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Celebrations All Round With CHRISTIAN TRYHORN From MO'S DESERT CLUBHOUSE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: So mate says.
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  Speaker 2: A club house celebrates its fifth birthday with a special
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  Speaker 2: party on October sixth, featured live music, games, prizes, food,
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  Speaker 2: had more.
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  Speaker 1: As you say, mate, So firstly, happy birthday.
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  Speaker 2: Make five years old is long, but in the scheme
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  Speaker 2: of things, it's a damn long time.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like I've aged twenty years and five.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we've probably been open seven but the first two
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  Speaker 4: years were like bring your own eski and just a
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  Speaker 4: bit of a shit show but fun. But yeah, legitimately
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  Speaker 4: five years and hoping to celebrate with everyone, have a
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  Speaker 4: good time and throw some of our favorite bands on
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  Speaker 4: the stage for the day.
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  Speaker 2: Oh before I actually get into the music made, I
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  Speaker 2: see you've also got a hot tub there?
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  Speaker 3: How's that going to work? We try and roll out
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  Speaker 3: the hot tub every year.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of those memes where it's like what my
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  Speaker 4: friends think I'm doing and what I'm actually doing is
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  Speaker 4: probably ends up as four overweight guys in the hot
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  Speaker 4: tub with beer bottles at the bottom.
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  Speaker 3: N But yeah, it's just something extra up.
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  Speaker 4: Bring your dogs, bring your towel, and a lot of
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  Speaker 4: the bands jump in after their set and just a
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  Speaker 4: good time. Mate, Try and encourage as much of a
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  Speaker 4: good time at MOS as we can.
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  Speaker 2: Oh sure, now you said there is eight bands playing, Mate,
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  Speaker 2: including Cakes, there's Couch with It, Hammers and Ringer, but
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  Speaker 2: briefly made like, tell us a little bit about each
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  Speaker 2: band on the line up and why you want them
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  Speaker 2: to be partying birthday celebrations.
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  Speaker 3: I think, yeah, there's a bit of a scene.
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  Speaker 4: Like we cater to all genres at MOS, everything from
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  Speaker 4: you know, blues to heavy to comedy, but there's probably
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  Speaker 4: a certain vibe that a lot of the punters dig
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  Speaker 4: and that's i'd say the new sort.
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  Speaker 3: Of the new post punk stone and rock psych rock
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  Speaker 3: kind of feels.
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  Speaker 4: So we try to put together a lineup of of
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  Speaker 4: young bands that sort of cater to the majority of
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  Speaker 4: our crew that froth and come regularly. So all the
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  Speaker 4: bands on the bill I rate one hundred percent some
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  Speaker 4: of the best bands on the Goal Coast in Australia
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  Speaker 4: for mine. All great energetic live shows and yeah, big
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  Speaker 4: riffs and groovy. So yeah, I've just tried to put
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  Speaker 4: together something.
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  Speaker 3: That that will be a fun day. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I know people always say this, Mate, but this
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  Speaker 2: is one show that will sell out because there's going
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  Speaker 2: to be so many people want to be a part
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 1: So where can people find out more information and get tickets?
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  Speaker 3: Now, yeah, there's still some most as a clubhouse.
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  Speaker 4: Dot com has the ticket link and yeah, we've got
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  Speaker 4: tickets left for the Sunday, October sixth event. It's a
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  Speaker 4: public holiday on the Monday, so it's a bit of
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  Speaker 4: a no brainer if you want to come and party
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  Speaker 4: on that day. There might be tickets left on the door.
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  Speaker 4: But I wouldn't resk it.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't risk it.
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  Speaker 2: And you also said at the top we all mentioned
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  Speaker 2: about excuse me about winning the Gold Coast Live Venue
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  Speaker 2: or Live Music Venue of the Year org. But as
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  Speaker 2: well as reading that, you also took out the gone
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  Speaker 2: for Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Mate, you're inducted into that.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a pretty big honor, mate, What does it
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  Speaker 2: actually mean to you and me?
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  Speaker 4: To bos Ah, it's huge, Like, yeah, the chance of
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  Speaker 4: me getting in the Hall of Fame for anything else
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  Speaker 4: in my life an next to none. So what they
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  Speaker 4: do is if you win three of a category, you
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  Speaker 4: get put into the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 3: So far it's Amy Shark and us.
