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Welcome To The Enchanted Rock Palace With ROBERT NIXON From WEARY WIZARDS FEDERATION · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: So I'm Rob the frontman from the Weary Wizards Federation.
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  Speaker 1: Been around for a couple of years now, as the
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  Speaker 1: original formation did a couple of gigs opened up for
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  Speaker 1: Death by Character a couple of times, and then those
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  Speaker 1: guys have left the band and we've got some new
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  Speaker 1: members on. We've been jamming together nice and hard for
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of months, and so we've got our
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  Speaker 1: return to the stage happening on the sixteenth of May
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  Speaker 1: at Moe's Desert Tavern. It's a nice little Saturday afternoon
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  Speaker 1: matinee show. All ages as well, so which is good
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  Speaker 1: for guys like a lot of the blokes that are
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  Speaker 1: in the bands that are playing there have got kids
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  Speaker 1: that have you know, either just under that legal age
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  Speaker 1: or really young kids that like you know, so Saturday
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  Speaker 1: afternoon it's still early enough in the day that you
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  Speaker 1: can take the kids along to the show. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: worry about a babysitter or you know, heck, bring grand
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  Speaker 1: and grand that along with them, you know, like making
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  Speaker 1: a family outing have.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, my friend, thanks to try to stay. Robert's a
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  Speaker 2: pleasure to catch up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, mate, it's a pleasure to meet you. Been a
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  Speaker 1: long time viewer of the magazine and reading you know,
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  Speaker 1: the articles and quite an interesting thing that you're doing.
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  Speaker 2: The reason we're here today to speak is the fact
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  Speaker 2: that we're in Richard's Federation have announced a comeback show
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  Speaker 2: of Sourts at Most as a clubhouse. I made the
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  Speaker 2: sixteenth that your first gig in a while, and it
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  Speaker 2: sort of came a bit out of the blue. Bro.
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  Speaker 2: So how's rehearsals and practice guard? Are you tracking? Well?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, It's been a really interesting change for me
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  Speaker 1: from going from the previous members that were guys that
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  Speaker 1: had played in multiple bands, were very much familiar with
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  Speaker 1: playing on stage and the idea of playing in a
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  Speaker 1: band setting to now our new drummer aren't young Tom.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be his first time playing in any kind of
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  Speaker 1: band and the first time, you know, getting up in
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  Speaker 1: stage in front of a live audience. So he's stoked,
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  Speaker 1: he's pumped as and I, you know, it's really great
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  Speaker 1: for me, who, like I've been doing this since I
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  Speaker 1: was sixteen seventeen, and even like playing in concert bands
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  Speaker 1: since I was like ten years old. So to see
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  Speaker 1: like a guy doing his first show for the like
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  Speaker 1: the first time ever and to be lucky enough to
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  Speaker 1: get to do that somewhere like Moe's Desert Clubhouse. He's like, Man,
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  Speaker 1: I really think we've we've struck it. We've struck it.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty lucky to be honest, for a first first show
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  Speaker 1: for that for young time and the new bass player, Dave,
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  Speaker 1: he's fairly new to music as well. He's played in
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  Speaker 1: a band around as well and played a few shows,
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  Speaker 1: but not played in this particular genre and this style
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  Speaker 1: of music before. So yeah, it's been a really interesting
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  Speaker 1: change from guys that were seasoned professionals that learning the
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  Speaker 1: songs came a bit quicker. But also the idea of
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  Speaker 1: nerves was something that we never talked about, and the
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  Speaker 1: idea of like, oh, how what do you do when
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  Speaker 1: you go to a show? Like what what's it like
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  Speaker 1: when you did just walk in? And and so that
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  Speaker 1: idea of like as a band having to kind of
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  Speaker 1: train and learn how to do all that stuff as
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  Speaker 1: a unit again has been really interesting as well. But yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: rehearsals have been going really well, and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think we've added a few new songs to the mix
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  Speaker 1: and you know, expanded out some of the old repertoire.
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  Speaker 1: So they're not exactly how they were, you know last
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  Speaker 1: time you last time people would have heard them over
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  Speaker 1: twelve months ago. So yeah, really looking forward to rehearsal
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  Speaker 1: has been going exceptionally well.
