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More Greetings & Salutations With AZZA & HUTCHY From FRANKENBOK · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Asad from FRANKENBAC.
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  Speaker 2: You know me, and I'm Adam from franken Bok, and
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: I know him and I know him.
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  Speaker 3: I think I know both. I know both of you.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't met one of years, but I know both
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  Speaker 3: of you. So we're off to a good start.
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  Speaker 4: You're in for a treat.
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  Speaker 5: So we're here today for for a couple of reasons.
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  Speaker 5: But I was un a way of franken Boc underwegs.
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  Speaker 5: Vocals changed in twenty twenty four, but instead of trying
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  Speaker 5: to blood fresh meat, you decided to hand the microphone
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  Speaker 5: back to your.
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  Speaker 3: Original voker Hatchy.
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  Speaker 5: So didn't anyone ever tell you as that you never
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  Speaker 5: take your wife back after she was cheated on you?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they did not listen to anybody on what they
• 0:58
  Speaker 6: call an asshole. I kind of ask everybody for advice
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  Speaker 6: and I take none of it.
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  Speaker 3: Not that anyone would have told you not to get
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  Speaker 3: Hutchie back though.
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  Speaker 7: Of course.
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  Speaker 4: It's a big secret. But a few people said that
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  Speaker 4: we should.
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  Speaker 2: We both have a real self esteems and don't think
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  Speaker 2: we can do any better, so it's almost like a
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  Speaker 2: full circle thing.
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  Speaker 3: I guess it's pretty funny. I've been keeping this one
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  Speaker 3: in my back pocket for a while as it.
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  Speaker 5: But I remember about two and a half years ago,
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  Speaker 5: I was sitting in that very same spot where you
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  Speaker 5: are now. You were playing me the original is with Hush.
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  Speaker 5: I was buying away and I just said to you,
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  Speaker 5: why the fuck did you get rid of this gun?
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  Speaker 5: And you didn't really have an answer for me. But
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  Speaker 5: I hope one day you need to end up working
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  Speaker 5: together again. And at the time it couldn't.
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  Speaker 4: It didn't have a big enough beard.
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  Speaker 6: And since then he's sort of, you know, extended, So
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  Speaker 6: it's time to extend the hand of friendship.
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  Speaker 5: And that sort of started with the twenty fifth anniversary
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  Speaker 5: Frank last year. That's where we're all sort of kick
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  Speaker 5: back into gear again.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, very much.
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  Speaker 6: So there was lots of talk about the twenty fifth
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  Speaker 6: anniversary beforehand, and I was always like, yeah, I don't know,
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  Speaker 6: I can actually sort of happened because like being hutchey,
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  Speaker 6: just we're talking. We hadn't talked for almost twenty years
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  Speaker 6: or something like that. I think we said, hey, tell HOUCHI.
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  Speaker 6: I said fuck you, and I think he said tell us.
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  Speaker 6: I said fucking back.
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  Speaker 4: There's a bit of that sort of correspondence.
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  Speaker 6: We played a game at the Cherry Bar and somebody
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  Speaker 6: said Hutche is here and I went, yeah, right, and
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  Speaker 6: I'd been seeing Hutch's artwork, so I just went. As
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  Speaker 6: I was loading, gearing in and out, I said, okay,
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  Speaker 6: we grabbed the next load, and it's what passed them
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  Speaker 6: were man, love you right work, let's uh, let's have
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  Speaker 6: to go out being maticgin or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: It was a really cathartic kind of moment for me
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  Speaker 2: personally as well, because I turned up to Cherry Barn
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, thank a, what the plans?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's not the mood for any bullshit, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Aarons walked straight up to be a little bit dead
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  Speaker 2: in the eye, extended his hand and just yes, said
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  Speaker 2: some really nice words and just diffuse the situation. And
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  Speaker 2: for me personally, yeah, it just felt like a whole
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  Speaker 2: weight to lift it off. I was like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it was really great. I mean, I made
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  Speaker 2: my piece many years ago, but we just obviously hadn't
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  Speaker 2: spoken for a while.
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  Speaker 7: But it was good and it sort of started.
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  Speaker 2: That sort of next step for the things that came
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  Speaker 2: to follow, and yeah, yeah, I don't know if I
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  Speaker 2: really believe in destiny, not to quote, you know, near
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  Speaker 2: from the matrix, but I like to think I've been
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  Speaker 2: controlling my own life. But actually a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: that have been happening has been scarily sort of almost
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  Speaker 2: like destiny, like the god had thunder or something.
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  Speaker 7: This is all sort of meant to be. It's very
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  Speaker 7: very strange.
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  Speaker 6: But I would just like to say, be very careful
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  Speaker 6: who you extend your hand to.
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  Speaker 4: This is what happens.
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  Speaker 3: Are you going to take better care yourself? We all
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  Speaker 3: know that.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I know.
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  Speaker 3: You might learn, but I actually heard that you didn't.
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  Speaker 5: Really have much of a choice in getting hut When
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  Speaker 5: you got on stage in the twenty fifth anniversary, you
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  Speaker 5: refused to give the microphone to anyone, just took.
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  Speaker 7: It my turn to talk. I don't know. It was
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  Speaker 7: really strange coming back.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I never in my wil imagination thought that
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  Speaker 2: we would be friends again.
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  Speaker 7: You'll let alone get back on the stage with Frankenbak,
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  Speaker 7: And it was.
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  Speaker 2: Quite strange and daunting for me because I hadn't been
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  Speaker 2: on stage for probably twelve thirteen years since my last
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  Speaker 2: band I had had sort of split up, and I
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  Speaker 2: was quite nervous, and I love my food. I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: eat and I didn't have one out sip of alcohol
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  Speaker 2: that night as well, and kind of went out and
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  Speaker 2: then just it just it's sort of like muscle memory,
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  Speaker 2: It just sort of all comes back to you nacturally.
