Matt Connarton Unleashed 1-24-26 hour 1

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4:24 Speaker 11: Welcome everybody to Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, you can stream the show live from anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com slash live for all your streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera. If you are listening to the show live, today is Saturday, January twenty four, twenty twenty six. We have an exciting show for you today. In a few minutes, we're gonna hear some world radio premieres.

4:53 Speaker 11: We get a bunch of new music to share with you. But the track we just heard that is called Pushing thirty. To open up this this week's show, the artist is and I'm gonna bring him in a moment. I'm gonna ask me if I'm saying his name correctly, because it's not a name I'm used to saying ca hal Fits. I don't. I don't know if I'm saying that right. Let's go ahead and bring him in though he's joining us via Microsoft Teams.

5:13 Speaker 12: Hello, are you there?

5:15 Speaker 13: I'm there, my friend, har Are you? You did a very very good stob of my name? I must say I'm very very impressed.

5:21 Speaker 11: Well, I had to look it up.

5:22 Speaker 7: You know.

5:23 Speaker 11: It's amazing on You can go on YouTube and just type in how to pronounce and just put in whatever name you're looking for, and someone's inevitably posted a video explaining it. But you know, and I should.

5:32 Speaker 14: You know.

5:32 Speaker 11: I am of Irish descent myself, so I should have had a I should have had a clue, but I really didn't until I actually looked it up.

5:40 Speaker 8: Do you have any idea where your Irish descendants come from? I do not.

5:44 Speaker 11: I do not. I need to research that. I haven't. I just know that I've got some Irish in me,

5:51 Speaker 11: not only because my you know, my dad was of Irish descent, but also if I go out into the sun in the summer without sunscreen, I burn immediately. So I'm definitely I'm definitely irish.

6:01 Speaker 13: You'd become one of those red and white sweets that we have over here, you know when white one was read. Yeah, we're very that's the telltale sign that you've writed genetics that you don't do the sun very well.

6:11 Speaker 8: And we also don't do the rain very well.

6:13 Speaker 13: It always rains here and no one ever has any proper rain gear, so we're just kind of stuck in this middle of people wearing shorts in December, and so yeah, it's good.

6:22 Speaker 8: Fun though long here it's a lovely place.

6:24 Speaker 11: Oh that's interesting. Yeah. Yeah, So I love the song Pushing thirty, although as someone who pushed thirty quite a while ago, it makes me feel a little well we'll talk about that, but it is a great song. Can you tell us about it. I know that this came out in November, but you're getting a lot of traction with this single.

6:42 Speaker 8: Yeah, Like it's doing well, and I suppose a lot.

6:44 Speaker 13: Of my songs in general, like I started writing music in July twenty twenty four. I used to be a personal trainer. I left that job to start writing music. I just had some sort of away thing where I was like, this is what I want to do. And most of my songs and especially Pushing thirty, was a reflection of people around me and also myself that I think because of everything the way the world has gone, that I think people in their latest twenties and early like they still feel like teenagers, you know, and we're still kind of stuck in these routes that a lot of us in Earland can't get houses.

7:16 Speaker 13: We can't, you know, like everything's expensive, and I think you can. If you're living without purpose, you can get caught in that rut of you know, let's go out and number selves on the weekend and let's adhere to social peer pressure of you know, the latest trendy clothes or the latest exposed, and you just get stuck in the rot. And I suppose I saw that in myself, and I saw.

7:35 Speaker 8: That in people around me.

7:37 Speaker 13: And I'm very lucky that since I started doing this that I have the most amazing support network of producers and managers and everything that it's all kind of falling into place. But yeah, it's a special song and it took me four or five minutes to write and it's having good impact, which is what I want from my music, just for someone to listen to it and no matter how old they after pushing sixty, you're pushing thirty.

7:57 Speaker 8: Say I like that.

7:58 Speaker 13: It's it feels familiar, it feels relatable.

8:01 Speaker 11: Just for the record, I'm not pushing sixty. That's not what I meant, just to clarify. No, But so I'm curious, like, was there a specific moment that kind of sparked the song, or was this something that was kind of building up in you over time or because it sounds like it sounds like you haven't been necessarily actively pursuing music for very long, or maybe you have, but from what you said, it kind of sounded like or at least on this level, this is kind of new.

