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Suffer No More With ED HARTWELL From BURY TOMORROW · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Yeah. Cool, So I'm I played guitar in very tomorrow. We are
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  coming out to your end in end of August for a run across Australia with
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  Make Them Suffer. It's also got Spie and Bloom on the tour as well.
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  Yeah, we're really looking forward to it, right cool. Thanks for
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  joining us today, Matte. Yeah, nobody's as you say, very tomorrow
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  and return to Australia for a run of shows. We'd make them stuff off
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  of their stuff off like ever Australia or kicking off in Brisbane on August thirtieth,
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  going through Newcastle, said Nee Melbourne Adelaide finish his pre mental on September
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  seventh flight. You're only adly last year, bro, Like have you even
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  unpacked from last time? It's pretty quick, yeah, just about. Yeah.
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  It's funny because we actually got I think we got offered this tour when
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  we were in Australia last year, so we were like out there doing that
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  tour and like in the middle of that tour they sort of offer came through.
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  Obviously didn't get announced until much later, but yeah, it was.
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  We're just happy to be back. It's a really good time, you know,
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  just saying before, like, I'm not a huge fan of a flying
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  so it's like quite a big thing for me to go so far away from
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  home. But it's last year was the first time I went to Australia and
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  it was such a good time that it's definitely worth any of the anxiety I
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  get when I fly out there. Let's I've read on that a bit,
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  bro Like it's so and it's such such a pain for you. So what
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  is it about Australia that makes you sort of shove them and come back so
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  quick, like feasibly you could not come back for a couple of years and
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  peopleould understand. Yeah, it's just it's just I think the people, the
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  environment, and it's just there's just so much novelty about it that's just really
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  beautiful. You know. It's just like driving through like the we had some
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  very very long drives on that tour, you know, like ten hour twelve
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  hour drives, you know, and because you're just driving through like Australian fields
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  and at no point does it really looked like England. It just has that
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  novelty of just being like this is really cool, like we're in Australia.
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  Like you then you see a kangaroo on the side of the road and you're
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  just like, wow, that's who was on the back of your album,
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  the Seventh Son that was released around the same time. So it's also a
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  sign of just how good that album was. The fact that you can come
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  to a country, a foreign country twice on the one album cycled Yeah,
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  I hope. So yeah. I mean, we were playing a lot of
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  the album on that tour, and it seems to go down really well.
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  You know. It's it's a majority of our sett list is newer stuff now,
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  which is cool. Obviously we've always got time for the old stuff and
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  we'll always play some of some of the older songs. But yeah, it
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  seems to have been received really well, which is really really cool, you
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  know. It just it felt really special when we were out there before,
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  especially because we were like headlining shows and you know, we upgraded a couple
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  of the venues and then sold them out, which was really unexpected for us.
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  So we're just really excited to come out and play to even more people
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  because obviously these these shows are much bigger. We've made themselve aheadlining them.
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  It's a very just a very very cool opportunity that we're super happy to be
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  on board with. The seventh Son was an album. Like a lot of
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  focus around that album was the fact that he was shaping a new sound moving
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  forward for the band. So from looking back on it now after you've done,
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  I like it didn't work you did you sort of go away want to
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  go music club? Yeah? I think so. It just I think it
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  was an amalgamation of different influences from having it was the first album which had
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  multiple sort of songwriters on it, as in people bringing demos to the band
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  because previously Dawson was Dawson the other guitarists in the band was the one who
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  would write all the music, so he would go away and write his demos
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  and obviously he'd have a little bit of input from the other guys, but
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  it was from him that was actually sitting down and churning out the demos.
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  But at this time around, we've got Tom and I who also had demos
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  to the table, and like, we've been fortunate enough that the guys have
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  been receptive to those, you know, to some of the songs that we've
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  written and then fleshing those out. So I think it's just a case of
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  the sound maybe being a bit different is obviously coming from Tom having a different
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  voice to what was previously in the band, and obviously those different influences coming
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  from you know, several different people at this point. And the seven Son
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  was also your first album with the band made out to join in twenty twenty
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  one, So how was that experience for you? Yeah, very cool.
