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Returning To Take Care Of Unfinished Business With MARC ZELLWEGER From PALEFACE SWISS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, I'm Sally. I'm from Pelface Swiss, a little band
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  Speaker 1: from Syrix, Switzerland, and we're coming back to the very
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  Speaker 1: very large, fucking country of Australia in the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven and I'm so stoked about it because the
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  Speaker 1: last hour that we've done has been fully sold out
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  Speaker 1: and one of the best experiences of my life. So
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  Speaker 1: I've got I've got high hopes, if I'm honest, I've
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  Speaker 1: got high hopes that this is going to be, I
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  Speaker 1: hope the best hour that we've done today. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm very, very very excited to start up the year
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  Speaker 1: in the beautiful country of Australia.
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  Speaker 2: Andtaty man, thanks for joining me this evening.
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  Speaker 1: Of course. Yeah, thank you so much for having me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm stoked. I'm excited.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let you, sir said made up to making your
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  Speaker 3: Australian debut in early twenty twenty five. Papway Swiss are
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  Speaker 3: coming back in early twenty twenty seven, kicking off in
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  Speaker 3: third on January twenty seventh, before he an Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra,
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  Speaker 3: Sydney and Brisbane and finishing in Campbell on Februy the seventh.
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  Speaker 3: So we must have made a pretty good impression on
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  Speaker 3: you the first time around.
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  Speaker 2: Made to become a backstize than dude.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I am sure you get to hear this a
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  Speaker 1: lot from many bands, but Australia is one of the
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  Speaker 1: best places to play music because it's It's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Australia is sick. The people are so I said this
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  Speaker 1: so many times already. The people that go to shows
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  Speaker 1: in Australia, they go to shows because they want to
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  Speaker 1: experience fun. And in so many places on this planet,
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  Speaker 1: people go to shows because they want to criticize things,
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  Speaker 1: they want to find things that they don't like. They
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  Speaker 1: go there as critics, and they don't go there like
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  Speaker 1: open hearted, just like I paid money in order to
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  Speaker 1: have a fun experience, you know. And in Australia, people
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  Speaker 1: go to a show to have fun and not to
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to prove, you don't have to like
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  Speaker 1: talk them over to like have fun. They go there
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  Speaker 1: and have fun, you know. So I love this so
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  Speaker 1: much about Australia. So we're trying to come back as
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  Speaker 1: much as we can because people they seem to like us,
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  Speaker 1: They buy the tickets, They go fucking crazy at our shows,
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  Speaker 1: and of course I would like to experience that as
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  Speaker 1: much as I can, so I'm so thankful that we're
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  Speaker 1: able to come back so soon again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, right, And that headline run practically sold out
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  Speaker 3: pretty much every single ticket nationwide. So but if next
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  Speaker 3: door you step it up to massive iconic space, We've
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  Speaker 3: go on the Forum in Melbourne and a Chivoli im Brisbane.
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  Speaker 2: So how much textra pressures on you?
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  Speaker 1: Mate?
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  Speaker 2: You gotta tell the big ones.
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  Speaker 1: Now, dude, I'm I'm fucking the presuice is there a
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  Speaker 1: little bit? But also like I want them to sell
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  Speaker 1: out because I know how fucking crazy the shows go,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so I want them to be feeled and
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  Speaker 1: all that. But hey, the tickets are on sale for
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days now, and I got some reports
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  Speaker 1: already how the tickets does are looking like, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: this is beyond every expectations. So honestly, I'm not too
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  Speaker 1: scared that they want go. Well, I'm confident in my
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  Speaker 1: people in Australia, you know, to fucking support us. So
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  Speaker 1: the tickets are looking very good already, so I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: fuck us. We now can focus on putting on the
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  Speaker 1: best show that we can. You guys, really and don't
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  Speaker 1: have to focus too much about we need to sell
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  Speaker 1: more tickets and blah blah blah. You know, so this
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  Speaker 1: is something I'm also obviously very happy about that the
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  Speaker 1: tickets are looking good already.
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  Speaker 3: Manash Hin my sit and I so heavy bands stick
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  Speaker 3: pretty much to the major capitalis Brian.
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  Speaker 2: But your reports tore up at the way house in Townsville.
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  Speaker 3: Lot, what made you decry to take things up to
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  Speaker 3: the crazy crazy final of Greenland?
