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Matt Connarton Unleashed 1-31-26 hour 2
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Speaker 9: I love it. That is portals. The band is BRSR
Speaker 9: and we have members of the band on with us
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Speaker 9: Today is January thirty one, twenty twenty six, and let's
Speaker 9: go ahead. We'll get this up here. And I think
Speaker 9: we've got a few members of the band with us.
Speaker 9: Hello everybody, Hello, Hey, good. So let's see. So it
Speaker 9: looks like we have Matt Aitchison, Drew Young and Chloe
Speaker 9: Johnston with us. Is that correct, Yeah, that's right, wonderful,
Speaker 9: welcome everybody. And uh yeah, I love that track. I mean,
Speaker 9: it's it's just and I did listen to the whole album.
Speaker 9: By the way, You've got a just a big sound.
Speaker 9: I just you know, that's the easiest way to describe it.
Speaker 9: It's just big. It's expansive, and I really really like that.
Speaker 9: I love the mix. I love everything about it. So welcome.
Speaker 9: Is wonderful to speak to the three of you now,
Speaker 9: and you're a five piece? Correct? Yeah, yeah, I bet
Speaker 9: when you play live, I'm sure it also sounds you know,
Speaker 9: you know big. I'd love to I'd love to see
Speaker 9: all live. Obviously geographically that would not be uh not
Speaker 9: be easy to pull off. But but let's see. So,
Speaker 9: so Matt you're you're the guitar player, and Drew you're
Speaker 9: the drummer, and Chloe you do a vocals and synth. Correct, yep,
Speaker 9: that's right, very good, very good. So well, let's start
Speaker 9: with the most obvious question first and then we'll kind
Speaker 9: of we'll we'll talk more about the music. But I
Speaker 9: want to know about the name. What is brsr mein.
Speaker 10: So it's actually just short. In the version of Bruiser
Speaker 10: it was Dove who's not here to their front man
Speaker 10: who wanted here. Orisinally wanted to be called Burst and
Speaker 10: I thought that was the worst name we postedly go
Speaker 10: for because the quotations for that in Scotland are probably
Speaker 10: completely different from any else in the world. Yeah, so
Speaker 10: we we went with Bruiser, but I found out there
Speaker 10: was a DJ also called Bruiso, so I thought the
Speaker 10: easiest thing to do was to shorten it. Also, just
Speaker 10: it looks it looks better in terms of the logo
Speaker 10: and things that just look a little bit on the
Speaker 10: T shirt.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's true, it does, it does. So am I
Speaker 9: am I saying it wrong?
Speaker 11: Then?
Speaker 8: Am I?
Speaker 12: Am?
Speaker 9: I not supposed to say b R s R.
Speaker 10: No, it would be bruiser. But we get a lot
Speaker 10: of people all the same being like, oh, hey, what
Speaker 10: what was this done for me?
Speaker 13: Well?
Speaker 9: Nothing, so I should be saying bruiser. Yeah, okay, wonderful, Okay, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 9: So tell me about that that track portals because it just,
Speaker 9: like I said, it just sounds so big. It's atmospheric,
Speaker 9: you know, it's it's it kind of reminds me a
Speaker 9: little bit of of some of the at least what
Speaker 9: was happening here in America some of that well I
Speaker 9: shouldn't say happening here in America because a lot of
Speaker 9: it was happening over there, but it was becoming very
Speaker 9: popular here in America. You know that that kind of
Speaker 9: a big, expansive sound. But I'm curious, I mean, is
Speaker 9: that kind of I listened to the whole album, it
Speaker 9: kind of sounds that's like what you're going for broadly,
Speaker 9: but you you capture it so well. I think Portals
Speaker 9: is an excellent choice for a single, But how do
Speaker 9: you how do you describe your sound? What is it
Speaker 9: that you're trying to project with Bruiser? Now that I
Speaker 9: know how to say the name, I.
Speaker 10: Think for us, from the start, we've always spoken about
Speaker 10: the fact that we feel that the best version of
Speaker 10: ourselves is live. And when we recorded this album, we
Speaker 10: recorded it initially live in a converted church building over
Speaker 10: the course of two days. So for example, one of
Speaker 10: the longest song on the album is the second last track,
Speaker 10: Buried at Home, which is just under about eleven minutes,
Speaker 10: and the take that is on the album was the
Speaker 10: was the only take we did, and it was done
Speaker 10: live and full. And I think that that is the
Speaker 10: way that we want to capture the band, because for me,
Speaker 10: I feel like any band should be at the peak
Speaker 10: of the powers when they're live and are able to
Speaker 10: express themselves and change things as time goes on. Because
Speaker 10: you know, the quarley version of anything, I think if
Speaker 10: you're going to stick to that version for this, your
Speaker 10: career is going to get boring pretty quickly. So this
Speaker 10: this is the kind of way the songs sound now,
Speaker 10: but it's it's open to the idea of we can
Speaker 10: adapt these as as as the sound progresses, as we
Speaker 10: progressive musicians and as we change as people as well.
