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Generations Deep And Still Loud: SKUNKHOUR Hit The Road · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Lots of fun. So welcome to Heavy Mag.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. Thanks for having us.
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  Speaker 3: You're obviously, as good listeners and viewers know, that you
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  Speaker 3: are part of the all-time good band Skunk Hour, which
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  Speaker 3: you guys have been around, feels like forever now. That's
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  Speaker 3: just showing my age. So when did you guys formally start?
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  Speaker 2: 90-something, wasn't it? Yeah, early 90s. Yeah. 92, we first
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  Speaker 2: got together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then we... Borrowed some money from someone who had
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  Speaker 2: an uncle who had a 10K we could borrow from him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, always good.
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  Speaker 2: Did a formal document. We did an album pretty quickly
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  Speaker 2: after forming.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got that out on an indie label. We
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  Speaker 2: started our own whatever, you call it, some freaking fantastical name.
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  Speaker 2: We called it Beast Records and then we got it. Nice. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and we got a distribution deal through what was then
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  Speaker 2: called ID Records, which is an arm of Polygram, which
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  Speaker 2: is now Universal. And then from there, yeah, we got
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  Speaker 2: a bit of cut through and, yeah, went from there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I made some traction pretty quick after that.
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  Speaker 3: So you guys certainly have done the rounds of Australia
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  Speaker 3: and overseas by now and very well known and very
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  Speaker 3: well loved and, Yeah, you guys are doing a, is
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  Speaker 3: it an anniversary tour that you're doing now or is
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  Speaker 3: it just because?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not an anniversary. We're calling it the Back
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  Speaker 2: to Basics Tour. We're getting to some places that we
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  Speaker 2: haven't been for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Back to Basics is one of the songs off that
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  Speaker 2: first album.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We're getting around, we're doing 14 different towns and cities.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent.
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  Speaker 2: The second album that's coming up now this weekend, we're
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  Speaker 2: doing South East Queensland and Byron Bay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. It's been a while since you guys have.
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  Speaker 2: story from Lismore.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's where the band was formed.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's fallen back into Sydney because we all went, when
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  Speaker 2: the band broke up in 2001, in the subsequent years
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  Speaker 2: to that, we kind of spread. to the four corners
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  Speaker 2: of Australia and the globe. I moved to America. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I tried my hand there in LA, which was great. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then guitarists went to South Australia. Other guys went
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  Speaker 2: back up to the far north coast. Yeah. But we're
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  Speaker 2: all back in Sydney now, which makes it a lot
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  Speaker 2: easier with all the travel.
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  Speaker 1: It would. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Zoom is only so good for rehearsals so far, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We even had a– we've got a killer drummer now.
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  Speaker 2: Like there's four original members.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: My brother Del, who's the MC, and then Dean, the
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  Speaker 2: bass player, Dean Sullivan, Warwick Scott, the guitarist. But we've
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  Speaker 2: got some fantastic new members. Yeah. One of those guys
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  Speaker 2: is a drummer, Carlos Adura, of Chilean descent, who's an
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  Speaker 2: absolute gun. Yeah. We took him on even though he
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  Speaker 2: was living in the Gold Coast.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And we would just fly him to Sydney before every
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  Speaker 2: tour and we would rehearse and then bounce out of
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  Speaker 2: there and then he'd go back to the Gold Coast
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  Speaker 2: and we'd kind of, you know, we'd have to play,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've got to play whatever, Adelaide. So we'd
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  Speaker 2: just fly him to there and us to there and
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  Speaker 2: everyone would go back their separate ways. We'd just converge
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  Speaker 2: on whichever place we're playing. But now he's in Sydney
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  Speaker 2: as well because... Yeah, he's a single man. Look out, ladies.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Chilean. Spicy. Spicy. We like them spicy.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Gold Coast is– I'm right on the border of
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  Speaker 3: northern New South Wales and Gold Coast, so it's definitely
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  Speaker 3: the best part.
