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Hey everyone, this is KJ from Firefly. I'm joined by Andrew,
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my awesome lead guitarist.
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Of Firefly.
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Of Firefly, and we're here to talk to Heavy Mag,
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Chris Peters, about HoloFest 2026.
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That you are indeed, guys. Thanks for joining us today.
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Thank you for having us. My pleasure.
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So, Firefly will be one of the headline bands appearing
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at HoloFest 2026 at the Mansfield Tavern in Brisbane on
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October 31st.
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Not far away now, guys. He's all rehearsed up, packed,
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ready to go.
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Oh, we're definitely not packed. We've all just moved house.
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People are on holiday. Yeah, we've got a drummer in Hawaii.
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We've all got new houses and stuff, and we're all
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just absolute messes. But we are so fucking excited to
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come up there for it. We're excited for our holiday. Yeah, true.
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Yeah, fuck going overseas. Come up to Queensland. It's a
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lot better.
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Yeah, no, it absolutely is. In the few times that
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we've been up, it's been absolutely breathtaking. You have a
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beautiful city.
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Yeah, it is, man.
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It really is. And I think one thing that stands
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out to me about HoloFest is that every band is Australian.
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So organisers aren't relying on internationals to get people through
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the door. How important are festivals featuring just homegrown bands
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to the sustainability, I guess, of Australian music?
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Well, I've always seen that there's a big divide. Um,
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so you've got your destroyer lines level stuff, which is
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your good things and your not fest and your park waves.
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And you've got a lot of bands coming from overseas
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and that's the big draw. But then your, your next
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rung down is your steel assassins or your shred fests,
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which are a bit smaller. And there's no real kind
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of bridge between those two worlds or not one that's
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super accessible. Um, I mean, Shredfest, HoloFest, Blacken Festival, you've
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got a lot of festivals that are really driving that
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middle ground and getting eyes on bands that otherwise wouldn't
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have that exposure, that would get them the opportunities to
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play those bigger things, like your good things, or even
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go overseas or whatever. I think HoloFest is absolutely phenomenal
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for that. And Scotty's done a goddamn incredible job putting
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together a lineup.
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He has, man. Yeah, actually, I love that fact, mate.
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We're the hollow, run hollow fest, and Scotty puts it
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all together. So it's hard enough being in a band
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these days and making it work. Like, taking that extra
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responsibility on and organising a festival too, like, it's a
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pretty bloody good effort.
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Yeah, it is. And as someone who organises a lot
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of shows, like, I don't just organise shows for Firefly.
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I also have a productions company called Deep Six Entertainment
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run with Don from Loner, the lead singer. we both
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we're both obsessed with wrestling like we love it it's
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so i know it's wrestling is informed so much of
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how i perform like when you look at me on
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stage and you can tell who my favorite wrestler was
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when i was a kid you know like it's so
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what we started doing don and i we got together
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and we started putting on shows with local wrestling promotions
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where we'd have like a match happened, then a band
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would play.
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Then match, band would play. Yeah, right, yeah, that's a
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good idea, yeah.
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Then we started to dig deep into deathmatch wrestling and getting, like,
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the most heinous, brutal, like, 50,000 light tubes kind of,
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that's our goal, to get to, like, that kind of
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bullshit level. But we work with DMDU and we put
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those shows in these tiny little dive bars. But running
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the show with that many moving parts, it's really given
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me an appreciation for people who run festivals. Because what
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Scotty's doing is so far
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above what I do. Because
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at least what I'm working on has just got the
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one stage and a ring. Whereas Scotty, he's got, you know,
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god damn, there's over 20 something bands on that line.
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It's huge.
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It's a nightmare.
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And that means... Organising who brings the drum kit. I mean, yeah, gear.
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You've got 20 plus bands worth of gear you've got
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20 plus bands worth of crew you've got 20 plus
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bands worth of riders you've got 20 and then on
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top of that you've got a you've got all of
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that to fit into such a a crucial timeline because
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if you know the first band of the day goes five.
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Minutes over and then it goes two minutes over and
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it adds up and then you see stuff like um
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It happened at a festival recently where our friends Anton
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and Aisha didn't actually get to play because there.
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Were small delays.
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Seriously, that's fucked.
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Yeah. So, you know, all the respect in the world
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to Scotty for how incredible a job he's doing with this.
