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Going For Broke With JOSHUA COTTREAU From FANGZ · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You sell the man.
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  Speaker 2: Come so man.
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  Speaker 1: Again.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Josh.
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  Speaker 4: I'm singing Fangs the semi professional punk rock uh outfit
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  Speaker 4: from you know, South Sydney.
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  Speaker 5: Hey you go, brother's putting a few tickets on yourself
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  Speaker 5: called yourself semi professional.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 5: You got you got a brier in the horn every
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  Speaker 5: now and then. So we've got a couple of things
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  Speaker 5: through Bron. We'll start off with today. You actually released
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  Speaker 5: the video for this song Save Old Story, which came
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  Speaker 5: out about last week, mate, So how's it the only.
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  Speaker 3: Reception bit for that track? Yeah? Really good man.
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  Speaker 4: It's like I think for that song, it's a it's
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  Speaker 4: it kind of like has a nostalgia thing for me
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  Speaker 4: where it's like like when when we were writing that song,
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I want to write a song like
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  Speaker 4: an American pie esque kind of like like you know,
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  Speaker 4: house parties, and like that was the song for me.
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  Speaker 4: So I was kind of like when it came out,
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  Speaker 4: I was just like, this is exactly everything that you know.
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  Speaker 4: At the end of it, It's exactly the way that
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  Speaker 4: we wanted it to turn out, which was sick ye.
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  Speaker 5: Speaking of nostalgia on the video clip features shots of
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  Speaker 5: you performing in different venues.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, So it's been kind of like I think over
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  Speaker 4: the last uh, you know, year or so, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: and it's been like all of the best parts of
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  Speaker 4: like all of Fangs shows who you know Fiddler and
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  Speaker 4: you know he is legend and all these really wicked
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  Speaker 4: kind of shows that we got the opportunity to do.
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  Speaker 4: So we kind of incorporated all those bits from within
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  Speaker 4: that and and it's like I watch that video and
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, this is so sick, Like I love it.
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  Speaker 5: The press release calls it a tip of the hat
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  Speaker 5: to state infuse punk rock, but I think there's time
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  Speaker 5: of a bit short brother like that song. Ititomizes state
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  Speaker 5: infused punk rock. It's not sucking a tip.
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  Speaker 3: Of that to it at all.
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  Speaker 5: And that's why you gotta wear your thrashers, baby.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's all like it's one of those things
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  Speaker 4: where it's like let's let's you know, I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: think this will go into like something else.
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  Speaker 3: But like for us, we never really.
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  Speaker 4: We never really have like that sound that were like
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  Speaker 4: we need to do like a song like one for you,
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  Speaker 4: one for Me or something like that. We're always just
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  Speaker 4: on the fly and we're kind of like you know,
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  Speaker 4: me and Sam and Wood either always jamming and riffing
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  Speaker 4: and so like you know, something maybe really punk, something
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  Speaker 4: may be metal, something might be country, something might be
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  Speaker 4: this that you know. So it's like with those songs,
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  Speaker 4: it's like, you know, Fangs is a party punk band.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what we wanted.
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  Speaker 4: Like that's that's just like when I think about that,
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  Speaker 4: I think about skating and you know, drinking some beers
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  Speaker 4: and having fun, and you know that's the whole that's
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  Speaker 4: the whole gimmick, I guess, like you know, like it's
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  Speaker 4: not a gimmick, but like that's the whole thing that
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  Speaker 4: we love doing. We love we're five mates that just
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  Speaker 4: love hanging out and you know doing those kind of things.
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  Speaker 5: That song follows on from the single Wasting time and
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  Speaker 5: at the B side, nothing to lose mates, So I
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  Speaker 5: don't stand alone tracks. Are they part of a bigger
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  Speaker 5: picture or a new album cycle?
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  Speaker 3: What do you think?
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  Speaker 2: I reckon?
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  Speaker 3: You've got something new coming out? Brother, save all the topic.
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  Speaker 5: I had to be out of record one song at
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  Speaker 5: the time and put them out like he'd get a
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  Speaker 5: couple of.
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  Speaker 3: Down at once. How about eleven of them? Yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: got a whole album.
