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Matt Connarton Unleashed 2-21-26 hour 2
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Speaker 3: Three right now the world radio premiere of the debut
Speaker 3: single from Moving On coming out February twenty seven. Absolutely,
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Speaker 10: my side?
Speaker 15: Seen morning and they see you in the dark.
Speaker 8: And y'all wait there if you say it up time.
Speaker 16: Nine miles half electric gets the night.
Speaker 6: Live anywhere and everywhere your.
Speaker 10: I try, but it's nice, so easy, the sun shine
Speaker 10: see you so fine? I say, you say with me,
Speaker 10: just say you'll.
Speaker 15: Speak by my side.
Speaker 7: That tribe.
Speaker 6: But it's not so easy. Sun shine seems.
Speaker 13: So fun me.
Speaker 17: I say, if you say.
Speaker 10: With me, just say with me by my side.
Speaker 3: I love that. That is nine miles High. The band
Speaker 3: is Howling Hawk, and uh, let's see who we have
Speaker 3: from the band on the line with us a via WhatsApp. Hello,
Speaker 3: welcome to the show. Hi, thanks for having me absolutely
Speaker 3: So who is this? Who do we have on the
Speaker 3: line with us?
Speaker 1: So this is Jim. I'm the singer, the bassist, and
Speaker 1: I write the chunes outstanding.
Speaker 3: I'm glad that you're a singing bassist because I am
Speaker 3: also a bass player. And uh, I don't feel that
Speaker 3: we get enough time out in front.
Speaker 1: You know, we're dying breed. You lead guitarist at ten
Speaker 1: a penny, but a good bass players worth his.
Speaker 3: Weight and exactly, I completely agree. And i love that
Speaker 3: track nine Miles High. And I'm really curious to ask
Speaker 3: you now, did you write the lyrics to that?
Speaker 1: Of course?
Speaker 3: Of course, all right, tell me about tell me about
Speaker 3: these lyrics because very very interesting and uh, I really
Speaker 3: want to dive into this. I'm excited to talk to
Speaker 3: you about the song.
Speaker 1: A friend of mine went through a phase where he
Speaker 1: spent a little bit too much time enjoying medicinal herbs
Speaker 1: and listening to his Twitter feed, and he began he
Speaker 1: was getting increasingly paranoid every time a helicopter went over
Speaker 1: here coming to look for him. Oh wow, you know,
Speaker 1: close to making Tim Foyle hats So there's about having
Speaker 1: a friend who's going down that dangerous rabbit hole and
Speaker 1: trying to pull him back from the brink. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the vibe. I don't know how much of that comes across,
Speaker 1: but that's what I was going for.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, that's interesting because I think that that I don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't know what kind of feedback you've gotten on this,
Speaker 3: but to me, that seems highly relatable because I think,
Speaker 3: and I can tell you here in America, you know,
Speaker 3: there's there's a conspiracy theorism and all that stuff is rampant,
Speaker 3: and there are a lot of people who who there
Speaker 3: are a lot of people who don't need any any
Speaker 3: anything to help them get there. They just they just
Speaker 3: somehow managed to get there on their own. And it's frightening.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people over here who have just
Speaker 1: been waiting for confirmation of a lot of what you
Speaker 1: It's it's so difficult now reading the news every single
Speaker 1: day and having these little nudges that maybe the conspiracy
Speaker 1: theories were true. I got all excited about eighteen months
Speaker 1: ago when there are a bunch of expressidents talking about aliens.
Speaker 1: That sounded kind of fun, but it's taking a bit
Speaker 1: of a dark turn. Sit then.
