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THE HIVES Forever: Swedish Rock Icons Return To Australia · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hello there. My name is Nicholas Arson. I play
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  Speaker 1: with the rock band Swedish rock band The Hives. I'm
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  Speaker 1: currently sitting here in Perth with a pretty stunning view
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  Speaker 1: from the twenty first floor of the hotel of the
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  Speaker 1: River and the mountains surrounding mountains.
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  Speaker 2: Lucky, lucky to be there where I am. It's freezing,
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  Speaker 2: so it's nice that you're there.
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  Speaker 3: Nick. This is such a big deal for me. I've
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  Speaker 3: been a fan of The Hives since I.
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  Speaker 2: Was literally a kid, and at one point I even
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  Speaker 2: wanted to name one of my children Pelle. Knowing how
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  Speaker 2: much you guys love Australia, It's awesome that you're starting
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  Speaker 2: the tour here.
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  Speaker 3: Was that a conscious decision?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's the conscious degession is always you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you say yes to the show and stuff. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: now I think it's been you know, we've sort of
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  Speaker 1: been at it since sort of the last record.
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  Speaker 4: Really we sort of played.
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  Speaker 1: For such a long time now that it's I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was just like what sort of felt like a
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  Speaker 1: brief gap going into this one. So it kind of
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  Speaker 1: feels like we're sort of both starting the record here
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  Speaker 1: and sort of finishing the last record. Here, so's you
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  Speaker 1: got to get the best of both words.
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  Speaker 2: Say yeah, we're lucky, and just touching more on that,
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  Speaker 2: You guys only recently put out your other album before
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  Speaker 2: this one, and before that, there was quite a gap.
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  Speaker 3: With the songs that are on the new album.
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  Speaker 2: Is this content left over from the last album or
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  Speaker 2: is everything new?
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  Speaker 1: Everything is new apart from some small bits here and there,
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  Speaker 1: like a song here and there that might be like
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  Speaker 1: a song like bad Calls, like a song that we
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  Speaker 1: played before live and also painted Pictures like one of
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  Speaker 1: those songs that we played live, and I think the
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  Speaker 1: sort of the main riff on a song called roll
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  Speaker 1: out the Red Carpet is we're trying to finish that
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  Speaker 1: one on t run asur as hypes. We're working on
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  Speaker 1: that rief. Even so those bits, the rest is brown
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  Speaker 1: spanking new.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, fantastic, And with over thirty years in the game,
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  Speaker 2: you're still putting out records that feel explosive as ever.
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  Speaker 3: Is the Hives Forever the Hives a celebration of what
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  Speaker 3: you've built or does it feel like another beginning more?
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  Speaker 1: It feels more like the beginning, I'd say, because they
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know after I think you know, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: thirty plus years of existence and you know, just sort
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  Speaker 1: of keeping on, keeping on. I think we sort of
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  Speaker 1: just noticed that hang on. You know, we've been at
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  Speaker 1: this for you know, this is a forever thing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: So it's more feels kind of like we we we
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  Speaker 1: we caught on to the fact that we were forever,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And I think by now, like we're one
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  Speaker 1: of those bands now that we've had, you know, such
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  Speaker 1: a long career and we've had fans and we've had
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  Speaker 1: you know, so I think even if we quit now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, people would still you know, remember the Hives,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one.
