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[0:00] Josh Mitchell: Hey Theatre fans, welcome and thanks for tuning in. This is just a quick heads up for everyone with warning uh triggers around this topic. This episode does contain conversations about rape and sexual assault. So please, please, please be careful as you listen through. Enjoy, and we will see you on the other side.

[0:23] Josh Mitchell: Hello, Theatre fans one and all. Welcome back to the what podcast is this? This is We Are Theatre. Oh my god. We are off to a cracking start already, guys. Hello, hello. Today I'm joined by three wonderful ladies. Hello, Charlotte, Holly. Lauren, I went to call you Madison because it's on your face. Oh my god. Again, guys. Off to a great start. Rename. Remember Monday. Hello. How are we?

[0:49] Lauren Byrne: Hi.

[0:50] Charlotte Steele: Hello.

[0:52] Josh Mitchell: Um, for you guys that cannot see faces right now because you're listening to it. Uh, we've got Bernie returning for her third appearance on one of my podcasts. Record breaking. Um Charlotte and Holly are making their first appearances. Hello, guys.

[1:07] Holly Hull: Um hi.

[1:09] Josh Mitchell: First of all, let's chat about where you guys are at in life right now. What are you guys up to outside of the band, and then we'll focus in on the band for the rest of this. Um Lauren, we'll start with you because I believe you tried to tell us but couldn't tell us last time you were on the show.

[1:25] Lauren Byrne: Oh yeah, that's right. Oh, you're right. It was like I think the day after.

[1:31] Josh Mitchell: Oh yeah, it was.

[1:32] Lauren Byrne: You're so right. Oh gosh, yeah. So um I'm in London town. I'm doing um Angelo Weber's Cinderella, um, outside of band life. Um, which is lovely to be back in work. So yeah.

[1:46] Holly Hull: Sorry.

[1:50] Lauren Byrne: You know what? It feels really weird talking about doing a band related interview and talking about what we do every day that literally never happens. It's very strange. We always try and steer clear actually but um I'm do also in London and also working for Angeloid Weather um but I'm in Phantom of the Opera so I'm just a little bit down the road from Lauren um but we're doing very similar things she's just she's not playing a very big role or anything like she doesn't have much like in the show she's just really like she just comes in for that one she is decent goals I can't ever want that job uh um so I mine sounds so much more boring than these two um I am deputy head of a performing arts college um so I run run that basically called Artemis College and um I choreograph uh lots of different shows all the time which is lots of that sounds boring that just sounds so grown up like really like your shit together yeah no it's yeah it's a yeah that's it it's an adult job my muggle job as we call it but it's yeah it's fun all right and uh for those of you that don't know me maybe this is your first time joining because you love these girls more than my podcast I am Josh I do this for a living um and yeah um we are not here to talk about theatre today though um so sorry to those folks out there listening we're here to talk about country music and bands hello um hello.

[3:33] Josh Mitchell: Country music is like one of my favorite types of music for those of you that want to know a little bit more about me um but how did you guys get started as a group? Where did you guys first meet and be like, yes, let's do this?

[3:48] Charlotte Steele: Oh god, it was so long ago now. It makes us feel really old. So I don't even know if I want to tell you. It was like a full decade ago that we met. Um, or near to that anyway, and we met at Sixth Form College, and we were in the same performing arts class.

[4:04] Holly Hull: I think were we in the same class?

[4:06] Charlotte Steele: Um no, we were in the same year group and in the first year, and then we were put together in second year.

[4:12] Holly Hull: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[4:14] Charlotte Steele: And we were all quite intimidated of each other.

[4:17] Holly Hull: Yeah, I was definitely intimidated by Charlotte. I was like, cool, that girl looks a bit scary, I'll stay clear. And then um in second year we got shoved together and um immediately kind of started skipping classes to just stay in a room somewhere else and sing together just the three of us.

