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Speaker 1: I've got to be super quick with our music interview today,

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Speaker 1: so to give you the headline notes, we're talking about

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Speaker 1: a band called Sergeant Fu who some of you may

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Speaker 1: remember from their early days when they first formed in

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Speaker 1: the two thousands, and you might remember them arriving on

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Speaker 1: the scene round about the World Cup twenty ten era

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Speaker 1: with the song of Vuzela. You might also know that

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Speaker 1: they broke up. So this is I think the second

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Speaker 1: or third interview we're doing this week with a band

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Speaker 1: who broke up and then decided many years later that

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Speaker 1: actually they still had something to offer and to.

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Speaker 2: Discover as artists. So they're back together.

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Speaker 1: And the song we're going to share for you, although

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Speaker 1: it's a new release, was actually written seventeen years ago.

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Speaker 1: The band is Sergeant Fou. It's a great pleasure to

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Speaker 1: have both Reino Zili and Matt Marinus on the line

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Speaker 1: with us to very quickly tell us about the repair,

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Speaker 1: not the breakup, but the coming back together is the

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Speaker 1: words I'm looking for. Reino and Matt. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: show and delighted to hear that you guys found each

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Speaker 1: other again.

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Speaker 2: Reino, what was the spark that reconnected you all?

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Speaker 3: Thank you? So much for that beautiful introduction. Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: it's good to so just to correct the record, actually,

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Speaker 3: I suppose we never broke up. Life happened, we had kids,

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Speaker 3: We evolved, and responsibilities came with it. We were always

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Speaker 3: writing music. Myself and Math have always been best friends,

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Speaker 3: and so this was the reason for us to hang

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Speaker 3: out more. I think it was my fortieth birthday that

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Speaker 3: sparked it all. I had an event, everyone there and

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Speaker 3: we said, let's play some of the old songs, and

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Speaker 3: that opened up a whole new world of Hey, let's

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Speaker 3: do this for the kids, our families involved. Now we

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Speaker 3: really are trying to just be a kid again and

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Speaker 3: spread that joy to the world.

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Speaker 1: You know, I love it, and encourage all the rest

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Speaker 1: of us to sometimes act like kids again as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely. We realized as we get older, lives too serious.

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Speaker 3: So you know, the slogan of the band is have

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Speaker 3: a lach, you know, let's have fun. Let's have a

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Speaker 3: good time, and that's the energy that we're portraying in

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Speaker 3: our music and our live shows, in our videos. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 3: all good fun.

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Speaker 2: That's great, Matt, bring you in here.

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Speaker 1: The new release is ironically called Starting a Band, although

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Speaker 1: it sounds like you guys don't know how to finish

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Speaker 1: a band, but out of things. But actually this is

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Speaker 1: not a new song. I gather you actually wrote it

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Speaker 1: seventeen years ago.

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Speaker 2: Is that correct?

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Speaker 4: Yes, so it was way before we both had families

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Speaker 4: and we both had our individual love story since then.

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Speaker 4: So when you hear the lyrics, now, this is us

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Speaker 4: young dreaming of rock star and romance. And I think

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Speaker 4: those two together are every musician's, every young musician's dream

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Speaker 4: in a way, wrapped up those themes are wrapped up

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Speaker 4: in the dream.

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Speaker 1: Okay, the dream never dies and never gets old. But

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Speaker 1: Reno and Matt, as you've both just referenced, you're older now,

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Speaker 1: you've got families and loved ones to take care of.

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Speaker 1: What does that mean in terms of the possibility of

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Speaker 1: performing live as a band again. It's one thing to

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Speaker 1: say we can still make music together, record music together,

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Speaker 1: but are you going to have a chance, Reno, to

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Speaker 1: do any live shows?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely? Yeah. I mean we've been on the roll since then.

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Speaker 3: So we also, you know, we are members of the

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Speaker 3: Graham Watkins Project as well, so that's some of part

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Speaker 3: of our background as well, and so we've been whenever

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Speaker 3: a GWP is playing Sergeant Foo is an opening act,

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Speaker 3: so we've been really clicking on that button. We had

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Speaker 3: a show on the weekend actually, and looking forward to

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Speaker 3: more of that. You know, Like I said, it's about

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Speaker 3: having fun. We're having fun with our family, so our

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Speaker 3: kids are on stage sometimes we're us and it really

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Speaker 3: is the experience of performing live is a big part

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Speaker 3: of it for us.

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Speaker 2: So that's amazing looking forward to that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So then the last question is that we have

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Speaker 1: enough time to play this song for our audience. Matt,

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Speaker 1: Sergeant Foo is the name of the band. If listeners

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Speaker 1: like what they're here and want to follow you guys

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Speaker 1: and keep an eye on where your next performance is

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Speaker 1: going to be, et cetera, what's the best platform to

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Speaker 1: do that on.

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Speaker 4: I would love everyone firstly to go to YouTube and

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Speaker 4: go check out our latest music video for the song

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Speaker 4: that you're about to play. We're so super proud and

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Speaker 4: we hopefully they can get the since of our band

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Speaker 4: from that video. And then Instagram and Facebook and TikTok

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Speaker 4: we're all there. So if you just type in Sergeant Food,

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Speaker 4: you'll come and you'll land on our pages and you'll

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Speaker 4: have a luck like Grena said, it's.

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Speaker 2: Been a luck having you guys with us.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry it had to be such a brief conversation,

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Speaker 1: but Reino Zelli and Matt Marinus are sergeant FU, and

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Speaker 1: it's the military rank and then FU. If you're wondering

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Speaker 1: about the spelling, that's what you need to search for

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Speaker 1: on YouTube so you can watch

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Speaker 2: As well as listen to starting a band.