3Times7 | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: I love that the song is called Wait the band

0:02 Speaker 1: is a three times seven. And let's see who we

0:06 Speaker 1: have on the line with us from the band. Hello,

0:08 Speaker 1: welcome to the show.

0:10 Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, this is Jenny.

0:12 Speaker 3: Hey Jenny.

0:14 Speaker 2: We've got David here as well.

0:15 Speaker 4: Hi.

0:16 Speaker 3: Hey, welcome Jenny and David.

0:18 Speaker 2: Uh.

0:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if you heard right before the

0:20 Speaker 1: track I was commenting on. This is one of the

0:22 Speaker 1: things I want to ask you about. It's it seems that,

0:25 Speaker 1: so from what I could glean online, you function as

0:27 Speaker 1: both a duo and a full band.

0:30 Speaker 3: Is that correct?

0:32 Speaker 2: Yeah, we've actually got three So we've got a duo,

0:34 Speaker 2: a full band with bass and drums, and we've got

0:37 Speaker 2: a four piece acoustic setup as well. So yeah, we

0:41 Speaker 2: can become in all forms.

0:43 Speaker 1: That's pretty cool because that gives you a lot of flexibility,

0:45 Speaker 1: right in terms of where you can play and and uh,

0:49 Speaker 1: because obviously different kinds of venues, different different audiences might

0:53 Speaker 1: require a different you know, a different vibe, And I mean,

0:56 Speaker 1: is it is it confusing at all kind of managing

0:59 Speaker 1: these different versions the band or does does all the

1:01 Speaker 1: music kind of convert to whatever configuration you're playing in

1:04 Speaker 1: pretty easily?

1:06 Speaker 2: Thankfully? Now, it kind of converts quite easily. It took

1:08 Speaker 2: a little bit of work at the start. Yeah. On

1:12 Speaker 2: the website, we always make sure it's clear whether what

1:14 Speaker 2: type of band you're going to see rights, just because

1:18 Speaker 2: if you particularly like the full band, we will make

1:20 Speaker 2: sure that you are coming to a full band gig,

1:22 Speaker 2: and if you particularly like the acoustic set, that you're

1:24 Speaker 2: coming down to see the acoustic stuff. But yeah, it

1:28 Speaker 2: takes a bit of work, especially with some of the

1:30 Speaker 2: guitar solos and things. We have to rework the song

1:34 Speaker 2: format to make it work for all the different variations. Yeah,

1:39 Speaker 2: but it's really good and it keeps us on our toes.

1:41 Speaker 1: Okay, So I assume three times seven started with the

1:44 Speaker 1: two of you. You're the you're obviously the core right

1:47 Speaker 1: of the band.

1:49 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's Yeah. We've been playing together for about

1:52 Speaker 4: sort of like eight nine years now. Oh okay, and

1:54 Speaker 4: then I used to joke that we're called three times

1:57 Speaker 4: seven because we had a twenty one honoring members, that.

2:02 Speaker 3: That would be quite the configuration.

2:05 Speaker 4: Supergroup and half yeah on speed up.

2:11 Speaker 1: Well, okay, so let's well, since you refer to it,

2:13 Speaker 1: let's get to the obvious question.

2:15 Speaker 3: I'm sure this is.

2:16 Speaker 1: You're probably tired of answering it because you probably get

2:18 Speaker 1: asked us in every interview it is the most obvious question,

2:20 Speaker 1: But what what does the name mean?

2:23 Speaker 2: So officially, it's from a song called Tippetina, which is

2:28 Speaker 2: a New Orleans jazz standard, and in a line that

2:31 Speaker 2: says she was three times seven baby, And at the time,

2:35 Speaker 2: I was in my early twenties, and it felt pretty

2:38 Speaker 2: cool and we were like, oh, it's all right, that'll do.

2:40 Speaker 2: We'll change it later. And then it's now later and

2:45 Speaker 2: obviously we haven't changed it. Yeah, it's also the cards.

2:50 Speaker 2: It's the best age for whiskey.

2:52 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just now.

2:54 Speaker 2: Yeah.

2:55 Speaker 1: No, it's cool, and you know, it makes people curious, obviously,

2:58 Speaker 1: it gives it gives you something to talk about, you know,

3:00 Speaker 1: where the name comes from.

3:01 Speaker 3: I'm curious.

3:02 Speaker 1: Does anyone ever approach you and ask you, like, does

3:06 Speaker 1: anyone ever kind of know have an inkling? Maybe they're

3:09 Speaker 1: maybe they're familiar with that song, maybe they you know,

3:11 Speaker 1: maybe they love jazz, maybe they're from New Orleans and

3:13 Speaker 1: they and they say to you, hey, does the name

3:16 Speaker 1: come from this? And they kind of know what it is?

3:18 Speaker 1: Does that ever happen?

3:20 Speaker 2: No, no, never happened, but it would be quite amusing

3:24 Speaker 2: if it did. Yeah, but yeah, you people go, oh, okay,

3:27 Speaker 2: yes I've heard that song or I haven't even heard

3:29 Speaker 2: that song before.

3:30 Speaker 1: Right, right, right, So now in terms of recording, so

3:34 Speaker 1: is the full band obviously a song like Wait, that's

3:37 Speaker 1: that's everybody in the band, right, that's the full Uh,

3:40 Speaker 1: that's everybody who's involved on that record.