Speaker 3: It has it has, So I mean, what kind of
Speaker 3: feedback have you gotten on the song? Do you find
Speaker 3: that other people can also really kind of relate to this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, people seem to like it. It's a lot of
Speaker 1: what we play is very deliberately like nineties focused, big choruses, britpop,
Speaker 1: and this is the one where we've gone a little
Speaker 1: bit a little more X files. Yeah, and people seem
Speaker 1: to appreciate it, So maybe that will be a direction
Speaker 1: we've tried to do. We've got a release plan for
Speaker 1: this year. We've got to put a song out every month. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we've got our next single is out next Friday,
Speaker 1: which is a very different vibe. But I think for
Speaker 1: the next few after that we're going to go back
Speaker 1: to the back to the well for some weird stuff.
Speaker 3: Okay, Oh cool? What is that kind of your So
Speaker 3: you're going to be releasing a single every month? Is that?
Speaker 3: Is that the long term strategy? Are you going to do?
Speaker 3: You have any plans to do an EP or an album?
Speaker 3: You know? We we live in a time where there's
Speaker 3: so many different strategies for releasing music, so I'm curious
Speaker 3: or maybe these singles will eventually coalesce into an album
Speaker 3: or what one's kind of the long term strategy.
Speaker 1: Well, probably every now and again, collect stuff together into
Speaker 1: a into a whatever feels best, So like collect them
Speaker 1: together by vibe. Yeah, we've got a CD. We've got
Speaker 1: a CD with putting out Next Friday, which is the
Speaker 1: most recent three songs that we've recorded. Not that we
Speaker 1: plan to do them like that, but they just they
Speaker 1: fit quite together. We're doing one single a month because
Speaker 1: it's just so hard to get anything out and through
Speaker 1: the noise since we since we started playing together that
Speaker 1: there's been just this explosion of AI created dross. So
Speaker 1: it's apparently Spotify. I'm not a big fan of the
Speaker 1: fact that Spotify exists, but to be fair to them,
Speaker 1: if they're having to deal with one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand AI songs uploaded every day, oh yeah, it's how
Speaker 1: do you get through that? It's because of people like
Speaker 1: it's going to be people like you that help bands
Speaker 1: fight through the noise. So thank you for what you're doing.
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, I appreciate that Yeah, you know, we're doing
Speaker 3: what we can. But we actually did a segment on
Speaker 3: that recently about Spotify and how how they've they've begun
Speaker 3: to delete a lot of AI generated music. Of course,
Speaker 3: the tricky thing there is too, I always say this,
Speaker 3: some people are going to get There are legitimate artists
Speaker 3: who are going to get caught in that as well.
Speaker 3: And that's a tricky thing too, because on one hand, Okay,
Speaker 3: you want to delete all this AI generated stuff, that's good.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, there are artists who maybe
Speaker 3: there's there's something in their music that flags gets the
Speaker 3: attention of the bot that is going through all this. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: And there are only so many beats that you can play, right,
Speaker 1: I think that the solution might I'm sure your listeners
Speaker 1: know of a noh band camp?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh, I love band camp.
Speaker 1: Which is which is a great idea. The trouble with
Speaker 1: band camp, I think, is that ninety percent of the
Speaker 1: people use it a musician selling their own music. It
Speaker 1: hasn't really got like mainstream traction. If there was a
Speaker 1: way of pushing people towards that, or if Spotify could
Speaker 1: do a at a button to buy a song, if
Speaker 1: you like it enough for whatever pennies you know, yeah whatever,
Speaker 1: that'd be a game changer. But until then, it's just
Speaker 1: a case of trying to get your music in front
Speaker 1: of people however you can. I'm so grateful if you're
Speaker 1: playing these songs to people who otherwise I'd have no
Speaker 1: way of reaching. I'm so grateful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, we're like I said, We're glad to do it.
Speaker 3: And I do love that song. I'm curious about you know,
Speaker 3: you mentioned britt Pop and what that song to me?
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm a huge Oasis fan and you know,
Speaker 3: I job what's that?
Speaker 1: Good job?
Speaker 3: Thank you? Oh Morning Glory is one of my favorite
Speaker 3: albums ever. But or no, I'm sorry, I definitely maybe
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but I'm curious about what other you know?
