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Still Packing A Punch With BEN ELY From REGURGITATOR · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: So yeah, that has been happening for you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we did the Invader album last year and did
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  Speaker 2: a big tour for that, and then we just kind
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  Speaker 2: of had a little break and then I've kind of
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  Speaker 2: just been doing some visual art this year and as
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  Speaker 2: well as playing and recording and stuff, and yeah, just
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  Speaker 2: getting rid of ready for this tour. We're doing a
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  Speaker 2: big tour playing all of our singles, which is pretty
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  Speaker 2: crazy because it's like fifty eight of them.
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  Speaker 1: I was actually thinking before, I'm just like, what would
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  Speaker 1: you say would.
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  Speaker 3: Be like the Gurge's big l like track like I'll
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  Speaker 3: put a finger on it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, probably the biggest one song formerly known as I
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  Speaker 2: mean that's probably the most well known. I mean that
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  Speaker 2: got in that Triple jet. I was at the Hots. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we just had that one on the one. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you hear that football games and stuff like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so that probably the biggest one. But you know, I
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  Speaker 2: mean we've been together liked, I think we started the
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  Speaker 2: ninety end of ninety three, so we're like, I think
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  Speaker 2: this is our thirty first or second year or something
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  Speaker 2: like that, So that's crazy. We have a lot of songs.
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  Speaker 1: I lot, I lot. Yeah, it's like you've got so
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  Speaker 1: many tracks, like, so.
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  Speaker 2: Many, that's right, because you don't stay in the in
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  Speaker 2: the moment and you're kind of always working on what
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  Speaker 2: you've you know what, You're focused on what you're about
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  Speaker 2: to put out, but you don't really think about you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you look back on what you've done, you can Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you can do quite a lot over that long period
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  Speaker 2: of time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's something. Yeah, yeah, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: And that was cool?
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  Speaker 3: And different variations of different tracks as well, which is
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  Speaker 3: always fun. It's like you get lost in your list
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  Speaker 3: of like which versions which and trying.
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  Speaker 1: To cut along them and find the right one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So with the song for Me known as Am, I
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  Speaker 3: correct in saying that the name for that title is
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  Speaker 3: a reference to Prince himself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course it was. Kwan was Uns a big
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  Speaker 2: fan of princes, so I guess. And I think at
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  Speaker 2: that time when we did it, he had just changed
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  Speaker 2: his name, So I mean that was a long time ago.
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  Speaker 2: That was like ninety sven or something like, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Something around.
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna say ninety eight eight or something is
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  Speaker 3: I think, yeah might have been Yeah, right about that tin,
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  Speaker 3: I'll just say that, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Name and then he changed changed it back again.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and you know, as.
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  Speaker 3: You look back now, he was one of the most
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  Speaker 3: amazing movies and shakers in music and is very much
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  Speaker 3: more I feel respected than he was in his living days.
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  Speaker 1: Bless his sweet soul.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was an enigma. He was incredibly talented.
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  Speaker 3: It shows yeah, and so so that and my other
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  Speaker 3: long term fave Kung Fu Kung Fu sinc Right.
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  Speaker 1: He has the nfortunate cook, is it not Many people
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  Speaker 1: know that.
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  Speaker 3: My brother and I used to like buy them at
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  Speaker 3: the supermarket and be like.
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  Speaker 1: Oh kongo.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. People still bring boxes to our shows, you know,
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  Speaker 2: people always still.
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  Speaker 3: Is if you're an og you know, you know where
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  Speaker 3: you're from. And catch you actually did the scratching on
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  Speaker 3: that track, didn't he?
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  Speaker 2: He did too. I think I think it was probably
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  Speaker 2: mainly catched.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, which is pretty cool. It's the end. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's iconic.
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  Speaker 2: We used to get it. We've had him up on
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  Speaker 2: stage many times.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah right yeah, so yeah, so future for the Gurde.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we've got obviously the and what's the name
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  Speaker 3: of the tour you're doing your singles to.
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  Speaker 1: It's oh god.
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  Speaker 2: It's called business or something. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I did read it somewhere just went oh that. So
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  Speaker 3: it starts November December, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It starts in November and it goes all the way
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  Speaker 2: through to like next July August or something.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: We're touring all over Australia, New Zealand and Asia and
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  Speaker 2: Japan and yeah, so we got all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty it's pretty busy. Yeah, we had a little
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  Speaker 2: break and now we're going sort of mad.
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  Speaker 1: Because you put on any EP last year as well, didn't.
