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Backstage At KICKASS FESTIVAL With MARK GABLE From THE CHOIRBOYS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  We're like, thank you past vessel for having this day, very clost to
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  give you the day, and we've got the sensation like I was joining us.
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  Now here's the lie. I've already met them before, but we pretend
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  that we do it again. Okay, it's so big the meeting. If
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  that's right, We're no photography correct me. I'm going to get up to
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  ring control of the buttons here, so I have to chose. I'm sorry,
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  shop, this isn't going to be a very serious, so you can
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  take the days off. I want to talk for politics and religion and financial
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  amountage. That's better. That's heavy that you guys are actually a later distant
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  pick Ganga jan corn outline have been, well, you have to remember that
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  we are in the entertainment and you know, like if the Beatles war would
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  all go and then we would walk in after and we would be in,
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  they wouldn't even wouldn't. I don't know what I'm saying, just it makes
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  sense. Well you know it be we're way better than gang Jene take your
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  gang, your genie in the already, that's right, absolutely, because we
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  can replace something. They are friends of mine and I hope they're reason for
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  not being here. It's not you know, that's right to present what smart
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  obviously smarter than me at the moment. What time is If it's afternoon,
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  that's when I getting on the smart smart. So anyway, I think you
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  guys have been done that with pretty much everything around the world, best the
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  wise. So watch us to have something like you because it's weird and unusual,
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  different from the town is beautiful and abstract and it's like out of the
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  world. And let's face it, I hate Sidney. I love I even
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  love Melbourne, and I hate Sidney because I grew up there and when it
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  was beautiful and when it got into the nineties, everybody thought about money.
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  It is reportedly the tenth most expensive city to live in the world. Let's
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  forget city and let's talk about it. Sounds worth that time I heard about
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  it before this week he was some band calldn't build it and we were asked
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  to build it. And so that's what I heard about it that I did
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  go to street you and Google and have a look at go okay, way
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  to go in That looks bloody cool. That's plus. Actually, ever thought
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  you're like wanted repet we already made that joke where we arrived? What's a
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  part? Hang on? What's a piecross? Okay? Anyway, so you
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  know, like it was some joke. Does anybody remember the Poe costs joke?
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  Anyway? Come on in, Hey Jude, I've already shun it to
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  I don't want to finish her in. Yeah, I can't remember. A
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  guy was The guy was walking, you know, he was pushing a trolley
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  down the road and it got away from him and it hit somebody else and
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  the guy goes, you know, what the hell was that? He goes,
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  there was a pie Copts And he goes, what's a pie cops?
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  He goes, two dollars fifty? Aren't you now? It's four dollars fifteen
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  if you're lucky? Yeah, maybe seven. Yeah. I hate Sittney.
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  I don't live that. I don't know. I grew up there. So
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  The choir Boys aka yourself Mark have been a staple of the Aussian music diet
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  since in late seventies. What is a poor memory? View? That just
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  sticks out every time you think back ob your career. When when you ask
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  that, a lot of people ask that question. I think about when we
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  supported New Night or at Selene. It was Kugubay Hotel, which is an
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  amusing type. And you know, back in the eighties time, I've never
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  seen anything like you know, back then, right when bands performed a vand
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  like Midnight or were astonishing right in front of the rewarding the Australian Ladas.
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  Then a couple of years later I saw them at Madison Square Garden. Wasn't
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  the same way. Yeah, I really laid the volgame should be wearing a
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  skirt, so you know, but that night I've been alike and the intensity
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  of it was just just amazing. Yeah, that was a good question.
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  Yes, if you could revive and relive any era, if you could go
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  back there two days, when would it be sitting there? You know.
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  One I don't really want to revive in you because I wouldn't like it.
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  Now I'm an internet and a check and I you know, we do live
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  streaming from my studio and I enjoy them. But I guess if I were
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  to go back, I'd have to go back to not just the era,
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  but the location because I grew up on the Northern Beaches. Sorry about that.
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  I can't help it. It's like a trick now it's out a chicken
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  the Noll, the beaches in the sevenies amazing. There was no pressure.
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  I don't remember anybody thinking about money. Everybody had cheap cars and houses would
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  cheat. Life is simple and women were treated like people. Believe it or
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  not. It was amazing. Yeah that didn't happen. Yeah, they did
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  happen. They didn't have to. They didn't. They didn't have to go
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  down the beach with things up their bums, so the so their bums were
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  hanging out, none of that, you know, it was just you and
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  managed to wear speedos. So then we're to see what they're going to get.
