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From The Heart Of THE MURDER CAPITAL: GABRIEL BLAKE Talks Touring, Music, And Inspiration · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: What's up. It's Gabriel from the Murder Capital. We are
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  Speaker 1: a band from Ireland and we are doing our very
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  Speaker 1: first Australian and New Zealand tour this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, fantastic, we can't wait. Thanks so much, it's great
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  Speaker 2: to have you. Can you tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about the themes or the inspiration behind the new album Blindness.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's to do with love, it's to do
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  Speaker 1: is being Irish, and yeah, I guess like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of it is to do with common to see things
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  Speaker 1: that maybe you grew up with, or being blind sided
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  Speaker 1: like in our own life right now, or like not
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  Speaker 1: being able to see someone you love if it's through
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  Speaker 1: like physical distance or if it's through them being gone.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of those themes of the record.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so the last I think the first record you
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  Speaker 2: guys did was sort of centered around grief, and then
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  Speaker 2: the next one was like more of a celebration of life.
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  Speaker 2: Is that correct?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Cool? Yeah, this one is kind of like the departure
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  Speaker 2: I guess of someone you loved and yeah, not being
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  Speaker 2: able to say them like you said.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, even like not necessarily to do with grief,
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  Speaker 1: just more so like or even if you're like in
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  Speaker 1: front of one another, but you're not seeing each other's points,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's that it's the.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. You've toured with one of
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  Speaker 2: my favorite artists ever, Nick Cave. How did that come about?
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  Speaker 1: We were really like, yeah, Nick, here is one of
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  Speaker 1: the biggest inspirations to some of the lads in the band.
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  Speaker 1: Like he's obviously like one of the great he's up
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  Speaker 1: there with any and he's he's up there in the
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  Speaker 1: highest caliber of artists, you know, and we were just
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  Speaker 1: well lucky in a sense that he got our music,
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  Speaker 1: but also like it was I don't know the right
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  Speaker 1: word is I don't think it's soundipitous, but he's just
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  Speaker 1: ended up being like a fan of the of the
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  Speaker 1: band before are I think they're like for that most
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  Speaker 1: recent tour and the Wild God to he there was
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  Speaker 1: like a short list of like thirty artists and then
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  Speaker 1: we had heard before Christmas that it was getting whittled
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  Speaker 1: down to like nine, so we had to like wait
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  Speaker 1: the whole of Christmas, like the Batter's odds where we
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  Speaker 1: were like three and nine chances or one and three
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  Speaker 1: chants of getting to support him. But yeah, in the
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  Speaker 1: new year. Then it just came through. But it was
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  Speaker 1: really like it was the most amazing experience ever, Like
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  Speaker 1: being able to like travel with an operation of that
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  Speaker 1: side was phenomenal and like we learned so much. And
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  Speaker 1: on the last night we got to break bread with him,
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  Speaker 1: like he invited us for dinner with him and the
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  Speaker 1: Bad Seeds and just such like real humble, present a
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  Speaker 1: people and there's no ship with him, like do you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, They've they've been through it all,
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  Speaker 1: Like they've been around since you know, the eighties, Like
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  Speaker 1: they've they've seen everything. They've been you know, they've been
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  Speaker 1: to the depths, they've been to the heights, And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know there's because it's fucking nick Cave. You think
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  Speaker 1: that there's like there's obviously an an aura about him,
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  Speaker 1: but when you're talking to them, he's just like just
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  Speaker 1: like a very like it's very sophisticated, very astute, very real,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? It was. Yeah, it's just
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  Speaker 1: so nice to be able to have real human conversations
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  Speaker 1: with people that like artistically you idolized, you know, And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just the stamina that he and the band have is
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  Speaker 1: just like so inspiring. Because we had proof of it. Like,
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  Speaker 1: when you see this show once, you're like, well, it
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  Speaker 1: fucked like as some of the best performances I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: Like the way that they take fucking twenty thousand people
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  Speaker 1: on a journey for two and a half hours in
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  Speaker 1: your head gets blown off the first night, but then
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  Speaker 1: the very next night he's doing the same thing in
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  Speaker 1: a different country. Yeah, but doing that for like two months,
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  Speaker 1: two and a half months, every every night, every other night.