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  Speaker 3: Hundred percent, and you guys have been a band for
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  Speaker 3: so long. What's kept you guys together for that long?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's just it's really like your Matt
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  Speaker 1: and Joan. Joan has been in the band now for
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  Speaker 1: eleven years, and before that it was Mad to play
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  Speaker 1: the bass, and that's really the only lineup change. But
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, unnecessity. You know, Matt couldn't tour anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So after that, it's just I think we like doing it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the only real reason. I think we like doing
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  Speaker 1: it more than not doing it. And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: and I also think that we like doing the Hives
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  Speaker 1: more than not doing the Hives, So I just think
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, but it's also that like you do
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  Speaker 1: it in a way where you think, like every record
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  Speaker 1: is your last, and you do you know, you think
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  Speaker 1: every like you pour so much into it that you
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  Speaker 1: think you almost think that every tour is your last,
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  Speaker 1: every record is your last. But I think that's I
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  Speaker 1: think that's just the way of doing it that that
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  Speaker 1: makes it more fun. Like if you had to if
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  Speaker 1: you had to shave off energy in order to be
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  Speaker 1: able to do it for longer or like, that wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be fun to us. Like, it has to be full on,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what makes it fun. Like if you go
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  Speaker 1: around touring playing shows that you know, seventy percent of
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  Speaker 1: your capacity or something that would suck to the point
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  Speaker 1: of where you wouldn't want to do it, so you
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  Speaker 1: have to do you have to pour everything into it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, awesome.
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  Speaker 2: And what's one thing about the band dynamic now that
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  Speaker 2: would have surprised the twenty year.
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  Speaker 3: Old version of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same. Yeah, it's kind of the same. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: we argue a little bit less, or maybe we don't.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that one thing where you know, kind of
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  Speaker 1: where every argument is supposed to go, is you kind
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  Speaker 1: of shut your mouth a little bit more.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe maybe that.
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  Speaker 1: Would have been surprising at twenty years old, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's kind of the same. It's a band of
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  Speaker 1: names are kind of the same, and it's just I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think that the only thing that would surprise us
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  Speaker 1: is maybe the way we look.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you guys look the same, if I'm being honest,
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  Speaker 2: thank you.
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  Speaker 3: And album was shaped with.
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  Speaker 2: Some major names like Mike Day and Joshan had of
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  Speaker 2: working with that crew influence your guitar work or the
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  Speaker 2: overall creative process.
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  Speaker 4: I mean my personal guitar work for the overall process both.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the guitar work is really only guitar work
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  Speaker 1: that's supposed to go in to benefit the song. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you can do guitar work and it'll be guitar work,
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  Speaker 1: which you can also do guitar work that's just going
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  Speaker 1: to be benefiting, you know, of the song. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the way that we always did it, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're just sort of certain snippets here and
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  Speaker 1: there that'll just sort of tie a piece together. But
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  Speaker 1: that didn't really change, you know, as far as the
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  Speaker 1: way that I play guitar.
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  Speaker 4: It's the same.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably more so than you know, they probably you know,
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  Speaker 1: usually nowadays, as soon as sort of people produce our records,
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  Speaker 1: they already know our band and they know you know
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  Speaker 1: that why don't.
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  Speaker 4: You do that thing? You do? Yeah, more of that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, So it's probably more so than just.
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  Speaker 1: Wanting you know, maybe wanting more of the type of
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  Speaker 1: you know, the type of playing that we already do.
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  Speaker 1: Is what they want on the record or what we
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  Speaker 1: want on the record.
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  Speaker 5: And yeah, as a whole, I think it's like both
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  Speaker 5: those guys as well, you know, they know our band
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  Speaker 5: and they know what we're supposed to sound like, and
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  Speaker 5: they just go, you know, yeah, this is great, you know,
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  Speaker 5: release that, or you know, they how about trying this
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  Speaker 5: or you know, like Mike d was more hands on
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  Speaker 5: and the process.
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  Speaker 1: Josh was more of that, you know, like this sounds great,
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  Speaker 1: wanted to just release it. And with Mike it was
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  Speaker 1: more like, why don't we try that, Like he was
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  Speaker 1: actually in the studio working, so he'll go, yeah, why
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  Speaker 1: don't we try this? Or I made this demo you know,
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  Speaker 1: and like your song and I think this could be cool, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, Yeah, that's awesome. So it wasn't so much that
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  Speaker 3: you know, you guys didn't have any control over whatsoever.
