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Haunting Atmospherics With ANDREW CRAIGHAN From MY DYING BRIDE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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Speaker 1: My name is Andy. I play a guitar in a
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Speaker 1: band called My Dying Bride, which is an English doom
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Speaker 1: metal band for those that are unfamiliar with what we
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Speaker 1: were about. And we're about to come to Australia amongst
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Speaker 1: a few other places Japan and China very soon at
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Speaker 1: the sort of tenth around the tenth of September for
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Speaker 1: the first time in our thirty five year sort of
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Speaker 1: career or existence or whatever you want to call it.
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Speaker 1: So we're all really quite excited about that, and some
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Speaker 1: of us are still in shock at that it's finally happening,
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Speaker 1: and some of us are still shocked that it's happening
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Speaker 1: at all, but there we are. So yeah, it's interesting times.
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Speaker 1: Something's going on. Somebody said, thanks for joining us, man.
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Speaker 2: Might I Bright hit Astralia for the first time ever
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Speaker 2: this month for two special trids, personally the Metro in
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Speaker 2: Sydney on September sixteen, before hitting the North Kape Theater
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Speaker 2: in Melbourne the following night, like not far off right,
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Speaker 2: and you're packed and ready to go.
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Speaker 1: Oddly enough, I'm more packs then you might think, which
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Speaker 1: is surprising, and I'm not entirely show why that is.
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Speaker 1: I think I think it's mild panic attacks that because
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Speaker 1: we I mean, we've done decent distance if you will,
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Speaker 1: shows before, but nothing quite like this. I mean really
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Speaker 1: nothing that this will be very unique for everybody in
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Speaker 1: this band. No one's been quite this far away from
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Speaker 1: home and that kind of thing. So I'm not quite
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Speaker 1: fully packed to check. And if I was, I'd probably
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Speaker 1: unpack it and repack it to check like that. But no,
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Speaker 1: not completely, but closer than I'm a little bit more
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Speaker 1: prepared than I like to think. But it's just making
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Speaker 1: me nervous now thinking about it.
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Speaker 2: Check.
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Speaker 1: It means that much to us, you know, we're really
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Speaker 1: sort of I don't I don't know how I describe it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we get excited in front of shows, and
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Speaker 1: nervous is that, but this is different. It feels very different.
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Speaker 1: We're really looking forward to these.
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Speaker 2: You sort of touched on this before, Bright, but it
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Speaker 2: is your first ever time company Ereia. So the big
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Speaker 2: quest as you needed, why or hell have you menationed
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Speaker 2: Collects for thirty five years?
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Speaker 1: I don't have a clear or a crystal clear answer
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Speaker 1: to that. But the closest I can come to any
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Speaker 1: semblance of truth is we all work for not well.
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Speaker 1: As I just mentioned a second ago, we all and
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Speaker 1: the rest of the band are no different. They all
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Speaker 1: have very serious jobs obviously we've got to keep hold
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Speaker 1: of and I can only assume that our mixture of
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Speaker 1: wanting to do shows but closer as always gotten the
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Speaker 1: way of risking, if you will, or committing to all
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Speaker 1: of these shows like we are doing now. And I
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Speaker 1: think what happened was we've had some bad news recently
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Speaker 1: and the band's a little bit turmoil, as most people
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Speaker 1: who know about us, we'll probably know, and we just decided,
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Speaker 1: you know what, let's just fucking do it. Let's put
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Speaker 1: all the other shows that we had penciled in on
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Speaker 1: the sidelines and those kinds of things with that upsetting anybody,
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Speaker 1: no cancelations and just do and concentrate. And we just
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Speaker 1: everybody just put the mind to we want to go
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Speaker 1: to Australia, we want to go to Japan. China just
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Speaker 1: fell in the mix, and career fell in the mix
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Speaker 1: as well, and it was just it was one of
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Speaker 1: those but why not, let's just, you know, we may
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Speaker 1: never get another chance, who knows, you know, And it's
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Speaker 1: not because we don't want to go and it's not
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Speaker 1: because there's no interest. It's just that we have to
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Speaker 1: balance that against our working lives as well. And I
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Speaker 1: can only think it's that because it's not the lack
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Speaker 1: of promoters with serious offers. Australia has always been, you know,
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Speaker 1: very professionally interested. Let's call it the same for Japan,
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Speaker 1: and I'm not so sure about China though that one
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Speaker 1: was a bit of a surprise. It's it's it's the
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Speaker 1: band's sort of a happy type for the risks to
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Speaker 1: come out there, because once we do these shows, that's
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Speaker 1: sort's finished, you know what I mean. That we're all
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Speaker 1: back to work and no one's going on holiday.
