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Raw Aggression With STEFAN FEDELE From VERMANTICS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, guys doing on AM Stephan are playing the band
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  Speaker 1: ver Mantics, and I'm here chatting with Chris today Heavy mag.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, Chris, my pleasure.
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  Speaker 3: Makee good to see you again.
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  Speaker 2: You too, you too so.
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  Speaker 4: But Magic's released your most recent single, come Alive, back
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  Speaker 4: on April fourth, Mate, so that was just the audio
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  Speaker 4: at that stage.
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  Speaker 3: So how's the Englyer response been to it.
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  Speaker 2: It's been awesome, It's been awesome.
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  Speaker 1: We're super stoked to have that one out there and
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  Speaker 1: people are resonating with it really well, and it's heading
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  Speaker 1: the direction that we really want to be in as
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  Speaker 1: a band. So it's just exciting to have it out
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  Speaker 1: and I see what happens next, and.
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  Speaker 3: So tell us a bit more about the song from
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  Speaker 3: a musical point of view like that.
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  Speaker 4: The press release says that it's a more stripped back
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  Speaker 4: and raw approach than your previous releases.
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  Speaker 2: Do you agree, Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: The previous previous stuff we put out was a lot
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  Speaker 1: more produced and had a lot more effects, and it
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  Speaker 1: was just a bigger production, whereas this one is definitely
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  Speaker 1: more of the raw avenure and things are played you know,
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  Speaker 1: in real time, and the vocals haven't been tuned anymore,
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  Speaker 1: and the drums are played with no cutting. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all those things make a big difference, and it's heading
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  Speaker 1: in the way that we want to to head in.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, we're just like really excited to have that
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  Speaker 1: as our standard now and.
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  Speaker 2: Moving forward like this is where we're heading.
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  Speaker 4: So by that you mean that like you haven't polished
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  Speaker 4: anything in the studio and you haven't added any extra Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: this is basically what you'd sound like live.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just the live the live show, but recorded version.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to really get that out there and people
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  Speaker 1: that come to see us live can really like feel
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  Speaker 1: the same energy they feel from the recording.
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  Speaker 2: So big part of it is is that totally nice.
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  Speaker 4: Now Come Alive follows your previous single band So how
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  Speaker 4: does how does this song show a different side to
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  Speaker 4: your musical psyche?
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  Speaker 1: I guess I guess the big thing I had just
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  Speaker 1: mentioned was like the production of the song and where
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  Speaker 1: we're heading. I think that's that's been the biggest factor
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  Speaker 1: in the movement forward, and obviously just doing things that
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  Speaker 1: we want to do, I think, like listening to what
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  Speaker 1: we want to see happen and not having to listen
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  Speaker 1: to other people and just doing what we believe it
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  Speaker 1: is good is probably the biggest factor as well, just
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  Speaker 1: just sticking with what we want to want to do.
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  Speaker 4: I supposed to you it's a good point there, bro like,
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  Speaker 4: because you guys are a band on the rise. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you're get more and more popular with each song, so
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  Speaker 4: you'd be at the stage now where people would be
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  Speaker 4: coming in and trying to tell you what you should
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  Speaker 4: sound like and what you should do. So being able
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  Speaker 4: to maintain your own individual out there, I guess it's probably.
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  Speaker 1: Be a big thing, massive thing, I feel like, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I guess it happens in music where people can opinions
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  Speaker 1: and you can obviously take it of course, and there's
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  Speaker 1: times where I think we're just going to stick to
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  Speaker 1: what we believe is who we are and that's and
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  Speaker 1: that's a big, big factor for us, big moment for
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  Speaker 1: us now to just stick at that and believe in
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  Speaker 1: what we're doing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Now, we mentioned before you release the audio to
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  Speaker 4: Come Alive back in early April, but the music video
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  Speaker 4: is pepiereing today, very heavy and it's out to the
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  Speaker 4: general population tomorrow on the eighteenth of April.
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  Speaker 3: Weights. So what was the thought process. By doing that, I.
