Matt Connarton Unleashed 11-25-23 part 2

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com. You're listening to wh command gets sorely Matt South Coming, Welcome back

everybody. This is Matt Connorton Unleashed as we enter our third hour on this

Saturday afternoon. We are live from the studios of wm n H ninety five

point three FM in glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast Channel

six if you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across

the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connorton

dot com for all your lives, streaming options, social media links, contact,

infoshow archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is Saturday, November

twenty five, twenty twenty three, and we've got a great band in studio

with us making their second appearance on the show. We have pretty late.

I don't think we had all the members here with us last time, though,

so this is this is great, And what we're gonna do is they're

gonna play live for us. They've got a few songs and then we'll play

we'll play a studio track and then we'll come back and we'll talk a little

bit to everybody. So really looking forward to that, But not not much

to say at the moment because we've got everybody set up for a live set

here. Just trying to make sure everything is turned on because we've got the

full band here with us. But let me pull these mics up here.

We can kind of hear you talking a little bit, but welcome everybody.

Hey, I don't think it was how many of you were here last time

or it was okay, so most of the band was here on what's up?

Let's uh now, how many songs are you gonna play for us?

Three? Three? We get three of them? Three? All right?

So what we'll do is no way to do a proper sound check because we're

live, so I will kind of ride the faders as we go. I'll

do my best to Yeah, but uh, you're gonna sound great. I

have no uh, I have no worries. Uh So uh, ladies and

gentlemen, pretty late, live in studio whenever you're ready to go for it.

Okay, this song is called ninety five. He's talk back post sort

GE's talk stalking shows, Lady tample is not for me. Let's ut great,

Kim joos, No, you lift the dream a d u n.

We'll like histories. So naquid nine to five? Rather sleep in stead find

myself the sunny beats where I can rest my hands, wasting my tie,

just wasting my time, just wasting my time, just wasting my tie.

Gig su oh clean in the bed of this space, cause I was sting.

Was my trying? So I go way back in his face, working

for time, spending all the times waiting around time, get me my five

chokes book. It's not for me to listen to the words I say?

Did I say? Done? Glen the nine to five and rather sleeping steady

found myself side deep chase, I can rest my luck. There's the rest

of my time, just wasting my time, Just listen myself, Just wait

the time. M h, very nice, pretty late, Live in a

studio with us, all right, whenever you all are ready, you know,

let's keep going sound great promises, right, yeah, sure, yeah,

this next one is called promises. Oh no, I said belief.

Oh it's a cure everything is afraid about. It would change. There's anything

that every day Nord was never perfectly, So change our only need you wants

a way I say your birthday. Please don't have to change because it say

I have said, so, Baby, don't try. I'm prett I made

a lot of promises. I couldn't keep promise me. You'll not believe.

Oh, I'm alway's gonna need you to say to me, baby, you

don't try every reason I made a lot of promises. I couldn't keep promise

me. You literally, I'm always gonna need you excited me, be sided

me, come back in all things, even to do you try and tell

me that I'm fool. You've seen it broke into the smith fleet, So

like sid and I say, I'm there. You've it's impossible to fix.

Will you remain believe you would be the same? So baby, coach hi

emprey ten. I've made a lot of purposes that fling keeps to promise me

never Oh it's gonna need it beside of me, Baby, you don't try

every ten you made a lot of promises, are putting geese promised me never

lease, I'm alway's gonna need you beside me. Beside me. I swear

I'll sivive sid do ever bees doever it tell me? So, I lot

of a swell, sigvibes, sat heavy, heavy, it's a little set

of leaves. Oh govin h was made about it would change. There's anything

good, heavy, very nice, pretty late live in studio with us,

and they're gonna do one more song and then we're gonna listen to a studio

track. Oh by the way, Uh, the studio track that I just

received. Google Driver is telling me I don't have access. I got a

denial request, So I'll give you a minute to fix that. But by

the way, the studio line is open if you have any questions or anything

for the band. Uh. After after they're set here, we're gonna talk,

so uh you'll be able to give us a call six O three two

five oh six oh seven six O three two five oh six o seven.