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Speaker 2: Ever.
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Speaker 1: Again, that's certainly not rock and roll, is it. You know, know,
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Speaker 1: you don't get may Croup saying that. I mean, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. We've you've kind of like we've
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Speaker 1: deliberately hobbled ourselves by playing music almost no one wants
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Speaker 1: to hear, and yet we love it and obviously there
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Speaker 1: is a crowd that loves it, and but it's only
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Speaker 1: in a very limited aspect of limited sort of numbers
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Speaker 1: and those kind of things. So we we kind of
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Speaker 1: asked for trouble and then got it. In the way
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Speaker 1: in the music which you use to play. But there
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Speaker 1: such is life.
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Speaker 2: There wouldn't be many places left in the road that
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Speaker 2: you guys haven't been. So when you tore a country
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Speaker 2: for the first time, like you are Australia, you talk
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Speaker 2: to people you either have been here before to find
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Speaker 2: out what to expect or do. You're rather going cold
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Speaker 2: and take it as it comes.
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Speaker 1: I've got a good friend actually who lives there, and
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Speaker 1: I've actually not He was my best friend for many
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Speaker 1: years when we were kids growing up listening to Anthrax
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Speaker 1: and Slayer, and he moved to Australia. He's flying across
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Speaker 1: to see us, and I haven't asked him anything. But
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Speaker 1: then I asked a good managerial friend who is actually
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Speaker 1: believe it or not, it's probably just about to finish
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Speaker 1: the a CDC tour in Europe as their tour manager,
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Speaker 1: and he lives really close to me, So I asked
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Speaker 1: him mainly, how do we get in first time? You
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Speaker 1: know how to make the visas go without causing any
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Speaker 1: bothering that kind of thing, and he just gave us
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Speaker 1: some tips on that. But the actual boots on the ground,
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Speaker 1: I haven't asked anybody anything. I never even thought to.
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Speaker 1: We've just been concentrated on making sure that we play
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Speaker 1: the set you know, correctly, and make sure that the
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Speaker 1: show is at least well, there's an element that's out
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Speaker 1: of our hands, but at least the music side is
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Speaker 1: going to be good. I never even thought about I
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Speaker 1: might ask someone what to do what I mean, some
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Speaker 1: interviewers have been given me top tips on what to eat,
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Speaker 1: but I'm not sure I trust any of those people.
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Speaker 1: I know they've all got yeah, but no. So we're
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Speaker 1: going in cold as it were.
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Speaker 2: And what are you actually expecting from Australian crowds? Light
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Speaker 2: Like we've got reputation for made a little bit crazy
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Speaker 2: over here.
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Speaker 1: You have, I'm expecting that actually, and we're hoping that
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Speaker 1: we can just hold it together to get the set done.
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Speaker 1: I mean whatever, I mean, We'll be happy with whatever
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Speaker 1: takes place. I mean, these two shows that we're doing
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Speaker 1: are very sort of up close and personal types club shows.
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Speaker 1: It's not like the festivals that we sometimes play in Europe,
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Speaker 1: where you know, the crowd's massive and the you know,
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Speaker 1: you're twenty feet away from everybody and forty feet up
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Speaker 1: in the air as well. Sometimes so we appreciate. It's
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Speaker 1: very much a club show, and we haven't done many
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Speaker 1: of them in the last few years, so for us,
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Speaker 1: it's it's going to be in It's almost like a
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Speaker 1: blast from the past, so we'll it'll be like going
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Speaker 1: back in time to when people were really keen and
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Speaker 1: really close at the same time. So it should it'll
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Speaker 1: be interesting. I reckon it's going to be good. It
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Speaker 1: should just be a good, good atmosphere and we're happy
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Speaker 1: to be there. If they're happy to be there, it'll
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Speaker 1: just be great.
