Matt Connarton Unleashed 2-8-25 hour 1

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6:07 Speaker 1: Oh my god, what a cool song that is? All night Dreams by Tyler Allgood. This is the world radio premiere of that track that has not been heard on the radio anywhere else until now. Very very cool, and we might even if we're lucky, we might get to hear that live later because Tyler Allgood is going to be here with us today. But welcome everybody. This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we're live from the studios of WMNH ninety five point three FM in Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Today is Saturday, February eight, twenty twenty five, and I am not alone.

6:50 Speaker 10: Jure, Good morning, Sunshine.

6:56 Speaker 1: Jenny is here at the news table, present.

6:58 Speaker 10: Accounted for Anna. Shout out, happy birthday. It's a Miriam celebrating her birthday today.

7:05 Speaker 1: Yes, happy birthday, Miriam. Very nice, very nice.

7:12 Speaker 10: A little bit with her having a little birthday celebration, it was quite lovely.

7:16 Speaker 1: Well, I'm struggling with the audio. Everything everything sounds funny to me in my headphones. No, everything sounds strange. I think it's my ears.

7:24 Speaker 10: Because your sinuses have been on strike.

7:27 Speaker 1: Yeah a while now. My sinuses have been giving me a lot of problems, So I think everything just sounds strange, but it's like I'm having like I'm just having trouble hearing, like just in general, you know what I mean, Like I just I can't hear anything.

7:38 Speaker 10: It's I do understand what that's like. This is why we're hearing me.

7:42 Speaker 11: Yeah.

7:42 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of bizarre. But uh yeah. So so welcome everybody. So we did open with that new Tyler All good track. I love that song so much, the gorgeous World radio premiere. He's gonna be here with us in the second hour today along with Kate Shimkey and a couple of other people to talk about their new project. So really looking forward to that. In just a few minutes. In the first hour, we've got the band I don't know how to say their name, so we're gonna get clarification. I think it might be Rivia.

8:08 Speaker 1: It's capital. It's all caps our I V I A. Last week we did the World radio I'm sorry, the American radio premiere. They've already been played in the UK quite a bit, but we did the American radio premiere of their new single Fallen.

8:22 Speaker 2: Uh.

8:22 Speaker 1: Today we're gonna play well, we're gonna play it again in a couple of minutes. And then we're gonna talk to those guys. They're gonna be be with us via Skype all the way from Liverpool, yes, yes, uh. And then so then we've got Kate Shimkey and everybody in the second hour, and then in the third hour we have Jason Oberstein coming in. Really looking forward to that, and he's gonna play live for us and he's a very very busy guy.

8:44 Speaker 12: Uh.

8:44 Speaker 1: We should mention speaking of busy, so today is a big day too, because what are we going to be doing later today?

8:49 Speaker 10: We are going to be going to the Mosaic Aren't Collective for the opening of Illusions, Yes, which is going to be an amazing display, yes of lost of different art work that has black light involved, glowing the dark involved things that might look different one way or the other. I'm really excited to see this. This is definitely a different show, so you should come out and join us. And I can't remember.

9:13 Speaker 1: That's going to be at the Mosaic Art Collective that is right downtown here in Manchester. It's in the Daily Mirror Mirror, the Daily Mirror building on Hanover Street.

9:24 Speaker 10: Yes, sixty six Hanover Street, Sweet Too one Air in Manchester and we will be there later on enjoying the show and enjoying the company of art lovers. So come on down and join us. The show opening starts I believe.

9:39 Speaker 1: At four pm, and uh yeah, four to eight.

9:42 Speaker 10: I believe we're at eight pm. And of course the snow is not going to be starting till later on tonight, so they used you plenty of time to come out, have a nice evening and enjoy some beautiful art from local independent artists. Oh sorry about that, you were accentuating my points.

9:58 Speaker 1: I was, yes, And also to by the way, I see our friend Charles Richardson in the Facebook live chat. I had the privilege of being on his show this past What day was it, Oh it was Monday, right, it was Monday night. I was on Charles's show, and that is up and available. You can see it on Facebook and YouTube and everywhere.

