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A Blending Of Cultures With KALANDRA · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Well we are Columbre from coming to you from Oslo, Norway.
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  Speaker 1: I am juill Gate one of the guitarists. I'm Oscar
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  Speaker 1: the drummer.
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  Speaker 2: And I am Katrina the singer, and.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Florian the other guitarists.
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  Speaker 4: Very nice guys, Thanks for joining us this evening.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having us.
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  Speaker 4: My absolute pleasure.
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  Speaker 5: So we're here today because Calandra hit Australia for the
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  Speaker 5: first time ever very soon for a run of shows
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  Speaker 5: starting in Perth on November nineteenth. Then you hit Melbourne
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  Speaker 5: and Sydney, finish up in Brisbane on November twenty third light.
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  Speaker 5: That's not too far away, guys. He has packed and
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  Speaker 5: ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we've been working on a unsticks of things for
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  Speaker 2: a while now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I just actually got my final email from the
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  Speaker 1: Australian government saying that I'm allowed to bring this little instrument. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but the permits and everything, you have to.
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  Speaker 4: Get special permission to bring some of your instruments.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's something about the nature instruments and uh
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  Speaker 1: yeah and the endangered Australia and yeah, oh absolutely, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it's not much worse.
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  Speaker 5: If Haylong goes over, they bring all like weapons and
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  Speaker 5: all that sort of ship as well, So if they
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  Speaker 5: can get away with you, guys would get away with
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  Speaker 5: a little horn.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's just I think the logistics it seems a
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  Speaker 1: lot worse when it's the first time. It's just a
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  Speaker 1: lot of unknown. So so I'm glad we're out early
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  Speaker 1: and we're getting excited, just sort of getting over the
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  Speaker 1: over the mountains of things you have to sort out,
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  Speaker 1: and then when we get on the plane and we
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  Speaker 1: get on stage, we're going to be proper. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: ready to go.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, well I'm really excited already. Now I'm so much
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  Speaker 6: looking forward to going to Australia.
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  Speaker 5: I guess the big question guys is though, like you
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  Speaker 5: have been a band since twenty eleven, so why have
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  Speaker 5: you neglected us in Australia for fourteen years?
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  Speaker 4: What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: We're sorry, we didn't mean to we.
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  Speaker 2: Were we were shit.
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  Speaker 4: That's why you had to get up to our standard. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: good lie.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it would have been feasible, you know,
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  Speaker 2: until now perfect.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think if we'd gone like ten years ago,
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  Speaker 1: then we would have spent a lot of money and
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  Speaker 1: we would have played for no one, so make it's
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  Speaker 1: the right time.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, just thinking that the star sort of a line
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  Speaker 6: now and we never really had the opportunity before, so
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  Speaker 6: as soon as the opportunity presented itself, than we jumped
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  Speaker 6: at the chance.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you are the first first the country and
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  Speaker 1: continent outside of Europe. Will we have proper to wis
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  Speaker 1: so and where you should feel quote.
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  Speaker 4: We should be thanking you instead of chatter.
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  Speaker 5: It's a bad like when you tore a country for
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  Speaker 5: the first time, like you are over here, like you
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  Speaker 5: do your research and talk to people that have been
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  Speaker 5: here before to find out what to expect.
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  Speaker 4: Though it's rather just coming cold and see where the
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  Speaker 4: wind takes you. I guess we don't.
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  Speaker 2: Have that much time to explore the countries. Like if
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  Speaker 2: we did, we probably would have done more research and
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  Speaker 2: seeing like where we would go. Florian will go a
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  Speaker 2: few days before, but we will literally just arrive and
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  Speaker 2: then we need to have a rehearsal and then go
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  Speaker 2: on the road. But I'm I'm reading up on what
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  Speaker 2: insects I need to be stay clear, clear, it's all.
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  Speaker 4: It's all a road. There's nothing that bad here that
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  Speaker 4: you have to worry about. Like I had.
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  Speaker 5: Someone asked me once if you could get spider repellent
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  Speaker 5: spray here. So they must talk about insects over there
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  Speaker 5: like this big and man eater. It's nothing really that
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  Speaker 5: baddy guys like you don't have to worry about much
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  Speaker 5: at all, to be honest.
