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Ashes of Autumn | Matt Connarton Unleashed
Speaker 1: Oh that's good. I like that a lot. The track
Speaker 1: is undone, the band is Ashes of Autumn, and I
Speaker 1: believe we have Melanie Flynn from Ashes of autom with
Speaker 1: us via WhatsApp all the way from Perth, Australia. Melanie,
Speaker 1: are you there, Matt?
Speaker 2: How are you good?
Speaker 1: How are you welcome to the program? Good to speak
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Thank you so much having me on.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely so. Uh tell us about the uh, well,
Speaker 1: I'm curious to know about that song, but also the
Speaker 1: album that it's from the darker side of now. I
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, I listened to it. I feel
Speaker 1: like these are you know, some pretty deeply personal songs,
Speaker 1: it would seem, and especially that song, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that really uh that really speaks to me. But uh,
Speaker 1: but I want to know about that song and if
Speaker 1: it is in fact deeply personal to you, and and
Speaker 1: tell us more about the album as well.
Speaker 2: Well. Firstly, Matt like, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's such a joy when somebody can
Speaker 3: hear the music and get something from it.
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, yeah, when this album is personal to me,
Speaker 4: it's they were written from a place of personal experience
Speaker 4: and stories and things that have gone through.
Speaker 2: So I'm just surely happy that it translates that you
Speaker 2: can relate to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what is uh?
Speaker 1: Tell me about the album title, the Darker Side of Now?
Speaker 1: Where does that come from? What does that mean?
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's Steph and I Stephan my music partner.
Speaker 3: We were talking about an appropriate title for this album.
Speaker 2: For me because all songs are a very sort of
Speaker 2: serious dark part of me and they still exist now,
Speaker 2: but they're the darker side of Now. If that makes sense?
Speaker 1: It does it does? Yeah, Yeah, it kind of speaks
Speaker 1: to the complexity of you know, the human experience and
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, there's there's uh now. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess how I would interpret it is, you know
Speaker 1: now is who you are right now. But no matter
Speaker 1: who you are, no matter what your mood, no matter
Speaker 1: what you're experiencing, you have different sides of you.
Speaker 3: And of course, and the thing is too, like if
Speaker 3: you go through a lot of things, whether it's trauma
Speaker 3: related or just any sort of experience that you know,
Speaker 3: you still hold with you. Those things will always live
Speaker 3: with you right exactly, but they don't.
Speaker 2: Define you exactly. Part of you. So that's why it's
Speaker 2: the darker side of who I am.
Speaker 1: Right now, That's something that comes up a lot on
Speaker 1: the show. We talk about this quite a bit with
Speaker 1: many of our guests. How music is I think it's
Speaker 1: the best therapy or or well, well, let me broaden
Speaker 1: that out a little bit. Being creative in any way,
Speaker 1: whether it's music, whether it's visual art, whether it's writing,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. When you take trauma, when you take
Speaker 1: any negative experience that's happened to you, and then you
Speaker 1: use that to create something, And obviously musicians do that
Speaker 1: with music, you know, creating things that not only help
Speaker 1: you work through and process whatever that trauma is or
Speaker 1: that negative experience. Not only does it help you, but
Speaker 1: it helps other people too, who can then take that
Speaker 1: art and enjoy it and maybe they get something from it,
Speaker 1: maybe it helps them process whatever they've been through or
Speaker 1: whatever they're going through presently. So yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2: That's that's definitely the intention.
Speaker 3: Do you know, I think we write music for ourselves initially,
Speaker 3: you know, to get whatever we need out and to
Speaker 3: express whatever we need. But when you I think, create
Speaker 3: an album that is full of such in depth things,
Speaker 3: you really hope that someone can hear these songs and.
Speaker 2: Feel a bit of hope through your stories.
Speaker 1: Right. Right, does that happen where because the album I
Speaker 1: know has been out for a little while, Right, does
Speaker 1: it happen where you hear from people who will contact
Speaker 1: you and say, you know, this song or the album
Speaker 1: in its entirety really helped me, helped me get through something.
Speaker 2: Well, just to be fair, So the album isn't out yet.
Speaker 1: Oh, the album's not out yet. Okay.
Speaker 2: So we were planning on releasing it late last year.
