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Speaker 1: For over a quarter a century, shapeshifter have risen from

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Speaker 1: sweaty clubs to packed festival fields and arenas around the world.

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Speaker 1: They've embarked on record breaking tours, performed sold out headline

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Speaker 1: shows across to Europe, and it's pretty neat to see that.

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Speaker 1: Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the iconic album Solstice, they're

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Speaker 1: embarking on a winter tour of the country, which includes

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Speaker 1: during the twentieth at the Mefin Memorial Hall, catching up

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Speaker 1: with the lead singer of shapeshifter Pete Diggs. Morning, Oh

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Speaker 1: you're still there, there is? The connection takes a bit

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Speaker 1: of encouragement sometimes often twenty years of Solstice. Often these

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Speaker 1: sort of milestones remind us of how quickly time flies.

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Speaker 1: Does it feel like that to you or do you

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Speaker 1: sit there thinking, you know what, we've actually managed to

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Speaker 1: pack a bit into the last couple of decades.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, it's some We can just sit

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Speaker 2: down here. It feels like it's flies, but my body

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Speaker 2: tells me otherwise. Now we've packed a lot of things.

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Speaker 2: It's definitely worked and worked and experiment to tried things out,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, here we are on a winter tour celebrating

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Speaker 2: twenty years ago we wrote this album and we're coming

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Speaker 2: to the smaller towns and we're doing a winter tour.

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Speaker 1: Well that's what I love to see, because you expect

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Speaker 1: the main centers which are listed here, the likes of Dunedin,

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Speaker 1: christ Church, Wellington and Vicagole. But then hello, here's Wanaka

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Speaker 1: and Methan buried in there as well. In a quick

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Speaker 1: suggests that this is not your first time in Methan,

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Speaker 1: So why what's your connection to the village.

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Speaker 2: Well, what happened last time we played there. We were

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Speaker 2: also in the process of writing a new album, working

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Speaker 2: on new music. I think that was the stuff for

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Speaker 2: Rituals album, and we had a place here to record

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Speaker 2: and we were just signed all whole way out there

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Speaker 2: for the whole week. Because a lot of us all

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Speaker 2: live in different towns, so we when we get together

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Speaker 2: to fight music or to do rehearsals, we all get

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Speaker 2: in the same town and sometimes it's there for a week.

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Speaker 2: So we thought, why don't we just back on a

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Speaker 2: few gigs at the end of the week, test out

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Speaker 2: how test out how some of the new stuff is

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Speaker 2: going good? Way to pay Yeah, we played a method. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it pace for itself.

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Speaker 1: Me and Liz was reflecting on when you were in

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Speaker 1: Methinite and it was like two nights back to back

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Speaker 1: and she was there moshing with you for both. So

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Speaker 1: this was the same occasion. It was about twenty nineteen, I.

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Speaker 2: Think, yeah, that's right, two nights back to back. Wow.

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Speaker 2: I think they sold out most both nights. Wasn't really

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Speaker 2: too hard because you know, there's not many things that

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Speaker 2: get out the smaller town, so everyone came out of

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Speaker 2: the woodwork, so it was pretty special.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty novel for us. So why did you choose

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Speaker 1: the foothills? I mean, we know it's a pretty special place.

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Speaker 1: But for you guys scatter around the country, you know,

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Speaker 1: why was it there that you felt you wanted together

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Speaker 1: to write that music?

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Speaker 2: Well, like saying four twenty years ago, we wrote that album.

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Speaker 2: But it's also like Solsiers twenty five years of writing

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Speaker 2: music and trying music. Sometimes you need to think outside

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Speaker 2: the box to get these to get your juices flowing,

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Speaker 2: and you're just doing to try different things to try

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Speaker 2: and inspire music to come out.

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Speaker 1: It's all a case that you've gotten.

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Speaker 2: Really smaller towns.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not a case that you've got rallies living

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Speaker 1: in Mething and that was just an easy couch to

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Speaker 2: Now we're just trying to get to much more people,

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Speaker 2: And it's kind of good to bring things for smaller

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Speaker 2: communities because it brings everyone out. It's good, cheerful spirit

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Speaker 2: for our country. You know.

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Speaker 1: Music is a healer, absolutely, and we love it and

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Speaker 1: were so appreciative for it. Season is going to be

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Speaker 1: underway by the twentieth of Journey. Are you a skater

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Speaker 1: or snowboarder?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I've been dabbling in the snow for years,

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Speaker 2: like of a massive snowboarder. I love it. And that's

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Speaker 1: Times, right helps warm us up.

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Speaker 2: The celebrating in the mountains. Yeah, break down the mountain,

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Speaker 1: Lads after brilliant. So is this going to be all

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Speaker 1: of the old classics or do you have some new

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got new material, but this one we want

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Speaker 2: to really focus. So we've played three quarters of the

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Speaker 2: album out now, so it's a good way to pay

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Speaker 2: homage as well as test out whether some of the

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Speaker 2: newest stuff blends. And we kind of do it. We

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Speaker 2: kind of treat a lot of our when we play

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Speaker 2: out live. We treat a lot of it like our

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Speaker 2: like a rugby team or something. We have older tunes

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Speaker 2: and you bet them in with the older ones and

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Speaker 2: the newer ones and see how the combinations go. Rest

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Speaker 2: that one to get some energy back into it, bring

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Speaker 2: it on and the next tour. So we love actually

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Speaker 2: doing that. There's no real favorite song of us, you know,

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Speaker 2: because the music's like your children, so you love them more.

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Speaker 2: But you just sometimes get you use the energy and

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Speaker 2: different spots in different combinations to make it work. So

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Speaker 2: it's going to be this gig. All these gigs are

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Speaker 2: going to be filled with a lot of the music

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Speaker 2: from Solstice.

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Speaker 1: The Dad speaking here. Depending on the day, sometimes it's

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Speaker 1: easy to pick favorites. To be fair. I imagine when you

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Speaker 1: look out in the crowds now and you're seeing some

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Speaker 1: younger generations setting to come to your gigs, you know,

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Speaker 1: some of the younger kids, and you're thinking, oh my goodness,

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Speaker 1: that's a reality check. Can you still party like you

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Speaker 1: used to two dickheads ago.

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Speaker 2: Sure can. Luckily I've done a good amount of years

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Speaker 2: of practice. But the main thing for us this really

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Speaker 2: is just padding on stage when we deliver our music,

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Speaker 2: you know, getting out there. We still love playing and

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Speaker 2: playing outline is still ours. We pride ourselves to most

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Speaker 2: and we put a lot of energy into it. So no,

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Speaker 2: we re enjoy performing and bringing our music to the people.

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Speaker 1: Brilliant and we can't wait to have you at the

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Speaker 1: Methin Memorial Hall on during the twentieth pre sale tickets

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Speaker 1: to be a pretty cool gig and Methan on the

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