3:43 Speaker 2: We had Haley and Steve join us as well, so

3:45 Speaker 2: they are from a band called Futurism, okay, and they

3:48 Speaker 2: join us occasionally to do some harmony work. And when

3:53 Speaker 2: we get them involved as well, then we've basically become

3:56 Speaker 2: a little supergroup so that we we can do all

3:59 Speaker 2: the harmonies, which is really fun. But yes, everyone was

4:01 Speaker 2: involved in Wait.

4:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's really cool And is that your approach

4:06 Speaker 1: with all? Because we're also going to play at the

4:10 Speaker 1: end of our conversation because obviously I like to bookend

4:13 Speaker 1: the interviews with your music. So at the end we're

4:15 Speaker 1: going to play Big Train, which is another great track

4:18 Speaker 1: and I love the video by the way, the video

4:19 Speaker 1: is really cool.

4:22 Speaker 2: That was really fun.

4:23 Speaker 4: Yes, that's without Hade and Steve Weban. Our latest album

4:27 Speaker 4: released silber Linings. We've got tracks from there which are

4:30 Speaker 4: basically just Jenny and I with a little bit of piano.

4:32 Speaker 4: Oh and we have other tracks from there which I've

4:35 Speaker 4: got an Italian horn section on one track, I've got

4:39 Speaker 4: Turkish violinist on another. So yeah, it's very much a

4:45 Speaker 4: collaboration of friends.

4:47 Speaker 1: And Okay, okay, Now, how do you describe your music?

4:55 Speaker 1: Because you know, obviously I can hear a lot of

4:57 Speaker 1: different influences in there. You know, there's some blues, there's

5:00 Speaker 1: some jazz. I mean, it sounds and if I didn't know,

5:03 Speaker 1: and I hope you don't take this wrong, but if

5:05 Speaker 1: I didn't know where you were from, I would assume

5:07 Speaker 1: you were an American band, because you remind me of

5:09 Speaker 1: a lot of you know, especially out of the American

5:11 Speaker 1: South from a certain time period, music that would come

5:13 Speaker 1: from there. I mean, how do you how do you

5:16 Speaker 1: describe your music? Everyone always hates this question, but how

5:19 Speaker 1: do you describe your music and what kinds of influences

5:22 Speaker 1: go into what you're doing?

5:24 Speaker 4: Well, I think I think that's the main thing we play.

5:26 Speaker 4: We started off as very much primarily a blues band,

5:30 Speaker 4: and I do believe you can't play blues unless you

5:33 Speaker 4: go to the heart blue. So we did a little

5:35 Speaker 4: tour down from Chicago. We were from Louisville, Kentucky, Memphis,

5:39 Speaker 4: Nashville all the way down to New Orleans and we

5:43 Speaker 4: made it down to New Orleans for Halloween as well.

5:45 Speaker 4: Oh wow, which was a hell of an experience and

5:48 Speaker 4: I can imagine all that definitely Influencedtyle music. Alle Jenny

5:53 Speaker 4: is a massive fan of John Cleary, who is the

5:57 Speaker 4: hit of the Kentish British boy who went to New

6:01 Speaker 4: Orleans and never came back, which.

6:03 Speaker 2: A note in my heart because New Orleans is like

6:07 Speaker 2: it's awesome, Like we had such a good time on

6:09 Speaker 2: that trip. But we also have other influences as well,

6:12 Speaker 2: other than blues. We've got funk, soul rock, like all

6:17 Speaker 2: of the things that we grew up with and the

6:19 Speaker 2: music that we discovered, like it all lives in our

6:23 Speaker 2: music as well. It all comes through. So I think

6:26 Speaker 2: if I was to describe it, it's funky, solely bluesy tunes.

6:34 Speaker 4: Like every year we make we make it a habit

6:36 Speaker 4: to go and see maybe Staples when she comes around.

6:40 Speaker 4: I love brilliant. She plays a beautiful venue in Lander

6:45 Speaker 4: called the Union Chapel, and she always says, we need

6:49 Speaker 4: you should leave here feeling better than you when you arrived.

6:52 Speaker 4: So I would say our style music is positivity. Basically,

6:55 Speaker 4: it's just making you feel better.

6:58 Speaker 1: Now, that's interesting because I saw so I was doing

7:00 Speaker 1: a little bit of research and I don't know which

7:03 Speaker 1: one of you said this, but one of you said

7:05 Speaker 1: something about approving that brew that blues is not the

7:09 Speaker 1: original emo.

7:12 Speaker 4: That was oh basis of mine when I first first

7:16 Speaker 4: formed this bower Jenny Oh, he said, why would you

7:19 Speaker 4: want to play blues because it's just that was just

7:22 Speaker 4: the originally my music.

7:23 Speaker 1: Really, Yeah, that's a that's a strange comment for a

7:28 Speaker 1: couple of different reasons.

7:30 Speaker 3: But well, so now so you no longer work with

7:33 Speaker 3: that bass player, right.

7:34 Speaker 4: No, No, I don't know. He's he's retired and lives

7:37 Speaker 4: in a white picket fence with his family and went

7:39 Speaker 4: away from the music scene, as he should be, right.