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  Speaker 6: Well you say that, and my sister who lives done
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  Speaker 6: in Perth sends me videos of like huntsman spiders and yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They do freak me out, but I suppose it will
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  Speaker 3: be fine.
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  Speaker 5: My mother got bitten by a red back spider once
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  Speaker 5: and it died, so they're pretty weak. We got drunk
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  Speaker 5: on all the alcohol in the blood system on the
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  Speaker 5: engine overdose.
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  Speaker 1: Not that's the insect throppllent.
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  Speaker 5: What is actually expecting from Australian crowds? Like, we're a
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  Speaker 5: little bit a bit more out there than most places
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  Speaker 5: around the world, So what are you expecting from us?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I haven't I haven't actually talked much about it.
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  Speaker 1: Just going around Europe on the tour, you get so
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  Speaker 1: many it's a very varied crowd like going from Bulgaria
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  Speaker 1: out to Finland. It's just a completely different experience being
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  Speaker 1: on stage because because the crowds, noise levels and way
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  Speaker 1: of interacting with music is so different. So I haven't
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  Speaker 1: actually heard anyone talk about it how Australian audiences are.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not expecting Australian people to be like Scandinavians
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  Speaker 2: at all. Yeah. Yeah, we can be quite shy, but
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  Speaker 2: then when we drink we can be rowdy and rude.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'll give you a little bit of a chip,
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  Speaker 5: like like, the more we pay out on you, the
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  Speaker 5: more we on, more of a hard time we give you,
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  Speaker 5: the more we like you. So paper a yell and
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  Speaker 5: abuse and stuff from the crowd, don't take it personally.
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  Speaker 4: That's actually a good sign.
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  Speaker 3: This is very good to know.
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  Speaker 6: This is like in uh, this is like in Toulouse
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  Speaker 6: where in France where we were very confuse because when
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  Speaker 6: they boo, the whole crowd goes boo. Apparently that means
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  Speaker 6: that they love it, which was very ancusing for us.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, learning these sort of sort of things.
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  Speaker 5: Like that, have you been introduced to the showy yet
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  Speaker 5: you're going to have people demanding that you do what's
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  Speaker 5: called a shoey over here, which I find absolutely disgusting.
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  Speaker 5: But most fans get talked in it, so Basically they
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  Speaker 5: want you to take off his shoe, pour your.
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  Speaker 4: Beer into it and drink the beer out of.
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  Speaker 5: At you just ignore it, don't acknowledge it, because once
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  Speaker 5: you acknowledge it, they will keep on it you and
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  Speaker 5: sure you do it.
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  Speaker 4: So that's my little tip for you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Duly and also buy new shoes.
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  Speaker 2: I will make them do it.
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  Speaker 5: So the flip side, I guess is that we don't
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  Speaker 5: know what to expect from you guys either, having never
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  Speaker 5: been here before. So run through a typical Calandra a
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  Speaker 5: live show and what we can expect.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I suppose this won't be We will have to
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  Speaker 6: strip away some of the extra extra do thatds we
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  Speaker 6: bring to the show because we can't bring it down
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  Speaker 6: to Australia it's too far, too expensive. But we like
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  Speaker 6: to take the listener on sort of a journey, so
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  Speaker 6: we will have both all the heavy stuff and more
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  Speaker 6: of the tender intimate music and the more like pompous,
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  Speaker 6: big big stuff. But it's it's trying to make the
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  Speaker 6: concert coin wave, so to speak, so it's not like
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  Speaker 6: two straining on your ears. But then suddenly we might
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  Speaker 6: play something loud and give you a scare. But yeah,
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  Speaker 6: it's more trying to transport the listener and the viewer
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  Speaker 6: somewhere else for a little bit, so hopefully we'll be
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  Speaker 6: able to take them away from nice Toast the Australia
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  Speaker 6: back to Cold Norway.
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  Speaker 5: Not the press release refers to the performance is watchingly
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  Speaker 5: beautiful as a live show. So yes, can you elaborate
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  Speaker 5: on that aspect?
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  Speaker 1: First, I think a lot of our music speaks from
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  Speaker 1: the heart, like it's it goes into some some complicated
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  Speaker 1: emotions and tries to entangle it. So so often we
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  Speaker 1: get feedback from listeners that they they can go into
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  Speaker 1: difficult things in themselves and and be present to their
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  Speaker 1: own emotions. So so a bit like a therapy session.