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Speaker 2: Saying it's going to be your first thought me about
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Speaker 2: are you going to play songs from your whole career?
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Speaker 2: Are you just going to focus on your most recent album.
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Speaker 2: I'm all a binding.
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Speaker 1: Mainly older stuff. Probably up to Feel the Misery. I
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Speaker 1: think we bring back Field just the song that the
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Speaker 1: title song, Feel the Misery, and then just two off
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Speaker 1: the new album, which is the second of Three Bells
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Speaker 1: and the Apocalyptist, and they fit the set very well.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if, as I would imagine, some of your
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Speaker 1: crowd might be very drunk, they probably notice which two
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Speaker 1: they are, so that we might do a competition to
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Speaker 1: see where they were in the set. But yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: it's it's mainly also we appreciate. I mean I appreciate
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Speaker 1: because I'm like this, you know, if I want to
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Speaker 1: see someone, you want to hear the songs that you
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Speaker 1: know and love from when you were growing when the
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Speaker 1: scene was still forming and it was well I'm not
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Speaker 1: saying it's not important now, but it was certainly more
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Speaker 1: important back then. So we wouldn't just we're not then
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Speaker 1: necessarily to promote this new album. I mean, in fact,
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Speaker 1: that's probably the best way say this. We're not there
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Speaker 1: to promote this new album at all. We're there to
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Speaker 1: just play a show, and it just so happens that
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Speaker 1: we'll get We enjoy these two songs so much, we
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Speaker 1: want to play them, and we want to play them live.
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Speaker 1: But they could equally and and and just as quickly
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Speaker 1: be put aside and maybe your River from Turners could
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Speaker 1: be brought in and something from one of the others,
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Speaker 1: you know, because we've we've got plenty of music to
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Speaker 1: choose from. They're just good songs and they fit the set. Well. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Nice. Now you've got to Miko Costa Maki from Say
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Speaker 2: the Sun guesting on vocals to the show, So tell
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Speaker 2: us more about him, and then why he was chosen.
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Speaker 1: Well, he he was chosen because we found ourselves vocalist less,
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Speaker 1: if there is such a word. Yeah, and we're allowed
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Speaker 1: to do that. We make and we have to admit
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Speaker 1: we didn't know quite how deeply Aaron's solo aspirations were.
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Speaker 1: Let let's politely put like that, which we which I
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Speaker 1: kind of understand. You know, people, you know, you get
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Speaker 1: to a certain age and you want to make things happen,
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Speaker 1: you want to make them happen quick, but obviously adding
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Speaker 1: an effect on us. We were left without vocalist and
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Speaker 1: we weren't ready for it. We weren't we didn't have
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Speaker 1: a plan. We didn't well mainly because we didn't know.
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Speaker 1: So we quickly sort of we found ourselves in disarray.
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Speaker 1: And I'll try to be brief, but we were. We
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Speaker 1: were sort of shocked at this. So once we'd got
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Speaker 1: over the shock and we realized we really didn't have
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Speaker 1: a vocalist. Is his new bands and he's putting another
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Speaker 1: It sounds like he's putting another band together as well.
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Speaker 1: To Enhuse's solo career. We had to find a vocalist
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Speaker 1: and we I think it was either Neil and Sean
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Speaker 1: or a combination of Neil, Dan and Sean who were
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Speaker 1: very fond Swallow the Sun, and they know Miko's history
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Speaker 1: because I think Swallowed us on a very early in
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Speaker 1: their early career were influenced by My Dane Bride. So
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Speaker 1: he kind of left us with well, so he knows us,
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Speaker 1: he knows what my Dame Bride is, he knows what
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Speaker 1: the ethosism, you know what it's about. He won't have
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Speaker 1: any delusions of grandeur because he knows where my dayn
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Speaker 1: bread come from and where we presently are. And then
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Speaker 1: the most important thing. We looked at his vocal range
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Speaker 1: and it's very his death metals different to the way
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Speaker 1: Aaron would sing it, but his vocal range is very
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Speaker 1: much what we needed. So we we'll try that guy first.
