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Too Old For TikTok, Too Loud For Silence: LORD OF THE LOST Head Down Under · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You guys are just finishing off your US tour and
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to come down Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, two more dates left, and we were really looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to go to down Under. We've been down Under
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  Speaker 2: somehow on the Southern Hemisphere already in South America, but
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  Speaker 2: we've never been to the to the down Under touring. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so it's going to be the first time for all
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  Speaker 2: of us.
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  Speaker 1: Nice, so you've been out individually, just be sales or
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: none of you have been here at all.
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  Speaker 2: And actually we're super excited because this is our second
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  Speaker 2: try that we needed to scheduled one or one and a
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: half years ago or something, and then we the classical
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  Speaker 2: thing happened, like some weird promoter like disappearing with the
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  Speaker 2: ticket money. Then we found the guys from Hardline actually
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  Speaker 2: believing and trusting in us and doing these shows with
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  Speaker 2: us and giving us the opportunity to do this tour
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  Speaker 2: with super thankful, excited, and we're looking forward to summer
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  Speaker 2: because we had like a real real cold winter here
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  Speaker 2: we were in Canada. The lowest was minus twenty five degrees.
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  Speaker 2: We saw snow for three weeks straight every day, which
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  Speaker 2: is amazing. I love.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, it's just cutting in and out. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure what.
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  Speaker 2: They go whatever, that's the internet problem.
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  Speaker 3: Before we coming down to minus temperatures is not idea.
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  Speaker 2: We had to get snow, snow, snow for three weeks
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  Speaker 2: and minus temperatures. So we're really looking forward to some
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  Speaker 2: late Australian summer.
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  Speaker 3: But sure it's not too too hot. So you said
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  Speaker 3: it was minus twenty.
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  Speaker 4: Minus twenty five was the coldest we measured in Montreal
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  Speaker 4: and Canada.
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  Speaker 3: That's just a hard note for me. That's so that's cold.
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  Speaker 1: My partners in Japan at the moment snowboarding and it's
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  Speaker 1: like minus eleven, you know, the top for most days,
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  Speaker 1: and there's terrible weather coming and I'm like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to go with you. I'm happy to stay here
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  Speaker 1: with myself. It's yeah, I don't do it all very well,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah you'll you're loving it.
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  Speaker 3: It's nice.
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  Speaker 1: It's not not having to Some of us summers a
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  Speaker 1: ridiculously hot, but so far it's been bearabook, So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we brat. So you guys doing to so the major cities,
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  Speaker 1: so anywhere in between. What's your lineup look like for
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  Speaker 1: down Under?
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  Speaker 2: It's just work, work work, really, We like we it's
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  Speaker 2: it's it's sad. Actually, we're going to go to Australia
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  Speaker 2: and we're not going to see anything because we will
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  Speaker 2: arrive the night before the first show. Then we play
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  Speaker 2: a show, we fly every day to the next show,
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  Speaker 2: and then we directly fly back because it's just in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the US tour and the European tour
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  Speaker 2: and we need a little time at home. So I
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  Speaker 2: really hope that next time we come back we have
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  Speaker 2: a it's gonna happen. It's a little more relaxed. I
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  Speaker 2: was scheduled for us so we can actually spend three
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  Speaker 2: or four days somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, a lot of artists like to have
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  Speaker 1: a bit of time they come down. I need to
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  Speaker 1: see the under drop bears and all the other crazy
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  Speaker 1: things that.
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  Speaker 3: Will kill you. Can you come out here?
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  Speaker 1: The sharks, Well, that's what that's not in an urban myth,
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  Speaker 1: that there's sharks are a real thing.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll leave on the coast in it. And I
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  Speaker 3: love the beach. I've going up at the beach and
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  Speaker 3: it's still scares.
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  Speaker 4: Me up traveling that it'll be such a long journey
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  Speaker 4: to get there. So I can understand that once you
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  Speaker 4: might as well use the time, but.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, Yeah, yeah, so you'll be so yeah, how long
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  Speaker 1: does it take to get so straight from Jeans It's
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  Speaker 1: a few hours, I know.
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  Speaker 3: To get to the UK, it's like twenty six hours.
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  Speaker 4: You've got a bit of a waiting time. That's one airport.