Speaker 3: Because you're in where where are you exactly? I'm not
Speaker 3: sure your exact location.
Speaker 1: I'm in London. You're in London was the center of
Speaker 1: the universe musically until not so long ago. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: go back a few years and you couldn't walk down
Speaker 1: the street without bumping into someone work. I mean, I
Speaker 1: talk about Oasis. I bumped into an old Gallagher in
Speaker 1: a supermarket here. Oh no, getting like just ambushed him
Speaker 1: while he was trying to buy his butter, and he
Speaker 1: was a lovely man. Lovely man, and he's very like that.
Speaker 1: That used to be pretty standard around here. Amy Winehouse
Speaker 1: brought me lunch at breakfast with Black Sabbath. I've got
Speaker 1: photo evidence of a lot of that.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Now, it's just there's been such a what's the word,
Speaker 1: a fragmentation of that industry that it's just hard for
Speaker 1: any of those little ecosystems to sustain themselves. Sure, there's there,
Speaker 1: there are a couple of new bands getting through. There's
Speaker 1: a few. There's a band called Westside Cowboy that are
Speaker 1: breaking through that sound pretty good like a traditional guitar band.
Speaker 3: Interesting, so in terms of.
Speaker 1: Like, we we love the britpop thing because we what
Speaker 1: we really love is choruses. Man, people bands now seem
Speaker 1: to be sort of embarrassed about writing choruses. The look
Speaker 1: so moody. Why do you The guitar is meant to
Speaker 1: make you feel good? That's the point at the end,
Speaker 1: at the end of a gig. If if you've got
Speaker 1: a bunch of people who have only seen you for
Speaker 1: the first time, yeah, I don't think nine out of
Speaker 1: ten of them are going to walk away remembering your lyrics,
Speaker 1: but remember.
Speaker 3: Make them feel exactly.
Speaker 1: That's it man, aim for aim for the joy exactly.
Speaker 3: No, I agree, I agree. Is there is there like
Speaker 3: a pressure coming from there in terms of, you know,
Speaker 3: being being a band from from London? Well actually though,
Speaker 3: well interestingly, so you're in London, but not all the
Speaker 3: band members are correct.
Speaker 1: Oh they're all in London now they are?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so we're we all live Oh good, okay, okay, so.
Speaker 1: Now we're a real like in person band. Oh good,
Speaker 1: and we yea and we so the guitarist one of them, Parlo.
Speaker 1: He's Italian, as you can guess from Yeah, Gonzalo is
Speaker 1: Gonzalo is Chilean.
Speaker 3: Oh okay.
Speaker 1: But all we came together with the It was all
Speaker 1: we found each other online and came together for the
Speaker 1: love of the same music.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean you can tell what music we like from
Speaker 1: listening to ourselves. We're on ours leaves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, So is there a pressure like being a
Speaker 3: London band in terms of just I mean, you mentioned
Speaker 3: trying to cut through the noise. There's that part, but
Speaker 3: is there also this thing where, like you said, you know,
Speaker 3: it used to be if it's not still or one
Speaker 3: of the centers of of the of the musical universe.
Speaker 3: Like do people expect you as a band from London
Speaker 3: to is there a certain expectation there or or a
Speaker 3: certain expectation in terms of your sound or I really can't.
Speaker 1: I mean we're just so blessed to be from London. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it just carries a certain a certain weight I think.
Speaker 1: Like this is the venue that we're playing next Saturday
Speaker 1: is called the Troubadour. Oh yes, any I mean that's
Speaker 1: it's the last surviving sixties venue. We'll be playing on
Speaker 1: the same stage that who Jimmy Hendrix, Rolling Stones used
Speaker 1: to play on, And that's the It's just an ordinary venue.
Speaker 1: It's not like a museum. So yeah, we're really spoilt
Speaker 1: like that, and just the I mean I half joke
Speaker 1: about bumping into people, but you really can find amazing people.
