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From Skanking To DIY: BUSTER BLOODVESSEL Reflects On BAD MANNERS' Legendary Legacy And Upcoming Aussie Tour · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Thank you sweet.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, you're about to bring your Greatest Hits tour
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  Speaker 2: to Australia. What can fans expect from the show and
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  Speaker 2: how do Australian audiences compare to others who perform for.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, starting with the show, Yes, it's the best of
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  Speaker 3: that Man's Party tech.
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  Speaker 4: So we're up really good time. We're going to play
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  Speaker 4: all the classics.
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  Speaker 3: We're not going to run away from any you know,
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  Speaker 3: and play all the new songs. We're not going to
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  Speaker 3: do any of that.
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  Speaker 4: Right. We've started to tour.
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  Speaker 3: At Christmas and we've put right the way through there.
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  Speaker 4: We've been playing all over Europe.
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  Speaker 3: Now we'll be down in Australia where they do like
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  Speaker 3: to have fun.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and.
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  Speaker 3: I have noticed that they tried to be very similar
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  Speaker 3: to Europeans. There's got much difference between the two and
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  Speaker 3: so yeah, I'm looking forward to it. It's a very
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  Speaker 3: good place to well play.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome. We're so excited. And you've been part of the
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  Speaker 1: scar scene for so long. What's one of the.
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  Speaker 2: Biggest changes you've seen in the music industry that has
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  Speaker 2: affected how you tour or make music.
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  Speaker 4: Well touring Mice.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the Internet has obviously changed an awful lot
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  Speaker 3: to do with the music business. Lots of people can
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  Speaker 3: get music a lot deeper and a lot easier with
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  Speaker 3: the invention of the computer. I think that as for
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  Speaker 3: touring mice, the name gets.
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  Speaker 4: Out there a little bit easier.
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  Speaker 3: So we are actually seeing quite a beneficial rise in
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  Speaker 3: numbers coming along to a bad Manners Joe, So I
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  Speaker 3: would say to play twist our advantage at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, that's awesome. And I know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you're able to reach newer, maybe younger audiences
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  Speaker 2: as well because of the.
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  Speaker 4: Age much younger.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, Actually we see the difference in the clouds
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  Speaker 3: that the clouds have become younger.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, oh awesome.
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  Speaker 2: And look, you guys have been such a huge force
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  Speaker 2: in the in skar music for decades. How does it
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  Speaker 2: feel to be at the forefront of this movement all
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  Speaker 2: these years later?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think.
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  Speaker 4: There'll be the last covies really, but we pill are. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean all the other bands I know that have
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  Speaker 3: all broken up or the big girls, but we're still
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  Speaker 3: on the same bandwagon, so to speak.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: And how do you keep up that kind of energy
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  Speaker 2: night after night on tour, especially these days.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it is.
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  Speaker 3: Becoming harder for me. I'm getting older now, but I
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  Speaker 3: still give it mysel. Oh and once you're actually there
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  Speaker 3: and the crowd are enjoying you and the music's playing,
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  Speaker 3: you still get this sense of adrenaline run through your head.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, it seems quite easy to actually myself into
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  Speaker 3: performance mode.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, that's good to hear that you still keep
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  Speaker 1: up with it.
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  Speaker 4: I do.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Oh good.
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  Speaker 2: And do you see any new trends or changes in
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  Speaker 2: the scar scene today compared to when you first started,
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  Speaker 2: well as in bands, I guess new ways of doing
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  Speaker 2: things in this sort of genre.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't see.
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  Speaker 3: Any new sort of ways of doing things. And I
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  Speaker 3: do see differences in bands, yeah, that have come along.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of new bands that I like and
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  Speaker 3: a lot of new bands that I don't like.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, And how did you first get into music and
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  Speaker 2: the genre?
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  Speaker 1: Like, how did you decide that that was what you
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  Speaker 1: were going to do?
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  Speaker 4: Well of school together?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I had this very good idea of we need
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  Speaker 3: to stay together as friends, and rather than going on
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  Speaker 3: school reunions, I said, why don't we just form a band?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: And we can go out and start digging and playing music.
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  Speaker 3: We can drink, we can chut out birds, we can
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  Speaker 3: do all the things that always do doing bands.
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  Speaker 4: And everybody liked.
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  Speaker 3: The ideas so and it's gone now for fifty years.
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  Speaker 3: So I feel quite honored that we've stuck to our guns.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, as you should. And what's one of the
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  Speaker 2: wildest or most memorable moments you've had during a live performance?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, big one.
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  Speaker 4: That is a bit of a question. Is I can't
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  Speaker 4: even remember how many people have.
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  Speaker 3: Done now, but I would say that, you know, when
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  Speaker 3: we play festival to one hundred and ten thousand people,
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  Speaker 3: when it was making the cloud go crazy and dance,
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  Speaker 3: that the actual earth was moving because we could see
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  Speaker 3: the trees were actually swaying to the balance of the beam,
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  Speaker 3: which is quite astonishing. Well, it was one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: ten thousand people dancing, and so of course that was
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  Speaker 3: moving the trees.
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  Speaker 1: Jeez, that's nuts.
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  Speaker 2: And outside of music, are there any hobbies or interests
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  Speaker 2: that help you unwind while on the road or is
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  Speaker 2: it all about music for you?
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  Speaker 3: I liked to do I believe it or not, So
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  Speaker 3: when I go home, I like to do a bit.
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  Speaker 4: Of the why.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm living on a houseboat in As at the moment,
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  Speaker 3: which which is pretty famous last week for the big
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  Speaker 3: fire that destroyed EVO. So that's that's a minute away
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  Speaker 3: from me. Is the the power station that went down.
