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Making The Odd Seem Normal With DALE TANNER From OCEAN GROVE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Goody.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Dale Tanner and I am the vocalist
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  Speaker 2: in the band Ocean Grove and we are currently on
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  Speaker 2: tour right now on the Odd World Underground tour with
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  Speaker 2: our friends Cane Hill, all the way from New Orleans,
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  Speaker 2: New Orleans, I could say Louisiana and Jeficit and Blinder
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  Speaker 2: from here in Australia. I'm here chatting with Chris from
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  Speaker 2: Heavy mag and I'm very happy to do good Chris.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I made and I know you' lying when you
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  Speaker 3: say you're happy to be here, but thanks for.
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  Speaker 1: Trying mate away.
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  Speaker 2: At least I can do.
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  Speaker 4: I should kick off your Odd World Underground Australian's your
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  Speaker 4: tonight in pers before heading through Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and
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  Speaker 4: Newcastle and finishing up in Brizee on the twenty second
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  Speaker 4: of August. So I don't really want to question your
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  Speaker 4: work ethic, but shouldn't you be finishing off in the
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  Speaker 4: rehearsal room instead of speaking to me?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look we are, you know we we we managed
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  Speaker 2: to get through the whole set at least once, which
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  Speaker 2: I think for is you know, a very very good start.
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  Speaker 1: So just by us standards, know that we are feeling
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  Speaker 1: very prepared and yeah, I know it's We've had a nice,
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  Speaker 1: lovely day so far.
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  Speaker 2: Here Dane a bit in per film, very relaxed, the
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  Speaker 2: sun is always shining, so on on all you know,
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  Speaker 2: on all accounts, we're filmed, very good about this one.
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  Speaker 4: Chris, very nice man. You's about yourself a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of chime off lately, which is a rare thing for you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys.
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  Speaker 3: Are you worried about stage rested? All met like it
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  Speaker 3: is a real thing? Apparently.
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  Speaker 2: I honestly think that the time off has done all
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  Speaker 2: of us individually and collectively wonders. We were going pretty
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  Speaker 2: hard there for a good twelve months, sort of back
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  Speaker 2: to back Europe and UK and Australia tours and you know,
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  Speaker 2: off the back of getting to America last year for
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  Speaker 2: the first time in a good seven eight years, and
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  Speaker 2: just really kind of pushing this odd world album cycle
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  Speaker 2: as hard as we could, which great.
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  Speaker 1: However, once we sort of.
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  Speaker 2: Got to the end of the poppy Europe run that
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  Speaker 2: marked sort of three tours already within the first three
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  Speaker 2: months of twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: We sort of kind of we're looking at each.
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  Speaker 2: Other going, oh, you know, in the offersite for more
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  Speaker 2: tools are sort of coming in and you know, last
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  Speaker 2: minute offers for this and that. We're sort of thinking, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it might be time to just sort of take a
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  Speaker 2: breather and just really focus on stuff in our own lives,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, we are all human and we do
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  Speaker 2: have lives that go on, you know, behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 2: and friendships and relationships and whatever else, and careers outside
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  Speaker 2: of music that we need to sort of still give
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  Speaker 2: energy into and pay attention to. So I think we've
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  Speaker 2: all kind of walked away and done that. And walking
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  Speaker 2: into the rehearsal studio a couple of days ago and
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  Speaker 2: just just feeling a lightness in the air and the
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  Speaker 2: energy was good, and everyone was laughing and smiling, and
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  Speaker 2: I could just immediately sense that everyone is in a
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  Speaker 2: much better place than we were a few months ago,
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  Speaker 2: where of tensions were high and everyone I think was
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  Speaker 2: just feeling a bit agitated because it was like we
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  Speaker 2: weren't really getting a just a chance to sort of
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  Speaker 2: have a breeder and you know that's gonna that's gonna
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  Speaker 2: have an effect on anyone if you know, you sort
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  Speaker 2: of put him in the in the cooker for long
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  Speaker 2: enough and just see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: You know, someone's going to.
