Brides | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: I love it, especially the ending. That's really cool. You

0:02 Speaker 1: kind of don't expect that. The track is called Creature Culture.

0:05 Speaker 1: The band is Brides, another great band from the UK,

0:10 Speaker 1: and we are in our number two Newmarrow dose of

0:14 Speaker 1: Matt Connorton Unleashed and let's see who we have here

0:19 Speaker 1: via WhatsApp from the band Brides, Hello, welcome to the show.

0:23 Speaker 2: Hello, thank you so much for having us on.

0:25 Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely okay, So who do we have with us?

0:28 Speaker 1: Please identify yourselves. Tell us who you are and what

0:31 Speaker 1: you do in the band.

0:33 Speaker 2: So my name is Joe. I do the singing and

0:36 Speaker 2: play the rhythmsle Hi, Joe.

0:37 Speaker 3: My name is Alex, and I play the leads and

0:41 Speaker 3: to some backing vocals as well.

0:44 Speaker 2: Okay, and between the two of us we write all

0:46 Speaker 2: the songs.

0:47 Speaker 1: Oh, very good. Okay, so Joe and Alex yep, yeah okay,

0:52 Speaker 1: Well guys, yeah, welcome. It's wonderful to talk with you.

0:54 Speaker 1: I really like the I really like the EP. I

0:56 Speaker 1: listened to the whole thing online. And now, how do

0:59 Speaker 1: you how do you pronounce the title. What's the correct pronunciation?

1:03 Speaker 2: It's pronounced letche it's it's milk in Spanish.

1:07 Speaker 1: Oh, okay, And we.

1:10 Speaker 4: Started that because I had a roommate who he's got

1:12 Speaker 4: an absolute phobia of people that drink milk. I'm a

1:15 Speaker 4: man that likes a little glass of milk every now

1:17 Speaker 4: and again.

1:18 Speaker 5: Sure, yeah, I used to come into the room pronouncing that,

1:22 Speaker 5: but that had a big old pine a leche and

1:24 Speaker 5: it make his skin cruel. And from there we just

1:27 Speaker 5: decided that was a good enough name for the album.

1:29 Speaker 1: That's funny. I yeah, I used to drink a lot

1:31 Speaker 1: of milk when I was a kid, and now the

1:33 Speaker 1: thought of drinking milk is kind of repulsive to me.

1:35 Speaker 1: But but he had a he had a total phobia

1:37 Speaker 1: of it. That's funny. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So

1:41 Speaker 1: I'm really curious to know more about about these songs

1:45 Speaker 1: and and kind of what your inspirations are. And I'm

1:47 Speaker 1: glad that I'm talking to the two members who who

1:49 Speaker 1: write everything because it is so interesting. We're gonna play

1:54 Speaker 1: after our conversation. We're gonna play. You also asked us

1:57 Speaker 1: to play We're Out of Gravy, and I also doesn't

1:59 Speaker 1: but I'm actually going to play two songs at the

2:01 Speaker 1: end because I'm gonna play that. But I'm also going

2:02 Speaker 1: to play because you picked it. But there's another song

2:05 Speaker 1: from the EP that I'm also going to play selfishly

2:08 Speaker 1: at the end because I love it so much. But

2:10 Speaker 1: I'll wait till at the end of our conversation ask

2:12 Speaker 1: you about that song.

2:13 Speaker 2: But very excited.

2:16 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I love the whole thing. It's so

2:18 Speaker 1: cool and it's different, you know, It's it's not something

2:20 Speaker 1: that you tend to hear on the radio. You've You've

2:23 Speaker 1: got a style and a sound that I think is unique.

2:26 Speaker 1: But I am curious about I'm curious about influences sonically

2:32 Speaker 1: because I was reading online I saw I saw both

2:37 Speaker 1: Weezer and The Wiggles mentioned in the same sentence. I

2:41 Speaker 1: don't know if that's accurate or not, but I'm very curious.

2:44 Speaker 4: I mean, with regards to the guitars and the bass,

2:48 Speaker 4: I think we get a lot of inspiration from bands

2:50 Speaker 4: like Weezer, my Bloody Valentine.

2:54 Speaker 6: The best band of all time that is radio, so.

2:57 Speaker 2: A lot of driven guitars from that.

2:58 Speaker 4: But lyrically, I mean, we have we don't consider ourselves

3:01 Speaker 4: a comedy.

3:02 Speaker 2: Bando I say, but we like we like, we like

3:04 Speaker 2: funny bit.

3:06 Speaker 6: We have fun as well.

3:07 Speaker 4: And I think that's what we like about the Wiggles,

3:09 Speaker 4: the fact that they can turn these just really simple

3:12 Speaker 4: concepts like a fruit salad into a.

3:14 Speaker 2: Banger that everyone is screaming.

3:16 Speaker 6: Yeah, so with Wiggles, with the Dicky's energy.

3:19 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we like we like to think of ourselves

3:21 Speaker 2: as the Wiggles.

