Field Dispatch
Eleanor Luna and Andre Dumont of Terminus Underground | Matt Connarton Unleashed
Speaker 1: Joining us, so we have returning to the show. He
Speaker 1: was here recently, although he looked a little bit different.
Speaker 1: Andre Dumont of course from a dead Harrison and you
Speaker 1: as your underground Terminus Underground, all of that, and of
Speaker 1: course Eleanor is here. And you've got to be in
Speaker 1: the five Timers club by now, right, you think. So
Speaker 1: you've been on, You've been on quite a few times,
Speaker 1: so it's good to see you.
Speaker 2: Welcome, Jurning, Matt and Jenny.
Speaker 1: Yes, good morning morning, and uh, we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: so of course you've got we should mention and we'll
Speaker 1: circle back to it. The big event tonight. You've got
Speaker 1: a big show tonight right at Terminus Underground.
Speaker 2: Take this show to your grave.
Speaker 3: That's what it's called, Oh very good. It's a clever pun.
Speaker 3: It's a pop punk night, so it's a clever pun
Speaker 3: on a pop punk song.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't remember.
Speaker 3: Take this show to your grave or take this to
Speaker 3: your grave is actually the okay, I actually can't tell
Speaker 3: you who the band is that do not remember, but
Speaker 3: it has inspired me to create the cool Flyer.
Speaker 2: That's up there.
Speaker 4: Oh very good. No, I do like the fly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Island of Alaska coming up from Boston, Vice's Inc.
Speaker 3: From Portland, Maine, and.
Speaker 2: What else do we have? This is my brain?
Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff. We love vices Inc. They've been on
Speaker 1: a few times. And of course now I'm not familiar
Speaker 1: with the other bands, although I was playing, we do
Speaker 1: have a couple of their songs cued up and ready
Speaker 1: we might you know, if we if we get to them,
Speaker 1: we'll see how the morning goes. But but I really
Speaker 1: like I really like Island of Alaska and and I
Speaker 1: love Grim the acronym.
Speaker 4: I love that song.
Speaker 2: I love their name that just the name is so cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently the single just came out recently, be Yourself,
Speaker 1: which is a great track. And of course, uh, Island
Speaker 1: of Alaska has Holy Ghosts. That's their newest single, and
Speaker 1: I really like that too. So it sounds like sounds
Speaker 1: like a great night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good mix.
Speaker 1: We should talk about too. What's what's new, what's happening
Speaker 1: at term underground? You know we're talking off there about
Speaker 1: been some changes over the past. It's been close to
Speaker 1: three years now, right Well, it'll.
Speaker 3: Be going on our third season after this year, so
Speaker 3: we're at the end of our second season.
Speaker 4: Right now I'm terrible at math, but we do.
Speaker 3: It seasonally because there's a few months we take off. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: because it's just an unsafe parking environment with the snow
Speaker 3: and the ice, and you know, it's nice also for
Speaker 3: us to get perspective on the year and do a
Speaker 3: little bit of traveling and see what other venues and
Speaker 3: spaces are doing in the rest of the country, which
Speaker 3: is actually what we're going to be doing. So yeah,
Speaker 3: we've had a good year though. Yeah, we've worked with
Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty nine actses. Wow, forty four shows.
Speaker 4: That's incredible, that's incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we are growing, and I would like more
Speaker 3: people to know about Terminus Underground and New Hampshire Underground
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tell us more, tell us more about Bow because
Speaker 1: you know, and obviously our listeners, some of our listeners,
Speaker 1: you know, they've they've heard a lot about it and
Speaker 1: know a lot about it. Some listeners might not know anything.
Speaker 1: But and and two we should we should explain, you know,
Speaker 1: the distinction between New Hampshire Underground Terminus Underground. Obviously they're connected.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so New Hampshire Underground is the overarching entity
Speaker 3: of promotional Management Band Management mentorship and guidance for artists
Speaker 3: and musicians in the New Hampshire area. And then from
Speaker 3: that stems a couple of different things, Terminus being the
Speaker 3: predominant one is our music venue, so we sort of
Speaker 3: operate like a micro entertainment venue or center because at
Speaker 3: the same time we also have an art gallery and
Speaker 3: we have you know, multi use spaces where we'll do
Speaker 3: art workshops or you know, podcasts, kind of education things
Speaker 3: like that. And we also have a community rehearsal room
Speaker 3: where people can rent by the hour to rehearse with
Speaker 3: you know, just jam with people or to you know,
Speaker 3: be solo session if they don't have access to something
Speaker 3: or you know, they're not in a rehearsal room. This
Speaker 3: is something that's offset of that. Yeah, Yeah, it's kind
Speaker 3: of how it's run.
Speaker 1: It's such a unique place and Terminus, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: sure you've heard me say it. I tell everybody the
Speaker 1: first time you walk into it, it's like walking into
Speaker 1: another world. When are you walking into that room?
Speaker 3: And that's all Andre's doing. Yeah, for the last nine
Speaker 3: ten years he's been.
Speaker 5: Decoration, sitting there looking at everything, looking where to put
Speaker 5: new stuff that I have in my hands, like yeah,
Speaker 5: what do I do with this? Or I'll put it
Speaker 5: right up over there.
Speaker 4: With that right right.
Speaker 5: But then it's like, you know, it's doing the little
Speaker 5: creative things that catch because for instance, the detail going
Speaker 5: and just grabbing one of those cat skeletons from home depot.
