Matt Connarton Unleashed 4-18-26 hour 1

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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome everybody, here we go. It is that time again, Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM, Inglorious Manchester, New Hampshire, of course, also streaming at Wmnhradio dot org, or you can go to my website Matt Connorton dot com. Slash Live Today is Saturday, April eighteen, twenty twenty six, and I am not alone.

Speaker 3: Jenny Bet.

Speaker 4: Good morning, sunshine.

Speaker 2: Jenny is here at the news table.

Speaker 4: I am President of Accounted More and.

Speaker 2: We got a big show for you today. Coming up in just a few minutes. We're gonna be talking with Melanie Flynn from the band Autumn of Ashes, who are from Australia, Perth Australia to be specific, or as as someone we know pronounces it Perth.

Speaker 5: But oh yeah, yeah, I was very surprised to see the email asking for.

Speaker 4: Happy very happy wonder.

Speaker 2: Yeah. I like Ashes of that Ashes of Autumn a lot. So we're gonna be talking with Melanie from and then coming up in the second hour Stephen de Cure will be here with us live in studio. We're really looking forward to that. He's been here before. He's amazing. And in the third hour, Charles Richardson will be here. Of course, from the Charles Richardson Show, as has become somewhat of an informal tradition. He he does join us sometimes when there's a big WWE pay per view event. Of course it is WrestleMania.

Speaker 2: I said pay per view. I'm living in the past p l E premium live event and we don't use the term pay per view anymore. That is now an archaic term. But Charles will join us in the third hour today because it is WrestleMania weekend. Today is Night one of WrestleMania forty two. Tomorrow night will be Night two. So for you wrestling fans, just something too that I want you to know about. So not only is Charles joining us, and by the way, I didn't invite Eric Pilcher as well, but I kind of sprung it on him at the last minute, so we'll see.

Speaker 2: And Jenny will not be joining us because Jenny and I, Jenny and I have not yet watched SmackDown.

Speaker 4: I do not like spoilers.

Speaker 2: Jenny doesn't want any spoilers about what happened last night on SmackDown, the final SmackDown before WrestleMania, because I am on the air of Friday nights for Retrospectrum Radio with Polly c so we usually watch SmackDown on Saturday, so we're gonna be a bit behind on things, but I don't mind spoilers. So Charles and I will, we'll talk about Charles and I will, we'll talk about whatever happened last night on SmackDown, and of course, but mostly we'll be focused on predictions and so forth for WrestleMania story.

Speaker 2: Then tonight, and this is very important because I'm not sure the exact time. I can't give you an exact time, but at the end of WrestleMania tonight and tomorrow night, immediately after that, there will be a special live stream of Tough Bumps, which is of course the podcast that I do with Eric Pilcher and Austin Hicks. We'll be streaming live tonight right after WrestleMania Night one and tomorrow night, so if you follow me on social media, you know how to get to the show. But it is Tough Bumps you can find it stream.

Speaker 2: Come join us tonight, and again, you know, we'll probably be behind. I already told the guys, I said, Jenny and I will be behind. So you'll have to message me when WrestleMania is over because we'll still be in the middle of it. Probably. I don't mind. Again, I don't mind spoilers, so I'll find out from them how the evening concluded. But we'll talk about, you know, everything that happened.

Speaker 4: We might be done.

Speaker 2: Maybe maybe we'll see don It doesn't.

Speaker 4: Usually take up that long to catch up because we can go through the current.

Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true, So we'll see. We'll see how at all. But so look for Tough Bumps tonight immediately after WrestleMania and tomorrow night as well. We will be I mean live myself, Eric Pilcher, and Austin Hicks. Austin Hicks, by the way, who is the sole proprietor of Tough Bumps. Very exciting. Okay, Jenny, do you want to talk about last Saturday quickly too and update us on the Mosaic Art Collective.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be great, all right, very good, very good. Well, right now we're gonna hit this track. This is the single, the newest single, I believe from the band Ashes of Autumn. It's called undone, really good. And then when we come back on the other side of this, we'll have Melanie Flynn from the band Ashes of Autumn. She's gonna be joining us via WhatsApp all the way from Perth Australia can't wait to talk to her. But check this out. The band is Ashes of Autumn and this is Undone.