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  Speaker 3: The whole place was covered in helicopters and fire engines
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  Speaker 3: and policeman and w and ambulances.
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  Speaker 4: Amazing.
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  Speaker 1: It was wow. And you all you witnessed that all
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  Speaker 1: from the houseboat.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I could see the helicopters. I could see
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  Speaker 3: the sparks and the flames that was shooting across the
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  Speaker 3: sky where they were. You know, the electric things were
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  Speaker 3: setting off almost like fireworks. It seemed they were electric
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  Speaker 3: cables and you could smell it. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 4: I actually was trying to get to sleep because it
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  Speaker 4: was after as well. We've got when it slide. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and I tried to get to sleep.
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  Speaker 3: I was pulling my head down and I was figuring
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  Speaker 3: I could smell something burning. Yeah, the electric went off,
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  Speaker 3: so then I couldn't work anything out what was going on?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, our friends told me. Do you know that it
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  Speaker 4: was just around the holder from you?
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  Speaker 1: That's nuts? And what you woke up? Did you wake
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  Speaker 1: up the next morning?
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  Speaker 2: And figure out what it all happened, or then.
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  Speaker 3: The electric suddenly came on at two o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: Was the last thing that I didn't turn up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And so the news was instantly there and it
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  Speaker 3: was like breaking.
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  Speaker 1: Those Oh my goodness, that's yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I thought the claims, thought, oh, I know exactly where
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  Speaker 4: that is. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh that's crazy. And so you mentioned di I
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  Speaker 1: y as well. Is that Do you do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of projects within the house boat? Is that what you
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  Speaker 1: kind of No, I've.
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  Speaker 3: Got other properties in Bulgaria which I disappeared to when
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  Speaker 3: I'm not touring. Yeah, I go over there and work
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  Speaker 3: hard on So I haven't had a holiday in a
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  Speaker 3: long time. I mean, I mean could say life has
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  Speaker 3: become a bit of a holiday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 4: I enjoy myself when I go abroad. Yeah, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: lucky enough.
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  Speaker 3: To be in a band that gets around a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I use that as a holiday, yeah, which is a
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  Speaker 3: great way to keep me go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: And with all the hits in your catalog, do you
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  Speaker 2: have a personal favorite song to perform live or one
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  Speaker 2: that gets the crowd absolutely buzzing every time?
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  Speaker 4: There is many songs and bad manners to get the crowd.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say the one that really, you know,
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  Speaker 3: power to it is Sally Brown.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, always a classic banger.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: And I actually have a bit of a personal connection
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  Speaker 2: to you guys. My dad was friends with your old
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  Speaker 2: tour managers Tommy and Mick back in the day, and
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  Speaker 2: he met you all in passing and always spoke highly
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  Speaker 2: of how amazing you were alive, and had nothing but
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  Speaker 2: praise for your personalities. So it's really cool to see
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  Speaker 2: that you guys are still going.
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  Speaker 4: That's very good people in Australia or in England.
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  Speaker 1: In England, Yeah, yeah, yes.
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  Speaker 4: So it was Mick matsud I believe that's got to
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  Speaker 4: be him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe he managed a few other bands like
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  Speaker 2: Flock of Seagulls and I don't know is a Flock
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  Speaker 2: of seagum.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, but yeah, that was a cool connection.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one moment that stands out the most in
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  Speaker 2: your mind from those iconic years of bad manners throughout
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  Speaker 2: the seventies and eighties.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose when I exposed my bottom to the Pope.
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  Speaker 4: Classic.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was just in that one of the most
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  Speaker 3: silly moods and I had after Arry White, and I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to go down very well.
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  Speaker 4: So I noticed that the cloud was starting to seize.
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  Speaker 3: Up a bit when we first went off, So I thought,
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  Speaker 3: I know, I'll get this middle class, middle aged cloud going.
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  Speaker 4: I shoved my bottle, which it did do. It made
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  Speaker 4: them work a bit.
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  Speaker 3: Pones, but I didn't realize that it was being terribised
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  Speaker 3: and the Pope was watching.
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  Speaker 4: So when I came off and everybody was so.
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  Speaker 3: Shocked and we instantly made fame in.
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  Speaker 5: The Oh my goodness, did you see any repercussions from that?
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  Speaker 5: It has been Oh gosh, did you Did you guys
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  Speaker 5: get in trouble for that at all?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? We did, Yeah we did, But I mean, what
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  Speaker 4: how arrested for it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Gee? And that he was watching it, he watching.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: And I also see that you guys were banned from
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  Speaker 2: Top of the Pops.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we got banned from Top of the box.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that was an unusual one where I painted my
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  Speaker 3: head red.
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  Speaker 4: Because I wanted. I wanted to perform as a Swan
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  Speaker 4: vest of match. Don't ask me why, but I just
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  Speaker 4: just got it in my head.
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  Speaker 3: That that's what I want, and that's always sacked the
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  Speaker 3: makeup woman. They said black, well, that's it. You're not
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  Speaker 3: for Manson, never be.
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  Speaker 1: Did Oh my goodness, that's a bit rough. Well because
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  Speaker 1: you painted a rough.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But what it's done is that it mucked up the
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  Speaker 3: cameras because for some reason, if you haven't red and
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  Speaker 3: it makes it look like I haven't got ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well I haven't heard that before, but there you go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know it's one of those happened tells.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Oh that's nuts. Our bus star. We can't
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  Speaker 1: wait for the Aussie tour. It's been such a pleasure
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  Speaker 1: talking to you today. Thank you so much for your time.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you very much for giving meat time.