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Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-25-15 hour 3
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Speaker 7: That is Aorta baby. The band is Euphemia, and we've
Speaker 7: got a couple members of the band here with us
Speaker 7: live and studio. We're gonna be talking with them in
Speaker 7: just a moment. But I love that song. As I
Speaker 7: like to say, if that doesn't get you moving, check
Speaker 7: your pulse, you might be dead because that is really
Speaker 7: really catchy. I love that and looking forward to talking
Speaker 7: with them. And if you aren't listening live on Saturday.
Speaker 7: Today is October twenty five, twenty twenty five. This is
Speaker 7: Matt Connorton Unleashed, and we have entered our number three
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Speaker 7: of wm NH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester,
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Speaker 7: for all your live streaming options, social links, contact info,
Speaker 7: show archives, et cetera, et cetera. But right now we
Speaker 7: have Gina and Brian here from the band UPHEMEA. Welcome, Hello,
Speaker 7: wonderful to have you here. I've been looking forward to
Speaker 7: this because I really love sent me a bunch of
Speaker 7: songs and I love all of them. Thank you. Just
Speaker 7: catchy as hell, so so good. So what do you
Speaker 7: each do in the band? I mean, Gina, I assume
Speaker 7: that's you singing.
Speaker 9: That's me singing, and I'm the songwriter as well. Okay,
Speaker 9: I didn't write that song. Oh that's the only song
Speaker 9: on the album I did not write. That was by
Speaker 9: my late great father Kiit Brown. Oh okay, musician as well.
Speaker 7: Oh wow, okay, okay. And what do you do to
Speaker 7: in the band?
Speaker 10: Brian? I play guitar and sing backup vocals.
Speaker 7: Excellent, excellent. And who else is who's not with you? Today,
Speaker 7: I assume are you a four piece? You're a five piece? Okay?
Speaker 9: Sometimes a six piece?
Speaker 7: Oh wow.
Speaker 9: So we have Josh Dover on drums, Brian who Let
Speaker 9: on guitar as well, and Ryan Monario.
Speaker 7: On bass okay yep, and then who six person.
Speaker 9: So sometimes we have my best friend Ellen who comes
Speaker 9: and sings background vocals with us to kind of fill
Speaker 9: it out a little bit.
Speaker 7: Oh, very good, very good, and we should mention too.
Speaker 7: So you came to us through Vice's Inc. Yes, Jagger
Speaker 7: recommended you, and you know we love Vice's Inc. Absolutely,
Speaker 7: they're so sweet. Yeah. So you're from you're from Portland
Speaker 7: as well?
Speaker 9: Portland?
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, great scene there. There's always a
Speaker 7: lot going on there. It's been that way forever too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, it's a great music scene and there's a
Speaker 9: lot of rock and roll and punk and just music
Speaker 9: people aren't really tapped into in other parts of me
Speaker 9: and that you wouldn't really know about unless you're in Portland,
Speaker 9: and it's really special.
Speaker 7: That's true. Yeah, yeah, very true. So where's the name
Speaker 7: come from? Euphemia?
Speaker 9: Euphemia is the name of my great grandmother. My dad's said, yeah, okay,
Speaker 9: I never met her, but I always thought it was
Speaker 9: such a cool name. And yeah, I know it's kind
Speaker 9: of like ambiguous and people are like, what does that mean?
Speaker 11: Is it?
Speaker 9: Is it like euphemia like feminism? And I'm like, no,
Speaker 9: it's just just a woman's name.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I was, and I wasn't sure. You know,
Speaker 7: we'll pull back the curtain to tell the listeners. I
Speaker 7: had to ask you before because I was sure, you know,
Speaker 7: because I've been talking about it, you know, leading up
Speaker 7: to today. But I wasn't sure if I was saying
Speaker 7: it right or yeah, and I was not saying it right.
Speaker 7: I assumed it was you, so I was saying it wrong.
Speaker 11: Totally cool.
Speaker 7: Does it ever get misspelled like on posters or anything
Speaker 7: like that?
Speaker 9: For we usually have to make the posters.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, just as well. Right, Yeah, I can see.
Speaker 7: So how long has the band been around? Has a
Speaker 7: band been around a while, because you got a lot
Speaker 7: of music.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean we've been a band since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, we just joined Instagram in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 9: so a lot of Oh okay, we've only been around
Speaker 9: for like a year. Oh but no, we've been around
Speaker 9: since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, probably not the same lineup all the time.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't think.
Speaker 9: Myself, Brian and my husband Josh, who's our drummer. We've
Speaker 9: all been in the band since twenty thirteen, but we've okay,
Speaker 9: a little bit of change up with our bass player
Speaker 9: and other guitar player.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, But so the three of you you have
Speaker 7: been the core, like the kind of the nucleus of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: How do you describe your sound because you're not you know,
Speaker 7: it's not conventional. You know, it's not it's not metal,
Speaker 7: it's not punk, it's not I mean what I mean
Speaker 7: you describe us?