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Speaker 7: High now hard to break through.

Speaker 3: I'm standing on the side trying to.

Speaker 8: Get to you, hands killing me.

Speaker 9: I'm trying not to show it and hand down again, controlling or reading, a flowing down, canting, a delaying, some folding sail broking a.

Speaker 8: Fool in my believe in you love me?

Speaker 7: I've been coming go.

Speaker 8: So now here we stay? Tell me why?

Speaker 10: I feel like I've never really hurt you?

Speaker 7: Don't understand here?

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Speaker 7: You never have you now come to wait through.

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Speaker 8: Heads killing me.

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Speaker 12: Why pre com.

Speaker 13: Ing?

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Speaker 13: So the.

Speaker 12: My now how you chose.

Speaker 4: To want.

Speaker 8: Becominger?

Speaker 2: Oh that's good. I like that a lot. The track is undone, the band is Ashes of Autumn, and I believe we have Melanie Flynn from Ashes of Attom with us via WhatsApp all the way from Perth, Australia. Melanie, are you there, Matt?

Speaker 4: How are you good?

Speaker 2: How are you welcome to the program? Good to speak with you.

Speaker 10: Thank you so much, Thank you so much having me on.

Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely so Uh tell us about the uh, well, I'm curious to know about that song, but also the album that it's from the Darker side of Now. I feel like, you know, I listened to it. I feel like these are you know, some pretty deeply personal songs, it would seem, and especially that song, I mean, that's that really uh that really speaks to me. But uh, but I want to know about that song and if it is in fact deeply personal to you, and and tell us more about the album as well.

Speaker 10: Well. Firstly, Matt like, thank you so much.

Speaker 15: I mean, it's it's such a joy when somebody can hear the music and get something from it.

Speaker 12: You know.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 15: When this album is personal to me, it's very little written for a place of personal experience and stories and things that have gone through. So I'm just surely happy that it translates that you can relate to it.

Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.

Speaker 10: Yeah, what is uh?

Speaker 2: Tell me about the album title, the Darker Side of Now? Where does that come from? What does that mean?

Speaker 10: Okay?

Speaker 15: So it's Steph and I stephanus a partner. We were talking about appropriate title for me because all songs are a very sort of serious dark part of me and they still exist now, but they're the darker side of now.

Speaker 10: If that makes sense?

Speaker 2: It does it does?

Speaker 16: Yeah?

Speaker 2: Yeah, it kind of speaks to the complexity of you know, the human experience and and and uh, you know, there's there's uh now. I mean, I guess how I would interpret it is, you know now is who you are right now. But no matter who you are, no matter what your mood, no matter what you're experiencing, you have different sides of you.

Speaker 15: And of course, and the thing is too like if you go through a lot of things, whether it's trauma related or just any sort of experience that you know, you still hold with you, those things will always live with you, right.

Speaker 10: Exactly, but they don't define you exactly part of you. So that's why it's the darker side of who I am right now.

Speaker 2: That's something that comes up a lot on the show. We talk about this quite a bit with many of our guests. How music is. I think it's the best therapy, or well, let me broaden that out a little bit, being creative in any way, whether it's music, whether it's visual art, whether it's writing, whatever it is. When you take trauma, when you take any negative experience that's happened to you, and then you use that to create something, And obviously musicians do that with music, you know, creating things that that not only help you work through and process whatever that trauma is or that negative experience.

Speaker 2: Not only does it help you, but it helps other people too, who can then take that art and enjoy it and maybe they get something from it, maybe it helps them process whatever they've been through or whatever they're going through presently. So yeah, yeah, absolutely, that's.

Speaker 15: That's definitely the intention, do you know, I think we write music for ourselves initially, you know, to get whatever we need out and to express whatever we need. But when you, I think, create an album that is full of such in depth things, you really hope that someone can hear these songs.

Speaker 10: And feel a bit of hope through your stories.

Speaker 16: Right.

Speaker 2: Right, does that happen where because the album I know has been out for a little while, right, does it happen where you hear from people who will contact you and say, you know, this song or the album in its entirety really helped me help me get through something.

Speaker 10: Well, just to be fair, So the album isn't out yet.

Speaker 2: Oh, the album's not out yet. Okay.

