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Playing ANGELMAKER To SYLOSIS On Aussie Tour With KRYS & NATHANIEL SMITH From LUNE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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Speaker 1: I'm Prinstal play guitar and learn.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're playing with my loss on this upcoming in February,
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Speaker 2: opening up the show.
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Speaker 1: It's kin be awesome. We're very keen. Yeah, I'm Nathaniel.
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Speaker 1: I see him learn.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're very very key to kick off this
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Speaker 3: tour next month. We'll be ablest at the Silesis for
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Speaker 3: a very very long time. So yeah, looking forward to
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Speaker 3: seeing what happens on this next run, hopefully win over
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Speaker 3: some new people.
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Speaker 1: Awesome, thanks for joining us today. Pleasure to speak with you,
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Speaker 1: my pleasure, Thanks for having me. I was as you say.
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Speaker 4: Learn will soon be touring around Australia as supports to
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Speaker 4: Solosis and Angel Maker, starting on February eleventh in Perth,
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Speaker 4: going through Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, finishing in Brisbane on February sixteenth.
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Speaker 4: So not too far up, guys, How are you feeling?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, not so far away at all. Cracking up,
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Speaker 1: isn't it.
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Speaker 2: I am particularly nervous, I think because Solosis are one
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Speaker 2: of those bands that are kind of found where I
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Speaker 2: was for any of the bugs are playing likes particularly
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Speaker 2: I remember this video he had up years ago teaching
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Speaker 2: how to sweep and I was like going out the
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Speaker 2: focus are at the time, So it's pretty extic for
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Speaker 2: me to be playing shows me that guy. So I'm
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Speaker 2: super keen just in the protest of popping the set together,
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Speaker 2: make sure all both nights and tight, and yeah, very
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Speaker 2: very excited.
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Speaker 1: It came up on the same music so we're yeah,
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Speaker 1: very excited.
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Speaker 3: I remember hearing like Imperial back in the day and
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Speaker 3: just being like, how do we even play this and
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Speaker 3: like trying to watch Chris figure it out for like
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Speaker 3: weeks and months on end.
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Speaker 1: So it'd be really cool to check it out.
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Speaker 3: And they're a very different band to what we are,
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Speaker 3: so it'll be interesting to see how the punters react
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Speaker 3: to a band like us sort of opening up the
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Speaker 3: night every night, you know, met berating them to do
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Speaker 3: nefarious acts and the venues.
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Speaker 4: These both into the slosis have been a big part
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Speaker 4: of your musical lives. So how do you approach it
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Speaker 4: to all audition in terms of what do you expect
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Speaker 4: an attitude like, it's sort of it's not as if
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Speaker 4: you're just going out and playing with the pub.
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Speaker 5: Band, you know, No, Yeah, I me and the guys
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Speaker 5: kind of have like this long running joke between us
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Speaker 5: that whenever we do these bigger shows and just have
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Speaker 5: these opportunities, we want to help out as much as possible,
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Speaker 5: well simultaneously staying the hell out of the way. Really, Like,
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Speaker 5: you know, we want to be the guys on the
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Speaker 5: tour that you know, great to have around and which
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Speaker 5: you know, we're always down to help out, but simultaneously
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Speaker 5: let everybody do their own thing and no, just make
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Speaker 5: the best impression we can possible essentially, Like I mean musically,
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Speaker 5: like like any other band, I suppose we go in
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Speaker 5: and we want to be super tight. You know, we
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Speaker 5: are as you know musicians and Nevan are really but
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Speaker 5: I suppose we're perfectionists. Like we we record a lot
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Speaker 5: of our stuff and listen, I can pick out the
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Speaker 5: stuff that you know was a bit wobbly at one
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Speaker 5: show and then just kind of drill it. So yeah,
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Speaker 5: we just want to go in essentially be the best
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Speaker 5: versions of ourselves and you know, have a great time
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Speaker 5: while we're doing it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would definitely say we're pretty razor sharp on
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Speaker 3: the perfectionism when it comes to this sort of thing. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I think we just try and like make sure that
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Speaker 3: everyone on the tour back, are just just feeling good
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Speaker 3: and having a good time.