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  Speaker 1: Guess just keeping the single like you know, on its
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  Speaker 1: own on Spotify, ar, giving that a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: to go through and get people to really listen to
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  Speaker 1: the song itself, and just get all the streams through
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  Speaker 1: that way, and then I guess continue that the hype
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  Speaker 1: and have the video come out a couple of weeks later,
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  Speaker 1: just yet to continue the process of the hype and
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  Speaker 1: get people keen.
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  Speaker 4: It does make sense from a marketing point of view,
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  Speaker 4: you know, because like bands put all their eggs in
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  Speaker 4: one basket and they dropped the video and the song
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  Speaker 4: on the same day, and that's it, like all the
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  Speaker 4: build up going. But now you sort of by releasing
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  Speaker 4: the song first, people can listen to it without the
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  Speaker 4: distraction of the video, appreciate it a lot more, and
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  Speaker 4: then digest it in a different way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, totally, that's that's literally, that was the mindset for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And just yet keep keeps the flowing and more things
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  Speaker 1: coming up, which which is always exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Not just put all that at one.
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  Speaker 4: Go nice and to tell us about the music video
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  Speaker 4: and how it relates to the subject matter of the song.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we actually did, Like we we work with our
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  Speaker 1: mate Alex Scapins, who's actually an adelaide and I've been
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  Speaker 1: good friends with him for a long time. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we just like come up with this concept that really
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  Speaker 1: felt like that captured the vibe of the song.
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  Speaker 2: Did it at night time?
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  Speaker 1: There's a flash one one camera, one flash, and just
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  Speaker 1: like we're in a circle just playing the track, trying
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  Speaker 1: that raw energy across and that emotion coming through the
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  Speaker 1: visuals as well. And yeah, it was pretty straightforward type
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  Speaker 1: of video, but that's what we went for. We just
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  Speaker 1: went for like just four guys playing in the dark
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  Speaker 1: pretty much with a flash and the camera in a
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  Speaker 1: circle in the park lands and just trying to really
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  Speaker 1: get across what the meeting of the song is through that.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose to defeat the purpose if you had a
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  Speaker 4: big production, Yeah, wouldn't like you try and have a
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  Speaker 4: raw striped back sound and then your bells and whistles
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  Speaker 4: in the video just wouldn't work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, Yeah, yeah, big factor.
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  Speaker 1: We're just keeping it to relate with the song and
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  Speaker 1: just keep it super super straightforward and not too complicated.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Nice. I mean it's come of live a stand alone
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  Speaker 4: single made or is it part of a bigger album
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  Speaker 4: picture part.
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  Speaker 1: Of a bigger, bigger picture. Yeah, there's there's more more
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  Speaker 1: coming with it. This is the first, the first track
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  Speaker 1: off of that batch of songs. So yeah, it's excited
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  Speaker 1: to have this one out. I feel like it really
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  Speaker 1: like sets the tone for what's next. Every song has
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  Speaker 1: their individualities, like they had their own sort of you know,
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  Speaker 1: feature and stuff, but this one's a good one to
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  Speaker 1: set it off.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, it's exciting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And then there's a whole album going to be done in
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  Speaker 4: a similar vein like the raw, so a live type feel.
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  Speaker 1: Or yeah, definitely, it's all all recorded in that in
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  Speaker 1: that way, they will just have their own sort of
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  Speaker 1: like yeah, sort of spins and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But this one, yeah, definitely sets a tone for sure.
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  Speaker 4: And can you tell us what the title of the
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  Speaker 4: album is going to be or when it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be at I can?
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you it's there's no exact date right now,
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  Speaker 1: but it's called The Pictures You Paint and you're the
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  Speaker 1: first to hear it. Yeah, it's an EP, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that will be dropping in some time.
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  Speaker 4: Nice And is that going to be a theme of
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  Speaker 4: the EP The Pictures You Paint? Or is that just
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  Speaker 4: a song on there, that's.