[4:37] Lauren Byrne: Um we did that for a while, and then I think it was a couple of years later, really. We we just kind of sang covers for fun and stuff, and then a couple of years later um we started kind of bringing our own like writing to the band, and that was when we were like, oh, should we actually maybe be a band and like do this for real at some point? Um, and then it was a few years from that point when we rebranded because we were originally called something else, not Remember Monday, and we rebranded and then we um kind of thought let's let's make a real go of this now and let's um start putting music out there and things and yeah, so it's only been up since then.

[5:21] Charlotte Steele: Well, not all up, actually, but you know.

[5:23] Holly Hull: I think we always knew it was what we wanted to do eventually, but it was one of those things that was like when do you sort of go for it fully? Um, and yeah, I think for us it was probably the name changer, right? It was that sort of we want to do this. Let's do it.

[5:42] Josh Mitchell: So yeah, yeah, amazing. Um heading into that band genre, um, and kind of finding an identity. What uh were some of your like inspirations that you drew off in that genre to get started?

[5:59] Holly Hull: It's kind of that's a really difficult question because we I think we've covered every genre ever. Um when we met when we were about 16, 17, we were inspired by um all sorts of different genres. I mean I feel like deep down in our soul country was always creeping up, even if we were covering just in Timberlake, country was still sneaking in our harmonies every so often.

[6:25] Charlotte Steele: Um, but yeah, we're we're all what's really cool about the three of us is that we all bring a different influence into the band. Altogether we kind of love Marin Morris, Mumford and Sons, even Eagles, John Mayer, um what else do we love? That's kind of the main the main four that we always talk about in interviews.

[6:51] Lauren Byrne: Oh, I thought you were carrying on.

[6:52] Holly Hull: She was oh sorry, so no, I did do that. It's because we can't see your face, and that's so I and that's me. I'm like, but it wasn't just me. Um anyway, I thought we'd frozen. I was like, oh, lost things.

[7:08] Josh Mitchell: Um so yeah, amazing. That's cool. Now, I had you guys on repeat for the last like week getting ready for this, and I'm just my mind is blown. Um I've noticed though that every like most of your like original songs sound very different. Is that from a writing perspective? Not very different, but like you can tell it sounds like different people wrote different songs. Is that correct?

[7:37] Holly Hull: Yeah, we actually have quite a mixture out on our like Spotify and our kind of main um, you know, music channels actually that is very well observed. Just like listening, I'm like, it sounds like just different. It not that it's super different, but like just from a musical sense, it's just like, oh, this person was going through this and then this, and then like, and then we get into like we're a group, let's party vibes, and it's just like I'm just gonna look at our um Spotify now. Actually, what have we got out? Um the first one that we released was like uh oh god, it was a long time ago, and that was like a real we just wanted like our first release to be like a feel good kind of you know summer vibe tune.

[8:23] Charlotte Steele: Um but yeah, I think the the first co-write that we have out was Find My Way, and that was the first song that we ever wrote as a three. Um, and that was just like it all kind of just came together really quickly, didn't it?

[8:36] Lauren Byrne: That song. We wrote it and kind of recorded it in one afternoon, didn't we?

[8:41] Holly Hull: Yeah.

[8:42] Lauren Byrne: So quick. And it we we liked how it it felt quite not too done up, not too overproduced. It was kind of like what what it was when we wrote it was kind of how it ended up when it was released, and we also wrote it with um Tim Brotty Jones and Dan Weller. Um and yeah, it was the first time that we'd kind of written The Three of Us, and it was also we had um the influence of those guys who have obviously been in the industry for years, so it was really like a fun, a really fun day, and we were so pleased with how it turned out. We just kind of wanted to release it as soon as possible.

[9:16] Holly Hull: Um obviously Fat Bottom Girls, our writing process for that was um really yeah, yeah, that was rough working with them working with Brian May. God, what a good guy. What a collab. Obviously. I mean, I wish that we had a hand in writing that, but unfortunately that was Queen.