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  So it's so it was there was a I don't know. It was
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  just simple. And so if I was going to say that i'd go back
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  in back to the seventh I wouldn't want to be there for long. So
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  I'm really enjoying now as well. You know, it's like, you know,
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  get getting on, you know, watching YouTube shorts, you know Netflix.
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  You know, I'm watching Tom Cruise a lot. It's cool, mate,
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  It's weird. What a religious strange word to the scientology or anything like
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  that. I'm just yeah, yeah it doesn't. I could tell you a
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  story, but I want thank you. I want to hear it. It
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  happened today or rider, and I haven't asked him permission. Now I will
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  come. I'll tell you the story, but I'll leave the individual. This
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  is the individual out of it. But it was her mother and she.
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  You know, they were ever party because the mother's daughter had done something special
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  and Dale, right, if you don't know Boom crash opera singer, you
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  know, the mother said let's go to the talk so they wouldn't have a
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  talk, and she's she's a scientologist. And when okay, say wanted another
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  room, talked for twenty minutes and at the end of it, she wrote
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  an invoice for one hundred and fifty dollars And I was like, I was
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  like flabbergaster because I said, Dale, did you payly? Go here?
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  And I didn't, you know, I didn't want to care receive what.
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  It's not about raw, It's just me. But I'm not too I don't
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  know. I have an over mind. I have no beliefs. That isn't
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  it good when someone you do that? How good is it that that's wise?
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  But I think about him jumping from the captain, Yeah, that was
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  uncomfortable than marks a lot. That's over there's so much he loves Sydney.
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  Next, excuse me, what about YouTube? I'm leaving. Hey, you
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  love it to make, don't y nome dude? So remember let anyway when
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  you fi Okay, I'm a woman. I know we're not doing that.
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  Listen, you gotta stole where I was going with the next one. But
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  setting the scene, we are in the seventies in your beloved Sydney. What
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  are you doing on the typical weekend? What what were you guys up to?
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  Well, I used to live at Clever and I used to have a
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  full trap chake. So we come up there and do demos, and we
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  do demos back in the rehearsal studio that we had, remember over on sure
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  somewhere. Yeah, and so we do demos and it's some shining all the
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  time. It never happened, right, It was never too hot. It
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  was just I used to have a mini moke and so yeah, and then
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  we do demos and I gave it to herm COVID drama from TMG, and
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  he gave it to George Young and Harry Vander of album's production. And then
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  George called me up said yes, and this is on the on one of
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  the phones. Yeah, it's charge. Yeah, I love what you're getting
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  together this chat. So that's how the start. Yeah, so there you
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  go. That's and that wasn't a question, but that's what we used to
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  do on our weekends. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yes, And
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  you got to remember it was like, you know, well really we started
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  mid seventies, played seventies. It was like Cultures or the Angels and you
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  know, somebody said to me, once again Culture Angels do a gig and
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  they got eleven thousand dollars. Wowiest of it was amazing. So you had
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  all these bands coming was in critical time watch. But I'd have to point
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  out now there are more Australian acts breaking overseas and working when they ever had
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  the course of the internet. The we are they writing any good times?
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  Are they? I'm asking the question absolutely, thank you? Absolutely yeah yes,
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  actually yeah was he music under So I just dropped the F bomb?
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  Sorry man, sorry about that. The City Deadney anyway, So anyway,
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  you've played the best and the worst of Australia. Surely you've been in every
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  milk and Branny and played every where's your Where's your veal? And you love
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  where other than today ran cattle work. Cattle work every day. Yeah,
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  it's like I love doing the festivals, right, everybody comes along. So
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  I'm actually over pubs. Pubs a death and I actually Jim Freedman from the
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  Win I saw him at the awards and I go, I mean because of
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  the pokes chrime, we know about pub gets that we have had a cup
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  of sleep said yeah, there was an error and error so I said,
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  and he goes, that's a little extraordinarys We go, no, you've extreme
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  extraordinary. Well love, I've got to blow poke sh love it. Hey
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  it was from a mounta tambourine, the little pub there being a dragon because
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  I don't have pokes and they support five years now. There's a lot of
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  a lot of places that are doing that and they're doing great business because you
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  go to pubs right and they go they've got like a gambling section and it's
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  edy social down the game. Yeah, like up with pets and fluffing up.
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  Wow a that I can tell. I know, I can smell.
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  Oh that's not good. That is not good. That's much better. He
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  actually bought fresh jobs for this weekend. So why did he buy only three?