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  Speaker 2: Of the world. I'm not going to lie. It's a
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  Speaker 2: fantastic part of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We always enjoy coming up there. This is always the
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  Speaker 2: best leg of any tour when you get to go.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a while since you've done like Cooley. I
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  Speaker 3: thought you– I can't even remember. Yeah, I think you
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  Speaker 3: vaguely may have been in the 90s, some late 90s,
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  Speaker 3: I think, maybe early 2000s.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's been a long time.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the last time you guys were planning
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  Speaker 3: to do a show with Catch and Dave on Resin
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  Speaker 3: Docs in Byron, but that didn't happen for various reasons
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  Speaker 3: with yourselves and them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of stuff going on. Yeah. between the guys. So.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I work with them.
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  Speaker 3: That's my other, when I'm not doing a heavy, I
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  Speaker 3: help run the labels.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you know, what they do.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, but yeah, again, that, and that was, I was
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  Speaker 3: really looking forward to that, that back room. So again,
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  Speaker 3: the good old back room of Byron Bay, it's seen some,
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  Speaker 3: he's got some stories.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're playing, we've always played the great Northern, but
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  Speaker 2: now on this one, we're doing the arts factory.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Again, we haven't played since the nineties. Yeah. Um, someone's
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  Speaker 2: resurrected it and they're doing good shows there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. There's been a few.
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  Speaker 3: Recently at the old arts factory, which they used to
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  Speaker 3: have the piggery back in the day and a few
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  Speaker 3: of those around.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a local, you know. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then.
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  Speaker 1: Like the playroom.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, the playroom. Fuck, we played the playroom.
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  Speaker 1: That was some great.
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  Speaker 2: We played the playroom and then we were staying. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: A little ways up the road on the main drag. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There was a motel, and it was a horseshoe-shaped motel,
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  Speaker 2: the classic, you know, horseshoe motel with a pool in
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  Speaker 2: the middle.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And Del and I were sharing a bedroom, and in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the night, each had a single bed
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  Speaker 2: on each side of the room. In the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the night, Del went, Aya, Aya, wake up. And I
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  Speaker 2: woke up, and I'm lying on my back, and I
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  Speaker 2: look down at the bottom of the bed, and there's
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  Speaker 2: this figure just slumped, just sitting on the bed like
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  Speaker 2: that in the dark. there's a person, there's a guy
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  Speaker 2: just sitting in the dark on the edge of my bed.
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  Speaker 1: That's terrifying.
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  Speaker 2: In the dark, in the shadows. And I just flicked
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  Speaker 2: on the light and just jumped up and made myself
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  Speaker 2: as big as I can. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing, man?
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  Speaker 2: Fuck you. And, like, you know, probably only got, like,
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  Speaker 2: boxer shorts on or something. And I'm just freaking out,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and turn the light on and there's this
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  Speaker 2: guy and he's drunk. Like, I thought it was something
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  Speaker 2: sinister or in the dark.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is fucking weird.
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  Speaker 2: And then... He's just this drunk guy, like, swaying.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, the sways.
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  Speaker 2: He's gone into the wrong room. It's got all those
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  Speaker 2: sliding door rooms and a horseshoe motel around it. And
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  Speaker 2: this guy's wandered home off his face. And he ended
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  Speaker 2: up in our room trying to take his shoes off
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  Speaker 2: on my bed, thinking he's about to go to bed.
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  Speaker 2: He would have got a shock.
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  Speaker 1: What a rude surprise if he laid down. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, that's the last one. Playroom.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's a car park now. It's sad.
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  Speaker 2: Lovely. Tony Mitchell would have something to say about that.