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  Speaker 2: The day, which has been dug Return of the Wizards
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  Speaker 2: also features Dirty Socks, Birds of Faith, and Chase the Wolves.
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  Speaker 2: So tell us a bit more about each of those
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  Speaker 2: bands and why you chose them to be part of
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  Speaker 2: your comeback.
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  Speaker 1: So Chase the Wolves their bass player, No, well, I
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  Speaker 1: think he's a rhythm guitarist now, originally was their bass player.
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  Speaker 1: He's a good mate of mine from Townsvill, been mates
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  Speaker 1: for years and years and years. His other band played
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  Speaker 1: with us at greecea a few years ago, and they
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  Speaker 1: the guys from Chase the Wolves have Last year I
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  Speaker 1: had my fortieth and they came out and played that
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  Speaker 1: and they're just a fantastic good time band, good old
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  Speaker 1: old rock and roll, you know, with a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: original materials thrown in as well. Guys from Burdens of Fake.
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  Speaker 1: We did a gig with the Kerwick I think it
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  Speaker 1: was our second or third gig out of the gate
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  Speaker 1: and we we just hit it off with those guys
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  Speaker 1: really straight away, which is interesting considering the styles of
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  Speaker 1: music that we both play, very different kinds of music,
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  Speaker 1: Like they're much more of your anarcho punt like sex
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  Speaker 1: specials clash top music, whereas that's you know, as much
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  Speaker 1: as the Wizards love that kind of music. And it's
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  Speaker 1: definitely those bands and bands that I love. It's very
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  Speaker 1: much a departure from the kind of music that we play.
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  Speaker 1: So but they're just a really good band. And I thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's I grew up in Townsville, where if
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  Speaker 1: you're playing a show, it was always a mixed bill.
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  Speaker 1: There was no such thing as a just a metal
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  Speaker 1: night or just a punk night, or we didn't have
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  Speaker 1: enough bands that you could do that, so mixed bills.
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  Speaker 1: As how I came up and I love them like
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  Speaker 1: I love a good mixed bill. And I thought, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like as much as where the Stone Doom metal band,
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  Speaker 1: we've got a rock and roll band, let's have a
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  Speaker 1: punk band as well. So and then Dirty Jokes they're
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  Speaker 1: they're an interesting one because, uh, their bass player, Jeff
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  Speaker 1: is a good mate of mine that used to plan
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  Speaker 1: a band with as well. Back in the day, was
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  Speaker 1: in a band called Piston Fist with yeah, and then
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  Speaker 1: that that became not Piston Fish, sorry, ah Berzka Fist. Rather,
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  Speaker 1: I wish I was good enough to be in Piston Fist.
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  Speaker 1: If you talk to the boys, you can tell him,
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  Speaker 1: I said that, tell him, I'm sure your name. So,
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  Speaker 1: but me and Jeff played in Berzuka Fish, which then
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  Speaker 1: became Rumblestone, and then when Rumblestone broke up, he got
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  Speaker 1: together with a bunch of guys. No Rumblestone was his
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  Speaker 1: new band. Sorry, but Rumblestone a kind of been on
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  Speaker 1: a hiatus that members that have jetted off overseas and
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  Speaker 1: do another thing. So they've got a temporary band called
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  Speaker 1: Dirty Jocks, which is playing a bit heavier, kind of
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  Speaker 1: more drop D stuff than the rock and roll kind
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  Speaker 1: of almost punk gear that Rumblestone used to playing. So
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  Speaker 1: Dirty Jocks again like that heavier kind of sounder, you know,
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  Speaker 1: mix it up and make it a bit different again.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a few rage covers I think, and some
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  Speaker 1: more new medal e style stuff, is what Jeff was
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  Speaker 1: indicating to me. So yeah, I think, you know, we've
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  Speaker 1: got a really good mix of different styles that I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's something there for everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, as you said before, Bro, it's a lunchtime Matt,
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  Speaker 2: and they sort of say so, starts a twelve, finished
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  Speaker 2: at four, it's all ages, been the kids along. So
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  Speaker 2: what made you lean towards Jordan early show all ages
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  Speaker 2: because they're not done often enough in it these days. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so we reached out to the guys at Moe's
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  Speaker 1: and as like a I reached out to a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of people, and Moe's were quiet enough to get back
