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Building An Empire With DOM & NICK From SUFFER THE EVENUE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  I'm Nick Donovan on the lead vocalist for Stuff of the Avenue and to my
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  right is Donald Basso. Okay, he's the he's the strings, he does
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  all the heavy lifting. And I knew it's EPs about to come out and
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  our hits well, hopefully our hit single is a new Empire and we personally
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  we will love this. One's pretty our favorite song out of everything we've done
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  so far. I love your confidence too. Bro calling it a hit single
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  before it even comes out, No God ad buy that if ten people listen
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  to it, be pretty ye, I said. Some of the Avenue are
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  premier in a new song and new Empire this Friday. So how do you
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  feel? Like? Guys, you've got that one EP out of the belt
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  now, so you got a bit of experience there, But how you feel
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  the second time around? I'm excited, Yeah, definitely, I feel like
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  we're a little bit Our approach has been different. We've learned a lot from
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  the first first run and now the second one. I think the songs have
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  definitely taken a step up, and our writing has definitely taken a step up,
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  and like we're definitely sort of coming together more as a group. Like
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  it's not just like all of us were showing our skills in the first one,
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  but this one's a little bit more of a more of a controlled group
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  effort, which has been a really good, good way to write. You
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  could say that Stuffer's getting their groove back, ha ha ha. Very good
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  to hear. They tell us a bit more about a new empire from a
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  musical point of view, and what you're going for with it, probably a
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  bit of a journey, like a lot a lot of influencers, not just
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  in music, but outside of music, Like sort of got a bit of
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  a horror theme vibe to it, and I think when the film clips sort
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  of drops, it all make a bit of sense. But yeah, it's
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  definitely very influenced by a lot of different genres outside of music. But I
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  really enjoyed the journey of the whole song, like it definitely sort of starts
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  somewhere and finishes in like start, middle end sort of thing. I do
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  recall when we were thrashing this one out for the first time, just piecing
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  you together. I'm always just the spectator to start off with, and as
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  the spectator, I just noticed everyone with other three layers, we're all on
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  the same page when we're working on the song from point A. We got
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  to a certain point and everyone straight away I was like, nah, we
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  have to change this up now and we're going to do something. I'm not
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  gonna say drastic, but we're going to do something particular. They were all
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  on the same page straight away, and it was awesome, and I think
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  when what what what? What they came up with was just it just hit,
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  hit right, felt right. It was just smooth, and then it
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  took the took the song to a new level and it was just really cool
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  witnessing it there watching them do that, and then I got to lay some
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  vocals on top. Nice look running through this song, boy, it's like
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  it's it's still heavy as fuck, but there's a you've introduced a bit of
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  a funky, groovy, sort of elementary like it's it's it's got a I
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  got a bit of a tap to it, which you don't really get very
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  often in metal. Yeah, I think it's like all of us, like,
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  well say all of us, none of us just listened to metal,
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  Like there's not just metal to listen to for us, So it is taken
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  a bit of this bit of that and just like it really is a roll
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  of the dice on the day what comes out when we're just jamming and figuring
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  out what we're going to do for the next song. So yeah, there's
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  no rules in the jam room, which is I feel like it's the best
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  way to be whatever's best for the song. Sort. No one says no
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  to anything, like you won't get anyone saying no, that's not heavy enough,
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  No, that's not what we're going for. Like if it works,
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  it works, then everyone is happy to just accept what happens. So tell
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  us a bit more about the music video too, Like all I took out
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  of it was a murderous drumstick and lots of violence. What's actually going on?
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  Well, our drummer Jay did a lot of the heavy lifting with setting
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  up the screenplay for this one, and it's happened for the last three film
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  quips now where of all rock up and then we just all just come together
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  and we throw some more ideas. On the day, everything just seems to
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  stick. I guess it's kind of a mild continuation of the first when we
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  did Sick Current, which tailed off with the door being open to the jay
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  r and this one picks up with the door being open, and I guess
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  it's just like a sort of chainsaw massacre throwback of getting away from a psychotic
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  teddy Bear. And yeah, like I guess it's not done yet, It's
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  to be continued sort of situation. So this is like the meat and potatoes
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  of the story where a couple of us get captured and one of us gets
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  away and then what happens. Cool and a New Red Bar is the lead
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  single for your upcoming EP volume to Superdada, which comes out April a twelve.
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  So why choose this song out of all of them to represent the album?
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  I think it's probably got the most flavor, most well rounded, Like,
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  it's definitely the most We said it before, we think it's our best
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  song so far. We like all of our tracks obviously, but we feel
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  like this one is our strongest foot forward and we're hoping that the direction that
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  we go going going down the track is going to be along that sort of
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  vein as well. Yeah, we're not like hanging shit on the rest of
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  our songs, but like if you listen to the Volume two then it's I
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  feel like it's just a step above everything else on there, Like there are
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  like the other ones that are really good, but this one just has a
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  bit more. The other thing is that this is actually our most recent written
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  songs, so that is our last that, as I knew, was written
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  song on all the is it that You're here come the release of that EP,
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  so that that is ournual song. Yeah, and the is the obvious
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  success to Volume one Stupid Dead being called Volume two Super DEADA like, Well,
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  I got to know how much time did you spend on the title?