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Speaker 1: And he just said yes, And it was that simple,
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Speaker 1: It were really And then within a couple of weeks
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Speaker 1: of him saying yes, we flew him across to Halifax
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Speaker 1: and we and we had a meaning and a meeting
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Speaker 1: and we did some rehearsals and it was just easy.
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Speaker 1: It was really something. And despite he's got a very
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Speaker 1: dry sense of humor, of phenomenally dry sense of humor,
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Speaker 1: but He's very, very professional, to the point where we
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Speaker 1: were quite shocked. We were like, oh fucking hell, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna have to get professional now.
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Speaker 2: That wasn't the contract profession.
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Speaker 1: Looks like we weren't ready for any of that. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: we we all pulled the socks up a little bit
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Speaker 1: and just works and we went and we've just done
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Speaker 1: three shows. We did when it's back. He went in
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Speaker 1: hungry and won in Finland, his hometown, well not his hometown,
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Speaker 1: but it's home country, at least to a great success.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we had some equipment issues, but that nothing
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Speaker 1: musically or personality wise. We all got on. We had
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Speaker 1: a great time and despite the shock of you know,
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Speaker 1: people sort of the new Miko was singing and I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure what they expected, but when he walks out
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Speaker 1: on stage, they cheer.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The joke in the band is that you know that
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Speaker 1: I've been in this band for X amount of years
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Speaker 1: and they don't fucking cheer for me? Is it? So
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Speaker 1: it was we were all suddenly, it's like that is it?
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Speaker 1: So it's been great, I have to admit, but it was.
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Speaker 1: It was strange beginnings and we weren't really sure what
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Speaker 1: was going to come out, but it's it's been great.
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Speaker 1: So this is how we'll continue until we don't.
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Speaker 2: Cool very nice. Now, going back in history a bit, brother,
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Speaker 2: like you started My Dying Briding Bradford back in ninety ninety.
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Speaker 2: So what was the musical climate like back then they
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Speaker 2: gave birth to the band and where did you fit
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Speaker 2: in in the early days.
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Speaker 1: Well, we I actually mentioned in another email to one
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Speaker 1: of your compatriots that Bradford's a shittle and I actually
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Speaker 1: used that word and it was probably I mean, it's
12:20
Speaker 1: not a great place, don't get me wrong, but even
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Speaker 1: then it's probably a little bit harsh because you can find,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, diamonds in the rough, let's say.
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Speaker 1: But back then in nineteen ninety or in nineteen eighty
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Speaker 1: eight eighty nine, when we were just coming into this scene,
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Speaker 1: Bradford was one of the few places in Britain that
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Speaker 1: got all of the American all of the European death
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Speaker 1: metal bands and then bands, so we were so dark.
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Speaker 1: Angel would come over and they'd play London Bradford and
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Speaker 1: somewhere in Scotland we'd get Nuclear Assault, Slayer, Anthrax, all
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Speaker 1: of that. We didn't miss a single thing, so Bradford
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Speaker 1: was like a hotbed and I lived and well we
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Speaker 1: all lived there so we didn't have to travel far.
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Speaker 1: The gigs were mainly in a place called the Queen's
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Speaker 1: All upstairs in the Queens Oaks. They had a smaller
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Speaker 1: venue downstairs too, and we'd get also, you know, we
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Speaker 1: had the bolt throzer when near Pandath carcass everybody and
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Speaker 1: we never missed anybody. It was just phenomenal entombed. When
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Speaker 1: they first came over, we saw them at Queen's Hall,
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Speaker 1: Me and Calvin, the original guitarist from years ago. We're
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Speaker 1: talking to them, you know, trying to get their plectrums
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Speaker 1: off them, which then turned out to be simple Jim
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Speaker 1: Dunlop one mill plectrums. They weren't even entombed once. You
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Speaker 1: know that we've got you know, but we were kids,
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Speaker 1: you know, we were we were just keen, like man alive.
