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LAURA COX Ushers In A New Era With Trouble Coming · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: So I'm Laura Cox. I'm a French guitarist and singer
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  Speaker 1: and I've been playing guitar for almost twenty years now.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I'm really really happy to be touring now
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  Speaker 1: with my new album that just came out.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and congratulations on a new album. What does
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  Speaker 2: it represent to you personally? This album?
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  Speaker 1: I think everything because for the first time I recorded
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  Speaker 1: and wrote by myself. I wrote and composed by myself.
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  Speaker 1: With the previous albums it used to be more like
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  Speaker 1: a teamwork and for this new album, I decided to
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  Speaker 1: work with other people, friendship, producers and just yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: do everything by myself and that's why this album means
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  Speaker 1: more to me than the previous ones, I would say.
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  Speaker 1: And for the first time I didn't set any limits
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  Speaker 1: in terms of genres and styles and just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: focus on having fun on stage. I think this album
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  Speaker 1: is an ex used to go on stage.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, definitely. It does translate well live as well.
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  Speaker 2: It seems it sounds like an album that, as you said,
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  Speaker 2: you could just go out and play live.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the idea.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, wonderful. And you've called this album a new era.
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  Speaker 2: What changed for you creatively?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, yeah, working with different people and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: not setting myself any limits. And also I think it
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  Speaker 1: was kind of liberating to work this way. But I
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  Speaker 1: didn't lock myself in a studio in with the classic
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  Speaker 1: way you know of recording for two weeks like I
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  Speaker 1: used to do with my with my band for the
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  Speaker 1: previous albums. But I could record at my own pace.
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  Speaker 1: I think I did the recording within three months last year,
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  Speaker 1: and just I recorded a lot of takes at home,
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  Speaker 1: thinking it would it would just be demo takes, and
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  Speaker 1: in the end we ended up keeping them because the
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  Speaker 1: intention was was right. And and yeah, new era because
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  Speaker 1: the producers I worked with so it's a French rock
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  Speaker 1: band named No Money Kids, and they're kind of more
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  Speaker 1: electro rock electro rock band, and I wanted them to
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  Speaker 1: help me bring a new modern approach to my sound,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like don't not losing my blues rock roots,
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  Speaker 1: but make it more modern. And that's why I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to work with them, so that I don't know, my
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  Speaker 1: music could touch and speak to more people and not
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  Speaker 1: only musicians but anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely really pushed the boundaries with this album. I
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  Speaker 2: think trying out new styles with them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm really and for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: I think I enjoy listening to the album. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: new for me, because I usually it's hard to listen
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  Speaker 1: to yourself once it's done. You're always thinking, ah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I maybe this, this is not perfect, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: I should have done it differently.
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  Speaker 3: This time, I just accept.
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  Speaker 1: The albums as it is and and enjoy listening to
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  Speaker 1: it in my car, for example, or or on the
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  Speaker 1: on Spotify, or as if it was not me who
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  Speaker 1: recorded it. I can almost listen with a different perspective
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  Speaker 1: and and just enjoy the music and it feels good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's really interesting. Do you think it's like
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  Speaker 2: that because you did self producer?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe because I partnered with the with the different people,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, and my sound is different than with the
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  Speaker 1: previous albums. It almost feels like it's it's not me,
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  Speaker 1: but it's me, and I'm and I'm happy with the result.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm really happy with the results.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so cool. And do you think for albums
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  Speaker 2: to come that you will self produce again?
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  Speaker 1: I so it wasn't really it was I wrote and
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  Speaker 1: composed by myself, but I had producers, so it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: really self produced, but it's just that it wasn't made
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  Speaker 1: with the same people as A as A previously. But
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna do it the same way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for for the for the next albums. I really want
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  Speaker 1: this freedom of writing, of doing it at my own
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  Speaker 1: pace at home and uh and also in the producer's studio.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it was just back and I just went
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  Speaker 1: back and forth between my house and there studio for
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  Speaker 1: maybe three months, and we did it really in a
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  Speaker 1: smooth and fluid process, and that what felt good. It's
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't really have the feeling that I was
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  Speaker 1: recording an album, and usually I'm stressed and it's a
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  Speaker 1: I can feel the pressure and everything. But but this
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  Speaker 1: time it was really simple to do. And I think
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  Speaker 1: if it if it feels easy.
