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Rumblings From The Black Night With RORY RODRIGUEZ From DAYSEEKER · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I'm Ury Rodriguez. I sing for a band called day Seeker.
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  Speaker 2: We are playing Good Things in Australia in a couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks and we're super excited.
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  Speaker 3: Fantastic Rory. Thanks for joining us today. Ray.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, thanks for having me man pleasure.
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  Speaker 4: So, as you say, day Seeker will be heading to
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  Speaker 4: Australia next month. Is part of the Good Things Festival,
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  Speaker 4: which picks off in Melbourne. Of the set but fifth
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  Speaker 4: and hit Sydney and Brisbane. I the consecutive days not
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  Speaker 4: long now at all, Brian, you packed.
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  Speaker 1: It ready to go, I think so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little it's a little nerve wracking because
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  Speaker 2: we unfortunately parted ways with our guitar player very recently.
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  Speaker 2: So we have a good friend of ours who's going
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  Speaker 2: to be filling in for us, and so these are
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  Speaker 2: our first shows with him.
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  Speaker 1: So we're we're just we're trying to get rehearsed.
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  Speaker 2: And make sure that everything's good and that our live
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  Speaker 2: show stays intact, because I feel like we really care
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  Speaker 2: about our live show being good. So outside of that,
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  Speaker 2: we're really really excited to come and play.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no pressure at all. I have any first gig
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  Speaker 4: in front of fifty thousand people, mate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, more I feel more worse for him because, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's some of these Well, I think we get a
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  Speaker 2: warm up show for our side show and like Melbourne
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  Speaker 2: or something, so I think he'll get to play like
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  Speaker 2: nine hundred people and then yeah, I little jump times fifty,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for the festivals.
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  Speaker 1: But he's he's a pro though, he's he's going to
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  Speaker 1: do great. I'm excited.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to say we should probably add there as
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  Speaker 4: a bit of a disclaimer that it might be his
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  Speaker 4: first show in Welvet of the side show, but he's
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  Speaker 4: going to be bloody awesome straight off the bat in he.
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  Speaker 1: He will be.
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  Speaker 2: He's I think he's been to Australia in his other
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  Speaker 2: band too, so I think he's great. He's he's one
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  Speaker 2: of the best guitar players I've ever met in my life.
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  Speaker 1: So I have faith he's going to do great.
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  Speaker 4: A lot better endorsement may will run with that one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the good things.
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  Speaker 4: We've got a fantastic lineup, mate, it's facing twol there's
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  Speaker 4: weaves of machine ed, knock loose garbage, lorn A shore list.
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  Speaker 3: Goes on man. But are there any fans there that
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  Speaker 3: you haven't played with before.
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  Speaker 1: No, I mean, it's so funny.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we've I feel like we've done festivals
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  Speaker 2: with a knocked loose Lorna Shore.
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  Speaker 1: It's just funny.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like at some point you stop being like surprised,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like it's it just it feels like it's
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  Speaker 2: sort of a revolving door of who's going to be
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  Speaker 2: there because we've we've done shows with all these bands,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a stacked lineup.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: It's exciting just to go and play a festival in
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  Speaker 2: Australia because it's our it's our first time and I
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  Speaker 2: feel like we've we did some of our first festivals
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  Speaker 2: and you're up in UK a couple of months ago
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  Speaker 2: and it was kind of cool to see like the
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  Speaker 2: differences in that versus the US. So I'm excited to
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  Speaker 2: go to Australia, honestly in the summertime, because every time
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  Speaker 2: we go it's July and it's it's always so hot
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  Speaker 2: here and then it's raining and thunder over in Australia.
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  Speaker 2: So we're we're excited to go there when it's a
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  Speaker 2: little warmer and just kind of experience what that's.
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  Speaker 3: Like, yeah, and it's an extremely varied lineup.
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  Speaker 4: That's all my looks. You go, everyone ranging from yourselves
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  Speaker 4: too on the show. So are you personally a fan
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  Speaker 4: of the festival line not to cover a white bardy
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  Speaker 4: genres or are you more old school and you like
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  Speaker 4: it ought to be a more consistent No.
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  Speaker 1: I I'm stoked.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime we get to do a festival because it feels
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  Speaker 2: like it's sort of like summer camp for a day.