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I love seeing places in countries that like places
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  Speaker 1: that nobody goes, or like not many people go. Last
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  Speaker 1: time we did Newcastle. This time we do Canberra and Townsville.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I know what to expect from Melbourne. I've
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  Speaker 1: got high expectations in Melbourne. I've got high expectations in Brisbane.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what to expect from Townsville at all.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm all, I'm all in for surprises. I love surprises.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm like, I want to have one or two
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  Speaker 1: cities where I'm like, I don't know what to expect.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. It's going to be exciting for all of us,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And I like I like traveling, I like
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  Speaker 1: seeing stuff. So this is a great opportunity. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know a single person that can tell me, Hey, I've
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  Speaker 1: been to Townsville, Australia and I did this and that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know a single person that knows about Townsville, Australia,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And I'm like, fuck, yeah, I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: there and I'm going to see how it's like, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you know how it was.
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  Speaker 2: You know, wat spoiler. I lived out there for about
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  Speaker 2: thirty years. But you're in for a trade. You gotta
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  Speaker 2: love it.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny. It's funny that you live there. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Someone Now, I know one person that lived there, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: What do you Where do you live now?
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  Speaker 2: I mean Brisbane?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 2: So I'll be come along to the Brisbane show for sure.
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  Speaker 1: A chi very good. I'm looking forward. We played that
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  Speaker 1: place once when we support it in Heart's Wake and
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  Speaker 1: it has been my favorite tour, my favorite show of
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  Speaker 1: that tour because of the venue is so nice and
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  Speaker 1: that people were not So I've got high expectations. High expectations,
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  Speaker 1: easy man.
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  Speaker 3: And alongside those headline days, so you're hidden Froth and
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  Speaker 3: Fury Festival in Adelaide. So how do you mentally prepare
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  Speaker 3: the transition, like from the intimate, sweaty Cob show atmosphere
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  Speaker 3: into the massive, open stage type thing of Broth and Fury.
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  Speaker 1: We do that in Europe a lot. Like we like
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  Speaker 1: during the summer run. We often go back and forth
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  Speaker 1: from festivals to club shows and I really like it. It
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  Speaker 1: keeps things bed, Like I know, there's many many people
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  Speaker 1: that like that, love their routine, like having the same
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  Speaker 1: thing every night, and I like having different things every
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  Speaker 1: single night, Like everything looks different and stuff. I like it.
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  Speaker 1: So for me, there's like it's exciting more than like
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  Speaker 1: how do I how do I manage this? No, it's
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  Speaker 1: like I like that. It is like that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm very, very excited to play the first festival in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be our first festival, so I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: to do this.
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  Speaker 2: Ah.
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  Speaker 3: So you bring in counterparts and box like with your mate,
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  Speaker 3: and make sure one of the most violid and embrace
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  Speaker 3: the metal lineups in twenty twenty seven, man, like, how
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  Speaker 3: did this package come together? And is there a little
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  Speaker 3: small party that's worried that everyone to be worn out
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  Speaker 3: by the time you get on stage.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, no, I'm not, because I think a three band
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  Speaker 1: bill is perfect. It's perfect amount of bands, especially when
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  Speaker 1: when it's like intense music. I don't understand four or
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  Speaker 1: five six bands at one night. I don't understand this
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  Speaker 1: concept at all. It's too much for me. But three bands,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's perfect. And counterparts. I love their music
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  Speaker 1: so much. I really really do like them. And we
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  Speaker 1: toured once or twice together, and since then we stayed friends,
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  Speaker 1: and we were waiting to tour again together for such
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  Speaker 1: a long time. And the fact that we can do
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  Speaker 1: this in such a sick country as Australia is fucking
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  Speaker 1: I love this Fox Lake, good people, good friends, good music.
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  Speaker 1: And we hung out so many times already, we played
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  Speaker 1: shows together, we drank so many beers together. So this
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  Speaker 1: is like a dream tour. It's in a dream country.
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  Speaker 1: Both bands are like the people, both bands are like
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  Speaker 1: the music. What else do you fucking want? It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 2: Nice to stay here, bro, bringy beaser and stay here, right,
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  Speaker 2: I love it and provide us the change.
