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Playing A Literal Flying V With ANDREA KRAKOVSKA · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, my name is Andrea, but most people call me Andy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm an aera guitarist, which means I play guitar while
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  Speaker 2: swinging around on an upside down. And I've got a
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  Speaker 2: show coming up in Brisbane. Actually this Saturday, the fifth
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  Speaker 2: of July. We're going to be shredding at the Arkana
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  Speaker 2: Empress Theater in Maruka.
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  Speaker 1: Doors open at seven pm.
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  Speaker 2: You can grab your tickets at Andreaguitar dot com and
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  Speaker 2: I hope to see a couple of you guys at
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  Speaker 2: the show. It's going to be such an epic night.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait for people in Brisbane to see.
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  Speaker 3: This fantastic Andrea, thanks for joining us tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so excited right pleasure.
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  Speaker 4: So, just to reiterate what you said, you are bringing
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  Speaker 4: your Andrea's Aerial Guitar show to Brisbane this weekend for
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  Speaker 4: a one off show on Saturday, July the fifth at
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  Speaker 4: RK and Empressimerica.
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  Speaker 3: So, firstly, have you played Brisbane before?
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  Speaker 2: I haven't played at the Empress before. This is my
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  Speaker 2: first time, but i know that it is the venue
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  Speaker 2: for aeriels and rock shows, so I'm so super keen
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  Speaker 2: to check it out. We've done the show in Sydney,
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  Speaker 2: Woollongong and Melbourne and this is our first time taking
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  Speaker 2: the show to Brisbane, so it's going to be pretty
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  Speaker 2: epic night.
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  Speaker 3: I think we'll be.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have to look at some of the photos
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  Speaker 4: as the place earlier on and I couldn't. All I
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  Speaker 4: could see was open sky. I couldn't see anyway where
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  Speaker 4: you're going to hook yourself to be aerial, So hopefully
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  Speaker 4: there is something there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, yeah, it wouldn't be visible at.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, we've got some points there that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to be setting up early in the morning so that
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  Speaker 2: we can rock from the ceiling.
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  Speaker 1: For you guys, I know the name.
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  Speaker 4: Andrea's are of Guitar Show is pretty self explanatory, but
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  Speaker 4: for the benefit of those who thinks that sound too
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  Speaker 4: good to be true, run us say exactly what it is.
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  Speaker 2: So the way that I've been describing the show to
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  Speaker 2: people is two ways. Either I say to them, look,
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  Speaker 2: think of it as like going to see like a
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  Speaker 2: guitarist like Joe CROWNI or Steve I or Nita Strauss.
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  Speaker 2: But imagine that during past of the show, instead of
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  Speaker 2: just staying on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: The whole time, they will climb up a rope and
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  Speaker 1: do some guitar solos in midair. All The other way
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  Speaker 1: that I.
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  Speaker 2: Describe it to people is think about a Pink concert,
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  Speaker 2: and you know how it is the aerial tricks.
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  Speaker 1: In hershel but imagine if Pink was a heavy metal guitarist.
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  Speaker 1: So they're the two ways that I usually describe it
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  Speaker 1: to people. But the best way to.
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  Speaker 2: Describe it is, honestly, for you guys, just see the
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  Speaker 2: show for yourself. It is hard to really explain the
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  Speaker 2: magnitude of the whole show in words, but it really
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  Speaker 2: is a visual experience.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds dangerous, I like, do you have the safety
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  Speaker 3: debt or anything.
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  Speaker 1: There's no safety in that, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: But for people that are worried about safety, I have
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  Speaker 2: been training in aeral arts for over ten years and
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  Speaker 2: I'm a bit of a scay cat myself when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to heights, So I can assure you that anything
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  Speaker 2: I do in the show.
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  Speaker 1: I am very comfortable with.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm not going to go up there and try
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  Speaker 2: a trick that I'm like fifty percent on. There's no
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  Speaker 2: way that a trick like that would be getting put
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  Speaker 2: into the show.
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  Speaker 1: So I know it looks.
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  Speaker 2: It can look pretty daunting, like I have had people
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  Speaker 2: come up to me and say that they were holding
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  Speaker 2: the breath of the entire show. But I can assure
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  Speaker 2: you that everything that I'm doing I feel completely safe in.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose one of the hardest parts to be making
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  Speaker 4: sure that the neck of the guitar dos to get
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  Speaker 4: wrapped up in the rope while you playing, is that
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  Speaker 4: initie exactly?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, making sure that the guitar doesn't get wrapped up
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  Speaker 2: in the rope, making sure my costume, my hair, even
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  Speaker 2: have my eyelashes get.
