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TEENS: From BIGSOUND To FOO FIGHTERS, Making Big Noise On The Way · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: This is like probably the most I'll have on one Zoom.
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  Speaker 1: This is cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel like we're doing something proper now. I know.
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  Speaker 1: Are we? Well, you know what? I said teens, right?
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  Speaker 1: I said if I get on here and you guys
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  Speaker 1: are a bunch of 30-plus-year-olds, I'm going to piss myself laughing.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. I'm happy to have you.
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  Speaker 1: Back, first of all. The band called Teens. Please tell me.
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  Speaker 1: I need context for this name. Because my joke is,
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  Speaker 1: what are you going to call yourself? Adults? Like when
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  Speaker 1: you get to like, you know.
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  Speaker 2: We should be called that now.
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  Speaker 1: It's too late.
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  Speaker 2: You just got to stick with it now.
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  Speaker 1: So how did it come about? What's, where did it originate?
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  Speaker 4: It used to be a lot longer band name, but
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  Speaker 4: then I just shortened it to teens and it's just
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  Speaker 4: kind of stuck.
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  Speaker 2: And then I was just kind of like, thought, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all band names are a bit shit. So we'll just
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  Speaker 2: stick with it.
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  Speaker 1: You can have fun with band names. I was talking
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  Speaker 1: to another one before. um that's all cat piss and
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  Speaker 1: i'm like come on now i need to know that please.
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  Speaker 2: Do that that's great.
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  Speaker 1: And oh and they've they've really got their shit down
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  Speaker 1: pat you know they were there yeah album names i'm
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  Speaker 1: like oh thoroughly i was impressed and um those those
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  Speaker 1: band name generators they're quite fun or like you know
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  Speaker 1: pick your your birth date month and year and it's
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  Speaker 1: like whatever character i'm like cool shit in there or
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  Speaker 1: you know album name or a song name yeah i'm
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  Speaker 1: all i'm down for that as a songwriter myself and
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  Speaker 1: musician i um thoroughly enjoy.
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  Speaker 5: That so yeah but i think this is the music
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  Speaker 5: that i was enjoying and listening to as a teenager
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  Speaker 5: so i guess um as if the shoe fits gonna
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  Speaker 5: wear it.
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  Speaker 1: You know absolutely are you are you the youngest of
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  Speaker 1: the band are you donno i'm gonna take a stab
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  Speaker 1: you know parents gave you a good education in proper
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  Speaker 1: music that's that's how it goes how old is yourself
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  Speaker 1: dare i ask i am 30 Oh, so you're not even,
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  Speaker 1: I've got millennials. I've got a 20 and a 26
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  Speaker 1: year old and they do my head in. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand you. They're a good value. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: so yes, your parents must've done well. So what was
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  Speaker 1: the long version? I'm going to hear that first before
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  Speaker 1: we go on. Otherwise it's really cringe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It used to be called Teens of Thailand.
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  Speaker 1: Teens of Thailand.
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  Speaker 2: Which is this rip straight from a Desert Sessions song.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: And it was that for a few years, and then
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  Speaker 4: it just got shortened to Teens.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just.
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  Speaker 1: Stayed like that. I can guess, you know, that can
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  Speaker 1: provoke imagery of all sorts, Teens of Thailand.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: To let your mind run wild, it's like, ah, Thai food.
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  Speaker 1: Thai food. You know, the Thai restaurant names. That's what
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  Speaker 1: comes to my mind. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's all right.
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  Speaker 1: Not as exciting as I was thinking. I'm like, we
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  Speaker 1: also have our hot male from when we were only 16. Oh, totally.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's embarrassing though. That's funny. So you guys are on
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  Speaker 1: the bill for big sound. That sounds pretty impressive. You
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  Speaker 1: guys have been doing this thing for a little while,
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  Speaker 1: have you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been around for a while with this lineup.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a few years. A few years now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But, yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 4: Been kicking around for a bit before then, but it's
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  Speaker 4: been like a steady, yeah, with this line-up, a steady
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  Speaker 4: thing going on for a while.