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  Speaker 4: So it took our venue in the year three times
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  Speaker 4: in five years, and we get.
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  Speaker 3: Moved to that sort of status, and for us, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's just.
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  Speaker 4: When you're so busy and caught with your blinkers on it,
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  Speaker 4: it's really rare to take a step back and just
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  Speaker 4: appreciate the journey that you've been on.
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  Speaker 3: So something like that is just a bit of a
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  Speaker 3: tip of the hat to us.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, we value that award and the Hall of
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  Speaker 4: Fame status personally one hundred percent. It means that we're
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  Speaker 4: on the right track and we're doing something right and
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  Speaker 4: it gives us a bit of steam to keep going
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  Speaker 4: in sort of uncertain times.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Music Venue of the Year award, it's great.
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  Speaker 2: It looks good on the shelf, it's a great thing
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  Speaker 2: to talk about, but what actually goes into making your
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  Speaker 2: venue I suppose good enough to even be nominated for that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's I've been a part of the judging panels
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  Speaker 4: as well. It's probably about twenty people on the judging
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  Speaker 4: panel from all walks of music industry life, and they
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  Speaker 4: look at things like variety of offering in terms of
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  Speaker 4: genre and events. They look at accessibility, just the friendliness
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  Speaker 4: and the overall vibe of a place and how a
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  Speaker 4: venue is attracting sort of larger shows, like for us,
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  Speaker 4: we're starting to get a lot of big shows at
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  Speaker 4: two fifty cap, which we.
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  Speaker 3: Weren't a few years ago. You know.
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  Speaker 4: So they look at trajectory and just everyone votes and
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  Speaker 4: they say their piece, and yeah, we were lucky to
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  Speaker 4: take it out. I think for me, just being a
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  Speaker 4: muso first, if I wanted to cater to musicians first
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  Speaker 4: at the venue, like we've got a lot of things
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  Speaker 4: set up sound wise and comfort.
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  Speaker 3: Wise, green room wise, that helped that first.
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  Speaker 4: And it's just flowed on to being a fun and
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  Speaker 4: safe play where people can come and express themselves. And yeah,
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  Speaker 4: there's no fear of any drama or anything like that.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, we tried to create a cool space. Right now,
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  Speaker 4: I want to take you back to the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: Makers.
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  Speaker 2: I've always wondered this fore, I've never actually asked you, like,
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  Speaker 2: why did you call it Mo's Desert Clubhouse in the
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  Speaker 2: first place.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we all met at a festival and American called
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  Speaker 4: Burning Man, which was in Reno in Nevada, and we
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  Speaker 4: made a stop in the Mahave Desert along the way,
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  Speaker 4: which was a really cool place to hang out for
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  Speaker 4: a few days, and we came back to Australia wanting
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  Speaker 4: to do something creative. I've sort of had all the
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  Speaker 4: hats of the industry on, but having my own venue
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  Speaker 4: was the ultimate goal.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, we.
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  Speaker 4: Thought Mahave Desert Clubhouse or Mo's Desert Clubhouse was a
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  Speaker 4: good name. And there's a big mural on the sidewall
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  Speaker 4: that sort of shows a journey of Mo's and yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we really didn't know what we were when we started.
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  Speaker 4: We wanted a space to store our cars and maybe
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  Speaker 4: have some office space and we lived upstairs for a while.
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  Speaker 4: But over time it's just sort of, yeah, evolved into
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  Speaker 4: a real live music venue for Australia. So yeah, pretty stoked.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, it started with some extremely munted chats at
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  Speaker 4: Burning Man.
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  Speaker 2: So over the years, I suppose, how was your initial
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  Speaker 2: vision for mose club House.
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  Speaker 1: How does it progressed over the years to where you
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  Speaker 1: are now?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just a sense of professionalism. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: were sort of taking it.
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  Speaker 4: Week by week, year by year at the start, not
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  Speaker 4: really knowing what the end journey would look like, and
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  Speaker 4: we're getting to a point where it is pretty finalized.
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  Speaker 3: Like there's always.