[9:39] Josh Mitchell: Um let's segue from there. Um obviously with lockdowns and everything, TikTok became huge. Um, and that's where I kind of discovered you guys when you guys were just throwing out random like harmony lines and everything, and I was just like blown away. Um so what was the process behind okay? We're doing this song, let's quickly throw a harmony together. Were these how like things that you had in the bag from gigs and stuff, or was it just fresh?

[10:07] Charlotte Steele: So the first I mean, yeah, the first TikTok we did. Um, well, I think we'd done a few before, to which nobody really saw any of them. I think we were just working out how TikTok works. Um, but we were coming back from a gig and we were just in the car park, weren't we? And we did alone, I think it was our first big one.

[10:28] Holly Hull: Um that I think how did he even do that? We'd we'd seen um what's his name? Logan. He he did it. You know the three guys, T3 that do it's that they did that inner the unknown cover. Yeah, they're insane. And um we saw one of the guys from T3 do this cover of Alone, and I I think I sent it to the girls, like, guys, we should cover this. And then we were walking back um from the gig, like Sha said, and and we were in the car park, and I think one of us like did a like a high note or something in the car park, and we were like, oh my god, the acoustics in here are amazing. So we were like, should we just give it a go? And we put our phone on the boot of our car and just kind of sang it like a few times and just whacked it up on TikTok, didn't expect anything, didn't really understand still how TikTok worked, and then like by the time we'd gotten home, it had gotten like however many hundreds of thousands of views, and we were like, wait, what?

[11:31] Lauren Byrne: Yeah, it's memorable.

[11:33] Holly Hull: So yeah, we just kind of thought maybe we should roll with this car park vibe, and obviously it was still locked down, so we couldn't get together inside anywhere. We were at the point in the UK where you could meet up outside, but you couldn't go inside anywhere, and we it was freezing, it was like the dead winter, and we would spend hours and hours in a freezing cold car park. But we were just like, we can't we can't let this flop now, you know. We've um, you know, it was kind of people people started to be like, hey, you're the girls that sing like covers in car parks, and we were like, yeah, and yeah, and none of the songs that you say were kind of things that we'd ever sung before. We were trying to we were trying to understand TikTok and jump on trends and things, and um we kind of discovered that people love big belty voices, and we'd never really shown that side off in the band had we at all.

[12:31] Charlotte Steele: No literally not at all. I mean so often sorry else it's alright go for it. No just so often in you know because we sing country music and a lot of it is very sort of chilled out beautiful um those sort of harmonies yeah vibes yeah harmony focused um and I mean I still think our TikToks are very harmony focused but showing off that sort of like real top belting crazy stuff that Holly does on top um fat bottom girls all I can hear is Holly when it comes I I'm just like it's just drawn straight up and I'm like what is that's a joke it's a joke yeah it's the Christine my favorite thing is when people comment like I think the girl on the left's doing the high part and it's me and I'm like only you knew it's only you my voice is the lowest voice in the world.

[13:26] Lauren Byrne: Everyone always tries to guess and they get it wrong every time every time we love the secret like I think I think actually in the end we did reveal our little fat bottom girls harmonies but we love and do you know what sometimes we change it up sometimes you know I'm on the bottom and Laura's on the top like sometimes it changes so we will always keep everyone on their toes.

[13:48] Holly Hull: It's not always that obvious it's not it's funny because even after hours of like listening to you guys on repeat I still can't pick like your like singing voices in my ears like just yet. I'm just like, who's where?

[14:01] Charlotte Steele: So um that's crazy to us.

[14:05] Lauren Byrne: That's what we want though. That's like we we love the fact that it sounds like like one voice. It's it's it's that's I suppose that's how it's supposed to sound, you know, and that's hopefully that means that we're harmonizing in a really close way.

[14:18] Holly Hull: We're blending well, we're blending.

[14:22] Charlotte Steele: Yeah. So have harmonies always come natural to you guys as a group? Is it something that from day one was like, yeah, cool, we can do this.