Speaker 6: Like where do you put that?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 5: It's like, oh, I'm going to put that up in
Speaker 5: the ceiling, but like looking down at people just like
Speaker 5: a cat would, right, And it's like those little pieces
Speaker 5: of detail are just like you add that into the
Speaker 5: mix of everything around you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can look up and down and all around
Speaker 3: and find something new every day.
Speaker 6: It makes the room feel alive.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, absolutely, has there ever like have you ever
Speaker 1: seen a venue that looks anything like that anywhere? Because
Speaker 1: I haven't, like I'm not.
Speaker 6: Yet, Yeah, not particularly.
Speaker 5: I mean yeah, I see elements of things, yeah, but
Speaker 5: nothing's really like every little piece or every every pocket
Speaker 5: has something.
Speaker 4: Yea.
Speaker 3: We are unique as New England's only horror themed underground
Speaker 3: music club and it's the Terminus under Ground is stem
Speaker 3: from The Walking Dead, so the name was inspired by
Speaker 3: the Terminus Underground scene in The Walking Dead, which is
Speaker 3: in an old mill building and that's where we are
Speaker 3: we live. We live in an old mill building that
Speaker 3: was built in nineteen oh eight, so it's like that
Speaker 3: cool play on The Walking Dead. And then from there,
Speaker 3: like this summer we had this really inspiring summer Ween
Speaker 3: party where we were able to donate to Scare New Hampshire,
Speaker 3: who's a nonprofit that helps people find costumes and have
Speaker 3: access to costumes. But then the decorations kind of just stuck,
Speaker 3: like we never took them down, and we're like yoh.
Speaker 3: And then we have various artists that come in and
Speaker 3: then they contribute. You know, Kegan Fitzgerald, she's my art
Speaker 3: by KF as our resident artist, and so she's made
Speaker 3: art on the wall that's permanent. So it's got all
Speaker 3: these cool elements that come in. And then we have
Speaker 3: rotating artists from the art gallery and they come in
Speaker 3: and leave their mark, so it continues to build in
Speaker 3: a very cool and beautiful way.
Speaker 1: I remember when Jenny had her art up there that
Speaker 1: was awesome, and and of course recently he had Dennis
Speaker 1: Layton Yeah and oh yes, which is funny because until
Speaker 1: you know, and he'd been on the show a couple
Speaker 1: of times, but I didn't realize you know with the
Speaker 1: Great Curtain. But I didn't realize until recently that he
Speaker 1: was also a visual artist until he.
Speaker 3: And he's fabulous. Yeah yeah, it's like a mix between
Speaker 3: what he does is graphic art and then he applies
Speaker 3: it to canvas and then also further applies multimedia art
Speaker 3: to it, like he has lights and like really cool
Speaker 3: looking things. So his gallery show just ended, okay, and
Speaker 3: he had, you know, a very successful show, and it
Speaker 3: was the first time he'd ever done it. And that's
Speaker 3: what we like took here too. We like took heter
Speaker 3: to like people we feel really strong artists and who
Speaker 3: have maybe never gotten themselves out there yet, and then
Speaker 3: they feel like they're successful because they took that step.
Speaker 3: So it's a kind of beautiful process to watch. Yeah
Speaker 3: yeah yeah. In terms of who you bring in for
Speaker 3: bands or solo artists or whomever who come to play, like,
Speaker 3: is there is there a criteria that you try to
Speaker 3: follow in terms of what fits the room or does
Speaker 3: anything kind of fit the room, or like like like
Speaker 3: what kind of shows do you try to book out there?
Speaker 3: Those were some of the business decisions we had decided
Speaker 3: to make this year because fortunately we had a little
Speaker 3: bit of a surge in Nashua after we opened up.
Speaker 3: There were I guess we must have inspired a bunch
Speaker 3: of people, which was pretty cool. Yeah, So our friend
Speaker 3: Mike McDowell opened the non alcoholic venue, The Spot, so
Speaker 3: they've got music there. And then Aaron from KINNECTICU City
Speaker 3: Events is doing shows over at Kettlehead Brewery, which is
Speaker 3: mostly metal shows I've seen so far. Then Fodies also
Speaker 3: has nights where they do music and that's a lot
Speaker 3: of it is run by Lacy from Who I Am.
Speaker 3: So we've got this nice, like really well working community.
Speaker 3: So I wanted to differentiate us, and knowing that we
Speaker 3: have that horror theme going on, I said, all right,
Speaker 3: let's some you know, just focus on the real hard
Speaker 3: rock and punk and metal and you know, people that
Speaker 3: don't get all that much exposure. Let's just focus on them.
Speaker 3: So we will do alternative and like, you know, other
Speaker 3: things too, but we decided to primarily focus on the
Speaker 3: darker genres.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you had made an interesting Facebook post about that
Speaker 1: too recently, about some people misunderstanding.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, there's something satanic panic going on. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: that's actually good fodder for this show.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know people seem to misinterpret symbolism and art and
Speaker 3: the intention of it with actual fear based thinking, and
Speaker 3: I'm not about that at all. You know, IM well
Speaker 3: educated on theology and religion. I'm very respectful of other
Speaker 3: people's faiths and things, and so there's no reason to
Speaker 3: be afraid to come to Terminus Underground. Nothing bad is
Speaker 3: going to happen. It is a safe space. I mean,
Speaker 3: we welcome all kinds of people in the LGBTQ community,
Speaker 3: and we just want everyone to know that it's not
Speaker 3: Everything you're seeing is not going to induce some sort
Speaker 3: of demonic hallucination for you. I promise you. You are
Speaker 3: on an acid, if you've done too many drugs, if
Speaker 3: you're drunk, you might have a problem, but it's not us.
