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HOT MULLIGAN Are Back For Seconds And Australia’s Clearly Still Hungry · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: What's up.
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  Speaker 2: We're three guys from hal Mulligan and we are really
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  Speaker 2: soaked to come back to Australia and April for the
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  Speaker 2: sound of body makes when it's still world tour.
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  Speaker 1: Come guys, Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, good, good, good, so hot Mulligan. We've got sorry
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  Speaker 3: is it.
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  Speaker 1: Jonah and Ryan?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: And also Chris is it I'm tens he's hiding.
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  Speaker 5: No, Yes, that is Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was reading that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just like, I haven't got my glasses and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, that doesn't look like a name. There's definitely
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  Speaker 3: very metal though, So welcome. I hear you guys are
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  Speaker 3: coming back down Under very soon. Yeah, yeah, yeah in April.
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  Speaker 3: So you guys, Dad your big debut back in only
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  Speaker 3: twenty four?
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  Speaker 1: Was it?
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  Speaker 3: If I remember correctly, that sounds great. Yeah, hit the
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  Speaker 3: ground running, start to speak. So tell me a little
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  Speaker 3: bit about that old how that's being for yourselves and
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  Speaker 3: experiences and yeah, obviously first time you when you come
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  Speaker 3: to Dunder and everything up until now.
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  Speaker 2: Well we had a great time, uh last and first
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  Speaker 2: time we came over. I think it was something that
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  Speaker 2: none of us really knew what to expect, Like we
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  Speaker 2: all kind of went in a little blindly, just in
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  Speaker 2: terms of like, uh, it's like the furthest point across
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  Speaker 2: the world that you can possibly get from like where
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  Speaker 2: we live.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm assuming you got yeah, the ace carst as well,
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  Speaker 3: which probably might sit even longer.
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  Speaker 1: Again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, I think that was just one of
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  Speaker 2: those things where you know, you kind of go in
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  Speaker 2: and just uh, I just trust the process, if you will,
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  Speaker 2: and like just go play some shows and see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: And I would say that it turned out better than
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  Speaker 2: any of us expected show wise, and just general being
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  Speaker 2: over there as nice, like we all found the weather
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  Speaker 2: to be awesome.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, especially coming at NIME in April, it's not
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  Speaker 3: not too hot. It's still warm enough to be absolutely
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  Speaker 3: enjoying just before the winter kicks in.
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  Speaker 1: So good time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, not that there's really went out here, like especially
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  Speaker 3: where I leave, it's you know, usually barbie twenty something
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  Speaker 3: degree the Celsius.
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  Speaker 5: I'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: We're very spoiled. I think. Oh, someone was saying, is it.
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  Speaker 3: California like around there, like that's very similar to like
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  Speaker 3: our climate.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, I remember that correctly.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, so, as I said, we hit the ground
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  Speaker 3: running obviously, you're from backgrounds of music prior to coming
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  Speaker 3: together as Hoot Mulligan, So tell me a bit about that.
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  Speaker 3: What was what you guys doing retrospectively individually before we
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  Speaker 3: joined forces?
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  Speaker 5: Gods, nothing, you just well, me and Chris were both
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  Speaker 5: in like the IY bands.
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, that's like local stuff, local to the point
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  Speaker 6: that it doesn't really count. Like the first time any
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  Speaker 6: real effort put forth into writing stuff was when we
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  Speaker 6: started Hot Mulligan.
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  Speaker 5: Fucking years and years ago.
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  Speaker 6: Now, yeah, the I mean, what what uses my voice
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  Speaker 6: in fucking choir in high school?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: So when did you guys actually come together to for
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  Speaker 3: mont Muga and how long have you been doing that
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  Speaker 3: together for now?
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  Speaker 5: I don't.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's probably a year before we did pilot
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  Speaker 6: because we were we were just like done because he
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  Speaker 6: was going to college.
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  Speaker 5: So well, like eleven years or not a pilot.
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  Speaker 6: I've been in the band for ten years, you have,
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  Speaker 6: I have, yes, Jesus Christ, We're probably gone for a few.
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  Speaker 1: Before that, for a minute, so to speak. It's not
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  Speaker 1: yea for a long thanks.
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  Speaker 3: To the algorithms. So obviously that time you built up
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  Speaker 3: your fan base. How have you found that for self?
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  Speaker 1: Spee.
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  Speaker 3: Has it been something that's growing gradually or you had
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  Speaker 3: like a cult following, you know, from the beginning that's
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  Speaker 3: spread out into the masters or what's it?
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  Speaker 1: What's that being like for yourselves?
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  Speaker 6: Gradual at first, for sure, the very very natural growth.
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  Speaker 6: For the first while when we were doing this, it
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  Speaker 6: was putting out an album during COVID that did the
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  Speaker 6: trick for us.
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  Speaker 5: For some reason.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that seemed to you kill bands or make them
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  Speaker 6: and we were shut out for some reason.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, that's great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely have spoken to a few groups and
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  Speaker 3: notists that have had the same success. They've don't used
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  Speaker 3: COVID and that you say it came to their advantage.
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  Speaker 3: And those that I guess we're already established that we're
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  Speaker 3: able to move with the times and make that work
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  Speaker 3: for them were the ones that you know, succeeded through it.
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  Speaker 3: And we've certainly seen a few of those out that were, Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Use COVID as a pretty insane way to put it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, why not?