7:42 Speaker 1: Right, I assume he's not listening to blues because it

7:46 Speaker 1: sounds like it depresses him. So you're but but so

7:50 Speaker 1: you're on a mission to prove that it's not that.

7:52 Speaker 1: Obviously I've never although I don't know why you would

7:55 Speaker 1: have to prove that, because I've never heard other than him,

7:58 Speaker 1: I've never heard anyone say that to begin it.

8:00 Speaker 3: That's really interesting.

8:01 Speaker 4: Well, you've got the whole thing. I'm feeling blue, isn't it?

8:04 Speaker 2: So? Oh?

8:04 Speaker 4: Blues music must be just sad. It's all about beings there. Yeah,

8:08 Speaker 4: And I was brought up on a BB King and

8:10 Speaker 4: Buddy guy. You know, she's a sweet little angel, always

8:12 Speaker 4: spread her wings for me. Let me tell you, there's

8:14 Speaker 4: nothing sad about that.

8:16 Speaker 3: There you go, there you go? Absolutely.

8:21 Speaker 1: How much How much music do you have in terms

8:24 Speaker 1: of original songs that you have released as a as

8:28 Speaker 1: a band, or or as a duo or any configuration.

8:32 Speaker 1: Do you have a lot of music that you've put

8:33 Speaker 1: out over the past, Because you said it's it's been

8:35 Speaker 1: almost a decade, right that you've been together.

8:38 Speaker 4: You've got We've got about three albums, two EPs, and

8:41 Speaker 4: a few singles out on Spotify and a new.

8:45 Speaker 2: A new set of four tracks coming out end of

8:47 Speaker 2: this month. More tracks coming soon. Okay, we've only ever

8:54 Speaker 2: recorded and released one cover, which is I'd Rather Go Blind,

9:00 Speaker 2: And everything else on all of our recordings is original.

9:03 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, excellent, And what's the process, like in terms

9:06 Speaker 1: of writing, do the two of you write together or

9:09 Speaker 1: how does that work? And again I assume the I

9:12 Speaker 1: assume the core of the songwriting and the band is

9:14 Speaker 1: the two of you, but maybe not so tell me

9:16 Speaker 1: about it very much.

9:18 Speaker 4: So so I'm quite often I'll come up with an idea.

9:21 Speaker 4: I'm a big fan turning sort of like bad things

9:26 Speaker 4: on their head. I remember when we were in Chicago,

9:28 Speaker 4: it absolutely rained down, and we were in the Museum

9:32 Speaker 4: of Chicago sort of learning about the history of it,

9:35 Speaker 4: having a couple of tea in the cafe, and Jenny

9:37 Speaker 4: just wrote down and I hate it when it ranged

9:39 Speaker 4: in Chicago because it was really loud and we could

9:42 Speaker 4: rely speak to each other. And I thought, no, I

9:45 Speaker 4: like it when it range in Chicago, and so I

9:46 Speaker 4: wrote this entire song about how you know, actually it's

9:50 Speaker 4: great when it range in Chicago and yeah, but we're

9:52 Speaker 4: dancing around in the street, and.

9:55 Speaker 2: We still kept some elements of the like the original

9:58 Speaker 2: real bluesy world where the rain is so it's soaking

10:01 Speaker 2: through my feet, absolutely drenched, like I couldn't be anyware

10:05 Speaker 2: if I dried, And so there's still some elements of

10:09 Speaker 2: that in in rain in Chicago, which is a really

10:11 Speaker 2: upbeat track that everyone loves to sing along with now So,

10:14 Speaker 2: which is lovely.

10:15 Speaker 4: Yes, it's basically taking I always think that there's a

10:18 Speaker 4: good good to find in every situation really for the

10:21 Speaker 4: most part. Yeah, absolutely, it's all that making people feel good.

10:26 Speaker 4: Like we have another song, Money to Burn, which I

10:29 Speaker 4: think Jenny did most of the lyrics on, which was

10:31 Speaker 4: all basically about you know, I should have a ton

10:34 Speaker 4: of cash to go out and spend on someone and

10:37 Speaker 4: have a really good time, but I don't. But it's

10:40 Speaker 4: okay because we're going to go out and have a

10:41 Speaker 4: good time anyway, even though we should be.

10:43 Speaker 2: You know, it's a nice restaurant champagne that.

10:47 Speaker 4: Even if we can't do that, it's still going to

10:48 Speaker 4: be good and maybe one day we will and it'll

10:50 Speaker 4: be fine.

10:51 Speaker 1: Yeah right, No, that's very cool, very cool. Yeah, I

10:54 Speaker 1: get the impression. You know, there seems to be a

10:56 Speaker 1: lot of positivity in your music. Are there is there

11:00 Speaker 1: anyone else where you're from who is doing what you do?

11:03 Speaker 1: Because like I said, you know, I hear so many

11:06 Speaker 1: American influences in your music, and obviously, you know, music

11:11 Speaker 1: from the UK in the past has been a tremendous

11:13 Speaker 1: influence on American music obviously, but I'm curious, like, who

11:17 Speaker 1: is there anyone else in your area who's kind of

11:18 Speaker 1: doing what you're doing and with this particular mix of influences,

11:23 Speaker 1: is there anybody we should know about from over there who's.