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Hell yeah, hell yeah.
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The actual light-up, like, it includes yourselves, like, We the Hollow,
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We the Devil, Depuration, Here's to Waking the Hate, so
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many more, but who are you most looking forward to seeing,
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playing or catching up with?
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There's one band in particular that I have a real
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fucking soft spot for. We've never met. We've only spoken briefly.
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But Terror Parade, I believe they're called. Yep. Their sound
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is incredible and their theatricality is something that just, it
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makes us look like we're just kind of like wearing costumes.
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They take it to this whole other level. And the
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amount of respect and love that I have for that,
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I'm going to be front row during their set with
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a grin ear to ear. Nice.
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Nice.
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Speaking of bands, which band other than yourselves do you
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reckon will get up to the most mischief on the day?
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Oh, that's a good question. Scotty is going to be
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too busy. That's a good point, yeah. But I know
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Scotty has some shit planned. God damn it. Christian oh
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so we're actually staying with Christian well when we come
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up and like we've been planning this so Christian helped
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us for the Brisbane show for the Avatar tiller like
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he joined us backstage and helped us set up and
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all that stuff which was really lovely of him but
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we built just enough of a rapport that I know
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he's going to fuck with me at some.
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Point during this night nice I'll tag him back when
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he comes down Christian if you're watching this if you
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do anything I'm coming for you but I do know
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it's coming.
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You know, that's just like a red flag to a bull.
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You're just doing that, mate. You've just fucked yourself.
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Oh, yeah, I've thrown the gauntlet down. It's officially a
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challenge to hell.
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It is.
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I'm actually just going to edit that little bit out,
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and I'm going to make a big deal of that.
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Just send it.
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Just do a really bad voiceover.
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Christian, I know you're watching.
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I can see you.
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Thanks for that, guys.
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It did some massive 12 hours of music spread across
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two stages, so.
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Yous are pretty much seasoned professionals now. What's your trick
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for pasting yourself and making sure you fire on all
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cylinders come stage time?
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Well, a lot of the build-up to us actually going
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on stage is really low-key. We don't drink much before
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we go. I mean, I don't drink at all. I
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haven't had a drop in about six years or something.
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I take that burden on myself.
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Take one for the team.
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When we hit the stage, we're all pretty sober. We're
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all clear. Most of our time is spent getting the
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makeup on and tuning instruments. It's all very quiet. The
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hard part that I've found throughout our career, though, is
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keeping that energy going on stage. So when I first started,
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I'd come out in just all cylinders right the way through.
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I didn't understand or respect the dynamic between performer and audience.
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So I'd be hitting 120%, and then by the end
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of the set, I'd be fucked. And there'd be a
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bunch of people who were watching but didn't have an
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opportunity to give their energy to us. Cause I'd be
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jumping off the stage, getting in their faces, running around
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the whole venue, being a dickhead, which was fun. But
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it's in recent years that I've discovered that we come
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out with 120% for the first song. Then the second
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song was, you know, we crank it up a little higher.
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And then by then people are starting to warm up.
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So we start to ease off a little bit. We
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let them give us. Yeah. We used to not stop.
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We just like a bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, done. Yeah,
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our set was no gaps between the songs. It was
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just one seamless... Right.
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You'd be fucked after.
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Yeah. The thing that changed that, like... Goddamn. I was
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saying I wanted to quit music after that show. We
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played the Burdekin with Dreadnought and... Oh, God. A couple
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of years ago. Yeah, we're going back a couple of years. Goddamn.
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Other band, I'm so sorry.
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But that was great. That was great.
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We... Had an hour-long set, and it was a very
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small audience, an older audience who wasn't going to really
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kind of give back any of that energy. They just
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wanted to watch. So we did our thing. We played
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start to finish, no gaps, just go for the whole hour.
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And by the end, I was so horrifyingly exhausted. I
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didn't know how to function.
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Yeah, it's a two-way street. You give out the energy,
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the audience gives you the energy back. You feed off
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each other. We were looking out there. They were giving
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us nothing.
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We tried hard enough. They were giving us nothing. Yeah,
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we were chasing. Whereas if I was doing that performance now,
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what I'd do is I'd take a moment. We'd stop
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between a song. I'd talk to them. I'd bring them
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into our world. And that would allow me as a
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front man to kind of gauge what kind of energy
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they have. Because looking back, it's not that they weren't
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giving us any energy. It's just that I didn't understand
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the energy they were giving us.