Speaker 2: I promise you. Just art.
Speaker 3: And it's like you know, going to a Hollywood studio
Speaker 3: or going into any haunt during the time of year
Speaker 3: and seeing, you know, the different things that people have.
Speaker 3: It's just an expression. Yeah, of course, yeah, I don't
Speaker 3: know what you know, the fear mongering is, but it's
Speaker 3: a little silly in my opinion, and I think, you know,
Speaker 3: people should just use common sense and if you don't
Speaker 3: like that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Just don't come. There's plenty of places to go.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Oh no, let's get a protest going. Please do please,
Speaker 9: I would love like picketers.
Speaker 6: Can we get Westborough Baptist Church.
Speaker 4: To call dem Gloria?
Speaker 6: My goodness, how famous we would get.
Speaker 2: Well, that's sell hot Coco.
Speaker 3: Yes please. Do you know Ozzie Actually I think I
Speaker 3: just give it away. When Ozzie was being heckled, Uh,
Speaker 3: he went into the picket line and in the back
Speaker 3: of it with the Westborough Baptist Church and was like,
Speaker 3: you know, with them and cheering until.
Speaker 2: They realized he was there.
Speaker 4: Oh that's funny.
Speaker 2: So yes, please bring Coco and sell it.
Speaker 9: S Rip Fighters trolled them when they showed up at
Speaker 9: one of their shows and drove around in the back
Speaker 9: of a truck playing Begi songs.
Speaker 2: It was hysterical.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's it's it's interesting though, how yeah, some
Speaker 1: of that you can benefit from it a little bit too, though,
Speaker 1: because yeah, people are talking and then you know a
Speaker 1: little bit of publicity. It's like, you know, my my
Speaker 1: favorite bandits Kiss and uh. Back like way back when
Speaker 1: they started, you know, there were and and it would
Speaker 1: bubble up from time to time. But but there would
Speaker 1: be people who would say, oh, you know, it's an
Speaker 1: acronym for nights and second stuff like that, remember that,
Speaker 1: and yeah, and but but it you know, but it
Speaker 1: helped them, you know, and it obviously wasn't true, but
Speaker 1: but it did help them, you know a little bit
Speaker 1: of con.
Speaker 9: Secret way boy, what's that he was in secret? He
Speaker 9: was a good secret Jewish boy, mama's boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 9: He always he always, he always said that his mother
Speaker 9: went through so much he couldn't do He would never
Speaker 9: drink or do drugs or anything because he wouldn't put
Speaker 9: her through anything because she'd already been through so much.
Speaker 2: Nice Jewish boy.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, Gene does not party, grate edge his whole life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, yes, yeah, absolutely, yeah, So you can
Speaker 1: benefit from a little bit of that. But yeah, it
Speaker 1: is it is strange how people.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 9: But on the fun side, Terminus is really cool. Like
Speaker 9: if you go when you really it's like going in
Speaker 9: the Tartists. You walk in the door and you see
Speaker 9: this cute little room and then you walk past that
Speaker 9: and it's like this whole new world opens up. And
Speaker 9: when you go into Terminus, the environment itself is so
Speaker 9: much more fun than just going to some club and
Speaker 9: just sitting at some table.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's just so much more.
Speaker 9: You get you get into the music because you get
Speaker 9: into the environment and you can just escape from the
Speaker 9: world for a little while. So I don't know about
Speaker 9: anybody else, but I know I've needed that lately. So
Speaker 9: if you need that, you should definitely check out to
Speaker 9: listen to music.
Speaker 7: M M.
Speaker 5: And that's the other fun thing about it too, is that, uh,
Speaker 5: Google Maps does not like to agree with us on
Speaker 5: where it should be on the map, right, and so
Speaker 5: it's said it can send you on this little chase.
Speaker 6: And that's the fun part about.
Speaker 5: It because everybody in it, it's it's almost frustrating because
Speaker 5: it's like an escape room, except it's a finding room, right, And.
Speaker 6: So you're you're like, where is this place? Is it
Speaker 6: this building?
Speaker 5: No? Now I'm back in a neighborhood. No, I just
Speaker 5: turned down the wrong street. That's now not the street anymore?
Speaker 5: Like where am I where?
Speaker 3: Created an interactive map because it has been so difficult
Speaker 3: for people to find it.
Speaker 7: Really.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hit or miss though too, because I think
Speaker 1: and yeah, we were talking about this last time we
Speaker 1: were here, like because there was I know there was.
Speaker 1: I think the first time Jenny and I went there, yeah,
Speaker 1: we had that problem. But I think the second time,
Speaker 1: I think the second time, for whatever reason, Google Maps
Speaker 1: brought us directly there and it wasn't an issue. It's
Speaker 1: like it's capricious.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been in putting like specific directions into Google
Speaker 3: and I created the map for everybody to see.
Speaker 2: It's on the website.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's a good idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And then now I'm being even more vocal about,
Speaker 3: you know, how to find us, which street to turn down,
Speaker 3: because I realized it's people. It is in an area
Speaker 3: that people don't expect. It's right behind a residential neighborhood,
Speaker 3: and it's in the middle of like a few different buildings,
Speaker 3: and when Google takes you're around the back of the building.
