June 23, 2025

Royal Republic Press Conference at Hellfest 2025

The Royal Republic Press Conference at Hellfest 2025 in Clisson, France.

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Young Hey, it's pipe Man. The adventure is pipe Man

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W four c Y Radio. Royal Republic is here at

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Hellfest and they're about to do a press conference, so

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let's take a while.

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Hello Royal Republic, Welcome to the hottest press confidence you'll

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probably ever attend.

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It's insane.

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At least we've got fans.

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I'm Kneel by the way from the UK for total rock.

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I just wanted to ask you as well. Health Fest

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has a lot of big metal bands. You guys bring

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the party, you bring the DEAs moves at you think

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that the hell Fest audience.

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Are ready for you?

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And I also want to ask a question in the band,

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how's the best gas moves?

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I would be the yeah you want to see now?

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Yes?

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Yes, yes you are you're committed.

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Now yeah, I can't keep a beat that.

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Do the world well?

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Sure, mers to go for the festival. My name is Down,

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I'm from America and I'm here at and I'm wanted

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to ask a question. How has it been since your

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last delfist? What have you guys been working on? We

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did we never did help before? This has fantastic and

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what can we expect with your new album?

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We don't know yet or did I miss album?

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But we have a new single called Venus from Shocking

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Loop to cover its.

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We don't really know what to expect.

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That's the funny thing about being in this band.

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It's like everybody expects us to have this grand plan,

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but we're just kind of motoring along and putting the

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track in.

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Front of the train as we go.

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We are as surprised as everyone else. Do we release something?

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Yeah.

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The other thing we can say is basically expect the

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unexpected because we don't know it.

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That sounds amasic by names down at the underground from

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all Rock.

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Thank you very much, Hi guys, even from ill music artlet.

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Here's very multicultural today. I suppose I get a multicultural

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question for you. Love copp has one of your highest

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charting albums in your.

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Own card, in your own country and Sweden.

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Four albums in a row that are charted. Also in

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your highest charting album in Germany. What does that success

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mean to you?

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How come no one tells that sounds awesome? I need

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to work for you.

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Feel there's our label except what luck the Chilers label xecond,

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not the X.

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Give the suck sets away from the band and make

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them work hard.

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It's like you have to do better.

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I think I guess they want us to do better

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when the times the things, but we can see it

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in the ticket sales and the people that show up.

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And the streaming revenue. That was a joke.

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Well we can almost buy ourselves as cheeseburger up.

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Yeah it's good.

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Yeah, we love it, We love I love every step

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forward and I also love.

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The steps back, especially store.

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What do you mean by that?

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The thing that happened in twenty twenty that's not going

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to talk about study.

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This is like a therapy session. Part of therapy session.

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Hi guys, I'm at Lisa from the Road and Rock

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in the UK. You just said you don't plan anything.

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How did you get the band together when you first gold?

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Did you know what direction you wanted to take?

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I basically my part was basically I just got a

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phone call.

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They we all knew of each other. We didn't know

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each other when we were a.

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Music academy like really super posh Stunds very posh. And

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then I think Adam had an idea like yes for

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the former band, and it just looked around like who

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who amongst older brothers might play.

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Bad and be the best. It's gotta be bairn. And

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who is the great as the rock poser. It's gotta

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be honest. Who has the best dance?

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Yeah, and who has the thickest neck that's me. Uh No.

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We started like Adam wanted to start a band, so

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he quit the university and then he went back to.

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The yod university like six months.

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Lavor and said, okay, do you want to be in

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the band?

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Do you want to be in the band?

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Do you want to be in the band? And that's

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kind of how it started.

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That's who was.

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We didn't know each other.

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It was really weird actually looks the first couple of rehearsals,

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it was just like we played a couple of songs

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and there was.

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Then there was silence.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, but it's.

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Like playing music always felt great with this set up,

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Like we've added one band member at the time, and

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it was just an instant of chemistry every time, and

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everything else kind of came out of that. I mean,

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obviously now we've known each other a long time, pays

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for some.

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Some stuff together.

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Yeah, it's like a second family nowadays. Yeah, but you know,

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with all the that stuff and the bad stuff.

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Yeah, thank you.

