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Steady As She Goes With LUCAS STONE And RUCKUS From HAMMERS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: My name is Ruckers. I played drums and Hammers. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sitting beside.
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  Speaker 2: This bloke and Lucas Stan and I scream and sing
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  Speaker 2: and playing guitar for Hammers.
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  Speaker 3: Nice to meet your fantastic guys. I couldn't have described
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  Speaker 3: it any better myself.
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  Speaker 4: So the reason we have a several today is that
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  Speaker 4: Hammers finally released your debut album, Death Bubbles this Friday,
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  Speaker 4: January the twenty third.
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  Speaker 3: So personally, how you feel about it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited for it to come out.
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  Speaker 6: It's been a long time in the making, so it'll
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  Speaker 6: be good once it's out there circulating around doing the things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited too. It's been a bit of work.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's work, but it's worked nonetheless. And to
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  Speaker 2: see the little baby come to fruition and I know
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  Speaker 2: that it's going to be running around screened, everyone's pretty exciting.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose you guys aren't like most bands though, Like
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  Speaker 4: it's been eight years or so for you to get
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  Speaker 4: out your first album, so you've already got a bit
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  Speaker 4: of an existing fan base. Are you still nervous about
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  Speaker 4: it coming out, like to see what people think, or
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  Speaker 4: you're happy in the fact that you know people love
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  Speaker 4: you anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, I think I'm always, no matter what to do,
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  Speaker 2: an equal parts nervous and don't give a fuck what
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  Speaker 2: people think kind of person. So here's part of me
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  Speaker 2: for sure as a writer. You know, I've been doing
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  Speaker 2: this a long time and Hammers Hammers haven't released the
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  Speaker 2: full length album yet. We kind of did that strategically
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  Speaker 2: so we could sort of growl as a band and
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  Speaker 2: become what we are and do that through a couple
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  Speaker 2: of EPs. So we have released I guess what would
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  Speaker 2: be called one album if you'd put two EPs together.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, like I think I'm excitingly nervous, bro. You know,
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  Speaker 5: like you kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Essentially as a band, you're always like if you're a band,
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  Speaker 2: that should be a band the way a band should be.
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  Speaker 5: You kind of do it for you, guys.
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  Speaker 2: You do it for your souls as much as you
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  Speaker 2: pass it on to the fans and whoever comes into
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  Speaker 2: your camp over time, Like you are essentially doing a
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  Speaker 2: selfish thing. So we're excited about what we've done and
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  Speaker 2: we can't wait to get it out. But there's obviously
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  Speaker 2: like it's like just handing your kids out of little
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  Speaker 2: babysity you don't know, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, but you actually mentioned the selfish part, like I.
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  Speaker 4: Make a direction towards that in the review when you
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  Speaker 4: read it, Like the selfish is just the fact that
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  Speaker 4: you can tell me you haven't made this album for
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  Speaker 4: you guys, Like if people jump on board, great, but
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  Speaker 4: you haven't Tutney Corners to make people like it, or
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  Speaker 4: you haven't thrown in what's expected, you know, not of
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  Speaker 4: to repeal the masters. It's just an album that you
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  Speaker 4: obviously love and if people want to jump on board, good,
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  Speaker 4: If they don't, well.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty much, Yeah, yeah, I think so, I think.
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  Speaker 6: I think yeah, that's exactly right. We've definitely made it.
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  Speaker 6: I think we just stay true to like Lucas's writing.
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  Speaker 6: It's pretty prolific, so like there's no rush to get
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  Speaker 6: this started the line, there's no deadline or reading. So
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  Speaker 6: the songs just had to stand up for themselves and
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  Speaker 6: we played them in the parts that we wanted to
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  Speaker 6: hear and that we wanted to play, and you know.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it is.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: It's like I feel like, whether it's as far as
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  Speaker 2: like mentioning my writing with the Amazon or the Sali stuff,
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  Speaker 2: or how or whatever. More music's weird. Okay, I probably
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  Speaker 2: I'd probably rather. I would definitely rather that and have
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  Speaker 2: I think I mentioned this to a previous interviewer. It's
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  Speaker 2: just like my taste in music, and the guys kind
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  Speaker 2: of meet me in a similar spot.