Speaker 9: I think about the song and.
Speaker 7: Everyone always say it's this question, but yeah, but yeah
Speaker 7: for someone who's never heard you.
Speaker 9: For me, I just describe it as rock and roll.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Like I'm a big fan of all different sorts
Speaker 9: of music, but for me, it just sounds like pure
Speaker 9: rock and roll, yeah, with the punk undertones to it.
Speaker 9: But yeah, for me, it's just rock and roll.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And the songs are the length of punk songs. Yeah,
Speaker 7: they are a lot of them. That's the longest one.
Speaker 7: So A Order Baby is three p fifty nine. But
Speaker 7: I think of everything you said, that's the uh?
Speaker 11: Is that?
Speaker 7: Is that a full album?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 7: Yep? These are all part of Okay.
Speaker 9: That's the Yeah. We put our self titled album in
Speaker 9: April of twenty twenty four and ten songs on. It's
Speaker 9: twenty five minutes long. Yeah, yeah, all kill no filler.
Speaker 7: Oh that's funny. Yeah, it's only twenty five minutes. But yeah,
Speaker 7: that makes sense giving the uh yeah yeah, now what
Speaker 7: so is that by design? I mean, do you just
Speaker 7: prefer short songs? Or there was somebody who was it.
Speaker 7: There was somebody who said, uh, they just it's like
Speaker 7: that express. Well there's that expression, don't borius get to
Speaker 7: the chorus. But there's there was somebody else I can't
Speaker 7: remember who it was, what band, I'm drawing a blank
Speaker 7: now who said it's really important to you know, if
Speaker 7: you want to hook somebody into the song you've got,
Speaker 7: you've at least got to get to that first chorus
Speaker 7: fairly quickly. Yeah, and so that ends up making for
Speaker 7: a short song. But I mean, is that something you
Speaker 7: set out to do or does that just happen organically
Speaker 7: when you're writing these.
Speaker 9: It kind of just happens organically. I'm just you know,
Speaker 9: usually alone in my room writing these, and I say
Speaker 9: what I need to say, Yeah, try to at least
Speaker 9: get through a couple verses and choruses and then a
Speaker 9: turnaround usually, but it's usually just like does it need
Speaker 9: it or not?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 9: If I've said what I needed to say and it's
Speaker 9: sounding good, I kind of just leave it there. Yeah,
Speaker 9: I'll take it to practice and show the guys, and
Speaker 9: they're really good at arranging them with me and kind
Speaker 9: of like editing with me, saying we need a little
Speaker 9: bit more or less or this part isn't working, so
Speaker 9: we kind of like all work it out together.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, is a order?
Speaker 1: Baby?
Speaker 7: Is that the longest song you've ever recorded as a band?
Speaker 9: I think so today?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Now, so this is so this is from a full
Speaker 7: length album? Do you have other like what else have
Speaker 7: you recorded? Because obviously you know you've been around for
Speaker 7: so I'm not going to math that's twelve years, right, yeah,
Speaker 7: twenty thirteen. Yeah, so I assume you've probably recorded quite
Speaker 7: a bit over the year as well.
Speaker 9: We haven't. We recorded this album in twenty nineteen, yeah,
Speaker 9: and it took me almost five years to get it
Speaker 9: out because it was like a lot of things happened
Speaker 9: when we recorded it. I was pregnant with my daughter
Speaker 9: and I recorded it, and then COVID happened in twenty twenty,
Speaker 9: so we weren't able to go into the studio and
Speaker 9: mix it. And then my dad passed away in twenty
Speaker 9: twenty one, so it was like this series of circumstances
Speaker 9: where I couldn't think about touching it, you know what
Speaker 9: I mean. I like mixing it, and we weren't quite
Speaker 9: happy with the mix right away, so it was we
Speaker 9: just kind of put it on the backshelf for a while,
Speaker 9: and then we finally put it in Gears in October
Speaker 9: of twenty twenty three, got it out by April of
Speaker 9: twenty twenty four.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So yeah, that's really all we have recorded for a
Speaker 9: full length. And we have a single called Blah Blah
Speaker 9: Blah that we released in July of this year, which
Speaker 9: is only like a minute and a half.
Speaker 7: Oh really yeah, yeah, yeah, So we have that full.
Speaker 9: Length album in that single, and hopefully we'll be back
Speaker 9: in the studio this winter. Oh record our second album.
Speaker 7: Oh excellent, excellent, Yeah, yeah, I was talking with in
Speaker 7: the first hour we had the band Rivia, who were
Speaker 7: in the UK. They joined us via WhatsApp and I
Speaker 7: was telling them about how in this where we are,
Speaker 7: at least in the Northeast here in the US, a
Speaker 7: lot of bands kind of take winter to record because yeah,
Speaker 7: that's the worst time to go out and play shows. Winter.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, nobody wants to come out. There's parking bands.