And of course you can always uh interact endo pine in the Facebook live chat

as well. But the best thing to do is give us a call at

six O three two five oh six, oh seven, Oh, and I

should tell you too. Jenny made reference to it earlier off air, but

just for the hell of it, at the start of today's show at nine

am, I played, uh, I played the View from Here because I

usually open the show with a longer song, just get people a chance to

tune in and get online and whatnot. And by the way, I love

that song. So but that's the song that our first guests today run like

Thieves. They were our guests and hour one and they were commenting on how

much they really like that song, and they were kind of they were setting

up to play live and they found themselves kind of strumming along to it.

So you got a you got a lot of love, and didn't I think

Charlie from Rolling Exile says something about it too, So yeah, so you

got some love from that. But did you did you resend that? Uh?

Yep? I I changed the access. Okay, awesome, thank you,

thank you? All right, and uh so we'll hear that shortly.

But yeah, you got one more song you want to do? I mean,

yeah, we were planting to do the View from Her Acoustic cool kind

of broken down for you. If you guys want to hear that. Oh

I'd love it. Yeah, absolutely, I love that song. Great,

great song. All right, so that's yeah, it's the first time we

did a stripped down Oh beautiful. Yeah, this is the international debut.

Nice there these a two step back, feel this pill even feel this sad

of if I was lost, I see you with the ocean of al me.

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from Okay, on my own way, small statues to guess will be fir

my broadcast, ooking in on my own self. So sick seeing on the

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line. We like what you foxkeepe. You'll be be singing on my body

found side, rapped up in sheets to cap blue you tray I when you're

singing in the deep. And we have some suit so we have some sualon

stood now we have some stud sol shift back from laying over vampers so throw

from shogging along its most she I guess will be fund hide in my broadcasts

from beginning of my own self, so sick see not a top show the

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me w so n wso n see if back from gunning over the backs sort

joke from troping on my own life, saw steps against we'll be fir my

brocats from beggin of my own self, So sick sitting on the top shelf.

Do you for me? We soon n H tone once soon, nice

one soon nice from so nice soon nice thanks mm that was so good.

I love it. I love it. Great job, great job. If

you're just joining us pretty Late is here with us live in studio. We're

going to play a studio track called Guardrail from Pretty Late, and then we're

going to come back and we're going to talk a bit. But check this

out, your simple moment in between the lands to play in the pond streets.

I tend to swear win a girl through you, Suphie, I'll steal

so it's the closer bos that's memphy. I still gods me into a god

room got down, I because we get it out alone back home. Wizzo

say, it makes a laugh, but there no lights. Got down.

I'm like, I'm gonna get it all lonely back Whizzo, the Mets,

the makes the laugher, the go. But the realiz you are symphony.

You graduated with a good degree. Now you're waiting at home for me.

I'm hong your nurse, certainly because at fair beat, I'll stand to the

coast to suppose that's here in my feet. I'm still got stay to look.

Got down. I think of ways up the week set in the basil

my door, ex go go down along the way. You're back home now,

Ways up. The song in the backs of my door goles she's a

they'll step so it's the closest post that here. See a still godda too.

I got around God damn. I think of the banks last Thursday,

the banks, last last time. Great track. That is Guardrail. The

band is pretty late. They are here with us live in studio. This

is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n

H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester. New Hampshire also on

Comcast channel six if you're in Manchester, and you can go to my website

Matt connorton dot com for all the info on the show and all the different

ways you can hear it live or of course afterward if you check out the

podcast edition. We are here with the band Pretty Late. They've put down

their instruments and we're gonna we're gonna talk a little bit. And let's Christine

if we can start with you at the desk and just go around and everybody

tell me who you are and what you do in the band and anything else

you any other pertinence you want us to know. Sure, thanks, so

thanks for having us met. My name is Christine. I am and one

of the lead vocalists. I also dabble with keys, but been with the

band for oh gosh, I want to say seven almost years now. Okay,

we have a fun time. Excellent, excellent, And you sir.