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  Speaker 7: But it was really great and the show was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: It was one of the best gigs I've ever been
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  Speaker 2: to in my entire life in a local sense, and
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  Speaker 2: I was just so stoked.
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  Speaker 7: And proud to have been a part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Like Aaron and Dan did an amazing job organizing everything,
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  Speaker 2: and all the lineups were killer. It was a really
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  Speaker 2: good turnout, and yeah, it was great, really good night.
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  Speaker 3: Well, so what's a mate together? Guys?
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  Speaker 5: You wasted a little time getting your first single out
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  Speaker 5: by releasing Demon Tantrument in late October.
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  Speaker 3: I remember it was a ferocious return before that song.
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  Speaker 3: But why did you pick that.
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  Speaker 5: One specifically to introduce the new line up of Franken Bok.
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  Speaker 6: I guess well, we didn't really sort of, It wasn't
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  Speaker 6: a choice of several that was ready, that was done
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  Speaker 6: that was almost like supposed to be possibly even demo.
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  Speaker 6: Is it just something that we were working with and
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  Speaker 6: at the stage that it was in, there's lots of
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  Speaker 6: us that were listening to it.
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  Speaker 4: Going, why don't we just release that?
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  Speaker 8: It's it's good enough and sort of it wasn't kind
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  Speaker 8: of built for release. But then I don't know if
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  Speaker 8: I was convinced, but you know, after it was playing it,
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  Speaker 8: guys were sort of playing it to me a lot
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  Speaker 8: and going.
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  Speaker 4: What's wrong with it? You know, you're right, there's nothing
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  Speaker 4: wrong with it.
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  Speaker 6: So we kind of did a bit of a a
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  Speaker 6: road test and just said to a cup people and
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  Speaker 6: thought what do you think? And all the yeah, everything
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  Speaker 6: came back good from it as far as you know,
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  Speaker 6: everyone liked it. Everyone was happy with the quality of it,
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  Speaker 6: et cetera, et cetera. Went well, why we while were.
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  Speaker 4: We sitting on this?
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  Speaker 6: And one of my greatest fears these days is I
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  Speaker 6: hate when great art or great ideas that have been
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  Speaker 6: worked in and you know, slaved over and put time into,
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  Speaker 6: sometimes end up becoming nothing. They wasn't quite right or
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  Speaker 6: it wasn't perfect, you know, and then it ends up
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  Speaker 6: being just a file of a dead file and a
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  Speaker 6: hard drive that nobody every years and we're like the
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  Speaker 6: attitude that we've got now is kind of like, let's
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  Speaker 6: just you know, let's just float everything. Let's give life
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  Speaker 6: to everything that we've got, rather than you know, waiting
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  Speaker 6: until it's ready and never being ready and they're just dying.
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  Speaker 9: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's also something of something that could have potentially been
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  Speaker 2: in like an alternate universe, I guess for Frankenbach. After
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  Speaker 2: the twenty fifth anniversary show, Dan was interested in doing
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  Speaker 2: a release with him and me doing dual vocals on it,
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  Speaker 2: and we did a couple of geeks together sort of
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  Speaker 2: doing that as well, and that was sort of the
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  Speaker 2: first song we'd worked on, and it's something that was
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  Speaker 2: the best sort the worst song or anythink. It was
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  Speaker 2: just something we'd done. It was, I guess, something complete
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  Speaker 2: and I felt personally captured something there and I was
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  Speaker 2: proud of it.
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  Speaker 7: I thought, I thought it came out really really cool.
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  Speaker 2: It was just its own beast, and so I guess
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  Speaker 2: whilst we were sort of working in the background to
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  Speaker 2: get other things really like working on the EP and
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  Speaker 2: the other singles and stuff, I just thought this would
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  Speaker 2: be a greenish reduction back to me coming back to
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  Speaker 2: the band and stuff and just seeing what people think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just to buy some time, I guess as
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  Speaker 2: well too.
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  Speaker 3: Refreshing and brutal as that song.
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  Speaker 5: You threw a complete curve ball with the second single,
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  Speaker 5: which was a cover of right Round by Dead or Alive?
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  Speaker 3: Like, how was the response to that? No, Franken back.
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  Speaker 5: That's emphatic proofing back time to go forward musically, But.
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  Speaker 3: How did people reactuate.
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  Speaker 4: Good?
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  Speaker 6: I think depends on like you're talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 6: most people that are open and just you know, to
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  Speaker 6: have a laugh, sounspeak or not too serious. I think
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  Speaker 6: that was the whole thing, and that's, you know, our
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  Speaker 6: whole new thing that was sort of getting back to
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  Speaker 6: Frankenbok was originally like yeah, you know, those elements are
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  Speaker 6: very heavy and was sort of serious about the music,
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  Speaker 6: but then there's also not so much.
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  Speaker 4: Comedy but just have a good time.
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  Speaker 6: And the way it even come about was not anything
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  Speaker 6: strategically planned.
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  Speaker 4: I think I was laying on the couch talking to
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  Speaker 4: Utch you on the phone, and.
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  Speaker 6: I had the wedding scene was on in the background,
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  Speaker 6: and I heard that song and I just said to him, oh, Chiez,
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  Speaker 6: I've always I've always wanted to cover that song. I
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  Speaker 6: reckon I'd make a great goal cover and actually just
• 8:39
  Speaker 6: encouraged me. He just said, well, why don't you why
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  Speaker 6: don't we work it out, Why don't we just do that?
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  Speaker 6: And I went, wait a minute, this has changed, you know,
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  Speaker 6: like it's back to like we can do anything we want.
