Matt Connarton Unleashed 11-15-25 hour 3

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11:13 Speaker 3: All right, that is push the band is Sepsis. Welcome everybody.

11:16 Speaker 3: We have entered our number three New Marow trace of

11:19 Speaker 3: Matt Connorton, unleashed and we are live from the studios

11:22 Speaker 3: of WM and H ninety five point three FM and

11:24 Speaker 3: Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. If you are listening live. Today

11:28 Speaker 3: is Saturday, November fifteen, twenty twenty five, and it's the

11:30 Speaker 3: big day. Swarmy Fest is here, the day we wait

11:33 Speaker 3: for all year and we are very pleased to have.

11:37 Speaker 3: So we have Sepsis in the studio with us. Hello everybody.

11:41 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Zachi be over there. Who's leaving the band?

11:44 Speaker 3: We had to mention that, So are you having auditions already,

11:48 Speaker 3: William or.

11:49 Speaker 10: What's well, that's one way you could translate it.

11:54 Speaker 3: I guess you call that.

11:54 Speaker 2: So there really is a process. In the first process,

11:57 Speaker 2: because we're a social media band, yeah, is to like

12:02 Speaker 2: the band, learn a song and upload it to the internet.

12:06 Speaker 3: Yeah.

12:07 Speaker 2: We've had a lot of people that have shown interest,

12:09 Speaker 2: but nobody who's really gotten past step one. Okay, okay, yeah,

12:13 Speaker 2: Zach B Jacky B is like step twelve right right, yea,

12:16 Speaker 2: so he really set the standard.

12:19 Speaker 10: Yeah, so we kind of now we kind of know

12:22 Speaker 10: more close to what we're looking for long term.

12:25 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's always always a process. We're

12:28 Speaker 3: not in a rush though, right, okay, good good, Yeah,

12:31 Speaker 3: that's not something you want to rush into, certainly. Uh

12:33 Speaker 3: Melissa is here of course as well. Hell well, welcome

12:36 Speaker 3: back and uh over there is a Lexi who is this?

12:40 Speaker 3: Is it right? This is the big debut?

12:42 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the big debut on stage out with

12:44 Speaker 2: the band to day. Very good, actually, it's pretty good.

12:47 Speaker 2: She's being demoted.

12:49 Speaker 3: Oh it's not a step down from well, the band member,

12:55 Speaker 3: I could.

12:56 Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's spiraling up. It's just

12:58 Speaker 2: a different department. But like in the business in our company,

13:03 Speaker 2: the treasury, but the merch girl actually has a higher

13:08 Speaker 2: administrative oh rank.

13:10 Speaker 3: Oh okay, so so you've lost your power. It sounds

13:13 Speaker 3: like Lexi, yeah, the one player. There you go, there

13:18 Speaker 3: you go.

13:19 Speaker 2: I'm a creative role yeah yeah, no, outstanding. So now

13:22 Speaker 2: we need a merch girl. So now you need a

13:25 Speaker 2: bass player.

13:25 Speaker 3: And a merch girl.

13:26 Speaker 2: Yeah wow, okay, all right, so who else is in

13:29 Speaker 2: is in the room with us? We have various everyone

13:32 Speaker 2: hears auditioning for merch and base.

13:36 Speaker 3: Excellent, excellent. So this is the crazy thing.

13:41 Speaker 2: But a lot of us are Halo players, okay, And

13:47 Speaker 2: for ten years, Melissa has a gaming community called Inclusive

13:52 Speaker 2: Community Gaming don't screw it up. Yeah, and you meet

14:01 Speaker 2: all kinds of crazy people online anyway. But we play

14:06 Speaker 2: Xbox and is for those of you that are familiar

14:08 Speaker 2: with Halo. It's a multiplayer respawn shooter. It's an older game,

14:14 Speaker 2: but there are newer versions of it and you can

14:16 Speaker 2: play multiplayer with people all over the world.

14:19 Speaker 10: So we have a game in community. And we're not

14:22 Speaker 10: just a band. We're also a gaming community.

14:25 Speaker 2: And in all of our communities, you know, people have

14:28 Speaker 2: things in common if they find common ground a lot

14:30 Speaker 2: of times. And like video games in general are like

14:34 Speaker 2: one of the last untapped markets for advertising, Like it's

14:39 Speaker 2: one of it's one of the few places where you

14:40 Speaker 2: can go online where there isn't a pop up Okay, right,

14:44 Speaker 2: Like if you're playing a video game, there isn't constant

14:46 Speaker 2: advertisements for Nike, And yeah, I never thought.

14:49 Speaker 3: I never thought. I never thought about it before.

14:51 Speaker 2: But there must be some games that have some sort

14:53 Speaker 2: of mobile games. Yeah, mobile games are big on advertising. Okay, okay,

14:58 Speaker 2: but all of this is changing too.

15:00 Speaker 9: In app purchases.

15:01 Speaker 2: Oh that makes sense, yes, yes, But so we've had

15:05 Speaker 2: the gaming community and originally the the first time we

15:09 Speaker 2: ever did like a band created festival, like something that

15:13 Speaker 2: we organize ourselves.

15:15 Speaker 10: Uh, most is gaming community came down and sponsored it.

15:19 Speaker 2: Okay, So that's kind of where we started to get

15:22 Speaker 2: the idea for this originally because a lot of are

15:25 Speaker 2: the people that we play games with and we play Halo.

15:28 Speaker 2: They're from all over the country. Okay, so some of

15:31 Speaker 2: the people in this room are people that we play

15:34 Speaker 2: Halo with real Yeah, and they may and they may

15:38 Speaker 2: they may not be directly related to our game and community.

15:41 Speaker 2: But like our friend Lindorris is here. That's his gamer

15:43 Speaker 2: tag guy and right he's he's from New Orleans and

15:46 Speaker 2: he came up wow for the show. So he brought

15:50 Speaker 2: himself in some of his friends. And Eric is a

15:54 Speaker 2: good friend of ours from PA we played. We get

15:58 Speaker 2: around when we can and and he is a returning

16:03 Speaker 2: swarm me fact I don't know if you remember before,

16:04 Speaker 2: but he's returned.

16:05 Speaker 10: This is your third time I think coming. So oh

16:10 Speaker 10: second second, So he's returning.

16:12 Speaker 2: Okay, And Bernie and Ed in the corner there are

16:18 Speaker 2: like they are like they're almost like band members. Okay,

16:23 Speaker 2: they're like the closest thing that you could be as

16:26 Speaker 2: like staff or band members. Okay, the ogg okay, alright.

16:31 Speaker 2: And then in the doorway, the young fellow with the

16:34 Speaker 2: dreads is my son.

16:36 Speaker 10: Oh he works for me for free today.

16:40 Speaker 3: Nice.

16:42 Speaker 2: And behind him is staff member Rinse. Okay, he's a

16:48 Speaker 2: steps a staff member.

16:49 Speaker 3: Oh, very good, very good.

16:51 Speaker 2: And he has a girlfriend Maggie with him. Okay, all right,

16:54 Speaker 2: that's a lot of people. Yeah, yeah, very nice. Excellent, excellent.

17:00 Speaker 2: So let's talk about tonight swarmy Fest.

17:03 Speaker 10: One thing about swarm Fest. We always bring new bands.