My name is Mike. Mike. I'm the drummer of Pretty Late, one

of the founding members back when it was just three of us. Yeah,

we've come a long way. We've grown a lot. This group has become

a family, you know. Yeah, yeah, very cool. Very cool,

all right, and you oh the money is Mike. I'm sorry,

I was distracted the zone out a little bit. Yeah, No, my

name is Mike. I'm one of the guitar players. I do a little

bit thing, and I do a little bit right And you know, started

this about ten years ago and our real our real true lineup kind of came

back in twenty nineteen, like right before COVID. Yeah, so it was

a challenge to getting to this so like and then that kind of the next

stage of things, and it's kind of cool, you know what we're doing

now because it's a little bit different from what we did we were your twenties.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course, of course I

heard quite a lot. Yes, yes, and you and I'm Rob.

I play guitar, little vocals, songwriting. It's been definitely get go Okay.

There just three of us, so yeah, yeah, so you're one

of the originals. Yeah yeah, there's five of us. Yeah, excellent.

And the bass player, Yeah, my name's Tom. I play the

bass guitar and do a little bit of this, a little bit of that.

But I've been in the band since twenty nineteen. I like the band.

It's a great band. It's been a lot of fun. You do

some too. You know, I'm a bass player and I was watching you

and uh yeah, you do some some solos in there too. It's pretty

cool how that. I definitely like to get adventurous with my bass playing,

and I'm inspired by bass players who take the bass in more non traditional roles

a lot of the time. Man, Yeah, yeah, do you because

I was curious too, obviously you know you're you're playing acoustic in here today.

Do you approach it the same way when you're plugged in on stage?

Or yeah? I do relatively of my low end. For me, it's

like really important to anchor the band like a bass player supposed to. But

well, in between those two, I like to weave some you know,

fun little things in there. Yeah. Yeah, I'd add something to the

song or something that I like particular, you know, you know how it

is, try to be tasteful, right right of course? Of course,

Now how much so is it one full album that's out or and then you're

working on the next one or what's what's the status of that? Ye?

So yeah, whoever wants to go, Yeah, just three songs right now

in on our second album and we're in the process of actually starting to do

some more creative writing. Okay, this new album is actually going to be

a twist. It's really going to be a big twist for all our fans

is out there. It might be something that they wasn't expected, really,

but we got something in the future set up for the Icy is going to

be some amazing things. Any clue or is the twist of surprise? It's

a wonderful surprise things and concept stages. Yeah, a lot of lots of

a lot of poka. Well that's that's definitely a twist. Yeah, yeah,

you guys will figure it out. But no, it's a lot of

clay to carve away everything that. Uh. Now the studio tracks that we've

heard, where where were these recorded? Because everything sounds really good. It

was ugly Duck studios out of Brighton, I think they were, you know,

they were in the Sound Museum that got closed down like that, and

now they're somewhere. I think they're in Mercy Boulevard now. Okay, so

everything's done in city, but you know, we're the next record is still

kind of in the process, so we're doing you know, different engineers and

doing the quotes and you know, kind of running around communicating with people.

So I'm not sure who's going to record the next record, but oh okay,

definitely a talented person we will find. Well that goes out for anybody

else, jump on, here's your opportunity. Yeah. Well, we live

in a time where there's so many different options in terms of how you record.

You know, you can do it yourself. You can. I mean

some of some of the bands we have on it's like, uh, you

know, they're they're recording in their living room or their garage or wherever,

and and it ends up sounding great. It's like you know, if if

you if you really know what you're doing. But but also too, I

mean, if you can find a find an engineer or a producer who's really

good and who wants to work with it, you can get some great some

great stuff. How did you the h the studio in Brighton? You said,

yeah, how did you come to work with with that studio? Just

you know, we just kind of jumped on Google and talked to different people

and yeah, you saw what there was available, you know at the time.