Speaker 10: So we were planning on releasing it late last year.

Speaker 15: Oh, we held onto it. It's so close to our hearts, right, so we just held onto it. We wanted to release some singles, see how they landed. Yeah, but it's definitely going to be out later this year.

Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, very good?

Speaker 17: Is that?

Speaker 2: Is that difficult something that I've you know, I'm a musician and I've been in some bands, but somehow I never found myself in this particular position where where you have something you know, in this case, your album, that I'm sure, I'm sure there's a big part of you that you know because you had originally planned have it out last year at the end of last year. I'm sure there's a big part of you that really wants to get this out, you know, and then there's other there's other things that go into you know, because you have to be strategic about everything if you want to succeed, right, So maybe you I assume that's part of why you've held it back, But I mean, is that frustrating though, because you want to get this out right, you want people to hear it.

Speaker 10: Yes, that it was such a journey creating this album, you know, it was.

Speaker 15: It took two years to get to a place where we finally felt that this is ready to be to be heard. You know, life, life brings you some amazing things and sometimes you just have to pause on those things and work out what the best way forward is, right right, So that's why we've we've chosen to was.

Speaker 10: For a second.

Speaker 15: We've had some great support from you know, other people. I'll give a big shout out to our friend Steve Rivera in New York and he's just been.

Speaker 10: A pivotal support of us.

Speaker 15: And so later this year we will release this album and it's gonna be a lovely surprise and I can't wait to announce it in its full entirety.

Speaker 2: Oh, outstanding, outstanding. We'll have to have you back on the show at that at that point too, to do that, I'd love to. Oh, you got it, absolutely, Yeah. I'm curious to also about people.

Speaker 17: You.

Speaker 2: I get the impression obviously you're in Australia, but you worked with quite a few people from other parts of the world. Is that correct?

Speaker 18: Yeah?

Speaker 10: And what a blessing that is?

Speaker 2: Huh yeah, God bless the Internet.

Speaker 15: Yes, honestly so. Steph my drummer, my music partner. He was connected with Tommy Denander in Sweden. So Tommy was involved in creating the guitar parts that you hear on the them.

Speaker 19: Yeah.

Speaker 10: He was just an absolute gun.

Speaker 15: And then when it came down to mixing, we sort of explored different ideas, but we wanted to reach out further than just what we have in Australia, so we hit up Matt Doherty who was in Chicago, Okay, and he worked with one of my all time favorite bands with his seven Dust.

Speaker 2: Oh you're a seven Dust fan, like.

Speaker 10: The most insane seven Dust fan ever.

Speaker 2: We're We're going to have to circle back to that Okay, good because I am too. Okay, excellent, Oh.

Speaker 10: Matt, you're my best friend.

Speaker 15: And yeah, so Matt was Matt was able to mix that album for us, and he did a stellar job on it. You know, he's he has a huge rap sheet, right, So and then we had Elliott mulhan do the mastering on it and he was out in La as well. So okay, yeah, it's been a it's been a magic input from all around.

Speaker 2: The world outstanding. Is that is that important to you or or is that just kind kind of how it worked out where those were the best people to do it. Like when you started this project, you and your partner in this stuff, did you did you feel like, yeah, we want to kind of you know, maybe we'll get some American input on part of this and maybe or maybe we'll work with somebody from Sweden. I mean, was that did you set out to do that in the beginning or or maybe in the beginning, did you think, well, you know, we're here, we are I mean, Perth, I'm sure there's an incredible music scene.

Speaker 2: I'm sure you're surrounded by a lot of great talent there. So did it becoming more of an international effort? Was that a surprise or did you intend that all along?

Speaker 12: Do you know?

Speaker 10: It's so funny. I don't think it was like this intentional idea to do that. I think it was about sourcing the best people for that, you know, in the moment, do you know what I mean?

Speaker 17: And so.

Speaker 15: I always feel that brunching out of our little tiny state and you know, this country all the way down at the other end of the world. I don't think that could ever save you badly, are you know?

Speaker 18: So?

Speaker 10: I think for us it's definitely important to.

Speaker 15: You know, try to build alliances and friendships or you know, a work friendship with people outside of Australia.

Speaker 10: Because we were so isolated down here.

Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 10: Yeah, it's just good to.

Speaker 15: Sort of expand it out and sort of like see where those those leads lead.

Speaker 2: Absolutely, what does the music scene like where you are in Perth?

Speaker 10: No, I mean we it's so interesting.

Speaker 15: I was just talking with a friend earlier about this, like, we have a little ecosystem down here in Perth and we have to because we are so isolated. Like I said, so it is an established little working community and the bands here are you know, their killer they're so good. We have such a plethora of amazing musicians in this one little city. That is unfair that we're stuck here.

Speaker 7: Right.

Speaker 2: That's interesting is Perth is a pretty large city, I assume, right it may even be. Is it the largest city in Australia?

Speaker 13: No?

Speaker 15: Oh hell, I mean like if you're talking like space and you know land Masks, Sure like w A where we live in Western Australia. Sure it's the biggest state in terms of population and you know, density than.

Speaker 2: Nah, gotcha, gotcha? Okay, yeah, you'd.

Speaker 15: Probably want to be looking like to the east coast like Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane.

Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, yeah, it occurs to me.

Speaker 15: Ru on the West Coast and oh okay, we're definitely the most isolated city.

Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay. Interesting? Interesting? And what what what about radio? There? Are I have no idea what the radio situation is in Australia. Are there a lot of stations that support hard rock and metal and and and support bands like Ashes of Autumn.

Speaker 10: I wish I could say yes, but.

Speaker 15: Unfortunately, you know, we live in this this tiny bubble down here in Australia. It's very focused on commercial radio. And you know what's going on, you know, commercially.

Speaker 10: Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 15: There are some independent stations that support us and support the local communities, but we need a bigger we need a bigger network.

Speaker 2: Sure, sure, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. And what about So what's the live situation? Are you able to get out? Do you do you play live? Do you play these songs live? Or or what's happening there?

Speaker 19: Yeah?

Speaker 15: Look, I mean honestly, after COVID, Perth suffered a lot. So there was a lot of venues that closed down and you know, we I'm sure like every other city has to battle with you know, cover bands and other things like that, and the original scene gets you know, suffers as well. Sure, so a lot of our original venues kind of closed down, like they just weren't able to function anymore. So yeah, the options to play here, while said they're they're they're still quite limited. Okay, So that kind of really poses a question and you know makes us drive forward to like put a tour together or you know, do an Australian tour or do a maybe even international or something like that.

Speaker 2: So right, right, so you're not I assume you're not playing out live currently or maybe you are. I don't know.

Speaker 10: No, we have a next show booked on the twenty May.

Speaker 15: Oh okay, okay, yeah, so that's with a couple of the one of a couple of persons like amazing bands, like other sort of heavy heavy hitters.

Speaker 10: Okay, so yeah, we're doing like a three band lineup. Yeah, that's going to be good, twenty set of May.

Speaker 3: You should come down.

Speaker 2: Oh sure, yeah, I'll make the drive.

Speaker 4: I would I would like listen.

Speaker 10: I flew, I fleeted the state several times to see seven to us. You might as well come down and see us.

Speaker 2: No, no kidding, uh no kidding. Yeah, I would love to visit Australia. That is a place I've always wanted to go, for sure.

Speaker 19: No do it?

Speaker 18: Now?

Speaker 2: How does that work as far as the band there, because obviously you have you know, uh, it's not going to be you know unless unless uh your guitar player is fine, And I mean, how does that work? Do you have a do you have a band put together that that for the live shows there that's obviously not necessarily everyone who played on the on the album or how does that work?

Speaker 10: Yeah?

Speaker 15: Yeah, absolutely, I mean we had to put that together. So Tommy was you know, an integral part of that recording. But of course we needed live players, so we do have a full band. They're amazing musicians in their own right, and I just feel completely blessed that they're you know, want to be a part of the live shows and stuff.

Speaker 2: So excellent, excellent. So you have so how many times have you have you been to the States?

Speaker 10: I've been to the States now four or five times?

Speaker 15: Oh wow, no kidding, yeah, but all for different reasons and sort of spent different times. They're seeing different bands and just you know, seeing the sights and going to different states and stuff. But more often than not to have been tests visit the Seven Dust Crew and sort of you know, pitch up at their gigs.

