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Reigniting The Flame: Severance Is Due With AARON BILBIJA From DAYSEND · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Someone name's Aaron Bilbier, guitarist in Day's End Day's End.
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  Speaker 1: Also the other members are Simon Calabresi on vocals, Michael
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  Speaker 1: Kordek on the guitar. The three of us original members
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  Speaker 1: from the from the start. The other two came and
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  Speaker 1: went over a period of time. I remained the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: When we've read when we started this back up again
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  Speaker 1: for the Severance tour, I was with those two and
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  Speaker 1: then also joined by Jason Turnbull on bass and Matt
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  Speaker 1: Pickootta on drums. Jason used to play in Days End
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  Speaker 1: previously on guitar as well after Ball left the first time,
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  Speaker 1: and Matt used to play in a band called switch Plate,
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  Speaker 1: who we used to play a lot with back in
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  Speaker 1: the day and good friends with. So yeah, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: been been awesome really, you know, we've all been good
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  Speaker 1: mates still over the years and everything. So yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: just pick up where we left off kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, too easy. Very thanks for joining us slow, Mat,
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  Speaker 2: it's a pleasure to finally get a chat with you.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for having men.
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  Speaker 2: So the big news surrounding Days End, aside from the
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  Speaker 2: fact that he's back together, of course, is that you
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  Speaker 2: hit the stage as part of Necrosonic Festival on September.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty third at the Mansfields.
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  Speaker 2: Have any Brisbane like not many sleeps, wait out bro
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  Speaker 2: the nerves starting to kick in.
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  Speaker 1: Not really not really normally pretty good until well, don't
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  Speaker 1: get the nerves that much. Start to feel it a bit,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just before you jump on stage, but beforehand,
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  Speaker 1: don't don't feel the nerves too much. It's not really
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  Speaker 1: We're not really it's not really not really back together,
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  Speaker 1: back to We're kind of just just doing these shows,
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  Speaker 1: so we're kind of Yeah, I just decided to do
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of shows playing the first album stuff, the
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  Speaker 1: seventh stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, that's Oh.
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  Speaker 2: You're actually one of five bands in the Resurrected from
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  Speaker 2: the Dead category, alongside Massic, Bean, Flipper Brace and Idol Ruins.
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  Speaker 2: I got to say, mate, you looking pretty sharp for
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  Speaker 2: a dead man. That's not a bad company to be in.
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  Speaker 2: But there's some good names in there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely. I'm pretty starked to go to the festival again.
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  Speaker 1: I played it last year actually with band called Mentality.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah back again this year. You know what to expect.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a good day. It's gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Really looking forward to Embrace.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I interviewed they've actually he was probably cold.
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  Speaker 3: It's good fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I saw them quite a few times back
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  Speaker 1: in the day and yeah they're amazing cool.
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  Speaker 2: And it's also like it's it's a massive festival Necrosonic.
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  Speaker 2: You got more than thirty bands across three stages. There's
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  Speaker 2: portal Bowls or Alarum, Brian Forden led to the Woods,
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  Speaker 2: which is a great band name of Frankenbot. But anybody
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  Speaker 2: who are really looking forward to sort of catch it
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  Speaker 2: up with or playing with I like I'm mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: Brace, We're looking for Brace, the Murdering, looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: see the Murdering Frankenbach as well, as you mentioned we
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  Speaker 1: played a lot with them back in the day. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just I'm sure I'm going to get to see a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of bands that I've never seen before. Just looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: Really here last year, so you don't what to expect,
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  Speaker 2: but brutalless fun, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's hard to see everything as well because
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  Speaker 1: there's so much going on and catching up with friends
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  Speaker 1: and everything. But definitely looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I said four props to Can't too for
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  Speaker 2: putting it on as well, Like how important are people like.
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  Speaker 3: Him and shows like this for the Ustralian music industry?
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  Speaker 1: You think, oh, hugely. Usually they're doing it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they've got the passion for it, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: They're not doing it for the bucks. They've got the
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  Speaker 1: passion for it and they love what they're doing. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's great supporting guys like us. Yeah, it's excellent.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, what was the catalyst to you guys coming back
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  Speaker 2: and during these shows? Was it him approaching he had
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  Speaker 2: asked you to get back together for Necrosonic or did
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  Speaker 2: you already plan on doing it?
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  Speaker 1: No? Not necessarily, No, not really. I guess Simon, Simon
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  Speaker 1: and Michael have been talking about it for a little while.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I had a good had a good chat
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  Speaker 1: with me last year and we just kind of said, there,
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  Speaker 1: let's let's have a jam. Let's give it a shot.
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  Speaker 1: See how it feels O the shops still there? Can
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  Speaker 1: we still do it? Jas and it feels good, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's do some shows.
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  Speaker 3: That's and they had How important was it to get
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  Speaker 3: the core I said, the three core members of the
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  Speaker 3: band back together to like would you reckon it would
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  Speaker 3: have worked if all three of you had to come back.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, I mean we would love to have the
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  Speaker 1: original five. It didn't work out. You know, they're busy
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  Speaker 1: because he with their own lives at the moment, pretty
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  Speaker 1: tired up. But as I said, you know, the three
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  Speaker 1: of us called dudes, plus Jason was in the band before,
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  Speaker 1: so he's just changed from guitar and bass. Having having
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  Speaker 1: Matt there on drums, who you know we've known forever
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  Speaker 1: and played with, gigged with when he was in switch Plade. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it just kind of felt right. Everybody's everybody was kind
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  Speaker 1: of itching to get back and do something again. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is it.