[14:30] Lauren Byrne: Like yeah, I mean of course yeah. The first song harmonies are like an addiction to us. It's sometimes sometimes we we get to a point where we're like, actually, in the newest song that we've recorded yesterday, there's a good like I would say 15 seconds of unison singing, and it's it's driven Charlotte into an oblivion. Like it's driven it's driven her insane.

[14:53] Charlotte Steele: Um we're addicted to harmonies, we're addicted to creating different arrangements and adding different things in. Um, and shockingly, our new song has quite a chunk of unison singing. It's terrifying, it's uh it's utterly terrifying.

[15:10] Holly Hull: I I yeah, unison's not anything I've done before, or anything that I like. Give me a specific harmony.

[15:18] Lauren Byrne: When we first met though, like we were so even back then we were obsessed with it. We never were interested in like, okay, I'll sing I'll sing three lines and then you sing three lines, and then we everything. I mean, I feel like over the years we we have had to rein ourselves in and be like, okay, we should probably sing solos for the verses, I guess. But like even at the beginning, we would just sing every freaking line of every song in harmony to the point where it's a bit much.

[15:45] Charlotte Steele: So I suppose we've been doing it for so long, and and you know, I think we've just become so in tune to each other now and each other's voices, and I feel like we understand so well now where um all of our voices with will sit best with the song, and it just feels like the easiest thing in the world for us now, I guess. Like just really and then we and then we split into three on that bit. Let's go, you know, it's not something that we kind of think about.

[16:14] Holly Hull: No our brains all think what each other thinks now when we're arranging a song.

[16:19] Charlotte Steele: Yes, it's very weird.

[16:21] Lauren Byrne: It's getting it's starting to get a little bit weird how we all imagine the exact same riff or the exact same movement next. It's so creepy. It was happening a lot yesterday in the studio, and we were all just kind of flowing. I think we've been together way too long.

[16:37] Holly Hull: Okay, of course. And this is the last podcast that remember one day we're doing um amazing.

[16:49] Charlotte Steele: So obviously, 2019 was a big ear for you guys too, heading on to the voice. What was that whole experience like um for you guys individually and as a group?

[17:02] Lauren Byrne: Oh does anyone else want to take this? I don't know. I think the silence sums it up.

[17:08] Holly Hull: Yeah, that was a pretty solid answer. Which which answer do we want to give? I was gonna say because in high there's a hindsight with it. I think at the time it was really it was it was both terrifying and stressful, yet the most fun we've ever had as mates ever, because we were given the opportunity to only only be with each other, you know.

[17:32] Charlotte Steele: We were living in hotels, we were singing every day, which is something we've always wanted to do, but couldn't because of money. So that side of it was amazing, and looking back, we will always say, Oh, what an amazing time the three of us had as mates making music and you know, singing on live TV and all that stuff, but also it was the most terrified we've ever been in our lives, the most scared.

[17:54] Lauren Byrne: I'll never be more nervous than I was at that blind audition. Um sorry, I'm a bit speaking about it really was like I don't think I don't think I realized how awful that feeling would be. Like it was it was not nice.

[18:13] Charlotte Steele: Like, I mean, the whole process was so much fun, like for all the reasons that Holly just said, but that day was traumatic.

[18:24] Holly Hull: It was it was so so horrific. Like we you were just sat in ponchos in clear plastic ponchos for like freaking squid games, yeah. Because they didn't want you to spill anything on on you know your outfits, and so you were in your outfits from like 6 a.m. in these clear plastic ponchos boiling to death for like 12 hours, and then oh god, I remember walking onto the stage, and the guy had told me just before I went on stage that like once he'd given me the sign, I could then start playing the guitar, and he was like, So look for me over here, I'll be by this camera and I'll give you the sign, and then and then you can start playing. And when we walked onto the stage, it seemed like the silence went on for about seven years.

[19:09] Charlotte Steele: But that he wasn't he wasn't giving me the sign, and I was like, when the hell am I gonna start playing? And it was just my guitar to start us off, and I was like, Oh my god, like has something happened? Do we need to leave the stage? It felt like it stretched on for an entire fucking decade. Excuse me, I've just sworn, and um oh my god, Josh, speak it.

