Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-17-25 hour 1

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Speaker 8: Good morning, everybody, Welcome, here we go again. It is that time Matt Connorton unleashed and we are live from the studios of w M n H ninety five point three FM in glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, streaming everywhere. If you go to Matt connorton dot com slash live for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact and foshow archives.

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Speaker 8: Here in Manchester, New Hampshire, you can just turn on your radio dial ninety five point three FM. But and today's show, by the way, we'll probably be getting a lot more a lot of additional traffic from around the world because we've we've got a very international show.

Speaker 6: Today.

Speaker 8: We have we have an artist from Australia, then we have somebody from the UK beaming in. Then we've got somebody from Boston, which is part of the United States, of course, and then in the third hour we have somebody joining us live in studio. But speaking of live streaming options, so I've just been alerted that, for whatever reason, this happens once in a while, there is no audio going out on the video feed. We do, of course, also stream the show live to Facebook, for example, and there is no audio on the Facebook feed, and that happens occasionally.

Speaker 8: I have no idea why. Some sort of weird software glitch. So there is no video component for today's program. This is audio only.

Speaker 6: So there you go.

Speaker 8: But you know you can still you have options if you want to interact and participate with the show. If you go to Matt connorton dot com slash live, you can send me an instant message there. You can chat there if you have anything for the program. So so you're not shut out from participating, but there is no chat because it's weird. I mean, I could have just left the feed going on video, but then that's weird because then what ends up happening if you do that is people when they're in the chat room, instead of talking about you know, instead of just opening up another browser tab, for example, and listening to the audio, they just type in the chatroom on the video.

Speaker 8: Oh there's no audio. How come I can't hear the show. You can hear the show. You just have to open up another tab and get the audio feed again. Go to Matt conorton dot com, slash live or wnhradio dot org and click listen live, so you can do that. So it's just easier to just close out the video. So we just want to have video today. But again it is first and foremost a radio show, so we shall go forth and actually, with the exception of the guests coming in in the third hour, it's gonna be all you know, I'm all alone anyway here in the studio at WMNH.

Speaker 8: So today is a Saturday, May seventeen, twenty twenty five.

Speaker 6: We do have a very exciting show for you.

Speaker 8: We've got a killing flaw, a great band from Australia. I love this band there. We're going to get them on in just a few minutes. Actually, we're going to play one of their tracks and then we're going to talk to Killing Flaw Following that. In the second hour, Ryan Redwood is going to be joining us from the UK, and we recently did the American radio premiere of his newest single Tomorrow on the show today we actually get to talk to him, really looking forward to that. Our friends at big GPR and Management over in the UK setting that up for us, and we love them.

Speaker 6: They bring us a ton of great guests.

Speaker 8: So we'll be talking to Ryan Ren Ryan Redwood at the top of the second hour, and then at ten thirty am Eastern time, we're going to be speaking with Major Moment, a great band from Boston. They were a last minute addition to today's show, but we're going to be talking to them. They're going to give us a call or we're going to call them however it works, and we'll talk to them.

Speaker 6: What a great band and they're doing some really big things.

Speaker 8: So and they've got a big show coming up a couple of days that they're going to talk and they have a brand new single that just came out, So they've got a lot going on. So major moment from Boston. They're gonna be joining us at the midway point in the second hour and then in the third hour Moonlight Ride, joining us live in studio. And I did see Jesse Johnson in the I think it was in the YouTube chat before I close that out because like I said, there's no video.

Speaker 6: I'm sorry, there's no audio on the video feed. So anyway, but.

Speaker 8: Again, it is a radio show and we shall treat it as such going forward through this morning. This Saturday morning, it was kind of cloudy and h when I came in. Cloudy and h but hopefully the sun comes out. We've had a lot of nice weather lately. One other quick thing too, I did play a little Jerry Robinson to open the show, a little hipster dipster and and of course Jerry Jerry Robinson. You always hear his voice on the intro to the show. If you like that, Well, it's gonna be changing. And I've got a surprise but can't can't unveil yet, but let's just say we're going to be getting you know, we like to upgrade occasionally.

Speaker 8: The music, and a certain individual who has contributed to the program in the past is going to be giving us a brand new theme song to use, which I'm very excited about.

Speaker 6: I'm not going to say who it is yet.

Speaker 8: I will tell you, of course, when the time comes, because this person has done a lot for us, and has done a lot for the show, and has been a guest on the show a couple of times, and is a very talented musician and graphic artist and so on and so forth. So we love this person and they do great things and love being able to work with them.