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  About zero point five word wings and so it was quick draw, so it
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  sort of touched on this for the last one. But how how do the
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  two EPs differ musically? Like, aside from that that natural growth, I
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  guess as a band, how do they differ? That's a good question on
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  the thought about that. I think growth as a band, and I think
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  more time together, just more time like spending time together, more time in
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  the jam room. Well, it's sort of like when you're I guess,
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  I don't know a good example to use, the like in a foot team,
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  when you start to know your teammates a bit better, you like you
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  you know their strengths and weaknesses, and you know where you should go to
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  make their skills and things shine. That's probably the best thing for us at
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  the moment. It does. It does sound tighter as well. I mean
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  the first EP felt good, but then when we listen to this one,
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  it just sounds tighter again. Yeah, things just get into place a lot,
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  lot better than the first time, a lot really comfortable. Yeah,
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  I feel and I feel like we're getting closer to finding what our sound will
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  be like. We were jumping around with a lot still feeling around, but
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  we are starting to starting to feel living close now. Very cool. There's
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  only four songs on bouim too super Data, so we might run through them
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  one of the time and you can tell us a bit more about them.
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  So we'll start with the first song, brain Fade, shit shit song,
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  and it's horrible, pretty gooldn't skip get past it first one. Yeah,
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  the first thing you should do is skip track one. So brain Fager was
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  actually one of our originals that we wrote, I think in the first It
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  was in the first three tracks that we'd actually completed, so that was what
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  was left over, and we wanted to say that for the Volume two.
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  Yeah, we were. We actually recorded this in with the Volume one through
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  a session and then we had a sitting there and we were still super happy
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  with the song. It's a good intro song a lot of last sets.
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  Yeah, really good. But yeah, it was a very early early song,
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  but it's still still had the balls to make it to an EP at
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  least. See you let your your baby sister handle the spelling of that one
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  too. Yeah. I don't know if you've noticed this yet, but we're
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  not very good at spell. You don't have made. As long as you
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  can play an instrument, doesn't matter of you can spell or not. Dropouts.
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  I think the second song is a new Empire, which we've probably discussed.
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  So we'll move under your cover of Soulfly's song Pain, which features Jimmy
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  B. Yeah. Tim, Yeah, yeah, good friend from those left
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  Behind. He brings the ruckets, he brings the energy, he brings a
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  fucking great Mats Cavalier impersonation. If you're familiar with soul Fly, you won't
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  even think it's Tim, you will think it's Cavalier. Yeah, Yeah,
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  there you go on. Yeah, so that was a cover song. That
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  was actually one that I brought to the band for a bit of fun.
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  It's challenging, I have to say, as on a live set, it's
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  a pretty challenging song to sing in the booth. It was all right,
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  but it's good, fun, fun new metal song. It's like I was
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  a little bit skeptical when we when it first got floated, and then I
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  heard it done and it sounds great. Did you say? Yeah? Well,
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  and there you be closed us up with Compatible Blood. Great great song
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  names goes by the way. I like it. Thank you, yeah,
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  thank you. I think that's felt that one a little bit differently as well.
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  It's got four syllables serious, it doesn't fucking well all about that rhythm.
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  Yeah, so that's that's actually well, it's funny that we've done this
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  way, but that's actually our usually our closing song of a set as well.
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  So it's a good finisher. We think everyone should agree with that.
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  It should give you, shouldn't leave you wanting more. I find with Compatible
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  Blood it and it's definitely got like probably a deeper new metal ties because we
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  bring out the seven string guitar and the five string bass and like it's real
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  low and like a sort of feel so very cool. And then what's next
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  to you, guys? You've got any shows lined up? Yeah, we've
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  got two coming up. We've got the nineteenth of April at Sterling North at
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  the Traveler's Rest, which is the Moodoo warm up, and that is with
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  Hidden Intent, Shadow Monarchy and Hell Machine, Something Prepared, getting the Road
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  from Us. And then on the twentieth we've got the actual Vodoo show,
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  which is like our first show import period on our home turf, and that
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  again is with Hidden Intent, Life Pilot, Heal Machine, coult Code,
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  Those Left Behind, which I think means that we might get a little taste
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  of Timmy B on the stage, Jimmy B with Suffered, Shadow Broke and
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  when silence breaks. So how good a hitting and Chen they're they're probably one
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  of the hardest working bands in this country. And absolutely no days off.
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  No, they don't don't even know what that is. Yeah, where can
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  people find out more about these shows? Guys? What the socials to get
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  hold you on? So we're on Instagram and Facebook. If you just look
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  up stuff of the Avenue or one Handle and figure out how we spill ship.
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  Yeah that's the hard but she can swipe it in and you get straight
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  there. So it goes been absolutely pleasure talk again. The new single,
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  A New Empire is four PM. Queensland, so five pm Southern time this
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  Friday should be getting premiered, so better luck with the guys. She's a
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  fucking good song. Thank you, I appreciate I appreciate that I