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    BIG RISKS BIGGER REWARDS

    Mar 12, 2020 4 minutes
    WORDS BY MATT DORIA.

    ew things in this world are more powerful than the collective unity of the internet when a funny video starts to spread. When they dropped the low-budget video for “Smoko” – a belting bastion of blue-collar Aussie humour – in July 2017, The Chats didn’t think they would end up selling out theatres around the country, touring the world with their heroes or dropping their debut album at #1 on the ARIA Charts (with critical praise to boot). But alas, social media buckled under the hilarity of Eamon Sandwith and co’s loose and lively tradie-punk anthem, and two years later – the spark kept alight by follow-up gems like “Pub Feed” and is just the beginning for these Sunny Coast scamps.

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