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My name is Eli Soriana. I'm the vocalist for non Point.
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We're going to be playing some shows here in February
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in Australia and New Zealand, celebrating along with the head
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Pe Boys. They're celebrating Broke and we're coming off our
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twenty fifth anniversary twentieth twenty fifth anniversary shows of Statement
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into the Pains, So we're going to have some pieces
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of that show coming along with.
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Us to Australia.
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Fantastic man, thanks for joinning you today. It's a pleasure
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to speak with you.
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Hey, thanks for having me.
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Chris No right, bro.
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So, as you say, Non Point return to Australia for
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the first time since twenty nineteen early next year, four
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run of shows with Headpa, starting in Sydney on the
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sixth of February, before hitting Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth and
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finishing in Adelaide on the eleventh. So the first question is, mate, like,
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twenty nineteen is a long time ago? Why have you
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neglected us for so bloody long?
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Well, seen, it was after the pandemic. Travel has been
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a little wacky since then. We've also uh you know,
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gone through uh quite a bit of a of a change,
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you know, not only structurally, but you know we we
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uh we started our own label.
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Uh and and.
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Uh with the success of the music that we've been
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dropping on that label, H we've we've gotten quite a
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bit of of uh opportunity here in the States, and
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you know, we we've grown that into uh uh you
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know this this lovely little animal now that allows us
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to uh venture out uh in in ways that we
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were doing on on on our on our major label.
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So it's it's uh, it's it's been a great journey
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and and we're excited to get back.
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Your first store of Australia was a part of soundway
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back in twenty ten. Mate, So what are your memories
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of your first story?
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Was it daunting?
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Uh?
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It was it was very go, go go, you know,
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the the tours there to involve.
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A lot of flying and and a lot of travel.
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Uh. But I what I do remember is that same
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type of you know, uh hanging with the same people,
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traveling with the same people.
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In other bands. Uh.
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So you know, got got to befriend and and and
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and uh you know.
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Become friendships.
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You know, forged some friendships there with with some bands
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uh that I never would have expected, uh, you know,
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everywhere from Primus to to slip Knot to you know, a.
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Million bands in between.
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But it was it was a good time, you know,
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newfound glory, all those boys from from even back back home.
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So it's it definitely was was a great experience and
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and and some really fond memories.
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And as you said before, mate, you were coming over
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with the headpa like, that's an absolute dream touring team
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if ever.
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I've had one.
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Yeah, those guys put on a great show. We're glad
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to uh to team up with them again.
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The last the last run was really really fun.
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So we're gonna definitely do uh be enjoying some some
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good times on this one.
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No.
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I think YouTube bands both sort of cut your teeth
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together around the turn of the centry and you've toured
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with each other a bit, you had each other's backs,
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But what are your memories of those days?
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Was it us against the world sort of thing?
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Uh?
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At that time, it was it was everything was really
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really moving in a in a big way.
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Uh, there was there was a lot of bands touring
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at that time.
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The big festivals were were and and the touring festivals
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we were really popular, especially with Ozfest and Warped Tour
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and and and and festivals like that. Uh So being
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a part of that and and being a part of
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the the meld of of you know, hip hop and
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rock uh that was happening at our time.
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That was that was an interesting culture.
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That that that you know, uh, you know, a different
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type of fan gravitated towards. So so it's it's good
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to you know, tour with bands like that, uh that
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that you know, share those type of fans and and
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and and share that type.
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Of show.
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That the hip hop rock hardbrid like that that's sort
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of stolen metal that you play now was nowhere near
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as popular back then, so you can almost say it
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was still sort of an experimental phase. But how difficult
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was it basically trying to get people listening to something
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that new and innovative, like historically people don't like change.
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You know.
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It was it was just us doing what we felt
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like we did well and what our fan base that
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that we were growing were responding to. You know, genres
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are what they are because it's it's it's definitely those
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that it's for the people that have that taste in music,
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and uh, you know, we found that niche following and
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and and they followed us throughout the years.
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You mentioned that hed P celebrate in the twenty fifth
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anniversary of their landmark album Broke, So what are your
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memories of that album when it came out? What did
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you initially think of it?