Speaker 3: Oh, we held onto it. It's so close to our hearts, right,
Speaker 3: so we just held onto it. We wanted to release
Speaker 3: some singles see how they landed. Yeah, but it's definitely
Speaker 3: gonna be out later this year.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, okay, very good? Is that difficult something that
Speaker 1: I've you know, I'm a musician and I've been in
Speaker 1: some bands, but somehow I never found myself in this
Speaker 1: particular position where where you have something, you know, in
Speaker 1: this case, your album, that I'm sure, I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: a big part of you that you know because you
Speaker 1: had originally plan have it out last year the end
Speaker 1: of last year. I'm sure there's a big part of
Speaker 1: you that really wants to get this out, you know,
Speaker 1: and then there's other there's other things that go into
Speaker 1: you know, because you have to be strategic about everything
Speaker 1: if you want to succeed, right, So maybe you I
Speaker 1: assume that's part of why you've held it back, But
Speaker 1: I mean, is that frustrating though, because you want to
Speaker 1: get this out right, you want people to hear it.
Speaker 3: Yes, that it was such a journey creating this album,
Speaker 3: you know it was. It took two years to get
Speaker 3: to a place where we finally felt that this is
Speaker 3: ready to be to be heard.
Speaker 2: You know, life, life.
Speaker 3: Brings you some amazing things and sometimes you just have
Speaker 3: to pause on those things and work out what the
Speaker 3: best way forward is, right, right, So that's why we've
Speaker 3: we've chosen to pause for a second. And we've had
Speaker 3: some great support from you know, other people. I'll give
Speaker 3: a big shout out to our friend Steve Rivera in
Speaker 3: New York and he's just been a pivotal support of us.
Speaker 2: And so later this.
Speaker 3: Year, we will release this album and it's gonna be
Speaker 3: a lovely surprise and I can't wait to announce it
Speaker 3: in its full entirety.
Speaker 1: Oh, outstanding, outstanding. We'll have to have you back on
Speaker 1: the show at that at that point too.
Speaker 2: To do that, I'd love to.
Speaker 1: Oh, you got it. Absolutely, Yeah, I'm curious too. Also
Speaker 1: about people you I get the impression obviously you're in Australia,
Speaker 1: but you worked with quite a few people from other
Speaker 1: parts of the world. Is that correct?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And what a blessing that is?
Speaker 1: Huh Yeah, God bless the internet.
Speaker 3: Yes, honestly so. Steph my drummer, my music partner. He
Speaker 3: was connected with Tommy Denander in Sweden. So Tommy was
Speaker 3: involved in creating of the guitar parts that you hear
Speaker 3: on the album.
Speaker 2: Yeah. He was just an absolute gun.
Speaker 3: And then when it came down to mixing, we sort
Speaker 3: of explored different ideas, but we wanted to reach out
Speaker 3: further than just what we have in Australia, so we
Speaker 3: hit up Matt Doherty who was in Chicago, Okay, and
Speaker 3: he worked with one of my all time favorite bands,
Speaker 3: which is seven Dust.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, you're a seven Dust fan.
Speaker 2: Like the most Dustman ever.
Speaker 1: We're we're gonna have to circle back to that. Okay,
Speaker 1: good because I am too.
Speaker 2: Okay, excellent, Oh, Matt, You're my best friend. And yes,
Speaker 2: and Matt was.
Speaker 3: Matt was able to mix that album for us, and
Speaker 3: he did a stellar job on it. You know, he's
Speaker 3: he has a huge rap sheet right, So and then
Speaker 3: we had Elliott mulhan do the mastering on it and
Speaker 3: he was out in la as well.
Speaker 2: So okay, yeah, it's been.
Speaker 3: A it's been a magic input from all around.
Speaker 1: The world outstanding. Is that is that important to you
Speaker 1: or or is that just kind of how it worked
Speaker 1: out where those were the best people to do it?