3:22 Speaker 1: But for gamers, oh that's great, that's great. And I

3:26 Speaker 1: so I get a sense too that these songs are

3:29 Speaker 1: kind of about celebrating individuality and and and uh different

3:35 Speaker 1: and some of some of that I might be getting

3:36 Speaker 1: from the song that I haven't mentioned the name of

3:38 Speaker 1: yet that I love so much that I'm gonna play later.

3:40 Speaker 1: But and I also kind of get that from the

3:42 Speaker 1: cover art too. Uh well, let's start actually, let's start there.

3:46 Speaker 1: So tell me about the cover art for the EP.

3:49 Speaker 1: Who drew that and what does it mean.

3:53 Speaker 4: The cover art was designed by a very very good

3:55 Speaker 4: friend of mine, Richie Over at the Institute of Free Design,

4:00 Speaker 4: and the coverer came about because when we were on holiday,

4:04 Speaker 4: maybe about four years ago, we got these old beer

4:06 Speaker 4: boxes and for whatever reason, we.

4:09 Speaker 2: Played a silly game we turn them into robot heads.

4:11 Speaker 2: We did it. We were going to throw them away

4:12 Speaker 2: and I just thought they.

4:13 Speaker 4: Were there, you know, one day. One day, this piece

4:16 Speaker 4: of you know, rubbish is going to come.

4:17 Speaker 2: In great use. And then we were we were debating

4:21 Speaker 2: what to do for the album cover. We knew it

4:22 Speaker 2: was going to be good lecture and I had to

4:23 Speaker 2: have something milk related. We liked the idea of all

4:26 Speaker 2: of us.

4:26 Speaker 4: Riding on the back of a cow, but beyond that

4:30 Speaker 4: we needed to sort of capture they.

4:32 Speaker 6: We had to get like little propters.

4:33 Speaker 3: So you know, on the on the cow, we're all

4:35 Speaker 3: sat on the cow, and then I'm at the front

4:37 Speaker 3: as well. We all like to do our silly little

4:39 Speaker 3: poses and to ride a cow.

4:41 Speaker 4: Yeah, we have a stunt cow to be able to

4:44 Speaker 4: ride for the reference images, so it's all of us

4:45 Speaker 4: balancing precariously on an amph We then sent to the

4:50 Speaker 4: artists and said, can you just do this but pretend

4:51 Speaker 4: we're on a cow instead, and then yeah. So we

4:55 Speaker 4: just wanted to get this sense because the album was

4:57 Speaker 4: quite distorted and quite spacious, so we wanted to get

5:00 Speaker 4: this sort of grandiose sense to it. And I think

5:03 Speaker 4: the easiest way we saw that, combined with the robot head,

5:05 Speaker 4: is what if there was a huge robot assessing the

5:08 Speaker 4: cow for whatever the farious reason.

5:10 Speaker 1: Yep.

5:11 Speaker 4: And I think on perhaps a future release, we might

5:14 Speaker 4: get a sequel image to that, showing what might happen

5:16 Speaker 4: next between the robot and the cow.

5:18 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I like that idea. Yeah, so I encourage

5:21 Speaker 1: people who haven't seen it go online and uh and

5:24 Speaker 1: and check out this cover and yeah, the robot, the

5:28 Speaker 1: guy with the robot head is holding the cow. I

5:31 Speaker 1: actually didn't realize it was a cow when I first

5:33 Speaker 1: looked at it. I had to kind of study it

5:35 Speaker 1: to even even figure that out. I was like, oh, yeah,

5:37 Speaker 1: I think that is a cow that they're sitting on. Yeah,

5:45 Speaker 1: so that's that's very cool. Do you have You must

5:47 Speaker 1: have got a lot of questions about the cover, right,

5:49 Speaker 1: I assume people ask you all the time.

5:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a lot of a lot of people

5:55 Speaker 3: seem to really be liking it, which is obviously great,

5:57 Speaker 3: But then the comments to be bad about the cover is.

6:01 Speaker 4: Yeah, we thought people were just looking at it and think, oh,

6:03 Speaker 4: that's pretty cool, but people have really wanted to know

6:05 Speaker 4: the rationale behind it.

6:07 Speaker 1: Yeah.

6:07 Speaker 2: I think we're lucky enough.

6:09 Speaker 4: To be able to work with a talented.

6:10 Speaker 6: Artists who did this for us.

6:12 Speaker 4: And I mean, we we've got a gig on the

6:15 Speaker 4: thirteenth September, our next headline show, and for that, the

6:18 Speaker 4: same person who designed Richie, the same person designed to Cover,

6:21 Speaker 4: has designed some tarot cards that will be giving out

6:23 Speaker 4: to the audience members with some of our faces on

6:25 Speaker 4: them and some artwork relating to the songs. Oh wow,

6:29 Speaker 4: and we've we've made little milk cartons as well to

6:33 Speaker 4: give out and the box yeah yeah, it's got a

6:36 Speaker 4: little robot head key chain in it and the couple

6:38 Speaker 4: of sweeties. So yeah, we've we've leaned very hard into

6:42 Speaker 4: this whole milk and robot thing.

