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Family Values With BRENNAN & AUSTIN MILETO From SISTERS DOLL · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  To Jasy. I know that's arty, but I want you to know a
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  minute, welcome back. W I'm taking out your deal you know, Mina
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  it's calling. Hey, guys, we're sister's door. I'm Brennan and yeah
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  we're here with Heavywhere looking forward to this interview with Chris, longtime friend of
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  ours. Hey, boys, friends, indeed we are. Thanks for joining
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  us tonight. Hello, thanks for having us. Chris means a lot.
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  Your continued support for the scene, like locally and internationally, means a lot
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  to us. So thank you very much. My absolute pleasure. Guys.
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  We're not here to talk about me, We're here to talk about you and
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  how good you guys are. Like. He's just recently premiered the music video
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  for your latest single, Dn't give up on Us. I mean yesterday,
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  I believe by by have you Max? So, I know it's early days,
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  but thats been received. Yeah, it's done really well so far.
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  We kind of did a live stream before the video dropped to sort of build
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  the suspense and build the hype because we really believe in this song. It's
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  kind of been one of our favorites from the album. It is more of
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  the ballad from the album, But yeah, it's so far. We've got
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  great response and a lot of good response on the video too, which is
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  which is exciting, and obviously it unveils our new bass player, which was
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  kind of the talking point at the moment is so obviously having stage in there's
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  really sparked a few more people to jump on and have a look, especially
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  people back home like like oh, stages in the ban now like this is
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  cool. So I'm yeah, so far, so good. It's done well
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  and compared to the last one, which was Change, which we did last
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  year, yeah, it's kind of on part probably doing a little bit better
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  than Change actually, which is good to good to hear. Now we'll get
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  on the stage a little bit later. But firstly, you can release the
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  audio for the song last week, the video this week. So was that
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  a strategic thing or was the video just not ready in join No, it
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  was a bit of a strategy, yeah, bit of a thing. Yeah.
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  We thought a lot of bands and artists do it like that these days,
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  and we thought rather than people going to the video, you know,
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  it's sort of it can it can affect you, you know, streaming numbers
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  and stuff like that. Because I've just watched the video rather than going to
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  your streaming numbers, you know, your streaming platforms and stuff. So we
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  tried it that way just to sort of, you know, bump up the
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  streaming numbers a little bit, you know, and then and sort of bring
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  more of a hype around for the music video as a separate thing. And
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  also we did it to sort of milk the song a little bit as well,
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  you know, because once it's out there in the world, you know,
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  it can kind of get lost in the world as well, like of
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  things, so it's kind of just milking that, like you know, obviously
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  the release of the song. First we did the show of based around that,
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  and then it was like, all right, let's do the the video
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  a week later. So yeah, and it was also a bit strategic because
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  we didn't know how we're gonna unveil stage as well, so well, if
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  we do the video on the same night or the same day, people would
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  have seen that and then it wouldn't have been the surprise for the show,
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  so it was kind of that was a bit play to it as well.
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  You mentioned earlier that it's a bit slower, I guess than some of your
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  normal songs, So tell us a bit about the track musically and what you're
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  going for with it. Honestly, there was no plan with this one.
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  When we were demoing this song. This song was an old song actually that
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  I had years ago, even before we moved. It was just one that
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  always stuck around in my head. And when we're sending demos to our producer,
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  he was like, keep sending more, keep sending them more, and
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  I'm like, so I went back into my notes and my lyric books from
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  like years ago, and I found this one again and I was like,
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  oh, I remember this one, and for some reason, I remember the
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  chords and the melody. It just came back to me. So I was
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  like, well that's a start there. And then we sort of tweaked it
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  in the studio actually right in this spot we were sitting me in, Austin
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  mucked around, and Austin added some cool guitar parts, and it just kind
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  of come together in the studio like our home studio, and we're like,
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  Jesus, song's got some magic. Like without it even realizing it was like,
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  oh, this has got some magic, this song. And then as
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  we tweaked it a bit more and then we took it to the studio,
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  like, we did some more tweaks in the main studio. Obviously the producer
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  chucked in some ideas and we pieced it together and it just became like one
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  of them songs that was like it just sort of fell into place and we're
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  like, ah, so we didn't really plan to write it like a specific
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  one kind of fell into that sort of category that work really happened. It
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  was just natural. Go by the title and then the song itself, like
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  it sounds like the desperate cries of a crushed man made it. Have you
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  been dubbed just before you write that? Oh? We moved. Actually that's
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  when I wrote the song because obviously I was in a relationship at the time
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  and we were moving, and you know, you tried to keep the relationship
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  going, but obviously moving state, yeah, and who doesn't really want to
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  do that. It's kind of like, well, you're kind of torn.
