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Dare To Dream With ZACH BRITT From DREAM ON DREAMER · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Yeah. Ay, I'm Zach Britt from dream On Dreamer and I'm here on
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  Heavy chatting to Chris and it's a pleasure to be here. Yeah, utiful
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  Zach, thanks for joining us, my man, no problem at all,
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  man, thanks for having me, my pleasure. So there's some other pretty
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  big coming up in the dream On Dreamer camp You're gonna get You're actually getting
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  ready for a run and shows supporting of mice and Men starting February twenty thirty
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  Adelaide and Gathererue, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. So it's not far away
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  now, man, Like how many excitement levels. We're pretty pumped. Man,
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  it's been a little while since we've had a run on field, so
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  yeah, we've been on the bench a little long and yeah, we're really
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  excited. We're excited to get out there and stretch our legs again. And
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  it's always fun to just hang out. And especially as you've gone, as
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  we've gotten older and not to it, you know, NonStop all the time.
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  It's really nice when we get to do it now, we really appreciate
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  the time we do get to do it. So yeah, we're pumped men
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  and my cement as such. Heavy hitters. So yeah, it's a real
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  privilege whenever you get to play with bands like that. And I think the
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  more we've grown up now, the more we appreciate these tours because there was
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  a lot of tours that we didn't really take stock, you know, while
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  we were there, and now I think back to a lot of them being
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  like, oh my god, I wish I was a little bit more present
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  minded instead of having six sixty beers every day, and you know, there's
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  good times for that. But I think we're just really excited to make the
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  most of it and get out there with bands that are really epic. Yeah,
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  and I understand yourselves and Siana Skys, who were personally selected by of
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  my cement is that tually, I think so, as far as we've been
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  told, I haven't had to chat to them personally yet, and I'm super
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  excited to get to do that when we meet up on the road. But
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  as these things go, Yeah, word on the grapevine is that they were
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  really keen to get on the road with us, which is awesome. You
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  know, you've got to take that as a massive complement from a band that
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  does as well as they do. So yeah, we're super humbled. It's
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  got to be a good feeling, like someone in their position actually asking for
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  you, bro, Like, it shows that that you're reaching overseas, you're
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  reaching the right people, and you're obviously doing the right thing. Yeah,
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  it's very encouraging to keep to keep doing it, you know, as the
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  Dreamer story goes, you know, we've only kind of really decided to pursue
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  that friendship and in the band together and keep going. There was a lot
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  of time there especially it was like pre COVID when we're really struggling part of
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  me just struggling relationship wise and as a band. So it's really crazy to
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  what you've asked there to have people chasing you, and it does reaffirm that
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  we're we're doing the right thing. Just keep making music and keeping on.
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  You know, maybe you're want to keep drinking those sixty bees per show mate,
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  Maybe that's not impressed it. Maybe that's maybe that's what gets the good
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  stuff done well if they have the sixty there for us, you know.