11:28 Speaker 4: There's a lot of purists in funk purists and blues purists,

11:32 Speaker 4: and we get on well with all of them, yeah,

11:34 Speaker 4: and in the same bill as all of them. But

11:36 Speaker 4: I haven't really met anyone who's quite doing it the

11:38 Speaker 4: way that we do it.

11:39 Speaker 2: Yeah, there are some full bands locally to hear though.

11:42 Speaker 2: We're very lucky that we get to play alongside some really,

11:45 Speaker 2: really good musicians on a regular basis. There's a band

11:50 Speaker 2: called Twin two Weeks in Nashville. They're very good. There's

11:54 Speaker 2: a light.

11:54 Speaker 4: Yeah, but again they're very different, much more the sort

11:59 Speaker 4: of like the indie rock side of what we do

12:02 Speaker 4: as There's another great band, Canada Hill.

12:04 Speaker 2: Yeah, got velveteen Orchestra. They're very much more muse kind

12:10 Speaker 2: of sounding. They've got this lovely, beautiful singing voice, unbelievable.

12:15 Speaker 2: But yeah, I wouldn't say there's many people that do

12:18 Speaker 2: what we do.

12:19 Speaker 4: Yeah, I always think that that's that's our biggest strength

12:22 Speaker 4: was the fact that you know, I will take in general,

12:25 Speaker 4: take inspiration from anywhere. We're not so that we do

12:28 Speaker 4: a really fun version of Sledgehammered by Peter Gabriel, which

12:35 Speaker 4: we try and do in the sort of there's a

12:38 Speaker 4: band called the Brand New Heavies. We did this really

12:40 Speaker 4: crunky version of it, absolutely brilliant, worth checking out, and

12:44 Speaker 4: so we kind of took that and moved it slightly

12:46 Speaker 4: more towards Prince and sort of to get there even

12:50 Speaker 4: more sort of like that more Prince funk rather than

12:52 Speaker 4: the sort of I guess you call it sort of

12:55 Speaker 4: average white band fund thing going.

12:59 Speaker 2: It's funkyiant.

13:02 Speaker 4: We've had people come up to us afterwards she said,

13:04 Speaker 4: that's my favorite song. And I still think that's my favorite.

13:09 Speaker 1: You know, I have a memory, by the way of

13:12 Speaker 1: when when I was a kid, my mother sitting there

13:14 Speaker 1: with her walkman and and her headphones on and just

13:17 Speaker 1: listening to Sledgehammer over and over.

13:20 Speaker 3: She loved it so much.

13:22 Speaker 2: It's a really good tune and it's got lots of

13:24 Speaker 2: different parts, which is what makes it so fun, and

13:27 Speaker 2: you can really play with the timings and pull on things,

13:30 Speaker 2: and yeah, it's it's a it's a really fun song

13:32 Speaker 2: to play.

13:33 Speaker 1: Is there a studio version of that that you've done

13:35 Speaker 1: or do you only do that live?

13:37 Speaker 4: I know it's that's all your life. So we've only

13:39 Speaker 4: ever recorded one song as a cover currently, Okay, I'm

13:42 Speaker 4: toiling with the idea of taking the badge into the

13:44 Speaker 4: studio and doing a sort of this is the set

13:47 Speaker 4: kind of thing, a bit like what the Beetles dipper

13:49 Speaker 4: please please meet. Because I'm a huge number two. We're

13:54 Speaker 4: starting to sound really really sort of like tight life

13:59 Speaker 4: with this particular set, So it'd be nice to kind

14:01 Speaker 4: of like capture it.

14:02 Speaker 3: No doubt, I agree. What would have to do that?

14:05 Speaker 3: What is the one cover that you've recorded?

14:08 Speaker 4: And so I'd rather go Blindessie James.

14:10 Speaker 3: Okay, okay, any particular reason you chose that.

14:15 Speaker 4: It was so we don't. As we said, we're quite positive.

14:18 Speaker 4: So when we do sad songs, they really do hit.

14:21 Speaker 4: And I remember we were doing this tiny gig in

14:24 Speaker 4: this little pub in Susson and there was a woman

14:27 Speaker 4: at the bar who came up to us at the

14:28 Speaker 4: end and was, as she goes, I heard you play

14:31 Speaker 4: that song. I've just gone through a divorce and this

14:34 Speaker 4: is the first time I've actually cried.

14:36 Speaker 2: And she was in a state. I gave her a

14:39 Speaker 2: big hug and like, She's like, I just I felt

14:42 Speaker 2: like I needed to have a release and this this

14:44 Speaker 2: was that moment, and it was. It was really beautiful

14:47 Speaker 2: and it really touched us how emotional people got over

14:50 Speaker 2: this particular song. We played it a couple of times.

14:53 Speaker 2: I've had people in tears and it was it was

14:56 Speaker 2: It's a beautiful feeling. It's a really hard feeling as

14:58 Speaker 2: a singer because I just want to with a big cuddle.

15:02 Speaker 2: But it really does. It speaks. It's it's quite vocal,

15:06 Speaker 2: it's quite loud in the way that it's emotive.

15:09 Speaker 4: And again we've kind of mashed it up a little bit.

