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Time To Chill With AZ & JON From GUTTERFIRE! · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Well, I'm as everyone and thanks for having us where I'm from Gallifire.
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  I'm keV also from Guarifire, Brisbane band been going about five years now,
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  currently about to join for us on their tour and wrapping up our first album
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  cycle Beautiful Boys. Thanks for joining us tonight. It's been a while.
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  Yeah, Chris really going to join your having Yeah, mate, it's been
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  long over you. I've actually got fi I've actually got a fair bit going
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  on at the moment. So we're going to start off with Rock Beats Depression,
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  which will be held at the Mansfield Tavern on September sixteen. Like,
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  just by virtue of the name alone, it's a great gig for a great
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  cause, isn't it. Yeah. We've done it every year since is it.
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  I don't know, it's just since it started, but since very early
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  on and definitely since started. Yeah, and it's you know, we love
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  Katie the organized are and it's a really good cause and every everyone who plays
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  the show really gets behind it for that. For that reason, basically,
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  what does it actually mean to you personally to be involved with something like that?
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  Uh? You know, everyone you know in the in the this is
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  the band to be in if you struggle a bit with mental health. Personally,
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  I'm autistic and ADHD, so you know, it's it's close to my
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  heart and I would sort of work in that field as well for advocacy for
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  that kind of stuff. But uh, mental health in general, I mean
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  it's really cool, how you know, since I was a kid, I've
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  seen the conversation change and become more open and just you know, people people
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  are okay we're talking about now. I remember when I was a kid,
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  people questioning whether or not depression even existed as a thing, you know.
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  So seeing you know, a nice big festival like that really just raising money
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  towards awareness and researches is pretty awesome. Very different from when I was a
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  kid. Definitely. There's a ton of bands plan, including yourselves. There's
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  Dream Colors, Black Whiskey, Go to the Other Tali Made, Rejects,
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  Crave, just the name with you. But here you guys most looking forward
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  to planing with and or seen on the day. Well we've kicked around with
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  Dream Kills a bit. They were you know, they were blasting out of
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  my bedroom when I was a teenager. Uh, And it's been nice sort
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  of being able to being able to play with them. You know, I've
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  heard really good things about Hippo. I can't wait to see them. Crave
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  we played around with quite a bit as well, So it's really sort of
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  that family vibe there too. The bands who play their attended wanted to support
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  that that gig ongoing, so it's kind of a little bit like a family
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  readion. Each year when we go back there, it's really keen to see
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  Tali made rejects. I find rejects just always bring it and always quite surprised
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  with their set. Very upbeat and yeah, really cool. Yeah, they
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  are at a bit of interesting trivitae for it, Like dream Killers are actually
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  the first band I ever saw alive back in the day, Like I used
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  to go to school with their regial drama at a place called Lowoods Wonder's Day.
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  Yeah right, history with all of us. Yeah, first time I
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  saw them was when I was fifteen at a local community hall in Logan somewhere.
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  It was Yeah, it was, it was a bit life changing.
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  Yeah, should share of course, Like events like this aren't totally fun driven
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  of course either, Like I think the awareness generated it's just as important sometimes
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  as a money raised in it. Yeah, yeah, I think so.
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  Again, like I said, I'm beginning to the advocacy side of mental health
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  and even to my own embarrassment, sometimes I'm quite open about it. But
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  I really think that that that open conversation, you know what I know from
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  people who approached me about being open about it with their own issues, it's
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  yeah, it's huge. Awareness is almost well not as huge, but almost
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  as huge as raising funds for actual research and support and whatnot. I think
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  it's like it's a Miskiing steption too that people look at museos and they're up
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  there on stage, you know, like they look like they haven't got a
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  care in the world. But it's surprising the amount of even like pop international
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  musicos I speak with that suffer from depression or anxiety or or mental health.
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  Like it's it's important to note that just because someone's up there and they look
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  like they're okay, it doesn't necessarily mean that's what's going on inside. Absolutely.