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  Speaker 1: I think in Singapore we think a poor Dubai usually
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  Speaker 1: is the layover twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Eight hours of travel time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, it's a lot you've got to you're
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  Speaker 1: going to commit to that, It's yeah, it's but as
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  Speaker 1: I said, you're like, you'll no doubt enjoy it when
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  Speaker 1: you're here. And I'm sure you know, even though you'll
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  Speaker 1: be working you to get to enjoy their experience. They're
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  Speaker 1: down under people and what we're all about it.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: To the audience because you know, the audience is different everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and I couldn't tell you if I like
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  Speaker 2: something more or less or no, it's it's just different.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, and every show will be different, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: depending a way around and as well, and even the
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  Speaker 1: cities you know here, they're definitely ensure you've got a
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  Speaker 1: different crowd wherever you go, and you've got have you
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  Speaker 1: got a good fan base in Australia that you know
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  Speaker 1: so far.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously we do otherwise.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, nice to get to meet them people in person
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  Speaker 4: because obviously you've never been there, so yeah, privileged to
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  Speaker 4: go somewhere so far away and have people know your music.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so how long have you guys been doing Lend
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  Speaker 1: of the Loss for You've been together as a.
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  Speaker 2: Group seventeen years now already.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's a that's a very high accepts. No, now,
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  Speaker 1: you guys, it's almost seasoned veterans. So so yeah, it's today.
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  Speaker 1: Look you guys, a look that old like something news
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  Speaker 1: this long time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I'm I'm twenty one and I started the
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  Speaker 2: band when I when I was four years old, So.
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  Speaker 1: I still don't want I'm twenty one moms forever. It's
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  Speaker 1: some it's only your only as old as your mind
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  Speaker 1: thinks it is anyway. Yeah, so where are you guys
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  Speaker 1: are from?
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  Speaker 3: So? I notice a few different accents that you've got.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, you're from the UK in Germany and deals that
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  Speaker 1: a US accent that I did detect.
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  Speaker 2: No, we all come. We all come from Germany. But
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  Speaker 2: Benji here As is half British. He grew up in Germany.
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  Speaker 2: But bilingual still the.
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  Speaker 4: English?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, he still said to me it's an unshown
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  Speaker 1: does you still sound very English?
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  Speaker 3: So that's back.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, if you wanted more obvious, I can
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  Speaker 2: still put on a more obvious German. Excellent for you.
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  Speaker 4: That makes it a bit easier to Tom.
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  Speaker 2: Now you can tell from the there's no problem. So
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  Speaker 2: also your listeners of your channel. No, we come from Germany. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Know any German to even hit back with something like that,
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  Speaker 1: And if I did it, we'll probably be very inappropriate
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  Speaker 1: and I get canceled.
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  Speaker 4: We like in appropriate?
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  Speaker 1: Oh dear, I mean shows you doing when you come
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  Speaker 1: down under? It is it just the major cities that you've.
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  Speaker 3: Bought or.
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  Speaker 4: In Brisbane, second Melbourne, Sydney and then finished Adlaide?
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  Speaker 1: Oh nice, nice, yeah, excellent, that's that's that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: half of they haven't done Tazzy and then w A,
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  Speaker 1: which is may be another country so far away.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what you're just said, but never been
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  Speaker 2: to Australia. So what w A is or test okay
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  Speaker 2: if you say so, Yeah, w A.
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  Speaker 3: Is Western Australia and Tasma Tazzy is Tasmania.
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  Speaker 1: So that's out a little bit of land that was
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  Speaker 1: forgotten on the bottom that we really don't think.
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  Speaker 3: Much and is so far away it may well be
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  Speaker 3: in another country because and.
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  Speaker 2: It's a huge country. We fly every day from show
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  Speaker 2: to show, so yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that makes bus Yeah yeah, there's no well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean bands do do it.
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  Speaker 3: It's a long drive. It's as ours and it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, doing the plane is much more viable and with
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  Speaker 1: all your gear and stuff. Yeah, especially when you're stopping
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  Speaker 1: from one city to the next.
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  Speaker 3: It's you, guys will you probably.
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  Speaker 1: Won't feel like you will travel, even though you would
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  Speaker 1: have traveled thousands of cormeters for the time you finished up.
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  Speaker 3: It's yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got plans for any obviously you want to
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  Speaker 1: come back wholly new releases coming out, new music that's
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  Speaker 1: coming up that your fans.
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  Speaker 3: Can look forward to.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, what was the question you he.
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  Speaker 3: Got plans to come back to Australia touring.