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  The guys have just been so welcoming of me and Tom. You know,
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  it's it's I think they've just appreciated in you a rejuvenated I guess, workflow
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  and work environment, I guess. And yeah, I mean when I joined
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  the band, I certainly wasn't expecting to be writing music or contributing in that
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  way really, because I just was kind of like, oh, I'll leave
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  that to you sort of thing. And it's very nerve wracking thing to send
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  demos through. Like I, if I write a demo, I don't usually
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  send it through to everyone. I usually just send it to Dawson Birds and
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  he's like my filter and if he really likes it, then and we'll try
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  and put vocals in it and then it goes around like that. But I'm
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  not like sending a demo into the group chat and then just waiting for everyone
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  to listen to it. It's just terrifying. Yeah, definitely, it's definitely
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  gotten better since we especially as we're like into the second album that we've done
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  together now, but it's still very a nerve wracking thing. Definitely. And
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  how was it initially? Bit when you came in, like you've come into
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  a band, it's already established, it's already got established sound, I guess,
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  an established band, But it's like, was there any extra pressure on
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  you coming into that as opposed to you if you've sort of started something yourself
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  you're reckon? Yeah, definitely, I'd say this. Obviously, there's always
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  going to be people that compare it to how it was before, and there's
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  always gonna be people that prefer it how it was before, and that's completely
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  fine, Like, no problem with that at all. It's just absolutely given.
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  So Yeah, I just think we're we're just like, we're just along
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  for the ride, basically, That's all I can say. Yeah, Bag
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  and Suffer also invited out Spike and Bloom for the cho as you say,
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  like, do you know much about those bands? Do before a lot of
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  this? Do you go and do research on the bands or do you rather
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  wait and see them live? Yeah, I definitely do. I'll always check
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  out bands before we go out. I'm watchure In my Spider band, who
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  I've seen doing like touring. They've done some good touring over in the UK.
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  I think they're from America and might be wrong and Bloom my Believer from
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  Australia if that's if I if I'm right with that, And again i've seen
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  them. I think they're out with Plaris at the moment. So these are
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  bands I obviously see like on tour posters and I've seen them on social media
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  occasionally. But yeah, I'll definitely be checking them out before we go on
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  tour them. Yeah. So for the benefit of those who missed you guys
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  when you were out of here last year, may like tell us what we
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  can expect from Barry Tomorrow Live. I mean, we try and bring the
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  high end show as much as we can. It's we like to have fun
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  as well, you know, it's not all like serious, you know,
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  I guess. Yeah, we just try and bring like a good spread of
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  what we can fit into the set list of the of the back catalog,
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  I guess, of new and old stuff and yeah, We're just like a
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  lot of Clark crowd participation, you know, just over the years. You
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  know, we don't sit down and go, right, here's a song that
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  we're going to do this in, or here's a song that we're going to
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  tell people to jump in or whatever. It just becomes this thing where as
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  you as you play songs and over and over and over again, you go,
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  this one's good for this, this one's good for that. So it's
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  a good opportunity to do this. And I think we've kind of honed in
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  a lot of the set in that respect of songs that are like staples of
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  the set list and keeping the energy up as much as we can basically travel
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  around the world, make you notice the different parts of the world, like
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  different songs. In s you have to change it up much from Cotron.
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  Yeah, to an extent, like when we did America last year, we've
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  sort of added in some old, old songs that we hadn't played for a
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  while because we've been touring Europe and we'd sort of exhausted them in Europe a
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  little bit. But because we and we did the same thing with Australia actually
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  because we obviously haven't been in those markets as much we're like, oh this,
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  these crowds haven't heard this old song, and it's quite quite a good
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  old song to add that one in sort of thing. So things that that
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  definitely come into play. But ultimately it just comes down to what you can
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  sort of fit into your whatever hour, whether you've got an hour, forty
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  five minutes or whatever, and just picking at the more. Unfortunately, the
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  more songs you release, the more difficulty gets to fig to figure out,
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  like, you know, because if you release a single, obviously you have
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  to add that in and you want to play that live, so that cuts
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  one old song out, which is a shame obviously to do. I think
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  that's the benefit of headlining is for us headlining, we can sort of play
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  the longest that we'd ever play for, you know, but with the support
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  set it's definitely a lot more difficult to hone that exactly. Yeah, thanks
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  very much A few time. Had been the pleasure speaking with you very back
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  in Australia. From August the thirtieth, we make them Suffers, Spiked and
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  Bloon. There's still a couple of tikets left, so get amongst it what you had