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  Speaker 4: Improvements you can do on a venue, but the vision
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  Speaker 4: has been actualized, and I think just yeah, realizing that
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  Speaker 4: there is interest here and we are attracting bands of note,
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  Speaker 4: and just really focusing in on that, trying to cater
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  Speaker 4: to a wide range of people coming in. And then
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  Speaker 4: you know, in COVID times we scored grants for things
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  Speaker 4: like a podcast room and jam room and a second
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  Speaker 4: bar and back deck and food truck, just trying to
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  Speaker 4: add things to make it a self sufficient venue and
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  Speaker 4: with alternate income streams.
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  Speaker 3: Just a post to the alcohol as well. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, over those five years, mate, there's been a lot
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  Speaker 2: of hell of a lot of highlights for you, I'm sure,
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  Speaker 2: But what's a couple of your band highlights?
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  Speaker 3: Your personal ones.
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  Speaker 4: Probably the biggest pinch me moment was having sunk Loodo
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  Speaker 4: in house up for.
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  Speaker 3: Their fifteen year reunion show.
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  Speaker 4: I was a massive fan back in the day, lost
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  Speaker 4: my shoes in the moshpit to some boiler room thing
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  Speaker 4: that lived or a big day out. And being able
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  Speaker 4: to have a band that was so special back in
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  Speaker 4: the day to play our venue and play our stage
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  Speaker 4: was a real highlight moment.
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  Speaker 3: Seeing grown men cry in the moshpit with beards and
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  Speaker 3: beer bellies.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't one of them.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, probably Yeah, the best moments of probably the
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  Speaker 4: bands that you never think you're going to get, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like a COG or a Sunklado or some of the
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  Speaker 4: overseas tour. Is there the real moments of holy shit,
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  Speaker 4: like we've done something here and we're attracting people that
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  Speaker 4: were like my heroes back in the day.
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  Speaker 3: So those are probably the specialist moments I think.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they sort of touch on this just before made.
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  Speaker 2: But COVID was obviously a bad period for everyone in
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  Speaker 2: the industry. Like you guys got a few grands to
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  Speaker 2: stuff to help out. You're also branched out each other
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  Speaker 2: other avenues for a revenue stream, I guess. But since then,
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  Speaker 2: like it still hasn't fully got back to what it
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  Speaker 2: should be, has it.
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  Speaker 1: Like it it's still the international acts are.
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  Speaker 2: Coming over, but the local businesses are still struggling to do
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  Speaker 2: to some extent, are they?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I feel like there was a golden period
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  Speaker 4: post COVID where where the brakes were put on international
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  Speaker 4: bands and you know, local bands and upcoming bands were
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  Speaker 4: able to put up their ticket price and sales were
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  Speaker 4: through the roof for local, low level mid level shows
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  Speaker 4: in that period, but as time and the economy rolls on,
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  Speaker 4: it seems that times are tight again for everyone finding
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  Speaker 4: that at the venue, like ticket sales are under what
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  Speaker 4: we would think and what the bands I think they'll
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  Speaker 4: do based on that golden sort of period post COVID,
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  Speaker 4: and people are coming out and maybe only having two
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  Speaker 4: to four drinks whereas you know a few years ago
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  Speaker 4: they would have come out and had ten. So and
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  Speaker 4: then you have to look at the youth coming up,
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  Speaker 4: like alcohol isn't as big a a focus for them
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  Speaker 4: as what it was for our generation.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a few factors there to consider.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have the right answer, but at least we're attracting,
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  Speaker 4: you know, larger bands over time and just have to
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  Speaker 4: keep going man and hopefully write out the period with everyone. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think, like there's so many things and people have
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  Speaker 2: got so many different theories on what can happen. But
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  Speaker 2: I think a big one for me anyway, is that
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  Speaker 2: people have stopped pre buying tickets to constance, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like but what they don't understand is that like the
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  Speaker 2: bands and the venues, they all go off the pre
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  Speaker 2: sales though, like people have mentioned it constantly getting canceled
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  Speaker 2: at the last minute, stuff like that. But it's because
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  Speaker 2: you look at the pre sales, there's ten or twenty
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  Speaker 2: pre stales, and bands aren't prepared take that risk, and
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  Speaker 2: venues are prepared to take that risk. I think collectively
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  Speaker 2: the music lovers out there should start pre purchasing tickets again,
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  Speaker 2: and that'll be one step in the right direction, would it.
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  Speaker 3: It's one hundred per center step in the right direction.
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  Speaker 3: I guess.
