Hello and welcome to the blind by podcast you hot tides.

Before I continue to some quick gig announcements that I'm under contractual obligation to

include in the podcast, Australia in February and the tickets for Australia are going to

be on sale this Thursday but you can get them for free sale as Trubodormusic.com.

I'm doing a live podcast in part the Brisbane Sydney and Melbourne at start of February.

Very much looking forward to that.

I forgot how hard it was going to be.

I forgot how fucking hard it was going to be.

I was thinking, oh Jesus I'll head out there now in February it will be grand and it's

like no that's the middle of the summer over there in Australia so that will be crack.

I giged in part before, about five or six years ago on the hottest day of the year which

was an experience.

It was an experience.

It was like having a hairdryer blown into my face all day.

I visited a statue of Banscott from ACDC.

I was in Fremantle.

I went up to Fremantle in part.

I visited a statue of Banscott from ACDC and I visited Fremantle Prison on the hottest

day of the year which was awful but I'm kind of glad I did it because I don't know a

lot of Irish people were sent to Fremantle Prison.

Loads and loads of Irish people throughout the 1840s, 1860s and they would have had to

endure that prison in that heat which is essentially designed to be a giant oven.

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