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An Expansion Of Sound With PK From PROMPTS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: All right, thanks for joining Heavy today. We are here
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  Speaker 1: at the lovely Stratton Barron Kitchen right next to the Trifford,
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  Speaker 1: which is the venue for tonight's entertainment. We're speaking with
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  Speaker 1: p Que from the band Prompts, but it's currently with
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  Speaker 1: Crystal Lake supporting of my some men. Thanks for joining us, mate,
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  Speaker 1: So tell us how the show's been going. This is
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  Speaker 1: the last show with the tour. How's the resting going?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the tool was started is like the pretty huge,
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  Speaker 2: so like you know, like my son, there's my favorite
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  Speaker 2: band like ten years ago, right, Yeah, I was so excited,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, like energy is really really good, So
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  Speaker 2: I really I really enjoyed it for it.
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  Speaker 1: And of course you've saved the best for last avenue
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  Speaker 1: like tonight. You're just going to go off, aren't you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very nice. So I guess how are the emotions
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  Speaker 1: with some of this, Like you've just started a big
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  Speaker 1: tour with, as you say, a band that's been your
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  Speaker 1: favorite band for a long time. Right, you're coming to
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  Speaker 1: the last show? Are you glad it's over and you
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  Speaker 1: get your go home? Or you're a little bit sad
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  Speaker 1: that everything's coming to an end? Like what emotions are there.
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  Speaker 2: But actually this tour is pretty long, pretty late long
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  Speaker 2: because like before this tour we have like separal tour
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  Speaker 2: in Japan, so even not Tokyo, it's pretty far from
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  Speaker 2: like Tokyo Borto Sendai. Yep, yeah, it's pretty far. So
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  Speaker 2: we actually, uh can I go into home like even
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  Speaker 2: like three weeks another?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we after which first first were going to
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  Speaker 2: Sandai first and Subborto and going to Indonesia and Thaie
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  Speaker 2: and that's the.
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  Speaker 1: Aralia now so you're feeling exhausted going back to home
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  Speaker 1: now yeah no, then you're filling in for Crystal Lake
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  Speaker 1: after they singing John left them. So how much notice
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  Speaker 1: did you have to prepare for this?
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  Speaker 2: That was pretty tough story because like, uh, we had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of shows in May.
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  Speaker 3: It's actually made April.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, so we were starting tour the first first of
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  Speaker 2: at April and just Cristial like guitars why he's a leader,
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  Speaker 2: but he just called me like three days the whole
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  Speaker 2: starting tour.
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  Speaker 3: It not was nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So like so I have I have to like
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  Speaker 2: uh study like nine songs or ten or nine songs
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  Speaker 2: like you but they just said to like if you're
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  Speaker 2: not if you if you're not doing this tour, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to cancel the show.
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  Speaker 1: No pressure, Yeah, no pressure.
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  Speaker 3: Pressure.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, like Crystal leg is like kind of
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  Speaker 2: big band in Japan. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of there.
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  Speaker 2: There are lots of means of crustal leg so. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I love Crystal Legos so, so I don't want to there.
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  Speaker 2: They're they're gonna cancel any single show.
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  Speaker 3: So okay, I'm in. Yeah that's true.
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  Speaker 2: So I I fucked up like a couple of shows
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  Speaker 2: at the first time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course I am.
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  Speaker 2: But for now it's kind of like I feel a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good teamwork with Crystal Legos so, so I'm really
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  Speaker 2: happy to be here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The other side of that, like you're stepping into front
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  Speaker 1: of the band on short notice. By that, you know
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  Speaker 1: that their fans are going to be judgmental as fuck,
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  Speaker 1: Like how do you approach it?
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like big pressure. But you know John
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  Speaker 2: Yeah stret late. Yeah, Jean did a great job.
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  Speaker 3: And Chris A.
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  Speaker 2: Lake but you know, uh, he's the American. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: like Asian, so I think we have like different energy
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  Speaker 2: for that one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so uh uh.
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  Speaker 2: Fortunately the Crystal Lake fans is they're really kind, like
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  Speaker 2: its really kind in Japan and like overseas, so I
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  Speaker 2: think they're they're pretty acceptable to me. So I do
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  Speaker 2: my best every single shows. So I feel like doing
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  Speaker 2: more better better, Ye like I'm a just needbee on.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know how how how don is
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  Speaker 2: like long how they tuxed like until find a new
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  Speaker 2: vocals of Crystal Lake. But I'm gonna try my old
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  Speaker 2: best until they find a new vocals.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah. So from from from a single point,
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  Speaker 1: if you like, do you step into that and do
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  Speaker 1: you do you study what girl I was sing like Sandle,
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  Speaker 1: do you try and sound like that? Or do you
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  Speaker 1: just go in with your own style?
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  Speaker 2: And half and a half was like, I'm really respect
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  Speaker 2: or their own legacy. I respect Rio a respect channel,
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  Speaker 2: so I respects like music, the legacy. So so I
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  Speaker 2: think I'm not like official vocalist now. So I think
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  Speaker 2: like I have to enjoy like original CRUs like fans.