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We were actually did a tour with them when they
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were on that that run, so it was it was
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a big time for them. Again, it was during that
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festival season run and and those boys were we were
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definitely moving mountains with Bartender, So it was it was
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it was one of the more popular tracks of the
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of its time, and and that record was was a
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breakout record, especially.
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Amongst the other the other bands of that era.
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And one point release your debut album Statement in the
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same year. So with the two albums similar anyway and
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the like, how did that one album for you help
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shape the rest of your career.
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Uh, well, we had only had an opportunity to listen
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to that that album. Just before that, we didn't you know,
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that's we had only had about a year and a
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half of of of uh head pe So we were
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more I guess getting influenced by you know, the earlier.
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You know, the Corns, the nine Inch Nails.
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Those those types of bands that were coming up and
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and even had Peu were relatively new, so we were
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only catching their music here and there. It really wasn't
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something that, you know, we really got to be inspired
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with until we got on tour with those guys.
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Do you go a bit deeper into that?
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Made like you formed one point with Rob Rivera and
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fort Load of Theale back in ninety ninety seven. So
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what was a musical climate like around that sound that
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gave birth to the band and where did you fit in?
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Initially there was the scene down here, there was It
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was definitely the rock scene down here was a mix
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of a lot of different things.
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We had Latin rock, we had hip hop rock, we
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had rap rock, we had like so many different types
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of rock that and we all played together. So everybody
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was inspiring everybody and there was really no rules to
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what anyone was really doing.
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We just all kind of dug each other.
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And had similar fans, so we were pairing up and
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and you know, being inspired.
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I actually found something that stretches longer in time than
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your last visit to Australia, and that's your last album X.
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It came out in twenty eight eight. My look, I
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know you probably could ask this a lot better. I'm
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asking because I'm interested, Like, is there a reason that
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you've stopped writing and releasing new museum like it because
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you're happy with your back catalog or you don't think
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you can improve on it all.
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No, we we released music throughout that time.
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We when we went independent, we dropped an EP literally
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a year and a half later and out of the pandemic.
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So we continue to write music. We just haven't put
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out a full length since that time, but we've had
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three EPs since.
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Okay, okay, it's the plan to get any full length
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other the EPs of the way to go these days,
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aren't they, like people's attention spans on there for a
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whole album.
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Well, that's the At the time, we we wanted to
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to write a couple of EPs. You know, we had
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already written ten records. A lot of people don't get
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an opportunity to write ten records in their career, so
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you know, it's a case of, you know, are we
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going to put out another full length record just for
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the sake of putting out another full length or are
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we going to wait till we have the.
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Right music and then what we decided to do before
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I let you.
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Go, Bro, I've got a new segment I've started called
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photo Bombs. So basically, I've gone through your social media
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before you got a chat, I've found a couple of
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photos I want to know a little bit more about. Okay,
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so the first one arc bound. What was this one? Like?
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Coming from someone who will probably never ever get over
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to Stonehenge, bro, like, how how awesome is it?
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Yeah?
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It was?
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It was pretty magical.
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Stonehenges is an interesting place that that has a lot
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of history and and has a lot of uh, it's
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it's it's it's different when you're standing right there with
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it and you know, knowing how how old it is
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and how uh you know, monumental it was for for
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the time and and and the time that it is now.
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It's it's it's one of those bucket list things that
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that you get pretty uh you get it was firing
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just being there, just being there.
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And that's a band.
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Do you make a point of visiting like relics and
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things like that if you go around the world just
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all the time?
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Yeah, yeah, we venture out as much as the weather
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allows us to.
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And you know, in proximity of the venue, but we
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definitely like to get out and see the cathedrals and
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see the castles and all that good stuff for sure.
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The second photo I founded a great shot of you
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and Chad from mud Vane belting out a song together
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a lot.
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Do you remember what song you were singing?
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Yeah, we were singing a bullet with a name, and
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that was during ship Rock.
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We were sharing sharing some time together on ship rock.
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The hell yeah, boys were on ship rocked and so
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we're the noun point guys and chat and I go
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back twenty years, twenty plus years and he came out
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to join me on that one.
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That was that was That was pretty.
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Awesome, great fighter be like you can.
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You can see the passion, you can see the love,
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you can see the respect. Like it pretty much says
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it all in one photo.
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I love it.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt. He is definitely a brother.