Speaker 1: The guy that the song you just played was recorded
Speaker 1: for as by a guy called Paul Tipler, who was
Speaker 1: a lovely man and he runs a little studio in London.
Speaker 1: He charges next to nothing for it and he's put out.
Speaker 1: He's produced Doctor Feel Good. He did the first recordings
Speaker 1: by Placebo. Like he's there are just these people around,
Speaker 1: like there's a really nice I've never met anyone who
Speaker 1: wants to do anyone down in music. I haven't everyone
Speaker 1: everyone's been lovely.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that might be.
Speaker 1: I do love London, but there is something magic about
Speaker 1: it now.
Speaker 6: Is it?
Speaker 3: Unit thirteen? Is that where you recorded that?
Speaker 19: It is?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, great, great sound. You know obviously it came
Speaker 3: out really well. Have you recorded the previous singles that
Speaker 3: you've released or are releasing? Are those all recorded there
Speaker 3: as well?
Speaker 1: So we did a song called The Downside that came
Speaker 1: out I think earlier this year with him and the
Speaker 1: next the next song, Delilah, is that next Friday. I'll
Speaker 1: send it to you after after this chat to enjoy
Speaker 1: a few if you're interested.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what what what song is it?
Speaker 1: It's called Delilah?
Speaker 3: Oh, Delilah? Okay, okay, and I do have you also
Speaker 3: sent us Ramona, which I'm going to play at the
Speaker 3: end of our our conversation. That's a great song too.
Speaker 3: I really like that.
Speaker 1: A lot that was that was produced by a friend
Speaker 1: of ours called Cucko, who runs Damon Albarn's studio, which
Speaker 1: is also called thirteen Studios.
Speaker 3: I guess it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's there's a magic there, right.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's excellent. So in terms of writing, you know,
Speaker 3: obviously you mentioned Nine Miles High. You wrote the lyrics.
Speaker 3: I assume did you also write the music to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I tend to come in with just really
Speaker 1: basic towards and a melody and but my voice won't change.
Speaker 1: But I tried to give the rest of the band
Speaker 1: as much space as they as they want to develop it.
Speaker 3: Has it been that way from the beginning with this project.
Speaker 20: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Absolutely. It means to feel that I don't want it
Speaker 1: to be me and my session band. It has to
Speaker 1: be those guys expressing themselves. It's a nice Arctic Monkeys
Speaker 1: style riffing that the Power came up with.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, you're right, No, that's yeah, that's cool. And
Speaker 3: then I assume what's the live situation, like, are you
Speaker 3: doing a lot of shows? You you know, you did
Speaker 3: mention the show at the Troubadour coming up. If you've
Speaker 3: been playing a lot, because I can imagine I would
Speaker 3: assume that in London there's a lot of places to play,
Speaker 3: or maybe not, I'm assuming, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are loads of venues. But the audiences for
Speaker 1: live bands aren't quite what they used to be. I'm
Speaker 1: from Camden, which is I mean, it was the musical hub,
Speaker 1: but so many of those venues are closed down now
Speaker 1: just because the constant tax and business rates keep keep
Speaker 1: going up, which pushes some good people out of business.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: But that said, that said, there are some growing scenes.
Speaker 1: There's some wonderful people here. There's Debbe from Cooper Concepts
Speaker 1: who's built a fantastic little scene over in West London.
Speaker 1: There's a new friend of ours called Johnny. I only
Speaker 1: know him as Johnny Middleman. He's a bit secretive. He's
Speaker 1: he's putting on the gig at the Trouper Door as
Speaker 1: part of what he's trying to develop into a gig
Speaker 1: cooperative with the London were a London band and there
Speaker 1: are three other bands from other major English cities. So
Speaker 1: they're going to come down and see us and then
Speaker 1: soon we'll go up and play their places. Because that's,
Speaker 1: as I say, being from London, we're so blessed that
Speaker 1: it's easy for us to get gigs in London. Yeah
Speaker 1: we can, just you know, you get a bus there,
Speaker 1: it's not hard. But if you've got to come down
Speaker 1: from Manchester or Liverpool. That's that's a.