Speaker 7: Yeah it's fun. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Did your father get to hear a orda Baby?
Speaker 11: He did.
Speaker 9: He actually played lead guitar on it, no kidding, him
Speaker 9: playing lead guitar and background vocals with me.
Speaker 7: Oh that's so cool.
Speaker 9: He came in the studio, he was well enough to
Speaker 9: do that. We really just wanted to do it as
Speaker 9: a tribute to him because he wasn't well at the time. Yeah,
Speaker 9: he laid down like the meanest guitar solo I think
Speaker 9: on that record. Yeah, no events to you, Brian, You're
Speaker 9: so amazing too. But oh my gosh, that every time
Speaker 9: I hear it, it just gives me chills take no kidding,
Speaker 9: really yeah, wow, so good. He was just the best,
Speaker 9: and and he got to hear it before he passed
Speaker 9: as a mix as well.
Speaker 7: So oh that's great. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 4: Is that.
Speaker 7: So obviously you know growing up with your dad who
Speaker 7: is a musician, Is that what why you became a musician?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I started out playing farfeza organ in his band that
Speaker 9: they were called the Pontiffs when I was fourteen years old,
Speaker 9: no kidding, Yeah, so I joined his band in nineteen
Speaker 9: ninety eight, and that was kind of like my introduction
Speaker 9: to the music wow Portland, outside of always hearing music
Speaker 9: in my house and yeah, growing up playing I played
Speaker 9: classical violin growing up. Okay, yeah, I've always like having
Speaker 9: a dad who is basically a encyclopedia of knowledge for
Speaker 9: music was really helpful to like introduce me to all
Speaker 9: different genres and writers and styles and no.
Speaker 7: Doubt, Yeah, yeah that's cool. Yeah yeah. What about your Brian,
Speaker 7: did you grow up in a musical family or.
Speaker 10: Kind of My mom kind of met my dad by
Speaker 10: playing guitar on an Air Force base. Oh no kidding, uh,
Speaker 10: and then I kind of got my musical talent from her,
Speaker 10: but she used to play guitar at home sometimes. Oh,
Speaker 10: but it wasn't until like high school that I started playing,
Speaker 10: like learning guitar and figuring out what I wanted to
Speaker 10: do with music and stuff.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, oh excellent. Did did you play in bands
Speaker 7: prior to Euphemia.
Speaker 10: Or yeah, a few local bands in Portland. I've been
Speaker 10: playing wow since like two thousand and one. Okay, really
Speaker 10: here and there bands the fall kind of dissolved at
Speaker 10: this point.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, what's that? What's the scene like? And
Speaker 7: they're currently In terms of venues, are there a lot
Speaker 7: of places to play original music?
Speaker 9: There are a few places to play.
Speaker 7: Because I feel like just my impression is just from
Speaker 7: like talking to bands like Vices for example, that does not. Unfortunately,
Speaker 7: right now, there's not as many original places to play
Speaker 7: as there used to be everywhere.
Speaker 9: But no, you're right, you're right there, there's a few.
Speaker 9: There's always a couple of staples that we play at
Speaker 9: that the owners are always great. We're so grateful they
Speaker 9: let us play there because it's very hard to to
Speaker 9: ask for gigs around Portland if you're not established. Yeah,
Speaker 9: but bands that are up and coming, how do you
Speaker 9: get established if no one will let.
Speaker 7: You play, right exactly. Yeah, that's always the it's kind of.
Speaker 9: A catch twenty two. So we're really grateful that we
Speaker 9: kind of have a little bit of notoriety now. So
Speaker 9: it's nice. Hard to get gigs and people are asking
Speaker 9: us to play, so it's that's good, that's really nice.
Speaker 7: Yeahah yeah. I mean it's kind of like the way
Speaker 7: I've always thought of it is, you know, it's like
Speaker 7: just trying to get over that hump of when you
Speaker 7: get to the point where people are asking you to play,
Speaker 7: you know, and you still got to you still got
Speaker 7: to do the work of getting you know, in the
Speaker 7: new places and stuff. But but once you but once
Speaker 7: you get over that hump where you know, not not
Speaker 7: every show is one that you're begging for, but you're
Speaker 7: people are actually coming to you saying, hey, can you
Speaker 7: you know you want to play this? That's the sweet Yeah, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 7: yeah exactly. I think we should play another track from
Speaker 7: the album what uh what should we play next? Let's
Speaker 7: play Magic Magic? I like that one, like that when
Speaker 7: that one clocks in at a minute forty six great
Speaker 7: song though. I like all these I was listening to
Speaker 7: them yesterday and just just so all all so good.
