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Speaker 1: Cave tempering from Sqmo. Joe's about the join.

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Speaker 2: Us lace, good morning, Calved.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Gang's nice, here's some familiar voice.

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Speaker 2: It's nice to talk to you. The new album, Machines

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Speaker 2: of Love and Grace is out in September. Second solo album,

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Speaker 2: but the first single is also called a Machines of

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Speaker 2: Love and Grace. Is that out now or is that

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Speaker 2: coming out later as well?

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Speaker 3: Well, the song's out, you can listen to it, you

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Speaker 3: can get it, you can do whatever you like with it,

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Speaker 3: but the album itself of the same name doesn't come

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Speaker 3: out until September.

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Speaker 2: All right. Well, at the risk of sounding cliche, now,

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Speaker 2: is this your pandemic album?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Pretty much. I mean, you know, well, we all

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Speaker 3: had to lock ourselves in our houses for long periods

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Speaker 3: of time, and if you do that to an artist

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Speaker 3: or a musician, they're going to start to dream and

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Speaker 3: they're going to start to come up with ideas. And

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Speaker 3: for me, I've got a little studio in Freo, and

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Speaker 3: I just spent a lot of time in there working

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Speaker 3: away at stuff and documenting what was going on in

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Speaker 3: front of me, and that was the pandemic. And so

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Speaker 3: I'm not trying to be like give you like a

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Speaker 3: be no and then we've got back. Actually, maybe I

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Speaker 3: should put that on the record, but no, I just

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Speaker 3: especially for US musicians who are used to touring, so

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Speaker 3: a lot of stories came up for us, a lot

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Speaker 3: of stuff we had to work through, and you know,

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Speaker 3: this is just my story.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so some do waits on them, John Butler and

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Speaker 1: old friends have come to the fray.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, when you're making a solo record, you spend

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Speaker 3: some of my friends are really good musicians, like John

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Speaker 3: So lots of collaborations, which is really exciting. That's something

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Speaker 3: I don't really get to do and esk my Joe

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Speaker 2: Where do your song ideas come from? Is inspiration random,

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm a big believer in dipping into the subconscious.

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Speaker 3: So I do like a daily writing routine, which I'd

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Speaker 3: call it automatic writing. I don't know really what you

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Speaker 3: and I don't think about when I'm writing. I just

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Speaker 3: And when you go into the sensors, you start to

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Speaker 3: all these really juicy ideas. So I think that all

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Speaker 1: Hey, Kevin, You've got that process going on, which is amazing.

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Speaker 3: Not really, I think, you know, if I was I's

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's imporesting, keV.

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Speaker 2: I'm curious about the video shot for Machines of Love

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Speaker 2: and Grace produced by the Temporally Collective. Now, does the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what about your inspirations, mate? You could tap into

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Speaker 1: That's funny you mentioned that Grand Final because every time

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a really surreal feeling getting on that ground

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Speaker 3: we we love playing attention to football all year round

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Speaker 1: was huge. It was unrayah, pretty special. Okay, what was

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Speaker 1: the last band or artist T shirt you had on

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Speaker 1: my We asked al Ambusos to come on the show,

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Speaker 3: Remember, Well, probably a Neil Young T shirt.

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Speaker 1: I imagine, very good seventies inspiration.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I do tend to clothe all of my

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Speaker 1: Excellent, exactly? Why not? All right?

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Speaker 2: Well, keV, it's lovely to talk to you. As always.

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Speaker 2: Machines of Love and Grace is out September. The single

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Speaker 2: is out now check it out, and the album is

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Speaker 2: out in September.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good to talk to me.

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Speaker 3: That's all right, Thanks for the check guys.

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Speaker 1: Really bye, Keim Templey, your friend of the show. Here

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Speaker 1: at ninety six