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LACUNA COIL Finally Bring A Full Headline Tour Back To Australia · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Ryuan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Andrea from the band Una Coil from Milan, Italy,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm here to talk about the next upcoming projects
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  Speaker 2: like the tour in Australia and really glad to be here.
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  Speaker 3: Oh lovely, thanks so much.
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  Speaker 4: Australian fans last saw you at Good Things Festival in
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty two, where your set was described as one
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  Speaker 4: of the best sets of the day.
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  Speaker 3: Did that reception influence.
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  Speaker 4: The decision to return for a full headline to a heat.
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  Speaker 2: No, Actually, i've just heard now that the comments, so
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  Speaker 2: it's great. But obviously we had a great time on
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  Speaker 2: the festival and I always love to do festivals over
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  Speaker 2: there because it's always such a great lineup of mixed band,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and a different genre with different vibes of
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  Speaker 2: metal and rock and so. But obviously we wanted to
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  Speaker 2: come back because we have a new record to promote
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  Speaker 2: and to we don't come there solve and obviously for
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  Speaker 2: obvious reason of distance and costs, but we really enjoy
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  Speaker 2: every time we were there. We know we have a
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  Speaker 2: very solid fan base and so we couldn't wait to
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  Speaker 2: be back.
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  Speaker 1: And uh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So we we're just it's it's about time now. Now
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  Speaker 2: we've we've done a lot of things as well last
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  Speaker 2: year and and it's the perfect way to kick off
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  Speaker 2: the new year with you know, some different places that
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  Speaker 2: we don't see that often.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 4: We're so excited to have you guys back.
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  Speaker 3: And as you were.
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  Speaker 4: Saying, we haven't had a Lacuna Coil headline tour in
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  Speaker 4: about a decade. Is there a favorite memory of yours
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  Speaker 4: from past tours here?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's just a lot of great times, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because when we come in Australia, it's so unique for
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  Speaker 2: us that it's everything is special, you know, even the
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  Speaker 2: just it's the last time we went to the I
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  Speaker 2: know it's a bit of a cliche, but to see
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  Speaker 2: the koala and the kangaroos and it's it could be
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  Speaker 2: a cliche, I understand, but it's also very very special
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  Speaker 2: for us, you know, because we don't get to do
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  Speaker 2: it all the time. And uh and the cities are
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  Speaker 2: beautiful and I love all the cities in Australia. There's
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  Speaker 2: so much nature. It's very different obviously than than than Europe.
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  Speaker 2: And when I'm there, I really feel I'm somewhere else,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like because when you normally do a lot
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  Speaker 2: in Europe or in America and the United States, and
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of not the usual, but but a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of the usual, you know, while coming in Asia
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  Speaker 2: or in Australia, it's more it's a bit more special,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because you know you're not going to come
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  Speaker 2: back next year again. You know, it's something that you
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  Speaker 2: can really do certain times of the year and and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's special, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. See I've always wondered.
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  Speaker 4: So it sounds maybe cliche to other people coming to
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  Speaker 4: Australia to see our wildlife, but I think that's what
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  Speaker 4: makes Australia special. One of the things that makes us special.
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  Speaker 4: What would some of the wildlife be like if I
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  Speaker 4: went over to Italy? Like what what kind of animals
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  Speaker 4: could I cuddle?
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  Speaker 2: Very blend, like there's nothing dangerous, you know, Like we
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  Speaker 2: we have bears, foxes, horses, you know, the classic farm animals,
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  Speaker 2: plus some some eagles.
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  Speaker 1: Something that is quite a variety because.
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  Speaker 2: Italy is a small country obviously, but there's a big variety.
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  Speaker 1: Of of plants.
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  Speaker 2: There's because the north we have the big mountains, the Alps,
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  Speaker 2: and in the south we have highland which are very
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  Speaker 2: close to Africa, sometimes closer to Africa than to North
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  Speaker 2: Italy like sea, so it's it's very different, like the Nord.
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  Speaker 1: Is more cold and.
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  Speaker 2: More similar to Central Europe, and the South is more
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  Speaker 2: similar to North Africa or to Greece, you know. So
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  Speaker 2: there's quite a variety of landscapes, you know, in a
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  Speaker 2: small country. That's why we have a lot of different tradition,
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  Speaker 2: different food, different wines, different you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and but yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely not as dangerous as in.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah that's true. Oh that's so cool. And look, I
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  Speaker 4: really love hosting the Shadow. There's something especially rare about
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  Speaker 4: that song. When you first heard Randy Black's vocals come in,
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  Speaker 4: what was your honest gut reaction.
