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Stacking Up The Bodies With JACOB & ETHAN From THORNHILL · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I'm Jacob Charlton and I'm the vocalist of Someone Hill.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Ethan McCann. I play guitar in Thornhill.
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful, gentlemen, thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having us my pleasure.
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  Speaker 4: So we're here to speak about the fact that Thornhill
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  Speaker 4: release your third studio album, Bodies on April fourth, which
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  Speaker 4: isn't too far away. Guys, how do you feeling nervous, excited, anxious, nonplast.
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  Speaker 1: I think for the first time, we're properly excited. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I feel nervous this time. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: just like ready for him to be out in her
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  Speaker 1: for the first time, like feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Excited and proud.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he nim into it a bit more musically for us, guys,
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  Speaker 4: and then what do you're actually going for sonically this time?
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  Speaker 5: I think the first thing that we wanted to sort
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  Speaker 5: of sit down to after Heroin was like we wanted
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  Speaker 5: a lot more energy and a lot more peace in
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  Speaker 5: the in the music. We found that when we took
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  Speaker 5: Heroin to our live show, it felt like it was
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  Speaker 5: kind of dragging at times. And because we started playing
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  Speaker 5: heavy music when we were teenagers, we kind of missed
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  Speaker 5: that energy and seeing that reaction in real time.
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  Speaker 3: How did you actually go about doing that and making
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  Speaker 3: that happen?
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  Speaker 5: I think just a lot more focused on rhythm and
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  Speaker 5: like drum beat, and like Jacob was listening to a
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  Speaker 5: lot more like sort of pop and R and B,
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  Speaker 5: R and B music around this time, so I think
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  Speaker 5: there was even a lot more pace and sort of
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  Speaker 5: his vocal patterns as opposed to our sort of long
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  Speaker 5: stretched out chords and crooning sort of vocals from the
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  Speaker 5: last album.
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  Speaker 4: Nice and the press release says that contained some of
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  Speaker 4: your well heaviest moments to date.
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  Speaker 3: Would you agree with that statement?
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  Speaker 2: I would, I would agree.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Why Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think I think Heroin was such a different approach
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  Speaker 1: to the album before it that I think we started
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  Speaker 1: to miss being the heavy band on a bill. I
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  Speaker 1: think because we're still, you know, in the heavy music world.
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  Speaker 1: We'd play a lot of heavy shows and we'd kind
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  Speaker 1: of be the softer of the act, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that was fun at the start, just because we felt
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  Speaker 1: a bit uninspired by heavy music.
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  Speaker 2: But by the end of it.
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  Speaker 1: I think we were missing some of that heaviness or darkness,
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  Speaker 1: so we really tried to bring it in with a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a new flavor hopefully.
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  Speaker 4: So you've released the single was Obsession, Morve, Silver, Swarm
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  Speaker 4: and Tongues. So are they a good sonic representation of
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  Speaker 4: what fans can expect? There are a few other layers
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  Speaker 4: in there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, there's always layers, mate.
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  Speaker 6: More.
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  Speaker 5: There's definitely a few curve balls in there. I think
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  Speaker 5: with singles, we try and pick them so you get
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  Speaker 5: a little taste of everything, like it's a little it's
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  Speaker 5: a little sample platter of the album. But there's always
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  Speaker 5: going to be like a couple of cards up our sleeve.
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  Speaker 5: I think I want to give everything away.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, We'll leave you with a bit of mysprey.
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  Speaker 4: I won a my press yet, so we spoke about it.
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  Speaker 4: You could previous album, Herold, which came out twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 4: and that was an a pronominated album and it went.
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  Speaker 3: Down really well.
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  Speaker 4: So when you approached this one, was attempting at or
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  Speaker 4: to rehash that winning formula because you knew it worked
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  Speaker 4: so well, or was it important for you to move
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  Speaker 4: on from there?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we didn't win anything, we got nominated. I think
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  Speaker 2: we just got a good week. I think.