8:32 Speaker 13: No, It's like, like July twenty twenty four, I quit my job to do pub covers, like literally just playing a few covers in a few wow, in a few pubs, you know. And then last January my missus was saying to me She's like, you know, you're too good and too talented to be a pub singer, so you need to push yourself. So I released my first song last January, and since then, I've like I've wrote, I've written fourteen songs or something. In the last two three weeks, I've another twenty twenty five recorded, and it's just.

9:02 Speaker 8: Flowing out of me.

9:03 Speaker 13: And I just cannot tell you how much I love it, Like I just I've never again I picked up a guitar like again a year and a half ago, having not played it. I used to strumble in my bedroom at home four or five chords. But I've just found something that for the first time in my life, I've haven't given up on Yeah, And like you know, I've bounced around loads of different jobs. I'm kind of like that typical Australian man with a highvas jacket. You'd think of doing anything that used to be me, you know really, but I found music, and that song in particular is almost just a flow consciousness.

9:32 Speaker 13: I sit down with a guitar five time minutes later the song written. It's not like that all the time. Like I've got a few weeks where you know, you just you don't have anything to say, but I found that I've channeled music into the craziness in my head and the thoughts I have. It gives me a platform to allow me to say what I need to say to myself and maybe to the world. And if someone gets something from it, then that's a bonus too.

9:54 Speaker 11: Yeah, that's fantastic you mentioned too. You know, the miss is it's great that you have a supportive partner who encourages you to do that, because that makes a huge difference, you know, obviously. I mean, and I'm sure you don't take that for granted, because that's I'm sure you know. She's very proud of you.

10:10 Speaker 13: No, she's she's incredible. She's actually inside now minding the small fellow with my mum. So shout out to my mum as well. So I looked away for ten minutes from parenting duties to.

10:18 Speaker 8: Take my world famous rocks.

10:19 Speaker 13: There prem here of pushing Kurty, you know, but no, look, it's almost like it's all meant to happen that, you know, my partner.

10:26 Speaker 8: My parents are very supportive.

10:28 Speaker 13: My dad was that typical kind of Irish dad where you know, you get a job now and you stay here and you have security. And when I told him I was going to be a musician, he was a bit like Jesus, I don't know about that.

10:38 Speaker 8: No, that's that's not.

10:40 Speaker 13: Very secure as this, but he kind of sees that it's you know, it's it's going somewhere, like I'm talking to a radio station in the US, and he's kind of like, jee's.

10:47 Speaker 8: Fair play, tore, that's brilliant. Yeah, yeah, it's cool.

10:50 Speaker 13: It's cool, and yeah, it's supportive people, my producer, like I've met all these people very organically in the last year and a half, my producer, videographer, manager, and they're almost like the perfect.

10:59 Speaker 8: Team for me to around. So I know I'm meant to be doing this based on just sleep around me.

11:04 Speaker 11: Oh, that's fantastic. Do you feel any kind of you know, because I know there's sort of this Irish storytelling tradition and music. I mean, is that something that you're you're conscious of and your your approach to because you as you mentioned, you're you know, you're writing a lot of songs.

11:20 Speaker 13: Yeah, So, like I think I actually went back to our native language is Guilgap, so it's I went back to study that about two years ago, so I'm kind of learning that. And the Irishness is a very very particular character.

11:36 Speaker 8: We love to tell stories.

11:38 Speaker 13: If you ask us for directions, right, the shot could be up on the right. We'll tell you on the way to the shop about that tree that's been there for ten thousand years and that was once, you know. And that's kind of part of our charm and part of our imprint.

11:50 Speaker 8: On the world.

11:51 Speaker 13: And what we have to offer is is kind of this unique way of looking at things. And I think as my songs progress in terms of my songwriting, the last few songs have written are a bit more metaphoric, a little bit more imagery based, a bit more trying to tell a story, and I'm trying to channel into that. I'm trying to lean into that. Like we're called the Lands of Saints and Scholars, you know, we've some of the most amazing English writers ever, you know, James Joyce and Seamus Heaney, all these amazing poets and scholars that have gone before me.

12:19 Speaker 13: And I feel like I have almost values upholds.

12:24 Speaker 10: You know.