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  Was like, I want to keep that working, but at the same time,
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  I got my passion, my dreams that I want to follow, So
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  it was kind of like, yeah, it was a bit of a cry,
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  and then we kind I sort of thought, well, it's also a
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  bit of a something like a band cry Out as well, because when we
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  did move, everyone thought were crazy, like why are you moving to Melbourne?
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  Like we use it? What for the band? What? What for?
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  Like this you never make it sort of thing, and it was like
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  we're going to keep going, you know, like we just keep persevering and
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  keep plugging away. And yeah, so it sort of has two meanings.
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  Even though it's based around a relationship, it's kind of got that hidden meaning
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  of like don't give up with us, because we're going to just keep going
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  until you know, our dreams come true? Okay, much further's that brow
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  and say you've had quite a few of your dreams come true so far.
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  How much do you have to get? Oh, we always want more really
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  until insid'd like obviously, yeah, we always want to do something, and
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  obviously each year something comes up like a decent opportunity like next year like as
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  Monsters of Rock Cruise, which we were lucky enough to get on. So
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  that kind of keeps us going for another hour. Oh, we've got to
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  keep going until then and then obviously we're released in the album and then yeah,
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  until the fire burns. Yeah, but we do just enjoy doing it
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  and love it as well, so when we could do get these offers and
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  these good opportunities and stuff, they're kind of just you know, they're like
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  the cherry on top. You know, we love it anyway, even if
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  we don't get these big opportunities or whatever, like, we'll still do it
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  and enjoy it because we love it. So they fucking help, don't They
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  don't give up? What This is a fourth song release from an album so
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  far, mate, So I know when you release singles you want every one
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  of them to reflect the album in a different sort of way. So how
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  does this song reflect it? I think it shows the growth in the band
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  because obviously we've it's a little bit different to what we sort of have done
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  in the past, like the production on it and the drumming and everything's like
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  very very big and bombastic, and even just the writing is a lot more.
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  It's got a bit more to it. This whole album actually really just
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  shows the growth in the band as writers, I think, because obviously before,
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  you know, we had some meaningful songs on the last albums that's you
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  know, we did, but it was based more around you know, like
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  having fun and like you know, like but as you get already experienced different
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  things, and yeah, so I think it's going to show the growth,
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  and this song in particular has probably got to show the growth of what's to
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  come on the album, like with the more Mellowers songs on the album.
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  So yeah, yeah, you've released those those four songs from the album,
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  So give us two of them for people to listen to. The best represented
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  I reckon probably Prisoner and probably this one. Yeah, they're a good mixture
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  of like what's like the heavier side and then the because we do it's a
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  good The album's pretty diverse, Like, we actually got a lot more heavy
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  hidden gems in the album that you know, probably might be a single,
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  but I think the like for the heavier rock fans will enjoy them. There's
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  a couple of heavy ones on the Yeah, some pretty fast stuff and some
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  very guitar driven stuff, and yeah, there's a lot more to come.
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  Yeah, like the ones we've probably released are the more radio friendly sort of
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  songs, I guess you could say, but yeah, there's definitely some hidden
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  heavy gems on there that I hope people will enjoy once I hear them.
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  So what can you tell us about this mysterious album? Guys like I can't
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  get anything out of Tim, so well, what can you tell us about
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  it? It's a it's a it's a powerful album, I should say.
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  Lyrically, it's very like obviously the probably the most laid back song on the
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  album would be probably kiss Me. That's just very like, you know,
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  fun pop rock. Where's the rest of all sort of got a bit more
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  of a bit more of a story to them. A lot of highs and
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  lows, like you know, there's some heavy ones, you know, there's
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  some some are written about us as a band, like you know, like
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  you know, the crap we've been through over the time, like what most
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  bands experience over the time. You know, you're getting a door open and
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  the door slams on your you know. So there's some songs about that.
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  There's some songs about love, and then there's some about like, yeah,
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  living life and trying to you know, the positive meaning ones you know,
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  like Change for example, that was written about when I was in a rough
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  going through a rough time in my personal life. So I was like it
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  was kind of almost like writing a song about the demons I was facing at
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  the time. And so yeah, there's a little bit more in depth sort
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  of yeah, yeah, deeper songs I think that hopefully people will relate to
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  but yeah stuff we wanted to get out. Yeah, what I do know
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  is that you're going to be launching it on January the twenty fifth next year
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  at Max Watts. So what can we expect for that show? You're going
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  to do something crazy like play the whole album or what's supposed gonna happen.
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  Yeah, we're tying things now. Obviously, the album's going to be released
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  on the Friday, and then the show's on the Saturday, so it doesn't
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  give people long to sort of learn the song, so it'll be a mixture.