15:11 Speaker 4: So the original song is just a two chord song,

15:14 Speaker 4: but I pulled in a couple of sort of like

15:17 Speaker 4: hints from Hallelujah. So it'll starts off and so everyone's like, oh,

15:20 Speaker 4: this is going to be you know, Jeff Buckby like

15:22 Speaker 4: equible song there, and then breaks into I'd Rather Go

15:25 Speaker 4: Blind and it kind of really hits on that big

15:28 Speaker 4: emotional level.

15:29 Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh wow, I'll have to listen to that interesting.

15:33 Speaker 2: Live. We always say, right, we're gonna do a sad

15:35 Speaker 2: song and then I promise you a happy song after

15:39 Speaker 2: back up again, because it's what yeah.

15:44 Speaker 1: In terms of being you know, we were talking about

15:47 Speaker 1: how you stand out and you're scene right because there's

15:50 Speaker 1: nobody else kind of doing what you're doing in this

15:52 Speaker 1: mix of influences, and you know, you've got the purists

15:54 Speaker 1: who uh maybe uh, you know, wouldn't wouldn't.

15:58 Speaker 3: Dare do what you're doing. But does that do you

16:01 Speaker 3: find that that's an advantage for you?

16:03 Speaker 1: From my vantage point, just getting to know, just getting

16:06 Speaker 1: familiar with the project, it seems like that's a big

16:09 Speaker 1: advantage because you know, everything is so there's so much

16:13 Speaker 1: there's so much noise to cut through. So if you

16:15 Speaker 1: can do something that makes you stand out, I think

16:17 Speaker 1: it's an advantage, you know. But the other side of

16:19 Speaker 1: that being maybe you have some people who are like,

16:22 Speaker 1: oh no, I don't understand how to Some people can't

16:24 Speaker 1: deal with not being able to categorize things. You know,

16:27 Speaker 1: a lot of people in the industry they have to

16:29 Speaker 1: be able to categorize things, and that happens in radio too.

16:32 Speaker 1: With radio formats. But do you think it's Do you

16:34 Speaker 1: think it's an advantage though, to be able to stand out.

16:37 Speaker 4: I think live brilliant, fantastic because we're not We're definitely

16:43 Speaker 4: not playing the same song over and over and over again. Yeah,

16:45 Speaker 4: with variety, the ability to change the lineup as quickly

16:49 Speaker 4: as we do different things means we can never turn

16:51 Speaker 4: you know, I'm not turning down gigs. If I go

16:53 Speaker 4: up to a place and they're like, we can afford

16:55 Speaker 4: to keep you half of that, I can offer them

16:57 Speaker 4: half the bands. You know, it's right. That's really good.

17:00 Speaker 4: But when it comes to things like radio play, when

17:03 Speaker 4: it comes to put the things on playlists and things,

17:05 Speaker 4: because all of our songs are so different, it means

17:09 Speaker 4: that I can show them one song and they'll be like, hey,

17:12 Speaker 4: that's brilliant. Have you got anything else like this?

17:15 Speaker 2: No, we've now started finding like sister songs. So there

17:21 Speaker 2: are a couple of songs that if you particularly like

17:23 Speaker 2: our song Shiver, you're quite likely to like Still Dawn,

17:28 Speaker 2: for example, because they're a bit rockier. But it's it's

17:33 Speaker 2: quite nice to be a mixed bag. It means that

17:35 Speaker 2: we can fit in with everyone. But sometimes if we're

17:38 Speaker 2: going to apply for like a blues festival, for example.

17:41 Speaker 2: It's very difficult because we're not straight blues. It's a

17:46 Speaker 2: bit more straight blues, and so it's a bluesy rock

17:50 Speaker 2: song or it's a bluesy soul song, but it's still

17:53 Speaker 2: got the influences there. So sometimes it's a detriment. But

17:57 Speaker 2: if we do get on the playlist, it's lovely because

18:00 Speaker 2: we then can do something that's slightly different and you know,

18:05 Speaker 2: if you're listening to blues all day, which is lovely

18:07 Speaker 2: and I love blues, it's quite nice to have something

18:10 Speaker 2: that's bluesy rather than just straight twelve bar. It's something

18:14 Speaker 2: that's a little bit more, a little something for you

18:17 Speaker 2: is to chew on if you like.

18:18 Speaker 3: Right right, absolutely. I read something too about do you

18:22 Speaker 3: have a tour coming up in September Europe?

18:27 Speaker 4: Yeah, so not this September, but next September. We are

18:30 Speaker 4: going back to Europe for our third third go round.

18:35 Speaker 4: It's really good fun. I love touring Europe. Last time

18:38 Speaker 4: we've got to play some very fun shows, including a

18:41 Speaker 4: couple of prisons. Just aside of Frankfurt, I think Johnny

18:44 Speaker 4: Cash or End of the Blues brothers. So they did

18:48 Speaker 4: get up and dance. It was good fun.

18:49 Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, and Johnny Cash of course you have

18:52 Speaker 1: awesome prison blues yep.

18:55 Speaker 2: Oh yes, that was really interesting. So we were there

18:57 Speaker 2: as a reward basically for those people who got merits,

19:03 Speaker 2: which is that they use within Europe. So the prisoners

19:05 Speaker 2: that were able to attend had to have been on

19:08 Speaker 2: best behaviors basically, and they had to be approved by

19:11 Speaker 2: the person who runs the prison, and then they had

19:14 Speaker 2: to write a letter to say why they wanted to attend,

19:17 Speaker 2: and then that got further approved. So the people that

19:20 Speaker 2: actually ended up in the room with us whilst we

19:22 Speaker 2: were playing the music, these guys haven't heard music for ages.