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  And on that point, man, like, how good is it to see
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  two Australian bands support and international in our own country? Like it doesn't happen
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  enough that we get the recognition we deserved. Yeah, it's amazing. It's
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  really great that they can come out here and be super confident as well and
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  in grabbing bands and putting a lineup on that people are going to be really
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  stoked to see. Yeah, and it's awesome for me as well to Like
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  it's a real walk down memory lane because some of the first tours I ever
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  did in my first band, The Dream the Chase, was with the Skies,
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  Like that was who I dreamt of touring with when when I was a
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  young whipper Snapper were coming up and we wanted the two of them really badly
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  and we could jump on our first tour, played like eagleby town Hall or
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  Eagle b Pise Sorry, all these other spots with them, and so yeah,
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  that's like a friendship. I've known them and played with them for like
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  over sixteen years now, which is pretty insane. Yeah, so or it
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  would have been yeah, probably fifteen years. Fifteen years, so six Yeah,
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  bridging on those two. So it's a pretty awesome thing. I don't
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  see them all the time or anything like that, you know how it is,
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  But now that I get to do that, Yeah, we'll we'll have
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  a really old connection there, so it's awesome go share, and we sort
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  of touched on this robot. You've played all over the world and supported our
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  host of big names, but now are getting older bit, I suppose,
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  and it's you're more focused on the actual music, Like how are you going
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  to approach these shows with avice and men, You're going to approach a bit
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  differently, or I think now I aim with the shows with a massive managed
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  just to play the songs that have really resonated with people the most. You
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  know, A lot a lot of times when we're doing our own headliner,
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  we'll think about it a little more. But when we've only got forty you
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  know, thirty five minutes for forty minutes to give people the best of Dreamer,
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  then we definitely tend to lean towards playing the songs that just get played
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  the most, Like we don't really want to confuse people or like think too
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  hard about it. That's kind of what we agreed on when we came back
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  as well, because sometimes it can all just get a bit convoluted in what
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  you want to do and like maybe you're not feeling super fulfilled in playing a
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  certain set list, but I think we all just get really excited now to
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  play the songs that people want to jump up and down to the most and
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  sing along to every word. So if you sing along to dream Of songs,
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  then I think we're going to be playing those ones now. I didn't
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  actually think about this when I wrote this question down, but you're probably going
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  to have to think about your answer with this one. But yeah, do
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  you treat something like this like you go out there with the attention that you're
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  just there to warm up the crowd for the headliner, or do you go
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  out there with the gend like I want to try and blow these guys off
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  stage and leave a last impression. I think it's always about being a good
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  support. I think you can blow people away without being trying to like outshine
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  or anything like that. I really think there's like an art to that walking
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  that line like and I think you can really do it in a way where
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  the headlining band will really give some chops, will give flowers for that.
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  At the end of the tour, it'll be like, man, it was
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  hard to follow that, But I think in the end that's kind of what
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  you're there to do. You're there to push them to do their best as
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  Well, so if you can really light up a stage and like do something
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  that you think is going to blow them out of the water, then you're
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  going to get to see a better headline show anyway, in my opinion,
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  because the headliners have to pull rank then, you know, so we try
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  to push that, and I think it's all about definitely firing everyone up for
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  that headliner. But if we can make them, you know, dig deeper
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  and want to do better for the crew out, then I think we've done
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  the right thing. Break you, I've grown up. That was the best
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  diplomatic answer I've ever heard. Well, there you go. Maybe I get
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  too many punches. I've got to add to those sixty beers. Maybe we'll
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  do this. You've had those sixty beers, mate, We'll see. Yeah,
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  like, man, there's these guys. Yeah, we're going to blow
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  them out of the water. But what can we actually expect from your set?
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  The shows? What he's not playing for us? We've just yeah,
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  as I was saying, like some of the favorites we love playing don't Lease
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  your Heart. We've got some of the heavy ones in there too. We've
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  also got a bunch of new music coming out, So whether we flex some
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  of that on this tour or not. We're not one hundred percent sure we're
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  jumping into some production days soon, but I think people can just expect that
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  vintage Dreamer, that the stuff that they really want to jump up and down
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  to, and the stuff that there was always the ear worms from us that
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  have kept people coming back. We love playing Runaway. That song's been going
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  crazy online and we can't believe. Yeah, we keep just setting screenshots of
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  how many streams are gone on in that song to each other, being like,
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  oh, this is weird. It's just funny, you know, because
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  all of us are pretty busy in our personal lives and have a lot of
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  other things going on. So it's very encouraging when you get a message being
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  like we just clocked eight million plays on this thing or something and it was
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  just written at Chris's beach house or parents beach house in a real chill session,
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  you know that one, And don't lose your heart for us. So
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  like real favorites, because they were both just written very off the cuff and
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  it was just like the simplest songs and now they're the ones that resonate the
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  most of people. So yeah, people can just expect the ones they've been
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  clocking up plays on, because yeah, they're the ones that we want to
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  get everyone partying into, and that's what's going to push the headliner be better.