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  Speaker 2: We were super stoked because Randy, besides, we know we
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  Speaker 2: can sing obviously can make the parts great. But we
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  Speaker 2: know him since two thousand and four when we did
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  Speaker 2: Odds Fest in America together with The Lamb of God,
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  Speaker 2: and we became very close friends because we spent the
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  Speaker 2: all summer. An arts fest back then was like a
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: Summer camp for bands.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we were all sharing the same backstage, everybody
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  Speaker 2: there all day and eating together and spending the day
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  Speaker 2: together and so we became very close with him and
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the guys, and we stayed friends for
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  Speaker 2: a long time. Every time he comes to Milan, we
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  Speaker 2: go see him, or we go out for dinner, or
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  Speaker 2: he come to visit us for a couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: So it's more of a friend ship, you not just
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  Speaker 2: not just respect for the band or for the singer,
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  Speaker 2: for the music. Obviously we're fans of Lamp of God,
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  Speaker 2: but we're also it's just it's the first person we
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  Speaker 2: thought when we want to have him in our recording,
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  Speaker 2: because it's it's a very important figure for us, even
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  Speaker 2: beside the music, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, So collaborating with him because you guys were friends,
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  Speaker 4: did it just feel natural?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, very natural.
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  Speaker 2: And he we we send him we knew we didn't
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  Speaker 2: have to ask him even you know, we're just tell him, Randy,
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  Speaker 2: please do some vocals on this song, and he just
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  Speaker 2: did it the next day, send.
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  Speaker 1: It to us, and that's it. Very easy, very fast
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  Speaker 1: and sameful.
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  Speaker 2: We just shoot a live video with him in a
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  Speaker 2: festival in California.
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  Speaker 1: I'd have to shock.
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  Speaker 2: And even there, we we were were we were sure
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  Speaker 2: he was going to do it, you know, it's now
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  Speaker 2: there's no bullshit like label bush it or promos.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: With Randy, we knew we can count on him and
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  Speaker 2: you know he can count on us as well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for whatever it needs. So it's it was the most
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  Speaker 2: natural collaboration, especially because we haven't really done any.
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  Speaker 1: Vocals collaboration in the past, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So it was the first one and we wanted to
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  Speaker 2: have him for sure as the first guest.
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  Speaker 1: And then we also had.
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  Speaker 2: The singer of New Year's Day with us, and she
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  Speaker 2: was also we toured together, so we were very We
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  Speaker 2: already had a very good vibe with her and she
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  Speaker 2: did a great job and when we got to do
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  Speaker 2: the song together in America for a few shows, so
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  Speaker 2: she's she's great and she did exactly what we needed.
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  Speaker 2: We wanted a voice that was more of a rocking voice,
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  Speaker 2: not so operatic or classic clean voice, but more of
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  Speaker 2: a Rusby rock voice, and she did a great ash
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  Speaker 2: costello from news Day, and then we were super stoked
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  Speaker 2: to have her as well.
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  Speaker 1: She was very sweet girl.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I think it's a bit full sort of
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  Speaker 4: harmony between all three of you, you and Christina.
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  Speaker 3: And as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, she did perfect on the song and it
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  Speaker 2: was a very good experience. We didn't know what to
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  Speaker 2: expect because we never really got I mean, we got
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  Speaker 2: some guest musician in Delirium, the album Delirium, we had
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  Speaker 2: Kennedy from alter Bridge doing but he was doing lead
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  Speaker 2: guitars on the record, and we had a Mark from
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  Speaker 2: Nothing More also doing guitar solos. So we had some
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  Speaker 2: other guests, but never singers. So it was the first
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  Speaker 2: time and we really enjoyed the experience.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that's so awesome.
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  Speaker 4: And just quickly back to Randy again a couple of
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  Speaker 4: he had the vocals down in a day, did you.
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  Speaker 1: Say, yeah? Yeah, he sent it the next day.
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  Speaker 2: Basically we gave him a little bit of a idea
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  Speaker 2: of what we wanted, you know, more or less of
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  Speaker 2: a little guide pilot, and he did it.
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  Speaker 1: An't want and send.
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  Speaker 3: It Chase, that's so crazy.
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  Speaker 1: He did it in his wardrobe. Actually, Geez just put
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  Speaker 1: likes in the wardrobe and recorded.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, that's Chase. I love that song.