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  Speaker 2: Cool.
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  Speaker 1: And whereabouts are you guys located?
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  Speaker 2: Hobart, mainly.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you're from there. The Apple Island. Okay. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: It's very cold.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So spread around all Tassie, are you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm up north at the moment, but kind of
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  Speaker 4: in between Launceston and Hobart, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And yourself, Alex, where are you in Hobart? Are you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Down South as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Nice. And what about you, John? What about you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hobart boy. Oh, nice. Nice. And so do you guys
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  Speaker 1: get to the mainland much? That's awesome. That big sound
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  Speaker 1: of included yourselves. That's really, I love that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty couple of times a year.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of the time you guys get, you missed
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  Speaker 1: off a lot of bills, you know, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Hobart and.
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  Speaker 3: For, uh, for, uh, you know, um, for a band budget.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I have, I have, I'm no ideas girl. A budget
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  Speaker 1: airline just for musicians because it would be a doable thing.
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  Speaker 1: Any pilots out there listening, like, jump on board. I
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  Speaker 1: think that would be so cool. That's affordable.
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  Speaker 3: Artist-run airlines.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody gets a boat.
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  Speaker 5: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, no one misses out on what they want. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That would be kind of cool. That's one for the
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  Speaker 1: thinking pot.
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  Speaker 3: See what we can do.
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  Speaker 1: For sure. And have you guys played Big Sound before?
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  Speaker 2: No. First time.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome. Yeah, I've been on once before.
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  Speaker 1: Have you? Yeah. You look very familiar, Alex. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I've met you somewhere along the line in music
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  Speaker 1: land before.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: I played with Violet Swirls a few years ago up there.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: That was still a band.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, definitely. I feel like our paths have
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  Speaker 1: crossed at some stage.
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  Speaker 6: Open to Ben commissioning me to do some drums for
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  Speaker 6: their follow-up album.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's great, yeah. And I just pretend to
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  Speaker 1: play drums. I play bass. So sometimes I masquerade as
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  Speaker 1: a drummer in the studio just to like shits and giggles.
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  Speaker 3: You're in the rhythm section.
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  Speaker 1: Drummers and bass players are like this. It's a marriage
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  Speaker 1: made in heaven. And without us. Your girlfriend doesn't dance,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I say.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: That's good, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you like that one?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: We're keeping the whole, you know, we get so much
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  Speaker 1: shit as bass players, but it's like, man, we're literally
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  Speaker 1: keeping everything together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the glue holding it together.
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  Speaker 1: We are the glue, but it's all right. We've got
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  Speaker 1: broad shoulders, don't we, Donna? We can take that.
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  Speaker 3: We've got broad shoulders now, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: That's all right.
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  Speaker 3: That wider.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I've got extendable shoulders when needed. That's funny. So
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  Speaker 1: you guys are obviously playing Big Sound. Are you doing
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  Speaker 1: two gigs through the week? What are the venues that
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  Speaker 1: you've been given?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got Blutes.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry? What was that, sorry?
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  Speaker 3: Blutes on the Wednesday night.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yep.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, at 10 and Tomcat on the Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: Night at 8.30.
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  Speaker 1: Great venue, Tomcat. One of my favourites.
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  Speaker 3: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: It's the iconic little dive bar it's so dingy but
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  Speaker 1: it's great yeah okay cool yeah looking forward to it
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  Speaker 1: yeah no it's.
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  Speaker 2: All it's all it's all like new to us so
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  Speaker 2: yeah keen.
