i | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: I really like that a lot. The band is called I, the track is nothing and let's see who we've got on the line from the band, Let's see al Are you there?

0:10 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm here.

0:11 Speaker 1: Hey, welcome And do you have anyone else with you? Or is it just you?

0:15 Speaker 2: No, it's just me today and no one else wanted to get up.

0:17 Speaker 1: I got you. Yeah, it's early there, right, because you're on the West coast.

0:21 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it's eight o'clock over here.

0:23 Speaker 1: That is understandable. Yeah. I don't want to get up at eight o'clock either, but I totally get it. I totally get it.

0:29 Speaker 2: I'm the only one. I'm the only one who's used to getting up early. So I just I got this one.

0:34 Speaker 1: I got you. Yeah. Well, I'm glad you're with us. I really like that song a lot, and and absolutely I have questions about it too, because obviously, as you're listening to it, you know, even if someone doesn't know anything about the background of the song and what inspired it and all of that, it's obvious that there's there's a message there. And I wanted to ask you about that first and kind of start there, because I think it's an important song and I think that, you know, you can reach people through music in ways that you can't reach them from just trying to explain to someone, for example, why they should care about something, what's going on that they should be concerned with.

1:13 Speaker 1: But you can reach people through a song like that. So can you kind of talk to us about that, about what the song is about and what inspired you to write it?

1:21 Speaker 2: Sure? When inspired me was kind of a funny story. I was walking out of the ninety ninth cent store. We have those. I'm not sure if you have them where you're at. They're just basically like discount stores.

1:33 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we have them too.

1:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, I was walking out of one and a guy came up to me and asked me for spare change, and, trying to be funny, I said, dude, I just walked out of the nine ninth cent store. What makes you think I have any change? Yeah, And you know, we both kind of had to laugh about it, and I just told them, hey, man, you're fishing in the wrong pond. You need to go to like a legit supermarket. Maybe you know you have better luck. And that kind of got me thinking how someone's asking for change at a nine ninth sent story which really chows you, like, you know, and then myself, you know, getting groceries there.

2:14 Speaker 2: I honestly didn't have any change for him. So it just remember realized how close we all are to just being in each other's position, so to say. And so, you know, that's what kind of got me thinking about it. Writing the lyrics and the line I have nothing and I'll give you the same. That was literally what happened. And so that started it, and I wrote the lyrics first, you know, just I'm not a good storyteller. I wish I was. I wish I could just like make up a story about you know whatever and then turn it into a great song.

2:50 Speaker 2: I'm not, so I tend to write about experiences or things like, you know, fears or things I've been through or whatever. So that was this is exactly what nothing is. And we in LA there's a big homeless issue. Yeah, a lot of and you see a lot of it is mental illness issues. A lot of it is just can't afford to, you know, to live in a house. It's either you know, some people have jobs, but they can't afford to rent, so they live in the cars, you know. So that's what's pretty much of those songs about and how it's really shocking when you really think about it, you put yourself in their shoes, and how quickly the roles could be reversed.

3:29 Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's interesting that you put it that way because I was having a conversation with someone very recently in fact, about how, you know, I look at my own life, and you know, I'm an entrepreneur, and I've taken a lot of risks, and it's actually shocking to me when I think back of how many times I've been on the edge, like really on the edge of maybe ending up homeless or ending up not not knowing how I was going to eat. And you're right when you say that, you know, people take for granted.

3:59 Speaker 1: It's very easy to take for granted if you know, if you've had a relatively smooth ride, shall we say, right that that everything's always that is always going to be that way. But but so many people in this country are are closer to the edge than maybe they even want to realize. You know, they always say don't look down because it'll scare you, right, but but you know, they talk about how most people don't have enough money to handle an expensive emergency. You know, it's we're all closer to that then than I think a lot of not all of us, but a lot of us are closer to that then than people realize or want to think about.