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  Speaker 3: So what are some of your most memorable moments, I guess,
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  Speaker 3: from touring around the globe that you can say legally,
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  Speaker 3: I guess?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. That's a good qualifier. We had some great times
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  Speaker 2: in Europe. Yeah. Turning up for our second tour of Europe,
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  Speaker 2: we were headlining because our first tour of Europe we
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  Speaker 2: were supporting an English band that had a good profile. um,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, pulling into like, um, into Milan or, um,
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  Speaker 2: Lawrence and, and seeing his queue down the, down the
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  Speaker 2: street and wondering who that was for and then realizing
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  Speaker 2: it was for us. Wow. Yeah. That second tour where
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  Speaker 2: we started to kind of pull like 1000 per show,
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  Speaker 2: which is really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That was great. Um, the, the early, um, What
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  Speaker 2: was the name of Brandon Saul's first festival that he
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  Speaker 2: did in Byron?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, was it Homebake, something like that, or Byron 95?
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  Speaker 3: It was like a New Year's Eve festival.
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  Speaker 2: It was like 94, but it was like.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Byron 95, it was like a New Year's Eve
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  Speaker 3: festival at Boulangerie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then there was Homebake and then.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was.
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  Speaker 1: Just Byron Bay Music Fest, I think it was called originally.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was. And that was the precursor
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  Speaker 2: to the well-known, what was the one that was huge
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  Speaker 2: for years there?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Not on Blues Fest.
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  Speaker 2: No, the other one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, there was Splendour and then there was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Splendour.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, which was not Byron Bay. It was actually
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  Speaker 3: just with the young Pottsville.
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  Speaker 1: Just down the road. It ended up. They called it
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  Speaker 1: Byron Bay. I'm like, no, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: First.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Splendour.
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  Speaker 2: They had Powderfinger. Yeah. Headlining one night and we headlined
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  Speaker 2: the other night. It was a two day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, nice.
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  Speaker 2: And huge crowd. Yeah. And then it started raining.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That was a great one.
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  Speaker 1: I vividly remember.
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  Speaker 2: That was your memory. And then another time playing to
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  Speaker 2: like five people in Wyala and the in-house, the production
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  Speaker 2: that they supplied was so bad.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: That I dismantled. I was so upset with my wedges,
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  Speaker 2: my monitor wedges, because they were just squeaking and squawking
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  Speaker 2: at me. Oh, no. Shit. And I just dismantled the
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  Speaker 2: whole thing while I was singing. I dismantled the whole
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  Speaker 2: thing and just put it all down on the floor.
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  Speaker 2: It's like five people in this, you know, for those
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  Speaker 2: kids who are supposed to do to help us get
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  Speaker 2: around the country in between the big cities.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That was me having a tantrum about monitors.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough.
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  Speaker 2: Launching myself at a punter who threw a beer bottle
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  Speaker 2: at our bass player in Victor Harbour. Yeah. And landing
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  Speaker 2: on top of him, which was good. So he used
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  Speaker 2: the barricade and launched out to him. That was fun. Oh, God.
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  Speaker 2: And then, yeah, we've been fortunate that we've played a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah what would have been good is he picked the
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  Speaker 3: beer bottle up and just started doing a slide with
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  Speaker 3: it on the base.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah no.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah so i can imagine you guys have had some
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  Speaker 3: epic memories.
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  Speaker 2: We we michael chug asked us to support he's a
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  Speaker 2: great promoter from the 80s and 90s yeah and a
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  Speaker 2: great bloke um and big figure in the australian music
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  Speaker 2: industry he He liked us. He didn't really understand us,
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  Speaker 2: but he liked us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys were a bit before your time, weren't you?
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  Speaker 1: Definitely unique.
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  Speaker 2: And Ice Cube was coming out from NWA and supported
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  Speaker 2: by Cypress Hill.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, wow.
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  Speaker 2: That's massive. He said, I want you guys on the bill.
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  Speaker 2: And he kind of really pressured. And we're going, mate,
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  Speaker 2: we're not hip-hop. We have an MC. We're not hip-hop.
