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Speaker 1: Wow, sounds incredible. Ed Sharon is in the country on

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Speaker 1: his loop tour that so we snip it from the weekend,

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Speaker 1: captured by somebody lucky enough to catch him in Auckland.

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Speaker 1: Good buddy of mine and fellow broadcast to Ben Boyce morning,

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Speaker 1: how was that?

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Speaker 2: Good morning? Yeah, it was incredible. Three hours he's on

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Speaker 2: stage pretty much was at Mount Smart Stadium. Hopefully we

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Speaker 2: see the Warriors being this impressive at Mount Smart this

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Speaker 2: year as Ed Sharon. But the biggest screen, I think

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Speaker 2: it's the biggest screen that we've had in New Zealand

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Speaker 2: that he sort of plays in front of. And then

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Speaker 2: he's got like an extendable bridge, a working bridge and

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Speaker 2: get him get him on board with the Harbor Bridge

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Speaker 2: and Awkland because that's never working. But you know, he

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Speaker 2: comes out of this extendable bridge and he goes out

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Speaker 2: to a little stage. He plays all the bangers, you know,

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Speaker 2: all the all the songs, including takes requests as well,

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Speaker 2: which you can heicks through before the show. So works, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's so yeah. So he plays five different songs each concert,

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Speaker 2: and some of them he's saying he had to relearn

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Speaker 2: some of his old songs. He doesn't play as much

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Speaker 2: backstage before the concept. But he's just incredible and you're

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Speaker 2: very excited that the rest and you yelling and get

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Speaker 2: to see him.

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Speaker 1: I sort of get the sense that it's stripped back

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Speaker 1: for the most part. It's just him, his guitar and

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Speaker 1: the Luke pedal.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that is so impressive. Yeah, it's just him

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Speaker 2: on stage. He's got that looke machine which he adds

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Speaker 2: you know, or the backing, and he does it all live.

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Speaker 2: As he says at the start it comes on the screen.

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Speaker 2: It's like everything you hear tonight is live. It can

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Speaker 2: go wrong. There was a time he stopped the song.

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Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, amount of time on that one, and

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Speaker 2: he reads it again, you know. But but that's part

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Speaker 2: of the magic of the insurance and you just see

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Speaker 2: him on stage. Yeah, it's really incredible. Great for him too,

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Speaker 2: he doesn't have to pay band members and and things

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Speaker 2: like that, but just so impressive to see what he

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Speaker 2: can do on stage. And yeah, it's just really really.

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Speaker 1: Incredible keeping the overheads down. Last time he was here,

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Speaker 1: which was only a couple of years ago, the shows

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Speaker 1: up in Auckland were riddled with sticky issues. He didn't

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Speaker 1: strike any of that this time.

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Speaker 2: No, I mean it was really impressive. As you say,

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Speaker 2: it was kind of stripped back in parts with him

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Speaker 2: on stage and getting all the well, well, it felt

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Speaker 2: like a great thing for all the boomers getting your

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Speaker 2: flash light out on your phone that I wasn't get

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Speaker 2: told off. He had those moments where it's just him

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Speaker 2: and the guitar playing acoustic, but then he had lasers

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Speaker 2: and the screen, as I said it before, is incredible,

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Speaker 2: and the pirate technics and fireworks. So he really brought

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Speaker 2: so many different elements to the to the show.

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Speaker 1: How was it getting in and out of Mount Smart

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Speaker 1: There's a dose of shoulden fraud for us. I heard

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Speaker 1: there were no trains, any buses.

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Speaker 2: My I know the rest of New Zealand. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you guys are just like, I don't know. I mean

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Speaker 2: I was lucky enough to go to Sydney for a

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Speaker 2: couple of days with the family over somewhere, and I'm like,

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Speaker 2: this is what happens when you can get on public

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Speaker 2: transport and right just yeah, rains went back on the buses.

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Speaker 2: Sounded like it was a bit of a shamble shambles.

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Speaker 2: He played for three hours. I think a lot of

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Speaker 2: people sat in traffic for like three hours.

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Speaker 1: After so I couldn't help myself. Ben, give me something

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Speaker 1: to look forward to into the weekend. I have folded

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Speaker 1: like Ottagami, and I am going to go to the

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Speaker 1: Sunday show and then back that up with the Bricky

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Speaker 1: show on the Monday morning. So that's going to be rough.

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Speaker 1: But there's future. Look's problem. I'm hearing a lot with

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Speaker 1: some mates who are taking their eight and ten year

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Speaker 1: old daughters to their first ever concert, which is pretty special.

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Speaker 1: Is this going to be ideal for them? Is it

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Speaker 1: for all ages?

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Speaker 2: I think so yeah. You see so many families there

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Speaker 2: as well, people of all ages. I mean he is

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Speaker 2: just you know, so personal, so lovable, and it really is.

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Speaker 2: It's worse thing, like I would say, one of the

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Speaker 2: best concerts I have seen, just for him on stage,

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Speaker 2: what he does and just all the things he adds

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Speaker 2: to it as well. And he loves me Zllent And

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Speaker 2: he genuinely says, you know, he said that on Saturday night.

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Speaker 2: He was like, if I didn't marry someone, I went

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Speaker 2: to high school and my parents live ten minutes up

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Speaker 2: the road where I live and have lived all my life,

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Speaker 2: he says, I would genuinely move to news. I've just

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Speaker 2: got that connection. I just love it. It was one of

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Speaker 2: the first countries that really embraced him. And he's been here,

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Speaker 2: he said, for like two weeks I think, rehearsing his tour.

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Speaker 2: He started it here in New Zealand and he's going

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Speaker 2: to be here for another two weeks as well, so

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Speaker 2: I think a month. And he's like, I'm just stoked

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Speaker 2: to be here. And you know, you hear that in

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Speaker 2: so many concerts when they say, oh you New Zealand,

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Speaker 2: I love it. You're like, do they really? So it

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Speaker 2: feels like he genuinely does.

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Speaker 1: You've got me fizzing, mate, I can't wait. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much.

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Speaker 2: Ah no, you're very welcome. I'm jealous. I'd love it

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Speaker 2: as I would to go. I would go again in

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Speaker 2: a heartbeat. So really enjoy ed when you go and

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Speaker 2: see him