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Speaker 1: On April first. Blues Fest is going to be at

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Speaker 1: Nicola Estate. It's coming to Perth direct from bar and Bay.

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Speaker 1: So everyone will be well loose, I think, which is

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Speaker 1: just how we like our blues. Butler is on the

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Speaker 1: bill and he's joining us.

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Speaker 2: Now, Hello, John, here you go.

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Speaker 1: Good. So you can get your tickets through Ticketmasters for

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Speaker 1: blues Fest. You're playing alongside well you.

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Speaker 3: Can, you don't have to.

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Speaker 1: That was for the rest of us, but you're playing

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Speaker 1: alongside the likes of Tickets, TV Brothers, Counting Crows, Michael

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Speaker 1: Frandy AND's Spearhead. I mean, it's an awesome lineup. Have

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Speaker 1: you had dealings with any of the slot before.

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Speaker 2: I've dealt with all of them. I've had enough of them. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I know a few of them. I know of them. Michael,

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Speaker 2: Michael and I go quite a way back. Yes, you know.

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Speaker 2: We're doing some work letter on together near near the

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Speaker 2: States in the Caribbean. Actually, that'll be hard work.

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Speaker 1: I love to go to the Caribbean.

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Speaker 3: Michael Frank and John Butler.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he invited me. I'm like, uh, let's see.

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Speaker 3: Check the diary. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: He can need to be amazing or it could be

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Speaker 2: you know, it's a very hostage situation. Amazing come back

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Speaker 2: to just like Triple COVID. But anyways, moving on, Uh yeah,

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Speaker 2: Blue First Blue. I mean, I'm looking for the TV

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Speaker 2: brothers I've never.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and we had a chat with with Michael McDonald

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Speaker 4: last week. The great beautiful soul voice that he's gotten

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Speaker 4: and he's excited to be back with the band.

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Speaker 3: They're celebrating fifty years.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Huge, some proper legendary stuff there.

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Speaker 4: It's pretty amazing. So John, you're heading to the Caribbean

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Speaker 4: soon and you've seen been in North America as well.

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Speaker 4: You got a bit of stuff to do there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm heading over there. That's just up to the

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Speaker 2: Blue Space take over there for six weeks, play a

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Speaker 2: solo tour and I've been wanting to play for a

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Speaker 2: few years and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: gonna be fun. I'm actually really really looking forward to

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Speaker 2: that tour.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean I'm assuming you have some personal ties to

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Speaker 1: that part of the world.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean I was. I was born

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Speaker 2: there and yeah, my brother still lives there. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: we won't be doing a whole heap of family stuff.

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Speaker 2: I just be working.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, no, I don't worry. It's okay.

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Speaker 2: The family think we'll do it again. But yeah, I

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Speaker 2: mean I've been looking to do a solo touring the

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Speaker 2: stakes about the last ten years, and just we keep

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Speaker 2: on choosing trio. So I've been really really hanging out

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Speaker 2: to play a seller for them.

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Speaker 1: And you're right you when you as well as all

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Speaker 1: the music of course on your Instagram, see you have

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Speaker 1: a video about domestic bliss hacks, and I'm wondering, what

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Speaker 1: is your sure fire never fails way to hack, A

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Speaker 1: path to domestic bliss? What always works when everything else fails?

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Speaker 2: Ah, going to bed, go to bed. This is close

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Speaker 2: to let's go to bed. This is my bed.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's that's my kind of hack.

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Speaker 3: In fact, we're going to do it right now.

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Speaker 2: You know. It's just like no, I choose not to.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, it's brilliant.

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Speaker 2: Like you said, old time go to It's like you

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Speaker 2: put me on the spot, like how can I like

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Speaker 2: one up all of it? And I was like, you

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Speaker 2: know what, I can one up it by saying you

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Speaker 2: don't exist.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, I like go to bed when all else

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Speaker 1: files go to bed?