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  Speaker 5: I think we're all of a similar ilk. We do
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  Speaker 5: like what you call scene music in certain ways.
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  Speaker 2: But most of the bands that have moved me over
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  Speaker 2: time always the bands that generally hurt people first and
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  Speaker 2: make you work for what it is that they're doing,
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  Speaker 2: and they tend to stay around for longer in your take,
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  Speaker 2: in your taste bank, and you're listening bank than something
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  Speaker 2: that is immediate and part of a scene where you
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  Speaker 2: know that cookie has been.
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  Speaker 5: Toutting a lot of people with the same shape. Like
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  Speaker 5: I feel like.
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  Speaker 2: If that's going to be five dudes kind of common
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  Speaker 2: ground and there's one person bringing like a flavor and
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  Speaker 2: we all respond to that flavor, and then it's going
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  Speaker 2: to have you know, the injection. Everyone everyone's tasting there
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  Speaker 2: on a quest to be a bit different without meaning.
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  Speaker 5: It, and that's kind of when they come out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, good luck with answering this next question, because I
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  Speaker 4: have to listen to the album, I'd have no fucking
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  Speaker 4: no hope at all, but it's tried. The album musically,
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  Speaker 4: do is what you were going for with it?
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  Speaker 5: Is okay? I guess taste makers and scenes and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It's basically the things you love about post hardcore alternative
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  Speaker 2: books like nineties influenced alternative heavy music. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: about us rock punk. It's got the things in there,
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  Speaker 2: and I have a massive love for alls and suff
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  Speaker 2: of metal. So you copping and all that stuff, but
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  Speaker 2: what you're copping is an individuality that is genuinely authentically
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  Speaker 2: the five dudes that have put it together, but most
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  Speaker 2: importantly an Australian band. I feel like if you go
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  Speaker 2: back to the golden era of Australian music in the
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  Speaker 2: eighties with bands like mid Not Oil and In Excess
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  Speaker 2: and all those bands that had such a particular sound
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  Speaker 2: that no country on earth could kind of imitate. And
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  Speaker 2: I think if you go forward and listen to bands,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I guess like Your Dogs and Carnivals and
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  Speaker 2: then into the heavier role, there's a couple of select
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  Speaker 2: bands that I would pick your North Lanes. We have
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  Speaker 2: a distinct way of doing things, So yeah, I guess
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  Speaker 2: that the genre is the first post hardcore all kind
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  Speaker 2: of metal rock.
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  Speaker 5: But it's azzy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope to say this as a compliment.
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  Speaker 4: It's mentally but the only one band that came to
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  Speaker 4: mind that and it was only because of the vocals
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  Speaker 4: in some parts, because twenty eight Days like at their peak,
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  Speaker 4: like just some of them, the vocals whatever. Of that's like,
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  Speaker 4: but that's the only band that I could possibly draw
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  Speaker 4: reference to you through the whole.
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  Speaker 5: I can't. Oh, I'm not going to stay. I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I was never a fan of twenty eight Days stylistically
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  Speaker 2: as a band. I've never actually I've never noticed.
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  Speaker 4: It was more of the rappiest sort of vocals, like
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  Speaker 4: in parts of sort of spoken, rappiest sort of vocals.
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  Speaker 4: It's reminder you rip it up a few times.
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  Speaker 2: Probably because both bands have been influenced by olymp Biscuit
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  Speaker 2: and Raise against the Machine at sometimes and we're Aussie, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and we also I guess as far as modern bands
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  Speaker 2: like that goes like we're you know, we are fans
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  Speaker 2: straight from the path and I don't know, yeah, like
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  Speaker 2: that's that's a wild reference, but I'll read that.