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  Speaker 2: We've got all these other things going on. We're a
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  Speaker 2: live band. We're a singer. Yeah. And so we go
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  Speaker 2: on and there's all these kids, hardcore, diehard hip-hop kids,
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  Speaker 2: Gordon Pavillion, thousands of people, you know, 5,000, whatever it is. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And they're looking at us, come on, with this kind
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  Speaker 2: of weird fusion kind of thing. And they just start
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  Speaker 2: throwing shit. And they threw for the whole 30 minutes
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  Speaker 2: we played. Like batteries, coins. Oh, no. Anything small and heavy.
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  Speaker 2: And the first night we were like, fuck, this is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: The second night we were kind of like doing the,
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  Speaker 2: what's the thing from The Matrix, you know, we were
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  Speaker 2: doing the dodging.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Going and kind of got into it and that was
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  Speaker 2: pretty fun. There was a lot of weed being smoked
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  Speaker 2: backstage at that gig. Oh, yeah. The amount of weed,
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  Speaker 2: Ice Cube and Cypress Hill's dressing room was insane. It
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  Speaker 2: was just like a full pall of smoke just hanging up.
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  Speaker 1: Up in smoke.
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  Speaker 2: From like.
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  Speaker 3: You'd have been stoned just from being backstage.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine if Snoop Dogg had entered the building as well.
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  Speaker 3: It would just be off-cap. It would have been wild.
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  Speaker 3: That is, yeah, I can imagine. So, yes, it's a
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  Speaker 3: shame they didn't just chill the rest of the audience out.
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  Speaker 1: That would have been nice. Just go with the flow, dude.
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  Speaker 1: Get in the zone.
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  Speaker 2: Good humour and by the end of it we won
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  Speaker 2: a few of them over but Yeah, no. We shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: ever have been on that bill.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it would be interesting to see, you know,
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  Speaker 3: from that time, you know, those kids being exposed to
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  Speaker 3: yourselves for the first time and how many of them
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  Speaker 3: are still fans and, you know, went from there to
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  Speaker 3: follow on. You know, stranger things have happened, I always say.
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  Speaker 2: There were some great Aussie hip-hop bands that should have
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  Speaker 2: been on that bill. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Aussie hip-hop, you know, I really think it's underrated.
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  Speaker 3: Like, you know, it's... You know, being fortunate enough to
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  Speaker 3: work in the circles that I have, you know, these
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  Speaker 3: kids are doing it now. It's like, bro, this guy's
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  Speaker 3: been doing it 30 years well before you, you know. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's definitely earned its place and, you know, they are incredible.
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  Speaker 3: And I love, two things I love is metal and
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  Speaker 3: rap and hip-hop and when they fuse together, perfection.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the goodness lies.
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  Speaker 2: The greatest show I've ever seen or the most impactful
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  Speaker 2: show I've ever seen was Rage Against the Machine. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my signature song.
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  Speaker 2: The guy who was their engineer, they had limiters on
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  Speaker 2: the front of house system so that nobody could go
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  Speaker 2: beyond a certain noise limit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Output. But the guy from Ray James' machine, they brought
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  Speaker 2: their own engineer. He had bolt cutters and he cut
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  Speaker 2: the things that are open that are. So it's like
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  Speaker 2: a plane or one of those plastics. casings yeah cut
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  Speaker 2: it and he got in there and he ripped all
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  Speaker 2: the limiters off and so they were playing like it
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  Speaker 2: was like nick cave was on that gear we're about
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  Speaker 2: to be on that okay this.
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  Speaker 1: Is in we're about to be in sydney in.
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  Speaker 2: Sydney at the show at this old showground yeah and
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  Speaker 2: yeah like bjork was on that tricky the hip-hop trip-hop
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  Speaker 2: artist was on that all kinds of great bands it's
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  Speaker 2: a phenomenal lineup um and yeah nick cave and then
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  Speaker 2: i was raging in this machine and they went The
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  Speaker 2: volume would have been here all day, you know, about 65%.
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  Speaker 2: And they got it to like 95%. The whole thing
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  Speaker 2: just went boom. Oh, my God. And the whole fucking place,
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  Speaker 2: like from everybody from the stands or to the back.