19:25 Speaker 2: They haven't even had a rape, like, so they're so

19:28 Speaker 2: excited about live music. And then afterwards we spent about

19:31 Speaker 2: an hour with them just talking about fans who they'd

19:34 Speaker 2: didn't play live, what instruments they used to play, They

19:38 Speaker 2: they were so they were so up they were It

19:41 Speaker 2: was such a lovely, lovely experience. It's a bizarre experience,

19:45 Speaker 2: which is.

19:45 Speaker 4: Great because when I first heard reward, I thought I

19:48 Speaker 4: thought they'd suffered enough of called them they were our

19:53 Speaker 4: most captive audience.

19:56 Speaker 3: That's perfect, that's awesome. Yeah, how many bands can say

20:00 Speaker 3: that that they've played that kind of show. That's that's

20:02 Speaker 3: really cool, that's really cool.

20:04 Speaker 2: I would do it again though. It was absolutely amazing.

20:07 Speaker 4: Really, the next tour we will be going through a

20:10 Speaker 4: couple of again.

20:12 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great. That's great.

20:15 Speaker 1: By the way, so you said that, and now the

20:16 Speaker 1: European tour is not this September, but next September.

20:19 Speaker 4: Neke September twenty twenty six.

20:21 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so you're you're planning. You're playing pretty far ahead,

20:24 Speaker 1: which is great because most musicians are not good at

20:27 Speaker 1: long term planning.

20:28 Speaker 2: But it's an expensive endeavor and with us, we all

20:33 Speaker 2: the money we make from playing live goes into the band,

20:37 Speaker 2: So it takes us a little while to save up

20:38 Speaker 2: for a toll because by the time you've got hotels

20:41 Speaker 2: and ferries and all the other things that we need,

20:43 Speaker 2: it is quite an expensive trip. But it's so worth

20:46 Speaker 2: it for meeting the people playing in these wonderful venues

20:50 Speaker 2: like and just having some time as a band together.

20:53 Speaker 2: It's really it's it's worth it. But yeah, it does

20:55 Speaker 2: take us a little while to save up.

20:57 Speaker 3: Yeah.

20:57 Speaker 4: Yeah, Also, I don't just like in the US, but

21:00 Speaker 4: in the UK festivals will be booking for summer twenty

21:05 Speaker 4: twenty six in October. Pubs will be fully booked up

21:10 Speaker 4: by the end of December for the next year. So

21:13 Speaker 4: you have to be really, really on it otherwise you're

21:17 Speaker 4: picking up the scraps unfortunately.

21:18 Speaker 1: Right, And that's the same everywhere in the In the US, festivals, yeah,

21:22 Speaker 1: they're they're planning, you know, way in advance. It's funny

21:26 Speaker 1: that that comes up because we had talked about We

21:29 Speaker 1: do a lot of music industry news on the show too,

21:32 Speaker 1: and there was I forget what it was called, but

21:34 Speaker 1: there was a country music festival here that had to

21:37 Speaker 1: be canceled kind of at the last minute. They were

21:39 Speaker 1: refunding tickets because they tried to do this. They tried

21:42 Speaker 1: to put together this big festival with only three months

21:46 Speaker 1: of lead time, and it got to be it got

21:49 Speaker 1: to be like three weeks before before showtime, and they

21:53 Speaker 1: started refunding everybody's tickets because you know, they just couldn't

21:57 Speaker 1: do it. So, yeah, festivals take a tremendous launch term planning,

22:01 Speaker 1: and things even still go wrong. But but yeah, if

22:03 Speaker 1: you get if you get out and play festivals.

22:05 Speaker 3: That's great.

22:06 Speaker 4: Well, it's funny you mentioned that. So there's quite a

22:09 Speaker 4: few things on like Netflix at the moment about things

22:11 Speaker 4: like obviously like the fire fest and things that went well.

22:14 Speaker 4: And Jenny's real, real job, head job from nine to

22:17 Speaker 4: five is in events organizing. Oh so perfect loves and

22:22 Speaker 4: obviously knows all this, this is the amount of stuff

22:24 Speaker 4: that's going to go involved and just loves watching these

22:26 Speaker 4: trainmates going I know exactly what's.

22:28 Speaker 2: Going to happen thirty seconds into the dog and just

22:31 Speaker 2: thinking about trying to organize a festival in three months.

22:33 Speaker 2: All that that said, she was down my spine. No, no,

22:36 Speaker 2: thank you please.

22:37 Speaker 3: Right, not very I know, I know, yeah, it's it's

22:41 Speaker 3: it's crazy.

22:41 Speaker 1: They thought they could do it, but they they learned

22:44 Speaker 1: the hard way and probably it probably cost them a

22:45 Speaker 1: lot of money. But uh yeah no, that's great though,

22:49 Speaker 1: that you're going to be doing festivals, have you you've

22:51 Speaker 1: done festivals before, I assume, right.

22:54 Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah.