10:17 Speaker 10: Were you guys were having a conversation about hypnosis.

10:20 Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about hypnosis. We talked about some other things too, but hypnosis was the subject that Charles was particularly interested in learning more about. And for those who don't know, I am a certified hypnotherapist and so I'm always happy to talk about it. And no, we had a great conversation, so you can check that out that Charles richardson show. We also talked about our friend Day Day to Attend, who was here with us. Ye last week on the show, they were on their way to Portland, Maine to open for Ace Freeley, and I.

10:47 Speaker 10: Saw some images from that. It looked like it was an incredible show. Yes, I'm so so happy for them. That had to be just amazing.

10:54 Speaker 1: Yeah, we're very, very proud of those guys.

10:57 Speaker 10: For those who are watching on the live feed, Matt sporting the Tyvy T shirt today.

11:02 Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got my Lewis t Ivy T shirt. Speaking of a fine musicians from across the Pond, he's been a guest on the show. We Love Lewis Tivey. He sent us a whole he sent us a whole package of stuff. It was right fantastic.

11:14 Speaker 10: I love being spoiled with sticks of all kinds of different things everywhere.

11:20 Speaker 1: That's the real reason we do this T shirts.

11:22 Speaker 10: And I just want all the stickers.

11:23 Speaker 1: That's the real reason. Yeah, no, no, but no, he's amazing, He's amazing. But specifically I.

11:28 Speaker 10: Should say that all the wonderful gifts that we get are displayed in the home office.

11:34 Speaker 1: Yes, of course, speaking of musicians from across the pond, that we should get to this. Let's us spin this and then we're gonna have the guys showing us to be a skype. This is now again I'm going with I'm going with Rivia. But we will find out for sure when they join us. Gary from Big GPR even said the lads I think was the term he used. They'll clear it up for you when we talked to them the correct pronunciation of the name of their band. But we did the American radio premiere of this track last week, the first time it has been heard on American radio.

12:05 Speaker 1: We're gonna play it again and then you know, later on at probably at the end of our conversation with those those lads, we'll we'll play another track of theirs that I really really love. But this is called Fallen. This is doing great over there on radio, and we are happy to kickstart things for them here on American radio. Fallin' by Rivia. We'll find out.

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14:57 Speaker 1: B That is fallen The band is arrivia again. I don't know if I'm saying it correctly, But are they having trouble, Jenny, They're they're they're they're supposed to be skyping in, but they're they're late and uh oh, sometimes these intercontinental skype calls run into technical difficulties. It would not be the first time, that's for sure. So I'm just wondering if they're having a if they're having a problem, not.

15:34 Speaker 4: That I am aware.

15:36 Speaker 1: Okay, hmmm, well you know what we might do is, uh we might go ahead and play another So they've got they sent us two other songs. I want to save one for the end of the conversation that we have with those guys, but we might go here we go, Here we go, Magic tone A very good hello. Can you guys hear us?

16:01 Speaker 7: Yeah?

16:03 Speaker 1: Awesome, Welcome to the show. I want to have you introduce yourselves who you are as individuals. But first, before we proceed any further, I need to know how to correctly pronounce the name of your band.

16:18 Speaker 12: Best way to do this. We found it's like Trivia, let's take out to sea.

16:22 Speaker 15: Yeah, so just Rivia Rivia.

16:24 Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't know if it was Rivia or Rivia or Rivia or.

16:28 Speaker 15: What we've had, like every single one we've had, like a different pronunciation.

16:36 Speaker 16: Quite interesting, Okay, okay, good, So it's it's Rivia, Yeah, Rivia.

16:41 Speaker 1: Perfect, Okay, wonderful, wonderful, welcome. So who do we have on the line with us? Is it the entire band or is it part of the band or who's with us?

16:48 Speaker 17: So we're missing one one guy today unfortunate at least got abducted into space.

16:54 Speaker 18: Well he's on.

16:56 Speaker 12: Well some pi at bass play today.

17:02 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, so yes, yes, So who are the rest of you? Please introduce yourselves. Tell us who you are, what you do in the band.

