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Speaker 1: By the Sea is on this Sunday at Noades Park

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Speaker 1: in Hillary's ticket through Ticketmaster and one of the most

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Speaker 1: exciting parts of the day is this the original members

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Speaker 1: reforming for Noise Works.

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Speaker 2: John Stevens is with us.

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Speaker 3: Helloy, how are you going?

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Speaker 1: So how did the conversation about that start? About getting

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Speaker 1: it back together?

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Speaker 3: It started when we finished the album in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 3: The album's coming out on the eleventh of November eleven, eleven,

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Speaker 3: twenty two.

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Speaker 2: Nice.

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Speaker 3: It's the album's called Evolution, And we finished this record,

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Speaker 3: but unfortunately Stuart Phraser pass away December of that year,

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Speaker 3: so we obviously went not put it on hold, and

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Speaker 3: then COVID happened, so it's been just sitting on the shelf.

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Speaker 3: And when this year in twenty two and everything started

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Speaker 3: up again, we talked about doing some shows and putting

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Speaker 3: the album out. So in doing that we asked Justin Stanley.

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Speaker 3: Been living in America and Los Angeles for the last

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Speaker 3: thirty years, you know, producing famous people and working with

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Speaker 3: Prince and worked with Silk Cornrow and Eric Clappman, all

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Speaker 3: these different wonderful people. Beck he hadn't played with us

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Speaker 3: for thirty years. Justin you want to come back and

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Speaker 3: do this too, of this last this one tour, because

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Speaker 3: basically we're dedicating the whole album to Stuart Fraser and

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Speaker 3: we're just honoring his memory by getting this albums. He's

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Speaker 3: playing all over it, wrote the songs together and it's

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Speaker 3: just the way of us getting out and having some

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Speaker 3: fun and honoring our mates to it.

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Speaker 4: Mate, I knew that you were hopeful one stage a

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Speaker 4: couple of years ago that you know chick would be

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Speaker 4: to come back and do it. He played with John

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Speaker 4: Finn and band for a young quarter of a century

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Speaker 4: and that and great tribute to a wonderful player and

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Speaker 4: a lovely man. But Jack Jones coming into play guitar,

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Speaker 4: this is a real that's a great pick up Jack Jones.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's He's an amazing talent, amazing singer, incredible guitar player.

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Speaker 3: I think his guitar plan is quite underrated actually because

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Speaker 3: most people in Australia know him as the singer of

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Speaker 3: Southern Sons. Yes, I don't realize how I've got a

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Speaker 3: guitar players. But we've all been friends for EON's. He

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Speaker 3: was a great friend of Stuart's and he's just seemed

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Speaker 3: like a natural fit. And when we asked him, he

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Speaker 3: was absolutely blown away and very very humble. He is

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Speaker 3: a humble man, very very humbly accepted, and we're all

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Speaker 3: we're better for it because he's wonderful.

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Speaker 2: When you released Heart and Soul just a little bit

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Speaker 2: of time ago, the band's first new song in thirty years,

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Speaker 2: how much has changed in thirty years in terms of

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Speaker 2: the process of making and releasing new music this time

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Speaker 2: around compared to last time.

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Speaker 3: Oh, the whole whole, dime Box and Diamonds changed. You know,

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Speaker 3: obviously social media, you know it's all about that, and

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Speaker 3: you know people's attention spans are not very long nowadays.

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Speaker 3: So but you know, for us, as a band with

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Speaker 3: a big history and a big catalog, you know, it's

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Speaker 3: just about out the music and if it does well,

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Speaker 3: it does well. If it doesn't, it doesn't matter. We

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Speaker 3: got to play shows. We're doing it for the love.

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Speaker 3: We're not doing it to be a big rock star band.

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Speaker 3: It's like, nah, and we just want to get this

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Speaker 3: music out because it's a great record that we've made,

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Speaker 3: and it's a great record that Stuart is playing on.

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Speaker 3: It is amazing, and we just don't want it sitting

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Speaker 3: on a shelf gathering dust. You know, it deserves to

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Speaker 3: be out there. And it's kind of like the last

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Speaker 3: hurrah of Noiseworks really because you probably we probably won't

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Speaker 3: do this again. We're doing it. We're doing it for

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Speaker 3: all the right reasons. And when we finished in February,

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Speaker 3: after this tour, you know, there's no talk about anything

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Speaker 3: after that, so we're just focusing on now and having

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Speaker 3: a great time doing the shows and playing the music.

