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Speaker 2: That is a moonlight eclipse and the track is called

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Shattering Knees. They are from Ireland and let's see we

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have them via Google teams Moonlight eclipse.

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Speaker 1: Can you hear me?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Wonderful, wonderful.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes these international connections don't always don't always go, uh

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go as planned, so it's always a relief when when

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it works out. So I'm very happy that you're joining

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us this morning on Matt Connorton Unleashed, or at least

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it's morning there. I don't know what time it is here,

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but I have an email here, so I'm gonna try

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to this. This email very helpfully spells your names phonetically

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for me. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna try these Irish names. Yeah,

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so I'm gonna I'm gonna try uh let's see. So

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and then you know what, I'll introduce you all and

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and then you can you can correct me afterward because

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I'll probably I'll probably screw these up anyway, but okay.

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So singer and guitarist Blaheen Hogan Uh Lucas Bradley lead guitarist,

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That one's easy. Efa Keeg bassist and owen keeg drummer.

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Speaker 1: That one's easy.

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Speaker 2: Okay, did I did I get those even remotely correctly?

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Speaker 1: Wow, wonderful, wonderful. That's a that's a relief. Okay.

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Speaker 2: I do try to get everyone's names correctly. But so welcome,

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so and and you're all very young, right, ages sixteen

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Speaker 1: I'm okay, gotcha.

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Speaker 2: No, I marvel at that because your your sound is

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very mature, at least at least for what we're used

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to hearing in America. I've I've rarely heard a band

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as young as as you all are who can pull

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off the sophistication of of your songs. And and I

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love that track Shattering Knees. And then of course, uh,

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we're absolutely absolutely and we're going to play the other

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one at the end of the interview. We'll play the

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other one that you sent us, which is also also

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really good. H But now you all met in high school?

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Speaker 1: Is that correct?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Exactly, or an Irish version.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's called secondary school.

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Speaker 1: Here, but yeah, secondary school okay.

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Speaker 2: And then so did this band actually start well, actually,

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so is one of you still in high school or

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Speaker 6: And so actually two of those are yeah, two of you,

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Speaker 5: Then the two other guys they just finished their last year.

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Speaker 3: Like the other one.

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Speaker 2: So starting this band, uh obviously with with some members

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still in school. I mean, how did this come about?

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to perform Moonlight Eclips?

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Speaker 3: So we have this like this kind of it's called

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transition year. It's it's kind.

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of trips and stuff, and it's like it's kind of

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like it's kind of like a doss area break year

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Speaker 5: Just like figure out what you want to do.

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Speaker 4: And me and Lucas the guitarist we were during that year.

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basically nothing, So we said we'd start learning instruments and

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we try and start a band.

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Speaker 3: So me and Lucas and then two.

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Speaker 4: Other people from that year started just like learning guitars

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like we just said, we'd do it for the crack,

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for the fun. Yeah, And then so we did that

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Speaker 5: Yeah, because I'd been like playing a lot of music.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and we like me and if because I own

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we're just like chilling on the other side, that's say

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we're really by paying the little sister and her best friend.

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friends a singer.

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yeah this could actually work.

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Speaker 5: Face for the band, because that's it kind of just

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that you you went into this with no particular expectations, right.

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Speaker 5: And then our first single, I think it was two

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months we've been a band.

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Speaker 6: I had to playing their instruments for two months, and

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basically my parents, because I play music for ages, they

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got me like a little voucher for a recording studio

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and just for Christmas, and I was like, well, guys,

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we need to write a song and go.

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Speaker 3: I remember hearing that first song.

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Speaker 4: We played that song and I thought it was like

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Speaker 6: Yeah, It's like it's like the simplest song. It has

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the five chords over and over again.

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Speaker 3: We're like this, We're like, all this song is absolutely amazing,

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Speaker 5: I remember you went into the bathroom to call your

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dad and I was like, oh my god, we just

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wrote a hit. I was only like thirteen at the time.

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not a great song.