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  This is a question to be determined. I actually don't bother letting me
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  know I'm not interested. I will make my life mission to pick welcome music
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  question. Australia changed well, as I said, what you used to go
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  to the pubs and it was a social event, you know. And we
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  will be a poster from Springford which is a gig in King Squats Famous and
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  there it is Monday Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday from Monday River required by as you're
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  in there like and this is what we used to young people who used to
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  go to live and used the watch live bands writing singing songs that they've written
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  themselves. This is amazing trend. It's incredible. These bands were expressing its
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  and this is a choice. It's not like, oh let's go and just
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  do Eagles and everybody. They just started writing so their environment, their lives
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  and it's you know Midnight Island, excess costs, incredibles, it's change,
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  pressing ones change. So my music scene is triggering bands and d and all
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  covering Dave Dave Gleeson I a cover guy in Brisbane when Stol's guitar and I
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  were Pialy. He wasn't doing well and David Dave Telly. I wonder if
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  you ever played again after that? Pretty drunks. Let's now next question.
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  Yeah, okay, how have you ticulous me more than what I want to
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  be? Yeah? Here's the problem I have to bring that up is because
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  you are perfect the way you are, and you are perfect where you were.
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  Be a man, a man. Yeah, stop this woman ship.
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  I think I should be a man. I'm gonna have qualified for a bloke.
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  Actually being a man as much easier. I have all the redeeming qualities
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  of a bloke and female. Don't have a change. Thank you, thank
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  you. So what was your question? How much do we want? I
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  did not call you, not at all. So you guys have managed to
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  keep the who I was alive all this time, and I would imagine have
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  some sort of harmony and respect together to be able to do. What advice
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  would you give to the young bands we're talking about last starting out and adventuring
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  out? How do you do? What's the secret? It's like a marriage.
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  You just cantinue your despite. What you do is you ignore, you
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  ignore the lack of perfection, or you ignore the continuation of imperfection and don't
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  try and have too many expectations about the individuals. You know a lot of
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  bands, whether it's The Angels, the Cultures, or even The Night or
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  even from the guy from Power Finger. He said he come out a note
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  a reunionory. He goes on, there's a couple of guys can't stand in
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  the same so this is a normal circumstance. Just ignore it and get on
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  with Yeah, Yeah, that's right voice. I think there are some people
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  they don't. I'm not in packing Sydney. I didn't say that I hate
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  Sidney. I was not interest. He did admit to not be the smoke
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  one. To give him a little grace, you know, I think that
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  education is too great. One time, just deal slowly. Cover the t
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  is what did you guys have released? The last video while he guys playing
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  voice, No, I'm fascinated with dumb The working title is dumb Rock.
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  Yeah. I'm sick of intellectual songs, people trying to be hip, like
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  particularly cool bands. Yet I just want to write stupid songs, like with
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  just one Chord. There's a song I'm writing a month called one Chord,
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  and the song I'm finished called the Ship Song. I just wanted to be
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  all stupid and I wanted to stick it up people. I wanted to get
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  it finished six months ago, but I haven't done it. The point is
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  that I wanted it to be if I wanted to be simple and stupid,
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  because I think people, you know, I don't think. You know,
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  people don't make music. People out there, they do other things. They
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  want to come and listen. Well, you know you fat music, sexual
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  music, stupid music. See dumb wrong, dumb wrong. Yeah, I
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  want dumb wrong, don t bring back the rock think about it. I
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  don't want because it's dumb, don't think. So I work on that.
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  But also we're doing this time we show or Run to Paradise, the Australian
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  robber roll stories, and so we've done the first one, sold out,
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  shaking it all around the country and telling all the stories and the things that
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  we've heard and seen and that we haven't seen that told happening on stage and
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  we're playing all the songs from the bands, and you know, I think
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  it's I think it's next month water. Yes, yes, I'm not too
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  sure. I'm terrible, but Lunch of Paradise is straight in robber roll stories.
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  Yeah, look it up. Do the work because I can't feckle,
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  feckle. We've got to worry to go onto the on the go, jump
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  into the quiz. Now, a little quiz, a little dumb mask,
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  dumb quiz, but it's don't try to read right, I can't all right
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  straight off the back. If you could playing in any other bands festival today,
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  where would you be? Who would be? Hang on? If you
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  playing any band for what? Pickars festival? I've already played with James Rayne,
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  but permanently. Oh, I think I think my Kings because I'm already
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  writing songs with trying to write songs with uh, you know the guitarists who
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  should know Alex Alex, thank you. Then he's given me a great game.
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  He said what he's doing with songwriting but tried bos. I've never done
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  that. I'll be doing that. Yeah, So I think Kings. I
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  want to be the chick singer. I love it, love it. Next
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  question, if anyone was to replace you in, who would have been Christina
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  or A yeah, because that's what any obsession I've done anyway. There it's
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  funny. It's a mix because you know the vinyls, the not just Divine
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  sorry, the Angels as DC Midnight or coultures. I think out of those,
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  I have to say probably the Angels because the first of was small them,
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  even though I thought the Vinyls were better Wife when I saw it was
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  in nineteen seventy eight. Oh my got Docunia on stage. Unbelievable. So
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  of things like that. But it's a difficult thing, difficult one to answer.