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Yeah, they approached us afterwards and said, oh, that was.
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Great, that was great. Yeah, we were all enjoying it.
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Yeah, we didn't know.
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I guess that's a good lesson for younger bands, you know,
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like you play the gig to the crowd, you don't
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just play to your own expectations. Like every crowd is
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different You've got to give different things to get anything back.
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We played a gig where the square reader at the
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door was... And we played to two people for the
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entire set.
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Who was this band? There was one guy in front
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of us when we started. And I looked around and
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I just saw an empty room and the starting time
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was a bit vague. So I looked at him and went, you,
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what's your name? And he went, Brendan. And I went,
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what's your birthday today? Fuck yeah.
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Fuck yeah, that's right.
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This one's for you, Brendan.
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And this one's for you, Brendan. And this one's for you, Brendan.
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Whereas come HoloFest, with what we've learned over the course
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of our career that I don't want to talk about
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how long it's been, we're just going to come out,
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first two songs, push as hard as we can, get
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everyone's attention. And then after that, We pull back. We
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let them come to us. We throw out our stupid
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bong sticks and we get them to
beat the shit
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out of each other. I jump into the crowd and
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get them to crash tackle me. And we all sing
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and dance and have fun together. And that's what it's
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all about. As performers, it's our job to create a
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world that's different and engaging and is so much better
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than the bullshit that's out there.
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Well said, brother. Very well said, man.
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I like it.
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I like it.
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One of the beautiful things about music festivals, I'm sure
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you guys will agree, is stumbling across bands you may
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not have heard of before. So say someone's off to
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HoloFest and they don't know too much about Firefly. What
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three songs should they listen to in order to get
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to know the band a bit better?
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Lost. Lost, Emotet and Void, I think. Yeah, that's a
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good combo there. Lost is how we start every set.
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It's been our starter for a long time.
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Since the start.
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Yeah, and it's a song that's very, it's punchy, it's attention-grabbing,
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and we didn't know who we wanted to be as
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a band when we first kind of put it together.
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It was a song that Andrew had written, and we
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just did it, and it was fun, and we loved it.
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Emotep is... That was.
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One of the more recent ones that we wrote. It's
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sort of a bit more indicative of where we are now.
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Slow down a bit, a bit more bouncy, a bit
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more fun.
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And on top of that, because of the whole, you know,
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like it's a song written about the main antagonist of
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The Mummy, Emotep.
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Okay, yeah, you're right, yeah.
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And like what kind of push down, like I remember
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Andrew telling me about it, saying, I'm going to write
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a song about The Mummy. We love the movie. And
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I'm like, okay. Yeah, sure, okay, Andrew. And then he
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shows me the song and it's got the build up
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and I'm like, yeah, okay, I get it, I guess, whatever.
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And then it gets to the bit after the chorus
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where it's just.
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And with that, there's the chant, E-M-O-T-A-P. Right. I was like, oh, yeah,
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now I see this. I feel this.
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I wrote that song to be a crowd chant song.
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I want to see firsthand a thousand people screaming E-M-O-T-A-P.
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Yeah. And part of the way we kind of make
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it a bit more fun is because it's so bouncy,
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I get people to act like thralls and bounce around.
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Oh, heck no.
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That's great. It's good fun. And The Void, The Void
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is our heaviest song. It's our most, from a lyrical perspective,
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I'd say it's one of our most impactful. So a
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lot of the music that we write, because I write
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all the lyrics, a lot of the lyrics that I
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write are about my cripplingly horrifying mental health. I'm a
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crazy person, like, well and truly, like diagnosed and nuts. Nice.
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There's a lot of fun that comes with that, but
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there's a lot of struggles as well. Yeah, yeah. The
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Void is a song that I poured a lot of
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myself into, both musically and lyrically. So that's one of
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the few ones that I wrote. Yeah, very cool.
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I'm really proud of it. Very cool.
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Just give me an idea there too because they are
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having dress-up themes at HoloFest. So people can come dressed
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as mummies just so they can get right into it
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during Imhotep.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, just get a roll of toilet paper,
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you're done.
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Make sure it's two-ply. It's got to be two-ply.