Speaker 10: But I get what you mean about this about the
Speaker 10: sound as well. Like we I would say was was
Speaker 10: probably my attempt to write a hum song. So yeah,
Speaker 10: as long as long as we capture the kind of
Speaker 10: essence of that, then I'll be happy with that.
Speaker 9: And what are the lyrics about here? And who writes
Speaker 9: the lyrics? I don't know if your singer writes them
Speaker 9: or if you write them or who who? Who?
Speaker 10: Ye, it's myself for the time being, so that this
Speaker 10: this album was written by myself out there in necessity
Speaker 10: because we've been we've been a band that for six
Speaker 10: months and we had about three songs that we we
Speaker 10: we sort of rushed together for a gig. The band
Speaker 10: band is pretty much that the gig was booked before
Speaker 10: before a band essentially, and the band was sort of
Speaker 10: made for a gig still six months later. So one
Speaker 10: song became too, two became four, and then ended up
Speaker 10: just with a full album. So that's pretty much what
Speaker 10: I've been working with the past year or so. Lyrically,
Speaker 10: it's it's part of the album as a whole, is
Speaker 10: as a concept piece, but it also doubles up as
Speaker 10: as individual songs as well, so that they have their
Speaker 10: own different means to me personally as well to the
Speaker 10: actual story itself. But it's it's sort of about being
Speaker 10: either trap within yourself and looking for a way out,
Speaker 10: but it's also about being trapped with another person but
Speaker 10: feeling like you're together but you're not fully together. So
Speaker 10: you know, the kind of world of being that you
Speaker 10: can be living with someone, but you can feel like
Speaker 10: you're not actually living with someone, if you know what
Speaker 10: I mean. It's almost like so it's it is feeling
Speaker 10: like you're living with someone that you have a deep
Speaker 10: connection with, but the connections failing.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, And I think that's something that's relatable. You know,
Speaker 9: certainly a lot of people go through that. I mean
Speaker 9: probably everyone goes through that at some point in their lives,
Speaker 9: you know, feeling that way. Yeah, I feel like and
Speaker 9: again not just with Portals, but with the rest of
Speaker 9: the album too. You know, there's there's a lot of
Speaker 9: emotion there. It's it's as you know, obviously you know
Speaker 9: songs can be you know, they're up to the interpretation
Speaker 9: of the of the listener, but I I could feel
Speaker 9: a lot of I just found it. I found it
Speaker 9: highly relatable, the whole thing, like I said, in addition
Speaker 9: to the big sound, and also you know, just hearing
Speaker 9: these lyrics and again, you know, I everyone puts their
Speaker 9: own interpretation onto what they're hearing. But to me, I
Speaker 9: really I really connected with a lot of this. Can
Speaker 9: you can Can you tell me more again about how
Speaker 9: this band started, because that was interesting. You said something
Speaker 9: about a gig and then you had to put a
Speaker 9: band together to fit the gig, and tell me about that.
Speaker 10: So essentially, David Arslinger had to say that he we
Speaker 10: went on the bond previously, and he'd been in a
Speaker 10: music for quite a way and he said to me,
Speaker 10: I'm looking at getting back at music again. But he
Speaker 10: obviously been a drummer. But we we'd known for I
Speaker 10: was in a band with him when when I was fifteen,
Speaker 10: so we'd always known that he had he had a
Speaker 10: great voice, and he wanted to be He wanted this
Speaker 10: to be his first solo adventure room and I was like, okay,
Speaker 10: that's that's that's kind of cool. But he went ahead
Speaker 10: and basically said to someone that we know that he
Speaker 10: had he had music to put out and he was
Speaker 10: willing to you want to play? Want to play his
Speaker 10: first gig? So he put him on a bill and
Speaker 10: he said to me, was like, oh, got this gig
Speaker 10: coming up in a bit of a month's time. And
Speaker 10: I was like, okay, cool, who's playing with you? And
Speaker 10: he was like, no one. So I said to him,
Speaker 10: I was like, I wasn't. I was kind of out
Speaker 10: of music at this point as well. When I said
Speaker 10: to him, right, okay, i'll cover guitar fhy just now,
Speaker 10: and if you can get a band together, then I'm
Speaker 10: quite happy to do the show with you and we'll
Speaker 10: just take it from there.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 10: But I said to him that I wasn't interested in
Speaker 10: writing any material or anything like that. So I said,
Speaker 10: I leave that to you, and once you've got songs,
Speaker 10: let me know and we'll get we'll get us together.
Speaker 10: And then about two weeks for the gig, I said
Speaker 10: to him, I was like, so, what's happening with us?
