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Starting A Revolution With GLENN PATRICK From SHOTGUN MISTRESS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Yeah, this is Glenn from A Shotgun Mistress and we have got a brand
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  new single, Jude Judas from our second album, which is Kings of the
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  Revolution, and that is out in June's so we've got the first single which
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  is out on the twenty sixth of January. So yeah, I'm really really
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  stoked for it all to come out. I bet you, I brother,
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  thanks for joining us today, No no, no, no problem. Thank
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  you so much for having me my pleasure. So as you say, man,
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  Shotgun Mistress releasing new single Jude Judas on January the twenty sixth, So
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  tell us a bit more about the song from a musical point of vie and
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  what you're going for it. Sure, Well, the track is well,
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  it's as I said, it's the first single from from the second album,
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  and it's I guess it's kind of like a your first album is always going
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  to be a test the waters and see what it's like and how we all
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  work together, as I guess, a band, family and a democracy,
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  if you will. So the second album was a really good chance to sort
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  of spread our wings. When everyone works. The recording process was you know,
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  ten times easier. We're all we're all a really good time working together
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  as well, So only only took it to my fucking almost forties to find
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  a band that I actually get along with. Yeah, so it's the song
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  itself, it's a typical you know, the word judas obvious see biblical in
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  the fact, where it's you've got a friend who kind of took advantage of
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  you in a situation, and it's just a bit of a paying homage to
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  a buddy of mine who had gone through quite a lot of shit, but
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  he's he's on the up and up. So this is a beautiful man.
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  As we mentioned, it is a first song taken from the upcoming album Teams
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  of the Revolution, which comes out in June. So why choose this song
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  first to represent the album? I guess Yeah, it was tough, you
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  know, there was. There's a couple of really good standout ones and the
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  second single I Absolutely Love, which is going to be coming out shortly after
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  after this one, and then even the third one is an amazing song which
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  we actually got Rusty from Electric Marian to do some to do some vocals as
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  well. So that's that's a really really good track, and that one is
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  called Mary Jane, So that's that's fitting name as well, really, isn't
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  it. I'm not usually they got son called Mary Jane obviously being electric Marry
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  there's they got Sweet Mary c So yeah, but yeah, it's it was
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  It was quite fitting because I wrote the song not even thinking about having Rusty
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  on board, so it was it was just one of those things that you
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  all went together really well. And but those three are great. But there's
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  it's an album where like we're we're super proud of the whole album and how
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  it ended up, you know, from production value to the writing process to
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  the finished songs themselves. There. Yeah, it's it's a real part of
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  the album. It's got a lot more I guess dynamic compared to the first
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  album, where the first album was still great, was it, Except for
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  maybe the last track being the ballad, it was all pretty much, you
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  know, similar sort of vein each track. But you know, these ones,
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  we've got like mid teen both songs, we've got you know, hard
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  hard class shocker mistress style signatured songs with the revolver Pantero type vibe, and
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  but then we've also got you know, some Aerosmith style stuff and the top
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  vibes in there. As well, So there's a there's a lot of really
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  yeah, yeah, a great mix. This This is your second album,
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  mate, so going into that, did you sort of set yourself goal,
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  like you know what you want to achieve after first one? So in the
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  second one, do you set goals or you've got a battle plan or like
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  what you want to do achieve out of it? Yeah, Look, we
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  were going independently with this one. It was something that we didn't really intend
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  to do at the start, but we made it a part of I guess
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  the structure of this release. I mean, as you know, I do
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  radio promotion for a living anyway, and we're I'm classified as an independent label.
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  Regardless of I thought, you know what stuff, I'm going to go
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  in and and really take take the bull by the horns on this one.
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  And you know, I've known the Australian industry for many years. I've known
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  you for a few years as well, which is great and I really I
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  really love and I appreciate this what that you do not just for us,
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  but for metal and rock scene here mains so thank you so much. But
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  yeah, I mean the structure for this album that was just a kicked The
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  last album's ass and also try and I guess incorporate multiple tours. I think
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  because last time we are we had issues with COVID and not being out a
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  tour. We didn't tour until a year after the first album was released,
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  and even that was you know, mainly supporting Electric Mary on their Australian tour.