4:35 Speaker 2: Right. I think someone heard someone say once you're or like one or two paychecks away from being homeless at all times.

4:41 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah.

4:42 Speaker 2: A lot of us, you know, a lot of us don't have you know, the big savings or the investments. You know, a lot of us don't live that way, you know. Right, So it's like you said, it's a fine line sometimes.

4:54 Speaker 1: Yeah, and where you are, that area certainly is known for that.

4:58 Speaker 2: Uh.

4:59 Speaker 1: I think I think all the major cities in California really are known for having a terrible homeless problem. And it's it's it's but it's it's terrible everywhere. Absolutely. But I also think too, what's very relatable about the song is I think everyone has experienced that too, where you know, you're you're not in that position, but you're not exactly you know, thriving either, And maybe you're walking yeah, you know, maybe you're walking out of the dollar store, you know, or any kind of store, and somebody's asking you for change, and you're like, Nah, things are tough all over, man, I don't I don't have anything to give you.

5:29 Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm barely making it, you know.

5:32 Speaker 2: Right right.

5:33 Speaker 1: I think that's very relatable. What's the response been to the song, Like, like, do people do people kind of hone in on the message? Do they get the message when they listen to it?

5:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's fifty to fifty. Some people just like the groove of it, you know. Some people just like it because it says like that kind of like heavy guitar kind of metal thing to it, you know, So it really depends. Then we have some people who actually have come up to us after gigs and said like, oh, you know, and they tell us their story. Oh that was me once. The first time we played it. I try to be clever, and I got like a I found a pizza box outside and I cut the pizza box and I wrote, you know, we'll work for food, you know, just you know, And I stood there holding it, trying to be at a little dramatic during the gig.

6:18 Speaker 2: Sure, and I just threw it. I just threw it away up. I just chucked it, you know. And after the show, some guy came up with it and said like, I'm gonna hold this because that song really spoke to me. I'm going to keep this. Could you guys sign it? And it was so strange. We're just like yeah, sure, and you know, and he told us similar story. I was homeless and I was addicted and I held these signs in the corner. I just happened to be here with friends though they didn't even come to see us. They were just happened to be there.

6:45 Speaker 2: And so it's it's mixed. You know, people like it for different reasons. But there are some people who actually do listen to the lyrics and other people just like to shake their ass and listen to a groove.

6:55 Speaker 1: Sure. Sure. I also like the you know, the kind of the empathy behind it, because that's that's something that I think lacks is lacking for a lot of people when they again, you know, if you've always had a smooth ride and you don't know any better, you might not know that there could be a cliff somewhere. You know, a lot of people they like to look down on homeless people or unhoused I guess is the term that we use now, and it's you know, something that a lot of people don't realize is there's a large I don't know the numbers offhand, but there's estimated to be a large percentage of homeless people who are actually veterans, who are people who are not not to get political with it, but it is worth pointing out people who are let down by this country and are terribly broken system in terms of taking care of our veterans who have fallen through the cracks.

7:41 Speaker 1: And so, you know, I always tell people because there are people of a certain political persuasion who tend to be the ones who are most likely to go out of their way to disparage homeless people or unhoused people. And I always like to point out, you know, when you do that, you might be treating a veteran that way, you know. So you know, the people who like to.

7:58 Speaker 2: Even you're able to make the money you're making is because they put their knife on the line at one point.

8:02 Speaker 1: Or another exactly exactly one hundred percent, and you know, and we just let them, We just let them fall through the cracks. We should mention the video too, right, there's a music video for nothing.

8:13 Speaker 2: Yes, that's how it kind of got Originally we released that song before we signed with Soday Records. We just kind of released our own songs. Yeah, so we had like an EP of four songs that we released on our own and that was one of the songs. So what we decided to do is we started releasing songs under Sody so they give it to push the songs deserve. So we can't re release the songs as singles again because we're already put out there, but we were able to put them out as videos, so it kind of refreshes the song and then gives the label opportunity to push the song as you know, as a video and the song itself and not just a single.