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  I will probably put some of the standard Sister's dull ones in there,
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  but probredominantly of the show will be mainly the new stuff. And then obviously
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  from there we'll see how what songs receive well with the audience, and then
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  obviously will narrow it down like future shows. But yeah, the launch show
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  will probably feature most of the songs, all the new ones, which is
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  exciting, but we've got to we've got to rehearse. You got a few
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  months. How about your live show, guys, Like I've seen you guys
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  play live for fuck have to be fifteen years now because I've always had spectacular
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  live shows with your sparkling stuff and stuff like that. But you also want
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  to be trying to constantly better yourself too, So how much further is your
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  live show come? Yes from when you've seen it, Like, I don't
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  know when the last time you saw us, But obviously we're always high energy
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  and boys, you know, whoever's in the audience, it's always about them,
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  you know, we want to give them the best show. Whether there's
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  ten people there or five hundred people there, we will always give our one
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  hundred and ten percent. As you know, because you've seen you saw some
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  of the early shows where we were playing to no one, like, so
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  energy is still there. And obviously yeah, as you got older, like
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  you know, we've we've accumulated some better gear over the time, and sort
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  of just like the essence of what we used to be like when we first
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  started, where we'd fill the stage with so much stuff, it's kind of
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  just a little bit more streamlined, a little bit more I guess you could
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  say professional in certain aspects that we really try and like even on the weekend
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  last weekend, you know, we we didn't take a lot of stuff,
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  but we just always add extra stuff, like we even if we before we
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  used to own a lot of the stuff, but some of it break broke
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  or doesn't work anymore. It's old and doesn't look any good anymore. So
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  generally now we sort of hire things just for the one soft gigs, like
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  we'll hire extra lighting or extra effects to make that gig special. And yeah,
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  we just sort of I guess there's a bit more streamlined and a bit
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  more yeah, yeah, using things like for gear and special effects sort of
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  light. We use more quality now, more than like quantity like we used
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  to do. Like we'd have like real cheap lights like everywhere you remember it,
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  Like we have these faces on these big big barrels that would shoot smoke
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  out of them and stuff and things like that that was sort of strenuous on
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  our bodies and stuff at the time. Kind of cut back on that and
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  use more quality things and just just just then just feeling the stage with props
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  and whatnot. So and you know, and like Brenon said, the energy
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  is still there and that's just purely because we love it and we enjoy it,
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  Like, you know, we're not putting on a facade. It's just
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  how we naturally feel on stage, isn't it. Yeah. You know,
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  now we touched on this before, but I believe this sister's whole family has
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  grown by one with your youngest brother stage joining on base. So how's he
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  fitting in? How long has he been in the pipeline for what the fuck?
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  Yeah? I mean he's been in the pipeline for a while, but
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  it was just finding the right time. Like during COVID we really probably sat
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  down and were like, we've got to do something. And then he wasn't
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  really ready for these new with the releases as the time went on, you
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  know, obviously we had the kids cruise and we had these opportunities that he
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  just wasn't ready for the at that time. So we're like, well,
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  we can't keep delaying the process. And then I said, if we don't
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  bring him in for this new album, like as a whole new, fresh
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  thing, you know, we're gonna drop the album. I said, we
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  probably never will bring him in. You know. It was just one of
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  them things where like it just felt right to do it now. So we
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  sort of gave him a deadline and said you're doing this show. We're just
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  going to do five songs as a you know, like as your intro to
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  the to the band to get on stage and get a feel, but after
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  that you're in and yeah, and giving him that deadline sort of gave him
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  the the push he needed because I think he just felt like he was going
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  to get in by default sort of thing, and it was just like,
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  well, we sort of set a level for ourselves as a band, like
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  to hear and he was like here, and we said, you've got to
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  at least get to like here, you know. And then but we didn't
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  want to throw him in the deep end for one and then was so we
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  didn't want to bring us down a bit to sort of like people go,
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  oh, you were a bit often night the base sounded a bit funny whatever
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  like. So it was fine in that when he's ready and he did a
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  great job and it does it feels like we're complete, and it kind of
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  rejuvenated us a little bit, like it feels like we've got a yeah,
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  another another you know, five years in us to sort of keep plugging away.
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  What about you? Have you been relegated to the triangle. Yeah,
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  it's uh, it's it's good. I'm happy about it. Because you know,
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  we'll get in the question all the time. You know, where's where's
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  the bass player? Where's your bass player? You know, like no one
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  gave a ship when I played bass. You know, it was kind of
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  like I'm handing it to stage now. You know, I taught him everything
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  and he's up to scratch now and uh yeah, you know, as Brennan
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  said, it's like a new lease of life in the pin with a new
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  album coming, and it's like this new era of us, like you know,
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  we're a four piece. It's yeah, you know, I'm excited.