Yeah, just like right during the early like the first six months of

when the COVID shutdown started, like so it was kind of weird at the

time. Everything was weird, like it was limited. There weren't as many

people like open and working. I think Ugly Duck Studios did a great job.

You know, we had a good experience with them. But I think,

you know, just for the sake of doing things different, we're going

to probably move elsewhere next time. But they great people there. They did

a wonderful job. Yeah. Yeah, no, absolutely, yeah. Now

so they did they you said they closed, Uh, they just moved.

Oh they moved Commons story of these days. Yeah. The building. It's

in a big old mill building that's housed a lot of music. Part of

that was their studio. Oh I gotcha. Every everybody lost when this building

got sold, you know. Oh, okay, I got you practice spaces

it was everything, you know. Yeah, yeah, no, that that's

that's too bad. Now are you playing a lot of shows? Does Does

the band play out a lot? Yeah? We we got a show coming

up January thirteenth, Saturday in Malden, Massachusetts Brewery. We're playing with sounds

and scenarios and the band called the Nicotines. Okay, welcome to come out

if she can. Yeah, absolutely, a month in advances January thirteenth.

January thirteenth, Yeah, so it's yeah, it's a lot of good stuff.

We've been playing at the Middle East. We've been playing we have one

coming up with twenty. Yes, we're going back to the Jungle Community Center

and it's a sixth on board court and Summerville Day weekend. Come out and

celebrate with us. Oh that's your birthday weekend? When is that? January

twentieth, January? Very good. I have a show that night too,

that's at the Jungle. Yeah. So we've been playing, like you know,

we played the Midway, we played the Jungle, we played Middle East.

Is like that echelon of clubs, and you know, now we're getting

interested from like the next tier clubs in Boston. So it's it's been definitely

interesting and you kind of you pay your due, you know, you know,

you don't really get any attention or apply apply on an email until you

know they see that you've been busy doing things right. Exactly, it's nice.

Exactly. Now has the sound changed from who are who are the Original

Three? Again? Who's Mike Mike three in the center? Yeah? The

first Original three? I'm sorry, and that has the sound changed from from

the original, the original version of the band. It's it's matured. It's

definitely more mature crowd. We went from like a basement rock you know,

with two guitars and a drummer and bass player. Yeah, you know,

kind of that messy Toronto Punk Rocks sign that kind of had some Mendi vibes

to it, you know, but you know, it was just three guys

hanging out in the basement playing music back then. So it's you know,

it's definitely now, it's kind of evolved in and it's constantly evolving. Yeah,

just like I was saying just a minute ago off here with my bassis,

like last NNK, just randomly, we were just doing this acoustic thing,

just warming up and just playing around. But we actually came up with

something that I am adding into our shows. Even if we just take a

couple of seconds, break it down for this one second, just me and

him just do this little ensemble, because it was amazing how we vibed with

just two acoustic instruments. Just things like that that we can now add to

this next album. It just might be one track that you just get some

instrumentals, you know what I mean, we just who knows, Like,

just wait, was that the twist? Did you just give it away?

I thought, I thought, I gotcha. There's still seventy percent of a

blank canvas. Yeah. Yeah, I guess we're kind of hopeful and maybe

the next up we can really bend genres and create something really interesting and unique.

Yeah, kind of it. It's our hope, you know what we

wanted. That was the best way to put it. Yeah. We we

have a lot of different musical tastes between the five of us, and so

much musical talent just just a monthst like musical talent that's just being that can

be unlocked. Yeah, makes sense, you know. I think the funnest

part being probably from the outer perspective in I know, probably Tom could attest

to this too, kind of coming into the band a little bit later,

is you know, being friends with these guys, seeing them grow on a

personal level, on a musical level. I think, in particularly myself,

I loved that. You know, when I first started hanging out with these

guys, it was you know, as friends and then doing some like vocal

training and then kind of like immersing into it and you know, finding finding

a sound that you know, that fit the group. So it's been it's

been very fun over the years. Yeah, I think Mike Mike said it

best. It's just like we formed this family of you know, of misfits.