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  Speaker 3: It's the right solution.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it has to be complicated every every
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  Speaker 1: time for for it to be good. I like how
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  Speaker 1: it went and I think it's going to be hard
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  Speaker 1: to go back to something else after this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and three months is to me it sounds
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  Speaker 2: awfully quick to make something to make an album.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry no, but I yeah, it depends.
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  Speaker 3: It depends how you see it.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I would say because I started composing before this,
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  Speaker 1: but the recording process and the and the work with
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  Speaker 1: the producers, yeah, it was over maybe three months. But
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  Speaker 1: usually with the with my previous experiences in the studio,
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  Speaker 1: we we yeah, we usually had maybe two weeks in
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  Speaker 1: the studio to record the album. And this felt very,
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  Speaker 1: very stressful, and because it was not a long time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we we just had two weeks and the.
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  Speaker 3: Album had to be done. And so yeah, I wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't in the best conditions for the previous albums,
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  Speaker 1: but for this one, yes, not being pressurized with the
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  Speaker 1: timing felt really good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Okay, so maybe then three months isn't actually
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  Speaker 2: a long time time to relax. Was there a song
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  Speaker 2: that really challenged you on this album to make?
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  Speaker 1: I would say, maybe, no, need to try harder, because
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  Speaker 1: the first version didn't really look like the final one.
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  Speaker 1: I came up to the producers with a demo and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't really like what I found the guitar parts
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  Speaker 1: on the intro and the versus, and they told me, okay, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's too old school. We're gonna make it more modern.
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  Speaker 1: So they just put a guitar between my hands with
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  Speaker 1: a special tuning and open tuning and a bottleneck, and
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  Speaker 1: they told me, Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Find something.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't like working this way, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: kind of improvising when I'm recording. I like being alone
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  Speaker 1: at home, taking my time to find the best ideas
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  Speaker 1: and the parts and riffs. And I was recording and
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  Speaker 1: I thought I already had the right parts, but they just.
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  Speaker 3: They just, you know, like told me find something.
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  Speaker 1: Else, and they put the backing track backing track on
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  Speaker 1: the loop and I just I just played over and
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  Speaker 1: over again until I had the right parts, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But this was a this was kind of out of
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  Speaker 1: my comfort zone, but it was a it was a challenge,
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  Speaker 1: but it worked in the.
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  Speaker 2: End, paid off in the end, definitely. Yeah. And from
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  Speaker 2: YouTube to festival stages, how do you see that journey? Now?
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  Speaker 1: I think that a lot of people who start on
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  Speaker 1: YouTube just want to stay on YouTube day. They won't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily necessarily.
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  Speaker 3: Build a band and go on tour.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe that's two different profiles, but I know for me,
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  Speaker 1: this wasn't the case. And I really wanted to this
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  Speaker 1: further further than YouTube. For me, it was a good
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  Speaker 1: starting point, and it helped me building my my my
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  Speaker 1: musical career, building my band and find it. Sure had
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  Speaker 1: a role to to find my record label, my management,
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  Speaker 1: my my booker. So YouTube was a big help. But
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  Speaker 1: for me, it's not the Yeah, it's not the most
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  Speaker 1: important thing for me. The real thing is real life,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being on tour, talking with people after the shows,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know, connecting with people, and if you
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  Speaker 1: stay online, it's hard to really connect. So I think
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  Speaker 1: music is meant to be shared for real, not just online.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a good uh yeah, it's a good starting point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. It sounds like YouTube was really the
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  Speaker 2: launch pad to get out into the world and sad
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  Speaker 2: your music.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, Sorry if I don't have the
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  Speaker 1: right words, I just.
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  Speaker 3: Friends, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely, it's fine. And can you tell us a little
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  Speaker 2: bit about the collaboration that shaped this new sound on
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  Speaker 2: this album.
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  Speaker 1: So at the time I started writing the new songs,
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  Speaker 1: my manager asked me, Okay, what do you hear.
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  Speaker 3: For the new songs? Do you want to record with
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  Speaker 3: other people? What do you want?