17:05 Speaker 2: Yes, I can't ask these guys to keep coming back

17:07 Speaker 2: and show them the same bands, right, unfair. So one

17:11 Speaker 2: thing I have to promise is that swarmy Fest remains

17:15 Speaker 2: something that's grassroots, you know, Yeah, something where we want

17:19 Speaker 2: to grow it and we hope that it continues to

17:21 Speaker 2: get bigger. Yeah, And we continue to do it because

17:24 Speaker 2: people request us every year to do it. Yeah, So

17:28 Speaker 2: as long as people are having fun and they request

17:30 Speaker 2: us doing it, and they request cool features, Me and

17:34 Speaker 2: Melissa and Lexi, everybody in the band are going to

17:36 Speaker 2: try to make that happen. And the goal is to

17:38 Speaker 2: grow it, but not grow it to the point where

17:41 Speaker 2: we can't have a conversation on the phone.

17:43 Speaker 3: Yeah, or we can't have a solution.

17:48 Speaker 2: Because one of the big things that we see with

17:49 Speaker 2: festivals or big shows is they get so big or

17:53 Speaker 2: so corporate. Oh yeah, that people can't supervise or manage

17:56 Speaker 2: it right barely.

17:58 Speaker 3: It becomes this monster. It's hard to even come right.

18:02 Speaker 2: You got to have then you have to start making

18:04 Speaker 2: friends with lawyers, and you got to you have to

18:06 Speaker 2: know how to speak in court.

18:08 Speaker 10: Yeah, that's that the kind of relationships that we want

18:10 Speaker 10: to make.

18:11 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, not for us, right, We don't want to

18:13 Speaker 2: be so professional or so industry that we need to

18:16 Speaker 2: hire people to live out this dream for us.

18:19 Speaker 3: We should talk about the lineup. So, of course, obviously

18:22 Speaker 3: sepsis Silent Season, under the Horizon, Pulsifier, Temptress and the

18:27 Speaker 3: Cherry Fog. It's quite a show.

18:29 Speaker 10: I'm blown away, Yeah, I believe it.

18:30 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, and these are all we were talking earlier

18:33 Speaker 3: Jenny and I too, about how these are all bands

18:35 Speaker 3: that have been on the show except for the Cherry Fog,

18:37 Speaker 3: but I did, but I was checking.

18:39 Speaker 10: Them out and I love them and I have been

18:43 Speaker 10: like corresponding with them.

18:44 Speaker 3: Yeah.

18:45 Speaker 10: So I think they were hoping that they could come

18:47 Speaker 10: on some time in the near future.

18:50 Speaker 3: Oh, definitely. Yeah, we got to get them.

18:51 Speaker 10: Mind, I'll try to make that. I'll try to keep

18:52 Speaker 10: that conversation.

18:53 Speaker 3: Going really good, really good. And then, uh, and who

18:57 Speaker 3: are a Little Kat and the Blood Witch again? Yeah?

19:00 Speaker 10: So they are horror alternative.

19:06 Speaker 2: Dancers models, and I think I think Lilith Cat does

19:12 Speaker 2: some like like like restraint or like I don't know

19:17 Speaker 2: what you would call.

19:18 Speaker 10: It, like dangling.

19:22 Speaker 3: No, no, no, is that what it's called? Yeah?

19:25 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know when I'm just forgive me, I don't

19:27 Speaker 2: have the education of the English for it, but you

19:30 Speaker 2: know when they either do like hooks or ropes girl,

19:34 Speaker 2: they okay.

19:35 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all right, oh interesting, interesting, okay, okay.

19:41 Speaker 2: Yeah, so they they have they have a stage dancing

19:46 Speaker 2: performance right before the steps set.

19:48 Speaker 3: Okay, okay, excellent, good time, excellent, excellent. So we should

19:52 Speaker 3: talk about the sponsors, So of course, you know, we're

19:54 Speaker 3: very honored and privileged. Matt Connorton unleash to be involved

19:57 Speaker 3: as always, and we have Legion of Solas on with

19:59 Speaker 3: us in the last hour let's see. So also speed

20:02 Speaker 3: given promotions.

20:03 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, shout out to Josh and them. Yeah, okay,

20:07 Speaker 2: and what do they what do they do exactly? I

20:09 Speaker 2: think I think Josh was supposed to be on the

20:10 Speaker 2: show with us at one point and the reschedule. But

20:12 Speaker 2: I love Josh and I'm trying to I'm always trying

20:15 Speaker 2: to get him on this show.

20:16 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because he has just such.

20:19 Speaker 10: A wealth of information.

20:21 Speaker 3: He's a vet. Yeah, he's a straight shooter, yep.

20:24 Speaker 2: And he as well as everybody that's sponsoring this show,

20:29 Speaker 2: we keep a close circle.

20:30 Speaker 10: And the reason why we do that is so we

20:32 Speaker 10: can all communicate.

20:34 Speaker 2: And what we're communicating is the same type of goals

20:39 Speaker 2: of like community enrichment, independent business to business relationships, long

20:46 Speaker 2: term growth, you know, not screw no, who's a little

20:50 Speaker 2: guy creating opportunities where you know, there's not a lot

20:56 Speaker 2: of money in rock and roll, in local music, but

20:58 Speaker 2: we want to try to create event where they're incentivized

21:03 Speaker 2: they're fair.

21:04 Speaker 10: If people do get paid, they're getting paid fairly, right.

21:09 Speaker 3: That's it.

21:09 Speaker 1: Yeah.

21:10 Speaker 3: Yeah, So is that kind of what Josh is doing.

21:12 Speaker 10: Yeah, and that that that's his theme. And we both

21:16 Speaker 10: we both resonate and share that same goal.

21:18 Speaker 2: Yeah, and we we we tend to have the same

21:23 Speaker 2: sponsors come back, I think because I think I spoke

21:27 Speaker 2: on this before. You all do such a great job,

21:30 Speaker 2: and we don't want to take up a lot of

21:32 Speaker 2: flyer space, right with people clout chasing or yah. You know,

21:36 Speaker 2: and if you and if you have a flyer and

21:39 Speaker 2: you put one hundred sponsors on it, and people tend

21:42 Speaker 2: to overlook it, right, Yeah, So we really want to

21:45 Speaker 2: have a little more quality over quantity, especially this year.

21:49 Speaker 4: Yeah.

21:50 Speaker 2: It's hard to do ten bands in two rooms. Oh yeah,

21:53 Speaker 2: and then some bands get missed, some people don't get

21:55 Speaker 2: to see.

21:57 Speaker 3: Did you do that two years ago? Obviously you didn't

21:59 Speaker 3: do that at U Tafa, but two years ago Julia

22:02 Speaker 3: did that, right.

22:02 Speaker 10: Yeah, And I don't think I do it again.

22:05 Speaker 2: And and it's because we still want to be the

22:10 Speaker 2: type of the type of people that can hang out

22:11 Speaker 2: with everybody a little bit. Yeah, and we want to

22:14 Speaker 2: be able to we want swormy Fest to continue to

22:17 Speaker 2: be a social event as I was being able to

22:20 Speaker 2: like support the bands and check out a few vendors.