Speaker 1: Like when you started this project, you and your partner
Speaker 1: in this stuff, did you did you feel like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we want to kind of you know, maybe we'll get
Speaker 1: some American input on part of this, and and maybe
Speaker 1: maybe we'll work with somebody from Sweden. I mean, what
Speaker 1: was that? Did you set out to do that in
Speaker 1: the beginning or or maybe in the beginning, did you think, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we're here, we are i mean, Perth, I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's an incredible music and I'm sure you're surrounded
Speaker 1: by a lot of great talent there. So did it
Speaker 1: becoming more of an international effort? Was that a surprise
Speaker 1: or did you intend that all along?
Speaker 3: Do you know it's so funny, I don't think it
Speaker 3: was like this intentional idea to do that. I think
Speaker 3: it was about sourcing the best people for that.
Speaker 2: You know, in the moment, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: And so I always feel that brunching out of our
Speaker 3: little tiny state and you know, this country all the
Speaker 3: way down at the other end of the world, I
Speaker 3: don't think they could ever serve you badly, do you know?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 3: I think for us it's definitely important to you know,
Speaker 3: try to build alliances and friendships or you know, work
Speaker 3: friendship with people outside of Australia.
Speaker 2: Because we're so isolated down here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just good to sort of expand it out
Speaker 3: and sort of like see where those those leads lead.
Speaker 1: What does the music scene like where you are in Perth?
Speaker 2: No, I mean we it's so interesting.
Speaker 3: I was just talking with a friend earlier about this, like,
Speaker 3: we have a little ecosystem down here in Perth and
Speaker 3: we have to because we are so isolated. Like I said,
Speaker 3: so it is an established little working community and the
Speaker 3: bands here are you know, the killer, They're so good.
Speaker 3: We have such a plethora of amazing musicians in this
Speaker 3: one little city. That is unfair that we're stuck here.
Speaker 1: Right. That's interesting. Is Perth is a pretty large city,
Speaker 1: I assume right, it may even be. Is it the
Speaker 1: largest city in Australia? No?
Speaker 3: Oh here No, I mean, like if you're talking like
Speaker 3: Space and you know Land Masks or like Wa where
Speaker 3: we live in Western Australia. Sure it's the biggest state
Speaker 3: in terms of population and you know density than.
Speaker 1: Nah, gotcha, gotcha?
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, you probably want to be looking like to
Speaker 3: the east coast, like Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, yeah, it occurs to me run.
Speaker 3: The West coast and oh okay, we're definitely the most
Speaker 3: isolated city.
Speaker 1: Oh okay then okay, interesting? Interesting? And what what what
Speaker 1: about radio? There? Are I have no idea what the
Speaker 1: radio situation is in Australia. Are there a lot of
Speaker 1: stations that support hard rock and metal and and and
Speaker 1: support bands like Ashes of Autumn?
Speaker 2: I wish I could say yes, but.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, you know, we live in this this tiny bubble
Speaker 3: down here in Australia that's very focused on commercial radio,
Speaker 3: and you know what's going on, you know, commercially. Don't
Speaker 3: get me wrong, there are some independent stations that support
Speaker 3: us and support the local communities, but we need a
Speaker 3: bigger we've been we need a bigger.
Speaker 1: Network, sure, sure, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. And what
Speaker 1: about so what's the live situation? Are you able to
Speaker 1: get out? Do you do you play live? Do you
Speaker 1: play these songs live? Or what's happening there?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Look, I mean honestly, after COVID, Perth suffered a lot.
Speaker 3: So there was a lot of venues that closed down.
Speaker 3: And you know, we I'm sure like every other city
Speaker 3: has to battle with you know, cover bands and you
Speaker 3: know other things like that, and the original scene gets
Speaker 3: you know, suffers as well. Sure, so a lot of
Speaker 3: our original venues kind of closed down, like they just
Speaker 3: weren't able to function anymore. So yeah, the options to
Speaker 3: play here, while said they're they're.
Speaker 2: Still quite limited.
Speaker 3: Okay, So that kind of really poses a question and
Speaker 3: you know makes us drive forward to like put a
Speaker 3: tour together or you know, do an Australian tour or
Speaker 3: do a maybe even international or something like that.
Speaker 1: So right, right, so you're not I assume you're not
Speaker 1: playing out live currently or maybe you are, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Now we have a next show booked on the twenty
Speaker 2: seat of May.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 3: So that's with a couple of the one of a
Speaker 3: couple of perths like amazing bands, like other sort of
Speaker 3: heavy heavy hitters.
