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Toxic Treasures With MIKAILA & TEDDIE From YOURS TRULY · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I've got Mikayla and Eddy here from Yours Truly speaking
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  Speaker 1: with Heavy mag about their new album, Toxic that's coming
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  Speaker 1: out in two weeks. So how's it feeling in the camp?
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  Speaker 1: Do you guys still get nervous or is it just
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  Speaker 1: exciting at this point?
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  Speaker 2: Nervous and excited, definitely, but mostly excited. Yeah. We've been
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  Speaker 2: been hanging out a bunch, prepping for all the shows
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  Speaker 2: that we've got coming up, practicing a lot, so I
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  Speaker 2: think just being around each other is piping each other up,
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  Speaker 2: trying to shake off the all the nervous bits. Butter, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: still a little bit nervous about it, but I guess
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  Speaker 2: that's part of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that's right. And you released Sour California's Sober
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  Speaker 1: and Call My Name so far, So how do you
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  Speaker 1: pick what song gets released straight out of the gate?
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  Speaker 3: Call My Men? We chose because we just loved it
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  Speaker 3: like so much and it was actually finished before we
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  Speaker 3: tracked the album. It was the first song we tracked
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  Speaker 3: for the record, and everyone's like, oh, it's just like
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  Speaker 3: way and like see what other like other songs we
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  Speaker 3: get like in the album when they're finished, Like a
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  Speaker 3: song can change and then we just got to a
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  Speaker 3: point where were like, this song is still gonna be good,
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  Speaker 3: and we're still gonna song and it's still like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: let's just let's put it out, and so that's what
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  Speaker 3: we did with that one. I think Sou was also
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  Speaker 3: one of the same ones. When we read it, we
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  Speaker 3: were like, yeah, this is gonna be this is gonna
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  Speaker 3: be a single. I think Yeah, it's just having that
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  Speaker 3: gut feeling yeah, this is gonna be the one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in the moment of recording it, like you know
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  Speaker 1: when your singles are popping up, like this is gonna
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  Speaker 1: pop off. We're gonna do yeah, yeah, cool, Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 3: You're like, we love it.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone else is gonna love it too. You guys kind
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  Speaker 1: of hit that sweet spot. You're all different kind of
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  Speaker 1: genres popping up, so you get your pop punk and
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  Speaker 1: the heavier kind of music as well. So that kind
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  Speaker 1: of opens you up to all different walks of life
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  Speaker 1: for your fan base. Is it nice having all those
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  Speaker 1: people kind of showing up and connecting your music and
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  Speaker 1: not really having to force yourself into a box like
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  Speaker 1: a lot of bands do these days.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's sick. I think that it's nice to
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  Speaker 2: like because you know a lot of people miss the
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  Speaker 2: old mixed bill. Like everyone that kind of listens to
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  Speaker 2: this kind of side of music will generally kind of
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  Speaker 2: have a pretty broad range with what they're listening to. Still,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's like it's good to have a bit
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  Speaker 2: of coverage for everyone to make sure it's something that
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  Speaker 2: like as many people can enjoy as possible. But I
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  Speaker 2: think that like we've always had like me and Michael
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  Speaker 2: have always been big, big patrons of having mixed biels
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  Speaker 2: at shows and like having a heavy like a metal
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  Speaker 2: band on and then like followed by a pop punk
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  Speaker 2: band or something like that. Just like it's it's fun
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  Speaker 2: to have that, And I think that it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: worked its way into how style of writing for albums now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah cool.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's awesome too because you guys can play
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  Speaker 1: like have about your Airplane through Triple Day and then
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  Speaker 1: like later on the year you're.
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  Speaker 3: Going out with Anti Shigari.
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  Speaker 1: Worlds. Yeah, yeah, that's cool. And have you said that
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  Speaker 1: with this album there was a lot of collaboration going
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  Speaker 1: on in the writing process. Is that kind of like
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  Speaker 1: how did that experience go for you? Is that the
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  Speaker 1: kind of avenue you go next time.