8:51 Speaker 2: So that's our little, a little loop hope we found to be able to push songs we recorded earlier.

8:57 Speaker 1: That's a great strategy. How long ago was nothing actually recorded?

9:01 Speaker 2: Originally about three maybe four years ago?

9:05 Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, it's got you know, the sound though in the vibe of it are pretty timeless. It's not like you know what I mean, which is which is good. It's got kind of a I feel I feel like it's got kind of a grunge vibe to it. In terms of the production, I don't know if that's what you were going for. But that's that's sort of what I hear when I listen to it.

9:25 Speaker 2: Yeah, we get that a lot, and it's funny. Paul the guitarist, the guy who we got the band together, he likes to embrace that grunge sound. And me, coming up in that time, I hated that word grunge because I figured, like, it's just it's just rock, man, It's just it's that's a labeled someone put on it to sell, to sell flannels, you know. But but it's funny when we we we were asked about it. The way I explain it is that we're not kids. We're we're older, you know. So we grew up in the nineties listening just take it back.

10:01 Speaker 2: We grew up as kids listening to the same bands that the guys did in the nineties. So we grew up with The Sabbath and you know, Zeppelin and Deep Purple and you know bands the Pixies, the bands like that from the seventies. So that's what influenced us to write our music. It just so happened that the guys from Seattle also heard those bands. So therefore our sound is similar. But we never like said, oh, we need to sound like Allison Chains and when you sound like Soundgarden, we always wanted to sound like Black Sabbath.

10:32 Speaker 2: Oh, we wanted to sound like Lloyd so we kind of have the same influences. So yeah, our music would have been you know, if we would have been out there more in the nineties, our music would have fit in perfectly. But yeah, but it's not on purpose, like let's be grunte, it's just we just want to be Black Sabbath and King Zax. That's all we want to be. And oh, because it just kind of lands that way King Zax.

10:53 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and I can hear that and that it didn't occur to me until you said it, but I can hear that. I love King Zax, as you might be able to tell from my reaction. And I'm a bass player, so Doug Pinnock is one of my heroes.

11:08 Speaker 2: We just we just supported them at the Whiskey a couple of weeks ago.

11:11 Speaker 1: Oh my god, really, yeah, yeah.

11:13 Speaker 2: It was great. We've been trying to get on that gig for years every time they come to town, and this time we found the right promoter. We we cooked us up and we're able to to support them at the Whiskey. It was it was one of those they say not to meet your heroes, but yeah, that's wrong. We got to meet the guys and they were great and they were cool to us, and it was cool to play with the King Zax fans. Yeah that we know, like, okay, they're they're they're probably gonna appreciate what we're doing.

11:38 Speaker 2: And we had a great rapport with them, and you know, we you know, we sold merch and n CDs and you know, we got a bunch of new fans out of it because you know, they listen, they love King Zax as much as we do and make sure, you know, King Zachs should have been huge. They should have been like the biggest fan in the world. Because it wasn't for them, a lot of this ninety stuf wouldn't ex you know, agreed, But so when they play a club, everyone there is a hardcore King z X fan. So it was like it was one of our like we got to get on that gig.

12:12 Speaker 2: So yeah, we only agree on two bands when we got together. We you know, you know, you do the whole who are you influenced? When I first met Paul, Yeah, we only agreed on two bands, King z X and Black Sabbath No Kill. You know. Yeah, so that's that's the way it worked out for us.

12:25 Speaker 1: Those are those are great choice of Sabbath is also one of my favorites. But yeah, I met King Zax a long time ago. Well she's like literally decades and I got to interview Doug Pinnock. I think he might have been the first musician I ever actually sat down and interviewed now that I'm thinking about it, and uh, what an amazing guy. I mean, just so so gracious. I wasn't the only one there participating in the interview, but he gave us a lot of time and and yeah, it was, it was. It was just just really incredible.

