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Fast, Feral and Fully Hatched: MEDIA PUZZLE Join REGURGITATOR For JUKEBOXXIN Tour · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I'm Tom from Media Puzzle. We're stoke to announce that
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  Speaker 1: we're supporting Regurgitator throughout the first half of the year. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I forgot to say the Heavy Mag Club.
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  Speaker 2: That's all right, take too, Oh yeah, all right around too.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Hi, I'm Tom from Mediapozzle.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here with Heavy Mag and we're stick to announce
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  Speaker 1: that Media Puzzle is supporting Regurgitator throughout the first half
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  Speaker 1: of the year of twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome, all right, okay, hello, how are you Ellie.
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  Speaker 4: I'm good, I'm good Tom.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 4: Nice to meet you.
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  Speaker 2: You too, coming from they're not so sunny Northern Rivers,
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  Speaker 2: this sporting as well. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm actually in a barrel at the moment. But
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  Speaker 1: are you there are a couple I was there a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. I live at Cabareta, so just
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. I did look as it sometime.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah cool real, yeah, back in my UNI days.
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  Speaker 3: Which that's it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to go now, that's why I was. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so you guys are going to be supporting the gage.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 4: That's awesome. Yeah, so tell me a bit more about
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  Speaker 4: our media puzzle. How do you guys start? What are
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  Speaker 4: you about? What's what's the jam?
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  Speaker 1: So so the band, the media puzzle kind of my
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  Speaker 1: solo project, I guess, and it kind of started in
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  Speaker 1: my dorm room, my coro. I decided to make like
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  Speaker 1: an album or like an EP's worth of music in
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  Speaker 1: a day and just put it out and see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, like all my friends really liked it, which
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  Speaker 1: was cool, and I was like, I'll keep doing it.
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  Speaker 1: And then I started playing gigs and then it was
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  Speaker 1: just me and like a little drum machine, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, this isn't fun to watch.
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  Speaker 3: And then.
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  Speaker 4: I'd be like fat waste.
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  Speaker 2: People don't realize it's just one guy when they go
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  Speaker 2: to see the show.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, eventually we got like a whole five piece
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  Speaker 1: band together and it's doing that since then. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's kind of started out as a joke
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  Speaker 1: what I spend most of my time on. But that's
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  Speaker 1: it's like a fun it's it's it's like a project
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  Speaker 1: for me that's free of all.
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  Speaker 3: There's no it can whatever. It can do anything for me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, there's no limits, no ruined rules as such. Yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 4: and that's always good, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the really cool thing I find about talking
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  Speaker 2: to you know a lot of artists and whatnot these days,
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  Speaker 2: is that there's no set path to you know, success anymore,
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  Speaker 2: like anything whatever suits yourselves or whatever fits. It's you know,
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  Speaker 2: you can still succeed and have results, and that's a
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  Speaker 2: really good thing. It's just more options and more opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to to happen.
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  Speaker 1: What I love about it for me is it's like
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  Speaker 1: a I can try anything, and it's just it's a
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  Speaker 1: matter of seeing what works and what doesn't and like
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  Speaker 1: just yeah, learning, it's a it's a it's a learning
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  Speaker 1: project and a learning experience and in a beautiful way
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  Speaker 1: that you know it.
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  Speaker 4: Is absolutely yeah. So how many yeah? Yeah? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: So well, how would you describe your music that you've
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  Speaker 2: that you've got out there at the moment?
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  Speaker 4: All kind of genre does it fit into?
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  Speaker 2: It?
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  Speaker 4: Is it totally hybrid? No?
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  Speaker 1: No, it kind of it's all kind of the same
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  Speaker 1: for the moment it falls under it's under punk like
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  Speaker 1: synth punk.
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  Speaker 3: It gets called egg punk.
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  Speaker 1: Which is a pretty pretty funny thing to describe sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: but it's pretty much it sounds it's a low fi
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  Speaker 1: fast punk music. Yeah, re incorporate like and there's normally
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  Speaker 1: a drum machine somewhere in there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So how did you take the synth sounds then for
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  Speaker 2: five piece band and just strip the stems down then
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  Speaker 2: just replay with actual instruments break it down like that.
