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every year we've whined about uh no this
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year's crap we're taking it back to like
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there's like
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remember 2016. 2016 yeah like there's
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that joke it's like
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damn you 26. yeah and it's just like we
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didn't know how good we had it
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like it's like it's like 2020 why not
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you want to see some real
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hi i'm andrew trundle you're watching
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lme and we're here with ollie sykes and
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bring me the horizon
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hello socially distanced interview can
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you hear me over there i can
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i mean like how does it feel to be
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releasing music at a time like this was
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a surreal question because
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this album kind of exists because of the
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times right
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to be honest it's been like i don't know
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what we'd have done or i don't know what
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i'd have done
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if it weren't for like being able to
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carry on and make music
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like for the last 15 years my life i've
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been out on tour and
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been like away from home and i think
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that kept me
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you know about my ups and downs but i
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think for the most part it kept me like
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saying being at home and just not having
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nothing to do which
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you know was nice at first i would you
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know it's something that i've been
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longing for but then
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very quickly just like like what is
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my purpose on this planet if it's if
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you're not touring you know what i mean
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i think being able to still write music
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and stuff is just i don't think it's
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like kept me relatively sane
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you miss like waking up the tiny cubicle
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of the bus
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having a really small shower you just
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said your tour manager
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i miss it all it's mental i never you
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know i think
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i got to a place where i just took it
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for granted you know i mean and like
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i used to just worry about like not
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seeing my family enough and stuff like
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that and that's what you guys
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grass is always greener situation but
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like and then that's what lockdown was
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great for getting to like you know
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my parents come and live with me for
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three months and getting to reconnect
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and all that stuff but at the same time
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it's like
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there was a point where i used to be
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like oh my god one tour like and
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now i'm like man
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i would play anywhere get me out yeah
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yeah just give me a gig
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so you're over your mum and dad for
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three months i'm just like yeah the
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camera stayed
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at my house it was cool it made the
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whole thing more feel like you know
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obviously not a nice time
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in terms of what was happening on the
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planet but you know
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getting to just it was almost like an
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extended christmas
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holiday and it was cool i think we all
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kept each other going we all
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we all started like intermittent fasting
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and we
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got really healthy and stuff like that
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do you know what i mean like rather than
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like
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i think because i think it was just like
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the opposite would be like
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drinking every night and just going down
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a very bad path
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and so it was nice it was really cold
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like
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i'm really close to my parents anyway so
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it was just
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you know three months was a long time
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but it it wasn't too bad
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so in a sense do you feel quite like
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cleansed and re-rooted and
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like you've hit a reset button in a way
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in some aspects
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in some aspects it's been like harder i
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think
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like a lot of i think when you're you've
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got all the time in the world i think
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it's it's easy for like
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bad habits and you know to come
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like the worst aspects of yourself to
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come back to life you know i mean like i
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said with torah and stuff i think it
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kept
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those things at bay whereas you know
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having all that time it was definitely
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much more of a struggle to cope with
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with certain things
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we realize that our society is not
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really geared up for like how to you
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know
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cope with things like this you know i
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mean like the system we've made when the
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machine's like pumping it
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it works but if something like a virus
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or someone comes and stops it
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it everything up and i think on a
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human level that's what it's like for me
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and probably for a lot of people it's
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like
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you know maybe some people their
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relationships work when
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they're doing their thing everyone's
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working when everyone's put into a room
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together and that's it
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it's like all these problems come to
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life with me it's like i've got to
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work on myself a little bit more now
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because i haven't got that to fall back
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on
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and again it's like i don't you know i
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want to be okay when
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when when goes south you know i
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mean you need to be able to
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know who you are and what you want from
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life and stuff like that and i think
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yeah so in a way it's been a not a reset
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but it's definitely been a time to like
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reflect and
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focus on who you are so you've kind of
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had your will reinforced in a way
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yeah yeah yeah for sure now would you
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say um
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the past six months have kind of
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affected relations in the band i mean
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when was the last time you were in a
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room together
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we haven't been in a room together as a
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band for
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since probably like the last time we
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toured wow
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or brit awards maybe um
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i mean the last time i saw everyone was
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probably when we filmed parasite eve and
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that we did that
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because it was like in you know coming
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out of lockdown but
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everyone's started to keep the distance
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so we did it everyone one by one
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and then vegan was offered in america so
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we had to do that over skype
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the am it seemed like i mean i've been
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on phone with jordan nearly every day
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because i've been writing but
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apart from that like we haven't been
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like you know
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the same room which is super weird
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because we're about to release an album