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  Speaker 3: So so.
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  Speaker 1: We we try to be honest and present that stage
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  Speaker 1: with our music and try to put up a journey
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  Speaker 1: like almost like a story, a fairy tale or something
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  Speaker 1: like a different universe.
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  Speaker 2: So so I use the therapy a lot. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I write because it's their therapy. I perform it because
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  Speaker 2: that's therapy for me, but hopefully for other people. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean I think all the members have their
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  Speaker 2: own reasons for performing. I mean, but that's my reason.
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  Speaker 5: Very nice you chart on the back of your last album,
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  Speaker 5: A Frame of Mind, which came out late last year.
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  Speaker 4: So how was the reception for that, Like, do people
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  Speaker 4: appreciate it the way that you hope.
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  Speaker 3: It's?
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  Speaker 2: I don't really know what people think. I think that
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  Speaker 2: it's been a mix and understandably so some people feel
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  Speaker 2: like it didn't gel and some people feel like you did.
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  Speaker 2: And that's totally fine with me.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I remember what.
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  Speaker 3: We'd be getting. Oh, go ahead, go ahead, do you
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  Speaker 3: get no?
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  Speaker 1: I think like if you have too much expectations for
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  Speaker 1: the music, then you're bound to be disappointed in a way,
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  Speaker 1: because because once you release something, you just sort of
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  Speaker 1: have to let it go, and people will will put
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  Speaker 1: their own interpretations and emotions into things, and whenever you
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  Speaker 1: have something released already, people will always compare it to
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  Speaker 1: that and comparison is the death of joy, so like
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  Speaker 1: the Thief of Joy. So so for us sort of
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  Speaker 1: we have to sort of let it sit out there
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  Speaker 1: for a while. And we still haven't played all the
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  Speaker 1: songs live yet from the album. Hopefully we will be
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  Speaker 1: able to do so and at least one or two
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  Speaker 1: more on this tour. But I get a lot of
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  Speaker 1: get a lot of joy from performing the songs live,
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  Speaker 1: and like there are some some instances I see, like
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  Speaker 1: some people are writing about their interpretations of the song
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  Speaker 1: and they really I feel like people are getting it,
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  Speaker 1: like there's nothing to get, but it's just like that
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  Speaker 1: is it is great to see that that people people
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  Speaker 1: discover there's some hidden meaning within themselves and in the
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  Speaker 1: songs of course, but yeah, we let them go.
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  Speaker 4: Let them.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I've gotta apologize in advance because I know I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to stuff up the pronunciation of this. But you've
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  Speaker 5: got an EP called Mokid moquid coming out of lott
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  Speaker 5: Over thirty.
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  Speaker 4: First before you ch al so tell us a bit
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  Speaker 4: more about that.
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  Speaker 1: First off, that is brave you to pronounce it like
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  Speaker 1: the others, others that Andrew Hudson that asked us to pronounce.
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  Speaker 4: It, But we might as well stop up.
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  Speaker 2: It's maketid. It means dark times, which is like a
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  Speaker 2: word we would use there in Scandent, maybe a for
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  Speaker 2: describing the dark months where the sun doesn't really rise. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but it also describes sort of I think within the
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  Speaker 2: word is this anticipation of coming together and being cozy
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, yeah, finding comfort with family friends.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah nice.
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  Speaker 5: The press release says that BP is a collection of
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  Speaker 5: dark re imagine songs. So does that mean that they're
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  Speaker 5: older songs of yours that you've redone and reimagined or
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  Speaker 5: is it other people's song?
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  Speaker 2: So the first one is a Divan which means my
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  Speaker 2: heart always lingers. That's a three hundred year old psalm,
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  Speaker 2: a Christian song that we've rewritten to feel more in
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  Speaker 2: tune with nature and and more relatable to us. And
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  Speaker 2: then till the end is it's it's our song, but
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  Speaker 2: it's a reimagined version and rewritten version of one of
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  Speaker 2: our own songs, Bata dug In, but it's in English,
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  Speaker 2: and I wanted to hear the song as more of
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  Speaker 2: like a choral piece. And then we have Ghosts obviously,
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  Speaker 2: which we released last year, which is it was just
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  Speaker 2: like a lonely winter song that we felt like could
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  Speaker 2: use some other friends other winter songs. And then we
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  Speaker 2: have the last one, which is hym Nail, which means
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  Speaker 2: the Hymn to the Blue Mountains, which I think is
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  Speaker 2: the song that our international audience will relate to the least,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps because it's very specifically tied to this Norwegian kids
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  Speaker 2: TV show in Norway that that would stream on TV
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  Speaker 2: about like twenty years ago. We grew up with it
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  Speaker 2: and it's about these blue elves that live in the
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  Speaker 2: Blue Mountains in the north of Norway. We basically just
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  Speaker 2: wrote that for us. So I mean, if you if
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  Speaker 2: you like it, that's great. If you don't, that's totally understandable.