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  Speaker 1: It's like physically it's such a feat but like to
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  Speaker 1: have that skill and it always boiled down to just
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  Speaker 1: him on the piano at the at the end of
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  Speaker 1: every show is into my arms, and it just was
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  Speaker 1: just such a huge moment because like you have the
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  Speaker 1: whole show, the like the eleven twelve piece band, the
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  Speaker 1: backing vocals, and you know, such grandeur of sound and production,
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  Speaker 1: and then the show always just boils down to him
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  Speaker 1: on the piano on his own and then even more
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  Speaker 1: than everything nearly that he's done before, he just shows
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  Speaker 1: you the fucking power of the song, the power of
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  Speaker 1: a voice and an instrument, just such true human connections.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing human connection on that scale was so nice, and
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  Speaker 1: like I noticed, like almost every night. The lane that
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  Speaker 1: time isn't like but I believe in love. I think. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: everybody always started like everyone was really quiet because of
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  Speaker 1: him on piano, generally singing along but not like hackling,
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  Speaker 1: not hackling, but not jeering. Once he said that lane
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  Speaker 1: every night, everyone like showed it as if somebody had
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  Speaker 1: scored a goal. Oh, I don't know, it was just
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  Speaker 1: that was cool to see that across a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different cities and countries.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. He always invokes an emotional response, I think,
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  Speaker 2: no matter how many times he's listened to his songs.
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  Speaker 2: And it's really nice to hear too that. You know
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  Speaker 2: how people say, don't meet your idols. I can attest
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  Speaker 2: to that. I've met a few of my idols, and
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  Speaker 2: it's not always been the best experience unfortunately. Okay, it's
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  Speaker 2: nice to hear that Nick Cave. You know, he's down
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  Speaker 2: to earth and you can, you know, form a connection
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  Speaker 2: with him.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Yeah, No, very very sophistic Get a guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, your debut single blew up on Spotify and online
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  Speaker 2: more or less? Was that difficult to navigate navigate as
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  Speaker 2: a band?
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  Speaker 1: No, I think it was fun. Honestly, we now it's
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  Speaker 1: like it's what we wanted for, you know, like we
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  Speaker 1: knew we were like half assed in it when we
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  Speaker 1: joined the band, or when like even before we all
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  Speaker 1: were in the band, all of us like moved to
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  Speaker 1: Dublin with the intention of like music becoming our life.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a big risk to take, you know, spending
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  Speaker 1: you know the formative years of your life doing something
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't necessarily have a security of you know, a
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  Speaker 1: job or anything like that. And like that was a
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  Speaker 1: big thing for a lot of us coming from like
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  Speaker 1: both me and I might come on from like a
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  Speaker 1: more rural part of Ireland, but like I had primed
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  Speaker 1: and readied myself for doing this since I was younger.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like getting caught up into the world ruin
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  Speaker 1: of the music industry when you're like in your early
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  Speaker 1: twenties is definitely a bit of a head buck thos
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  Speaker 1: you get older. Yeah, but it's it's fun as well.
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  Speaker 1: It's like you just learned everybody grows, you know. But no,
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  Speaker 1: and in fairness, like we we had a pretty fucking
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  Speaker 1: ah like steep in planing, but COVID happened then, so
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  Speaker 1: it was like probably the calm down all it and
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  Speaker 1: like maybe like having so to start sharp and fine
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  Speaker 1: then to like nothing. I always like, it feels like
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  Speaker 1: you've just been like shot out of the cannon and
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  Speaker 1: then you're just suspended in the air for a while.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's crazy. It must have been. It must have
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  Speaker 2: felt really weird, as he said, to have that incline
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  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, it's like, where's it gone?