Speaker 3: Big investment right right now. That's that's excellent. Are are
Speaker 3: you playing like pretty consistently or what's what's the what's
Speaker 3: the schedule?
Speaker 1: As much as we can, we've got to we play
Speaker 1: a lot to each other. We've got to shared that
Speaker 1: we're always playing it. Yeah, but in terms of like
Speaker 1: we're trying to play one London Giga month and then
Speaker 1: get out of London to play other places.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm really curious what the name Howling Hawk means.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you get this question all the time, but uh,
Speaker 3: I like the name, but I'm curious what it means.
Speaker 1: It's just Howling Wolf was taken. That's about it one
Speaker 1: time ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that the best, the best rock and roll
Speaker 1: band name ever is the Rolling Stones for me, okay,
Speaker 1: And we were trying to come up with something in
Speaker 1: the same bluesy vein and just something about that. Howling
Speaker 1: stuck and we went through it to try and find
Speaker 1: you've got Arctic monkeys. We didn't want it to be
Speaker 1: ridiculous like hawling penguin. Certain edge to it.
Speaker 3: No, I like it. I like it. Did you did
Speaker 3: the name come easily or did you have to go
Speaker 3: through some to find one that you agree on?
Speaker 1: God? No, I've had so many, so many, terror all
Speaker 1: terrible names.
Speaker 3: Okay, I love I love hearing about rejected band names.
Speaker 3: Give me, give me what you got. I love this.
Speaker 1: The lema was floated around for a while, really, as
Speaker 1: in the monkey, the little furry thing, that something exotic
Speaker 1: and cool?
Speaker 3: What was it gonna be? Howleen lemur or just uh
Speaker 3: see if.
Speaker 1: We'd have had you? We we went through a phase
Speaker 1: of just adding colors, two different nouns as well, Okay, red,
Speaker 1: the red seven, you know, the blue whatever the blue.
Speaker 1: But yeah, harling Hawk has done quite well. It looks
Speaker 1: pretty good on a T shirt as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. No, it's a cool name.
Speaker 3: Although the red seven is kind of cool. I wonder,
Speaker 3: I wonder if anyone else has taken that. I do
Speaker 3: like that, But I think, excuse me, I think, no,
Speaker 3: Hawlleen Hawk is a great name. And what how long
Speaker 3: has this project existed?
Speaker 6: When?
Speaker 3: When? When? Roughly did you start this?
Speaker 21: Well?
Speaker 1: I met the guitarist Reese, the guitarist Gunzalo and Parlo
Speaker 1: about two years back. Okay, and we've had a series
Speaker 1: of different drummers for different reasons too. We met We
Speaker 1: met Reese in about the summer of last year. Okay,
Speaker 1: so probably since then. This feels like the band at
Speaker 1: the moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is a relatively new project then in
Speaker 3: the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely so if everything's we're still learning how to
Speaker 1: do everything really.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's interesting too that you mentioned about drummers. It
Speaker 3: sounds like you've been through a few. I don't know
Speaker 3: if it's the same there, but I can tell you
Speaker 3: here every drummer I know is in just multiple projects
Speaker 3: because there's only you know, we we talked at the
Speaker 3: beginning about how bass players are, you know, harder to find.
Speaker 3: Drummers are like impossible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I only played the bass because I
Speaker 1: couldn't find a bassis. So yeah, I've got two guitarists
Speaker 1: and bought bass instead. But this this drummer, now, Reese,
Speaker 1: aside from being a talented drummer, he sings as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's been leaning into that to try and build
Speaker 1: up that Lennon and McCartney vocal vibe.