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  Speaker 3: Fuck it well.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's the beauty of your music, though, it
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  Speaker 4: was like, you can't pin it down to one thing,
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  Speaker 4: Like I can say that I found that influence in there,
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  Speaker 4: but you guys have never heard it, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: there's going to be things for different people there. So
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  Speaker 4: it's like it's a truer malgamation of stuff was without
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  Speaker 4: imitating any other bands, I guess.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's good to hear. It's good for yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The album starts with the trade ape Shit, which starts
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  Speaker 4: with the bat line what the fuck is going on?
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  Speaker 4: Like is that more of a statement or is it
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  Speaker 4: a question for the band?
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  Speaker 2: N It definitely is bro Like it's that whole song
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  Speaker 2: I based around the nineties movie and I've never done
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  Speaker 2: this before as a writer. I've never based any songs
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  Speaker 2: off a movie, but I had a remember the movie.
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  Speaker 3: Falling Down with my Yeah, fucking great movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So as a kid growing up like and we
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  Speaker 2: all come from some version of hell in some way
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  Speaker 2: for Western kids, and I think as a kid growing
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  Speaker 2: up in the nineties, I resonated that on a level
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  Speaker 2: with that on a level that resonated with me on
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  Speaker 2: a level that it's probably the first movie i'd seen
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  Speaker 2: that kind of touched on the effects of what we
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  Speaker 2: now know is like bipolar disorder or sabematic depression and
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  Speaker 2: someone trying to a function in a world that's not fit,
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  Speaker 2: that we're not fit or not made to function in.
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  Speaker 2: And that movie really does in like a dark comedy
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  Speaker 2: way like touch on that. Or this dude's just going
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  Speaker 2: to fucking work you fucking can't stand the traffic and
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  Speaker 2: just wigs out his card and goes on a rampage
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  Speaker 2: and just gets the ships because he can't get breakfast
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  Speaker 2: at lunchtime, and sort.
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  Speaker 3: Of thing we all want to do, we just let
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  Speaker 3: none of us do it.
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  Speaker 2: The fuck is going on bit is like bro rt,
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  Speaker 2: what the fuck is actually going on?
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  Speaker 5: It's kind of literally it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 4: That song is a bit of a pleasant surprise to you,
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  Speaker 4: Like it ranges from the rap metal to almost beautiful harmonies.
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  Speaker 4: There's a Spanish sound and breakdown and then there's an
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  Speaker 4: almighty heaviest fuck breakdown like it's so all over the
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  Speaker 4: shop as the song, but it sets up the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the album nicely.
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  Speaker 3: I think it sort of shows you to.
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  Speaker 4: Throw expectations out of the window and just prepare for
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  Speaker 4: whatever the up to come.
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  Speaker 3: At xt.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's I particularly love this song, and
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  Speaker 6: I think this was the first song that I tracked
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  Speaker 6: drums for, so it's in looking back at the whole record.
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  Speaker 6: For me, this is the oldest song in the quiver
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  Speaker 6: of all of them, so I haven't actually thought about
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  Speaker 6: it in terms of setting up the record, but that's
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  Speaker 6: a really good point. It kind of does have a
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  Speaker 6: cross section of everything that you can take from from
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  Speaker 6: start to finish. I think it's yeah, Ape Shit and
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  Speaker 6: Death Wobbles definitely have that flavor.
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  Speaker 5: M hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they definitely got like a yeah, they're showing all
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  Speaker 2: all the colors that you're gonna You said it basically,
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  Speaker 2: you said it best. I think when you're technically pretty
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  Speaker 2: much explained the question the way, it kind of does
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  Speaker 2: set you up, like I didn't really think of it
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  Speaker 2: like that, I know, with the collection of riffs that
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  Speaker 2: go the sort of other majority of Ape Shit. It
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  Speaker 2: was actually the first of the first songs I wrote
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  Speaker 2: were fucked around and found out and ape shit as
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  Speaker 2: collections are, and then I kind of, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: ended up with those two.