12:58 Speaker 1: But yeah, but I but I can hear all that in that's in that song that you know, King Zax and Sabbath, you know, with the guitar tone and everything just just just really really good. It's funny too, because you know, you don't like the term grunge, and I totally get it. I I I reflect back now on that time and it's like grunge kind of became the catch all term for you know, anything that came out of Seattle. And if you you know, if you think about the bands that were big at that time that got labeled as grunge, they all sound very different, like Alison Chains doesn't sound anything like Pearl Jam, which doesn't sound anything like Nirvana, you know, and all these bands got put in this box.

13:34 Speaker 2: Right That's always my argument. But you know, it's like it's always our argument. I lose because you know, it's it just it. Grunge is a thing now, like a new wave or you know, like hair metal. It just kind of became a thing and it's a it's a real term now, you know. But I did my best to fight it off, but I guess I lost that one.

13:54 Speaker 1: It's huge right now in the UK. We have a lot of guests from the UK, and apparently grunge is is very much the big thing over there right now. Oh really, Well, yeah, surprised me. Surprised me, but but but yeah absolutely Now, So tell me about the history of the band, because I did I originally form in the nineties. Am I understanding that correctly?

14:16 Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, we were kids. Paul and I first started out in the nineties and we had a short run just doing like local There was a small scene in East La Montabello area, and we played there for a few years with two other different bass player and drummer, and we you know, we did our run and you know, nothing, nothing happened for us. And then eventually we just kind of like you know, went our ways. I got married, had kids. Just you know, Paul, he's always been a musician. Uh like right now, he's in Chicago.

14:47 Speaker 2: Uh he plays bass for Vinnie Appassy. Oh wow, his Sabbath band. So he tours vin with Vinnie Nice as a bass player, but he's actually a guitarist. But like you know, bass player gigs are waysier to get the guitarist. Oh.

15:00 Speaker 1: Absolutely.

15:02 Speaker 2: So he's always been a musician. He's always played covers and tribute bands his whole life. That's something. And then I would say a good fifteen years past and then we just kind of run into each other again and we just started talking and we said like, hey, let's let's start writing again. You know, there's no expectation, let's just right just to you know, do something. You know, I just want I just wanted to reconnect with him, and I knew that's pretty much the only way we're going to reconnect.

15:28 Speaker 2: And then yeah, so we started putting music out and we got contacted by Sam from Sodey who was interested in signing us. Which is funny because when you're a kid, that's all you want to do, right, you just want to get signed, and you know you're thinking about like back in the days, you get signed, you get a bonus, you get the road, and you know it's different. Now, we weren't even looking for that. It just kind of happened. We're just like very grateful, like, oh cool, he wants to sign us and put us on his label and distribute to us.

15:55 Speaker 2: So it kind of happened backwards for us, but we're very grateful. So yeah, we started early and then took a break and started up again. Yeah.

16:03 Speaker 1: I always laugh about the miss misconceptions and misperceptions people have about how I don't think this is largely the case anymore, but there certainly was a time when people assumed that, you know, if you got signed, it meant that you were Now you were flying on a private jet out to LA and hanging out with supermodels and uh, staying at the Playboy mansion and now and driving a Lamborghini and.

16:25 Speaker 2: All that, and it's not the eighties and Motley Crue anymore.

16:28 Speaker 1: Right, right, And and let's be honest, it wasn't even that way for Motley Crue until they started to really sell some records and sell some tickets. You know, it's not it's not you know, people think, oh, you know, you get signed and you're suddenly rich. It's like no, and you have to explain things like recoupment and all of this. It's uh, the economics of it are much tougher than people realize.

16:50 Speaker 2: You have. There's still a lot of work to do. Absolutely, you saying that that contract, Yeah, absolutely.

16:54 Speaker 1: Now. So when when you guys kind of put the project away the first time, it was it always kind of in the back of your mind that you might revisit it someday or or at the time, did you feel like, I'm done with this, moving on getting married, focusing on that.