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Wait, all right, well thanks for your time today. Your
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life has been absolute pleasure speaking with you. One point
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will be in Australia in February with Headpe and I
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can tell you made the buzz on the street is
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people are so fucking keen to see you, mate, Like
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it's good to see he's coming back.
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Yeah, we're excited.
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We're going to bring a we're going to be bringing
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a whole new show with us, so we're excited to
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play it for uh, for Australian fans,
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My name is Eli Soriana. I'm the vocalist for non Point.
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We're going to be playing some shows here in February
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in Australia and New Zealand, celebrating along with the head
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Pe Boys. They're celebrating Broke and we're coming off our
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twenty fifth anniversary twentieth twenty fifth anniversary shows of Statement
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into the Pains, So we're going to have some pieces
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of that show coming along with.
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Us to Australia.
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Fantastic man, thanks for joinning you today. It's a pleasure
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to speak with you.
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Hey, thanks for having me.
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Chris No right, bro.
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So, as you say, Non Point return to Australia for
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the first time since twenty nineteen early next year, four
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run of shows with Headpa, starting in Sydney on the
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sixth of February, before hitting Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth and
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finishing in Adelaide on the eleventh. So the first question is, mate, like,
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twenty nineteen is a long time ago? Why have you
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neglected us for so bloody long?
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Well, seen, it was after the pandemic. Travel has been
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a little wacky since then. We've also uh you know,
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gone through uh quite a bit of a of a change,
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you know, not only structurally, but you know we we
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uh we started our own label.
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Uh and and.
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Uh with the success of the music that we've been
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dropping on that label, H we've we've gotten quite a
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bit of of uh opportunity here in the States, and
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you know, we we've grown that into uh uh you
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know this this lovely little animal now that allows us
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to uh venture out uh in in ways that we
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were doing on on on our on our major label.
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So it's it's uh, it's it's been a great journey
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and and we're excited to get back.
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Your first store of Australia was a part of soundway
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back in twenty ten. Mate, So what are your memories
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of your first story?
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Was it daunting?
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It was it was very go, go go, you know,
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the the tours there to involve.
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Uh. But I what I do remember is that same
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type of you know, uh hanging with the same people,
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traveling with the same people.
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In other bands. Uh.
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So you know, got got to befriend and and and
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and uh you know.
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Become friendships.
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You know, forged some friendships there with with some bands
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uh that I never would have expected, uh, you know,
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everywhere from Primus to to slip Knot to you know, a.
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Million bands in between.
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newfound glory, all those boys from from even back back home.
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So it's it definitely was was a great experience and
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and and some really fond memories.
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And as you said before, mate, you were coming over
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with the headpa like, that's an absolute dream touring team
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if ever.
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I've had one.
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Yeah, those guys put on a great show. We're glad
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to uh to team up with them again.
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So we're gonna definitely do uh be enjoying some some
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good times on this one.
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I think YouTube bands both sort of cut your teeth
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together around the turn of the centry and you've toured
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with each other a bit, you had each other's backs,
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But what are your memories of those days?
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Was it us against the world sort of thing?
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really moving in a in a big way.
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at that time.
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The big festivals were were and and the touring festivals
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we were really popular, especially with Ozfest and Warped Tour
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and and and and festivals like that. Uh So being
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a part of that and and being a part of
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the the meld of of you know, hip hop and
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rock uh that was happening at our time.
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That was that was an interesting culture.
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type of fan gravitated towards. So so it's it's good
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to you know, tour with bands like that, uh that
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that you know, share those type of fans and and
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and and share that type.
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That the hip hop rock hardbrid like that that's sort
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of stolen metal that you play now was nowhere near
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as popular back then, so you can almost say it
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was still sort of an experimental phase. But how difficult
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was it basically trying to get people listening to something
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that new and innovative, like historically people don't like change.
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It was it was just us doing what we felt
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like we did well and what our fan base that
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that we were growing were responding to. You know, genres
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are what they are because it's it's it's definitely those
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that it's for the people that have that taste in music,
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and uh, you know, we found that niche following and
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and and they followed us throughout the years.
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You mentioned that hed P celebrate in the twenty fifth
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anniversary of their landmark album Broke, So what are your
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memories of that album when it came out? What did
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you initially think of it?
