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Back To Life With ADAM JOHN COOPER From SUICIETY · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Adam John Cooper from Society lead vocals, and we've got our EP Reincarnated just
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  release on all streaming platforms. Should check it out. Christ good to finally
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  meet you. Yeah, good to finally meet you. We've spoken a bit
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  and now it's now this face to face thing. It'll be all a bit
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  weird, I believe. I'm just noticing you've got a Richmond fucking jumper on.
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  I probably shouldn't have warn it. It's probably not not the ideal thing,
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  but it was a bit cold. You lucky I like him already,
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  Otherwise I'll probably be hanging up on you. Who are you for it?
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  I'm ancedent man, Mad bomb our drummer Nick is Mad Bombers, so you
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  and him will get along, get along really well. I've got the Corey
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  Taylor underneath if all right? That's that's that's the saving grace. Corey Taylor
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  is probably one of my favorites. So you've just made well done. Suiciety
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  released your latest four track EP, Reincarnated, back on April the eight Ads
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  made Like I know, it hasn't been that long since it has come out,
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  but how's the early reception been for it? It's been really really nice.
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  We've had some really good feedback sort of from you know, a long
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  time, long suffering fans have have been really just just so supportive of us
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  that they've really stuck with us over the over the early year journey that we've
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  had, and yeah, it's been it's been really really positive. Yeah,
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  I couldn't be couldn't be happier, to be honest with With the feedback,
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  I haven't haven't had much negativity. It's just been it's been all positive,
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  you know. Yeah, I just I can't say enough good about people liking
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  it. Very good, very good. So tell us a bit more about
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  the EP from a musical point of view and what you were going for with
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  it lyrically, because I wrote the lyrics and vocals. I had this whole
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  we had this whole sort of horror theme that was that was running through since
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  we did the single Helio Therapy, which we released just towards the end of
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  last year, and that had like a vampire theme which was sort of an
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  analogy for depression. But I had this whole whole horror, like traditional horror.
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  We're all into like old horror films and big fans of that, and
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  I'm a huge Stephen King fan as well. I collect his books and you
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  know, seen all the films in the series and whatnot, And I think
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  the horror sort of theme as an analogy just sort of kept coming through the
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  lyrics. So after we released Heliotherapy, which was also produced and mixed by
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  d W. Norton from Super Highst. I might add he's a great guy,
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  we continued on with that horror theme and songs like Green Mile and and
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  a couple of the others. They just really had this this like sort of
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  gothic horror theme, whether it's sci fi or or or horror, and it
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  came across quite quite gothic. And then a few comments have been made by
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  museo friends of ours that it's it's got Alice Cooper vibes, and I'm like,
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  there's a nothing with that man comes the wrong at all, which is
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  which is kind of strange for us, I guess because it's something we would
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  have never thought of as when we were when we were writing it, when
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  we were recording it. Because musically we've we've written across across oceans and across
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  highways. We're not in the same room at the same time, which is
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  which is new for us with all this as we were discussing before all the
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  technology, you know, Dropbox has become our friend, you know, like
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  all that sort of stuff as sending files and raised in Spain with his family
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  and and you know we all live sort of all over town and and we've
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  all got you kids and whatnot, so it's kind of hard to get in
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  a room. But the guys we just trust each other with our roles and
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  and it's actually it was a really nice way to record it. And yeah,
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  and for me, I just just kept these horror themes kept coming up
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  with lyrically. But the all an analogy for for you know, feelings and
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  you know, commenting on society and things like that. But just with using
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  using that as a as a as an analogy. As I said. So
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  yeah, wait, now there's only four songs on the eb mate, so
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  I want to run through them individually and you can tell us a bit more
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  about him. So it starts with Balloons twenty seven years. Yes, Balloons
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  is a is about Penny Wise from it. So yeah, there's just I
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  suppose talking about the societal aspect. You know, I'm looking after kids,
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  it's all about it's all about family and about children. And I think that's
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  where, you know, Stephen King is great, that the fact that he
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  puts the fear of God into you because he uses a lot of children in
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  his in his stories. And I think, I don't know that just that
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  just came through for me because with with Pennywise, he's you know, scary
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  as ship and yeah, freaky clowns, and yeah, it's just about looking
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  after the kids. And and I use that, as I was saying before,
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  as an analogy for that, and but but it was Balloons is is
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  a heavier offering for us, and was kind of I suppose influenced by obviously
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  that horror theme as we were talking about, but you know, I suppose
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  bands like slip Knot and and things like that I was listening to at the
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  time when I wrote that, who've also got obviously that horror sort of gothic
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  feel to it. So yeah, I think I think Balloons kind of kind
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  of came out pretty heavy and kind of quirky, kind of like this weird
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  slip Knot kind of heavy faith name war type deal. And not that I
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  meant to compare to other bands, because we're going to sound like somethan Yeah,
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  yeah, I guess, but yeah, I think that was the That
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  was the that was the vibe of that song when we recorded it, and
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  I think it came out pretty well. And the second track is called Child's
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  Light. Yeah, Child's Light, it's just about my daughter. I wrote
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  the lyrics for that probably probably in like twenty sixteen, but my daughter's ten
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  now. But yeah, it was just about about becoming a dad really,
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  and we had this really cool, sort of groovy, dirgy kind of riff
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  and and we wanted this kind of catchy chorus with harmonies and stuff, and
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  Ray Ray and I sing really well together, so again not meaning to compare,
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  but like I had this kind of Alice in chainsy kind of you know,
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  vocal thing going on in the chorus. So but we love that sort
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  of stuff. We like, we're like some really nice harmonies and mixed with
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  some really dirgy heavy riffs. So so it kind of comes out sounding like
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  that. But yeah, that's that's about my daughter, beautiful. I have
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  track number three is called Dream Dream. Dream was just about making your life
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  awesome, like do awesome ship all the time. Yeah, so we I
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  was trying to have a like a positive a really positive vibe, but meanwhile
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  having this kind of trippy I suppose Dawsy King Crimson weird monster magnet type thing
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  going on in the background. Positive but being positive at the same time.