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  Speaker 5: Songs out of them.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, that was definitely an early song in the
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  Speaker 2: piece and yeah, like Ruppus says, I think they probably
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  Speaker 2: do show what's coming.
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  Speaker 4: I think I said in the review that at the
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  Speaker 4: end of that one song, I felt like I heard
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  Speaker 4: all twelve tracks on the album in one for minute lot.
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  Speaker 3: That's great.
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  Speaker 5: It's funny. Like like I said before, I feel like
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  Speaker 5: I like music like that, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely, it's kind of if you like, again referring back
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  Speaker 2: to older bands as you're coming up and grunt and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like if you pick a band like sound Garden,
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  Speaker 2: like he Is Legend, which obviously a decent modern influence
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  Speaker 2: on hammers, those bands are bands that kind of do
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  Speaker 2: every part of all the rocks and all the metals
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  Speaker 2: that you want, and they kind of hide all these
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  Speaker 2: crazy hooks in places that you don't expect them. So
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  Speaker 2: it takes like, you know, ten fifteen listeners before you
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  Speaker 2: start common rewards, and then you might find something like
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  Speaker 2: a year down the track you just start holding on
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  Speaker 2: that was like a part of a trip. As the
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  Speaker 2: holy fuck, like I've been there the whole time. It
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  Speaker 2: never hit me properly until now. I kind of I
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  Speaker 2: like that stuff. So yeah, she can't.
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  Speaker 3: Just by the name, says.
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  Speaker 4: The press release says that Death Wobbles marks a significant
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  Speaker 4: progressions for Hammers.
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  Speaker 3: Can can you elaborate on that for us? Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I hear the progression in terms of, like what
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  Speaker 6: we said earlier, we intentionally did the two EPs to
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  Speaker 6: kind of we're all mates and we've been doing this
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  Speaker 6: for a while. I was in Helm with Lucas and Dario,
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  Speaker 6: but there's been a bit of time between that, and
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  Speaker 6: we kind of just use that as an opportunity to
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  Speaker 6: learn each other and play live and get a feel
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  Speaker 6: for what we can do, what we're capable of.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that, combined with all.
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  Speaker 6: The shows and all the tours we've done, our ability
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  Speaker 6: to pull things off kind of got bigger and put
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  Speaker 6: each other off.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't, but I was thinking that.
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  Speaker 6: I think that, like this is a combination of like
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  Speaker 6: all those hours you know, on the road, all the
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  Speaker 6: shows were played, and I guess, as as with the
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  Speaker 6: first two EPs, writing those songs, kind of finding out
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  Speaker 6: where our limits lie, what we what we can do,
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  Speaker 6: and you know, and yeah, we've definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Stretched ourselves wide open for Death Wolves.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, something tells me you guys are a long way
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  Speaker 4: of finding out where your limits are just quietly.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Man, well that's that's the thing again. I think I
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  Speaker 5: said this last week in an interview.
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  Speaker 2: It's like I feel like with Hammers, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: people people search for comfort when they listen to a band,
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  Speaker 2: they search for familiar ground. Like I'm only saying that
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  Speaker 2: generally speaken because I know that I don't don't really
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  Speaker 2: always try to find something that makes me.
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  Speaker 5: Go, fuck, what's that thing?
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  Speaker 2: But I think it's a classic thing that we all
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  Speaker 2: listen to a thing and try to liken it to
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  Speaker 2: what we know, you know what I mean. It's personly,
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  Speaker 2: Oh it sounds like such and such or whatever else.
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  Speaker 2: And I definitely am in the mind frame with this
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  Speaker 2: band in particular, like as a writer, I've got my
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  Speaker 2: long standing things that have contributed to me becoming whatever
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  Speaker 2: I am as a writer, and then we've got that
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  Speaker 2: as a band and how we put it together. But
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  Speaker 2: I feel like if Hammers has a thing, the thing
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  Speaker 2: is to kind of not have a.
