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Hi, my name is Parks, and this is Ben. We
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play in the band All Them Witches from Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
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So how does it feel to be coming out here
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for the very first.
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Time, guys? We're stoked. Have you been there before?
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I went a long time ago for fun, but I'm
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glad to be back. It's going to be a fun time.
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What do you guys like when you tour a country
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for the first time? Do you do your research and
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talk to people about what to expect, or would you
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rather come in cold?
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Probably cold.
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Yeah, I think cold. I mean, I like to pick
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up enough to not be totally lost in a country,
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but we all speak English, so I'm sure it'll be
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all right getting around Australia.
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I just can't wait to eat the meat pies over
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there again.
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Yeah, they're good.
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They don't make them anywhere else like they do there.
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What's the secret what's the secret of an australian meat
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pie compared to other.
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Places they're a lot smaller they're really good and an
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empanada uh just like yeah like a like a little
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pie but they're they're super good um i'm excited to
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be in melbourne in adelaide i i haven't been there
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yet so.
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Nice you're gonna have a great time It's an incredibly
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diverse lineup this year at Good Things. You've got everyone
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from Limp Bizkit, Spiritbox, Mill and Colin, Ministry, Simple Plan,
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Alexis on Firelight. Everyone's sort of coming from different parts
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of the genre pool, guys. So where do you think
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all them witches fit into the scheme of things?
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Um.
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Well, when I first saw this lineup, I saw Polaris
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and I was stoked because I thought it was Polaris
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from Pete and Pete.
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Yeah.
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I was like, oh, no way. It's the Pete and
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Pete band, but it's not. It's an Australian band, right?
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Yeah, they are, yeah.
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Okay, well, good luck to you guys. I'm sad that
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you're not a part of my favorite TV show as
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a kid.
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Yeah.
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But um you're smiling strange you're looking happily yeah.
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Exactly yeah so i don't know we probably fall somewhere
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between ministry and all all american rejects.
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Yeah sweet so it's a massive day of music guys
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so what sorts of things do you do to make
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sure you hit the stage running come set.
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Time um siggy's right uh To like make sure that
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we're like on time or just like stuff we do.
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Just to make sure you're pumped up and ready to go.
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Oh, man. We give each other a big high five
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and sometimes hugs. And I don't know. We just kind
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of stand there and just wait.
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Yeah.
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Honestly, we're not like jumping around backstage or doing pushups
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or anything. It's like quick high five, go on stage,
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do the thing. We're not that superstitious. Yeah.
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I like to, about mid-set, I look forward to my
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post-show beer.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's pretty fun.
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About mid-set, you're like, oh, man, that beer's going to
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taste really good.
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I know.
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Yeah, and the shower. The shower's going to feel really good.
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Although we're probably playing during the day, so.
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It'll be bloody hot.
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Maybe I'll just be drinking all day.
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I don't know. That's probably the best thing to do
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in Australia.
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Haven't done that in a couple years, but it'll be fun.
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One of the beautiful things about festivals is the fact
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that you get to see so many different bands that
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you might not see before. So just say someone's seeing
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All Them Witches for the first time, like what three
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songs should they listen to in order to get to
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know what you expect to be better?
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Diamond.
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Yeah, Diamond, Culling Line off the new album. And then
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maybe like Enemy of My Enemy.
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Yeah, that's a heavy one. Something like See You Next Fall.
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Kind of like do the heavy song, the kind of
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jammy song. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So maybe those three.
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Yeah.
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Great, nice.
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And alongside good things, you've also lined up a couple
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of headline shows, right?
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So with your set list, does.
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It get heavier or looser or more experimental when you've
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got the freedom of a headline club show versus.
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A free club show? Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Like festivals. I mean, it's people coming to see a
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festival like we try to do a good bit of
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like weird like jamming stuff. But I mean, I'd.
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Say our heaviest sets are at festivals.
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Yeah.
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Usually like the biggest, fastest, most engaging songs. We we
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so like a festival set will usually be pretty heavy
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for us as a club show can go any sort
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of which way it could be like a really chill night.
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or like a jam night or whatever. But yeah, I
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think as far as like going to a club, you
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have a lot of different options, but a festival, you're
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pretty much going to see us hitting it as hard
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as we can.
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Oh yeah.
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And from what I saw, both of those shows are
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sold out as well. Inside shows must be a pretty good.
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Feeling, like a couple of months out from even coming
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here and your shows are sold out.
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Congrats.
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Kind of makes me think we should have booked more.
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True that. Keep them wanting more, mate. Get them to
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get you back out here again soon.
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Yep.
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Guys, your latest album, House of Mirrors, has been out
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for a little bit now, guys. But what sort of
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songs from that are you going to be playing live?
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Is it much of the album?
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Yeah, we do Starting Line, Culling Line. We do a
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lot of it. I'd say there's maybe like three songs
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that we don't do off of it. So we pretty
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much will... play the whole album over the course of
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a few sets. So, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Were there any songs on that that went down better
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live than you thought they would or maybe didn't go
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down quite the same way you.
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Thought they would?
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Ethernet, I think, turned out better live after a couple tours.
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I feel like we have it locked down now and
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then one that absolutely We've fallen on our ass on
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live as Walter Waite. So it's not in the set.
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Yeah. It's funny. They go through phases. Sometimes they're fun
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and easy to play and they bring you joy. And
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sometimes they're just bastards.
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Yeah. If we get pissed off about a song, it's like, no.
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Yeah.
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Strike it.
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Maybe next door. Like, don't even push it.
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Yeah. Cool. You guys have always been a band who
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don't fit neatly into one genre.
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You've got a lot of styles in there. There's bluesy
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sort of stuff. There's psychedelic. There's heavy rock. People call
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it stoner rock. Is that a deliberate thing?
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When you go in the studio, do you set out
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to make music like that, or is it more just
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a byproduct of the four of you jamming together?
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I honestly feel... Like I've had so many experiences with
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bands where it's like you get a record and you're like, wow,
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this is very cool. The next one. Wow. Very cool.
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The third one. It's a lot of the same. And
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then it's like, man, OK, like these guys are in
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a genre.
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Right.
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And this is they're playing to their genre. We never
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really we bounced around to so many different kinds of shows.
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Like we were playing with bluegrass people and country people
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and heavy and guys on guitar, you know, like acoustic guitars.
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And we like all of that music and we never
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were afraid to try to incorporate it into the songs
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because if it's cool and it works, then it works.
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So there's, there's no cutting stuff because it's like, it
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doesn't sound like us. Right. So if, if, if, if
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we make it, it sounds like us.
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Yeah.
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Along those lines, like in the creative process, like how
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do you know when you've gone too far in one direction, maybe,
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or not far another, like what's the gauge?
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I don't think, unfortunately we haven't, We haven't found that
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out yet, but that's going to be fun when we do. Like, whoa,
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maybe we should scale it back there.
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Maybe on what we're doing now, but I doubt it.
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Maybe so.
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After this Australian run wraps up, guys, we're almost at Christmas,
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so are you guys going to take a bit of
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time off at the end of the year, or are
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you booked pretty solid?
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We have a couple months off after Australia, so.
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Yeah, that's good. We'll see, spend the holidays around family
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and then hit the road sometime in the spring, probably.
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Fantastic, guys.
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All right, well, thanks very much for your time this morning.
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Been a pleasure chatting with you. All them witches are
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at Good Things Festival. You can't get to their sideshows
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because they're sold out, but get Good Things tickets and
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you get to see them there.