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  Speaker 1: To yeah oh the valley's it's beautiful alex you might
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  Speaker 1: yeah probably been there before like it's just it's a
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  Speaker 1: plethora of these little dive bars and sometimes it's the
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  Speaker 1: back alley i grease our bar up for example it's
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  Speaker 1: the back alley of the back alley and it's just
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  Speaker 1: such a cool venue i really like it yeah walk
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  Speaker 1: in there and it's there's literally an old vintage car
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  Speaker 1: hanging from chained up somewhere at the front or lit
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  Speaker 1: up and it's, it's just a very cool place. So yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And Tom, as I said, another one, you walk in,
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  Speaker 1: it's just like, I'm sure they're fire hazards, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: we don't. They are definitely. It's like, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be in that nightclub. I don't want to make
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  Speaker 1: that news article. Are you guys hoping to see anyone
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  Speaker 1: in particular when you're up here?
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  Speaker 3: Um, Yeah, we've been checking out their bands. I'm keen
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  Speaker 3: to see special features.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, get along to see them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. What about yourself, Sean or Donna? Are you anyone
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  Speaker 1: that strikes your eye that you've given a listen to?
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  Speaker 2: I've seen them before, but they're really cool. Public figures.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're from Melbourne.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're really cool, kind of post-punk-y stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And who else was it?
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  Speaker 2: Stimpy's I was just listening to. They're kind of cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen them on a lineup before. They are cool. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And there's another person who was a, I was thinking,
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember now. I forgot. No, I've lost it.
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  Speaker 2: Millie Strange.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think another one from Melbourne. I was just like
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  Speaker 2: listening before. It's like pretty weird, dark, folky stuff. Okay, cool.
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  Speaker 1: Something different.
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  Speaker 2: It was cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, nice, nice, nice. And so what kind
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  Speaker 1: of genre would you describe yourselves as fitting into? Punk, alt-rock? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like post-punk?
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  Speaker 1: Hybrid. Figures on rock. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like post-rock is a bit of a cop-out
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  Speaker 5: answer sometimes, but if I'm pressed a bit harder, maybe
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  Speaker 5: noise rock.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I say that we're in a noisy post-punk band, but
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  Speaker 3: genres are tricky.
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  Speaker 1: Are they?
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  Speaker 3: To point people down the right avenue, I guess that's... you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, just invent your own. If you can't, you know,
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  Speaker 1: find your identity with one or the other.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the cool, you know, I love it when
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  Speaker 1: genre is like mixing and you get that influence. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's, you know, where we've come to. It's,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, every note's been played before, let's face it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and every style is, you know, has been
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  Speaker 1: done and, and that's what elevates, you know, new music and,
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  Speaker 1: and makes it, you know, awesome is that people going
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  Speaker 1: outside and taking that risk you know of like putting
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: blues with heavy metal or something you know ridiculous and
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: it fucking works you know like yeah i love electric
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: cowboy that shit's hilarious you know i love that and
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: there's another one um i think they're actually from israel
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  Speaker 1: and i think her her last site or something like
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  Speaker 1: that it's the name of the band the heavy shit
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  Speaker 1: but they involve like you know um footstop blues like
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  Speaker 1: roots like music and it It's wild. I highly recommend
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: checking it out. I think it's her last slide. Fucking
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  Speaker 1: cool as shit. Yeah, cool. And I love that. And
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  Speaker 1: I think when, you know, you've got bands that are
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  Speaker 1: doing that and taking those risks and just putting it
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: out there and seeing what happens, it's where the good
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  Speaker 1: shit is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. Mixes up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. it's interesting it does it doesn't it you know
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  Speaker 1: it's all around the globe and especially a lot in
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  Speaker 1: europe because you know it's the as we know the
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: motherland of like all things heavy and i was chatting
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: to um you know a dude the other day and
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: he was he's electro um you know 90s like electro
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  Speaker 1: music with heavy metal i'm like fuck yeah we all
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: love the metals i'm like That was awesome. And it's like,
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  Speaker 1: fast like drums.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's just cool. And stuff like that, you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: to be, you listen to it audibly, you know, but live,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, it goes through the whole, like a
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  Speaker 1: body experience. And I remember my first time experiencing that
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: as I walked into the tier of being asked to
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  Speaker 1: cover a gig for, I think it was, who killed
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  Speaker 1: the prom queen? And I'm like, oh, now I know
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  Speaker 1: why people love this shit. And then I got to
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: see Behemoth, you know, later in the year and I
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: was like, that was performative, that was awesome. So I
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: love having zero clues sometimes when I'm walking into and
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: just being thoroughly impressed. It's plain canvas, you know, knowing.