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah we're doing like a three band line up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's gonna be Goody you should come down excellent?
Speaker 1: Oh sure, yeah, I'll make the drive. I would I
Speaker 1: would like.
Speaker 2: To list I flee. I fleeted the state several times
Speaker 2: to see seven to us. You might as well come
Speaker 2: down and see us.
Speaker 1: No, no kidding, huh no kidding. Yeah, I would love
Speaker 1: to visit Australia. That is a place I've always wanted
Speaker 1: to go. For sure, do it? Now, how does that
Speaker 1: work as far as the band there, because obviously you
Speaker 1: have you know, uh, it's not going to be you
Speaker 1: know unless unless uh your guitar player is fine, And
Speaker 1: I mean, how does that work? Do you have a
Speaker 1: do you have a band put together that that for
Speaker 1: the live shows there that's obviously not necessarily everyone who
Speaker 1: played on the on the album or how does that work? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I mean we had to put that together.
Speaker 3: So Tommy was, you know, an integral part of that recording.
Speaker 3: But of course we needed live players, so we do
Speaker 3: have a full band. They're amazing musicians in their own right,
Speaker 3: and I just feel completely blessed that they're you know,
Speaker 3: want to be a part of the live shows and stuff.
Speaker 1: So excellent, excellent. So you have so how many times
Speaker 1: have you been to the States?
Speaker 2: I've been to the States now four or five times?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, no kidding, yeah, but.
Speaker 2: All for different reasons and sort of spent different times.
Speaker 3: They're seeing different bands and just you know, seeing the
Speaker 3: sites and going to different states and stuff. But more
Speaker 3: often than nots have been tests visit the Seven Dust
Speaker 3: crew and sort of you know, pitch up at their gigs.
Speaker 1: Oh that's really cool. That's so I assume you've met
Speaker 1: them and hung out with them.
Speaker 2: I have, do you know. I've been so blessed you
Speaker 2: know that they're wonderful people.
Speaker 3: And I was lucky enough to get pulled on stage
Speaker 3: in Albuquerque.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, one random show really and then again in
Speaker 2: Perth as well.
Speaker 1: So oh, very cool to do songs with them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like they were just in the middle of their song,
Speaker 2: do you know.
Speaker 3: I think the first one in Albuquerque was Angel's son,
Speaker 3: and they just like, come on, come up here and
Speaker 3: have a sing.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, okay. Meanwhile, I'd been to
Speaker 2: you know, three shows prior, so I had no voice,
Speaker 2: so I'm like, this is great. But one in Perth
Speaker 2: was yeah, Praise got up and sang that with them
Speaker 2: and it was great.
Speaker 1: Oh that's really cool. That's really cool. Was Angel's Son?
Speaker 1: Was that a huge hit in Australia because that was
Speaker 1: in America? Commercially? That is their biggest song as far
Speaker 1: as the radio.
Speaker 2: You know, I wish that Seven Dusts were bigger here.
Speaker 2: I mean they do have a following obviously.
Speaker 3: I mean they're worldwide known, right, but it's still it's
Speaker 3: still that that sort of difference between commercial and underground
Speaker 3: and whatnot, you know. But look, every every time they
Speaker 3: come here, they.
Speaker 2: Sell out shows. Yeah, they very much loved you.
Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome. That's awesome. Do you have a favorite
Speaker 1: seven song?
Speaker 3: No, that's like asking me what my favorite pet is, Like, No,
Speaker 3: I can't, I just I just cannot.
Speaker 2: They can't. They just keep evolving. Yeah, and it's a
Speaker 2: beautiful thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I do have a favorite, a personal favorite of mine,
Speaker 1: but I can't. It's from Yeah, it's from early and
Speaker 1: their their catalog, but I can't. Actually, I can't say
Speaker 1: that album. It's from Oh what the hell? What's the
Speaker 1: name of the song is?
Speaker 2: He'll put You on this? I'm sorry?
Speaker 1: What's that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Did I put you on the spot?
Speaker 1: I can't is it the uh? I can't remember now
Speaker 1: I'm drawing a blank. I haven't had enough caffeine. The
Speaker 1: song starts with the song title starts with a B.