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  Speaker 1: Most people hated that record, so I don't. I don't think, Oh, look,
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  Speaker 1: we don't really think much. I think on purpose, because
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  Speaker 1: the more thought you put into what you want from it,
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  Speaker 1: I think, the less you're actually going to get out
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  Speaker 1: of it. I think we just wanted to enjoy ourselves
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  Speaker 1: and be what we could come up with without any expectation,
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  Speaker 1: because we don't really I mean, your first listener is
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  Speaker 1: always going to be yourself, and as long as you're
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  Speaker 1: enjoying it, you'll find your people.
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  Speaker 3: And that's one I found interesting. Guys.
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  Speaker 4: There's a quide from the band in that press release
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  Speaker 4: and said bodies marks the bold evolution in our ever
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  Speaker 4: changing sound, like, can you elaborate on it more for us?
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  Speaker 5: I think also to sort of elaborate on your last question.
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  Speaker 5: At the same time, I think we never really like,
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  Speaker 5: we never really try and compare what we're making to
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  Speaker 5: what we have already done. We just kind of we
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  Speaker 5: have this saying where we just kind of follow the endorphins.
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  Speaker 5: It's never like, Okay, we've done this, now we need
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  Speaker 5: to do this. It's just a matter of whatever we
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  Speaker 5: feel like playing, whatever we feel like listening to, like
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  Speaker 5: whatever you know, whatever brings those en dolphins.
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  Speaker 3: That's nice.
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  Speaker 4: Now, how would you say so because of you sort
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  Speaker 4: of do change and you's have got a lot of
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  Speaker 4: evolution in music, Like, how would you say that the
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  Speaker 4: band has grown change musically over the course of the
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  Speaker 4: Dark Pool to Heroin and Our Bodies.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good question. Why don't you take that one?
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  Speaker 5: Even I think, like I said, like our taste is
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  Speaker 5: always changing, Like we always go through different phases of
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  Speaker 5: viking different bands and different things in our music, and
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  Speaker 5: I think that's just sort of apparent in our albums,
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  Speaker 5: Like it wasn't a conscious decision for us to go
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  Speaker 5: a bit lighter or a bit morechorousy with Heroin, it
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  Speaker 5: was just like the sort of music we were listening
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  Speaker 5: to at that time. And now with Bodies, it's like
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  Speaker 5: we have been listening to more electronics, we have been
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  Speaker 5: listening to sort of faster music, and that's just that's
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  Speaker 5: what it sounds like to.
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  Speaker 2: Us, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, I think we also feel
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  Speaker 1: it live in our own music of what we're missing
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  Speaker 1: or what we'd prefer to play, because I think a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the time the Heroin stuff might have been
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  Speaker 1: a vibe, but it's a bit harder to train late live,
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  Speaker 1: and I think we learn a lesson with each release,
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  Speaker 1: in which with each song like Obsession was such a
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  Speaker 1: good one to learn that we were like, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we can still play slow Shoe Gays, but it can
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  Speaker 1: still have more attitude and more rhythmic movement to it,
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  Speaker 1: and we can still feel fulfilled by that on stage.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that's always going to be one of
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  Speaker 1: those things as we learn in two or more.
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  Speaker 4: And this is a bit of a two part question, guys,
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  Speaker 4: but a lot of those lines like personally, how much
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  Speaker 4: music for grace do you think thought Hill's got left
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  Speaker 4: in you as a band. And secondly, we'll get to
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  Speaker 4: the stage every where. He's like to sort of sit
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  Speaker 4: down at his band and discuss which way you are
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  Speaker 4: going because you sort of wanting a branch out in
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  Speaker 4: so many directions.
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  Speaker 6: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: I think we'll go until we can't anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I think, like we've said, follow the endorphins until there
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  Speaker 1: aren't any Probably, I think.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like putting too much weight on the future.
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  Speaker 1: I think we'll just keep going as we as we
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  Speaker 1: see it in front of us.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: We're so close friends, that I think, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: movement and the change is always very.
