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Navigating Grief And Galaxies: THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA’s Cinematic Journey With 'Give Us The Moon' · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hello everyone, This is Gjoran Street from the Night Flight Orchestra.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful, thanks so much give us The Moon feels like
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  Speaker 2: your most cinematic album yet. Can you talk about the
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  Speaker 2: inspiration behind this more expansive, narrative driven approach.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean the band has gone through quite a
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  Speaker 1: lot the latest years, obviously with the passing of our
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  Speaker 1: friend and guitarist David Anderson, who has formed the band with,
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  Speaker 1: and so we needed to take our time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And I mean we had to grieve as a band
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  Speaker 1: and as friends and and you know, sort of try
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  Speaker 1: to pick up the pieces in the end, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and find the joy with music again and try to
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  Speaker 1: write something uplifting, you know, after everything we've gone through.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's why this album became quite multi layered,
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  Speaker 1: and I guess cinematic or quite dreamy as well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because it's a lot to go through, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and and you know, as as we always do, it's
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  Speaker 1: like I think we can we can almost move between
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  Speaker 1: different genres on the same album. It's somehow it works.
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  Speaker 1: I think that that was also a guiding star to
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  Speaker 1: not have any sort of limitations musically and and to
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  Speaker 1: just put our emotions in there, and I think it
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  Speaker 1: is very much of an explosion of emotions when you
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  Speaker 1: listen to this album, you know, it's it's I always
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  Speaker 1: say that, you know that our albums take you on
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  Speaker 1: a journey, but I think this one is going to
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  Speaker 1: take you on a on a journey on a different level,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And those songs are working out really well
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  Speaker 1: live as well. We've already tried them, you know, we've
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  Speaker 1: been just been on a European tour. So it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: we we had we had to do something. We knew
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  Speaker 1: it was going to be a challenge, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: we we had to pull through somehow, and and uh
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  Speaker 1: to you know, dig extra deep and take David's world
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  Speaker 1: with us and turn it into our own somehow. And
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  Speaker 1: and and so I feel like he's been very present
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  Speaker 1: when we raided this album. And yeah, I mean we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to make him proud. We wanted it to be
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  Speaker 1: a celebration of his life. And and also this this
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  Speaker 1: about this band you know that we have together that
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  Speaker 1: means so much to us. So that journey needed to
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  Speaker 1: continue and that's something that David wanted as well. So
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  Speaker 1: hopefully he can somehow hear it you know, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we hopefully made him proud, and we made ourselves proud,
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting through it and then hopefully showed all
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  Speaker 1: the doubters out there that we can, you know, still
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  Speaker 1: pull this off, because it's it's a very sincere album,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, definitely, and we can hear that the question
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  Speaker 2: of you guys stopping ever come up because of what
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  Speaker 2: had happened, Well, I mean there.
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  Speaker 1: Was yeah, for a while, I mean it felt quite dark,
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  Speaker 1: like I mean, because obviously David was was you know,
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  Speaker 1: I started the band with David, and so our dream.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like our our dream sort of died a bit,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't really know what to do with that feeling.
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  Speaker 1: But then you know, talking to him basically on his
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  Speaker 1: deathbed about the continuation of the band. For him, it
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  Speaker 1: was only natural that we were going to continue that
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  Speaker 1: journey and that the journeys far from over, you know,
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  Speaker 1: So it definitely helps having that talk with him, that
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  Speaker 1: that inspired me as sad as it as was to
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  Speaker 1: lose him, and knowing that that was probably our last meeting,
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  Speaker 1: which it was, and yeah, that was very very tough.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but as you said, knowing that that's something that
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  Speaker 2: he wanted to do. Is definitely more like a blessing
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  Speaker 2: and a reason to put everything into this one and just.
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  Speaker 1: Go yeah yeah, yeah, that definitely helped out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is your debut with Napalm Records. Did
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  Speaker 2: working with a new label change anything for you guys?
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  Speaker 2: In the creative process?
