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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at Basel.

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Speaker 2: Where did I see it?

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Speaker 3: We are always running right here? Empire of the Sun

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Speaker 3: and Walking on a Dream. They were one of the

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Speaker 3: day one acts at Electric Avenue in christ Church. Hagley

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Speaker 3: Park plays host now to the biggest two day festival

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Speaker 3: in all of Australasia, and Chris Schultz has the very

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Speaker 3: difficult gig of going along to Electric av thirty thousand

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Speaker 3: steps on day one. Chris, that's very impressive. Howre you feeling.

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Speaker 2: Like I've been hit by a bus. I was not

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Speaker 2: prepared for what I went through yesterday. I thought i'd

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Speaker 2: stretched enough, I thought i'd drunk enough. I got plenty

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Speaker 2: of sleep, but nothing really prepares you for like just

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Speaker 2: a full festival day, you know, like running around a

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Speaker 2: massive site like that. Hackley Park is huge. It's a

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Speaker 2: really big place. They've got five stages set up in there,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, I honestly don't think I've been to a

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Speaker 2: festival of that scale since the days I used to

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Speaker 2: go to Coachella, those kind of big overseas events. It

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Speaker 2: really is something. The city is maxed out. You can't

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Speaker 2: get accommodation. There's cues for food places all over time.

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Speaker 2: You can barely get a flat white at the moment.

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Speaker 2: It's that busy down here.

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Speaker 3: Oh it's great. I mean christ is just thriving at

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Speaker 3: the moment, so you just love to see it. You've

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Speaker 3: got five stages at Electric, tens of thousands of attends.

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Speaker 3: Talk us through your experience of day.

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Speaker 2: One, just just pumping from the moment I got there.

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Speaker 2: This is thirty six thousand people on the site. So

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Speaker 2: you're just kind of running around trying to like not

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Speaker 2: get that feeling of fomo. You know, you want to

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Speaker 2: catch everything you want to see. So you know, I

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Speaker 2: saw a shape shifter playing with the Christ Church Symphony Orchestra.

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Speaker 2: They sounded meaty and grunty, local lads in the hangar. Actually,

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Speaker 2: the biggest moment for me came in the evening, and

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Speaker 2: for a lot of people it came with the Dudes. Now,

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Speaker 2: the Dudes are a band that are nearly fifty. They

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Speaker 2: turned fifty in a couple of years and their big

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Speaker 2: anthem is Bliss that's about forty five years old. I

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Speaker 2: did not expect to see probably about twenty thousand people

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Speaker 2: crammed into a stage area to see them hanging off

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Speaker 2: their every word, going completely and utterly ballistic. It was

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Speaker 2: just one of those kind of special moments where the

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Speaker 2: sun was going down. I guess everyone had had a

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Speaker 2: couple of drinks, so Bliss felt like the right song

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Speaker 2: to play in that moment. But Peter Rulicht not even

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Speaker 2: believe it. He was sort of grinning on stage and

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Speaker 2: at one point I think he said something like, this

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Speaker 2: feels Shakespearean because you know, it was just so ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: He's a band, you know, at the age they are,

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Speaker 2: with the career they've had, suddenly having this maybe possibly

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Speaker 2: the biggest moment they've ever had. Yeah, electric, electric is

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Speaker 2: a great word for it, you know it. It was

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Speaker 2: a really well planned day that sort of started with

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Speaker 2: a bit of reggae but a dub. Then they moved

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Speaker 2: into some of the more summary acts. Tash Sultana as

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Speaker 2: an Australian busker who plays all her own instruments on stage.

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Speaker 2: She just kind of runs around doing the guitar and

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Speaker 2: the drums and was really well timed for a sort

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Speaker 2: of late afternoon set, and then it sort of moved

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Speaker 2: into the more dancing acts for the evening that the

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Speaker 2: drum and bass headliners Chasing Status put on a the

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Speaker 2: kind of pounding, huge firework display that y'dix spected at

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Speaker 2: a festival of the scale. You know, you need someone

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Speaker 2: to close it out like that, and they did a

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Speaker 2: really good job at all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and some amazing acts playing today. So you've got

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Speaker 3: the Prodigy top of the list. But run us through

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Speaker 3: what you're looking forward to today, Well.

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Speaker 2: The Prodigy of the Big One. They were last here

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Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen and I saw them in Auckland and

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Speaker 2: that was the last show with Keith Flint. He died

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Speaker 2: just a couple of months later, so that is going

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Speaker 2: to be a special one. Apparently they do pay tribute

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Speaker 2: to him during a show, and the shows aras full

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Speaker 2: on and electric as ever. Fat Freddy's in Lady six.

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Speaker 2: I think the local acts on my must see list today.

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Speaker 2: They're always great, especially in a festival atmosphere. I'm also

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Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing Dj Shadow. He's he made introducing

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Speaker 2: one of the great vinyl hip hop instrumental albums of

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Speaker 2: all time, and he always puts on a great show

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Speaker 2: with a really good visual display too, so he's definitely

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Speaker 2: on my list.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Nice, and they I mean, it's going to be massive today,

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Speaker 3: even bigger than yesterday, presumably given some of the acts

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Speaker 3: that are playing today. Yeah, are you going to do

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Speaker 3: thirty thousand steps? Do you think.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to rest up? Well, I've got a couple

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Speaker 2: of hours before the things kicks off. I'm going to

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Speaker 2: put my feet up, I'm going to have some lunch

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Speaker 2: and shell and yeah, there are scooters. I'm going to

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Speaker 2: try and get around with scooters. I got an uber

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Speaker 2: the other day and the guy said it's his busiest

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Speaker 2: day of the year Electric Avenue. Oh yeah, and it's

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Speaker 2: almost impossible to get a taxi or an uber, but

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Speaker 2: they've got these scooters around the city. So I think

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Speaker 2: I'm going to log and download the AP for one

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Speaker 2: of those and try and get around using that.

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Speaker 3: I think wise, yeah, very wise. I always remember my

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Speaker 3: sister went to a big festival a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 3: and she was really looking forward to the festival and

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Speaker 3: to celebrate and to get ready for festival seasons, she

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Speaker 3: bought herself a brand new pair of Dot Martin's. And

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Speaker 3: if there are any shoes you were going to choose

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Speaker 3: to wear to a festival, were you're going to be

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Speaker 3: spending fourteen hours on your feet. I can tell you

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Speaker 3: right now that Dot Martins are not a good choice,

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Speaker 3: so so long as you've got something a little bit

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Speaker 3: more comfortable.

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Speaker 2: There were a lot of Doc Martins yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Well, if they're warning, it's not so bad. But if

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Speaker 3: there are a new pair of Doc Martins and the

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Speaker 3: leather is still a bit firm, yeah, not so much.

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Speaker 3: You'll be tending to those blisters and wounds for months afterwards.

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Speaker 2: I reckon absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, look a joy today, Chris, really appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: You give us a call and yeah, we'll all be

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Speaker 3: enviously thinking of you and looking forward to hearing about

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Speaker 3: all the performances today, including the Prodigy tonight, Chris Shultz

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Speaker 3: in christ Church for Electric av twenty twenty five, Australasia's

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Speaker 3: biggest two day festival. We'll pick one of those acts.

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Speaker 3: How about Crungbin. Crungbin playing today. They're friends of the show.

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Speaker 3: We interviewed Crungbin, so they're playing today and christ Church.

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Speaker 3: We'll pick one of their tracks and play out in

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Speaker 3: a couple of minutes. Right now, it's nine to twelve

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