Speaker 7: You absolutely if you're just joining us, we have a
Speaker 7: Gina and Brian from the band Euphemeia here with us
Speaker 7: in studio and let's check this out. This is called magic.
Speaker 1: When you.
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Speaker 5: N Jack Gotpeal. It is my Jick got feel. It
Speaker 5: is my Jack Gotel. And it is my Jack dopeal.
Speaker 5: It is my Jack Cope. It is Majic got feel. Wow,
Speaker 5: it is Majieal.
Speaker 1: And it's my jigot Bee.
Speaker 7: That is a song is so short. I wasn't ready
Speaker 7: for atten no, but I was in a good way though.
Speaker 7: I mean I was getting lost in it. It's so good.
Speaker 7: It's so catchy. Absolutely, that is called Magic. And the
Speaker 7: band is Euphemia. And we have a Gina and Brian
Speaker 7: from the band Euphemia here with us in studio. And
Speaker 7: now where did you record these? You might have mentioned it.
Speaker 7: I can't remember it. There's so many great studios around.
Speaker 7: Where did you do the album?
Speaker 9: We did it with a person named Scott Weber at
Speaker 9: Pigcat Studios, Okay, and it's over by the Riverside area
Speaker 9: of Portland, Okay.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And how did you come to work work with him?
Speaker 7: Because there's so many You know, what's funny is if
Speaker 7: you go back ten years or ever and twenty years
Speaker 7: a lot of people were predicting the end of the
Speaker 7: recording studio, you know what I mean, because you can
Speaker 7: record at home now and there's so many different ways
Speaker 7: to record and the technology. It's amazing what you can do,
Speaker 7: you know, on your own as far as recording now.
Speaker 7: But recording studios are still thriving, and there's there's a
Speaker 7: lot of them. I know in the Portland area there
Speaker 7: must be a ton. So how did you come to
Speaker 7: work with uh with?
Speaker 9: What was his name again, Scott Weber?
Speaker 7: Scott Weber? How did you come to work with him?
Speaker 9: I let Brian take the leak because he's friends with him.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 4: Perfect.
Speaker 10: We were in a band together called four Player co Op. Okay, Tim,
Speaker 10: his brother was in the band with us for a
Speaker 10: long time, and then eventually Scott joined and we used
Speaker 10: to rehearse in that studio that they recorded. So yeah,
Speaker 10: when we came time to record, I was like, hey,
Speaker 10: I know a guy so yeah, oh that's cool.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because you know, I mean situations where it you know,
Speaker 7: it ends up, you know, I know a guy that
Speaker 7: doesn't always work out great, but in this case it
Speaker 7: certainly did because the album sounds fantastic. Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he was great, and we recorded it in like
Speaker 9: two and a half days. It was like Friday through
Speaker 9: a Sunday.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we went back in to do like I was
Speaker 9: sick at the time when we recorded, so yeah, I
Speaker 9: had to go back in and do vocals like at
Speaker 9: a different time for most of them. Yeah, Aora we
Speaker 9: did on the first day and we kept it one take.
Speaker 7: Oh wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 9: Yeah but yeah, no, it was like he's super efficient
Speaker 9: with everything. Yeah, and it just it took me a
Speaker 9: long time with the mixing because I'm just really picky,
Speaker 9: but really yeah. Yeah, but yeah, No, he was amazing
Speaker 9: and we can't wait to work with him again. He
Speaker 9: also plays drums for East End Redemption and records them
Speaker 9: at his studio too, and they're fantastic.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, yeah, okay yeah yeah. And then what's the
Speaker 7: live situation? Like we talked about venues, but I mean,
Speaker 7: how like, are you playing out a lot in Portland?
Speaker 7: Do you get out of that area?
Speaker 9: We have been, Yeah, we we've been getting out of
Speaker 9: Portland more this year, I would say good. We played
Speaker 9: in Dover for Vices Fest for Advices in't put on, Yeah,
Speaker 9: and we played or else do we played. We played
Speaker 9: in Lewiston at their Arts center that they have there.
Speaker 9: That was really cool.
Speaker 7: Yeah. And Boston good good, yeah, yep, excellent.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I would think with your sound, I mean there's there's
Speaker 7: a lot of that would open up a lot of
Speaker 7: opportunities because it's very you know, it's accessible. You know
Speaker 7: it's Oh, Mike Hill from Charlie Hill is in the
Speaker 7: Chatterman says, we love original music on the Hill. Have
Speaker 7: you played Charlie Shill?
Speaker 4: We have not.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we Jenny and I have not been there, but
Speaker 7: we hear about it constantly. Apparently it's a pretty amazing venue.
Speaker 7: So and and I think I think we're gonna get
Speaker 7: Mike on the show soon too, because someone else was
Speaker 7: suggesting we get we get Mike on from Charlie's Hill.