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Speaker 2: No, That's is remarkable how quickly it came together. And

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then of course here here you are. Now you're you're

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Speaker 1: Already, So that's so that's great.

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Speaker 2: I'm curious too about influences, partly because you know you're

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the four of you, you know, there's a variety of

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different influences, but I'm curious who you all listen to

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Speaker 1: Musically.

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Speaker 6: Well, I'm not going to speak for the whole band,

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but for me, like, like I know, we played rock

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and it's definitely edging on the heavy side. But like,

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the band, they're very kind of like poppy in that way,

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a lot of their music, so I think it's kind

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heavy music. Bline listen to another genre, and then they

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like so much we all bring it together.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that's great.

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Speaker 2: What what is it like there in terms of if

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school system there? What what is it like in terms

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they have music classes and everything, and and some some

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school systems are just cutting everything.

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Speaker 1: But I'm curious what it's like over there.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, the school we uh go to went to, know,

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like the wall between the music room and the massive

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Speaker 6: And everyone has to listen to her music every single day.

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Speaker 5: Like we all.

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Speaker 5: They'll teach us ukul lead us. So we have like

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that helps like young bands. You have artists, they do

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gigs around like around the country, and like if you

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Speaker 5: Go to them and figure out something. Like they're just

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Speaker 6: They have free practice spaces around, like it's just they're

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this for fun and we're just gonna you know, I

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assume there's some sort of long term ambition here, but

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but maybe not.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious.

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Speaker 4: That's the dream anyways, you kind of kind of always

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hope that it like we're definitely not going to stop now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely keep going for now, and you kind

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of kind of just see where it goes. Yeah, it's

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it's we're definitely not going to stop. Yeah, you just

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you don't know where take it.

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Speaker 6: I think we all have like like I think we

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all have like those of those things in our life

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and like other things that we wanted to But I

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think the band will.

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Speaker 5: Always be.

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Speaker 4: If we don't make it anywhere big, like you always

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you'll always be playing on the weekends.

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Speaker 3: You'll always you have for the fun, you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now you've got so these the two the two

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tracks that you sent us Caught in a Fire and

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Shattering Knees?

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Speaker 1: Are those?

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Speaker 2: Are those the only two you've recorded so far? Or

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do you have more or maybe you're working on more?

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Speaker 3: There's yeah, there's more. We have like eight singles out

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now on Spotify.

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Speaker 6: Actually we have two recorded that aren't released with three

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three record Yeah, three recorded are released.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna have to go back and listen to

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your other tracks on Spotify because I'm very I'm very

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curious because like I said, I love these, I love these.

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Speaker 3: You'll hear that first one we didn't?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not at the dates and make sure.

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Speaker 2: You don't, Okay, gotcha. No, I'm very I'm very curious.

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Where does the name come from? Moonlight Eclipse? Is there

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a particular meaning to that?

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Speaker 5: No, we were we were.

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Speaker 6: Pushed to make a name, like I think it took

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us months to sign the name. We went through about five.

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Speaker 3: Well, actually we're always like a week.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're gonna call ourselves Shattering Knees as well. So

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that's why the song's name shot. Yeah, through a lot

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of different names.

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Speaker 3: But you see most of them.

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Speaker 4: We we would decide find a name and then realized

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there was a band that already had that. Really you'd

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be amazed at, like how many bands are actually obscure names.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like every name is taken. Where do you

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come from?

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Speaker 4: With Moonshine with moonshiny clips?

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Speaker 3: And then we were like, yeah, but that sounds too.

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Speaker 4: Much like moonshine, like the drink, So we were like,

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let's just change the bits Moonlight because it was it's

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kind of nice.

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Speaker 1: You know, Oh yeah, yeah, no, I like it. I

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like it a lot.

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Speaker 5: We do have to say a really weird thing though.

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Speaker 6: We've been like people forget the name of our band

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a lot, and not like not like people who know

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each other, but different people in like different places and

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different venues have called us Midnight Eclipse, but they're not connected.