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  Speaker 4: Then well, I mean, I don't know if I'm supposed
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  Speaker 4: to say, but I mean I may as well say
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  Speaker 4: it and you get an exclusive there.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, well we'll be putting out an album. Yes, sweet.
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  Speaker 4: We still got a bunch of a bunch of songs
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  Speaker 4: sitting and we went down to Melbourne and recorded with
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  Speaker 4: uh our mate from Loser and Uh it was really
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  Speaker 4: awesome and we've been sitting on it for a long
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  Speaker 4: time and now that see these uh, you know, these
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  Speaker 4: songs finally coming out is really exciting because it's it's
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  Speaker 4: refreshing and it's awesome and we're really stoked about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so cool.
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  Speaker 5: That didn't same old story at weisse Tom represent or
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  Speaker 5: a good representation for what we're gonna expect from it?
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  Speaker 3: Or is there any more in there?
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  Speaker 4: I think there's a few more that have a bit
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  Speaker 4: more variation, but you know, there's heavy, there's there's some
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  Speaker 4: topics that are more serious, but there's also you know,
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  Speaker 4: that Thanks esque style where it's like we take it,
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  Speaker 4: We'll take a certain topic and spin it so it's
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  Speaker 4: kind of a positive message. So like in those different songs,
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of variety, but there's still like that
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  Speaker 4: that there's a flow to the album.
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  Speaker 3: I guess I could.
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  Speaker 5: Say, yeah, and he's a pushing the friendship too much
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  Speaker 5: to ask if it'll be out this year or not.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure if it will. We're still going through that.
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  Speaker 4: We will definitely probably actually we will put out another single.
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  Speaker 3: I think this year.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not entirely sure about the album, but.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're we're pushing for you know, the year
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  Speaker 3: is almost over.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know where it's gone, so it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: to pack it all into these bits in trying to
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  Speaker 4: stay you know, have that momentum, keep going and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm not really entirely sure about the release day
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  Speaker 4: of the full thing, but I know we'll have another
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  Speaker 4: single out, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Right now, would you say that the sound of Things
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  Speaker 5: has changed or great changed or growing? I guess from
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  Speaker 5: your debut rep for Nothing in twenty nineteen tradition reusicy
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  Speaker 5: right now.
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  Speaker 4: I think it all comes down to like friendship and
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  Speaker 4: how much you like how you get to know the
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  Speaker 4: members in your bed and you know their certain styles
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  Speaker 4: and personalities, and you know, we all have such a
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  Speaker 4: similar style.
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  Speaker 3: But every single person is very unique to something.
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  Speaker 4: That they bring to Fangs, So like you know, and
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  Speaker 4: we're always changing, each of us. So it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: like I think if I were to say from the
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  Speaker 4: first EP till now, it's just it's always evolving and
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  Speaker 4: we're always changing together and adapting to like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: what's what we think is cool or what we like
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  Speaker 4: and you know, for at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: we're just a bunch of dudes that we love to
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  Speaker 4: create a certain style or you know, it could be anything.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, it could be a funny like just a
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  Speaker 4: jam and somehow it'll just turn into something that we're like,
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  Speaker 4: that's sick actually.
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  Speaker 3: So it's always just on the.
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  Speaker 4: Field, like we're really we're really together when it comes
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  Speaker 4: to writing, and like the ideas just go crazy and
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  Speaker 4: someone will just you know, someone will play like a
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  Speaker 4: beat on like the side of a piano or something.
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  Speaker 3: It be like that's sick, let's run.
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  Speaker 4: So it's always there's always creative juices flowing because like
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  Speaker 4: the other guys that they're so inspirational in you know,
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  Speaker 4: certain aspects of what they do, and they everyone has
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  Speaker 4: something that they could bring. So it's like it's always
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  Speaker 4: going to be changing. I don't think it'll ever stop changing,
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  Speaker 4: to be fair, Like, you know, if you ask me
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  Speaker 4: in five years, you're like, you remember that time he
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  Speaker 4: wrote like a Metallica album? I don't know, you know,
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  Speaker 4: remember I tell you wrote a country album like everyone
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  Speaker 4: else or whatever?
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 5: We've also announced a rather ambitious twenty four hour East
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  Speaker 5: Coast or on August thirty first, which is this Saturday.
