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Musical Magic With BRADY DEEPROSE From CONJURER · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hi, I'm Brady. I play guitar and shout in Conjura. We are
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  a heavy rock band from the UK and we are coming on tour in Australia,
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  which sounds insane to say out loud. In May. We're playing three
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  headline shows and a couple of shirts put in botch and all the dates for
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  online if you want to go search it out because I can't remember them off
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  the top of my head and I'm here chatting with the lovely Chris. You
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  had it for, Brady. Thanks for your time that I made nice to
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  speak for me. Yeah you too, man, thanks for having me.
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  Oh right, So I have got some dates sorry, Actually, bro,
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  like Conjura make your way to Australia next month for a run of five shows,
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  starting in Brisbane on May the fifteen, then hitting Newcastle, Sydney and
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  Melbourne, finishing an adelade on May the nineteenth. Mate, So it's still
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  about four weeks away. But are you packed and ready to go yet?
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  I moved house three days ago, so I'm not even unpacked at this point.
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  But yeah, man, I last time we were in Australia. We're
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  down for Darkmophone in Tasmania and I spent four out of the five days sick
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  as a dog in bed, so I'm like ready to get back out and
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  actually experience some of the country. And yeah, man, it's one of
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  those kind of like bucket list tours that you see buns going to Australia and
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  never feels like it's going to be you. But yeah, we're just so
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  so thankful to have the opportunity and to be getting back out there, you
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  know. And then it's a brutal run of five shows in five days.
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  Mate, Like, do you ever get the feel and someone in your booking
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  team doesn't like yet, Yeah, yeah, it's all of them for sure.
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  It's because we're playing ten show nine shows in ten days and then flying
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  directly to Australia off the back of that, so we're like, it's going
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  to be really was saying to the guys. I was like, I'm obviously
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  really excited about this. It's going to be the most brutal month of touring
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  we've ever done just in terms of logistics, so we'll see, like we're
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  going to be absolutely shagged by the time we get there. So I'm but
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  it's one of those like you, we're so lucky to be able to do
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  this, Like you get up, you drink a couple of Red Bulls,
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  and you make it happen. Like the shows are going to be amazing.
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  I just don't know if we're going to have any time to do what I
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  really want to do, which is go and hold a koala. So well,
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  that's my only real goal of this entire tour is to get out there
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  and hold a koala. So I'll keep you posted on whether that happens or
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  not. Absolutely, How do you mentally and physically prepare for on of shows
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  like that, Like it's got to be you've got to prepare yourself before you
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  leave obviously, when yeah, I've got to start going to the gym again
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  because I'm so out of shape, and like the physical toll of touring is
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  really underrated I think realistically though, like we've all been doing this for so
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  long, I think anything that can go wrong has gone wrong. Any kind
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  of extended period we did, Like the first US tour was thirty six shows
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  in thirty four days, and one of the days off was like a fourteen
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  hour drive. So like, in terms of like the the mental ability to
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  get through a run of shows, like we can do it we've done the
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  the phrase I always uses, I've driven further to play to less people,
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  Like we turn over any show guarantee, I've driven further to play to less
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  people. So, yeah, we get to the point where we've all been
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  doing this for so long that we kind of fall into a rhythm and just
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  make it happen. And I think a big part of that is having some
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  time and some grace and some respect for the people that you're with and realizing
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  we are all different, and we are all human, and we all have
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  strengths and weaknesses, and I think giving each other the benefit of the doubt
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  as well. And if someone is having an absolute mare, if someone says,
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  hey, I can't help load in right now, taking that face value
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  and going okay, I trust that you're not taking the piss here, you
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  know, and if I am ever in that situation, that you'll carry the
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  slack for me. So it's a dynamic that we've really had to like actively
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  work on, but are now and in that position where we can I think
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  we can make it happen regardless of where we're at, you know. Yeah,
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  good attitude man, And said before this is going to be your first
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  tour of mainland Australia after an exclusive one off show in Tasmania for Darkmofa in
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  twenty twenty two. So when you play something like this for the first time,
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  do you do your research and talk to people who've been here for to
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  find out what do you expect? Or do you coming cold and Peter as
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  an experience, I guess coming cold because I'm not spoken to Anyone's some advice,
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  Like, I I think that of all of the like different places we've
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  been, while there are these like different cultural norms and stuff, for the
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  most part, like a room full of people that like music with distorted guitars
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  and shouting, is a room full of people who like music, distorted guitars
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  and shouting. The the kind of commonalities between bands from different you know,
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  cultures and metal fans is like it's really comforting knowing that we can travel halfway
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  around the world and see a bunch of bald, sweaty white guys in converted
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  shirts like just the same as it is at home. Like, you know,
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  there's that that kind of familiarity in the metal scene is it's something that
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  is really comforting. But like I think all of us do this to kind
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  of push those those norms to go out there and experience different cultures and meet
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  new people. And like, I think it has not directly related, but
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  like the diversity in people that I know through music compared to if I had
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  stayed in my hometown of like tiny little town of like twenty thousand people in
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  you know, white Christian Middle England is astronomical, right, Like it's it's
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  I think the the accessibility of MeTL and the breadth of experience and that kind
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  of like shed thing that people have is really fucking powerful and something that I
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  think does translate across all these these new places. So I'm quite excited to
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  see what the Australian scene has to offer and kind of get out there and
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  meet people and you know, learn something more than what TV has taught me