Speaker 2: Oh that's really cool. That's so I assume you've met them and hung out with them.

Speaker 7: I have, do you know.

Speaker 15: I've been so blessed, you know that they're wonderful people. And I was lucky enough to get pulled on stage in Albuquerque.

Speaker 10: Oh wow, one random show really and then again in Perth as well.

Speaker 2: So oh, very cool to do songs with them.

Speaker 15: Yeah, like they were just in the middle of their songs, do you know, like I think The first one in Albuquerque was Angel's.

Speaker 10: Son, and they just like, come on, come up here and have a sing. And I was like, oh okay. Meanwhile, I'd been to you know, three shows prior, so I had no voice, so I'm like, this is great. But just one in Perth was yeah, praise got up and sang that with them and it was great.

Speaker 2: Oh that's really cool. That's really cool. Was Angel's Son? Is that a huge hit in Australia because that was in America commercially, that is their biggest song as far as the.

Speaker 10: Radio, you know, I wish that Seven Dust were bigger. Yeah. I mean they do have a following obviously.

Speaker 15: I mean they're worldwide known, right, yeah, but it's still it's still that that sort of difference between commercial and underground and whatnot.

Speaker 10: You know.

Speaker 15: But look, every every time they come here, they sell out shows. So yeah, they're very much loved here.

Speaker 2: Oh that's awesome. That's awesome. Do you have a favorite Seven Dust song?

Speaker 10: No, that's like asking me what my favorite pet is, Like, No, I can't, I just I just cannot. They can't. They just keep evolving and it's a beautiful thing.

Speaker 2: Yeah, I do have a favorite a personal favorite of mine, but I can't. It's from Yeah, it's from Early and their their catalog. But I can't. Actually, I can't say that album. It's from Oh what the hell? What's the name of the.

Speaker 10: Song is I'll put You on the Spot. I'm so sorry.

Speaker 2: What's that? Yeah?

Speaker 10: I put you on the Spot?

Speaker 2: I can't is that the uh? I can't remember now, I'm drawing a blank. I haven't had enough caffeine. The song starts with the song title starts with a B. But I can't say it on American radio, at least not on a Saturday, at least not on a Saturday morning. But you know, you know the name of a female dog?

Speaker 18: You know what?

Speaker 17: You know?

Speaker 2: The song?

Speaker 10: Sure?

Speaker 16: Right?

Speaker 2: Help me out what what album is that? Because I'm drawing a blank on the name of the album. I haven't listened to it in forever.

Speaker 10: I want to say that was off. I think that was off the self titled.

Speaker 2: Right, It's got to be it was because it was their first one on road Runner when when when they when they signed with Roadrunner Records, So yeah, it's got to be the self titled one. But yeah, that's my personal favorite. I love that song. And and and fortunately every time I've seen them live, because that was never released as a single, at least not in America, but they always play that live every time I've seen them, they have at least. So yeah, that's my that's my persona that live.

Speaker 7: Really.

Speaker 15: Oh No, I have been too like a few shows now, I mean to lots and lots, but as many as I possibly can.

Speaker 10: But I've never seen them play it live.

Speaker 2: I've been I've been very lucky then, Yeah, because I think they've played it live. I've seen them a few times. I think every time they at least two of the three times they've played it live, and I'm always very very happy.

Speaker 10: Well, remind me to come to a seven Dosh show with you, Matt.

Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Well, let let us know next time you're coming here to see them. We'll make it happen. That's amazing.

Speaker 7: Oh, let's do it.

Speaker 10: It's a yeah, it's a date's all right?

Speaker 2: All right, you got it?

Speaker 18: You got it?

Speaker 2: So what else should we know about? So the album? Do you have an ETA at this point on when it's going to be out?

Speaker 15: I know you said this year, right, yes, yes, So there are some really exciting things going on in the Ashes camp at the moment that I can't give it all away just yet, but you know, just watch this space because there's some really really exciting stuff. So we're edging towards September, okay, September October for a release for the album.

Speaker 10: And you can keep up to date with all of that stuff on socials with us anyways.

Speaker 2: So yeah, absolutely, Oh where do the name come from? By the way, I didn't ask you that. I asked you about the name of the album, but I didn't ask you about the name of the band.