As I like to say, did any of the material from the original

version of the band? Has that is that made it into this version?

Like obviously I'm sure it sounds very different if it did. But did any

of those songs kind of survive or into the first album? Second the first

album that I was right, I would have to say Deceiver, Yeah,

and didn't you guys write like half the that that's pretty much the same sound

that it was that day we were Yeah, I mean everything changed a little

bit, but I mean in its pure form, is it's all their Yeah,

you know what I mean, A lot of it was written already,

and you know, besides like a few two or three tracks that we were

writing as we were kind of got the five of us together, I mean,

but even still everyone went back and put their own twist on one was

already there anyways. But so it's just kind of it's the same thing,

but you know, it's just a different flavor. Yeah. Yeah, the

structure was definitely there. I think the you know, the minutia of it,

all of you know, kind of transitioning vocals from one to the other

was a fun experience. I'm sure some days Mike wanted to pull his hairs

out, but but it was fun. It was a fun what why why

do you say did did Mike sing everything before you were in the band?

Is that he did? So it was just the three of us. But

as I gave him the name, he was the front man. Rob was

the side vocals, you know, the second vocalist, and I would do

background and nap lips. That's just what it was. It was just us

three and we just went out and just had a good old time. Yeah,

and then as you see pretty latest forms and now we have us five

and hopefully we're just going to keep on going. The sky's the limits.

Yeah, yeah, is it hard? Is it hard with five people in

terms of schedules and you know, rehearsal and booking shows and everything. Challenge.

Yeah, we're not twenty two anymore. We're not living with mom,

you know. Yeah, we have responsibility, responsibilities, we have rand you

know, like you know, we're in our thirties, like you know,

there's houses and mortgages and paying back student loane. Yeah, waking up at

four o'clock to go to my construction job and everyone's gonn else cut their own

time, and then yeah, mom's to see family to check in on,

you know, new babies that arrived and nephews and nieces and birthdays, so

you know, yeah, it's definitely hard, but we try to get together

at least once a week, and we try to play out around once a

month, depending on what we have on our schedule. Yeah, you know,

as things, we just kind of roll with the bunches and figure out

what works for us best. Yeah, and communication is a really strong factor

on that, you know what I mean, because we have to be able

to jump on opportunities that sari as they come in. Yeah, so it's

it's can be a struggle, but we do our best to survive it.

Yeah. I can only think of it in one you know, I used

to play in bands, and I can only think of one band I was

in where we actually had five of us. But I just remember with it

was like just just going from a band with four people to five people.

It was a huge difference in terms of just everyone's schedules and everything it was

a you know, it was a challenge. So yeah, I understand,

I understand the issues that can come up with that, But yeah, what

about I mean in terms of deciding where to record and everything. I mean,

is that is that pretty democratic? Or do you kind of touching on

like what Tom said earlier, It's it's in what Mike said. Honestly,

it's kind of looking out doing a little research. You know. It's anything

you gotta get a couple of quotes, You got to get a couple of

different ideas, see what their backgrounds is. They might be amazing what they

do, but does it fit with us or will lot of stuff fit with

them? You know? And then like how Tom was saying, it's just

trying to figure out what the next best avenue, you know, and just

going from there. We'll always open to, you know, new ideas,

new options, And yeah, I mean we put up a lot of research

out me. You know, I'll bring you know, kind of a PowerPoint

pretty much presentation to the group. We'll try to come to a COmON vote

or you know, someone Rob Christine, Tom, Mike, Mike. They

might say, hey, I found out that's a cool place. Why don't

we just give a callings what they're they're asking for, yeah, you know,

for responsibilities and money and contracts, but all that stuff like that,

and just kind of figure out if the dates will work for us. And

then you know, things have kind of changed a little bit too, Like

pre COVID, like recording studio time was probably about thirty forty dollars less hour.