Speaker 3: You don't know where else to go from there. It's
Speaker 3: really hard to figure it out. It's really weird, but
Speaker 3: it's kind of sketchy for people. And we've had people
Speaker 3: come in like so mad, but like people that you know,
Speaker 3: didn't expect to have it, like it was maybe like
Speaker 3: once taken inside and see everything what it is, hear
Speaker 3: how the music sounds.
Speaker 2: At the end of the night, they're just like, this
Speaker 2: is the coolest place ever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but we do we have to make
Speaker 3: it better for people to find and advertising will help then.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think that's one of our constraints this year is
Speaker 3: a lot of people had trouble finding us, even though
Speaker 3: we had some really really tight shows, right right, yeah, if.
Speaker 2: You see a warehouse here there, yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, well, I think we should uh maybe we
Speaker 1: should play something. So you know, you got a few
Speaker 1: bands playing tonight, I'll let you all pick. I've got
Speaker 1: I've got something from each of the three bands that
Speaker 1: we talked about, queued up and ready to start with Vices.
Speaker 1: You want to start with Vices in Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: song so Regret Me that I really love and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: let's play that. And of course Advices Inc. They're gonna
Speaker 1: be on with us on I think it's the twenty ninth.
Speaker 4: And the twenty ninth.
Speaker 2: I can't remember what's that? What day is what?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 9: The twenty ninth, you're right.
Speaker 4: The twenty ninth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're they're really good. If you get a
Speaker 1: chance to see them live, you should definitely go tonight.
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen Vices Inc. They're a really really
Speaker 1: good live band. Good absolutely, but yeah, this is called
Speaker 1: regret me from Vices Inc.
Speaker 8: Except I tank you what you've seen in middle in
Speaker 8: the system, that I'm not your best televion.
Speaker 10: So go ahead and good, but I'm to do.
Speaker 11: You're regrant me and that.
Speaker 10: You gottn't handle your leg or.
Speaker 12: You can't you can handle the truth.
Speaker 13: Honestly be in the system, and I'm perfectly ready to try.
Speaker 13: So go ahead and regret me, but I'm not using
Speaker 13: enough bonus f.
Speaker 14: Jos.
Speaker 12: Maybe I'll do anything you please. I'll do anything you please.
Speaker 11: You're got your Yeah, I'm finding perfectly that you're here.
Speaker 12: Because if you do.
Speaker 8: Off the PC Tom with the typical.
Speaker 13: Wander head and regret me, but I'm beating you to it.
Speaker 11: Dude, go ahead.
Speaker 14: And I gat me about regret. Go ahead, recall.
Speaker 11: Me, but always want to regretted you go head, regard me, but.
Speaker 14: I always want to be represt.
Speaker 11: You regret me and go regat.
Speaker 14: You grab me goverbad. You're got me and God regret
Speaker 14: you regret me and not forget.
Speaker 4: That is regret me.
Speaker 1: The band is Vices Inc. And they are going to
Speaker 1: be tonight at Terminus Underground along with Island of Alaska
Speaker 1: and Grim the Acronym And we have Eleanor and Andre
Speaker 1: from Terminus Underground here with us in studio and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's such a great song. And yeah, we were kind
Speaker 1: of talking off there about Vices Inc.
Speaker 4: Too.
Speaker 1: They're pretty eclectic in their sound. You know, they do
Speaker 1: fit the pop punk thing, but they do a lot
Speaker 1: of different a lot of different vibes in their music,
Speaker 1: which is cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why we like to welcome bands that include
Speaker 3: alternative in their title or you know, and then when
Speaker 3: we're looking for bands to fit in with the show,
Speaker 3: we're really curating it so that all of the music
Speaker 3: really sounds good together.
Speaker 4: Yeah for the night. Oh yeah, yeah, totally totally.
Speaker 1: What's been like, have there been any surprises in terms
Speaker 1: of like with the bands that you've booked, like where
Speaker 1: something just surpassed your expectations.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, I would say a couple, yeah, a couple
Speaker 3: of bands that really surpassed expectation.
Speaker 2: This year just alone.
Speaker 3: But I can say about last year, the band Geary
Speaker 3: was just the first that really struck me as like
Speaker 3: something I was not expecting and really loved it, and
Speaker 3: I was really glad that they were able to grace
Speaker 3: our stage last year because it seemed like they hit
Speaker 3: a little bit of a bigger time this year and
Speaker 3: was We're on bigger stages, so that was really cool
Speaker 3: for them. Vigil is another band that, yeah, like the
Speaker 3: just the tone and the depth and breadth of their
Speaker 3: music is just That's another one that hit me. And
Speaker 3: then surprised by Conceptiicor, which the guys live right down
Speaker 3: the street from Terminus and they showed up and hung
Speaker 3: out with us, and you know, pursued the spot that they,
Speaker 3: you know, wanted to play, and we had them on
Speaker 3: our stage a couple of times this year and they
Speaker 3: did this fabulous acoustic rendition of Saucerful of Secrets from
Speaker 3: Pink Floyd and that's one of my favorite songs and
Speaker 3: they just nailed it. And it was a doom version.