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  Speaker 1: You could just see the wave go through the crowd.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a wave of energy that just rushed in.
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  Speaker 2: And it was 50% louder than the previous thing. And
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  Speaker 2: they were absolutely incendiary in terms of their performances. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then Soundgarden had to come on after them, which
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  Speaker 2: was impossible. Like you couldn't match up.
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  Speaker 1: What a lineup. That's sensational.
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  Speaker 2: Like poor Soundgarden because you don't want to follow Rage
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  Speaker 2: Against the Machine. It doesn't matter who you are. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: but they still played well, but yeah, Rage Against the
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  Speaker 2: Machine was incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're iconic.
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  Speaker 3: That would be a nice one to see get back
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  Speaker 3: together and do a tour, but I'm highly down it's
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  Speaker 3: going to happen. They're timeless. Absolutely timeless. Phenomenal band. But yeah, that's,
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  Speaker 3: I know there was stories, I was reading a post
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  Speaker 3: not that long back and it was about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the loudest band that you'd ever heard and all these
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  Speaker 3: people commenting and I forget who it was. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if it was Rage or it might have been some,
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  Speaker 3: whether it was Metallica, but whatever.
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  Speaker 1: It was, they actually cracked the stage when they were playing.
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  Speaker 1: It was just insane. It was just that loud. It
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  Speaker 1: was crazy.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's like last year when I was at Z50,
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  Speaker 3: I was at the front and when the guys come
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: on and because the whole day was great but they
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: just cranked it up and the triangles were like rattling
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: off the front of the stage and there's something in
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: the media trying to prop them up and take photos
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: at the same time but yeah that was good so
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: that's the new challenge for Z51 is if you can
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: rattle the triangles off the stage you're.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: In that's the litmus.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: Test absolutely but yeah no it's so um you know
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: with the you know yourselves with the crowds over the
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: years have you seen you know obviously you know some
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: of your favorites you've come back and But have you seen,
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: you know, you've got some new young fans that are
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: in there as well or is it next?
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Which is remarkable. Yeah. Some of the shows, especially in
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Sydney and Melbourne.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: And a bit in Adelaide where we're getting a big
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: dose of young people.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: I think it's a full generational jump to kids who,
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: had been exposed to their parents listening to it. And
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: then what they've done is they've gone out to other mates.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Have you heard this? And then you're creating this, getting
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: this little, this little cohorts coming along.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I guess it's a bit like, you know, us
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: listening to the doors and violent fames, like when we
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: were teenagers and you know, that same sort of trend.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. You go into your parents' record collection and
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: you're like, what the fuck's this? And some diehards. Like
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: we've got a whole lot of young people who come
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: to our shows and know Literally, we can pull out
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: a song that we haven't played.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: It's an album track.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Albums.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: And they will know every lyric.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: That's crazy, isn't it? It's wild.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's really, it's a good feeling.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, then you have those
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: pockets of goodness too.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: You might find yourself on a Spotify playlist somewhere that
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: randomly that, you know, the kid's like, oh, my God,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: have you heard this new song? And they think it's
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: new and it's like, yeah, it's a dull bit. You
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: see that happen quite a lot and it always makes
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: me giggle.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: The technology does sometimes have its good sides and I
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: think that's one of them where you can just really
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: see that it just doesn't make sense otherwise.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: It's like, how do you know this? Yeah.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: And so have you guys got any new music that
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: you've been working on or plan to?
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Well, we released new music about two, three years ago. Yeah.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: And so of those, there was an EP and, Of
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: that four-song, four-track EP, we do three of those songs,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: three of those new songs in our set. And they are,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: you know, amongst the strongest songs in the set. So
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: that's a good thing to happen when you've been able
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: to kind of get back together and create stuff. That
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: kind of re-energised the band and it gave us something
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: to talk about then. Yeah. I've got, you know, I've got...