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  Chris, I don't want to focus on the negatives here break And to
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  be honest, it's no one else's business but yours. But Dream of Dreamer
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  went on hiatus in twenty twenty and now some more shows last year. So
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  what actually changed to make you come back and try again. I think a
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  lot of it was relationship wise, like we just I mean all of us
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  had that probably had that epiphany through COVID, like you just kind of come
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  through after those two years of just really out outlandishly weird years. And things
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  are still weird now, like to a degree, but those years were really
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  crazy, and I think it made us just trip back what we thought was
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  important. Really simply you get a lot of time to think about stuff then,
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  and especially with music, it's just been gone totally. It was very
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  like it was weird, and it felt like almost a weird, weird sign
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  for us because we were meant to do that last two Everything was sold,
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  like every show was sold, and there was suddenly like twenty six dates,
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  and we had other dates on hold for it, and then we had to
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  push it back like I think five times we pushed that tool back, and
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  then in the end it was like, okay, it was the last decision.
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  We're like, okay, we can, let's just refund everyone, Like
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  we'll refund everyone's tickets. So we do that, and then like two weeks
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  later or something and they're like, you can, okay, now shows can
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  get announced again and all this stuff. But like, so there was a
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  few there was moments like that where we're just like, man, like,
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  what the hell was that? Like that's crazy, and and so that felt
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  just didn't feel right anyway, like it just something weird was happening. So
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  and then when we went to do the last shows, we were like,
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  okay, nothing would work. Booking wouldn't work, so we could only do
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  three shows or something like that. So yeah, again, I don't want
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  to be too long winded, but it just felt it didn't feel right.
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  And then over that time, our relationships all kind of started to grow again
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  and get a lot. We got along a lot better in the times that
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  we were together, and I think it was just the perspective of having those
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  years just being like it didn't really seem that important now, the little things
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  that you were all fucked up about. You know, it was nice to
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  let go of that stuff and to just realize that it wasn't it wasn't healthy
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  to hold on to grudges when you got to hang out with these people for
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  twelve years, you know, and got to do some of the funnest stuff
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  of your life with them. So I think, yeah, it's got to
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  be more profound than that. So we let go of that, and I'm
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  really really happy that we did. Have you been on a Buddhist retreat or
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  some last pace, Yeah, pretty much. I'm pretty much lived a Buddhist
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  retreat. It's amazing. Whatever it is, it's working right, it's working.
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  Oh good, well, sending them all my way and tell them it's
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  a dollar now. So shows coming back, mate, Like, you did
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  a headline tour that was well received and attended, right, But did you
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  did you feel like you had a point to prove when you came back?
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  Yeah? We were all nervous as hell, man, we were. There
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  were so many feelings and so many feelings are just like oh far out,
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  Like do we make the right decision? Are we just flogs? Like are
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  we are we doing the John Farnham right now? There's so many there's you
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  just have imposts in drome doing things because you're like, am I just doing
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  this because I want to come back and like do music for selfish reasons because
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  I missed it. And then as soon as you get out in front of
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  the first crowd, it's just you realize, oh, no, like is
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  this was right? The first song, like just playing one song in front
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  of Melbourne. We opened with the like World in front of Me or Loveless
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  into the World in front of Me, which is the opening of that album
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  anniversary. And it was the first time it was too loud. The crowd
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  was too loud that I couldn't hear anything on stage because it was like I
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  got the world in front of me. It was just like it. It
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  was just so definitely loud, and we all looked at each other, everyone
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  on stage, it's just like whoa okay, like and there was a little
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  smile, like this little half smile of ourselves face as he like turned back
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  to face the drummers drums and catch his breath, and I could just see
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  that he was like whoa like that was that was mint and so I think
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  that that was really a moment straight away. But we've all grown heats,
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  so it makes a lot more sense now because everyone's pulling their weight, Like
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  I'm not just drinking sixty beers and falling out of it. But yeah,
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  there's a lot of crazy stories when we were young, and you think back,
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  and I think for all of us, we'd all probably think like,
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  oh, how did they put up with me at that moment, you know,
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  And being able to think about all that stuff now, I think,
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  yeah, it makes the relationship better because you're just like, oh, yeah,
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  they've put up with some crazy shit we have from each other, you
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  know, And now we can appreciate the fact that we've all changed a lot
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  and everyone's there to like have a real crack and make sure that we're helping
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  each other when we're all stressing out about shit. So I think that's going
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  to make for a better show anyway from us, anytime you see us.
