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Speaker 1: Well, she hasn't been in town for quite some time.

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Speaker 2: But you can catch Tony Child's at the Asta Theater

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Speaker 2: Friday the seventh of March.

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Speaker 1: Tickets are available through ticket Tech.

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Speaker 2: She's also performing in Karatha on March the sixth and

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Speaker 2: Bumbrey on March the eighth, and she's with us now.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Tony Child.

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Speaker 3: Good morning.

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Speaker 2: Yes, this is a two hour extravaganza. I was gonna

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Speaker 2: say it's a story of two Tony's, but it's not

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Speaker 2: a story of two Tony's. It's one Tony, but it's

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Speaker 2: it's all the hits in one half and new stuff

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Speaker 2: in the second.

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Speaker 3: Is that right, that's correct. I like to think of

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Speaker 3: it like a chocolate box of memories.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: So you know when someone gives you a chocolate box,

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Speaker 3: what do you do? You eat all your favorites first, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: So we're going to have all the fan favorites for

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Speaker 3: dessert first, and well, it's all the whole evening's actually dessert.

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Speaker 3: It's like creating new memories, right. And so I tell

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Speaker 3: story that tells about what's happened that's caused the shift

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Speaker 3: evening of getting loved up in a reset which we're all.

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Speaker 4: Needing absolutely And Tony, you said aloha, but I want

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Speaker 4: to say get a because you're an aussy these days. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: have any idea I think about see seeing you on

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Speaker 4: eighty eight eighty nine thinking you wouldn't Would you have

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Speaker 4: thought you'd become an Aussie back then?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: I didn't. I wasn't really thinking that way. But I'm

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Speaker 2: Hey, a very good tell us about the two albums

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Speaker 1: It's All a Beautiful Noise and Citizens of the Planet.

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Speaker 3: That's right. So I'm dropping three singles this year from

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Speaker 3: It's All a Beautiful Noise. We've been filming music videos

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Speaker 3: the door. But not only that, this music. I have

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Speaker 1: Citizens.

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Speaker 2: I've always felt like you were very much a citizen

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Speaker 2: Red Earth Arts Precinct. That sounds like something that you

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Speaker 3: Well I was. I think I was like around eight,

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Speaker 5: Good love, that was your mind blown.

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Speaker 4: When you're up in football billin, I'd hear that some

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Speaker 3: But he's always been such a sweetheart to me and

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Speaker 2: That would be another pretty amazing musical moment.

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Speaker 5: That's very cool.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Tony, you mentioned about you know, you have this superpower,

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Speaker 3: I do, and if you go to Blue Sky or

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Speaker 3: So if you go on you can see this is

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Speaker 1: What can you tell us the story?

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Speaker 3: I've in Los Angeles and I had a nineteen forty

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Speaker 3: seven butter yellow Plymouth.

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Speaker 3: And I was driving it and I had to pull

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Speaker 2: And here we are, all these years later and people

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Speaker 1: Stop you fussing.

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Speaker 2: On Friday, March the seventh at the Esta and the

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Speaker 2: next night in Bumbrie and the night before in Karratha.

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Speaker 2: Tickets are available through ticke Tech. Tiny, We can't wait

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Speaker 2: to see you in March.

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Speaker 3: Well, lovely to talk to you this morning, you early birds.

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Speaker 5: Yea, I just wish you still had the nineteen forty.

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Speaker 3: Well guess what a woman in Australia bought it. Yes,

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Speaker 3: and she came to a show and she showed me

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Speaker 1: And yes, I.

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Speaker 3: Found your art and stuff in the back, underneath the

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Speaker 5: Treasure. Wow, that's unreal.

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Speaker 1: That is fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, crazy, Thanks Tiny, Tiny'll bye bye