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  Speaker 3: That you bring in a much biggest show to Australia
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  Speaker 3: Tom round too, So that's fall on the surprise. What
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  Speaker 3: sort of visual or production upgrades and fans expect when
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  Speaker 3: the lights get down.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, of course we want to bring some production.
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  Speaker 1: I love visual stuff, a lot of lights, all of
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  Speaker 1: a good production. I know we cannot bring what we
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  Speaker 1: have in Europe obviously because it's which is not big
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  Speaker 1: enough to do that, you know, But we try to
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  Speaker 1: put as many things on stage as we can. But
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  Speaker 1: also I know for a fact that we are a
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  Speaker 1: band we don't even if we're zero percent of production,
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  Speaker 1: we would still have a great fucking time and a
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  Speaker 1: great fucking show. So it's like there's no pressure of
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  Speaker 1: bringing the best thing poss well because we don't need
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  Speaker 1: a good production in my opinion, in order to have fun.
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  Speaker 1: But I love a good production, so I want to
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  Speaker 1: bring things, you know. And now, knowing that the tickets
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  Speaker 1: are selling well, I can focus on things like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what can we do? What can we bring? We have
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  Speaker 1: this amount of money, we have this amount of time,
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  Speaker 1: those other venues, what can we do? You know? And
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to give those shedding people the same experience
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  Speaker 1: as we can in Europe, at least as close as possible, really,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And the tour is going to be heavily album
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  Speaker 4: with songs from me released the Wilted APay, Right, So
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  Speaker 4: how do other of the songs on that expand on
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  Speaker 4: the bleak aggressive foundations that you built with Cursed.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, everything feels really really good and really really like
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  Speaker 1: natural and organic with this whole release is and the
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  Speaker 1: people seem to enjoy all of them, which I'm very
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  Speaker 1: very happy about. And what I like the most is
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  Speaker 1: playing a new song for the first time in a
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  Speaker 1: new country kind of deal, you know. And we I
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  Speaker 1: think there's six songs that we're gonna play or seven
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  Speaker 1: songs that we're gonna play that we have never played
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  Speaker 1: in Australia, you know, And I'm so excited about this. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited to play those six songs for the
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  Speaker 1: first time in Australia because all those songs we played
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  Speaker 1: all over the place, all over Europe, all over America,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, hold on, we never played those songs
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  Speaker 1: in Australia. Fuck. Yeah, It's gonna be another first time
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  Speaker 1: for us, you know. And I'm very very very excited
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  Speaker 1: about this. And I like the EP. I like the
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  Speaker 1: EP I like Cursed, I like playing those songs, and
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  Speaker 1: like I said, the fact that we have not played
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  Speaker 1: anything of the Will to be p for example in
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  Speaker 1: Australia makes it even more exciting.
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  Speaker 3: And you mentioned that you playing these songs all around
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  Speaker 3: the world, like and you obviously the first song you
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  Speaker 3: play and you played them to a new crowd. But
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  Speaker 3: do you've find the reactions to new songs that different
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  Speaker 3: and different parts of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so it depends on like how how
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  Speaker 1: loud the people are, like this is it the sing
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  Speaker 1: along song? Is it a mush song? Is it a
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  Speaker 1: party song? Are we on a festival or we in
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  Speaker 1: a club or whatever? But all over the place that
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  Speaker 1: people enjoyed the new songs a lot like none of
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  Speaker 1: none of the none of the places people were like
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  Speaker 1: added this sucks. It has always been good. But I
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  Speaker 1: expect I say that to like go crazy because you
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  Speaker 1: guys do everything. You guys move a bunch and you
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  Speaker 1: sing very loud. So I think I think the feedback
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  Speaker 1: to the new songs are going to be amazing for us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel when when did you get your music?
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  Speaker 3: Man like and essentially Blend's death or hardcore new metal
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  Speaker 3: brass And there's a lot more going on too, and
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  Speaker 3: so in the creative process, like how do you find
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  Speaker 3: the balance between all those genres? And like how do
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  Speaker 3: you know when you got too far in one direction
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  Speaker 3: or maybe not far enough in another.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't care about seen as adult.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a weird concept. I understand the concept,
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  Speaker 1: but either it's not for me. I don't care. As
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  Speaker 1: long as I like what we do, I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: And I thing that there's a too far. We write
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  Speaker 1: however we feel, and I think that people people can tell,
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  Speaker 1: so we want to keep doing that. We want to
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  Speaker 1: keep writing however we feel. And I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: there's a too far. If I want to write a
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  Speaker 1: pop song, I write a fucking pop song. And if
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  Speaker 1: I want to write a grindcore song, then let me
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  Speaker 1: sound like a fucking pig, you know. So we we're
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  Speaker 1: just doing whatever sounds good to our ears or whatever
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  Speaker 1: whatever the emotions, whatever the emotions bring really like the
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  Speaker 1: feelings and all that, you know, Yeah cool?