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  So you know, we've we've got plans in place now we're gonna have
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  an Australian headline tour through Select Touring. Looking good for Japan as well,
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  which will be good. Obviously we've got Gland first coming up in February,
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  so we'll be coming up your way surely, so that'll be fun. Yes,
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  yeah, absolutely, because I know that you go ahead and there aren't
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  you I'll be there for sure. Yeah yeah. Actually after Janet Gardner when
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  she was up overy last time, I was doing a draw managing for it,
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  so we catch up as well. She's a legend. Her and husband
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  awesome. Yeah, lovely people, lovely, which actually leads me on to
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  the next Quesson was it was like we worked this out, mate, but
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  we didn't. But you've got a big month coming up in February. Well,
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  I'll do in the national run for Glamfest, which featureds Slaughter, Lynch,
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  mob Heat, Janet Garda and more. Mate like it must be pretty
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  pumped for that. There's some pretty big names in there, and you know
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  it's it's not just our first I guess big festival, but it's our first
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  festival tour, sokay. Having this to to come out this pretty much a
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  couple of weeks after the first single of the album comes out. It couldn't
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  have come at a better time. And you know, being able to release,
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  you know, had this all this build up this month to the first
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  single and then going straight into you know, talking about and first and getting
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  all video and content up for that and then literally bang after that, then
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  we go and do the promo for the second single as well. So Glenn
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  first West stoked. I mean, as you know, you've got the likes
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  of Slaughter and Lynch, George Lynch guitarist for Docan as well, who did
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  a lot of the Nightmare on Elm Street stuff. You know, Janet Gardener
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  as you're talking about from Vixen, Your Cruel Intentions Sisters Doll is high up
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  there on the food chain this time. So it's really good to see some
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  AUSSI up and coming bands be so high up in the in the roster,
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  which is really really good. But I guess the thing that I'm most excited
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  about is, aside from Tai Ketto and Jet Boyne is awesome, amazing bands,
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  it's the local guys. And you know, there's a few bands there
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  that I've always wanted to have the chance to share the stage with and see
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  them live. And you know, Rag Doll from Perth awesome band. Never
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  seen them alive, I guess commented every now and again on online, but
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  haven't really met them before. So really good to see them. A blaze
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  good good mates to Blaze. Over the years, we still haven't played together.
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  We've always organized gigs but never actually didn't. Sister Dollars said, you
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  know, we could smile and Cassidy Paris. Obviously, where one band is
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  the other one follows with Cassidy because Steve the guitarist is is the father of
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  Cassidy. Well, I really did, yeah, and Steve actually, I
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  mean I haven't really spoken to Steve before, but Steve is used to be
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  a guitarist in the Radio Sun and if you remember that band with with Jay
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  Sol and me and Jason really good mates. So and then there's there's of
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  other bands as well on the bill, so we're just stoked to not just
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  be a part of one Melbourne show but all three. So ye cannot wait.
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  Which actually you've done this again, maybe you've led me into the next
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  question beautifully like that. That that is one of the best things about glennfestis
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  here. I think it's a number of buzzy bands like you mentioned the Sisters,
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  Dole Cross on Parody Passi Paris, which is my rag doll like these
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  days, but I don't think festivals give Australian bands enough enough time on on
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  line ups these days. But this one it's it's more than half pretty much.
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  So it's it's testament to the fact that bands are doing so well.
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  Yeah, and Danny is you know, he doesn't need to do that.
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  You know, it's you know, most most promoters as you know you put
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  people out as well, mate, so you know exactly what it's like.