17:15 Speaker 17: I'm Chris, I played drums, and then I'm family guitar ath I sing and play rhythm and I play keys.

17:25 Speaker 1: Okay, wonderful, Well, welcome everybody. It's great to have you here. We we became instant fans.

17:31 Speaker 8: Uh.

17:31 Speaker 1: That track Fallen is great and I think at the end of our conversation in a little bit, you know, because I like to bookend the segments with your music. So I think at the end, I'm gonna play voicemail because I love that song. We were listening to that, yeah, absolutely, yeah, we were listening to that this morning, uh on the big speakers here in this at the station before the show, and it was like, oh, this is this is so catchy. So and you're absolutely absolutely now fallen. You're already getting some some really good traction with that over there on radio correct.

18:06 Speaker 12: Yeah.

18:07 Speaker 18: Man, we've we've been shortlisted for a couple of BBC radio stations. We've had excess Manchester Future hits. It's been our best one so far.

18:19 Speaker 1: Outstanding outstanding.

18:22 Speaker 12: Is that?

18:22 Speaker 1: Is that your first your first single? That's well you said it's your best one so far. So have you released other singles prior to that that have been on radio over there?

18:32 Speaker 5: Yeah?

18:32 Speaker 17: Yeah, kind of so that the last single we released, how much that was kind of the ten and pointing and popularity if you're like that kind of we we.

18:42 Speaker 12: Found forth this this is going okay, this actually.

18:47 Speaker 17: This is getting some hits on it and it's kind of snowballed into this one as well, where we've like found our sound if you like, and this is what's working for those which is cool.

18:56 Speaker 1: So I have to say when I listened to when I listened to that track Falling, and then when I listen to Voicemail, which I love, which we're gonna play later. You know, I know that, and from reading about the band Rivia now that I don't know how to say it, from reading from reading about the band, I know that you're you know, you're kind of influenced by some early two thousand American bands like Some forty one and Blink one eighty two and bands like that.

19:23 Speaker 12: But this is up.

19:24 Speaker 1: So I have a this is this is a very sincere compliment. I'm gonna say something to you that might sound like one of those things. You know sometimes people say something and you think, oh, that's nice, but I think they're just saying that to be nice or whatever. I mean, I mean this in all sincerity, and so I want to say that up front. I never liked those bands very much, but I think what you're but what you're doing I think is on another level. Like I hear the influences. I hear those influences.

19:56 Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's kind of you know, you got those big pep poppy single long choruses and everything. I hear the influence, but I think what you're doing is what better, is better than what they were doing, because I really like the the three tracks of yours that I've heard fallen, uh, voicemail and what was the other one? How much? How much can I take?

20:18 Speaker 11: Yeah?

20:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I love those songs, And so I hear the influences of bands like Some forty one and Blink one eighty two, but I think what you're doing is better because I really really like your your music, and Jenny does as well. We're very impressed.

20:39 Speaker 15: Smiles now.

20:43 Speaker 1: And by the way, so you've have you toured in America? Because I was reading you opened for uh an American band? Correct?

20:53 Speaker 15: It was that? Yeah?

20:56 Speaker 12: What was it?

20:56 Speaker 1: I'm sorry say that again?

20:58 Speaker 12: What was the American bomb?

21:00 Speaker 8: Was it?

21:00 Speaker 12: Hold Fast?

21:01 Speaker 19: Yeah?

21:01 Speaker 1: Yeah?

21:02 Speaker 2: Did you?

21:02 Speaker 14: Didn't you do something with them?

21:05 Speaker 8: Yeah?

21:06 Speaker 17: Unfortunately their tours being rescheduled. Okay, fingers crossed. That will happen, Yeah, happened a little bit. It's in the way. Hopefully it should be like towards the summer, we.

21:18 Speaker 12: Were very excited about that.

21:20 Speaker 5: Those guys like.

21:21 Speaker 20: Were fans of them as well, so just to just to meet them that mine, play with them would just be amazing.

21:26 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh absolutely, Okay, so that was supposed to happen, but it's been delayed. What was Was it something on their end? Did somebody get sick or something? Or do you know or can you talk about it?

