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All Guns Blazing With JUSTIN STRUDWICK & LELAND HALLETT From THE DREADFUL TIDES · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  I'm Strutty, I'm from the Dreadful Tides and I'm here with my man.
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  How are you guys? Hey, hey, guys, how are you?
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  Thanks for joining us, Thanks for having us. Hi absolutely pleasures. So
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  we're here today because the Dreadful Tides have recently dropped your new single, Fire
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  in the Hole. Now, how's the early reception been for it? Awesome?
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  Like, it has actually really really surprised us this time, how much
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  everyone has just loved the track. You know, the amount of messages we've
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  got rough people, and the appreciation from so many different people. We've also
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  you know, managed to get airplane multiple countries already this early on for us
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  to sort of start picking up other countries, and you know, getting out
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  that far is pretty all awesome. So the reception has been phenomenal. Oh,
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  so tell us a bit more about the song from a musical point of
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  view and what you're going for with it. It started off, in all
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  honesty as a just a riff, that mean, what we were messing around
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  with, and we just said, we just need a cool opening track for
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  gigs, not even for for recording purposes, just for gigs. So we
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  kind of me and Leland kind of messed around with a few things, and
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  the music has stayed pretty solid for that track the whole time, so we
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  were we were pretty happy with that. We actually had some different lyrics for
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  it originally except the chorus. The chorus was still the same the whole fire
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  in the Hole, and then when Jimmy come on board, he kind of
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  had a bit of a different take on the song and change changed the lyrics
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  apart from the chorus, and we were we were just like, yeah,
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  that's it. That suits, suits the music. So we actually went into
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  the studio to record the song to use that song in our back pocket as
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  a bit of a if we need it, and then once we heard it,
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  we were like, yeah, no, we've got to get this thing
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  out. She's She's an absolutely crushing song, guys. But it's a much
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  heavier direction for the band. So was that a conscious effort to go heavier
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  or did it just happen. It's really just developed as we've developed as a
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  band. I think the big part about our last you know heavy single,
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  which was for our Play, was that really kind of started defining our sound.
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  It really started to just develop you know, mine and studies, working
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  relationship, where where's were starting to come on board then so the sound and
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  naturally got a bit heavier and then finding the whole with this let out a
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  bit more to it. Yeah, and the son also introduces your new vocalist,
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  Jimmy so introduced us to him. Tell us, tell us what he
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  brings to the band. How's he fitting in? Jimmy is fitting in very
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  well. He's he's six foot five, so he stands out in any room,
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  which yeah, but he's got a great presence about him as well,
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  Like he's just a front man, like the definition of him is just a
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  front man. He smashes it out every night, but he's another he's another
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  teammate really in the band that it comes to the party with ideas and helps
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  with our songwriting stuff, which is really kind of made it better for us
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  as well because it normally it used to be just me and Leland would do
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  a lot of the writing, but now we've got someone there with it an
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  actual frontman point of view, where it's made it our lives easier because I'm
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  a GA half player, Leland's a drummer, so we kind of we just
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  work it out together. But he's he's really jumped in and I don't know
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  about Lee, but for me, it feels like I've known all these guys
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  for twenty thirty years, which to me, in my experience in life,
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  when you meet someone that you can you have that instant connection that's worth grabbing
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  onto. So that's where I'm at, Yes, right, So aside from
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  being a good backup, rightman, what does he actually bring to the band?
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  Ah man, Jimmy, Jimmy's just the final piece of the puzzle.
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  Really. He brings a very like mind sentence and when he writes with sense,
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  you know how me and we'd like to leave a lot of room for
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  the vocals. Is just really good at understanding that he can take that control
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  and run with it and really just add some emotion to the tracks that as
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  Stradie said, he's just an awesome dude. He's a heap of fun and
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  honestly he's just Yeah, the fourth brother come back into the mix and off
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  we go, like Yeah. Now, the press release calls firing the whole
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  your war cry? Would you agree with that statement? Yeah, look,
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  I'll say yes, But I also feel that we've got some other stuff in
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  the works. It could also be a bit of a war cry as well.
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  But this we've messed around with this song for a little bit and it
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  always seems to be a bit of a crowd pleaser, and I mean,
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  how can you not love it? It's just straight hard rock and rock.