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk a bit about the early days
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  Speaker 2: of Stages of Days and like you started around a
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  Speaker 2: turn of the century. So what was a musical climate
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  Speaker 2: like in Australia that gave birth to the band back
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  Speaker 2: then and where did you spit in initially?
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  Speaker 1: All right, So well, we all came from other bands
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  Speaker 1: at the time, just local bands in the Sydney scene,
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  Speaker 1: and we used to play the hotels a lot, a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of all ages shows things like that. What was
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  Speaker 1: this scene like? It was pretty good in Sydney. Actually
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  Speaker 1: it was pretty There was loads and loads of bands
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  Speaker 1: and there was gigs on pretty much every weekend. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I remember going as a sixteen year old with the
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  Speaker 1: flake Id trying to get into as many gigs as
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  Speaker 1: I could. Yeah, it was pretty good. And then you know,
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  Speaker 1: we as you do. You know, you go through various bands,
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  Speaker 1: you meet other dudes, and then that's kind of how
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  Speaker 1: days end formed. You know, guys from this band and
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  Speaker 1: that band that had finished starting something new, and yeah
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  Speaker 1: where we went.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah cool.
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  Speaker 2: You struck a chord with your blending of the melodic
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  Speaker 2: aggressiveness of the technical prowess on your debut severing right
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  Speaker 2: at that time, that sort of music wasn't as prevalent
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  Speaker 2: as as it is today.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you wouldn't would have been the minority back then.
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  Speaker 3: So what was it? Do you think struck a chord
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  Speaker 3: with people about the band and your music?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's exactly what you just said, really just trying
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  Speaker 1: to do something a little bit different to what was
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  Speaker 1: pretty normal, you know, well, which was as usual at
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  Speaker 1: the time. So I just doing something a little bit different.
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  Speaker 1: We're just trying to do stuff that we wanted to hear.
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  Speaker 1: Really Yeah, bringing influencers from here and there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: be more technical stuff and then the more melodic sensibilities
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  Speaker 1: from other styles that we really liked as well. Just
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  Speaker 1: trying to bring it together. Obviously hugely influenced by what
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  Speaker 1: was going on in Sweden at the time as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is a severage tour. So does that
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  Speaker 2: mean you're playing the whole album back to back.
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  Speaker 1: We won't be playing the whole album, but everything we're
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  Speaker 1: playing will be from the album.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Sweden.
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  Speaker 2: How how did feel going back and revisit and relearned
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  Speaker 2: that after twenty years? Did feel outdated or did it
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  Speaker 2: feel fresh to you?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't feel outdated. Actually I was. I was surprised.
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  Speaker 3: I was. I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was a little bit concerned about that, as you
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  Speaker 1: just mentioned like that, but I didn't feel like that.
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  Speaker 1: It was a bit nervous going back and learning stuff
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  Speaker 1: because I couldn't remember how to play all of it.
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  Speaker 1: So I had to sit down and sit down and
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  Speaker 1: stady it all again and relearn, relearn the riffs and
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  Speaker 1: the solos. I transcribed a bunch of stuff, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't forget it once I relearned it, which I
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  Speaker 1: should have done in the first place. Yeah, but it
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  Speaker 1: feels fresh again when my gam and it's exciting when
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  Speaker 1: we're playing. Yeah, definitely doesn't feel old and stale. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like it's just a strong how as it was
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  Speaker 1: back then.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, very cool. And have you got any other shows
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  Speaker 3: booked or as Necrosonic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we did have other shows book for sure. We
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  Speaker 1: actually did a warm up show last weekend down here
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  Speaker 1: in a tiny little bar in Sydney. We didn't do
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  Speaker 1: it in the name days then. Okay, yeah, we were
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  Speaker 1: the first. We were first on the bill. That was
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  Speaker 1: our first warm up show.
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  Speaker 3: It was good.
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  Speaker 1: Juice is flying again. But no, we've got shows coming up.
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  Speaker 1: We'll go after Brisbane. We've got Newcastle, We've got Adelaide,
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  Speaker 1: We've got Sydney, we've got Canberra. Yeah, in Melbourne, of course.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm interested to know what name did you use
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  Speaker 2: for your do you see them?
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  Speaker 1: It was school Ring Schooling.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna you know, you're gonna have to do a
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  Speaker 2: different one now if you ever planned on doing that again.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry you mentioned before they only get together for these
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  Speaker 2: runners shows. But hypothetically, is there any situation that could
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  Speaker 2: happen and They could make you, guys, decide you want
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  Speaker 2: to start writing material again.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe, but that's not the plan. No, that's not
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  Speaker 1: the plan. The plans just to do these shows and
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, revisit and celebrate the album that
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  Speaker 1: we made all right all those years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, good on you brook, looking forward to seeing the set.
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  Speaker 2: I've heard good things about you guys, so I shall
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  Speaker 2: catch up with you at let Prosonic on the twenty
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  Speaker 2: third of September