21:37 Speaker 18: We're not entirely sure we as far as far as we know, they just effectively postponed them coming over to the UK because they're going to do a UK tour over here. So I think they just did just pushed back their plans by a couple of months. But yeah, we okay, yeah.

21:59 Speaker 1: Okay, so the plan so they're gonna go over there, so this is being rescheduled. So they're gonna go over there, and then you're gonna do some dates with them while they're in the UK. Yeah, oh very cool. Now are there are there kind of long term plans? I don't know if you're thinking this far ahead or if your team is, they probably are. Are there long term plans for you to come to America?

22:19 Speaker 13: Yes?

22:24 Speaker 15: I don't know. It's like it's like gravity. We're just being pulled wet. Yeah, we can't wait mon.

22:33 Speaker 18: As soon as as soon as the opportunity comes, we are we are there and we probably won't come back.

22:39 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny. I mean that's and that's uh, that's how it's been for for decades and decades, you know, like when the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were first really breaking big. You know, America was the goal. You know, once you're big in America, you're big everywhere You're you're you're globally, you're a global you're considered a global sensation. If you can make it in America, you know what I mean, if you're yeah, yeah, he.

23:04 Speaker 20: Said, if if every band has that one country that loves them, if your country's America.

23:11 Speaker 1: Exactly exactly, No, I think you would do phenomenally. Uh well here, I think you'd be you'd be very well received. And there's something you know, kind of getting back to your sound too. Obviously, you know you can you can hear the influences and the influences are kind of evocative of a specific time. But but again, your approach to your songs, you know, very catchy, very accessible, a word we use a lot in the industry. Very you know, they kind of get stuck in your head. That's really the key, regardless of what era or or where the influence has come from.

23:45 Speaker 1: If you can write something that has a really good hook, that's that's really the key to it. And and these songs have that. Has has your sound always been that from when you started, or has it changed over the years, or or has it always kind of been that the way.

24:02 Speaker 17: It's Yeah, it's not not dramatically. I think we've always kind of had that in us, haven't we from the start. But when we originally started, we were quite a bit heavier, really like the old rock heavy rock kind of decide. Yeah, But as as we've evolved, we've just went into this you know, pop punkiness.

24:25 Speaker 21: Like, Yeah, it.

24:28 Speaker 18: Was definitely always like that influence was always there, and I think we experimented with a lot more heavy stuff, and we experimented with some really poppy stuff as well, and we ended up kind of just sitting in the middle of it all and and sort of like, if we if we were to like narrow it down, this is kind of what we sun like. And we've just sort of taken that over the past year and round with it.

24:52 Speaker 15: Really.

24:56 Speaker 1: By the way, you're getting some love in our chat room here. So Nathan Hill, very talented musician, uh, says you guys sound amazing. And Larry Williams, who is in a great band here called A Day to Attend, says, Wow, they sound amazing. Sounds like a really good band, very catchy song.

25:16 Speaker 12: If you need the American tour support, Yeah.

25:20 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. Let's let's go back to the name for a moment. So where does the name come from? What does it mean? And and why why is it in all caps? And is there any significance to that?

25:34 Speaker 15: So it's a bit of a weird one.

25:37 Speaker 18: It comes from a series of books that got turned into games that got turned into a crappy Netflix show.

25:45 Speaker 15: Called The Witcher. The main character of the thing is is a guy called Garylton Rivia, and.

25:53 Speaker 18: He's an outcast in the society boy he's he helps everyone.

25:58 Speaker 15: Basically, he's like a reluctant hero.

26:01 Speaker 18: So he's not actually from this fictional place called Rivia, but he goes there saves them and they effectively accept them for for for saving them. So I thought that was like a really cool sort of idea behind like music, and it can go around the world and it might not might not be a home, but it can be major home and stuff like that.

26:22 Speaker 1: Yeah.

26:24 Speaker 15: So yeah, that's that's basically the thing behind that and.

26:27 Speaker 12: The reason it's in caps. I think it just looks cool.