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  Speaker 5: Starts at the Cherry Barron, Melbourne at one am, hence
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  Speaker 5: to Sydney for a.
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  Speaker 3: One pm start at Bootlegers.
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  Speaker 5: Then you're off to Brisbane to start at ten thirty
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  Speaker 5: pm at Gariza.
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  Speaker 3: Like, what the fuck right? Like is that even possible? Well,
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  Speaker 3: what do you think, Chris, Well, I think you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: make it possible.
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  Speaker 5: But what would possess you to decide to try and
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  Speaker 5: do something like that?
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  Speaker 3: Is what I want to know. I mean, what would
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  Speaker 3: to not try and do that? Though, if you know
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  Speaker 3: us by now.
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  Speaker 5: That's not the sort of thing you have that conversation
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  Speaker 5: when you're pissed one night and the next morning you
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  Speaker 5: wake up and you go, I can't believe we fucking
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  Speaker 5: thought we were gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Do that, but you guys have done it. I mean
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  Speaker 3: I'd put more in if I could. I don't. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think it's that unreasonable.
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  Speaker 4: The the only thing obviously is like fights and it's
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  Speaker 4: we're on a tight schedule and stuff, so like as
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  Speaker 4: long as everything goes according to plan, it should be
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  Speaker 4: sweet and like we're really stoked. I think it's a
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  Speaker 4: pretty insane idea. But I don't really know anyone else
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  Speaker 4: who's done it.
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't haven't heard of it before. It's just
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  Speaker 5: it's it's a fantastic ebimator. I'm fucking good for doing it,
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  Speaker 5: but I'll fuck if i'd be trying it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you gotta go for it, right.
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  Speaker 5: It's like you don't flying jet stock, I tell me,
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  Speaker 5: and not flying jetstock because it's fuck it's done, profad
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  Speaker 5: it before you start.
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  Speaker 4: If you are, now we're going Virgin's.
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  Speaker 5: So there there's so many things that could go wrong
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  Speaker 5: with an idea on that might like what's your biggest
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  Speaker 5: concern what's the one that you're like, I hope this
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  Speaker 5: doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 4: Concerns not really Like I'm not really worried about it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm obviously, uh I guess there's like, you know what
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  Speaker 4: if we check a luggage and no guitar or something
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  Speaker 4: doesn't show up. So there's always like those minor concerns,
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  Speaker 4: but like for the most part, we're gonna go into
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  Speaker 4: it with an open mind and and just see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it's gonna be awesome, and we've got
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  Speaker 4: to really Like the other day, we got a really
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  Speaker 4: awesome shout from Josh on Triple J and he was
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  Speaker 4: just like, I think it's insane that these boys are
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  Speaker 4: doing it, and I don't think anyone else has done it,
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  Speaker 4: so kudos to them.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's a really bold move.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, uh, I hope for the Fangs team
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  Speaker 4: over here that everything goes to plan, And you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm really excited, and I think it's a challenge that
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  Speaker 4: you know, there's out throughout the years with Fangs, I
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  Speaker 4: don't think there's anything that we wouldn't do, do you
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  Speaker 4: know what I mean? Like, we've done some crazy, crazy
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  Speaker 4: stuff and we'll keep pushing and keep pushing and and
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  Speaker 4: and you know we're we're not.
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  Speaker 3: In the type of band that's just gonna hold back goodness. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta be you gotta be up for a beer
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  Speaker 3: off of the Brisbane show. What you're gonna Well, are
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  Speaker 3: you gonna come out to the Brizzy show.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I've got another festival to go and do first,
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  Speaker 5: but I'll stay ober and I'll drive in and catch
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  Speaker 5: up and do right after.
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  Speaker 3: Well if we have a beer together, then absolutely, you're
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  Speaker 3: a good man. You're a good man.
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  Speaker 5: So brought the Fury in Adelaide. Remember the ninth Mate
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  Speaker 5: with you Go Bear Factory Buy Art North Plane. Like
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  Speaker 5: what a fucking line up made for the Australian show
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  Speaker 5: that's in Adelaide.