Speaker 7: But are there are there other bands in the I mean,
Speaker 7: I don't know. Do you play with Vice's Inc. On
Speaker 7: a Sometimes bands kind of team up, you know, it
Speaker 7: happens organically. You just end up playing a lot of shows.
Speaker 7: Do you play a lot of shows with Devices Inc?
Speaker 7: Or a lot?
Speaker 9: We've played a couple and yeah, we try. We used
Speaker 9: to play with kind of the same bands all the time.
Speaker 9: And now I kind of made it a rule like
Speaker 9: the past two years, like I wanted to just play
Speaker 9: with a different band on every bill, like different like
Speaker 9: different lineups just because you get to see a different show,
Speaker 9: make different connections, you know, just see what else is
Speaker 9: out there exactly, and you know, it's just it's fun
Speaker 9: for the audience to hear a different lineup too. We
Speaker 9: have our favorites for sure, but yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, well, let's all let's play another track. What
Speaker 7: should we play? I wanted to do oop.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Bryan is a great solo in that.
Speaker 7: All right, very good if you're just joining us. We
Speaker 7: have two members of Euphemia are here with us live
Speaker 7: in studio, and we're going to play another studio track.
Speaker 7: What's the album called again, it's self titled. Oh, it's
Speaker 7: self titled. That's right, yes, just Euphemia very good. And
Speaker 7: this is called do Wop song.
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Speaker 4: They bring it.
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Speaker 7: That is called dou wop song. The band is Euphemia,
Speaker 7: and we've got two members of Euphemia here with us
Speaker 7: in studio. We have Gina and Brian is here and
Speaker 7: uh yeah, she was right. That is a great solo. Brian, Yeah,
Speaker 7: that is really good every time. Yeah, Yeah, it's you know,
Speaker 7: it's it's just very melodic, and it's you know, you're
Speaker 7: not like Shred or anything. You're just playing a really
Speaker 7: good it's just really Yeah, it's just beautiful.
Speaker 11: Is that.
Speaker 7: I'm curious about your influences as a guitar player.
Speaker 10: Uh, I kind of grew up playing Green Day. I
Speaker 10: grew up in the nineties, so like, yeah, that was
Speaker 10: a big proponent for me. Yeah, saying like I want
Speaker 10: to do that. Yeah, but I also kind of used
Speaker 10: to jam on like Metallica songs and stuff like that
Speaker 10: when I was a kid.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, seemed probably shred if you want to write
Speaker 7: a little bit, but on a song like that, I mean,
Speaker 7: what you did is just so perfect, you know, because
Speaker 7: a lot of people, you know, guitar players, they like
Speaker 7: to show off, but you're just doing it. It's a
Speaker 7: pretty straightforward melody, but it's so it's just so perfect.
Speaker 10: Well, thank you. Yeah, yeah, I try. I try and
Speaker 10: write for the song. Yeah, I try not to do
Speaker 10: too much, like I guess, like Ca noodling.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 10: I don't I don't like to show off too much,
Speaker 10: I guess.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, no, it works, It definitely works. I'm curious
Speaker 7: to Gena about you like your influences as a singer.
Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, they're all over the place. When I
Speaker 9: was very little, I loved Mariah Carey.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she's my girl.
Speaker 9: That got me started. Oh yeah, and then Joan jet Ada,
Speaker 9: James John Lennon, my Little Ackerman from The Descendants, Paul Westerberg.
Speaker 9: I really love that rasp they have.
Speaker 7: Yeah you know, yeah, so.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I have like a very wide range of people
Speaker 9: I like, right.
Speaker 7: Right, no doubt.
Speaker 4: So what are they?
Speaker 7: I mean, are you thinking about the are you thinking
Speaker 7: about the next album already or what's kind of the
Speaker 7: future plan? Yeah, we have.
Speaker 9: I'm almost done writing the album. There's maybe like two
Speaker 9: more songs I need to write for it, but we've
Speaker 9: been in the process of working out the songs this
Speaker 9: past year. We play a few of them live, a
Speaker 9: few new songs live.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So yeah, we're hoping like midwinter to go in and
Speaker 9: record hopefully Okay, we'll.
Speaker 7: Be done with it, and then similar similar vibe or
Speaker 7: similar vibe.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I would say the songs are pretty much the
Speaker 9: same in terms of length, Yeah, subject matter. It's a
Speaker 9: little different because with the Euphemia songs, those were written
Speaker 9: over a period of my life, ranging from like twenty
Speaker 9: one to thirty four and now I'm forty one. So
Speaker 9: this next album is all from the past couple of years. Okay,
Speaker 9: you know, so it's it's a lot more.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 9: I don't want to say mature, because I'm not like
Speaker 9: a pretentious person. Sure, but you know, theme wise, there's
Speaker 9: been a lot more complexities of my life over the
Speaker 9: past few years. And there have previously.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no doubt. Yeah you probably started a family and
Speaker 7: yeah yeah, all that kind of thing. So yeah, now
Speaker 7: that makes sense. Yeah, you know, and it's important to evolve.