[19:30] Josh Mitchell: It's all good. We'll just keep it. We'll just mark it as explicit. It's not the first time we've done this for a burnt.

[19:37] Holly Hull: But yeah, um, it was it stretched on for about a decade, and then eventually he gave me the signal, and I was so terrified that I was going to miss the signal. So I played immediately, and then I was like, oh my Christ, that means I've now got to sing. And it was just honestly, I thought I was gonna poo on the stage.

[19:55] Charlotte Steele: Yeah, I didn't. Yeah, it was horrible.

[19:58] Lauren Byrne: I also think backstage where you just made each other worse. Like, because we like normally. We really bring up the worst to each other.

[20:05] Holly Hull: No, because normally if one of us is really stressed, we calm the other, like the other two calm them down, but we were all so so nervous that it just sort of like fueled each other, like you'd go, Oh god, I'm stressed, and then you go, no, I'm I'm more stressed than you it was oh god, it was so bad.

[20:21] Charlotte Steele: I I the huge problem with it was that we were constantly trying to work out who they were gonna put through. So by the time we'd done the the blinds and you know, we were put in the battles and the knockouts, we just spent the entire time working out who the producers were planning to put through, doing the math, or if that person goes through that one won't, and blah blah blah. And it just, you know, actually devastatingly, we decided we weren't going through when before we'd gone on to sing jailbreaker. We were like, Well, we're not going through, so let's just do our best.

[20:54] Lauren Byrne: But I think whole Dennis that never liked her that just solidified it for us, so we we kind of just for jailbreaker was just like, let's just get a good video out of this and try and smash it as best we can. But let's sing an original on live TV. That was literally our mindset. That was what we wanted to do when we entered the competition. We were like, our goal for this entire process is to be able to sing an original on ITV. Because holy hell, like that is seriously a bucket list ticked off, you know.

[21:29] Charlotte Steele: Um and we and we did it. So that's amazing. Um but yeah, the the process, I mean, do you remember we had there was a one of the executive producers had to take us away individually and give us like calming down quick chats like right before we went on stage.

[21:46] Holly Hull: We got them after as well. Do you remember?

[21:48] Charlotte Steele: Yeah.

[21:48] Holly Hull: After was the worst thing I've ever experienced in my life.

[21:52] Lauren Byrne: I don't know how no, the best part of that day of the blinds day was when we'd just gotten through and we were all a bit shell-shocked. And do you remember we were being um interviewed on the side of the stage, and all of a sudden Cedric Neal started singing um higher ground, and we all just stopped the interview and we were like, sorry, I I just need to listen to what's currently happening on the stage behind us because honestly, his voice was just the most incredible thing we've ever heard, and we were like, oh well, but we we're not gonna win. This guy's got it in the bag.

[22:24] Charlotte Steele: He was incredible.

[22:28] Holly Hull: He is ridiculous, he's so good. So being on stage with the blinds, seeing the chair turn, and then having seeing Ollie, Tom, J Hard turn around, like what was that moment like having to control your emotion to get through the song and like be like, cool, we made it th past the first barrier.

[22:46] Lauren Byrne: Do you guys remember?

[22:47] Charlotte Steele: I don't know how to end. Laura and I were lucky, we were angled in to each other, and Holly was in the middle.

[22:55] Holly Hull: So I don't think Lauren and I particularly clocked that anyone at the beep, you know, the massive buzz, they don't put that in until after.

[23:03] Charlotte Steele: So like the boom sound effect. You don't hear that.

[23:06] Lauren Byrne: So it's no it's fine, but I think I don't I how did you find it whole?

[23:13] Holly Hull: It's so weird. Like I watch back the video and I'm like, when did I wasn't there? Like I have actually I don't remember standing there.