22:23 Speaker 2: It's also a place where people can talk about culture

22:27 Speaker 2: and art and share their ideas. Swormy Fest is a

22:31 Speaker 2: safe space, so people can speak there and beat themselves

22:35 Speaker 2: and support the bands at the same time.

22:37 Speaker 3: Yeah, and let's see also Viole its rain for all

22:42 Speaker 3: the sponsors.

22:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, and Gypsy is a good friend of mine. She

22:46 Speaker 2: she brings in like healing oils candles, Okay, yeah, okay,

22:53 Speaker 2: pretty much. Yeah, this this year, we wanted to go

22:55 Speaker 2: with with a magical theme. Okay, you know, you know,

23:01 Speaker 2: healing aroma therapy.

23:04 Speaker 3: She does.

23:04 Speaker 10: I think she's making a black light invasion steps as candle.

23:07 Speaker 3: Oh okidding, Oh that's cool. That's a cool idea.

23:10 Speaker 9: You's got a bunch of stones and things too.

23:12 Speaker 3: Yeah.

23:14 Speaker 2: Dnay Lyns Creations is similar where it's like everything from

23:20 Speaker 2: like patches and trinkets and you know, self help, motivation.

23:25 Speaker 10: And LGBTQ inclusive themes.

23:29 Speaker 9: Yeah, knitting, crochet.

23:31 Speaker 3: Chakra stones yea.

23:34 Speaker 10: And of course you know, and you got all the

23:35 Speaker 10: bands there with this stuff.

23:36 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, and then what about BPS records. Are they

23:39 Speaker 3: still going to be there? I know, and they were,

23:40 Speaker 3: they were supposed to be on the show with us,

23:41 Speaker 3: and I know there was some sort of an emergency,

23:43 Speaker 3: so I don't know if there is, I'm not.

23:45 Speaker 2: I hope they can make it to the actual limit. Yeah, yeah,

23:49 Speaker 2: I've yet to get a full update.

23:51 Speaker 3: Okay, okay, yeah, I hope everything's okay with them. I know,

23:53 Speaker 3: I know something went wrong, but hopefully nothing too serious.

23:56 Speaker 2: When you have a show like this, this is the

23:58 Speaker 2: weirdest thing, and not just depart I don't like when

24:01 Speaker 2: you have a show like this because it's getting a

24:03 Speaker 2: little bit bigger.

24:04 Speaker 10: You know, you start with thirty people, then you have

24:06 Speaker 10: forty people.

24:07 Speaker 2: But as the show gets bigger, the more people, you know,

24:13 Speaker 2: you make relationships with and you're trying to hold it together.

24:16 Speaker 2: If you have the larger your audience, something's going to

24:19 Speaker 2: go wrong, Oh of course, with somebody. You know, if

24:22 Speaker 2: you have an audience at ten people, the likelihood of

24:24 Speaker 2: somebody twisting their ankles a little low. But once you

24:28 Speaker 2: have an audience of seventy five people, somebody's mother passes away,

24:34 Speaker 2: somebody gets sick that week, So you know, when you

24:37 Speaker 2: have a show at this size and you're one of

24:40 Speaker 2: the organizers, you kind of have to prepare for some

24:43 Speaker 2: a little bit disappointment.

24:44 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you have to.

24:45 Speaker 10: It's not really prepared.

24:47 Speaker 2: My job isn't prepared for things to go well, right,

24:49 Speaker 2: it's kind of and my job is to is to

24:52 Speaker 2: prepare for how am I going to behave and how

24:56 Speaker 2: am I not? How am I going to bond and

25:00 Speaker 2: not react when they don't go my way?

25:03 Speaker 3: Exactly? Exactly? Have you had this is the fourth uh

25:08 Speaker 3: fourth Swarmy Fests? Have you had a lot of surprises

25:10 Speaker 3: over the years doing this or My impression is that

25:14 Speaker 3: that things have gone smoothly overall, right, But I mean

25:17 Speaker 3: I'm sure, I'm sure things go wrong.

25:21 Speaker 2: That is a that is a fair impression. We have

25:23 Speaker 2: a lot of people working on this, yeah. Yeah, so

25:25 Speaker 2: it's it's not like you've got a good team. I do,

25:28 Speaker 2: and then and and many of them are in this room.

25:29 Speaker 2: Yeah so, and we're working on it all year.

25:32 Speaker 3: Yeah.

25:33 Speaker 2: I want to give a special shout out to my

25:35 Speaker 2: partner for Swarmy Fest, Larry Loud from Loud Entertainment.

25:39 Speaker 3: Oh he's great. Yeah, we had him and uh, I'm

25:41 Speaker 3: never sure to bab Yep. We had them on the

25:44 Speaker 3: on the show not too long ago. Hopefully Baboo's okay.

25:47 Speaker 3: I know he has some health. He's doing good.

25:48 Speaker 2: He's at that he's at their new club tonight, the

25:50 Speaker 2: Canary they got they got, they got that big club

25:53 Speaker 2: now up in Massachusetts.

25:55 Speaker 10: Yeah, so he's doing that. But Larry will be there tonight.

25:58 Speaker 3: Oh excellent, excellent. Yeah, yeah, he's an eye ye yeah.

26:01 Speaker 3: And how did that come about working with Loud Entertainment

26:03 Speaker 3: because you didn't have them on board? Want me to

26:06 Speaker 3: tell you the truth.

26:09 Speaker 2: So the truth is we were doing an event and

26:12 Speaker 2: I won't say where, but we were doing an event

26:16 Speaker 2: and Larry wanted to book us for a show.

26:18 Speaker 3: Why won't Why won't you say where? I'm curious? Can

26:20 Speaker 3: you say why? You won't say where?

26:23 Speaker 2: Just because because people become emotional and and and there

26:27 Speaker 2: are there are levels of emotional where people tend to

26:29 Speaker 2: throw out rational thought.

26:31 Speaker 3: Okay, and that's just something I'm not.

26:32 Speaker 2: Going to engage with people online because then it becomes

26:35 Speaker 2: negative and if it's negative, it's a failure. Okay, So

26:40 Speaker 2: you know I don't kiss and tell, ok fair enough,

26:43 Speaker 2: But Larry was asking you know, promoters want to know

26:49 Speaker 2: who can you get in the door? Can you get

26:50 Speaker 2: five people? Can you get ten people? It's not ugly,

26:53 Speaker 2: but it is a question that.

26:54 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a valid, valid concern.

26:56 Speaker 2: So you know, if you got a room capacity at

27:00 Speaker 2: two fifty, promoters interested in you, they're gonna they might

27:05 Speaker 2: ask a band, or they might ask the talent, Hey,

27:07 Speaker 2: how many people do you think? How many tickets? How

27:09 Speaker 2: many pre sale tickets do you think you can sell?

27:12 Speaker 2: And I had, you know, I have an open door.

27:15 Speaker 2: I have a pretty open policy. You know, we sepstants.