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  Speaker 3: Not to have those expectations. Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's why, you know, things like Big Sound
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  Speaker 1: is awesome because if you go there with that kind
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  Speaker 1: of mindset, you're going to be impressed, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: if you've got the stage presence and you guys are
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  Speaker 1: loving what you're doing and the audience follows suit, it's
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  Speaker 1: a bit hard not to, I think. Yeah, music love
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  Speaker 1: is everywhere. Have you found, like, your audiences are pretty receptive, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: at home?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we've had good responses lately.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: We're definitely throwing ourselves into it. So it's true, you know,
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  Speaker 3: people follow along.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and it's like, you know, it's hard. When
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  Speaker 1: people smile, you're happy. It's hard. It's infectious, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and it's the, I think, with the energy you put out,
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  Speaker 1: and it sounds cliche, but for most of the part,
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  Speaker 1: it really is. It is true.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I wouldn't mind a little rest between gigs, you know. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: You don't get that.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys are pretty full time. Are you doing
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  Speaker 1: stuff down there?
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  Speaker 3: What's that? Playing quite often?
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: Playing gigs, yeah. Like you do.
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  Speaker 3: We played last weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then the next gigs are the big sound gigs.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: So we've got a couple gigs off the road. Yeah.
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: So just like do some writing and stuff, I guess,
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: you know, if you're in studio doing production and stuff.
• 12:03
  Speaker 3: We're in the studio, so that continues. Yeah.
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. and that can get laborious and time-wise and but
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: you know and you know obviously it's a you're not
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: making money while you're in the studio but in a
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: sense you kind of are because you know the time
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: you put in obviously it shows.
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  Speaker 6: Up i think we're getting pretty close the end of
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  Speaker 6: these sessions so um you know you've got to kind
• 12:22
  Speaker 6: of put a cap on it sometimes.
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you've got to walk away from your shit because
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: i'm like i know i've got 60 versions of one
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: so yeah and to hand it over to like you
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: know to your producer or your um yeah master and
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: that's i think really important when you're not going to
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: let go and leave someone finalize that and you'll be
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  Speaker 1: okay with that because as a creative you know piece
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: it can be hard for some to you know to
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  Speaker 1: let go of that you know control over.
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: Your yeah sometimes you think it's going to be easier
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  Speaker 3: but then um it turns out it's not it's often
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  Speaker 3: a bit of a battle to get through.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: It is it is and um yeah and i think
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: too like you know a lot of you know, because
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: there's no one-step pathway to success these days, which is fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: But having that, you know, that indie, you know, go,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got a lot of bands that are doing
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  Speaker 1: everything themselves, you know, all of it, which is great, again,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got control over, you know, your piece and
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  Speaker 1: where it goes and how it's used and whatnot. But
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  Speaker 1: I think it can get overwhelming when not knowing when
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  Speaker 1: to step back and go, oh, I probably should let
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  Speaker 1: someone else do that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's definitely like a case of overcooking
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  Speaker 4: something sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. I think I've definitely been.
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  Speaker 1: Like, it's a funny, I find balance as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I always say, you know, more skin in the game
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  Speaker 1: and definitely it's, um, and it is because if you
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: get that input, it might just be like one little
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: thing that someone else hears or sees that, you know,
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: you overlook or you don't have that. And that's what's missing.