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  It's it's about bums on seats at the end of the day, and you
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  know I understand that completely, so having so many local lacks on board,
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  but I think he's he's really done his homework with being able to get this
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  many bands on because there's that that's such a caliber that you know, they
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  like, I've seen a couple of them live and they're phenomenal. So they
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  definitely give headliners for their money too, So really really stoked. Oh yeah,
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  now bath to you. Guys like shot Down Mistress have built your reputation
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  around your explosive live shows. So for people who might not have seen you
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  before, what are they going to expect? It's just, you know,
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  it's it's it's classic LA's troop sleeves rock. But we try to sort of
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  bring the stadium glam glitz to to local pubs. But this is obviously,
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  you know, two thousand capacity venues, so we get a little bit more
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  more room to breathe and run around. Yeah, I guess there's a lot
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  of bands copies in the background. Yeah, Living in the Sticks, Weight
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  Living. It's a rock and roller, you know, so I think from
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  a live perspective, you know, we just we don't have anything digital.
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  We're all old school vals. We'll like to keep it sort of as as
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  yeah, original line, as easy as possible. When it comes to a
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  live performances, we just let the music and the performance of the talking.
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  I'm not sure this is you doing it or something. Strangers come on,
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  but I keep getting the thumbs up come up on my screen, thumbs down
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  coming up on my screen. Are you getting that too? No, I'm
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  not getting anything. Three times now has come up and there's been the thumbs
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  down. I'm thinking, like, what's he trying to tell me? No?
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  Sorry, the plae might be on a cable here. Maybe you recently
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  did some sort out to it with Electric Mary and Pulasity King. It was
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  like, there are a lot of fun bro, but what do you learn
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  about yourselves and your music as a band going on a trip like that?
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  Playing with bands like that too, sold out the crowds. I think you
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  always go into it, especially if you're a green band that hasn't done a
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  lot of touring, especially with other bands that have been around for many years,
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  like you know, Russy and the Boys have Tommy and the Boys,
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  so you know, you're always going You're like, yeah, we're gonna we're
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  gonna knock them off the off the stage sort of thing, because there's always
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  a bit of fun advance when it comes to that. There's nothing ego driven
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  about it. It's just a bit of fun. But then you go there
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  and you see these dudes play You're life, So I guess you you learn
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  to be a little bit more humble. You learn how I guess each other
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  work together, not just from playing odd gigs, but obviously you know,
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  touring and being in such a small environment together and you you also build up
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  stamina I think is a really really good thing when it comes to touring,
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  and unfortunately, when it comes to the end of tours, even though sometimes
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  you might be burnt out, you've you've also built up this amazing stammer that
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  you know, like going to the gym. When you stop doing it,
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  then you know, you become you become a stick again exactly. Now.
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  You mentioned our headlining is Australia tour earlier. If you've got dates of stuff
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  for that, we can tell people about which one. Sorry, are your
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  headlining tour of Australia. Yeah, so the album's out mid June, so
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  we have an Outstates yet, but we're looking at doing Japan straight afterwards,
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  so that's probably gonna be for a couple of weeks and then we'll come back
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  and probably do the the Aussie tour sometime in maybe July. August I reckon,
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  so I guess keep watching this space. Now that's good bro al right,
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  well, thanks for your time today, Gladows usual pleasure to speak with
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  the other single, Jude Judas, is out January twenty sixth. I was
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  like the album in June, so keep an ear out for it all,
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  and we'll catch you sooner at Glanfest your legend may I'll see you there for
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  a beer. I trust act from U. Then attribute to all that a
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  flea fall and I'm screaming from self friends to run out the way, cut
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  outside. It's present of mine out to build a skateboard by s. Wait,
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  fine, if we all lie the song, will I could bring me
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  some me time the time I'm in the five and mine. You let the
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  doors gave no tuns of ways, and don't wait to tell bout his own
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  mistakes, and don't buy the guys you don't bother time where we break in
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  the tab It sakes the best. We think the choice. We think it's
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  better what we save time in the fall. It's loving it. I'm trying
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  to le said all of it, try to make it on out. I
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  want you out of my oh my days. But then I'm ready and leave
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  you and try to race it, and we rest. I was out,
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