Speaker 6: Again. I'm being a little bit vague.

Speaker 8: Because I will address all of that when it has unveiled, when it is ready, when the finished product is ready.

Speaker 6: But it's cool to you know, every couple of years or so kind of change things up. Let's see. Oh one other thing too.

Speaker 8: By the way, thank you to everyone who's been checking out the Tough Bumps podcast that I've been doing with Eric Pilcher. Longtime listeners of this show, of course, are familiar with Eric Pilcher. He used to do film reviews for us, and perhaps he will again in the future of classic film reviews, and and he's he's done a lot of other segments with us too over the past few years. But we've also been doing a podcast about wrestling, uh one of one of the great passions that Eric and I share, called tough Bumps, and it's getting a pretty good response on you know, that's completely separate from WM ANDH.

Speaker 6: That's not a radio show.

Speaker 8: It's strictly a podcast, and you know, we put it up on YouTube and all the podcasting networks and it's been doing well, doing well.

Speaker 6: We're off to a good start with it, so thank you everyone who supports that.

Speaker 8: We're actually gonna be later this afternoon, late afternoon, I think we're gonna be recording episode four. So so thank you everyone again for your support with that. Well, which reminds me too, I am wearing my my well. I'm pointing to it like the videos working. You can't see it, but I am wearing my bf RAID hat Boston's Final Raid and Bruce from bf Raid did send me an email. Bruce, if you're listening, I'm sorry I haven't gotten back to you and to your friend who you sent me about the about the wrestling podcast, But I will, but I will, I promise.

Speaker 8: It's just been a very very busy week. All right, on that note, let's listen to some Killing Flaw. I'm gonna play this great track. This is called Friends, and we're gonna play this and then we're gonna get Killing Flaw all the way from Australia. We've had guests on the show before from Australia, but it's been a very long time, so this will be really cool.

Speaker 6: And I love their sound. Really looking forward to talking to these guys. So here it is. This is Friends and the band is Killing Flaw.

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Speaker 6: Oh my god, that is epic. I didn't even want to talk over the end of it.

Speaker 8: You know, on radio you're supposed to when you got a fade out like that, you're supposed to talk, right, But I didn't even want to talk over the end of it.

Speaker 6: I just wanted to let the.

Speaker 8: Fade go because it's so that song is so good and it's just it's just so big and epic.

Speaker 6: And let's see who we've got on the line here. I think, uh, Rob from Killing Flaws here, Rob?

Speaker 1: Is that you?

Speaker 10: Yeah?

Speaker 6: Yes, mate, awesome, awesome, it's that.

Speaker 10: You know.

Speaker 8: We just recently started using WhatsApp because Skype is no more, and uh, I'm always relieved when it works because WhatsApp is kind of new to us here.

Speaker 6: But welcome to the program.

Speaker 10: Thanks man. I've got but Nathan with me here too.

Speaker 6: Who's with you, Nathan?

Speaker 10: Good?

Speaker 6: I might yeah, I'm the drum Oh, good.

Speaker 8: Morning, Good morning guys. Hey, listen, I love that. I love that track so much. It's big, it's epic, it's I can hear. I'm really curious to know about influences because I hear a lot there obviously. You know, there's a lot of you know, sort of like old blues and and uh, you know, and kind of a there's like a sixties rock vibe in there. But it's also but it gets really heavy and uh and that's interesting to me too. And I love stuff like that where you can hear you can hear these sort of sixties more blues based rock influence in something, but it also gets loud and heavy and aggressive and it you guys have really kind of perfected that.

Speaker 8: At least that's what my ears are telling me listening to a track like that. We just played Friends of course, uh the US release and uh, really really good. Can you can you guys, let's start there. Can you guys tell me about your influences with Killing Flaw?

Speaker 5: Uh?

Speaker 10: Yes, sure, Sorry, we've got a crazy e just be with me coming through.

Speaker 6: You're you're you're cutting, you're cutting in and out a little bit.

Speaker 10: Rob okay.

Speaker 11: Uh so yeah, our influences pretty much, uh you know, sort of the Petrios.

Speaker 10: And Short in the nineties. Uh sound God, Alison Chains deaf times.

Speaker 8: Well, I'm sorry, so I heard I heard a nineties sound guard Alison Chains. You guys are cutting it out a little bit, but I'm getting some of it. But yeah, I can, I can definitely hear all that in there. And you guys are you're a trio correct power trio basically, yes.

Speaker 6: How long have you been around?

Speaker 8: Because you've got of very your sound is mature in a way that I suspect that Killing Flaw has been around for a bit, but but how long is how long has this band existed?