Yeah you know what I mean. Yeah, Yeah, that's kind of

changed kind a bit. Touches everything everything. Yeah, and we you know,

we would get four and at all us for eight hundred block and now

they're looking at like, you know, a ten hour. That's like almost

doubled, like six fifty just for the eight hour block. You you know

what I mean. That's that's a working day, I get it, you

know. With the cost. Oh yeah, it's a struggle. But so

we got to make a lot of money for our merchant, our shows and

the streams and things like that to put forth like that because we try to

put it spend as least money out of pocket as we can. Yeah,

but you know, and we do it already too in all right, John,

as much as you can, you know, being in a working band,

when you're a bunch of you know, working individuals. It's like what,

yeah, but we do pretty good. You know, things have gotten

pretty serious. We do manage to make some money, use it to buy

merch, you know, save ourselves the trouble of paying out of pocket all

the time. We succeed in that. Mike signed us up, put us

in for a grant nomination through like a mask cultural arts thing and we won,

which was really great. You know, we want some money when we

put towards new gear and stuff, like the bands becoming some kind of entity

like you know, business, like a real working band. You know.

Yeah, pretty cool. It's a lot, but it's fun. That'll just

be quiet because I might be listening. Right, three dollars I made profit

off my shirts. We don't make profit. We don't have any props.

That's why we'll always open to donations. Going to find anything. Yeah,

well don't worry. We'll get something for your appreciation of gratitude you donated.

Will send you something that lets you know that you have donated, right,

exactly, exactly. Yeah. I listened to UH satellite radio in the car

and there's always these ads about the r S is coming for you and UH

call Optimal Tax relief. Yeah, I don't have the jingle memorized Optima tax

relief. But when they call you in the middle of the work day,

it's like, hey, you know, it seems like you're broke. Want

some money. Now? Do any of you also play in other bands or

are you all just Uh? I'm particularly curious about Mike. Mike because every

drummer who is on the show always has a million bands. Drummers are in

such high depend I don't know how they do it. I don't know how

you're kid, It's really hard to be in one, yeah, with branding

and this and that, and you know, like it's it's it's a full

time job. Yeah yeah, and if you're going to commit to one,

it's great. But yeah, but like I feel like there's people that are

like musicians and like they're they're just they can just jump in and they can

work any type of music and whatever, and then yeah, they offer to

other bands. And then there's people that are really passionate about one project.

They want to get that forward going, you know what I mean. So

everyone has their own kind of deviation between the two. Yeah, I mean

a little bit more than the other. Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, we

had a. I don't know if if you guys know the band Sepsis,

Uh, they were on recently and then the drummer was on his way to

play so show with another band that he has in Brooklyn. Yeah, yeah,

travel like yeah, I mean I've seen a few musicians that like there's

just a little bit above our level and it's like you're doing so much traveling.

How do you pay for that? How do you have the time to

do the two jobs? Right? You know? Right, because it's really

like four jobs because you're also a musician and then you have to do your

marketing and social media messaging. You have to be nice to your fans,

and you have to talk to them and entertain them. And when they say

hi to you, you have to sit down and have a conversation with them.

You can't just walk away from right, right, So yeah, that's

it's like you really have two extra jobs when you're a musician, you know,

on top of your Yeah, you're you're really working three jobs just to

play music the love of it, you know. Yeah, which we love

talking with our fans, we do. Who does trying to bring them into

rob to speak a little, to stay in a show if we don't encourage

him to come out. It is it is still morning, Yeah, it

is, you know, definitely different. Yeah. I think we got home

around like eleven thirty after practice last night. So yeah, now who does

uh you could because you mentioned how much work it is, like in terms

of like social media for example, who who handles that for for you?

Guys all do it kind of all try to do a little bit. But

you have a team that's kind of helping us. So I have we have

an l M s U K. There's a company out in London. They

do a lot of our contact creation, but we we do. We provide

all the raw material. I still do a lot of emails and reach outreach

and stuff like that. You know, everyone else kind of chips in when

they can. I tend to put that responsibility on myself quite a bit,

but you know, it's just you just have to act with urgency in this

business. So uh, it's it's definitely tough to come to to get a

opportunity out to five people and then get an answer returned and things like that.