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Got the piano here, there.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Oh, lovely. I've got this behind me over there. It's
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: my wall of bases. So it's a nice little in-home studio.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: On Sunday, we're working on something that I think could
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: be good for the band. Yeah, nice. It's hard to–
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: we carved out a bunch of time a few years
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: ago to make something happen. Yeah. And it'll just be
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: a matter of fighting the time to get a whole
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: lot of people together who have, you know, other lives. Yeah.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: But yeah, there's still ideas being shared. And we refresh
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: the set as well with variations here and there without
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: bastardising too many songs. But yes, there's a degree of
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: creativity coming in each time we play.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nice.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: I know, I think it was Dave McCormack when I
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: was chatting with him not long back, he's to pick
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: out their set list and how they do it.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: They just go to the most.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Popular songs and they pick them and then the next
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: night they might run them backwards and they just do
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: it like that, just mix it up and whatever comes out.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: So that's a nice way to do it. Hit the
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: crowds happy, give them their faves. It's plenty of ways
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: to do it. And then Midnight Earl one time had
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: all their hits on a chocolate wheel and they spun it,
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: whatever it landed on, they just played. Yeah, that was
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: a great, great show. That was our 2000 watt RSL tour.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: I think it was back in.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Oh shit. 98. I think it might've been.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: We might've been on that.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: That was, um, we did a tour with them around that. Yeah.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: It was, yeah.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: It's just 20,000 watt RSL tour.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: That was the one that that was.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: And I think there was this great band from Tasmania
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: and I'm trying to forget that they're playing their dries,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: the bones, the hat cowboy hats, and they were bloody great. And, um,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: They're an obscure band, but it slipped me off the
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: top of my mind what their name was, but they
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: were sensational. Yes.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: The Good Old Days. That would have been great. You
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: guys are on the same bill as they were. You
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: and Peter, I swear, are ageless. You've got that fountain
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: of youth.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I want me some of that.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: You got me up at the end of the last–
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I kind of dropped a few hints. Yeah. They got
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: me up for the last four shows to sing Beds
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Are Burning with them.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, nice. That would have been great. That would have
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: been cool.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Definitely highlight.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's, that's a great job. Those people on that
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: stage playing. Yeah.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: No, definitely.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: I think you would be our first call if I
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: ever needed a replacement or a doppelganger.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, we'll just slip you in. I'm
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: sure no one will even notice.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Give me some stilts.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He is crazy tall.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: I'm, Remember not so long back watching like the original videos.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: I think it was of, I don't know if it
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: was beds are burning or it might've been power and passion.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I think it was power and passion. Like that video
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: clip is just off tap.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: He looks like slender man. I'm like, no kidding. Like
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: he pours parts of it. And it's like.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Wild. It is our uni days for now.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Good stuff.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: The good stuff indeed. Well, thank you so much for
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: coming and having a chat with us today at heavy.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Where I'll be seeing you guys Thursday night, which is
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: kind of cool because nothing much happens on a Thursday,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: strangely enough, you know, good old cooling ghetto.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Thursday the 15th at Cooley Hotel.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I'll rattle off the other ones.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, do, because that was my next question.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: What are the next dates?
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Friday the 16th at Norton Music Factory, Caloundra.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay, yep.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Saturday the 17th at Crowbar in Brisbane.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Nice, yep.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: And the 18th, the Sunday... The Arts Factory, Byron Bay.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, nice, nice. So Sunday back in Byron.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then we're playing Sydney at Felons.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, nice.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: There's a big venue down there now, which is going
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: really well. We're playing there. Yeah. We're playing there Friday
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: the 30th of October.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, spooky time. Proud to be one.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Melbourne shows later on.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Offs Harbour at the end of the run in November.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Nice.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: And also Pacific Palms where we finish up in Pacific Palms. Excellent. Nice.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Thanks for having us.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can catch all those deets on the link
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: that we'll chuck on at the end of this. And
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: I will be seeing you guys up and close in
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: the pit on Thursday.