12:24 Speaker 13: I'm very proud to be Irish. A lot of people will know that about me. You know, I learned the language I love where I'm from. In particular, Cork is where I'm from, and everyone from Cork loves being from Cork. That's just kind of you know, we have very special connections to the land. We have a very special connection to storytelling. And you know, over the last few hundred years, we weren't allowed to speak our language because of things that had gone on, and we had a very unique way of preserving that, which was keeping the you know, the spoken word alive and exaggerating stories to try and make it magical, you know.

12:56 Speaker 13: And that's kind of even what I'm doing now, the gift of the gap, you know.

12:59 Speaker 11: Right exactly. And so so this track Pushing thirty that we played that came out in November, and then you've got another single which we're going to play at the end of our conversation called Enemy of Love, which is also a great song. But I'm curious, now, what are kind of your plans in terms of releasing music are you are you going to do continue to do singles? Do you have an ep in mind or an album or what's kind of the forward trajectory for you?

13:25 Speaker 13: See, I'm kind of stuck in a bit of a crossroads at the moment, because the way music is in the industry is you know yourself that it's very dependent on algorithms and dependent on a single.

13:35 Speaker 8: Getting picked up.

13:36 Speaker 13: So I have loads of songs ready to go and written. My next song is coming out hopefully in the next four or five weeks. We'll have to submit it to Spotify and do all those bits. But I'm also I wrote, as I said, maybe twelve eleven, thirteen, fourteen songs, which I'm not exactly sure which ones are going to make it to production, but I wrote a good chunk of those in the last kind of three weeks, and I think I have a kind of in me to I have two studio up dates booked in February, and I want to record them live, completely live, Yeah, because I think the way AI is going at the moment in synthetic music, I think people are crying out for that authenticity and that wrongness, and even if a chord gets wrong when you're recording it, it's almost like magic now.

14:18 Speaker 8: Imperfection is almost perfection now. So I'm kind of.

14:21 Speaker 13: Leaning towards getting those eight songs recorded.

14:26 Speaker 8: I feel they're very strong.

14:26 Speaker 13: We'd record them live, and I may go against the arms and just push it as an album, because I think that's the music should be. If you're releasing single by single, the story of what music is supposed to be gets lost, Whereas if you have eight songs together, there's a whole narrative, there's a whole world to get engrossed in and feed into it for eight songs.

14:44 Speaker 11: Yeah, that's something that comes up a lot on the show because you know, everyone kind of approaches it differently, and there's so many different you know, I'm old enough to remember when I was growing up, it was, you know, an artist would release an album. Well, actually first single would go to radio six to eight weeks before the album came out. Then the album comes out, and then if all goes according to plan, you know, maybe there's a second single. If things go really well, there's a third, et cetera.

15:06 Speaker 11: But that was kind of the set way of doing it. Now there's so many different ways to release music. You can you know, you can release singles, you can do an EP, you can do an album. You can do a series of singles that eventually coalesce into an EP or an album. Kind of the inverse of of what it used to be and uh, but but it's it's so interesting And then that's why I ask those questions because I'm always really curious, you know, what everyone I talk to, what their thought process is in terms of how they approach releasing music, because there are so many ways to do it now.

15:37 Speaker 11: Yeah, the other thing that, oh, yeah, go ahead.

15:40 Speaker 13: So it's like I think for me with that, and you're very it's very interesting as well. Like I look at everyone else as an artist and I see what they're doing. And for me, I've had plenty conversations with my manager and I think I've decided, not in a very hippie nonchalant way, but the right thing will will provide itself when when the right moment arrives. So if an album feel is right, I'll do that. And I think the way my songs are written and the message and the meaning for me about my music is, you know, I wasn't supposed to be doing this, or maybe I was, and I don't really know where I am, and I'm just releasing music and having fun and if it means doing singles, great, If it means to an album, I just think the right thing will come along.

16:18 Speaker 13: But for me, like the first album I ever listened to was an Irish art is called Damien Rice and the album was called Oh and it was the most It's it's still a masterpiece. And when I think of releasing music, that's the standard I want to hold myself to. I want someone to listen to a full album and think, well, there's so much in that, there's so much to take on that you have to keep listening to it, and then you find your favorite song and then you say, oh, I love coming up to this part because there's three songs here which are really strong, and yeah, it's just a it's a whole it's a whole other universe of looking at music.

16:49 Speaker 11: You know, is he your biggest influence? Would you say Damien Rice.