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  Speaker 2: You always up with friends that you haven't seen in
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  Speaker 2: a long time or bands that you've toured with, and
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  Speaker 2: it just feels like it's a big collection of people
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  Speaker 2: in the scene and yeah, and they always have some
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  Speaker 2: stacked headliner and so it's really nice. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: it's a workday where you you might wake up and
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  Speaker 2: get some food, hang out, get ready to play, and
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  Speaker 2: then it feels like the rest of the day is like,
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  Speaker 2: who do you want to go see?
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  Speaker 1: And you know who's set? Should we go catch?
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  Speaker 2: And you have a drink, you know, get another bite
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, we always usually catch whoever the headliner is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've seen Slipknot, System of It down, Sleep
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  Speaker 2: Token like like so many bands. No, doing festivals is
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  Speaker 2: like it's a very fun experience and it feels like
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  Speaker 2: it's a really cool way to kind of I almost
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  Speaker 2: kind of looked at festivals as like Spotify in real life,
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  Speaker 2: where it's like they pay a flat fee to go
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  Speaker 2: into this thing, and somebody who maybe has like kind
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  Speaker 2: of hurt our name but wasn't sold on us might
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  Speaker 2: just have a dead gap in their schedule and they're like, well,
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  Speaker 2: we should go see day Seeker and see what their
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  Speaker 2: live set is, and we might grab a lifelong fan
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  Speaker 2: just from doing the festival because they might just pop
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  Speaker 2: over to watch us. So we're we're super excited, really
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  Speaker 2: excited to play this one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's really interesting too, man I what was so
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  Speaker 4: good about what you just said? Then, as you said
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  Speaker 4: we might grab a lifelong fan, like you're actually interested
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  Speaker 4: in fans on an individual level. You didn't say we
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  Speaker 4: might grab a heap of fans if you get just
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  Speaker 4: that one and make the difference on it.
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  Speaker 3: It does.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be the hope that we hopefully grab
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  Speaker 2: several new fans. But no, but it really I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's how we eat is people buying tickets to our
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  Speaker 2: shows and buying a T shirt just and it's our
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  Speaker 2: livelihood and just getting to play our music live in
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  Speaker 2: front of people who want to see it. So I
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  Speaker 2: feel like festivals are like a very cool way to
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  Speaker 2: grab a bunch of new potential fans who might not
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  Speaker 2: have heard of your band.
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  Speaker 1: Fully.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, now I've always runned my like, what's the like
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  Speaker 4: backstage at festivals on this with so many different bands
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  Speaker 4: on like, is it like back at school when you
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  Speaker 4: go to the middle hedge in one corner and on
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  Speaker 4: the other end of the park And did they also
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  Speaker 4: the concrete.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's funny, there's not really. Yeah, they don't really
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  Speaker 2: separate you by genre or anything. I think like our
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  Speaker 2: green room was we were definitely I think we were
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  Speaker 2: next to Breaking Benjamin, which is cool.
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  Speaker 1: We know some of those guys, But then I've.
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  Speaker 2: Seen it where they used is a few doors down
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  Speaker 2: or the main is like next to you know, like
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  Speaker 2: it's any any mix of bands. It doesn't feel like
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  Speaker 2: there's a real true rhyme or reason. We've been next
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  Speaker 2: to Kublai Khn straight from the path like it's and
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  Speaker 2: I think we exist too in a weird world where
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  Speaker 2: it's like we we are softer and can be just
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  Speaker 2: as straight upand but we also have songs that have
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  Speaker 2: like metal roots and screaming.
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  Speaker 1: So it's funny.
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  Speaker 2: We've done tours where it always feels like we're either
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  Speaker 2: we're like the heaviest rock band on the bill or
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  Speaker 2: we're the softest metal band. Like it's we kind of
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  Speaker 2: stick stick out a little bit because we have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of melody in our music, but we're not afraid to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, have a breakdown or a riff and a
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  Speaker 2: screaming part thrown in. But no, it's yeah, everybody just
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  Speaker 2: kind of respects each other's space and you just kind
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  Speaker 2: of get ready play your show and it's a really
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  Speaker 2: positive experience. You might go to catering and just see,
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  Speaker 2: you know, somebody you idolized as a kid.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very it's a very wild experience for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you mentioned before that this is your first time
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  Speaker 4: coming to show you mate, so basically we've got no
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  Speaker 4: idea what to expect from you guys' lives, So run
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  Speaker 4: as through a typical day, think you show and what
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  Speaker 4: we can expect.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, I guess I should clarify it's our first festival
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  Speaker 2: in Australia. We've done some like we've done some club
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  Speaker 2: touring before. Yeah, it's just we have one of the
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  Speaker 2: best sound people in the industry. Her name is Sarah.