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  Speaker 1: And at that time I just knew that I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to do the same that I already did for
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  Speaker 1: the previous albums. I wanted to try something new. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to meet new people. And I remember I was
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  Speaker 1: spending a lot of time in my car and listening
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  Speaker 1: to the radio and there was this band called No
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  Speaker 1: Many Kids. They're like the French Black Keys, and they're
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  Speaker 1: kind of yeah electro rock, and I thought, I told
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  Speaker 1: my manager I would love to work with them, just
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  Speaker 1: to see if something could work from this collaboration, like
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  Speaker 1: between my blues rock roots and their modern approach to music,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we could find something that would be I don't know, fun,
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  Speaker 1: too fun to work on. And uh, and she said, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna try to contact them, and she
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  Speaker 1: put me in touch with them and we met and
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  Speaker 1: uh and yeah, the we we had a good feeling
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  Speaker 1: together and we decided to work together.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm really happy with this new collaboration because that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what I wanted, not not to lose my roots
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  Speaker 1: but have a more more modern tone. And uh and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really really happy with this collaboration.
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  Speaker 2: Was it a challenge for you to collaborate with them
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  Speaker 2: at all at any step of the way, or was
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  Speaker 2: everything kind of just asy and worked.
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  Speaker 1: I think before knowing them, I was a bit scared
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  Speaker 1: to go out of my comfort zone and work with
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  Speaker 1: new people because I never did this before. But once
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  Speaker 1: we were in the process, I felt like it was
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  Speaker 1: really easy and really smooth and fluid, and uh and.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it felt really natural.
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  Speaker 1: So I was kind of reassured and uh and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, if it, if it feels natural, it was
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  Speaker 1: the best.
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  Speaker 3: It was a good thing to do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, you're phenomenal at guitar. What came first
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  Speaker 2: for you? Was it guitar or was it singing? Because
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  Speaker 2: you're great at both, but what for you?
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  Speaker 1: So it was guitar first. But I always kind of sang,
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  Speaker 1: but not really. It was singing without singing, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I was kind of yeah, you know, singing in a shower, singing,
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  Speaker 1: singing when I was alone at home. And but then
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  Speaker 1: guitar was the first serious thing that I that I
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  Speaker 1: motivated myself doing and learning. And then once I got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of you know, a lot of views and
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  Speaker 1: a good feedback on YouTube and that I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: start my band, I thought, okay, so the band is
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  Speaker 1: going to I mean, this is going to be my
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  Speaker 1: project and I think I thought it was a good
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  Speaker 1: thing if I could, if I was able to sing,
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  Speaker 1: to to be able to do both.
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  Speaker 3: And it was a.
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  Speaker 1: Challenge for me to kind of be able to sing
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  Speaker 1: while playing the guitar, even though singing was not really
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  Speaker 1: my thing at the beginning, and even though I was
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  Speaker 1: kind of introverted and on stage, I think I felt better, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being like a side side woman and uh
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  Speaker 1: and playing for someone instead of being the front woman
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  Speaker 1: in the band and playing and singing. So it was
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  Speaker 1: not really natural at first because I was kind of
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  Speaker 1: introverted and I couldn't really I didn't really know what.
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  Speaker 3: To do with my body on stage.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, yeah, it took time, maybe yeah, several years
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  Speaker 1: of touring before being comfortable with this. But in the end,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really happy I made this decision because I feel
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  Speaker 1: more and more comfortable on stage. And yeah, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: say stage is my home, but almost.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I think it must have been really tough
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  Speaker 2: to not only learn an instrument or just singed, but
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  Speaker 2: to do both of them at the same time. As
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  Speaker 2: you said, that must have been quite a challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's but I mean, if you just
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  Speaker 1: take time to rehearse slowly everything, and yeah, you can
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  Speaker 1: coordinate everything. But for me, the challenge was more to
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  Speaker 1: tell myself, Okay, if I'm the singer, I have to
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  Speaker 1: be like you're in the front of the stage, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm going to be like a firsting, first person
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  Speaker 1: the people are gonna see on stage. So for me
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  Speaker 1: this was more the challenge. When I decided to seeing,
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  Speaker 1: it meant that I would be the front woman. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: oh well.
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  Speaker 2: And do you still get a little bit of anxiety
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  Speaker 2: when you perform or not? Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it depends on the context and the different venues.
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  Speaker 1: But for example, I think when I'm with my when
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  Speaker 1: I'm with my band on stage, for when we are
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  Speaker 1: playing festivals, big festivals or small clubs.
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  Speaker 3: Now, it's okay, I.
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  Speaker 1: Can manage the the stress and the small anxiety.
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  Speaker 3: But what I like the.
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  Speaker 1: Least is like playing a little you know, acoustic showcase
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  Speaker 1: when I'm on my own, because that's not really what
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  Speaker 1: my music is meant to be played, I think, and
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  Speaker 1: yet it's stressful when I'm not surrounded with my band.