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Speaker 4: With Moonlight Express, Moonlight Express or Midnight Eclipse.

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Speaker 6: And because they've all comes to this like Sonata one

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wear that.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, well that'll uh you know, hopefully in in time,

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you know, as you as you continue to build a

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following and build a fan.

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Speaker 1: Base, uh, people will uh will be more accurate with

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your name. That's funny though, but but yeah, it is.

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Speaker 2: It is hard to find a name that's not already

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you know, because you one thing you obviously don't want

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to get into a situation of is when you have

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a name that uh, you've established and then it turns out,

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you know, somebody else says, oh no, we were using

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that first, and then they're threatening you with some sort

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of legal action or something.

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Speaker 6: So this website where you can put in a bound

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right and it will tell you no matter how unknown

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the band.

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Speaker 5: Is, if they are, like anything released, it's taken.

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Speaker 3: That was really yeah, oh.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, that's a good tool to have. Do you

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remember what the site is? You know, off hand?

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Speaker 3: Before I think it's it's gone now years ago.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, you know, because you.

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Speaker 6: Can just look up the band registration name or something.

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Speaker 3: You come up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah okay, yeah, I was just curious. No, that's uh no,

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that's very cool. And then have you done any videos

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for for any of these tracks.

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Speaker 3: Yet not yet. That is definitely something we want to have.

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Speaker 5: A friend of ours, he like makes a lot of

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short films and he's coming like.

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Speaker 6: Into that have like good quality cameras, and I think

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he's hoping to make a music video with sometimes.

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Speaker 3: On you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah excellent, excellent.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So maybe maybe this summer because we'll be free.

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Speaker 5: So we've just been so busy because like so much.

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Speaker 4: And Lucas and final exams this year as well.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah, and what's the live schedule, Like what's like,

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are you able to get out and play a lot

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of shows or I don't know, last night?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, excellent.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So for the past like a few months, we been

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taking a break because of the exams, but now that

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they're finished with a lot of gigs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I also, though I broke my finger two months ago,

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I've kind of been trying to work around that because

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I'm not like able to play its hard.

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Speaker 4: Why didn't you tell them how you broke it?

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Speaker 5: It's on a mechanical bull.

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Speaker 1: Really, you.

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Speaker 6: See, we're in transition here and we're going on all

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these like stupid weird treads around the world and.

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Speaker 1: So what so what happened.

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Speaker 2: Did you get thrown from the mechanical bull and you

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landed on your hand or something or broke that you.

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Speaker 6: Had to hold onto on the bowl, but the rope

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like you pull it out and pulled it out, I

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didn't like continually continuously hold enough force, and my like

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finger got launched in with the rope.

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Speaker 5: The bulls started going around. I'm just like yeah, And

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then she had to go to like an Italian hospital

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and there's a language bower like was faster.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh no, wow, that's that's that's terrible. How are you?

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Speaker 6: Italian doctors were like they're like, you know, it's fine,

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you know, just go back to Fostial maybe in ten

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days in Ireland. And then as soon as I got

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back home, we went straight to host film and they're like,

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yeah you need surgery.

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Speaker 2: Wow yeah now that's uh, but you're able to work

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around it as far as playing or how are you?

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Speaker 1: How are you doing that?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, because like Lucas plays lead, so he just kind

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of okay they combine yeah, like by.

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Speaker 5: Turn the base of real well yeah exactly.

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Speaker 4: It'll be like we'll probably have to wait until her

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finger heels until we can do more original recording, Yeah, exactly,

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because our songs are very kind Yeah, like the lead

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like very I have a lot of rhythm stuff and

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a lot of sort of stuff at the same time.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, but like we're definitely grateful for the opportunity because

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it's cool to see how our like how our stage

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presence kind of works, because like it's definitely I can

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be more kind of interactive with the crowd obviously when

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I don't know guitar on we I can kind of

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walk around with the microphone.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's cool to like, you know, it's grateful to.