26:30 Speaker 22: Yeah yeah, I don't I don't know if it's I don't know if it's the case there, But in America very often this is probably universal because it's it's something the journalists tend to do.

26:44 Speaker 1: Often. Bands with names that are short, you know, because obviously there's only five letters. You know, it's three syllables, but there's only five letters. In rivia. Names that are short tend to be written in all caps. Band names tend to be written in all caps anyway, for for reasons I've never understood, like kiss or rush, they tend to be just written in all caps. And nobody, nobody really knows why. It's just a thing people do, you know.

27:10 Speaker 16: I think I think it's more like eye catch it, like if you give you to hit it from like a marketing angle, like because we tried it, didn't we like our logo in loads of different funds and styles, and we kind of settled on that just like block cap thing, because it just it looked the best.

27:26 Speaker 15: It caught our eye the best and we were like, well that kind of makes the most.

27:30 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I do like the logo. Now, who came up with that? Was that somebody in the band?

27:38 Speaker 18: Yeah, we we kind of stole it from medieval alchemy, okay,

27:43 Speaker 18: but basically, long story short, it's the it's the alchemic archaic symbol.

27:49 Speaker 15: For arsenic, you know, poison.

27:51 Speaker 1: Oh okay.

27:53 Speaker 15: So I was like looking through loads of stuff. I'm a big history buffollow everything to do with history, So yeah, like find weird things in history.

28:01 Speaker 18: So in like medical times, which doctors would use arsenic as a as a remedy to sure people.

28:09 Speaker 15: Obviously it's highly toxic, isn't it so too much and you'll die?

28:13 Speaker 1: Right right?

28:15 Speaker 18: I kind of like the duality of something that was used to say people but could also destroy them. Okay yeah, and then that symbol is is what the other way?

28:25 Speaker 15: Like all different elements have symbols in alchemy.

28:28 Speaker 12: Yeah, that's that's that one.

28:30 Speaker 1: Oh okay, very cool, very cool.

28:34 Speaker 15: Stuper Ned's over here.

28:42 Speaker 19: I like it.

28:43 Speaker 1: Now does does the sound change a little bit?

28:47 Speaker 10: Live?

28:48 Speaker 1: Because I know that uh Zara, am I saying your name correctly? By the way, Zara? Okay, so you play keyboards. But do you only perform with the band live or are you also in the studio.

29:01 Speaker 12: We have plans to maybe get in the studio, but I'm a fairly recent edition.

29:05 Speaker 1: So okay, at the moment, I'm just live, okay. And how does that change the sound and the dynamics of the band when performing? Is it a is it just a fuller sound?

29:15 Speaker 8: Is it?

29:15 Speaker 12: Is it that's definitely full? That was the missing piece?

29:19 Speaker 1: Okay.

29:20 Speaker 20: We've always used We've always used like synth in our songs in the studios that you know, just to fill it out. And when some of our songs they are quite symth heavy, and then we when we get to playing those songs live, they just don't hit the same way. So we either avoided playing them or when we did play them, we just went happy with them. So getting a player in who was also an amazing singer as well just add in another layer of harmony.

29:47 Speaker 15: It just makes it so much.

29:48 Speaker 20: It sounds massive now like a live shows.

29:51 Speaker 18: There's there's one that stands out in particular of one of our songs called in the Air, and we stopped playing it live because we just couldn't get it to sound as good as the record. We're very much like a band who's very like based off our skills on our live show and sounding better live than we do on record. So with the addition of Zara, we've actually put that back in the set now and it's it sounds incredible, so.

30:19 Speaker 1: Oh, very cool. Yeah, And any opportunity to kind of expand what you do and add texture and everything, that's always that's always great and I and I would imagine too. It kind of you know, it kind of it's like a reboot. It kind of just freshens things up, right, So that's yeah, yeah, definitely, that's awesome. Have you guys, have you guys put out an album or has it just been singles so far?

30:44 Speaker 12: A bit of a bit of a mix.

30:45 Speaker 15: We did a few singles and then we did an EP.

30:48 Speaker 1: Oh that was well.

30:49 Speaker 15: We went a little bit more heavy on the EPA.