Speaker 4: Where does what?

Speaker 2: What does the meaning of Ashes of Autumn?

Speaker 10: Well, you know what I mean.

Speaker 15: I think when you're writing music, right, you write it in a way that it feels right in the moment, it's good, but you know, it's seasonal.

Speaker 10: It changes in the terms of how you might process it.

Speaker 15: You know, and the same with like with autumn, and the seasons change and it's like regrowth and rebirth and all that sort of stuff. And that's kind of what music or songwriting does.

Speaker 20: Right.

Speaker 15: It's like a you're putting it to bed and then hopefully somebody else can learn from it or get something from it.

Speaker 10: So it's like putting things to bed but then having a regrowth afterward.

Speaker 18: Yeah.

Speaker 2: Okay, okay, very cool.

Speaker 14: I like that.

Speaker 2: I like that very good. Oh, by the way, too, you've got some great music videos. I was, I was checking out the videos. I was especially curious to ask you about. Oh yeah, the video for when It Comes is really interesting? Can you can you tell us about this? And I encourage people, not right now, but after the show, I encourage people to go on YouTube and check it out. But this is really interesting, this this whole concept with it looks like it you know, it kind of looks like it's recorded with with old camcorders.

Speaker 2: And you got the guys who look like astronauts in the white suits. I mean, just can you tell us about this video?

Speaker 7: Oh?

Speaker 15: I would love to tell you the brown So Steph and I we we like to think outside the box, right, Yeah, and so we thought it would be an incredible idea to shoot all twelve videos for this album in one day.

Speaker 2: Oh really, So so we did.

Speaker 10: Yeah, but that took about six months of planning. It was a big, big yeah. So Steph is like a machine when it comes to the planning, because I'm not.

Speaker 7: So.

Speaker 15: So we worked together in planning and designing sets and working out how it might look and sort of like the shots that we wanted and you know how every song is gonna late look.

Speaker 10: But the special part of this was that each song was literally just a one take shot. So whatever you see, that's it.

Speaker 15: We're not going to go back and reshoot anything. Late project for us, I guess, so when it comes.

Speaker 10: We shot this in a huge.

Speaker 15: Warehouse and we went in the night before and we set up what you see that, you know, the big blacks, and that's just kind of like.

Speaker 10: Builders.

Speaker 15: I don't know if you've been to a construction you a construction site, right, and it's very heavy and it's just a tool of us. And it took about four or five hours to set up.

Speaker 10: Like this nine by nine you know square thing like it's was massive. It was yeah, and then we thought we did like that are in there, and we did videotaped all that when it start the video.

Speaker 15: To be like my my thought about it was that it was going to be shot in a way that we looked a little bit unhinged.

Speaker 10: And so the song itself is about.

Speaker 15: Depression or mental health challenges or anxiety. You can feel when it comes, and so it's all about like understanding when it comes and what happens in the moment. And so this having the guys dress up in the you know, the white outfits and stuff. They were kind of like resembling the bad critters that might come in when you know, these depressive things happen, or maybe doctors or something else, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 10: And so yeah, it was just a moment of a little bit and incorporating it in a.

Speaker 15: Way that looks like we're being spied on, because that's kind of how you think people.

Speaker 10: Can relate to they're feeling it anxious or have mental health challenges. So yeah, that's kind of where that came from.

Speaker 15: And let me tell you, the pack up for that set was the worst pack up I've ever life.

Speaker 2: I can imagine it still haunts us to this wow.

Speaker 3: But yeah, but so you were you were able to.

Speaker 2: You were able to successfully film all those videos in one day.

Speaker 15: Correct, So everybody from this album has been shot in a twenty four hour period.

Speaker 10: So we arrived at the first shoot at like six thirty in the morning. I picked up our camera guy.

Speaker 15: Filming at eight, and then we finished around two thirty am and that's twelve songs.

Speaker 2: Wow, that's amazing.

Speaker 4: Yeah, well.

Speaker 15: It's a whole It was a whole experience that I said to Steph, like is this something that you would consider doing again? And the initial were like hell no.

Speaker 8: I was like, yeah, like we just do it better now, right, that's true.