6:43 Speaker 2: Just look at so many people that come back so

6:45 Speaker 2: interested in it. Will make the most situation.

6:49 Speaker 1: I think that's the first time anyone's ever used a

6:51 Speaker 1: sentence like that on the show. We've leaned very hard

6:53 Speaker 1: into the milk and robot thing.

6:56 Speaker 4: I'm honored to be able to bring that to Deer

6:57 Speaker 4: for you.

6:59 Speaker 1: No, I love it that. It is so cool if

7:02 Speaker 1: you can do something that you know, that that makes

7:05 Speaker 1: you stand out but also creates this kind of you know,

7:09 Speaker 1: over time. Because I assume you're a relatively new band.

7:12 Speaker 2: Right Yeah, yeah, we had our first concert in January

7:16 Speaker 2: this year.

7:16 Speaker 1: Ready, Oh yeah, okay, so you're very new. So over time,

7:19 Speaker 1: you know, as long as you continue to to do

7:21 Speaker 1: this type of thing with the cover and the you

7:23 Speaker 1: know and and you know, these concepts, it you know,

7:26 Speaker 1: a mythology will kind of build around the band, if

7:29 Speaker 1: that makes sense. And I yeah, yeah, And I think

7:34 Speaker 1: that's a great thing to have because you know, it

7:36 Speaker 1: creates interest and it it uh, you know, if if

7:40 Speaker 1: you can even pull you know, you might pull some

7:42 Speaker 1: people in who are just kind of interested in the

7:44 Speaker 1: image and what does it all mean, and then they

7:47 Speaker 1: they listen to the music and then they're they're you know,

7:49 Speaker 1: then they become permanent fans because of the music. But

7:52 Speaker 1: but yeah, having having something that kind of pulls people in,

7:54 Speaker 1: I think is a great strategy. And it's and it's underused.

7:59 Speaker 1: It's it's not something a lot of artists really do.

8:02 Speaker 1: If anything, a lot of artists try to kind of

8:04 Speaker 1: fit in with whatever is going on at the time.

8:08 Speaker 4: I think there's a big trend towards at the moment,

8:09 Speaker 4: especially with the big push for marketability on social media

8:13 Speaker 4: and everything.

8:13 Speaker 2: A lot of people put an image.

8:15 Speaker 4: Of themselves as the cover image because I helped boost

8:17 Speaker 4: engagement and everything.

8:18 Speaker 2: Sure, but I don't know, you know, being.

8:20 Speaker 4: Admirers of the Beatles and Pixies and radiohead bands with

8:22 Speaker 4: really iconic.

8:23 Speaker 2: Front images, we just them.

8:26 Speaker 4: Yeah, we just we just wanted something that lived up

8:29 Speaker 4: to the scope at least what we thought of the record.

8:32 Speaker 2: And I'm really really happy to just come out that well.

8:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely so. In terms of the songs themselves, I mean,

8:40 Speaker 1: are you are you? I mean I kind of might

8:43 Speaker 1: have been reading into it a little bit. I don't

8:44 Speaker 1: know what are the songs supposed to be about. I mean,

8:47 Speaker 1: is there a cohesive theme or is it? Is it

8:49 Speaker 1: just it seems like you're there's almost these different like

8:53 Speaker 1: each song almost to me is kind of like its

8:55 Speaker 1: own character in some sort of story that I don't

8:58 Speaker 1: quite understand. Again, I don't know if I'm reading too

9:00 Speaker 1: much into it. Tell me if I am.

9:02 Speaker 3: But I really yeah, well definitely they all kind of

9:06 Speaker 3: they're all like so how we do it is me

9:09 Speaker 3: and Joe, We like we come up with the songs

9:12 Speaker 3: like on our own, and then we come together, then

9:15 Speaker 3: we put them together.

9:16 Speaker 6: I give any input or he gives any input back

9:18 Speaker 6: to me and then.

9:19 Speaker 3: But they're all very like individual to us personally, Like

9:21 Speaker 3: with lyrics, there's a lot of a lot of things

9:24 Speaker 3: going on.

9:25 Speaker 2: I think one I think.

9:26 Speaker 4: We like to take like quite personal subject matters and

9:29 Speaker 4: give them a bit of a larger than life persona,

9:31 Speaker 4: which is which we've done through sort of characterizing each

9:33 Speaker 4: one of these songs. I mean, one of our tracks,

9:35 Speaker 4: Common Inferno, is all about two clones who fall in

9:39 Speaker 4: love with each other and face the consequences for that.

9:41 Speaker 4: Rebecca's about an angel that likes to have a bit

9:43 Speaker 4: of a drink. And they're all based on people we

9:48 Speaker 4: know really in real life who have had big influences

9:50 Speaker 4: on us.

9:50 Speaker 6: Yeah, and we've.

9:52 Speaker 2: Dressed them up enough.

9:53 Speaker 4: So that those people don't necessarily know we're singing about them.

9:57 Speaker 1: Well, now I'm curious, has anyone ever come to you

9:59 Speaker 1: and said or ask you is that song about me?