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  Speaker 2: We care a lot about our live show sounding good,
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  Speaker 2: looking good. It is funny because I was I was
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  Speaker 2: just saying on another interview, I do feel like our
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  Speaker 2: show is probably better experience in a dark venue like
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  Speaker 2: a club, where we can control the lighting and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I know we're going to probably be playing at like
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  Speaker 2: peak sunlight, so I feel like it's a little it's
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  Speaker 2: a little strange. I just I feel like our lighting
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  Speaker 2: show and our and the mood that we can control
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  Speaker 2: when we have a full control of production makes a
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  Speaker 2: big difference.
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  Speaker 1: But we're so excited.
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  Speaker 2: We did a few festivals in the US just like
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  Speaker 2: a month or two ago, and they were and we
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  Speaker 2: were playing when the sun was out and it was
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  Speaker 2: still a blast, just like a ton of people come
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  Speaker 2: to watch. So we're very grateful. It's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a good time really.
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  Speaker 4: Now, you mentioned before one good thing about festival is
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  Speaker 4: that someone might stumble across your band. It's never heard
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  Speaker 4: of you before, So just say there is someone coming
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  Speaker 4: to things you've never heard of day theeter, What three
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  Speaker 4: songs of your should they listen to, but I know
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  Speaker 4: what to expect.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man.
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  Speaker 2: I would say pill Moonlight definitely is a song they
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  Speaker 2: should check out. I'd say Without Me is another good
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  Speaker 2: song for them to check out and then crawl back
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  Speaker 2: to my coffin is my third pick.
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  Speaker 1: And it's funny that there's a few.
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  Speaker 2: Songs off our new album that we've never played live before,
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  Speaker 2: and Australia is actually going to be the first the
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  Speaker 2: first place that gets to hear some of these live,
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  Speaker 2: so it's going to be very very cool kind of
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  Speaker 2: debuting them there.
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  Speaker 4: Nice And you've also got a couple of side shows
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  Speaker 4: either side of Good Things with Banks Arcade, Montgomery and Hendrick.
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  Speaker 4: So the first one is at the Corner Hotel in
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  Speaker 4: Melbourne on December third, and you've got Crowbarrn Brisbane on
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  Speaker 4: the ninth. So you sort of touch on this before
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  Speaker 4: the lighting and stuff. But how different of those club
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  Speaker 4: shows going to be to the outside festival shows.
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  Speaker 1: Very different.
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  Speaker 2: We sort of intentionally picked smaller clubs. We probably could have,
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  Speaker 2: you know, done more like a thousand or a two
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  Speaker 2: thousand cap room, but we kind of just wanted to
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  Speaker 2: do a smaller room and just sell them out super quick.
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  Speaker 2: Some of those smaller shows though, are like they can
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  Speaker 2: almost be sometimes more fun than a festival because if
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  Speaker 2: you're headlining a smaller room and it's a really intimate setting,
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  Speaker 2: you know that every person in that room is there
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  Speaker 2: for your band and there to celebrate your music, versus
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  Speaker 2: a like I said, a festival, you might have ten
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  Speaker 2: thousand people who are a die hard fans and they're
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  Speaker 2: there to watch them play. But yeah, you might have
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  Speaker 2: you know, thirty or forty thousand who are just like.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just checking it out. I don't know if I
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  Speaker 1: like you yet or not.
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  Speaker 2: And so I feel like headlining shows always feel a
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  Speaker 2: little more rewarding because it's a longer shows. It's like
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  Speaker 2: harder work, but I feel like it's more rewarding because
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  Speaker 2: everybody is there for you and they're there to support
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  Speaker 2: your band. So we're really excited for those side shows
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  Speaker 2: and we'll definitely be back to do like a full
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  Speaker 2: proper headlining in Australia soon.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it actually gave me a good question mate, Like
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  Speaker 4: you say, you like playing to somebody like good things.