16:52 Speaker 13: I think Damien Rice. I think Damien Rice. I think Tom Waits is another one. I absolutely love Tom Waits Cash And when I was growing up as well, I'm very lucky that my parents, my mom and dad had these CDs and tapes that we'd play on the car.

17:07 Speaker 8: They were older music, and I just I love that.

17:10 Speaker 13: I think I think Damien Rice and Tom Waits definitely as well. It would be would be two that I you know, if I had to have a dinner in the morning or a breakfast in the morning. It's invite two people to be to be the two of them, you know, that would be.

17:23 Speaker 11: That would be interesting, Tom Waits, is uh what would be uh fascinating to uh to sit down with although probably probably a little hard to understand them at times. But I'm curious too because you did mention AI and that's another subject that I as you can imagine, comes up a lot on the show and its impact on music. And I'm curious. I mean, is that something you're you're concerned about or you sounded you struck I felt like kind of an optimistic tone about it when you said, you know, it's almost like music that is made entirely by humans.

17:57 Speaker 11: If it's got little flaws in it, that's okay because that's what people really want. They want the humanity of it and not sort of you know, just completely synthetic music. But I'm curious if you can expand on that a little bit, and how concerned are you about AI and music.

18:12 Speaker 13: Like I think if you had said thirty years ago, artists and you know about synthetic drums and synthetic you know, like synthesizers or like using you know, they'll say even laptops or computers for card music, people who said, no, we've our eight tracks and right, so like, I can't remember who said it, but I was listened to a video the other day and it was really really interesting. They were talking about AI music and your man asked him, He was like, you know, how worried are you about people, you know, gravitating towards AI music and getting lost?

18:41 Speaker 13: And he said, well, you can go to a supermarket and you can buy organic, fair trade bananas, and you can buy five's bananas that are grown, you know, in a greenhouse down the road. It's your choice, you know, And I suppose I would probably lean into the market that I would want to make music for the people who want to buy the organic, free trade bananas.

19:01 Speaker 8: And I think there's always going to be a market for that. I think there's always going to be a market.

19:04 Speaker 13: For imperfection for you know, seeing someone live and all the different instruments and even someone making a bum note on everyone in the crowd laughing, because it's just, you know, that's what music is.

19:14 Speaker 8: It's a gathering, it's a celebration.

19:16 Speaker 13: It's someone that you know, you look up to who is able to speak words that you may not able to speak yourself, but you can listen to them say it and it hit something with you, you know. And if that and even my opinion is is that if AI music does that for you, then you know, at least you're conceiving music. It may not be the music I enjoy or may not be the music I'd like to make. But and there's I think again, like there's tools you can take from AI. You know, I actually use it for Like I'll say to chat Ebt, can you make me a two week calendar for my content ideas?

19:48 Speaker 13: You know, I'll ever music for music directly, but I think there's ways that we can't. If you duck your head in the sand and say it's not happening, it's not happening, then you're going to get lost behind.

19:58 Speaker 8: And I just think if you can use certain twoes.

20:02 Speaker 13: You know, there's a great book by Kyle Newport called Digital Minimalism, and it's like, you know, use technology to your advantage.

20:08 Speaker 8: You'll make it work for you. So you know, I don't really care too.

20:11 Speaker 13: Much, to be honest, I'll go and play shows to twenty people and they pay twenty quid for a ticket and I'll be laughing, you know, right, it doesn't You know, people will always want to hear what you want to hear if you're saying the right thing, right right.

20:23 Speaker 11: I agree, and I fundamentally agree with what you said, you know, and it's not like you can't hold back technology anyway. You know that toothpaste is already all the way out of the tube. It's here, and you know, and it's been with us longer than people realize too. I mean, you know, every major recording studio that is, you know, sort of technologically up to date, shall we say, is already using AI and a lot of its software and you don't necessarily realize it, but you know, you've got programs that can you know, pitch correct, and you got all kinds of AI already happening anyway.

20:54 Speaker 11: Of course, now you can go on some of these apps and just create songs out of whole cloth, not even whole cloth. You put in a prompt, you tell what you want, it spits out something that in some cases is actually very high quality.

21:06 Speaker 8: I'll tell you a funny story.