[23:22] Charlotte Steele: It's not I it's so hard to explain because it's not like a oh it happened so fast. It's genuinely like I have memory loss. I don't remember standing there and doing it and surviving it.

[23:33] Lauren Byrne: I just I feel like we just felt so much release once the song had ended and they were all turned around that that feeling completely overshadowed the entire performance.

[23:43] Charlotte Steele: Who knows what happened on the stage? We were just like, Thank the heavens above, someone turned.

[23:48] Holly Hull: Because they talk you through the idea of no one turning as well, which is basically no one turns and you just turn around and leave.

[23:56] Charlotte Steele: Yeah, and they wrap up you rehearse that. So we obviously had this like horrifying fear of no one turning and just it being on YouTube and everyone seeing it.

[24:10] Holly Hull: Yeah, that's terrifying. Uh just so awkward. It was also extremely freaking cool. Like we've I feel like we've really been negative Nancy's, but it was also the coolest experience of our lives.

[24:23] Lauren Byrne: Like, oh yeah. Um I mean, and uh like after we, you know, got the four turns, we then we were just chatting to J Hard and Tom and Will Iam and Ollie Murs for like a solid, I would say like 20 minutes.

[24:36] Lauren Byrne: Yeah, a lot was cut.

[24:37] Holly Hull: It looked like, yeah, so much was covered.

[24:39] Josh Mitchell: What was it like getting feedback from people that are that high in the industry and someone like Tom Jones who's been around forever and done everything to get that insight from people?

[24:52] Charlotte Steele: What was it?

[24:54] Charlotte Steele: I really remember Will I Am kind of asking us. He was like, Are you do you guys feel like you know who you are? I'm so sorry, my dog is whining. Good boy. But yeah, um, I feel like I remember Will I Am asking us if we knew who we were, if we were a finished product, and he was like, if you're a finished product, come to me, I'll help you market it. If you feel like you've got to work, and he was like, Go with J Hard, like she'll help you, she'll get you there, she'll get you to a place where you know are ready. Um I feel like that was maybe one of the biggest kind of things in my brain that stuck out as to you know, maybe we should go with Jennifer, because I don't know, I just feel like that was some really solid advice.

Um, but it was just bizarre getting advice from Will I Am. I also felt like maybe I was still watching them on a TV screen and that well, they were holidays. Although Ollie Murs smells insane, so I do remember that. It was like smell of I remember we constantly told him as well. We were like, You're really smelling it. We literally smell so good, Ollie Murs. So weird okay, so we're gonna go into decision time.

[26:06] Lauren Byrne: I love this time because it makes you think really hard when you weren't expecting it. Um guys, and I know, but these girls, like if you haven't listened to their stuff, please do because like then you'll understand why I want to talk about this so much um yeah excluding Oh god. I've forgotten the name of song. Hold up you know that big one you did fat bottom girls yeah that one yeah yeah excluding that actually let's just go from your originals what is your favorite harmony oh gosh mine I got I know mine Charlotte straight away mine is um mine's version of you the bridge section sorry uh that whole bit that was also the first thing that sprang to my head as well yeah yeah me too but I'm gonna jump out I'm gonna think out the box yeah I'm gonna think out the box it did have to be released yes I would have had to have listened to it so I know where it is okay um is this supposed to be a quick thinking game am I really massively I know um I also like um an L Fly Me too me that one stresses me out because my harmony's like super crunchy so I I like it but it's like yeah I like I like that one so ready for mine mine's at the end of Find My Way like when the music cuts before you go into that final section yeah do you know what part I'm talking about like uh it's like it's yeah yeah yeah it's like it's the same harmony as like the rest of the song but it's just like all the music pops and it's just like this is just pure just harmony let's go yeah yeah we love that we've got to do more of that yeah that'd be just so fun how good's music harmony I know.