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  So so dreams just about yeah, making your life as awesome as you can.
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  But it's it's a little bit in a spacey kind of way again with
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  that sci fi kind of feel, kind of alien type. I was thinking
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  about the film Alien while I was writing it. Yeah, who doesn't love
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  Alien? Like who doesn't? Indeed, the closes out with greed Mile,
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  Old Sparky, Like, I'm pretty sure I know where the green Mile comes
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  from. Where's the old spark in it? Old Sparky, Old Sparky the
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  Electric Chair? Yeah, from Stephen King. So again, uh we we
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  use that as like again the Stephen King horror horror themes coming through. But
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  the just choosing, like the choices we make in life, and and sometimes
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  we really make wrong choices. And we can be walking the green Mile,
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  you know, like towards the Electric Chair, and you got to watch out
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  for old Sparky because your bloody get you if you have to make the wrong
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  sort of choices. If that makes sense, It makes too much sense.
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  I know exactly know exactly where I'm added. Yeah, I was there with
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  you, man, I was there with you. The Bob and supporter and
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  the Richmond supporter will go down hand dreend time, dreend time. Baby.
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  Your band camp page caused reincarnate a rebirth of the band, like, would
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  do you agree with that? And if so, how so? Yeah?
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  I definitely, I definitely, I definitely agree with that rebirth being that we
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  we had we had a break for a while. Obviously COVID shut everything down,
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  and then and then we were doing other projects, like we had solo
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  Proje excellent stuff going on, and you know, we had some health issues
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  in the band and then and then Ray moved overseas to back to Spain with
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  his with his family, as I mentioned, and so it was kind of
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  like a rebirth of the band in a way, and and just the way
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  we would describe it, it ties in with the whole reincarnated thing. But
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  yeah, we and we we sort of got a new a new touring guitarist
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  with Shane who used to be our He didn't play on the EP, but
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  he was he was rehearsing with us for the U for the upcoming shows,
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  which unfortunately we can't play due to a family thing. But but yeah,
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  Shane sort of gave a new spark to the band when we were rehearsing for
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  those shows, and so it was kind of a rebirth in a few different
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  ways. Very cool. Now before we go made, I believe you've got
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  a bit of a festival called rat Fest later on this year in Melbourne.
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  So yeah, Ratfest was a is a festival kind of curated by us by
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  Society, and we we kind of had a hand picked, hand picked lineup
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  and suicidety we're obviously gone to play and we've got franken Bach this year.
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  Captives unfortunately had to pull out because a couple of their members are going over,
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  so we got CD Jesus in their place, and full Tome Generator who
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  just did a tour with Brent Byork and playing with Elaine. Elaine. Yeah,
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  yeah, is that how you pronounce his name? I'm sorry, no
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  idea, but that'll do. I'm sorry if that's I've pronounced it wrong.
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  And they're they're amazing kind of desert rock, kind of Queens of the Stone
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  Age type vibe. And then we've got Quaid opening the show, and they're
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  awesome. They're kind of like college college rock, you know, sort of
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  punkers, but unfortunately we can't play, so we're we're looking at getting getting
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  dream Killers from Queensland on board, and it looks like that's gonna happen.
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  So so we're stoked and with with franken Bach obviously headlining the show, and
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  we've got we've got three shows in Victoria, a city show and two regional
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  shows, and we're really really looking forward to it. So unfortunately Society can't
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  play, but I'll still be there hosting and hanging around like a bad smell,
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  so it should be should be fun, so everyone should get get along
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  of that. Well, and that's in August. Is there August twenty four,
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  twenty fifth, twenty sixth for a memory? Yes, yes, yes,
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  and last weekend in August I think yeah. So people find out more
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  information, bro then go to oztic's get their tickets, or head to our
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  Facebook and or our social media and you'll get a the info there. You're
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  out of Vladim All right, Well, there's sounds on, there's what's happening
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  Ratfest in August. But in the near future, Suiciety, you have released
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  the four track EP reincarnated and it's an absolute cracker, So best of luck
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  with that mate, and I shall catch you when I come down in August.
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  No worries, thanks Chris,