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Speaker 1: We are so looking forward to next February the twenty first,

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Speaker 1: Simple Minds and Ice House together in Kings Park. Tickets

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Speaker 1: are on sale now through Ticketmaster and joining us this

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Speaker 1: morning all around the world. We're going Jim Kerr from

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Speaker 1: Frankfurt and Ivor Davies is in Sydney.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, my lad's good morning.

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Speaker 3: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: So are you guys you met back in nineteen eighty one.

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Speaker 1: This is not your first rodeo. What do you remember

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Speaker 4: Ah? Well, I was kind of four worn because I

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Speaker 4: had a friend who had sed me Vinyl, so I

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Speaker 4: had its eye ad on what was happening on the

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Speaker 4: other side of the world, and what was happening was

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Speaker 4: this young band from Scotland called Simple Minds, and that's

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Speaker 4: where we kind of picked up on that song Love Song.

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Speaker 4: I think was the very first thing that Australing heard

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Speaker 2: Mind in data was and you, Jim, yeah, same thing.

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Speaker 3: I mean it was a mutual friend and result. It

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Speaker 3: was almost like in a student exchange where Eive and

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Speaker 3: I had come then I could have been Ivor's guitar rodeo,

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Speaker 3: you know. But it's nice to be coming back.

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Speaker 5: And the connection with Australia, the fans, and you know,

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Speaker 5: is still there after all these years. But back in

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Speaker 5: those days it was critical, wasn't it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, the support was we had a brand new

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Speaker 4: We had we had a bunch of new new sympthesizers

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Speaker 4: And you know when I heard love song and I'm oh, man,

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Speaker 4: I want one of those things.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, the two bands have come together to record t

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Speaker 1: Rex's Get It On.

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Speaker 2: Jim Well, why that song? Why that particular song?

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Speaker 3: I was laughing there. That's true. We did evolve the

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Speaker 3: In fact, all the Australian bands could play like Billy

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Speaker 3: or so. But coming to the track, which again is

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Speaker 3: huge fans of Reps yes Mark Bolan, and when we

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Speaker 3: decided to do a song, just so happens that this

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Speaker 3: the album that the song comes from, Get It On

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Speaker 3: do great well, they do great songs of their own,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and I've had last time we caught up

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Speaker 5: when you met your love for David Bowie, but your

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Speaker 5: much influenced by that style. Mate, I didn't realize how

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Speaker 4: Well when we were we started out as a covers band, obviously,

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Speaker 2: Just cover bands.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Iver, I saw us a set to

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Speaker 1: Is it true that you first played there in the

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Speaker 4: It's absolutely true. I think I turned eating by about

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Speaker 4: I had just become a full time student. I was

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Speaker 1: I've always believed Eva that your classical training would have

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Speaker 4: I would agree wholeheartedly, except that the massive liability that

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Speaker 4: had just announced to the world to qualify as a

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Speaker 4: kept that a very very very very big secret for

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Speaker 4: a very long time. I just want to know.

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Speaker 5: Jim has told us in the past that he's preserved

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Speaker 5: his voice, that beautiful voice, by not talking and going

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Speaker 5: to get drinking out the shows. So have you done

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Speaker 5: the right thing with you, good mate over the years

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Speaker 5: and gone out drinking with Charlie Birchall, the Simple Minds guitarist.

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Speaker 4: Well, we certainly did in that first tour. And I

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Speaker 4: remember we went out one night. Now I think we're

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Speaker 4: I remember very specifically it was. It had a kind

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Speaker 4: I think Charlie probably had a couple couple of glasses

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Speaker 4: I didn't understand about ninety five percent of everything that

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Speaker 4: And it was a very interesting forty minutes the interpreter.

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Speaker 4: That's funny.

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Speaker 3: Charlie for forty years and ninety percent of the stuff,

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Speaker 5: That's right, So you're not insane, Yes, as well, maybe.

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Speaker 3: I can see. That's why, that's how it was. Whatever,

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Speaker 5: But haven't you too, You and Charlie nine each other

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Speaker 5: Were you seven or eight or something?

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Speaker 3: Was was a new housing scheme backing glass that was

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Speaker 1: Now, Jim, if I just may be forgiven for falling

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Speaker 1: for one moment. I have been a huge Simple Minds

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Speaker 2: I loved you know, I'm an eighties child.

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Speaker 1: Someone Somewhere in Summertime is one of my all time

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Speaker 1: the fluidity that you always had of motion when you're performing.

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Speaker 2: It was mesmerizing.

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Speaker 1: But how are your knees these days?

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Speaker 3: I still get away with that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: How did you get into that robbery thing? You know?

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Speaker 3: I said this, going the poms and glassgown avoiding the

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Speaker 2: Du so you were ducking and waving.

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Speaker 3: You got you got nothing? Yeah you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well it was a beautiful thing.

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Speaker 5: You gotta stay limba. Yes, hey, I know that. I

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Speaker 5: know that you had some health issues. Man, how are

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Speaker 5: But you're you're all good.

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Speaker 4: We seem to be queer at beginning of complaining today

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Speaker 1: Actually, there's been a lot of music documentaries made recently,

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Speaker 1: some very good ones, and are you fans of these?

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Speaker 2: Would you consider doing.

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Speaker 3: That release of documentary? And if there was something we

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Speaker 2: I look forward to that.

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Speaker 4: How about yourself, ever, No, that's a very interesting year

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Speaker 4: and I'm looking forward to this simple mind. Yeah, I

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Speaker 4: there were plans, but I'm not really good at coming

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Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, And have you seen being a Bowie fan,

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Speaker 5: have you seen Moonat's Daydream which was an incredible film.

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Speaker 2: Lister, When I said this, I mean that was next

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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, no, I haven't seen it, but I've seen

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Speaker 4: a number of things. And you know, my my big,

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Speaker 4: my big kind of passion with David Bowie was it

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Speaker 1: On my list, dream on your list, and on that note,

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Speaker 1: we will look we will all look forward to Simple

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Speaker 1: mind documentary coming out in just weeks.

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Speaker 5: Jim Ducking and weaving forty plus.

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Speaker 1: Years, I'm gonna look at that in a whole new

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Speaker 1: way now, Jim Kerr and Iva Davies. We can't wait

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Speaker 1: to see Simple Minds and Ice House at Kingspark February twenty.

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Speaker 1: First tickets are through Ticketmaster. Thank you for joining us from.

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Speaker 5: Frankfurt, Sydney and beaming into Perth.

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Speaker 4: Thank you boys, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: Thank you see you in February.

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Speaker 4: So you're here