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The Big Show With Blindspott! · The Hauraki Big Show

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  Speaker 1: The Hauraki Big Show with Jase, Mike and Keezy. Tune
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  Speaker 1: in weekdays at 4 on Radio Hauraki.
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  Speaker 2: The Red Hot Chili Peppers on the Hauraki Big Show
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  Speaker 2: with Pugs and Mogi. And we've got our first big interview, Mogi.
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  Speaker 3: This is it.
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  Speaker 2: We've hit the big leagues with Aotearoa Music Royalty. We've
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  Speaker 2: got the fellas straight out of West Auckland. Blind Spot
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  Speaker 2: have joined us in the studio.
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  Speaker 3: How are you going, boys? How are you, boys? Good
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  Speaker 3: to be here. Thanks for having us. Thanks for coming in. Fellas, look,
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  Speaker 3: I've got a long history with you, but this is
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  Speaker 3: the first time I've chatted to you, Shelton. Damo, we
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  Speaker 3: know each other a little bit in other areas. The
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  Speaker 3: first time I came across you guys was I was
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  Speaker 3: hitchhiking from Levin. I'd just moved back from Australia. I'd
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  Speaker 3: spent about four and a half years there. Sorry about that.
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  Speaker 3: And I lived in Levin, so that's why I was there.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry about that as well, mate. So I was hitchhiking
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  Speaker 3: back and forth from Levin to Wellington. And I was
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  Speaker 3: in Ōtaki and I got picked up just outside Ōtaki
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  Speaker 3: and this woman was asking me, you know, what my
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  Speaker 3: background was and all this. I said, I've just moved
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  Speaker 3: back from Aussie. And she goes, oh, have you heard
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  Speaker 3: Blindspot before? And I said, no, this was 2003. Oh, wicked.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, no, I haven't heard it. And
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  Speaker 3: so she put on Blindspot for me and we listened
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  Speaker 3: to that for the duration of the ride. A hell
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  Speaker 3: of a time. She was a fantastic woman. Sounds like her.
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  Speaker 3: Great taste in music. A psychiatric nurse from Porirua. Strong
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  Speaker 3: as an ox she was. Hell of a lover. But
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  Speaker 3: 2003 is a big year for you guys. And then
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  Speaker 3: the follow-up album, Just as Massive. You know, I'd love
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  Speaker 3: to know what your experiences were back in those days
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  Speaker 3: because that was, I came back from Aussie and New
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  Speaker 3: Zealand music was just It was a good time, man.
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  Speaker 3: It had just gone through the stratosphere, right? Yeah, it
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  Speaker 3: was a wicked time.
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  Speaker 4: It was a bit of a golden era for New
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  Speaker 4: Zealand music, to be honest.
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  Speaker 3: And in every single genre. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: We had some really big bands, man, doing some really
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  Speaker 4: cool stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, our memories of that are pretty rough. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty blurry. We kind of hit it pretty hard. Sex, drugs,
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  Speaker 3: rock and roll, the whole deal. Absolutely. It was good times, though,
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  Speaker 3: I think. Yeah, man.
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  Speaker 5: I think the one thing that I think I'm most
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  Speaker 5: proud of is when you hear stories like that. regardless
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  Speaker 5: of the level of truth. No, is that like we
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  Speaker 5: earned the right for people to go, hey, you should
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  Speaker 5: check this band out? Oh, yeah. Because I remember what
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  Speaker 5: it took, man, when I found, like, listen, Fugazi and
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  Speaker 5: all those old bands, I'd be like, if you found
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  Speaker 5: something good, you wouldn't gatekeep, you'd share it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, 100%. It's cool to hear that, man. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: that was through all of our sort of upbringing as well,
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  Speaker 3: like through, I don't know what your guys' involvement was,
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  Speaker 3: but skateboarding, there was like, there was Lagwagon and Pennywise
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  Speaker 3: and there was just that skate punk sort of era
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  Speaker 3: and you, if you found something, that nobody else knew about,
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  Speaker 3: you couldn't wait to share it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Because, you know, it wasn't something that was being played
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  Speaker 3: necessarily on the radio.
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  Speaker 5: No, man, same with me for hip-hop, man. You know,
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  Speaker 5: there was early days run DMC and that, but when, like,
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  Speaker 5: Black Sheep turned up or Farside, like, that was that
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  Speaker 5: same era for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It was with Pennywise, but then there was... you know,
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  Speaker 5: and Rodney Mullen skating to like, I can't remember who
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  Speaker 5: it was.
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  Speaker 4: You'd find a lot of songs on those old skate
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  Speaker 4: vids and stuff like that. I remember Deftones coming out too,
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  Speaker 4: like the first album, Adrenaline. I was like, when I
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  Speaker 4: found that, I was like, what the hell? Like, it
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  Speaker 4: changed my life kind of thing, you know, as cliche
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  Speaker 4: as it sounds.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. And that's where you sort of found the music
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  Speaker 3: as well, right, was just like there might be even
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  Speaker 3: like on the skateboarding video games or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: And then you'd find that one tune and then it's like,
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  Speaker 3: holy shit, these guys have got three albums out. Now
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  Speaker 3: we get to go and deep dive on that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But those touring days must have been unreal. The big
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  Speaker 3: day outs.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, they were cool. We played our very first one.