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Oh, by the way, we're not peasants here.
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So anybody who's thinking about what to wear, come dressed
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as a mummy.
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I'm stuck with, because we already dress up when we
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get on stage. So having to adjust that is like...
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I think if we just all come out looking like NSYNC,
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I think that would do it.
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Well you'll definitely get people talking.
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I'm in the process of looking at things that I
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can add to the already Firefly costume because one of
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the mental blocks that comes with it so I used
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to do a lot of acting as well and I
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used to study deeply into the theatre of cruelty which
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isn't as bad as it sounds it's more about shedding
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the person and becoming the character And the part of
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that is having an outfit or like the costume is
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the character. So when the makeup goes on and when
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that very specific shirt and those very specific jeans and
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those very specific boots all come on and the coat,
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it's like I am now the front man of Firefly.
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And I can be this egotistical, charismatic prick that tells
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people what to do. The second I get off stage,
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it all comes off and I'm just like a weenie
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little shit again.
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But for that moment on stage.
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I'm at my best. I like that. That's good. Yeah,
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finding things that we can add on to it to
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make it a bit more thematic with Halloween. I think
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that's where my focus is going to be over the
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next couple of weeks.
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You might be better off just focusing on doing the
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stage set up.
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Keep your original, like what you've got, your costume eyes,
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but do the stage up as well because that way
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you're still keeping your core identities.
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I actually really like that.
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That's why you pay me the big money, brother.
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We're going to need four trucks.
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Get on to Scotty now. Tell him to start getting
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them ready.
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We were lucky enough once a long time ago. It
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was the coolest show ever, actually. And it was the
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show that we discovered that we really liked wearing the
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makeup because we didn't know. We were never a makeup band.
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But we had a show in Wollongong at a place
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called La La La's and it was a show that
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was raising money to help a drag queen named Roxy
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Horror who had been savagely beaten up in the streets.
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And it was, you know, so we all came together
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as a community and we're really big on the queer community.
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I mean, shit, a number of us are involved in
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a number of different ways.
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People are people, mate, no matter what they think, you know.
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Yeah.
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So we were fortunate enough to be invited along to that.
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But then we realized we're going to be on stage
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with a drag queen before us and a drag queen
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after us. And no matter what we do, we're going
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to be bland as hell. So we painted our faces
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and we, you know, it looked terrible. It looked fucking
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garbage when we did it the first time. But it
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awoke something in us. We were performing so differently. We're like, oh,
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what happened here?
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How long ago was that?
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Oh, that's like four years ago now, I think.
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Yeah, it is. Well, yeah.
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Yeah, but the reason I bring up that show is
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because for some reason in this tiny little place, someone
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had brought cold sparks. So we had fucking pyro. Like,
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this is the greatest shit ever.
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Excellent. That's shit, right?
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We need pyro at Hollow first. We do. I'm going
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to get on to Scotty and demand pyro. Do we
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know any fire trolls or anyone up there?
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Well, they've had fire trolls and shit up there before,
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so if they've had that, you should be allowed to
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have pyro, so.
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Hey, it's a big stage. Yeah.
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It's a great stage.
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Yeah. You are now our ideas, man. We're hiring you
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full time.
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Just drop me a line whenever you want anything, mate.
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I can't guarantee it'll always be good or legal, but
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it'll be fun.
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Every Thursday night, just send through a list of ideas.
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Whatever I've thought of for the last week.
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Keep a notepad by the toilet.
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Toilet ideas are the best ideas.
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Oh, yeah.
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I always take a notepad to the toilet with me
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every time. Otherwise, you're missing out.
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Bad idea? One ply.
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Remember that for all the mummies out there. All the
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mummies get to wear the one ply.
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One ply released their latest album, Lost and Found, earlier
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this year too, guys. How was the reception? Did you
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get the response you were hoping for?
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It didn't spread online as much as we were hoping. But,
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I mean, cracking the algorithm is fucking brutal.
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It is, yeah.
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I mean, no matter what, it's luck. I mean, you've
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just got to be found by the right person at
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the right time. Where the hard work, where the work
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that we can control to a degree comes from is, like,
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in the scene. We've sold, like, we've nearly sold out
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of CDs, which has been amazing.
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That's good.
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Just so we've got enough to all hollow first. Ooh,
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our bass player has arrived. Yes.