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that's
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you know we haven't even been the same
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way to write it let them play it you
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know play on instruments or anything
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it's
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it's kind of crazy really in
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that sense you kind of feel more
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connected because you're like
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forcing yourself to communicate yeah it
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gives you a reason to
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for sure um and obviously we still talk
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everyone talks and stuff like that but
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um
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yeah it's just it's just been weird
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because i think we were so used to like
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like we saw each other so much from
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touring that that weren't always enough
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we never really speak outside not
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purposely but it's like we get our fill
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of each other so when we get off tour
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it's like we spend time with our family
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we don't need to come and hang out and
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see each other so it's like
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now it's a bit weird because it's like
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we haven't seen each other for
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months so it feels a little strange i
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mean in light of everything that's
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happened in terms of relationships with
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the band and what it means to be on the
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road and what it means for the society
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and
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the environment how do you feel about
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the idea of
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of going on tour again i think like
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everything
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is probably going to have to change
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probably tauren's going to have to
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change and show is going to have to
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change how that will be i don't know
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the problem for us is it's like our
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shows
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depend on like they thrive off that
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energy well you're not going to get if
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everyone's
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stood in a on a boxed like segment
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um it needs we need bodies in rooms we
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need everyone to get together
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and connect and mosh and jump and and i
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think that first show is going to hit so
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differently you know when
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people come back and actually get to
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stand in a room and hear live music it's
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just going to be
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just a different emotion i think it'd be
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cool to you know like i was talking to
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you earlier about
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trying to change how shows work and you
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know trying to think out of
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out out of the box and how we could do
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stuff that has got less ego in it as
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well as using less resources and
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stuff like that but i think at first
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it's just getting back
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to basics so in terms of sharing the
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less ego do you mean like
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sharing the space more and making it
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more of a a communal thing
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yeah like trying to take the focus more
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off of like
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who's headlining whose logo is the
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biggest who gets what production who
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gets this and that and
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trying to make a space where it's like
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everyone on that tour gets the same like
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there's no headliners
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there's you know everyone shares a
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production so everyone gets sick
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production everyone gets this sick
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you know we build a world you know can
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we could be old could be some
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medieval fairy tale land it
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could be some cyber world but it's like
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it's this vibe that you come to and and
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everyone gets their own
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take on that everyone usually puts their
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own content and their own into it i
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mean i don't know i'm
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literally riffing but like something
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where not every band has to take
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you know
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five trucks all around europe and
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america and whatever else
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like everyone you know we bring that
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those resources right down and also like
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you know try and just take that that
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out of it because there's just
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so much and like
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you can get caught up in when you're
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writing music whether you're trying to
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get number one or you're trying to
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win a you know an award for something or
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you know i mean all that stuff just
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takes the focus off what
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it's actually about it's just about like
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the music it's about the fans it's just
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about
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connection and that cathartic experience
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i don't really know
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who's playing last or who has the most
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fireworks or
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you know who's got the who sold the most
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records it's like
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you know might be a bit of a pine sky
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idea but it'd be cool to try and
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push forward and try and try and just
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change it a bit try and break the mould
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a little bit
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yeah and that sense of community would
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be cool because um
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when you did all points to vicki park
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last year it would be
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you could have just expected a day of
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metal but it was it was the different
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shades of color from the bring me the
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horizon when it was
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rtj and all this stuff when you had it
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all the way in front of you it made
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sense
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yeah i think it's just like i mean i
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think for us we'd like
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we've got to be more inclusive of all
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that like there's not enough there's not
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enough bring the horizons to just
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come and light bring their eyes and and
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be satisfied you know i mean you've got
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to kind of
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broaden your palate a little bit and you
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know stop seeing like
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other kinds of music as the enemy if
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you're into like heavy music there's not
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that much to go off you know i mean
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in terms of like covering acts and stuff
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like that so it's like
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i think for us we want to just try and
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influence people to be a bit more like
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to experience some different stuff
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because there's you know there's
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there's hip-hop artists and stuff out
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there that hit harder than you know
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metal artists you know it's all
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you can and it's a lot of times you
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don't really realize that until you see
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it live
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you know i mean you're going you can you
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can listen to some artists like grime
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and stuff it's not something that i've
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listened to but
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you see it live and it it's completely
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different and it makes you get it
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and in terms of kind of the different
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shades of your tastes and metal not
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being
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where you want it to be what are you
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listening to at the moment
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um like nova twins probably like
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favorite artists i found out about this