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  Speaker 3: It was very interesting in the way that, like it
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  Speaker 3: was probably the most out of our comfort zone we've
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  Speaker 3: probably ever been, and I think I would love to
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  Speaker 3: I would love to experience it again, like especially with
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  Speaker 3: making the connections that I made this time, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: becoming like, you know, friends with other people and then
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  Speaker 3: being able to tell you like each other your stories
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  Speaker 3: and then get to write this soul like it's such
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  Speaker 3: a beautiful experience. But yeah, like it was. At the
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  Speaker 3: same time, it was super daunting because I think we're
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  Speaker 3: just so used to just you know, we've always been
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  Speaker 3: very in house and like you know, me working with
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  Speaker 3: like without producer, like, so this was the first time
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  Speaker 3: we've done something different. But I think that it was
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  Speaker 3: crucial to moving forward. I think that sometimes you need
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  Speaker 3: some fresh energy to level up sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd imagine too, because writing is such a personal
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  Speaker 1: process and kind of get your hard on your sleep
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  Speaker 1: there having other people actually backing you up and going no,
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  Speaker 1: that is amazing, like keep going where you're going, and
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  Speaker 1: having that would put new fire and breathe new life
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  Speaker 1: into your writing and you know, maybe give something a
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  Speaker 1: go that you wouldn't have backed yourself on before and
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  Speaker 1: the results amazing. So I had to listen through the
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  Speaker 1: album and it's awesome. Like the first song back to
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  Speaker 1: You kind of rips the album open and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is heavy, Like I don't know what I was expecting,
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  Speaker 1: but it just it excited me straight away, and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: is this going to go? What's happening? And it's really
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  Speaker 1: catchy as well. It's just got stuck in my head instantly.
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  Speaker 1: So with all the different kind of genres that are
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  Speaker 1: popping up throughout the album, like like there's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of techno electro going on in there. Heavier your pop?
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  Speaker 1: Is that just you guys drawing from all your inspirations
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  Speaker 1: growing up?
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  Speaker 3: Totally. I think that we inspirations growing up, but also
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  Speaker 3: the inspirations that we have like now as adults. I
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  Speaker 3: think that like we started yours truly because we wanted
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  Speaker 3: to be in a pop punk band and we wanted
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  Speaker 3: to wear vands and play warp talk, and now that
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  Speaker 3: we're a little bit older, where like you know, like
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  Speaker 3: you were talking about like things before like going Onto
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  Speaker 3: and Hikari and like you know, having our songs playing
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  Speaker 3: triple J and like and like, also, I think we
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  Speaker 3: have found other genres of music that we enjoy, like
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  Speaker 3: obviously still love rock, still love pop, punks, like all
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  Speaker 3: that stuff. But yeah, finding new influences has been has
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  Speaker 3: been fun. And being able to kind of show new
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  Speaker 3: parts of our personalities through songs has been has been fun.
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  Speaker 3: But we started with Back to You because I wanted
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  Speaker 3: people to go, whoa is this heavy?
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  Speaker 2: And album?
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  Speaker 3: To not be jo That's good though it was a joke.
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  Speaker 1: You got pranked, yeahranked and it worked, So.
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  Speaker 3: What is going on here?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's cool, that's cool, well thought out, well kind
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  Speaker 1: of along that vein of the side note, you guys
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  Speaker 1: did that Tony Hawk show? Yeah? Did you get to
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  Speaker 1: meet him? And did you guys used to geek out
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  Speaker 1: on that? Like, I guess it's like a millennial sound
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  Speaker 1: trifle gateway to that old music. Did you guys geek
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  Speaker 1: out on that when you were younger?
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  Speaker 3: You?
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  Speaker 2: Uh no, not not really made so much. I kind
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  Speaker 2: of like I wasn't really like how to do any
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  Speaker 2: sort of like video games or anything when I was younger,
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  Speaker 2: but like growing up like and then finding this kind
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  Speaker 2: of music, I like, I found out about that very
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  Speaker 2: quickly and like I grew up skateboarding as well, so
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  Speaker 2: I already had that love for like Tony Hawk and
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  Speaker 2: then and those two worlds kind of like eventually climb
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  Speaker 2: for me. It was sick. But I got to meet
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  Speaker 2: him in the in the elevator going up to the
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  Speaker 2: venue when we're when we were arriving, and I was
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  Speaker 2: just like I remember I walked in and then like
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  Speaker 2: I turn around and he's just like walking behind me.