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  Speaker 4: And look tracks like Never Dawn and Hosting the Shadow
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  Speaker 4: have already become band favorites. How quickly do you know
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  Speaker 4: when a song is going to translate?
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  Speaker 3: Powerfully?
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  Speaker 1: In a live setting.
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  Speaker 2: You never know, because sometimes some songs that sound great
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  Speaker 2: on the record, then maybe they're a bit boring to
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  Speaker 2: play live.
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  Speaker 1: You know, some song that.
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  Speaker 2: Are very exciting on the record, and then when you
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  Speaker 2: get to see what you play in the song, maybe
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  Speaker 2: not so much for the singers, but for the musicians
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  Speaker 2: now that maybe they seems to be really cool to play,
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  Speaker 2: and then they play and it's kind of boring.
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  Speaker 1: With the same part.
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  Speaker 2: And so you never know until you actually go on tour.
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  Speaker 2: And also I think you never really mastered the song until.
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  Speaker 1: You play it on tour.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's no matter how much you practice it
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  Speaker 2: at home or in the practice this room, when you
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  Speaker 2: go live is when you really learn the song, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because you have to. You have to play it no
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  Speaker 2: matter if you hear yourself well or no matter.
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  Speaker 1: How loud it is, how.
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  Speaker 2: Unbalance the sound can be. So you need to do
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  Speaker 2: it every night for a certain number of nights until
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  Speaker 2: it becomes automatic in you. You know you have it,
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  Speaker 2: and then you have it and you will have it
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  Speaker 2: forever and you just have to maybe just go listen
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  Speaker 2: to it just to remember it.
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  Speaker 1: But then you know, it's like when you go on
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  Speaker 1: a bicycle.
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  Speaker 2: Really, you know, when the time you if you don't
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  Speaker 2: go on for five years and then you take the
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  Speaker 2: bicycle after.
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  Speaker 1: Ten minutes, you know your your back just the way
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  Speaker 1: it was, and sing for the songs.
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  Speaker 2: You know, once you learn them and you play the
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  Speaker 2: whole couple of tours, you have them in you.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. That's it, and it's mistake.
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  Speaker 1: If you make me say the same mistakes are gonna
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  Speaker 1: be there again.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly exactly?
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  Speaker 4: Is there a song of yours that you guys tend
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  Speaker 4: to not play so much live anymore, that you absolutely
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  Speaker 4: love and what to play more live again?
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  Speaker 2: The Obviously it's usually more exciting for us to play
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  Speaker 2: the new songs, you know, because the old songs we
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  Speaker 2: play them for so many years, so many times that's
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  Speaker 2: not so it as exciting as playing the new stuff,
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  Speaker 2: you know. But there are certain songs that we have
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  Speaker 2: to carry. We just try to shift them a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: to change them, a little bit of play around, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe one tour we do Havans a lion Swamp. Another too,
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  Speaker 2: we do our truth and enjoy the silence. Another tour
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  Speaker 2: we don't drink the darkness spell bound, you know, we try.
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  Speaker 2: We are at that point where we have enough songs
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  Speaker 2: that are enough popular to even if you don't hear
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  Speaker 2: Evans Are, you're gonna hear Spellbound, or you're gonna hear
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  Speaker 2: so you can we can play a little bit with
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  Speaker 2: the song, the classic songs, so we don't have to
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  Speaker 2: play always the same, you know. And but certain songs
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  Speaker 2: more or less are gonna stay with us, or like
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  Speaker 2: Evan's sal or Swamp songs are more or less in
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  Speaker 2: one version or another.
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  Speaker 1: We always have to play those, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you do, otherwise people will get angry. And in
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  Speaker 4: the early days in Italy, what did success even look
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  Speaker 4: like for you guys? Was it selling out a club,
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  Speaker 4: getting signed or just surviving another tour?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been it's been very step by step, you know.
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  Speaker 2: We we we've been fortunate enough to grow up in
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  Speaker 2: the era where bands could still develop. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: didn't expect you to to do one record and boom explode.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there was no internet, so it was a
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  Speaker 2: time where you have to go door by door, play
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  Speaker 2: every CD, interview, every with every magazine, with every fanzine,
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  Speaker 2: and and bring the name out, you know, and then
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  Speaker 2: support this band, support that band and you know, make
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  Speaker 2: your audience wider and grow album after album. So our
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  Speaker 2: success came under third record, Commalized, and which was usually
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  Speaker 2: the classic make it or break it the record, you know,
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  Speaker 2: back then the third record was the most important, like
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  Speaker 2: there was a want to either bring you to another
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  Speaker 2: level of band or you're going to stay where you are,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: So that luckily the record was commonalized and he really
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  Speaker 1: brought it to a much bigger level as a band.
