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first 3 albums. Ryan gave us the lowdown; “Nettwerk had bought our back catalogue, so basically, everything except Breaking Out of Hell. So, they acquired a bunch of our old tracks, some that were never released and they just said ‘look these are really good songs that the public should have access to’, so we said ‘well if you guys think so’. So we made the Dimond Cuts, which is basically everything you may not have.” Ryan continued “it’s a good little Christmas package that thing...” and we couldn’t agree more! Wrapping things up so he can go get ready for another headline show Ryan told us; “This tour has been really good, we are going to be a bit sad finishing up, but after this we go home and we make another record! We are gonna go home, have a bit of a Christ- mas and then we are going to try working straight away in Decem- ber, writing. But it’s one of those things of ‘how long is a piece of string’, so we will just begin it, get our heads down. We already have quite a lot of riffs from this tour, and there are heaps stored from previous tours, so we are gon- na start playing and then start sifting. Then talking about where we are gonna record it, might be Australia, might in Nashville. But we will see. It’s safe to say that Airbourne have been one of the most excit- ing bands o n the scene this side of the year with one fan saying “The Breakin’ Out Of Hell Tour was the best show I have ever seen in my life”. Perhaps mod- ern-day debauchery is simply being able to let go, an escape for many from the regimented 9-5. Airbourne have no plans of slowing down anytime soon so we look forward to seeing them again in 2018, no doubt at a few festivals for our much-needed freedom fix! | Victoria Purcell