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Speaker 1: Signe for another fringe festival act Quit Clazy and Lisa.

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Speaker 1: The Fringe Festival kicks off this weekend. You can catch

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Speaker 1: Tess Birch and How Not to Run a Music Festival

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Speaker 1: at the Laugh Resort in the city Friday to Sunday

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Speaker 1: this week. Tickets are available through fringeworld dot com dot you.

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Speaker 1: Test is joining us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Hello Test, morning, high closy highly So how are you

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Speaker 2: guys going good?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 1: What's this show about?

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Speaker 3: So?

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Speaker 2: This show is a true story about the time that

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Speaker 2: I ran a music festival six times.

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Speaker 1: So okay six times before information, please explain?

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Speaker 2: So well, sorry, we actually ran it on the weekend,

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Speaker 2: so I'm losing my voice a bit, which is probably

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Speaker 2: not the best timing for the show. But yeah, about

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Speaker 2: eight years ago, my partner and I started a small

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Speaker 2: music festival in Victoria on the Great Ocean Road. And

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Speaker 2: since then we've run it six times and every year

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Speaker 2: something has gone quite horrifically wrong. And I thought it

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Speaker 2: was good comedic material for a show.

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Speaker 3: It's turned into a comedy show.

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Speaker 4: Funny. It is the dangerous words there we start a

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Speaker 4: small music festival, We'll start small. Could that have been

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Speaker 4: part of the problem? Test or is it just doesn't

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Speaker 4: matter how big or small.

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Speaker 1: They always start small.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they sort of have to start small.

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Speaker 2: I mean, unfortunately, we've never really been able to get

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Speaker 2: it bigger, just because the industry it is so hard

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Speaker 2: to sell tickets and to run festivals at the moment.

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Speaker 3: And I think you know that there's been a few.

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Speaker 2: In person haven't gone ahead recently for low ticket sales

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Speaker 2: and it's just something that's happening all around Australia.

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Speaker 3: Really, Well, how did you.

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Speaker 1: Get into running the music festivals? I mean, this is

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Speaker 1: what they asked the fire guy as well.

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Speaker 4: But we.

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Speaker 2: Are from out in a regional area in Victoria and

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Speaker 2: then we just wanted to get some more things happening

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Speaker 2: out there and we liked running events. We're actually both lawyers,

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Speaker 2: so it's not our typical kind of data.

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Speaker 1: No, it's not.

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Speaker 4: What have helped you deal with those agents, those managers

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Speaker 4: of artists.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine one of my favorite places on the

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Speaker 1: in the world though, the Great Ocean Road. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: it's a beautiful part of the world. So who are

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Speaker 1: some of the artists that you've encountered.

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Speaker 2: So over the years, we've had bands such as Confidence Man, whack.

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Speaker 3: Last Dinosaurs. A lot of ones that are.

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Speaker 2: On Triple J and we'll read like local community radio.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Tess, no link necessarily those acts. But who are

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Speaker 4: the biggest nightmares? Is it managers of bands or is

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Speaker 4: it band members?

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Speaker 2: It's actually the food truck So really the food truck,

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Speaker 2: the food truck people.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the food truck people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the number of times they arrived without the right

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Speaker 2: ingredients or just someone someone from the vegan food truck

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Speaker 2: actually went missing once and we spent the whole day

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Speaker 2: of one of the festivals trying to find them.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, I'm looking for lentils.

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Speaker 1: Turns up without the writ ingradient. You job, potato guy.

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Speaker 4: Do they complain about their site and stuff as well,

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Speaker 4: like that sounds like a joke.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sometimes they complain that it's the music's going too

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Speaker 3: late at night, and it's like.

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Speaker 1: I would have thought Portaloos would present the biggest stump problem.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Portaloos were initially a bit of an issue for us,

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Speaker 2: and once we actually it was really cold and everyone

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Speaker 2: was just using the ones in a particular area and

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Speaker 2: they all filled up really early in the day and

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Speaker 2: started overflowing. But now we've actually installed like.

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Speaker 3: Nice drop compostine toilets.

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Speaker 4: So okay, all right, he tests. On the weekend, my

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Speaker 4: wife and I sat through the three hour Woodstock movie.

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Speaker 4: It is a marathon. It's nearly as long as the

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Speaker 4: festival itself from way back in the sixties and the ones.

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Speaker 4: Apart from all the hippies. Of course, we noticed in

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Speaker 4: Great Acts, we notice a lot of people when a

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Speaker 4: million people they reckon turn up outside New York upstate,

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Speaker 4: they started pulling the fence down because it became a

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Speaker 4: free concert. You have any issues with people trying to

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Speaker 4: get in not paying, I mean.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of locals who know different ways to

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Speaker 2: get into the property.

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Speaker 3: So we do have that from time to time, but

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Speaker 3: not quite in that same like Stampede.

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Speaker 4: That was ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they had it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Have you been to Fringe before?

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Speaker 3: I have?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, not to perform, just to see, but I

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Speaker 2: am normally performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival each Yeah.

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Speaker 1: All right, what tell me this? Why ask you said

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Speaker 1: you're a lawyer? Why are so many lawyers often they

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Speaker 1: make the switched comedy? Is it because the two things

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Speaker 1: are so similar, your honor?

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Speaker 2: I think it's there's definitely something to there was a

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Speaker 2: love of language for sure.

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Speaker 1: The number of people I've known over the years, like

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Speaker 1: you know, back to Libby el mcfeast, she was a

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Speaker 1: lawyer as well. All right, well it's this weekend to

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Speaker 1: day to Sunday. We hope your voice stays with you

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Speaker 1: tests or really will we like running a music festival.

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Speaker 1: Tickets are available through fringeworld dot com dot au. Good

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Speaker 1: on your test, well done, good luck, Thanks tests, Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much, guys,