Speaker 1: But I can't say it on American radio, at least
Speaker 1: not on a Saturday at least not on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: But you know, you know the name of a female dog?
Speaker 1: You know what? You know? The song?
Speaker 2: Sure right?
Speaker 1: Help me out what album is that? Because I'm drawing
Speaker 1: a blank on the name of the album. I haven't
Speaker 1: listened to it in forever.
Speaker 2: I want to say that that was off. I think
Speaker 2: that was off the self titled right.
Speaker 1: It's got to be it was because it was their
Speaker 1: first one on Roadrunner when when when they when they
Speaker 1: signed with Roadrunner Records, So yeah, it's got to be
Speaker 1: the self titled one. But yeah, that's my personal favorite.
Speaker 1: I love that song and and and fortunately every time
Speaker 1: I've seen them live, because that was never released as
Speaker 1: a single, at least not in America, but they always
Speaker 1: play it that live every time I've seen them, they
Speaker 1: have at least so yeah, that's my that's my personal favorite.
Speaker 2: Seen them play that live.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 3: Oh, Now I have been too, like a few shows, now, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean too lots and lots, but as many as
Speaker 3: I possibly can.
Speaker 2: But I've never seen them play it live.
Speaker 1: I've been. I've been very lucky. Then, yeah, because I
Speaker 1: think they've played it live. I've seen them a few times.
Speaker 1: I think every time they at least two of the
Speaker 1: three times they've played it live, and I'm always very
Speaker 1: very happy.
Speaker 2: Well, remind me to come to a seven Dust show
Speaker 2: with you, Matt.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, well let us let us know next time
Speaker 1: you're coming here to see them. We'll make it happen.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 2: Oh, let's do it. It's a yeah, it's a date.
Speaker 1: Let's all right, all right, you got it? You got it?
Speaker 1: So what else should we know about? So the album?
Speaker 1: Do you have an ETA at this point on when
Speaker 1: it's going to be out? I know you said this year, right.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, So there are some really exciting things going
Speaker 3: on in the Ashes camp at the moment that I
Speaker 3: can't give it all away just yet, but you know,
Speaker 3: just watch this space because there's some really really exciting stuff.
Speaker 3: So we're edging towards September, okay, September October for a
Speaker 3: release for the album.
Speaker 2: And you can keep up to date with all of
Speaker 2: that stuff on socials with us anyways.
Speaker 1: So yeah, absolutely, Oh where does the name come from?
Speaker 1: By the way, I didn't ask you that. I asked
Speaker 1: you about the name of the album, but I didn't
Speaker 1: ask you about the name of the band. Where does
Speaker 1: what does the meaning of Ashes of Autumn?
Speaker 2: Well, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I think when you're writing music, right, you write it
Speaker 3: in a way that he was right in the moment,
Speaker 3: it's good, but you know, it's seasonal changes in the
Speaker 3: terms of how you might proces it, you know, and
Speaker 3: the same with like with autumn and the season's change,
Speaker 3: and it's like regrowth and rebirth and all that sort
Speaker 3: of stuff, And that's kind of what music or songwriting does, right.
Speaker 3: It's like a you're putting it to bed and then
Speaker 3: hopefully somebody else can learn from it.
Speaker 2: Or get something from it.
Speaker 3: So it's like putting things to bed, but then having
Speaker 3: a regrowth afterward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay, very cool. I like that. I like
Speaker 1: that very good. Oh by the way too, you've got
Speaker 1: some great music videos. I was, I was checking out
Speaker 1: the videos. I was thank you, especially curious to ask
Speaker 1: you about. Oh yeah, the video for when It Comes
Speaker 1: is really interesting? Can you can you tell us about this?
Speaker 1: And I encourage people, not right now, but after the show,
Speaker 1: I encourage people to go on YouTube and check it out.
Speaker 1: But this is really interesting. This this whole concept with
Speaker 1: it looks like it you know, it kind of looks
Speaker 1: like it's recorded with with old camcorders. And you got
Speaker 1: the guys who look like astronauts in the white suits.
Speaker 1: I mean, just can you tell us about this video?
Speaker 3: Oh? I would love to tell you the brown So
Speaker 3: Steph and I we like to think outside the box, right,
Speaker 3: and so we thought it would be an incredible idea
Speaker 3: to shoot all twelve videos for this album in one day.
