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FULL INTERVIEW: Jimmy Barnes · Toni, Jase & Sam - Breakfast Catchup

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  Speaker 1: Cultures will fifty years into it, you keep coming back,
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  Speaker 1: which we love. But what is it about it? What
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  Speaker 1: is the poll that keeps bringing you back every time?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, see opportunity to play music with with
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of guys that you know that that you
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  Speaker 2: know that my best friends, that I think that the
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  Speaker 2: music we make together is absolutely unique in the world.
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  Speaker 2: And and and it's one of those bands that every
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  Speaker 2: time we walk into a room together and start playing
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  Speaker 2: from the first chord, there's a magic that happens and
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  Speaker 2: it just sounds great. You know, it just sounds like
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  Speaker 2: nothing else I play. So you know, it's it's of
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  Speaker 2: doing that. It's it's also you know, the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: play a catalog of you know, incredible songs, you know,
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  Speaker 2: most of which were written by Don Iconic.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, it's really there's a lot of great ways.
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  Speaker 2: And and the other thing is, you know that connection
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  Speaker 2: that we have to to the Puntners. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: we Coultures are we sort of grew up in you know,
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  Speaker 2: other sixteen when I joined Cultures or we were we
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  Speaker 2: grew up in the public eye, and we grew up
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  Speaker 2: sort of with with our audios and we're sort of
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  Speaker 2: connected at the.
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  Speaker 1: Hip now, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And you talk about it being chili where you
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  Speaker 3: are now, but the prospect of coming here for a
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  Speaker 3: Kei we summer that must warm the cockles of your heart.
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  Speaker 1: That could be chilly as well. Don't judge us on
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  Speaker 1: our summers, true dad.
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  Speaker 3: But are you happy to be spending your time here
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  Speaker 3: in January?
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely? Absolutely?
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  Speaker 2: I mean New Zealand from you know, from for me
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  Speaker 2: personally and for the band, has always been a huge
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  Speaker 2: part of our history.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I remember playing Narawahi way back in the in the seventies,
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  Speaker 2: and and and and realizing at that moment that that
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  Speaker 2: this this country got us. You know, it was this
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  Speaker 2: festival and we were we were sort of strangers in
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  Speaker 2: a bit of a strange land. You know, we're not
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  Speaker 2: that different the Kiwis and the Aussies. But we got
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  Speaker 2: there and we're I think we were on the festival
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  Speaker 2: with Ultra Box and a whole bunch of other bands
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  Speaker 2: and stuff, and we just went and did what we
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  Speaker 2: do and I could see the audience. We like these
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  Speaker 2: guys and we are we immediately connected with an audience.
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  Speaker 2: And since that day, you know, I'll be I've been
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  Speaker 2: going back to I've been going back to New Zealand
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  Speaker 2: ever since, and I've always felt like part of the family.
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  Speaker 1: You are one of us. Yeah, it's a really great thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really happy to becoming. I'm really glad that we're
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  Speaker 2: bringing cultures are there because you fifty years you know,
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  Speaker 2: who knows if we get a chance to do this again.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it's just it's to celebrate that that
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  Speaker 2: marker with you guys, that would be amazing.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely Where are you now? Did you say you're in Scotland.
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  Speaker 2: No, in the southern Highlands and in south of Sydney where.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, different highlands.
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  Speaker 2: It's cold, it's just cold to Scotland.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, fair enough. That's a that's a hell of a
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  Speaker 4: bookshelf you've got behind you. Is that something you do?
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  Speaker 4: Are you a big reader? Is it read?
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  Speaker 2: I've read and right, well, I write books. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I've got a lot of stuff to read here.
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  Speaker 3: A lot.
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  Speaker 2: There's lots of you know, Robbie Burns and you know,
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  Speaker 2: all sorts of stuff up there, you know, So you know,
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  Speaker 2: I just you know, I like, you know, I read
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  Speaker 2: things and I get stimulated and then start writing.
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  Speaker 1: Just have your left shoulder. We can see fifty shades
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  Speaker 1: of great Jimmy, what's that about?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing to do with reading.
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  Speaker 1: It was meant to be the Locks party.
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  Speaker 2: You know what this funny thing is I've done. I've
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  Speaker 2: done over the years, and me and Jane have done
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  Speaker 2: lots of posts, you know, from this room, and it's
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  Speaker 2: it's our library basically, and people zoom in and and
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  Speaker 2: they'll zoom and the weirdest things will go, you know,
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  Speaker 2: up to the top corner and go. You've got you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whatever it is. You know, there's so feeler
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  Speaker 2: in history there, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And well, I've actually noticed you've still got a written
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  Speaker 3: encyclopedia when most people just go to Google these days.
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  Speaker 4: So I appreciate that, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I just I like books, and I like old books,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I've got a lot of old books in here,
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  Speaker 2: and uh and just these are just ones that I've
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  Speaker 2: collected over the years.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, they're really great.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's something about being in a room full
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  Speaker 2: of books that sort of just makes me feel relaxed
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  Speaker 2: and makes you feel comfortable, makes.
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  Speaker 4: You look really smart, very smart.
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  Speaker 2: You put.
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  Speaker 5: Now we're talking to a lawyer, so enclosing, Yeah, oh Jimmy,
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  Speaker 5: we can't wait. We always love catching up with you
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  Speaker 5: and so we can't wait to catch up beginning in January.
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  Speaker 5: So it's the Greenstone Summer Concert Tour. You've got Cultures
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  Speaker 5: of the Icons fifty years to get the celebrating that
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  Speaker 5: with Ice House, with Ever Clear, with people on the
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  Speaker 5: Queenstown Tope or fifty Young in January. Tickets are onself
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  Speaker 5: from midday to day and everything you need to know
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  Speaker 5: is on our website.
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  Speaker 1: Right now Coast online, dot co dot in Z.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we are really looking forward to coming down and
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  Speaker 2: thanks a lot guys.
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  Speaker 1: See Dan, then we're going to care the place apart.
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  Speaker 1: Yes you are.
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  Speaker 4: How good is it that you're with ice House as well?
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  Speaker 1: It's really great.
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  Speaker 2: I was a dear friend of it as we've been
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  Speaker 2: you know, we used to be managed by the same group,
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  Speaker 2: uh you know, through the through the late seventies and eighties,
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  Speaker 2: so we're dear old friends. I think the first film
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  Speaker 2: clip that ice Hos made was was filmed in my
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  Speaker 2: bedroom and the host in Paddington, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the walls.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was.
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  Speaker 4: We saw the lineup for the show and we were
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  Speaker 4: just like, oh my god, this is a this is
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  Speaker 4: a this is a concert.
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  Speaker 1: That we need to be well, you know, big big rungers.
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  Speaker 2: You know, she's a she's a bloody legend, you know
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  Speaker 2: at Fantastic Artists. We really pleased ever there. And I've
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  Speaker 2: actually I've seen ever Clear many years ago opening up
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  Speaker 2: for Silver Chair here and they were like a three
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  Speaker 2: piece hard rock band. I really liked and I loved,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Santa Monica.
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  Speaker 1: I love that record. That sounds incredible, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's really great to have. It's just you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you build a bill, when you want to do
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  Speaker 2: a show, it's from the moment people walk into the room.
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  Speaker 2: They want in the arena, they want them to have
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  Speaker 2: a great time. And uh and so you know, we
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  Speaker 2: we built this from the ground up and it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be awesome. Every single act is going to be great.