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Speaker 1: Bernard Fanning is coming to town on his Tea and

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Speaker 1: Sympathy Tour at Kingspark March. The first tickets are available

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Speaker 1: through Bernard fanning dot com slash tour that he's with

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Speaker 1: us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Hello morning, Bernard.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty years.

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Speaker 1: Cheers for not helping me feel any younger this morning,

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Speaker 1: twenty years. How do you.

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Speaker 2: Feel about it?

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Speaker 3: Oh man, I've been talking about it for the last

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Speaker 3: two weeks. It's interesting. Look, it is amazing, isn't it?

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Speaker 3: That time literally flies by. You just can't even imagine

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Speaker 3: that when you're fifteen, imagining when you're thirty five.

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Speaker 4: Yes, crazy as so much has happened over the last

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Speaker 4: twenty years too.

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Speaker 2: I know the whole landscape has changed.

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Speaker 3: Everything has changed with regards to the music industry, absolutely.

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Speaker 3: I mean it was still people were still buying CDs

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Speaker 3: in two thousand and five. So yeah, all of the

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Speaker 3: whole model of the music industry has changed. I guess

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Speaker 3: the thing that hasn't changed is that songs are still

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Speaker 3: at the center of the whole thing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no matter how we longed to them, we still

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Speaker 4: love Yeah, great music that never goes away.

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Speaker 1: Well, a lot of people bought this CD. It was

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Speaker 1: your first solo album after powder Finger. It went straight

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Speaker 1: to number one and it led to three areas including

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Speaker 1: Album of the Year. Well, I mean it's certainly you

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Speaker 1: know that was there was huge success. It would have

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Speaker 1: laid any fears you had pretty quickly. But how nervous

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Speaker 1: were you after because powder Finger, you know, we've always

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Speaker 1: said ended on a high, which is why it never

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Speaker 1: a week goes by where you're not, you know, hassled

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Speaker 1: to give it another round. But you know, how nervous

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Speaker 1: were you about going from the band to doing something

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Speaker 1: that's just you.

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Speaker 3: Well, I wasn't really because my expectations were so low.

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Speaker 3: I didn't really you know, I mean powder Thing was

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Speaker 3: just on hiatus. That was still five years before we

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Speaker 3: ended up finishing. Anyway, I honestly didn't really have high expectations.

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Speaker 3: I just wanted to make a record that sort of

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Speaker 3: sounded different to the band, with different sort of instrumentation

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Speaker 3: and stuff like that. And I thought, you know, we'll

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Speaker 3: go out and have a tour and hopefully people will

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Speaker 3: get behind it and that'll be it, and then I'll

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Speaker 3: go back to my real job. That was kind of

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Speaker 3: how it looked at it. And then wish you Well happened.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because you did describe it as just a little

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Speaker 4: bit of a side project at the time, something I guess,

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Speaker 4: you know, to keep you occupied. And then and then

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Speaker 4: you drop this single and then basically just about every

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Speaker 4: radio station in.

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Speaker 2: The country out of it, and that little side project

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Speaker 2: became something well not so little.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it sort of took on a life of its

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Speaker 3: own with wish You Well, which you know, that song

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Speaker 3: only arrived three days before I left to go and

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Speaker 3: do the recording. It wasn't even really part of the

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Speaker 3: part of the demos or anything those stories. Again, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it just sort of fell out of me one morning

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Speaker 3: when I was really really hungover, so kind of describing

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Speaker 3: a hangover in real time.

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Speaker 1: And then it ended up topping the Triple J Hottest

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Speaker 1: one hundred in two thousand and five, which it was,

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Speaker 1: you know, in two thousand and five. That thing, and

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Speaker 1: I say this from another radio that thing was huge,

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Speaker 1: you know.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean that has a massive catapult effect

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Speaker 3: and especially if it's an Australian song, people love that. Yes,

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Speaker 3: and it had only happened a few times prior to that,

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Speaker 3: I think, so, yeah, there's no describing what a massive

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Speaker 3: difference that makes when you've released something, it's huge, and

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Speaker 3: you know those things like topping poles or winning an

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Speaker 3: award or whatever. Those things are great, but they're actually.