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  Speaker 3: So I think like studying.
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  Speaker 2: Like old live video of the real Riyos era and
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  Speaker 2: like John's era, So I sometimes I will be copying
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  Speaker 2: them and add some of my styles and.
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  Speaker 1: Over there it'd be hard to find the balance swim
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  Speaker 1: the Yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna be yeah. Yeah, So I want to only.
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  Speaker 2: Entertain like Cholic fans. It's no matter like old fans
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  Speaker 2: are now like now fans.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, well so it's not really your job to
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  Speaker 1: bring new fans in, is it's the good job at
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  Speaker 1: the moment. Is you just entertain what they or they're
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  Speaker 1: going to cancel and it's your fault. Yeah, well not
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  Speaker 1: for Gotter Crystal, like mate, because your main band, Prog
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  Speaker 1: It is absolutely killing it at the moment, mate, Like
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  Speaker 1: you must be pretty happy with the trajectory you guys
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  Speaker 1: are going on.
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  Speaker 2: So like we're gonna release our new new EP on
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  Speaker 2: the June, so it's gonna like it's going to like
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  Speaker 2: lots of different style music there, like uh, we realised
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  Speaker 2: than we released before. So I'm I'm really looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to that like house housing the fans having the fan's
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  Speaker 2: gonna reaction, so how we're gonna like how it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: like other countries are planned reactions. So I'm really looking.
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  Speaker 3: Forward to that one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And actually got a taste to that new sort
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  Speaker 1: of style on your latest single get to Me, which
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  Speaker 1: came out in early April. Like that you're embraced, like
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  Speaker 1: there's a more subdued and melodic and as very component
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  Speaker 1: of that song. How is your response like, because that's
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  Speaker 1: different to most stuff you put out. So did the
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  Speaker 1: fans gravitate towards that or was the feedback?
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  Speaker 2: I think like in Japan and even like overseas, I
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  Speaker 2: think the prompts fans like they're they're gonna acceptable that one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they like I think they they was.
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  Speaker 2: Like it, but just one comment of the YouTube, so
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  Speaker 2: someone like just comment and be gay?
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  Speaker 1: What it does mean happy? It means happy?
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  Speaker 2: It was not he just say gay and my my
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  Speaker 2: and our fans just like attack him.
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  Speaker 1: Oh did they how good?
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to I don't want to go like
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  Speaker 3: kind of that situation. Yeah, it's just music.
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  Speaker 2: It's not kind of gay just but yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: you're some some like heavy heavy music fans gonna like
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  Speaker 2: disappoint sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: But that single That's for Me is still heavy music
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  Speaker 3: from me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's still heavy in party, just got that melodic and.
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  Speaker 2: Even like even like some lyrics and I what are
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  Speaker 2: well what I feel that what I feel that that
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  Speaker 2: into that songs, So it's I feel like it's uh
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  Speaker 2: still having music for me. So of course we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: change our styles a little bit, but we're gonna still
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  Speaker 2: we're not gonna We're not gonna stop.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna not stop screaming.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you just you've got it. Otherwise you just
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  Speaker 1: get bored during the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: So like original from says, we're gonna keep that one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so don't worry about that.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry about this. My nine year old daughter over
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  Speaker 1: there hates heavy metal, and I put get to Me
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  Speaker 1: on this morning and she didn't leave the room, so
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  Speaker 1: that's good sign like she hates metal, but she liked
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  Speaker 1: that song, so it's good. It could be a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a crossover song for you guys appreciate it. And
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  Speaker 1: you also released Deceiver and Stranger recently too, so are
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  Speaker 1: those three songs all on the EP?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I gonna be like seven songs yep, so
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  Speaker 2: it's include that's of me. So we're gonna release like
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  Speaker 2: two new songs and maybe and also we're gonna making
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  Speaker 2: a new album also busy, So yeah, it's kind of busy. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: So we just keep conversation with a great scale of
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  Speaker 2: Grazier record and the paper Cup also, so we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna like release.
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  Speaker 3: New album and the next year, we hope.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, we we just signed to paper KITLS
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  Speaker 2: so so we just keep like conversation. We just keep
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  Speaker 2: like talking about like how is it going, so, how
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  Speaker 2: is it be reaching out the Europe and the US also, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm really like looking.
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  Speaker 3: Forward to that one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Cool and the song strangely you had landed tours
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  Speaker 1: from the part in you as he gets vocals on that.
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  Speaker 1: Like that song, everyone around the world loved that MTE
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  Speaker 1: like it was universally prized. But was it as much
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  Speaker 1: fun to make? Is what it used to listen to?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Actually that was a like the first time, very first
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  Speaker 2: time we use u were making song with producer.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, so we have.