27:18 Speaker 2: We show our mistakes. Yeah, So he said, what'd you

27:24 Speaker 2: get at your last show? And I said, oh, you know,

27:28 Speaker 2: go ask the promoters themselves. I said, don't take my

27:31 Speaker 2: word for it. Get in touch with the venue, and

27:34 Speaker 2: I want you to double check to so you could

27:38 Speaker 2: see what our attendance was. So he had been in

27:41 Speaker 2: contact with the venue and they said, oh, well, Sepsist,

27:45 Speaker 2: they only brought sixty people to the show, so I

27:49 Speaker 2: wouldn't recommend them. They said that we that Sepsist only

27:56 Speaker 2: brought sixty people to the show, and that we're not

27:59 Speaker 2: a big enough band, which I accepted, and then I

28:03 Speaker 2: reminded them all that not many bands in New England

28:07 Speaker 2: get twenty five people in the door. It's tough, yeah,

28:11 Speaker 2: And I'm not trying to be mean. I'm trying to

28:14 Speaker 2: tell the truth right exactly. You can think whatever thought

28:21 Speaker 2: and focus on that, but ignoring your thoughts and focusing

28:27 Speaker 2: on the truth.

28:28 Speaker 3: The truth is.

28:30 Speaker 2: The biggest local bands in New England don't draw twenty

28:34 Speaker 2: five people every show. Sure it's hard, yeah, or consistently,

28:40 Speaker 2: it's very difficult. And if they did, we would be

28:43 Speaker 2: the first band that sent them an email to try

28:46 Speaker 2: to book with them, right of course, because it's a win.

28:51 Speaker 2: Well to me is to lose if you're the only

28:54 Speaker 2: person in the band and Zachi b has to get

28:57 Speaker 2: all the audience members, or Melissa has to write all

29:00 Speaker 2: the songs, or the headliner and the co headliner are

29:05 Speaker 2: responsible for the for the majority of the draw. We

29:10 Speaker 2: have a we and I think that creates an inside

29:13 Speaker 2: circle from an outside circle, and it leaves independent artists subservient,

29:19 Speaker 2: submissive and relying on national acts and talent buyer talking power.

29:26 Speaker 2: And we don't want nobody to be able to repurpose, misuse,

29:30 Speaker 2: or set our value for us. So it's a good

29:33 Speaker 2: way of putting it our our our pathway, and there

29:36 Speaker 2: is no wrong way for anybody.

29:38 Speaker 3: This is just for us.

29:39 Speaker 2: We're not telling people what to do, to continue doing

29:41 Speaker 2: whatever works for you, yep. But we believe that no band,

29:48 Speaker 2: and that's what Swormifest is about, that no band should

29:50 Speaker 2: have to get one hundred people in the door. Not

29:53 Speaker 2: not because we're moral or there's good guys and bad

29:56 Speaker 2: guys or evil or good. Is because we just don't

30:00 Speaker 2: have to. Logistically, Yeah, local bands don't have to get

30:03 Speaker 2: one hundred people in how about just ten?

30:06 Speaker 3: Right?

30:07 Speaker 10: But if you've got five bands.

30:08 Speaker 2: And this, you know, five people in the bands, twenty

30:10 Speaker 2: five people there, and every band member brings two or

30:13 Speaker 2: three people, then it's not You're not leaving it to

30:18 Speaker 2: one band member, right or or a headliner, and then

30:21 Speaker 2: then you don't have all of the lobbying in playing

30:28 Speaker 2: with the paperwork when it comes to local when it

30:30 Speaker 2: comes to national acts coming.

30:32 Speaker 9: Into town, right right, it takes team work.

30:35 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, one hundred Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely. This

30:42 Speaker 3: is a little bit of a side street, but I

30:44 Speaker 3: know Jenny had told you that. So this show we

30:47 Speaker 3: usually stream it on Facebook and we're not doing that

30:51 Speaker 3: for right now, and she said you kind of chuckled

30:54 Speaker 3: that about that and the reason we're not and we're

30:57 Speaker 3: still going to YouTube. And actually, don't believe it or not,

31:01 Speaker 3: but Facebook has banned me from live streaming until December.

31:05 Speaker 3: And I have and I have no idea why, because

31:07 Speaker 3: they don't like to tell you. You know, these social

31:09 Speaker 3: media platforms, they don't like to tell you what you

31:11 Speaker 3: did wrong. They just like to tell you did something wrong.

31:13 Speaker 3: I can do everything else on Facebook. I just can't

31:15 Speaker 3: live stream the show.

31:16 Speaker 2: That's the I mean, that's the way it is for

31:19 Speaker 2: That's the way it is now for all of the apps. Yeah,

31:22 Speaker 2: you know they have that for sure. I mean that's

31:26 Speaker 2: kind of a hack, isn't it. You know, you create

31:28 Speaker 2: a special program. There's no human beings that you can talk.

31:31 Speaker 3: To rights, does it Twitch? Does it?

31:34 Speaker 10: All the apps on your phone do that? Yeah, there's

31:36 Speaker 10: no customer service.

31:37 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. It's funny too because people, you know, we

31:42 Speaker 3: talk a lot about AI, but AI is all supposed

31:45 Speaker 3: to make the world easier for us, right in theory,

31:48 Speaker 3: We're supposed to save money and be happier, but it's

31:51 Speaker 3: been with us. It's also been with us for longer

31:53 Speaker 3: than people realize, because if you're talking to a chat bot,

31:55 Speaker 3: I mean, you're literally talking to a chat bot, you know.

31:58 Speaker 3: And and I know that I know that the person

32:01 Speaker 3: who told me via Facebook Support that I'm banned from

32:07 Speaker 3: live streaming until December, who couldn't tell me the reason why.

32:09 Speaker 3: I know that that wasn't a real person, right, I

32:11 Speaker 3: know that was a chat I was talking to AI,

32:14 Speaker 3: and you know, and I don't know if they even

32:16 Speaker 3: fully understood what I was describing as the problem, right,

32:19 Speaker 3: you know what I mean?

32:20 Speaker 2: But most people, most people, if you sit most people

32:23 Speaker 2: down and you remove them from a group of other

32:26 Speaker 2: people from the construct, and you sit them down and

32:28 Speaker 2: you ask them what the purpose of artificial intelligence is,

32:31 Speaker 2: they're not going.

32:32 Speaker 3: To be able to tell you.

32:33 Speaker 9: Yeah, but I mean, isn't it supposed to be intelligent?

32:39 Speaker 3: Yes?

32:40 Speaker 10: Well what made the intelligent thing a human being?

32:46 Speaker 2: So so, if you're a gamer, you know, I gotta

32:50 Speaker 2: tell like me and my gamer friends, like AI is

32:53 Speaker 2: not new to us, like if like the idea of

32:55 Speaker 2: AI or just all of these gadgets and gizmos. If

32:58 Speaker 2: you're a gamer, if you've been playing Xbox, your whole life.

33:02 Speaker 2: It's not really a new concept for us, right right, Yeah.

33:05 Speaker 3: That makes sense, that makes sense. Are you concerned about

33:09 Speaker 3: and curious any any of you? Are you concerned about

33:13 Speaker 3: AI and its effect on on music? Did you see

33:16 Speaker 3: the news?

33:16 Speaker 2: Did you see the new Bathwater video where where the

33:20 Speaker 2: hornets were flying out of Lexi's Yeah, that's.

33:25 Speaker 3: Oh so those weren't actual hornets. I was concerned when

33:32 Speaker 3: I watched it. I was like, poor Alexi.

