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Going The Distance With STEVE LORECK From LATE 90'S · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I'm Steve Lorick. I'm the frontman of a band called
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  Speaker 1: Late Nineties from Perth, like a olt rock band. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and very happy to be doing this Heavy mag.
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  Speaker 2: Interview Fantasy May. Thanks for joining us today, brother, cheers
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  Speaker 2: just having me. Oh wait, So Late Nineties are making
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  Speaker 2: the trek over from Perth to be part of Big
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  Speaker 2: Sound twenty twenty five. But she's going to be held
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  Speaker 2: in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley from September two to the fifth,
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  Speaker 2: so that's not far away. Brother. You're starting to never
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  Speaker 2: start a tingling bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like, like I was just telling you
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  Speaker 1: before we started. I've been away the last couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 1: so we've got a weeks to knuckle down and get
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  Speaker 1: the set all ready to go. The boys have been
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  Speaker 1: practicing without me because they haven't been away, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm super keen. I'm really keen to just hanging with
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of the other bands. They're like Bad
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  Speaker 1: Juju and Live and the Delusionals and yeah, just kind
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  Speaker 1: of just chat with everyone and play some fun shows. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No. So picked Out features over one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 2: bands playing across eight each stages, so there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: to choose from. So straight off the bat mate, tell
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  Speaker 2: us why should Putterns come and see the late nineties
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  Speaker 2: and mark it down on the list?
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  Speaker 1: We I think we're like the only like heavy band
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  Speaker 1: playing out of Perth, So that's a that's a definite reason,
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  Speaker 1: Like there isn't that many bands that have got that
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  Speaker 1: that those heaviest sort of influences. So I think I
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  Speaker 1: think it's we do a good job of representing that
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  Speaker 1: kind of more alternative scene. I think our music is
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  Speaker 1: not too heavy where people might be off put by it,
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  Speaker 1: but they might still enjoy it if they're not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: into the heaviest stuff. So yeah, so we're kind of
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  Speaker 1: middle ground, I guess for the punter, and yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think we do. The music we make is a little different,
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  Speaker 1: so I think people will like it.
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  Speaker 2: Well. Sorry to put you on the spotlight that too, bro,
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  Speaker 2: I know it's not easy to especially when you're not
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  Speaker 2: ready for it, but you did a good job. What
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  Speaker 2: does big Down mean to emerging Australian bands like yourselves?
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  Speaker 1: A lot? That was one of our first goals when
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  Speaker 1: we first started our band, like five years ago. Every
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  Speaker 1: year we've applied, never gotten the call up and finally
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  Speaker 1: to have the call up is really really huge to
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  Speaker 1: be on the same industry festival as like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of our favorite bands and like the repertoire of bands
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  Speaker 1: that have really like come before and done Big Sound
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  Speaker 1: and gone on to do massive things. It's really cool.
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  Speaker 1: And just to have our name in that, have our
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  Speaker 1: hat in the ring, you know, is quite important to
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  Speaker 1: us and special for us. So yeah, we're very grateful
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  Speaker 1: to have the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned you've tried a few times before and haven't
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  Speaker 2: got through, but you did this here, Like, what's you
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  Speaker 2: do different? Did you check one hundred old eighty there
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  Speaker 2: or something or.
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think maybe maybe something to do
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  Speaker 1: with the neck Deep tour we did. Maybe that got
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  Speaker 1: some people, some people may have heard of us. That
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  Speaker 1: had something to do with how how we got in.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not too sure. I don't really know how it works.
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  Speaker 2: It just happened.
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  Speaker 1: How.
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  Speaker 2: There's plenty of going on at Big Sound. You've got
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  Speaker 2: your show case gigs, there's wake shop, the networking to
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  Speaker 2: be done. So have you started? Are you going to
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  Speaker 2: strategically plan out your time there? I guess to make
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  Speaker 2: sure most of them you're just gonna have a general
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  Speaker 2: idea and roll with the punches.
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  Speaker 1: There's definitely like some bands I want to be able
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  Speaker 1: to catch. Like I said before, Lies and the Delusional,
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  Speaker 1: I was a big fan of them and Bad Juju
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  Speaker 1: and Closure from Sydney. So yeah, I'm definitely going to
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  Speaker 1: be having a look at the itinerary. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be running around the valley trying to trying to get
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  Speaker 1: into as many shows, see as many bands as I can,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, just really made the most of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty big place of valley too, so make sure
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  Speaker 2: you take bread crumbs or something the drop while you running,
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  Speaker 2: otherwise you might get.