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Have you ever want a question that uh you said

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about used to get me because in Sweden when you

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are young, it's really easy to learn music, to play

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have some space as right frock And last year we

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were coming with Eddy from Blue Fields and she said

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that things have it's evolved in the wrong way.

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How do you so do.

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You have more information about that?

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And what do you think also about that?

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Because Sweden was a really strong country, which inn't you

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know that it's too really make.

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It that as a living After that, I think there

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is some.

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With with the people in the place in Swedish government

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right now, there.

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Is some coming back on the whole uh.

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Cultural education thing, which is all used to be very

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sad and there's a lot of people being very frustrated

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about this.

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What's included, I guess red.

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Least see cause we all started in the school.

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You know.

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I started playing drums when I was eight years old.

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Somebody said, hey, what do you wanna play? And then

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you could go and do or do you want to

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play music?

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And I said drums?

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Yeah, And it was free for all d classical general yeah,

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and you were just on your way.

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So yeah, uh, and it's really sad that that disappears

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because all the successful musicians either went through that singing

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educational system.

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So yeah, she's I think she's sold to something. It

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is a little it's side and it arn's least.

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I mean, listen, it's a Swedish artist that sings in Swedish.

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But she says, you know, when you start cutting back

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of culture, you're also like started cutting back on mental health.

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Because a lot of people like us music too, and

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we hear about.

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It a little too.

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Yeah, we never thought this band would mean anyone anything

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to anyone, you want to singing up underwear and making

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silly punts about you know, innuendos and stuff. But people

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come up to us all the time and say like, hey,

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you really helped me get.

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Through some tough times. And I think that's something that's you.

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Know, you're investing not just in music.

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You're investing in a bunch of other things as well.

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I think that's important, more and more important.

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Yeah, and I am being given to the opportunity to

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actually do something productive and good with your spare time

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when you were fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, or you know that means,

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I mean it's the world.

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Who knows what we would have been doing if it

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was it wasn't for.

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Us being in the rack cocaine smashing.

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Windows playing BONDI.

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Yeah, as Sweden is a legendary countree for artists for

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the music is fromart you go ghost, you can naba,

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you can maximart to also like to be starting up

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with those people.

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And push.

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It does inspire you.

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Is there is there a Swedish acretory like.

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We would like to be like those or does that

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make it tougher to start up against that type of conversation.

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I think they kind of picked the way actually for

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people in bands like us, because from from when we

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were kids, we've always we knew that it was actually

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a career choice.

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You could actually make a living making music.

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And it wasn't like frownled upon and it was it's

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not so much like.

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Go get a real job, get a haircut to get

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a job. It's it's not like that. It's weird because

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we have so many great.

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Artists and successful songwriters and producers, but people.

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Know that you can actually make a living them it's worth.

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Taking a shop pattern.

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We all come from small cities and all of the

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other bands called coming from small Cities because there's nothing

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else to do, so you can either you know, do

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crack cocaine or bid it's so it's a.

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Minimal Hello, this is Dawn from All Rock Again. I

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just wanted to know who the genius was.

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Behind the video creations because I loved watching them.

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So who was the genius with the ideas.

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If we're talking about themis that was basically we had

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the song first, and then Adam called us the rest

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of the band.

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We had a band meeting, and it's like to be.

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Able to make some sort of successful with the song,

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we need movie material.

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Nowadays it doesn't kind of any more.

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We've just been eating a song.

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Everybody like, yeah, we do and uh, then we just

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tried to figure out that this brain stormy and then

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we came up with a what about corps mat that's

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we haven't done that before, so uh, let's get bad

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to go and what about a love story with focus

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man were talking that that would we could be It's

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just kind of like naturally evolved and basically kind of antuscript.

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Done on the morning. Let me start cheating, so and

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it's a lot of the conversation as well.

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It was as always a tight budget.

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I want to type type schedule. So but we you're

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super happy with the results.

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It's weird how we're such a tight budget.

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No that we're number one.

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I having a good time yearning.

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From the say.

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Not that you got.

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Your father saw you? Why you.

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Right righting?

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Ms.

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Last is the crowd.

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Fire and the songs I Sis Raining Dies, You's Wading Out, sat.

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Cloud, thank you for listening to the Adventures of Platement.

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