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  Yeah, yeah, it's it's totally true. And I think probably more
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  people than than not having issues with lenohol from time to time, and it's
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  something that everyone's dealing with. So I look, you know, as a
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  musician, musician, you're up on stage and that's you know, probably it's
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  your time to shine up up in the lights and everything that. There's so
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  much that goes on behind the scenes, and there's some much hard work that
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  everyone puts in. It's really challenging, and so much else in life that
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  everyone's balancing as well. Yeah, So before that, you guys have got
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  shows in Redcliffe, Brisbanewich on August thirty first, September first, and September
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  two with your good mates for us who have come all the way down from
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  Cans Like, how do you know those guys? Well, we've known them
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  for quite a while. They've helped us out with a couple of tours up
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  to North Queensland. We played quite a lot of shows with them up and
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  down the coast. We just get along really well. They come down here
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  and hang out, we go up there and hang out and it's just a
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  really good time. We find our bands compliment each other really well too,
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  and they're just good dudes and we just love them music and that's really probably
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  all there is to it. Yeah, I remember them and Exotic Potion Cookies
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  are also coming down with them. Before we first went up to Funnel,
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  Queensland as was hitting me up like I've checked out these bands and you've got
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  have a listen, and and we did. We had a couple of beers
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  and had listened to them, and yeah, we just dug them immediately and
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  then we met them. Both bands we just you know, just clicked with
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  them right away. You tend to find with bands you either click straight away
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  or it's a bit hard. And with those two bands, it's just been
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  really easy to get along and just it's not work, you know, it's
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  it's really just we have great times. Yeah, of course, just like
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  getting paid hopefully to hang out with our basically, and you could probably do
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  a bit of band stopping as well, like Kevin and Pete from Borre's like
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  pretty much a twins, like he's ever sort of jump up and take each
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  other's place on stage and if anyone notices, we've yet to sing together,
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  but I did definitely jump up one stage with them at least once for a
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  photo up and would like to uh take take photos together and play on that
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  with our socials. Think who's taller me actually, which is which is not
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  common, but I get to be the taller one in that situation. I
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  think there'd only be a hair in it. Well, well, no,
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  maybe no hair in it. Maybe a beard here, a PBK here.
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  How do those three gigs that you're playing one of them the Thursday night on
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  August the thirty first? Is it a place in Redcliffe called Tribe Clubhouse,
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  which it's only a bit of a new like music venue, so we're trying
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  to get more people down there. But tell us a bit about that for
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  people in the area that I haven't heard of it, Well, I just
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  I just had a little sea change and moved to Redcliffe from after living in
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  a city for years and years and years, and it took a little adjustment.
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  But the whole point of Tribe is it's a social place. It's a
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  place for people to be social they've been feeling a little isolate or whatever.
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  And most of the time it's not like a nighttime bar live music venue,
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  but they do that on on weekends and some other nights, you know,
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  like the Thursday night next week, and it's just it's all about social belonging.
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  And the guy who found that it wanted that he unfortunately lost his son
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  years ago and needed to feel a part of the community and meet friends,
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  and you know, all the people I met there, they really value that
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  place, and so it's it's a little bit more than just your average venue.
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  It's it's a it's a really cool community up there. Yeah, I
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  was just gonna add it. He's really about the Redcliffe community. And we've
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  done one show there before with Violet for the Grunge Tour, and we just
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  really just really jelled with that idea. You know that it's very community focus,
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  very supportive of the local people in the community, and and just that
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  rung true with us. They're just really nice people. It's run really well.
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  It's a nice small little venue and we just love doing those sorts of
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  shows. So it's a no brainer for us and probably worth pointing it out
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  to its all ages. If anyone wants to bring their kids, we've got
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  a couple of fans coming along with their kids. Very good. September thirty,
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  you guys have got another benefit get when you played high pickspreadic cancer research
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  fundraisers, So tell us a bit about that as could probably feel in a
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  little better on that. The history there. Yeah, so we we know
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  the Glacierenes really well, we're good friends. We went on a tour with
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  them recently up from down the East Coast and you know New Naith a little
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  bit and just the again the cause of cancer research, she's really important.
