Brides | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: I love it, especially the ending. That's really cool. You kind of don't expect that. The track is called Creature Culture. The band is Brides, another great band from the UK, and we are in our number two Newmarrow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed and let's see who we have here 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? Please identify yourselves. Tell us who you are and what you do in the band.

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

0:37 Speaker 3: My name is Alex, and I play the leads and to some backing vocals as well.

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

0:47 Speaker 1: Oh, very good. Okay, so Joe and Alex yep, yeah okay, Well guys, yeah, welcome. It's wonderful to talk with you. I really like the I really like the EP. I listened to the whole thing online. And now, how do 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 an absolute phobia of people that drink milk. I'm a man that likes a little glass of milk every now and again.

1:18 Speaker 5: Sure, yeah, I used to come into the room pronouncing that, but that had a big old pine a leche and it make his skin cruel. And from there we just 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 of milk when I was a kid, and now the thought of drinking milk is kind of repulsive to me. But but he had a he had a total phobia of it. That's funny. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm really curious to know more about about these songs and and kind of what your inspirations are. And I'm glad that I'm talking to the two members who who write everything because it is so interesting. We're gonna play after our conversation. We're gonna play. You also asked us to play We're Out of Gravy, and I also doesn't but I'm actually going to play two songs at the end because I'm gonna play that.

2:02 Speaker 1: But I'm also going to play because you picked it. But there's another song from the EP that I'm also going to play selfishly at the end because I love it so much. But I'll wait till at the end of our conversation ask 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 cool and it's different, you know, It's it's not something that you tend to hear on the radio. You've You've got a style and a sound that I think is unique. But I am curious about I'm curious about influences sonically because I was reading online I saw I saw both Weezer and The Wiggles mentioned in the same sentence. I 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, I think we get a lot of inspiration from bands 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 a comedy.

3:02 Speaker 2: Bando I say, but we like we like, we like 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, the fact that they can turn these just really simple 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 as the Wiggles.

3:22 Speaker 1: But for gamers, oh that's great, that's great. And I so I get a sense too that these songs are kind of about celebrating individuality and and and uh different and some of some of that I might be getting from the song that I haven't mentioned the name of yet that I love so much that I'm gonna play later. But and I also kind of get that from the cover art too. Uh well, let's start actually, let's start there. So tell me about the cover art for the EP. Who drew that and what does it mean.

3:53 Speaker 4: The cover art was designed by a very very good friend of mine, Richie Over at the Institute of Free Design, and the coverer came about because when we were on holiday, maybe about four years ago, we got these old beer boxes and for whatever reason, we.

4:09 Speaker 2: Played a silly game we turn them into robot heads. We did it. We were going to throw them away and I just thought they.

4:13 Speaker 4: Were there, you know, one day. One day, this piece of you know, rubbish is going to come.

4:17 Speaker 2: In great use. And then we were we were debating what to do for the album cover. We knew it was going to be good lecture and I had to have something milk related. We liked the idea of all of us.

4:26 Speaker 4: Riding on the back of a cow, but beyond that 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 sat on the cow, and then I'm at the front as well. We all like to do our silly little poses and to ride a cow.

4:41 Speaker 4: Yeah, we have a stunt cow to be able to ride for the reference images, so it's all of us balancing precariously on an amph We then sent to the artists and said, can you just do this but pretend we're on a cow instead, and then yeah. So we just wanted to get this sense because the album was quite distorted and quite spacious, so we wanted to get this sort of grandiose sense to it. And I think the easiest way we saw that, combined with the robot head, is what if there was a huge robot assessing the 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 get a sequel image to that, showing what might happen next between the robot and the cow.

5:18 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I like that idea. Yeah, so I encourage people who haven't seen it go online and uh and and check out this cover and yeah, the robot, the guy with the robot head is holding the cow. I actually didn't realize it was a cow when I first looked at it. I had to kind of study it to even even figure that out. I was like, oh, yeah, I think that is a cow that they're sitting on. Yeah, so that's that's very cool. Do you have You must have got a lot of questions about the cover, right, I assume people ask you all the time.

5:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a lot of a lot of people seem to really be liking it, which is obviously great, 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, that's pretty cool, but people have really wanted to know 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 thirteenth September, our next headline show, and for that, the same person who designed Richie, the same person designed to Cover, has designed some tarot cards that will be giving out to the audience members with some of our faces on them and some artwork relating to the songs. Oh wow, and we've we've made little milk cartons as well to give out and the box yeah yeah, it's got a little robot head key chain in it and the couple of sweeties. So yeah, we've we've leaned very hard into this whole milk and robot thing.

6:43 Speaker 2: Just look at so many people that come back so interested in it. Will make the most situation.

6:49 Speaker 1: I think that's the first time anyone's ever used a sentence like that on the show. We've leaned very hard into the milk and robot thing.

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

6:59 Speaker 1: No, I love it that. It is so cool if you can do something that you know, that that makes you stand out but also creates this kind of you know, 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 this year.

7:16 Speaker 1: Ready, Oh yeah, okay, so you're very new. So over time, you know, as long as you continue to to do this type of thing with the cover and the you know and and you know, these concepts, it you know, a mythology will kind of build around the band, if that makes sense. And I yeah, yeah, And I think that's a great thing to have because you know, it creates interest and it it uh, you know, if if you can even pull you know, you might pull some people in who are just kind of interested in the image and what does it all mean, and then they they listen to the music and then they're they're you know, then they become permanent fans because of the music.

7:52 Speaker 1: But but yeah, having having something that kind of pulls people in, I think is a great strategy. And it's and it's underused. It's it's not something a lot of artists really do. If anything, a lot of artists try to kind of 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, especially with the big push for marketability on social media 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 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 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 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, are you are you? I mean I kind of might have been reading into it a little bit. I don't know what are the songs supposed to be about. I mean, is there a cohesive theme or is it? Is it just it seems like you're there's almost these different like each song almost to me is kind of like its own character in some sort of story that I don't quite understand. Again, I don't know if I'm reading too much into it. Tell me if I am.

9:02 Speaker 3: But I really yeah, well definitely they all kind of they're all like so how we do it is me and Joe, We like we come up with the songs like on our own, and then we come together, then we put them together.

9:16 Speaker 6: I give any input or he gives any input back to me and then.

9:19 Speaker 3: But they're all very like individual to us personally, Like with lyrics, there's a lot of a lot of things 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 give them a bit of a larger than life persona, which is which we've done through sort of characterizing each one of these songs. I mean, one of our tracks, Common Inferno, is all about two clones who fall in love with each other and face the consequences for that. Rebecca's about an angel that likes to have a bit of a drink. And they're all based on people we know really in real life who have had big influences 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 and said or ask you is that song about me? Or did I have anything to do with inspiring that song? Is that happened?

10:08 Speaker 4: Unfortunately, we will be shot by a couple of people, but I will say every person we have ever met called Rebecca and the people at Home another one of about tracts called Rebecca, everybody we've ever met named Rebecca has reached out and said, oh my god, I can't believe you wrote this song about me. I started off denying it, saying, oh no, it's unrelated, but in the end they just thought, oh, well, they're going to listen to it.

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

10:32 Speaker 3: We aim for a sold out gig just with people named Rebecca there.

10:38 Speaker 1: That would be great. That would be great. So the album sounds really good. Where do you guys record?

10:45 Speaker 2: We recorded in two different studios. We did the drums in a place called Arc which we've had a lot of experience with recording there.

10:51 Speaker 4: But then for the rest of the track of the guitars and bass and vocals and all the fun little sounds you're in the background, we recorded at Brier Street Studios in Liverpoo newer studio, but it was absolutely fantastic, had a really really good atmosphere and energy. The owner was super, super nice, and we were lucky enough to 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 a distortion layer on Common Inferno as well, like just working that for ages as well, just just being able 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 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 it's so it's in key and then just like scream into it, run around the room, smash it on the wall or something, and then.

11:54 Speaker 2: Just try and get as much as many mangled sounds 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 in the end.

12:02 Speaker 4: And then a lot of the little background sounds on Monsters, this was again we were lucky to work with Rory, 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 destroying reality that took a lot of time to get right because we were all just you know, wetting ourselves laughing through it.

