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Leaning Into Heavier Territory With DRUE HERRING From BAD JUJU · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I's drew from bad Juju. I'm the drummer.
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  Speaker 2: We recently VP called Simulacra, which is probably our most
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  Speaker 2: ambitious and heaviest for lease to date.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, fantastic bro, thanks for joining us all, thanks
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  Speaker 3: having me as well. Rather so, as you say, bad
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  Speaker 3: Juju released your latest EP, Simulacra, only a few days
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  Speaker 3: back on October twenty four, so long, but how's the
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  Speaker 3: only reception?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the reception has been great so far. So
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  Speaker 2: obviously with this new EP, we kind of went back
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  Speaker 2: to our heavier roots, seeing as where all come from
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  Speaker 2: heavier bands, so it was nice to blend a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of, you know, the the younger musicians taste that
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  Speaker 2: we've been playing in previous bands before this into this
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  Speaker 2: new body of work. So yeah, it's been great and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: every show we've played, Yeah, and just the overall reception
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  Speaker 2: has been very well received. So yeah, we're very very
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  Speaker 2: happy with it.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you mentioned the heavier direction you've taken race, Can
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  Speaker 3: you could dive into that a bit deeper for us
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  Speaker 3: musically and tell us what you're going for this time around?
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  Speaker 2: So I guess, like as I mentioned, all of us
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  Speaker 2: coming from heavier bands bands like you know, Link and
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  Speaker 2: Park Limp, Biscuit Corn all that type of stuff is
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  Speaker 2: music that all of us guys grew up on, so
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  Speaker 2: we just kind of wanted to influence a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of that type of sound towards what.
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  Speaker 1: We were previously doing. And also just on the back
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  Speaker 1: of that, just for the live shows.
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  Speaker 2: As well, we always feel like those heavier types of songs,
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  Speaker 2: a bit more energetic, bit more fast, just just an
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  Speaker 2: overall better, better type of vibe.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, you mentioned that it's most ambitious body
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  Speaker 3: you've a wad to date like now.
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  Speaker 2: So well it's kind of just, yeah, just a lot
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  Speaker 2: different to everything we've done in the past before. So
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  Speaker 2: if you listen to our last record, Blue Heaven, there
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  Speaker 2: was a couple of tracks that had, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: couple of heavier parts in it, but yeah, this one's
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  Speaker 2: at least four of the tracks mostly that new metal
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  Speaker 2: type of vibe.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, so the has only got six songs on it, mate,
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  Speaker 3: so we got time to run through all wonder time,
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  Speaker 3: so we'll do that. We'll run from individually and just
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  Speaker 3: tell us a bit more about the songs and how
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  Speaker 3: they I guess, how they show Badhuji moving forward, So
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  Speaker 3: we'll start with Clacra.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so similar Cra the title track for the EP. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that that obviously pays, you know, a bit of homage
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  Speaker 2: to the old New Metal Link and Park type of vibes.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's kind of what we were going for
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  Speaker 2: with that one. It's got a nice little breakdown in there.
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  Speaker 2: It's got the nice groove as well.
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  Speaker 3: So actually, on the subject of breakdowns, bro because I
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  Speaker 3: can't play a music musical instrument of my life. But
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  Speaker 3: with breakdowns in songs, who writes them? Does a guitarist
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  Speaker 3: write them? What does a drummer write them? Or is
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  Speaker 3: there no sort of no set way to do it.
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  Speaker 1: No, there's not really a set way to do it.
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  Speaker 1: The way that we write music is.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of it comes from the guys on
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  Speaker 2: the guitars.
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  Speaker 1: First they kind of flesh out the songs.
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  Speaker 2: And then and then we all come together as a
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  Speaker 2: group and just iron everything out together.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, So we'll move on to the next track,
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  Speaker 3: which is Unwind Unwined.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's that's more of a faster one.
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  Speaker 2: We tried to blend a little bit of our older
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  Speaker 2: sound into that one as well. But then obviously touching
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  Speaker 2: on the new sound as well a little bit too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you've got Incision Incision.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's basically the same same viable going for as
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  Speaker 2: with Simulacra.
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  Speaker 1: Just some nice, nice catchy choruses.
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  Speaker 2: And then some groovy verses and then yeah, just really
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  Speaker 2: trying to go down that kind of new metal type
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  Speaker 2: of yeah sound.
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  Speaker 1: It's for me.