21:07 Speaker 13: I was actually on holidays and alant or Ali caan't they no Albifera this year and we were sat there and having a cup of tea and someone was playing music and a speaker next to me, and I said, what that sounds like Mumford and Sons or something that's incredible.

21:21 Speaker 8: And I went up to them and I was like, who's that. They were like, oh, it's our friend. He's her neighbor. He makes music. And I was like wow and he was.

21:27 Speaker 13: They were like, yeah, it's all done through Ai and I was like, oh, I've been caught.

21:31 Speaker 8: I've been caught.

21:34 Speaker 13: But look, yeah, just look it's something's sounds sonically great on our ears. And you know there's a niche that needs to be scratched there too, So you know, I kind of had to I kind of had to take take the l there as the as the young kids would say, and yeah, I was like, you know, sure, look, it's it's it's it's happening.

21:52 Speaker 8: It's here.

21:52 Speaker 13: We can embrace it, we can use it, we cannot use it. You can complain about it, but you know, at the end of the day, there's a message out there, which I feel what music is supposed to do, and you know, just let it happen.

22:02 Speaker 8: Let it happen lean into it.

22:04 Speaker 11: Yeah, I agree with you. I absolutely agree with you. And by the way, so you mentioned playing live. Are you doing a lot of shows?

22:11 Speaker 13: Yeah, So I'm kind of in this weird position where I do cover gigs most nights of the week and I'm really lucky that I'm really busy, you know, and that finances bills and like the studio time and everything. And I got signed with a management just before Christmas, which was really cool considering it's been like you know, we say, it was ten months since I had started releasing music and then I got picked up by a manager, and even last year I played countless support slots to quite big artists in Ireland and we're yeah, I'm currently organizing an Irish and kind of UK tour which is going to be starting in April, hopefully, myself a manager in close contact doing all of that.

22:48 Speaker 13: And I just I love performing, like I'll always be someone that just I love performing to people in a room, and like, you know, my ambitions from music is you know, obviously there's a nice monetary reward down the line when you put in the graph, but as long as I'm just playing music to people who want to hear for the rest of my life and I'm able to, you know, live comfortably and have a roof over my head.

23:09 Speaker 8: I really am happy, you know. I just I love performing.

23:14 Speaker 13: I Like the first gig I ever did, I got a buzz from people, you know, it was actually in a restaurant, you know, it like a lunchtime slot in a restaurant, and people's you know, turned around, put down the knife and fork for a minute and watched me, and I was like, wow, I have that impact with my voice, and you know, so yeah, I just love performing life. I constantly just pick up the guitar at home and then, like each cover gig I do, I try my best to make it seem like it's my.

23:38 Speaker 8: Last gig, you know. Yeah, yeah, you never know, and you know, you know, I could be.

23:43 Speaker 13: Paralyseed smart and not be able to play the guitar again, and I'd be kicking myself if I didn't, even if I was playing a pub. Just just give people in there something to remember, because you never know who's watching, you know.

23:54 Speaker 11: That is absolutely true, Absolutely one. No, that's great, that's great. So where's where should people go online? Where's the best place to go online to keep up with everything that you're doing.

24:05 Speaker 8: Like, there's just the usual.

24:06 Speaker 13: If there's Instagram, cahol fits music, Spotify, cahole fits, TikTok, cahol fits, you know the usual stuff.

24:14 Speaker 8: You'll you'll find me somewhere.

24:15 Speaker 13: If you do a Google starch Cahol Fitz music, you'll find me somewhere. And if people have been listening to this and they're like, you know what I have to say and they like the music, send me a message, connect and have a chat, and you know, it's all it's all gravy.

24:27 Speaker 8: It's all gravy.

24:28 Speaker 11: Absolutely. You should spell your name too for Americans who have no idea how to have no idea how to spell that.

24:37 Speaker 13: So it's c A T h A L F I t Z. You'll find me there somewhere.

24:46 Speaker 11: Excellent, excellent. Well, so, in a moment, we're gonna play this track Enemy of Love after we let you go. It's been wonderful speaking with you. What should we know about this song? Is this just the I know this is the previous single right right before pushing their Yeah, like.

25:01 Speaker 13: This was like I would consider myself mostly kind of mind. The stuff that I'm writing now is quite a bit more folky and bit more stripped back. But again, I didn't want to tie myself to one genre because I think some people get to focus that I'm a focus singer, and I'm like, yeah, fantastic. But I went into the studio with a song I had been fingerpicking at home with my.