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Speaker 1: I think, out of anyone, no one.
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Speaker 3: Likes the person that's like a bit of a punish
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Speaker 3: on the tour, whether it just be because you know,
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Speaker 3: they're filling it around like a bad smell, or if
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Speaker 3: they're just you know, a bit miserable to be around.
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Speaker 3: And you know, touring can be tiring and after're traveling
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Speaker 3: you know, a long way, some longer than others, all
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Speaker 3: the way from England, and you don't want to be
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Speaker 3: the person that's bring everyone down.
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Speaker 1: Then you know, you'd all try to have a good
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Speaker 1: time and have the best experience possible.
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Speaker 3: The boys like you know, every single opportunity that we
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Speaker 3: possibly have, we we're trying to be as technically proficient
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Speaker 3: as we possibly can. So you know, every time there
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Speaker 3: is anything that is recorded, we're all laboriously looking through
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Speaker 3: all of the audio stems and picking it out with
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Speaker 3: one another. And you know, even is to go as
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Speaker 3: so far as like talking about the wording of how
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Speaker 3: how things are presented when we do a live set
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Speaker 3: as well, you know the idea of afore mentioned you know,
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Speaker 3: mentioning people doing nefarious action in side of the venue.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes gets me.
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Speaker 3: Into some trouble, But I think it really depends on
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Speaker 3: the crowd. But yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to seeing
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Speaker 3: what we could get away with on a on a
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Speaker 3: tool like this with some more traditional metal fans.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be great.
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Speaker 5: I'm so key and it's going to be so sick,
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Speaker 5: and I having opportunity to like broad in the audience
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Speaker 5: is always so good. So like, I'm yeah, super thankful
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Speaker 5: to AJ for you know, pushing it, pushing us and
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Speaker 5: believing in us and giving us the opportunity and obviously
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Speaker 5: poking agent too Jaden, so putting in hard work.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, we're super.
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Speaker 5: Grateful for the opportunity and we just, yeah, overall want
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Speaker 5: to be the best we can be. Really like, we
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Speaker 5: just want to go in and smash it and make
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Speaker 5: friends and have a good time.
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Speaker 4: Now, you mentioned a setlist before, guys like, well, when
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Speaker 4: you play with the band, and like you said that,
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Speaker 4: musically it's a different to them. So when when you're
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Speaker 4: doing any setlists up, do you select songs that you
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Speaker 4: think their crowd will get into more of you? Also,
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Speaker 4: do you sort of more play songs that represent you
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Speaker 4: more as a band.
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Speaker 5: I guess yes, definitely something we take into consideration pretty heavily.
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Speaker 5: Like we came up with Die Art tour earlier at
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Speaker 5: the tail end of last year, and you know, going
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Speaker 5: to a tour like that, we will really think about
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Speaker 5: you know, their crowd being like you know, very death
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Speaker 5: or heavy, whereas this tour, like you know, it's pretty
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Speaker 5: much straight metal, which is so sick, like really thrashy.
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Speaker 5: So we you know, we we try to like we
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Speaker 5: have like we try to show as much of ourselves
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Speaker 5: as we can, like within reason, while similtaneously catering to
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Speaker 5: the crowd that we're playing for.
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Speaker 1: Like, you know, we're not going to go in and.
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Speaker 5: Play you five of the lightest songs we've got, that's
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Speaker 5: for sure. So yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be sick,
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Speaker 5: Like we're definitely going to cater the set to to
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Speaker 5: you know, the shows that we're playing, and I mean
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Speaker 5: we're talking about playing some new stuff too, so.