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  Speaker 3: Thing, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, like it sounds like that Bruce lepe wait, I
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  Speaker 5: can't think.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember what it is, but he says something
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  Speaker 2: like have like no style or whatever is is like
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  Speaker 2: is the style.
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  Speaker 5: Or some shit like Yeah, Like if you learn a
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  Speaker 5: martial art or.
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  Speaker 2: A fighting style and you and you only learn that
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  Speaker 2: martial art, then you come into contact with someone the
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  Speaker 2: masial art, then you don't have any muscial art in so.
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  Speaker 5: Being able to adapt to all things is like kings.
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  Speaker 5: I guess yeah, as a being, I suppose that's.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly aroundabout way, that's what you're trying to say. You're
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  Speaker 4: nominated for Best Music Video for Fucked Around and found
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: out that last years Gold Coast Music Award was obviously
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: the judges read out the wrong name as a winner,
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  Speaker 4: But what does something like that even being nominated Menda
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  Speaker 4: Hammers and metal bands overall, it's it's it's.
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  Speaker 1: Cool to be acknowledged.
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  Speaker 3: You know. We don't do this.
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  Speaker 5: To for that reason.
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  Speaker 6: We do this because we love doing it and we've
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  Speaker 6: got to put all this energy somewhere.
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  Speaker 5: But to be.
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  Speaker 6: Acknowledged for the work that we're doing and the people
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  Speaker 6: we're working with to bring Envision to life, it's it's cool,
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  Speaker 6: and it's cool to see the Gold Coast music scene,
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  Speaker 6: the community that's supporting artists, not.
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  Speaker 1: The stars, but you know, everyone that is having a
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  Speaker 1: crack at it, so.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and I think we've had three nominations now fortunately,
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  Speaker 6: and we've seen in that the awards.
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  Speaker 5: Have grown the huge now, so yeah, I think the
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  Speaker 5: girl plays music. It's a good community, they're doing good things.
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  Speaker 5: I actually saw you there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like it's from when we first got nominated for
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  Speaker 2: Deads I think it was, which was in twenty eighteen
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  Speaker 2: nineteen or something that was on the beach and surface
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  Speaker 2: and I was quite surprised at the event, but it
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: was kind of I think they had it like a
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  Speaker 2: big marque thing and now it's over there at that
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  Speaker 2: Hoder and it's it's amazing.
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  Speaker 5: I think that right on.
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  Speaker 2: Russish just said, like the best part about it is
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  Speaker 2: the fact that it really highlights collaborative efforts in the
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  Speaker 2: industry as well. So for us, like working with people
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  Speaker 2: like Colin Jeffs's our long standing friend. He's one of
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: the greatest videographers I've ever seen and has an amazing
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: mind for that stuff. And the same Yeames with the
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: guy that did our Death Bobles clip as well, James Ladder.
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  Speaker 2: That just displays an extension of the bands too and
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  Speaker 2: kind of exemplifize the community.
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  Speaker 5: Artists.
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  Speaker 2: I guess around, not just bands. But you know what
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  Speaker 2: it takes to do all this. You know, you can't
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  Speaker 2: do it without your artists. You can't do it without
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  Speaker 2: your your photographers, shady Rose, you can't do it without
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  Speaker 2: your videographers and you know, your.
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  Speaker 5: Merch guys and stuff. It's all it's really cool man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's awesome. And what would that new album be
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: without a chor to go with?
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: You?
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: Guys and Habits are obliging setting off on a headlining run,
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: starting and Willing Gone on March of six, head through Sydney,
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: Gold Coast, Brisbane, Melbourne and Cross Harbor, then finishing Lives
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: More on April eight eighth. So what the lights have
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: you got in store for us at these shows?
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Boys?
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: Naked drummers are I'm selling my chicken from the neck
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: up of the man. What can you expect?
