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Speaker 2: Stuff with it for a long time I noticed to

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Speaker 1: Yes, and the Mighty Stems, of course you can catch

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Speaker 1: them the Stems Garden Party at Port Beach Brewery Saturday,

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Speaker 1: March twenty nine. Tickets are available from Perth tickets dot

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Speaker 1: com dot are you don Marry Arnie. Good to see you, mate.

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Speaker 3: Good morning guys, thanks for coming in, Thanks for having

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Speaker 3: me in mate.

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Speaker 1: This party is going to go off, isn't it. We hope.

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Speaker 3: So yes, it's a good lineup and yeah, Port Beach

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Speaker 3: haven't played there before, so yeah, absolutely, it's a great

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Speaker 3: it's a nice factually, its beautiful, good time a year to.

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Speaker 1: Do it, so yeah, absolutely at the end of March. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: forty years of celebrations mate for the band, just fairly recently.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, forty one in March. We've clicked that forty years.

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Speaker 3: It's been a it's been an interesting you know, I

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Speaker 3: So at the moment, you know, the band's firing and

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, did you always hope forty years ago that that

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Speaker 3: I thought it would be all over, you know, after

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Speaker 1: When was the biggest surprise market wise? Was that somewhere

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Speaker 1: And they liked it. I like to be there.

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Speaker 1: Not everyone's going to fill that Perth Arena or what's

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Speaker 4: Everyone wants to go to Perth Arena or a different episode.

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Speaker 3: Well, I've been working on a solo album for the

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well we look forward to seeing you stumbling

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Speaker 4: your way through it on at Port Beach, Brey. You

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Speaker 4: March twenty nine. Tickets are available from Perth tickets dot

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Speaker 5: My pleasure guys, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: And I'll stalk you down at sea lanes against it.

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Speaker 1: Okay fish and chips together absolutely