22:54 Speaker 2: So this year we played a little festival called Gilfest

22:57 Speaker 2: which is just southeast of England, which really good fun.

23:02 Speaker 2: And we've played Wayfest and we've all.

23:05 Speaker 4: The park yeah, p of the park was fun.

23:08 Speaker 2: Any we love the festival. See, it's really fun. And

23:11 Speaker 2: because again you get such a lovely mix of different

23:14 Speaker 2: sounds at the festivals, it's actually a bit easier for

23:18 Speaker 2: us to fit in a little bit because because everyone's

23:21 Speaker 2: so open to listening to original songs and different things,

23:25 Speaker 2: and so it's a it's a really nice melting pot

23:27 Speaker 2: of people to play to.

23:29 Speaker 4: Also, I do love a good locally made ber and

23:32 Speaker 4: quite a lot of these festivals now have these little

23:35 Speaker 4: Parker breweries come along, so it's a great opportunity to

23:38 Speaker 4: go and test taste some wares.

23:39 Speaker 3: Oh that's very cool.

23:41 Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, I think a festival, I mean, that's

23:43 Speaker 1: such a great opportunity anytime you can play a festival

23:45 Speaker 1: to get in front of a big audience. And also

23:47 Speaker 1: a festival audience I feel is more open to being surprised.

23:52 Speaker 3: You know, if there's a.

23:53 Speaker 1: Band there they're not familiar with, and then the band

23:56 Speaker 1: comes out and they play a set or they or

23:58 Speaker 1: they you know, they start that for a song and

24:00 Speaker 1: you know you're in the audience and it's like, Okay,

24:01 Speaker 1: this isn't quite what I expected, or you know, that's

24:04 Speaker 1: that's a lot of fun. That's one of the fun

24:06 Speaker 1: things about a festival is being surprised by some of

24:09 Speaker 1: the artists who you're not familiar with, who end up

24:11 Speaker 1: sounding like something you maybe weren't expecting, or a mix

24:14 Speaker 1: of things that you weren't expecting.

24:17 Speaker 2: We love that as well. We love discovering new music,

24:20 Speaker 2: and if we're ever invited to a festival, we'll make

24:22 Speaker 2: sure that we go and see the other stages and

24:24 Speaker 2: go and see what's going on and make sure we're

24:26 Speaker 2: making some friends.

24:27 Speaker 4: Yeah, stories of sort of going to Hyde Park back

24:30 Speaker 4: in the day and going to go see the Rolling

24:32 Speaker 4: Stones for free and then or what's this band over here? Oh?

24:36 Speaker 4: This is this is a new band called Free and

24:38 Speaker 4: this is a new bank called Blind Faith or something,

24:41 Speaker 4: and oh that's pretty cool. We go check them out

24:43 Speaker 4: and you're like, of course you did you sort of free.

24:50 Speaker 1: Right right exactly. I'm gonna so it's been wonderful speaking

24:54 Speaker 1: with you at the time goes quickly, but I'm gonna

24:57 Speaker 1: let you go in a minute, but I'm going to

24:59 Speaker 1: play at the the end of our conversation. I want

25:01 Speaker 1: to play this track, Big Train. This is the newest

25:03 Speaker 1: single correct Big Train.

25:04 Speaker 4: Correct.

25:05 Speaker 3: Yeah, what can you tell me? About the video. The

25:08 Speaker 3: video is really impressive.

25:10 Speaker 2: Thank you. So the video is filmed at a little

25:13 Speaker 2: local train station to us called the Bluebell Railway, and

25:17 Speaker 2: they specialize in bringing back old steam trains basically, and

25:23 Speaker 2: it's just this one little line that they go up

25:24 Speaker 2: and down on, but they rebuild steam trains and they

25:28 Speaker 2: try and keep it as original as possible. So all

25:31 Speaker 2: the stations are well, they're nineteen twenties nineteen thirties style.

25:37 Speaker 2: They're beautiful and they all wear the old uniforms and

25:41 Speaker 2: the steam trains come in and out. It's a really

25:43 Speaker 2: fun place to be. And we turned up there and said,

25:46 Speaker 2: you know, would you mind very much if we made

25:49 Speaker 2: a little video whilst we're here, as we're a local

25:53 Speaker 2: band and we'd love to showcase the Rubel And they

25:56 Speaker 2: said absolutely, And then they let us into the ticket booth,

25:59 Speaker 2: the us, into the signal box. We were allowed to

26:02 Speaker 2: stand on the trains like we had the best day.

26:04 Speaker 2: They let us in all these like amazing lit all paces,

26:07 Speaker 2: We got to go in the carriages, we rode the trains.

26:09 Speaker 2: It was it was so fun.

26:11 Speaker 4: I think the whole thing was shot in about three hours.

26:13 Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow, Yeah, it's It's so cool too that they

26:19 Speaker 1: were so cool about it, because you walk into that

26:21 Speaker 1: situation not knowing, right, are they going to be like, oh,

26:23 Speaker 1: I got to get an approval from my boss for

26:26 Speaker 1: you to be here, or you need a permit or whatever, right,

26:29 Speaker 1: But they.

26:29 Speaker 3: Just they just let you do it. Huh, that's great.