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  Speaker 2: You put out a new album? Yeah, yeah, Invader and
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  Speaker 2: that was that was really good. Actually, I think that
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  Speaker 2: was the most time we'd ever spent recording an album.
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  Speaker 2: We spent like over two years writing it. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we kind of just worked and worked and worked and
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  Speaker 2: treated at like work and worked really hard and wrote
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  Speaker 2: heaps of songs. So we were really happy with that
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  Speaker 2: record because we were like, oh, you know, we kind
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  Speaker 2: of didn't want to fuck around. We wanted to be
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  Speaker 2: like the best we possibly could. So we spent a
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  Speaker 2: long time and we kind of feel like we've got
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  Speaker 2: really good reviews with it. And I were really proud
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  Speaker 2: of that record because we we put more time into
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  Speaker 2: that than any other record. Yeah. Yeah, sometimes, like we'd
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  Speaker 2: spent one album we spent three weeks on. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think Unit took like six weeks to make. It's
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  Speaker 2: kind of like, oh, let's just try and work really hard,
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  Speaker 2: make something really cool.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny though, when you get in the zone, like
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  Speaker 3: you know, you can just pump out stuff that like
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's on that same sort of like sound
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  Speaker 3: level to make an album, Like, you know, six weeks
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  Speaker 3: is pretty short time, but then you know, sometimes it
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  Speaker 3: can take that longer to get it all together and
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  Speaker 3: then just have those moments where you let it come
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  Speaker 3: to you sort of thing and then refine it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a bit of that and a lot of writing
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of rewriting. Like I think I usually
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  Speaker 2: write lots of songs. I think I write like maybe
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  Speaker 2: fifty songs and yeah, like six or something, and then
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  Speaker 2: Kwan would pick you know, maybe ten songs. But he'll
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  Speaker 2: re record the same song in like six or seven
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  Speaker 2: different ways, like yeah, thirty old Men on that record,
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  Speaker 2: I think he recorded seven different versions. I was just
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  Speaker 2: like a Tom Waits version, like a yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: country rock version. All these versens.
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  Speaker 3: It's different parts and like to make the final product,
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  Speaker 3: so to speak, and it's push boundaries.
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  Speaker 2: You drive yourself pretty crazy though we already there anyway. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: well true, true.
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  Speaker 1: People think I'm normal.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like whatever's yeah, and so from Invader, I guess
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  Speaker 3: you're the most your attraction.
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  Speaker 1: The track that you got was was Cocaine Runaway.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Cocaine run Away.
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  Speaker 1: It was very different to what you guys had done previously.
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  Speaker 1: I really one of my favors. It was good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was really fun. Wrote the music and
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  Speaker 2: said it to me and he goes, oh, do you
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  Speaker 2: think we should do this for the record, But he
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  Speaker 2: didn't have lyrics, and then he was like, what does
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  Speaker 2: it sound like? And I said, it sounds like a
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  Speaker 2: real estate agent who blows up his life and goes
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  Speaker 2: on a drug bender. So that he wrote all the
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  Speaker 2: lyrics about this.
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  Speaker 1: That's so funny.
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  Speaker 3: So do you predominantly write your music first and then
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  Speaker 3: the lyrics or sometimes you have lyrics and then you
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  Speaker 3: write music to it.
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  Speaker 2: Which which I mean either or I think one's very
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  Speaker 2: lyrics driven like me too.
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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a very big fan of his because I love
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  Speaker 2: his His the way he writes is really great.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, he's got the knack, doesn't he.
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  Speaker 3: He's comical satirical lyrics, which sometimes you know, so nonsensical,
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  Speaker 3: but then if you look further into it, it's just like,
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  Speaker 3: oh yeah that's smart, that's funny. Smart, Yeah, very intelligent.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good. It's funny that you say, like, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what does it sound like?
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  Speaker 3: I with one of my tracks slates Dave send it
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  Speaker 3: to Jeff and goes, what do you reckon? And he's like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: it sounds like a daydream nightmare, And I'm just like
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  Speaker 3: I like that.
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  Speaker 1: So it's funny how things go about. Yeah, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: know that's some. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And so with this thing, was I going to do
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  Speaker 3: like an album with it all or just get to.
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  Speaker 1: Just tour and just go everywhere and bring the goodness
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  Speaker 1: to the good people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I just think because I mean, because we've been
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  Speaker 2: around so long, and there's a lot of songs that
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  Speaker 2: you ask for, a lot of singles and stuff that
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  Speaker 2: people ask for that you know, you can only play
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  Speaker 2: like an hour and a half or our forty five sets.