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  about Australia. You know you're in for a shock then, brother, if
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  all the TV's just watch, you know you're in for a big shock for
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  it. So I'm on the flip side of that. Might like Australian fans
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  might know what to expect from you either, So run as through a typical
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  conjure live show, if there is such thing, I think for us it's
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  all about kind of it's the I never really and no one's ever asked me
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  that question. Like, I don't know, man, that we I think
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  we're pretty old school in our approach in that there's not really any gimmicks to
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  it. Like we turn up real loud and use that like thirty to ninety
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  minutes depending on the night, as an excuse to kind of get all of
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  the negativity out. And I think we're all quite mild mannered people. Boring
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  nerds is the the phrase that I normally used to describe the band, myself
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  included, But I think that that time on stage allows us to spend the
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  rest of our time being boring nerds. I think it's high energy. It
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  is fartic, certainly for me, and like just like the most fun thing
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  I do, all kind of like wrapped up in one. We're ultimately,
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  we're making music because we enjoy doing it, and I hope that if people
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  come onto the show, they can share in that experience and we can have
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  a nice time. It was good to me, mate, then, speaking
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  of music, like your music draws influence from a wide variety of genres,
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  including sludge, death, bloom with black metal hardcore, and they're like,
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  it's a brutal, fucking mixture. But when you first started, how difficult
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  was it bringing them all together to create a sound of your own. I
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  think it's funny because it's not something that we actively try to do. We
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  were never like, oh, we're going to go out and take that,
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  you know, take a bunch of genres and mash together. Dan and I
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  were both playing in metalcore bands for for a number of years and kind of
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  just got sick of that scene more than the music and the the kind of
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  lack of creativity, the egos, the all the bullshit that is that came
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  along with that, like New mid two thousand's wave of metalcore, which is
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  kind of when I was getting into to metal and started like that, Me
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  and them found each other and really wanted to start making music that was exciting
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  to us, and was was also the same time that we were discovering a
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  lot of doom, sludge stoner. Yeah. I'd gone from listening to these
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  medical bands to getting into Kajira and the Black Dahlia Murder and Yob and Poor
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  Bearra and Anthro Apocalypse and Converge and like so many bands that are a huge
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  influence on us. It just seemed really natural to all these new ideas that
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  were coming at us at the same time to like take influence from that.
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  And it wasn't really until many years later that I realized that that's not what
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  every band is like. In my mind, I'm like, yeah, there's
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  all this music out there, you know, you're you know, everyone's just
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  trying to take in as much as they can. And I think I was
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  just really lucky to find someone like Dan to make music with, who is
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  so broad in their tastes and really influenced me to kind of widen my listening.
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  And yeah, there was never any intent to do what we were doing.
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  It was just to keep making music that was exciting to us and that
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  that's not changed at all. I think for us, it's still not to
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  repeat ourselves, to keep challenging and pushing ourselves and to make something that we
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  aren't going to be bored of in ten years if we continue being a band
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  and have to keep playing those songs, you know, like something that is
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  truly the best version of whatever it can be. So yeah, it's been
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  a it's it's been interesting. I actually read a funny but awesome quote about
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  Conjured the other day where they described you as non specific in terms of music
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  sub genre, which I think it's perfect. It's every band should be like
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  that. Yeah, that was something we could because getting asked about what genre
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  we were and we went with for quite a while uk Riff Music, which
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  is our legal company name, but it kind of like felt a little bit
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  reductive, So non specific metal was I see. I still feel like it's
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  accurate because like, I don't know that there's I think it speaks to like
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  my favorite bands from every genre are the bands that are like kind of on
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  the fringes. Like my favorite death metal band is probably Gadjira and they're like
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  kind of a death metal band throughout their career. And my favorite black metal
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  band will be someone like if They're Gonna Fry Height or like one of these
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  like more modern bands or even Death Heaven that are like on the edges of
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  being a black metal b And you know, like, I think that really
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  speaks to the influence that we take. Like I'm not the biggest black metal
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  fan back like black I'm not the biggest death matal back like death metal.
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  I'm not the biggest heavy metal fan, but I like certain songs. You
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  know, it's for us. It's all about really picking and choosing your artists
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  from each genre and really finding those records that speak to you and trying to
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  fuse all that together as opposed to we are four people wearing Metallica shirts that
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  love Metallica and guess who we fucking sound like, you know? And yeah,
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  most recent album, Pathos came out in twenty twenty two. Mates,
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  so well, this tour bring to a close that album cycle, and so
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  you start work on the next one. Yeah, so we've been this year
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  is really when we've knuckled down to focus on the record. And yeah,
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  I it's funny because Maya felt like it went on wherever that touring cycle.
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  You know, we did so much on it, and it feels like the
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  path of cyclers come to a close before it's even started. But we've done
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  so much off the back of this record that is I think, less commercially
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  viable and a harder listen and you know, less immediate and all of the
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  things that labels don't want to hear record. And I think we've been really
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  lucky to continue to grow the band and to travel around the world. And
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  yeah, like you say, wrapping down the cycle with a bunch of UK
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  and European festivals and some European tours, and the chances to come to Australia
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  and play with botches pretty fucking insane as far as I'm concerned. That's awesome.
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  Ro Well, thanks for you, Tom Brady's been a pleasure speaking with
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  you today. Mate. The tour does kick off in Brisbane on May the
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  fifteenth, mate, so look forward to seeing me there.