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Speaker 1: Roots fa right, you love Yourself five eighteen, You love yourself?

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Speaker 2: A little bit of country. You might love this. Six sixty,

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Speaker 2: the band you're listening to at the moment, is launching

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Speaker 2: a brand new country and roots music festival. It's going

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Speaker 2: to be in Mata Khana in early January. Matthew Walters

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Speaker 2: is the lead singer and the guitarist obviously of six

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Speaker 2: sixty and with us much you Hello, Hello, I'm very well,

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Speaker 2: thank you? Why country?

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Speaker 1: Well? To be honest, I've been spending a lot of

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Speaker 1: time in Nashville just writing a lot of music, and

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Speaker 1: every time I go there, I actually feel this this

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Speaker 1: connection with back home and like working obviously, Nashville's at

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Speaker 1: this country music hub, and there's just this really strong

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Speaker 1: connection between roots and country. I felt for a while

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Speaker 1: between you know, the songwriting, the storytelling and like you

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Speaker 1: no real instruments, you know, and this honesty and this lyric.

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Speaker 1: So I just thought it'd be a really cool idea

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Speaker 1: to bring a country and roots festival to New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: So are you gonna? Are you going to potentially draw

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Speaker 2: two completely different crowds to the same place. It's like

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Speaker 2: one crowd coming to see country and one crowd coming

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Speaker 2: to see Roots.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure there's going to be a divide like

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Speaker 1: there are most times at shows, and particularly six sixty shows,

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Speaker 1: But I think they're different people who enjoyed the same things,

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Speaker 1: which is why, like I said, that Roots and Country

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Speaker 1: really have this kind of this cross section that I

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Speaker 1: really love and I think it's just going to be

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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a really fun and

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Speaker 1: it's something new that I think people are going to

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Speaker 1: really love.

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Speaker 2: Look, you know this already. Festivals are really hard at

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Speaker 2: the moment. It's hard business to get into heaps them

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Speaker 2: are falling over. So have you checked it out completely?

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Speaker 1: I think so. Well, Look, I'm just always in for

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Speaker 1: doing cool stuff and the timing feels right, and like

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Speaker 1: I said, it just feels like something new and exciting

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Speaker 1: and something for all types of people. I think festivals

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Speaker 1: can be kind of exclusive when it comes to you know,

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Speaker 1: age groups and demographics, and I think this is going

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Speaker 1: to be something that that everyone can come to an

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Speaker 1: experience and enjoy. So I'm not worried on that front

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Speaker 1: at all. I think it's going to be This is

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Speaker 1: a great asset for the music, for New Zeald Music industry.

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Speaker 1: I think so.

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Speaker 2: Now listen, just put just dispel the smith. You haven't

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Speaker 2: set this festival up entirely for Mike Hosking, have you what?

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Speaker 2: Because he's a country music lover, and he lives in Madicana,

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Speaker 2: and he's going to be taking a long break over summer.

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Speaker 2: It just feels like this is just is just done

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Speaker 2: for him.

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Speaker 1: Let's just run with that, with that story. I think

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Speaker 1: it's going to be good for his ego.

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Speaker 2: Rename it could you could probably will his ego will

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Speaker 2: love it. You could rename it the Mike Hoskin Country Fatal.

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Speaker 1: Well sponsored by sponsored by We'll get them. We'll give

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Speaker 1: him a VIP area.

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Speaker 2: This is becoming real for him right now. Do you

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Speaker 2: best of liked with him? I really appreciate you talking

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Speaker 2: to us much. You Walter's six sixty frontman.

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