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  Speaker 1: And it can, you know, turn a good song into
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  Speaker 1: a fucking great song sometimes. Yeah, exactly. So it's, um,
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  Speaker 1: it's really important, I think, to have that openness, which,
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: You know, as creative people, sometimes, you know, it's not
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  Speaker 1: easy for everyone to do. And having that balance of
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: being able to, you know, be an artist and do
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: your thing on stage, but also have that business sort
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  Speaker 1: of mindset too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Socials and the promoting. It's a fine line. And I
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: think that's why sometimes you stay in a garage and some,
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: you know, end up at Big Sound. Yeah.
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: It's a win.
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: We're scraping through. We're going to come up and visit.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: Someone's liked what they've heard somewhere along the way. Yeah,
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: it's good. On a tour from Melbourne to Tassie one time. Yeah. No,
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: that's awesome. I'm really– are you guys the only Tassie
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: band on the bill that you know, or is.
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: There a couple? No, there are two more acts.
• 14:42
  Speaker 6: We've got Grace Chia and the other escapes me right now.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: Can you guys back me up?
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: Ooh. Is it Wit? Wit?
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: No.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: It's something– I'm cooking it too.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Is it weird? Yeah, right. Big Sound's been really great
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: in being very inclusive, which is so refreshing and really
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: good because sometimes, you know.
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: It's a nice status line up this year for sure.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and a platform that gives, you know, bands like
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: yourselves that are up and coming, you know, that chance
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: to be seen. It might be, you know, in a
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: different scene. Obviously, you know, your local scene, you guys
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: have been doing the good things. But, yeah, I think
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: it's really important just for venues as well as, you know,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: bands that Big Sound have. back again this year and
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: hopefully are a permanent feature on the calendar for Brisbane.
• 15:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, look, I think we're super pleased to head up
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: and represent Tassie. We're super privileged to be chosen. We're
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: competing against super acts for sure. No, through the sort
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: of lovely online application process.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's so cool. Yeah.
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: The, you know, like considering times are so tough for
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: venues and artists, I don't think like the scene is
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: really hitting a peak in my opinion.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Definitely thriving and local stuff too, which is great. Yeah.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: It's really mind blowing.
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: Kiz is the other Tasmanian accent.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: Oh, Kiz.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Nice. I have heard of them before.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: I'm keen to see them.
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I haven't caught them before. So there you go.
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: We can head up to Brizzy and catch them for
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: the first time.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Excellent. I'm hoping we'll catch them.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Carry around the valley like a, you know, the metal. Yeah. No,
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: I'm just, I'm very Southern Gold Coast, Northern East, South Wales, so. Oh, yeah? Yeah,
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Brisbane land is in my scope. It's not that far away.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: I just complain about having to drive.
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: It's really not that far. Yeah. It's over an hour.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: It's like, hmm. I shouldn't complain at all. Oh, my
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: job is so bad. I have to review Dead Kennedys
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: on a school night at the tube. Worst job in
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: the world. I know. I'm very blessed to do what
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: I do. And I absolutely love, you know, new music too.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Like speaking to people like yourselves, it's sometimes some of
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: the best stuff. It's really cool. And so my girlfriend's
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: here and I just end up skipping past my front
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: door when I don't know what she's doing. I have
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: weird friends, but that's why. Yeah, no, that's cool. So
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: you guys have obviously, have you got an album out?
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Do you say an EP that you put out? Or
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: was it in the process?
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I put out a second album in September last year.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: So it's still pretty fresh. So we're running stuff from that.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: And then we've also got a, bunch of new material
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: that's sort of finishing up so.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: We're starting to test test the waters there with.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: That excellent well hopefully i'll be having a chat with
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: you guys in the near future with the new.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Album yeah wishes i mean it's not far off we're
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: getting close.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah that's all in your bones those old teenage bones
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: maybe that's what we can call it teenage bones there
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: you go again it leaves the options open i spoke
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: to um cool leonie leo leonie from the epic metal
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: artist and he just put out a new album and
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: it's called generation and i'm like because what is it
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: she could get me cancelled dude like yeah yeah the
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: mind of a 12 year old boy of course i'm
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: gonna be like but yeah no i i thoroughly love
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: that shit you know when you've got it invokes like
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: you know imagery and the sorts of and it kind
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: of gets us too seriously No, no. That's the core
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: definition of people.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: My punk is good. We bring for the giggles, for sure.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: That's it. Yeah, definitely.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, awesome. And so obviously more live shows back home
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: after Big Sound? Or just planning on chilling a bit?