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  Speaker 1: They had some different ideas and how to promote the
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  Speaker 1: album and and you know, so it was just interesting
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  Speaker 1: doing something something different. You know, We've had some really
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  Speaker 1: good years with Nuclear Blasts, but we came to a
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  Speaker 1: point where we wanted to try out something else. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's been really good so far, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and we've done quite a lot of North American press
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  Speaker 1: as well. We even ended up doing an interview with CNN,
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  Speaker 1: which was just insane. I don't know how that happened,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, so there's been there's been some some some
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  Speaker 1: different take takes on things and new doors opening. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's been good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh that's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: And how about the title of the album, does it
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  Speaker 2: symbolize anything special for you guys?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, David wrote this letter that he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be remembered as as some kind of an Austro
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  Speaker 1: astronaut floating around in space, you know, and and and
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  Speaker 1: I guess that inspired it a little bit. And also
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you know, this journey that we've been
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  Speaker 1: making and coming out on the other side, it was
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  Speaker 1: almost like we wanted to tap ourselves on the shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, now give us the mood, will you? You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of that vibe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh nice, speaking a little bit more of space.
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  Speaker 2: And I know you guys are quite intergalactic sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: What is your opinion on aliens and all of that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't. I don't think we're alone, you know.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's all I can say. I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have any theories or whatever, but but I don't think
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  Speaker 1: we're alone. And you know, I would say that that
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  Speaker 1: David was sort of more into sort of he was
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  Speaker 1: very much about it. Was always longing somewhere else, you know,
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  Speaker 1: So I think that became that's why he was so
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  Speaker 1: interested in it. And maybe I was more sort of
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  Speaker 1: ground and grounded in that sense, even though I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to escape as well, but I was a bit more
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  Speaker 1: fine with reality than him. So I think that was
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  Speaker 1: That's where there was an interesting exchange between US two
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  Speaker 1: and then he was reading like urban fantasy books, like three,
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  Speaker 1: three books a week. You know, it was just insane.
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  Speaker 1: So he yeah, I mean I think he also introduced me.
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  Speaker 1: He's sort of into that because like when I when
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  Speaker 1: I think too much about space, I get like an
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  Speaker 1: existential vertigo. I think that's the best way of describing it.
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  Speaker 1: But he sort of introduced me to that world where
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  Speaker 1: I felt a bit more comfortable and I try to
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  Speaker 1: keep him on the ground. Oh yeah, wow, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so cool. Myself, I do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm of the same belief that we're not alone and
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  Speaker 2: that necessary we may not necessarily have a god, but
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  Speaker 2: there may be.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, some alien being or something.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm the same where if I think about it
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  Speaker 2: too much, I kind of freak myself out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I need to just Okay, I'm here, I'm
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  Speaker 1: eating like I'm eating you know, potatoes, and it's like,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I need to be in the moment whatever, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and not be too spaced out. I want things to
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  Speaker 1: be so damn normal, you know what I mean. It's
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  Speaker 1: like if I get too yeah, it's yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, I totally agree.
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  Speaker 2: And there's always a strong retro vibe to your music,
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  Speaker 2: but this album seems to lean even deeper into the
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  Speaker 2: ao R and yochty rocky yourcht rocky stylings.
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  Speaker 3: Was that a conscious decision or.
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  Speaker 1: Hard to say? I mean, I think we worked more
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  Speaker 1: with with keep Word stand before as well, so I
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  Speaker 1: think that put another you know, layer to it. And
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, I think we constantly get inspired by, you know,
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  Speaker 1: from the late seventies and early eighties. I mean, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of bands were doing different genres on the same
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  Speaker 1: album and nobody cared. It's like that's what you do,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and look at you know, bands like ten
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  Speaker 1: C C or whatever. You know. It's a and that
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  Speaker 1: that constantly inspires us. But it's also very important for
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  Speaker 1: us that it's not all about nostalgia. We feel that
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a way of writing and performing songs that
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  Speaker 1: is is just a tradition that needs to make sense
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  Speaker 1: today as well, you know. And and so it's it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a tradition that we like to carry on
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  Speaker 1: and and provide something that we feel is missing out there.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe I don't know this, this album sounds more
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  Speaker 1: like a soundtrack, and I may it might have something
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  Speaker 1: to do with the keyboards. I've been working a lot
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  Speaker 1: with the vocals as well and found new ways of
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  Speaker 1: singing and as well, and like new layers and so
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  Speaker 1: it's hard, it's hard to say exactly what it is.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, and speaking more on that, the band has