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Speaker 2: Exactly, you don't exist. I'm going to bed. There's no

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Speaker 2: dirty dishes or dirty I don't know it's actually anybody's

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Speaker 2: talking about I can't hear you.

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Speaker 3: It's all just tangible stuff that gets in the ways.

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Speaker 1: Are my kind of hacks not that nonsense about don't

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Speaker 1: go to bed angry? Well, then i'd be up for

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Speaker 1: a month. I mean yeah, I like this good honest hacks.

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Speaker 4: Hey, John, can you tell me mate from the stage,

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Speaker 4: from being a performer on the stage. I'm not sure

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Speaker 4: how much attention you're paying whilst you're doing what you're

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Speaker 4: doing to the crowd out there. But the crowds into

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Speaker 4: mid twenty twenty three that we're heading towards very quickly. Now,

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Speaker 4: are they reminiscent of how people were reacting in the

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Speaker 4: crowd in twenty nineteen pre covid or Is it does

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Speaker 4: like a new excitement that people are allowed to get

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Speaker 4: out and just go and enjoy live music again.

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Speaker 2: Ah, that good question. No, it's pretty everybody's coming back

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Speaker 2: to normal.

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Speaker 5: Everybody's had a gup ful of not being able to dance.

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Speaker 5: I'm not going to do this, I'm not about to

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Speaker 5: do that, And you know, people resume their positions of Okay,

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Speaker 5: let's have good time. Yeah, I mean even through COVID.

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Speaker 2: Actually, I played quite a few festivals. I was a

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Speaker 2: very lucky musician. I played a ton of festivals. Was

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Speaker 2: an amazing press promoter named John Zacharya, the Somersault stuff.

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Speaker 5: And and uh I got to be part of that.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, actually during COVID people were going more crazy.

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Speaker 2: I played. I played one week before a lockdown in Melbourne,

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Speaker 2: and I was watching some pretty wild stuff taking place there.

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Speaker 2: I remember going, wow, this is well, remember to be

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Speaker 2: dancing some parts of the world and these people are

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Speaker 2: losing their ship. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so long ago.

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Speaker 1: Now in some ways.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a fuzzy, weird little night Mary kind

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Speaker 2: of ye out god looking Yeah, I said, f out.

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Speaker 2: I didn't even see the real words.

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Speaker 3: Well done, all right, well to.

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Speaker 1: You clearly have your ticket for Blues Fest. The rest

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Speaker 1: of us can get us through Ticketmaster. It's April the

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Speaker 1: first Nicola Estate, which is I mean blues wine and

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Speaker 1: fresh from Byron Bay, well, fresh from Margaret River for John.

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Speaker 4: In a way, and people doing that blues dancing down

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Speaker 4: the front where they just lose on the ambitions.

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Speaker 1: We look forward to it.

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Speaker 2: You guys are forging whatever sorry. So you guys are

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Speaker 2: just rolling forward with your own agenda of like people

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Speaker 2: dancing and absolutely it's actually my birthday. That's what the

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Speaker 2: festival is about.

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Speaker 1: On the day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Cool, it's no joke, no joke, you're far from a

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Speaker 4: full time.

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Speaker 2: I kind of like, I kind of asked the organized

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Speaker 2: a little something on me Relateely's bagging one of the

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Speaker 2: Derbie brothers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, was that your request? But something for your birthday? Okay?

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Speaker 2: John put a festival on for me.

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Speaker 3: All right, We're gonna be screaming Happy birthday from the crab,

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Speaker 3: will you mate.

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Speaker 1: See Nicholas stay on your birthday.

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Speaker 3: Awesome, guys, John's birthday.

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Speaker 1: It's tough being John Butler waking up in Margaret River

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Speaker 1: taking his bags and there are no such thing as

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Speaker 1: coming here.

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Speaker 3: Did the dishes just go to bed?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I love that. That'll go down well at home.