Speaker 18: Right.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculously arrogant, isn't it. How can he jump from
Speaker 1: he jumped to Lennon and McCartney. Yeah, yeah, far more,
Speaker 1: far more average than Lenna McCartney. But we're going to
Speaker 1: have multiple voices from now so that should be fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I think that's excellent. So so the show
Speaker 3: at the Troubadour is on the twenty eighth, so that's
Speaker 3: a big deal. Who do you want to mention? Who
Speaker 3: else is on that show with you? You guys are
Speaker 3: the headliners? Correct, Yeah, we are, and.
Speaker 1: They're they're only I think a few. It's like a
Speaker 1: handful of tickets left now, which is really eating because
Speaker 1: it's being filmed and recorded as well. Excellent to put
Speaker 1: out live at the Troubadour EP later in the year.
Speaker 3: Oh, very cool.
Speaker 1: So the other bands we've got, uh is a band
Speaker 1: called and the Mama's Boys.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's fantastic.
Speaker 1: There's a band called black Manas okay, well, and they're
Speaker 1: they're really good. Some of their stuff sounds a bit
Speaker 1: like they're from Manchester, so if you imagine LCD sound
Speaker 1: system but with a thick Manchester.
Speaker 3: Accent, okay, okay, interesting.
Speaker 1: And there's another band called Brides who are really cool okay,
Speaker 1: and they'll be grateful for that. Shout out.
Speaker 3: So yeah, no doubt, no doubt, that's great. And then
Speaker 3: so what's what's the next thing after that? Because I know, well, well,
Speaker 3: actually let me ask it this way. When does the
Speaker 3: or maybe it's already started. You said, you know you
Speaker 3: guys are going to do one single a month, So
Speaker 3: is that is that cycle already begun? As far as
Speaker 3: I know, nine Miles High is new?
Speaker 18: Right?
Speaker 3: What is that about this month or last month?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that came out. We're trying to put us
Speaker 1: somewhere on the last day I think or near enough. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's been out for two three weeks now and we've
Speaker 1: been it's it's been great. How many hangs that we've
Speaker 1: been stuck in a little London bubble for a while,
Speaker 1: and so so we're really grateful for the people who
Speaker 1: are seeing us and hearing us. A lot of the
Speaker 1: time it's the same people. So to get the music
Speaker 1: out and heard in other strange and interesting places, it's
Speaker 1: really fun, Like you get messages from interesting places. So
Speaker 1: we're trying to get some airplay in places that we
Speaker 1: wouldn't normally go. The next song, we've got a few
Speaker 1: conversations like this booked in with places in Italy and Chile,
Speaker 1: and then we'd like to get maybe go out abroad
Speaker 1: somewhere and play.
Speaker 3: Well that's kind of a that's kind of an interesting
Speaker 3: advantage too. Where where you've you've got in terms of
Speaker 3: the members of the band, there's some diversity there in
Speaker 3: terms of where they're from originally, so it kind of
Speaker 3: gives you it kind of gives you an in uh
Speaker 3: in some places that you wouldn't otherwise have. So that's
Speaker 3: pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've we've had some some radio play in with
Speaker 1: indie blocks in Brazil and Argentina, Okay, but we haven't
Speaker 1: had any interviews or any proper conversations yet. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we'd like to build some relationships with that. That's a
Speaker 1: big part of what we do. This is just meeting
Speaker 1: people with the same interests, who like the same things.
Speaker 1: You know. We want to make friends, yeah, and share
Speaker 1: those those joyful moments.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely, that's how you build a fan base.