33:37 Speaker 2: Unfortunately our lead singer Melissa sets herself on fire and

33:43 Speaker 2: her body skeleton burn up into flames.

33:46 Speaker 3: But that didn't actually happen, right, That was a because

33:50 Speaker 3: I was also concerned about that. I was like, poor Melissa,

33:52 Speaker 3: that looks very painful.

33:57 Speaker 10: Back then we used to have to really throw bugs

33:59 Speaker 10: at them, and that.

34:03 Speaker 3: Is that why you're leaving the band? It sounds very

34:07 Speaker 3: remember we signed that paper, sounds very dangerous.

34:13 Speaker 10: Whatever happens in days?

34:15 Speaker 3: And yes, yes, yeah we should? Uh you want to

34:20 Speaker 3: play another what should we? Let's play something? We can

34:23 Speaker 3: play a Sepsis track unless you want to play something

34:25 Speaker 3: from one another bands tonight? Or what do you play

34:28 Speaker 3: a Silent Season song? Want to play silent which one?

34:32 Speaker 1: Hopeless?

34:34 Speaker 3: My favorite song. Yeah, we played this one in the

34:36 Speaker 3: first hour, but I'm happy to play it again. That's okay,

34:38 Speaker 3: we can play it again. Different it was a different hour,

34:40 Speaker 3: it was a whole different hour. No, this is my

34:42 Speaker 3: favorite Silent Season song. This is a great choice. All right,

34:45 Speaker 3: let's give this a spend silent season. Of course, one

34:47 Speaker 3: of the bands playing tonight at Swarmyfest, and we're going

34:49 Speaker 3: to talk more about that on the other side of this.

34:51 Speaker 3: But this is a great track. This is called hopeless

34:56 Speaker 3: and I don't hear anything and I think I know why.

35:00 Speaker 3: I'm gonna try that again. I might have to edit

35:02 Speaker 3: that on the podcast. This is called hopeless Silent Season.

35:32 Speaker 6: A feel of pressure falling, tell my, I'm so feel

35:38 Speaker 6: safe behind.

35:43 Speaker 1: Every single day it's all the same sons and him.

35:54 Speaker 2: No is gonna make me fall.

36:01 Speaker 3: From God?

36:05 Speaker 1: And chancing suits say well alas and well will go sinks,

36:21 Speaker 1: don listen.

36:24 Speaker 3: Pass I'm buried and I'm no raise.

36:27 Speaker 1: I how it so so sad, And.

36:35 Speaker 3: I'd say that I can't everything.

36:37 Speaker 1: I charge change she be so that starts so row.

36:46 Speaker 1: Nora's kind of stable.

36:54 Speaker 5: With that.

36:56 Speaker 1: No, and Chacy soon sang show.

37:03 Speaker 6: I'll say.

37:05 Speaker 1: Us not well know no son, thank god, it's a

37:12 Speaker 1: big sidney with.

37:17 Speaker 3: I'm not a such with my inshide.

37:23 Speaker 1: Don't know which.

37:24 Speaker 3: Way is still for.

37:28 Speaker 2: My ears my shot make you work God, you'll feel alone,

37:37 Speaker 2: my god.

37:38 Speaker 1: Watch it actual wat very fo.

37:44 Speaker 3: Picnic shows here.

37:49 Speaker 1: Chatty sang s.

37:55 Speaker 3: I'll say.

37:57 Speaker 1: As no, no.

38:33 Speaker 3: There it is. The track is hopeless. The band is

38:35 Speaker 3: a Silent Season and they will be playing tonight at Swarmyfest.

38:40 Speaker 3: If you are listening live on Saturday, it is November fifteen,

38:43 Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. This is Matt Connorton Unleashed And of

38:46 Speaker 3: course we're talking today. It's all about Swarmyfest tonight at

38:50 Speaker 3: Jewel right across the street really on Canal Street here

38:53 Speaker 3: in Manchester and really looking forward to tonight. And of course,

38:57 Speaker 3: uh we have William and Zachie b and Melissa and

39:01 Speaker 3: Lexi I hear from the band and uh and you

39:04 Speaker 3: brought you brought some other folks with you and who now,

39:08 Speaker 3: Who's who's going on last night?

39:10 Speaker 5: Is it?

39:10 Speaker 3: Is it Sepsis? Yeah, yeah, we we like to do that.

39:14 Speaker 3: Yeah because of the clock, you know.

39:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, so if we're running a little late, we could

39:20 Speaker 2: either add or take away music.

39:23 Speaker 3: Yeah, it gives you a little a little bit of

39:24 Speaker 3: flexibility there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good. That's good. Who's

39:27 Speaker 3: opening the show? Do you know?

39:29 Speaker 10: At this spoint? I think I think Temptris is opening

39:32 Speaker 10: the show.

39:32 Speaker 3: Temprist is opening. Yeah, yeah, we have them on. We

39:35 Speaker 3: played I don't know if you've listened to that song

39:37 Speaker 3: Carly that they have, but Jenny and I are like

39:39 Speaker 3: addicted to that song.

39:41 Speaker 2: We make we make sure this is this probably sounds crazy,

39:46 Speaker 2: but we listen to the bands that we book. Yeah, well, yeah,

39:51 Speaker 2: I know it seems like that would be like a

39:53 Speaker 2: generic thing, but a lot of times people don't do that,

39:55 Speaker 2: you know.

39:56 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, true.

39:58 Speaker 2: You know, if if a band said to a promoter, hey,

40:00 Speaker 2: I pretty pretty pinky swear promise, right then I'm gonna

40:04 Speaker 2: that I'm really good and I'm gonna bring fifty people,

40:07 Speaker 2: sometimes people believe that, right.

40:09 Speaker 3: Right, that is true.

40:11 Speaker 2: I've never met a band that says my band is

40:13 Speaker 2: terrible and we're bringing no one, right Yeah, yeah, of course,

40:18 Speaker 2: of course.

40:19 Speaker 3: So now what is now after? Obviously, you know, today

40:22 Speaker 3: is a very big deal, but yes, after you get

40:24 Speaker 3: through today, what's what's kind of the what else does

40:27 Speaker 3: the band have? In the works other than you know,

40:29 Speaker 3: you got to find a new bass player or replace

40:31 Speaker 3: them with AI or whatever. But I can talk about

40:34 Speaker 3: the a I think forever. I think.

40:36 Speaker 2: I Well, the Swarmy Fest really starts on the Friday,

40:40 Speaker 2: which is last night, so we all, yeah, we all

40:42 Speaker 2: hang out and we do like staff and the VIPs

40:45 Speaker 2: and people that helped getting the show together, we all

40:47 Speaker 2: hang out together, and folks that may have came used

40:51 Speaker 2: years before and new people get to all meet each other. Yeah,

40:55 Speaker 2: and it's nice because that way you can go to

40:57 Speaker 2: the venue some of the people that are traveling are

40:59 Speaker 2: familiar with people there, instead of telling everybody, hey, just

41:03 Speaker 2: just meet.

41:03 Speaker 10: At the venue and we're the only people they know. Yeah,

41:06 Speaker 10: it's just nice to have a few other people that

41:09 Speaker 10: you're familiar with of course.

41:10 Speaker 3: Yeah.

41:11 Speaker 10: Yeah, But the real cherry on top is the Swarmy

41:18 Speaker 10: Fest after party.

