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Speaker 2: Was a Wavelock colesy Li says per pub Crawl at

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Speaker 2: Pinocchio's Magnet House is resurrecting Pinocchio's for one night only

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Speaker 2: Magnet House, a mecca of dance and diversity right in

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Speaker 3: Pub Crawl guests this morning are from the Motors, John

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Speaker 3: Webster and Dave Cook. Good morning, coming in the motors

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Speaker 3: and Formula one car fans.

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Speaker 4: Body ch what's going on there? How did the names

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Speaker 4: come about?

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Speaker 1: I have no idea.

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Speaker 5: There's probably our agency that put that together. Brian Davidson

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Speaker 5: at Focus had had the idea to put together a Yeah, Dave, yeah, man,

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Speaker 5: he's a good fella. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: So there's just a name.

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Speaker 5: It's marketing little strategies of those motors.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely seem to work.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, mate, I can't believe this, John, it's we're taking

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Speaker 2: your back. But by playing that song you just walked

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Speaker 2: in and where we haven't heard this for a while.

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Speaker 2: What year did that one come out? And is there

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Speaker 2: a story behind that? Song in the Winner.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that would have been about eighty two. I

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Speaker 5: think we had that sort of recorded. It was written

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Speaker 6: He's a.

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Speaker 5: Music producer, film producer.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, one of his little little catalog songs that

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Speaker 4: You recorded an album at Planet Studios, didn't you.

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Speaker 5: It's yeah we did.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was nineteen eighty two.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you guys were playing four nights a week.

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Speaker 3: You were a really solidly performing on that circle back

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Speaker 4: How exhausting was it.

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Speaker 6: It was a full time job.

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Speaker 1: We were we were working four nights a week, and

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Speaker 5: I think what we were playing didn't necessarily reflect our

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Speaker 3: But you were you guys were big on writing and

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Speaker 1: My our manager was Jimmy Lee, right, and he was

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Speaker 4: Exactly.

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Speaker 1: So and we'd also been forced right in the middle

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but frustrating for you guys being creative types and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny how musos are so into their music

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we were still consumed by our own passions. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: So we had some great venues in the in the

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Speaker 5: Oh well, we played played like a ranger plays. The

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Speaker 4: Stick to it exactly. Yeah, it was good all those places.

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Speaker 4: And that's so rock and roll, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: Cool, well, good times it was was great.

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Speaker 6: Your very fond memories got too with the mentals at

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Speaker 1: That the Focused Promotions put the band together. Yep. And

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Speaker 5: The Herdsman, Yes right, and then spent the next week

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Speaker 6: Memories, and then after that.

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Speaker 1: Then we knew so it was amazing. We came back

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Speaker 4: Brilliant stick Well.

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Speaker 3: It has been lovely to reminisce with you this morning

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Speaker 6: Thanks boys, we're really good the case. Thanks for having us.

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Speaker 6: All the best