Speaker 7: I mean, if you don't, if you don't evolve, you
Speaker 7: get bored. Right, If you get bored, then you're not
Speaker 7: doing anything very much of value, if you're just you know,
Speaker 7: rehashing the same the same territory.
Speaker 9: Yeah, right, And I think on this one we're going
Speaker 9: to do a little bit more instrumentation to Like, I've
Speaker 9: been talking with this incredibly talented woman who plays violin
Speaker 9: named Maybe. She's awesome, and she asked if we'd want
Speaker 9: to collaborate. Ever, so I've been kind of writing in
Speaker 9: terms of thinking about that and having her in the studio,
Speaker 9: and I kind of want to bring my far Visa
Speaker 9: organ back and play on that. Oh a couple of tracks.
Speaker 7: So yeah, tell what kind of organ is it?
Speaker 9: It's a far Fesa organ, so.
Speaker 7: What I've heard the term, but I don't know, like
Speaker 7: what makes an organ a far Visa organ.
Speaker 9: So it basically it's run by like a panel of flutes. Okay,
Speaker 9: a certain sound and the more flutes you put out
Speaker 9: is like a This kind of sounds like a swell.
Speaker 9: Think about those sixties garage organs, like in question Mark
Speaker 9: and the Mysterians or like, okay, a great band from Boston,
Speaker 9: the Liars, Like how they use that sound. It's like
Speaker 9: if it's from nineteen sixty nine. So it's like a
Speaker 9: very old school sounding.
Speaker 7: Is it like the kind of using churches?
Speaker 9: No, no, no, it's like a it's like a keyboard,
Speaker 9: but it has like legs that you put on and
Speaker 9: stand up. They're really heavy. They're like, okay, as much
Speaker 9: as I do. But yeah, and it's it just looks
Speaker 9: like a keyboard, but it's just like sounds like it
Speaker 9: has like a I don't know how to describe it,
Speaker 9: like a like a trill on it. Okay, like yeah, okay, yeah, okay,
Speaker 9: sixties garage down vibra interesting.
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, Yeah, I'm curious. I'd heard the term far visa. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I've heard that before, but I wasn't sure what that
Speaker 7: was exactly. Yeah, to play the organ a little bit
Speaker 7: when I was a kid too, so I was curious
Speaker 7: about that. I didn't keep up with that. But no,
Speaker 7: very good. So you're gonna kind of introduce that more
Speaker 7: into the Yeah.
Speaker 9: It would be cool to put that on something or
Speaker 9: like some kind of rock and roll piano of some sort. Yeah, like, yeah,
Speaker 9: it's I can't sing and play at the same time.
Speaker 9: I'm not as coordinated as my band bad Well you.
Speaker 7: Think you can, but you probably I'm sure you could learn.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so I could easily do that in the studio,
Speaker 9: though I don't have to do that.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, but if you but then if you do that,
Speaker 7: will it be important to you to be able to
Speaker 7: replicate that lie or or.
Speaker 9: Not necessarily a different experience.
Speaker 7: But yeah, yeah, which is cool, you know, because a
Speaker 7: lot of people they want to It's like, oh, anything
Speaker 7: we do in the studio, we have to be able
Speaker 7: to replicate it live exactly. And my attitude about that
Speaker 7: has always been, why if if you can't replicate it live,
Speaker 7: so then an element is missing, then live you just
Speaker 7: have a more kind of a raw, stripped down sound.
Speaker 7: What's wrong with that? Sometimes that's sometimes that's better, you
Speaker 7: know what I mean. That's how I've always felt about it.
Speaker 7: But but a lot of people are they're very particular
Speaker 7: about well, we have to be able to sound exactly
Speaker 7: like we did on the record.
Speaker 9: It's like they're two different experiences in exactly.
Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly. Well, let's let's play another Oh yeah, we
Speaker 7: have time, let's play another one. Of course we have time.
Speaker 7: They're so short, we'll probably have time to get a
Speaker 7: couple more. But I would like to play another track
Speaker 7: from the album. But yeah, I'll let you both pick
Speaker 7: what what should we go with next? How about love Love? Okay?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Anything we should know about this one before we play
Speaker 7: it or not?
Speaker 9: Really, it's a I think it's like mutually our favorite song.
Speaker 7: It's one of the most fun ones I think, so yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: all right, cool, let's give this a spend if you're
Speaker 7: just joining us. We have two members of Euphemia here
Speaker 7: with us in studio and this is a track from
Speaker 7: their self titled album, and this is called love m.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: So clum to get you. I'm just with chef rap
Speaker 1: from this time old hand of my heart. I don't
Speaker 1: tell no Homy Joan dope and I'm alla.