41:19 Speaker 9: Yeah, with our best Pajama contest.

41:23 Speaker 2: Oh okay, Yeah, this we do a theme, so there's

41:26 Speaker 2: a you know, just like with every show, Stepsis does

41:29 Speaker 2: a wardrobe theme for anybody that's keeping score, and we

41:33 Speaker 2: also do an after party theme and this year is

41:38 Speaker 2: the after party Pajama Jamie jam Okay, and if you

41:43 Speaker 2: bring if you don't have to, but there's a limited

41:46 Speaker 2: amount of people. Yeah, you know, we don't want to

41:48 Speaker 2: get arrested.

41:49 Speaker 3: Yeah, but.

41:52 Speaker 2: Folks can if they if they buy tickets early, they

41:55 Speaker 2: can send us screenshots and it automatically gets them into

41:58 Speaker 2: the after party.

41:59 Speaker 10: Oh okay, and then if they bring pajamas, they can

42:04 Speaker 10: win a gift card.

42:04 Speaker 3: Oh that's a cool concept. Yeah.

42:06 Speaker 10: Yeah, who's got the coolest pajamas on?

42:08 Speaker 3: We have.

42:10 Speaker 2: Or cosplay and we have you know, female judges that

42:13 Speaker 2: are gonna judge. Everybody'll be fun.

42:15 Speaker 3: Okay, all right, cool, So that's tonight.

42:18 Speaker 10: So if you're the only person out there and you

42:21 Speaker 10: brought your pajamas, you won.

42:23 Speaker 3: Wow. Wow. So you can win by forfeit basically.

42:26 Speaker 2: A lot of people, Yeah, a lot of people. Look, man,

42:28 Speaker 2: I don't want to wear any pajamas. But that's good

42:30 Speaker 2: because that that just narrows down the competition. So when

42:35 Speaker 2: no matter what, when no matter what, and I guess

42:38 Speaker 2: if nobody wears their pajamas, we'll spend a gift card.

42:43 Speaker 3: And then so what happens after all this, So after

42:45 Speaker 3: you get past Swarmy Fest, so like do you know,

42:47 Speaker 3: like are you are you recording new music?

42:49 Speaker 10: Oh that's what you meant.

42:51 Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yes, yes, we would, we would record more music,

42:57 Speaker 2: but it's expensive to record our music. Yeah, it really is,

43:02 Speaker 2: and because we really want the best quality we could

43:05 Speaker 2: get for us.

43:06 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Where do you record normally?

43:10 Speaker 10: I mean, so there's two processes we record. We track

43:14 Speaker 10: out a lot of it at our house.

43:15 Speaker 3: Yeah.

43:16 Speaker 2: And then the second half is working with Glenn Robinson. Okay,

43:20 Speaker 2: we either meet with him video or he mixing masters

43:22 Speaker 2: on his own. Okay, is he in the area or

43:25 Speaker 2: he's some Canada. Oh he's Oh he is, Okay, but

43:28 Speaker 2: he's got studios.

43:29 Speaker 10: In New York, Vermont.

43:30 Speaker 3: Okay, because I was gonna say, I know the name.

43:32 Speaker 10: Glenn Robinson is is world renowned you know?

43:35 Speaker 3: Yeah?

43:35 Speaker 10: Yeah, you know Gore Jason Newstead. Yeah.

43:40 Speaker 2: Is that what makes it so expensive? Because you talked

43:42 Speaker 2: about well, no, but we are we are in an

43:45 Speaker 2: industry of showing people that we know, important people, that

43:50 Speaker 2: we've worked with, important people. Oh yeah, that's the whole

43:53 Speaker 2: purpose of Swarmy Fest is for all of us to

43:56 Speaker 2: create a long lasting resume.

44:00 Speaker 3: H mm hmm. How do you when you're when you're

44:03 Speaker 3: putting together Swarmy Fest in terms of the bands that

44:05 Speaker 3: you have booked, and you know, you talk about how

44:07 Speaker 3: you don't want to have the same bands every year

44:08 Speaker 3: obviously because I get stale. But but what what is

44:10 Speaker 3: kind of the criteria that you look for with with

44:13 Speaker 3: the band. It's because it's a really good mix.

44:15 Speaker 2: It's it's disappointing, and it's depressing because I have to

44:18 Speaker 2: do it, and because you have to tell people, you

44:22 Speaker 2: have to, you have to, you have to tell people no.

44:24 Speaker 10: That's something I want to do. I don't want to

44:26 Speaker 10: make people unhappy.

44:27 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to tell people or or I

44:29 Speaker 2: don't I don't want to tell them no, and then

44:32 Speaker 2: they feel that I don't like their band or that

44:35 Speaker 2: I don't like their because I like everything.

44:37 Speaker 9: Man.

44:37 Speaker 3: Yeah, but like I like, I loved I love death metal.

44:42 Speaker 2: But over the we used to book with a lot

44:44 Speaker 2: of death metal bands in our shows, and and like

44:48 Speaker 2: we had a lot of people say, you know, can

44:50 Speaker 2: we just do one or two? Like a lot of

44:51 Speaker 2: our fans, they want to more of a mix. So

44:54 Speaker 2: we've been trying to do more of a blend. Yeah,

44:57 Speaker 2: you know, or you'll get people to say, you know,

44:59 Speaker 2: we book a lot of rappers and stuff, and people

45:02 Speaker 2: wanted more of a blend. So just with with with

45:06 Speaker 2: Because we book around Sepsis, we try to now book

45:10 Speaker 2: the bands that really like us and fit in with us.

45:15 Speaker 2: We used to book bands that didn't even like us. Really, Yeah,

45:19 Speaker 2: why do you got to like our music? All you

45:20 Speaker 2: got to do is be professional and get people in

45:22 Speaker 2: the door.

45:22 Speaker 3: That's true.

45:23 Speaker 10: You don't got to like me, right, that's true. All

45:25 Speaker 10: you got to do, all you got to do is

45:28 Speaker 10: what you agreed to do.

45:30 Speaker 3: You don't.

45:30 Speaker 2: You don't have to do what you're not committed to do.

45:33 Speaker 2: And you don't have to do what you agreed to do.

45:36 Speaker 2: You don't have to do which you didn't agree to do.

45:39 Speaker 3: Right, So, if they didn't agree to like Sepsis, we don't.

45:43 Speaker 3: We don't. We don't don't.

45:45 Speaker 2: We don't force people to like us, and we don't.

45:47 Speaker 2: We don't make music, and some bands do do that.

45:49 Speaker 2: I'm not being sarcastic, of course, some artists make music

45:54 Speaker 2: for people to like it. Yeah, we just make music

45:57 Speaker 2: and if you like it, you like it. If you don't,

46:01 Speaker 2: then you don't.

46:01 Speaker 10: We don't care.