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got one. Yeah, we've got one.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got a big run. So we start in
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Hobart on 24th of October. So we've got a show
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: there in October. Which will be sweet.
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: And then we head to Geelong, Melbourne, Bendigo, Sydney. So
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: we're supporting Foo Fighters in Sydney.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, how good. So I'm really good friends with Full
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Flower Moon Band, which are.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're on that tour. Yeah.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: They're so cool. I love that. Those guys had a
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: mad run there. I'm supporting Primus and Queens of Stone
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Age as well.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's sick.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: You guys are supporting the Foo Fighters. That's fucking... That's
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: something to sneeze at. Do you know if Dave's like,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: how did you guys get that gig? Because the girls
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: weren't too sure either. They're like, oh, we don't know
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: if you.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: I was cold. We were invited, yeah. Sean got a cold. Yeah.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got a message.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: On our band camp from Gerard from Frontier Touring.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Frontier Touring.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he bought like a couple copies of our first record.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Nice.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: And yeah, he liked it. And then he sent one
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: up to the Foo Fighters and they dug it. So
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: he sent a message.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: That's so cool. I imagine that's what happened. You guys
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: have been obviously handpicked because I know he's quite supportive
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: of the local live upcomings, which is the best.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good to know.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: And handpicked from his selection, which.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Is so fucking cool.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's great.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: That's definitely one. It's pretty weird, but it's great. I mean,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: what a platform. And just to have that on your...
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: as a band and an artist yourselves didn't go, I've
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: supported the Foo Fighters. Like it doesn't get any better
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: than that. But yeah, that's cool as shit. Yeah.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: And then we, and then we push on and we'll
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: do Sydney, a couple of shows in Sydney after that
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: and head up to Brizzy, do some more shows around Brizzy.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: So yeah, we've got 12 or 14 dates or something.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: We'll hopefully, I'm on the Gold Coast.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: There's plenty of venues that would love to have you
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: as well. Yeah.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we've got a show at Vinnie's, so I've never
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: been there.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, we're super keen for that.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I just feel like I'm going to get hugged every
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: time I go to, like, walk in the venue.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: It's a bit sad.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: It's not a venue. It's just a shitty location. I just, like,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: freak out. Yeah, right. Don't ask me if I'm– I
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: haven't got cigarettes. Yeah. Okay. They get my hair cancelled.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: It's only Thursday afternoon. You're a long waker, aren't you, guys?
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, fair enough.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm like, why leave me unsupervised? It's not a
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: good idea sometimes. It's fun. It's fun. I wouldn't have
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: it any other way. We've got plenty of room to
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: move and misbehave just a little bit.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I was a corporate slave for 20 odd years, you know.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: This is great.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Make up for lost time.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I was like the naughty child. I literally am like, don't,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I will encourage you when I get everyone else in trouble.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, always, always, always. Lucky was very good
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: at my job. So I'm like, what are you going
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: to do?
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Fire me.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: The sassiness of that was I worked in sales for
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: a long time and the mad, mad world of advertising
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: and being good. And it's like, What are you going
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: to do, fire me? I'm top of your fucking sales board.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Because I run away with a whiteboard marker after drawing
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: a big dick on my supervisor's whiteboard screen. I'm giving
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: up my sentence now. I was so naughty. I'm like, wow,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know how I was. Yeah, anyway, I'm moving on.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I'm someone else's problem now. There you go.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: It's all good then.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: You can't restrict a creative person in that, even though
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I had bills to pay and children raised, but you know. Yeah.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: This is the end result of doing that. It's all
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: for the goodness. Well, yeah. So that's awesome. So you
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: guys are playing Blue and The Bright Side in Big Sound,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: which is.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Blue and Tomcat.