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  Speaker 4: Some people out there might not know you, and then
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  Speaker 4: at your own shows you know that they all do.
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  Speaker 4: So do you approach shows differently, because, let's say, good things,
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  Speaker 4: you've got to win over people that might not hurt
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  Speaker 4: you before, and the other one you've actually already got them.
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  Speaker 4: So do you approach it actually thinks for that.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say so.
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  Speaker 2: I do feel like I believe myself and the guys
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  Speaker 2: get it's almost like a give and take of If
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  Speaker 2: we start performing and the crowd is chaotic and crazy
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  Speaker 2: and giving us a lot of good energy back, it
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  Speaker 2: feels like it fills us with the same energy, and
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  Speaker 2: so there's more adrenaline and more excitement. But a festival
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  Speaker 2: can still be exciting in just the sense of, like,
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  Speaker 2: holy shit, there's a lot of people watching us right now.
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  Speaker 2: It almost feels like the stakes are higher at a
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  Speaker 2: festival because you want to you want to put on
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  Speaker 2: a good impression for somebody if it's the very first
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  Speaker 2: time that they're seeing you live. But I wouldn't say
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it's all kind of the same, though
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  Speaker 2: I do feel like it's funny you say that it
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  Speaker 2: is kind of Mentally, it does feel like that, like
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  Speaker 2: the first or second song they're like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: and then by it feels like by the end of
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  Speaker 2: the set, it feels like we've kind of won them over,
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  Speaker 2: and the applause is a little louder, and it feels
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  Speaker 2: like the energy feels better in the crowd. But honestly, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we have a lot of love for Australia. I have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of faith at the festival shows. Are they're
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  Speaker 2: going to be great. I'm excited to play them.
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  Speaker 4: No, and You're gotta be toured on the back of
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  Speaker 4: your sixth studio album, Preacher in the Dark Night, that
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  Speaker 4: came out on October twenty four, so I was going
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  Speaker 4: to be in a couple of weeks private.
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  Speaker 3: How's the early reception being Did people take to it
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  Speaker 3: like yat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, it's overwhelmingly positive. It's sometimes a comment here
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  Speaker 2: and there, but it's negative. Might sting her jab a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, but I think we got our first week
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  Speaker 2: numbers back and it tripled or quadrupled our prior release.
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  Speaker 2: Our streaming numbers are up higher than they've ever been
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  Speaker 2: are it feels like our shows are selling faster than
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  Speaker 2: they did before. It's it's all positive vibes over here.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very surreal experience to have that record out
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  Speaker 2: to the world. But we're we're very proud of it,
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  Speaker 2: very very happy that everybody else gets to listen to
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  Speaker 2: it now.
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  Speaker 4: Nice and for the sake of people who might not
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  Speaker 4: have heard it yet, Like, tell us a bit more
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  Speaker 4: about the album musically and what you've gone for the
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  Speaker 4: stow around with it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we've kind of embraced, you know, more
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  Speaker 2: of a pop structure sound to our band, and we
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  Speaker 2: all listen to a lot of pop music outside of
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  Speaker 2: being in the rock scene, and so it's cool to
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  Speaker 2: I've heard I've seen people call us like a boy
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  Speaker 2: band with guitars, which I think is maybe not entirely accurate,
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  Speaker 2: but I can see what he's saying. But yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's just pop structured rock music. This whole new album
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  Speaker 2: is quite dark and more eerie and horror leaning, I
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  Speaker 2: would say, And it's kind of our biggest artistic swing
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  Speaker 2: at doing some weird and interesting stuff but still trying
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  Speaker 2: to remain accessible and just write music that we love
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  Speaker 2: and believe in and very deeply personal lyrics. Seems that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people relate to these common themes of
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: falling out some relationships and heartbreak, and yeah, it seems
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  Speaker 2: to be going over super well, I feel like if
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  Speaker 2: you like, if you like you know, pop rock music
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  Speaker 2: and darker, spookier vibes. I think you would really enjoy
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  Speaker 2: this record if you give it a spin.
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  Speaker 4: Nice all right, Well, thanks very much for you time, bro,
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  Speaker 4: it's been a pleasure speaking with you. Day Seeka Here
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  Speaker 4: for Good Things from December fifth. Their own shows on
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  Speaker 4: the third of the ninth, so check them out.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, Chris, appreciate it. It