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  Speaker 2: On my That'stny Hawk, that guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's too cool.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys have got I think two shows before
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  Speaker 1: your head off is like a release show in Australia
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  Speaker 1: here and then you're going doing it Leeds, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: That is massive? Like that's so cool. It's really cool
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  Speaker 1: to see Aussie bands on there as well. And then
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  Speaker 1: later on you've got your tool then to Shikhari and
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  Speaker 1: you meet at six So when she come back home,
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  Speaker 1: are you thinking about doing a headlining tourist we can
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  Speaker 1: celebrate you guys or what's the plan? Like there's just
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  Speaker 1: so much going on for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like on we'll definitely be doing an Australian tour
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  Speaker 2: some point after those shows. We've already started planning some stuff,
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  Speaker 2: so you'll hear about it sometime soon.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome and being able to being in a band that
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  Speaker 1: has been able to travel overseas and play music then
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  Speaker 1: come back over here. How would you say that Australia's music.
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  Speaker 3: Health checks going?
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  Speaker 1: Like, do you feel like we're bouncing back or is
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  Speaker 1: it just is it polarized overseas or how we track it?
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  Speaker 3: My unpopular opinion is that I think that we exerted
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  Speaker 3: our might be the wrong word, but we had a
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  Speaker 3: lot of Australian artists playing shows and being put on
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  Speaker 3: lineups here when we were kind of just coming out
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  Speaker 3: of COVID. But I do feel that ever since we've
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  Speaker 3: started being able to have international artists in this country,
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  Speaker 3: Australian artists are being overlooked again. So I think that
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  Speaker 3: I think people oversee still love Utralian artists and you know,
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  Speaker 3: like they love the Australian thing, the Australian label. I
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  Speaker 3: just feel like Australia is not loving Australia right now
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  Speaker 3: because I think we're just so excited that this person
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  Speaker 3: from America, that person in the UK is able to
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  Speaker 3: come here now, and you're just you're seeing less international
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  Speaker 3: artists also coming to Australia and having an Australian support.
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  Speaker 3: It's just it's sad. That's just kind of how I
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  Speaker 3: feel about it now. But hopefully, like I get that
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  Speaker 3: everyone's getting excited about things going back to normal, but
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  Speaker 3: I just do hope that people remember the artists that
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  Speaker 3: kept this alive, and that was the Australian artists.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand, just like going off the back of that,
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  Speaker 2: I think that it's like that's kind of it's also
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  Speaker 2: because no Australian artists are really started to go overseas
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  Speaker 2: as much as like what we were doing before the pandemic.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a lot of kind of staying local in Australia.
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  Speaker 2: And I think when those international artists are coming over
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  Speaker 2: and having a Australian bands being able to be the
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  Speaker 2: one supporting them, that's where they're able to build the
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  Speaker 2: relationship and connections to for them and potentially bring them overseas,
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  Speaker 2: get them out of Australia. And I think that's something
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  Speaker 2: that's like lacking because of the domination of the international
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  Speaker 2: bands coming through. And yeah, I think it's really important
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  Speaker 2: to get some Aussies being able to have those connections
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  Speaker 2: with the international acts again. To help spread each other around.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's actually a really good point to make,
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  Speaker 1: and it's so valid. There is so many international artists
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  Speaker 1: coming over and yeah, punters are kind of saving their
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  Speaker 1: pennies and then going and seeing that. So that's a
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  Speaker 1: very very valid point to make someone to think about.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely, absolutely, because that's how we kind of started getting
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  Speaker 2: those relationships and being able to get out of the
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  Speaker 2: country and be able to tour overseas. Was being able
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  Speaker 2: to support these like be like the support Act for
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  Speaker 2: international bands were coming over and then even if it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't directly supporting them, when they had a tour over there,
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  Speaker 2: they were talking and telling like their friends over there, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and giving them us as recommendations. And that's because that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of how it works, like you're always asking like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: who should we take on tour when you're like you're
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  Speaker 2: kind of not really sure, and it's good to be
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  Speaker 2: able to just keep that network flowing internationally.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, definitely, and that's really important. Like, as you
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  Speaker 1: guys would know better than anyone, doing a headline tour
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  Speaker 1: is not cheap as well.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, but your.
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  Speaker 1: Heart and sold into it and then yeah, you just
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  Speaker 1: want people to show up and enjoy themselves at the
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  Speaker 1: end of.
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  Speaker 2: The day, exactly all right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think they're coming up to time now, But
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  Speaker 1: I do want to say that life's crazy and bad
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  Speaker 1: shit happens. But I'm grateful that you guys have an
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  Speaker 1: outlet and can do something like this album, that you
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  Speaker 1: were putting it into the world in two weeks time,
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  Speaker 1: because it is really a beautiful thing that you've been
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  Speaker 1: able to release it that way, and I'm really excited
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  Speaker 1: for everyone else to be able to hear it.