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  Speaker 2: members from heavier acts like soil Work Arch Enemy. How
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  Speaker 2: do you balance those roots with the lighter, more melodic
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  Speaker 2: nature of TNFO.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's I think both bands represent me
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  Speaker 1: in a really good way, you know, and who I
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  Speaker 1: am and and and and also musically it's it's it's
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  Speaker 1: amazing to be able to have two bands in two
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  Speaker 1: different genres, you know, and and and quite established bands
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  Speaker 1: at that, you know. So for me, the switch is
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  Speaker 1: very easy, you know, and and uh, and I think
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  Speaker 1: it's it's just really interesting to to to sort of
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  Speaker 1: go between these genres when whenever I feel like it,
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, but I mean, because I when
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  Speaker 1: I if if I write something, I definitely know it
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  Speaker 1: it's for Night Flight or soil Work. It's like I
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  Speaker 1: either have the soul Work vest on or the night
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  Speaker 1: Flight hats. I don't know, it's like yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, And knowing these two bands, it's just so
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  Speaker 2: crazy to me. But I guess it makes a lot
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  Speaker 2: of sense with musicians to go between genres, like it
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  Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 3: You guys don't have to be stuck to just one genre.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, exactly. I think that's a beautiful thing. And
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  Speaker 1: I mean I can only encourage, you know, I I'm
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  Speaker 1: kind of puzzled to why, you know, metal metal guys don't,
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  Speaker 1: you know, start other projects that are completely different. If
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  Speaker 1: they start a project, it's very often I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do like old school thresh metal, which
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  Speaker 1: is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I love that too. I've done that with two two
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  Speaker 1: thousand back in the day. But it's like, if you
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  Speaker 1: want to do something different, do something different, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not sure why, you know people don't do
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  Speaker 1: that coming from metal bands or you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's I can I can highly recommend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we need more of it because the talent, like
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  Speaker 2: especially with your voice, how you can go from deep
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  Speaker 2: growling you know, metal vocals to your poppy it's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, well, thank you. No, I mean it's it's exciting
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  Speaker 1: for me as well, but I think it needs to
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  Speaker 1: be excited if you're going to be singing. It needs
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  Speaker 1: to be exciting, you know, then you might as well
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  Speaker 1: explore it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: And you've opened for Kiss and played massive festivals like Whacken.
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  Speaker 2: How do you adapt your show for more intimate venues
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  Speaker 2: versus those big epic stages.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I wish we had an endless budget
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  Speaker 1: where we could, you know, bring us seven forty seven
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  Speaker 1: on stage and all that stuff, and hopefully that will
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  Speaker 1: be in the future book. But you know, we try
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  Speaker 1: to do everything we can to make it a special show.
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  Speaker 1: And we have some stage props as well. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to bring everything if we go, not that
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  Speaker 1: we have that much, but you know, going to Australia,
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  Speaker 1: it's not like we can. I mean, maybe we can
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  Speaker 1: find some palm trees and in Australia, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be that hard. That's you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. It's like we we try, we try to
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  Speaker 1: make our best out of each and every show, depending
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  Speaker 1: on on you know, whether it's vaking or if it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a club, like a smaller venue, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: I think we we we we're really good at working
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  Speaker 1: a stage no matter the size, and uh and uh
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  Speaker 1: We've grown a lot as as a as a live band,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean our new outfits are amazing. They look
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  Speaker 1: good on on on the stage as well, So that's
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  Speaker 1: another thing I think that brings it on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to a whole new level.
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  Speaker 2: And do you guys individually create your outfits for yourselves
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  Speaker 2: or is there someone else doing that for you?
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  Speaker 1: We're very involved in it. I usually have an idea.
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  Speaker 1: The girls have some ideas as well when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to their outfits and and yeah, so but I mean
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  Speaker 1: that that mind is always spinning, you know, to find it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's fun, you know, definitely so love it.
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  Speaker 2: And you're heading back to Australia after your twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: three tour. What stood out to you from your last
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  Speaker 2: visit here and what convents expect this time around?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was a very special tour, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: coming to Australia with the Nightfire Orchestra was I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: it felt like the second coming of Abba. I was
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  Speaker 1: going to say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I never thought that would happen.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, do I really get to, you know, be
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  Speaker 1: on stage in Australia in a glitterate tape and a parade.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, yes, amazing. And then coming back again, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, it's going to be great, But the
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  Speaker 1: first time is always obviously you know, something something special.