30:51 Speaker 12: We we kind of went a bit.

30:52 Speaker 20: The EP was supposed to show off our like songwriting ability, so it was like, was the five songs and each song is very and and then when we saw that we had a year running with that and then we kind of reflect and on it. We were happy with some of the songs weren't happy with the other songs and in the direction that we were going with our sound with felt some of those songs fitted with that sound and some of them didn't. So we've taken some of our songs actually off of Spotify because we want to re record them and put them back up a different date.

31:25 Speaker 1: Okay, okay? Is that is that a difficult decision when you decide to do that? We we had a I'm curious about this because we had a band recently on with us, Scarecrow Hill, who you know, they were. They were in that kind of position where they had they've been, they've been around a long time, but they some of their early material they actually have scrubbed from the Internet because they don't they don't want anybody to hear it because their sound has changed and evolved. And I just and I remember, I found it really fascinating because it's like that must be hard in one sense, because maybe you don't want this out there, but at the same time, this is something that you've created, so uh, part of you must want it out there regardless.

32:08 Speaker 1: Is it is it hard to make those decisions when you say, Okay, here's something that we don't feel represents what the band is now. So we're going to actually we're going to actually remove it and maybe redo it or you know, you mentioned you're you're going to rerecord those. But is that is that a difficult decision to make?

32:28 Speaker 17: Yeah, it is because you can't you put so much you know, heart and soul into creating that any of our tracks that we do in time, and yeah, we all kind of you to do it together as well as a band. So it's it's all the effort that we put into things to then take them down. It does, you know, hate it a little bit sometimes.

32:47 Speaker 12: In weird ways, but at the same time, this was our way.

32:50 Speaker 17: Of moving forward and kind of find non new sounds and progressing, So there was a silver line with that as well.

32:57 Speaker 20: Yeah, there's also there's also the fact that like our first ever release is still on it's still on Spotify, Like we're really happy with that very first release and that still fits with the sound that we've got going forward.

33:09 Speaker 12: Yeah, and a lot of those.

33:10 Speaker 17: Songs that we have taken off, it was more of it was kind of experiment and than the sense wasn't there.

33:15 Speaker 20: Yeah, we still play them live anyway, Yeah, live anyway.

33:21 Speaker 12: So Yeah, it's it is a bit weird.

33:25 Speaker 15: It is horrible when you have to take them.

33:27 Speaker 18: It's like a right or wrong way to do it, like, because it is the whole argument for like do you just do you leave your your creation out there and let it just be a part of history or are you going to update that at some point? And like for us, we want to some of those songs that we've taken off are probably going to be on our first album, so we kind of want to take them back, put them back in the oven for for a little bit, and then and then showcase them when we think they are the best that we can sort of deliver them.

33:57 Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. Now this track voicemail, So there is a voicemail in the in the song. Is that a real voicemail or is that that's something that was created for for the studio or or or maybe you don't want to say, maybe you want to keep the mistike of it. But but I figured I would ask.

34:18 Speaker 18: We will say. It's just our good friend Freyer. So shout Alter Freyer for for providing her voice talent.

34:26 Speaker 12: Tools for that one.

34:28 Speaker 15: Very cool, funny, funny fuck above voicemail. I actually wrote that song from start to finish on a plane.

34:37 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah yeah.

34:39 Speaker 15: I was flying from from Sanserini to Manchester.

34:42 Speaker 18: I was on holiday with my partner and I just got really creative after we took off and then by the time we landed that rose.

34:50 Speaker 1: That's great. Well yeah, I mean if you can make that time, you know, put it's always good when when you can do something with that time when you're on a plane. So are you are you to worried much over there?

35:02 Speaker 12: What?

35:02 Speaker 15: What?

35:02 Speaker 1: What's it like as far as live shows? I mean, it sounds like you're you're active with playing live but what's what? What's that been like? You're playing a lot of shows.

35:11 Speaker 17: So we've just announced Liverpool headline show which is the twenty fifth of April. That would be our biggest headline show today. So we're super excited for that. Other than that, it's all a little bit hush hush.