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  Speaker 3: How about the library and made like with so much
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  Speaker 3: going on, like how do you manage to let the
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  Speaker 3: music breathe and not become congested.
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  Speaker 1: Like the news that we already released breathe.
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  Speaker 3: Everything made like you've got so much gone on musically,
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  Speaker 3: Like it's like you say, there's been everything in there,
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  Speaker 3: but that it should overlapp and sound congested.
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  Speaker 2: But with you guys, you just make it all down
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  Speaker 2: crispin and fresh.
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  Speaker 1: Like I mean, for example, I don't listen to metal
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  Speaker 1: music too often. I listen to all sorts of stuff
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  Speaker 1: way more often than metal, and I try to I
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  Speaker 1: always try to get my inspiration, for example, from places
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  Speaker 1: very far out out of metal, and that makes it
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  Speaker 1: refreshing and like keeps it exciting and fresh to me,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So I never felt like that. There's been
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  Speaker 1: one or two like situations in my life andere I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I can write something right now,
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  Speaker 1: And then I sit down, I'm like, oh, this is
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  Speaker 1: fucking easy, fucking I'm so inspired, you know. And because
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  Speaker 1: I I don't know, I take my inspiration from all
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  Speaker 1: over the place, and there's been so much going on
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  Speaker 1: in my private life this past couple of months. So
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  Speaker 1: there's so much stuff that I want to say that
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  Speaker 1: I want to tell that I want to feel or
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  Speaker 1: like try to understand, and I try to do it
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  Speaker 1: with the music. So right now I'm so I'm so
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  Speaker 1: ready to write whatever you know. I don't feel it's
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  Speaker 1: too much at all. Like musically, I don't feel it's
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  Speaker 1: too much. I feel like I want to do more,
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  Speaker 1: more and more constantly at this point right now. But
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  Speaker 1: I want to do whatever I feel like if I
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  Speaker 1: would if somebody would tell me you have to write this,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I would be able, Like I just
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  Speaker 1: want to write what I feel really.
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  Speaker 3: Before, can you remember the first time you ever heard
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  Speaker 3: one of your songs played on the radio and where
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  Speaker 3: were you and what song was it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't listen to radio too much, but one thing
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  Speaker 1: that I really, really really remember is we did an
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  Speaker 1: interview for the biggest radio station in Switzerland, and they
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  Speaker 1: don't care about metal music at all. It's really, really,
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  Speaker 1: really mainstream. So it's crazy that we somehow got there
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  Speaker 1: and they told us they're going to play maybe a
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  Speaker 1: snippet from a song. And the lady that was like
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  Speaker 1: interviewing us and like, did that radio show. She apparently
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  Speaker 1: likes us a lot, And I was like tuning in.
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  Speaker 1: It was late at night, it wasn't like an evening
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  Speaker 1: night radio show, and I was by myself somewhere on
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  Speaker 1: a mountain and I tuned in and they ended up
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  Speaker 1: playing four songs, like full length four songs. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: not that I cared too much about radio stations, don't
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  Speaker 1: get me wrong, but I don't listen to radio too often,
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  Speaker 1: But that really made me feel very very special. I
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  Speaker 1: did appreciate that so much, like there was a special moment.
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  Speaker 1: She nearly dedicated an hour just to the band, like
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  Speaker 1: with the four songs and the interview that with it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is fucking crazy, and that that was
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  Speaker 1: a memory that sticks with me for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: This was at the first proper like this is the
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  Speaker 1: radio station I grew up listening to when I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the car with my mom or whatever, you know, So
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  Speaker 1: that that was a special moment, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, right, Well thanks very much for you.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm rather you will be out here with Powerplay
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  Speaker 3: Swiss in January and February of twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: So and brother, you take care.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, you too, Thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for having me, and I'll see you in February. Assass