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  Speaker 1: They take the bullshit by the lawns and make it
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  Speaker 1: work for you.
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  Speaker 3: That's the that's the memento that we'd like to take
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  Speaker 3: on over here.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, use use uh.
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  Speaker 5: Like mass death events to promote your music.
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking not so more, but I'm thinking, like you
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  Speaker 3: know that, you know, working at home and being on
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  Speaker 3: the lockdown and using your time constructively rather.
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  Speaker 5: Ah yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, sorry, I'm speaking to a box.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to tell me who's talking at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: It's just gets very weird.
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  Speaker 3: There's a little brain light goes on and off, so
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  Speaker 3: that's how I can tell.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's yeah. Well, you know, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: take that the mord approach, it's always good for the
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  Speaker 1: shop factor.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, definitely using your time constructively, which she guys
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  Speaker 3: should certainly have done. So coming back down, I know,
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  Speaker 3: what was your experience last time you were here?
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  Speaker 1: So that was back in twenty four, was that right? Yes? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and how is that?
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was great. It was one of those
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  Speaker 2: things where you go somewhere for the first time, so
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  Speaker 2: you have to take a step down in terms of
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  Speaker 2: like the venues you're playing in the production.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, but we really like that that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: We kind of thrive on small shows with no barricade,
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  Speaker 2: especially coming off of like larger tours, and it's a
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  Speaker 2: good way to shake it up. So we had a
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  Speaker 2: great time doing that. And uh now the second time around,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the venues are a little nicer and a
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  Speaker 2: little bigger. We're selling more tickets.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and how many shows are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: That's a really good question that I don't have right
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  Speaker 2: off hand.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's six shows.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I read Melbourne's Go nextra show as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, we added a second one for the first
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  Speaker 4: one sold out.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's all. That's encouraging. That's definitely good. Good year.
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  Speaker 3: It must make it exciting. So any plans to hang
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  Speaker 3: around when you're down here or just going to do
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  Speaker 3: your thing and then you've got a busy schedule afterwards,
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  Speaker 3: what's the what's the rest of twenty six look quite
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  Speaker 3: for you guys?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: We go straight from the end of our shows in Australia,
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  Speaker 4: we go from there to Singapore for one show, and
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  Speaker 4: then we're doing our first tour in Japan.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, that's gonna be interesting. They yeah, and they look
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  Speaker 3: in hard. They they certainly get right in amongst it
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  Speaker 3: with their metal.
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  Speaker 1: It's that'll be good. I get you guys looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, And so where like with your fan base,
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  Speaker 3: where does it sort of stem from most Obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 3: back home, you've got a good following, But in terms
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  Speaker 3: of the rest of the world, where do you see
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  Speaker 3: most of your fans coming from.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's kind of a hard question to answer, just
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  Speaker 2: because we haven't had the chance to play everywhere, you know,
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  Speaker 2: but I think outside of the US, the next like
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  Speaker 2: most successful place for us to put on a show
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  Speaker 2: would be London.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, wow, Okay, that's that's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: It's certainly not what so usually you know, maybe Europe,
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  Speaker 3: parts of Asia or not, Australias always a good one,
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  Speaker 3: but London. So they've really the Brits have really taken
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  Speaker 3: a liking to yourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I mean at least in in their most
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  Speaker 2: major city, you know. Yeah, I think probably the most
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  Speaker 2: amount of tickets we've sold in a city outside of
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  Speaker 2: the US so far has been London. And like I
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  Speaker 2: think we all have fun like playing in you know,
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  Speaker 2: any country or any scenario we're put in, like mainland
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  Speaker 2: Europe is really fun. We just got back from doing
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  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks over there. But those shows, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the fans are just as passionate. But I wouldn't say
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  Speaker 2: that there are as many as there might be you
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  Speaker 2: know back home or in the UK. Yeah, excited to
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  Speaker 2: see how the turnout is in Japan because yeah, well
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  Speaker 2: I've been asking us to go there for a while now.
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  Speaker 3: So oh that's it's a good if you've events to
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  Speaker 3: the cold. Yeah, I feel like you'll get a good
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  Speaker 3: response in good turnout because they are they certainly lucky
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  Speaker 3: and hard. As I said, so, how would you describe
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  Speaker 3: yourselves in a music wise? What would you Everyone gets
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  Speaker 3: you know labeled he there and everyone way, but what
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  Speaker 3: would yourselves?
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  Speaker 1: Let's describe your music.
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  Speaker 6: As basically it's uh, if you mixed what did we
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  Speaker 6: say in the previous interview.
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  Speaker 2: Metallica and Metallica and what was the other one?
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  Speaker 5: And crash test dummies, Yeah, if you.
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  Speaker 6: Crash test dummies like a touch of red hot chili peppers.
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  Speaker 1: Wearing the show. It was literally the best one I
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  Speaker 1: grabbed out of my drill.
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  Speaker 3: Might have some serious hardcore funk and some metal metal.
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  Speaker 1: Vibes and some any one are the vocals like we
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  Speaker 1: go to any screaming happening.
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  Speaker 5: Now just moaning, I'm a screaming of.
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  Speaker 1: As long as you're singing Capitol letters, it's a good excellent, excellent.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, you guys here in April, which is in
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  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks. I think it is that you
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  Speaker 3: guys are coming out, so yeah, and then we'll be
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  Speaker 3: able to see yourself in the flash and see what
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  Speaker 3: you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: So excellent,