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Damaged Goods With MISH SHA From TORIZON · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hello, I'm miss from Terrizon. I'm talking to Chris from Heavy magazine for
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  being the legend that he is, and we just released a new single called
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  Matter. Thanks for joining us, mate and stop us. You almost maybe
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  blush, you say, but you've always been great to me, so I
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  mean, you know, you gotta be nice to some people. Yes,
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  I'm glad I'm in that category. Thank you. So when you're joined us
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  today to talk about your recently released single Marta, which came out a couple
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  of weeks so that's the only reception being for it really good. I think
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  it was a mixture of things coming like relaunching it with Damaged what guests let
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  me relaunching the band with Damage, and that be setting the foundation of this
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  year, like you know, first single released in a couple of years,
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  and then coming from that and releasing Marta like on my birthday weekend, which
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  was great a few weeks after that has really helped because you had like people
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  that were excited to hear the new sound and like the more metalcal vibe,
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  the more the new elements that are there, the new songwriting style, and
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  then to give them something new quickly was really great, Like it felt awesome
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  because we recorded these songs years ago, so it was like nice to have
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  get them out of the world and people like him. You know, that's
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  been really good. So it tells to me more about Marta from a musical
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  point of view, what you were down for with it. Honestly, it
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  was one. It was funny because Luke wrote he wrote two riffs for two
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  separate songs. There was like an ambient one and there was like this really
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  chunky one, and I was like, yo, these are very cool,
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  and we started working with The idea was to make like two different songs.
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  But then one day he was like, yo, I put them together and
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  it sounds really good. And I was like, okay, let's have a
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  look. And I had to listen to it. And I had written these
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  lyrics and a melody for a different song, and I just started mucking about
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  and singing on top of it just to you know, sometimes you just sing
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  gibberous just to get an idea of the melody. But I was like,
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  oh, I've got this other one. Let's just see for funzies and it
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  ended up working, so we kept it. So essentially Marta wasn't conceptualized.
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  We had no intentions of writing it. It was written from parts that were
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  meant to be different songs, and it somehow just organically came together. And
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  I almost didn't record it because I didn't think we hadn't worked on it hard
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  enough, because I hadn't like picked it apart enough, you know what I
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  mean. And it came around, it came along quickly, and so for
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  me, it's like, if I haven't really like questioned my existence writing a
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  song, then did I work hard and like enough on it? So it
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  was like really nice too, Yeah, anyway to be able to produce a
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  good song without all of that self doubt and all that jazz and and and
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  you know, it was something that wasn't even meant to be here, and
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  here it is, and it's been more successful than Damage, So very exciting.
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  Yea Lyrically, the song focuses on trauma, So I can you go
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  and do a bit more detail on that? How much I'm kidding? I
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  mean, I'm like, it's no secret I have a history of complex PTSD,
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  which typically comes from childhood trauma. And what happens there's a big like
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  statistically, a lot of people with complex PTSD do tend to end up in
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  abusive relationships. And that doesn't even have to be a romantic relationships. It's
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  it can be like a toxic workplace, it can be toxic friends. So
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  they have a high statistic of ending up in those relationships. So this,
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  this song in particular, is based on my experience from as a victim of
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  narcissistic personal personality sort of abuse. And it was written after therapy session where
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  I had just the penny had just dropped that like, this is not okay.
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  This me getting blamed for everything that is wrong in our relationship is not
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  okay, and why should Why is it that I am the one that always
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  gets to blame and the confusion that comes with it and the gasline that comes
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  with it. So how did therapy session unpacked it all? Was in my
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  car, cried my little heart out and came up with the concept of this.
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  It was it was about the moment when you just realized like like,
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  okay, this isn't okay and I need to leave. Yeah, you mentioned
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  earlier on relaunching the band, so can you go in a bit more detail
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  then you're not a bit of a hiatus on But what's not to go with
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  the relaunching, Oh yeah, for sure. So obviously, like it was
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  like a soft rebrand because like the name and the essence of it is the
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  same. I wasn't a hiatus for a couple of years, mostly because we
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  were like Luke and I were figuring out a songwriting style, and and also
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  I needed a break for my own personal stuff, Like I was going through
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  a pretty tough period in my life and I had to like something had to
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  stop. And at that point, music has been the thing that it has
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  never stopped for me unless I'm physically injured, but this time I was mentally
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  injured. So I was like, Okay, I need to break from this.
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  I need to break from everything and really need to like you know,
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  grab fragments of myself and bring myself back together. So there was about a
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  year's worth of work and like you know, trauma therapy and stuff like that,
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  and then it was just looking at figuring out our sound and wrote a
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  bunch of songs, Like we've written so many songs and the songs that are
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  coming out are like hand picked out of those. And also didn't want any
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  pressure on myself this time. It's like let's just you know, there's enough
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  pressure from life. Right now, let's just ease into and see what comes
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  out. Oh hopefully, Joe, it's out a lot better timer experience for
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  you. It's been great, Like honestly, it's we have already written.