Speaker 3: So all of these bands that I love are like
Speaker 3: kind of in that doom vein. But you know, it
Speaker 3: just always surprises me when you don't expect something great
Speaker 3: and it's on your small stage and ye, wow, this
Speaker 3: is great.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And of course we're still around here. We
Speaker 1: still talk about the you know, the Green Yellow Night.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, being written. Ever, we really appreciate you guys
Speaker 2: getting on that.
Speaker 1: I'd ask you if that's our past your expectations, but
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think anybody knew what to expect really, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know.
Speaker 6: No prepared for maybe possible things getting hit.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was I will say that was probably one
Speaker 2: of the craziest shows we've had.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I would. I would hope so in here
Speaker 4: in here too. Oh yeah, noodles, Oh jeez, Yeah, it
Speaker 4: was amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's amazing also to see them still traveling around
Speaker 3: with that pool Noodle bus.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, the Pull Noodle Express.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, I think it's out of commission.
Speaker 4: They keep the thing keeps breaking down. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I always wondered about getting one of those school buses,
Speaker 5: and I'm seeing what they're going through with it, and
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, yeah, maybe those aren't the best thing
Speaker 5: for going cross country with.
Speaker 4: Yeah, something breaks on that and they're made for like.
Speaker 5: The area, like exactly the highway is just like too
Speaker 5: much on that big trip.
Speaker 4: I think you're right, you know, I hadn't thought of
Speaker 4: it that way, but I think you're right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because they're not designed for that, they're not designed
Speaker 1: to drive all over the Country's that's true.
Speaker 3: I'll be sad if they have to put it out
Speaker 3: of commission because Terminus Underground sticker is on there.
Speaker 4: Oh that's right.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, we have been traveling around the country even before.
Speaker 4: Yeah, before we're going to Yeah, yeah absolutely.
Speaker 1: Now so then so you during the winter, that's when
Speaker 1: you kind of when Terminus kind of goes into hibernation.
Speaker 2: Right, it does.
Speaker 3: So we closed down for like four months. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: we kind of do a little bit of reevaluation and
Speaker 3: this year is kind of a bigger form of that.
Speaker 3: Like last year we had some significant reevaluation to change
Speaker 3: the name and to go forward in a different way,
Speaker 3: and then this year we need to expand we're just
Speaker 3: frankly a little too small for what we have going on.
Speaker 3: So we're hoping to be able to bring the space
Speaker 3: that I have and the Terminus space together. We're gonna
Speaker 3: put we want to put double doors in and have
Speaker 3: the new Hampshire Underground Lounge be primarily like a VIP
Speaker 3: lounge and then entry away into Terminus from there.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, yeah, so we can.
Speaker 3: Offer the true VIP experience where you can still see
Speaker 3: the stage from where you are or hear it, and
Speaker 3: then you can you know, be more like in the
Speaker 3: lounge area with the couches and near the bar.
Speaker 4: And is that going to require taking down walls partially?
Speaker 3: Yeah, a partial wall, so we do have to get
Speaker 3: permission before we are able to do that. And yeah,
Speaker 3: the other thing that we're just always hoping for is
Speaker 3: that our downstairs neighbors decide to get a storefront for
Speaker 3: their furniture business, because that space is absolutely perfect.
Speaker 2: It's everything we need and want for a space.
Speaker 4: So you want the downstairs neighbors to leave so you can.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's anybody with some nice storefront for our furniture company.
Speaker 6: You got it for rent. It's cheap to contact us.
Speaker 4: We got a guy for you.
Speaker 2: We got a guy who knows the guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's one of the things that we're
Speaker 3: planning and hoping that will happen because I think the
Speaker 3: traffic flow and the bottleneck of it will be a
Speaker 3: little bit better and we I don't know if we'll
Speaker 3: be able to have more capacity that way, just more flow.
Speaker 3: I think though it makes to me, it makes sense
Speaker 3: and for safety purposes and things. But when we take
Speaker 3: our break this year, we're also going across the country
Speaker 3: to Nevada and we're going to be stopping at like
Speaker 3: all the different music hotspots and checking out different clubs
Speaker 3: so we can get some inspiration, because every time I
Speaker 3: go someplace, I do get more and more inspiration. Like
Speaker 3: we went to Demented Effects this year and they have
Speaker 3: a VIP room and in their Haunt, and I was
Speaker 3: just like, oh, yeah, works perfect. It's in Holio, mass
Speaker 3: In like this whole place, Holyoak is like a mill city,
Speaker 3: Like everything is a male building, so it's kind of
Speaker 3: like creepy, but they did a good job and their
Speaker 3: Haunt is in an old mill building and it's really
Speaker 3: fun and it's almost like being in a club, like
Speaker 3: a golf club or like a music club. And then
Speaker 3: you see like their different acts, like mini skits and
Speaker 3: sketches that they do with the Haunt actors.
Speaker 2: So it's super fun.
Speaker 3: And there's a bar in there, so it would be
Speaker 3: nice for Terminus to have their liquor license right now
Speaker 3: where b a yob and we're you know, it's legal,
Speaker 3: so we are a legal club, even though it's considered
Speaker 3: underground because of the music style. We're not a illegal
Speaker 3: underground club. We're a legal above ground club, but we
Speaker 3: just don't have our liquor license, so we do the
Speaker 3: BYOB thing and some nights we'll have like all ages
Speaker 3: shows where you know, but it's mostly twenty one plus.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay, okay, So is now is that probably
Speaker 1: varies from state to state right where you can do
Speaker 1: the BYO B So New Hampshire.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hamster, you can do it. There's no laws against it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Certain bars and clubs do it differently. Like we know
Speaker 3: about a club up north that you drop your beer
Speaker 3: or whatever off at the front desk and then you
Speaker 3: have to go to their bar and get it from them.
