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Conduct Unbecoming With CHRISTOPHER WHITEN From BODYSNATCHER · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: What's up guys. This is Chris play drums in the
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  Speaker 1: band Body Snatcher. We're coming to Australia starting February fourteenth
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  Speaker 1: with our friends and Warner Shore and then we'll also
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  Speaker 1: be playing some headline shows with Volatile.
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  Speaker 2: Ways Beautiful My thanks for joining us the saving.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, as you said, Body Snutchow will be in Australia
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  Speaker 3: very soon.
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  Speaker 2: Mate. Go wait, you're rather wake away.
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  Speaker 3: So you're starting on February to forty if we're drown
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  Speaker 3: a show over but you got lots of geeks away, mate, Like,
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  Speaker 3: how are you feeling you You're pumped.
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  Speaker 1: Yet, very very excited. Yeah, very excited to see the sun.
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  Speaker 2: I've been told that sort of the world, is it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we've been. We've been in Europe for the
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  Speaker 1: last three weeks and it's been it's been cloudy pretty much.
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  Speaker 1: I mean except for Spain. Spain. Spain was very nice
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  Speaker 1: and uh it's sunny, but other than that, it's been
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  Speaker 1: cloudy and cold the entire time.
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  Speaker 3: You might want to leave then bribes were in the
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  Speaker 3: middle of the heatway yer, it's spright at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I looked up. It's like one hundred degrees.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, all right, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: I have you always been out before? I couldn't find
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  Speaker 2: any information on that.
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  Speaker 1: We have not neither Orlana Shore, neither one of us
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  Speaker 1: have been out there before.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, So what are in a situation like that?
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  Speaker 3: Like do you call your mates who played here before
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  Speaker 3: and try and find out what to expect from the
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  Speaker 3: crowds and souffwore?
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  Speaker 2: Do you come here?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? For sure? Yeah, Like like we're we're good friends
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  Speaker 1: with the guys in the Alpho Wolf and and so
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  Speaker 1: you know, we we kind of hit them up and
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  Speaker 1: ask them what to expect, you know, because when you've
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  Speaker 1: never been somewhere, you don't you don't know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a big thing, how much merch to order? You know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean. It's like we don't you know. So
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  Speaker 1: it's like if we're a support band, what's like the
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  Speaker 1: average bands are going to sell? How much should we order?
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  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. But and then also like if we're
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  Speaker 1: flying there from the United States, we could fly there
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  Speaker 1: normally and check all of our gear, but this time
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  Speaker 1: we're flying to Australia from Germany because we're here right
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  Speaker 1: now and you can't just check all of your gear
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  Speaker 1: on a normal plane. You have to get it air
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  Speaker 1: freighted there, and uh, it's it's it's a huge, huge
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  Speaker 1: ordeal getting getting gear there right now. I mean we're
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  Speaker 1: renting a bunch of stuff too, but all the stuff
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  Speaker 1: that we use on a daily basis that we normally
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  Speaker 1: fly with, we can't check on the airline that we're flying.
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  Speaker 2: So hey, yeah, so what about the crowds. What have
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  Speaker 2: you heard about that crowds? Because we sort of we
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  Speaker 2: do we do everything pretty much differently every Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I've heard the crowds are awesome. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: haven't heard any any negative things about the crowds, I guess, so, yeah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm stoked.
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  Speaker 2: The clip slide of that.
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  Speaker 3: One thing I've heard about you guys is that your
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  Speaker 3: mosh pitzza are absolutely insanity involves and tails.
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  Speaker 2: Is that true?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: How much of that is? How much of that is
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  Speaker 2: your fault?
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  Speaker 1: I mean we we definitely uh instigate it, you know.
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  Speaker 1: We we we like we like that the high energy,
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  Speaker 1: We like the aggressiveness and and fans you know, so
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  Speaker 1: we definitely ask for it quite a bit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: ye both, yeah, demand.
