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Speaker 1: And we thought we haven't spoken to her for a while.

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Speaker 1: We'll get her on the show right now. It's the

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Speaker 1: magnificent Tones at times.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Hey, busy, and we're are you guys? Good morning?

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Speaker 3: We're good, We're good. How are you holding up? I

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Speaker 4: Are you in Ica? The doors are shut?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I though. We went to go for

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Speaker 5: What face masker? You're running?

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Speaker 1: Tones?

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Speaker 5: Have you got a special one and one that you

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Speaker 2: No? I just have a bunch of black plain ones.

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Nice? Still stylish? Still stylish about that?

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Speaker 1: Do you get creative tones when you are stuck at

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I mean I have been writing my first album. To

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Speaker 2: be honest, you know you can't sit and write every

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Speaker 2: single day. I think you know you do one thing

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Speaker 2: every day, even if you love it, it just gets

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Speaker 2: too much. So I'm probably writing last four days week honestly,

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Speaker 2: because you don't.

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Speaker 3: Want to put too much pressure on yourself either and think, oh, God,

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Speaker 3: I've got to use this time and I'm going to

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Speaker 3: You've got to vary up what you're doing at home,

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Speaker 3: I would assume Tones.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so true. There's so much pressure, I guess

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Speaker 2: for all artists right now to just like to come

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Speaker 2: did while I was in isolating. Yeah, I can't think

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, you know what you're looking at.

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Speaker 1: You're looking after developing artists and I love this Tones

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Speaker 5: Let's be honest.

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Speaker 1: The government haven't looked after the arts industry throughout this period,

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Speaker 1: and it looks like especially in Melbourne Tones, I mean

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Speaker 5: You're helping these people out. Now. You've started up a competition.

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Speaker 1: It's called that one Song and you can go to Instagram,

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Speaker 1: to receive five thousand dollars. They're going to sit down

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Speaker 1: to record a tones.

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Speaker 5: Is that correct?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really excited some people obviously because of the restrictions,

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Speaker 2: really cool and it gives me something really fun to

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Speaker 2: to all the different songs, it's real. It's really nice.

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Speaker 3: I love the idea because it's clever and you know,

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Speaker 3: it gives us a great chance for developing artists. I

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Speaker 3: don't know if you've had any submissions over the radio

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Speaker 3: song for my wife called Likelike a while ago, which

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Speaker 4: Horrible.

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Speaker 3: This is my application for the five thousand dollars here.

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Speaker 4: Do you like me? But what do you think tones?

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Speaker 3: I mean big creepy tones or is that the sort

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Speaker 2: Well, I've often know the story behind the song.

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Speaker 4: Well you know you're too young tones, But back in

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's where the song came from. And so

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Speaker 3: But now that you've got this competition running, I will

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Speaker 2: I'll definitely keep an eye. You have to have your

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm onto it.

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Speaker 5: Hey.

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Speaker 1: We had a great chat last week times with Sea,

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Speaker 5: Creative, genius, amazing, and you know what we love.

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Speaker 1: About Sea is that she's how hum she's stayed throughout

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Speaker 1: And she said, yeah, yeah. We hired my record company

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Speaker 5: I mean, has there.

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Speaker 1: Been a moment for you, Tones, I know there's been

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Speaker 2: Well, actually, when this all started, I hired my two

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Speaker 4: They're still there. Who was that?

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Speaker 2: She's a bloody good, bloody good worker. I'll tell you that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, what is What are their jobs? What are their

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Speaker 2: So they're both ta so as all the like, you know,

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Speaker 2: the I don't know because people don't understand that there's

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Speaker 2: much because I'm amazing. No, well said, they both do

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Speaker 5: So yeah, do they keep your grounded? Tones? Is that

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Speaker 2: Oh mate, I keep them grounded. Some sequin pants yesterday

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Speaker 5: I shouldn't have worn mine today.

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Speaker 4: Tones. Do you know Sia? Have you met Sea or

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Speaker 2: I've never met Sea, but I agree with what you

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 4: You guys get on so well.

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Speaker 5: So would you be happy to do that?

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Speaker 4: Tones?

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Speaker 1: If you wrote a song that you thought wasn't right

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, I would love it. I mean, I love

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Speaker 2: to write their own music, they still have feelings they

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Speaker 2: want to get out, and it's it's hard because you

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Speaker 2: just hand if someone just handed me like no, yeah,

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Speaker 2: but I guess there are people that do do take

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Speaker 2: they can get their feelings out in that song as well,

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Speaker 2: even if they didn't write it. Well.

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Speaker 3: I think Lady Gaga was a bit like that. She

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Speaker 3: wrote for the record label for a long time until

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Speaker 3: they said, hey, why don't you just sing it yourself?

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Speaker 4: Do you want? Okay?

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Speaker 3: And that was how we became. You know, we got

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Speaker 3: to know Lady Gaga. I mean fun musicals, that's right.

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Speaker 3: If I have to, you idiot, I'll do it.

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Speaker 2: Give me some six inch heelless heels and mask and

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Speaker 2: I guess I'll just do this thing for a bit

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Speaker 2: of call it Lady Gaga.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well we're a meat outfit and turn up on

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Speaker 3: the red carpet.

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Speaker 1: We're watching you perform this Sunday as well, which is great.

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Speaker 1: There's a great new show, The Sound, which is on

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Speaker 1: the ABC at five point thirty on Sunday afternoons.

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Speaker 5: You're performing Guy Sebastian Blisten. So so there's some great performances.

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Speaker 1: But where are you performing and what are you doing

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Speaker 1: Tones this Sunday afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Well, obviously we're in lockdown, so it's really really limited.

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Speaker 2: I'm like just a place around the corner from my

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Speaker 1: Oh.

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Speaker 2: I want to make it sound great because obviously I

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Speaker 2: I just also need people to know it's very safe

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Speaker 2: in lockdown. There will just be like a Tones and

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Speaker 2: I performance and there were no fireworks or anything. I'm

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Speaker 4: I love it, Love.

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Speaker 1: It five point thirty Sunday afternoon. But like I said,

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Speaker 1: if you are a developing artist out there and doing

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Speaker 1: it pretty tough at the moment, and you want to

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Speaker 1: go into Tones and Eyes and new competitions, that one song,

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Speaker 1: double G at the end of song and you can

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Speaker 1: submit it there. Five thousand bucks up for grabs and

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Speaker 1: you get the record with Tones and I for a day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming on mate, and we'll

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Speaker 1: speak to your so in tones.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Budgens, have a good ice ice I