Speaker 10: How many songs we have? And he was like, I
Speaker 10: still have the one. I was like, I kind of
Speaker 10: said to him, I was like, right, okay, we'll go
Speaker 10: out of the room and we will we will spend
Speaker 10: as long as we need to to get enough songs
Speaker 10: together for a set list. So the first three singles
Speaker 10: we put were written within this bace of about half
Speaker 10: an hour an hour or so, and we wrote we
Speaker 10: wrote those together, and I remember we actually finished the
Speaker 10: lyrics for the last song on the setlist just as
Speaker 10: the bass player and drummer thumb up for for our
Speaker 10: first and only rehearsal before that gig. So that's that's
Speaker 10: kind of how it all started. But it's it's obviously
Speaker 10: and it's involved Drew Chloe further on down the line
Speaker 10: as well, it's just myself and then for a while
Speaker 10: and Kieran, who's the best player as well. He's been
Speaker 10: in there since since day one. So it's it's essentially
Speaker 10: a new a new outfit now and the chaotic beginnings
Speaker 10: of the band have made this. So I'm very grateful
Speaker 10: for the deciding that he was going to be a
Speaker 10: gig with no songs or no band.
Speaker 9: That's amazing. I mean, you know, it almost kind of
Speaker 9: makes you believe in fate, right that that this came
Speaker 9: together like that under such chaotic circumstances that sound like
Speaker 9: it sounds like it couldn't possibly work out then and
Speaker 9: then it does and you just you just make it
Speaker 9: work out. That's fantastic. So obviously the show went well.
Speaker 10: The show went well enough that we decided, you know,
Speaker 10: maybe we can continue with this. But as I said,
Speaker 10: we we either. I said to him, was like, okay,
Speaker 10: I helped you with the songs. There, it's your baby.
Speaker 10: You run with it, and you you do the songs
Speaker 10: and we'll just get a practice together whenever. And then
Speaker 10: about five six months past and I was like, how's
Speaker 10: it coming with the writing, and he was like, yeah,
Speaker 10: still won't go anything. And I was like, okay, I'm
Speaker 10: kind of bored of playing the same like four or
Speaker 10: five songs. Let's let's try something. And it's been the
Speaker 10: first time since I've written a song myself, and probably
Speaker 10: about nine to twelve months, I would say. The first
Speaker 10: song that I wrote was on My Reasons, which is
Speaker 10: the second track on the album, and then Portals pretty
Speaker 10: much quickly followed after that, and it was sort of
Speaker 10: just a snow wall effect of just I think I
Speaker 10: had had a headspace of just I was back writing again.
Speaker 10: And I had a purpose to write and we needed material,
Speaker 10: so it all just came out one after another, and
Speaker 10: it wasn't an intention to write an album. But when
Speaker 10: we ended up with the Mint material with that, I
Speaker 10: was like, this feels like a cohesive units as eight songs,
Speaker 10: so we may as well. And then the more I
Speaker 10: was looking at the lyrics myself, I was like, this
Speaker 10: is telling more of a full story rather than individual
Speaker 10: stories themselves. So yeah, it's it's been. It's been a
Speaker 10: blessing to discussed because I didn't think I would have
Speaker 10: I would ever be in a band again. They woul
Speaker 10: mind writing songs again. But yeah, it's been. It's been
Speaker 10: great for and it's been really really good having these
Speaker 10: guys with me as well on this.
Speaker 9: Yeah, no doubt. Well when it comes together too like that,
Speaker 9: when it just feels, like I said, there's almost a
Speaker 9: sense of fate or destiny to it, uh, you know
Speaker 9: the way you tell it. And when when it comes
Speaker 9: together like that, you know you've got something. You know
Speaker 9: you're like like if it's one thing, if you're if
Speaker 9: you decide to start a band with somebody and then
Speaker 9: you're you know, you're spending a year or whatever, you know,
Speaker 9: trying to come up with some songs, and you're working
Speaker 9: hard at it, and there's nothing wrong with working hard
Speaker 9: at it. But but when it when it almost sounds
Speaker 9: like you know, it just sort of uh, there's almost
Speaker 9: an alchemy to it, and it all just sort of
Speaker 9: comes together like that, that's when you know you've really
Speaker 9: got something. And it's interesting too. You So you said
Speaker 9: you didn't think you'd ever be in a band again.
Speaker 9: Why is that?
Speaker 10: Well, personally, I've been through quite a bodstant with my
Speaker 10: own mental and physical health over the past two years
Speaker 10: before this, okay, and it can I continue in the
Speaker 10: thought of this. This is why it was taking as
Speaker 10: quite away with actually get to this point, because I
Speaker 10: I was essentially bed bound for most of like twenty
Speaker 10: twenty two, twenty twenty three. So to be able to
Speaker 10: get to this point and be be here just now
Speaker 10: as a miracle inner love itself. But as I say
Speaker 10: as well, like this, this is a this is a
Speaker 10: project that couldn't have been done without everyone involved, because
Speaker 10: it can. You can write as many songs as you like,
Speaker 10: but if you don't have a unit around you understand
Speaker 10: everything and are invested in the project. As much as yourself.
Speaker 10: Then it's it's really all for nothing.
Speaker 9: Right, absolutely, So how long has the band actually existed
Speaker 9: at this.
