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Getting To Know You With TOM & JACKSON From BLOODY RIPPER · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Today.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jackson. This is Tom Kunzi. We're from Bloody Ripper,
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  Speaker 2: a punk band from Melbourne. Our debut album I hardly
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  Speaker 2: know it's coming out today.
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful gentlemen, thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thanks for having us.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, as you mentioned, Bloody Ripper release your debut album,
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  Speaker 4: I hardly know her today Friday the thirteenth.
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  Speaker 3: So what are your expectations, guys?
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  Speaker 1: Ah, you know, it's just nice to get some music
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  Speaker 1: out there.
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  Speaker 2: Really been a band for a pretty long time, and
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  Speaker 2: we've done one EP before this, and yeah, just put
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  Speaker 2: a lot of work into this album, so it'd be
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  Speaker 2: nice to get some mus on it.
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  Speaker 4: So tell us more about the album from a musical
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  Speaker 4: point of view that and what you're going for with it.
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  Speaker 5: I mean like it's it's a pretty I mean widespread cuddalog.
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  Speaker 5: Some of the songs were written before I was even
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  Speaker 5: in the band, and then a few of them after
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  Speaker 5: I came. And it's just like, I don't know, for me,
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  Speaker 5: I look at it as like an homage to all
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  Speaker 5: the ship we used to listen to when we were younger.
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  Speaker 5: I kind of feel like that's how we approached it,
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  Speaker 5: and you know that kind of nostalgic, punky feeling, and.
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  Speaker 4: You released a single Pints so Far, So is that
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  Speaker 4: a good sonic representation?
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  Speaker 3: What do you expect?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that probably falls somewhere like in the middle ground.
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  Speaker 2: Like we've got some songs that are a bit lighter,
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  Speaker 2: bit more bluesy, and then we've got some that are
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  Speaker 2: pretty heavy as well. People ask us it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: what kind of do you play? And it's a hard
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  Speaker 2: question to answer, but it's a little bit of everything.
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  Speaker 4: And the film clip of that song too is a cracker,
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  Speaker 4: like it follows Shags trying to find love in a
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  Speaker 4: pub speed dating night, Like is it based on a
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  Speaker 4: true story?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Nah, it's just a fun idea. He came up with
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  Speaker 2: shoot the ship and came up with a pretty fun
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  Speaker 2: like I've just got a haircut, and they were all like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I've got to do something with something with the haircut.
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  Speaker 2: So we just made it like a kind of seventies theme,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a bit of fun really, and.
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  Speaker 3: I think fun fun is the key.
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  Speaker 4: Weren't there guys Like it looks like they're a lot
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  Speaker 4: of fun and it looks like you guys are a
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  Speaker 4: fun sort of band that don't take yourselves too seriously,
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  Speaker 4: Is that right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, definitely, Yeah, for sure that's the case. Like
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  Speaker 1: we're all mates.
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  Speaker 2: Before we were in the band, so it kind of
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  Speaker 2: just comes naturally to hang out and be friends and
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  Speaker 2: playing music together.
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  Speaker 4: Sort of getting harder and harder these days over the
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  Speaker 4: world becoming more sanitized to be yourselves, isn't it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean there's definitely an element in that
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  Speaker 5: in throughout the whole album really is like we were
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  Speaker 5: trying to get away from that kind of, as you said,
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  Speaker 5: sanitized style.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the world expects you to be something these days
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  Speaker 4: that hardly anyone really isn't.
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  Speaker 2: Think people have deciate's something that they can tell isn't
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  Speaker 2: bullshit as well? You know, it's not trying to be
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  Speaker 2: something it's not.
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  Speaker 4: The press release says I hardly know her explores the
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  Speaker 4: band's diverse musical range.
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  Speaker 3: So you touched on it before, but can you elaborate
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  Speaker 3: a bit further.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's like, I guess we all have overlaps with
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  Speaker 5: our styles and I guess our what's the word fucking,
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  Speaker 5: But they're the like that vendor pretty large parts out
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  Speaker 5: outside of it, which is a solely each individual band member,
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  Speaker 5: and I guess that's where that comes from, because like,
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  Speaker 5: I like stuff that's I probably the heaviest taste in
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  Speaker 5: the band. But I still like a lot of the
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  Speaker 5: stuff that these guys get down with, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: we're still consider them my inspiration as well. And I'm
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  Speaker 5: sure it's the same with Jackson, Like you know, it's
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  Speaker 5: it's all these different kind of tastes coming together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think we've ever tried to be like
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  Speaker 2: one sort of band. You know, We've had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people tell us over the years, like, oh, you
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  Speaker 2: probably do better if you're stuck to one one sort
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  Speaker 2: of type of music, But we just kind of have
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  Speaker 2: fun with it. We write all our songs mostly together
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  Speaker 2: in a room, jamming with each other, so like it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of whenever inspiration hits or someone plays the riff
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  Speaker 2: and we're like, oh that sounds cool, and jump on
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  Speaker 2: it and kind of put your own spin onto stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I know there's no song on the album called
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  Speaker 4: I Hardly Know Her, so implies it's deeper significance.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I just started saying it as a joke, but maybe
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  Speaker 2: six months ago or so, every time someone would say
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  Speaker 2: something ending in er to be like Buddy Ripper hardly
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  Speaker 2: know one mate, that's actually just from that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 3: Reading better.