Speaker 3: So no, I think you're I think you're on a
Speaker 3: great trajectory. Like I said, I listened to UH. I
Speaker 3: listened to a bunch of the songs, you know, because
Speaker 3: we did Mention band camp, So I was listening to Uh, obviously,
Speaker 3: I love nine Miles High. I was listening to some
Speaker 3: of the other tracks on band camp. The great thing
Speaker 3: about band camp too, is and because I mentioned this,
Speaker 3: every opportunity I get, because a lot of people don't
Speaker 3: realize this, you get a higher quality file on band
Speaker 3: camp than you do if you're just say you're just
Speaker 3: streaming it on YouTube or something like that. So I'm
Speaker 3: a big I'm a big proponent of band camp. I
Speaker 3: think that's the best place to listen to that to
Speaker 3: listen to music personally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I tried, is it? Title?
Speaker 3: Tried title?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was okay. And there's one I think called
Speaker 1: Coba's or quobas qob u z And it's really really
Speaker 1: noticeable that the leap in audio quality. I think there's
Speaker 1: a whole the whole generation of people now who have
Speaker 1: only ever used Spotify and YouTube, who've never had the
Speaker 1: chance to listen to Dark Side of the Moon or
Speaker 1: Sergeant Pepper on vinyl through nice speakers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they are, they are missing out. Nothing sounds
Speaker 3: better than vinyl. I love the warmth of vinyl. What
Speaker 3: so are are? Do you guys have any plans to
Speaker 3: release any physical media or is everything digital because I
Speaker 3: can tell you that here in the US, CDs not
Speaker 3: that they ever went away, but it seems like over
Speaker 3: the last five or six years have have sort of
Speaker 3: made a comeback in the sense that a lot of
Speaker 3: independent artists here really like to have physical media. But
Speaker 3: I've also noticed when I talk to artists from the UK,
Speaker 3: it seems a little different there. It seems like, uh
Speaker 3: like maybe you've all just kind of left that in
Speaker 3: the past. I don't know, though, I'm curious what your
Speaker 3: perspective is on that.
Speaker 1: I think I think people are naturally inclined to want
Speaker 1: artifacts that commemorate the things that they love. Yes, like
Speaker 1: I've I've got you, and I have got access to
Speaker 1: YouTube for free. We could listen to any song that's
Speaker 1: ever been released without spending a penny. But they've still
Speaker 1: got that drive in me to buy the latest vital
Speaker 1: by my favorite band. Yes, if I reissues and I
Speaker 1: find that people want people buy CDs from us, then
Speaker 1: they'll they'll never play them, They'll listen to us in
Speaker 1: other ways anyway. Right, I want to have something that
Speaker 1: shows that they've they've built that connection. So yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: we're starting to move into physical media. Excellent there's been
Speaker 1: a weird push for old style cassettes, you know, like
Speaker 1: the old Walkman where that's come from people. I think
Speaker 1: that just looks really cool when you put on a shelf. Yeah,
Speaker 1: might be that. I would love to get some vinyl going,
Speaker 1: but it's just it's just not realistic.
Speaker 3: It's very expensive.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There have you heard of Third Man Records?
Speaker 3: That sounds familiar to me. I'm not sure that.
Speaker 1: So Jack White, the white striped Jack White, Yeah, really
Speaker 1: really cool guy is pushing for greater accessibility for vinyl. Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: he's opened a he's got a store in Nashville, I know,
Speaker 1: but he's opened up another one in London, not far
Speaker 1: from where I'm sitting now. And at the back is
Speaker 1: a nineteen fifties straight to wax recording booth. Oh, you
Speaker 1: can go in and record records straight onto vinyl, but
Speaker 1: it's broken. They go in there once a week to
Speaker 1: see if they've had it repaired. I'm praying that by
Speaker 1: the end of this year I've.
Speaker 3: Got something on vinyl that's interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Here in the US, it was either twenty two or
Speaker 3: twenty three was the first year, or maybe it was
Speaker 3: twenty four. It all becomes a blur. But the first
Speaker 3: year that vinyl actually outsold CDs for the first time
Speaker 3: since CDs became the you know, the primary medium for music.