Speaker 10: Point, Well from from our first Our first gig was
Speaker 10: twenty twenty two, so you're talking about three three and
Speaker 10: a bit years or so. But a most recent member
Speaker 10: just now.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, Drew's the new guy.
Speaker 10: Yes, Drew Kloe came in towards towards the probably about
Speaker 10: mid section last year. I'd say Colaie originally was just
Speaker 10: providing back and vote on a lot of the album,
Speaker 10: and I felt that she contributed so much to the
Speaker 10: harmonic balance of a lot of the songs. Yeah, felt
Speaker 10: wrong to just have her as essentially like a studio musician.
Speaker 10: And I said there, I was like, what would you
Speaker 10: feel about joining the band? And she was like, but
Speaker 10: I can't play anything. And I was like, you can
Speaker 10: play synth. She was like, I can't play it, and
Speaker 10: I was like, you can learn. Yeah, that's that's so
Speaker 10: she never plays synth, and she's learned as she goes,
Speaker 10: and she's doing very very well.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, go ahead, Chloe.
Speaker 14: I was just going to say, and keeping with the
Speaker 14: band being forced in chaos, I've only been playing since
Speaker 14: since July.
Speaker 9: Last year, no caring. So is this your first So
Speaker 9: is this actually your first musical instrument that you've played.
Speaker 14: So I've played like a little bit of guitar and
Speaker 14: stuff in the past, but I've never been in any
Speaker 14: bands or anything, just sort of doing it for fun.
Speaker 14: And then obviously this is the first project where I've
Speaker 14: really had to get my head down and learn an
Speaker 14: instrument from sco. So it's been a challenged by.
Speaker 10: A good one.
Speaker 9: Yeah, No, it's good. And you know, I've heard a
Speaker 9: lot of this comes up a lot on the show.
Speaker 9: I've heard a lot of you know, music teachers and
Speaker 9: music professors say that everybody and and by the way,
Speaker 9: I did not take this advice. I can't play anything
Speaker 9: on a keyboard, but that every musician should at least
Speaker 9: know some some synth, keyboard, piano, whatever, because it helps you.
Speaker 9: It helps you just knowing even a little bit of
Speaker 9: that helps you with everything else in terms of music.
Speaker 9: It helps you to understand chord structure better. It helps
Speaker 9: you with everything. And and a lot a lot of
Speaker 9: them will say too that that's the best place to start.
Speaker 9: Obviously you're already playing guitar. As you said, but to,
Speaker 9: but to even if you start, even if it's not
Speaker 9: going to be your primary instrument, if you start on
Speaker 9: a keyboard, it's going to help you with everything. So
Speaker 9: but but yeah, but it does fit the chaotic nature
Speaker 9: of how the band started, right, So that's great. Good
Speaker 9: for you, Good for you. I mean, has it been
Speaker 9: scary or do you just take the challenge and say,
Speaker 9: now I'm going to do this, or or what's been
Speaker 9: your mindset with it?
Speaker 14: It has been quite intimidating, especially since all the guys
Speaker 14: have been in bands before, and bands that have done
Speaker 14: quite well, and I sort of sometimes get a little
Speaker 14: bit of that imposter syndrome where I sort of get
Speaker 14: up on stage with them and I'm like, I'm surrendered
Speaker 14: by these people who've been playing their instrument for like
Speaker 14: decades now, and here I am just clunking away at
Speaker 14: my keys, no idea what doing right In that regard,
Speaker 14: It's been a little a little bit intimidating. But the
Speaker 14: guys are so just so lovely and so so encouraging,
Speaker 14: and I couldn't be surrendered by better people.
Speaker 9: So yeah, oh that's fantastic. And then so Drew, So
Speaker 9: you're the newest member, so how long have you been
Speaker 9: in the band now.
Speaker 12: I am yeah, and it will be coming up on
Speaker 12: a year. I reckon a year and okay maybe, okay, okay,
Speaker 12: but it's been great fun. I think myself and Matt
Speaker 12: we played in a different band maybe two or three
Speaker 12: years ago that oh, just over the pandemic sort of
Speaker 12: lost steam.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 12: So when Matt had got in touch that their drummer
Speaker 12: or the previous drummer, Kyle, had stepped aside, Okay, I
Speaker 12: totally jumped at the chance to be able to play
Speaker 12: with Matt again. It's always been great fun, and as
Speaker 12: he said, I've always really enjoyed his songwriting.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, it's been And.
Speaker 12: Also all the stuff that Kyle had recorded for the
Speaker 12: album has been super super fun to just sink my
Speaker 12: teeth into and learn all these parts.
Speaker 9: And then when you do that, when you come into
Speaker 9: a project like this, this is something I'm always curious about.
Speaker 12: Do you.