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  Speaker 6: And so I kind of worked it out as best
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  Speaker 6: I could, said it to him, and almost over ninety
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  Speaker 6: sent back the version with vocals stund and were kind
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  Speaker 6: of like, wow, that sort of happened out of a
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  Speaker 6: sort of you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, just a conversation, and it felt it was enjoyable
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  Speaker 4: and fun.
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  Speaker 2: I pretty much what he said, but I thought it
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  Speaker 2: was kind of funny too, in a sense of sort
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  Speaker 2: of fucking with people.
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  Speaker 7: Because Frankenbok has been quite this serious.
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  Speaker 2: Launch sort of metal banners, it was kind of cool
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  Speaker 2: to bring some of the fun back and some of
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  Speaker 2: the versatility I guess back from sort of my ear
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  Speaker 2: as well. And one thing that sort of Aaron and
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  Speaker 2: I was sort of discussing in the background, but before
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  Speaker 2: me rejoining was just a lot of ideas seem to
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  Speaker 2: be getting blocked by certain members over the years, like
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  Speaker 2: certain people just weren't down to doing certain things, and
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  Speaker 2: whereas I'm sort of I am open to anything, Like
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, my whole philosophy has changed.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just like, well, someone's got an idea, let's just
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  Speaker 2: see what happens. Let's just put it out there and
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  Speaker 2: execute it and if it hey, if it doesn't work.
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  Speaker 7: We don't have to put it out.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I think it's just a great way
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  Speaker 2: for everyone when you're collaborating with you know, four people
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  Speaker 2: or x amount of people, to get everyone's ideas out there,
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  Speaker 2: because I mean, what's the point of it if one
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  Speaker 2: person is just steering the ship all the time, Like
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: it's it's a collaboration. You can't have this without the
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  Speaker 2: other three guys. So yeah, and I'm just where my
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: headspace is that now. It's just like, let's just whatever,
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  Speaker 2: let's just try whatever. And you know, the not to
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: get off track, but the film clip that we've just
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: done that's coming out on Australia, it's that wasn't my idea,
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: but I went with it and we all did, and
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  Speaker 2: we all put into it and the results come out
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  Speaker 2: something beyond my expectations and something I never would have
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  Speaker 2: thought of. So it's really opened my mind up even
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  Speaker 2: more so to just you know, respecting people where they're
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  Speaker 2: coming from, and.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, just having to go with everything. I mean, why
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  Speaker 7: not it's you know.
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  Speaker 6: It's yeah, entertaining each other's idea rather than shooting it
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  Speaker 6: down before you've heard it out. And even with the
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  Speaker 6: with that particular song said it wasn't strategic by any means.
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  Speaker 6: But then with How'd You Coming Back In? It was
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  Speaker 6: very reminiscent of I Don't Call Me Baby in a way,
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  Speaker 6: you know, a cover, a silly cover, our silly take
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  Speaker 6: on it, and you know what, this is a good
• 10:59
  Speaker 6: way to sort of say.
• 11:01
  Speaker 4: The dick heads are back. You know.
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  Speaker 6: It's it's not as there's a there's enough serious bands
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  Speaker 6: out there doing what they do and all that, and
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  Speaker 6: I've got nothing against that, but it's it's actually probably
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  Speaker 6: not really you know me, not exactly super serious person.
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  Speaker 5: Not in the slightest hutch You the story about our
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  Speaker 5: lady being in Japan with Don't Call Me Baby?
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yes, when we were in Japan.
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  Speaker 3: The day and he said what song do you want
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  Speaker 3: me to play?
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  Speaker 5: And you've given him a list of about six and
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  Speaker 5: when we turned up that night, the first Don't Call
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  Speaker 5: Me Baby wasn't on there By the way and the
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  Speaker 5: band hadn't done it for years, and he's jumped up
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  Speaker 5: on stage with the mic and you just.
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  Speaker 3: Don't call me baby.
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  Speaker 5: Everyone just looked at each other and that wasn't on
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  Speaker 5: the fucking list.
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  Speaker 6: Triumph, and he just said, now we're going to do
• 11:55
  Speaker 6: an a cappella version don't call me baby, And I'm like,
• 11:57
  Speaker 6: fucking are we And he's a pretty big guy and
• 12:01
  Speaker 6: he just started. He just started doing it, and Damn
• 12:05
  Speaker 6: White joined in, and then I think Tommy joined in.
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  Speaker 6: By the end, I think we ended up doing like
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  Speaker 6: the whole song and then we then we broke into
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  Speaker 6: Triumph and of other songs and that's what he throwed
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  Speaker 6: me across the stage.
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  Speaker 3: Good times.
• 12:23
  Speaker 5: Now along those lines where we're talking about before, Frankie
• 12:26
  Speaker 5: Bot's had a few different vocalists over the years. It's
• 12:28
  Speaker 5: fair to say that with every incoming vocalist, the band's
• 12:32
  Speaker 5: sound has changed.
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: A little bit, like musically vocals.
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  Speaker 5: But now hutchings back, you've gone more back to the
• 12:37
  Speaker 5: original sound. But was that something you discussed and say
• 12:41
  Speaker 5: we want to go back to that sound again.
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  Speaker 3: Or did it just come out.
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  Speaker 4: No, like that.
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  Speaker 6: Started straight after we wrote Overdose or even sort of
• 12:51
  Speaker 6: during Overdose, me and Tommy had talked a lot about
• 12:55
  Speaker 6: the kind of music we wanted to write, and we
• 12:58
  Speaker 6: were when you know, certain members left and you know,
• 13:01
  Speaker 6: with the band got smaller, we were trying to play
• 13:04
  Speaker 6: a lot of the old songs, which are two guitar orientated,
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  Speaker 6: and it sort of almost felt like we were kind
• 13:08
  Speaker 6: of like a freak of cover band. And like with Overdose,
• 13:12
  Speaker 6: we went, you know what, I'm gonna sit down and
• 13:14
  Speaker 6: write songs the like represent the band that we are now,
• 13:21
  Speaker 6: and we kind of we kind of did that an
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  Speaker 6: overdose and enjoyed that direction.