Speaker 6: The whole dad at my heart.
Speaker 1: Wow, So wann to get you? Be there. I knew
Speaker 1: about that, I knew it good stuff. I won't try.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you you dull it and you so say
Speaker 1: I knew it good stuff. I don't try no Homy
Speaker 1: John Dope and I'm all less the whole tad in
Speaker 1: my heart. I don't want tell no honey going though,
Speaker 1: and I promise the hold dad of my heart. I
Speaker 1: don't want tell you no money doing though. Been a
Speaker 1: promise the whole dad at my heart. I don't tell
Speaker 1: no hone need done no, And I'm from.
Speaker 6: Me the whole dad at my heart.
Speaker 14: Will I promised the whole dad at my heart.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 7: That is fantastic. That it's called Love. The band is Euphemia.
Speaker 7: We have Gina and Brian from the band here with
Speaker 7: us in studio. And yeah, Gina, you were saying off
Speaker 7: air while that was playing, you kind of wanted it
Speaker 7: to have like you wanted the drums and the guitar
Speaker 7: to go together and go kind of give it a
Speaker 7: little bit of a Zeppelin vibe.
Speaker 9: Yeah, like that stomp you feel.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, I think that one's my favorite. Actually, that's
Speaker 7: that's that's really good. That's really good. Yeahem is here
Speaker 7: with us live. I learned how to say it and
Speaker 7: I'm stumbling on it. But they are here with us
Speaker 7: live in studio. And have you made any videos for
Speaker 7: for any of these.
Speaker 9: Songs or we haven't purposely made any videos? We want to.
Speaker 9: One of our friends made a video of us from
Speaker 9: a show we did at a festival. Yeah, kind of
Speaker 9: put it together for us. He's like a professional videographer. Yeah,
Speaker 9: and kind of just surprised us with one. So there
Speaker 9: is one out there song rock show, Okay, but we
Speaker 9: haven't like intentionally made any yet.
Speaker 7: We want to. Yeah, it will be working with him, Yeah, yeah, excellent.
Speaker 7: Actually have you have you done multiple festivals or what
Speaker 7: what's uh, we've done three? Now you've done three? Yeah,
Speaker 7: that's great. No, I say all the time. Festivals are
Speaker 7: the best opportunity because you not only does it get
Speaker 7: you in front of fans, potential new fans who might
Speaker 7: not be familiar with you, but the but also it
Speaker 7: gets you in front of industry people. You know, you
Speaker 7: meet people at the networking opportunities at a festival are unparalleled. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: so yeah, that's great. Yeah, yeah, what what what festivals
Speaker 7: have you done?
Speaker 9: We did Gold Rocks, which was a festival that USM
Speaker 9: and Maine put on summer end of the summer, and
Speaker 9: then we did Wild Pines Festival this year, and we
Speaker 9: did Vices in festival.
Speaker 7: Oh vis Yeah, yeah, oh fantastic, Yeah good good. Did
Speaker 7: you meet like Vices Fest? Did you meet a lot
Speaker 7: of bands there who who you were not already familiar with?
Speaker 9: Or yeah, I don't think we knew any of the bands, Okay,
Speaker 9: for maybe we need and we knew Vices, and we
Speaker 9: knew Plague Dad but and a couple of our other
Speaker 9: friends on other days that played there. But other than that,
Speaker 9: we didn't know any of the other bands.
Speaker 7: So that must have been cool. Yeah, we had you know,
Speaker 7: vices Inc. Obviously they've been on a few times, but
Speaker 7: we had Jagger on. I did there's a separate podcast
Speaker 7: version of the show that we do sometimes if like
Speaker 7: I did one with Jagger where it was just he
Speaker 7: and I on the podcast version, because it was a
Speaker 7: situation where we didn't have any room to get him on.
Speaker 7: On this version. We were booked up, but it was
Speaker 7: right before vices Fest, so we did the podcast just
Speaker 7: like almost like an emergency podcast, like a last minute
Speaker 7: thing about vices Fest. And it was just all about
Speaker 7: vices Fest. And I told him, I said, it amazes me.
Speaker 7: I think I said this to him too the night
Speaker 7: Jenny and I saw them at Bad Burger recently a
Speaker 7: few weeks ago. It just to put on a festival
Speaker 7: like that, and to be able to do that without
Speaker 7: getting you know, just almost on the verge of a
Speaker 7: nervous breakdown, because that's a lot of you know, I
Speaker 7: don't really do it anymore. I used to promote live shows,
Speaker 7: you know, and even just doing a night somewhere with
Speaker 7: with you know, three or four bands can be challenging
Speaker 7: in some ways, you know, So to do vices Fest,
Speaker 7: I mean, that's a huge undertaking when you look at
Speaker 7: the lineup, Yeah, of bands on that over three days,
Speaker 7: and man, I mean he handles it well obviously, because
Speaker 7: you know, he told me, because I said to him,
Speaker 7: I said, how do you do that without losing your mind?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 7: And yeah, you know. But apparently he's very organized and
Speaker 7: he knows what he's doing, so I commend him. But
Speaker 7: that's more than I would want to take on an undertaking.