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Speaker 2: For me.

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Speaker 3: They're more gratifying to the people around me than for

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Speaker 3: me personally, because it is a bit of a validation

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Speaker 3: for your family and all the crap they have put

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Speaker 3: up with, and your management and label and all the

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Speaker 3: people that do all the work that doesn't get any recognition.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because you're not the only person who makes it happen,

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Speaker 2: that's right.

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Speaker 3: It's a massive team, family effort.

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Speaker 1: I guess the gratification for you comes from things like

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Speaker 1: playing the album for the first time in twenty years

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Speaker 1: a week ago in Brisbane. How was that?

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Speaker 3: It is amazing? It was really amazing. We've never played

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Speaker 3: the album in full. Even when we did that original tour,

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Speaker 3: there was a song on there that I didn't have

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Speaker 3: the ability to play and sing it at the same time,

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Speaker 3: so we just ditched it and didn't do it called

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Speaker 3: further down the road. But I've been practicing for twenty years,

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Speaker 3: so now I can play it and sing it at

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Speaker 3: the same time.

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Speaker 2: Years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's it's just the warmth in the room

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Speaker 3: when we played the other night was incredible. That energy

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Speaker 3: coming back to us of people still living the record.

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Speaker 3: You know that it means a lot to people still

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Speaker 3: those songs, and I'm really really proud of that. That's

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Speaker 3: that's kind of the the most satisfying thing I think

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Speaker 3: as an artist when you get people telling you that

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Speaker 3: you've done something that's improved their lives. But yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: an incredible that yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you've got to mark the twentieth anniversary. You've

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Speaker 4: got the special anniversary edition Off to You and Sympathy

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Speaker 4: coming out on vinyl, which of course is making a comeback,

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Speaker 4: so you can have it on CD and vinyl, CD

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Speaker 4: or vinyl.

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Speaker 3: It's very retro.

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Speaker 2: What's that on the way?

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Speaker 3: No one there?

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Speaker 1: It's a cassette.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: That's become pretty hits as well, have they? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, these people haven't had to you know, wind

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Speaker 1: their take back on with a pencil while they're driving

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Speaker 1: down the freeway exactly. But I love the The twentieth

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Speaker 1: anniversary reissue includes outtakes, demos, and covers of your songs

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Speaker 1: by other artists. How did you go choosing what you

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Speaker 1: were going to you know, there would have been plenty

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Speaker 3: We just went out some people that we knew, like

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Speaker 3: in the end, Gem Cassadaily and the Paper Kites were

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Speaker 3: the ones who kind of put their hand up to

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Speaker 3: cover those particular songs from Bird and Belief. And they're

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Speaker 3: both acts that I really liked and respected, and I

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Speaker 3: just wanted them to do whatever they wanted. It wasn't

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Speaker 3: any I had no creative input to it, No, I

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Speaker 3: mean it's kind of windless asking someone to do an

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Speaker 3: interpretation of it and then around. Yeah, but it's been

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Speaker 3: very It was very interesting, like Jem and Troy cassa

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Speaker 3: Daily doing Songbird, having a father singing to his daughter

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Speaker 3: in response to what she's been singing totally flips the

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Speaker 3: lyrics into a different universe. Yeah, it's a beautiful kind

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Speaker 3: of parallel that changes the way I had originally written

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Speaker 3: it well, and I love that.

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Speaker 1: We can't wait for all of it, especially the show

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Speaker 1: at Kings Park on March. The first tickets are available

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Speaker 1: through Bernard Fanning dot com slash Tour. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for joining us this morning.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me guys much.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see you up in Kings Park.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, that's going to be fantastic, number one album, Platinum

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Speaker 4: five times over,