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  Speaker 4: Amazing. You know what's funny. We've been to Adelaide like
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  Speaker 4: three times. Well that'll be the third. Well that'll be
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  Speaker 4: my fourth time this year in Adelaide. I've never been
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  Speaker 4: there before because I did the Tony Hawk's pro Skater
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  Speaker 4: gig with those boys in Adelaide as.
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  Speaker 3: Well, which is super strange. But I love Adelaide. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's great there.
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  Speaker 4: There's a cool like there's a cool music scene and
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  Speaker 4: I'm really excited and you know, to be privileged to
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  Speaker 4: play with all those amazing bands, you know, especially the
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  Speaker 4: Australian like heavyweights, you know, North Lane, I love north
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  Speaker 4: Lane and yeah, you know, there's there's so many awesome
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  Speaker 4: artists that we're very, very lucky to have even been
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  Speaker 4: asked to play.
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  Speaker 3: I'm stoked. I yeah, before you go back, I got
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  Speaker 3: something else for it, and I didn't tell you about it.
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  Speaker 3: A bit of a surprise. I started doing a thing
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  Speaker 3: at the end of interviews called fighter bombs.
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  Speaker 5: So I've gone back through the fire from history and
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  Speaker 5: dug a few up. But I want you to explain
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  Speaker 5: them to me. Okay, So, so family, where do I start?
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  Speaker 5: Or I will start with this one? Got are you
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  Speaker 5: fucking sleeping?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? I think I'm just planking?
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  Speaker 4: Remember that, like that that thing that people were doing,
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  Speaker 4: you know, ten years ago?
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  Speaker 3: That was the planking bullshit? Yeah, you do it halfway
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  Speaker 3: through a song.
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  Speaker 4: I think I'm just like, I don't know, I'm always
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  Speaker 4: doing it's my eighty HD man.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know where about brainoes someday, but I think.
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  Speaker 5: That was me.
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  Speaker 3: But like but that during the giggle her pregnant or
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  Speaker 3: maybe I am just taking you that. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: right this next one two pot one? But the first one, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: is this one? What the fuck is going on?
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  Speaker 4: So we did a music video for you know, the
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  Speaker 4: Blink one A two What's My Age Again? So we
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  Speaker 4: ran through Merrickville like naked and did a video of
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  Speaker 4: that video and you know that's the that's the walk.
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  Speaker 4: I guess that's the walk. That's the Beatles right there, whom.
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  Speaker 3: Her pop two of this is? How the fuck did
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  Speaker 3: you get every vote?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: It's a good mate's We just asked her. We're like,
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  Speaker 3: we're doing the what's My Age again? You know link
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  Speaker 3: way two things? You want to be the nurse? And
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: she's like, yeah, dude, absolutely. She looks like she's pretty
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  Speaker 3: focused on looking up. Yeah, she's read. Oh, their their
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  Speaker 3: cover and their triple J thing the other day was amazing,
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  Speaker 3: very sweet. All right, brother, Well that's all I do
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  Speaker 3: for you, Joshua.
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  Speaker 5: The single is out now, the album's out probably next year.
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  Speaker 3: Got another single to come.
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  Speaker 5: You're doing your twenty four hour East Coast tour this weekend?
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  Speaker 5: Where could people get tickets if they want to come
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  Speaker 5: down and catch her?
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  Speaker 3: Best thing about it? It's all free, so just coin
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  Speaker 3: show up, right, all right? Well I'll play for the
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  Speaker 3: first beer else that sounded love It.
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  Speaker 6: Still sothern man, everything that comes over, go back, go
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  Speaker 6: out again. You say for a second, Jim, I been
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  Speaker 6: by projection, but I say, jam one upset.
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  Speaker 3: Way.
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  Speaker 1: I will try.
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  Speaker 2: So sister, so glad, I said, say said.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy, he said.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm shouting to the back star jam everything.
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  Speaker 3: That covered and wait right beginning.
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  Speaker 2: Breaking ways, await sunder up, Sisters.
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  Speaker 1: Class was.
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  Speaker 3: A wait, said.
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  Speaker 1: Tressa said, I wish sare.
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  Speaker 3: Said, Miss.
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  Speaker 1: Ray raise a class to the ws.
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  Speaker 3: It so man just sloud down.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe wait, Cat Jay say feeling
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  Speaker 6: And Tracy Cat replaced