Speaker 9: I wouldn't want to do it either. I'm usually in
Speaker 9: charge of booking our shows yep, or being a part
Speaker 9: of it in some way, and that's always. Yeah, for
Speaker 9: the most part, it's okay, but it can be a headache.
Speaker 9: So I can't imagine dealing with like thirty bands, oh
Speaker 9: yeah for three days. And you know, but they ran
Speaker 9: a very tight ship yeah while we were there, and
Speaker 9: everything was organized and shared equipment, so that made it easier.
Speaker 7: So everything I've heard has been overwhelmingly positive. It sounds
Speaker 7: like like nothing nothing major went wrong, you know, and
Speaker 7: just everything went pretty smooth from from what I hear
Speaker 7: and from what he's told me. And that's so that's great.
Speaker 7: I'm just kind of in awe of that. And I
Speaker 7: know he's doing another one next year, so it just
Speaker 7: keeps going to him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely, Yeah,
Speaker 7: And we love vices inc. You kind of you remind
Speaker 7: me your vocals. You remind me a little bit of Eleanor.
Speaker 7: Oh really I think so. Yeah. I mean, you know,
Speaker 7: like you're distinguishable, but but kind of, I don't know,
Speaker 7: kind of the vibe on some of these songs, the
Speaker 7: way you sing it kind of reminds me of her
Speaker 7: a little bit.
Speaker 9: O wow, thank you. I mean she's got a great voice,
Speaker 9: so I'll take that.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, oh yeah, no, you both do. Absolutely. What
Speaker 7: should people know? We have time, we'll sneak in one
Speaker 7: more track at the end. But what should people know
Speaker 7: about where to find you online? Like, where's the best
Speaker 7: place to go to keep up with everything that Euphemia
Speaker 7: is doing.
Speaker 9: We have an Instagram okay at Euphemia Underscore band okay,
Speaker 9: and then other than that, we're on all the streaming
Speaker 9: services audibly except for our one video yeah yeah on YouTube.
Speaker 9: But yeah, we're on all the streaming services Apple, Spotify.
Speaker 7: Yeah, excellent, excellent. Well we're going to uh in a moment,
Speaker 7: we're going to play one more track. I'll give you
Speaker 7: a moment though, to think about, think about what you
Speaker 7: want to play to end the show, because we got
Speaker 7: to talk about just quickly too, Jenny, did you want
Speaker 7: to mention before we run out of time? John Oliver?
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, check out John Oliver this weekend. You might
Speaker 12: see somebody you know that's right on Sunday night. It
Speaker 12: will be on their main channel, but it will be
Speaker 12: loaded up onto YouTube on Monday.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, they put it on YouTube the next day. Yeah,
Speaker 7: so keep it out for that and you want to
Speaker 7: plug your website maybe I.
Speaker 12: Guess so only kidding, No, I hope you guys do
Speaker 12: check out John Oliver. It's going to be fun to
Speaker 12: be on the show, and then you can check me
Speaker 12: out and all the good trouble I get up to
Speaker 12: at Jencoffee dot com j E N N C.
Speaker 7: O F f U I dot com. Yes, yes, And
Speaker 7: of course if you want to know more about me
Speaker 7: and everything I'm up to, you can go to my
Speaker 7: website Matt Connorton dot com. And if you missed any
Speaker 7: part of today's show, it'll be up in just a
Speaker 7: little bit at Matt Connorton dot com. And of course
Speaker 7: w Mnhradio dot org. And uh what would uh oh,
Speaker 7: and I do want to thank everybody who joined us too.
Speaker 7: Of course Rivia in the first hour, and in the
Speaker 7: second hour we had Kevin Kirstaid also known as k
Speaker 7: t K so and wonderful to finish out the show
Speaker 7: with the both of you, uh, Gina and Brian from
Speaker 7: EUPHEMA so grateful that you were able to and it's it.
Speaker 7: It was a little bit of a hall. So I
Speaker 7: appreciate you making the drive.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 9: It's our pleasure.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, no, it's wonderful to have you here. And uh,
Speaker 7: what should we uh what should we play to close out?
Speaker 9: Let's play where My rock and Roll?
Speaker 7: Oh, that's a good one.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a good all encompassing about kind of what
Speaker 9: we're about.
Speaker 7: So okay, all right, very good. So we will close
Speaker 7: out with this. This is called where My rock and
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