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  Speaker 4: But then I guess me and Tommy talked a lot
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  Speaker 4: about like.
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  Speaker 6: The groove in the songs and all that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you know, there's the there's the heavy stuff,
• 13:37
  Speaker 6: but we kind of wanted to focus on writing songs
• 13:42
  Speaker 6: that make people want to move all the time, and
• 13:43
  Speaker 6: if that's sort of like a salsa feel or you know,
• 13:47
  Speaker 6: just whatever, I want to make sure that it makes people,
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: even in voluntaries tap, you know, tap their foot or
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  Speaker 6: bob their head. And very inspired by band snot just
• 14:00
  Speaker 6: a couple of other bands with like you know, the
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  Speaker 6: big griffs and you know, keeping that groove happening to
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  Speaker 6: sort of.
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  Speaker 4: Washing's great and all, but we kind of wanted to
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  Speaker 4: make people dance.
• 14:12
  Speaker 5: Devin Tantrum and You've got me right around were advertisers
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  Speaker 5: for the main Course Really, which will be served on
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  Speaker 5: January thirty first, with the release of the first EP
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  Speaker 5: with this lineup, titled Irrepressible.
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  Speaker 3: Like that's a big word, is fuck? You say? Why
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: call the album?
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  Speaker 2: Both magic fans and just basically getting back to know
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: knowing Aaron and stuff and just sort of conversations. You know,
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: I'm obviously morbidly curious about what the band's been and
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: done over the years, and the band has survived a
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: light like just getting back to each album the way
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: it sounds to me, it's all like a different season
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: of Doctor Who.
• 14:46
  Speaker 7: There's this No. Two. I personally don't think any No.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: Two Franko Bok albums have been the same, even the
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: two that I were on, and the band has been
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: so much there's nothing that can kill this band, especially
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: with this guy still in it.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so yeah, I don't know.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: I think we had a bunch of titles and I
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: think one night we're on the phone and I think
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: Aaron Habby on loudspeaker with his wife and then one
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  Speaker 2: of the names I had was irrepressible, and they go, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's the one she was with me.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: By the way, she wasn't here.
• 15:16
  Speaker 6: I think also had to add to that is when
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: me and I started talking again, we went straight back
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: to our stupid ship with you know, we're talking about
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: monkey Magic, and we've both got a love for like
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: things back in the eighties of you know, we're always
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: like quote monkey Magic, and we're you know, just lots
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: of the old pop culture and all that, like you know,
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: was on about toys and you know, Bloody the A
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: Team and just you know, eighties movies and stuff like
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: that have sort of never dined with.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: Us very as well.
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: Before we let you go, I'm not going to let
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: you get away without doing our regular photo bomb sections.
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: So basically I've been prolling through social media trying to
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: find some good photos and you guys are a fucking
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: easy target.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: So can time to find a good one.
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: I know I haven't actually had the pleasure of meeting
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: you and pressed yet, but I already know that you
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: can't jump this time, mate, Like how photos dropped?
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: Is that getting that far off the ground. They jumped
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: that high?
• 16:14
  Speaker 7: He does. I had there's a hot dog or something
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: out there, But yeah, I jumped for it.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Can't jump.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: White man can jump.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: It's not actually white there is he You put.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: A rocket under their ass, that.
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: Is that's that's us jumping.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: That's totally legit. Oh what a feeling ebowler.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: That's actually the cover of Irrepressible, isn't it.
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: It was that Yeah, that photo shoot was yeah, from
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: that same thing, and I was the one that couldn't jump.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: Everybody like jump in the air, jump in the air.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: If you zoom in or have a look.
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: At some of the other photos there, my hand kind
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: of looks like a knee. That's what I've broken my
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: hand just before then, and they're like jump.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: In the air, and I'm like, fuck mate, I got
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: to he like a pack of the chips.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Here, And I'm just that those photos were taken by
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: a really good friend of mine. Jay Collie is an
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: amazing photographer, so look him up.
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: He does really really good work.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: To say before that, Owen the bass player is a
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: bit of a gun at everything he does. That even
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: is that even includes nipple cramps?
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Well, can you tell me that he's not good at that.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not saying he's not good at it.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: But the film that we we decided to celebrate, but
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: we couldn't afford his strippers, so no one stepped up good.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: I was actually going to say that maybe he's getting
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: a bit upset that all the focus has been on
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: Hutchings a new guy lately, and no one's paying him
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: any attention.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: But he's doing his best to get it.
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: You mean, Owen is a competition. He's He's all hunk
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: and I'm all hutch.
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we're a one's got a genre that he wants
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: to sort of creator, which he's sort of creating himself.
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: And there's you know, there's grind metal, and there's post
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: this and post that, and then he wants to start
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: this whole hunk metal and basically like Chipping was playing metal,
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: and you know, he's putting himself forward and he's doing
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: a good job.
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: The best thing of the new film clip is his arm.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Yes, hetero arm.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Oh you're gonna tell us what it is or does
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: we have to go and watch it?
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: No, it's just so muscular and fucking beautiful. It's the
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: kind of grabs. It's the kind of arm that if
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: they grab a hold of you kind of don't want
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: to get out of.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: Right, Well, what would a photo bomb be without a
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: photo of a good friend Azer as well?
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: What the fuck?
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Ah? That was when I was giving birth to my
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: fifteenth child and I called him Feasible.