Speaker 12: Then it's been around maybe yes, but have been very active,

Speaker 12: been playing for twenty in different bands?

Speaker 10: Does that make sense?

Speaker 8: I'm I'm missing a lot of what you're saying, unfortunately, guys, But yeah, it sounds like you've been around, been around around four years as h as killing flaw. I'm wondering, is there like, do you have any Are you having a slow internet connection there by any chance?

Speaker 6: Or I'm just wondering.

Speaker 10: That's delay.

Speaker 8: Yeah, it's it's just cutting in and out. I'm missing a lot of what you're saying. We can, we can, we can try for a few more minutes. Maybe it'll maybe it'll get better. But you guys, uh are you having a lot of success there in Australia.

Speaker 10: Uh yeah, we're sort of. Uh we're getting out there in the mind and playing around as much as.

Speaker 6: Hey.

Speaker 8: I don't know if you guys can hear me. I'm gonna actually I'm gonna play another track here. Uh, we're we're missing. I can't hear these guys. It's cutting out so much. I'm actually gonna play We'll play another track from these guys. And I'm gonna just send them a message and see if there's a way that maybe another way we can do this.

Speaker 6: Let's see. Let's play this, Let's play I Am. This is another single from from Killing Fla.

Speaker 4: Check this out, walk in the day, won't be friends,

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Speaker 1: Time, Sun, sir.

Speaker 2: A babe, that's things about three days day, give me sun till we walk watching.

Speaker 8: Oh that riff is so good. Okay, if you're just joining us, we've got Killing Fly with us. Let's try again.

Speaker 6: Hey, guys, are you there?

Speaker 10: Yeah?

Speaker 1: Yeah, you then?

Speaker 8: Oh this already sounds so much better. Yes, yes, welcome,

Speaker 8: Oh perfect perfect. I'm so glad because I really would have been bummed if I didn't get to talk to you guys. Okay, so, if you're just joining, we have Killing Flaw. They are all the way from Australia. Where in Australia are you, guys?

Speaker 1: Not?

Speaker 6: Not that I know Australia that well, the geography of it, but I am curious.

Speaker 10: A little place called the Blue Mountains.

Speaker 6: The Blue Mountains, yeah and a half west of Sydney.

Speaker 8: Oh okay, okay, what's the music scene like there, so you're so you're only an hour and a half from Sydney, So I would imagine it's it's probably a pretty big music scene in Sydney, Australia, right, A lot of bands.

Speaker 11: Yes, it's pretty pretty average at the moment, to be honest, is it really?

Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 8: Do you guys, Stan, do you guys kind of stand out because what you're doing, Like I was saying earlier, and I couldn't hear you guys very well before. I'm not sure how well you could hear me, but I was talking about how, you know, you guys have have that sort of blues based you know, there's a lot of sixties rock influence there, but also it gets really heavy. Not so much with that track I Am, but with that song friends, you really hear it, you know, the first single that we played, and I don't hear a lot of bands that can really kind of pull that off that can you know, they can put in that that blues rock influence but also gets so heavy and aggressive with it but still make it sound natural.

Speaker 8: And I'm wondering, I mean, do you guys really kind of stand out in the scene? There are there other bands that are able to pull off what you do. I suspect that there aren't many.

Speaker 11: Uh, yeah, it's a good question. I think it kind of comes down to the fact that, you know, myself, I'm sort of come from the you know, the blues thing, you a, Hendrik Stevie Ray and the boys, you know, basically come from you know, a heavier background. Yeah, it kind of works, you know, I'll bring in sort of blues based off and then it just ends up becoming quite heavy, which iry and make it Yeah, yeah do.

Speaker 8: It Do you intend to do that or does it just going to happen like like like yeah, that that's the that's the idea is to make it heavy.

Speaker 10: One hundred percent. Well, well, if it works, yeah yeah.

Speaker 11: I mean, you know, I was fifteen when the nineties hit, you know, so grunge is a big part of you know, my teenagers, so you know that leaves a real imprint on you.

Speaker 5: You know.

Speaker 11: So I guess I just, you know, I had the mindset of going forward and we all kind of have the same idea that we we just want to keep it interesting.

Speaker 10: Right right, So you know, by shifting you know, a few genres and.

Speaker 11: You know, sort of win songs is kind of something that we seem to be doing a lot of these days. Yeah, you know, uh, what'd beat you a long step?