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  Speaker 2: Break eventually, So I feel like it was a really
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  Speaker 2: timely opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Uh and I'm glad that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've kind of come out the other other end
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  Speaker 2: of it and are.
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  Speaker 1: Feeling good now.
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  Speaker 2: I honestly think that's just going to reflect in these performances.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think there's going to be sort of guzzing
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  Speaker 2: by how we were playing. You know, in the back rooms,
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  Speaker 2: there's definitely very minimal rust, but what has been gained
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  Speaker 2: is definitely a bit more you know, mental clarity, instability
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  Speaker 2: and physical sort of.
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  Speaker 1: Just you know foundation.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's going to sort of help us, like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get to this toolfe piece of pack hopefully.
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  Speaker 4: So it sounds like you've been reading for your self
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  Speaker 4: help books or you've been time off.
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  Speaker 3: To mate.
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  Speaker 1: A bit of light reading doesn't hurt.
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  Speaker 4: Like you say, Man, you're not traveling light like you've
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  Speaker 4: taken New Orleans Metal, Cory after Cane Hill, got Ozzie Band, Stevisit,
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  Speaker 4: and Briander on the road. So from what I know,
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  Speaker 4: you guys made like it's not a randomly selected chores.
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  Speaker 4: So tell us about those bands and what they're bringing
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  Speaker 4: to it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we've we've had the opportunity to to actually
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  Speaker 2: sort of get to know and tour with Devin the
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  Speaker 2: drammer of Paine Hill on the last few Poppy tours,
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  Speaker 2: so he's he's sort of been on those tours as
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  Speaker 2: crew as drum tech on those tours. So that was
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  Speaker 2: our first sort of little chance to kind of get
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  Speaker 2: to know one of the members from the band. And
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  Speaker 2: I think for the longest while that's been one of those,
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  Speaker 2: you know, one of those bands in America that from
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  Speaker 2: the get go, you know, kind of those small comparisons
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  Speaker 2: were always made between us and them, and it always
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  Speaker 2: stelt like, you know, a match that was guesting to
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  Speaker 2: happen at some point, and you know, this is this
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  Speaker 2: is really cool, Like it's our first other than other No,
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  Speaker 2: the my disaster tour where we brought out Pale Dusk,
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  Speaker 2: that being you know, the first time bringing out an
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  Speaker 2: international as a support. This is the first time bringing
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  Speaker 2: out a support from the States. So I think for
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  Speaker 2: Ocean Grove it's a it's quite a significant moment in
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  Speaker 2: and of itself.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's something to be very proud of.
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  Speaker 2: And something that when you're sort of growing up and
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  Speaker 2: looking at the bands and their careers and you sort
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  Speaker 2: of see them, you know, bring out some international bands
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  Speaker 2: for an Australian tour.
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  Speaker 1: It feels really special. You know, it's special to be at.
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  Speaker 2: Those shows because you sort of think, wow, like maybe
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  Speaker 2: if it wasn't for this headline artist, you know, these
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  Speaker 2: these support bands from across the world, might not get
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  Speaker 2: that opportunity and you might not get to see, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some great apps that you wanted to see your whole life.
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  Speaker 2: And so hopefully that's what we're providing on this tour.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of people can come to
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  Speaker 2: these shows that I've always wanted to see Ka and
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  Speaker 2: Hill that they have never had the chance to and
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  Speaker 2: that's just a really really nice bonus of what it
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  Speaker 2: is that we do. So it's it's a really nice
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  Speaker 2: full circum moment. You know, we've just met them literally
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  Speaker 2: an hour ago, and they all seem.
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  Speaker 1: Like really lovely lads.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm sure it's going to be really great tour,
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  Speaker 2: you know, So let's hope say that way or that
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  Speaker 2: to be you.