26:31 Speaker 2: I think we were quite chill and they and we

26:34 Speaker 2: were quite happy. We didn't need to close We weren't

26:36 Speaker 2: trying to close down any stations to do filming. Yeah,

26:39 Speaker 2: like they do lots of like the old puaros and

26:41 Speaker 2: like the beautiful BBC productions that look amazing, but they

26:44 Speaker 2: have to close the station down for those. We were like, no, no,

26:47 Speaker 2: we're fine. We'll just stand down the end of the

26:49 Speaker 2: platform and do our bit. Like we don't. We don't

26:52 Speaker 2: need to close anything, we don't need to separate anything

26:55 Speaker 2: off and it's just the two of us and our

26:57 Speaker 2: friend Josh with his camera. Yeah. I think it's come

27:00 Speaker 2: out really nicely. I think it shows how much fun

27:02 Speaker 2: we were having as well.

27:03 Speaker 4: Yeah, a friend of mine, how did you do that

27:05 Speaker 4: short of you standing at the end of the platform

27:07 Speaker 4: with playing guitar or the train goes by? It so

27:09 Speaker 4: well it was quite easy. I waited for the train

27:11 Speaker 4: to come, then I went to the end of the

27:12 Speaker 4: platform and started playing the guitar.

27:15 Speaker 3: Was that scary at all?

27:17 Speaker 1: You were you at all concerned that you were going

27:18 Speaker 1: to get like knocked over by the you know, the

27:21 Speaker 1: wind from the train or anything.

27:24 Speaker 4: No, it's all good. I was. I was thought I

27:26 Speaker 4: was in safe hands.

27:27 Speaker 1: Okay, Oh that's good, that's good.

27:30 Speaker 4: They were hands. But I just told myself it was fine,

27:33 Speaker 4: right right, well, very good.

27:36 Speaker 3: Yeah, And I encourage people to check out the video.

27:37 Speaker 3: It's it's uh, it is excellent. And where should people go?

27:42 Speaker 1: Where's the best place to go to keep up with

27:43 Speaker 1: everything that you're doing, with everything that three times seven

27:46 Speaker 1: is doing.

27:46 Speaker 3: Where should they go? Online?

27:48 Speaker 2: So the best place is our website, which is www

27:51 Speaker 2: dot the number three, the word times the number seven,

27:55 Speaker 2: dot co dot UK okay, and that has got all

27:58 Speaker 2: the links on it for our social media. It's got

28:00 Speaker 2: all the dates that we're playing, it's got information about

28:03 Speaker 2: us as the band, it's got photos, it's got all

28:06 Speaker 2: sorts of things on there. So that's that's our main

28:08 Speaker 2: hub of information. But if not, we're on Facebook, we're

28:11 Speaker 2: on Instagram, we're on TikTok. We're on all sorts of things,

28:14 Speaker 2: so yeah, we're fairly easy to find.

28:20 Speaker 4: Yes, I would warn you that. It turns out I

28:22 Speaker 4: thought three times seven terrible band name, no one else

28:25 Speaker 4: would have it. There is an electronic drum and bass

28:28 Speaker 4: band I believe in the Netherlands called three times seven.

28:32 Speaker 4: So if you start hearing some sort of like the

28:35 Speaker 4: drum beats and stuff like that and the technical techno techno,

28:39 Speaker 4: you might have the wrong one.

28:41 Speaker 1: Yeah, I just imagine like, yeah, I didn't stumble upon

28:44 Speaker 1: them when looking you guys up, but yeah, that would

28:46 Speaker 1: be funny to being like, wow, I didn't think they

28:48 Speaker 1: were that versat all, really different.

28:52 Speaker 4: One of the shows in the Netherlands, someone came up

28:54 Speaker 4: to me and was when this isn't what I was expecting.

28:57 Speaker 4: I'm so glad you're not the other bad.

28:59 Speaker 1: That's funny, that's funny. Oh that's amazing. Well, yeah, so

29:05 Speaker 1: we're gonna play this. We'll let you go, but Jenny

29:07 Speaker 1: and David thank you both so much, and we will

29:09 Speaker 1: definitely do this again in the future. It looks like

29:11 Speaker 1: you've got a lot coming up, and you've got new

29:14 Speaker 1: music on the way. I'm sure so we'll definitely do

29:16 Speaker 1: this again. But I really appreciate the both of you

29:18 Speaker 1: joining us today.

29:20 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having us. It's been a

29:21 Speaker 2: real fun time.

29:22 Speaker 1: Absolutely, I'm gonna hit this track, Big Train, and I'll

29:25 Speaker 1: let you both go, but.

29:26 Speaker 3: Thank you, and yeah, we'll talk to you again soon.

29:29 Speaker 3: Thank you so much. All Right, you got it, Bye bye,

29:32 Speaker 3: all right, wonderful.

29:32 Speaker 1: So that was Jenny and David from three Times seven

29:35 Speaker 1: and without further ado, this is another great song. I

29:37 Speaker 1: really like this a lot, and I do encourage you

29:40 Speaker 1: to go on YouTube. Not right now stick with me,

29:42 Speaker 1: but later go on YouTube check out the video. Their

29:47 Speaker 1: YouTube channel is three times seven London if you want

29:50 Speaker 1: to get right there, but.

29:52 Speaker 3: Here it is. This is Big Train. This is the

29:54 Speaker 3: newest single from three Times seven.