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  Speaker 4: I feel for the individuals who have had a lot
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  Speaker 4: of events canceled so that that trend of pre buying tickets,
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  Speaker 4: which was so prevalent when the venue capacities were reduced,
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  Speaker 4: is sort of dried up a little bit. People are
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  Speaker 4: scared to buy tickets and lose their money. But in
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  Speaker 4: this day and age, like as a venue and as
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  Speaker 4: bands involved, we're looking at that presale number pre show
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  Speaker 4: to determine staffing, to determine if a gig is viable.
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  Speaker 4: And quite often you'll have, you know, something sitting on
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  Speaker 4: forty to fifty pre sale, and then you'll get one
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  Speaker 4: hundred and fifty through the door and there's just no
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  Speaker 4: way to prepare for that, or no a show is
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  Speaker 4: even worth doing so, it's definitely a way that that
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  Speaker 4: people can help if they're up for it, to pre
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  Speaker 4: buy tickets and then everyone knows it's going to be
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  Speaker 4: a good show, or know that it won't be viable,
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  Speaker 4: but just have to see if yeah, trends change, so
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  Speaker 4: they do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, one of your little side projects were involved in
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  Speaker 2: made his little thing called Beats touch Els, So tell
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  Speaker 2: us me more about that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, made back to the old website Moss at clubhouse
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  Speaker 4: dot com. There's a what's on there? We've got yeah,
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  Speaker 4: stack of different genre stuff coming out. We've got a
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  Speaker 4: sort of wrapper called Forte and Gooch Palms, Saltree, Dallas,
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  Speaker 4: Frasca Frente, We've got Bob Evans, Andrew Faris remaining, saus King, Parrot,
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  Speaker 4: John Too Good, tanks of.
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  Speaker 3: Shit coming up. Man. So there's something for everyone pretty
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  Speaker 3: much there, Very good.
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  Speaker 2: Now before I let you go, man, I've got a
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  Speaker 2: new segment that I've started where i'd stroll through people's
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  Speaker 2: Facebook pages and find a few photos.
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  Speaker 1: An issue with it? Please explain. I've got yours.
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  Speaker 2: Yours aren't too bad, actually make compared to some of
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  Speaker 2: the ones I got, But I just want to check
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  Speaker 2: this one up because not a lot of people actually
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  Speaker 2: know that you are a musician yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was I had a Transveil Diamond Syndicate gig
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  Speaker 4: that that's been my main blues rock band for twelve
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  Speaker 4: to fifteen years. Yeah, I haven't been able to write
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  Speaker 4: a blues song in a while, which must have been
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  Speaker 4: life's gone too good. But other than that, I play
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  Speaker 4: in a band called Rinser and the Black arm Martyr,
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, part of part of life is trying to
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  Speaker 4: stay stay on the guitar and keep that rolling as well.
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  Speaker 4: It's a challenge when you've got so much on. But
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  Speaker 4: that's my true my true love, I guess man, playing
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  Speaker 4: guitar and playing music.
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  Speaker 2: And here's your other true love, buddy. This photo is
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  Speaker 2: absolutely fucking gold.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, getting my boy to work earlys at that age.
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  Speaker 3: So now that's that list my boy.
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  Speaker 4: That was taken Yeah, probably four five years ago now,
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  Speaker 4: But happy days. Man. We're trying to bring the kids
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  Speaker 4: in and give them exposure to to gigs and the
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  Speaker 4: back end of gigs, and who knows, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if I'd want them to be in the music industry.
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  Speaker 1: I have doesn't have they could deal with this dress.
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  Speaker 3: Yea, hope and get some enjoyment out of it anyway. Cool.
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  Speaker 2: Now we got another one that looks like it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be my personal favorite, mate.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell is going on there?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's our residence shot Ski. It's called at Mo's
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  Speaker 4: twenty bucks for four shots. You have to all work
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  Speaker 4: as a team or you get a fible down your top.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah about a few, mate, I'll try and limit the
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  Speaker 4: shots these days, but a bit of fun, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Christ Well, thanks very much for your time, mate.
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  Speaker 2: Most fifth birthday bash is on October the sixth. It's
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  Speaker 2: a Sunday public Hoday on the Monday. He's still tickets
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  Speaker 2: left plenty. Else happened in there, mate, He goes a
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  Speaker 2: champion music venue. You support music really well, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: parf of everyone. Thank you and well done on the awards.