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  Speaker 2: I suppose, But like you guys still did well after
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  Speaker 2: that anyway, so it's not like everything.
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  Speaker 1: N truly, I guess it was just like who knows
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  Speaker 1: what would have happened to say, if it's didn't happen,
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  Speaker 1: but now it was manageable. It was manageable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, who did the album artwork for Blindness? And how
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  Speaker 2: does it represent the album?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? We There is a person called Victor hitch who
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  Speaker 1: has been the creative director for a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: rull out and like a lot of any he's the
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  Speaker 1: creative director of a lot of the of the rollout
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  Speaker 1: of the album. He was it was something that we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do this time around. Was that, like you
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  Speaker 1: sort of sorted because none of us are hold on,
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  Speaker 1: let me see, we knew we wanted to give our
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  Speaker 1: vision over to somebody that we trusted in that way,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, we're musicians that can we don't have
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  Speaker 1: one hundred grasp over the technical side of creating something
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  Speaker 1: like that, like like an album artwork, so we we
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  Speaker 1: knew we wanted something to be new, like in ways
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  Speaker 1: like Gez. We wanted to create something that was actually
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  Speaker 1: our own, that was made directly because of the music.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, Victor has done some really impressive album covers
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  Speaker 1: in the past a few years. I think he's one
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  Speaker 1: of the most important and influential and impactful album cover
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  Speaker 1: artists in the past decade as an artist in general,
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  Speaker 1: but specifically the album covers he's done I learned about
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  Speaker 1: the The twos that drew me through him was his
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  Speaker 1: Rosaly cover he done like the Motor Maammid design and
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  Speaker 1: uh the Steve Lacey Gemini Rights album and it was
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  Speaker 1: actually I love both of those covers. But we were
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  Speaker 1: able to get on a phone call with him, and
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  Speaker 1: when he did, when he explained how he made it,
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  Speaker 1: it's just the process, and like the I knew I
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  Speaker 1: loved his work, but when he was able to explain
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  Speaker 1: his work and contextualize his choices, it was just like okay,
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  Speaker 1: we want We really wanted to work with him. And
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  Speaker 1: in the context of I mean Victor himself, he's never
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  Speaker 1: given us like a full explanation of the album cover necessarily,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know, yeh, Like it's for me. It's
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  Speaker 1: just like my mum was done our therapy just before
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  Speaker 1: she passed away, Like as it she learned how to
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  Speaker 1: become an art therapist and she was explaining the process
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  Speaker 1: to me, and like I sometimes people can be non
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  Speaker 1: verbal and the only way that they can communicate is
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  Speaker 1: through art, and like they could be drawn and they
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  Speaker 1: don't even know what they're drawn, but an our therapist
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  Speaker 1: job is to look at and understand it. And that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a note for Victor. But my interpretation of that
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  Speaker 1: is like a lot like the single artwork and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the things that he's done, feels like it's
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  Speaker 1: coming from a place of a person who is learning
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  Speaker 1: about Like imagine the person's mind is what all these
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  Speaker 1: songs are, and Victor is bringing it up, bringing that
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  Speaker 1: that person's mind in a like in a scribbling sense,
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  Speaker 1: like in an art and art therapy sense. And to me,
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  Speaker 1: what our album artwork looks like, what our album cover
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  Speaker 1: looks like, is this person who has these fucking amazing wings, like,
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  Speaker 1: has all this possibility, has all this potential, has all
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  Speaker 1: this ability, has all this bravery, has all this courage,
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  Speaker 1: But they're looking into the fucking madness of the world
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  Speaker 1: that's in front of them to manage the world that
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  Speaker 1: they grew up with. And yeah, you can't really see it,
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  Speaker 1: like it's more of an emotion and something like specific
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  Speaker 1: in that red and orange. But then there's the there's
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  Speaker 1: the blue inside the person, so the cameras inside the person,
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  Speaker 1: the potential, all those things are inside the person. But
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  Speaker 1: they're looking into this harsh world, that harsh reality. That's
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  Speaker 1: kind of what it means to me. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: like the figure itself was taken from one of the songs.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, that's what it means to me. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if that's what I meant to Victor though.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's amazing the amount of layers and depth you
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  Speaker 2: just went into there in describing it. That's nuts, because
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  Speaker 2: when you look at it on face value, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a very artistic person. I'm like, that's a
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  Speaker 2: great that's a great album cover art. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't really think too much beyond it and to
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  Speaker 2: hear that he really got inspiration from the music. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: That's so cool.