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  Speaker 1: Know in a few years and you know, Deficite and Blinder.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's really cool, you know, these are these
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  Speaker 2: are both up and coming Australian bands as far as
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  Speaker 2: I know, you know, Blinder have only played really a
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  Speaker 2: handful of shows, maybe three or four shows before joining
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  Speaker 2: this tour, and uh, you know that this is a
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  Speaker 2: really coot opportunity for us to kind of give a
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  Speaker 2: go to a couple of bands that you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: not too familiar with.
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  Speaker 1: We've we've never played a show with either.
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  Speaker 2: Of these bands, but you know, they've been recommended and
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  Speaker 2: sort of their name sort of thrown on the table.
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  Speaker 1: And we've checked out their music.
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  Speaker 2: And their vibe and sort of gone, yeah, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: like let's let's give them a go like that, that's
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  Speaker 2: what it's all about.
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  Speaker 1: Like we don't get.
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  Speaker 2: Let's it, let's a crack like you can't really you
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  Speaker 2: don't want to judge too heavily, you don't ont to
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  Speaker 2: base it on you know, sort of too much, and
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  Speaker 2: we just went with sort of the instinctual kind of vibe.
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  Speaker 2: And but those bands seem to really really tick that
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  Speaker 2: box of what what Ocean Grove is trying to do
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  Speaker 2: and sort of what we're trying to encompass with a
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  Speaker 2: tool like this.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think overall it's yeah, it's a really
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  Speaker 1: cool package.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sweet looking through the trolly is too, man Like.
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  Speaker 4: I noticed that Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide shows a license
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  Speaker 4: and all ages, which is awesome. You don't see enough
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  Speaker 4: all ages shows these days, do you.
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  Speaker 1: No? No, I agree, I think.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's I always light up when I see that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, And sometimes it's only until the flyer, my
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  Speaker 2: own flyer is like it's posted that I go, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like did I miss that detail?
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  Speaker 1: Like, oh, that's pretty sweet, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So we've done that in my last few tours. Definitely
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  Speaker 2: on the Minosarster too. A couple of years ago there
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  Speaker 2: was a couple of shows there where we had all
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  Speaker 2: ages and I know that because the album trails all ages,
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  Speaker 2: and my nephew came along to the show with my
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  Speaker 2: with my sister.
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  Speaker 1: And my brother in law, and he didn't actually make it.
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  Speaker 2: He was just so knackered by the time it got
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  Speaker 2: to our set time. He was probably he was probably
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  Speaker 2: like seven at the time, and I think just the noise,
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  Speaker 2: the loud noise, and the air conditioning broke that night,
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  Speaker 2: so it was like really steamy in there.
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  Speaker 1: It was a packed out show. And he just couldn't
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  Speaker 1: he just couldn't stand it any longer. So even though
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  Speaker 1: he came to the show, I was really excited for
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  Speaker 1: him to finally see I can go, he didn't actually
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  Speaker 1: get to see this. So that's still that's still yet.
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  Speaker 2: To be But that kind of stuff, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: uncle Dale to you know, plenty of nieces and nephews
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  Speaker 2: and beyond, and just just to know that there's a
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  Speaker 2: new generation of kids discovering new metal, discovering heavy music
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  Speaker 2: and get the chance to do that at our shows
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  Speaker 2: when it is sort of license all ages.
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  Speaker 1: I just think that's it's an amazing aspect of what.
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  Speaker 2: I really cherished growing up, being able to go shows
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  Speaker 2: at fourteen fifteen, you know, hardcore shows and things that
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  Speaker 2: were all ages, and it was it was a lot
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  Speaker 2: more you know, present back then ten.
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  Speaker 1: To fifteen years ago than it is today.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think, you know that that's still that
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  Speaker 2: still underpins what we do because it's sort of what
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  Speaker 2: we brought up on, so we see the value and
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  Speaker 2: the importance of that and it's how we got into music.