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  Speaker 2: And so, yeah, Italy especially it was hard because it's
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  Speaker 2: not the typical.
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  Speaker 1: Metal market in Europe. You know, there's.
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  Speaker 2: Places like the UK or Scandinavia or Germany which are
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  Speaker 2: much bigger than the southern counters of your other slower
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  Speaker 2: on metal. So like Spain, France, Italy, Greece has a
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  Speaker 2: bit more, not as metal as the rest of Europe.
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  Speaker 2: But now it's changing, actually, especially France maybe because of
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  Speaker 2: the success of Men's like Gugira, become a much more
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  Speaker 2: solid market for metal. Spain still growing, and Italy is
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  Speaker 2: also for us is good because we are kind of
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  Speaker 2: a unique example. Let's say, you know, we're the first
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  Speaker 2: band that's kind of this international success and that in
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  Speaker 2: reflection that we got to do some more mainstream stuff
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  Speaker 2: also in Italy that brought us to a different level.
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  Speaker 1: But in general Italy it's still not.
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  Speaker 2: As good as other places for metal, even for international bands.
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  Speaker 1: You know, yes, some bands, and in Germany they do arenas.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe in Italy they do a club, you know, because
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  Speaker 2: it's not as big as it is, you know. Besides,
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  Speaker 2: unless you're talking about Metallica or Iron Made, and those
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  Speaker 2: are names that always work no matter where, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's been interesting to develop also, and I
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  Speaker 2: think nowadays there's more Italian bands that are able to
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  Speaker 2: tour and to make an international career.
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  Speaker 1: Also tend to our.
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  Speaker 2: Experience, you know, because we open kind of open doors
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  Speaker 2: for everybody else, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely.
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  Speaker 4: How does it feel to be like the front runners
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  Speaker 4: really getting like more of the metal from Italy out there,
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  Speaker 4: like the first kind of band?
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  Speaker 1: It feels old old because.
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  Speaker 4: It feels often make because I'm like, I remember when
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  Speaker 4: your third album came out, and I'm like, oh, still
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  Speaker 4: so long ago.
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  Speaker 1: No, we're still very curious people.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I think we still do this and we're
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  Speaker 2: still able to make some records that are still developing
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  Speaker 2: new crowds and still interesting for people because we.
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  Speaker 1: Are still very curious about music.
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  Speaker 2: We don't listen only to the classic band, but we're
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  Speaker 2: also very curious about the newer bands. Our guitar player,
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  Speaker 2: bass player, and drummer all they all produce underground bands,
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  Speaker 2: so they keep they keep in contact with the different
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  Speaker 2: reality of the younger musician nowadays, you know, which is
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  Speaker 2: very different when we started, and that helped us keep
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  Speaker 2: an open eye, an open ear and open eye as
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  Speaker 2: well on on what's the music nowadays.
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  Speaker 1: You know, for us, it's important.
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  Speaker 2: When we release a record, even if you realize it's well,
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  Speaker 2: because we do have a certain sound, a certain characteristics,
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  Speaker 2: but it's still as incorporates something that makes it a
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  Speaker 2: record that has sense in the contemporary world. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that has a meaning also nowadays. You know, it's not
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  Speaker 2: something that just repeats a formula of the nineties or
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  Speaker 2: formula of the early two thousand. It's that but plus
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  Speaker 2: some more contemporary elements, you know, because that's what we
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  Speaker 2: are as people.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, well, I can definitely hear the change that
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  Speaker 4: you guys have made in your sound, but in a
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  Speaker 4: positive way. I feel like you have always incorporated new
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  Speaker 4: sounds with your older sound as well, if that makes
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  Speaker 4: any sense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's our classic sound, which we
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  Speaker 2: can't escape obviously because it's what we are. Then we've
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  Speaker 2: been developing for many, many years, and I think we
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  Speaker 2: do have our unique sound that you can always recognize,
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  Speaker 2: either you like it or not. And then we release
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  Speaker 2: a record in a twenty twenty five last year, and
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  Speaker 2: we want that record to make aost of sense in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five somehow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's it. Oh, Andrea, I could talk to
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  Speaker 3: you forever.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry I've gone over time already, but it's been
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  Speaker 4: a pleasure.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. We can't wait to see you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much, and to you in Australia.