.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to check the date, twenty third November. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: twenty got in my head.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, no, nice, there's this song a good
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  Speaker 3: representation of what people can expect from or is it
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  Speaker 3: just sort of scratching the surface of what you got
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  Speaker 3: off us?
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  Speaker 4: Let's scratching the surface.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah, yeah, absolutely yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We can't wait to get back into the studio to
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  Speaker 2: record some of these the longer tracks that we've got.
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  Speaker 1: They really are journey tracks, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely yeah, Yeah, everyone's going to be a surprise.
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  Speaker 3: Mate. Then the meantime, is there any gigs or anything
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  Speaker 3: coming up where people.
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  Speaker 4: Can check you out?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, We've got the gig coming up at the Junkyard
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  Speaker 2: at Maitland that is on the September the twenty first.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm pretty sure that's a Sunday the twenty first. Yet,
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  Speaker 2: for anyone that knows the Green Junction at Maitland made,
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  Speaker 2: it's an institution. It's had some yeah, big acts run
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  Speaker 2: through there. We had our first gig there. Actually, I
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  Speaker 2: was going back probably two months ago now and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I was swooping bullets mate playing there, just because of
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  Speaker 2: the just all the posters on the wall and all
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  Speaker 2: the bands that have been through there. It was an
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  Speaker 2: absolute privilege to be here to have our name on
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  Speaker 2: that stage.
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  Speaker 1: Just for sure.
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  Speaker 3: I'll bet you something that too on that like looking
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  Speaker 3: around at all that shit before you actually go on stage,
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  Speaker 3: like it give you butterflies. But I'd have to pump
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  Speaker 3: you right up to, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, mate, absolutely, And I'm a local boy
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  Speaker 2: from you know, the Hunt Alley and and you know
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  Speaker 2: that that really is an institution, the Green Junction Hotel,
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  Speaker 2: the junk yard as I call it now, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: it's it's it's the place to be to be heard,
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  Speaker 2: that's for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Fantasty guys. Well, thanks for your time. It's been the
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  Speaker 3: project chatting with your chatter and sin is out this Friday.
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  Speaker 3: Actually is a bloody good song.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me what it's all about, Show me on your fusle.
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  Speaker 6: These sinks we can on living with.
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  Speaker 5: We are rolling sear junk is st.
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  Speaker 6: Ride all the time.
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  Speaker 5: Wait, shout hallo.
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  Speaker 7: Call tell me.
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  Speaker 8: What your own about, Show me your fas, tell me
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  Speaker 8: show you shot skills.
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  Speaker 5: I am just your tens.
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  Speaker 7: You down about our role, foolis.
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  Speaker 6: Down about our role, failings.
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  Speaker 7: Down the book you should hold.
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  Speaker 8: Unless we bend it for ourselves.
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  Speaker 5: Calling me in, calling me your cap, calling put your
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  Speaker 5: doll ball of five barrow, calling.
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  Speaker 9: Me calling me your cap, calling gout your dog all
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  Speaker 9: of five?
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  Speaker 7: Best me ride off the time, Wait said, call me.
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  Speaker 9: Tell me your own.
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  Speaker 10: Show me the opens. I was shout you on John
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  Speaker 10: Skin then Ajust your turn.
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  Speaker 3: To mm hmmmm.
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  Speaker 5: Mm hmmmmmmmm comming.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still comming.
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  Speaker 10: I'm still you keep calling my name just a file
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  Speaker 10: me coming.
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  Speaker 3: I'm still comming.
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  Speaker 5: I'm still you keep calling.
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  Speaker 3: My name just a file me.
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  Speaker 9: Comment. I'm still comment.
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  Speaker 8: I'm still your keep calling my name just a file me.
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  Speaker 5: Comming. I'm still comming.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still you keep calling my name.
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  Speaker 5: Stop calling me, stop calling me, stop calling me, stop
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  Speaker 5: hollow at me.
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  Speaker 9: I'm stop following me and I'm stop calling me.
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  Speaker 5: Don't stop all of me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm stop bothering me.
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  Speaker 10: If you stop down at me.
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  Speaker 8: If don't stop doubting me, if stop mother than me
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  Speaker 8: to stop.
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  Speaker 9: Dling me, It's gonna stop drilling me. Tell me what
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  Speaker 9: your are.
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  Speaker 6: About, Show me your preason, Holly, show you don't you scare?
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  Speaker 9: And I am just doing to so say sud slap
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  Speaker 9: s