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Speaker 1: It's entmbed, you know. We were just listening to the
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Speaker 1: left hand path and their side came, and then you
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Speaker 1: know that Sacred Right came, and then Morbid Angel came
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Speaker 1: and it's like we had parking everybody. So for us,
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Speaker 1: it was it was beautiful, it really was, and it
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Speaker 1: was easy because it was right on his doorstep. I
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Speaker 1: could walk to these venues from where I lived and
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Speaker 1: then walk home. So joining or starting an every metal band,
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Speaker 1: we were all. Everybody was at it, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean. So there was loads of us. So for us,
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Speaker 1: the we were kind of I won't say spoil it.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't easy easy, but it was easier in retrospect
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Speaker 1: because we had places to play and we had people
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Speaker 1: to play too. So when we teamed up with like,
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Speaker 1: there was a band from London called Decomposed, we used
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Speaker 1: to play with them. There's a band I think that
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Speaker 1: from Wales called him Paler or something. We played with them,
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Speaker 1: and we played with Anathema, and we played with a
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Speaker 1: band called Malediction who are still going right now. And
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Speaker 1: we've played with all these you know, underground bands, and
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Speaker 1: some of us broke from some of us didn't. Paradise
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Speaker 1: Loss we've played with them a number of times, played
14:37
Speaker 1: with Nate Palm Death and Caracas and Morbid Angel different
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Speaker 1: levels and Boltthrow. We've played with bolt Throw that we
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Speaker 1: loved both Throw in fact still do and memorialm So
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Speaker 1: there was nothing, you know what I mean. That's if
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Speaker 1: you listen to the list we had it. We were
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Speaker 1: on easy street back then, we really were, and today
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Speaker 1: those venues have all gone. Playing gigs in Bradford is
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Speaker 1: not quite the same. It's still has the essence. You
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Speaker 1: can you can sense the not the heartbeat as it had,
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Speaker 1: but the sort of people sense it had the heart
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Speaker 1: and the kind of reliving some of that sometimes. But
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Speaker 1: we back then, I have to admit it was. It
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Speaker 1: was well, I'm going it looks like it was easy
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Speaker 1: now when I've just spelled it out like that. But
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Speaker 1: the time, but it's certainly easier than what I would
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Speaker 1: imagine modern bands. If you were to start now, you
15:26
Speaker 1: would you wouldn't have the same ride we had because we,
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Speaker 1: like I said, every metal band that came through European
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Speaker 1: or or otherwise, the Americans particularly all came and just
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Speaker 1: played at Queen's Hall and you could get him. It was.
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Speaker 1: It was just an amazing time. I mean really badly.
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Speaker 2: Missed what you've just said.
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Speaker 1: A great place, but this particular place, you know, it
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Speaker 1: was a top end of Bradford. I mean it was
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Speaker 1: actually all right, It's yeah, I mean I denigrated it
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Speaker 1: really badly and I felt a bit guilty about that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I am literally from Bradford's I shouldn't really
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Speaker 1: have said that, so well, that's my apology. Then I'm
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Speaker 1: not saying it again.
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Speaker 2: Get One, You've gone on to be widely regarded as
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Speaker 2: pioneers of the metal. But what was your early vision
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Speaker 2: in regards to music and how it changed since?
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Speaker 1: I don't think that the vision's changed since. But originally,
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Speaker 1: the overriding feeling we had is when we we thought
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Speaker 1: or we've tried to be. And this is rather pompous.
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Speaker 1: I suppose we were big fans of Celtic Frost right
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Speaker 1: up until Cold Lake, and we've we've spoke to Tom
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Speaker 1: about that, We've had words with him about that record,
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Speaker 1: and we we love that eclectic sort of approach and
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Speaker 1: the absolute no holds bad. You know that we're going
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Speaker 1: to do something like this and when you going to
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Speaker 1: do something like this, and we liked that, but we
17:03
Speaker 1: sort of thought we we can be better at that,
17:06
Speaker 1: and we can be better. I mean, we weren't, and
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Speaker 1: we thought we were I call it confident naivete, which
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Speaker 1: we were full of back then when we were kids.