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  Speaker 2: So to be able to sort of pay that forward
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  Speaker 2: and you know it, it gives the opportunity for the
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  Speaker 2: young ones and parents to sort of bring their kids along,
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  Speaker 2: I think is yeah, it's very cool.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, yeah, fastless totally. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned before, Bro that you've recently done a few
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  Speaker 4: overseas tools. Like so many people in the position to
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  Speaker 4: be able to judge this, but like, as a performer,
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  Speaker 4: how different is it playing like thousands of miles away
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  Speaker 4: from home.
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  Speaker 3: It's actually coming home and playing and going backyard.
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  Speaker 2: I guess it's like you know, basically on I guess
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  Speaker 2: how you want to perceive it. It It really one
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  Speaker 2: benefits to the other in terms of a mentality. So
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  Speaker 2: when you're overseas, obviously you do miss home, but you
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  Speaker 2: come to cherish the things that make.
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  Speaker 1: Where you are, wherever it is in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Unique and the fact that you can be somewhere in
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  Speaker 2: Europe and you know, English is definitely their second language,
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  Speaker 2: and they're singing the words back to you, but in
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  Speaker 2: a strange you know, twang or accent and it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: quite sound the same, but they're singing along nonetheless, and
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  Speaker 2: you just sort of think, Wow, I am on the
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  Speaker 2: other side of the world and somehow I'm We've captured
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  Speaker 2: and where it we're sort of where we're in this
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  Speaker 2: bubble of energy together and communicating through music rather than
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  Speaker 2: language in a way, and it's a beautiful that's a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful moment where when you're at home in Australia you
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  Speaker 2: sort of, you know, you take for granted that that
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  Speaker 2: kind of connection will just happen because you are all
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  Speaker 2: kind of very much on the same page in terms
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  Speaker 2: of language and culture.
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  Speaker 1: And so forth.
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  Speaker 2: But when you're overseas, you know, there aren't a lot
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  Speaker 2: of other things that are necessarily tying you to these
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  Speaker 2: people other than the art that you've created and that
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  Speaker 2: they're connected to. And it's brought you all to that
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  Speaker 2: same room and and you're there sharing in that moment,
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  Speaker 2: and so by sheer contrast, so one sort of compliments
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  Speaker 2: the other, and you know, you do a tool like
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  Speaker 2: that and it's amazing, and you get sort of.
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  Speaker 1: Four or five weeks in, of course, you start to.
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  Speaker 2: Miss home, and it is really lovely when you get
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  Speaker 2: to when you get to return back to Australia after
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  Speaker 2: a tool like that and play a show not too
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  Speaker 2: far long after, and they're just there isn't really any
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  Speaker 2: place like home, especially, you know, a Melbourne show like
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  Speaker 2: home city where we're from, because they're the just the
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  Speaker 2: art is what you know, These are venues that you've
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  Speaker 2: gone to when you like growing up as a kid,
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  Speaker 2: and and you.
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  Speaker 1: Know contextually like what what that.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of that means to you, and and the just
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  Speaker 2: the energy in a room and that sort of the
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  Speaker 2: traditions and the cultures that exist in each country and
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  Speaker 2: in each city are you and so growing up in Melbourne,
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  Speaker 2: going shows in Melbourne, and then getting to come back
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  Speaker 2: home and play a show in Melbourne after you've been
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  Speaker 2: in all these different places and experiences, all these different
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  Speaker 2: colors and flavors of what it means.
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  Speaker 1: To play a heavy show. It's like you just get.
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  Speaker 2: Reminded of all those extra little things that make it
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  Speaker 2: that extra little bit special that without stepping away from it,
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  Speaker 2: you kind of take for granted and you sort of
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  Speaker 2: forget about until you return and.
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  Speaker 1: Go, oh, that's what makes Melbourne special. Oh, that's what
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  Speaker 1: makes Brisbane special.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's what makes us makes Australia special, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And you can sometimes get lost in it if you
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  Speaker 2: just you know, if you're not yes, taking a step
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  Speaker 2: back and realizing that everywhere special, you know, and home
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  Speaker 2: is special, so and you forget.
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  Speaker 3: In the bed mate. Yeah, your own's bed. Nothing beats
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  Speaker 3: your own.