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  Speaker 2: You can't kind of play everything. So yeah, this tour
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  Speaker 2: is more of an opportunity to do like all a singles.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, people I guess be said satisfied because
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  Speaker 2: they'll hear it's going to be a long show though
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  Speaker 2: I think it's Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, so, is there going to
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  Speaker 1: be like an extended show like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hour or yeah, it's got two sets to it
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  Speaker 2: and that's cool. Yeah, it should go close. Yeah, we've
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  Speaker 2: got a cool support from from South Australia. Den Mob
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  Speaker 2: are playing. That's really great group. They're really cool, awesome.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, but we've got one support so we can
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  Speaker 2: play for.
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  Speaker 3: Longer and okay yeah yeah yeah, And so you guys
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  Speaker 3: are actually supporting Grinners and Adelaide and Perth. I review
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  Speaker 3: them last early. It's amazing. Yeah, that was that was
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  Speaker 3: pretty cool. It was a long time since I've done
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  Speaker 3: headline to show themselves as well, so people of Adelaide
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  Speaker 3: and Perth and even Sport by having both of you
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  Speaker 3: guys on the bill, which is kind of cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be great. I mean I was really grateful
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  Speaker 2: to get that offer to play with those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like those guys I know Phil and Joe pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: They're really great. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I remember my first year of UNI at our good
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  Speaker 3: old Southern Cross was films in his last.
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  Speaker 2: Year, so yeah, oh yeah, I remember, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Liz Marian's were that's right, well, that's yeah, that's.
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  Speaker 1: Why I did by Uni Day.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, he was on his last Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 3: right when they kicked off and they I think they
• 9:21
  Speaker 3: went at the year before and he was in like
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  Speaker 3: finishing his last year.
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  Speaker 1: The next year. It just sort of transpot.
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  Speaker 3: I think one of the guys didn't manage to finish
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  Speaker 3: their degree and just went the hardcore with the band.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, it.
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  Speaker 2: Was sing him when we played lis More shows, like
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  Speaker 2: with his hair and up chop clothes, which was the
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  Speaker 2: look at the time.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 3: It was the grunge it was, and I was so
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  Speaker 3: in that era there that the funnies that you know,
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  Speaker 3: the Levi five O one's Your Dogs and just the.
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  Speaker 2: Full grunge cargo pants or yes.
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  Speaker 1: The cargo pants, all of that.
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  Speaker 3: I actually did a flashback of like this summer that
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  Speaker 3: changed my life, and it was the summer of ninety
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  Speaker 3: five and we had this incredible run of like festivals
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  Speaker 3: in the re in between bris and Byron.
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  Speaker 1: It was Borron ninety five, Big Day out Home Bake.
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  Speaker 2: And just like that Home Bake one that.
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  Speaker 3: Was more club like I think at the start of
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  Speaker 3: it and in spine of bate yourselves and.
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  Speaker 2: It was just we got asked to play that because
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  Speaker 2: you were or something, and we we got added like
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: the day before or something. Wow, we just have to
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  Speaker 2: be available. So we went down and just started pouring
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: really heavily at the end of our set. Yes, And
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  Speaker 2: I remember walking around the crowd and seeing armies and
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  Speaker 2: people with mud attacked and like totally mash all the
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  Speaker 2: beer workers. And then I was watched Silver Chair play
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  Speaker 2: after us and they just got totally covered in mud.
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  Speaker 1: We revel end the slender my best, you know, we've
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  Speaker 1: been doing it for years. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We went watched Spider Bait later and I think they
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  Speaker 2: were wearing wet suits.
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  Speaker 1: Still as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know that that was that was bad
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  Speaker 3: Bone Baking, and there was news Eve as well.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a whole bunch of festivals in that time,
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  Speaker 1: and it was.
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  Speaker 2: Full of Barron Bay Arts first, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Barron Fest. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So it was between the start of ninety five and
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  Speaker 3: I think the end, and it just was like goodness
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  Speaker 3: that you'll never see again on.
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  Speaker 1: The line up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because you guys lived in Byron for a little
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  Speaker 3: while too, didn't you while you were running album?
