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Indecent With A Twist Of Metal, COPPERHEAD Talk New Music And Song Titles · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Williams. I play the drums in Copperhead.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Charlie Wicks. I play guitar and vocals in Copperhead.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nate and I play bass in Copyhead and background vocals.
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  Speaker 3: Fantastic guys, thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks very much, Thank you so much for having us.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, pleasure guys.
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  Speaker 4: So, Copperhead will be releasing your new single, Public Indecency
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  Speaker 4: on January the thirties.
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  Speaker 3: So how you feeled about it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, very excited.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, we're extremely excited. We've been you know, we've
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  Speaker 1: had this song in the files for months now, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and we've just been so eager to get.
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  Speaker 2: It out, the blood thing out the world.
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  Speaker 1: And now it's finally happening, and it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: out next week, and we're just over the Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, I tell us a bit about the song from
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  Speaker 4: a musical point of view and what you're going for
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  Speaker 4: with it.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, the music, the lineup of instruments is pretty simple.
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  Speaker 1: We've got guitar, bass, vocals, and dramas. Yeah, it's pretty raw,
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  Speaker 1: old school, yeah, keeping that old school sound. You know.
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  Speaker 1: We've started off with Mortal Souls. We released a song
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  Speaker 1: called Mortal Souls a few months ago, which quickly wracked
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  Speaker 1: up thousands of streams on Spotify, And we just want
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  Speaker 1: to keep that momentum rolling and get it out to
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  Speaker 1: the world. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, public indecency is pretty cool subject matter from a
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  Speaker 4: band still saying up And so have you guys ever
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  Speaker 4: had any experience or been arrested for public a decency?
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  Speaker 1: Not yet?
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  Speaker 2: Not yet?
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  Speaker 4: I have. I listened to the song that brought back
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  Speaker 4: so many good memories. Yeah, what's a group of young
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  Speaker 4: fellows doing writing about something like that?
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  Speaker 3: Anyway?
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  Speaker 4: Like most of you guys are supposed to be writing
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  Speaker 4: about your high school crush or the cheating you want
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  Speaker 4: to th rocksat, Like that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, funny story. The song actually has nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with public in decency.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a fucking name off the tongue, really right.
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  Speaker 2: I was watching, but I.
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  Speaker 3: Was wondering, like, when the commins gonna play?
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  Speaker 1: Then?
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  Speaker 3: Wh when they're coming into the you know?
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  Speaker 1: But I guess we've kind of so the song, the
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  Speaker 1: song name, the song title was already established before there
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  Speaker 1: were any lyrics. What's weird anything like that? That? We
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  Speaker 1: just had a crappy instrumental. We just ran with it.
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  Speaker 5: It's just it's sort of stuck in our minds, Like
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  Speaker 5: it's just like that's a fucking tough ass name for
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  Speaker 5: a song, Like I'm not like it just sort of
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  Speaker 5: fits works well for us, Like it's just it's sort
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  Speaker 5: of less just like it's an awesome name.
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  Speaker 4: Really, I have never heard anything like that before. Guys
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  Speaker 4: been hats off to you for doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we don't. We don't know why.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know why, we.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know why.
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  Speaker 3: It's obviously working.
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  Speaker 1: We even thought, oh maybe we should change the name.
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  Speaker 1: We just couldn't think of anything that Yeah, that's yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, it was just so it was it's just fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's a fun song.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the same thing is before we actually started to
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  Speaker 4: be like when people hear the song, they'll understand themselves.
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  Speaker 4: But there's about a minute where the intro there just
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  Speaker 4: instrumental before the vocals kick in. Like I love that
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  Speaker 4: sort of thinking music because it's not done very often.
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  Speaker 4: But there's bands that have been around for twenty or
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  Speaker 4: thirty years that haven't got the balls to do that anymore.
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  Speaker 4: But you guys are coming in. You still have got
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  Speaker 4: your baby chief most years and you're probably out shit
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  Speaker 4: like that, Like, wherehere's that come from?
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to talk about that? You do that?
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  Speaker 1: Because I didn't. I didn't writ an instrumental.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's sort of like it's just sort of like
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  Speaker 6: I've always liked stuff like that where it's like it
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  Speaker 6: has this cool sort of start where nothing's happening.
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  Speaker 7: Nate over here on the bass is sort of ripping
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  Speaker 7: out on the instrumental bit, and then it all just
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  Speaker 7: sort of comes in.
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  Speaker 1: And we kind of come in with a bang, just
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  Speaker 1: sort of a bang.
