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Speaker 1: And today we feature an alternative rock band named Snowing

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Speaker 1: Down South. They're initially formed in twenty eleven, broke up,

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Speaker 1: got back together, and they're busy working with new music

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Speaker 1: releases and an upcoming EP. So we've got a new

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Speaker 1: single to share with you to round out the show

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Speaker 1: this afternoon. First, though, let's hear a little bit more

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Speaker 1: about how the band went through this journey of forming,

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Speaker 1: breaking up, and reforming again. Gus Gravenstein on the line

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Speaker 1: with me, who is one of the members of Snowing

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Speaker 1: Down South. Great to have you with us. Tell us

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Speaker 1: very briefly, how did you guys break up and reform?

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Speaker 2: Hello? Helloa, great, nice to have.

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Speaker 1: You with us.

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Speaker 2: Thanks. Oh wow. You know, we were all of the

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Speaker 2: Veosity from twenty eleven to twenty fifteen, and that's how

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Speaker 2: we started. And we recorded a couple of songs, and

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Speaker 2: you know, life goes on, people moved away. We focused

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Speaker 2: on our careers, but they're like nine years later. We

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Speaker 2: still got our recordings with the phone voice notes we

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Speaker 2: did back in a day. So we got together and

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Speaker 2: listened to it again and the band decided, hey, let's

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Speaker 2: get back together and record this stuff. It's like we

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Speaker 2: can't just leave it in the closet, you know, phonus.

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Speaker 1: And the rest is history. You're now working towards releasing

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Speaker 1: an EP, but in the meantime, the new single that

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Speaker 1: we're going to share with our audience today is called

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Speaker 1: Take It or Leave It. Tell us a little bit

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Speaker 1: about the origin of this song.

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Speaker 2: Well, Paul, our singer, he filled with the lyrics and

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Speaker 2: the structure of the song back in twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 2: and then when we decided to record the EP in

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Speaker 2: twenty four, he brought the skeleton to us and each

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Speaker 2: member put on their little flavor to the song, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's how we record it. That's basically the start of

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Speaker 2: the song. I guess each song has got its interpretation

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Speaker 2: of what it means, so you can kind to take

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Speaker 2: and leave it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, looking forward to sharing with our listeners and letting

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Speaker 1: them make up their own minds on that one. But

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Speaker 1: just before we say goodbye, I mean lovely that you

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Speaker 1: guys found the creative spark again and on making music

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Speaker 1: together again. Does that also include live performances.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we actually just came back from a like two

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Speaker 2: shows we played in Johannesburg at sonage two, weeks ago

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Speaker 2: close thirteenth and then the twentieth we played Railways in

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Speaker 2: Victoria and we're looking to get more shows now Kpe Town. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so watch just watch our social pages and then you

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Speaker 2: can join a live show.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what's the social tag we should be looking for

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Speaker 1: and which platform?

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Speaker 2: So we're mainly on Instagram, On Facebook Instagram we are

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Speaker 2: snowing Down South Underscore Official, and on Facebook we're just

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Speaker 2: snowing Out South. But we also need to jump onto

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Speaker 2: the TikTok wagon, so we just watch out for that

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Speaker 2: page soon.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we'll have to leave the description of where the

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Speaker 1: name came from for another day, but that was Gus

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Speaker 1: Gravenstein of snowing Down South. Keep an eye on their

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Speaker 1: socials if you want to hear them perform live. And

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Speaker 1: this is the song you might hear. It's the brand

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Speaker 1: new release called Take It or Leave It