25:21 Speaker 8: Guitar and my producer. I have to give him a shout out.

25:24 Speaker 13: His name is Keel and Kenny is a magician that he's just he's so incredibly talented. And I went into him and I said, let's just make the funnest song possible we could out of what we have here. Yeah, and you know, he put down he got a drummer in. We put down some drums in it. I had never had drums on a song before, and I was like, interesting, we put some funky guitar on it, some funky mandolin, which is an Irish instrument that we use here, mandolin, And I just said.

25:47 Speaker 8: I went into the.

25:47 Speaker 13: Studio and said, the people, the session musicians, listen to the song once whatever comes to you naturally, let's track it down and let's just make something fun. And it turned out quite well, like it's it's a little bit different to what the direction I kind of have normally for songs. But again, I think if you tie yourself to one genre too much, you'll become closed off to different types of music. Like I started listening to like rap again, you know, And it's not that I'm a rapper, but I think music there's so many different genres, but.

26:17 Speaker 8: It all says the same thing. It's expression, you know. So I just said, you know, let's just.

26:21 Speaker 13: Make this fun, let's make it different, and you know it's it's done quite well locally, and like, you know, all this has happened really in the last year. So I'm not as happy with it as other songs, but I can also I'm so lucky that I was open minded enough to say, let's just go a little bit of a different route and see what happens.

26:38 Speaker 11: Yeah, No, I love it. I think it's a great song. We're gonna play that for everybody in a moment. Call Fitz. Thank you so much for joining us today. This has been wonderful. Oh by the way, are you where are you? Do you have a show tonight? Are you playing anywhere tonight?

26:51 Speaker 13: I'm playing again. It's a kind of local pub and cork. It's called the hideout. Probably not many Irish listeners here, but yeah, just my local one of the local pubs in Cork. I'm very lucky that we're all live in particular like in Ireland, that there's live music like seven nights a week in multiple different locations, so there's no shortage of work. So I just bounced around the different pubs and small live music venues. Excellent tune, get some money and go home.

27:15 Speaker 11: That's fantastic. That's the way to do it. My friend, very very good. Well listen, Thank you so much. We will definitely do this again in the future, especially it sounds like you've got you've got a lot of new music coming, so we will. We'll have you on again and you know, and we'd love to as you're releasing new music, we'd love to continue to kind of be your your conduit into the American radio market here.

27:34 Speaker 8: So I really appreciate it. In Ireland.

27:36 Speaker 13: In Irish we have a phrase which says girl of Mela mahagods, which means one hundred thousand thank yous to you, So it's been an absolute pleasure to have to speak to you as well, So I really appreciate the time and opportunity.

27:46 Speaker 11: Oh wonderful. All right, very very good. We're gonna hit this track Enemy of Love, and we'll let you go call hall Fits again. Thank you so much. We'll talk to you soon. You got it, Bye bye? All right. That is car hall Fits. I think I'm saying his name correctly. And give this a listen. This is called Enemy of Love. This is his previous single. And then right after that we're gonna go into our world radio premieres. We've got three brand new singles to play for you this week from various artists that at least one of them you can't hear anywhere else yet you can only hear it on this radio show.

28:21 Speaker 11: So and the others it'll be their first time on American radio. And then coming up in the second hour, we've got the puncturists coming up. In the third hour, we've got Brooklyn Mike. So we've got a great show for you today. But right now here it is this is call hall Fits and this is called Enemy of Love.

29:00 Speaker 8: When you saw you.

29:02 Speaker 2: Knew and offer and someone comes along who perfect, it makes you wanting to know why the constant loss.

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29:19 Speaker 15: Fighting man up and crowd bro out you up buying dollars.

29:24 Speaker 2: Uh, fighting as.

29:28 Speaker 8: Even though I'm prone to be in on my.

29:43 Speaker 15: Trying, I never feeling Uh, I always had it wrong,

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29:54 Speaker 4: Further out I cause.

29:56 Speaker 15: And never was my plan. See y'all.

30:03 Speaker 4: Try you on your y'all getting out the store.

30:07 Speaker 15: So love it's some news, just trying to be out.

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30:20 Speaker 5: He had me of yutting me of love.

30:26 Speaker 4: This yeah, a fighting bottle, a fighting cut off.