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  Speaker 1: I would say, like a like a recordings on my
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  Speaker 1: own or things like this, like a little acoustic showcases
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  Speaker 1: are not my thing now, but I think I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: I still have to work on this.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's totally understandable. I totally understand what you mean.
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  Speaker 2: It's you'd feel better, I think having people around you
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  Speaker 2: rather than just the show focusing on just you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And when writing, do you start with a riff, lyric
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  Speaker 2: or an emotion?
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  Speaker 1: I used to start with a riff or at least
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  Speaker 1: a guitar part, you know, sometimes even a solo or
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  Speaker 1: a riff. But for this album, what was different is
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  Speaker 1: that most of the time, the guitar and the melody
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  Speaker 1: of the vocals came up together in my head. Like
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  Speaker 1: I often had a chord progression plus a vocal melody
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  Speaker 1: that led to the chorus for this new album, so
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  Speaker 1: I used to organize the songs around the guitar parts,
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  Speaker 1: and now it's not really the case anymore. I have
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  Speaker 1: both coming in my head at the same time, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a it's more fluid this way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's insane. That's does that get to track?
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  Speaker 2: Hard to put it down, hard to get those ideas
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  Speaker 2: down on paper, or.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, this way it's more easy, I would say, because
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  Speaker 1: with the previous albums, I used to be stuck a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the time, you know, with a kind of
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  Speaker 1: finished instrumental track and not knowing what to talk about
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  Speaker 1: or what to do with the vocals. But this time,
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  Speaker 1: as I came up with the the vocals and the
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  Speaker 1: guitar at the same time, I yeah, there was not
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  Speaker 1: really a stuck moment. Or this album was really easy
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  Speaker 1: to write. I don't know why, Maybe because I worked
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  Speaker 1: with other people, or maybe because yeah, I felt like
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  Speaker 1: I was more free it was, yeah, and that I
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  Speaker 1: worked a lot from home and recorded a lot from
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  Speaker 1: home to I think this album I could just let
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  Speaker 1: go and and it made me compose and write really easily.
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  Speaker 3: So it felt really good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. And what artists are inspiring you at
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  Speaker 2: the moment?
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  Speaker 1: I think for this album, I tried to detach from
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  Speaker 1: my influences and that's why maybe it was easy to write.
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  Speaker 1: But at the moment, I'm listening to more modern music
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  Speaker 1: than you know. When I started playing the guitar, I
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  Speaker 1: was really into the classic rock bands like The Guns
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  Speaker 1: and Roses, AC DC, Die Straits, and I think I
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  Speaker 1: am now I'm more motivated and uh and UH influenced
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  Speaker 1: by new bands like I don't know, I would say
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  Speaker 1: font NDC, Rivers, Sons.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, lacking po, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: The new the new generation you know of of rockers,
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's really motivating to know that there's
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  Speaker 1: a new scene, a new rock scene, and uh and
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  Speaker 1: Rocky Rocky is not dead. So I think my influences
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  Speaker 1: and my inspirations are more coming from the new the
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  Speaker 1: new scene, the new rock scene.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. You don't often hear that with artists.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, sometimes you do, they'll have, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: few more modern ones, but most of the time I
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  Speaker 2: hear that it's a lot of the oldest stuff. But
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  Speaker 2: that's really cool that you're taking inspiration for more newer artists.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, because I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I want to face the future and uh, maybe I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna change my mind for the next album, but but
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  Speaker 1: for this album, I don't know. I I like your
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  Speaker 1: knowing and going to shows and see what's what's happening
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  Speaker 1: right now, and uh, and I love the the the
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  Speaker 1: old bands, but I think at some point they I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, they're gonna They're gonna die.
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  Speaker 3: That's sad, But I don't know. I want.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's it's good to support the new rock scene,
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  Speaker 1: just to be sure we we have bands for the
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  Speaker 1: next generation. It's it feels comforting and it feels exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, definitely I love that. And what can fans
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  Speaker 2: expect from your new live shows?
