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Maintaining Altitude With MATTY DEE From DIRTY PAGANS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I'm Maddie D from the Dirty Pagans in Adelaide, South Australia.
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  Speaker 1: We have a new album called Forever High coming out
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  Speaker 1: and we're very excited for you guys to hear it.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic Maddie, thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 3: Brother, thank you very much for having me on man,
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  Speaker 3: appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Pleasure and dare now as you say, the Dirty
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  Speaker 4: Pagan's dropping new album Forever High on June the twenty seventh,
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  Speaker 4: So not long now made.
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  Speaker 2: How are you feeling good?
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  Speaker 3: Excited?
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  Speaker 1: We've had it under our belt for a little while
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  Speaker 1: hour so we're excited to finally drop it and start
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  Speaker 1: showing everyone what it's made of.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I see, I'm going to go out to Lima
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  Speaker 4: and say that the titles referring the heights or a
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  Speaker 4: plane tree from all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I'm scared of flying, So there you go.
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  Speaker 2: I'm high.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always nervous about it. Yeah, that's one of them.
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  Speaker 4: There's always a deeper meeting mate to tell us a
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  Speaker 4: bit more about the album from a music and point
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  Speaker 4: of view, and what are you were going for this
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  Speaker 4: time around?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so like we don't really try and straight away
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  Speaker 1: from what we love and what we want to sound like,
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  Speaker 1: and that's that classic seventies kind of rock and roll,
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  Speaker 1: heavy metal stuff. So we we much tried to do
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  Speaker 1: the true and.
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  Speaker 3: Stay true to that and delivered that once again.
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  Speaker 1: And so we're hoping that we have that and we'll
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  Speaker 1: let the fans decide if we have.
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  Speaker 4: To help them decide. You release the singles Killer in
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  Speaker 4: the Night and Forever Hide. So are they a good
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  Speaker 4: sony representation of what do you expect from the whole album?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, we got that.
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  Speaker 1: We've got another a couple of reviews that we've been
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  Speaker 1: reading so far. We've got early diano sounding stuff that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to also be putting a video out for
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  Speaker 1: for a song called DTM. We've got you Will Know
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  Speaker 1: My Name, which is kind of a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: heavier track, which we'll be releasing as well.
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  Speaker 3: But everyone will be able to hear them starting next
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  Speaker 3: week and live at the album launch as well.
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  Speaker 2: All right, nicee.
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  Speaker 4: The press release says that Pillar in the nightmarks of
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  Speaker 4: bold shifted direction fans.
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  Speaker 2: So, how so was that a planned direction?
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  Speaker 4: FA?
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  Speaker 1: I think when I so I wrote that song, I
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  Speaker 1: was probably going for that really early late seventies, early
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  Speaker 1: eighties new wave of British heavy metal kind of sound
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  Speaker 1: when I was writing that, So I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: Say it's a new direction of any sort.
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  Speaker 2: I think either the press release said it was exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's been about ten years before I was
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  Speaker 1: even born, So I wouldn't say it's a new sound.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe a new sound your way.
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  Speaker 3: That's it, man, We're not here to change the wheel.
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  Speaker 3: We're just happy to be a spoke on it.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, well this part is true. I know this
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  Speaker 4: for a fact that you did road test most of
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  Speaker 4: the material while you're on tour with Glenn Here's So,
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  Speaker 4: what does it actually mean when a band says that
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  Speaker 4: they road tested material, Like if a song goes down
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  Speaker 4: like a lead ballooon, will you cut it or will
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  Speaker 4: you rework it and then take it out again and
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  Speaker 4: to see what people think?
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  Speaker 2: Like what's that process involved.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we cut anything out, Like if it
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  Speaker 1: was terrible, I think you can kind of as the musicians,
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  Speaker 1: you can feel that pretty much immediately anyway, Like if
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  Speaker 1: the energy isn't there when you're creating the song, it's
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  Speaker 1: probably kind of telling you inside that it's.
