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GOOD THINGS, Good Times With JOSHUA ROBERTS From MAGNOLIA PARK · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  I can't keep I am. Joshua Roberts from the band Magnolia park shout out
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  to Good Things part for having me and it's gonna be a good time.
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  Hedful, Joshua, thanks for joining us tonight, brother m thank you for
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  having me. All my pleasure. So Magnolia Parker headed to Australia to perform
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  at the Good Things Festival, starting in Melbourne on December first, before hitting
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  Sydney and Brisbane over consecutive days. So I'd actually still a fair way off,
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  mate, but how you feel and it must be pretty exciting. It's
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  so exciting just to see that the lineup and be a part of this legendary
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  festival is amazing. It's amazing. It also features a host of other bands
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  including Fallout Boy, Limp, Biscuit, Are Prevailable of My Balance, sign
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  Corey Tyler, Supulture, Pennywise, You're good, go on all night Bright.
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  But who are you most looking forward to playing rhythm? Why? Oh
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  man? It's between Bila Boy and the Plot in You, just because both
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  bands are just so amazing, Like we played with us to Atlantic before and
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  we love watching them play, so it's gonna be awesome to see them again.
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  And I'm all awesome Paris. Paris is a fun band to watch,
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  So it's gonna be a lot of a lot of good times for us,
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  especially with the variety of the bands that are playing today. Well on the
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  festivals. Yeah, I wonder the beautiful things about festivals all this is there's
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  so many bands on the bill, and a lot of people catch up with
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  bands I guess that they never would have otherwise seen or heard of. For
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  the benefit of those going that haven't heard of Magnolia Park before, mate,
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  give us a bit of an introduction to the band and tell them what to
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  expect. All right, So, magnel It Park is a I won't like
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  to call us a hybrid pop punk style of band because we put so much
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  fusion and in different cultures and sounds and our music. We are very energetic.
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  We most of our songs are mainly about you know, like mental health
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  problems and like you know, being broke on a Tuesday, yea. So
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  so it definitely has a little bit of a little bit of everything in our
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  music, and I think that people would like it, I think, and
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  it would give us a chance and that you've been out here before. No,
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  no, no, this would be our first time in Australia. Yeah,
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  So what do you do with things like that? Man? Like do
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  you do? You do your homework and sort of find out what do you
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  expect and talk to people and see what you come into what he did coming
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  cold and just take it as it comes a little bit of both, Like
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  I don't want to do too much research around the areas and then be like,
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  all right, I want to see this. I want to see that.
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  I'd rather just like kind of be in the moment sometimes. But I've
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  definitely heard heard some good things about Australia and I can't wait to I can't
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  wait to experience it. And then just like just the culture alone and just
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  the environment. I'd love to be there. So what are you expecting from
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  us? Mate? Have you got in any expectations? Oh? Man,
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  No expectations. I want to keep I want to keep everything wide open to
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  all the possibilities, like every single possibility. If you can see any koalas
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  or kangaroos that I love it, But you know who else, Like on
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  the flip side of that, then what can we expect from you, my
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  friend? Oh? Oh man? Energy, A lot of energy, a
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  lot of a lot of running back and forth, a lot of a lot
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  of good times and good vibes just all all around. So you sort of
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  touch on this before we describe the band. But your music features an interesting
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  blend of hip hop, hard rock, pop, park alternity pop. There's
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  a lot of styles in there, mate, But how do you actually balance
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  all of those in the creative process? Like, how do you know if
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  you've got chick far with one thing or not another. I think for us
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  we just love to create and push the boundary as much as we can,
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  so whenever it comes to our sounds really a right cool. We have this
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  foundation, Let's see how far we could put this foundation without breaking the foundation.
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  So we kind of like go as far as you possibly can, and
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  then we're like, all right, school, this is it. This is
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  where, this is where the line starts right here. So it's a very
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  very fine line. But we love we love the balance on it pretty well.
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  And you released two EPs at once last Friday and Mooney and Solid,
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  so I'd haven't been out long man, But how's the earlier response being?
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  Been? Really good? Really good for both EPs. I feel like everyone
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  has a song that they've been lashing onto from both EPs, which is what
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  we wanted. So it's perfect a way how that's been coming out. The
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  two EPs differ musically, with Mooney to showcase in more of the rock metal
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  side of the band and Solid to feature and synthesizes and sort of poppy elements.