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  Speaker 4: We got told to go on.
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  Speaker 3: We opened it.
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  Speaker 4: And we got told to go on stage and there.
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  Speaker 3: Was no crowd in front of us. I'm like, what
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  Speaker 3: do you mean?
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  Speaker 4: We were like, they were still queuing outside and we started.
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  Speaker 4: And then the sight to just watch them all pack
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  Speaker 4: in was so cool, man.
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  Speaker 3: Did you get on the Australian leagues with that as well?
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  Speaker 5: No, we never did, man, which was a real bummer
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  Speaker 5: because we did quite a bit of work in Aussie.
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  Speaker 5: But I don't know, maybe it just wasn't right at
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  Speaker 5: the time. But yeah, it would have been cool to
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  Speaker 5: do some of those tours because I know Scribe got
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  Speaker 5: on a few. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And that was like with him as well same era
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  Speaker 3: you guys would have been turning around with him completely
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  Speaker 3: changing the face like I remember being over in Aussie
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  Speaker 3: and he made Australian hip hop cool. Yeah. It was
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  Speaker 3: completely unacceptable in Australia to be a hip hop artist. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: We played on Big Day Out with him as his
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  Speaker 4: backing band.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And the New Zealand Music Awards, one of the early ones.
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  Speaker 5: It's on YouTube somewhere, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're trying to find that stuff. It's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: We're doing the backing music for a couple of Scribe
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  Speaker 4: tracks and stuff. So we had those relationships with all
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  Speaker 4: the hip hop guys, the Decepticons and Savage and all
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  Speaker 4: of that. That'll come and jump up on stage. We're
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  Speaker 4: really kind of like, clicking with that kind of cross
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  Speaker 4: genres and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. It's great.
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  Speaker 5: It's a great time. Again, skateboarding thing, man. We're open
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  Speaker 5: to all of it, you know? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, fellas, you've got a new tune that you're going
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  Speaker 2: to spin for us on the show today. Is there
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  Speaker 2: anything you want people to know before we play it?
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  Speaker 2: And then we'll come back and chat about it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I think, you know, like it's like anything, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we're kind of, I guess the sort of the meaning
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  Speaker 5: or the, you know, the intent behind the song is
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  Speaker 5: that you know, to be in a relationship, no matter
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  Speaker 5: what that relationship is, whether it's family or a girlfriend
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  Speaker 5: or a wife or a partner or whatever, like, to
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  Speaker 5: get somewhere good, you've got to kind of be resilient
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  Speaker 5: enough to get through all those small cuts and slices
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  Speaker 5: that can destroy some relationships. So I guess that's kind of,
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  Speaker 5: for me, where the name of the song came from, Stitches,
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  Speaker 5: is you've got to kind of sew it up and
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  Speaker 5: keep going, you know?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, totally.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's give it a rip.
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  Speaker 2: This is Blindspot Stitches of Radio Hauraki.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, g'day, Matt. Oh, hi, mate, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The Hauraki Big Show with Jase, Mike and Keezy. Tune
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  Speaker 1: in weekdays at 4 on Radio Hauraki.
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  Speaker 3: Tune, fellas.
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  Speaker 2: That is Blindspot Stitches. It's brand new on Radio Hauraki.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to The Big Show. We've got the boys
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  Speaker 2: from Blindspot in studio with us. Now, you were just
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  Speaker 2: telling me that people can't buy that song right now
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  Speaker 2: unless they get a ticket to your gig.
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  Speaker 6: They can't listen to it.
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  Speaker 3: It's not on Spotify yet.
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  Speaker 4: So the only way you can hear that song is
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  Speaker 4: at radio or if you buy a ticket to our
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  Speaker 4: show online.
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  Speaker 3: Power Station, November 7th.
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  Speaker 4: We'll send you a free download of the track. And
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  Speaker 4: then we're dropping it at streaming platforms October 23rd.
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  Speaker 3: Fantastic. Are you doing a wider, obviously a wider tour? Look,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to get this out of the way. When's
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  Speaker 3: the album? Oh, man. Come on, man. You're getting there.
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  Speaker 5: We're not far off, man.
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  Speaker 3: We had a session this morning. Not far off starting
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  Speaker 3: or finishing?
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  Speaker 5: Finishing.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, good.
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  Speaker 4: Six years in the making, man.
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  Speaker 3: It's taken a while.
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  Speaker 4: One more song to finish and then a couple more
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  Speaker 4: interludes and it's wrapped up.
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  Speaker 3: So we're trying. So if you need any interludes, fellas,
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  Speaker 3: you know, any chat in between the songs, in the
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  Speaker 3: songs like a Ben Stiller sort of thing or Flint Biscuit,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just shout out. That's what we're looking for.
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  Speaker 3: We can help you.
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  Speaker 2: Get old Mogi on it.