So sometimes it's easier for one person delegate and kind of just to figure

out how we're going to figure it out. And move it on. But

these guys are getting better at getting back to me, and so I can

get back to people like you and people like the club owners and this and

thing like that, and people thinks, because a lot of stuff is just

coming at us now and it's just like, wow, I gotta get a

lot of answers out and I got to figure out this guy with five people

to get this one person an answer, and they're looking at me, looking

at the for like, what the hell this guy ever replied if you want

to play or not? You yeah, yeah, So basically because that Mike's

really the the heart behind a lot of our social media stuff. He's got

the strategy, the mind for it. But like he said, we've outsourced

some of that stuff for our ben and it's definitely saved some time and after

that well worth the money spent for sure. It's it's definitely nice. It's

nice to be able to kind of come back down to earth a little bit

and just focus on my music and get there. So you know, it's

just like you know, as these things grow, you know, you kind

of know like these the brain be kind to take the life of its own,

and you know you're just don't even know. It's just doing things on

its own. Like it goes on like people looking at our past content,

you know, the music itself, and that's just kind of snowballing and everything

online. As the internet does, it starts to just kind of multiply,

right, you know what I mean. So and then the challenge comes.

It becomes keeping up with it exactly, and you got to feed that machine.

And that's where we're at now. It's like, you know, it's

moving faster, faster, faster. So yeah, yeah, absolutely, how

many So how many songs do you have because you've got the first album and

then you've got new you've got new stuff obviously for the album. So we've

probably got fifteen, sixteen, maybe twenty together. Yeah, yeah, it's

pretty We have completed ten released. We have ten released. It's our full

album. You guys are probably getting resong epiece way next year, okay,

and you know we're writing that. We're taking our time with that. Yeah,

we don't. We don't want to rush out of product. You know,

we took a long time to get like took you know, six years

to find a lineup. Yeah, then it took four years for that lineup

to kind of master the craft again to the studio and we still kind of

rush that and we did it during the COVID time and it was our first

whack at recording and all that stuff, and you know, we're kind of

taking all the lessons we've learned for the past four and a half years and

applying it to the second album. So what we've learned is that we're just

gonna do it the way it needs to be done and take our time with

it. And you know, we're gonna play our old music. We'll play

some covers while we're out there. We might we might play unreleased songs.

If you come out to the shows. You just you're not gonna get a

version on Spotify for at least the year. It costs money. Yeah,

yeah, exactly what do you guys do for for covers? We get some

stuff, We rotate them around, you know what I mean, so that

it's kind of like a box that keeps refilling a lot of variety in the

genres. Like one of some of our earliest covers from when the five of

us first got together, it was like Tennessee Whiskey by Christapleton, Valerie by