Speaker 8: Is No, that's great, that's great. We should uh and and by the way too, because again we couldn't hear that well. Are there are there two of you joining us this morning? There may have been a third person and I just missed the missed it because again we couldn't hear very well.

Speaker 10: No, it's it's uh so yeah, it's uh knife AND's here as.

Speaker 8: Well, Rob and Nathan. Okay, Nathan, you're the drummer, correct, Okay, Just want that's what I thought. I just want to make sure now that I can know that I can hear you guys so well. Awesome, awesome. I'm curious too because obviously so you're a I don't know, in the US, we often use the term power trio. I don't know if you call it that there, but but for whenever I hear a band with three people in it that has a sound, I mean, you guys sound like a five piece band with There's a lot of textures and layers to what you're doing.

Speaker 8: Obviously, is that is that difficult to replicate live? That big sound or or does that also come just kind of naturally.

Speaker 7: It seems to come naturally. I think we sort of a better live acts if that makes sense then.

Speaker 6: Like on record, sure, sure, yeah, yeah, but you have you know, Rob has.

Speaker 7: A great time and Dave the vice players has great time as well. So there's just walls of sound.

Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I can imagine. I can imagine.

Speaker 8: Who are as as far as you know, we talked a little bit about nineties grunge. I'm curious who some of the influences are. I know that in the United States if you if you talk about grunge and you talk about uh, if you mentioned Australia, you know, Silverchair comes up as as one of the bands that people kind of really remember from that era.

Speaker 6: Here are they? Are they still around? A silver Chair still active?

Speaker 5: No?

Speaker 6: They not?

Speaker 5: No?

Speaker 6: Okay, they had a they had a couple of big hits in the US.

Speaker 8: But are but are they? Are they a big influence on you guys specifically? I don't think you sound I personally, and I'm not just saying this because you're on the show. I think you sound a lot better than Silverchair. You know, Silverchair, I could Silverchair, I could.

Speaker 6: Kind of take them or leave them. But I I could listen to you guys all day long.

Speaker 10: We could listen to you all day long too, Matte oh going.

Speaker 6: Oh thank you? Yes, No, no, seriously though, I mean I love what you're doing. But I am curious. I mean, is Silverchair an influence on you guys?

Speaker 5: No?

Speaker 10: No, respectively?

Speaker 5: No, no.

Speaker 11: So you know, for me, Sound Garden was a big one. Alison Chains was a big one. Yeah, you know, they kind of really impacted me, uh sort of as a.

Speaker 10: Fifteen year old. Yeah, and still do.

Speaker 11: I mean, you know it's uh it's caught else anniversary of his passing.

Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I believe today and yeah, so it's that's you know, that's a massive loss.

Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. What is the what is the live situation?

Speaker 1: Like?

Speaker 6: There? Do you guys? Are are you playing a lot of shows? Are you touring or.

Speaker 5: Not?

Speaker 11: At the moment the scene, he is kind of really flaky.

Speaker 11: So but we are going to Japan early March next year.

Speaker 6: Very cool.

Speaker 10: Yeah, so we're really looking forward to that.

Speaker 11: I think we've got a couple of blues festivals coming up as well, but we're just sort of waiting to get confirmation.

Speaker 10: But yeah, it's it's been a lot of.

Speaker 11: Just you know, in the studio kind of getting you know, our sound together on records to get it out there, and then now we just you know, getting out there and getting behind it.

Speaker 8: It's interesting you mentioned a couple of blues festivals, and that's something that occurs to me about your sound, is that, yeah, you can kind of fit in. You can kind of fit in different places, right, Like you can play a blues festival, but you can also play, you know, a heavy rock festival. I don't know, maybe not metal, but certainly heavy rock, right, Like you've got you've got a sound that kind of lends itself to to you know, be able to fit in with some different genres and some different concepts.

Speaker 8: It would seem like right, And I don't know. I'm curious too if you do you approach it, like depending on the kind of show or the type of crowd that you're playing for, do you kind of adjust what you're.

Speaker 6: Doing at all?

Speaker 8: Like like if you play a blues festival, I assume if you play a song like friends, you're not getting super heavy with it necessarily, or maybe you are.

Speaker 6: Maybe you are and testing the limits. I don't know, I'm curious about that.

Speaker 10: Yeah, that's a great question.

Speaker 11: Our first show was actually at at the Portland Blues Festival over Heat, and were kind of spoiled because this is a really great gig and it you know, we weren't sure how the heaviest stuff was going to go, you know, sort of go down amongst everybody.

Speaker 10: Yeah, but it was just beyond expectation of.