30:33 Speaker 9: So we have another keeping up eating all that stuff out.

30:44 Speaker 5: Fighting bad.

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31:02 Speaker 2: Said, never feeling not fight only mon in the dog.

31:10 Speaker 6: Run me.

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31:26 Speaker 6: And your.

31:30 Speaker 5: Every gun.

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31:40 Speaker 3: The heading me up?

31:45 Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, a fididy a finding cat.

31:52 Speaker 6: So we had another geting eating est find it.

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32:35 Speaker 6: The character he had the crush.

33:02 Speaker 1: You are listening to Matt Conterton Unleashed on wmnhnwenty five point.

33:08 Speaker 5: Three right now.

33:10 Speaker 11: It's the world radio premiere of the new single from BRSR, coming out January thirtieth Portals.

33:49 Speaker 5: No craves, the.

33:54 Speaker 6: Broken glass.

33:57 Speaker 4: Around you, evls, the.

34:05 Speaker 9: Few hides behind.

34:09 Speaker 4: Blackouts and house shovels.

34:13 Speaker 5: And homes where the tops highs scar bikes shift.

34:22 Speaker 6: And black scenes aways, the scene bast shad shot actually telling now way way Brad and I wanta got from my car.

35:18 Speaker 9: Home first and like cows.

35:22 Speaker 6: Steal doors and fall out.

35:25 Speaker 5: I saw the saber, the.

35:27 Speaker 14: Light sound, so we're outside by side, I see's.

35:38 Speaker 6: And all eyes the way comes you, falling skies till found by angels dust.

35:51 Speaker 5: I'll just steal in to.

35:54 Speaker 6: Us, said say no, my god.

37:06 Speaker 5: The mercy of virtual.

37:13 Speaker 6: Presents hass not long act Suspi SUPI.

38:26 Speaker 11: And now at wmn H ninety five point three f M and Matt Connorton un Leashed Exclusive. You can't hear this anywhere else, not yet. The new single from Sepsis this is called No Kings.

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39:13 Speaker 17: Be on the woman every the shrine of diy on the way did you do?

39:21 Speaker 11: The ways.

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39:39 Speaker 18: It out, check case can sip capers.

39:50 Speaker 5: No good gosh was God.

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40:33 Speaker 5: The nature of our.

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41:04 Speaker 5: Jack Kings can come last, My God.

41:31 Speaker 1: You're listening to macconnorton Unleashed on wm n H ninety five point three.

41:38 Speaker 11: Here's another exclusive coming out January thirtieth, the new single from Hallie Nang.

41:43 Speaker 12: This is called nine Miles High, This.

41:59 Speaker 21: Poison and there let inorder lead in Lord, if we believe you.

42:12 Speaker 4: Nine min Hide, there's an I Am the sky plea.

42:18 Speaker 6: See if side laid on Black of the view trip.

42:27 Speaker 17: It's not so easy the side shine seems so fine men,

42:40 Speaker 17: say you say with me, just say me.

42:48 Speaker 5: By my side.

43:13 Speaker 17: They see when morning and they see you in the dark and you'll have way there if you take it all time.

43:27 Speaker 5: Nine miles High Electric gets the night.

43:33 Speaker 6: Live anywhere and everywhere.

43:36 Speaker 5: You're I try, but it's not so easy, sunshine.

43:48 Speaker 6: See your so fin be h stay if you stay with me, just us.

44:02 Speaker 5: Be by my side, Chad.

45:00 Speaker 17: But it's not so easy scene so fine, stay say.

45:19 Speaker 6: Say side.

45:37 Speaker 11: I love that howling Hank. I can't wait to get them on the Actually they are booked to be on the show, I believe maybe next weekend, if I'm not mistaken. Uh, there's your new music block for this week, and if you missed any of it, of any of our world premieres, we will repeat that of course in the second hour for those of you listening live. Of course, this is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w and H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Actually very very cold.

46:07 Speaker 11: I was not looking forward to getting up this morning. I was looking forward to Saturday mornings because I get to come and do the show. But uh, definitely the highlight of my week. But this morning I was like, ugh, yikes. But I think I think the cold advisory ends at ten am, so by that point we'll be through the worst of it, and then we've got all this snow coming. We'll see you though, we'll see it might not be as bad. You know, they tend to they tend to overpromise and underdeliver. You know, I've noticed it's it's usually a little bit less than what they're predicting, I think because they don't want to under predict, and then we end up getting more, and then everyone's mad at the meteorologists who tell us what we're getting.