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  Speaker 3: Probably not gonna work out. There are things that obviously you.
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  Speaker 1: Need to massage and for neess out, but they're usually
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  Speaker 1: like the intricate parts of a breakdown or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: So no, I think if for some reason it didn't
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  Speaker 1: no one liked it, I think.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be pretty silly to move on and play it.
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  Speaker 1: But that hasn't happened yet, and I think it's fucking
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  Speaker 1: cross it doesn't.
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  Speaker 4: It's just you hear a lot of bands talk about
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  Speaker 4: road tested material, but already people out there don't actually
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  Speaker 4: know what that means.
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  Speaker 2: Are what I was getting at.
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  Speaker 1: Well, No, we got kind of like thrown in the
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  Speaker 1: deep end on that one because we were doing it
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  Speaker 1: for Glenn Hughes, so exactly, it.
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  Speaker 3: Wasn't going to be liked.
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  Speaker 1: It was not going to be liked by people that
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  Speaker 1: love like Deep Purple and Glenn Hughes's music, and they're
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  Speaker 1: probably old enough to not really hold back their opinions.
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  Speaker 3: So I think we were all right.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't have any negative reviews on that, so I
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  Speaker 1: think when I say road tested, yeah, we went around
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  Speaker 1: most of the country and played it, so it was
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  Speaker 1: pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: Is speaking with Glenn Hughes bro like Plent's fucking news,
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  Speaker 4: like how was it to all men?
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  Speaker 2: It must have been an amazing experience.
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  Speaker 1: It was great, It's wonderful. I was asked about it
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  Speaker 1: in a few interviews. I try and stay out of
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  Speaker 1: the way of main support, like headliners. I will always
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  Speaker 1: just introduce myself and just stay out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: If they want to talk to me, awesome. If they don't,
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  Speaker 1: they're busy. So I didn't actually have like you know,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have like one on one conversations with Glenn
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: Just got to tour, do my thing, do a good job,
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  Speaker 3: and get out.
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  Speaker 1: And he said that at the end of the tour
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  Speaker 1: he was like, really professional, great sound, key going boys,
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  Speaker 1: and that's all I needed.
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  Speaker 4: You've also added drummer Gareth Briefs to the band, So
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  Speaker 4: introduces to him and tell him what he brings dirty pagans.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he's a hard hitting son of a gun man.
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  Speaker 1: He is really bringing out a real nice seventy sound,
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  Speaker 1: real full sounding, wonderful dude, really sweet, really nice.
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  Speaker 3: Puts up with us three maniacs. So he's a yin to.
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  Speaker 1: The yang and we're very happy to have him.
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  Speaker 4: I said, your music mate has been yourself dubbed at
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  Speaker 4: riff and roll, which I fucking love.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great turn. But how did you come up
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  Speaker 2: with him?
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  Speaker 4: Was one of them things pissed around the table one
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  Speaker 4: night or did someone just say it on stage and
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  Speaker 4: it's stuck, or I think I.
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  Speaker 1: Just came up with it and it's just one of
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  Speaker 1: those things I just love. It was like snappy, kind
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  Speaker 1: of little words. I kind of I work with words
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  Speaker 1: outside of music as well, So yeah, I think I
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  Speaker 1: coined it. I haven't TRADEMARKEDT, so please I steal amount.
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  Speaker 2: It's fucking cool though.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I like my whole my thing for this
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  Speaker 1: band is that my job is essentially to bring riffs,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what I wanted.
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  Speaker 3: It's riff and roll. So loved it.
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  Speaker 2: That'll do.
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  Speaker 4: Now, You've got an album launch coming up at the
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  Speaker 4: Vibeing Adelaide on the June twenty eighth, the Snake Bite,
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  Speaker 4: Whiskey Fuckies, Pride and Joy and the Couchies, So tell
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  Speaker 4: us more about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're excited that the Coogie's. They're an upcoming band.