35:26 Speaker 12: At the moment.

35:29 Speaker 15: Some exciting, exciting things.

35:31 Speaker 12: We're very excited. Let's just see.

35:35 Speaker 15: Just for some some gigs that we have.

35:38 Speaker 18: Then we did a couple of festivals last year and that was incredible. It was incredible experience.

35:44 Speaker 1: Oh, very cool, very cool. Who are some of the bands that you played with at these festivals.

35:50 Speaker 12: Oh wow, I mean that you could keep you here for hours.

35:56 Speaker 17: I mean the festival that we played we are are so why not festival that's in Tarbyshire saying that there was a festival and it's called Endorset, which was you know, the other end of the UK.

36:11 Speaker 15: Right down right down south from where we are.

36:14 Speaker 17: Hilarious, That wasn't it that that was that was the right laugh And we were there like there's funny things going on there, Like I'd love to go back.

36:21 Speaker 12: It was an amazing I'm trying to.

36:23 Speaker 20: Think bands like the Lilacs, they were the Sheratons and there were so many. Yeah, which is nice to meet everyone, to be honest, and yeah.

36:36 Speaker 17: It's it's amazing. See and I've see other people. We're all in the same game. We all love playing live. It's lovely being in them. Yeah fields. If you're like where you can just chat to everyone for end Yeah, it's greatly yeah something.

36:51 Speaker 1: And and now now you're a Liverpool band, right Rivia is from Liverpool. Yeah, that's correct, so this might be forgive me if if this is a silly question, just keep keep in mind I'm an American. But so I'm asking I'm asking this question from an American perspective, But when when, uh, when Americans think of Liverpool and we think of music, of course we think of the Beatles being a being a band from Liverpool. Is there is there extra pressure to like, do people have an expectation of you, like, oh, you're from Liverpool, you better be good?

37:27 Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Is or is that just something I'm imagining because as an American that's how Americans think about Liverpool.

37:36 Speaker 18: I think it's a little bit of a legacy We've got to Liverpool. Yeah, there's there's there's there's big shoes to fill in a way. Yeah, there's also I think the same elements of of like a style of music, so like harmonies, like miersy beat harmonies has always been a massive thing.

37:54 Speaker 15: So like a lot of music that comes from Liverpool has really nice harmonies. Yeah, not necessarily just one. Yeah, so there's things like that. I think it defines the sound of.

38:06 Speaker 18: The city a little bit in the sense of if you stray a little bit away from that mazyb kind of sound, you can sort of alienate people a little bit. Yeah, it's a it's like anything, isn't it. If you if we were to go forty five minutes down the road to Manchester and play like Oasis stuff, yeah, that would be like Manchester Gold.

38:29 Speaker 12: Kind of thing.

38:30 Speaker 15: So it's yeah, there is there is definitely an element to that.

38:34 Speaker 18: I would I would think it's more people's expat expectation of what you're actually gonna sound.

38:38 Speaker 1: Like Okay, okay, Yeah, that makes sense to me because that's that's relatable because it's like that in America too, Like if you're if you're a band from Seattle, Washington here in America, you know, people expect that you're gonna have a certain you know sound because in the nineties, you know, grunge got so huge and it was coming out of Seattle, you know. Or yeah yeah, or even you know, we're here in uh here in Manchester, New Hampshire. Uh, We're we're forty five minutes north of Boston, and there's there's this thing where like, if you're a Boston band, you automatically, in the minds of a lot of people, have a certain because Boston is one of our major metropolitan cities.

39:18 Speaker 1: You you automatically, or if you're a band from New York City. You automatically have a certain there's this sort of assumed uh competence for lack of a better word, that people, you know, people think, oh, you're a band from a big city. You're probably you've probably got something really good going on. Yeah, you mean, yeah, But.

39:37 Speaker 20: What is nice is when we go to what we've noticed going to all these festivals is how many buns at the festival are from Liverpool.

39:45 Speaker 15: Yeah.

39:45 Speaker 20: Oh it's such a musical city.

39:48 Speaker 15: And we we you know, we lived it our whole lives.