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Speaker 1: So we tried to be death metal, but with the
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Speaker 1: more polished and poetic and English attitude to it. You know,
17:21
Speaker 1: we couldn't be deer sided, we didn't have their teeth,
17:24
Speaker 1: and we could be morbidy angel and we weren't quite
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Speaker 1: like Carcass and we weren't as polished as Candle Mass,
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Speaker 1: but as a mixture of them all we could bring
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Speaker 1: our version of professionalism. We tried to be professional even
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Speaker 1: though we were stupid kids, but we tried and we've
17:39
Speaker 1: always particularly after the Iron Maiden tour that we did,
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Speaker 1: when we watched how they operate, we really fine tuned,
17:46
Speaker 1: as you know, because we were stupid kids up until
17:48
Speaker 1: that point. And I think all we've tried to be
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Speaker 1: is not necessarily deliberately avant garde, because people can out
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Speaker 1: weird as now. You know, there's lots more bands playing
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Speaker 1: ange music than we did. But we always tried to
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Speaker 1: push the boundaries but still keep it in the realm
18:05
Speaker 1: of heavy metal. It had to be some form of
18:08
Speaker 1: well whatever it was, but says metal at the end,
18:10
Speaker 1: it was never meant to be anything else, and I
18:13
Speaker 1: think that stuck with us. We still tried that, but
18:16
Speaker 1: the in the early days we didn't really and I'll
18:21
Speaker 1: be honest with no one anticipated an ep no one
18:23
Speaker 1: anticipated an album or two albums or three albums. No one.
18:27
Speaker 1: There was no one in the band who was that
18:30
Speaker 1: egotistical that we thought we'd get any of that done.
18:33
Speaker 1: It was all brand new to us. Every single one
18:35
Speaker 1: was an amazing trip. We thought, wow, you know what
18:37
Speaker 1: on his third album, bloody Hell, no one thought that
18:40
Speaker 1: was coming. And to be still doing it, I mean,
18:42
Speaker 1: I'm going to feel it, but it still excites me
18:46
Speaker 1: in the in the right way. But the ethosy seemed
18:50
Speaker 1: to just try be It's almost like trying to be
18:54
Speaker 1: rowdy and messy and clean and professional at the same time.
18:57
Speaker 1: You know you've got this. The paradox is how you
19:00
Speaker 1: and they do that's not possible.
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Speaker 2: Tell me when you figure it out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, no one's going to do it and
19:05
Speaker 1: trying and give also this sort of eclectic, intelligent element
19:09
Speaker 1: as well as if we're sort of British gentleman, which
19:12
Speaker 1: if you actually saw is you know, we obviously on
19:15
Speaker 1: stage we're focused and professional, but if you met as
19:20
Speaker 1: it's kind of you know, we're just regular. We can
19:23
Speaker 1: probably sense that from me now, we're just regular guys
19:25
Speaker 1: and girls. You know, there's nothing over the pretentious about us,
19:30
Speaker 1: But the music when that starts, that changes something inside us,
19:34
Speaker 1: and we've become slightly different while it's playing, and then
19:36
Speaker 1: you know, back to normal when it stops.
19:39
Speaker 2: Perfect and speaking about albums, like you released your fifteenth
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Speaker 2: studio album, Mortal Binding last year, So how the reception
19:46
Speaker 2: for that? Like I know at the time before it
19:47
Speaker 2: came out, people were saying it was your best way yet.
19:50
Speaker 2: But how was the reception? Did that translate?
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Speaker 1: It has? I mean, like I said that I touched
19:56
Speaker 1: on early with with Aaron, sort of a solo aspirations
20:00
Speaker 1: I like to call them, to be polite about the
20:03
Speaker 1: sort of decision making process. It's had an effect. But musically,
20:09
Speaker 1: when you sit down and people actually scrutinize it or
20:13
Speaker 1: if they review it, no one's complaining about it. In fact,
20:16
Speaker 1: most people are saying it's the strongest album we've done
20:18
Speaker 1: for some time, even better than Ghost of a Ryan,
20:21
Speaker 1: which was relative. Most people thought that was a pretty
20:24
Speaker 1: strong record. This one musically, but I think the discord
20:30
Speaker 1: that's sort of surrounding it at the moment has kind
20:32
Speaker 1: of soured it a little bit. But overall, from a
20:34
Speaker 1: musical point of view, I don't think anybody's I mean,
20:38
Speaker 1: if they get into My dying brade that people are
20:40
Speaker 1: really sort of catching on to this and it is
20:42
Speaker 1: picking up again. People are saying nice things about it
20:44
Speaker 1: now because it's weird how something utterly and completely unrelated
20:50
Speaker 1: to the actual music can have an effect on people's
20:52
Speaker 1: perception of it. We've watched it, but it's beginning to
20:55
Speaker 1: fade and people are liking the album again in a
20:57
Speaker 1: strange way. Anything, Well, it was always the same album, even.
