June 23, 2025

Within Temptation Press Conference at Hellfest 2025

The Within Temptation Press Conference at Hellfest 2025 in Clisson, France.

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health s twenty twenty five, and we are about to

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watch the press conference of Within Temptation. Stay tuned like

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a circle.

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You know, full circle.

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But still there's so much still to do and to

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talk about and to keep on putting.

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It a highlight on it. For us, it was the

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first time I went.

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When I went to Ukraine, I didn't It wasn't that

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scared to go, because when you go into the country,

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you fly to Poland.

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To get a trained to the Ukraine, to Kiev eventually

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and you.

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Get an app and you can see what kind of

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dangers there are coming towards you, like if there's a

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meg or there's drones coming towards you, and then you

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have some time still to go to a shelter. The

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second time, I was scared shit because of the fact

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that they had bombed Kiev just before the other's festival

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was supposed to happen, and they bombed the children's hospital

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and there were many casualties, and they postponed the festival

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by a week, which I have never had seen in

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my cocomplete career, and anything was possible to postpone by

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a week, but every person on that festival said, we're

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gonna postpone it.

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We all do anything to be there and to still have.

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Our music and to have like a comfort kind of

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thing for the Ukrainian people, for Kiv people.

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And I was really.

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Inspired by that because it was like the resilience of

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the Ukraine and inspire me every day. I think it's

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they have no choice, of course, but on the other hand,

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you can also roll over and say, you know, take it.

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All, and they don't.

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They really fight back with with a lot of uh

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honor and dignity. And to see them how they do

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the world as compared to the Russians. They attack every

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civilian while the Ukrainian only attack the military targets.

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It's a huge difference of how we see uh. A

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lot of things happening in the world right now.

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So going there was a ah an honor for me

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to be part of that, and uh yeah, I hope

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to do so in the future.

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Again.

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Uh Hi, I'm I'm from m making Lasi me friends. Hello,

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thank you for your your humanity. We love that, uh

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really in you.

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I have a.

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Questioned, sorry, because your answer was pretty pretty amazing.

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Do they learn before yes, as an artist, how do

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you physically and mentally and be coop coop with the

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extreme with them, with the weather, yeah, with the condition

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on tour?

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And do you feel like climate change is becoming a

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real challenge for live performance?

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That's been true.

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Yeah, Well that's another another topic that is close to

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my heart as well.

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Now, well, it's it's that easy for anyone to be here.

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Actually, they want to cancel the press conference because it's

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too hot here and here, but I think it's too

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important issues to talk about today, and.

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You know, I'll redo my make up later on. I

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don't care anyway. Yeah, I think climate change is a thing.

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I am not a denier of that at all.

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I think our album The Side of Force at the

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time was dealing a lot with the topics on that

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as well. And it's unfortunate that there are so many

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issues in the world right now that we don't have

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that we're not focused on that that much anymore, that

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we have to focus on dealing with worse at the

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time to instead of trying to face another danger for everyone,

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which is climate change.

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You're welcome.

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does that's about you. Uh, ninth after night you would

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uh impressive pre vocal performance. Uh it's really really really impressive.

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Uh how do you uh vove with that? And uh

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keep shaving your uh your voice with the really difficult

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Uh we have really cool uh really part cold lacy.

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And all that that?

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Do do you end up with that to keep really

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best performance night after nights and impressive? Uh?

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Night of it?

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What? What actually became? Just from Denmark where it's like

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twelve degrees colder than here? Do you make a huge change?

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I was wearing a sweater yesterday and now I'm like, well,

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I'd rather where as uh a as as as possible.

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But to answer your question, it's, you know, not a

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very rock and roll answer because.

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All you gets and of course with the most you know,

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play on festivals like these, the people are expecting a

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good presentation of the band.

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It's h a lot of sleep h ok al cool

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free Barry.

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It's just me and the rest of the guys that

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can do whatever they want, you know, but it's for me,

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for my vocals. It's important to maintain my health and

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uh have a.