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  And you're not the youngest in the band anymore. I know you're family supporting
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  you guys through everything. But surely, but they can't be happy with the
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  fact they've lost another sunder rock and roll happy. I don't know. Yeah,
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  I think that it was that you always thought it was going to happen,
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  and and yeah, when now it's finally has it's mum. Mum got
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  emotional out of them, out of all of them, because yeah, obviously
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  she goes he was the little boy that used to stand next to me at
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  gigs and now watching him on stage, she's like, ah, it's yeah,
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  it was kind of surreal, I think for them both. But yeah,
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  we're proud of Stage because I mean, he had a lot to sacrifice
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  when we moved, like he was quite young. So even though it feels
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  like he's jumping in at a time where the band's doing quite well, he's
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  sort of had to sacrifice himself, you know. So he's paid his dues
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  in the way of, like you know, in other ways by like starting
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  a new life here and starting new schools, and you know that. You
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  know, he had sacrifices too, so you know he deserves it now,
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  you know, to enjoy the bit of joy we get out of playing the
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  music and playing live and touring and whatnot. So yeah, everyone's happy about
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  it. It's good. Had a bit more of a serious though with that
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  though, Guys like, how's it going to change his sister's whole sound like
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  it's going to be Is it going to be media and fatter now with the
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  two guitars, Yeah, because at the moment the last probably for the last
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  two years, we've been playing with bass in the tracks, so it's always
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  it started. So the bass track was recorded by Arson, all pre recorded
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  and it but it gave it didn't give us much freedom to sort of extend
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  songs or you know, get crowd involved and stuff. It was very like
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  regimented, Like even the mess ups at the end and stuff were all to
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  click, which we got used to and we're fine with, but it didn't
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  bef our sound up when Elstin jumped on guitar full time and we do with
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  the two guitars and the bass and the track. But now it just gives
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  us a bit more freedom and nothing beats like a live bass sound on stage,
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  even just in rehearsal. It's like we're like, oh, we can
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  actually hear the runs, we can actually hear at more fuller, you know,
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  and we're trying. We tried different things and like oh that works now,
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  you know, like rather than just being rather than just being completely yes,
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  locked into that click track of the perfect bass. So yeah, very
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  good. And what's next for us? Guys? You've got the Rock the
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  Boat cruise coming up? But what do is you got coming up? What
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  can tell us? Yeah, so we've got Rock the Boat coming up in
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  October, so we'll probably release our last single around that time, and then
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  the pre orders for the new album will be getting released soon as well,
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  so that will be all be able to get pre ordered before the show.
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  And then obviously the big show is on yes Saturday, the twenty fifth of
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  January at Max Watts, so we're excited about that. So we've got yeah,
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  big show planned for that. And then we just recently found out we
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  sold out our listening party. We're doing a bit of a listening party for
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  the album for the die hard fans, so that's gonna be fun and nice
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  intimate night with eighty odd people, which will be fun and we're excited about
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  that. And then yeah, we go over to America for the months as
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  of Rock Cruise next year, which is very exciting, and then we'll probably
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  do a bit of an album tour of Australia when we get back and hit
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  all the major cities, and then you'll probably start work on the next album
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  after that, I guess with stage very straight. But in the meantime,
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  the new single Don't Give Up on Us is out now. It's a little
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  bit different for the boys, but also, like you say, does show
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  a bit of maturity and it's a really good song. Guy, So best
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  of black with it and hopefully we'll catch up with you on Thursday. Yes,
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  Chris thanks again for the interview. Appreciate it. H Tjasy. I
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  know that's arty, but I want you to know a minute welcome die.
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  W'm taking off your deal. You know the miny. Just call him.
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  I'll be back on the road. You're all alone, be begging today before
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  we sacn Just hold me close to because all of you forever you know that.
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  Don't say good bye, because it's still be and if you love me
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  you will get that. I will say good die because there is still said.
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  Because going up too, h he will get up. You'll not be
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  so heavy, would annoy un enough. I'm sleep this night to speaking your
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  cried running out of time with the strangers. Only go but a hospital lot
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  together in this nest world. I don't say you said, and if you
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  know now you'll get up. I will say die you saying turn down?
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  You just get up? You too lush, And I won't get a no
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  say good die because it's still will be old. And if you love me
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  now you will get up. I won't say because because can't die, you
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  can't get don't don't get my don't cop, don't get don't talk, don't
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  get the b don't don't get don't you tell get the phone. Don't tell
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  you, don't get a bum. Don't tell me, don't get the phone. Mm hmm