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  We spent this year writing our next EP, so there was like almost an
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  album's worth of songs that we then down to an EP. On top of
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  this and re establishing our live rig, I wanted to make sure everything when
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  we just kind of go back out live and go back out releasing music,
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  it's good quality. So that's why we invested a lot in like a film,
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  Clert's good, great pr agencies that they have been amazing, great like
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  marketing strategies, and also read it an entire set in two different tunings,
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  just because why not make things difficult for me? And you read it an
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  entire live RG And that kind of paid off when we toured with Office Amiga
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  and you could just see how much easy everything was to set up a site.
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  A set was like very tight, probably the tightest it's ever been.
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  And it's heavy and it's raw. So yeah, so you've kind of paid
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  off, right, And you also mentioned a new sound like a bit more
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  of a metal core sound. Tell us a bit more about that. Wait
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  till you hear the EP, man, you'll be that. You'll be one
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  of the first few ones I get to hear it before it's out, obviously
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  because you know you're my friend. It is. We call it pedal chords
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  like power. It's like pop metal core. It's got a lot of metal
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  core tuning, the medical care riffage, think bad Omens, but add a
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  little bit of tonight a life to it and a little bit of evanescence.
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  So it's very much off that Vein the EP, it is very much very
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  synth heavy, which is a bit of a like a new I guess,
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  pivoting to a new direction. But it's awesome, Like I have heard at
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  the song selections back, you know, throughout and it's like, oh my
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  god. And it ended up becoming a concept EP, not that we had
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  intended it. But that's the beauty of like not putting pressure on yourself and
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  just like not worrying about that you have to keep releasing and just letting things
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  be. And that's been like how it's going to come together, and it's
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  so much better. I think I'm being rude by not pressing you about things
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  about the concept because I want to chat with you again when the EP comes
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  out, and I'm like, yeah, all the questions now, so I'll
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  leave that one. Your end sounds good. You talk around roughly telve months
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  off, like, but when you came back, like the music industry leaves
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  so fast in the modern age, Like when you came back up even just
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  twelve months, it was a difficult in this swing, I think, Or
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  did you feel like you had to make your name again? Not so much.
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  It wasn't a huge departure for me because I was working in the industry
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  as a publicist and as like a marketing agent. I wasn't I just wasn't
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  writing music anymore for like, oh for a year. I had put a
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  stuff to that. But me working in the industry kind of kept me familiar
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  with what's needed, how to be relevant and all that kind of stuff,
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  So it wasn't such a huge thing. It was weird and nervous, like
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  it was. I was a bit nervous when I was like. Strategy wise,
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  I was fine because I knew, like I had been been working in
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  the industry, but also had like people that I trust working on our campaigns
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  with us but I think it was very nerve wracking when I had to like
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  write the new bio and then write the new quote for the press release and
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  all those kind of things, because I can write about other people, but
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  when it comes to writing about myself, I'm like, do I fuck?
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  Like? Am I terrible? And I think I'm gonna like you know what
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  I mean. It's all those weird moods that come to your brain. So
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  it was just like, I really hope it goes okay, and I hope
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  people don't say that you think you're good but you're not. You're playing a
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  show with a Sydney band called Fist Dawn in February, so tell us me
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  about that, okay. So Fifth Dawn is a band that I recently came
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  across earlier this year, and they are like melodic metal, but like a
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  very unique brand of that. They're so cool, they're heavy, and so
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  this particular tour is very much a diverse lineup, which I absolutely love and
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  I really want to position us to be playing more of those shows. It's
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  supported by or Attack, the new punk band from Sydney, and I don't
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  know if you've seen Oratech before, but they're amazing. Yeah, I know,
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  we still work together. It's so funny. Yeah, So performing with
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  them and the Atomic Bow Project, also another Brisbane band. So that's on
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  February third at the Stranded Bar, which I'm really excited to play. I've
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  never played there before because it's a newbie. Very very cool is twenty twenty
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  four holding store for tries and going back down Yeah, taking it as Oh,
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  totally totally ill you totally. I wouldn't be the hyper vigilant me and
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  the extreme like organized me because I've got massive fomo. If I wasn't planning,
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  it leaves a couple of years ahead. So we've got we are starting
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  to record a EP in May, so that well, that's coming. So
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  after the Fab show, we're taking a couple of months off because our lovely
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  guitarist Luke is having a little baby. So it's so exciting a little Tris
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  and baby. Oh yeah, hell yeah, I mean I love I love
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  being an auntie. It's one of my favorite things to do. So we're
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  going to take a couple of months off so he can like sort of you
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  know, settle into the new life and all that. And then we are
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  We've hit the studio We've got some more shows booked in as well, and
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  we were on more interstate shows. So that's what's happening. Next year,
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  new EP will be recorded, we will be doing some music videos, so
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  it will be a year of performing and not so much releasing, but preparing
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  for like a huge twenty twenty five Headland. If you got any more singles
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  to release from the or you're start starting from breath recording now, Oh no,
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  these ones. These two were standalone singles, so everything for the EP
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  will be brand new. Yeah, very cool, Yeah very good. All
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  right for sure, Thanks very much for joining us. Is awesome catching up
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  as usual? Oh thank you good, thanks for having me sor me three
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