10:02 Speaker 1: Or did I have anything to do with inspiring that song?

10:05 Speaker 1: Is that happened?

10:08 Speaker 4: Unfortunately, we will be shot by a couple of people,

10:11 Speaker 4: but I will say every person we have ever met

10:14 Speaker 4: called Rebecca and the people at Home another one of

10:16 Speaker 4: about tracts called Rebecca, everybody we've ever met named Rebecca

10:19 Speaker 4: has reached out and said, oh my god, I can't

10:21 Speaker 4: believe you wrote this song about me. I started off

10:24 Speaker 4: denying it, saying, oh no, it's unrelated, but in the

10:26 Speaker 4: end they just thought, oh, well, they're going to listen

10:28 Speaker 4: to it.

10:28 Speaker 2: Yeah, of course it's about you. We're honored that you

10:31 Speaker 2: let us write this about you.

10:32 Speaker 3: We aim for a sold out gig just with people

10:35 Speaker 3: named Rebecca there.

10:38 Speaker 1: That would be great. That would be great. So the

10:41 Speaker 1: album sounds really good. Where do you guys record?

10:45 Speaker 2: We recorded in two different studios. We did the drums

10:48 Speaker 2: in a place called Arc which we've had a lot

10:50 Speaker 2: of experience with recording there.

10:51 Speaker 4: But then for the rest of the track of the

10:53 Speaker 4: guitars and bass and vocals and all the fun little

10:56 Speaker 4: sounds you're in the background, we recorded at Brier Street

10:58 Speaker 4: Studios in Liverpoo newer studio, but it was absolutely fantastic,

11:03 Speaker 4: had a really really good atmosphere and energy. The owner

11:07 Speaker 4: was super, super nice, and we were lucky enough to

11:09 Speaker 4: work with just the best producer in the world, Rory Balz.

11:12 Speaker 6: And he taught me how to make coffee there as well.

11:14 Speaker 2: He did he thought you had to make a proper coffee.

11:15 Speaker 4: Yeah, had a scream properly into the mic without clipping it.

11:20 Speaker 2: We were We've been really really lucky.

11:22 Speaker 3: To work with the people we have, especially like there's

11:25 Speaker 3: a distortion layer on Common Inferno as well, like just

11:28 Speaker 3: working that for ages as well, just just being able

11:31 Speaker 3: to just blast that and.

11:32 Speaker 2: Just yeah, get it perfect.

11:34 Speaker 4: If you're listen carefully, you'll find a lot of the

11:36 Speaker 4: distortion layers are just Alex screaming into his guitar pickups feedback.

11:42 Speaker 3: Really yeah, yeah, yeah, so I'd like tune it so

11:46 Speaker 3: it's so it's in key and then just like scream

11:49 Speaker 3: into it, run around the room, smash it on the

11:52 Speaker 3: wall or something, and then.

11:54 Speaker 2: Just try and get as much as many mangled sounds

11:55 Speaker 2: as were good.

11:56 Speaker 1: That's interesting. That's interesting.

11:59 Speaker 2: Took some perfecting to get right, but we got there

12:02 Speaker 2: in the end.

12:02 Speaker 4: And then a lot of the little background sounds on Monsters,

12:05 Speaker 4: this was again we were lucky to work with Rory,

12:07 Speaker 4: who's been game for anything.

12:09 Speaker 2: He if you listen in the right headphone, nice.

12:13 Speaker 4: And quiet, he delivers a speech about an evil monster

12:16 Speaker 4: destroying reality that took a lot of time to get

12:19 Speaker 4: right because we were all just you know, wetting ourselves

12:22 Speaker 4: laughing through it.

12:22 Speaker 6: But that's when we were kind of like we were

12:24 Speaker 6: linking in that robot theme.

12:26 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, again, trying to bring it all back together.

12:28 Speaker 4: So I mean to go back to an earlier question,

12:31 Speaker 4: I think the common theme of the release is just

12:33 Speaker 4: sort of desperation, not in the negative sense, not in

12:37 Speaker 4: a sad sense, but I feel.

12:39 Speaker 2: Especially when you're younger, you're just in such a.

12:41 Speaker 4: Hurry to get everything done because you feel at the

12:43 Speaker 4: time slipping away from you and whether that relates to you,

12:46 Speaker 4: you know, getting into a relationship that might not be

12:49 Speaker 4: the best just because it's the most comfortable thing, or

12:51 Speaker 4: going a bit crazy on the old on the old.

12:53 Speaker 2: Beverroonies for a week or two.

12:55 Speaker 4: Yeah, is that sort of annic behind it, And I

12:59 Speaker 4: think we've tried to capture that, and as I say,

13:01 Speaker 4: take the Wiggles inspiration as well and make it a

13:03 Speaker 4: bit fun.

13:05 Speaker 1: I'm curious, when you write these songs, do they do

13:10 Speaker 1: they end up? Do any of these, for example, on

13:12 Speaker 1: this EP, did any of them come out differently in

13:14 Speaker 1: a significant way than than what you had in mind

13:18 Speaker 1: or expected when you went in.