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Well, I guess the whole Quiverview songs mate.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like a high energy show.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: You know you're going to cop what you hear on
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: the record or the records.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: We are sticklers for Quatlck for trying to put get
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: together for the fans and do it as organically and
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: real as possible.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: So yeah, the delivery, the delivery in full.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: Anyone I've spoken to seeing you guys live say expect
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: total fucking carnage, like you are underselling.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: We doing. We came for a bunch of old blogs, mate,
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: for sure, this.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Stuff stretch it out.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: And you're also slipping in five dates with an up
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: and coming band called Cob in April, so that's pretty
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: good ice on the cake.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're bros, and we're forever grateful that we are
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: still Like you know, I think I first played with
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: COG in two thousand and two and we still get
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: the chance to share the stage to other and you know,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: whatever incarnation their.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: Music is, and it's it's raight, it's rather they're beautiful people.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: I think, great representations of what Australian music should be.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: You played a few shows towards the end of last
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: year and I know from experience how one eyed and
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: loyal COG fans can be.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: So how receptive of your music? Were they?
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: Like?
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Were they just wait for you to fuck off and
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: comp to come on? Or did you win them over?
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: We get I think we get them man Like It's
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: it's funny because we're obviously fucking heaps heavier. You know,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: but they have a heaviness that you can't fuck with
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: two in a way that like they sound like Australia.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: They sound like the earth you're walking on. So yeah,
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: I think like they're also again a weird man.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: So I feel.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Like we're in the best way possible, Like weird attracts weird,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: and the fans are there to see something, experience something unique,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: and I feel like if it's authentic and they're going
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: to like as much as they might be one eyed,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I feel like if you're a COG fan also not judgmental, Yeah,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: you know, you'll be one eye for them.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: You open to a new vibration and she got that,
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: you know.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: So they've been cool man like every time we've show
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: with him, and I was like, hey, Funk's right, you know.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Good thing.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: But before I let you go, guys, I got a
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: new segment I've introduced called photo Bomb. So basically, I've
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: trolled through your social media and I've come up with
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: a few photos that I want to know a little
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: bit more about.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: So the first one I've found you did you do you?
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Where is it? Now?
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: I've traveled a fair bit around the country, but I've
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: never actually seen this place, so where is it?
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: And then well I take the photo there.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: Yes, it's in it's Frankston.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: That's in Franklin, and it's like an art art exhibition
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: and outdoor art exhibition, and that's the piece of art
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: that some dude has.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Fucking it's a go ahead, yeah right, you can go ahead. Hey,
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: something else about.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: That photo that rick is brought to light when you
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: get off here and have a look at it properly,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: go up and zoom in.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: There's a fucking UFO above us. Yeah kidding me.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Cut it out.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: I've fucking cut it out. The only proof in existence,
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: and I've cut it out.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Like our conspiracy brains just went. It's probably a reflection
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: of a fucking rock or something. But today that is
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: a that's an art, like it's a gallery, an outdoor gallery.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: It's a singular art.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Is that something you do on the road? I do
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: you stop and get happy stats and things like that?