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Right for the end. Good on, good timing.
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People, the people who hear the song seem to like them.
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Then the people who buy the CDs seem to enjoy
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having it. And honestly, I don't care as much for
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the online numbers as I do about the experience because
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numbers are numbers. Whereas like if someone's coming up to
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the merch desk to buy a CD.
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I'm looking. What is so hot?
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You little shit gremlin. He has to go into air jail.
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He's the big bad guard dog i was a little
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bit disheartened at first when the numbers weren't doing what
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i wanted them to do but the cds just kept
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disappearing and i got to see i got to look
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into people's eyes as they were buying these cds and
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and thank them and be present for that moment where
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like you're taking a piece of us home with you
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thank you yeah physical media is king Yeah, physical media
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is key.
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And you don't need enough of that in the modern age,
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do you? Like the modern age, everything is online and
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social media. Like actually getting to have that interaction and
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talk to the people.
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Hey, brother.
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Welcome.
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How are you doing? This is Bradley. Hey, brother. I'm
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going to pop a knee on.
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And you can maybe give us some sensible answers. These
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guys have been carrying on for the last 20 minutes.
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I'm lucky with that.
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We're discussing everything from festivals to the benefits of 4PLY.
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Okay.
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Are you picking up what we're putting down?
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I'm picking it up, yeah. This interview's been fucking excellent.
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It's been so much fun.
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I know we're talking about the LSS, guys, but not
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everyone lives in Brisbane, so you got any other shows coming.
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Up where people can catch you?
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We do?
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What do we have up for another?
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And I've been so focused on HoloFest and moving out. Yeah.
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It's like, it's just a big one in Sydney.
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When we get back, it's not a Brisbane one, but
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you know.
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Oh yeah. Steel Assassin. Ah, we're really excited about Steel Assassin.
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Steel Assassin. So Dave Balfour of Metal Evolution. Um, he
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is one of the people who gave us a platform
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when we were absolutely fucking nobody. And then he just
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kept giving it to us. He gave us a spot on,
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he gave us like, opening spots on small shows. Then
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we supported bands like Hazmat, and then we played, like,
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we opened up Steel Assassins. And every time we've been,
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every time we've been unsure about what our next step is,
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Dave is there. He just appears and goes, here you go, guys.
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That's so cool.
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And I'm at a point now where I firmly believe
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that Pyrefly, if we, if we ever came to a
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point where nobody on Earth was giving us opportunities, there
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would still be Dave Balfour handing us, handing us a line.
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We had to start again from square one. There he'd be.
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I cannot say, I cannot say anything unkind about the man. Yeah.
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Right.
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He is.
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You have a sensible answer. I didn't even have to
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say anything.
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Yeah, I know.
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But you've been there, mate. You've been there, brought it
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out of him.
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We're also going to be heading out to Dubbo early December.
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That show not been announced. Don't know what the line-up is.
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But you'll be there.
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Yeah, we'll be there. And if there isn't a show...
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And there'll be a show. Well, if there isn't a show,
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either way, we'll go to Dubbo.
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We'll make one.
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Yeah, go to Dubbo and visit Janine's bum. My wife
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was born in Dubbo, so I'm really looking forward to it.
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Best town in the world, isn't it?
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Move your mouth and then we'll dub in the right answer.
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As far as 2027 goes, we have a lot in
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the works. Nothing that I can talk about just yet.
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But we want to let everyone listening know we're going
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to be near you. We're coming. We have plans to
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visit all of you.
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Well, where's the best place for people to keep up
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to date on your new announcements and shit?
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Instagram. That's PyFlyOfficial. I abuse the hell out of that.
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I use that sometimes too much. Facebook, again, Pyrefly on Facebook.
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All my posts on Instagram just automatically go over there
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and I never look at it. So if you comment
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on our Facebook and you get a response like three
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months later, just know it came from the heart. On
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top of that, on our Instagram, if you look at
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our links, you'll see links to our, it'll have our
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bios and it'll have our upcoming shows and upcoming music,
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anything that you could possibly need to find. There it is.
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Fantastic, guys. Well, thanks very much for your time. It's
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about time we got to actually meet. It's been a
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pleasure chatting with you.
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Fireflyer at HoloFest, 31st of October in Brisbane, Mansfield Tavern.
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Tickets through AusTix.