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  Speaker 3: Or pretty much?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, yeah, the releases never got any synth
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  Speaker 1: attention at all.
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  Speaker 3: It's just all guitar okay, But after that it ended up.
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  Speaker 1: It did end up any a synth, and luckily had
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  Speaker 1: one in my bedroom that I could actually get the
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  Speaker 1: exact stand out.
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  Speaker 3: Of at the time, So it all worked out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, series of pretty much like having the songs and
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  Speaker 1: then deconstructing them and going back into the projects and
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  Speaker 1: working out what I've done and.
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  Speaker 4: Then having to go backwards them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's making a making, putting together a puzzle and
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  Speaker 3: then ripping it apart again and then putting it back
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  Speaker 3: together with a band.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Happy to reverse engineer your own songs pretty much.
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  Speaker 4: And that's it's a very fun experience.
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  Speaker 3: I really enjoy it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that's good. That's good. And so what do you do?
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  Speaker 4: Are you singer guitarist?
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  Speaker 3: What's your I sing and play guitar.
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  Speaker 2: Nice, nice, excellent, and so coming up with the girl.
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  Speaker 2: You're doing some shows with them? Which ones are you guys?
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  Speaker 2: They're going to be announcing.
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  Speaker 3: People doing ten in total. We're doing Nice, We're doing like.
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  Speaker 1: Canberra, Aubrey, two Melbourne shows, we're doing Brisbane and they're
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  Speaker 1: Sydney in Bathist.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think I've got them all there. But there's
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  Speaker 3: a couple of double ups in each, like there's two albums,
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  Speaker 3: two Brisbans.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, so you're not doing not going to be
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  Speaker 4: doing the Buyer and Gold Coast run.
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  Speaker 1: No, Unfortunately, I think they were already booked by the
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  Speaker 1: time they hit us up, because those are like happening
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  Speaker 1: within the next.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that happening yeah at the end of this month. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so that's some that's exciting. They are amazing guys to
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  Speaker 4: be able to play with it.
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  Speaker 3: To meet them all, Yeah, they the nicest people.
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  Speaker 4: Are not can roll, They're lovely.
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  Speaker 2: You've definitely come in on a good end there, great
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  Speaker 2: experience for you guys as well, Like that's awesome, so
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  Speaker 2: totally yeah. Have you had any sort of like leverage
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  Speaker 2: before before doing this or is this kind of like
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  Speaker 2: your first big step.
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  Speaker 1: Up we've we've had Yeah, this is our first. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is the first tour we've ever been asked to join.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely in terms of live shows, I reckon we've played
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  Speaker 1: a few coins for this is these are definitely going
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  Speaker 1: to be the most exciting. I think, Yeah awesome, which
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  Speaker 1: is really cool.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of full circle for a couple of us, Like.
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  Speaker 1: Player was had like snuck it into like Shada show
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  Speaker 1: up at like Goma like when she was sixteen or something,
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  Speaker 1: and Oli saw him when he was fifty when he's
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  Speaker 1: like fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: It's just like very cool. We're all very stoked.
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  Speaker 4: It is. It is even for myself.
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  Speaker 2: They were one of the very first bands I saw
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  Speaker 2: at like fifteen and in the footy fields in the
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  Speaker 2: Alumbar and like got crushed in the wash pit and
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  Speaker 2: it was just like I was just like my colleagues
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  Speaker 2: and like you know, you meet them and.
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  Speaker 4: That's just amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Like you say, full circle and it's I don't mind
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  Speaker 2: being middle aged now because all my favorite bands and
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  Speaker 2: you know, doing anniversary tours or like coming back.
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  Speaker 4: Really my misspent Youth. It's great.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely trip per visual.
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  Speaker 4: So that's exciting. So what else do you guys got
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  Speaker 4: on the plans for twenty twenty six, So look like.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a new album coming out around the same
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  Speaker 1: time as kicking off the tour with GERD which is awesome,
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  Speaker 1: really cool. I'm really excited to put that out. It's
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  Speaker 1: definitely like a step in a somewhat different direction and
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  Speaker 1: kind of the same thing at the same time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm really excited for everyone to hear. And Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: trying to get to other places towards.