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  Speaker 2: Uh oh we yeah, we rented a house at wa
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  Speaker 2: it goes for like three months. I remember playing a
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  Speaker 2: Barron Arts festival and then I think I just slept
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: in my van or something, and then next day I
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  Speaker 2: went for a swim down at very you know, down
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  Speaker 2: at whites I remember walking down the walking down the
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  Speaker 2: beach and I had this vaist going help, help, we'll last,
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  Speaker 2: We're last, and I was like what, and then I said,
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  Speaker 2: the tracks over here, the tracks over here, followed my voice,
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: and then out of the bush staggered Tim Finn and
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  Speaker 2: his girlfriend and I was like, I was like, you're
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: Tim Finn and then he goes, oh, you're the guy
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  Speaker 2: from Regurgitate. I saw you play at the Baron Arts
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  Speaker 2: Festival last night, and then we went down the beach
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  Speaker 2: and like, I don't know, and it kind of became
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  Speaker 2: friends with Tim Finn for a while there, which is funny.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I know there's a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 3: of shared memories and a lot of good times back
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  Speaker 3: from those days.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's good times, good times. So yeah, so
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  Speaker 3: you've probably will be able to visit revisit some of
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  Speaker 3: that nostalgia on the tour, which if you're going to
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  Speaker 3: especially all the regions, are you stopping in at a
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  Speaker 3: barn this time as well?
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, it also look like Gold Coast.
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  Speaker 2: Then that'll be kind of later on down the track. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think we just got to focus on this Zaid
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  Speaker 2: fifty show. And but yeah, we're going We're going to
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: be going everywhere eventually.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we said fifty, what's the light up for that?
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  Speaker 3: You are going to bring out some new ones or
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: the old favorites, what's the plan?
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: Will kind of just play like well, you know Triple Z,
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  Speaker 2: so we'll be playing like kind of like some more
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: punk rock stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: But we've got this amazing girl, Slim, who is from Melbourne,
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  Speaker 2: who plays guitar and keyboard.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Sarah, yeah, Sah, girl crash, I developed, she shred.
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  Speaker 1: She's incredible. Yeah, she's the bomb. She's perfect fit for
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  Speaker 1: the Girds.
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  Speaker 2: She's such a lovely person to have.
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  Speaker 1: She's just got hopping guitar too.
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  Speaker 3: And because I played face was hopping and black, so
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  Speaker 3: yeah it's yeah, Sarah's good.
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  Speaker 1: She well yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but Sarah were like, we just had it for
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  Speaker 2: the invader toal c of these like extra keyboard and
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  Speaker 2: guitar parts. But then yeah, she's so great. We're like,
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  Speaker 2: we can't play without you anymore.
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  Speaker 1: She become part of the fan. That's so sweet.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of yeah, because she's got.
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  Speaker 3: The whole like simp like guitar keyboard thing going on
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  Speaker 3: as well, but she just nails and it's impressive.
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  Speaker 1: And her hair, oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: She's got majestic hair. Her he isn't she just.
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  Speaker 3: It just like yeah, yeah, I know she's She's definitely
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  Speaker 3: a great fit and a good a good.
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  Speaker 1: Addition for sure.
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  Speaker 2: He's a good egg.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and I swear like Quan he does an
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  Speaker 3: age like is he is he listened person or what.
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  Speaker 1: Like he's has has not aged.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't believe it when I saw you guys last
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, you're like wow, Yeah, it was impressive.
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  Speaker 1: So whatever he's doing, keep doing it. Well.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like, yeah, I guess it's the job.
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  Speaker 2: Goes with the job, maybe keeps you.
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  Speaker 3: He came to sometimes the end he could be stressful,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, I like to say, now the elixir to
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: life is partying late nights and you know, hard times
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  Speaker 3: than I've won someone my age feel.
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  Speaker 1: My age very much.
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: Some days it's like oh yeah, especially when I got grandchildren.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: These days, oh wow, you got grandkids.
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah my my my oldest started young and I'm like, thanks,
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: it's the best you can hand them back being an
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: empty esther and now it gets.
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  Speaker 1: To do the best job in the world.
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  Speaker 3: So we're like, yeah, so playing on D fifty with
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  Speaker 3: the Boys and butter Fingers are going to be in
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  Speaker 3: the lineup as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And because they've been quite for a while too on
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: the on the track, not doing too much.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: I think last time they played with yourselves, didn't they
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: they did?
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: They did tour with this. I think it wasn't last year,
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: the year before maybe, Yeah, which is cool. So that
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: was really fun that tour. Actually, yeah, we did that too,
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: we too with a whole bunch of bands. We had
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Likedzy death Rays and and it was a few other bands,
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: but we felt that butter Fingers energy was really really great.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: It kind of fits with the Go kind of gone
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: that same it's punk and that you know, tongue in
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: Chico kind of comedy.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, it's good, good value, good lyrics to
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: the song.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Sometimes I'm like, Eddie makes you shake your head yeah, Eddie,
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah a couple of times.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: So yeah, and it'll be good to see. And it
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: was on the bill for fifteen.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: We got like party doesn't a really really cool and
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: it's a great fat is on screen feeders there Yeah,
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: and Fla Japanees and Tropical fock Storm and the stints
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: with Mark m from mud Honey Yeahing and Big Noda
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: which is Briggs kind of like heavy heavy, kind of
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: nineties for rock band.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: I said done to catch you.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: I said that the Z fifty line up reads like
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: a Jeff love Joy disc going pretty much. But yeah,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: I know it's it's gonna be good. It's gonna be
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: good to some good day for sure. Except us at
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Park Lanes.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know how to be match fit
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: to get to the venue. It's along like that hill.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Are you gonna make it along?