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  Speaker 1: And we really connected with the crowd and it was
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: kind of a it was a bit of a weird
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  Speaker 1: journey for me as well. I mean I wrote a
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  Speaker 1: song about it Melbourne May I on the new album.
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  Speaker 1: And and it started with, you know, getting a call
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  Speaker 1: from a mom when we landed in we connected in
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  Speaker 1: Doha in Qatar on the way to Australia, and she
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  Speaker 1: called me and she said they did some tests and
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  Speaker 1: she had bread breast cancer. So that was really tough
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  Speaker 1: to get that call, you know, on our way to
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the world. You know. But but
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  Speaker 1: you know, the tour, you know, I had to keep
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  Speaker 1: it together, and but the crowds were so amazing. There
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  Speaker 1: was a good vibe in the band, and I felt
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  Speaker 1: like I was around you know, my family, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And and it all sort of culminated in Melbourne where
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  Speaker 1: where it was just a crazy show and I sort
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  Speaker 1: of you know broke down of me after after the show,
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: uh and after you know, keeping it together and and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was just a beautiful evening. It was a beautiful
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: tour in general. But I just had to write something,
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  Speaker 1: you know, about that evening in Melbourne, So it was
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  Speaker 1: it was a special tour in many ways. And and
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  Speaker 1: that was my eleventh time in Australia and this time
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be my twelfth, which is just insane
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  Speaker 1: to just think about that.
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  Speaker 2: And is it the second time for a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the night flight orchestras for a lot of them, or
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  Speaker 2: is it have they been here a few times as well?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, so it's there, it's their second time. So
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  Speaker 1: I got to sort of relive the how it is
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  Speaker 1: coming to Australia for the first time, you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: on that previous tour. But yeah, it's people. People loved it,
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  Speaker 1: so we're really exciting to come back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: And how has the dynamic between band members evolved since
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  Speaker 2: forming in two thousand and seven.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean the vibe from the beginning was what
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: was really fantastic. I mean we only got together for
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  Speaker 1: the first time in twenty ten to jam, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when we found the right members. I mean the seed
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  Speaker 1: was planted in two thousand and seven. The idea or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, we instantly connected. We knew these people
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  Speaker 1: since before, and then with the addition of the girls
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  Speaker 1: as well, that that really added a whole dimension, both
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  Speaker 1: on a personal level and also musically. And so there's
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  Speaker 1: a really great vibe and you know, you can tell
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  Speaker 1: that we have so much fun on stage and that
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  Speaker 1: that's real. That's that's you know. And if you see
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  Speaker 1: the video or watch the video for uh Way to
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  Speaker 1: Spend the Night, that's that's us. That's like, that's no,
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  Speaker 1: there's no acting, and I think you can tell, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, you know, we might be wearing like these outfits,
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  Speaker 1: but that but but the emotions are are real, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's and people can feel that.
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  Speaker 3: That's nice.
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  Speaker 2: So you guys are obviously good friends off the stage
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  Speaker 2: as well as on the Yes, yeah, yeah. And what
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  Speaker 2: do you think sets Ao R apart in the modern
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  Speaker 2: music scene and why is it important for you to
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: protect it?
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  Speaker 3: As the band's mission suggests.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean there's so many sort of interpretations of
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: interpretations of what a R is and and sometimes it's
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  Speaker 1: it feels like it's enough with like the store, the
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  Speaker 1: guitars and some eighties keyboards, and suddenly it's a r
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  Speaker 1: for us. It's way more multi layer than that. We
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  Speaker 1: we want to show that that there's different ways of
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: expressing AAR, you know, because it used to be so
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: much more diverse, you know. So it's it's something we
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  Speaker 1: take seriously.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: And and we we obviously last time we had the
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  Speaker 1: death to falls a or shirts on the tour, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, so obviously we're not taking
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  Speaker 1: that seriously, but we just had to make sure because
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: you know, we were getting at a little bit sick
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  Speaker 1: of bands, you know, putting out endless tracks of just
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: you know, distorted guitars and some eighties keyboards with like
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  Speaker 1: and trigger drums and everything that is not real ar
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: to us. You know, We're not going to be too
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: snobby about it and be too elytistic, but we feel
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: that it's it's way more you know, diverse than a
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: lot of bands you know, yeah, put out there.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, that makes sense.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: And speaking of and I'm really interested to hear this
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: because you are across a couple of genres yourself. What
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: music do you listen to at the moment or what
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: are you really liking at the moment, and it doesn't.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: It can be in any Like, do you have any
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: surprise genres that you really like?