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Speaker 1: That'll be that'll be so sick.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just been described as captivating and not to
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Speaker 4: be missed, not to be missed when it comes to
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Speaker 4: playing live. So tell us about a typical learn live show, Like,
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Speaker 4: what's so special about it?
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Speaker 1: What do you reckon the same. Uh, Well, Chris tends
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Speaker 1: to really go very very I would say, balls to
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Speaker 1: the wall.
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Speaker 3: With the production side of things, we're very we all
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Speaker 3: practice very very strictly, like I think, you know, on
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Speaker 3: the lead up to a tour, I'll probably practice four
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Speaker 3: times a week for about two months straight running a set,
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Speaker 3: whether it be that getting ourselves conditioned for it.
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Speaker 1: So in terms of the actual musicianship, I think we're
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Speaker 1: very very very.
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Speaker 3: Like I would say, which with the musicianship with like
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Speaker 3: quite a level of reverence, I would probably say. And
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Speaker 3: then in terms of the actual life production itself, we
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Speaker 3: try and, like what we're talking about with catering a
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Speaker 3: set to a certain crowd, we try and put the
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Speaker 3: energy that you know, we want the crowd to give
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Speaker 3: back to us. So, you know, particularly with this sort
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Speaker 3: of thing, you know, I would say it's going to
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Speaker 3: be quite a high energy set, and I like to
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Speaker 3: sort of not give the audience room to breathe in
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Speaker 3: terms of there's no dip in the at all, don't
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Speaker 3: give them a second to even think about, oh, this
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Speaker 3: band's a little different. You just want to keep smacking
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Speaker 3: them with something different and hit them with the left
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Speaker 3: and a right hook, so you know, the whole time,
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Speaker 3: it's just constant energy and constant movement. Ultimately, for us,
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Speaker 3: we walk away from sets that kind of leave us
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Speaker 3: on our toes, but also leave us entertain and we
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Speaker 3: want to have everyone walk out of that venue talking
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Speaker 3: about us and knowing that they had a good time
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Speaker 3: and they went at the bar getting a drink and
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Speaker 3: you know, not listening to us, you know, and they're
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Speaker 3: waiting for silences to come on. We want to make
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Speaker 3: sure that you know, they run from the bar to
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Speaker 3: go and watch us with a smile on their face.
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Speaker 3: So that for me, how I got Yeah, absolutely, always
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Speaker 3: with the beer in hand or you know whatever you
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Speaker 3: might be into.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're captivating thing is a big thing because, like,
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Speaker 5: especially going into it like this, we are the opener,
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Speaker 5: like we we want to be captivating, and you know,
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Speaker 5: it's nice that we've been described that way because yeah,
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Speaker 5: it's what we're aim for. We want to grab people
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Speaker 5: and hold them with us, like, you know, we want
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Speaker 5: to walk away and know that you know, whilst we're playing,
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Speaker 5: you know, people watching, you know, and we we really
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Speaker 5: pushed to try and hold hold the crowd when we're there,
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Speaker 5: So it's yeah, that's some realiant, lovely words.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, some of my favorite artists are people that, you know,
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Speaker 3: I didn't know who the hell they were before I
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Speaker 3: saw them. I was at a show just see someone
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Speaker 3: else and and I But for the same reason, I
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Speaker 3: revel in the challenge of winning over a crowd, like,
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Speaker 3: you know, whether it be a traditional medal or a
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Speaker 3: thrash middle crowd. I want the dude the shorter leg
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Speaker 3: pair and the cargo shorts and the you know, the
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Speaker 3: Metallica T shirt. Who's going to was probably traditionally going
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Speaker 3: to cross his arms to the entirety of our set
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Speaker 3: to be one over in the second song and they.
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Speaker 1: Go smiling his ass off and having a great time.
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Speaker 3: For me, you know, I've some of my favorite artists
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Speaker 3: are people that I did not know who the hell they.
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Speaker 1: Were before I saw them life for the first time.