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  Speaker 2: We like that sort of punch in the face type shit.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's just like, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, yeah, it's also good for an event here, I
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  Speaker 4: think because people that haven't heard much of you guys before,
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  Speaker 4: if that's their first taste, it gets you about a
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  Speaker 4: minute and you're thinking, these guys instrumental when the lyrics
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  Speaker 4: coming in and then come in, so sort of it's
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  Speaker 4: signing a bit of a curveball there by doing that
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  Speaker 4: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when we were recording, like when we were recording
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  Speaker 1: the song, what we were thinking this song could work
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  Speaker 1: as an instrumental.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, fuck that instrumental is boring, Like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you know, we thought that we were
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  Speaker 1: just like, yeah, no, instrumentals are boring.
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  Speaker 2: Fucking tough as lyrics and dang.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned your debut song, Mortal Souls, so that came
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  Speaker 4: out not long ago and you got this one as
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  Speaker 4: a follow up.
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  Speaker 3: So how do they differ musically the two songs tempo?
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  Speaker 1: Tempo for sure is a subject matter. You know, Mortal
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  Speaker 1: Souls it kind of came around as just a song
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  Speaker 1: about a battle between two sides. It's just two sides
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  Speaker 1: battling it out to become on top. And yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's and it's almost as if like I don't ever
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, but two teams battling
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  Speaker 1: it out to come on top that that song is about.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, Republic Indecency is a lot more serious.
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  Speaker 8: I guess that I think I'm bad, Like it was
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  Speaker 8: it a hard decision to know what order to release
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  Speaker 8: the two songs in or do you just sort of
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  Speaker 8: out there and see what happens?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. We released Mortal Souls first because we thought
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  Speaker 1: it was just a good way to really show people
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  Speaker 1: who we are. But Public Indecency is our favorite out
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  Speaker 1: of the two. Songs, and we kind of wanted to
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  Speaker 1: hold off on releasing the better song. I guess people
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  Speaker 1: are going to be surprised when it is musically. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and because Mortal Souls is just a you know, thrash
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  Speaker 1: it out, just go hard all the time, and I
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  Speaker 1: guess Public Indecency is also that in a way. But
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  Speaker 1: it's a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot more like this fucking you know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know how to describe it. You're just
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  Speaker 1: going to have to listen to it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Moving forward with new music, which which are the two songs?
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  Speaker 4: Is more what you're going to sound like?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, probably a combination of the two. Yeah, Rather than
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  Speaker 1: trying to sound more like Mortal Souls or trying to
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  Speaker 1: sound more like Public Immecency, We're just going to roll
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  Speaker 1: with whatever sounds right to us and what it feels,
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  Speaker 1: whatever feels the best, whatever feels good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Both of those songs were co written with Aussie punk
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  Speaker 4: out the Captives. So can you explain the process of
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  Speaker 4: co writing a song and why you.
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  Speaker 3: Would do it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, the.
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  Speaker 1: With the two songs, they were brought to me by
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  Speaker 1: Charlie and Nate because I wasn't I wasn't in the band.
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  Speaker 1: I they had a drummer lined up to go to
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  Speaker 1: Melbourne to record the two songs, like he couldn't make
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  Speaker 1: it just because of I just couldn't do it. Just so,
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  Speaker 1: about a week and a half I think it was,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe two weeks before they were supposed to go
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  Speaker 1: to Melbourne to record, they asked me to go and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, sure, send me the demos. They
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  Speaker 1: sent me the demos and I was like, well, they
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  Speaker 1: sent me a demo.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it was a demo because I don't
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  Speaker 7: think we did a demo more so.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but they had a demo of Public in Decency
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  Speaker 1: and I listened to it and I was like, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, we brought it. We brought both the songs
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  Speaker 1: back to my place. Did you even have an instrumental
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  Speaker 1: for Mortal Souls? I think he had a had it, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and then I put drums over it and it just worked.
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  Speaker 1: It just worked, you know. Yeah, a lot of our
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  Speaker 1: stuff he's improvised as well.
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  Speaker 2: We just bond so well.
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  Speaker 7: When we play stuff together as a band, stuff just
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  Speaker 7: comes out immediately and it works. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Tell the story of how you met Aaron.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I met Aaron the lead singer of Captives through
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  Speaker 9: a Facebook marketplace post right, and I was trying to buy.
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  Speaker 7: I was trying to invest in some pas for the band,
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  Speaker 7: and I happened to be talking to Aaron.
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  Speaker 2: Where I had no clue about it, and I went
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  Speaker 2: to go pick.
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  Speaker 7: Him up, and I was speaking to his mum, and
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  Speaker 7: his mum was just so into about she was so
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  Speaker 7: into the band and I was just talking about Obviously.
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  Speaker 2: She must have passed it on to Aaron. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what happened there.