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  Speaker 2: You guys got to open for Pearl Jam, which is incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Are they one of the artists that inspire your sound sonically?
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: They're not somebody that we bring into the room as
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  Speaker 1: a reference, But I think like as a band in general,
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  Speaker 1: they absolutely are. Like they like we were we were
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle on in twenty twenty three on our first
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  Speaker 1: tour and like there's just such a reverence around PERI
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  Speaker 1: jam there and like that's so infectious, Like and like
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  Speaker 1: when I was a kid, like into the Wild, it
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  Speaker 1: was like there was the first time that I recognized
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  Speaker 1: what a like a soundtrack was? Was there a better
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  Speaker 1: soundtrack to that? So like they've had a huge, deep
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  Speaker 1: connection to us. But as well they're like if you
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  Speaker 1: if like an alien came to Earison was like figuring
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  Speaker 1: out about different things, like I don't know, like what's
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  Speaker 1: a car, Like it's like a forward, it's like like
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: a Tayota. Like what is Like what is fruit? It's
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  Speaker 1: like it's a banana, it's an apple. It's like what's
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  Speaker 1: a band? Will like pera Jam comes into that conversation,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, if you're asking what
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  Speaker 1: a fucking band is, per Jams one of the bands
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  Speaker 1: you give it as an example, like because they're just
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  Speaker 1: so huge, but they mean so much and they transcend
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  Speaker 1: uh to transcend genre even and their definition of importance
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  Speaker 1: and what they are you know. So yeah, like the
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  Speaker 1: ocasion of supporting them was not lost on us, and
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  Speaker 1: like having a band that deserves so much reverence being
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  Speaker 1: excited about working with also being excited about our music
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  Speaker 1: is really truly such an honor. And like they they
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  Speaker 1: know how respectful their fans are, but also how much
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  Speaker 1: their fans get on board with what they say, and
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  Speaker 1: they're just so kind of like Eddie like give us
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  Speaker 1: a big shout out in Dublin, support them in Dublin
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  Speaker 1: and Marley Park and spent like a good minute talking
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  Speaker 1: about us, like and he just didn't have to fucking
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  Speaker 1: do that, and he did, but he knows why that matters,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and it's really cool. It's just like they yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like they they had us supporting in Europe and they
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  Speaker 1: had Pixie supporting in America, so like that was like
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  Speaker 1: to draw those comparisons like.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty huge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It was just like like I'm not, I'm not,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like we have a lot more work to
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  Speaker 1: do before we get into the conversation of being as
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  Speaker 1: as you know, as long Last and as Pixies. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I felt like I learned a lot from just
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: being around their crew and being around their operation. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that must have been so amazing. If The Metal
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  Speaker 2: Capital never started, what do you think you'd be doing.
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  Speaker 1: I know what I would be doing. I would be
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: an undertaker. And oh yeah, that's because that's my My
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: dad is an undertaker. My dad's a funeral director. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: so that is what well. I still do that sometimes
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  Speaker 1: when I'm home. It's like our family business. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: like that. I still it's like a vocation. Like it's
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  Speaker 1: I'm so privileged that I get to see in the band,
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  Speaker 1: like I get to see people having the best time
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  Speaker 1: ever at the show at a festival, like living life
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  Speaker 1: to the fullest, and then as an undertaker, I see
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  Speaker 1: people having some of the worst times of their life.