12:22 Speaker 6: But that's when we were kind of like we were 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, I think the common theme of the release is just sort of desperation, not in the negative sense, not in 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 time slipping away from you and whether that relates to you, you know, getting into a relationship that might not be the best just because it's the most comfortable thing, or 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 think we've tried to capture that, and as I say, take the Wiggles inspiration as well and make it a bit fun.

13:05 Speaker 1: I'm curious, when you write these songs, do they do they end up? Do any of these, for example, on this EP, did any of them come out differently in a significant way than than what you had in mind or expected when you went in.

13:21 Speaker 3: Yeah, so definitely, because me and Job that we've been writing them for like two two and a half years to two and a half years, we'll say. But we initially had like a full horn section the way we wanted to.

13:37 Speaker 6: Incorporate into it.

13:38 Speaker 3: Really I did think it was Yeah, we did get a trumpet in. Yeah, well, but I think we just didn't think it was Bible. Really, it wasn't really the 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 it was going to be like, well, I don't know 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 bassis and James our drummer. Joining was a big influence because we were originally going to go for more of a jazzier route, but once we got them in the band, 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 a psychedelic hard rock thing without a lot of effort. It just sort of came out naturally that way. Yeah, and specific songwise, I mean, Rebecca used to be one of our tracks. Rebecca used to be three separate songs were all perfectly fine.

14:32 Speaker 2: Yeah, and we just thought they're all right, we don't have any of them.

14:35 Speaker 4: What if we just took the best bits of each of them, slammed them into each other and it ended 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 over again and same.

14:53 Speaker 4: They can't be with us today because they're hugely influential on the sound of the EP, but they were. They were a big influence into an impact into why we 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? What is the live show?

15:08 Speaker 2: Like?

15:08 Speaker 1: I mean, do you do you wear uh you know, cardboard robot heads or like the show?

15:17 Speaker 4: Okay, so a lot of the live stow So my I love singing on stage and I love playing guitar on stage and running about like a fool.

15:25 Speaker 2: I hate talking on stage so very very much. I'm no good it panic frees up.

15:30 Speaker 4: So the goal with our sets has always been to transition from one song into the other as smoothly as possible, which means for the live show we have quite a lot of these sort of soundscaping sections. I mean both they're really good to listen to, and they let us use off our big fancy pedal boards and our micro 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 sometimes and does talk to the audience?

15:57 Speaker 4: Remember, But yeah, all these sound scapes, I mean they they've worked really well changing.

16:01 Speaker 3: And we all we all kind of talk to each other as well on there as well. But the yeah, it's just like live shows, just high energy. Joe's running around, I'm on the floor.

16:12 Speaker 2: I like coming into the crowd to say who everyone. Yeah, we like it to feel like everyone is just hanging out with the band.

16:19 Speaker 4: So when we do eventually have to talk, rather than doing these sort of little speeches, we just like to have a chat amongst ourselves, have a little laugh, and 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 keep an eye out if your fancy coming to watch us, 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 obvious question, but where does the name come from?

16:43 Speaker 3: Bride's or see, Joe will tell you something. So at the pub we go to is called the Bride. Well, that's just the one that me and Joe have always gone to. And then b I think it came from 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 some some negative connotations.

17:05 Speaker 2: Okay, so we pivoted the Bride. Yeah. No, we are named after the pub of the Bride, which.

17:10 Speaker 4: We have been drinking in writing songs in since we moved this city pretty much. Okay, okay, it's a fairly 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 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 the moment, so I'm hoping one day there can be a plaque a little old me and Alex watching over 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 song Relaxed. That was incredible. That was their huge hit over here, and I feel like there might have been one or two others, but that's like the big, big 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 here as well.

18:05 Speaker 4: I would like to say we've got a bit of Frankie about us, not necessarily musically, but only in the sense that my hipster be moving around quite a lot on stage.

18:14 Speaker 2: And if I have a bit more confident, I might whip out the gimp mask. But yes, that's a question. 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, if you do the show with all the Rebecca's or something. I don't know.

18:34 Speaker 4: If we ever make it to the US, we'll tell the Rebecca only show all in gimp mask and you'll 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 great idea. Are you guys playing a lot of shows? It sounds like you are right you said you're starting to book shows across the country there.

18:55 Speaker 4: Yes, So we've got Liverpool headline on the thirteenth, Then we've got a few more Liverpool shows this year, Manchester show this.