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  So it's really good to be back. What was it like This is going
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  to be hard for you to explain, but what was it like having that
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  connection with fans again? Like when you got out there and you knew that
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  they wanted you back, man, Like, what's that feeling? Like,
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  it's crazy? It's yeah, I don't know. I was like, yeah,
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  I was super spaced out on the whole every show really because it was
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  just so I was like saving my energy every night really just to be able
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  to talk to as many people as I could every night. And yeah,
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  we all I'd say, we were all talking to fans and stuff like two
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  hours every night, you like after the show and you just be there with
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  with heaps of people. And then I think Melbourne had an after party and
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  that party at Cherry Bar was just packed. It was just like and we
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  hadn't had that. I don't think even when Dream was a band before,
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  like we never had that kind of resonance with people. So it means heaps
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  and everyone's story is about, you know, not having made the last shows
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  and being so devo that they hadn't seen us. And then so maybe there
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  is a there is a greater purpose or like a point behind what happened,
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  because it kind of made people realize they wanted to come out and see us
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  maybe or like that fear of lost thing. So maybe we'll just go now
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  again. But no, no, I don't really. I think it's I
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  think it's all changed so much that we're just all in so much better of
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  a headspace that it can't It's not really going to be a negative thing.
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  I don't think it could be. And yeah, any troubles you've ever had
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  as a band growing up, I think we're all just like Inchiller anyway.
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  You just double think yourself, don't you. You usually just got to get
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  out of your own way. Yeah, that's it. That's probably the best
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  way to describe it, to get out of your own way, because I
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  am. Yeah, I'm the same man, and I think we a lot
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  of us are. And I think that's usually some of the best advice.
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  Me and Cal always remind each other, like in writing with Dreamer as well
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  and in life stuff, just to be like, yo, just get out
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  of your own way today. Like make sure you do, because usually the
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  best stuff happens when you just stay out of the way. That's the inspiration
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  of the year already. Bro. Yeah, awesome, man, I'm glad.
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  I'm glad everyone's going to put it up on the wall. I'm sure
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  I'm not the first person to say it, but I'll play it like you'll
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  end up having to sign all these posts with people right that and be awesome
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  your own way. I'm just gonna sell get out of your Own Way posters
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  and the next to next song, Bro write a song called get Out of
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  the Other Way. That'd be great. Yeah, I reckon that could work.
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  There's great premise for a track. Me and cal will be back in
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  the studio cooking some stuff up and Calum Marcel were just in the studio today.
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  So heaps of epic stuff coming. We've got plenty of stuff coming then,
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  so so excited to have it all in the works. Okay maybe,
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  Well, I know people are excited to have you back, Bro, So
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  thanks for your time that I've been pleasure as fucking always the choice. Thank
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  your twenty thirty kicks off mate. I'll be at the Brisbane show so I'd
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  expect to have at least least half of those beers with you anyway. Oh
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  yeah, absolutely, dude. If there's sixty there, there's a few for
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  you for sure, don't you worry. Absolutely legend bro Ro Well we'll see
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  you seeing about a month's time. Yeah, absolutely, Chris, Thanks so
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  much man, always a pleasure. Right to catch us soon.