46:02 Speaker 2: That's not it's not a goal of ours to create

46:04 Speaker 2: music that Spotify likes, right, because then we have to go, well,

46:08 Speaker 2: let's find out what Spotify likes. What's the method of

46:11 Speaker 2: Spotify likes to two minutes and eighty seconds? Spotify likes

46:15 Speaker 2: it when you don't use swears Spotif so, then who's

46:17 Speaker 2: right in the art now our fans. So if we

46:21 Speaker 2: let our fans hold us hostage, if we let the

46:24 Speaker 2: apps and the gadgets hold us hostage, me and Melissa

46:26 Speaker 2: can't write, right, yeah, yeah, then we can't be authentic. Yeah,

46:31 Speaker 2: so that's there's already a lot of bands that are

46:34 Speaker 2: writing for the industry. Oh sure, there are a lot

46:36 Speaker 2: of Always, there are plenty of bands that write for

46:39 Speaker 2: their fans. Yeah, there are plenty of bands that write

46:42 Speaker 2: to be monetized.

46:43 Speaker 3: Yeah.

46:44 Speaker 2: We write to be honest, We write to be authentic. Yeah,

46:49 Speaker 2: we write to just be ourselves. We just write to

46:51 Speaker 2: to do it.

46:51 Speaker 3: Yeah. Are the two of you, You're the principal songwriters,

46:55 Speaker 3: you and Melissa, the two of you write everything.

46:57 Speaker 2: These days it's it's whoever's doing it, Okay, Okay, these

47:01 Speaker 2: days it's like, what if we're in the creative process,

47:05 Speaker 2: you know, we were in the we were in the

47:07 Speaker 2: studio last year, and and Zach sat sat down for

47:11 Speaker 2: a few minutes, and we just didn't have a baseline,

47:13 Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, And it's just sitting here listening to

47:17 Speaker 2: the music, I think, trusting our ears and playing with

47:20 Speaker 2: each other. We've all been working with each other for

47:22 Speaker 2: so long. Yeah, there's a little bit of our personality

47:25 Speaker 2: of the music. So we we've all gotten accustomed to

47:28 Speaker 2: what each other like. Yeah, so sometimes you know, Lexi

47:33 Speaker 2: will write up a drum pattern that she knows I'll

47:36 Speaker 2: be impressed with, or you know, or I'll throw I'll

47:38 Speaker 2: throw a riff at Melissa and I'll know because you know,

47:41 Speaker 2: she'll be sitting there like, okay, yeah, that's that's stock.

47:45 Speaker 10: I'm not ready yet. It's got to be bigger than that.

47:48 Speaker 2: And when it gets big, you know, and then Melissa

47:51 Speaker 2: doesn't doesn't say much, but but but she's got you know,

47:56 Speaker 2: she got the communication when she likes something, you know,

47:59 Speaker 2: that big old smile. I'll come up sure, and really,

48:03 Speaker 2: I want to write music that my band members want

48:05 Speaker 2: to play.

48:07 Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I'm not just quiet here, I'm quiet

48:09 Speaker 9: in reality.

48:12 Speaker 2: So like I, I go around and we have like

48:14 Speaker 2: a peer reviewing process and some of our most passionate

48:18 Speaker 2: friends and fans and people that have been working with

48:20 Speaker 2: us are in our staff chats and stuff. So like

48:23 Speaker 2: we'll come up with with riffs, our creative ideas, and

48:25 Speaker 2: we'll just ask people do you like it, and like

48:29 Speaker 2: if they like it or if they have extra feedback.

48:33 Speaker 10: We usually go as a team together what we all

48:37 Speaker 10: feel is best for the music.

48:39 Speaker 3: Right right, excellent? So what so tonight are you playing? Uh,

48:44 Speaker 3: let's see, so are you playing the new song Bathwater?

48:47 Speaker 3: Are you playing that tonight?

48:48 Speaker 10: Or we're playing Bathwaters?

48:50 Speaker 3: Excellent? Excellent? What about Force to Lay Down? You're playing

48:53 Speaker 3: that one? Yes? Okay, good because I we played that

48:58 Speaker 3: in the first hour today of the show and I

49:00 Speaker 3: and I hope they play that tonight. Yeah. Yeah, so.

49:04 Speaker 10: Tonight's set list.

49:05 Speaker 3: I'm glad you're answering these questions because I don't know

49:07 Speaker 3: if you remember this, but last year I asked you

49:11 Speaker 3: and you you didn't want to reveal anything on the

49:13 Speaker 3: arab get mad.

49:14 Speaker 9: At me, people get mad if we give everything away.

49:21 Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll go, Hey, tune into Matt Connorton and then

49:23 Speaker 2: we'll tell them the set list. Yeah, that has happened. Yeah,

49:31 Speaker 2: And people don't get like raging man. Of course they're

49:35 Speaker 2: like busting with.

49:36 Speaker 3: Us, you know, yeah, yeah, okay, but you are playing

49:38 Speaker 3: those two Yeah, so you've committed, you've committed to that.

49:41 Speaker 10: You I'll give you a cheat.

49:43 Speaker 3: Okay.

49:44 Speaker 2: We have a new band member joining the band, so

49:48 Speaker 2: naturally we're going to play a lot of songs that

49:50 Speaker 2: incorporate the new band member, whether it be whether it

49:53 Speaker 2: be keyboards are screaming, You're going to see a lot

49:56 Speaker 2: of the new band member. Yeah, all right, all right,

49:59 Speaker 2: that is the because that is the new edition. Okay,

50:03 Speaker 2: so that people haven't heard. People haven't heard us with

50:05 Speaker 2: keyboards in a while. We've had DJ's keyboards. We have

50:09 Speaker 2: all kinds of different versions of this band.

50:10 Speaker 3: That's true. Yeah, the band has gone through a lot

50:12 Speaker 3: of iteration.

50:13 Speaker 2: I shown somebody a picture of ten years ago with

50:17 Speaker 2: Melissa before the braids, and they were like, what, Yeah,

50:20 Speaker 2: they didn't even.

50:21 Speaker 10: Know who they were looking at such a baby face.

50:23 Speaker 10: Yeah they don't know. Yeah, yeah, they thought we were

50:25 Speaker 10: showing them another band.

50:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's gonna be a geared more toward newer

50:28 Speaker 3: material then, right, I hope.

50:30 Speaker 2: So if it, if it's I always want to because

50:33 Speaker 2: a because you know, we're responsible for still pushing our

50:39 Speaker 2: very first song. Yeah, Like, artists make that mistake of

50:42 Speaker 2: believing that everybody heard their first favorite.

50:44 Speaker 9: Song and then they stopped pushing it and they stopped

50:46 Speaker 9: pushing it.

50:47 Speaker 2: That's why we don't have a huge library or catalog,

50:49 Speaker 2: because we don't want to be one of those artists

50:51 Speaker 2: with like twenty albums of music that nobody listens to.

50:54 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a really good point.

50:56 Speaker 10: Yeah, really good music that nobody listens to.

50:59 Speaker 2: Right, because I had right, because if you so much

51:01 Speaker 2: music gets missed, even with the even with national artists,

51:04 Speaker 2: to the big artist. Sure, even traditionally they only push

51:06 Speaker 2: a couple of singles, right, even ten years ago, thirty

51:09 Speaker 2: years ago, even when the albums had seventeen tracks on it,

51:13 Speaker 2: they only picked one or two of songs. And that's

51:16 Speaker 2: what the Yeah that that hasn't changed. Well, yeah, everybody

51:21 Speaker 2: pushed the singles. No, they push singles back then too.