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  Speaker 3: You still really had a huge input on the album obviously.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we sit there in the studio all
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  Speaker 1: the time. It's like that's how the records are being made,
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  Speaker 1: and then you bring someone in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and Painter Picture has been called a fan favorite
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  Speaker 3: for years before its official release. What was it about
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  Speaker 3: this track that made you hold on to it for
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  Speaker 3: so long? And why was now the time to unla shit?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know really.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like certain songs need to be
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  Speaker 1: on certain records, like you like, when we make records,
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  Speaker 1: we make records that we don't make a collection of songs. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so it has to be like maybe it just didn't
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  Speaker 1: fit on the last record or something, or there were
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  Speaker 1: other sort of similar types of songs there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there were some fast paced numbers, you know, so maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's it. You know, it's like when we make records,
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  Speaker 1: we make albums, and then it's supposed to have certain dynamics.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you listen to those sequences over and over
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  Speaker 1: and over and over again. Until you're happy with what
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  Speaker 1: they are. And maybe that's the reason.
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful and Australia seems to have a special place in
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  Speaker 3: the highest heart. What do you personally enjoyed most about
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  Speaker 3: being here?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I like it that it's a country where there's rockers,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like people come to your shows and they
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  Speaker 1: rock out and stuff, and it's also pretty laid back.
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  Speaker 3: I like that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I remember the first time we came from
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  Speaker 1: like a media storm in the UK and we came here.
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  Speaker 1: I was in two thousand and one, two I think
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  Speaker 1: for New Years going into New Year's two thousand and two.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was the first time we came in.
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  Speaker 1: So we were like, like, you know, in a sort
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  Speaker 1: of hype in England and we were just doing all
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  Speaker 1: this press and all that stuff. And then we came
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  Speaker 1: to Australia and we're like, oh, so when's press And
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  Speaker 1: they were like, we can book some interviews if you
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  Speaker 1: want to, you don't have to, and I'm like, well, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine. So we just rented surfboards and went out
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  Speaker 1: trying to serve you know. I mean, the weather is great,
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  Speaker 1: the food is great. You know, you got mangoes. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's one thing. I mean, all that stuff is just
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  Speaker 1: you know, beaches and mangoes and you know, all the
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  Speaker 1: stuff that we don't really have in Sweeten. Now we
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  Speaker 1: got beaches, but not with the same kind of you
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  Speaker 1: know heat as you do here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Do you not have mangoes in Sweden?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we have mangoes, but we don't have the trees.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we don't have the fresh mangoes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, fair enough, Oh do yeah? And do you have
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  Speaker 3: any memorable wild stories from the past Australian tours that
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  Speaker 3: stand out to you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's been a bunge of them now, like
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  Speaker 1: the tours and stuff, and it's.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't really remember.
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  Speaker 1: It's always hard, you know, you always get that question
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  Speaker 1: like what's the weirdest thing that happened to you?
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  Speaker 4: And what's the weird But it's always like that. That's
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  Speaker 4: just all the time.
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  Speaker 1: That's just part of the normal touring day, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and somebody will go do you remember when that happened?
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  Speaker 1: You go, oh, yeah, that happened. But it's just like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you move on because every day is kind
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  Speaker 1: of like that. Like on a tour, you'll do you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe twenty or thirty shows and then you know, you
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  Speaker 1: don't remember all of it, so it's but I mean
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  Speaker 1: what I remember mostly about Australia is probably sun you
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  Speaker 1: know here, you come here and it's warm and it's
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think that's my It's a pretty boring answer,
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  Speaker 1: but I remember the song in Australia.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I know that's fair enough.
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  Speaker 2: I can imagine there'd be so many stories, as you said,
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  Speaker 2: not just from Australia as well, from so many countries.
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  Speaker 3: It'd be hard to just think of one on the spot.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like when they ask you about your
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  Speaker 1: favorite show and you have maybe one hundred of those,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so you have at least, you know, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred amazing shows that you feel like like that's top notch.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. Well, I think maybe you could answer
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  Speaker 3: this one. Then. Do you have a favorite hip song
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  Speaker 3: that you'd love playing that you never get sick of?