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Or was that just like the spread of the moment.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: I think we do things man like again, asked about
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: this before, and we were, and.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I think the thing with us too, like I've played
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: like two thousand shows in my life or something, and
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: for me, it's like now when I talk with my boys,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: it's like, we're gonna enjoy this, Like well, on a
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: boy trip every time, whether it's a weekend, a wave,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: a couple of days, or we're doing consecutive shadows, it's
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: like we always make an effort to get in the ocean.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: Go and see some sights like what I was like,
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: why wouldn't you.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Room hotel rooms or nothing like, we always you know,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: get out and try to try to see ship, equal food,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: you know, sucking the local.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Breweries, pissus.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: If you didn't.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Right the second photo I've got for you, if I
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: was a betting man, I'd to say this one was
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: taken out a bullet train platform in shake or a soccer.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this was really really cute.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: So we were we're.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: In Japan with a band called Emergency Rule and we're
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: catching their bullet train to a soccer and we're on
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: the platform and doing what you do when you're in
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: a soccer.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: We weren't drinking.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: Heaps of the year.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: But this this little girl who wanted to go to
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah it's a moment.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: I think her grandma that she wanted a photo with us,
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: but she was to be shy to ask, so as
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: soon as we found out that she wanted a photo
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: with us, you could see the result.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: We were pretty so.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And the whole lot of that photo for me
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: was actually got the teacher how to.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: Throw horme ones up.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: I did good on you.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, I've got a handle a lot
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: of this and she gave that was so cool.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: That is so cool a simplar throw.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: And I was over there with Franken Bock like we
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: would be on a train somewhere other boys all have their.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Shirts on and you see the Japanese people looking on
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: their phone then looking up at you, and you.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Go over and then looking up on Spotify just based
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: on what your shirt or you have the people over
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: there just coming. I remember I had I had a
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: beanie like it was cold as fun when we were
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: over there and I had a Franken Boc beanie on.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: It was the last one we had left. And someone
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: was talking to us on the train and they loved it.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: And I'm just like, yeah, people are just so.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: That would right.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Things like that. Then I've been there. That's the second
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: time for me with and when we were with Hammers
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: and I forever, marvel, how fucking amazing they are, as
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: like they're just so gracious and will feel like do
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: be part like then the fucking party, like there's so
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: much fun.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Man, Yeah they are. Indeed, we had run like we are.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: We're on the train, I'm going from somewhere to somewhere.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: But this guy, like a Japanese guy, asked us if
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: you needed to help get me with So I showed
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Hi where we were going, and then he took us there.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: We got off the train and Tommy left his kick
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: pedals on the train. So this guy's wrung ahead, found
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: out where they let it off, walked us to the venue,
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: took me back down on the train, took me to
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: get it, came back, walked me with new and I
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: said to the guy like, I say, you're coming down
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: to I'm thinking he lived like a spine, and he's like,
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: I know, I'm supposed to get.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Off twenty SOPs that way. I'll just come with you
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: to help you get there. And then he went off home.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: He wouldn't even not try to give him a shirt,
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: wouldn't take anything off us.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: He was just like, thank you. Turn around.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: The beautiful people, beautiful.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: People all right, Well, fuck the Japanese. We're talking about
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: you and your music. Death Wobbles. It's out January twenty three.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: It's a cracker the chores After that, where do people
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: find out more information?
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Get you?
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: You just sent me out? Sorry mate, it's like that
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: last time.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: That question is where do people find out more information
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: about the tour or or get tickets?
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Please follow us on our stars if you if you
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: can on it on the Hammers murmur that tapping at
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: the moment and that's where you'll see all the all
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: the Juice hammersofficial dot com I believe is the website
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: and obviously all the venues that we're playing. Yeah, tickets
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: are available through our side one hundred percent.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: Night fifty Stakes and Clay and Stag with your name
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: on as the.
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: Government White Sir Bob John win Free of times. Does
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  Speaker 8: the fresh coat sit us like an elms.
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: Here knows her name?
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: A hoop Avery, Jonas and John when everybod has really
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  Speaker 8: been to wrong?
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: Craig As counts.
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: Shock us on the Dronga side, and the boy Christ
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: the start strack beans bright.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: On the north.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: So walk.
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: To the sir on the patio, re sitting cheering were
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: second business, hopping into a split f s take Sonny
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: Sunds and crooking all times the bisies on the chase
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: for me, plug us along what from the hill tim
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: pit a slip off like.
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: This is the sunthing fucking real. We're all higher than
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: I can on toys. We don't want to crush and
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: brick and cb a whole of it.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: To so ship.
• 26:23
  Speaker 10: Let's sud song sh tracking black.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: M hm.
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: I've got.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: You go grab that big bag of balls and all
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: cast out the net because there's nothing more fucking Australian
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: than watching four blokes dribble and sweat.
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: They saved volleyballs for girls, made.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Up it wasn't We wouldn't have come home and I
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: ain't gone home till I shipped myself.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: You better get momsh.
• 27:41
  Speaker 10: Well chase you know.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: So down
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: The class, yes,