17:11 Speaker 2: You know. I can't speak for Paula. For myself, yes, not just specifically this band, but just being creative. See, I have bipolar disorder, Okay, I didn't know until I was, you know, almost thirty. So being able to be creative and to be able to like, you know, just purge whatever's in my brain and put it into into music or just you know, writing it down poetry or just journaling. It was always helped me. And I left that thinking, Okay, that's the past. Now I'm just gonna you know, you know, be married and raise kids and you know, have you know, not be a musician anymore.

17:47 Speaker 2: But it bit me in the ass because it just it that creativity was wasn't there purposely, I purposely put it away. Yeah, and it just it really just didn't work with me. It kind of made me a monster at times. So so yeah, I did think about it, and I did miss it, but I really didn't realize that was the key to my sanity, yeah, if that makes any sense. So yeah, so soon as they had the opportunity, like during that time, I did like a couple of cover projects, like Hey, we're gonna go a party, you want to play some cover song?

18:17 Speaker 2: Stuff like that, And that's when I realized, like, okay, you know, I still I still I missed this. I missed the rehearsals and the guys and the songs and yeah, so yeah, for myself, yeah, it was always in the back of my head. I just didn't realize how much I needed it until you know, all hell broke loose, right, I realized there's something missing in my life and that was it.

18:36 Speaker 1: Well, especially too, where you're someone who and again you know, we talked about the song nothing, You're you're someone who clearly has something to say that you need to express. So I can see where it makes sense to me how you explain that, how you realize that that was missing from your life and you needed to get that back.

18:55 Speaker 1: So what's the with the current lineup of the band? Is it? Is it the same the same four of you or.

19:02 Speaker 2: No, No, it's just Paul and I are the originals. And then we David the drummer, is actually Paul's nephew who at the time when we were getting back together, he didn't have any any project at the time, so he just kind of sat in with us and it just kind of clicked. So we just kind of said, well, guess guess what they're playing with us too, you know what I mean, because he's a lot younger than us. He's like in this this late twenties or maybe that might be thirty by now, okay. And then PAULI the bass player, he's someone that Paul's known for a long time and played in a lot of bands with back in the day.

19:34 Speaker 2: So we just recruited him and same thing. We said, hey, we're doing this show. We just need someone to sit in with us. He learned the songs and we just kept saying, hey, we have another one. You want to do it, Yeah, you got another one, And now he's just we just kind of tricked them into just hanging around. So yeah, it's nice.

19:50 Speaker 1: Is nice when it comes together organically like that, you know, instead of yeah, instead of saying, okay, we're gonna we're gonna hold all these auditions and do all this stuff, but.

19:58 Speaker 2: Well then we just spend hours talking about some auditions. We try to have their their nightmares and they're hilarious at the same time. It's rough. Yeah, it's rough. Not just the plane, but like you know what we say, like the guys who get all the gigs because rule number one, don't be an a hole. And you'd be surprised how many guys you meet who are auditioning and they're just like arrogant or a hole or you know, and not to mention whether they could play or not. But it's a right. Yeah, there's there's there's there's some stories there with the audition, so luckily we didn't have to.

20:32 Speaker 2: We did it for a bit until we realized it's just start tricking guys into playing with us. There you go.

20:39 Speaker 1: Maybe some of the guys who are auditioning, maybe they thought they were going to get the private chat and hang out at the Playboy mansion and all that it could be. So does the the early material, because obviously you guys have have a history, does the early material survive or or are you focused on on writing and recording just new stuff or how does does that work.

21:01 Speaker 2: We brought with us believe two two, maybe three songs that we recorded that we played three songs that we played back then the other ones we just you know, they we either they either morphed into something else or you know, Paul used them with other projects, you know, as far as the ideas. Yeah, but three songs we brought with us that we we felt still kind of had, you know, enough, you know, fit with what we're doing now. Okay, really isn't much different, but yeah.

21:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, and then what is the plan for these? I mean, are are you going to continue to release singles or will these coalesce into an EP or an album or what what's kind of your your strategy?

21:44 Speaker 2: Yes, so our next release is the thirteenth of August, and that'll be our new single Circle, but it will be released in an album because we have enough. We released a bunch of singles now, so we're gonna combine them into an album. Okay, So it'll be the album's going to drop on the thirteenth, and it will have the new single Circle on it.

22:06 Speaker 1: Oh wonderful. And you did send us that one, which we're going to play at the end of our conversation so our listeners can get a sneak peek. Has this been played anywhere on the radio before?

22:16 Speaker 2: So we've played it. We've played it live a couple of times, or actually just once. We just played it once at the king Zex because we had to do some rewrites on it. So the way it is, the way we recorded it. We only played it at the King Sex Show. Oh been played anywhere? Oh?

22:32 Speaker 1: Wow? So this will be a world radio premiere. I love it. I love it.

22:35 Speaker 2: We there you go. I like that. Oh we put that on our on our website. Oh world radio premiere, please.

22:42 Speaker 1: Do please do no. We we love to get to do this that's great. That's I'm very honored that you sent us sent us that. Then I didn't realize that it wasn't coming out until August. That's that's fantastic and it's a great track. I really really like it a lot. Thank you, absolutely absolutely. So I haven't asked you the most obvious question yet, Where does the name come from? I?

23:03 Speaker 2: Okay, So when we were coming up with band names, I came up like, you know, and but we wanted to do it in a way that said, in this big scheme of life, we're not that important. You know, we think we are, but we're not that important. So when you read or write the word I, it's always capital because you're talking about yourself. So we figure like we're just gonna make it, you know, lowercase I, and you know, just to at least for our entertainment. It tells us like we're not that important, you know, we're in there's bigger things to worry about than us.

23:39 Speaker 2: So we just went with a lowercase I.

23:41 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, interesting, and I like the is so and it is lowercase. And then I see the image of the UH is your official logo. The eye in front of the hand is that.

23:57 Speaker 2: Uh No, the original logo is just the oka the hand is that's my wife's hand. She uh yes, we uh if you have a minute. She she had some cancer scares with her. She has she had a rare uh tumor in her kidney called a feel. We call it a feel, but I forget what the full name is.

24:17 Speaker 1: Okay.

24:17 Speaker 2: So there was times where, you know, where we didn't know if we were going to have her around and you know, uh if she had her surgery it was during COVID, So I the day I dropped her off at the hospital, I couldn't go inside with her. And then she had a fifty to fifty chance on the table, so I didn't know that was the last time I was ever gonna see her, you know. So it was a lot of stress. So luckily, you know, she she made it through and stuff. So I just had this thing where I wanted to get her hand tattooed on me somewhere.

24:46 Speaker 2: So I had her put you know, through the whole paint on a piece of paper and then wow, something just kind of clicked, and I'm like, I'm gonna put the eye right in the middle of it and use it as a logo, and actually when we play our gigs, I have a shirt that has her hand with the eye on it and stuff like that too. So so it's the official logo is just the eye, but the hand's been very popular, so we're probably gonna roll with that for a while. Yeah.

25:08 Speaker 1: I like it. No, it's a cool image and thank you for sharing the story behind it. And so, so how is she now at this point? Is she good?

25:16 Speaker 2: Yeah, she's good, I mean good. It's still it's one of those the the tumor being on her on her adrenal gland. I mean, I said, Katy apologize. Her adrenal gland wrecked havoc in her body. Ye, because it was constantly releasing adrenaline. So they removed the tumor and the adrenal gland. So now she's joining on one adrenal gland. Okay, so you know, so it's been a couple of years, but it's still like, you know, her body's getting used to having only one adrenal gland. So some days good days, bad days, and the bad day is usually like fatigue.