Speaker 11: The responsor you see from the crowd, Like, yeah, it was still kind of living off that to be honest.

Speaker 6: Yeah, that's really cool. That's really cool.

Speaker 8: I mean that must be I mean that's very validating, right if you're if you're in a situation you know, it's one thing to go and play a show where you know that people are going to be really into what you're doing, and that's that's great, and that's part of why you do it, right, But it's even better when you're in a situation where maybe you're not sure, maybe you've got a little bit of doubt, you know, is this crowd going to really like what we do? And then you do it and they love it, and then it's that's very validating.

Speaker 8: And I can see why that would give you a lot of kind of a lot of buoyancy going forward, you know, the reaffirmation that comes from that.

Speaker 6: So that's that's really cool.

Speaker 8: And you said you're going to be doing more of those you've got you said you've got a couple of blues festivals coming up, right.

Speaker 11: Yeah, we've got possibly the Threadbow Blues Festival, which will we miss a lot of the festivals for this year, so we're prominably from January on Woods next year.

Speaker 10: It's it's really going to ramp up.

Speaker 6: Yeah.

Speaker 10: Yeah, but you know, we have a real eclectic sort of range of styles throughout the set.

Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, We've got a country blues called Yesterday Blues with.

Speaker 10: Some great harp on there, you know, from a great friend of our, Shane Carter.

Speaker 11: We do a bluegrass number called Shame I mean, and then you've got Friends, which is kind of leans towards you know, the the seventies sort of rock into into like a you know, a sort of a sound garden, that kind of ending, you know, like yeah, so you know, I don't know, maybe we're we've got ADHD can't we can't decide on where we want to go, but I think it's always going to have blues connotations just purely because of my playing. Sure, you know, I grew up with you know, listening to guys like Peter Green and Mick Taylor and uh, you know, and then Stevie Ray and Jimmy of course, so you know, and then you throw that over, you know, some rage against the machine style riffs.

Speaker 10: It's interesting, you know.

Speaker 6: Yeah, I heard that in there too. I heard I heard a little rage against the machine in there, and oh, just so good. Yeah, I mean that you're able to take those.

Speaker 8: Elements and infuse them together is just really good, because I you know, I've certainly met some bands that have tried to do something like that and not quite pulled it off the way that you guys are.

Speaker 6: Are you getting traction there? On radio?

Speaker 8: I have not you know, what a chris to me as I'm talking to you, because I'm such a radio nerd, I have no idea what radio is like in earlier I mean, I can tell you here in the United States we have a lot of you know, classic rock is a very dominant radio format. Country is a very dominant radio format. Shows that play a lot of what we're doing here, not not so there's not so many of these, you know, of course, we do a variety of genres on the show. But but what what is it like in Australia? And are you on the radio in Australia?

Speaker 8: You should be if you're not, But but what what's it like there in terms of radio?

Speaker 10: Uh, it's no, we don't, we haven't sort of.

Speaker 11: It's it's really hard to to break through you know, commercial radio because it's pretty much classic.

Speaker 10: Rock here too.

Speaker 11: Yeah, so yeah, it's it's kind of one of those things like, uh, you know, if if it goes underground, I think that's the best, the best way for it, you know, because.

Speaker 10: Then it'll gain traction and and uh and and get some legs.

Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that it sounds like the state of radio is similar to the way it is here, and I think that, uh, you know, fortunately with the Internet, there are other ways to uh to you know, build build a following outside of you know, It's what you said, it's true here too. You know, it's very hard to crack uh commercial radio, especially if you're a you know, a new band and you're and you're doing something that doesn't necessarily fit with what what people are used to hearing, especially and but that's that's that's been true.

Speaker 6: I mean that's been true for decades.

Speaker 8: You know, people get that's why certain genres obviously rise up, like when grunge, you know, really got popular, for example, because we were talking about grunge earlier. Although grunge and and you know, the Seattle Era and all of that, what was interesting about that is you had a lot of these bands that were sort of put into that category, but who actually had very different sounds like Alison Chains and Pearl Jam for example, really don't don't sound anything alike. But you know, you just label it all all grunge.

Speaker 8: But I think that, But yeah, it is very difficult that commercial radio here in the United States. Uh, college radio is thriving, and that's a great way to get your music out there. I don't know if it's the same in Australia. If college radio is really vibrant therein it even exists.

Speaker 6: No, no kidding, I've never had it. Yeah, Oh that's all that breaks my heart.

Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I think that you know, the equivalent uh you know to that here for US community radio, which is and we've had some success there, but.

Speaker 10: Yeah, I think we've we've we've had.

