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Well, yeah, my name's Randy Bradbury. I played bass in
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the band Pennywise from southern California. We played like what
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they would call escape punk, but it's like heavy, kind
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of heavy melodic punk rock.
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Fantastic Randy, thanks for joining us today.
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Thank you for having me, Hi pleasure.
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So Pennywise returned to Australia very soon for a run
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of shows with Melancholins, starting in wool and Gone on
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February the second. Then you head through Newcastle, Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne,
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finishing Perth on March of fifth.
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So you're packed and ready to go yet.
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Uh not quite, but we I have like bags that
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are packed year round, so it won't take.
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Yeah, only three of those shows made, the ones in Newcastle,
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Brisbane and Melbourne actually have tickets left, with the rest
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sold out.
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Mate, Like, that's got to be a good feel.
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And knowing that you've sold out more than shows before
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you even stit foot in the country.
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Yeah, it feels great and I think it just it's
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a testament to us being you know, teaming up with
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melancholin who are a great band. They're a great live band.
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Cool guys, so it feels really good. I mean, we
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always do good in Australia because it's like our second
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home to us, and uh, you know, and and we
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just get you know, so much love from the fans.
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But uh, you know this, it's just you know, you
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can't take it for granted. So it is a great feeling.
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Yeah, I as built as a co headlining chow between
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yourselves and Melancholins.
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So what does that even mean to stay?
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Does it just mean you both play the same amount
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of time or.
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Yeah, yeah, it's co headlining and we're gonna switch headlining slots. Uh,
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you know, we're gonna alternate back and forth who closes
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the show and uh, it's kind of like, you know,
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it's saying that we're each on like kind of
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footing as far as uh, you know, it's like a
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it's like a power couple now.
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And then, Yeah, you would have played heaps and starts
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with Melancholin in the past when it used to be
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sort of regular regular Spire partners, would't you.
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Yeah, Well, we haven't done a tour with them, but
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we crossed paths on festivals and and tours you know,
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for years and years now. Yes, so we know them
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and we've.
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Now Petty Wise we're out here last for Good Things
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twenty twenty three mates, So it's a only been about
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eighty months.
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But what's changed for the band since you're out here
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last time?
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Oh? Not much really, we're just uh, I mean we've
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kind of kind of been on the same trajectory for
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for a while. You know, we we just uh for
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but we you know, for us, it's about getting out
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there and playing live and and and having like energetic
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shows and so uh, you know, there's you wouldn't want
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to change that. So not a lot's changed, you know,
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so the important stuff is still intact.
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Nice now, you mentioned before the descride is like a
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second home for you guys, and Australian fans just kind
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of seemed to get enough of Penny Wise. So why
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do you think that, like what Astralle and Yobas connect
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with your bands so much?
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I don't know. I mean, maybe it's the Maybe it's
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the surf culture. We you know, because we're from southern
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California and it's very similar, so all of all of
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Australia's on the coast mostly and uh, it's just got
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a similar vibe. It could be from some of the
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early surf videos that we're in and things like that.
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I really can't. It's a mystery to me about how,
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you know, because music is just one of those things.
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It's subjective. You can't really put your finger on it.
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Why people like this better than they like that. But
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so that's in that situation. It's like, don't look a
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gift horse in the mouth, just appreciate it.
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Gems right.
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You mentioned before too, like your high energy shows, Like
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anyone that's seen Penny Wise before knows how much you
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putting on stage. But you haven't done yourself many favors
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mate coming over this time of the year because we're
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in the middle of a heat wave.
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Like it's gonna be fucking hot up there, that's.
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What I heard. But then I was someone told me
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a help, a nice lie that they said that it's
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gonna it's gonna cool off by the time we get there.
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It's going to be in the seventies and eighties.
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Now they've idea it's only getting hotter.
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Yeah, I'm not. I'm not ready for that. I mean,
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it rained, like I said, it's been raining all day here.
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Uh and my house it's been in the fifties and sixties,
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which is I don't know what that is for you
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guys down in the seven, sixteen seventeen. Maybe I'll be wrong.
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But again in middle day.
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Yeah, so yeah, ready for that. But I'll bring my
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trunks and just cruise around in trunks and flip flops
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if I have to.
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Now, Penny I started in California back in nineteen eighty eight. Mate, Like,
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I know you didn't join the band.
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Until ninety six, but what are your personal memories of
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Penny Wise when they first came out?
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Okay, so I actually I was in the band in
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nineteen ninety two, and I did the second album with them,
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and then UH and then I was gone for a
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while and then I came back and started touring UH
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in ninety five. But I was a fan. I was
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definitely a fan of the band. I thought they were
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great before I met them, so it was really blew
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my mind when I had a chance to meet them,
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and you know, I said, the first thing I said
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to Fletcher was like, oh, I want to play bass
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in your band, Like I wanted to be in the band.
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And they weren't that big, they just had one album out.
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I didn't think there was you know, they weren't popular.
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I just loved it that just the music was. It
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was like I would listen to Pennywise and I would go, like,
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I want to I want to be in a band
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like this. I want to be this is the band,
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you know, Like I just I felt it an instant connection,
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so uh yeah, and then this way things worked out.
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It's just kind of crazy, kind of mind blowing. But
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I just I feel like everything kind of I don't know,
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just worked out. I mean, it wasn't all pretty, that's
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for sure, but it it. It's uh, I don't know.
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I don't even know what to say about it. I
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just know that I love the band and I wanted
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to be in the band.
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Now, the world changed a lot since Pennywise started, mate,
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but you guys are one of the few bands of
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true to your own musical path, Like, has it ever
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been difficult? I guess all dangerous for you as a
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band to stick to your own instead of trying to
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trying to fit in with everything else.
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Well, we wanted to. I remember I would listen to
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bands back in the day that I loved and like,
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like The Damned for instance. I love The Damned and
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then the Damned started changing a lot and they became
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like very I don't know what it was, like new
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Romantic or something. They got went goth and I was like,
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I wasn't happy about that. And there was quite a
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few bands that changed a bit too much. So penny
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Wise is always wanted to be like, this is we're
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penny Wise, this is what we do, and we've never
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wanted to like change too much, so, uh, we've always
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kind of And so I guess the danger in that
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is that people just say everything sounds the same, which, uh,
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you know, which is could you know, you can't win
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no matter what. If you change too much, people get
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pissed off. You don't change too much, then people get
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pissed off. So I don't know how dangerous it is,
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but you just always you cannot please everyone, and we
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just do it. We think it's right, and we try
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to change things a little bit but not too much
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and you know, keep it fresh. So we just do
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what we do.
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Seriously doubt this will happen, mate, but just say someone's
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going to go to the show just based on Melancholin
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being there.
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They don't know fuck all about penny Wise. What three songs.
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Would you tell them to listen to before they went
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to the Connosant to get to know the band better.
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Oh okay, they should listen to Fuck Authority Society and
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brow him nice.
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All right.
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Well that's the educational material for some people out there.
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Broken in the meantime, Randy, thanks you time. Pennywise in
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Australia with Melancholin from February twenty second. As I said before,
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there's only tickets left in Newcastle Brinsman in Melbourne, so
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if you want to get along you'd better be quick.
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Nice talking to you,