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Fun & Festivities With MICK BREW From DIRTY BREW · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Name's Mick. Mick Brew from being Dirty Brewer, also run Breehouse Productions.
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  Currently just doing a fair bit of stuff in the next six months, so
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  really looking forward to it. You got it, Mack, Thanks for joining
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  us the South Made Runner. Thanks for having me. Oh wait, so
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  Dirty Brew a part of Bruffest twenty three, which will be held at Brisbane's
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  Soapbox Brewery this Saturday August at fifth Mate. So how you feel about it.
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  It's a bit of a bit of a big thing to pull together.
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  Yeah, it's um, it's been a bit of an effort, that's for
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  sure, pulling what's left to my hair out. So I've done bigger festivals
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  and they've come together a lot easier, so this one's definitely been a lot
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  of work, but I'm hoping it will pay off essentially. So there's a
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  good fair number of tickets sold, so really looking forward to the day.
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  And the brewery has actually done a special beverage for me for the day as
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  well, so we're doing a Rattlesnakes Snake bite on tap. Oh what's that?
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  Just a beer, beer and cider together mixed together, shot with a
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  shot of red cordial in it. Just just to keep you going to Red
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  Cordial. Yeah, that's right. You've got a heap of local bands playing,
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  including Tetriman with the Hollow, Ancient Remained, Slaver, Dissoners, and
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  more So, who are you most looking forward to to playing without that bill
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  insane Um? Well, I'm looking forward to playing with everyone because obviously I
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  put the bill together, so I hand picked bands that I like personally,
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  and but I'm looking forward to seeing Tetriment get back. It's their first gig
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  back with their new drummer, so that should be really good. With the
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  Hollow are really kicking goals at the momentum, and they're always a good live
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  show as well. And actually the guys in effigy from Bunderberg they recite to
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  Behold, they're right. Yeah, looking forward to it. Oh, now,
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  I've never been in the Soapower Spurer before. Most I'm not sure what
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  the layoud is there, but is this sober one stage two? Just one.
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  There's a massive room upstairs. It's a big space stairs that basically created
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  into a lot of music atmosphere. So really looking forward to being involved getting
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  everyone in there, and it's the space can hold about four hundred people.
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  So it's um, it's definitely a good, good space. Yeah. And
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  of course, as we said before, mate, like you organize this festival
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  every year, so how's the trajectory means you've seen a growing every year?
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  It is growing every year. Um, so each year we sort of we
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  do different venue. Um, next year we're actually going to multiple cities,
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  which is already in the works at the moment as well. Um, so
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  I'm going to do brue Fest in probably three different cities, which I'm crazy
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  to do, so you would know, you'd know yourself. That's a that's
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  a headache. So we'll just we'll see how we go with that. But
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  yeah, it's it's definitely growing as well. With my new year's shows that
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  I do, they're obviously growing as well. This year's one is going to
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  be bigger than last year, so yeah, I'm looking forward to that too.
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  So what's actually involved with putting on a show on this and playing at
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  the same time? They're pretty much what all the others are painted the arts
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  and putting them both together. So you just ask for headache, what I
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  spake them like months and months apart, so space out the eggs a little
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  bit. So everything coming to the crunch for this one. So as soon
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  as this is over, it's basically I'm going to be announcing the New Year
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  End of Year festival, probably at the end of August, so it gives
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  me a bit of leeway to breathe after this one and get everything sorted.
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  I've already got the lineup pretty much locked in, just waiting for one or
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  two confirmations, so you kind of just trickle along that. That's the hardest
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  part getting the lineup, and I pride myself on putting together a good lineup
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  where you literally have to You want people to be there from the beginning,
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  and you want people to look at the lineup and go, I'm going from
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  the start, I'm going to be there all day. I need to be
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  there all day. So and that's what it's about, and that's helping the
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  venues out as well. Yeah, we started touch on it's a little bit
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  more and we've made a bit of a joke of it, but it's there's
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  a bit of serious nature of the like when you're booking a show, like
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  there's someone like yourself that knows so many bands and people in bands, Like
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  how hard is it to not just book your mates. You know, like
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  you've got to be objective and trying book bands and other people are going to
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  like too, But you also want to be like, there's no point booking
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  the show unless you can have bands you like there as well. Yeah,
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  and exactly right, duck between a hard plane. Yeah, get a bit
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  in booking similars a lot of the time. Oh it's so exactly why because
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  they still ticket they're selling the tickets to the show. And then you have
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  bands that hit you up for shows. You put them on once and they
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  sell like hardly any tickets. Why would you want to put them on again?