Speaker 2: Interesting a two dollars five dollars deposit.
Speaker 3: We thought about doing it like that, but I think
Speaker 3: people just love the idea of like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: we can go and listen to live music and not
Speaker 3: have to spend a ton of money on either food
Speaker 3: or drink. We can bring our own stuff like that
Speaker 3: seems to be what people enjoy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2: I guess your own living room right, right.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly. We should talk a little bit too about
Speaker 1: New Hampshire Underground. Yeah, because you know, listeners might not
Speaker 1: might not understand the What was it called before? I
Speaker 1: remember I used to stumble on the day on the
Speaker 1: original name, which I say on the.
Speaker 2: Airth it was called the Midnight Creatives Collective.
Speaker 4: That's right. I would say stuff like Midnight Creatures Oven
Speaker 4: or something. I kept screwing it up on were trying
Speaker 4: to talk about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was actually a name my former business partner
Speaker 3: had and after we parted ways, necessarily I had to
Speaker 3: change the name. And that just came through like it
Speaker 3: was meant to be because it was associated with Terminus
Speaker 3: Underground in that way, so New Hampshire Underground and it
Speaker 3: has always kind of been a overarching promotional management for
Speaker 3: the shows that we do. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: because I have so much knowledge of the industry and
Speaker 3: have managed bands for so many years, like twenty five
Speaker 3: years now, I decided that I would take on a
Speaker 3: few management clients as well, because I see people struggling,
Speaker 3: like I'll see questions online on certain groups and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: people don't have to struggle with these questions if there's
Speaker 3: someone there that can help them and mentor them through it.
Speaker 3: So ended up meeting my other client, Rick for six
Speaker 3: minds combined through positive street art, and he needed a
Speaker 3: lot of help, and so I was there and I
Speaker 3: supported him and built his career for the past couple
Speaker 3: of years now and now he's doing really really well
Speaker 3: and he's got a really nice handle on how the
Speaker 3: industry works, you know, the things that are needed for
Speaker 3: getting your music out there. And he's every month been
Speaker 3: killing all of his goals.
Speaker 4: So that that's what we do.
Speaker 3: We like kind of operate as a business, sort of
Speaker 3: support network and crush help people crush their goals.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 3: It's like really super rewarding to see that. And like
Speaker 3: with Dead Harrison, you know, they've always obviously done really
Speaker 3: really well and now they're in a phase where they're
Speaker 3: writing new music and that's really exciting to see and hear.
Speaker 3: So there's always something going on and I can always
Speaker 3: take on, you know, more clients. I've got a couple
Speaker 3: different kinds of clients. Like I've got clients who just
Speaker 3: want my like listening ear and want to bounce ideas
Speaker 3: off of me, and that's cool too, So we have
Speaker 3: people that need that. And then I have another guy
Speaker 3: that has a nonprofit in the music world as a
Speaker 3: recording studio and he just wants me to administer his nonprofit.
Speaker 4: So stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So anything business in the arts is kind of what
Speaker 3: I do. And if people need help with marketing or
Speaker 3: website building or you know, even booking, even though that's
Speaker 3: not my favorite thing to do, I can help.
Speaker 1: It's funny, I always say the same thing everyone. I
Speaker 1: have a lot of booking experience, but it's not my
Speaker 1: favorite thing and I don't do any of it currently.
Speaker 2: Because people make booking so hard. Just call people back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and even like I'm I try to be very
Speaker 3: transparent and communicative to people who reach out to me.
Speaker 3: And I tell people you are on the list, I
Speaker 3: will call you, imise you, I will look at your email.
Speaker 2: Just take some time.
Speaker 3: Oh I know the struggle, it's yeah, you get inundated,
Speaker 3: right Oh yeah, oh absolutely, I'm want to talk to everybody.
Speaker 2: You want to be courteous and you know, build relationships
Speaker 2: with everyone.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I don't want anyone to think that I've just
Speaker 3: ignored them if they've sent me a message. Of course
Speaker 3: time consuming yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Plus now two, we live in an era where people
Speaker 1: get offended, Like if someone sends you a message on Facebook,
Speaker 1: and this happens to me, and I feel bad. But
Speaker 1: I like, I might be in a moment where Okay,
Speaker 1: I have time to read it, but I don't have
Speaker 1: time to respond to it because maybe they're asking me
Speaker 1: a complicated question that I can't just, and I can't
Speaker 1: just I don't you know, I got to respond later,
Speaker 1: but I've looked at it, so now it shows that
Speaker 1: I've read it. So now people are like, oh, you
Speaker 1: left me on red. It's like, well, I didn't have
Speaker 1: time to respond to it. Not that anyone confronts me directly,
Speaker 1: but people, you know, I always see people complaining on
Speaker 1: social media.
Speaker 4: Passive aggressively about it.
Speaker 1: Oh I messaged this person and they left me on
Speaker 1: red and didn't even respond, And it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody's got to Just.
Speaker 2: My daughter was complaining.
Speaker 3: She's like, someone left me on red for ten minutes,
Speaker 3: and I'm like ten minutes. You know, normal business standard
Speaker 3: is twenty four to forty eight hours. Gays come on, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I know, yeah, people need to relax a little.