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  And yeah, I mean again, that's just it's it's just something that we
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  wanted to get involved with and and just to help out. And well I
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  think keV you and I went along last year and just to see, you
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  know, the event and and just the just just the vibe and you know
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  how hell well yeah, they amount of love. That's that's really what I'm
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  thinking of there. And we got asked to get involved and we just of
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  court said yes, it's I'm just such an important thing. So yeah,
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  I've actually got to say kolos to you guys too, like there's you guys
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  play a lot of charity or benefited through a whole whole host of different things.
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  Guys. Yeah, you guys always put your hands up and he's always
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  there. So I've got to say that it's good to see mate. It's
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  it's it's noticed by a lot of people in the community guys. And he's
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  do you do you bid? Well, yeah, thanks, we we we
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  we don't you know, we don't want to, you know, we're not
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  reading machine, we're not the sex persons. But but what we care about
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  a lot of things. I mean, we want to be seen to care
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  about the things and publicly support those things, and that is a large part
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  of our identity as individual people and which kind of makes it part of our
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  identity as a band. We really want to get behind good causes and promote
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  awareness and stuff with anything that we feel is worth it. Gotta fire pretty
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  much been sure and ever since you released your debut album Chill in March of
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  last year, and if you maybe but he brends along the way he used
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  have been been everywhere. Yeah, well, actually we released it. It
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  was September twenty one. It's so it's so weird because it all the years
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  have melded in together. They were across that time, and we actually did
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  that show. Our launch show was with six Foot Hit and that was just
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  such an amazing show. And yeah, it's only two years ago and we've
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  just because of all the cancelations and challenge and dramas, we've just gone,
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  let's just keep throwing this thing. And we never could do a proper full
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  East coast tours, so that's why we did that early this year because we
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  could finally do one and now it's like it's time to put it to bed.
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  It's it's now we're working on the new one. So we've got a
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  lot of new songs written. I think we're up to about probably about six
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  or seven completed and probably about another ten ideas, and so we want to
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  get in and do that as soon as possible next year. Before we get
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  on to talk about the new stuff, I just want to bring up like
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  for those who haven't seen the album, like it predominantly features a massive fucking
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  chicken on the cover, Like I reckon you guys, Like marketing coup of
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  the year, Like it was a great strategy. It's like was it was
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  it something that he's sat out and thought about it and intended to be a
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  marketing tour money just like it just kind of came about it. Yeah,
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  I think it's been around for a while and actually it's the It's the Doom.
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  But the idea had been floating for a bit and we had a few
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  people can't have a bit of a go at it, and then we had
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  a friend of ours, Kira, he turned it into what it is,
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  and then it just stuck and we were just so happy with it. We
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  were like, was put it on the album on a white clayin white black
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  background, you know, and everything. It's been great. A little bit
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  of a story for you. When we were originally trying to think of a
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  logo, we were very unimaginative, and this guy that our bass player and
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  you kind of came up with this very simple three prong thing that was like
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  a gutter with fire in it. And then I can't remember who it was,
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  if it was you as or Clay who like someone turned it upside down
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  and we're like, oh, it looks like a rooster, like a doom
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  cock, and oh yeah, and so then we was a little bit and
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  it was like this very basic, sort of simple version of of of like
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  the rooster. But then yeah, when we gave that idea the Cura,
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  she just went, yeah, I really I really don't think it was anything
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  until we gave it to Cia, to be honest, that was really but
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  life from there. Yeah, the idea of Doom kind of just came by
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  turning a very unimaginative logo idea upside down literally and developing it from there.