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  Speaker 5: But back to the song that you said, like it
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  Speaker 5: is three hundred years old Christian one, how does it
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  Speaker 5: feel reimagining a song that's that old, Like it's it's
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  Speaker 5: got to be empowering in a way to be able
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  Speaker 5: to take something with so much history and then make
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  Speaker 5: it your iron it'd be a brilliant feeling.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I can start. Then the melody is it's
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  Speaker 1: like I think we've written somewhere that is like the
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  Speaker 1: heart of Norwich, North Kandavan nostalgia like that, because it's
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  Speaker 1: a Honting melody. It's very beautiful, it's but it's very
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  Speaker 1: home thing and the originally lyrics sort of says that
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  Speaker 1: my heart lingers with God, you know what. It's like
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  Speaker 1: it gives you sort of like you need something to
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  Speaker 1: believe in in the winter, like needs something something to
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  Speaker 1: warm you in the dark. Uh, and for us, we're
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  Speaker 1: not that religious, but we still need something to warm us.
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  Speaker 1: So that is maybe what we're talking about in the
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  Speaker 1: in the rewritten lyrics, that it's so so we we
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  Speaker 1: the melody and the message resonates, but we needed to
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  Speaker 1: reimagine it and make it our own because.
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  Speaker 5: Someone who doesn't like music, like myself, like just hear
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  Speaker 5: and you say that, like, it would be so cool
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  Speaker 5: to be able to, like I say, take something with
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  Speaker 5: so much history and reworking in your own image it.
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  Speaker 4: It'd be awesome.
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  Speaker 6: It was a lot of fun, but also kind of
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  Speaker 6: did feel o times, kind of sacristanct and having to
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  Speaker 6: I've showed it to friends and family but before we're
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  Speaker 6: going to release it now, and the older versions and
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  Speaker 6: the older versions of the lyrics, they.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't really get it.
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  Speaker 6: They were kind of kind of sad, was why did
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  Speaker 6: you change it to this? Like the original meaning is
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  Speaker 6: so beautiful? And then we wrote the lyrics some more
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  Speaker 6: and finally, yeah, they did get it. We managed to
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  Speaker 6: keep the spirit of the original, but yeah, bring it
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  Speaker 6: into yeah, our society. But it was yeah, like I said,
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  Speaker 6: feels kind of sacrosanct, but I think we pulled it off.
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  Speaker 4: Nice happened? Did you have some psych cridit?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 5: I was just saying yeah, yeah, yeah, loosely based. I
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  Speaker 5: guess like your music blends nor spoke music with progressive
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  Speaker 5: rock and scandy Pope light. That's three John And if
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  Speaker 5: you don't up in here in the same sentence, So
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  Speaker 5: where did it come from?
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  Speaker 4: Like was in a sound that you.
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  Speaker 5: Deliberately set out to create or did it sort of
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  Speaker 5: all present itself naturally?
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  Speaker 2: It's not such something we consciously think about at all.
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  Speaker 2: Genre is very sort of fluid for us. Sometimes we
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  Speaker 2: tap into metal without really being metal. Sometimes we tap
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  Speaker 2: into folk without being really able to call ourselves folk
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  Speaker 2: because there are other authentic folks sessions really repeating the
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  Speaker 2: past in a more authentic way. But we also tap
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  Speaker 2: into pop in terms of the structure of the songs
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  Speaker 2: without really being able to say that we are a
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  Speaker 2: pop band. There's rock elements, there's prog elements, there's country elements.
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  Speaker 2: At the end of the day, we write songs that
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  Speaker 2: we feel like, Okay, this resonates that this is a
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  Speaker 2: good song. What's best for the song is basically what
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  Speaker 2: we ask ourselves when we make the music, what is
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  Speaker 2: best for the song, very not doubt.