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  Speaker 1: That's it nothing, that's it fresh sheets.
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  Speaker 4: When I said before, it's been a massive couple of
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  Speaker 4: years for you guys, made like I wanted only talking
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  Speaker 4: in terms of being a touring band, because earlier this
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  Speaker 4: year some pretty special lap had made it and also
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  Speaker 4: well deserved, Like.
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  Speaker 3: You guys one of the most Performed.
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  Speaker 4: Hard Rock Heavy Metalwork Award at the twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 4: Apple Music Awards, made like it's a great reward for effort,
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  Speaker 4: but that award mean to you as a band, Like,
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  Speaker 4: did it take a while to seek him?
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  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, it did.
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  Speaker 2: You know, We've been doing this thing for over ten years,
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  Speaker 2: fifteen years now, and I think yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's always.
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  Speaker 2: Been a point of frustration that heavy music has kind
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  Speaker 2: of always felt quite neglected.
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  Speaker 1: When it's come to awards.
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  Speaker 2: It almost seems like, you know that that's South Park
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  Speaker 2: episode where it's you know, Jimmy Awards, all the awards
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  Speaker 2: for the you know, the best comedy sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like it's almost like when you're in the
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  Speaker 2: hardcore and heavy scene, so it's like we don't even
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  Speaker 2: really want the awards, but there's still a part of
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  Speaker 2: us that go, no, but hang on, we should be included,
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  Speaker 2: Like why why aren't we included? It'd be nice And
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  Speaker 2: so I think it was one of those moments where
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  Speaker 2: we sort of went like fuck, yeah, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: that's that's kind of that is nice to be.
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  Speaker 1: Acknowledged for something and on really like.
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  Speaker 2: The biggest, the biggest stage in other than obviously the
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  Speaker 2: areas you know, in terms of a songwriting and composing
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  Speaker 2: sort of that's like, you know, that's as big as
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  Speaker 2: it gets in Australia and so to be recognized on
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  Speaker 2: that level was a huge deal. We've never received we've
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  Speaker 2: never been to any event with a red carpet, so
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  Speaker 2: it was not only that, but you know, we walked
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  Speaker 2: away with the water as well, and so definitely a
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  Speaker 2: huge moment for the band, something you know, very much
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  Speaker 2: worth celebrating for kind of all the hard work and
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  Speaker 2: not just the band, but the team and you know,
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  Speaker 2: everyone behind the scenes. It's sort of you know B
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  Speaker 2: and G and the straw Lines and everyone else that sort.
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  Speaker 1: Of helped us sort of get there.
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  Speaker 2: It is worth celebrating and acknowledging, and you know, that's
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  Speaker 2: that's definitely.
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  Speaker 1: I think what we take away.
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  Speaker 2: From that is that like it just feels like a
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  Speaker 2: nice like thumbs up, like a message of like keep going,
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  Speaker 2: like keep at at which sometimes is easy.
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  Speaker 1: To forget that you know, in your own heart, you
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  Speaker 1: sort of when.