25:46 Speaker 2: But yeah, she's she's she's doing.

25:49 Speaker 1: Good, good, good. Glad to be glad to hear that yeah, yeah, that's a that's a very very scary thing. Now the the track circle will will there be a video for this as well eventually.

26:01 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're we're we haven't thought, we haven't talked about it yet and uh, but it's that video. It should be fun because the whole song revolves around a Plato's cave. I don't know if you're familiar with that one, So it's kind of a yeah, it's a you know, Plato has a lot of Plato's cave is the whole theory of they you're stuck in a cave and your captors put like a little like to say, like a like a little symbol of a of a horse or like a soldier, and then they put a fire behind it, so it makes a shadow on the wall of a soldier and and things you fear.

26:39 Speaker 2: So you're stuck in this cave because of these shadows, not realizing if you just turn around, you don't realize it's not a real soldier. It's just a little stand with the reflection on it. Yeah, so that's the whole that's the whole Plato's cave I thing. So, so I'm thinking that should be a pretty fun video to make. You know, Plato's not around anymore, so don't think we'll get sued, but.

27:00 Speaker 1: Right right, yeah, it's probably okay to to use his intellectual property. Yeah, yeah, no, that's great. I love the concept. That's that's really cool.

27:10 Speaker 2: That's really cool. Yeah, that should be a fun one to make.

27:13 Speaker 1: And then what's the obviously you know you mentioned Paul is very busy obviously, but I mean, what what is the live situation like going forward? Do you have more shows coming up? Are you gonna be touring or do you have to wait for him to get back or how does that work?

27:26 Speaker 2: Well, he's only gone for like a week at a time, so that you know, yeah, then he doesn't just go on the road for you know, yeah, for he goes off for a week. That's that's a okay. The shows, we have nothing schedule now. Like I said, we just put all our eggs into the Kings X show. We were just like really hyped up about that one. So right now we have nothing. Nothing said. We're going back in the studio two uh next week to uh work on two more singles to put out. We try to be we try to be very busy, you know.

27:56 Speaker 2: So he keeps us focused. Yeah, we asked Sam from the lab will like, hey, give us five dates next year, and he will give us five dates. So we know, like there's our carrot. That's what we got to do. So our main focus is you know, delivering songs or videos to the label, and in between we go like, hey let's do a gig. So we have a few places we play often, but right now we have you know, there's nothing on the books right now, Okay. If when when there is, it'll be all over our socials and our website for sure.

28:26 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, outstanding, and we'll, like I said, we'll let you go in a moment and we'll hit that track circle. But where al where is the best place for people to go online to keep up with everything that the band I is doing?

28:40 Speaker 2: Uh? If you want like a one chop stop, it's our website, which is ibandofficial one dot com okay, and and that that has all the links to all our socials, our I g our Facebook are, our YouTube. We have a lot of videos on YouTube live and also you know regular videos on there. Yeah, so that's like the go there and you can find everything. But also if you just want to go straight to our ig. That's I band official one at ig and if you like Facebook, it's I band official on Facebook.

29:15 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, outstanding, well, Algernados from the band I, thank you so much for joining us. We're going to hit that track circle and and oh and I encourage everyone to check out after the show, go to YouTube check out the video for nothing. It's it's really cool and it's it's an important subject. So I really like that song a lot too. But Al, thank you so much for joining us today, and we'll definitely do it again in the future as you're releasing new music. We'd love to have you back. And I really like the band a lot, so we will.

29:43 Speaker 1: We will definitely do this again.

29:46 Speaker 2: Great, thank you, Thank you for having me. This was fun, all.

29:48 Speaker 1: Right, Al, thank you, take care, bye bye bye bye. All right. That is Algernados from the band I and right now, because this isn't coming out until August, sometime in August, but we you're a here first the world radio premiere of the new track from I. This is called Circle.