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  Speaker 1: Pulled by the rope. I've had the rope blacken me
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  Speaker 1: in the face.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of definitely a lot of that sort
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  Speaker 2: of stuff going on, and a lot of I guess
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  Speaker 2: like hurdles that we've had to overcome with putting this
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  Speaker 2: show together.
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  Speaker 1: And it has been really a really long process being
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  Speaker 1: able to tie.
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  Speaker 2: All the elements of doing aerial and guitar and creating
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  Speaker 2: this show. So yeah, definitely, I completely understand your concern
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  Speaker 2: about the rope and the guitar.
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  Speaker 4: Did you playing your own own song with your own
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  Speaker 4: material or do you do covers the song that people know?
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  Speaker 3: I love?
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  Speaker 2: It is a mix of originals and covers, So there's
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  Speaker 2: going to be some covers from some amazing bands that
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  Speaker 2: you guys would know, like I made a Metallica. Even
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  Speaker 2: some Australian rock bands in there are mixed in with
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  Speaker 2: the original tracks, so it's going to be something for everyone.
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  Speaker 4: Really, is it just you playing guitar or is there
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  Speaker 4: a full band that stays on the ground and doesn't
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  Speaker 4: go the air with you.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a full band show for this as well
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  Speaker 2: as a second aera list.
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  Speaker 1: So it's yeah, it's a full production. I haven't been
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  Speaker 1: able to convince the band to climb the rope with me,
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  Speaker 1: but I think that would be what can progress for
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  Speaker 1: the next show.
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  Speaker 2: Either that or try and convince the drummer from Motley
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  Speaker 2: Crue or Parkway Drive to get one of their contraptions
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  Speaker 2: in the show. Could you imagine have the drums lifted
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  Speaker 2: over the stage or Parkway Drives like rotating wheel of
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  Speaker 2: dead drum thing that they've got going on there, But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think that would be for future shows.
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  Speaker 3: Then do you sing as well or have you got
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  Speaker 3: a separate vocalist?
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  Speaker 2: So it's all instrumental, So it's going to be all instrumental, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: definitely all instrumental, classic.
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  Speaker 1: Sort of metal rock, that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's you really have to kind of come
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  Speaker 2: and see it or hear it to hear how we
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  Speaker 2: put the compilations together, because I remember one of the
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  Speaker 2: songs we start it, and someone was saying to me
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  Speaker 2: after the show, he was like, I was wondering who
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  Speaker 2: was going to sing that song?
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  Speaker 1: But then when you see how we do it, you absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Will, you would.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: So what what came first for you, the guitar or
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  Speaker 3: the aerobatics?
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  Speaker 1: It was guitar.
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  Speaker 2: I've been playing guitar since I was a young kid,
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  Speaker 2: got more serious about it in high school, and then
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  Speaker 2: even more serious about it after that, And it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: ntil much later that I actually stumbled across aeral Arts
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  Speaker 2: And I remember going to my first ever aeral arts class.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even really know what it was.
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  Speaker 2: And after my first class, I had already decided that
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to do that with a guitar. I did
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  Speaker 2: not know how I was going to do it, or
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  Speaker 2: where I was going to do it, or even what
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  Speaker 2: I would be capable of doing, but I already knew
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  Speaker 2: from that moment that that was what I wanted to do,
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  Speaker 2: and from then I've literally.
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  Speaker 1: Just dedicated like most of my life to it, really.
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  Speaker 2: Just working on it, trying to come up with tricks
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  Speaker 2: that worked with the guitar and putting this whole show together.
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  Speaker 4: Are you the only person in the world doing something
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  Speaker 4: like this? I couldn't count imagine there'd be too many.
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  Speaker 2: Not that I could find, because I definitely did do
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  Speaker 2: a long, hard search. I found like a couple of
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  Speaker 2: guitarists that did sort of the suspension thing where they're
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  Speaker 2: kind of like suspended by some kind of a harness
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  Speaker 2: or something that they get swung around in kind of
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  Speaker 2: similar to the harness contraption that Pink has.
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  Speaker 1: In her show. And there's another guitarist that I connected
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  Speaker 1: with over in the.
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  Speaker 2: US that she does like guitar and ariel hoops. So
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  Speaker 2: I felt it's pretty cool, and so far they're the
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  Speaker 2: only people that I've found.