Speaker 3: So yeah, love love the sound of vinyl, and people
Speaker 3: give me vinyl records sometimes. You know, some of the
Speaker 3: guests that we have on the show that are here
Speaker 3: in person, and you know, I don't. I don't even
Speaker 3: have a record player at home. We do have one
Speaker 3: here in the station. I don't have one at home,
Speaker 3: but it's just cool to have it, you know, and
Speaker 3: it looks good on the wall, and you know, love vinyl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean someone it might have been
Speaker 1: Warren Zevon was talking about books. He said that we
Speaker 1: buy books not necessarily to buy them, but because we
Speaker 1: feel richer having them around. And I think having vinyls
Speaker 1: is the same thing. I love that vinyls have also
Speaker 1: brought back a new found love for art and for
Speaker 1: cover art. Yes, it means people are displaying these things
Speaker 1: in our homes.
Speaker 3: That's a great point. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, Well, Jim, in
Speaker 3: a moment, we're gonna we'll hit that track Ramona. This
Speaker 3: is another great song and I really like this a lot.
Speaker 3: But before we do that, and you know, we'll we'll
Speaker 3: let you go in a moment when we do that.
Speaker 3: But where is the best place to go? Where should
Speaker 3: people go online to keep up with everything that Howling
Speaker 3: Hawk is doing.
Speaker 1: We're we're most active on Instagram, but you can follow
Speaker 1: us wherever you like if you go to harling hawk
Speaker 1: dot com. Okay, we want to speak to me and
Speaker 1: say hello and maybe you'll send you a present, and
Speaker 1: just go to go to the Instagram.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's easy. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah. It seems like Instagram
Speaker 3: is really becoming in terms of social media, kind of
Speaker 3: the main hub now for a lot of artists, which
Speaker 3: is which is interesting.
Speaker 1: It's amazing the people that you find on that. I
Speaker 1: was talking the other day to Gordon Raphael. You recorded
Speaker 1: the first two Strokes albums. Yeah, shutting away on Instagram.
Speaker 1: It's what Twitter should have been. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, I like how you said that is what
Speaker 3: Twitter should have been. Yeah, that ship is saled. Well,
Speaker 3: very good, very good. Well, Jim listen, thank you so
Speaker 3: much for joining us today and we will definitely do
Speaker 3: this again in the future. I'd love to have you
Speaker 3: back because it sounds like you're gonna be if you're
Speaker 3: gonna be releasing a new single every month, then that's easy.
Speaker 3: We will definitely have you back, and we're happy to
Speaker 3: also kind of be your your conduit into the American
Speaker 3: radio market here because thank you so much. Absolutely absolutely,
Speaker 3: because we really love what you're doing. Anything we should
Speaker 3: know about this song, Ramona, I think you said in
Speaker 3: the email, this is one of your favorites.
Speaker 1: It is. It's absolute nonsense. It's like John Lennon Stall Doggrel.
Speaker 1: I read about how David Bowie wrote some of his
Speaker 1: songs by just writing. He collected up newspapers and cut
Speaker 1: the lines out and then rearrange them like a like
Speaker 1: a weird jigsaw, and it it's just that.
Speaker 3: So okay.
Speaker 1: I like the idea that that sort of fate might
Speaker 1: lead it to a meaning for someone who's listening, but
Speaker 1: for us, it's just fun.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, no, I like that. So we'll share this
Speaker 3: with everybody, and I'm gonna hit that track, but Jim,
Speaker 3: we will let you go. Jim from of course Howling Hawk.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. And like I said, you know,
Speaker 3: bass players unite, and I really appreciate you joining us
Speaker 3: today and I look forward to the next time we
Speaker 3: get to speak.
Speaker 1: Thanks man, great talking.
Speaker 3: Absolutely Jim, all right, thank you, take care all right.
Speaker 3: That is Jim from the band Howling Hawk and from London.
Speaker 3: And let's give this a spin. This is another great
Speaker 3: track from them. This is called Ramona.
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