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year like i've been listening to their
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their record like loads aside from that
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it's very much just like whatever my
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spotify tells me like
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discover weekly which obviously just
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feeds off and it's all very much
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like weird electronic like
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arca or um doomkander
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and like a lot of female fronted stuff
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like
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i like a lot of like the kind of new pop
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artists that are coming out but yeah
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it's just kind of whatever my
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spotify kicks out over there we had some
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bjork playing during this during the
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shoots
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yes yeah that's my wife's favorite eyes
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i'll listen to her all the time just as
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a
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side went to actually last year in
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amsterdam no copenhagen sorry
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it was proper it was she's like so
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inspirational
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it's one of them that you can now go and
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watch and you makes you want to give up
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or try harder
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but he does one of them it's just she's
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so sick sometime in on this campaign
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you're going to get asked this question
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about headlining festivals and
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headlining reading and headlining
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glastonbury i mean
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i'm going to i'm just going to do it now
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like
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does it ever play now that you're kind
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of over the game i mean do you
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still give a about stepping up a
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headline in reading or being a download
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or
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like topping your glastonbury experience
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yeah of course it'd be amazing
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um but again it's just like i don't want
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to be doing a festival if the promoters
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are like
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oh this could be good but maybe not and
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i feel that's like that's where our band
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is you know i mean we're like
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yeah we're doing well we're doing good
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and stuff but we're not
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i don't want to be going and playing a
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festival unless they're like we need
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this band
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to headline reading or download or
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whatever i don't want to be like oh yeah
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well so-and-so can't do it or you know i
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mean it's like enough
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you know i think that i don't think our
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band is that
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that big where it's just like it's it's
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a no-brainer you know what i mean i
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think i want it to be a no-brainer and i
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think we the way we do that is just by
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carrying on doing what we do
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and you know and if that time comes
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great
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but if not it's you know can't let it
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dictate i think
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there's been moments in our career where
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we've
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not not that specifically but you know
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maybe
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thinking like oh what happens if we got
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this big and letting that dictate what
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kind of music we were trying to write or
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what we were doing and that like
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it's just not worth it it's like i just
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want to i just want to be stoked on what
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i'm making and
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be excited by it and that that's when i
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kind of got to a point where that's just
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like enough for me
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are there any kind of like clear set
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concrete goals left in your mind like
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bucket list things like oh
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that would be cool or is it just taking
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it year by year
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no i've no not really i think
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i used to have those kind of things but
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it's just pointless because i think
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as humans you just you could complete
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your bucket list you won't you won't be
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ready to die
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you'd want more and it's just like i
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think i learned that when we played
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wembley
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you know on the arena it's like i used
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to think
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imagine if while band got so big we
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would play wendy arena be set for life
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i'd be happy
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you got you do that and you're like
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what's next you're never satisfied as a
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human
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that's we have we all have this like
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just bottomless pit inside us that
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just has to keep feeding that's life
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there's no destination
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whatever you know that's what it's
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saying it's all about the journey
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whatever we achieved it just be like all
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right what's next you know i mean so
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this
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it's kind of pointless even having that
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it's just i think it's just you just
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gotta try and
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live in the now and just be like stoked
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on what what you're doing and who
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knows what's gonna happen next
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year
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yeah could be real bad you've got a good
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feeling about 2021 or no feeling at all
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i think again i'm just trying to i'm
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literally just
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really trying to practice in like just
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living in today you know being happy
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what you got because it's like
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every year we've whined about no this
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year's crap you're taking me back to
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yeah like there's that joke it's like
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damn you 26
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yeah and it's just like we didn't know
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how good we had it
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like it's like it's like 2020 why not
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you want to see some real
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and again it's just like maybe next year
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it'll be even worse like we
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don't know how good we have 2020.
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i'm in a very fortunate position our
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band's you know
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doing really well despite not being out
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at all we're putting music out people
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are listening to it it's
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you know i'm here doing interviews and
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getting to connect with people and
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you know so it's just trying to be like
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real thankful for what you've got
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it's hard for us because it's like our
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our future's so uncertain
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so is everyone's you know i mean but
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like like for me like when people say
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like
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touring and stuff it just seems like
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it's never going to happen because it's
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just like
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just like when it's actually going
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to happen but like i say when it does
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it's going to hit so much harder than it
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ever did because everyone's been like
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i miss
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this so yeah i'm excited for those shows
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if they happen
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they will they will they will please buy
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tickets
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on sale 9am always on 9am on friday so
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yeah
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yeah link down there but we'll be there
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man ollie
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thanks so much for your time buddy bro
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just
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