13:21 Speaker 3: Yeah, so definitely, because me and Job that we've been

13:25 Speaker 3: writing them for like two two and a half years

13:28 Speaker 3: to two and a half years, we'll say. But we

13:31 Speaker 3: initially had like a full horn section the way we

13:36 Speaker 3: wanted to.

13:37 Speaker 6: Incorporate into it.

13:38 Speaker 3: Really I did think it was Yeah, we did get

13:43 Speaker 3: a trumpet in. Yeah, well, but I think we just

13:46 Speaker 3: didn't think it was Bible. Really, it wasn't really the

13:48 Speaker 3: sound we were going for for this one.

13:50 Speaker 6: Maybe later down the line, but for this.

13:54 Speaker 3: Plus, like we realized probably like a year ago that

13:57 Speaker 3: it was going to be like, well, I don't know

13:59 Speaker 3: how you describe it, but it's like punk.

14:00 Speaker 2: Yeah.

14:01 Speaker 4: I think Cozer and James that's sorry. Coz are our

14:03 Speaker 4: bassis and James our drummer. Joining was a big influence

14:05 Speaker 4: because we were originally going to go for more of

14:07 Speaker 4: a jazzier route, but once we got them in the band,

14:09 Speaker 4: James smashes the kit harder than anyone ever, is amazing.

14:12 Speaker 2: He has these thundering basslines.

14:14 Speaker 4: So it just sort of pivoted more into sort of

14:18 Speaker 4: a psychedelic hard rock thing without a lot of effort.

14:22 Speaker 4: It just sort of came out naturally that way. Yeah,

14:24 Speaker 4: and specific songwise, I mean, Rebecca used to be one

14:27 Speaker 4: of our tracks. Rebecca used to be three separate songs

14:30 Speaker 4: were all perfectly fine.

14:32 Speaker 2: Yeah, and we just thought they're all right, we don't

14:35 Speaker 2: have any of them.

14:35 Speaker 4: What if we just took the best bits of each

14:37 Speaker 4: of them, slammed them into each other and it ended

14:40 Speaker 4: up working right?

14:40 Speaker 6: Yeah, similarly as well, Teapot was very different.

14:44 Speaker 2: Yeah, Teapot started very very different.

14:45 Speaker 3: That was originally just that riff over and over again.

14:48 Speaker 6: But yeah, I think we were having enough over and

14:50 Speaker 6: over again and same.

14:53 Speaker 4: They can't be with us today because they're hugely influential

14:56 Speaker 4: on the sound of the EP, but they were. They

14:58 Speaker 4: were a big influence into an impact into why we

15:02 Speaker 4: sort of went a bit.

15:02 Speaker 2: Heavier than we intended originally.

15:04 Speaker 1: Sure, sure, so I'm really curious, who about the live show?

15:07 Speaker 1: What is the live show?

15:08 Speaker 2: Like?

15:08 Speaker 1: I mean, do you do you wear uh you know,

15:11 Speaker 1: cardboard robot heads or like the show?

15:17 Speaker 4: Okay, so a lot of the live stow So my

15:21 Speaker 4: I love singing on stage and I love playing guitar

15:23 Speaker 4: on stage and running about like a fool.

15:25 Speaker 2: I hate talking on stage so very very much. I'm

15:28 Speaker 2: no good it panic frees up.

15:30 Speaker 4: So the goal with our sets has always been to

15:33 Speaker 4: transition from one song into the other as smoothly as possible,

15:37 Speaker 4: which means for the live show we have quite a

15:39 Speaker 4: lot of these sort of soundscaping sections. I mean both

15:43 Speaker 4: they're really good to listen to, and they let us

15:44 Speaker 4: use off our big fancy pedal boards and our micro

15:47 Speaker 4: sequences and all that hologram stuff.

15:49 Speaker 2: But it's not it's not.

15:50 Speaker 6: It is a lot of that.

15:51 Speaker 3: But who does put his like big boy pants on

15:54 Speaker 3: sometimes and does talk to the audience?

15:57 Speaker 4: Remember, But yeah, all these sound scapes, I mean they

15:59 Speaker 4: they've worked really well changing.

16:01 Speaker 3: And we all we all kind of talk to each

16:02 Speaker 3: other as well on there as well. But the yeah,

16:06 Speaker 3: it's just like live shows, just high energy. Joe's running around,

16:10 Speaker 3: I'm on the floor.

16:12 Speaker 2: I like coming into the crowd to say who everyone. Yeah,

16:15 Speaker 2: we like it to feel like everyone is just hanging

16:18 Speaker 2: out with the band.

16:19 Speaker 4: So when we do eventually have to talk, rather than

16:21 Speaker 4: doing these sort of little speeches, we just like to

16:24 Speaker 4: have a chat amongst ourselves, have a little laugh, and

16:26 Speaker 4: people have been responding really well to it.

16:28 Speaker 2: We're booking shows across the.

16:30 Speaker 4: Country at the moment, with more on the way, so

16:33 Speaker 4: keep an eye out if your fancy coming to watch us,

16:36 Speaker 4: they will make.