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Speaker 3: And I think, you know that that can be a
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Speaker 3: very special experience for someone as a punter and as
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Speaker 3: a listeners, the same as it is for me. So
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Speaker 3: I revel in that challenge and I really look forward
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Speaker 3: to winning over some new people in this run.
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Speaker 4: Oh God, so just say someone's coming to the show
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Speaker 4: and they're there to see Solosis an angel maker, and
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Speaker 4: they've got no idea who Lunar give. It's three of
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Speaker 4: your songs that they can listen to before they come.
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Speaker 5: You get to know the band better, go on, Chris, Okay,
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Speaker 5: So I mean I reckon for this tour. There there's
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Speaker 5: a single from our last release called Progeny, which would
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Speaker 5: be a great one. It's pretty metal, it's pretty just
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Speaker 5: a slam of the whole way through. Really, there's not
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Speaker 5: really much hold up with that one. There's another one
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Speaker 5: from our first release called Ghost, which was actually our
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Speaker 5: first single, really our heaviest track, super low tunes, just
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Speaker 5: angry song and maybe for something lighter or a bit
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Speaker 5: more proggy, I suppose to less fans that be down
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Speaker 5: with the techie stuff. Yeah, maybe Winter Sun. It's there's
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Speaker 5: some techi stuff in there, and there's also some lighter
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Speaker 5: stuff as well, so introduces kind of like the other
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Speaker 5: kind of airy, atmospheric side of the band.
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Speaker 1: Cool.
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Speaker 4: Now, you've released the most recently EP, that Change around
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Speaker 4: Us and The Change and you're back in November twenty
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Speaker 4: twenty three. So firstly, I was a response to was
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Speaker 4: it what do you hope?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, got so, yes, Yeah, absolutely. I think we
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Speaker 3: spent so much time working on that and we had
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Speaker 3: our heads downd that it got to a point where
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Speaker 3: we were almost kind of like just itching to get
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Speaker 3: it out at the end because there was a lot
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Speaker 3: of back and forth with Graham from Resist before that
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Speaker 3: came out. So started to the people that were waiting
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Speaker 3: for a long time. The next one is going to
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Speaker 3: be a lot sooner, I promise, But yeah, I think
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Speaker 3: it blew our expectations out of the water. We just
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Speaker 3: spent pretty much the entirety of last year touring off
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Speaker 3: the back of that and to get the responses and
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Speaker 3: just to see new faces pretty much every single time
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Speaker 3: we played, and most of them had you know, we're
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Speaker 3: not on board with us before that release. So it's
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Speaker 3: really I think the last release had a little bit
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Speaker 3: of something for everybody, and I think it's really done
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Speaker 3: some really great things for us, and I think, you know,
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Speaker 3: there's a lot to be said about you know, when
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Speaker 3: you release something, you have a lot of fun making it,
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Speaker 3: and then you genuinely believe in the songs and you
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Speaker 3: want to listen to them yourself, and you know, you
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Speaker 3: spend a lot of time going I'm going to listen
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Speaker 3: to my own music again, which you know we've probably seen,
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Speaker 3: you know, in any.
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Speaker 1: Other sense narcissistic, but like as.
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Speaker 3: A music lover, when you really love the music, it
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Speaker 3: kind of it can really speak for itself, and I
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Speaker 3: think people really latch onto it when you kind of
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Speaker 3: believe in the music that you've made. Yeah, and it's
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Speaker 3: been really really awesome to connect to more and more
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Speaker 3: people for the new songs and see more and more
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Speaker 3: people will come to shows and connect with us and
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Speaker 3: have a great time with us, and it just makes
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Speaker 3: the whole atmosphere of what is a learned show or
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Speaker 3: us supporting a show way better. And the energy and
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Speaker 3: the atmosphere at the shows we have played, particularly in
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four were pretty electric. So I'm looking forward
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Speaker 3: to seeing what this the year brings and what the
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Speaker 3: silesis tool brings.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that was kind of the main takeaway for me too.