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were on that that run, so it was it was
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a big time for them. Again, it was during that
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festival season run and and those boys were we were
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definitely moving mountains with Bartender, So it was it was
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it was one of the more popular tracks of the
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of its time, and and that record was was a
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breakout record, especially.
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Amongst the other the other bands of that era.
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And one point release your debut album Statement in the
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same year. So with the two albums similar anyway and
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the like, how did that one album for you help
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shape the rest of your career.
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to that that album. Just before that, we didn't you know,
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that's we had only had about a year and a
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half of of of uh head pe So we were
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more I guess getting influenced by you know, the earlier.
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Those those types of bands that were coming up and
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and even had Peu were relatively new, so we were
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only catching their music here and there. It really wasn't
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something that, you know, we really got to be inspired
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with until we got on tour with those guys.
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Do you go a bit deeper into that?
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Made like you formed one point with Rob Rivera and
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fort Load of Theale back in ninety ninety seven. So
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what was a musical climate like around that sound that
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gave birth to the band and where did you fit in?
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Initially there was the scene down here, there was It
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was definitely the rock scene down here was a mix
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of a lot of different things.
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had rap rock, we had like so many different types
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of rock that and we all played together. So everybody
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was inspiring everybody and there was really no rules to
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what anyone was really doing.
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and you know, being inspired.
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I actually found something that stretches longer in time than
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your last visit to Australia, and that's your last album X.
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It came out in twenty eight eight. My look, I
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know you probably could ask this a lot better. I'm
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asking because I'm interested, Like, is there a reason that
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you've stopped writing and releasing new museum like it because
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you're happy with your back catalog or you don't think
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you can improve on it all.
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a year and a half later and out of the pandemic.
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out a full length since that time, but we've had
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three EPs since.
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Okay, okay, it's the plan to get any full length
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other the EPs of the way to go these days,
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aren't they, like people's attention spans on there for a
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whole album.
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to write a couple of EPs. You know, we had
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already written ten records. A lot of people don't get
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an opportunity to write ten records in their career, so
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you know, it's a case of, you know, are we
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going to put out another full length record just for
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the sake of putting out another full length or are
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we going to wait till we have the.
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Right music and then what we decided to do before
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I let you.
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Go, Bro, I've got a new segment I've started called
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photo Bombs. So basically, I've gone through your social media
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before you got a chat, I've found a couple of
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photos I want to know a little bit more about. Okay,
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so the first one arc bound. What was this one? Like?
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Coming from someone who will probably never ever get over
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to Stonehenge, bro, like, how how awesome is it?
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It was?
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It was pretty magical.
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Stonehenges is an interesting place that that has a lot
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of history and and has a lot of uh, it's
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it's it's it's different when you're standing right there with
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it and you know, knowing how how old it is
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and how uh you know, monumental it was for for
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the time and and and the time that it is now.
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It's it's it's one of those bucket list things that
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that you get pretty uh you get it was firing
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just being there, just being there.
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things like that if you go around the world just
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all the time?
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allows us to.
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And you know, in proximity of the venue, but we
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definitely like to get out and see the cathedrals and
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see the castles and all that good stuff for sure.
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The second photo I founded a great shot of you
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and Chad from mud Vane belting out a song together
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a lot.
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Do you remember what song you were singing?
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Yeah, we were singing a bullet with a name, and
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that was during ship Rock.
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We were sharing sharing some time together on ship rock.
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The hell yeah, boys were on ship rocked and so
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we're the noun point guys and chat and I go
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back twenty years, twenty plus years and he came out
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to join me on that one.
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That was that was That was pretty.
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Awesome, great fighter be like you can.
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You can see the passion, you can see the love,
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you can see the respect. Like it pretty much says
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it all in one photo.
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I love it.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt. He is definitely a brother.
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Wait, all right, well thanks for your time today. Your
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life has been absolute pleasure speaking with you. One point
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will be in Australia in February with Headpe and I
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can tell you made the buzz on the street is
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people are so fucking keen to see you, mate, Like
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it's good to see he's coming back.
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Yeah, we're excited.
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We're going to bring a we're going to be bringing
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a whole new show with us, so we're excited to
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play it for uh, for Australian fans,