20:59
Speaker 2: Though is it it's frustrating to people and outside factors
21:04
Speaker 2: come into what is essentially a separate body of work
21:09
Speaker 2: it is.
21:09
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, it's kind of understandable, but it's
21:12
Speaker 1: a weird sort of a when when we've realized what
21:16
Speaker 1: was taking place. So I was speaking to the record label,
21:18
Speaker 1: one of the guys down there, and they were pointing
21:21
Speaker 1: out these things. Everythink, that's that's weird. That's a weird
21:23
Speaker 1: sort of No one would expect that as because we're
21:27
Speaker 1: kind of weird animals. We're very emotional, even if we
21:29
Speaker 1: try to pretend we're cool all the time. All of
21:31
Speaker 1: us are affected by something and these the turmoil, if
21:35
Speaker 1: you want to call it affected retrospectively, people's opinion of
21:40
Speaker 1: music they previously enjoyed worked out and they could see,
21:44
Speaker 1: you know, in reactions and that kind of thing of
21:45
Speaker 1: these little poles that they do. Anythink, wow, I would
21:47
Speaker 1: never have thought that, But and then you think, yeah,
21:49
Speaker 1: it kind of makes sense. But the things people are
21:53
Speaker 1: sort of dusting off the turmoil and getting back to
21:55
Speaker 1: the core of why they like Nighty and Bride the music.
21:59
Speaker 1: You know, we're not anything much more than just a
22:02
Speaker 1: man that tries to be and tries to play honest music.
22:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I can't do anything else. Bro fifteen albums,
22:09
Speaker 2: Man like fifteen albums. There's a lot of albums and
22:12
Speaker 2: a hell of a lot of music, right as in
22:14
Speaker 2: many addition, do you think it gas if you're all
22:16
Speaker 2: harder to come up with fresh shirting material?
22:17
Speaker 1: The more you're right, Oddly enough, I think it gets easier.
22:23
Speaker 1: But there's an element of you've got to be very
22:26
Speaker 1: careful or in my opinion, my my sort of experience
22:31
Speaker 1: of it, not to repeat. That's the that's the hard part,
22:34
Speaker 1: not repeating what you've done. Because obviously I like what
22:39
Speaker 1: I like and most you can hear it, you know,
22:41
Speaker 1: you can hear it on the albums. That's me that
22:42
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and you're getting mostly what
22:46
Speaker 1: I like to hear. You know, I'm not really playing
22:49
Speaker 1: it for anybody else. I'm doing it because I like
22:51
Speaker 1: it and thankfully some of the people who are joining in.
22:55
Speaker 1: So but after a while, the key is you go
22:57
Speaker 1: back and play something it's like, famly, I fucking recognize
23:00
Speaker 1: that and it's us, you know, and you've got to
23:02
Speaker 1: really think, now, well, we can't do that again. We
23:04
Speaker 1: need to rethink that. That's the hard part. The ideas
23:08
Speaker 1: keep flowing, but you I am I repeating myself now,
23:11
Speaker 1: you know. That's the tricky part. That the writing, the
23:16
Speaker 1: actual I find it's really easy and I've got so
23:20
Speaker 1: many ideas and so many different things to keep going
23:22
Speaker 1: and ideas to push when we when we start writing again. Well,
23:25
Speaker 1: in fact, we've started writing again, but we were having
23:27
Speaker 1: a break at the moment while we're just the shows.
23:31
Speaker 1: So I'd say overall, the trickiest part is ensuring it
23:36
Speaker 1: stays relatively fresh, but also not so obviously MDB, that
23:43
Speaker 1: it's stuff you've you're not regurgitating stuff that you've already done.