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Speaker 5: I suppose I write most of the music and stuff,
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Speaker 5: so it kind of sits on my high drive for
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Speaker 5: quite a while before it sees the light a day.
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Speaker 5: So the it does, it wears often. You for sure,
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Speaker 5: when you're when you're you know you're writing the music
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Speaker 5: and you're listening to it and you're working on us
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Speaker 5: so much, so have it come out and have people
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Speaker 5: turn up and like, we've played the biggest headliners we've
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Speaker 5: ever played last year and sold out a bunch of venues,
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Speaker 5: which was like crazy, like to have that kind of
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Speaker 5: experience off the back of a It was an EP,
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Speaker 5: but quite a long one, so yeah, amazing, and just
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Speaker 5: seeing new faces at shows and people supporting us and
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Speaker 5: playing merch was I mean, what more can you ask for?
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Speaker 5: It was? It was awesome.
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Speaker 1: So I'm really looking forward to the new stuff as well.
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Speaker 5: It's my opinion, a step up and I'm really really
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Speaker 5: keen to get going and playing more new stuff and
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Speaker 5: see what happens because so far, like it's just crazy,
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Speaker 5: like just super stoked.
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Speaker 4: No, you mentioned new stuff a couple of times, So
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Speaker 4: is there a new album or EP in the works.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah there is, so I reckon I'm about spoil
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Speaker 5: anything but that I don't whereabouts three quarters the way
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Speaker 5: through writing an album, so I think the time is
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Speaker 5: right for us to put out the full length. So
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Speaker 5: I'm really excited. It's daunting for any band. I suppose
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Speaker 5: the debut full length, but also, I really really sick
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Speaker 5: challenge for us to meet head on and be able
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Speaker 5: to have a body of work that really shows everyone
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Speaker 5: who we are and so far where else. Really stoked
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Speaker 5: to hear it's going. It all feels like a step
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Speaker 5: up and a step in the right direction. So the
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Speaker 5: first chance we get to kind of like push that
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Speaker 5: stuff out in the life setting, you'll be hearing it.
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Speaker 4: Guys. Now, Oh, I'll let you go with Sudden a
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Speaker 4: new segment called photo Bomb, where basically I troll through
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Speaker 4: your social media before we chat and to tell me
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Speaker 4: what's something then look.
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Speaker 3: At that's that's one of my best mates in the
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Speaker 3: whole world. His name is Nathan Juke. He sings in
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Speaker 3: a band called Bitter Kind. He's probably like observing.
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Speaker 1: Looking at les. He's like nice legs man.
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Speaker 3: Probably thinking about picking me up and throwing me because
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Speaker 3: he thinks it's going to be funny. Or he's also
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Speaker 3: probably looking at our livey and analyzing it like a
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Speaker 3: teen nine thousand terminator, trying to figure out how he
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Speaker 3: can do that.
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Speaker 1: He's a very hard working man, so he's either thinking
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Speaker 1: of a way.
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Speaker 3: To thwart me, or he's you know, thinking about you know,
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Speaker 3: he's watching and learning.
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Speaker 1: Bless him.
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Speaker 4: I love these guys in the background, so you like
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Speaker 4: they're screaming full pelt. They're loving it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, always good to see.
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Speaker 3: If I mentioned spirit the shows, yeah, I love it
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Speaker 3: so sick.
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Speaker 4: But in the next one I've got is what words
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Speaker 4: of encouragement.
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Speaker 1: Are you given here? Fastinize clearly.
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Speaker 3: Something along those lines from aforementioned the various activities. I
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Speaker 3: believe this is probably something to do with me saying
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Speaker 3: some sort of the Lord of the Rings related.
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Speaker 5: It's telling us to have a really nice day.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I.
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Speaker 3: Am a really good day, enjoy your night, something to
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Speaker 3: have a really really good day
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Speaker 1: And buy the rest of the tickets for the miss
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Speaker 1: out