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  Speaker 1: Give me a good idea. Definitely gonna I think we're
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  Speaker 1: definitely going to have to have between the four of us,
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  Speaker 1: are gonna have to have our locations shared. It probably
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  Speaker 1: won't be too much reception and no one's going to
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  Speaker 1: be checking their phones in the middle of a gig either.
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  Speaker 2: Sot off making a meeting point in one stage and
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  Speaker 2: just going there, make it, make it pump tu. So
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  Speaker 2: you've got so much all to meat, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly at this time every night, we're going to meet
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  Speaker 1: for a pinty.
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  Speaker 2: Guinness loving your work. So when and where a late
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  Speaker 2: nineties playing.
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  Speaker 1: So we're playing The bright Side on the Thursday night,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, the bright Side Outdoors and the other show
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  Speaker 1: I have completely forgotten.
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  Speaker 2: But it's on the schedule schedule.
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  Speaker 1: But the Monday night we are doing a an extra
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  Speaker 1: show which is a Destroyer Lines showcase. So and we
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  Speaker 1: are playing on Wednesday, but I've completely forgotten where that is.
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  Speaker 2: You got to like going on running, you just come
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  Speaker 2: back to holidays. You can't be expected.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: One thing about Big Sound is, like we said, there's
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  Speaker 2: over one hundred and twenty bands there, so people can't
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  Speaker 2: be expected to know every band. So someone's not familiar
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  Speaker 2: with late nineties, Mate, give give us a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a history of the band.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. So we started about five years ago. The other
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  Speaker 1: boy three boys, two of them are twins, and the
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  Speaker 1: drummer Elliott. He's Elliott. Brody and Zach have always been
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  Speaker 1: best mates ever since they were kids, and then they
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  Speaker 1: played in bands in high school and primary school together,
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  Speaker 1: and then I kind of came into the picture after
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  Speaker 1: after high school. I'm a little bit younger than the
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  Speaker 1: other boys, yep. And so we started jamming, started playing
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  Speaker 1: some shows, pretty much like during COVID. I think we
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  Speaker 1: were about to play our first show and then COVID happened,
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  Speaker 1: so that kind of pushed things back a bit. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we started they Can put our first song in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, and yeah, just been on the grind since.
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  Speaker 1: Been kind of changed our sound a bit over the
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  Speaker 1: last few years. We kind of started a bit more soft,
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  Speaker 1: still had those like emo kind of influences, but did
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  Speaker 1: enjoy like a bit of of more like surf punk
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  Speaker 1: sort of stuff. And now we're more alternative rock, post
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  Speaker 1: hardcore with bits of metal in their new metal sort
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  Speaker 1: of sort of stuff now. So we've kind of gone
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  Speaker 1: a bit heavier as we've made our way through and
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  Speaker 1: kind of figured out our sound a bit more. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we've put out a couple of EPs, got a new
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  Speaker 1: song coming out in two weeks just before Big Sound.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, and you mentioned you played with neck Deep.
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  Speaker 2: Was that the national tour or just.
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  Speaker 1: Just national tour we did?
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  Speaker 2: That would have been fucking interesane, bro dude.
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  Speaker 1: It was the best week of all of our lives. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was neck Deep in State Champs and yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: was unreal.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the you with both of them and they're.
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  Speaker 1: Just so lovely. Yeah, and both bands went out of
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  Speaker 1: their way to be nice to us and chat to
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  Speaker 1: us and give us a hand and give us good
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  Speaker 1: advice and things like that, which was really really sweat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, as a young emerging band, what sort of like
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  Speaker 2: you go on a tool like that, like you've got
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  Speaker 2: to have funny course, but do you treat it like
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  Speaker 2: a life lesson as well or do you try and
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  Speaker 2: lands it and watch them and see how things are done?
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  Speaker 2: What do you just?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what are you're doing? We were definitely just like
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't a single night that any one of us
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  Speaker 1: didn't watch the full set of either band unless we're
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  Speaker 1: at merch and it was a venue where we couldn't
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  Speaker 1: see properly. But yeah, like it was like those two
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  Speaker 1: bands are the top of the game of the genre,
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  Speaker 1: like really the best bands in the world to do
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  Speaker 1: pop punk music, to do like rock music in general.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like it's it's crazy to watch bands of that.
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  Speaker 1: Calibar just put on an epic show, like and do.