16:36 Speaker 2: Our way over to you.

16:37 Speaker 1: Outstanding. I would love that. So you're kind of an

16:41 Speaker 1: obvious question, but where does the name come from?

16:43 Speaker 3: Bride's or see, Joe will tell you something. So at

16:48 Speaker 3: the pub we go to is called the Bride. Well,

16:50 Speaker 3: that's just the one that me and Joe have always

16:52 Speaker 3: gone to. And then b I think it came from

16:56 Speaker 3: the jam or something.

17:00 Speaker 2: I like to say.

17:00 Speaker 4: We were going to be called Grooms, but that had

17:03 Speaker 4: some some negative connotations.

17:05 Speaker 2: Okay, so we pivoted the Bride. Yeah. No, we are

17:08 Speaker 2: named after the pub of the Bride, which.

17:10 Speaker 4: We have been drinking in writing songs in since we

17:14 Speaker 4: moved this city pretty much. Okay, okay, it's a fairly

17:19 Speaker 4: it's a semi famous pub around Liverpool.

17:22 Speaker 2: Artist called Frankie goes to Hollywood.

17:24 Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, So the.

17:26 Speaker 4: Pub originally used to be some rehearsal rooms and that

17:29 Speaker 4: was the rehearsal rooms where Frankie Goes to Hollywood was formed.

17:31 Speaker 2: So there's a little bit of history to it.

17:33 Speaker 4: And yeah, it's got a plaque of Frankie up at

17:36 Speaker 4: the moment, so I'm hoping one day there can be

17:38 Speaker 4: a plaque a little old me and Alex watching over

17:40 Speaker 4: all the patrons of the bar.

17:42 Speaker 2: Yeah, and a free point would be nice.

17:44 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Oh that's cool.

17:45 Speaker 2: Yeah.

17:46 Speaker 1: In America, Frankie Osa Hollywood is best known for the

17:49 Speaker 1: song Relaxed. That was incredible. That was their huge hit

17:53 Speaker 1: over here, and I feel like there might have been

17:55 Speaker 1: one or two others, but that's like the big, big

17:57 Speaker 1: one that Americans are most familiar with. Oh that's that's cool, I.

18:02 Speaker 2: Think, yeah, I think that's what made the big over

18:05 Speaker 2: here as well.

18:05 Speaker 4: I would like to say we've got a bit of

18:07 Speaker 4: Frankie about us, not necessarily musically, but only in the

18:10 Speaker 4: sense that my hipster be moving around quite a lot

18:13 Speaker 4: on stage.

18:14 Speaker 2: And if I have a bit more confident, I might

18:16 Speaker 2: whip out the gimp mask. But yes, that's a question.

18:21 Speaker 2: We do wear.

18:22 Speaker 4: We do wear the robot heads anyone one step down from.

18:26 Speaker 1: The Okay, okay, maybe save the gip mask for you know,

18:30 Speaker 1: if you do the show with all the Rebecca's or something.

18:32 Speaker 1: I don't know.

18:34 Speaker 4: If we ever make it to the US, we'll tell

18:37 Speaker 4: the Rebecca only show all in gimp mask and you'll

18:40 Speaker 4: be the guest of honor.

18:41 Speaker 2: We assure you I would love that.

18:43 Speaker 1: I think sounds great. That's a great idea. That's a

18:49 Speaker 1: great idea. Are you guys playing a lot of shows?

18:51 Speaker 1: It sounds like you are right you said you're starting

18:53 Speaker 1: to book shows across the country there.

18:55 Speaker 4: Yes, So we've got Liverpool headline on the thirteenth, Then

18:58 Speaker 4: we've got a few more Liverpool shows this year, Manchester

19:01 Speaker 4: show this.

19:01 Speaker 2: Year, and then we're moving to London, Glasgow, Sheffield in

19:07 Speaker 2: early next year. Excellent, and we might start walking to

19:10 Speaker 2: boys the next EP. Don't tell anyone.

19:12 Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay. By the way, So I'm always curious

19:15 Speaker 1: about this what went into the decision to record an EP, because,

19:20 Speaker 1: as you know, a lot of artists now, especially new artists,

19:22 Speaker 1: they might just do singles, or they might do a

19:25 Speaker 1: full album, or they might do an EP. Was there

19:27 Speaker 1: anything that went into that? Was it just a number

19:30 Speaker 1: of songs that you had ready or what went into

19:32 Speaker 1: the decision to make an EP?

19:35 Speaker 2: Yeah?

19:35 Speaker 3: Well, I think we have got an album planned like

19:40 Speaker 3: further down the line. Obviously, it takes a bit more

19:43 Speaker 3: like for resources and time to fully commit to it.

19:46 Speaker 6: And we do have a theme, a proper theme that

19:49 Speaker 6: we have said.

19:50 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, obviously we do with the EPs, but I mean,

19:53 Speaker 3: you could be a six song EP, so you I

19:55 Speaker 3: mean you could get away recording an album, but it's

19:57 Speaker 3: not like an album to us is it's like a

20:00 Speaker 3: full journey start to furnish.