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  Speaker 2: The chips are low, it's sort of like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, maybe maybe this is it. You know, maybe
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  Speaker 2: maybe there's you know, who knows, like things are getting hard,
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  Speaker 2: last getting hard, like who knows how long this is
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  Speaker 2: going to go on? But you sort of you get
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  Speaker 2: something like that that sort of makes you realize like, oh,
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: people are paying attention. You know, people are recognizing the efforts,
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: and it doesn't go unseen. And if that's just all
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: that that really is recognizing and I know that it's
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: so much more than that, but that's enough, I think
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: for me and for us to sort of walk away
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: and go, you know, sweet, like that's that's really cool.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: I've read through the press release before this made, and
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: there's there's a part in one of them that describes
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: the band as an electric trio of.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: Misfits comes up. The band perfectly made, like in a
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: nice way, that's.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: The perfectly hope you guys yeah, No, I think that
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: is that's that is a compliment because we you know,
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: we've all come at this from a different angle. We're
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: all very different people in ways and then very similar
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: in others. And I think we pride ourselves on the
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: fact that our music, our personalities don't don't necessarily fit
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: into anyone box. And I think that's something that a
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: lot of our fans gravitate towards. I think, no sound,
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: no person should be one dimensional.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: We are all unique in our sort of multifaceted ways.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: And I think by embracing that, rather than trying to
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: mold yourself and your music into some kind of box,
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: has been you know, a key feature of Ocean Growth
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: music and our ethos for years and years, and so
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: for that to be celebrated and to be recognized and
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: people to sort of kind of get it, you know,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: because not everyone's going to get that from the get go.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: It's sort of going to be weird, it's going to
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: be a little bit you know, it's going to push
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: the boundaries of people's expectations and things. But I think
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: as time goes on, we we've just we've had.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: To encourage ourselves. But then we've started to feel.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: As showers get bigger and the audiences get bigger and
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: the online just sort of encouragement things people really resonating
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: with the music and they aren't and everything, you start
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: to see that like, oh, there is a massive audience
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: for this out there, and it's all the more reason
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: to just stick at that sort of way of thinking.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: And so an eclectic tree of misfits is like, yeah,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: well that's that is too young and where we were
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: wanting to embrace that as summer. As much as another
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: group of individuals might go, oh, you know, I don't
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: I don't be seen like that, you know.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Like that's that's sort of a weird thing to say,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: we sort of go, oh no, that's that's actually that's pretty.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Perfect, and we're gonna, we're gonna we're going to double
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: down on that, you know.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: So that's what it's all about.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was reading through a bit further Made and
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: it's said, I quote, it's said, Ocean Grove are held
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: by invention thinking and staggering creativity that transcends definitions and
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: defies musical norms.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: As impressive as that may sound, made, what the fuck
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: does that even mean?
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: I know that's a bit of a mouthful, and I mean.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I started halfway through get through it.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: We'll clearly we've got a good br agent. You know.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: It's appealing, appealing to the to the well read in
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: the universe.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: No, I think it's just I think it's just a
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: fancy way of saying.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: That will will always will always be aspiring to, you know,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: write music and create that.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: That does sort of what I was touching on it.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: It kind of fuses ideas, fuses sounds that should otherwise
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: be contradictory or shouldn't go together, you know, finding finding
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: ways to marry an energy with the sound that would.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Otherwise not happen.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: I think with our live performance, I think that's a
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: really great example of that is that I think the
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: energy that we bring to our live show, I think
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: encompasses what our music is intending to do, but gets
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: it to the sort of the finish line. I think
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: our music in and of itself only expresses a good
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: maybe sixty seventy percent of what Ocean Grove is trying
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: to do here, and the other thirty forty of what
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: we're doing I think really comes alive when we're on stage,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: and I feel that I think a lot of people
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: that come to the shows feel that is that the yeah,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: the gaps in between get filled and ever, I think
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: everything all of a sudden starts to make sense in
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: a really big way.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Because there's a unless you're walking around with you know,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: a PA.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I mean we kind of are, but you know, unless
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: you're walking around with a nice big sub and a
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: PA in your back pocket, Like there's there's a there's
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: an energy and a hit to some of these you
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: know songs that we've written that like, unless you're there
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: in the room with us and like really feeling that
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: grit and that you know, and that literal energy that's
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: bouncing off the walls, bouncing off each other, hitting you
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: in the chest, and I'm there, you know, yelling in
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: your face.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: And there's people you know, crowdsurfing at the top and everything.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: It's like that that's the extra like juice that that
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: really brings home this idea of ocean growers that like
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: you might hear the sound and think, oh that that
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: that's probably created by a certain individual. And then I
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: get up there and I'm jumping around like a you know,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: a bit of a you know a circus. You go,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: I didn't expect that, and then all of a sudden,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: there you go, boom, like your expectations are blown out
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: of the water and you're there for it. You know,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: it's something you haven't seen before, something you haven't felt before,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: and that's a beautiful thing to capture and to sort of,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: you know, elicit in someone who's gone out for just
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: another night and a Friday night, not knowing what to expect,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: and they walk away gone, fuck like that might be
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: one of my new favorite bands. And it happens all
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: the time. They come up to this uf the show gone.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I had no idea, it came up with no expectations.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I'm hearing you know, fucking Belgium. And then now all
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: of a sudden I discovered my favorite band from Australia.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: And you go, well, isn't that amazing?