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  Speaker 3: The end of the year. But there's nothing I can
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  Speaker 3: say about that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's fair.
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  Speaker 3: It's in the world, but.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, certainly step it up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, a couple of the shows here and there,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, mainly this is you know, taken up first
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  Speaker 1: half of the year in the best way possible.
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  Speaker 4: So absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So it's being sort of like a side project, has
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  Speaker 2: it that's now become like full time.
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  Speaker 1: Or yeah, pretty much exactly that, which is awesome, Like
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, bands, But I think this this is
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  Speaker 1: easily if I want to keep this band going, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to take up all my time now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And so had you finish you an ear? Is
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  Speaker 4: that still?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? My degree? Nice years ago now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, that's cool. How many is what did you
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  Speaker 2: get your degree?
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  Speaker 3: I did a Bachelor of Music made you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, and so they're not I'm running that in
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  Speaker 2: southern across anywhere cut it off, yeah, which is really sad.
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  Speaker 1: It brought so many creative people to the areas. How
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  Speaker 1: I met all my friends and have come from like
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  Speaker 1: far South Coast from Queensland like all to do music
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  Speaker 1: and Lismore's so many cool bands and so much history too. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: so many cool bands coming through, like what obviously gren
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  Speaker 1: Spoon all from Lismore, but they did half of them
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  Speaker 1: did the music course.
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  Speaker 3: There you've got.
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  Speaker 4: That's the best thing to come out of the Golden Hotel.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's really sad.
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  Speaker 2: No, it is, it is, it's and yeah, there's been,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a significant cut to the arts in terfory education,
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  Speaker 2: which is really a shame moment.
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  Speaker 4: I'm on schools too. I did Bachelor of Arts myself.
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  Speaker 2: Major in writing, and so that sort of side of
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  Speaker 2: things is it's just it's dying out and it's and
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  Speaker 2: it shows.
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  Speaker 4: Show.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But well that's good that you were one of the
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  Speaker 2: last last of the.
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  Speaker 3: Last year to go through. My dad did the course
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  Speaker 3: to and he was the first year to go through.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, yes, yeah, I think I can remember even
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  Speaker 2: when it started because it was like something new and.
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  Speaker 4: Brought to the UNI.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, and it was well known for it had
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  Speaker 2: you know, awards and accolades like, you know, internationally for
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  Speaker 2: being such a good Yeah that's yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So you based in Barrel? Now are you still based
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  Speaker 4: on north This.
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  Speaker 1: Is where my parents live. So we're all flying out together,
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  Speaker 1: based up in our Rosebanks.
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  Speaker 2: So just a couple of oh nice, nice, nice, and
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  Speaker 2: so music obviously your full time?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, pretty much. I have obviously a day job.
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  Speaker 4: But you know that's yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about Buddings Warehouse.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, I love Buddings, all right, I love Buddings.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad someone does in this court.
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  Speaker 2: Bunnings is I love Bunnings, but my bank account does not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not. It's not. No one's ever going under
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  Speaker 3: Bunnings to spend a couple of bucks normally.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, no, it's so it's evil. It's say that
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  Speaker 2: came up. They tell you what you need.
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  Speaker 3: Right, It's just the way it works now, doesn't it absolutely?
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, so yeah, spent a considerable amount of my
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  Speaker 4: income at that place I'm doing it. I've got some
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  Speaker 4: amazing projects though, mind you.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, absolutely, a little bit of di y that's
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  Speaker 1: the key for sure.
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  Speaker 4: So you guys are what date are you kicking off
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  Speaker 4: with the Gurdge.
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  Speaker 3: First show is March thirteenth, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: No, it'spake it a little bit of time to settle
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  Speaker 2: the nerves down and get.
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  Speaker 1: Pro We've got two more shows before that, so we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna we've got this, We've got the set out, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to make sure it's perfect.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be lots of fun.
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  Speaker 4: Excellent, that's exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, it's nice to meet you as well, and
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  Speaker 2: media Puzzle watch this space. I'm sure we'll see good
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  Speaker 2: things and big things from yourselves come the future.