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  Speaker 2: Verbally like talked about throughout.
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  Speaker 1: The four of us, so I think everybody's always on
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  Speaker 1: board with wherever we feel we're going to go together.
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  Speaker 5: And also it never really takes any convincing, like because
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  Speaker 5: Jacob said, because we are such close friends, we kind
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  Speaker 5: of go through the different phases together, so like whenever
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  Speaker 5: there's a new demo that sounds quite different, everybody's just
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  Speaker 5: kind of on board from the get go, which is
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  Speaker 5: why it's so exciting and so easy for us to
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  Speaker 5: sort of try so many different things.
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  Speaker 4: And you've got three album preview shows coming up as
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  Speaker 4: well in Melbourne this Thursday March twenty seventh, Brisbane and
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  Speaker 4: the twenty nine.
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  Speaker 3: They're Sidney on the thirties. So personally, what exactly is
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  Speaker 3: an album listening show? How does that work?
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  Speaker 1: So we basically play the album in full and then
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  Speaker 1: we sit down and do like a Q and A
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  Speaker 1: at the end, just.
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  Speaker 2: To like be what the first responses are.
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  Speaker 1: We started it on the in cycle and I think
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  Speaker 1: we really enjoyed it because it's just like a really
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  Speaker 1: good way to kind of like give back to the
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  Speaker 1: Australian scene, you know, all the love and support that
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  Speaker 1: we've gotten, and it's like a cool, little exclusive.
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  Speaker 2: Thing, and it's also cool to have live feedback.
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  Speaker 1: It's cool for us to feel how it all plays
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  Speaker 1: before we go do you know, our biggest headline international
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  Speaker 1: tour ever. So I think it's just like an exciting
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  Speaker 1: thing that we like to kind of involve everybody in.
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  Speaker 4: And would you say something that's more for you guys
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  Speaker 4: as a band, or it's more for the fans.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's for us. I think they coexist, co exist.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's it's good for everybody involved, hopefully if
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  Speaker 1: we do it well.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's a nice way for the fans
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  Speaker 5: to get like an inside scoop on the album, and
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  Speaker 5: it's also a nice way for us to sort of
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  Speaker 5: elaborate ourselves as opposed to you just hearing it for
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  Speaker 5: the first time. It's like we sort of get to
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  Speaker 5: explain the ins and outs a bit more so people
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  Speaker 5: can sort of understand the full concept. And we're very
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  Speaker 5: much about we Go, Go, Go Go. I was just
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  Speaker 5: going to say that, like it benefits both of us
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  Speaker 5: because we get to sort of portray that full picture
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  Speaker 5: and fans get to fully hear that that they might
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  Speaker 5: not otherwise, and it's good.
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  Speaker 1: I think we always put it in the forefront of
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  Speaker 1: this band, of like being as organically ourselves as possible,
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  Speaker 1: because I think it's very easy to get wrapped up
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  Speaker 1: in what we do, and I think the separation can
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  Speaker 1: sometimes be very large, and I think it's just cool
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  Speaker 1: that we can just be in a room and just
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  Speaker 1: be a bunch of idiots just explaining why.
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  Speaker 2: We love music and why we made decisions and be,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so one on one.
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  Speaker 1: With everybody, because that's how you know, that's how a
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  Speaker 1: band should be as much as possible.
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  Speaker 2: I think we care about that a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, Now you mentioned your biggest international tortured date, gys.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us about that America Baby USA?
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  Speaker 3: No, I see? Was it a headline to on them? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's when you go over.
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  Speaker 2: There on the eight oh seventh, eighth of April.
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  Speaker 5: We fly out and it's with with Ocean Groove, Our
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  Speaker 5: Melbourne Boys, Avoid from the.
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  Speaker 2: Universe and Specs. I think so, I've heard also from Melbourne.
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  Speaker 3: Very nice guys. Now we get this over quickly because
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  Speaker 3: there run out of time.