Speaker 11: More success actually outside of Australia airplay was than what we've had here.

Speaker 8: Oh that's interesting, okay, yeah, but again that's validating too, right. I mean, if you can get if you can get airplay outside of your home base, that's awesome.

Speaker 10: The fact that anyone wants to listen to these fantastic.

Speaker 6: Very nice and and uh, you guys started in twenty eighteen, is that correct? Is that what the band started?

Speaker 11: Yes, so Nathan, Yeah, it was around then. Yeah, Nathan and I were playing in a in a in a.

Speaker 10: Blues band, and.

Speaker 11: I'd written some songs I've written, come up with some ideas and it just kind of didn't fit what we were doing in this particular blues band. It was a straight ahead sort of you know, boogie blues band, and so Nathan and I started jamming and and then Dave we brought Date or Dave came in and then yeah, like literally the first.

Speaker 10: Jam we had we wrote some songs.

Speaker 6: Yeah, so you did.

Speaker 11: We just knew straight away that the chemistry was there, and we were all, you know, brothers before that. We're all friends and and sort of known each other through the scene. So you know, it's it's great to get to do this, but it's even better to get to do it with your mates.

Speaker 8: Oh absolutely, absolutely. So much of what makes a band works is obviously the music itself, but so much of it too, is just the interpersonal relationships involved and how do you get along and and you know, are you all in the same page? And when when you get together and it comes together quickly like that, then you know you've really got something, you know. I mean, you know, I've been in a lot of bands, and you know pretty quickly you know whether it's gonna work or not work creatively, because if it doesn't work personally, it's not likely to work creatively.

Speaker 8: And you know, sometimes bands have a lot of success and a lot of notoriety, and then you know, things start to break down on an interpersonal relationship within the band, and then they'll talk about how, oh that that creative tension actually works for us, and it's like, eh, does it really?

Speaker 6: I mean, you know, you know, I think it's better. It's it's just better when everyone's getting along, right, Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 11: Yeah, we're all about just hominy and uh yeah, and and just you know, everything kind of just.

Speaker 10: Things crusy and easy, because.

Speaker 11: Yeah, I just think that you know, that that tends to you know, have can have a negative effect on the music.

Speaker 10: You know, everyone's got to be sync. It's very easy band.

Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, well that's good.

Speaker 8: And when you're when there's only three of you, that makes it easier too, right, because the more, yeah, the more people in the band, it's like, uh, the more you got to work around everyone's schedules and whatnot, and uh yeah, it's just uh, you know, less, less is more sometimes. But like I said, you guys have such a big sound. It's it's great. By the way, So circling back to Japan, you mentioned going to Japan. How did that come about?

Speaker 3: Uh?

Speaker 10: Uh, friends of ours did the tour.

Speaker 11: Us mid last year and they just had such a great experience. So yeah, we they put us in touch with the guys who booked the tours. So yeah, it's just a club tour there through Tokyo and a song and a few other places.

Speaker 6: Very cool.

Speaker 10: We're really looking forward to just getting out of the country and you know, just just doing it somewhere else.

Speaker 6: Yeah.

Speaker 8: Yeah, and you never know what can come from that too. There's a lot of I mean, I can tell you you know, there's definitely some American bands that uh that actually well, I think the classic example, of course that everyone knows is Cheap Trick, you know, live at Buddhican. I mean that was kind of there. You know, they got big in Japan first and then really broke in the US. And then there's even I forget who it is now there's a band that has a song called big in Japan. That's about that, but I forget everyone now who the band is, but maybe you guys remember, but now, but.

Speaker 6: That's really cool. That's that's really cool. Good for you guys. And then uh, now, oh, by the way, so these songs that we've been playing here today, are these part of an album or have you just been releasing a series of singles?

Speaker 10: Yeah, so we've really we've released a uh, you know, five singles so far.

Speaker 6: Yeah.

Speaker 11: But what we're sort of in the process of doing is we're back in the studio in a couple of weeks to cut the rest of the tracks to just kind of put an album together to drop before we go to Japan, okay, and just to kind of round out, you know, and finish off this sort of era of songs. And because I feel like, you know, we you know, the direction starting to shift, even though you know it'll you know, it's going slightly heavier, I think, but it's still you know, it has the blues elements and pretty much whatever we decided to deviate you know at the time genre wise.

Speaker 8: Yeah, no, that makes sense. Well, great, well I look forward to that. By the way, So when you release the album, this is another thing I'm curious about in terms of how this works in Australia. So in the United States, over the past few years, physical media has.