Speaker 9: Do you then try to learn exactly what he did
Speaker 9: or do you try to kind of, you know, learn
Speaker 9: what he did, but then maybe kind of put your
Speaker 9: own Because I've known drummers who will They'll come into
Speaker 9: a situation and they'll say I'm going to or someone
Speaker 9: in the band will tell them if they're you know,
Speaker 9: if they're coming in new to a situation. I'm going
Speaker 9: to try to learn everything. I'm going to learn the
Speaker 9: fills exactly. I'm going to replicate exactly what the previous
Speaker 9: drummer did, you know, and other drummers of course want
Speaker 9: to come man and well, probably everybody wants to kind
Speaker 9: of put their own stamp on it. But what's been
Speaker 9: your approach with that?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think definitely taking the you know, the skeletons
Speaker 12: and the muscles of what Kyle had written on the
Speaker 12: drums and building on that with my own flavor, of
Speaker 12: my own taste. Obviously, every every drummer is unique in
Speaker 12: what they play. Yeah, I think I appreciate that Matt
Speaker 12: trusted me to be able to fit the bill for
Speaker 12: for what was already built. Yeah, and I guess if
Speaker 12: you want to really top shop and get it, I
Speaker 12: am a left handed drummer that plays on a right
Speaker 12: handed drum kit, whereas Kyle Kyle is right handed, so
Speaker 12: there's a lot of the fills that I really liked
Speaker 12: to sign up. Wanted to play very true to what
Speaker 12: he plays, but physical physically, I would have to swap
Speaker 12: a lot of my like sticking in the donation around
Speaker 12: to make these work. So that's been really really fun
Speaker 12: to try and work around lots of these problems as well.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, how has that been hard to pull off?
Speaker 12: I mean, yeah, it's been hard, but it's been well
Speaker 12: worth a challenge, you know, yeah, to play drums and
Speaker 12: it learn fun things.
Speaker 9: So yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's very cool. That's something
Speaker 9: that wouldn't have even occurred to me, but that's yeah,
Speaker 9: that's interesting. Yeah. So now you've already you guys have
Speaker 9: already gotten some some success with radio, right, it's you've
Speaker 9: gotten some traction over there, some early radio support.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we're actually we were on We've we've had amazing
Speaker 10: radio in the UK and the US has been pretty
Speaker 10: early champions of the music and gym in Scotland. Scotland
Speaker 10: has been it has been really good for us. This
Speaker 10: is this is but this is only like this is
Speaker 10: a third interview in one day, but this is a
Speaker 10: interview of all time.
Speaker 9: So okay, it's.
Speaker 14: To be here.
Speaker 10: It's it's been good to get to talk people who
Speaker 10: are actually interested in music. Yeah, and have I've actually
Speaker 10: listened to what we've done because in the past of
Speaker 10: found quite to talk to people who kind of you know,
Speaker 10: that kind of wa where they kind of like they've
Speaker 10: heard about thirty seconds of it and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 10: and I know what we're talking about. I know what
Speaker 10: you guys are all about it, and I'm like, I'm.
Speaker 9: Also curious to know about the live situation there, because
Speaker 9: it looks like you're you're having a lot of success.
Speaker 9: You've been playing some solid out shows, correct.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, so this is something. But as Drew mentioned,
Speaker 10: the drummer on the album, Kyle, he stepped aside earlier
Speaker 10: last year just just due to the fact we were
Speaker 10: talking about going on tour last year and we ended
Speaker 10: up pushing the album back because he decided that the
Speaker 10: concept of the tour wasn't his cup of tea anymore.
Speaker 10: He'd been in the band before who had toured quite extensively,
Speaker 10: and he was like, I'm not cut out for us anymore.
Speaker 10: So it's been a bit of a shame because he
Speaker 10: left at a point where we started actually building more
Speaker 10: of a fan base in our own in Glasgow and
Speaker 10: so in the areas. So we played a place called
Speaker 10: the Cools, I think it was d your third gig, second.
Speaker 12: Gig, second I think, yeah, second.
Speaker 10: Second show, and it was it was it was parked
Speaker 10: and it was sort of just came out of nowhere
Speaker 10: because we we've been playing, you know, we've been playing
Speaker 10: to like ten to fifteen people for so long that
Speaker 10: we just kind of think, Okay, it's just going to
Speaker 10: be this or like added finium. So we just comed
Speaker 10: up and it was like about an hour before those
Speaker 10: and they were like, oh, so out and I was like,
Speaker 10: what do you mean, it's sold out and I was
Speaker 10: like that's it's just there's no tickets left. I'm like
Speaker 10: how and it was.
Speaker 12: It was.
Speaker 10: It was crazy for a start because it was a
Speaker 10: lot of people we've never seen before, and it just
Speaker 10: it's kind of continued from there. We had our probably
Speaker 10: a business year for gigs last year, which build or
Speaker 10: none of us. It's worked out for the for the
Speaker 10: best with the album this year and we've got quite
Speaker 10: a lot of shows or the booked for this year,
Speaker 10: so it's it's been great.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Oh that's excellent, very very good. You do any
Speaker 9: I didn't think to look, do you have any music videos,
Speaker 9: because like a song like Portals I think would really
Speaker 9: lend itself to something and and and I feel like,
Speaker 9: you know, looking at the artwork that you have, like
Speaker 9: the visual component is important, is important to the to
Speaker 9: the spaan to Bruiser. But do you have you met
Speaker 9: any music videos?