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  Speaker 1: I found a lot of aerial.
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  Speaker 2: Violinists though, so a little bit of a thing, but
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  Speaker 2: if anyone's into violin or aerial violin, that seems to
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  Speaker 2: be a really popular like sort of music and aerial combinations,
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  Speaker 2: So I.
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  Speaker 1: Thought that was pretty interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, literally all these violentists, like classical highly skilled violinists.
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  Speaker 1: It like playing violin whilst doing aeriel.
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  Speaker 3: That's amazing. But what actually what made you look it
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  Speaker 3: up there.
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  Speaker 4: And go on, yeah, I reckon I could do that
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  Speaker 4: and play the guitar at the same time.
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  Speaker 3: Like, what was the thought process?
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  Speaker 2: I think I just thought, like because obviously I knew
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  Speaker 2: already that Pink did that sort of thing in her show.
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  Speaker 1: And like I said, when I went to this first
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  Speaker 1: aerial class.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know what to expect. So when I went
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  Speaker 2: in and I saw what it was, the first thing
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  Speaker 2: I thought of was Pink. But obviously I'm not a singer,
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  Speaker 2: so I thought, I just have to do this with
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  Speaker 2: a guitar. I played piano as well, but I thought,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think guitar is not too heavy to
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  Speaker 2: get a piano exactly, but maybe maybe.
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  Speaker 1: I could work on it for the future.
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  Speaker 4: So which one is hard a foiler? Which one you
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  Speaker 4: have to work out more everybody's side of it or
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  Speaker 4: the plan or doing it together?
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  Speaker 2: Doing it together definitely has been a bit of a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: I used to practice this by hanging off the edge
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  Speaker 2: of my bed when I was still living with my parents.
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  Speaker 2: Just to practice like sensation of having the guitar but
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  Speaker 2: being played.
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  Speaker 1: While you're upside down.
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  Speaker 2: Because one thing that I never even considered, even without
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  Speaker 2: the feats of doing the aerial stuff, is just the
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  Speaker 2: fact that when you're normally you're playing guitar, like gravity
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  Speaker 2: is holding your arms down.
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  Speaker 1: When you're inverted, you have to hold your.
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  Speaker 2: Arms up, which just doesn't sound like okay, like that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't sound like a hard thing, but after a while,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like the blood flow or just the muscular
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  Speaker 2: use of just having to actually physically hold them up
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  Speaker 2: there and then play like, I found that my arms
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  Speaker 2: would get so tired so easily compared to when I'm
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  Speaker 2: just playing upright.
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  Speaker 1: So that was an interesting thing that I thought.
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  Speaker 2: I'd never really thought of that, like, not even doing
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  Speaker 2: any of the climbing, and my arm's getting so tired
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  Speaker 2: just because I have to hold them up now they're
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  Speaker 2: not just like hanging by my side.
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  Speaker 4: It makes sense when you say, but it's not the
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  Speaker 4: sort of thing you think about, but it makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Like I thought about the fact that obviously, like the
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  Speaker 2: climbing and the tricks and all like all that, yes,
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be hard, but literally just physically just
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  Speaker 2: hanging there with your arms up. Yeah, ended up something
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  Speaker 2: that I had to train as well.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: So if people have been listening and they're still a
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  Speaker 4: little bit like, oh yeah, I'm not sure that's going
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  Speaker 4: to look like is.
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  Speaker 3: There is it video? If you got your own website
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  Speaker 3: or something where people don't check it.
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  Speaker 2: Out, Yeah, I've got plenty of videos all over my
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  Speaker 2: social media pages and on my website, on my website
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  Speaker 2: as well, so you can definitely check it out for
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  Speaker 2: people that want to get a bit of an idea
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  Speaker 2: of what the show involves before they see it.
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  Speaker 3: And what's your website address?
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  Speaker 2: So the website, you can visit my website just Andrea
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  Speaker 2: Guitar dot com. Or I'm on social media so like Facebook, Instagram,
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  Speaker 2: all those sorts of things fantastical.
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  Speaker 4: Sounds like a great night of entertainment to me. So,
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  Speaker 4: people of Brisbane, is your chance that day, July the fifth,
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  Speaker 4: Arcander and Prostita in Marika. So we'll probably try and
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  Speaker 4: pop down and have a look anyway. But thanks for
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  Speaker 4: joining us, Thank
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having us