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  There's a whole animal cover theme something you're going to keep exploring as you go
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  down. You got to come up with something different, bus one. Who
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  knows? We we really get to work that one out. So I have
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  a feeling there could be a change. We might might kill off the Doom
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  cop, but who knows, who knows bringing the doom Crab or the doom
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  Squirrel or you. So that you've you've finished about seven songs towards the next
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  album yet, So those songs that you've finished, what direction are they taking?
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  Is it the same sort of stuffs was on Chill or is you know
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  you found a bit of a different sound with all your showing and stuff.
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  Yeah, it's funny, We're We're sorry. We all have different ideas and
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  different opinions, and sometimes we're thinking completely different things about the same thing,
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  but we're all on the same page. It's it's strange how it works.
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  So like we might give different opinions on where we think it's headed, but
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  it's we all kind of we're all on the same page with where it is
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  headed whatever we think of that, if that makes any sense, really,
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  But okay, I was really I was just going to add, really it's
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  an evolution of our sound. I think I think we're really moving into it's
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  it's it's got those similar themes of the doomy kind of rock, the desert
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  rock sort of stuff, bit of heavier side, but but it's like we're
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  taking it forward to a new level and the songs are a lot better,
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  and I think we're more mature. I think we know each other better as
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  players, and we just we know what each other adds, so we we're
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  writing to get the best stout of each other, I think. And one
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  of the things we've always done in this band is everybody writes and contributes something.
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  So we do have some more predominant writers, but everybody writes, and
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  I think that's really important and and it's it keeps those creative juices going.
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  And then we we you know, picked the best songs at the end of
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  the day, the best songs that sued each other on the record. So
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  that's what we'll be doing again. And I think, you know, I've
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  said before with this album. You know, the first album was a little
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  more diverse, and we were just sort of throwing stuff at the wall to
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  see to figure ourselves out. Now that we have, we've got managed to
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  go more extreme in every direction, but make it sound more cohesive, which
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  probably sounds counterintuitive, but it sounds more like us. We've figured out who
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  we are, even though it's more punk and it's more doom, and it's
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  more you know, like we've we've I don't know, we've figured out how
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  to tie all those ends together in a more cohesive package. And you're going
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  to lightnuts? Is better? Are you going to start slowly introducing them into
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  the set list and see if people notice and see what people think of it?
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  Yeah, I mean, you know, the whole COVID situation, particularly
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  going back to twenty twenty with the lockdowns, we were lucky enough to keep
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  really writing through that period, whereas a lot of bands kind of shut up
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  shot We just kept writing. So we actually have been introducing songs slightly into
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  the set bit by bit. But you know, at the moment, gosh,
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  I don't know, we've probably got three or four of those new songs
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  in the set, so and we've got another new one that's being introduced for
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  next week shows. That's that's much more recent, clearly. Yeah, In
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  terms of songs that aren't on the first album, there's four or five in
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  the set that we're about to play for these these next shows. Awesome guys.
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  Before we let you go off, started three new Spotify playlists made up
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  of songs from people that I speak to so usingly your own songs, you
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  mean, one for the playlists that gets you ready to party, one for
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  the playlistic could save your marriage, and one for the playlistic would potentially end
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  your marriage. Well, I might jump in first. I think one to
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  get your partying is definitely this is fine, So I think that's my contribution
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  to this one. I don't know if there's any very nice songs to help
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  your marriage. I think, oh man, you know, Draws of the
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  Universe at least would be one to dance at your wedding party too. It
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  might not make you get married, but it'll get your dancing a few beers
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  in the one that could potentially end your marriage, oh probably probably bonfire.
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  Yeah, sure, I shall add those to the playlists tonight, guys are
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  in the meantime, thanks very much for your time. Our whole ever shows
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  coming up. If people want to find out about them, where do they
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  go? Gotta Fire dot com. We're also on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube.
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  Although you won't find any gig information there, but yeah, really,
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  Facebook and our Instagram is the best place to keep up on it. Although
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  we want to buy tickets, go to Go to fire dot com.