Speaker 6: Really made a comeback.

Speaker 8: Well, Vinyl of course never went away, but a lot of the guests that we have on the show are releasing CDs again, and five years ago, six years ago, that wasn't necessarily the case. What's it like there, and do you plan to release when when you put the album out, well that will you have a physical CD release for that or will it just be streaming or maybe you don't even know yet. I don't know, but uh, but but I'm curious the state of things there in terms of that physical media.

Speaker 7: Yeah, seems like way fog Ye is behind then, because I don't there's not really people putting the state's out. But yeah, vinyl for sure, So yeah, our plan was just to go strike to vinyl.

Speaker 6: Oh, then go straight to vinyl on.

Speaker 10: Spotify and what you know streaming.

Speaker 6: Oh oh cool. Okay, so you may not do a CD, but you're going to do a vinyl that's cool.

Speaker 7: Yeah, because really liked the idea of an album and it's just I don't know, you go to gigs now and no one's even selling CDs, so it just seems kind of like we'll just end up with a thousand CDs in our garage.

Speaker 10: Yeah.

Speaker 7: The records people are a fan that, like real fans will buy a record, spending a bit more and it's.

Speaker 10: A nice thing to have.

Speaker 6: Absolutely and nothing.

Speaker 11: So the mindset to with the singles is it is a bit of a singles market at the moment, you know, just for bands that are kind of you know, sort of at this sort of level just trying to keep relevant, you know, with their play and just keeping your name out there. So I mean, if you drop a whole album, you know, you drop a single and then you drop the whole album, well that's kind of you know, twelve months work. They're kind of laid out, you know, sort of in one sitting. Whereas the way we've done it.

Speaker 11: We've we've been able to count it just drip fade.

Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a great.

Speaker 6: Way to put it.

Speaker 8: Yeah, and a very uh common strategy used now or I've heard of referred to to as the waterfall effect, where because it's really the inverse of what it used to be. You know, and I'm an industry guy, so you know, it used to be obviously, album comes out and then singles or well actually first single would come out six to eight weeks before the album, but then the second, third, fourth, you know, if you're that lucky, the rest of the singles come out after the album, Whereas now it's kind of the inverse where a lot of artists will release a series of singles ahead of the album, like all the singles come out, and then those singles eventually form an album or an EP.

Speaker 8: So it's kind of the you know, the Internet and social media and everything, because you've got to constantly feed that machine, uh, to stay as you put it, you know, to stay relevant. So now it's kind of the you know what's nice about that though, too, is so if you're in a situation where if you're putting out singles and you haven't decided yet about it album. If the singles aren't doing anything, if you're not getting anything on Spotify or anything.

Speaker 9: Uh.

Speaker 6: And when I say get anything, I mean plays. I don't mean money, because there's no money.

Speaker 10: But if.

Speaker 8: You're if you're not getting any traction, then you know, okay, well maybe maybe we need to change things up. Maybe we won't put out an entire album of singles in this style if if this isn't working, you know, depending on what your goals are and and whatnot. So I kind of I kind of like the new model that that we have now, where it's singles first and then they ultimately become an album or maybe not, and it kind of gives you more flexibility long term.

Speaker 11: Yeah, we're really adamant, Nathan and I are very adamant about you know, putting them.

Speaker 10: You know, in an album format.

Speaker 11: You know, that's how we grew up listening to albums, uh, you know, from start to Phoenish and and you know, they tell a story, uh, you know, and you know it's a journey. So yeah, that's definitely a goal that we said that we would get to a certain point and then we would go, Okay, let's let's put these together and see what the you know what they.

Speaker 6: Say, yep, yep.

Speaker 10: Yeah.

Speaker 7: It is interesting because in the past, it's true that we would have made the album and then released, like you said, like maybe one single and then the album, whereas now we haven't even finished the album, but we're able to release songs. Yeah, so it's kind of works in our favor because we're a bit lazy, no.

Speaker 8: But it also it also helps to right in terms of you get the you know, because I know just from my own experience as a musician, when you create something, when you record something that you're really happy with, you want to share it with the world, and this way you get to do that instead of having to wait for however long.

Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, because that's hard.

Speaker 8: It's hard to sit on something, something that you're proud of and something that you want to share with people. It's hard to just sit on that, you know. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, in a moment, we're gonna play when we when we wrap up the conversation, I'm going to end the segment with this track, storm Walker, And this is the brand new single.

Speaker 6: Correct, this is the newest one?

Speaker 10: Yes, yes, yeah, this is our latest release.