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  Speaker 3: It's called Volumes, isn't it, the new album? Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: It will be called Volumes, yeah. That's an interesting idea
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  Speaker 3: for a song as well when you're in a relationship.
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  Speaker 3: And how long have you been....
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  Speaker 5: You need to know this. I know we've been married
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  Speaker 5: for 22 years. Holy shit.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe 23.
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  Speaker 5: I think we've been together like 24. And I've had
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  Speaker 5: about 22 girlfriends in one year.
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  Speaker 3: You're missing some zeros there. So when you were right
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  Speaker 3: in the heart of things taking off, you got hitched. Yeah, yeah. Holy.
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  Speaker 5: You know, and yeah, did all the things.
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  Speaker 3: Far out.
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  Speaker 5: Did all the things Shelton wasn't doing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, night and day. Night and day.
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  Speaker 2: Are some of those stresses from that career taking off,
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  Speaker 2: some of those stitches you were talking about in the
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  Speaker 2: last tune, like the little things that you have to
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  Speaker 2: be able to heal from? Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, right. You know, I think it's that thing when
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  Speaker 5: you're young, you– every cut is the biggest cut you've
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  Speaker 5: ever had and you know it's like the world's ending
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  Speaker 5: and it's all over but as I guess you know
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  Speaker 5: with age and time and resilience you kind of get
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  Speaker 5: to the point where you're like you get pretty thick
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  Speaker 5: skinned you know and you realise that The good far
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  Speaker 5: outweighs any of the bad.
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  Speaker 3: And starting again is such a pain in the ass.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I've been giving this a lot of thought, but,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you have to chop it all in. Who's
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  Speaker 3: got the time, man? I'm moving to the bush. And
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  Speaker 3: then the other thing is that on the other side
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  Speaker 3: of all of that hard stuff is that you actually
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  Speaker 3: get stronger and you realise that you can get through
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  Speaker 3: the hard stuff. So whenever the tough stuff comes along,
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  Speaker 3: it's like, well, we've sort of, you know, we've been
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  Speaker 3: through this so we can get through it again.
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  Speaker 5: Well, when you're younger, it feels terminal, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It's all over. It's all done. But if you can
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  Speaker 5: kind of, you know, and probably it's a credit to
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  Speaker 5: my wife's patience, probably.
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  Speaker 3: How many times have you slammed a door and stomped
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  Speaker 3: down a driveway there, Damo?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, many, many.
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  Speaker 3: I used to come and stay at my house a
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  Speaker 3: few times back in the day.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that is what I stayed at my dad's, you know.
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  Speaker 5: But that's the thing. But that was, much of that
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  Speaker 5: was on me, man. Oh, I know.
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  Speaker 2: Not on you.
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  Speaker 3: I know. But how childish you can be as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And it always is. Like, my missus is, you know,
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  Speaker 3: 10 years younger than me, but 20 years more mature.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I eventually come around to a way of thinking and
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  Speaker 3: it's infuriating. Yeah. But with the sound of the new album,
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  Speaker 3: what I love about that single was instantly recognisable as Blindspot. Wicked.
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  Speaker 3: What I kind of have an issue with, and I
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  Speaker 3: respect every artist's right to mature over the period of
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  Speaker 3: their lives, it's just a shame that sometimes I have
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  Speaker 3: to listen to it. So an example would be the
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  Speaker 3: last couple of Arctic Monkey albums.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Which to me feel like they should be solo albums.
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  Speaker 3: But is that something that's important to you guys or
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  Speaker 3: does it just come naturally, this is what we sound like?
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  Speaker 3: Or do you rope each other in?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think because there was a good break for
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  Speaker 4: a while where we broke up and went off into
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  Speaker 4: different things. So it kind of felt like we didn't
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  Speaker 4: finish our story. So we didn't kind of sit there
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  Speaker 4: and pour out all these bunch of different albums. We
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  Speaker 4: went through a lot of like, I guess, almost heartbreak
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  Speaker 4: as well, being away from each other and the stuff
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  Speaker 4: we put.
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  Speaker 3: Each other through for all of that.
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  Speaker 4: So we had stuff and stories to tell through that too,
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  Speaker 4: and we still are, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: I remember commenting on the Facebook post back in the
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  Speaker 3: breakup days. I was involved, man. Yeah, yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 3: Wanted you guys to sort it out, man. It was
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  Speaker 3: really sad. Yeah, yeah, totally. Well, it's awesome to have
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  Speaker 3: you back together. I'm stoked that you got the single
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  Speaker 3: out and on the verge of an album. Hurry up
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  Speaker 3: and get it out this summer, would you? Let's go. Fellas,
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  Speaker 3: thank you so much for coming in. Thanks a lot, guys.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to have a hoon on that tune again,
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  Speaker 2: we do have it up at horeki.co.nz. But for tickets
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  Speaker 2: to your gig, I can see them at AAA Ticketing.
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  Speaker 3: Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: That's correct. Yeah, perfect for that show there, the release party.
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  Speaker 3: Fellas, thank you again. Cheers, guys. Thanks a lot. Awesome.
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  Speaker 5: Cheers.