Here's the first in a series of five interviews. The beginning of this one featured a voice-over by Duncan but no shot of him, so I've done what I can. This is the only instance where the person pictured is NOT the person speaking.
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| Duncan: (off-camera) "The diversity in
the band is something that really helps the band make it what
it is." |
Phil: "It is strange. You know, we, we do. We come from all different corners of the world." |
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| "You've got two
guys from Australia, one guy from New Zealand, two guys from
the States... |
...all coming from sort of, in a sense, totally different musical backgrounds." |
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| "There's probably
but one or two CDs in the whole world five of us can listen to
together, you know what I mean? |
And uh, musically we're so completely opposite, but somehow we come together." |
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| "Everything that
we do, really, has to stem from true friendship. I think when
you do a show people see that you're friends. They see that you're
having a good time and you can't fake that, you know what I mean?
You can't. That's not a show. That's for real." |
"You know, we all love each other a lot and we compliment each other. |
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| I think everybody has
something in their personality that, that uh... |
...you know, will fit, you know. |
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| If it wasn't there... |
...there'd be definitely
a hole in our... |
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| ...in our whole organization." |
"We've got a really
cool synergy going. And, uh, the creative pool that we have there
is quite deep, um, and and, um, it's really, we're really fortunate.
It's not really a problem coming up with ideas and song ideas,
um, show ideas. |
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| Creative, creativity just seems to, to, to sort of buzz around, which is really great!" | "When the Newsboys
come together, there's, there's an electricity that happens onstage
and it happens every night." |
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Ready for more concert action? Then onward to page three we go.