Yeah Amy Winehouse, Yeah, and then you know, there's some rock covers,

some pop covers we've done. Uh we did so remember when we did

what was that funk song? We learned that Carl Carlton? Yeah, yeah,

yeah, that was the one. Yeah. It's like we just we

like a lot of different stuff. Yeah, it depends on the audience,

you know, because like that's what you that's why you pick. You pick

your covers based on who's gonna be there. I mean the other bands were

playing shows with and say what type of stuff is gonna fit with the other

artists more in this Yeah, that's kind of how we pick our covers,

you know what I mean. We got a couple of covers that we just

kind of that we can pull, you know, out of the hat,

yeah and do that. But covers we kind of rotate them, you know

what I mean, something new could come out well cover that yeah, you

know. Yeah. Are any of these songs, by the way, are

any of them kind of different live in terms of because some of them kind

of have a vibe like I can see where live you can you can stretch

them out a little bit, you know, maybe kind of jam a little

bit. Do you do any of that with any of these songs or yeah,

no, it's not exactly exactly the same thing. You want to touch

on that a little bit. Yeah, yeah, it's always a little different

when we play live, really tied into what the album was. Yeah,

yeah, freedom, just screw around, maybe tackle on a man or tube,

get someone else a will, time to breathe behind the drums or yeah,

Tom with a nice bass all here and there. Yeah yeah, yeah,

no doubt a lot more fun playing them. Yeah, I mean,

so we'll sing on the other parts or add backups where they're not backups on

the on the album, or you know, exactly the guitar. Yeah,

the guitar slalolp might not be exact, or you know, just depending on

how much time and the set will kind of condense things like but you know,

if anyone's a fan of our music, they know that what we're we're

doing like on the album, and it's not everything you can kind of translate

that live anyways. So yeah, but we give you a pretty good pure

form that goes back to that that reference. You know, you look at

things through staying glass and we're there to have fun with them too. So

it's like it's an experience for us as well, so it's always going to

be slightly different. So that's why we love, you know, having these

opportunities to be out there kind of with our fans, you know, connecting

with new people, just you know, kind of being a part of the

music industry right now. Yeah, it's very fun. Excellent, excellent,

Well we are we are almost out of time? Where where should people go

online? To keep up with everything that you're doing shows? Absolutely, just

go into the pretty the Instagram pretty late, am me. You'll find us

right there. You can go on Facebook and that's pretty late. Yep.

Right on the Instagram, you'll see our logo with the infamous famous clock.

Yeah you get the cub that yeah, rabbits. That Instagram has the link

tree and then that goes links to every social so you just click the link

in the bio and yeah, it'll bring everywhere but Facebook. We're on pretty

much everything. Yeah, yeah, cool. You can't miss us, like

comment and subscribe shows. Our next shows are January thirteenth and twentieth at thirteenth

and mal Than twentieth in Summerville, Yep Faces Brewery January thirteenth, Saturday,

and then one twenty at the Jungle. Very good, it's very good.

Hey, where does the name come from? By the way, I might

have asked you this last time you were here, But where does it Because

it's a struggle to get five people to show up on is that true?

Is that really? Very much? Pretty much everywhere? We didn't actually have

a name. On our first show with me and Mine and Rob, we

actually didn't have a name. Really were supposed to have been on at seven

thirty. Remember the end, the guy kept coming out every hour on the

hours. So do you mind going on at eight thirty? No problem?

Do you mnd going on nine thirty? No problem? Well here comes about

ten thirty eleven talk when we finally got on, So he was like,

you guys got a name? No, we don't have a name, but

we're half in the bag by this point. It's pretty late. Come on,

we need to get the show on the road. Hey, ladies and

gentlemen, here comes pretty late. Damn, that's great, that's cool,

that's that's really cool. Show my bass drum exploded. I lost my bass

d Yeah, we lost a couple of guitar strings during that show, but

I lost the ride symbol. Let me see. I came back and I'm

like, where's my throne, where's my ride symbol? I did get a

free T shirt. Well that's good. Yeah for another time. Well,

we're gonna wrap up, but thank you all five of you for being here

today. This has been wonderful, a lot of fun. Thank you.

Great to hear you play live the tunes and yeah, great great stuff.

And of course for anyone who missed any part of the show today, of

course we had we had run like thieves here the first first hour, second

hour, we had Charlie from Rolling Exile skyping in all the way from London.

Uh. And then to have you all here, this has been This

has been a wonderful Saturday. If you missed any of it, of course,

it'll be up in just a little bit at w m n hradio dot

org and at my website Matt Connerton dot com. Also don't forget Gencoffee dot

com. And yeah, I guess that's uh, that's gonna do it for

us for now. So uh, we will talk at you'all next Saturday.

We are now if you if you didn't know, if you've missed the news,

we are now Saturdays nine am to noon here from the studios of w

m n h uh. So we're out of here and we will talk at

y'all next week again pretty late. Thank you again, so much, great,

thank you very much, great stuff, all right, pleasure, all

right, bye bye everybody,

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