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: And then I think we're looking at another gig at
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: Miami Marketo that's still on the calendar.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: So we're, yeah.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. The Fridays. It's either hot or it's cold
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: and it just crammed in. But great bands on Showman,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: mind you. Yeah. As a band, yeah, it is.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: But it's just– Yeah, looking forward to it. Yeah, good
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: food too.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: And we might sneak on a last-minute showcase, but we'll see.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: So there you go for now. Yeah, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, there's still a couple, like, kind of floating around,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: so we'll just wait and see if they go ahead
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: or not.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: You've got some cool power now. You go, hey, do
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: you want us or not?
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: We're instant.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Reference, yeah, just call Casually Cool Dave and ask him.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: That's so cool. Matt, you're going to use that shit
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: to your advantage. I'm with a group of lates who
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: you know, not what you know. Okay.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Just start dropping that line. We'll just talk to Dave,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: see the records.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I'll be like, I do this shit.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: We prefer to call Josh.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Freezy, eh? Actually, I, um, I spoke to Temple of Mars, oh,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Temples on Mars, sorry. Um, the, uh, the other day,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: did an interview with them and Freezy actually played, um,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: a couple of tracks on their last album they did.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're from the UK, so.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: What weapon? Yes, yes, yes, yes. Actually, one of the, oh, Ham, Hamish,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: he was, got a spot running the Foo Fighters at
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: one stage. He's an Aussie drummer.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, who's that?
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Hamish Paul. Yeah, Ham Sammich. Ham Sammich. That's what they
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: call him. So Taylor and Dave started calling him that, yeah.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: He was drumming for him?
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was, I think he just filled in one
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: time for them.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Huge. Yeah, that was massive. Yeah, and still when
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Taylor was in the band too.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, wow.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great. Definitely, definitely. I mean, they're new drummers.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: He rips.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, who is it?
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Ilan or?
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Something like that.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Ilan or?
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he raps.
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, crazy.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: And like the open hand sort of drumming looks wild.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think even Dave's got that style too. Like,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, he started himself off like blues drumming and
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: like basic stuff and, and to be able to do
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: that and then like ham it up as well. It's like, yeah, no,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: it's good.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Love it. Yeah.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: My brother, he was a drummer and he was like,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: he loved his double kick pedal, but then he, his
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: last stuff he was doing, cause he's no longer with us,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: bless his sweet soul. Um, he was able to be
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: a drummer, like just on the, um feather sticks for
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: like he's made like blues roots and and it was
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: a blues band which he actually got to meet dave
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: growlin he walked into their venue one time he's like
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: oh shit this dude looks like me because he had
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: long hair that was a cool story to tell but
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: yeah no that's great you're able to do that i
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: think like change up you know um from being like
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: hardcore like full-on and it's all about your style.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah it's a massive shift hey.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah you've got the skill you know obviously you know
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: you can do it yeah it's like some of our
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: great metal heavy artists have, you know, inspired in the world,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: classically trained on, which I love. I think that's the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: good shit as they say. Yeah. Well, thank you so
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: much for having a chat with us today. Heavy. It's
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: been a genuine pleasure. You guys have been awesome. And
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: it's been this little screen I've had for a while.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: So it's been great. You guys are absolute gems. I
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: like it. Good sports. So we are looking forward to
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: seeing you in a couple of weeks at the big
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: sound in Brisbane land. And I am definitely, we'll be
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: seeing more of you guys. I'm, tick that for the girl. Yeah,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: we might even do another interview once your album comes
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: out and closer to, you know, support the.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Let you know.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Sounds good. Yeah, thanks for having us.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: We love supporting the good stuff here.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Cheers.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Take care. Enjoy. Thanks.