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  Speaker 1: And to be able to see human emotion in that
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  Speaker 1: way is a huge privilege. But yeah, that if I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't if a murder capital ever started, it would be an.
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  Speaker 2: Undertake Jamez, does it doing that work? Does it desensitize
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  Speaker 2: you to death at all? Or does it make you
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  Speaker 2: more empathetic?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think more for me, definitely more empathetic. But
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: it's also very base in that it My philosophy around
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  Speaker 1: undertaking is that you know, one must strip themselves as
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  Speaker 1: their own ego, and you know it's just about the
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  Speaker 1: family and supporting them and being a facilitator to them,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, it's just it's just helping, helping them
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: and like the other side of it is like my
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  Speaker 1: philosophy again is that you can't show emotion, Like if
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  Speaker 1: you're in a room where there's people obviously you know, crying,
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  Speaker 1: like in huge states of upsetep because they've lost someone
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  Speaker 1: that they love, then like it's the undertaker's job to
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  Speaker 1: be as solid as a rock for whatever they need,
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  Speaker 1: if they need a hug, if they need someone to
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  Speaker 1: go do something physically, if they just need to be
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  Speaker 1: the person in the room that is like the cam
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  Speaker 1: you know, and it's just like, yeah, I have such
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  Speaker 1: appreciation for my time on this earth from when I
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  Speaker 1: was young, having a grasp of that or knowing that
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  Speaker 1: that's like important sometimes just to like it's just not
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  Speaker 1: it's just not talking about you, like I'm saying that
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  Speaker 1: to myself like in those contexts. Yeah, and that's I think,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's hell. That's a that's a healthy place there.
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  Speaker 1: Even then, it does make even though it's like reserve
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  Speaker 1: in your own emotion for a period of time. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's what empathy isn't certain context is they reserve in
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  Speaker 1: your own emotion about things so that you can look
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  Speaker 1: after someone who's going through it. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely that's amazing and there's a lot more to
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  Speaker 2: it than you know, the average person thinks. I reckon,
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  Speaker 2: that's it, that's great. What does this album represent for you?
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question. I think in more like a
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  Speaker 1: personal level, it just is like it feels like it
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  Speaker 1: feels like such security. I think because I kind of
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  Speaker 1: joined the band last there was part of me that
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  Speaker 1: was like I felt like a bit of imposter syndrome
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  Speaker 1: and just in general, like I don't know, it just
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  Speaker 1: took me a long time to accept that we were
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  Speaker 1: a band, or that we were a band in the
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  Speaker 1: same context as I believe bands were. Growing up, I always
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: felt like separated or something, and like there's not a
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: huge amount of reference points for really being in the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: music industry when I was grown up, and it took
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: me a while to believe that I was in it
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: or that we were a band, and like even like
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: we'd be fucking on the cover of NIME or Rolling
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Stone or I don't know, like things like that, I
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: just didn't believe it. But in twenty twenty four, like
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: we played Glastonbury, we played Coucelle, and we'd done a
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: KXP and now we have our third record. I just
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: feel so solid in that. I feel so that's not
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: a flick, you know, not like that came through hard working,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: like years of hard working commitment and repetition. And yeah,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: like I know it's probably like better to talk about
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the record in the thematic sense, but like personally, what
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: this record represents is like our commitment to one another
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: and our commitment to ourselves, and yeah, albums three is
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: just like, yeah, this is fucking us, like we we
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: we could. Like, you can't put out your third album
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the first go, you know what I mean, you have
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: to earn it, and we've earned it, you know.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, you guys have solidified yourselves and the band
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: and yeah, that's that's so it must be. It must
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: feel nice to finally feel not finally feel, but to
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: feel that security and be like, yeah, no, this is
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: actually happening and.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah no, like so many like there's so so many
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: amazing Irish artists I end up in it and like
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: like Lankham Semat and like even like the comparison John
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: is like Kneecap or like only on their first album
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: and are already like way like bigger than we are.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: And like I think if we had to release our
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: albums at the same time, it probably would have got