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Surprise genres? That's a good question. This is going to
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: sound very sophisticated and like I'm really old, but yeah, no,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: I mean listening to a little bit of jazz at
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: the moment, but blending it up with I mean the
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: never ending journey of finding lost bands within the classic
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: rock and A or genre. And there's the Berth Bacarac
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: and Elvis Costello album Painted from Memory, which is absolutely
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: amazing album that anybody should check out. It's just wild,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: it's it's great. Then I discover a fellow Swedish band
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: that is sort of sounding. It has sort of like
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: NFO elements, but they singing Swedish and they're called which
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: means viper in Swedish. Awesome to check that out. I
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: think anybody could could could enjoy that, even though it's
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: in Swedish.
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  Speaker 2: So okay, I'll have to look up how to translate
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: that somehow on Google to look up the band name.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get I'll listen to them.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's h U G G A R And.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Alright, alright, and what genre would.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: They would say that it's sort of uh yeah, I
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: guess you could say a R and In or just
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: classic rock, but it's a sort of like a Kiss
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Destroyer by mixed with Elton John and.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Fantastic Melody's great singing. Yeah, cool lyrics too. I'm sure
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: you can translate him somehow, so no, but I can
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: recommend them. They're really cool.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh that's wicked.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: And how about any do you still listen to any
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: heavy metal or melodic metal, death metal or anything like that?
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Absolutely? Yes, I do as well. I'm trying to think
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: that's always the topics question. Well, tribulations new album. I
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: really like like the new Catatonia songs that came out,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: the singles, trying to think if there's something that's really extreme.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I mean Storm of the Light, span By the Dissection
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: is always my go to album.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, always a close Ye.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Nice and your music has been described as both nostalgic
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: and futuristic. How do you strike that balance between honoring
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: the past and sounding fresh.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: That's a very good question. I'm not quite sure what
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: it is we're doing, but but I think we're only
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: connected to to sort of childhood memories, but that it
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: needs to be sort of in the now. You know
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: that it needs to it needs to be sort of
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: like a timeless expression, you know, Yes, and that's that's
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: a tough balance, you know, but but I think I
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: think usually we find an expression that sounds refreshing. And
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I mean some somebody once said I can't remember who,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: but it's like bringing you back to bringing you back
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: to tomorrow. That's how they describe our music. And I
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: think it's a.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: That's such a good ques.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sounds quite pretentious maybe, but I think it describes
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: it in a really good way.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: It does because, as you said before, something you said
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: before was that it's nostalgic, but you don't want it
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: to just purely just focus on nostalgic, want it to
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: be fresh.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: And it's like, yeah, it's a really good way to
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: put it.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's feeling a void, you know. I think that's important. Yeah.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And last question, You've played some incredible venues, but
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: if you could take the Night Flight Orchestra anywhere in
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: the universe for a concert, where would it be.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, there's many places we would love to play.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: The classic venue that Abba played in Melbourne, I can't
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: remember what it's called now, it's the outdoor venue. Yes,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: we were there visiting it last time, and that that
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: would be so cool. Go in the footsteps of Abba.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: But then, I mean Red Rocks in America would be fantastic.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden, I mean it's it's sort of like
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the classic places. Yeah, Royal Albert Hall, I mean OPA
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: has done them all, but yeah, yeah, no, but yeah,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: it's I think that would be a dream.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Oh beautiful and well one day I reckon, I can
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: see you guys playing there. Did you get to play
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: any of those with soil work? Madison Square?
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: No, we played the Apollo in London, the classic yeah,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: plays together with ourch enemy in Flames. We did that
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: in October. That's what a beautiful theater that is.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all these beautiful places to see.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: But we're so looking.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Forward to you guys coming here just at the end
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: of the month.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Actually, it's coming up really soon. Thank you you on
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: so much for your time today.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Thank you and thanks for the support.