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  Speaker 4: I always say Main Offender.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like Main Offender is like one of my favorite
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  Speaker 1: songs to play, but because it has that just that
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  Speaker 1: short little guitar intro and then it goes into you know,
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  Speaker 1: full crash mode and I love that sort of like
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  Speaker 1: people react to that.
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  Speaker 4: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: But then I love playing all the songs that you know,
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  Speaker 1: get a reaction, you know, like it's that total. It's
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  Speaker 1: always popular and Tiicnic Boom is popular, and like all
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  Speaker 1: those songs that get a reaction, those are the ones
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  Speaker 1: that I want to play. I don't I don't really
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  Speaker 1: have any obscure material that I want to be like
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  Speaker 1: I want to you know, no, it's I want to
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  Speaker 1: play you know, whatever people like, And those are the ones,
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  Speaker 1: like the ones that get because to me, it's a.
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  Speaker 4: Very sort of a do you say reciprocal or yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, reciprocal thing you know between
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  Speaker 1: you know, us and the fans, and the same thing
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  Speaker 1: for me when I go to shows, I think you're
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  Speaker 1: both part of it, which is such an important thing,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, and that's the best part about the shows,
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  Speaker 1: which is why you know, cell phone filming is fucking
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  Speaker 1: up music as as we know it. So the shows
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  Speaker 1: are continuously you know, the shows are continuously suffering from that.
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  Speaker 1: All the shows in the world are suffering from you know,
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  Speaker 1: cell phone filming. I hate that, but it's but so
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, you're supposed to be able to have
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  Speaker 1: a reaction and you know, have a moment between you
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  Speaker 1: and someone in the ground. You know, that's what I
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  Speaker 1: like about and that's the reason why I want to
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  Speaker 1: play those songs.
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  Speaker 3: You know. Yeah, definitely, I think it.
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  Speaker 2: It excuse my friendship fox up the you know, the
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  Speaker 2: audience as well. If they're filming, they're not really being
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  Speaker 2: in the moment listening to the music.
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  Speaker 4: Oh very much.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean they're they're complete. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: could they could just be pylons for all. Like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when they're filming, you know, they don't really even have
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  Speaker 1: to be there. They can just leave their camera on
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  Speaker 1: the tripod and just suck off.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: And the Heights were a huge part of shaping my
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  Speaker 2: entire musical library as a kid. Have you ever had
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  Speaker 2: oh sorry, what are some of the musical influences from
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  Speaker 2: you when.
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  Speaker 3: You were a kid and today? Are there any bands
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  Speaker 3: that you absolutely love?
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's tons of bouds. It's kind of the same there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like there's one hundred bands that I love,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but it's I mean, probably the maybe the
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  Speaker 1: most important band for me growing up was ac DC
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  Speaker 1: because that's the first rock band that I got into.
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  Speaker 1: So that was like when we told with them here,
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  Speaker 1: that was like a pretty big deal. You know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of felt little bit like full circle, you know, am
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  Speaker 1: I quitting now?
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  Speaker 4: Like what's happening? Do we don't have to do this anymore? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Or have to? You know, are we not supposed to?
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean they were really important to me.
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  Speaker 1: But then punk, you know, like it was really importantly
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  Speaker 1: like all the most of them sort of American punk bands,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, you know, like Misfits, Dead Kennedy's Bad Brains,
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  Speaker 1: like all those bands were really important to me, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And also you know, more current bands like sort of
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  Speaker 1: nineties bands like the Oblivions and the New Bomb Turks.
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  Speaker 1: They were really important to us as well as far
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  Speaker 1: as our sound sixties bands like the Sonics, you know
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  Speaker 1: obviously you know the Stowes. Yeah, I mean there's a
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  Speaker 1: there's a ton of bands you know that you you
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  Speaker 1: feel like, you know, this is you know, important stuff,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and also that you know have inspired us,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, our craft work or Divo. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the Swedish bands were really important to
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  Speaker 1: us too, you know, all the bands that were on
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  Speaker 1: our label, because you know, you could go to you know,
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  Speaker 1: there would be all, you know, all these shows and
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  Speaker 1: all these festivals like you know pretty much, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you could go twice a month in the
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  Speaker 1: or you could go more than that in the summer.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there'd be all these small festivals, you know,
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  Speaker 1: or bands like you know, Mel and Colin are off
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  Speaker 1: on Lower Fifth nine times, the pain Teddy Bears, they refuse.
