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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Forty years ago I first met our next guest. I

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Speaker 2: was a segment producer on a television show. I was

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Speaker 2: obsessed with spand Our Ballet. I've seen them every time

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Speaker 2: they're here. I see Tony Hadley every time he's performing,

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Speaker 2: and he's performing with us right here, right now, as

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Speaker 2: our next guest.

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Speaker 1: Hi, Tony here is Oh good morning.

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Speaker 3: Do you know years ago I was wooing Amanda to

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Speaker 3: come and work with me on the radio, and I

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Speaker 3: used your tickets as a carrot. This is twenty years ago,

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Speaker 3: twenty probably twenty one years ago.

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Speaker 1: Used you guys.

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Speaker 3: Coming to town, you were performing at Luna Pass, you

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Speaker 3: could take your posse year.

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Speaker 2: It got me over the line and here I am.

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Speaker 1: Twenty years later.

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Speaker 2: So we're talking about forty years between about twenty years.

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Speaker 2: How does it feel, Tony to have this fabulous career

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Speaker 2: that spans the decades.

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Speaker 1: It's a bit of a weird while.

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Speaker 4: I mean, when you start off making music, I mean

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Speaker 4: we were a punk band when we first started nineteen

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Speaker 4: seventy six. We planned all the punk clubs in London

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Speaker 4: and eventually we sort of became Span Our Ballet and

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Speaker 4: then our first fact this year is going to be

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Speaker 4: the celebration of cut long story short.

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Speaker 1: It's forty five years ago, which is ridiculous, and.

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Speaker 4: At that moment you hope and pray that you're going

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Speaker 4: to be around in ten years time, twenty years time.

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure I imagined i'd still be doing this

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Speaker 4: in forty five years time.

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Speaker 1: But I'm still loving it. And I remember when.

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Speaker 4: When I was younger, because you know, you're all kind

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Speaker 4: of excuse me, angry young men, and I'd be saying, yeah,

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Speaker 4: Mick Jagger and Paul McCarley, they're so old man, they

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Speaker 4: should be giving it up.

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Speaker 1: They're only about thirty two. Here I am at sixty four,

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Speaker 1: still still cracking it.

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Speaker 4: As I just said, I haven't had to drop any

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Speaker 4: of the keys to the songs or anything. I had

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Speaker 4: a quick story. So I was in Holland working with

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Speaker 4: an orchestra.

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Speaker 1: I work with quite a lot of orchestras.

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Speaker 4: And the conductor came over to me and he said,

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Speaker 4: these keys they're in the same key. I said, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I sing in the same key. So but you're very old,

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Speaker 4: I said, after I hit him.

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Speaker 2: Not quite a compliment and half a compliment.

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Speaker 3: It happens to the singers. Elton John had to change

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Speaker 3: his key. Rod Stewart had to change his key because

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Speaker 3: as you get older, your vocal cords shrink like most

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Speaker 3: of you. But so you've you've managed to keep that.

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Speaker 1: That's fantastic.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I mean I studied with an opera

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Speaker 4: singer for two years. I always exercised before I go

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Speaker 4: on stage, and it's just keeping it going. I mean,

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Speaker 4: Tom Jones is still singing like a dream. And Tom's

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Speaker 4: so he's still singing really well. Jack Jones, the late

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Speaker 4: Jack Jones, I don't know if you be one of

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Speaker 4: the best cruders on the planet. And I knew him,

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Speaker 4: I loved him. He was fantastic. I mean I saw

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Speaker 4: him just literally just a few years ago at Cadungan

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Speaker 4: Hall in London. He was still singing like an absolute dream.

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Speaker 4: And I think it's about keeping it going. It's you know,

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Speaker 4: the minute you stop is the minute you've got problems.

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Speaker 2: So you still look like such a stylish man. You're

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Speaker 2: wearing a beautiful suit. You look fabulous. It's interesting that

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Speaker 2: you say that you were sort of started punk because

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Speaker 2: or started in a punk band, or you were punk,

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Speaker 2: but because the New Romantic movement is what I kind

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Speaker 2: of remember spending our ballet as being. And I'm wearing

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Speaker 2: a giant puffy shirt today. What was the most fun

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Speaker 2: crazy thing that you wore and do you still own it?

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Speaker 4: Well, my live Aid coat I actually found and I

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Speaker 4: must auction it to a charity thing.

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Speaker 1: So you know, the live Aid coat I wore and

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Speaker 1: everyone said, are you mad? So it was a friend

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Speaker 1: of mine, Jane.

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Speaker 4: She made it and it was a excuse me, a

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Speaker 4: double thickness leather coat and it was all about, yeah.

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Speaker 1: I've got to look cool. I'm going to be on

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Speaker 1: TV in front of the world.

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Speaker 4: And I sweated and sweated because it was like eighty

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Speaker 4: degrees in London, which is kind of unusual. So I've

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Speaker 4: got that coat. But one of the funniest I had

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Speaker 4: this outfit made. It was a leather outfit with loads

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Speaker 4: I was at this art show in London thinking I

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Speaker 4: was ever so cool, and all of a sudden.