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  Yea what cup? And a thought was one would be I think it
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  would have to be Masser t me on weet your mask ahead? What's this?
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  You know that you know and you know no secrets? You know?
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  Amanded? The actress waits at the station. She's drifting with nothing to do
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  and dilatant steps. She's quick to accept the weather and time terms of good.
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  Now. I've interviewed off that when he said that he meant this girl
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  outside a railway station and drove her home. And that was when I did
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  ask him what happened when it comes to him? And that was the story
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  who ran? Yeah? And then he wrote this because all the stuff she
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  told him, and he wrote the lyrics to me that it's amazing And when
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  you really listen to the read, the lyrics go incredible poetry. They kick
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  us as a two day festival. Yes, what are your survivor s?
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  Only allowed to drink one alcoholic beverage the day. You are not allowed to
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  buy anything in Nevil from an individual. Right. That's two. You must
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  not find anybody sexually attractive now I'm talking or anything. Right. We do
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  not want this to turn into train rate would stop nineteen nine. You're not.
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  If you haven't seen it, please watch it and will teach you that
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  all of the things I've said that can happen, because yeah, remember,
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  be intelligent, be caring, be loving, and vomit when needed. Chris,
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  be intelligent. Chris is out. Yeah. My next question was how
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  many of them do you follow? But I think they are manteressing? You
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  follow them daily? Yes? Yes I do? Ye, Well, I
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  don't know. Don't ask me that why I follow daily? Shall I have
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  coffee? Will I not have coffee? It's an issue. Sometimes it's good,
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  sometimes sometimes just good? Do I have to go to Sydney tomorrow?
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  Are you us? He loves me? It's your favorite has four generations.
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  It's actually amazing. And I'll give you an example because as you were done
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  show you, but we were really showing it long substant Tasmania and there was
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  a young girl who singing every song we pluck. Now, obviously not everybody
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  knows every song she loves, and she had to be between eighteen to twenty
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  two estimated, un checked the wrinkles or the hands. No, though I
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  love Harris, I am so and I was amazing. I was transfer,
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  you know, I'm like, what is it? From the sixty minute streams
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  on Bloody Spotify for Front Paradise Spotify as a young person stick isn't it you?
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  Whin't she get? Just so you will know you when you get paid
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  five thousand dollars per one minute streams to be split between publishing and artist waft.
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  So if you're if you're in the region of you know, Bloody Green
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  Day A many habitans about the only ones. Yes, so, because it's
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  an allegious kind of setting, do you change your set list to accommodate that?
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  Yes? Yes, yeah, Well, for instance, we have a
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  song called bullshit Wonder. I do not like swearing and call me off fashion.
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  I don't like arms to swear a family events, and I've said quite
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  a bit of it from people who would surprise you. Yeah, I don't
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  like it. There are children out there and I don't like swearing in front
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  of children. They need to be treated with respect for strength, care and
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  equality. I got on philosophize start me. Yeah, now, I wouldn't
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  night good, treat them as evil and understand like when they a warment,
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  things happen and certain things happen. Obviously the raven expected respect and send Jack
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  with another No, just because let them roll and come out of the book.
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  You've actually got to be a relationship or Spotify the spotify that they started
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  a greeting Spotify players White Ways songs. Because once it's the players to get
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  pipe started. Once off the players to save the marriage, and once the
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  players in potention, okay, the party started to run. Power to be
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  the one the relationships start, the safe marriage, savior marriage would be it's
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  a relatively new song. It's will give me all the love that you've got,
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  but it's actually not you a song we found five and one? When
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  would be I think bullshit? But wouldn't no say? I could say,
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  well, yeahs about okay, canceling, I'll see you actual issues. Well
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  yeah, I mean I can. It's so easy. Well have you we
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  I had count? Yes, it work interesting, I said that Steve Hilture,
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  you said, just terrible time relationships. He goes, no, I'm
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  just a fucking you. I suppose he didn't, Seleb, I wish all
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  the advice I've gotten through might be surprised that's what you were with my friend
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  room. Send you to the door. I wish you married. Left Chris
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  Peters. Now are we done because I have to get ready to show.
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  The show started twenty minutes. Yeah, it's all. I've got a hair
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  and chen penty of time. Yeah, thank you. That was amazing,
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  Hope, lazy to mesa unlike, I really feel I's not my ego or
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  anything like that, but everybody else you would be so