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  Speaker 4: But I've got a new segment. I'm introduced that heavy
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  Speaker 4: you called our heavy glassy photo bomb, which basically I
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  Speaker 4: troll through your social media before he chat and I
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  Speaker 4: find some photos that I want to.
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  Speaker 3: Know a little bit more about.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, let's go.
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  Speaker 3: So I found this one, like, doesn't look like there
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  Speaker 3: was much room for you guys there? Who do you
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  Speaker 3: need to come?
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  Speaker 2: That was we're on a yacht.
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  Speaker 5: We played a show on a yacht, and we're all
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  Speaker 5: dressed up as sailors. We all stropy shirts and white
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  Speaker 5: pants and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: It was we couldn't even see the second row. It
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  Speaker 1: was just like floor to ceiling.
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  Speaker 2: Its crazy, that's that's that's more.
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  Speaker 3: You had to do that? Or were you just being goofy.
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  Speaker 2: A bit of column, a bit of colmn b on
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  Speaker 2: that one.
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  Speaker 4: I think I'm not his old mads right tunny there
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  Speaker 4: it looks like he's just had himself a moment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad he did, because I want to stunk again.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's all right.
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  Speaker 4: The other one I've found is what's the occasion with
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  Speaker 4: this one?
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  Speaker 3: Guys? You all scrubbing up pretty.
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  Speaker 2: Well A s banger banger.
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  Speaker 1: We got invited to the Elvis premiere, Like the movie
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  Speaker 1: premiere red carpet event. We don't know why, and we
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  Speaker 1: don't know how, but that was a really fucking awesome night.
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  Speaker 1: We got absolutely pissed on free champagne. We were being
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  Speaker 1: absolute menaces, but we had a really great time, and
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  Speaker 1: it was really cool to see that movie before it
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  Speaker 1: hits cinemas because it was a goat and he's the goat.
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  Speaker 2: He's right here.
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  Speaker 3: Oh it's very well. Oh well, that's a massive Elvis fan.
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  Speaker 2: Were you impressed? I loved it. I'm a big Oh
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  Speaker 2: my god, why am I? Why am I blanking on
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  Speaker 2: his name? No?
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, basil woman, Oh my god, I'm a big
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  Speaker 1: Basilment fan. I mean, Romeo and Juliet is probably one
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  Speaker 1: of me and my partners like favorite movies of all time.
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  Speaker 1: And he always works with his wife, who's probably the
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  Speaker 1: most incredible stylust ever.
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  Speaker 2: And this was really.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing to see and hear from her because she was
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  Speaker 1: there and she did a speech and kind of explained things,
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  Speaker 1: and it got me pretty hyped because you know, wardrobe
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  Speaker 1: is a big part of our band and it's just
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  Speaker 1: a it's a big job and a big effort, and
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  Speaker 1: it was really fucking awesome.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome. Going sor right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, thanks very much for your time. The album Bodies
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  Speaker 4: is out April four. The Boys are off to Melbourne,
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  Speaker 4: Sydney and Brisbane this weekend for some shows.
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  Speaker 3: Where can people keep up with what you guys are
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  Speaker 3: doing and buy.
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  Speaker 2: Your album Instagram, Spotify? Probably it because we don't really
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  Speaker 2: use anything else.
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  Speaker 4: I will thanks very much your time, the pleasure, and
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  Speaker 4: I'll try to make it along with the Brisbane show
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  Speaker 4: and sail Okay, it's like having us noways go just
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  Speaker 4: take care.
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  Speaker 6: Show. Yes, I say, go to some side side. I say,
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  Speaker 6: sa me you yeah, so my show? You want my
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  Speaker 6: silver good Soldier away from the nurse. Also saw I
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  Speaker 6: Love Loves So Girl Girls, True.
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  Speaker 7: Captain, whatso mass s not nice way to jokes?
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  Speaker 6: Just a bud house, It's just a second