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  Thanks right now, speaking of other songs and then potential future war cries,
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  you've got more singles planned for June, August, and October, I believe.
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  So are they similar to Fire in the Hole or are they a bit
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  different? Again? Well, the next four tracks were must coming out and
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  saying who we are you know, and a lot of all the tracks were
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  actually written and the music was recorded before Jimmy originally come on, So we
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  already had these ready to go, and he's really just gone through and added
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  his element on top. The bonus with that is we've had time to develop
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  the song and make sure that they're right. Next song for us is jumping
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  back on a bit more of a commercial way to go, and we've written
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  at solidly just to make sure we get the radio airplane and really sort of
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  focus the next single there. Our first single was really you know, Fire
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  is about just introducing Jimmy and making sure you know, everyone knows who Jimmy
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  is and everyone remembers him. After that, we've got some pretty awesome surprises
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  for you. Actually, it's way to hear him. But are they part
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  of a bigger album picture, guys, or are they just standalone singles?
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  Look, at the moment, we're still working out what we want to do.
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  We think that the track all have potential, so I feel that we
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  would like to release each track as a single. Whether at the end of
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  that we put together an EP with a couple of special bonuses, We're not
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  sure just yet. But as Lee said, the musically these tracks have been
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  recorded for I think April last year, so we've been sitting on them for
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  a little bit. So it's really just a way to introduce Jimmy to everybody,
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  as Lee said, but I think each song deserves their own their own
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  time, So at the moment, I feel that we're just going to push
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  the singles and then look at maybe doing something a little bit later on after
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  these these tracks are kind of out. So a lot of those lines guys,
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  like how would you say that the Dreadful Pride sound has changed or grown
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  from your debut single Prazy in twenty twenty one to this new mature or you're
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  putting out That's that's a great question because it comes from so many different levels.
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  The biggest thing, we just keep growing closer, you know, the
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  way that we write. We are really looking at music and speak for itself
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  and the way that we can put it and what we can do. So
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  it just keeps growing, That's the thing. It just keeps growing and getting
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  better and better. Yeah. For me, I feel so the songs like
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  Crazy and stuff like that, we kind of a lot of those songs were
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  written kind of before we were I would say, an actual band for me.
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  Now that we've kind of grown to know each other and know how each
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  other functions and works, you then start writing material that you know that.
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  For example, if I write a guitar if I now write a guitar riff
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  that I know Lee how, I know how he plays drump, so I
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  know what he's going to want to do. We then throw it to Wes
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  and Lean and I then know how Wez is going to feel his certain part
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  of the song. So I feel that you're writing just naturally adapts as you
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  grow further along in your relationship as a band. And I feel the same
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  with Ricky. Our producer. He's obviously grown to know us a bit more
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  now, so he knows how we can work in the studio. He knows
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  what works for us and what doesn't. So I feel together as a as
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  a band and a team with all the people around us, I feel that
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  you just naturally grow closer and it just it adapts naturally. Now, I
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  believe you've got some interstate shows coming up later this year. Maybe have you
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  announce semer am I jumping the gun. You're probably getting in a bit early,
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  which is which is fine. Whispers are already getting around, so people
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  have been honored us, and we're going to be starting in April. We're
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  going to sorry, July, July twenty, we're going to be going to
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  Adelaide, and then later on in the year we're going to be seeing Brisbane
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  try and get through Sydney as well, and and yeah we're going to look
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  at Tazzy at the end of the year. And yeah, we're going to
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  get a few announcements out over the next few months. Very nice guys.
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  All right, well, thanks very much for your time. It's been appropriate.
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  As always, A single fire in the hole is now now And if
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  you've never heard the dreadful times before. I don't often do this, but
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  they've got the heavy seal of approval. Check them out because it's a fucking
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  great song. Shere's this smile lie now, no want of the same,
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  show me the home, the noon. What's it take in the gop from
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  your head, trying the blood of the shoe, waking up in a slat
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  nigh night, taking a law from the noon? Fire fire, fire,
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  fire in the fire, fire, fire fire, and the helles see in
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  the Stoway come cream. I wonder did I ever leave? I feel a
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  neighbor, the wow to me owing with mine a most sleep, Any help,
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  miss mag fire fire fire, fire in love, fire fire, fire,
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  fire in Love's connect Now I fire my fire fire fire h