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: I would say, what is amazing, mate, is you're a
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: fucking champion. I've thrown so many curveballs are you? And
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: every one of them.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: You just fucking bat them straight out of the park.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: You're not pased by anything.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Ah, No, it's all good. We're chilling.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: You tell me that night and then the awards made
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: that you're going to use your downside to maybe write
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: some music.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Yes, did that happen.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Yep, that's definitely been happening.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I had a nice little you know, Sam, Sam's he's
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: the you know, there's no no sugar coating it.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Sam is definitely the man at the you know, at
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the control panel with that one.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: So I knew that, you know, this time for all
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: of us was all going to look a bit different,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: and for Sam it's been really great to know. We
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: had a chat the other day and he sort of said, look,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: you know, I've taken the time to really get my
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: my ducks in a row when it comes to my
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: production world, which he has. You know, he started recording
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: and working with you know, some of and most of
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: the biggest bands in the heavy world of today, which
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: is amazing to see to see where he's come from
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: all these years, you know, starting with Black Label and
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: recording Black Label and rhaps he taps with us to
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: now recording songs and albums of the likes of you know,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Amme and Architects and whoever else. So it's it's amazing
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: to see how Fay he's come with his production and
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: to know that he's taken this time to really focus
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: on that and get that in order as his side hustle,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: you know, whilst we're doing our otion growth thing. And
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: then the other aspect of that was he sort of
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: pulled me aside when you know, there's there's been some
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: new music being written as well, and I sort of thought, oh, beauty,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Like I kind of just had to let that be
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: because sometimes you don't.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: You can't force these things.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: And I knew that there will be a time when
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: we all get back in the studio and we collaborate,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: we work on these things. But Sam's off on the
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: one that is kind of bringing the you know, the
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: bulk of ideas to the table and then we go, right, okay,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: this is sort of the vibe we're going for now,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: let's now, let's cook. So he sort of showed me
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: a few ideas, and you know, he had a nice
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: big list of downloaded, you know, songs that he's sort
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: of at least in part written instrumentally, some maladies and things.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: But it was enough to show me two or three
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: is enough to catch a vibe and sort of know.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, definitely on the right track here. This is exciting.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: So definitely new music on the horizon and very much.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: You know, obviously is a is a follow up to
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Odd World, and people are going to have their you know,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: guesses and expectations of what that might be.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: But I think, you know, I'm very excited.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I think it's it's no no to Ocean Group albums
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: that are ever the same, So it's not going to
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: be just a replica of Odd World. But I I
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: know my heart that this is this is going to
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: be the yeah, the perfect next step, and very excited
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: for it.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: People want to know more about the chur and get tickets.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Where do they go?
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, so if you want tickets, they're available officially via ostics,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: but you can find the link at our Instagram bio.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Or you know, Facebook sort of bio. I guess stories
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: you can literally yeah, it's just for all lines as
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: as you go on that website. You know, there's plenty
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: plenty of advisues to find it. I mean with bloody
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Goo AI And now I'm sure if you just typed
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: in Ocean Grove, I was too it had you point
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: in the right direction. So now it's gonna be a
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: lot of fun tonight.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: It's looking like it'll be a sold out show and
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: a few of the others too, are running pretty close.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I think both Melbourne and Brisbane might have you know,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: a round about one hundred tickets left, so definitely, you know,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: those that are sort of thinking about and still on
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: the fence best to probably grab a ticket before the
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: night because no guarantee.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: At this point she told me to pleasure Chat that
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: I want to see you brit