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Speaker 1: The poppers started to come off.

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Speaker 4: It was getting to the point where things were getting exposed.

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Speaker 1: Because I had to rush home early but live.

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Speaker 3: Ages, lives in our lives now large in our lives.

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Speaker 3: And the fact that you're actually there, the fact that

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Speaker 3: Queen were there, and after watching Bahemian Rhapsody, you really

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Speaker 3: get that vibe of like they were on the out

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Speaker 3: at that stage and Freddie knew he had age a stage.

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Speaker 1: And he wasn't going to be around for much longer.

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Speaker 3: What was it like being there when Queen performed?

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Speaker 4: What was that where there were two bands that you

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Speaker 4: really remember, which was Stateless quote and I stood on

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Speaker 4: the side of the stage with the late great Janie

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Speaker 4: Long and the Crow Boys France and Rick love them

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Speaker 4: and literally they started rocking all over the world and

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Speaker 4: we just looked at each other and went, Wow, this

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Speaker 4: is really happening. I mean, you know, eighty thousand people

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Speaker 4: in the stadium and that was a moment. And then

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Speaker 4: obviously the Queen Boys, because they did an amazing sort

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Speaker 4: of compilation of all their big hits and stuff. And

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Speaker 4: I remember going in to see Freddie and the Boys

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Speaker 4: just before they went on and said, look, just have

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Speaker 4: a great show, guys. You know you're going to be fantastic.

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Speaker 4: And I knew Freddie and the Boys anyway, and Freddie

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Speaker 4: gave me advice as a young singer about, you know,

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Speaker 4: going out there owning the stage. You know, as the

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Speaker 4: lead singer, you're always the focal point. And even if

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Speaker 4: you're feeling down, or your voice is not great, or

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Speaker 4: you've got a bit of flu, you never apologize for anything.

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Speaker 4: You go out there and you're larger than life. And

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Speaker 4: I always took that on board. And he was a fantastic, lovely, lovely,

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Speaker 4: lovely man. Order Queen Boys were wonderful guys.

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Speaker 2: To be such a moment of history, and for your

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Speaker 2: songs as well, to be so iconic. What more as

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Speaker 2: a musician could you ask for? To have songs that

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Speaker 2: babies are born knowing is extraordinary, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: They come out singing gold.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 1: That's a worry.

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Speaker 4: It's it's kind of weird, you know, I mean, true

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Speaker 4: is the is the love song? You know, people get

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Speaker 4: married to that, you know, make love to it, all

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Speaker 4: sorts of stuff.

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Speaker 1: You know. Gold is that kind of anthemic, sort of

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Speaker 1: believe in yourself kind of thing.

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Speaker 4: And as you walk around London, you'll get the black

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Speaker 4: cab is going all right, turn as you go you're right,

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Speaker 4: May your gold, and so you got to that reaction

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Speaker 4: and then through the barricade. For me is my favorite

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Speaker 4: man I Ballet song because it was a complete departure

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Speaker 4: from everything else we did, and it's got the beautiful

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Speaker 4: lyrics and the soft bits at the beginning, and then

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Speaker 4: you've got the anthemic bit when the drums come in,

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Speaker 4: and it's just such a wonderful song.

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Speaker 1: And that's the one.

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Speaker 4: If you're going to see anyone in the audience shed

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Speaker 4: a tear, that will be on that particular song.

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Speaker 1: Not true our goal, but it will be that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, when I make love, I choose gold and sadly

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Speaker 3: I'm by myself.

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Speaker 2: Oh we didn't need that. It's the shortest song.

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Speaker 1: What time is it? It's time.

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Speaker 3: It's great to see you again. For tickets and tour information,

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Speaker 3: head to destroy our all lines dot com.

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Speaker 1: Well explain right, Well, I'll explain sort of briefing what

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Speaker 1: was going on.

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Speaker 4: So we were meant to do these these festivals over

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Speaker 4: here for some reason, I don't know why, but they

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Speaker 4: got canceled and we added on a few shows ourselves

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Speaker 4: in Adelaide's, Hobart and Perth.

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Speaker 1: Just spend a bit longer in Australia.

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Speaker 4: Really sure, but we're so the tour that we're talking

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Speaker 4: about now is the tour in March twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, we're going to be coming out.

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Speaker 4: I well, we've come here to you know, because obviously

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Speaker 4: we sold the tickets and we're coming here to see

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Speaker 4: our fans.

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Speaker 1: So but we're announcing a proper tour.

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Speaker 4: In twenty twenty six, March twenty twenty six, and I

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Speaker 4: think is it destroy or something.

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Speaker 2: That destroy all lines?

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Speaker 1: That's the one.

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Speaker 2: Go there and.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you again.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'll see everybody in Perth and Adelaide and Hope

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Speaker 4: and then we'll see everyone properly for a.

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Speaker 1: Proper tour next year. See you they fantastic.

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Speaker 3: Thanks you catch up again mate, Thanks.

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Speaker 1: Very much for having me. Thank you