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Speaker 1: Love this man, love him. You would know him as

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Speaker 1: He's got a new single out on his own. It's

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Speaker 1: called on the Stereo. He's a bit of Ben Gillies

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Speaker 1: right now, brilliant. It's out now everywhere to stream and

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Speaker 1: download Ben Gillies. All welcome.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: What an intro that's like that.

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Speaker 3: He never says, I love you. So you've done well here?

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Speaker 1: Do you know what I was? I was going to

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Speaker 1: say he was the original drummer for the Marching Koalas.

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Speaker 2: I was in the Marching Khalas. I played the quads.

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Speaker 3: So before Silverchair, there was the Marching Koalas.

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Speaker 2: It was the Marching koalas they do. They marched for

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Speaker 2: one we we had to practice marching, did you really Yes,

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Speaker 1: In the show. Like that was a special like like

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Speaker 1: you know where you do the life saving the nippers

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Speaker 1: do the mark. Yes, so you had to do it

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Speaker 2: So someone's up there whacking a snare and everyone's got

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Speaker 2: a step in time and yeah, but.

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Speaker 3: What was the biggest song the Marching Koalas had.

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Speaker 2: They did do what's George is it Benson?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, George Benson.

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Speaker 2: Don't you all cover that track? I think on Broadway?

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Speaker 2: Highly doubted.

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Speaker 1: This is brilliant and then obviously went on and make

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Speaker 1: you know, the career is unbelievable. And you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: good mates with Benny and just every time we have

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Speaker 3: Betty Is he would get so annoying.

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Speaker 2: But silver chair questions. So but that's fine, that's you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm happy to answer.

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Speaker 1: Well, but see, the biggest thing for me, I remember

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Speaker 1: when I was young, and the biggest thing was how

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Speaker 1: old were you Benny? When you played the MTV Music

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Speaker 3: Wow?

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Speaker 1: Believable?

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Speaker 3: What a bit different in Newcastle?

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Speaker 2: A bit different in Newcastle. Yeah, And it's weird looking

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Speaker 1: And did you realize the enormity of it back then

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Speaker 2: I think being naive that was actually a benefit agaf time. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it was because we were just kind of. We loved what

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Speaker 2: and all the extra stuff wasn't it wasn't important.

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Speaker 3: But can we go right back to the start? Right?

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Speaker 2: He goes far back as your life.

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Speaker 3: I'm fascinated. I mean, sure, when you pulled the trigger

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Speaker 3: how far things would go. You can never envisage how

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Speaker 3: What was the moment, whether there was a conversation with

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Speaker 2: Well, I think Dan and I always had dreams of

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Speaker 2: then Dan and Chris were playing trumpet right in the

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Speaker 2: school band. Yeah right, they were good at trumpet.

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Speaker 2: Ys Morris was a okay, so yeah, so we we

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Speaker 2: filmed the band at twelve, and we just that's when

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Speaker 3: I know, that's such an annoying question. You know what.

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Speaker 2: We had this crazy story that we used to tell

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Speaker 3: Oh no, don't you go for it.

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Speaker 2: It was at the Triple J Studios when we're recording

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Speaker 1: I want to talk because there's some great Actually, Benny,

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Speaker 1: Chair at the moment as well, and everyone knew that

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Speaker 2: So it came out and it was a bowl of

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Speaker 3: So it just it does on calamari.

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Speaker 2: But what I got at what I got that we

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Speaker 1: You see, this is brilliant. The This is the other

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Speaker 1: know about this crazed fan, the one that stole Daniel

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Speaker 2: Can you tell us about this the French lady?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the French What did she do?

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Speaker 2: I think I think she was like thought she was

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Speaker 2: obsessed with Dan. I think she thought she was probably

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Speaker 2: sure if she was able to. Actually, I think she

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Speaker 2: We were like, we still were like, that's still kind

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Speaker 3: He's got a spud gun.

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Speaker 1: It was a spud gun.

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Speaker 3: He's got some fresh potatoes we need to reload.

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Speaker 1: You had a security guard following around because this woman

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Speaker 2: She was just talking a way back there. So I mean,

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Speaker 2: the area why was this woman following us, following us around?