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  Speaker 1: You know, all these bands would play like in any
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  Speaker 1: you know, if there was a little elevated wooden wooden floor,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they'd play it, you know. Yeah, and it
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  Speaker 1: was the same, Like that was the same for us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's how we started, you know, like the
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  Speaker 1: back of a truck or something, and that's you know,
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  Speaker 1: that was that was really important, you know because it
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  Speaker 1: was kind.
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  Speaker 4: Of like a movement, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. And how about have you found any new release,
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  Speaker 3: new artists, new bands that you really impressed by?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean there's bands constantly that I think are
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  Speaker 1: really good, Like we have Split Systems supporting us here
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  Speaker 1: and I I think they're great, you know, like gamelin
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  Speaker 1: the Snippers obviously. Also, you know, I love the VIAGRAA Boys,
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  Speaker 1: a Swedish band. Yeah, I mean there's a ton like
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  Speaker 1: all the time, Like there's great bands, Swedish band called
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  Speaker 1: Fat Brain that I like, you know, like there's there's
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: a ton of stuff, you know.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, wicked, that's awesome.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: And the new record as well was partly made at
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Benny Anderson's studio in Stockholm. Did the abbat energy rub
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: off at all on you guys? Or maybe weave its
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: way into the music in unexpected ways.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll see that, you know, maybe forty years down
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: the line, we'll see if they're hits like other songs,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, so maybe yeah, yeah.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Beautiful and being in a band with your brother, how
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: is that? Do you? Guys?
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: Like, has your respect for each other grown because you've
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: been together for.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: So long or.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Maybe I mean you're part of something where you do stuff.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's great at what he's doing, and that's impressive. Yeah,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: you know, I know that he's you know, he's a
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: master of his trade, you know, so I think yeah,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: But I mean it's also a thing that you sort
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: of did together, so I mean, and it's not just
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: him and me, you know, there's the other members of
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: the band, as well. I mean there is sort of
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: a brother connection between all of us, I think, so
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: we kind of argue as brothers do.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: All of us.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: You know, maybe mine and Palace arguing is a bit
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: more harsh because you're you know, blood brothers. But it's,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm impressed by all the other guys, you know,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: I think they're amazing, you know, at what they do,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: you know, and I'm just the part, you know, putting
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: my two sons in there, you know.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously you guys all do you know, really respect
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: each other and you can work out arguments and things
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: like that because you guys have been going for so long,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: since he was so young as well.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I mean it's not really like sometimes
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: we'll have arguments that will go on for kind of
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: a long time. But it's the thing that you know,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: sort of binds us together is that we all want
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: to do the Hives, you know, Yeah, which is a
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: good thing for us, you know, it's you know, the
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: best thing we've had, you know.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, lovely.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: And lastly, you're touring as special guests with my Chemical
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Romance next year, which is exciting for me because they
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: are another one of my all time favorite bands. What
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: are you most looking forward to about hitting the road
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: with them.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Well, let's you know that they're doing a proper you know,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: sort of stadium tour or whatever it is, stadiums, I
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: don't really know.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: It's in South America. Would be fun.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Like any South American touring is great for us. And
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: whenever we support bands, we usually do really well. I
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: mean we've done down there with We went down there
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: with the Arctic Monkeys for instance, and and it's been
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: it's been great every step of the way. And I
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: think just more of that, you know, meeting South American people,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: you know, eating South American food, you know, playing South
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: American shows, you know, playing with them, you know, it
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: would be great.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, awesome, Nicholas, thank you so much for your time today.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: It's been amazing getting to chat with you. Best of
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: luck for your first Aussie show tonight.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: Thank you very much, Thank you so much.