46:50 Speaker 11: So I am cautiously optimistic that it's not going to be you know, we're not gonna have like two feet of snow or anything in this area. I feel the people, I feel, you know, at least we're prepared for it. The people I've feel the most badly for our people in the South who are not prepared for anything like this, this monster, massive, goliath of a storm, you know, and then they get ice and they're not certainly not prepared for that. I was looking at something online last night about how there's you know, part of the South like Texas and Arkansas, and you know, they're they're just gonna have a lot of ice and they are not, you know, they're not used to that.

47:24 Speaker 11: But here in New Hampshire we kind of you know, I grew up here and the winters are definitely easier than not when I was a kid. And you know, again it's all it's all optimism. It's probably misplaced. It'll probably be a horrible, horrible storm, and but I'm trying to put some positive energy out there and say, yeah, it's not going to be that bad. And you know, if you've lived here for any length of time, you know it's winter. We'll deal with it, we'll handle it, we'll get through it. But at least the at least the worst part of this cold snap is going to be over relatively quickly.

47:56 Speaker 11: So and of course, you know, the show replays during the week, or you might listen to the podcast version of the show instead of listening live. And you know, all my predictions and my caustious optimism may turn out to have been for not so we'll see. But I'm trying to be trying to be positive. Don't get me wrong. I'm not looking forward to it. I'm not a winter guy. I like summer. I love summer. Actually I'm strange. Not only do I not mind the heat, I actually like the heat. I enjoy it. When it's ninety degrees outside, I think, I think that's just great.

48:28 Speaker 11: Even the humidity doesn't bother me that much. A dry heats always better. But even I can handle the humidity, you know.

48:34 Speaker 12: But I mean, if it ever.

48:36 Speaker 11: Starts to feel too oppressively hot in the summer. I just I think about winter and how much I don't like the cold, and then it's like I can deal with this. You can handle the heat. So I think, what we're gonna do right now, We're gonna seek one more track in this hour before we take a break and show some love to our amazing sponsors here at WM and H. But I want to play this track from Rivia, one of my favorite bands that we've had on the show, and this is the newest single, something in the Water.

49:01 Speaker 11: I think it's been out for a couple of months now, but we've played it on the show a bunch. But I still love this song. I listen to it now, I still love it as much as the first time I heard it. So we'll give this a spin, and then we will take a break and show some love to our amazing sponsors. When we come back in the second hour. For those of you listening live, we're gonna be joined by Dale, the bassist for the Puncturists. I think he's the only band member joining us, although I'm not sure, but as a as a bass player myself, you know, if I have to choose anybody in the band, I'm gonna choose a fellow bass player, right, But I love the Puncturists.

49:29 Speaker 11: I listened to the whole album. It is so so good. So looking forward to talking with him. And then in the third hour, Brooklyn Mike is going to be joining us live in studio. He's going to bring his guitar and play and we'll talk and always always enjoy hanging out with Brooklyn Mike. We might even have a surprise. I won't but I won't say anymore during the third hour because the mayor may not happen, So I probably shouldn't even hint at it because without being confident that it's likely to happen, it's probably unlikely to happen.

49:58 Speaker 11: But we'll see. But Brooke and Mike will be here. Uh So let's give this a spin again. This is Rivia something in the Water and I love this song so much. And then we will take a quick break and then we'll be back with our number two new Marrow dose of Matt Connorton unleashed. There's plenty more to come. Don't go anywhere.

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51:08 Speaker 5: Just as the Sultan.

51:14 Speaker 6: It's not.

51:17 Speaker 5: Always chasing something. You got to something in of you? Am I going on my way?

51:26 Speaker 21: Not want to hear the awful look that you never thought that you.

51:31 Speaker 18: I am lunch to you and all you'll my games,

51:39 Speaker 18: I mean all there's nothing for me.

51:41 Speaker 5: I So I don't want to tell Frick got up train?

51:50 Speaker 6: You want to look free?

51:52 Speaker 5: Just a cry the shelter.

51:58 Speaker 6: It's not that.

52:36 Speaker 5: I don't want to tie. I got about that train you away?

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