20:02 Speaker 4: We didn't want to do an album until we were

20:03 Speaker 4: ready to fully get it, and we didn't want to

20:04 Speaker 4: do singles only because as you, I mean, you've listened

20:07 Speaker 4: to the EP, I hope you'd agree that there's it's

20:09 Speaker 4: quite a varied sound.

20:12 Speaker 2: We didn't want to put out any one song that

20:14 Speaker 2: pigeonholed us.

20:15 Speaker 4: We thought we'd put out a good selection that showed

20:17 Speaker 4: a bit of our range. And also we just have

20:21 Speaker 4: so many songs. We've got these where the next we'll hopefully.

20:25 Speaker 2: Be producing another EP within I'm not going to say

20:29 Speaker 2: how long. I'm getting the look, I can't say how long.

20:32 Speaker 2: Before long that will include.

20:35 Speaker 4: Another seven or eight songs which will be combined with

20:39 Speaker 4: this EP.

20:39 Speaker 2: That will be the totality of.

20:41 Speaker 4: Everything me and Alex wrote together before we hired James

20:44 Speaker 4: and Cozer.

20:45 Speaker 2: So once we have that out the way, we've started

20:48 Speaker 2: working on the.

20:49 Speaker 6: Album and which we were all doing together.

20:52 Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, obviously they've all come up with their own parts,

20:55 Speaker 3: but they're all like, we're just jamming the songs from

20:58 Speaker 3: the start.

21:00 Speaker 4: Yeah, we working through, working different instruments in. We've got

21:02 Speaker 4: introduced in the keyboard and Alex has been getting really

21:04 Speaker 4: good on the saxophone.

21:05 Speaker 6: Avenue mate so good, so good. Yeah, yeah, neighbors too,

21:12 Speaker 6: we got we've got mandolin.

21:15 Speaker 2: Yeah. Even at this show on the thirteenth, we're bringing

21:17 Speaker 2: in the medoline slide. I'll be ripping a back zoo solo.

21:21 Speaker 1: Nice.

21:23 Speaker 2: We just want to keep these gigs high energy as

21:25 Speaker 2: we can.

21:26 Speaker 4: Yeah, especially for our fans who've been to a lot

21:29 Speaker 4: of our shows, it's good to keep things fresh for them.

21:32 Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, because yeah, because we do a lot of

21:34 Speaker 3: half of our shows as well, and with the EP

21:37 Speaker 3: B and six songs, we try to get them all

21:39 Speaker 3: on and then we might only get time for like

21:41 Speaker 3: one or two that they haven't sinned. But with dicilms

21:44 Speaker 3: like an hour and yeah, yeah, so we can fully

21:47 Speaker 3: we Well it's great, it's a great set.

21:49 Speaker 4: But I say so myself, I think so yeah, we

21:51 Speaker 4: didn't need to go off our range and get more

21:55 Speaker 4: people interested in company us live where they can see

21:57 Speaker 4: the rest of our songs.

21:58 Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. Where should people go online? Where's the best

22:01 Speaker 1: place for people to go to keep up with everything

22:03 Speaker 1: that you guys are doing.

22:05 Speaker 6: The Instagram for sure, The TikTok.

22:08 Speaker 2: Yeah, the Instagram, the TikTok.

22:09 Speaker 4: We're on Twitter as well, but sparsely use it, and

22:13 Speaker 4: we are at that band bride.

22:15 Speaker 2: On everything on YouTube, Twitter, TikTok. And speaking of YouTube.

22:20 Speaker 4: There is a music video for Creature Culture that will

22:22 Speaker 4: be dropping at three pm tomorrow.

22:24 Speaker 2: Oh, three pm GMT. So got your time?

22:28 Speaker 1: Okay?

22:31 Speaker 2: I do, of course, I know my time conversions off

22:34 Speaker 2: my heart.

22:34 Speaker 1: You did say it with confidence. It sounds like, you know,

22:37 Speaker 1: so that's good. Look forward to I look forward to

22:40 Speaker 1: seeing that. That's very cool. Okay. So in a moment,

22:43 Speaker 1: and I really appreciate you guys joining us today. We're

22:46 Speaker 1: gonna play oh yeah, absolutely. We're actually gonna play two songs.

22:51 Speaker 1: But so the first one is the one that you

22:53 Speaker 1: asked us to play to end the segment, which is

22:55 Speaker 1: We're out of Gravy. So the obvious question before we've

23:00 Speaker 1: that one, I want to know, like, is this literally

23:02 Speaker 1: about running out of gravy or what what is this about?

23:06 Speaker 6: Yeah? When I came up with the title.

23:09 Speaker 3: It was literally just me running out of gravy when

23:11 Speaker 3: I was trying to put.

23:12 Speaker 6: It on some chicken.

23:13 Speaker 2: But then.

23:16 Speaker 3: Then it kind of it went from there with the

23:18 Speaker 3: you know, the whole gravy train metaphor and okay.

23:21 Speaker 6: Just personal things in my in.