19:01 Speaker 2: Year, and then we're moving to London, Glasgow, Sheffield in early next year. Excellent, and we might start walking to boys the next EP. Don't tell anyone.

19:12 Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay. By the way, So I'm always curious about this what went into the decision to record an EP, because, as you know, a lot of artists now, especially new artists, they might just do singles, or they might do a full album, or they might do an EP. Was there anything that went into that? Was it just a number of songs that you had ready or what went into 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 further down the line. Obviously, it takes a bit more like for resources and time to fully commit to it.

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

19:50 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, obviously we do with the EPs, but I mean, you could be a six song EP, so you I mean you could get away recording an album, but it's not like an album to us is it's like a full journey start to furnish.

20:02 Speaker 4: We didn't want to do an album until we were ready to fully get it, and we didn't want to do singles only because as you, I mean, you've listened to the EP, I hope you'd agree that there's it's quite a varied sound.

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

20:15 Speaker 4: We thought we'd put out a good selection that showed a bit of our range. And also we just have 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 how long. I'm getting the look, I can't say how long. Before long that will include.

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

20:45 Speaker 2: So once we have that out the way, we've started 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, but they're all like, we're just jamming the songs from the start.

21:00 Speaker 4: Yeah, we working through, working different instruments in. We've got introduced in the keyboard and Alex has been getting really 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 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 we can.

21:26 Speaker 4: Yeah, especially for our fans who've been to a lot 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 half of our shows as well, and with the EP B and six songs, we try to get them all on and then we might only get time for like one or two that they haven't sinned. But with dicilms like an hour and yeah, yeah, so we can fully we Well it's great, it's a great set.

21:49 Speaker 4: But I say so myself, I think so yeah, we didn't need to go off our range and get more people interested in company us live where they can see the rest of our songs.

21:58 Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. Where should people go online? Where's the best place for people to go to keep up with everything 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 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 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 my heart.

22:34 Speaker 1: You did say it with confidence. It sounds like, you know, so that's good. Look forward to I look forward to seeing that. That's very cool. Okay. So in a moment, and I really appreciate you guys joining us today. We're gonna play oh yeah, absolutely. We're actually gonna play two songs. But so the first one is the one that you asked us to play to end the segment, which is We're out of Gravy. So the obvious question before we've that one, I want to know, like, is this literally 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 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 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 the Clockwook Orange as well as what I just finished reading it. Yeah, and yeah, I just thought I had the you know that some components there I could put 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 with the song title we think sounds quite amusing, and 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 the time, that's interesting.

23:51 Speaker 2: I helped people to theme, help people the theme. Yeah, yeah, 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. And the one I'm gonna sneak in after that too, is the one that ends the ep hideous monsters and the people that love them. I love the song. I enjoyed the I enjoyed the entire EP, but this one really really kind of speaks to me and anything we should know about this one.

24:16 Speaker 4: This was written a time in my life when I 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 for myself that encouraged me to get out there and 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 he just sent me a text saying that he's made a He's made a new one.

24:40 Speaker 6: And then I was like, ah, I think I was 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 little demo. Yeah, and then yeah, just it all just 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 thirty heat with no windows try to finish that well 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, because speaking of music.

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

25:28 Speaker 1: Oh very cool. That is awesome. Okay, okay, well that is excellent to hear. So we're going to play those tracks in a moment, so I'll let you, guys go. Joe and Alex, thank you so much, both of you for joining us today. This has been wonderful, absolutely absolutely, yes, yes, and we will do this again in the future, especially as you're releasing new music. So so we'll have you back on But guys, thank you again so much, and 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 Alex from the band Brides, and so let's listen to these again. We're gonna play two of these, so we're gonna finish well, we're gonna finish the segment with first with We're Out of Gravy, another great track from the ep Lecha if I'm saying that correctly, and then We're also gonna play Hideous Monsters and the People that love them, partly me just being selfish because I love that song so much, so we're gonna give those both of these a spin. And uh.

26:22 Speaker 1: And then if you are listening live on Saturday, coming up in the third hour, Pulsifier, a great band from Portland, is gonna be here with us in studio. So we have a lot left to go on today's show. But here's a couple of tracks from Brides and we're gonna play this one next. This is called We're Out of Gravy.