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  Speaker 1: We're happy to have their mind. They recently held at
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  Speaker 1: cougie'es Fest and it looked pretty sold out, so we're
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  Speaker 1: hoping all their fans will come along to this one.
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  Speaker 3: Rock is Pride and Joy.
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  Speaker 1: They're a staple of heavy music and essay, they're just awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I've played with them a lot of times.
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  Speaker 1: We're excited to play with them again. And Snake Bite
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  Speaker 1: Whiskey we played with them in that Church is a
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  Speaker 1: Steel festival a few years back. I reckon and it
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  Speaker 1: was a pretty loose night then. So they're coming down
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  Speaker 1: from Queensland, so we're excited to have another big night
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  Speaker 1: with them.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, so you've got any other shows coming up?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Is that it?
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  Speaker 1: For now?
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  Speaker 3: Right now? It's this.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a few well, James getting married, so we're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to do James Jimbo's getting married and
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  Speaker 1: also am I so am I?
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  Speaker 2: So congratulations very much the same time.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. So I'm heading off to Vegas to be
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  Speaker 3: married by Elvis.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to try and get a few things
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  Speaker 1: in that we can, but we do need to give
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  Speaker 1: some time to our partners, who have been very lenient
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  Speaker 1: with their time with us, so we'll definitely be looking
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  Speaker 1: to tour the album properly January, hopefully next year.
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  Speaker 4: Marriage it's a bit better than mine, Mine finished about
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  Speaker 4: six pm on the day we got married, So I
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  Speaker 4: wish you more like than that.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, brother, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: Before I let you go, buddy, I've got a new
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  Speaker 4: segment I've started called photo Bomb. So basically I've trolled
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  Speaker 4: through social media before we had a chat.
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  Speaker 2: I've come up with some photos and one.
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  Speaker 4: And a bit more about like what's going on here?
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't afford a taxi.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty much, mate, Look a look at that polio leg mate,
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  Speaker 1: I got like a nineteenth hole league.
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  Speaker 3: I can't even blame it on alcohol. Was dead's over there?
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  Speaker 3: That's sad. Yeah, that was We.
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  Speaker 1: Needed a few photos quickly, so we just threw me
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  Speaker 1: in a trolley and uh yeah quick snap alright.
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  Speaker 4: This other one, like i'd say alcohol was involved in
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  Speaker 4: this one.
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  Speaker 2: What happened there?
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  Speaker 3: That was on the Glen Hughes tour.
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  Speaker 1: I think I survived a small aeroplane flight, which I
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  Speaker 1: don't like flying, so.
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  Speaker 3: I think I was looked.
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  Speaker 1: Very much and I'd had enough, so I was there
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  Speaker 1: probably waiting for a connecting flight.
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  Speaker 4: It looked like it made the best of that situation.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe what's the worst you've ever had to sleep?
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  Speaker 1: I can't I can't sleep like sitting up, or like
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  Speaker 1: I can't sleep on planes, can't sleep in cars, so
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  Speaker 1: like worst place, man, good God, like on floors probably
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  Speaker 1: like we've done that before.
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  Speaker 3: But god, we're pretty we're actually pretty organized. We do
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  Speaker 3: organize hotels. It's not that bad.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that particular occasion.
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  Speaker 3: Or in a room mate. It's you don't usually get
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  Speaker 3: that much sleep, and not because of that.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm gonna say, smelly socks, ye sweet, that's a
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  Speaker 4: right manual. Thanks for your time, Rode. The album Forever
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  Speaker 4: High is out June twenty seven. We've got the album
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  Speaker 4: launched in the twenty eighth in Adelaide, So best of
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  Speaker 4: luck with everying.
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  Speaker 3: Brother.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see you when you come to Queensland.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, brother. I really appreciate time. Thank you for
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  Speaker 3: having me. Z