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  Speaker 2: The that's the EP theme.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's that's the line from one of the
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  Speaker 1: other tracks on the EP, and yeah, they're they're all
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  Speaker 1: in that direction of of raw and you can say
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  Speaker 1: real as well. It's everything's just played you know, as
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  Speaker 1: it is live. So that's that's the biggest that's the
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  Speaker 1: biggest point we're trying to get across with the EP
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  Speaker 1: and all the next stuff and obviously come alive too.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, right, speaking of Libra, you've got to show
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  Speaker 4: you coming up at the Old Bar in Melbourne on
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  Speaker 4: April twenty four, so tell us about that one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good music online in Melbourne.
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  Speaker 1: Those guys put on some hiller nights at the Old
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  Speaker 1: Bar and other venues in Melbourne. So I'm in the
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  Speaker 1: nineties alternative DJ night with a few bands on it
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  Speaker 1: and we obviously playing on that one. And yeah, right
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  Speaker 1: before Public Holiday, so if you're in Melbourne, that's the
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  Speaker 1: place to go to that on that date.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, it's a couple of days before we head
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  Speaker 2: to the UK.
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  Speaker 1: So it's going to be exciting to get out there
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  Speaker 1: and play that right before we head off.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, super keen for it.
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  Speaker 3: Tell us more about the UK. Bros. Is your first
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  Speaker 3: international tour.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's our first time sorry as a full band
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  Speaker 1: heading over to the UK, So we're really excited to
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  Speaker 1: see where it goes. And obviously the live music culture
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  Speaker 1: there is massive and we're just super excited to be
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  Speaker 1: in it and see it from play those shows throughout
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  Speaker 1: London and Brandon on the coast. So yeah, all round,
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  Speaker 1: really excited for it and decided to take the next
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  Speaker 1: steps for the band and see where it goes from the.
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  Speaker 4: And at ended a band like how do you approach
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  Speaker 4: your first international to all ideas? I do you do
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  Speaker 4: you call around and ask people who've been there before
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  Speaker 4: what to expect or how to behave or do you.
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  Speaker 3: Just go in there and wing it and do your best?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a bit of everything, really, like making friends and
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  Speaker 1: chatting to people. We went there last year, myself, my
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  Speaker 1: brother went a couple of times last year, did a
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  Speaker 1: few acoustic shows there and just a few smaller things
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  Speaker 1: and it was really cool to get the vibe and
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  Speaker 1: now it's time to take the whole band. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just networking with people that we know and taking some
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  Speaker 1: advice from that. But it's obviously been a big goal
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  Speaker 1: of ours to get over there for the last few years.
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  Speaker 1: COVID back then didn't really help that. Obviously we're just
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  Speaker 1: stuck in Melbourne's writing music. But it's been the big
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  Speaker 1: part of the you know, the band's goal since we started,
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  Speaker 1: I guess. So it's really excited to find it, like,
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  Speaker 1: have it happening in two weeks. It feels like big
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  Speaker 1: of a bit of an achievement for us. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're just really excited to see where it takes us,
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  Speaker 1: what takes us next, and yeah, all around good vibes.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Said. If people want to keep up with ro Manticks
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  Speaker 4: and find out what you're doing, where you're doing and
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  Speaker 4: what you're selling, where do they go?
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  Speaker 1: You can head to romantics dot com. It's got all
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  Speaker 1: the socials linked on there.
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  Speaker 2: All the two day it's on there.
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  Speaker 1: There's merch on there, there's a mailing list, there's everything
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  Speaker 1: through that site. So romantics dot com has it all
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  Speaker 1: and obviously all the socials were pretty active, so you've
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  Speaker 1: bet to find stuff on there as well. Hi.
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  Speaker 4: But in the meantime, the music video for Come Alive
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  Speaker 4: is out today, premiering by Heavy.
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  Speaker 3: It's out on Friday, the eighteenth of April everywhere else mate,
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  Speaker 3: So best to like with it. And lets say when
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  Speaker 3: you come up to Bridgie you we'll catch up for
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  Speaker 3: a beer.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely thanks having me, man, really appreciate your time.