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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's keep it going least the Perth pub Crawl

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Speaker 4: Okay, guys, I'm not too bad. It's been a long time.

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Speaker 2: Since I was to take on the world. As an understatement.

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Speaker 1: Now, what's interesting is, at a time when so many

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Speaker 2: Talk us how through how that happened.

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Speaker 4: Well, I had this idea about forming the band in

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Speaker 4: So I said to Kirk and Michael and Gary, look,

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Speaker 4: your own songs. Sure, whatever you say has come up

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Speaker 4: It was very it was very very funny actually, and

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Speaker 1: I've always thought tim that some of the best bands

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Speaker 1: But you you know, we've got the Farris brothers. Is

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Speaker 1: Cast your mind back to that rental in Subiaco and

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Speaker 3: Hitting wow as a moment you boys, Yeah exactly.

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Speaker 1: There was there were so many venues to perform in

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Speaker 6: You've got to play those gigs in Perth as the

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Speaker 3: You know, the in excess thing was to come when

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Speaker 4: It Absolutely did. Yeah, I mean that was the thing.

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Speaker 1: Everyone we've spoken to Tim talks about the great camaraderie

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Speaker 2: Did you did other bands and so on?

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Speaker 1: Did you get the feeling from them that they just

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so, because we didn't get that feeling.

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Speaker 4: We could see the camaraderie between other bands.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, a little bit us really.

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Speaker 4: We never never really understood why I retrospect now I do.

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Speaker 4: But and also we weren't really from Perth. Yeah, as

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Speaker 2: Know, the infiltrated oh exactly from Sydney. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I was born here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I tell everyone in excess as a Perth band,

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Speaker 3: Hey, Timmy, if someone had told you back then, you know,

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Speaker 6: Have you believe it?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's a big year this year, big birthday, big anniversary,

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Speaker 6: We spoke to Andrew in the year about it.

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Speaker 2: Can you believe it?

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Speaker 4: Yes? I can? Well yeah exactly. Well it's the big

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Speaker 4: five zero for the band.

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Speaker 4: That's a very big one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because and the Angels are going through that right

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Speaker 6: And what was to go back to Sydney?

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Speaker 3: Was there a date that you said we're going back

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a date because Ronnie said would be

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Speaker 4: we got sick of playing so many covers, you know,

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Speaker 1: Well, without giving anything away, with the Big five oh

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Speaker 1: celebration Maybe.

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Speaker 4: It would be some kind of celebration. Also, I can't

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Speaker 2: Away, no, just enough to know that there will.

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Speaker 4: Be Yeah, it's going to be epic.

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Speaker 2: A big party in the works.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it includes playing you get a good cowboy head

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Speaker 3: off your your brother.

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Speaker 6: Just for a little while, because.

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Speaker 4: I don't know where I put that thing.

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Speaker 3: We spoke to him about the Swing celebrations a few

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Speaker 1: Well, Tim Farriss, we are glad that you didn't listen

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Speaker 1: to the insistence that you already played covers and it's

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Speaker 1: been fantastic to reminisce with you today on our HUBCRAL

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Speaker 1: and we look forward to hearing what the big party

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Speaker 4: Thanks for your time, any any excuse to come to

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I would love to see you.

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Speaker 4: Love it.

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Speaker 5: Thanks brother Jim, Thank you guys.

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