Speaker 1: Oh really?
Speaker 2: So so we did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that took about six months of planning.
Speaker 2: It was a big, big effort.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So Steph is like a machine when it comes to planning,
Speaker 3: because I'm not so. So we worked together in planning
Speaker 3: and designing sets and working out how it might look
Speaker 3: and sort of like the shots that we wanted.
Speaker 2: And you know how every song is gonna late look.
Speaker 2: But the special part of this was that each song
Speaker 2: was literally just a one take shot.
Speaker 3: Oh whatever you see, that's it. We're not going to
Speaker 3: go back and reshoot anything. Expectful like project for us,
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 2: So when it comes. We shot this in a huge.
Speaker 3: Warehouse and we went in the night before and we
Speaker 3: set up what you see that, you know, the big blacks,
Speaker 3: and that's just kind of like builders.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've been to a construction site,
Speaker 2: a construction.
Speaker 3: Site right, oh yeah, And it's very heavy and it's
Speaker 3: just a tool of us. And it took about four
Speaker 3: or five hours to set up like this nine by
Speaker 3: nine you know, square thing like it.
Speaker 2: It was massive, it was and then we thought we
Speaker 2: did like that are in there, and we did videotape
Speaker 2: all that when it start the video.
Speaker 3: To be like my my thought about it was that
Speaker 3: it was going to be shot in a way that
Speaker 3: we looked a little bit unhinged.
Speaker 2: And so the song itself is about if you're.
Speaker 3: Depression or mental health challenges or anxiety, you can feel
Speaker 3: when it comes. And so it's all about like understanding
Speaker 3: when it comes and what happens in the moment. And
Speaker 3: so this having the guys dress up in the you know,
Speaker 3: the white outfits and stuff. They were kind of like
Speaker 3: resembling the bad critters that might come in when you know,
Speaker 3: these depressive things happen, or maybe doctors or something else,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And so yeah, it was just a moment of a little.
Speaker 3: Bits and incorporating it in a way that looks like
Speaker 3: we're being spied on, because that's kind of how you
Speaker 3: think people can relate to their feeling it anxious or
Speaker 3: have mental health challenges.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's kind of where that came from.
Speaker 3: And let me tell you, the pack up for that
Speaker 3: set was the worst pack up I've ever life.
Speaker 1: I can imagine it still haunts us to this Wow.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but so you were you were able to
Speaker 1: see you were able to successfully film all those videos
Speaker 1: in one day.
Speaker 3: Correct, So everybody from this album has been shot in
Speaker 3: a twenty four hour period. So we arrived at the
Speaker 3: first shoot at like six thirty in the morning. I
Speaker 3: picked up our camera guy.
Speaker 2: Filming at eight, and then we finished around two thirty.
Speaker 2: And that's twelve songs.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, it's a whole.
Speaker 3: It was a whole experience that I said to Steph, like,
Speaker 3: is this something that you would consider doing again?
Speaker 2: And the initial were like hell no. They were like yeah,
Speaker 2: like we just do.
Speaker 1: It better now, right, that's true. Now you know you
Speaker 1: certainly know how to do it now that you've done it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's amazing. Wow, good for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's it.
Speaker 3: Like, I mean, I don't know band Swage consider doing
Speaker 3: something like that, but I don't know if us. It
Speaker 3: just felt right and we loved the process. It was
Speaker 3: an amazing process of planning. Like I said, took about
Speaker 3: six months. But when you plan something for that long
Speaker 3: and then when it comes to fruition and you see
Speaker 3: the product at the end, it's like, oh there that
Speaker 3: was actually really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's amazing, Wow, fantastic. Well, so I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about so two things. One is I'm thinking about you know,
Speaker 1: we did play the we we played undone to open
Speaker 1: the segment. I was thinking about closing the segment with uh,
Speaker 1: I do want to play another ashes of bottom track?
Speaker 1: I was saying about closing the segment with all that
Speaker 1: you Have because I think that's my personal favorite. Uh
Speaker 1: if that is ah, if you're amenable to that.
Speaker 2: Oh, no, I love that you have loved that.