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  Speaker 7: And me and Aaron just always kept in contact and yeah,
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  Speaker 7: I mean he one day asked us to go to
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  Speaker 7: mel and record with Tyson Fish and.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going from there. Yeah. Yeah. We showed up
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  Speaker 1: to Melbourne. You know, we went and stayed at night
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  Speaker 1: in the hotel and Aaron met us down in the
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  Speaker 1: street and and he's like, all right, boys, come with me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We went with Charlie's parents and they just sent us off.
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  Speaker 1: They were like, all right, if you go go with Aaron.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He ended up, you know, driving us three out.
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  Speaker 2: What was this I can't but it was pretty far away,
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  Speaker 2: Like we were right.
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  Speaker 7: In the city and they were like Tyson and Aron
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  Speaker 7: like all the way out.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: So every day, like Aaron was driving in to pick
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  Speaker 2: us up and drive will driving out there.
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  Speaker 1: And like yeah it's cool. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Cool.
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  Speaker 1: So the reason we chose to go to Melbourne to
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  Speaker 1: record the two songs was because we were offered to
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  Speaker 1: go to Melbourne to record you Captives. They must have
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  Speaker 1: just seen something in Copperhead and they you know, they
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  Speaker 1: helped out a lot financially. Yeah, and they're they're investing
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  Speaker 1: in us.
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  Speaker 3: Good good.
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  Speaker 4: Did you record any more than those two songs while
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  Speaker 4: you were there or is that it for now?
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  Speaker 1: That's it for now. Yeah, but we do have plans
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  Speaker 1: to go back very soon. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: Nice with Tyson and Captives at the moment.
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  Speaker 4: Now, you guys have got a couple of shows coming
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  Speaker 4: up as well, one on February the twenty seventh, and
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  Speaker 4: one on March or twenty third, so tell us more
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  Speaker 4: about them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So we'll be playing in Devonport at the pub
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  Speaker 1: Rock Diner supporting a band called Crusty Virus. Yeah, pretty interesting,
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  Speaker 1: and you know our friends in Swords Brows and run
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  Speaker 1: the out there also supporting Custom Virus. That's looking to
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  Speaker 1: be a pretty awesome night. Yeah, it'll be our first
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  Speaker 1: public appearance since the Tasmanium Rock Challenge.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, all right, I say you're going from the minor league,
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  Speaker 4: so it's the major league straight up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, we like to think of it that way.
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  Speaker 3: I meant that. I meant that.
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  Speaker 4: Then the best way possibly going from playing the school
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  Speaker 4: competition to your first gig out of that is supporting
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  Speaker 4: a decent band, Like it's he is nervous.
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  Speaker 1: We're very exciting, very excited. Yeah, we're trying not to
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  Speaker 1: be nervous. Yes, we're always going to be nervous, always
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  Speaker 1: to be there.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah that boys, keep nerves of what keep you
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  Speaker 4: guys still get just as nervous before talking to you
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  Speaker 4: guys as I would before talking. Look, and the day
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  Speaker 4: that stops today, I'll give it up, man. Like nerves
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  Speaker 4: are a fucking good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're just hoping to put on the
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  Speaker 1: best performance we can every single time we play a show.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to come out with a bang in Devonport.
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  Speaker 1: Then we're going to follow it up in Long Sesson
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  Speaker 1: in March on the thirteenth of March. Yep, and then yep,
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  Speaker 1: that's all that's announced for now.
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  Speaker 4: That's all't push anymore then, Beau, So what does the
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  Speaker 4: next twelve to eighteen months look like for coffe and
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  Speaker 4: if you've got things mapped out.
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  Speaker 1: Of yes, we do, Yes, what can you tell us?
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  Speaker 1: We can tell you that we'll be doing those two shows,
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  Speaker 1: one in Long Sesson and one in Devonport, both going
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  Speaker 1: to be pretty epic performances from us. Yeah, and we
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  Speaker 1: plan to go back to record in Melbourne another two
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  Speaker 1: songs in at the very start of May.
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  Speaker 4: Right, yeah, I awaken people. Keep an eye out for
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  Speaker 4: you and keep up to date with what you're up.
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  Speaker 1: To Instagram, Instagram, Facebook, Copperhead on Facebook, well, the Copperhead
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  Speaker 1: sound on Instagram yep, and copper Head on Facebook.
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  Speaker 4: Fantastic roys. All right, Well that's all I've got for
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  Speaker 4: you today. This single, Public Indecency is out January thirtieth.
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  Speaker 4: Then I think she's a fucking cracker, so hopefully the
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  Speaker 4: rest of the world agrees with me. But otherwise, thanks
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  Speaker 4: for the chat voice and best of luck with the
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  Speaker 4: fu chat.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Thank you so much for having us,
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  Speaker 1: and we're really glad that you enjoy the song.