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Speaker 1: And then you found out that she it was Daniel's

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Speaker 3: That's extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's kind of it's a good it's a

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Speaker 3: I mean I've never thought of that, but very good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly can we gone going wrong?

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about your life now because it's

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit different now to the rock star lifestyle,

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Speaker 1: because you've married a beautiful woman, Jackie Gillies, and you've

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Speaker 2: Yes, how old are they, Benny? They're probably around seven months?

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Speaker 3: God help you. Congratulations?

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Speaker 1: Where are you? You look like there's a couple of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a bit tired this morning. You know what.

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Speaker 2: The first six weeks was absolutely hectic. You know, it's

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Speaker 2: I mean I've only been a parent now for seven months,

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Speaker 2: but when you're not a parent or you know, everyone

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Speaker 2: you they're all true. They're all true. You don't get

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Speaker 3: You're gone.

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Speaker 2: But you know it doesn't matter because when you pick

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Speaker 2: oh my god, that is the most amazing thing.

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Speaker 1: Do you know? This is how much the rock star

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Speaker 1: lifestyle has gone for Benny Now as well. We had

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Speaker 1: a mate's fortieth down in Nuie and you and Jack

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Speaker 1: come and saw us for lunch. But you're like the twins.

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Speaker 1: We've got to go home and breastfeedlings have changed now

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Speaker 1: didn't even go to the fortieth. Geez, you've changed, mate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it's because I just want to go

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Speaker 3: That's good. That's impressive. And with your wife being a

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Speaker 3: has the ability to predict a lot of things, like

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Speaker 3: we hadn't told anybody the wink and whispered it in

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Speaker 3: my ear. That was crazy. And Cheese, you are good.

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Speaker 2: She is good.

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Speaker 3: Does she give you a prediction like they're going to

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Speaker 1: Gifts where there's Kate Blend Yeah, with Katie Holmes.

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Speaker 3: That's a really good movie.

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Speaker 1: Swordfish Nosh No, that was Jackman.

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Speaker 3: Report report.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's like that. Yeah, you can't. You can't

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Speaker 1: What I do want to know when you've got two

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Speaker 1: How the hell can you bang away on the drums

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Speaker 2: It's actually I'm actually in the midst of building a

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Speaker 2: starting to get to be overtaken by kids stuff. Yes,

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Speaker 1: You deserve that.

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Speaker 1: will be You're going to bring out an album, Benny.

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Speaker 2: I reckon a few more singles this year, an EP

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Bennie.

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Speaker 3: You know, Leno's big music man, and Leno would agree

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Speaker 1: Can I, Lena, have you got a moment that you

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Speaker 2: Actually, can I tell you something about dire Arma. It's

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Speaker 3: Just go for it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and there was just like I think Silverchair always

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Speaker 1: Was there an album that you guys recorded and Daniel

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Speaker 1: He got rid of it, he deleted it. You can't remember.

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Speaker 2: I think I remember Dan said that he recorded a

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Speaker 3: So you're coming on to make the announcement that that

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Speaker 3: first record of Diorama and Newcastle will be released.

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Speaker 2: I think it should be as without all the strings

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Speaker 1: Going for it, and it was who's got it?

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Speaker 2: I'm sure Phil mckeller. Someone called Phil mckeller and.

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Speaker 3: Let's get Phil on the show now.

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Speaker 1: The moment for me was, and this was apparently one

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Speaker 1: of your biggest gigs of all time, was your first

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Speaker 1: we stuck around to watch you boys, and you could

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was pretty that that first big day out

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Speaker 3: It was mad, a phenomenal feeling.

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Speaker 2: You're on a small.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look the people at the back. Dn't all you

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Speaker 2: would have seen is a couple of matchsticks. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, but you know, I don't know. It was

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Speaker 2: a pretty as experience.

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Speaker 3: It's just awesome. Well done, buddy, Benny.

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Speaker 1: You can go on the stereo. It's out where now.

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Speaker 1: It's everywhere now, stream and down load. Love you, Benny,

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Gents.

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Speaker 3: Thanks mate. It it fits and whipper