Speaker 3: I mean that was the first single that we really okay,
Speaker 3: you know, and and I think that it just hit
Speaker 3: like well as the first release, you know, like it's
Speaker 3: not a bit of it's a.
Speaker 2: Bit patchy, it's a bit poppy, but it's still got
Speaker 2: a bit grit, you know.
Speaker 3: And I mean, would you have thought that I wrote
Speaker 3: this song one piano Matt Okay?
Speaker 1: No, I would not have thought that. That's interesting?
Speaker 3: I know, right, Yeah, when I first wrote it, it
Speaker 3: almost had like a very eighties vibe to it. But
Speaker 3: then I took it to the you know, we worked
Speaker 3: it out in the studio and it's like, oh, okay,
Speaker 3: this is what it's gonna.
Speaker 2: Sound right now. But yeah, I love I love if
Speaker 2: you want to close the show with that, I'm more
Speaker 2: than Stokes?
Speaker 1: Is that? H Is that always how you write on
Speaker 1: the piano for this album?
Speaker 2: I think, like I want to say, like, maybe it's
Speaker 2: on the piano.
Speaker 3: Okay, then maybe acoustic guitar okay, and then you know,
Speaker 3: take it to the guys and we kind of all
Speaker 3: take it to Stamp and then take it to Tommy
Speaker 3: or whatever and just send skeleton songs and this is
Speaker 3: what this is and this is the melody idea and
Speaker 3: give him a very detailed brief on what we are hearing.
Speaker 2: But yeah, this this song, I actually love this song.
Speaker 3: Like it's came back so well, Like I was like, dude,
Speaker 3: this is this is awesome, Like it's a vibe.
Speaker 1: Very cool, very cool. Yeah, at the end of our discussion,
Speaker 1: I'm going to play that I might I might sneak
Speaker 1: in a seven Dust song after that. It's for the
Speaker 1: hell of it. But Okay, Melanie, this has been wonderful.
Speaker 1: Tell us the other thing I want to make sure
Speaker 1: our listeners know before you go, where is the best
Speaker 1: place for people to go to keep up with everything
Speaker 1: that the band is doing? Everything odd Ashes of Autumn
Speaker 1: is up to Where where should they go online?
Speaker 3: Look, we're everywhere online Ashes of Autumn HQ and so
Speaker 3: just follow us on Facebook, you can go YouTube, where
Speaker 3: on TikTok. It's all you know, anywhere that you consume
Speaker 3: social media and or music, we're.
Speaker 1: There, outstanding and yeah, you've got a great website, which
Speaker 1: is which is very important.
Speaker 2: Thank you. That is all down a stiff He's amazing,
Speaker 2: good good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a website nerd, so I that's that's why,
Speaker 1: because a lot of a lot of artists have terrible websites.
Speaker 1: So you've got you've got a great You've got a
Speaker 1: great website, which is which is very cool.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Oh and I can confirm yes, that song that is
Speaker 1: on the self titled album, the seven best song we
Speaker 1: were talking about. I just looked it up.
Speaker 2: Well, that's right, okay, So I'm good. I'm good. My
Speaker 2: knowledge is still standing.
Speaker 1: Up absolutely absolutely all right, Melanie Flynn from Ashes of Autumn.
Speaker 1: We will let you go and we'll hit that track
Speaker 1: all that you have and yeah, we'll definitely have you
Speaker 1: back in the future. We want to when the album
Speaker 1: is ready to come out, please make sure you join
Speaker 1: us again and we can talk all about it and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, help introduce that to the American audience here
Speaker 1: and uh and and keep up the great work. Love
Speaker 1: the band, and it's been wonderful speaking with you today.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Matt. It's been such a pleasure. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much for having us on and for supporting.
Speaker 3: Us all the way from the US. And yeah, we
Speaker 3: we appreciate it so much.
Speaker 2: So yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right, you got it, Melanie, thank you, We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you soon.
Speaker 2: Take care all right, we'd love that.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Take care of fighting all right, bye bye, all right.
Speaker 1: That is Melanie Flynn from the band Ashes of Autumn,
Speaker 1: and this is my favorite track from the band. I
Speaker 1: listen to everything that they have available, and I really
Speaker 1: like this a lot. This is called All that You
Speaker 1: Have
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