23:23 Speaker 3: My life, and I was reading I was also reading

23:26 Speaker 3: the Clockwook Orange as well as what I just finished

23:28 Speaker 3: reading it. Yeah, and yeah, I just thought I had

23:31 Speaker 3: the you know that some components there I could put

23:33 Speaker 3: together just to make make a little tune out of it.

23:37 Speaker 6: So yeah, but that brings on to a good point.

23:39 Speaker 4: Most of our songs are just start tend to start

23:41 Speaker 4: with the song title we think sounds quite amusing, and

23:44 Speaker 4: then from there we'll try.

23:45 Speaker 2: And base it in some sort of reality.

23:48 Speaker 1: Interesting, So you start with the title. A lot of

23:50 Speaker 1: the time, that's interesting.

23:51 Speaker 2: I helped people to theme, help people the theme. Yeah, yeah,

23:55 Speaker 2: can help me try and get a more creative Yeah, no, that.

23:58 Speaker 1: That makes sense. So we're gonna play that in a moment.

24:00 Speaker 1: And the one I'm gonna sneak in after that too,

24:02 Speaker 1: is the one that ends the ep hideous monsters and

24:05 Speaker 1: the people that love them. I love the song. I

24:08 Speaker 1: enjoyed the I enjoyed the entire EP, but this one

24:10 Speaker 1: really really kind of speaks to me and anything we

24:13 Speaker 1: should know about this one.

24:16 Speaker 4: This was written a time in my life when I

24:19 Speaker 4: started getting back into the dating and.

24:23 Speaker 2: I had had some it's had some issues about how I.

24:25 Speaker 4: Looked like, and I just wanted to write a song

24:27 Speaker 4: for myself that encouraged me to get out there and

24:31 Speaker 4: see what the world has to.

24:32 Speaker 2: Offer despite my own reservations.

24:35 Speaker 3: I just remember I was at work and then Joe

24:38 Speaker 3: he just sent me a text saying that he's made

24:39 Speaker 3: a He's made a new one.

24:40 Speaker 6: And then I was like, ah, I think I was

24:42 Speaker 6: a bit tired, and I came around and he got it.

24:47 Speaker 3: He'd like recording it on his laptop, just like a

24:50 Speaker 3: little demo. Yeah, and then yeah, just it all just

24:53 Speaker 3: started coming from there and I was just super impressed.

24:55 Speaker 6: It was.

24:55 Speaker 2: I think we probably spent.

24:56 Speaker 4: Maybe seven eight hours just sat in my room in

24:59 Speaker 4: thirty heat with no windows try to finish that well

25:03 Speaker 4: oh wow, and then getting Cokocer and James.

25:05 Speaker 2: On it as well.

25:06 Speaker 6: Just the baseline and the verses on that is it's brilliant.

25:12 Speaker 4: From Okay I'm glad you liked that song as well,

25:15 Speaker 4: because speaking of music.

25:17 Speaker 3: Videos, oh yes, we are. We are in the process

25:19 Speaker 3: of recording the video for that one as well.

25:21 Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's likely to be.

25:23 Speaker 3: Yeah, my directorial debut will be We're all very proud

25:27 Speaker 3: of you.

25:28 Speaker 1: Oh very cool. That is awesome. Okay, okay, well that

25:31 Speaker 1: is excellent to hear. So we're going to play those

25:33 Speaker 1: tracks in a moment, so I'll let you, guys go.

25:36 Speaker 1: Joe and Alex, thank you so much, both of you

25:38 Speaker 1: for joining us today. This has been wonderful, absolutely absolutely, yes, yes,

25:44 Speaker 1: and we will do this again in the future, especially

25:47 Speaker 1: as you're releasing new music. So so we'll have you

25:49 Speaker 1: back on But guys, thank you again so much, and

25:51 Speaker 1: we'll talk to you soon.

25:52 Speaker 2: Awesome, Thank you today, you got it.

25:55 Speaker 1: Bye bye, all right, wonderful. So that was Joe and

25:57 Speaker 1: Alex from the band Brides, and so let's listen to

26:01 Speaker 1: these again. We're gonna play two of these, so we're

26:03 Speaker 1: gonna finish well, we're gonna finish the segment with first

26:07 Speaker 1: with We're Out of Gravy, another great track from the

26:09 Speaker 1: ep Lecha if I'm saying that correctly, and then We're

26:12 Speaker 1: also gonna play Hideous Monsters and the People that love them,

26:15 Speaker 1: partly me just being selfish because I love that song

26:18 Speaker 1: so much, so we're gonna give those both of these

26:21 Speaker 1: a spin. And uh. And then if you are listening

26:24 Speaker 1: live on Saturday, coming up in the third hour, Pulsifier,

26:28 Speaker 1: a great band from Portland, is gonna be here with

26:30 Speaker 1: us in studio. So we have a lot left to

26:32 Speaker 1: go on today's show. But here's a couple of tracks

26:34 Speaker 1: from Brides and we're gonna play this one next. This

26:37 Speaker 1: is called We're Out of Gravy.