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: You think, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Plan.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: That's that's a plan to want to be there to
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: do a live review and see you guys and the
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: whole day and get down.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: And well it's gonna be a real trip for us.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Because that was the first gig we ever had was
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: on that stage. Wow, that's that's really cool. It was
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: which was like ninety started ninety four in the summer,
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: and I think it was like an Amnesty International benefit
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: show or something free park gig.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you had.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: I think we only had like five songs.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: And we just started out like early ninety four.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: We barely had any song. We played two songs twice
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: because and our drummer had a little drums trigger sample thing.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, the sound of a barking dog and
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: the sound of breaking glass and between each song you
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: could just sear this dog. So it'll be it'll be
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: a bit of a trip for us to go and play.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: We actually haven't played there for on that stage since
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: I started ninety four, which is what So it's.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Really been like all that time since you guys have
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: been back there. That's very nostalgic.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: It's rair and that's where they used to kind of
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: have like they did for a while. Like they did
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: for a while there they had triple said market days there.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: It's really buy to please days. You don't have that
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: many street street press magazines, so a lot of time
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: shows roll through and I don't even know they are
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: coming or being I don't know. Maybe I'm just having
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: got my finger on the pulse.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: You're just gonna sign up to Heavy Mag free subscription, okay, yeah,
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: we as we did Heavy manas where's all happening with
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: all the all the news and that also you just
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: got to keep your eye whatever's on and usually we'll
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: publish most things and the gig guy that's on and
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: around and about.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, look forward to it for sure, which
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: is next week.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: And I hear that you're going to be sneaky thinky
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: little tells me you're gonna be a nimband the day before.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: The day after.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, book end of last year, just with my with
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: my other band. I got a band because you know,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Kwan lives in Melbourne and Sydney, so we can't catch
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: up much. So I've just got a band with friends
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: that we just jam. Yeah.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Because you're still busy, are too?
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Okay you're still in Brisy Yeah yeah yeah, Brisneyland as
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: we call it.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great. That's the eleve between. I spent probably
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: as Muchlimb and Brizzie as I do down here.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: It's that it's not that far.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: It sounds great.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: We love brisney Land.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was out for twenty years but coming back
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: was really great.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: I really in the best part of the world. It's
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: it's a good ness me but yeah, no, it's it'll
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: be good. It'll be good.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: So you're playing on this on the Friday or the Saturday.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Oh sorry, the Sunday at n min Routes Festival.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I'm playing on Friday two thirty, so it's fine. I'll
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: just drive down there in the morning and then yeah,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: then come back that night and get ready for the
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: the next time.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. What times a kickoff on some fifty.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: It's I think it's around midday.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say it to midday, midnight, late
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: morning kickoff, I think yeah.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I think it's about one o'clock perhaps, and it goes
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: to all about ten. I think, yeah, it's a big deal.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: I know there's a couple of a couple of side
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: things happening with Z fifty as well around the place
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: too that I know.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: There's a massive one three to three.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: I think these catches part of you know, the friend
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: of mine in the Whiskeys, they're playing in another fifty
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: side games, So I love that.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I love that they've put on so many different shows
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: across town and that kind of like yeah, pretty much.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: They really kind of touched on almost every every kind
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: of band from the Brism music scene, and there's a
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: lot of bands that used to exist that are reforming
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: for it.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, really fifty it was you know that there they
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: you know where a lot of you guys cut your
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: teeth in like the what were you like to call
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: it the a gray top sholf for Brisbane music and
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: where you're all at and it's it's cool to see
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: and the diversity of different genres as well, which is
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: I think, you know the other really key factor. You know,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: you've got your role and your grant, you've got hip
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: hop and your you know that sort of mix of
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: the goodness and yeah yeah yeah folks seen of course.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah it's yeah something and I love in genres mix,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: you know, that's that's my favorite stuff. And they come
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: together and it spoke me music with like hip hop rap.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I've seen that done before and I was like, wow, that's.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Actually pretty cool.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah cool.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: What are you so much for having a chat with us,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Benny
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Worries, Thank you for having