• 18:39
  Speaker 10: Now that was uh we we we did the video,
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: we did the photo shoot was the day that I
• 18:47
  Speaker 10: broke my hand, and that was the following Monday, right
• 18:53
  Speaker 10: after I woke up from surgery on my hand.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: Right, although did is that the look you make when
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: they pull your trousers and say, look at your snake?
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: It's most stick in his stummer?
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: It was, yeah, yeah, you know, you know what happens
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: is there's actually I it's my annual break.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: I break something because I care that much.
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: They say break break a leg, you know, so I'm
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: make sure I break right before every album, right before
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: every tour.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: They say break a leg. It's not meant to be
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: taken literally.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: No, but you know I'm not not exactly a respect
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: the failing hazard book.
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: For years I was known instead of ASID. I used
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: to get Scotty Scotty Buff, the old guitar. See he
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: always referred to me, ay has it.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: He's breaking stuff since ninety seven when I was first
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: in the Benny.
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: It was the first guitarist ever played with. They used
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: to really stress me out.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I'm like, man, you should be protecting your hands and
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: wearing gloves and stuff. And they were having a barbecue.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: He's changing coals with his hands and you know, looking
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: at them there.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: They're big strong heads, you know.
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: Stuff.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: Now, there's only five tracks on the Irrepressible album ep mate,
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: so I want to run through it one at the time,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: but tell us a bit more and where they fit
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: in with franken Bock in twenty twenty five. Like the
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: first one is Dope for Meat, which is going to
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: be premiered by a heavy at five thirty pm on Saturday,
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: January twenty fourth, So tell us about that song, about.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: The music side of it.
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: Typical by writing, I guess I often write songs not
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: so much.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: With the melody in mind.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: I'll hear something that I really enjoyed the beat two
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: and I was probably listening to ninety eight point five
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: Apple FM Community Radio. I was listening to probably something
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: that like that, and I listened to a lot of
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: different styles, and I'm pretty sure I was listening to
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: something along the soulsa thing that just had me sort
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: of bopping, and I went, I like that feel.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: I like that feel.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: And then with that in my mind, that first riff
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: sort of came along and you know, there's a bit
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: of that and then and then it sort of goes
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: back to this sort of the blues feel and then
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: it sort of, yeah, goes back into that. I guess
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: I was just keeping that kind of danceable thing in mind.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Very funky bassline. It reminded me a lot of stupid
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: boy smart.
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: And again back to the eighties and back to the
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: nineties and all that sort of shit. Like, you know,
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: having Owen joined the band, it was like, oh, it's
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: like franken Bok got its original sound back again. That
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: was just, you know, not really a planned thing. But
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: Owen is a bit of a gun at anything that
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: he does. And I was sort of telling to him
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: that I really liked the slap stuff. I really love
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: the stuff slap stuff, and I played him a lot
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: of Billy Gould and all that, and I went like,
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: you know, there's one guitar in this band. Now, I
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: don't want the bass to be back up. I want
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: you to go to town and do whatever you can do,
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: and they should be like a lead instrument as well.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: Was like like this, but I'm like exactly like that,
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: and he just murders it.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: He's great at it, you know. So going back to
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: that catching a bit of the nineties metal.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: Thing, you know, and that might be uncool for some,
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: but things get so uncool they've become cool again.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: I'm waiting for my to become cool, but.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: I wait too long. The second one on there is
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: called I Woke? Is that? Is that a bit of
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: a piss take on the white generation.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: That in the iPhone? Yeah, I've had a bunch of
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: lyrics and laying around over the last couple of years.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: I was asked to join two bands, and so I
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: had a back catalog of lyrics and stuff.
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: And yeah, me personally, like we're a generation that.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Grew up with like South Park and the Simpsons and
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Family Guy, And it just boggles my mind just how
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: easy some people get offended at at certain things. I Mean,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I'm the kind of person nothing really offends me unless
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: you don't say please or thank you or you know
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: that poor manners offend me.
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: But everyone's different.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: It's all subjective, I guess, but yeah, just how watered
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: down we're all becoming. And just you know, obviously you know,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I'm not homophobic or transphobic or anything, but people things
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: in like self Park, they go there and and it
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: kind of makes me laugh that people.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: Will go there in sense of humor.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: You don't have to agree with it, but yeah, that's
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: just kind of where I'm coming from. I just think,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: here we're turning into a bunch of fucking weird, weak cunts,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: and it's just it's stupid. Like and you know, a
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: great comedian that I like, Steve Hughes, he said, you know,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: once said like what offensive is subjective. What's offensive to
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: you may not be offensive to me, and vice versa.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: And I really like that whole philosophy on that. Like, yeah,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: I just and it's just a very small amount of
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: people that are being very loud and we all up
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: the cater to what they feel, and it's it's like, yeah,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I don't anyway, I don't want to get myself into
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: much trouble, but yeah.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: One of the sets in trouble talking about it, I
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: should have pointed this out out.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Like you notice that nothing.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Okay, the someone EP is called the Fallen Phoenix. Tell
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: us about that, okay?
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Music wise, Yeah, that's that's an interesting one for me.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: We went through some some life stuff. I remember Tommy
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: was sort of well with struggling financially a little bit
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: at the time and just s of say, mate, I'm
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: having trouble, like, you know, doing everything I do and
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: and paying for you know, everything that you have to
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: pay for being in the band, rehearsals and you know,
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: touring and all that. And he's like, I'm sort of
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: struggling and I don't know if I can sort of
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: do this at the moment. And we kind of went, well,
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: you know what, let's rather than he was team Tommy's
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: a real team player, and he was saying, I don't
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: want to hold the band up because I'm going through things.
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: Maybe we should get somebody else and you know, until
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: I'm ready, and I'm like not really into doing that.