Speaker 10: Yeah, we've actually got well, funny, as you mentioned, we're
Speaker 10: actually finished recording the music with for Portals yesterday Wood,
Speaker 10: so I'll be editing over the next couple of couple
Speaker 10: of days or so. We try. We've tried to do
Speaker 10: everything in house from the start here because it's it's
Speaker 10: quite hard to get any sort of funding or support
Speaker 10: in the UK for for music. So any money that
Speaker 10: we can save for you know, recording or going on
Speaker 10: touring like that, like that the actually important things for
Speaker 10: people hearing music, we will cut that. So I've learned
Speaker 10: how to do, you know, filming and editing, and that
Speaker 10: can a thing to save the cost of that, so
Speaker 10: we do. We have We've got a video for Judas,
Speaker 10: which was our first proper single, and there is a
Speaker 10: visualizer for Man Made Fires, which was a single before
Speaker 10: there was Plant to be music with you for that,
Speaker 10: but we we sort of run out of time to
Speaker 10: do it, and the weather over here is so temperamental
Speaker 10: that to try and from outside was it got to
Speaker 10: got to what we tried to start filming it and
Speaker 10: my hands were on the camera and I actually couldn't
Speaker 10: feel I lost all sensation of feeling on my fingers.
Speaker 10: I was like, actually, don't know if I'm pressing the
Speaker 10: record button here.
Speaker 8: I'm not.
Speaker 10: So the ports music video will be out soon, we do.
Speaker 10: We did plan on having a video for every song
Speaker 10: on the album.
Speaker 9: Really, as I say, the.
Speaker 10: The connotations of trying to get a budget together and
Speaker 10: when we all work full time as well, it's trying
Speaker 10: to find the time to get it all done while
Speaker 10: also keeping the set as tight as possible and working
Speaker 10: on the material as well.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's always a challenge. But so
Speaker 9: Jurdis was the previous single.
Speaker 15: So Juwis was.
Speaker 10: It was our first proper single. I came out about
Speaker 10: June last year. In the record of the video for
Speaker 10: that that is on that's on YouTube, and yeah, so
Speaker 10: Porters will will be our second proper music video. We
Speaker 10: do have music videos for our first three singles, but
Speaker 10: those are only on band campus Now. We weren't really
Speaker 10: one hundred percent on this on the sound on those ones,
Speaker 10: for those three singles as well.
Speaker 9: Okay, by the way, I think I forgot to mention,
Speaker 9: so the name of the album A Field of man
Speaker 9: Made Fires? What what I'm really curious about the title?
Speaker 9: What what does that mean?
Speaker 10: So I look at as I mentioned earlier on the
Speaker 10: my my health issues of the past couple of years,
Speaker 10: I went through a period of time where I was
Speaker 10: not feeling like I was being the person that I
Speaker 10: should have been, and I kind of view to kind
Speaker 10: of reflect perspective. I had one of the worst cases
Speaker 10: in the UK of psoriasis that they've ever seen. So
Speaker 10: I got to the point where I couldn't leave my bed,
Speaker 10: and I started to think that every mark that I
Speaker 10: add in my skin and every scale that came up
Speaker 10: was a punishment for me being basically false to myself.
Speaker 10: So the kind of concept of I feel the Marmory
Speaker 10: Fars is me just surveying my mistakes and putting the
Speaker 10: blame on myself for a lot of things in retrospect.
Speaker 10: I mean a lot of things have probably been a
Speaker 10: bit too harsh on myself for But I think when
Speaker 10: you are in it in such a low position, you
Speaker 10: do just kind of start to fixate on the fact
Speaker 10: that you could have done things so much better. But
Speaker 10: at the same time it's hindsight's a wonderful thing, and
Speaker 10: when you look back on things regarding that, I mean,
Speaker 10: there's only so much you could have done right. And
Speaker 10: I think that I've grown as a person since then.
Speaker 10: It is pretty much chronicles like my life from a
Speaker 10: bit of ages about nineteen to about twenty four, And
Speaker 10: that's pretty much the whole concept of the of the
Speaker 10: album is as just dealing with the mistakes that you've
Speaker 10: made and either accepting it and moving on or wallowing
Speaker 10: on it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I totally get that. I just heard a weird sound.
Speaker 9: Are you all still there?
Speaker 10: Yeah, we're still here.
Speaker 9: Okay, So I heard I heard a strange sound. It
Speaker 9: must just be in my headphones. No, I can. I
Speaker 9: can totally relate to that, you know, And I'm someone
Speaker 9: who you know, as you mentioned mental health, like I
Speaker 9: struggle with depression. My listeners know this about me, and
Speaker 9: I ruminate a lot and almost constantly, and so I can.
Speaker 9: I can. I can relate to a lot of what
Speaker 9: you're saying. And maybe that's why, you know so many
Speaker 9: of these these lyrics really connect with me too, Like
Speaker 9: I said, I listened to the whole thing. How is
Speaker 9: your How are you now? Matt, Like, how how are
Speaker 9: you doing?