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  Speaker 4: So going into your debut album, guys, like i'd had,
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  Speaker 4: the music industry these days, it's a lot different what
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  Speaker 4: it used to be. So, well, what's your thought process
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  Speaker 4: going into a debut album in the modern age?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like we.
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  Speaker 5: It just came into like it was kind of an
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  Speaker 5: element of let's just fucking get something on tape, you know,
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  Speaker 5: get something done, do that and see how it goes.
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  Speaker 5: We had like decent enough kind of expertise within the
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  Speaker 5: man and connections to not have to you know, go
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  Speaker 5: crazy with with budget or anything like that. But it
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  Speaker 5: was just like working on stuff ourselves, doing that and
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  Speaker 5: having a kind of cohesive piece of work that we
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  Speaker 5: could be proud of at the.
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  Speaker 4: End of it.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it'd be cool if it took off or whatever,
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  Speaker 5: like like seek we want to play big crowds, we
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  Speaker 5: want to do that kind of thing, but it's also
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  Speaker 5: nice just to.
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  Speaker 2: Have something out there. It was probably a bit more
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  Speaker 2: self indulgent than anything.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you have.
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  Speaker 4: Beat a had for about a decade and you're just
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  Speaker 4: getting your first full length out, So is that just circumstance?
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  Speaker 4: Is it you wait until you had songs you liked
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  Speaker 4: or was there any any reason it's taken.
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  Speaker 2: To Yeah, it's a bit of all of it really,
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  Speaker 2: Like Kunzi's our second drama, and we've had a couple
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  Speaker 2: of different bass players over the years, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: our styles definitely like evolved and grown. So like some
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  Speaker 2: of the songs we wrote first, we tried tried to
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  Speaker 2: record them. We didn't really know what we're doing, so
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  Speaker 2: we went super happy with them. So for the first yeah,
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  Speaker 2: probably we kind of just didn't put anything out because
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't up to the speck that we wanted. And
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  Speaker 2: then we just really we really worked on like our
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  Speaker 2: large show. We love playing live all the time. Like
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of our music for a long time,
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  Speaker 2: at least before this came off better live than it
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  Speaker 2: did recorded. So I think we finally just like figured
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  Speaker 2: out how we want to do it by ourselves, and
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  Speaker 2: how we want it to sound from our point of
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  Speaker 2: view and everything like that. So it's kind of just
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  Speaker 2: a build up of things over time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And how would you say, I hardly know how
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  Speaker 4: a difference music VIDIA twenty twenty two debut EP, L Spaceman.
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  Speaker 1: They're probably a lot more.
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  Speaker 2: Like the songs are a bit more evolved, Like L
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  Speaker 2: Spaceman was the first name of our band, so that
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  Speaker 2: kind of that EP is kind of like a homage
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  Speaker 2: to the older songs and the stuff that we just
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  Speaker 2: kind of wanted to get out of the back catalog
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  Speaker 2: so we could focus on.
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  Speaker 4: So someone someone's new to the band Bloody Ripper, give
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  Speaker 4: us three songs for him to listen to to get
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  Speaker 4: to know you a bit better.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, plants would be one, surely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I re Conpliants is probably a good one. The final
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  Speaker 2: song on the album, it's called unentitled. That's pretty cool one.
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  Speaker 1: I reckon.
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  Speaker 5: From the EPH maybe wasted or Reset that's a pretty
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  Speaker 5: cool one, yeah, from the EP?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, very cool. And have you got any shows coming
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  Speaker 3: up where people can catch your live?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got a aurbut launch this Saturday, fourteenth of
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  Speaker 2: December at Stay Gold in.
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  Speaker 5: Brunswick, Victoria, Australia.
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  Speaker 3: Where could people find out about that show? You gets
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  Speaker 3: find out more about a band?
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  Speaker 2: There's tickets on event bright or on the link in
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  Speaker 2: our Instagram bio. Like you'll see all the news of
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  Speaker 2: us posting stuff and all the stuff we're doing on
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  Speaker 2: our Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: Band Facebook as well. Yeah, and then.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got a gig on the first effeb of
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  Speaker 2: the retreat as well.
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  Speaker 4: Beatiful all right, guys, Well, thanks very much for a
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  Speaker 4: good time. The album I Hardly Know Her is out today.
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  Speaker 4: She's a decent slave of rock punk goodness guys, So
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  Speaker 4: congratulations and best of luck.