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  So what was the reason behind releasing them together rather than spacing them out.
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  I don't just to show that that, like all the stuff that we
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  have been working on, We've been working on something leading up to all of
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  this, and we wanted to showcase like the kind of yang and yang of
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  our of our musicale and musically and in talent and stuff like that. So
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  we want to be like, all right, cool, let's just about both
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  at the same time, and let's see what people like. Let's see let's
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  just get a really good feel for what people are wanting from Magnolia Park.
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  And now we mentioned it, the boy of them is sort of different a
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  little bit musically, Like which which stole would you say, Magnoli parks more
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  comfortable to which one comes easier to you? Which one do you have to
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  work at more? Oh? Man, I think it's hard. It's hard
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  because both both styles have a certain place in our hearts to say which when
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  fits more me personally, I love like just like the heavier style, I
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  get to like let Louis vocally a little bit more. But I think as
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  a band, I think we love that that trap beat element a lot whenever
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  it comes to creating. I was sort of touched on this way, but
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  I want to think lib right a little bit. Like the press release says
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  that the two EPs of Magnolia Park's way of showcasing the duality that exists within
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  themselves. Like how hard is that to do musically? Mate? Like,
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  you know, but everyone's got their own persona, their personality and stuff.
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  But you're you're trying to bring out those different sides through music. Is that
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  difficult? It can be. It can be very difficult. But I think
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  we've been making it work and managing. I mean, for we have we
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  have certain songs that like doesn't fit either side, and we end up either
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  like doing them as like some solo stuff, or we end up doing it
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  as like or just end up scrapping it, leaving it to leaving it on
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  the side. It's just more of what we love more. Basically, it's
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  like we have to like pick and choose but but we we kind of go
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  through it really well. Whenever it comes to just balancing it really aren't cool.
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  We have a list of songs we do t we we basically go through
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  the Tally method, who likes this? Like this, and then kind of
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  going that direction. So I prepared to the bean withd from the start.
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  How do these two EPs differ musically from your debut album Backs that came out
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  last year, ah Man so Baku's Revenge. I felt as if this is
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  more of a more of a pop punk like traditional style, a little bit
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  of track beat. I think with these we kind of took took the not
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  really extremist approach, but like we definitely made sure that we have a lot
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  going on in these sounds to make sure that people knew that, hey,
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  we were working on something even bigger than what we could have before. So
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  Good Things isn't until December, mate, So we've got a couple of months
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  between now and then. So what are you guys up to that period?
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  So in October we're doing a Helino tour in the US on the West coast,
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  let me probably dropping some more music who knows, and then just getting
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  ready for Good Things before we let you go. Mate. We started up
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  three news Spotify playlists through heavy so using your own songs, mate, give
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  me a song for each days. We've got one for to get the party
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  started. We've got one playlist help save your marriage, and one playlist that
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  could potentially end your marriage. Oh out of the three? Yeah? All
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  three? So one song of your own for each playlist? Oh man,
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  and I have to choose. Yeah, man, this is the your way
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  of providing your music. So the song that can potentially end your marriage is
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  definitely lve for sure. Uh a song that could save marriage? Unholy heart?
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  And then what was the first one? Again? I wanted to get
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  the party started. I want to get the party started. Bud love,
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  I'd like blood yeah, beautiful jo Sure all, thanks very much for your
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  time. I've been an absolute closure to getting to know. Magnolia Park will
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  be in Australia as part of Good Things Festival this December. But in the
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  meantime, brother, you take care and we'll see you out here. I
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  can't keep breathe. Let's see to Ry come alone. I just stuck it
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  compression down. Anytime now I can take it on your throat. You are
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  the one that replying, I broke in ways. It's like ice in my
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  head. I can't let this silence triend feelings, same basis, but I
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  can't keep breathe. Let see to try, know that I take breath,
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  trying to make gay you not even got the same day, and my body's
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  in the first day and no one think it. Says says that stay real
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  words like ye an. I can't rest this silence friend feelings, truss burnings.
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  I try keep breathe say to try, just to know that God take
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  breath. Nightfall stop tas can get day from the ones that Saturday can't,
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  the lost kids, the meets pretenct and he was he played on his fam
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  let me time to save Man, and my sky was the seeling and he
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  broke, and he broke that to see I take it, breathe, to
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  keep breathing, to try to take breath. He would be a