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Speaker 3: Pros and co. Exactly.

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Speaker 1: You know, well that's a that's a good way to

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look at it.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean, and that's and that's part of

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doing something like this, right, you know, these things will

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happen and then you find a way to work around it.

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And no, that's that's great, that's great. Where should people

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Where should people go online to to learn more about

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I've obviously you mentioned you know, you're on Spotify, But

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is there any place in particular people should go online

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to keep up with everything that Moonlight Eclipse is doing.

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Speaker 4: A very active Instagram with Facebook, So on Facebook Light

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Eclips it's just Midlight clips on Instagram and like TikTok

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it's clips official.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and we have a YouTube as well. Yeah, that's

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just Moonlight Clips.

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Speaker 6: And then Spotify and like all the other stream platforms

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is Moonlight.

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Speaker 3: Most of our updates are on Instagram and.

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Speaker 4: Socials and then we post videos of some like concerts.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think we went live on the you tube

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yesterday as well.

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Speaker 2: Oh excellent, excellent, And then where where's when is your

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next show? We should we should mention that we actually

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have believe it or not. I don't know if you

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know this, but we actually have listeners in Ireland who

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tune in online. Yeah that's the you know, this wonderful

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thing about the internet. Well, yeah, go ahead.

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Speaker 5: On the Unfortunately, these guys are going to Italy. I'm

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going to France more fortunately.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately. Wow, we are looking.

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Speaker 10: Forward to.

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Speaker 5: The next few weeks. We are away.

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Speaker 6: But actually the day after I come back from the States,

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we are on the nineteenth of July. We're playing in

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Dallians so it's a pub and ath and Rye go

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away and but the Capital we're playing in Dublin on

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the fourteenth of August and the Santis, which is Cuite

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a popular known venue, so shout out to anyone in Ireland.

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Speaker 2: Has fourteenth excellent, excellent, very good. Well listen, I want

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to thank all four of you for joining us this morning.

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This has been wonderful and we will definitely do this

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again in the future as you're releasing new music and whatnot.

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And uh and in a moment, we're gonna play this.

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We're gonna hit this track Caught in a Fire, another

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great song.

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Speaker 1: I love this. Uh, I love this very much. So

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I think you've got a great sound.

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Speaker 2: You're off to a great start and and congratulations on

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everything that you're doing.

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Speaker 1: This is wonderful.

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Speaker 2: So uh, absolutely we will do it again.

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Speaker 1: I'll let you go and we'll hit this track, Moonlight Eclipse.

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Thank you so much. Bye bye. All right, very good,

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very good. That is Moonlight Eclipse.

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Speaker 2: And uh yeah, like I said, they're off to a

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wonderful start there. You know, they're so young. I wish

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I had that. I wish I had that level of

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ambition and discipline when I was that age.

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Speaker 10: I think, well, obviously some of it comes from their environment.

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Oh yeah, it sounds like they have such an exposure

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to arts in this transition year where they get even more.

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I mean, I wish we did that here, I really do.

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Speaker 5: I know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you should be introducing music in elementary school.

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Speaker 10: Kids will be able to read music, they'd be able

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to play different instruments, because when they're so young, they're pliable, right,

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those brains suck up everything you give them. Yeah, and

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I think that's wonderful that these kids are. So they

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sound very confident. Yeah, I mean excellent to have somebody

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from Ireland reached out to us. Yeah, it's always an

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honor and I'm really excited to see where they go

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from here.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, me too, Me too. So we're gonna hit this

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track Caught in a Fire when we come back. We

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might have a little surprise. We might have somebody call

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in for just a few minutes who is not who

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we haven't talked to in a long time, but I

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really think I might know. But I'm really excited to

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talk to because I hope he's someone who does a

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lot in the music industry and the music scene here

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in Newmpshire and I love it and just a wonderful person,

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just a great friend who I haven't talked to in

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a long time. So but in the meantime, let's hit

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this track. This is called Caught in a Fire and

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this is Midnight Eclipse