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: I'm like, it's a team, it's a family, and you
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: know what, if you've got problems, We've got problems, and
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: I would much rather wait until you've got that sorted out,
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: until we can move forward again, rather than just you
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: know this this this bus stops, so nobody, you know,
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: like we're just rather than powering on. I'm like, oh,
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: he's the perfect memory, is the only drama I want
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: in this band. So if we have to wait until
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: it's right for him, that's what we will do. But
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: admittedly I was kind of like I felt like we
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: were all firing up at the time, and that kind
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: of put a handbrake on things. And I've been broken
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: many times in this band, and I was actually kind
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: of deflated and I was having.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: I have often had a lot of my thoughts and
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: decisions in the shower.
• 25:45
  Speaker 11: And I was thinking, what am I going to do?
• 25:48
  Speaker 11: Have I had enough of this now? I'm like is
• 25:50
  Speaker 11: it all too hard? And I was like no, no, no,
• 25:53
  Speaker 11: I'm not gonna stop. I'm not gonna stop. And I
• 25:54
  Speaker 11: just said this this.
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: Rising, rising riff, which to me was just sort of
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: like yeah, fighting back and like from being kicked down
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: to sort of just like.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: Not giving up.
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: And that's where that that riff just sort of came
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: to me in my head and it was like, no,
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: I won't be stopped. I will not I won't be
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: bargaining with her, I won't be disheartened regardless no matter what,
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: I'm going to push on. And that's that riff just
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: came straight out of it. And that's kind of special
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: to me because whenever.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: I whether it's anyone else's favorite.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: Song or not, every time we hear that, to me,
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: it represents like me just going fucking not giving up?
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: No way is it? If anything, I don't.
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: Go Now, That's that's where one comes from.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Personally.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: I don't know everyone else where they're at with it,
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: but yeah.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Who gives a fuck about anyone else? Is there? It's
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: all about.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: That's that's what you gonna argue about that For a second.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: I'm like, hang on, what wonderful philosophy you have?
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: All right, we'll move on to where not the Drummonds.
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: Lyrically, it's kind of personal to me.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: I grew up in a pretty weird, toxic family and
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: as a child I used to always kind of watch
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: a lot of TV, you know, would sort of get
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: lost in that world of the Drummonds and the Keatons
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: and all in Great Christine, you know, the Cleavers and
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: all that sort of those really awesome, perfect TV families,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: And so I think the lyrics. For me, it's kind
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: of cathartic in a sense of just acknowledging what my
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: family was and that the fact that they aren't well
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: I would have liked them to be. But I guess
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: at the end, how you can you can grow from
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: that and develop into something better and rise above it.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: You don't have to fall into that victim category if
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: you come from something sort of bad. I not that
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: my family was the worst family on the earth or anything,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: but yeah, you know, it sounds it sounds an email
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: coming out like that. But yeah, just just that whole
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: thing where you know, sometimes I was as a kid,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: I was always sort of had a velosov or mindset
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: of escapism, Like I was always losing myself in in
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: movies and TV shows and wanting to be there.
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: And I guess the lyrics it's kind of about that.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, right, And the final track is called Static Wings.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay. Musically, I don't know.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: When you first showed to me, so what you first
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: showed to be on on the hard Drive it sounded
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: like a heavy metal John Farnham kind of song. To me,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: it sounded like that this time we're playing the winner.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: That's what of remindery of personally, and I really liked it. I
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: thought it was really catchy and awesome, and it kind
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: of inspired me lyrically, as you know, all these people
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: they say, you know, this is the last time, and
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I'm done, and they keep sort of coming back, you know,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: it's that whole comeback thing, and I thought it was
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: kind of appropriate with this sort of VP in that
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: sort of context of things returning and whatnot, so sever
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: the last time sort of thing.
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: So yeah, and that was that was actually written during
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: when we wrote this stuff for Overdose as well. That
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: was probably meant to go on there, but it wasn't
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: as well rehearsed at the time as the other songs
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: we went you know what, we just won't worry about that,
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: we'll concentrate on these ten and that sort of just
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: got left on the cut and room floor. But I
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: didn't think it was, you know, such a great song.
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: I was like, well, I got left on the cut
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: and floor. I didn't get the attention because you know,
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: it wasn't as good as the others. But then some
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: of the other guys in the band wanted to kept
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: on reminding me of this song, like we should do
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: that song because you know, they really liked it, and
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: I was not super super excited about it for a
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: very long time, but I thought, oh, there's something in it,
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: so let's push forward. And it wasn't until and i'd
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: also been playing it for years with no vocals, just
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: trying to keep it alive and you know, trying to
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: have some sort of belief in the song. And it
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: was as soon as actually put vocals on it, it
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: just all made sense and breathe life into it, gave
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: it color. And that's that's what they call to me.
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: It's the dark horse of the album, you know, one
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: that I didn't think that was like, it's okay, and
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: it turns out it's often a lot of people's favorite.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: So we had a speaking of vocalists.
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: We had Damn White here on Sunday and he had
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: a bit of a listen to it and straight away
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: and you just said.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: That's my favorite song out of all of them. I
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: love that one of the most.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: This is going to be a really hard question for
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: you guys to answer, but I think it's important for
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: people to understand. But how would you describe the EP musically?
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: Like it's it's not what you'd expect, but it is
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: what you want, you know, Like it's it's hard to
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: describe it.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: It's fucking awesome. How would you describe it.
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: It's like if if you liked if you had our
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: first two albums.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: So it's like you breadings and salutations and the loopholes
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: and Grady's pieces fucked and had a rancid step child
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: that was raised on steroids and monster energy drinks.