23:46
Speaker 1: That's the hard part. I mean, let's face it, the
23:49
Speaker 1: world's not bereft of misery to take inspiration from us.
23:53
Speaker 2: Just got to go.
23:57
Speaker 1: You don't have to go far for any kind of
23:58
Speaker 1: real inspiration, you know, just wake up, that'll do.
24:04
Speaker 2: We mentioned earlier that you going to be playing shows
24:06
Speaker 2: in Sydney and Melbourne. Now you know, Australia is a
24:08
Speaker 2: big place made, so there's going to be a lot
24:10
Speaker 2: of people having to come from inter state to what
24:11
Speaker 2: you play. But just say, someone's still sitting on the
24:14
Speaker 2: fence about paying for that airfare and getting that hotel room,
24:17
Speaker 2: like why should they travel to see you?
24:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't have an answer for that, because I'm
24:23
Speaker 1: not really a salesman, I mean, and the people promoting
24:25
Speaker 1: this are probably kicking themselves saying, who's this club? Can't
24:27
Speaker 1: we get someone else? I would if I was on
24:31
Speaker 1: the fence, and all right, because I appreciate finances are
24:35
Speaker 1: probably i mean the tough for everybody, and I get that.
24:38
Speaker 1: So but there's a good chance this might be I mean,
24:44
Speaker 1: I walk into my esoteric if we meet in Australia,
24:47
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I was about to say at
24:49
Speaker 1: this point, But I reckon, well, there's probably a chance
24:54
Speaker 1: we might not ever make it back. I'm not saying
24:56
Speaker 1: the world's going to crack it up and we're just space.
24:58
Speaker 1: But it took thirty five years just to get this far.
25:01
Speaker 1: H So I would I would edge my bets if
25:04
Speaker 1: if I was one of those guys on the face
25:06
Speaker 1: and thing, well, what are the chances of MDB coming again?
25:09
Speaker 1: It's slim, right, let's just say it's slim. So you know,
25:12
Speaker 1: I better make a movie here. But I can't. I
25:15
Speaker 1: can't convince anybody. I was like, oh, if you come
25:18
Speaker 1: and see us, it's gonna be the best thing. You know,
25:20
Speaker 1: don't go see Beyond, say instead, come and see us.
25:22
Speaker 1: It's well, yeah, you go see Beyonce. Of course it's
25:33
Speaker 1: one of those showing you know, relatively, Oh you know,
25:37
Speaker 1: we go see them, you know what I mean. Like
25:39
Speaker 1: and because that that Bradford thing I mentioned earlier, when
25:41
Speaker 1: it was easy for us to see people, that those
25:44
Speaker 1: days have gone. We have to travel now. Yeah, I
25:47
Speaker 1: appreciate it. And if you're into this kind of thing
25:50
Speaker 1: and you want to just say I was there, I
25:52
Speaker 1: definitely saw them. They came to Australia and you know,
25:53
Speaker 1: I was one of those guys supporting them during that
25:56
Speaker 1: this is it, this is probably it. But on the
25:58
Speaker 1: flip side, there is an element of once it's been
26:02
Speaker 1: done once it makes it easy to do it again.
26:05
Speaker 1: But I don't know when that might be. That's the
26:07
Speaker 1: that's the gamble, you know what I mean?
26:10
Speaker 2: Such a crappy answer. It you just you covered every
26:12
Speaker 2: side of the fence there, You did well.
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Speaker 1: I managed to stay on the fence as well. You know,
26:17
Speaker 1: I didn't commit to any side of You.
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Speaker 2: Know you are a salesman. Thanks for your time. Andrew
26:23
Speaker 2: has been absolutely pleasure speaking about Sure I die Brady
26:26
Speaker 2: here September sixteen, seventeen, Sydney and Melbourne. Only Andrew's not
26:31
Speaker 2: going to tell you to get a flight, but I'm
26:32
Speaker 2: going to tell you to get a flight. Be fucking awesome.
26:36
Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much. I'm sure they'll be really
26:38
Speaker 1: I am looking forward to these. I'm sure they're going
26:40
Speaker 1: to be great.
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Speaker 2: Yeah,