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  Speaker 5: Before we let you go, guys, I've got a segment
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  Speaker 5: that I've started called photo bombs. So basically, I've trod
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  Speaker 5: through social media before you've had a chat, and I've
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  Speaker 5: come up.
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  Speaker 4: With a few photos that I want to ask a
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  Speaker 4: little bit more about. And you guys are lucky.
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  Speaker 5: Actually there wasn't anything too bad with yours, and they're
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  Speaker 5: all pretty cool fighters.
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  Speaker 3: But is this one?
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  Speaker 5: Is this someone playing an electric guitar with a bow
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  Speaker 5: like I've never seen that done before?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be me.
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  Speaker 6: Uh yeah, I don't know. I think I ended up
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  Speaker 6: just doing that and doing it a lot now because
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  Speaker 6: you guys, is such an amazing guitarist, so it's like
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  Speaker 6: keeping up with him and then doing the same thing
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  Speaker 6: seemed silly to me. So I just needed to fill
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  Speaker 6: in the musical space in some different way, and it
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  Speaker 6: was too lazy to learn a new instrument.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, we tried to.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I just played with the bow in much a
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  Speaker 6: different way than you see, like Jimmy Page did in
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  Speaker 6: the past, because that's more of a amate garden noise escape.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I do try and be melodic with it.
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  Speaker 4: Is that part of your live show.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely played a bunch.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but what what other like instruments like what what
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  Speaker 5: what are nuances? I guess you use musically that we
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  Speaker 5: might not be used to over here.
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  Speaker 4: The go torn, the torn?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah maybe this one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sounds a bit like trumpeted in a way. It's
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  Speaker 1: made by the corn of the gold.
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  Speaker 2: It has a really horse kind of sound like it's
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  Speaker 2: very breathy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, yeah, And I mean like obviously Katrina's voice.
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  Speaker 4: You haven't heard that well I have actually because I
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  Speaker 4: listened to some of your music. A sensational voice made
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  Speaker 4: very very very nice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I sometimes use vocoder on my voice. I mean you've
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: you've definitely heard that before with like Imagen Heap and
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: sounds like that. But yeah, we use that live on
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: some songs. We use the vo we were on Helvegain
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: and borders.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I think we have quite a standard band line up
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: minus the bass, so so and a lot of our
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: sound comes from not us not having a bass, like
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the way we use effects and Flora uses the ball
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: and the guitar. It's it. We try to make up
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: quite early for us just being three without just touring
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: like a really tiny setup and which, but we still
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: wanted to create this big sound. So sort of in
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: order to make this big sound, we've had to make
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: some creative decisions in the way we play, which now
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: we have we have have expanded our sound anymore so
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: so it's just I think it's a lot of fun
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: ways to make it sound big with small elements.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: That is. Yeah, it's good, funny, it's good. The other
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: fight O fair like, where where was this taken?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: It looks like a festival in a castle. It looks
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: like a beautiful place.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: This is in Bratislava, CA.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is castle.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: But the support concert that we did and it's actually
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: I ain't as Selvic's sun who took that photo. I
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: asked him to take it for us before we went
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: on stage because we didn't have any band photos of us,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: and all of a sudden I was like, damn, we
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: need some band photos here we are in our costume.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Just could you just grab take a quick photo? Yeah,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: isn't it.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Is?
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: It's Castle Devon outside of Bratslava. It's an amazing venue.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: We we got to play these ancient castles.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: On the.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Is it that they normally have constance?
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Is it a special thing, not normally it's it's yeah,
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: if you guys have got a great life, that's awesome.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that was a special Yeah, that to world's a
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: special place in my heart.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Those memories, it is really good.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I remember that evening there was a full moon as well,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: and it was interesting how then how the castle had
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: been positioned in order to view the moon at the
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: top of the hill. It was just like perfectly situated.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Wow, it's awesome. That's all right.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: God, well, thanks very much your TIMEPHS being a place
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: to speaking with you. Helendro will be in Australia starting
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: in Perth on November the nineteenth. I'm going to try
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: and make it along with the Brisbane show because, like
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: you said, you guys down like it'd be a lot
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: of fun, so it'd be cool to come along and
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: check it out.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm looking forward to me do