Speaker 10: Uh? As we sit here today, I'm as I'm as
Speaker 10: close to cured as it possibly can be. I'm on
Speaker 10: I'm on medication. It's helped. But I went through a
Speaker 10: pretty as a long time. I think if anyone who's listened,
Speaker 10: who's been through with the races, I've think I have
Speaker 10: been at the lowest point you could possibly be with
Speaker 10: the disease and understand that it might seem like there's
Speaker 10: no escape from it. But I've been dealing with this
Speaker 10: since I was about eighteen and I'm twenty six now,
Speaker 10: so it's taken me into the past year to actually
Speaker 10: get to the point where I can do normal things.
Speaker 10: I can go to work, I can go to the gym,
Speaker 10: I can live a normal life again. So and I
Speaker 10: suppose it goes it goes hand in hand with depression
Speaker 10: as well. And I think I think that's why a
Speaker 10: lot of people spoke spoke about lyricism on the album
Speaker 10: and it connecting people. And I think it's because when
Speaker 10: when you talk with things like like the pandemic and
Speaker 10: things like that, I think that made people realize just
Speaker 10: how bad the minute possibly could be. And David as
Speaker 10: well as the front man, he's you said, battles with depressions,
Speaker 10: as I think we all we all have at different points.
Speaker 10: I think it's trying to be I think we're now
Speaker 10: in a in a time where we can be more open,
Speaker 10: honest with ourselves and everyone around those that you know
Speaker 10: what we can we can see. You know, I'm not
Speaker 10: actually doing great today, and there's things were you make
Speaker 10: We're doing great for one piece of thing. But I
Speaker 10: think knowing that you've got a group of undy who
Speaker 10: have been through the same thing, it makes things so
Speaker 10: much easier now.
Speaker 9: It does It does? I know for me because it's
Speaker 9: been a it's been a struggle for me since I
Speaker 9: was probably a teenager. And you know, in my case,
Speaker 9: I mean as far as depression, I got to a
Speaker 9: point in my life where it's like it's too exhausting
Speaker 9: to try to hide it. I'm just not gonna hide
Speaker 9: it anymore, you know. You know, and then you you know,
Speaker 9: and then you open up about it and you talk
Speaker 9: to people and you realize it's so so common, like
Speaker 9: there's no reason for there to be any stigma because
Speaker 9: it's something so many of us deal with. So yeah, So,
Speaker 9: like I said, I really love the album a series
Speaker 9: of man made fires, and we will we'll begin to
Speaker 9: wrap up all three of you. I appreciate you. You've
Speaker 9: been very generous with your time. Mattrew and Chloe, thank
Speaker 9: you so much for joining us. I'm thinking at the
Speaker 9: end of our conversation, I will play Judas another great
Speaker 9: track from the album, because we did talk about it.
Speaker 9: I love I love Portals, great great song, love the
Speaker 9: whole album. And where is the best place where should
Speaker 9: people go? Especially because again because of the way that
Speaker 9: you spell it, we want to make sure people know
Speaker 9: where's the best place for people to go online to
Speaker 9: keep up with everything that Bruiser is doing as a band,
Speaker 9: So we are most.
Speaker 10: Active on Instagram and TikTok for music related things. I
Speaker 10: would say that currently, I mean Spotify is as we're
Speaker 10: most people see people for things. But we are trying
Speaker 10: to push this on band camp as much as possible. Yeah,
Speaker 10: I think when we're living in this world now we
Speaker 10: were combat and AI and everything else, the best thing
Speaker 10: you can posibly do is be as close to your
Speaker 10: grush for supporters as possible. So The album will be
Speaker 10: up towards end of February on band Camp and it'll
Speaker 10: be pay what you want, So if you if you
Speaker 10: can't afford it, take it for free, come to a show.
Speaker 10: We'd much rather that than people giving us, like, you know,
Speaker 10: five quid, ten quid. Here here they are. It's more
Speaker 10: important that people hear the songs and hear the stories
Speaker 10: we want to tell than giving us any extra money.
Speaker 9: So yeah, absolutely band camp does offer that option. And
Speaker 9: I'm a big advocator. You know, a lot of industry
Speaker 9: people to listen to the show, and so they've heard
Speaker 9: me say this, but I'm a big advocator for band
Speaker 9: camp because what a lot of people don't realize, who
Speaker 9: is you get a higher quality file from band Camp
Speaker 9: then you do, you know, say just streaming it on
Speaker 9: YouTube or wherever, you know, wherever people get their music.
Speaker 9: So so I'm a I'm a big fan of band Camp.