51:24 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well yeah, like when I work with clients,

51:27 Speaker 3: when I work with radio clients doing college radio promotion,

51:30 Speaker 3: you know, we pick a we pick a single, and

51:32 Speaker 3: we send that out and you know, if if a

51:35 Speaker 3: station isn't biting on that single. You know, maybe you'll

51:37 Speaker 3: try to well, you know, here's the whole album, maybe

51:39 Speaker 3: there's something here, you like, try to get them to

51:41 Speaker 3: play something.

51:42 Speaker 10: But but it's Push was that song?

51:44 Speaker 3: Yeah? Push was the Push?

51:46 Speaker 5: Was that?

51:46 Speaker 2: So when our album came out and our record label like,

51:51 Speaker 2: you know, we wanted we want a black Light to

51:53 Speaker 2: be to be fun, you know, oh yeah, but in

51:56 Speaker 2: the middle of black Light it says let's go f

51:59 Speaker 2: it right right.

52:00 Speaker 10: We didn't know that getting into this.

52:02 Speaker 1: Oh.

52:03 Speaker 2: As a result, you haven't seen you haven't seen a

52:05 Speaker 2: Septis song since with a bad word in it.

52:07 Speaker 9: Yeah, everything on our first well again.

52:11 Speaker 3: There is one.

52:13 Speaker 10: Uh fair to say it's on our first album.

52:16 Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, Well never like anything anything that was

52:19 Speaker 2: written after that, we will never yeah yeah'll never do

52:22 Speaker 2: it ever again.

52:22 Speaker 3: We never swear yeah yeah yeah. I don't know if

52:27 Speaker 3: you even realize this. I played black Light Invasion I

52:30 Speaker 3: made I made a radio edit of it. I played

52:33 Speaker 3: it years ago. It was before we ever even met,

52:37 Speaker 3: because I do that other show, Local Outbreak, and I

52:40 Speaker 3: played it on that show just because I just found

52:43 Speaker 3: you guys online and I was like, oh, I like

52:45 Speaker 3: this song, and I just I made a radio edit

52:47 Speaker 3: of it. So when it gets to that part instead

52:48 Speaker 3: of you know what, it says yeah yeah.

52:50 Speaker 2: Exactly, yeah, thank you yeah yeah, to send that to it, yeah,

52:55 Speaker 2: I don't.

52:56 Speaker 3: I don't think I still have it, but that that

52:57 Speaker 3: would have been geez, that would have been at least well,

52:59 Speaker 3: what when did that song come out? It's over ten.

53:02 Speaker 2: Years, right, so I think I think I think the

53:05 Speaker 2: first time we ever gave that to you it was

53:07 Speaker 2: like a demo version, I believe.

53:09 Speaker 3: Well, no, when I when I played it originally, I

53:11 Speaker 3: just found, like I said, we hadn't even met. I

53:13 Speaker 3: found it online. I found you guys online on band camp.

53:16 Speaker 3: I think is right.

53:16 Speaker 2: So that song, the song that the version that everybody

53:19 Speaker 2: hears now wasn't really was not recorded until twenty nineteen.

53:26 Speaker 3: Oh, so the one I played was what was it

53:28 Speaker 3: a demo? Yes? That was online?

53:30 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, strange steps is fact. We we we

53:33 Speaker 2: didn't we we've been a band for fourteen years, yeah,

53:36 Speaker 2: but we didn't. We didn't release music until five years ago.

53:39 Speaker 9: Oh, because we've gone through so many different lineups.

53:43 Speaker 10: Yeah, and the music changes, you know.

53:45 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh wow, Okay, that's Sue at.

53:53 Speaker 10: A couple a couple of steps of facts.

53:54 Speaker 2: Yeah, most most people that play in Stepsis don't play over,

53:59 Speaker 2: don't play over eighteen to thirty months, okay, And and

54:03 Speaker 2: most members that play in Steps play under thirty shows.

54:06 Speaker 3: Okay, that's just it's just what it is. Yeah, yeah,

54:10 Speaker 3: that's just what it is, all right, So don't feel bad, Zach.

54:13 Speaker 2: There they hold on, hold on, hold on, never there

54:16 Speaker 2: are there are no band members except for Robert Pan

54:21 Speaker 2: and Lexi, who have lasted in the band more than

54:25 Speaker 2: two and a half three years.

54:26 Speaker 3: Wow, no kidding, that's just that's just what it is.

54:29 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Lexi's been in the band for seven years

54:32 Speaker 2: and Robert's been in the band on and off for

54:35 Speaker 2: ten years.

54:35 Speaker 3: Well but she's only been in the band band today, right,

54:39 Speaker 3: So that that resets the clock, doesn't that reset the

54:42 Speaker 3: clock in a new department? Yeah, so you're starting all over, yes, yeah,

54:48 Speaker 3: complete newbie. So now you can't leave at least for

54:53 Speaker 3: another two and a half years. Why I could break

54:57 Speaker 3: that's true, that's true. Well we are oh wow, we

55:01 Speaker 3: are rapidly approaching the top of the hour. It all

55:02 Speaker 3: goes so fast. So one last push for tonight, So

55:05 Speaker 3: swarmy fest tonight doors open at seven or is the

55:09 Speaker 3: show start at.

55:09 Speaker 10: Seven, doors at six music six thirty.

55:14 Speaker 3: Oh, music starts at six thirty.

55:16 Speaker 9: Yes, okay, gotcha's changed since the flyer?

55:18 Speaker 10: Oh okay, okay, no, that's what the original flyer did

55:21 Speaker 10: say that though, And that's good.

55:24 Speaker 3: To tell our live listeners that though. So yeah, so

55:26 Speaker 3: so Tonight, Loud Entertainment presents US Swarmy Fest Sepsis Silent

55:30 Speaker 3: Season under the Horizon Pulsifier, The Cherry Fog Temptress, also

55:34 Speaker 3: featuring Lilith Kat and the Blood Witch, and of course

55:37 Speaker 3: Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are very proud and honored to

55:40 Speaker 3: again be participating along with Legion of Solace, Speed Demon Promotions, Violets,

55:46 Speaker 3: Rain BPS Records, Denny Lynz Creations. Did I miss anybody

55:51 Speaker 3: that was really good? Thank you? I try. Well, we're

55:56 Speaker 3: Jenny and I are really excited about tonight. So we're

55:58 Speaker 3: we're very very happy and always wonderful to have you

56:02 Speaker 3: on and wonderful to have all of you here. Thank

56:04 Speaker 3: you for coming in, Thanks for having us absolutely absolutely

56:08 Speaker 3: so yeah. So if you're listening live on Saturday, make

56:10 Speaker 3: sure you come to Jewel tonight for swarmy Fest, and

56:14 Speaker 3: yeah we are. I don't even have time to play

56:16 Speaker 3: another song. We are out of time, but that's okay.

56:19 Speaker 3: We had a lot to talk about. That's a good problem.

56:21 Speaker 3: So if you missed any part of today's show, it'll

56:23 Speaker 3: be up in just a little bit at wmhradio dot

56:25 Speaker 3: orgon on my website Matt connorton dot com. And that's

56:28 Speaker 3: it for us for now. We'll see it swarmy Fest.

56:29 Speaker 3: Bye everybody, Bye

57:00 Speaker 2: All ten