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  Speaker 2: What else can we expect from a Boddy such a shope.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Like one thing, we not haven't been here before,
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  Speaker 3: people don't really know what you expect.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just it's just very very intense, high energy,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Just like constant telling people
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  Speaker 1: to get on stage, get off stage, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. I mean, I granted as some of the venue,
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  Speaker 1: as some of the Laurna dates, I'm sure there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be it's barricaded venues, no one's getting on stage,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, we'll still still good at a shot.
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  Speaker 2: And all of those shows with Lorna shows solely out
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  Speaker 2: now right like that's gonna be a good feeling and
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  Speaker 2: come to a country for the first time and selling
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  Speaker 2: out put it on.
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  Speaker 1: Just very very very thankful to Lorna Shore. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're in a position right now where anybody they
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  Speaker 1: take out on tour, it's it's a it's a very
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  Speaker 1: it's a very big help, you know what i mean.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like they're they're at a position where they are,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one of the biggest bands in the world
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  Speaker 1: for this genre, and so just just very thankful that
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  Speaker 1: they that they still believe in us, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we we've done a lot of tours with them ever since,
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  Speaker 1: you know, every vocalist they've ever had, we've toured with them,
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  Speaker 1: every headline and tour they've ever done, We've been on
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  Speaker 1: it besides one. And yeah, just just very thankful to
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  Speaker 1: have those guys as friends and have them keep pushing
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  Speaker 1: for us and you know, keep putting us on tours
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  Speaker 1: and because it couse it does help us a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't What is it that? What is it you think
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  Speaker 3: they see any bright lot? Then they're not just doing
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  Speaker 3: it because you're a nice guy or because they like
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  Speaker 3: it that you're obviously doing your you know, pulling your
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  Speaker 3: end at the bottles?
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  Speaker 2: What is it they say you bad?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Why why would they bring you away out of you?
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  Speaker 1: I mean with the is doing well? You know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Like like we're not it's not We're not
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  Speaker 1: like a band that has no value, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean? But we definitely we definitely have value so
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  Speaker 1: that they see our value and the fact that, you
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  Speaker 1: know what what Austin said to me once, like when
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  Speaker 1: we first like found out we were going to do
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  Speaker 1: this tour, He's like, dude, He's like he's like, we're
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  Speaker 1: playing a show and then we have a day off
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  Speaker 1: and then we're playing a show and then we have
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  Speaker 1: a day off. He's like, it's basically like vacation, and
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  Speaker 1: we'd rather be on vacation with our friends than somebody
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  Speaker 1: that you know what I mean. Yeah, Yeah, it's just
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  Speaker 1: it's just cool.
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  Speaker 3: That's the other side to go on the people. So
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  Speaker 3: I just started to call on the people. Don't think
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  Speaker 3: about much, Like when you're on the raid with another band.
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  Speaker 3: It's not just the time you're on stage, like you's
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  Speaker 3: got to be able to get on together off stage
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's twenty four hours a day, you know, especially
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  Speaker 1: in Europe, Like right now, we're on a bus right
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  Speaker 1: now with with it's three bands on one bus, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. So it's like you're you're with
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  Speaker 1: these people twenty four hours a day, you know. So
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  Speaker 1: you got you got to make sure that you know,
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  Speaker 1: even if you don't know people, you got to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that that you know how to be a likable person,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And you got to you
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  Speaker 1: got to know how to like like, you know, let
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  Speaker 1: other people's flaws be okay and like and like those
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  Speaker 1: people as well. You know.
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  Speaker 3: So you've also announced Yah three of your own headline shows,
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  Speaker 3: as you said before, you got one in Melbourne on
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  Speaker 3: February ninety eighth's, Newcastle February twenty first, and Brisbane February
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  Speaker 3: twenty third.
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  Speaker 2: So how different are those shows of your own going
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  Speaker 2: to be?
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  Speaker 3: The one's really support and order show off, Like, there's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be people saying that one, I shouldn't go to
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  Speaker 3: that one, But there'll be a bit of different.