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  Speaker 1: I was just asking, yeah, yeah, and whether you have
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  Speaker 1: any new music for your fans that they can look
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  Speaker 1: forward to when when you guys come out.
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  Speaker 4: So we've got our current music album, which is cool.
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  Speaker 4: We've got a trilogy coming out to a volume one
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  Speaker 4: and two have already been released and volume three is
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  Speaker 4: coming in nice so we're kind of in the middle
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  Speaker 4: of the release for the third part. So the first
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  Speaker 4: two singles already out, so hopefully be looking forward to
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  Speaker 4: when we come over. Obviously we can't only play the
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  Speaker 4: new stuff. We've got to play some some old songs
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  Speaker 4: and some class.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you kind of want to represent everything, not not
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  Speaker 4: only the new stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But you guys are known for making a bit of
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  Speaker 1: an impact on the stage when you come out and
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  Speaker 1: do your thing.
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  Speaker 2: We're known for extremely boring shows. There's no effort at all,
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  Speaker 2: no effort, and everybody always very disappointed. Do wey we're
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  Speaker 2: doing this for so long because people always come back
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  Speaker 2: like hoping like Okay, maybe this time it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, still waiting for the hard Yeah, I'm sure your
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  Speaker 1: friends will absolutely love what they see when you guys have.
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  Speaker 3: Come out and it was with your the audience.
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  Speaker 1: Do you find that the younger people the judicially og
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  Speaker 1: original fan base there or has it been sorry trendsit
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  Speaker 1: and changed over the time.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we wouldn't know for the Australian audience because we've been.
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  Speaker 3: Never in general. Yeah, feeling it has.
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  Speaker 4: Changed over the years, especially since we've had so many
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  Speaker 4: different musical styles over the history, and there were the
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  Speaker 4: supporters with our maiden it was the Eurovision Song Contest
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  Speaker 4: in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: So so many different scenes.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, nowadays, which is really beautiful is that there's
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  Speaker 4: people from everywhere, every age group, every genre, every culture
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  Speaker 4: where they want to think it's it's yeah, a big
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  Speaker 4: bunch of people from everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: It's beautiful. And there's also like every year there's new
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  Speaker 2: very young fans, so we're kind of growing up with
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  Speaker 2: our older fans, but there's also like the young fan
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  Speaker 2: base is always like, uh yeah, it keeps coming somehow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's that's that's refreshing.
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  Speaker 4: It.
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  Speaker 3: I hear a lot about its say the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's they're surprised that they're young fans, that they they
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  Speaker 1: see some of the show and that they're locked in
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  Speaker 1: and they really they know all the all detract some
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  Speaker 1: of the words, and it's it's nice.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously we're still cool enough for TikTok. So we get.
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  Speaker 3: You found yourself on a random playlist somewhere, have you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't understand it, but we try to.
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  Speaker 3: You're not alone. There's a lot of sorry, it's I.
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  Speaker 2: Think our TikTok actually says like in the description band
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  Speaker 2: from Germany, to old for TikTok or something, but already.
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  Speaker 3: Too old for TikTok. I think twenty one, you know, really.
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  Speaker 2: To old for TikTok. TikTok is for like eleven to thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm too young, too young to have a Facebook gap?
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  Speaker 1: Is that that we We had some controversy with the
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  Speaker 1: age limit of how old.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that we think it was.
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  Speaker 2: I started social media and music on my Space back then.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there was a gap for me. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have Facebook until two thousand and nine. In my Space,
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  Speaker 1: I was too busy raising babies. I didn't have time
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  Speaker 1: for that.
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  Speaker 3: I do remember MSN Messenger though I had some.
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: You're right back.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just like to wrap it up.
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  Speaker 1: Look, thank you so much for coming on and having
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  Speaker 1: a shout with us and Heavy and we look forward
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  Speaker 1: to seeing you guys when to come out? So is
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  Speaker 1: much is it? But your first show is all a
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  Speaker 1: fat nineteenth February is Yeah? So you guys are becoming outwaries, yes,
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  Speaker 1: very soon. Yeah, Well we'll enjoy and hopefully you aren't
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  Speaker 1: don't get too lost in the land out here because
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  Speaker 1: it is quite part in the partner.
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  Speaker 3: It's quite a large left, but yeah, we look forward
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  Speaker 3: to having you out and thanks for coming and having
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  Speaker 3: a chat.