Speaker 9: Their whole their whole model of how they do things
Speaker 9: and everything. I think it's it's it's so artist friendly
Speaker 9: in an industry where there are not enough artist friendly
Speaker 9: tools that you can use. But I'm a huge fan
Speaker 9: of band camp. So so that's good to hear, but
Speaker 9: well listen, so we'll wrap up. We'll let the three
Speaker 9: of you go. I'm going to hit that track Judas,
Speaker 9: another great song from the album A Series of Man
Speaker 9: Made Fires. But again Matt Drew Chloe from Bruiser, thank
Speaker 9: you so much for joining us, and we will definitely
Speaker 9: do this again, obviously. I'm sure you're going to be
Speaker 9: you know, whenever the next single is ready, or is
Speaker 9: if you got another album down the line, or you know,
Speaker 9: whatever you got coming up. We would love to have
Speaker 9: you back in the future. I'm a big fan, so yeah,
Speaker 9: just like you.
Speaker 14: Thank you so much.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, you got it. All right, We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 9: I'm sure take care, see you bye bye. All right,
Speaker 9: we're gonna hit this. So this is Judas. This is
Speaker 9: the previous single, or the first first proper single, as
Speaker 9: I think Matt put it, from a Series of Man
Speaker 9: Made Fires. The band is Bruiser and check this out.
Speaker 9: This is really good.
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Speaker 15: Change Right, you are listening to Mattconnorton Unleashed on WMNH
Speaker 15: ninety five point three.
Speaker 9: Now the exclusive world radio premiere of the new single
Speaker 9: from Kyle Gordon Dead Oceans.
Speaker 11: I've been in love befall. Well, I know love is small,
Speaker 11: it's more than just a phrase. Well, sometimes it comes
Speaker 11: out straight.
Speaker 17: Topic is true, Well, there's nothing you can't do mo
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Speaker 3: I know it, it's true.
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Speaker 3: We are got.
Speaker 8: As avoid.
Speaker 3: The ways true.
Speaker 6: As a boy.
Speaker 9: And now the American radio premiere of the new single
Speaker 9: from Lydia Ready, the title track off of her new
Speaker 9: album Stronger Together.
Speaker 13: This is a world.
Speaker 19: It's around aby curiosity through a discoveries.
Speaker 20: This is a Worldwell, question remains, what don't we do
Speaker 20: if it are't just changed?
Speaker 19: Like Zobbie's reaching out for runner bar ellipse, like a
Speaker 19: soul's being taken through a fingertips, like the moon stopping
Speaker 19: Colt and Gavin next to clipse.
Speaker 16: I believe.
Speaker 1: We could live.
Speaker 10: Because we.
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Speaker 8: Are we.
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Speaker 19: a home tonight, So.
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Speaker 19: Twere challengees hands sense. Thousands died, so one side it
Speaker 19: can win.
Speaker 12: This is the world.
Speaker 5: What question remains?
Speaker 3: What will we do if it all just changed?
Speaker 19: Like zombies reaching out for runner apock elipse, like a
Speaker 19: saw's being taken through a fingertips, like the moon stopping
Speaker 19: coats and gathering next to clips.
Speaker 3: I believed we could.
Speaker 13: Cause a.
Speaker 3: Baby.
Speaker 13: Believe a paper child in the lead got a bob
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Speaker 3: South bluder.
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Speaker 13: Newity are what.
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Speaker 19: that wind?
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Speaker 19: One of the walls in the rooms that are having
Speaker 19: in a home tonight, put.
Speaker 3: At the bath.
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Speaker 21: we we can let's do that one more time. This
Speaker 21: is Jesse Rutstein and Caleb Dyer. Oh crap, hold on,
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Speaker 9: Right after that? From Hatchet act from and then I'll say,
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Speaker 9: This is Jesse Rutstein and oh this is why I'm
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Speaker 9: Actually, what did I say?
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Speaker 9: this again.
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Speaker 21: Saw Records. You are listening to Matt Connorton Unleashed on
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Speaker 2: this one A stupid boy that I was when I
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Speaker 8: As I used to have and go filled man us.
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Speaker 3: road alive.
Speaker 8: I ride done you miss.
Speaker 1: I go where no scene.
Speaker 3: Down now Boby road up live.
Speaker 8: Yes, when I was in school, didn't make good grades.
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Speaker 1: they didn'tn't like my pimples.
Speaker 8: I used to be.
Speaker 1: Son just before day at nine, crying.
Speaker 12: On the floor.
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Speaker 22: I remember the bad.
Speaker 8: Times and hick dom my mom.
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Speaker 8: I ride down your nest side call, we have.
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Speaker 3: Down, no bomb me roll up life.
Speaker 22: You know when I was a warrior, my father used
Speaker 22: to look down at me and said, what the hell
Speaker 22: is even?
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Speaker 26: Come crawling, fuss, oh baby, messer.
Speaker 1: Your life back, smester.
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Speaker 28: I'm pulling your streams, twissing your mind and smashing your dreams.
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Speaker 24: Just call my.
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Speaker 27: a mirror, taste me you will see More's all you
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Speaker 24: like burns Doster.
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Speaker 28: I'm pulling your strings, pussing your mind, and smashing your trees.
Speaker 3: Finding my name.
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Speaker 28: on you're your scream master.
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