Speaker 6: Did this just come out like like yesterday or something or this.

Speaker 10: Week or no sorry, November November.

Speaker 8: November okay, okay, gotcha, gotcha? Yeah, another great. I love all the all the tracks you sent us. These are all really good. But anything we should know about this before we play it.

Speaker 10: We're really proud of it.

Speaker 11: Yeah, I think it's definitely you know that the further we go into this process recording, the more we're sort of really finding ourselves sound wise, you know. And this was also a dedication to a friend of mine who passed, you know, during COVID in another state.

Speaker 10: We had lockdown laws here. You know, I couldn't kind of.

Speaker 11: Get there to sort of to see him before he passed, and so you know, this was kind of you know that this is dedicated to him. So okay, and I know wherever, wherever he is, he'd be loving it. So yeah, so it was there was you know, it was a great you know, it was a great song to sort of get out there. And so Dave, Dave, the bass player in the band, he basically recorded everything we've done so far because he's he's he's got a studio down there and in the Hawksbury studio Blues and yeah, he's.

Speaker 10: You know he's done all the production, mixed, master produced.

Speaker 4: Yeah, so.

Speaker 10: You know, and then you know, comes in and lays down some killer bass, so in five minutes. Yeah, he's an asshole.

Speaker 11: So but but yeah, I mean, you know, the great thing is about you know, you know, I'll bring in an idea and then between the three of us, you know, we turn them into songs. So you know, and that's why I think the sound is is so three dimensional if I could.

Speaker 6: Say that, Yeah, that's a good way of putting yeah.

Speaker 10: Because everyone's bringing their own you know, flavor to it.

Speaker 8: Absolutely absolutely, So we're gonna play that in a moment. And by the way, guys, what should people know about where to keep up with everything that you're doing. Where's the best place to go online so that our listeners can keep up with Killen Fly?

Speaker 11: Yeah, sure, we are on We're on Facebook and Instagram, We're on YouTube. We have a couple of clips up on YouTube, but yeah, that's pretty much where we're most active. Okay, you know all our releases are on or streaming platforms. So yeah, to you guys listening, dig it, shoot us a shoot us a follow, follow and a lock and and and shoot us a message.

Speaker 8: And let us know you're digging it absolutely absolutely well, guys, Rob and Nathan, thank you so much for joining us this morning on the program. In a moment, we're going to hit that track and uh, but I appreciate and I'm glad we were able to work through the technical issue. And we just recently started using what'sapp here. We used to use Skype, but Skype apparently is no more, so we're but what's happen.

Speaker 6: What's app is a.

Speaker 8: Little little wonky, but we figured it out and it's working. So so I appreciate, Uh, I appreciate getting to talk to you. I would have been really disappointed if I didn't get to talk to you guys and have a full conversation because I love your sound, love what you guys are doing.

Speaker 10: And uh, and I thanks Matt.

Speaker 11: It's it's look, it's uh, it's it's it's almost to be not he So we would have been really disappointed we hadn't got to talk to you.

Speaker 10: Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you so much for having us on the show.

Speaker 8: And yeah, really absolutely absolutely friend absolutely you as well, and we will do it again in the future.

Speaker 6: We're gonna hit that track, but I'll let you guys go. Thanks guys, look for it.

Speaker 10: Thanks Maddy, thank you, you got it.

Speaker 6: Bye bye. All right.

Speaker 8: That was Rob and Nathan from the band Killing Flaw. We're gonna play that track storm Walker in just a moment. And if you are listening live on Saturday morning, uh, don't go away. We have plenty more to come coming up. In just a few minutes. We're gonna be talking with Ryan Redwood all the way from the UK. We'll see how Skype works with a UK guest, I mean, not Skype. I'm sorry, I'm living in the past. Uh, WhatsApp. We'll see how that works. I'm sure it'll be fine. And then uh, and then of course, also in the second hour after we after we talked to Ryan, we're gonna be talking with Major moment from Boston.

Speaker 5: Uh.

Speaker 8: They well, uh, we're gonna use what's app for that too. Actually, we'll see how how that works. That should be really easy. And then uh, and then in the third hour, moonlight Ride will be with us. But right now, now, let's play this. This is storm Walker. The band is Killing Flaw all the way from Australia.

Speaker 6: This is so good. I love these guys. Check this out.

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Speaker 3: Seize.

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Speaker 3: And now.

Speaker 12: If you do.

Speaker 1: For the king.

Speaker 3: All the call.

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Speaker 3: Will and let me crack.

Speaker 9: You can say goodbye and say goodbye.