39:51 Speaker 12: We just thoughts most cities were like this.

39:53 Speaker 20: Yeah, and then we we've traveled around quite a lot now and just I think.

39:58 Speaker 12: That the like it was was clear up festivals.

40:01 Speaker 20: When we go to festivals and half the people we'd meet at the behind the stage would be from Liverpool.

40:08 Speaker 12: Nice.

40:08 Speaker 15: Some of your mates that you didn't even know we're playing. You're like, all right, love, that's pretty full.

40:15 Speaker 1: Like that's that's great, that's great. By the way, does the band have any music videos? Have you made any music videos?

40:21 Speaker 12: I didn't know a few belts out there you had a few of them. Yeah, yeah, we got I mean in the air.

40:28 Speaker 17: What we were talking about before we hired out to an arcade called n Q sixty four in Liverpool for that one.

40:35 Speaker 12: So we kind of have the old arcade to ourselves and we shot like a love story. That's a little story. Yeah, young couple kind of finding love in this arcades.

40:44 Speaker 5: That was cool.

40:45 Speaker 15: That my favorite one.

40:47 Speaker 12: So that was a really nice one. We're all in ourselves, like just just.

40:51 Speaker 18: In the background and like funny costumes and Oscar winning performance.

40:56 Speaker 1: Well that sounds cool. I mean I have to check that out. Yeah, yeah, very I know.

41:01 Speaker 15: The big one is snake Hips.

41:02 Speaker 18: Yeah, we did, and we kind of just went off the deep end with snake Hips, like it's a it's a very tongue in cheek silly song for lack of a better dam. So we kind of talked that attitude into the into the music video. We ended up shooting it in a church. We just had a lot of fun.

41:19 Speaker 15: Yeah, we just we just thought we just thought a proper giggle.

41:22 Speaker 12: There was lots of lots of fun. Yeahs, nuns and that kind of.

41:27 Speaker 15: Yeah, there was all kinds going on.

41:30 Speaker 12: Brought the dog.

41:30 Speaker 14: Yeah cool.

41:33 Speaker 1: I definitely have to check that out. I'm very curious, very very curious. Well, listen uh, thank you, uh, the four of you for joining us this morning on the show. This is this has been this has been wonderful. The time does go quickly, but it's been great, great speaking with you, and I do want to in a moment, Like I said, we're going to play this track Voicemail, which I absolutely love. But what should before you go? What should people know about where to keep up? Where's the best place to go to keep up with you with Rivia online?

42:02 Speaker 1: To keep up with everything that you're doing. Where should people go?

42:06 Speaker 17: Check out Instagram, which is just at Rivia top bands all our important posts or any posts to be honest, or go on to our onto our Instagram.

42:16 Speaker 12: So that's at Rivia top.

42:17 Speaker 15: Band, if for all, for all social media's.

42:21 Speaker 12: Ifty one and.

42:22 Speaker 17: That's kind of not relevant and just what we're doing day to day Twitter or X now with your like at Rivia on the score band.

42:29 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, fantastic, all right, So uh we're gonna let you go again. Thank you, thank you all for joining us, and we're gonna play this track Voicemail. But I'm gonna By the way, do you have a playing any big shows this weekend or what what are you doing. What do you have coming up a weekend? Yeah, that's fine. Hey you're a busy band, you got a lot going on, so it's good. Good to have a little good, have a little rest, you know. So there you go, there you go. Well, we will definitely do this again in the future.

43:05 Speaker 1: It's been we're big fans here and uh and we're very happy to be the first American radio station to be playing you. So we appreciate that very much.

43:13 Speaker 18: And so much pleasure, and we we would absolutely love to come back and do it against.

43:18 Speaker 1: It absolutely, count on it. Count on it definitely. All right, Rivia, we will let you go. Thank you so much, take care all right, by bye. All right, that was great. That was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed speaking with them. Let's play this track and if you are listening live on Saturday morning, we've got a very busy show ahead of us still, so make sure you stick around. But right now, the band is called Rivia and this track. I love this so much. This is called voicemail. Check this out.

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