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  Speaker 1: We did five shows in a week and it was
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  Speaker 1: like every single night, the energy was insane and just remarkable,
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  Speaker 1: and like their abilities to work the crowd to play
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  Speaker 1: their instruments, to just dial everything in from the musicians
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  Speaker 1: to everyone in their teams, you know, their guitar texts,
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  Speaker 1: the front of house, guys, et cetera. Like it's really
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  Speaker 1: just a insanely well oiled machine, and it was really
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  Speaker 1: inspirational and really cool to see how people do it
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  Speaker 1: at that level.
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  Speaker 2: So you're released in your new single Low on August
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  Speaker 2: of twenty ninth, Mates, So what can you tell us
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  Speaker 2: about that song?
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  Speaker 1: Yep, So it's a kind of grungy with grunt. It's
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  Speaker 1: basically a grunge song with like a heavy breakdown and
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  Speaker 1: kind of like pop punk sort of melodies a kind
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  Speaker 1: of a bit of a blend. And that's kind of, like,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, kind of sums up the kind of music
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  Speaker 1: we make, like we do, take from a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different genres, and I guess that's kind of what makes
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  Speaker 1: us sound like us. But yeah, it's a song about
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  Speaker 1: going through tough shit and not knowing being on sure
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  Speaker 1: how are you going to come out of it? And
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  Speaker 1: you know, wanting the best for yourself than beating yourself
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  Speaker 1: up about being bad and not being where you want
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  Speaker 1: to be and that sort of thing. So Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: comes out in a couple of weeks, and yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: our first song since our second EP, which came out
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  Speaker 1: like three or four months ago now, so yeah, super excited.
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  Speaker 2: Is it a standalone song or part of a b EP?
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  Speaker 2: Your album picture?
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  Speaker 1: I think this one's just going to be a standalone single.
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  Speaker 1: I produced this one, which is the first time I've
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  Speaker 1: done it for our band, so we're kind of just
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  Speaker 1: seeing how it would go. And thankfully I've managed to
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  Speaker 1: win the boys trust. They came for me to keep
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  Speaker 1: doing the recording going forward. But yeah, at this stage,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just going to be a standalone single.
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  Speaker 1: But we are getting back in the studio very soon
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  Speaker 1: to work on something big.
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  Speaker 2: Yuh on that, Like, how did you go producing your
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  Speaker 2: own own stuff?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Is it hard to sort of step back and be
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  Speaker 2: objective when you're so close to the material.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was really hard to be like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's done. I was imming and rowing whether I should
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  Speaker 1: mix it or we should get someone else, and we
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  Speaker 1: ended up getting someone else to mix it. We got Emmett,
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  Speaker 1: who does live sound for us and owns a studio
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  Speaker 1: that we recorded it at, to mix it. So it
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  Speaker 1: was cool because it was still like part of our
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  Speaker 1: He's obviously part of our team, so it was really
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  Speaker 1: cool to have him do that. But yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: if I was to mix it, I would have literally
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  Speaker 1: I would have I would have never been able to
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  Speaker 1: be like, oh, it's done. But when you're recording it,
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  Speaker 1: it's like it was still hard. Like we we spent
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time just working on things and really
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  Speaker 1: like adding extra guitar parts. I think we tracked bass
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  Speaker 1: twice for some reason, and like I re recorded vocals
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  Speaker 1: like three times because I just wasn't happy with it.
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  Speaker 1: And you know that, well, that's the benefit of doing yourself,
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  Speaker 1: but also makes you can't Also, you know you're not
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  Speaker 1: just in the studio for a day smashing it.
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  Speaker 2: You know you haven't got someone saying that's good enough, mate,
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  Speaker 2: leave it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And what else the late nighties got coming up? Broin
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  Speaker 2: like big sound different? Now you got some other plans.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, we've got We're going to be doing another tour
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  Speaker 1: hopefully at the end of this year to promote this
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  Speaker 1: new single and the rest of the music we've got
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  Speaker 1: coming out.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, it's my celestement, a bot of my soul.
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  Speaker 4: On the cone filled bows.
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  Speaker 5: Boys, boys, any sel be.
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  Speaker 4: Sel the best just needs h.
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  Speaker 1: So M.
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  Speaker 2: I need to me.
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  Speaker 5: What if all show.
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  Speaker 4: Still stud shas.
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  Speaker 5: Were all here.
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  Speaker 4: It's my choice, le myself side just ch.
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  Speaker 2: I'm waiting chums wama and jumps.
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  Speaker 4: Up somewhere. Cha pray I'm saying things, Miss mis