[28:02] Holly Hull: Singing rocks. Um so we were gonna originally plug a Kickstarter, which has now been fulfilled. Yay. Nothing nice to say music videos happening. How's the song going? Is that what you recorded yesterday? Is that she is completed. We have not heard her, but she is in process. We literally laid down all the vocals, didn't hear any of it back, and we were like, well, let's hope that was a good take. Not a clue. Literally not a clue, but we have we have to have faith in our voices. We love the song, so I think it was just one of those so much. I really we we all I think just love it. Um we we wanted it to be sort of everything we imagined it. Um yeah, we hope we hope it is that when it comes out for everyone.

Being very fussy with it. Yeah. We've probably removed this and re-jigged this song like 50 times. Yeah, we really have. That's yeah, we were supposed to kind of finish recording this song, like I feel like it was like a year ago. Yeah, not quite a bit. Yeah, yeah, but I reckon nearly. Yeah, and and we got started on it and we were like, no, this is this isn't right. This isn't quite right. What what we feel what we feel like it needs to be, and we scrapped it and started again, and like we just really have so much love for it, and now we have the video to go with it, and oh my god, obviously, it's not done yet. We're shooting it how many weeks or away from today. Are we shooting it? Like three weeks.

Yeah, it must be away or something like that. Three weeks, yeah, three weeks. Three weeks today. Which is terrifying because we have a lot to do, but we're so freaking excited. Um, and we just god, the concept is just incredible, and we can't take credit for that. That's our amazing director Ellie Hayden. She's just a genius, and we just can't wait to see it. Like, I I'm gonna sit and watch it probably as many times as I watched You Belong With Me by Taylor Swift because that music video was my childhood, and I'm really hoping that this music video is like a similar vibe for some kid somewhere, you know.

[30:19] Charlotte Steele: Yeah, yeah. And I love that. Um, so again, decision time. Uh, what is the ultimate not really decision, what what is the ultimate goal for you guys? Where do you guys what would you consider the top of the peak at this very point in time?

[30:38] Holly Hull: I for me it's literally just being able to live off the band. I don't care about like fame or I don't know, that could kind of makes me cringe a little bit. But like the the idea of being able to be at work and that work be in a studio with the girls or you know, on a stage with the girls. That's just like the best thing I could ever think up, think up in my brain. It's just that would be total success for me. 100%.

[31:10] Lauren Byrne: Yeah, I feel like with us when we're together, this is gonna be really lame actually, but when we're together, we create amazing things, like we whether we you know come up with an amazing song or an arrangement or whatever. The more time we're together, the more magic happens. So every day we're not together, we're wasting this amazing thing that could be, and I think that's always what's in the back of our minds like oh my whole 24 hours is just gone. We could have been doing something awesome with the bat in a car park in a co another viral tick tock but honestly I I mean all of our answers are the same it's just it's just being able to do it every day because we just feel like we're missing out on so many awesome things that could be happening um because we can't we can't right now be together every day but yeah and it's literally one day maybe I just feel like every kid in the world dreams of being in a band with their best friends like I can't believe that we're doing that and and that that is our reality like every time we you know have like any kind of cool thing happen I'm like holy crap this is just literally every kid's dream and or maybe not but I I would wager a lot of kids dreams so um you know the fact that we get to do it is just insane and then if we were able to do it every day just yeah that'd be the dream amazing okay now if you got offered tomorrow any stage in the world any event anywhere what would be your pick of the crop um the my super bowl halftime show oh that was very decisive too that was straight off that's an event that's an event are we going for an event and we'd love the event of it we'd put on such a show yeah we would if we had the budget yeah we were we'll do a Kickstarter yeah drop us a mail.

[33:18] Charlotte Steele: You get to be our fan group on the field when we perform. You help us get there.

[33:23] Lauren Byrne: Yeah. If we're going for an event, I would say Coachella. If we're going for a venue, I would say the Greek theatre in LA.

[33:33] Holly Hull: Ooh. I feel like mine is more low-key. Mine, I think one of my like mine is probably the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. Which I feel like me and Charlotte are like, that's not gonna make us any money.

[33:50] Charlotte Steele: I know, but I'm with Lauren.