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Speaker 3: And you know, we're playing all the old hits where

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Speaker 3: by the Sea, and you know, these festivals that we're

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Speaker 3: doing around the country, you know, because people want to

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Speaker 3: hear all those those songs they grew up with, and

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Speaker 3: we are more than happy to put smiles on their

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Speaker 3: of new ones as well, and once the album comes out,

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Speaker 3: you know, we'll add a couple of new ones. And

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Speaker 3: obviously on our own shows we get to play a

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Speaker 3: full set, you know. On the festivals, you know, we

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Speaker 3: play for an hour and it's just you know, when bam,

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Speaker 3: thank you, ma'am. You know, because she's so many artists

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Speaker 3: on there, i mean, the baby animals are on there,

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Speaker 3: season Quatrow, the Great Season quart Throw, the first Lady

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Speaker 3: of rock and roll, I know, right, we love started

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Speaker 3: to I played with her before, so I'm excited to

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Speaker 3: see her again and spend some times. She's an amazing woman.

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Speaker 1: Well the others all right as well.

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Speaker 3: Exactly, She's still as amazing as she's always been. And

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Speaker 3: that's the wonderful thing about you know, got to see

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Speaker 3: the bands that came from those eighties, nineties eras. I mean,

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Speaker 3: that's still the better. Everyone's better than what they were.

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Speaker 3: We were young. We're all young and full of inks.

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Speaker 3: You know. Now we're just like we know, just enjoying that,

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Speaker 3: you know that being up there and being able to

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Speaker 3: engage and have fun and as I said earlier, just

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Speaker 3: pretty smiles on people's faces and making people happy. You

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Speaker 3: take them back to a time. Of course, everyone gapes

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Speaker 3: for a couple of a few hours. You know, it's

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Speaker 3: beautiful after the last couple of years, years we've all

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Speaker 3: had the becravid thing. You know, music is really a

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Speaker 3: wonderful savior.

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Speaker 4: Well, John, I was in this in that area backstage

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Speaker 4: and seeing you guys finally get back together at By

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Speaker 4: the Sea event last year, and then went out to

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Speaker 4: the crowd to hear. And your pipes, mate, are as

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Speaker 4: good as every I don't know how you're feeling about

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Speaker 4: your voice, but it sounded as good as ever to me.

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Speaker 4: What do you do to look after yourself?

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Speaker 3: Well? Of you? Involved very very hot tea come yeah,

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Speaker 3: and a dash of vodka. Yeah, that's what he was

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Speaker 3: working for you.

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Speaker 1: That I say now to put you on the spot, John,

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Speaker 1: if you could create a fantasy music festival with three

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Speaker 1: bands that you would be, you know, playing alongside alive

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Speaker 1: or Dead any time?

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Speaker 2: Who would you pick? Yes?

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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, okay, Elvis, Yes, you think you're man. Look

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Speaker 3: the Rolling Stone is very for me and the Beatles

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Speaker 3: of course.

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Speaker 4: That's a nice line you can have.

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Speaker 2: Making it for.

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Speaker 3: I'll be happy to be at the back making them

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Speaker 3: my specialty with.

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Speaker 4: The tambourine in hand.

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Speaker 2: That's yeah, John.

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Speaker 4: We asked all about musical lighters to join us and

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Speaker 4: the show was the last artist or band T shirt

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Speaker 4: the merchandise the T shirt that you wore.

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Speaker 3: David Bowie, nice, Yeah, I was Aladdin insane that I

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Speaker 3: had yet And you know it's one of those ones

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Speaker 3: I've had for years and I wore it the other

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Speaker 3: week and it's kind of like, you know, I'm just

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Speaker 3: getting a bit bigger now to them all, I'm trying

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Speaker 3: to stretch it.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 3: It still looks good, doesn't it. And it's like.

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Speaker 2: Have you seen dream?

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Speaker 3: No, I haven't.

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Speaker 2: You've got to It is a gym. It's amazing, of course, amazing.

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Speaker 3: I met him, did Yeah, he didn't. He did not

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Speaker 3: disappoint I met him in Belgium. You guys playing with

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Speaker 3: in Excess and I was at the backstage. It was

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Speaker 3: in Excess. Toto and David Bowie came backstage and was

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Speaker 3: just hanging with the cats because he knew everybody didn't

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Speaker 3: know me, but you yeah, I just you know, I

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Speaker 3: just sitting there slily.

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Speaker 4: But he was a curious man, so he would have

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Speaker 4: known all the bands. That's the thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, you know he's lovely. It's very all right.

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Speaker 2: Well by the sea.

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Speaker 1: As we said this Sunday notes, parking Hillary's tickets through

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Speaker 1: a ticket muster. You better get in quick, John, Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much.

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Speaker 3: All right,