Speaker 2: Now you know you certainly know how to do it now that you've done it once. Yeah, that's that's amazing. Wow. Good for you.

Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean that's it. Like, I mean, I don't know how you bands bands would consider doing something.

Speaker 7: Like that, but I don't know.

Speaker 15: For us, it just felt right and we loved the process. It was an amazing process of planning. Like I said, took about six months. But when you plan something for that long and then when it comes to.

Speaker 10: Fruition and you see the product at the end, it's like, oh there that was actually really good.

Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's amazing. Wow, fantastic. Well, so I'm thinking about so two things. One is I'm thinking about you know, we did play the we we played undone to open the segment. I was thinking about closing the segment with uh, I do want to play another ashes of bottom track. I was saying about closing the segment with all that you have, because I think that's my personal favorite. Uh, if that is a if you're amenable to that.

Speaker 10: Oh no, I love that, you love that?

Speaker 15: I mean that was the first that we released, okay, you know, and and I think that it just hit like well as the first release, you know, like it's not a bit of it's a bit catchy, it's a bit poppy, but it's still got a bit grit, you know. Yeah, And I mean, would you have thought that I wrote this song one piano matt oh Okay.

Speaker 2: No, I would not have thought that. That's interesting?

Speaker 10: I know, right.

Speaker 21: Yeah.

Speaker 10: When I first wrote it, it almost had like a very eighties vibe to it. But then I took it to the you know, we worked it out in the studio and it's like, oh, okay, this is what it's gonna sound right now. But yeah, I love I love If you want to close the show with that, I'm more than stoke is that?

Speaker 13: Uh?

Speaker 2: Is that always how you write on the piano.

Speaker 10: For this album? I think, like I want to say, like maybe.

Speaker 22: Is on the piano okay, then maybe acoustic guitar okay, and then you know, take it to the guys, and we kind of all take it to Step and then take it to Tommy or whatever and just send skeleton songs and this.

Speaker 15: Is what this is, and this is the melody idea, and just give him a very detailed brief on what we are hearing.

Speaker 10: But yeah, this this song. I actually love this song. Like it's came back so well, Like I was like, dude, this is this is awesome, Like it's a.

Speaker 2: Vibe, very cool, very cool. Yeah, at the end of our discussion, I'm going to play that I might I might sneak in a seven Dust song after that. It's for the hell of it. But uh, okay, Melanie, this has been wonderful. Tell us the other thing I want to make sure our listeners know before you go, where is the best place for people to go to keep up with everything that the band is doing everything odd. Ashes of Autumn is h is up to Where where should they go online?

Speaker 15: Look, we're everywhere online Ashes of Autumn HQ, and so just follow us on Facebook, you can go YouTube, We're on TikTok.

Speaker 10: It's all you know. Anyway that you consume social media and or music.

Speaker 2: We're there, outstanding And yeah, you've got a great website, which is which is very important.

Speaker 10: Thank you. That is all down to Steff. He's amazing, good, good.

Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a website nerd, so I that's that's why, because a lot of a lot of artists have terrible websites. So you've got to You've got a great You've got a great website, which is which is very cool.

Speaker 10: Thank you.

Speaker 2: Oh and I can confirm yes, that song that is on the self titled album, the seven best song we were talking about. I just looked it up.

Speaker 10: Wow, that's right. Okay, So I'm good. I'm good. My knowledge base is still standing up.

Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely all right, Melanie Flynn from Ashes of bottomn we will let you go and we'll hit that track all that you have and yeah, we'll definitely have you back in the future. We want to win. The out is ready to come out. Please make sure you join us again and we can talk all about it and you know, help introduce that to the American audience here and keep up the great work. Love the band, and it's been wonderful speaking with you today.

Speaker 10: Thank you, Matt.

Speaker 15: It's been such a pleasure. Thank you so much for having us on and for supporting us all the way from the US and yeah, we appreciate it so much.

Speaker 10: So yeah, thank you so much.

Speaker 2: All right, you got it, Melanie, Thank you. We'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 10: Take care all right, would love that. Thank you, Take care and fighting.

Speaker 2: All right, bye bye all right. That is Melanie Flynn from the band Ashes of Autumn, and this is my favorite track from the band. I listen everything that they have available and I really like this a lot. This is called all that you have.

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