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  I mean for me, it's it's not a money making exercise. I
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  mean, yeah, I'd like a little bit on the side. It's great,
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  as does anyone. But at the end of the day, if it's
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  a good gig and it doesn't cost me anything and everyone has a great time,
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  it's a win. And if bands need to play to a good crowd,
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  and if you're a band coming in and you're playing and you're not selling
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  your tickets, any promoter's not going to book you again, not just me.
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  So it's I mean it depends we do book sell tickets. So I
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  mean We had nearly four hundred New Year's last year, so I can't argue
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  with that something, right, brother, Yeah, you're also off up to
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  glads that mate, for the first ever medal first er November. There's twenty
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  fifth with bands like which Grinder played records, Drink Killers, Azrael, Piston,
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  Pisted Wall. That should be a ripper. Good to see him taking
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  something this up north a little bit. It's great. They originally usked to
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  plan it was in August and they had to change date. We couldn't plays,
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  you know, with kids that weekend. But then I saw the day
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  to change and I went, oh, hang on a minute, I don't
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  we don't have kids that weekend, all right? So I got in contact
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  with him and he said, oh, a couple of bands have actually pulled
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  out, so we'd love to have you on. Send me a contract and
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  it's a it's awesome. We're super keen to get up there. He's been
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  trying to get us to go up for about seven years, I think,
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  so finally the planets have alonged. However, let let's take the focus of
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  everyone else for a second, mate, and check it on Dirty bree mate.
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  You know the starboarding shows let's be real about it. Mate. So
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  for those who haven't seen Dirty Bree before, Mate, run us through a
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  typical live show. Typical live show for Dirty Brew is just chaotic. So
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  from the opening note, opening riff, really we're just we don't stand still.
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  We don't want to stand still because we're there to put on a show
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  and we've always maintained that. And it's just basically we do shots on stage,
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  we interact with the crowd. We'll abuse the crowd of two and we'll
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  cop it back just as good as we can give it um and it's just
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  basically just full of energy. It's just how really we're there to put on
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  a show. At the end, if people walk away up, now,
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  those really on a show. They sucked, but man, they put on
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  a like that's all we can ask for that we're remembered for the show.
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  The music is not that bad really, but they try. It's also got
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  the visual I said it going on, you go man like you got your
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  jackets with you, with your back patches and stuff on. Similar to black
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  label societies. Is that well that's modeled up. Yeah, well it's it
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  was more of a we needed to try and create something I'm not going to
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  say different because obviously Black Label do it. But it was just something that
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  I'm a massive Black Label fan, and most of the band is um and
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  it was just something we thought we wanted to do. So then we all
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  sort of had kind of like a uniform, so we knew what we were
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  wearing. And it seems to mash and gel together really really well, and
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  it makes us look the part, really so we're really stoked with how they
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  came out so and how they and a lot of people have said to us,
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  where can we get the jackets? And we go, just buy a
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  vest and make it. We just sell the patches. We've got the patches
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  for sale, so we just tell people to just buy a vest and make
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  it themselves. It's easy, all right, brother. All that's about all
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  our Give us a bit more info on Briefast this weekend to wake at people,
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  buy tickets and find out more information So Briefast this weekend. It's August
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  so adoors at twelve Soapbox Beer in Fortitude Valley. Tickets twenty five dollars pre
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  sale from any of the bands. There's no online lean, You've got to
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  go direct. This is how the bands get paid essentially um so by from
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  bands. There was thirty five on the door, so if you miss out,
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  you can buy tickets on the door. M Yeah, it's running ten
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  bands starting from two o'clock finishing about eleven pm, and then it's just going
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  to be lots of beers, lots of tunes, lots of good times.
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  It's going to be a great days naka right maybe, Well, thanks for
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  joining us, being a pose, your chat with you, and I'll be
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  there trying one of these rattlesnakes fuckers that always have to talk to you,
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  crispy always. But we'll see it in a couple of days.