[33:56] Holly Hull: I like where you're thinking. I feel like it's a rite of passage.

[33:59] Charlotte Steele: I feel like that that's in my head.

[34:01] Lauren Byrne: We've already done that.

[34:03] Charlotte Steele: Which is why we're at Coachella.

[34:08] Holly Hull: In my dream world, that's already been done.

[34:12] Charlotte Steele: What Holly just said was dream bigger Lauren.

[34:15] Lauren Byrne: Let's go.

[34:15] Holly Hull: Yeah, fair enough.

[34:16] Charlotte Steele: Okay.

[34:18] Holly Hull: The Ryman would be nice as well.

[34:20] Charlotte Steele: Yeah.

[34:22] Holly Hull: Have you been to real country routes there?

[34:24] Charlotte Steele: No, we've never even been to Nashville.

[34:27] Holly Hull: I've walked on the Ryman stage.

[34:28] Charlotte Steele: It is.

[34:29] Holly Hull: Okay.

[34:30] Charlotte Steele: Cool story.

[34:32] Josh Mitchell: Look, I've got to get something in here. You guys have been talking yourselves up for the last four minutes. Amazing.

[34:42] Josh Mitchell: So release dates coming soon for everything. So make sure everyone listening, go to the description below, click every single link that's there, and then hit follow. That way you don't miss it. Because if you miss it, you'll be upset because everyone else will get to experience it before you. And that's not cool. Um, any other big news anywhere?

[35:03] Charlotte Steele: What you can actually.

[35:06] Holly Hull: Oh no, we can't.

[35:07] Charlotte Steele: Oh god, we have such probably the biggest thing ever for our band ever, but we can't tell you.

[35:14] Holly Hull: But what we can tell you is it's it's the biggest thing we've we will have ever done ever as a band.

[35:19] Charlotte Steele: Now this is just gonna be a good thing.

[35:20] Holly Hull: I know that we've really understood it down the days.

[35:22] Charlotte Steele: Yeah, we are literally counting down the days.

[35:26] Holly Hull: Oh god, yeah. I wish I could say it, but we just do I know it's here, it's on the tip.

[35:33] Charlotte Steele: But we do also have um before nothing nice to say is being released.

[35:38] Holly Hull: We're also gonna release Jailbreaker, which we've been I feel like has been in the pipeline since we did the voice.

[35:44] Charlotte Steele: Yeah, and that is finally coming.

[35:46] Holly Hull: That's coming really soon, really, really soon. We'll I think you'll probably hear a release date. I would say within the in the next couple of weeks.

[35:53] Charlotte Steele: Yeah, definitely within the next couple of weeks, I think.

[35:56] Holly Hull: So that's coming first, and then it will be nothing nice to say once everything's all finished up, and then hopefully at some point we'll be able to tell you the really good thing.

[36:04] Charlotte Steele: Oh my god. The day we can announce that news.

[36:06] Holly Hull: I know I'm so excited. Screams.

[36:09] Charlotte Steele: Yeah.

[36:10] Josh Mitchell: Now we're just gonna have to.

[36:13] Charlotte Steele: We're literally just gonna have to leave you guys on a cliffhanger.

[36:16] Holly Hull: We'll have to come back to it when we're allowed to announce amazing, guys.

[36:22] Josh Mitchell: All the links that you need to know about to do anything from listening to following is down below in the description. So scroll and click until your heart is content. Make sure you go and listen to all of these songs.

[36:37] Charlotte Steele: Um, because my word, I am just vibing every day of the day, every day of the day.

[36:37] Holly Hull: Every day of the day.

[36:46] Josh Mitchell: But yes, guys, that is gonna wrap us up. That is it. It's been a solid 40 minutes, and uh I have to love you guys and leave you guys again. Um sad times. Uh but yes, we will be back very soon with a brand new episode of the We Are Theatre podcast. Uh so make sure you got those notifications turned on, following everybody once again, and we will see you next time.

[37:07] All: Bye.

[37:08] All: Bye, bye.