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: like a fun way. Hasn't that happened to us? Yeah,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: but it's nice being on our journey and like, regardless
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: of what size we ever get to, just the fact
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: that we've made three albums is like you can't you
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: can't fake that or something, you know what I mean? Yeah, Yeah,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: and it's cool and like and again working or stay
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: working with Nick, but like being on tour with like
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: was like my partner Katie, her dad was. We brought
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: him to the Paris show and he was blown away
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: because it was like twenty thousand people in the room
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: and he was like fuck, like I saw this swell
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: out in the eighties when he was playing clubs and
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: like next in his sixties, and this year is when
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the first time he's been nominated for a Grammy, And
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know, it just is like, I don't know,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: it was just a good feeling. It's just like just
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: stick at it and let the things have come.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: That's it exactly. Don't try and compare yourself too much
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: to the other artists out there, because as well there
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: journey could go on a totally different path and or
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: it could end and yeah, just never know. Can you
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: tell us a little bit about what it was like
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: growing up in your hometown, because I understand that you
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: guys all grew up in different areas of parts of
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Ireland and Europe. Yeah, can you tell us a little
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: bit about the place that you grew up in.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely love talking about it. I grew up on
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: a place called Letter Kenny in County Donegal, which is
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: in the It's the most northern county in Ireland where
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: it's still being in the Republic of Ireland. It's a
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: border to the north of Ireland, a border's dry and
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I fucking love growing up there. There was lords of
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: amazing musicians and artists that were there, and I think
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: it benefited me my hometown feeling like the whole world
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: because it gave me time to just fucking play music
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: on my own and just focused and like I honestly,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: labs always laugh at me because I'm always on about
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: like school and stuff. But I think just like not
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: having that pressure of having to make it or something
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: for like a good few years was really positive because
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: it's just like it was like it was such a
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: non reality. But then when I was like sixteen, I
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: met a dear friend, Brady mans Watson, also known as Soak,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and that was the first time that I met someone
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: who actually was in the music industry played actual shows,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: and Brady was very kind. They let me support them
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: on like two shows of their being over. They to
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: one and Daria and one in Dublin. And yeah, then
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I like, for the first time, so what would be
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: likely to be in the music industry, And then moved
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: up to Dublin then, But yeah, I think being from
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: my hometown it just gave me so much identity. And
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: when I moved to Dublin, when I moved to London,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: now that we travel the world like I fucking know
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: who I am, Yeah, because of where I've come from,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: and I go back all the time. So I need
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: to go back all the time to like rhyme myself again.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: And it can be a lot at times, the juxtaposition
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: of one day and the next day, like one day
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: we haven't done it in the cave, and then the
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: next day and back in my home, my bedroom at home, ye,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: like fuck and health that's mad. Yeah, But I think
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the jostaposition that like haven't common from Marrick Kenny has
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: given me is been a positive. It makes those moments
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: even richer.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. And I think it's interesting too that because
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: James is from Dublin originally.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Between Dublin and Klark.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah okay, yeah, so more city, I suppose, And then
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: you're from the rural more rural, is that right? Yeah?
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Rural sort of small town. And then Cahl is from
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: like don A gold Time, which is quite rural as well.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Then Irv is from West Clark rural, and then the
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the Drummer grew up and on Schokland, which is like
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: a small town again sort of village. Yeah, so we
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: have came from all over the mouth.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you've got all these different perspectives and how
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: you guys grew up, and you're all putting it together
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: for one common goal, I suppose, which is really cool
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: to think about. Okay, well, I'm so pleased to say
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: that The Murder Capitol will be touring Australia next year
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: in April, and the album Blindness will be out in February. Gabriel,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: thank you so much, Thank you so much, all the best,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: thank you,