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  Speaker 1: They're they're going to be similar. But at the ones, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the ones that we're headlining, we are playing a little
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  Speaker 1: bit longer of a set, they'll be you know, definitely
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  Speaker 1: some older material added in and but yeah, that's that.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's gonna be the difference. They'll be the some
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  Speaker 1: older songs and a little bit longer of a set.
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  Speaker 1: Even though the Launa dates we do still have a
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  Speaker 1: pretty long set at Laura. Actually we're playing forty minutes,
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  Speaker 1: so cool.
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  Speaker 3: Did just say someone's gone along to the Larner show
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  Speaker 3: and they've never heard of you guys before? Like, what
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  Speaker 3: three songs of yours should they listen to before they
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  Speaker 3: go to show? You know, what to expect?
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  Speaker 1: I would say, if they want to know, like lyrically
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  Speaker 1: what the band it's about, I would say, listen to
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  Speaker 1: twelve seventeen, Murder eight and Black of My Eyes and uh,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's like, the most popular song is King
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  Speaker 1: of the Rats, but that song doesn't have lyrics. That song,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that song has lyrics, but it's all just
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  Speaker 1: like we just wrote that song as a fun, heavy song,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Yeah, So, but King of
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  Speaker 1: the Rats is also a good when people love that song.
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  Speaker 2: So right now that's written. You go started in Melbourne, Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Is that the name of the town? Melbourne. I did
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  Speaker 2: not know there was another Melbourne anywhere else in the
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  Speaker 2: world until I read that.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, yep. And when we do interviews all the time
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  Speaker 1: in Europe and people are like, so what's it like
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  Speaker 1: coming from from Australia and we're like, we're from Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, so we just started there in Melbourne, in Florida.
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  Speaker 3: So what was what was the musical climate like that
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  Speaker 3: gave birth to body snatch On?
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  Speaker 2: And where did you fit in when you first came
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  Speaker 2: on a scene?
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  Speaker 1: So I was originally I was not in the band
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  Speaker 1: when they first started, but I knew them. I produced
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  Speaker 1: the band, and I did like that. I recorded their
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  Speaker 1: first full length and so I like saw them like
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  Speaker 1: come up, you know, And I mean they were definitely
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  Speaker 1: influenced by bands like bands like recon On, Broken Wings,
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  Speaker 1: the Acacias Train. They just they just wanted they wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be a band that they weren't even like thinking
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  Speaker 1: that it was going to be something as serious as
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  Speaker 1: it is. They just wanted to write something that was
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  Speaker 1: really heavy, to play local shows and have all their
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  Speaker 1: friends mash That's really what it was. It's just like,
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  Speaker 1: we want to be a mash band.
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  Speaker 3: Not Your most recent release was our ball Fun doc.
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  Speaker 2: Last game I say was ever might be the fantas
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  Speaker 2: Tight You were like.
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  Speaker 1: You hip, Oh yeah, if you have people people have
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  Speaker 1: been very very supportive of that, and it's been it's
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  Speaker 1: been really really well well received. Yeah, very very excited
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  Speaker 1: because that's all of those songs are my favorite songs
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  Speaker 1: that we've ever done, and.
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  Speaker 2: So you've got to be playing focusing on that one
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  Speaker 2: for this tour. You said, are going to mix it up?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, well we're mixing it up quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit because you know, if there's been people that have
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  Speaker 1: never obviously never seen us before, you know, because we've
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  Speaker 1: never been there, and if people have known our band
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  Speaker 1: for a long time. We want them to hear songs
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  Speaker 1: off everything that they could have listened to, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean. But we are still playing three of
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  Speaker 1: the five songs on Viole conduct at these shows. But
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  Speaker 1: then we're also playing some stuff off of Death of Me.
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  Speaker 1: We're also playing some stuff off of This Heavy Void.
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  Speaker 1: We're playing some of the singles that were released over COVID,
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  Speaker 1: We're playing some stuff off of Blee to Bye. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a very it's a very packed set.