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  Speaker 2: A tour with in Japan with the Blooding, so we
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  Speaker 2: was a like kind of main supporter so in that days,
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  Speaker 2: like London was pretty like our sad. So he after that,
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  Speaker 2: so he just asked to me, like, did you guys
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  Speaker 2: have our producer or something? So we just asked, good,
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  Speaker 2: we know we don't ever, so like London was surprised.
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  Speaker 2: So like you guys, if you guys have producer, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you guys more definitely more going.
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  Speaker 3: To like more gooding.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that mers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So after that, so uh, making a new single, we
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  Speaker 2: just like discussion with Gray Skill. So the Josha said like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: maybe maybe you guys uh uh put it in producer
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  Speaker 2: in this single.
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  Speaker 3: So we just directly to U message to London.
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  Speaker 2: So he said, fuck yas ye. So but I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to like you know, in these days. Uh, we
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  Speaker 2: just sent to the file like stand plans to produce
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  Speaker 2: some things and then producer going to do doing something
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  Speaker 2: and he just send it to back.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to like that kind of like music work.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, you want to actually be hand or
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  Speaker 1: hands on with it.
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  Speaker 2: So unfortunately London really loves Japan. So we just called
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  Speaker 2: to London London to okay, you can just come to Japan.
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  Speaker 1: So why not. Yeah, I get the private out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just a little to it from Detroit and when
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  Speaker 2: he like he was staying stay in Tokyo like over weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So in the studio we make really good time. So
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  Speaker 2: the strangers coming out and actually we didn't said to
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  Speaker 2: London about the future. So after we was just making
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  Speaker 2: a song, I think your voice is really fed in this.
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  Speaker 3: Park, So London's okay, let's go there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah right, Yeah, I just said to Lens that you
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  Speaker 2: coming over the music videos so like because hits in here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's so many collaborations in this kind of
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  Speaker 2: lements of music. But it's pretty hard to popping out
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  Speaker 2: music video actually because like you're pretty far.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So so it was, it was all the time and
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  Speaker 2: it was really perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. And what I like about that song too,
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of bands will bring in a guest
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  Speaker 1: singer like that or guest vocalist and and they dominate
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  Speaker 1: because you're the guests, you know, but you and him
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  Speaker 1: use teams together so well vocally, like it's actually it
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  Speaker 1: is a collaboration, you know, it's not it's not the
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  Speaker 1: party new sing out with prompts. It's like problems with
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  Speaker 1: a guest digit work really.
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  Speaker 2: Well because we making songs together, I think. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's the reason. Yeah, it's not kind of we're just
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  Speaker 2: making the song and just sounded like lyrics and like
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  Speaker 2: and the instrument and just singing in this track is
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  Speaker 2: that kind of dust style we we we have like
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  Speaker 2: a spencer like a lot of days and and studious
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  Speaker 2: and London also like writing the lyrics. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: think I think this this type of like collaboration is
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  Speaker 2: what one hundred percent perfect?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well done. And you've also been helping to
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  Speaker 1: fly the Aussy flag of music Caba Cities as well.
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  Speaker 1: You've played a few shows with Thornhill recently.
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  Speaker 3: Jay Guy, you're there. Lovely, Yeah, absolutely lovely. That absolutely
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  Speaker 3: that one.
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  Speaker 2: Jacob and me and we're doing like hangout like a
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  Speaker 2: couple of days. Yeah, so we talk about like so much,
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  Speaker 2: like he's even his sole project music and like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we talked about so many music things and vocal things.
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  Speaker 3: Also. Actually, I never drink of Herbert Tea before.
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  Speaker 2: Like Jacob said to me, like yo, the Peppermint and
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  Speaker 2: the camel, it is the best of the podcaster.
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  Speaker 3: So I just definitely try that one in this tour.
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  Speaker 3: It's really works, It's really gonna work.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, Jacob Camma is the best one.
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  Speaker 1: Very cooling. Are you going to return the favor and
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  Speaker 1: bring prompts over here and in the future.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really looking forward that. And you know we're
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  Speaker 2: in gray Skill. Yeah, so we're in Grace Skill. So yeah, anytime, anytime,
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  Speaker 2: not nothing nothing planned the.
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  Speaker 3: Other nothing planned.
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  Speaker 2: But we keep we keep connected with distrial alines a
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  Speaker 2: lotther like from.
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  Speaker 3: Hotel so so I think it's.
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  Speaker 2: Not too far. Yeah, maybe in this year, maybe like
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  Speaker 2: earlier of deaths years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah beautiful, all right, may well, thanks for your time being
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  Speaker 1: to place. You speak with you here at the lovely
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  Speaker 1: Stratton Bar in Kitchen, which is right next door to
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  Speaker 1: the Triffin, So if you ever come down you want
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  Speaker 1: a good feed or a quiet place to drink. Did
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  Speaker 1: she the play hasks for Caroline? She's lovely and having
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  Speaker 1: self funded on other Okay, very much, thanks man, that
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  Speaker 1: was good man, appreciate that.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you,