Speaker 5: Bit, But like, do you not think that maybe somebody's
Speaker 5: driving and they just scanned at it and they're not gonna.
Speaker 6: Reply back exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it happens to me all the time. Somebody sends
Speaker 4: me something, it's like I.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think almost of the time people are not
Speaker 2: intending on route.
Speaker 6: New people technology attachment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is out of control. We should we should
Speaker 4: play another song again tonight, of course at Terminus Underground
Speaker 4: and what would doors open at seven?
Speaker 3: Is the doors open at seven? Music starts around eight. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's fifteen dollars cover for general admission or twenty if
Speaker 3: you want to hang out the VIP lounge with the bands.
Speaker 4: Okay, very cool. So you got Vices Inc Island of
Speaker 4: Alaska and Grimly Acronym. Uh, you should play another song?
Speaker 15: What do you.
Speaker 2: No Good?
Speaker 4: Want to play? Yeah?
Speaker 1: This is I had not heard this until this morning.
Speaker 1: Actually I listened to this and I saw that this
Speaker 1: is their newest single, be Yourself, And I really love
Speaker 1: this song. So yeah, let's give this a spin and
Speaker 1: then we'll come back. We've got Eleanora and Andre here
Speaker 1: from Terminus Underground in New Hampshire Underground and of course
Speaker 1: Andre also in the band Dead Harrison. But let's give
Speaker 1: this a listen. This is grim the Acronym. I really
Speaker 1: like this song a lot. This is called be Yourself.
Speaker 15: I'm gone, son, I'm God, my freak hotel, your thoughts, by.
Speaker 14: Yourself, tell your son, by your son, by your son, by.
Speaker 10: Your tom, by your son, by your son, by your son,
Speaker 10: by your.
Speaker 7: Son, by yourself, by your son, by your son. Can't
Speaker 7: weird say weird weird allar, don't let that tag say
Speaker 7: silance All right down to see you.
Speaker 14: Tell me so much to you and me, by your doom,
Speaker 14: by your town, by your thumb, by Tom.
Speaker 10: By your tomb, by your thu, by your tomb, by
Speaker 10: your tom, by your son.
Speaker 14: By your top, by your tomb, by your thumb, free show,
Speaker 14: by your too, by by your thumb. These my morn,
Speaker 14: my stop, my stop, my stop, my son, my son.
Speaker 2: It takes one to know one the stars on this night.
Speaker 16: Now, where's toss up like Jesus?
Speaker 17: Three days stunning?
Speaker 16: Now all lie, But in the end, I'm just a
Speaker 16: friend playing Protector's on your phone, pets him again to
Speaker 16: beat him alone. You hate the way he made his bill,
Speaker 16: but you have beat beside them in.
Speaker 2: One another word, game.
Speaker 14: Train you do. I can't keep you.
Speaker 15: You just pushing away.
Speaker 17: Oh you're a prod outside soul. Long before baby begin
Speaker 17: when it's all.
Speaker 18: The senate, suck to miss you again. I'll just sleep
Speaker 18: by myself for your sleep.
Speaker 12: M a saking thecording.
Speaker 14: You let me off the path? Now where am i?
Speaker 2: And like Jude is kissed my cheek.
Speaker 4: Now that's round, but it again. I'm just a friend, Bunny.
Speaker 16: Pretender's on your phone. It's hill again to be him
Speaker 16: on the oil son he's try it saying bye, but
Speaker 16: you rap, and I say goodbye on another.
Speaker 14: Round to this right, I can't keep you you.
Speaker 17: And just pushing on your prom onside my son before
Speaker 17: the begin and it's all said, to pass you again.
Speaker 17: I'll just sleep well myself for sleep bad. I can't
Speaker 17: keep it well.
Speaker 14: You just push your away in all your jobs.
Speaker 4: I saw long before the day begin.
Speaker 18: Then it's all said, and so I stack to miss
Speaker 18: you again. I'll just sleep by myself.
Speaker 4: Oh you see that is Holy Ghost. That is the
Speaker 4: new single from Island of Alaska.
Speaker 1: I like their sound a lot two female singers in
Speaker 1: that band, which is very cool, And we were kind
Speaker 1: of talking off air about Vice's Ink. Of course they're
Speaker 1: a female fronted band as well, and both bands, along
Speaker 1: with Grim the Acronym, are going to be playing tonight
Speaker 1: for those of you who are listening live on Saturday
Speaker 1: tonight at Terminus Underground in Nashua. And of course we
Speaker 1: have Eleanor and Andre here from Terminus and we've been
Speaker 1: talking all about that this morning.
Speaker 4: And doors open at seven.
Speaker 3: Correct, I open at seven, I should say. The address
Speaker 3: is one thirty four Hain Street, right off of Arlington
Speaker 3: Street and it's down a little hill and you'll see
Speaker 3: a brick mill building the double glass doors and then
Speaker 3: we're on the second floor. So the doors open at seven.
Speaker 3: Music starts at eight fifteen dollars general admission twenty dollars VIP.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and if you haven't been to Terminus, you got
Speaker 4: to check it out and.