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  Speaker 1: to us and say, look, realistically speaking, as a real
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  Speaker 1: launch show for guys that weren't a huge band even
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  Speaker 1: two years ago, how would you feel look about doing
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  Speaker 1: this Saturday or Sunday afternoon show. And I'd been to
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  Speaker 1: two of the matinee shows previously to see the guys
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  Speaker 1: from Chase the Wolves and another mate's band who came
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  Speaker 1: over from Kazi to play, and they were just a
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  Speaker 1: really nice atmosphere and just for me anyway, Like a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the guys in those bands are dudes that
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  Speaker 1: are in their like forties through to their mid fifties
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  Speaker 1: getting up towards their sixties. But also a lot of
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  Speaker 1: us have kids that are, like you know, ranging anywhere
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  Speaker 1: from five years old right up to like eighteen nineteen
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  Speaker 1: year old. So the opportunity to have all of our
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  Speaker 1: families attend and not have to keep everybody up and
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  Speaker 1: awake until ten o'clock at nine was to me it
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  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, what better idea is than that? Like
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  Speaker 1: means I can go Like because a lot of us
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  Speaker 1: are all traveling from Brisbane and the surrounding areas to
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  Speaker 1: get there as well, it means by four o'clock in
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon, well we can either go home and have
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  Speaker 1: a few drinks or we can stick around for an
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  Speaker 1: hour and a streat and still get home at a
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  Speaker 1: reasonable hour. So yeah, Saturday afternoon, I couldn't couldn't see
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  Speaker 1: a reason not to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that it's not familiar with with Federation made,
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  Speaker 2: but as straight to style of music you play it
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  Speaker 2: and what do we expect from you at a live sho.
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  Speaker 1: So where what you'd typically call I think stone of
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  Speaker 1: doom or stone of rock, very much in the vein
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  Speaker 1: of like your black Sabbaths, your coroasial conformities, down bends
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  Speaker 1: bends like that, so loud, raucous, down tuned, but lots
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  Speaker 1: of riffs and lots of volume. And then because we
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  Speaker 1: are wizards, lots of lyrics about wizardly things like beasts
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  Speaker 1: and mischief making creatures and you know, disappearing into a
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  Speaker 1: quest of following different things around the place. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Cool, ads, Now it's not just a comeback show that
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  Speaker 2: you do it as well. You've also re reported your ABP,
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  Speaker 2: I believe, for the plan to release that this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so before the original two members left, we might
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  Speaker 1: have we might have planned we wanted to kind of
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  Speaker 1: uh make a recording of the way that we played
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  Speaker 1: the songs as a live unit, because they were very
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  Speaker 1: much different to how i'd released it when I released
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  Speaker 1: it as an EP. So we went into the studio
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  Speaker 1: recorded those songs and they're now in the process of
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  Speaker 1: well four of them in the process of being mixed
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  Speaker 1: and mastered, So hopefully by August that will all be
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  Speaker 1: done and dusted and there'll be a version out there
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  Speaker 1: in the world. The other two songs that we did
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  Speaker 1: in that recording will be being released as a single,
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  Speaker 1: and then one of them has actually now become a
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  Speaker 1: part of a four part which will evidently might be
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  Speaker 1: the next EP in itself. So so yeah, hopefully August, well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll have new music out in the world. Well old
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  Speaker 1: music done refreshed.
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  Speaker 2: All right, brother, thanks your time for being the pleasure chatting.
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  Speaker 2: Return of the Wizards is on May sixteenth, Most at
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  Speaker 2: the clubhouse controls for four pm. It's four ages they
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  Speaker 2: take the kids. And where can people get a hold
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  Speaker 2: of tickets? We'll find out more information.
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  Speaker 1: Ah so if you want to jump on the Weary
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  Speaker 1: Wizards Federation Facebook page or check us out on Instagram
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  Speaker 1: at Weary Wizards Federation and link for the tickets will
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  Speaker 1: be in our bio both on Facebook and on Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: And I think if you if you head over to
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  Speaker 1: Most Tavern't, Most Haven't, Most Desit Clubhouse, you shall find
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  Speaker 1: I believe link for the tickets are on there as well.