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: That's what it sounds like to me. It's just it's a.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: It's a homage to all the Franken Bob Baverty is
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: like when I approached it vocally, lyrically asked, I went
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: back and listened to all the albums and stuff and
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: not inspired by everybody. So I've had this reputation of
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: being a bit of a Mike pattern try hard. So
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: I went back and I tried to be inspired by
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: franken Bok and tried to make a franken Boc record,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: and that's where I sort of came from.
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: So I think it's got all the great.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Elements of franken Bach, but also hopefully something new as well.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: I think it's a very refined, mature franken Boc as well.
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: Like yeah, I'm really proud of it.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: I never thought it was going to turn out like this,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: and yeah, we're very, very happy with it.
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: So I know people always say this about their latest album,
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: but I'll legitimately say this, it's it's my favorite one
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: today as far as I you know, went through years
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: of writing it and listening to it over and over
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: and over and getting it done and all that sort
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: of stuff. But now when I listened to it, I
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: legitimately really really enjoy it.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: I love the sound of it. I love you know,
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: I love what everybody did to it.
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: It said, there was no you know, there was no
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: tyrant on it. I just kind of, like I said
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: to everybody. You know, there's some people are going, oh
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: is this all right? You know what you do, whatever
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: the fuck you want to do, just do it as
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: the best that you can. And that's clearly everybody doing
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: whatever they want as to their best ability, and it's
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: turned out great because of that.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: I think. You know, it's it's strange how much I.
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: And it's also I'm doing I've wrote the songs that
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: I felt like writing. I kind of just did whatever
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: the fuck I want, not worrying about what anyone else thinks,
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: and I haven't been so encouraged by the other boys as.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: Well getting behind the ideas.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: And I have the kind of very bland kind of hey,
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: this is my idea, but after it goes through the
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: Frank and Mak machine and everybody puts their parts on it,
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: it turns into something completely different. But yeah, I'm very
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: I'm really really happy with it. I love listening to it.
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: So Breaking Back are going to be celebrating the release
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: of a new EP by hitting the road with Alien
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: Airpim and Drowning Pool for four shows, starting in Brisbane
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: on February the seventh, been hitting Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Like,
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: I know about you guys, but I reckon it's going
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: to be a fucking blast.
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: It's going to be unreal. It's going to be so good.
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: I'm stoked to be doing an alien ant Farm thing.
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: And it's funny, you know, we're sort of known as
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: the Don't Call Me Baby band and they were, you know,
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: known as the Michael Jackson fucking band and all that.
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: But I'm impressed by with just to see all these
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: years later, like they're still punching on when you release
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: and stuff and there's a whole bunch of kids out there.
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: There's a whole bunch of people out there that are
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: like fans of alien Ant Farmer what they're doing now
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: that don't even know about that cover which is which
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: is a great thing. And for us it's we'll get
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: to play to a bunch of people that I would
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: say wouldn't normally come.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: To one of our shows.
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: So we're stoked about that and really stoked about our
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: drowning pool being at it as well.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, that's what it's giving me hard on.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, lots of people are really pumped about that. Very cool.
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: And before that, actually, you've got a sneaky celebration for
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: your fiftieth Lap around the Sun in Melbourne.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: What's going on there?
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I've this is another one of my fiftieth birthdays.
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: I'm that old that I knew the Dead Sea when
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: it just got sick. Yeah, I can't believe it. I
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: still feel like I'm eighteen and all of a sudden
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: there's the big five zero and so jit here.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: It is now.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: I'll give a shit about your Channel fifty. I want
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: to know where the party is. Where's the party?
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: No Gotte Social Club in North Kok.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Hutchinson, shut up as OBUs. But the future
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: does look bright for frequent guys.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: But the immediate future is the release of Irrepressible on
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: January thirty first. So I know you guys got a
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: lot of primo and stuff out there for it, but
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: where can people get a hold of a copy or
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: pre order it or do whatever they.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Want with available on all the streaming platforms, So if
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: you don't want to play for music or support the bands,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: you can get.
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: It that way. Otherwise you can get it from our
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: band camp.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: It's ten dollars, and we've done a limited edition pressing
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: up the CD with foil metallic artwork and that's thirty
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: five dollars through our website as well.
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: So head to Frankenboc dot there.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: And we've gone work.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: We've gone all out, you know.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: We we were sort of doing things where you know,
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: we're sort of burning CDs and making our own covers
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: and all that, which was fantastic.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: But I think we're so happy with this and it's
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: kind of a big deal to us.
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: We went, you know what, We're spared no expense, so
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: we've kind of gone all out to make it look
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: as sexy as it sounds.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: It's a way of saying thank you from us for
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: everyone for sticking with us. I mean yeah, I mean
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: I personally when I get CDs and stuff, I like
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: a package. I like beautiful artwork. It's you know, he sped.
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: Will there be physical copies available for people at the
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: gigs or.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: They have to order them online?
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: Yes, there will be, I mean providing that, you know,
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: the thousands that we made don't get so they probably
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: will get sold out, so you better hurry to a show,
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: you know. But yeah, that's that's the whole thing is.
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: There's the online deal. But we're really pumped to be
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: able to like I think what will actually turn people
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: is when they rock up, hold it in their hands
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: and have a look at it because it's, you know,
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: looks great and it's, you know, something to hold rather
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: than just file your own sort of somewhere, actually something
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: to have and hold and behold.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: There might not be anything on the city like, just
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: don't unwrap it, just keep it with your collection. Got
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: the tool hour must spend one hundred and thirty bucks
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: on that. I haven't even opened it.
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: I think i'd been.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Second look inside somebody else it's bloody beautiful, so good.
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: I love it.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Now. This isn't a schedule question. This is just something
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: I want us both to tell me one thing about
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: each other.
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: That has changed for the better since you were lasting
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: a band together.