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  Speaker 2: Everything was kind of written in the same well, with
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  Speaker 2: the same ideas in mind, just to try and make
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  Speaker 2: it flow for those heavier type of tracks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but by the sounds already, bro, like when you
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  Speaker 3: said at the start of the interview that it's a
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  Speaker 3: lot heavier and more ambitious, Like every song sounds like
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  Speaker 3: it's gone down that road. So I reckon instead of
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  Speaker 3: you describe them, Jimmy, people go and listen for themselves,
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  Speaker 3: because that's the best way to find out about shit
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  Speaker 3: in it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, definitely, everyone go check it out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is just sort of indicative of the direction
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  Speaker 3: Badges it's going to keep going in future, or is
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  Speaker 3: it going to sort of change for every album.
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  Speaker 1: Nah, this is kind of a new base for us.
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  Speaker 2: It's a new start, so we're definitely still writing at
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  Speaker 2: the moment, and everything's going down the path of what
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  Speaker 2: was released on similar acra. Yeah, and if not a
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  Speaker 2: little bit heavier as well.
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  Speaker 3: It's actually very bold and ambitious from you guys, because say,
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  Speaker 3: your debut album, Blue Heaven, came out in twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 3: and that was really well received. So it would have
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  Speaker 3: been so easy for you just to play it safe
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  Speaker 3: and do Blue Heaven Mark two, you know, because you
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  Speaker 3: knew people like that. But you've gone heavier again, which
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  Speaker 3: all predator, you bro like, So it's not taking the
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  Speaker 3: safe option and sort of pushing yourself forward, which is good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: I think we just wanted to write music that feels
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  Speaker 2: a bit more natural to us as a collective. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and the outcome of that has been similar ocra.
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  Speaker 3: So you also released it on epes. I released Ething
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  Speaker 3: on vinyl, like I remember talking to people a couple
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  Speaker 3: of years ago. No, there's people there a bit of
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  Speaker 3: whisper about vinyl coming back and shit, but no one
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  Speaker 3: thought it really would. But it really has come back,
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  Speaker 3: hasn't it. Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely definitely, So it's yeah, it's been great. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: our friend our friends down at thirty two records. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they got them pressed for us, so yeah, it's definitely
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  Speaker 2: nice to be able to hold the physical copy in
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  Speaker 2: their hands.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, vinyl was definitely coming back.
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  Speaker 3: So are you limited edition thing or because they Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: all those are definitely limited to one hundred pieces. So
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  Speaker 3: where can people get themselves a copy before they all
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  Speaker 3: go sailing out.
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  Speaker 2: The door on thirty two records on their website? So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: very limited to left so fancastic.
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  Speaker 3: Now we've been talking about your sound, Roan, like if
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  Speaker 3: you sort of break it down, bedges you sound it's
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  Speaker 3: a blending of alternative metal, there's brung, it's new metal,
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  Speaker 3: there's modern hardcore of it. In the creative process, how
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  Speaker 3: hard is it to get the balance of all those right?
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  Speaker 3: Like you wouldn't they wouldn't come together naturally? Would they?
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  Speaker 1: Definitely? Not naturally?
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  Speaker 2: But we just have multiple revisions on all of our tracks.
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  Speaker 2: So for for similar acra like it's a it's a
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  Speaker 2: six track EP. But there was a lot more demos demos,
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, then we kind of just out out of
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  Speaker 2: the whole how the whole crop of demos we've got,
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  Speaker 2: Then we picked the select few and then from there
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  Speaker 2: we just keep on refining.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so how do you actually know when when you've
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  Speaker 3: gone too far in one direction or not far enough another,
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  Speaker 3: like if you got set cage it's all parameters or
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  Speaker 3: is it all by feel?
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  Speaker 1: It's all just by feel, all by feel.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the thing being in a band, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's you know, myself and four other guys, so
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  Speaker 2: we just bounce off each other. It's always good to
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  Speaker 2: have multiple people's feedback on everything.
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  Speaker 3: Very nice. Pray well. From what I know about you guys,
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  Speaker 3: you would not be releasing an EP without hitting the raid.
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  Speaker 3: So you've got your show's coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Our final show for this year is.
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  Speaker 2: This Friday where we've got our little EP release show
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  Speaker 2: with Emo Never Sleep supporting House First Hurricane.
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  Speaker 1: Then yeah, there's a lot more to come in the
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  Speaker 1: in the in.
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  Speaker 2: The new year. So looking for show this Friday whereabouts
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  Speaker 2: Royal Marvin Hotel in the city for Emo Never Sleep.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, we'll hear that. Everyone out there if you
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  Speaker 3: want to see Bead Judu in twenty twenty five, but
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  Speaker 3: you get out of this Friday night and support the boys.
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  Speaker 3: That's it, sweet As And the EP Sigma Lacra is
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  Speaker 3: out now and it is a crack of guys. You
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  Speaker 3: have over and above excel on this one. It's pretty
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  Speaker 3: heavy as fucking plasis. So congratulations and I look forward
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  Speaker 3: to hearing what comes out in the future.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much mate,