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  Speaker 1: A lot of new songs, for sure, because I'm really
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  Speaker 1: excited to be playing them on stage because for me,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: like I said, the the album was really made to
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: be played on stage. So yeah, a lot of a
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: lot of new songs, some old songs too, and uh
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: and yeah, just just fun, just letting go, just connecting
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: with the the audience. But but yeah, really really excited too.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Well reheard sing at the moment with the band to
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: to be ready for the tour next year, but really
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: looking forward to playing the new songs.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Wicked And how is rehearsals going? Is everything coming together?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: But what's tricky is that it's that for the first
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: time I'm so I have the musicians I'm playing on
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  Speaker 1: stage with live are not the ones who recorded the album,
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  Speaker 1: so they have to kind of find their their plays
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: on the songs and their their sound and uh and yeah,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: sometimes we have to rearrange some some parts of the songs,
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  Speaker 1: so so that's kind of challenging, but it's going well.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: And uh and I can't wait to be playing.
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  Speaker 2: This wonderful And how does it feel to connect with
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: fans worldwide who follow you for years?
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  Speaker 1: So it feels good to see that there's a fan
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  Speaker 1: base that's always here for me, and uh, that that
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: was here from the beginning and that's still sticking to
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: to my music, even though there's evolution musically speaking, and
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: uh and I wasn't sure if this album would if
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: the fan the fans for from the beginning would like
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: this new album, but apparently they do, so I'm really
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: happy about this. But what's exciting is that I'm seeing
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: more and more women and children in the in the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: audience when we're playing. And that's really exciting because I really.
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  Speaker 3: Want more, yeah, more women.
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  Speaker 1: More young people to come and to discover this kind
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: of music that's made maybe initially you yeah, I, I
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know. You you expect that you expect that
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: rock is maybe more for a men or it's a
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: it's a men world, you know. But it feels really
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: really good to see the fan baser evolving.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it means that also you're touching generations as
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: you're saying, like the women and children like that's going down,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: that's that's really beautiful. Yeah, yeah, yeah, wonderful. And what's
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: your dream lineup? Who's on stage with you? And what
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: song are you playing?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Good question.
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  Speaker 3: I would say Lizzie Hale on the vocals.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I would say I would be the guitar on the
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: guitar because I would be.
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  Speaker 3: Here on stage with them.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Steven Adler from The Guns and Roses on the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: drums and on the bass, I would say Mike Durrant
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: from Green Day And yeah, maybe the band is a
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: bit weird this way, but I think it would be
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that that sounds wicked, and I hope one day
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: that some of that could happen. Maybe. Oh that's really awesome.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: And do you still get that huge rush stepping out
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: onto those big festival stages or does it feel different
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: now for you?
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, big festivals are always something I try not to
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: be too stressed because it doesn't bring anything good on stage.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: But but yeah, big festivals are what I'm waiting for
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: for every year. And and so I I my new
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: album just came out, So I think we're gonna have
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: a nice summer next to next summer, so I'm really
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: looking forward to to this. But but yeah, I think
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I'm not really stressed anymore, but I feel it feels different.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: The big, big, big stages, big festivals. It's always a
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: something really really different, you know, and yeah, really really
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: special for us.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: And what's the most unforgettable thing you've seen from the
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: stage at a big festival.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I think I saw, you know, I'm sure you know
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: them because they're Australian, but Airborne the Joel Okifa, the
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: singer and guitarist from Airborne, climb the you.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Know, the stage. I don't know how to call this, but.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: The the kind of towers that you have on on
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  Speaker 1: the on the sides of the stage and climb this
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: without being attached or any thing, with this guitar on
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  Speaker 1: the back and just completely drunk, I think, but climb
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: those towers but really really high and it's really dangerous
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and I think I saw I saw him doing this
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: several times, but I think he stopped. Now. But do
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: some festival just cut the electricity and the power because
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: they were afraid that he was going to die and
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: the insurance was not covering this. I guess, but but yeah, yeah,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I saw this on big festivals that the festival just
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: cut the power because they didn't want him to go up.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: But yeah, he's crazy.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Do you think you'd do anything like that ever?
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: If I'm drunk, I couldn't do anything, I guess, but yeah,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be I don't think I'm as a talented
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: as him too, with the stunt abilities.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: You know, that's crazy, oh dear. And last question, is
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: there any plans to tour Australia.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: I would love to, I don't.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: We just changed our French booker that and they have
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: more can actions worldwide, so I'm really hoping that maybe
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: next year we can we can tour Australia, but we'll see.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: For now, we we have a tour planned in Europe,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: like mostly France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the UK. But yeah,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I'm still waiting for Australia and maybe the US, but
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Oh wonderful, Laura, It's been such a pleasure. Thank you
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: so much for your time today.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Thanks a lot for having me