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: Hm Adam seems to enjoy all the things that I
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: enjoy that he never used to enjoy so much. They
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: didn't make up that is, whether that's being held down
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: or whatever.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he feeds me before he fogs me, and then
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: he cuddles me.
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: After he foxed me.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: He never you say that before.
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: Straight injury.
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: There's only a very thin line between being like cuddled
• 37:19
  Speaker 6: and held down.
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: N To be serious, I think Aaron and I always
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: got along, really, really well. There's always a respect.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: And I mean back in the day we were very young,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: and shit happens, and but at the end of the.
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: Day now for where we are now, I wouldn't change
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: a thing, to be honest with you. The only thing
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: I do regret is the way I left.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: I probably could have done I could have been a
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: bit more of a gentleman about it instead of just
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: being a fuck with But that's just where I was.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: I was angry and upset about some stuff and The
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: thing is now, I think we've we've come to learn
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: that we can speak our truth to each other and
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: just be open and honest and vulnerable of each other.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: And it's it's great. I think we have more in
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: common than we realize. People walk through life and they're
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: where he needs masks and pretending to be okay, pretending
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: to be something that they're not. But it's amazing just
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: how much you do have in common. And I'm seeing
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: it in every all aspects of my life now, where
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: I'm at work, when i'm you know, with my friends,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: but I'm in this band talking to people. Just be honest,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: speak your truth, don't pretend to be something you're not,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: and be kind and compassionate and just listen and don't.
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: Wait to wait to speak. And that's thing.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: I think we've also set some cool boundaries are just
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: like you know, this is you know, and at the
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: end of the day, if you're coming into someone's house,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: you'd be respectful, if you say you please and you
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: thank you, you don't be I total can't. There's no
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: real reason for anyone to be a fucking asshole back
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: to you. And if they out and then they're not
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: meant to be in your life. And it's it's really
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: just as simple as that.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: So yeah, and in the early days, we had no skills.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: We didn't we were like we were kids, you know,
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: like you don't know.
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: How to deal with disagreements, and another thing that you
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: have a disagreement, you're like fucking all that kind of
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: says you know, longer going to talk about him. You know,
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: like we've been through a whole lot of that and
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: we sort of like learn the skills of life and
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: you know what, sit someone down and go amen about
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: this thing and just have a conversation.
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: And you know, it's not just a bandman, it's a family.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: So like when Tommy was thinking like, oh, because of
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: some things in his life, he might not be able
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: to continue on. So well, no, this band, we don't
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: want another drama. You know, this is before I was
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: in the band, but this is how the band felt,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: and it's no, we'll work through it and we'll get
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: through it. So someone ends up homeless or destitute or something,
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: and then we're all going to chip in and help
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: that person. Because as far as I'm concerned, like this
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: is a really great lineup of the band. Like for me,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: this is kind of like my first band Bacterium and
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Frankenbach and five Starrel putting together. It's got all these
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: aspects of all the music I've ever wanted to do.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: And you know, our mantaries now protect the bubble, and
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: you know we're not the egg. Sorry, protect the eggs
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: our manta now is to protect the egg.
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: So yeah, anyway, but you know what.
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: You'd asked about that, like, is she comfortable leaving us
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: two out there by yourselves?
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Because if I was, I'll be get a little bit nervous.
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: She's gotten so used to it. Actually first started sort
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: of talking shit again and talking about music and watching
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: movies and stuff together.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: She came out she said, you two are fucking revolting,
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: you know that, And I was like yeah. She said,
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: it's also really cute.
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: I haven't seen you having this much fun being in
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: this band in a really long time.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: You seem not.
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: Really happy, and she said, I think it's really beautiful
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: that you guys have after all this sort of shit,
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: you know, like.
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: Calling each other constantly, constantly.
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: It's like, you know, when we were in a high
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: school band, like we're so excited just to be doing
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: what we're doing. Like, we hope people like what we're doing,
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: but legitimately we love what we're doing.
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: We're actually having a really really good time.
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: And it's great that rehearsals go for so long because
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: there's playing the set once or twice. But when it
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: gets really late, it's because we're all sitting around laughing
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: and taking the piss out of things and doing what
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: friends do, you know, rather than songs are oversea later
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: go home, you know.
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: And it doesn't matter if it fails, because Aaron paid
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: for everything.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah in blood.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: A lot of fun and one thing for me when
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: I first sort of came back to my first rehearsal,
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: Aaron and I spent the dating. We went to his elves,
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: this Elvis impersonator, and after I got some lunch and
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: it felt like back in the days when we were
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: a crabby guy to Cardill getting the Hawaiian burger and stuff.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: But just the sun was out and just felt like
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: when we were kids, like in our teenage years and stuff,
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: and it was really really awesome, and you know, yeah,
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: shut up down.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: The funnies thinking about this is that whole serious conversation
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: is going on with that photo of Aza in the
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: background looking like that on my picture.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: Oh I see it, and of all the photo as
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: you couldn't you know? I was off my balls. I
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: think I'm my life hill billy heroin or something like that.
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: I was like, So, I actually been in a hospital
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: a lot of times, and I've learnt I have a
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: lot of fun with it.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: You know, when you're in there, you can sit there
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: and go, oh, poor movie, or.
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: You can just enjoy the drugs and get your fired
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: out and uh see what there is to steal. So
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: I always try to have a good time with it.
• 42:29
  Speaker 9: Lay my last play card. I don't go, you know,
• 42:38
  Speaker 9: I gotta know there don't got him. I gotta nil
• 42:46
  Speaker 9: that I got I know that go. I gotta la
• 42:56
  Speaker 9: all about and a yat all down the going down.
• 43:37
  Speaker 9: I love the way all I know and all I
• 43:57
  Speaker 9: get any dirt, all you don't know, say
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: D