Speaker 3: You can go on the website and you can buy
Speaker 3: tickets there. So right on the homepage of New Hampshire
Speaker 3: Underground dot oorg New Hampshire Underground dot org you'll see
Speaker 3: the poster for tonight's show ticket link and you can
Speaker 3: buy tickets there. We also take venmo or cash at
Speaker 3: the door also cash app to Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's good to have all those options. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Is there anything we didn't talk about in regard to
Speaker 1: Terminus that you want to mention because it's rare that
Speaker 1: we have an opportunity to have both of you here
Speaker 1: at the same time, and I just want to make sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's such a cool place, it's such a
Speaker 1: great venue. I'm excited to see what you do in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. And you know, you were kind of
Speaker 1: hinting around about expanding and whatnot, but well, not hinting.
Speaker 4: You said that that is the plan.
Speaker 1: But I mean, but is there anything about that we
Speaker 1: didn't talk about that you want to make sure our
Speaker 1: listeners know about.
Speaker 3: I mean, expansion definitely is on the horizon. We definitely
Speaker 3: want more people to come in, more people to experience
Speaker 3: what we have going on. The hospitality that we provide
Speaker 3: is top par That's like the responses that everyone says
Speaker 3: is this place is so cool, The hospital is so amazing.
Speaker 3: It's better than any bar we've ever been to. So
Speaker 3: I want more people to experience that, and not just bands,
Speaker 3: you know, just fans of live music. And the sound
Speaker 3: that Andre does as our sound engineer.
Speaker 4: That's a good thing to mention.
Speaker 3: Phenomenal, Like every band sounds like they're on a huge stage,
Speaker 3: even though it's a small stage. The sound is full
Speaker 3: and you can hear every nuance and that's what makes
Speaker 3: it a nice place to listen to music. If your
Speaker 3: true music lover, you get to hear that in a
Speaker 3: space that's comfortable for you and not you know, something
Speaker 3: where you feel pressured to uh just stand there and observe.
Speaker 6: Right right, yeah, not hear your neighbors knocking on the wall.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, well, thank you both so much, and it
Speaker 1: is happening. What wonderful to see you and and uh
Speaker 1: love what you're doing to be.
Speaker 6: Here and see you out again.
Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely to terminus, Oh, we were saying too off
Speaker 4: air that you you know, you looked when you when
Speaker 4: you walked into the building.
Speaker 1: You look different to me. And because you had shaved,
Speaker 1: because you were both, we should mention that you were.
Speaker 1: You were Azzie and Sharon for Halloween.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 3: Yes, by some circles we are considered the Aussie and
Speaker 3: Sharon of the East Coast because of all the things
Speaker 3: that we do. And it's kind of like a joke,
Speaker 3: but we just decided to play on it and dress
Speaker 3: up like Ozzie and Sharon and it was fun.
Speaker 6: English accent is horrible all night at.
Speaker 3: The last show. It is our Halloween show. I'd hear
Speaker 3: a Sharon and I'd be like, oh my goodness, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'd have to come running to see what it was.
Speaker 9: Yeah, facing them with bubbles, Yeah, that would have been
Speaker 9: a really good idea, Bubbles Sharon.
Speaker 2: A couple of people mentioned that, actually.
Speaker 4: Bubbles, I'm the prince of darkness.
Speaker 1: My British accents even worse than your British. I sound
Speaker 1: like an Australian with that trauma when I tried to
Speaker 1: do on it.
Speaker 6: Why do I sound like I'm Scottish.
Speaker 3: We even had drinking game going where like if you
Speaker 3: heard Sharon or Ozzy out of either of our mouths,
Speaker 3: you had to dream.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool, very good, very good. Well, I think
Speaker 1: we should end the segment with a terror with a
Speaker 1: Dad Harrison song, Terror Grinder, my personal favorite. It sounds
Speaker 1: like this is a favorite of a lot of people. Yep,
Speaker 1: from what you guys have told me so, So we'll
Speaker 1: end with that, And if you are listening live on
Speaker 1: Saturday morning, stick around. Coming up in the second hour,
Speaker 1: Charles Richardson and Eric Pilcher we'll both be joining us remotely,
Speaker 1: of course, and then in the third hour under the Horizon.
Speaker 1: They haven't been on in a while, but They've been
Speaker 1: up to a lot of great stuff. They played the Terminus, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they.
Speaker 3: Played it Terminus and then at the spot that I
Speaker 3: did a show, yes, yeah, we had a blue ou.
Speaker 3: They're great. The whole team is great. Their management is great.
Speaker 3: So that's awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's always kind of surreal seeing Mike Palmer
Speaker 1: because when back in the day, so long ago now
Speaker 1: and yet it seems like not so long. But like
Speaker 1: I was in a band called My Life Crisis and
Speaker 1: Mike was in Disorder by Design and we would play
Speaker 1: a lot of shows together.
Speaker 4: So but he and he kind of looks the same too.
Speaker 4: He hasn't even changed. Really, it's but it's surreal being
Speaker 4: in a room with him. But it's but it's cool.
Speaker 2: He knows what he's doing.
Speaker 7: He does.
Speaker 2: He can tell he's been in the industry for a
Speaker 2: while himself.
Speaker 1: And yeah, absolutely, all right, very good. So we will
Speaker 1: end the segment with this again, thank you both so much,
Speaker 1: and uh get to Terminus tonight, Terminus Underground, Terminus Underground
Speaker 1: and here is this is Terror Grinder and the band
Speaker 1: is Dad Harrison.
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Speaker 17: Your God.
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Speaker 19: a range chant around and came to any human race.
Speaker 14: Looking up the sky around us.
Speaker 8: It's fall into the sea.
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Speaker 19: a tree, the til brine, a tad, and get it
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