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Lot of sleep, which is pretty boring.

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But you know, I enjoy performing on stage a lot,

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and so to do what I love best, I have

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to do. Yeah, I take such of measurements and I.

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Will so I'm a Lisa for the road to road.

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So my question is recently you collaborate with the Ukrainian artist. Yes,

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you sent your working on more new music. Do you

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have more collaborations coming up? Or who would you like

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to collaborate with.

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There's actually a lot of collaborators coming up, another problem

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from Ukraine which I'm.

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Not allowed to talk about yet, and also.

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With some other people, someone from Germany, someone from Sweden.

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So featuring a lot of stuff at the moment, so

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at which I enjoy very much because you get to

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know other people as well outside of your own music streame.

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And yeah, and I love doing that. There's many people

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I would love to collaborate with. A lot of them

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are also dad. But yeah, you know, the thing is

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for us when we want to collaborate, it's people approach

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us or we have written a song that fits a

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sort of vocal and we'll hope to try to get

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that person on board.

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Yeah, so we'll see you are.

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Come hello down from all rocket Oh yeah yeah.

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The last time you were hearing Harris of snowing and

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now it's hot.

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So how is it like playing for the French people?

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And how is it and how do you feel playing

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for the French?

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Well, the French people are like a lot of Mediterranean people.

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they're very expressive of their love for music.

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And that's always the reason.

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Why we love playing for uh, you know, the French people,

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but also the Mediterranean people close are very vocal and

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the very expressive and you need that energy to perform

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as well. And the more love you get, the love

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more we can spread it as well. So it's a

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it's an interaction that this will well needed.

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Yeah, we're welcome. Hi, this is archy music from Mexico.

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I know Mexico and I you will take the main stage.

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The health is yeah, despite the heat, funds are holding

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their ground to see you like, how does he feel too?

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That's that kind of emotion can repeat the last How

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do how does it feel to witness that kind.

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Of evolution devotion of the people that are in front

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of the states. Yeah, well that's of course amazing. Hopefully

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they were meant to drink a lot and still be

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energetic at the time that we're playing, and so hopefully, yeah,

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they will be still standing at the time.

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Any more questions you have one question your puriers. Have

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you related without the support of a record label? So

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I guess you can follow is the new process? I

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think already you know what you can improve in all

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the facts of releasing an album.

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We have the support of a record label.

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I think doing that without a record label is that

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has advantages but also disadvantages, and that's something we've learned

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throughout the last album that we're pleased, but it also

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gave a lot of freedom to at least whenever you

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want to. Especially during Corona, we were feeling like, you know,

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we're allboved at home and.

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Needed music ourselves, but also for our fans.

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That's why we did the releases that we did so

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many before the album actually came out.

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Same because it also has its disadvantages and maybe we'll

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do some things differently and with the next album, but

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we will maintain our independence. That's something that I think

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is still very important.

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Every question that it's interesting to fast as already and

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then really like you Richard, who has many albums, it's

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like about the set list of the show.

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I know it's really.

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Difficult hopefully for us we have a big timeline tonight,

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But how difficult is it to choose the great list

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each time? And do you choose to change really really

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often to put the many rarities I want to say

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in the most show each night, or is it a

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choice to stay with the same set listing one through

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rout For a reason, we.

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festival season, but not that much because when you're even

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when you're headline on the stage, it's still you want

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to play the best set that you have because there's

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still a lot of people that didn't come for you,

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although you're laid on the build and you want to

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present the album or you know, the band in a

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way that we'll make them interested into listening to you

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on the platforms as well and start following you. And

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so the best set list is what we're gonna play

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tonight is maybe not the most original one. But I

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and it will be a very tenight, cynemic and energizing one.

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Come I r.

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Vissians, thank you very much. Ar you got you what

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is its right? Puny from your saving getting never that

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you've got anywhere you go.

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You're followers, saw are you?

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Why you running old good? That's that's what you.

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