Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-9-26 hour 3

0:00 Speaker 1: W m N H rips the normals.

0:05 Speaker 2: We're back from the brand Mannerson.

0:45 Speaker 3: About let you go.

1:08 Speaker 4: Tie like I s prop the sa I go out,

1:17 Speaker 4: so come on.

1:32 Speaker 5: What I'm home about?

1:33 Speaker 3: You don't black time do? Let you go down?

1:44 Speaker 5: Sun by the side, don't.

1:49 Speaker 6: Tell sis.

2:25 Speaker 3: Not so?

3:26 Speaker 7: Oh my god, I love that the track has lived fast.

3:29 Speaker 7: The band is Viva los Villains from the album Year

3:32 Speaker 7: of the Villain. And let's see who we have with

3:34 Speaker 7: us via WhatsApp. I think we have Jonathan Ordridge with us.

3:37 Speaker 8: Hello, Yeah, hi Matt, Yeah, you got Jonny hit and

3:41 Speaker 8: I'm joined by the other boys.

3:42 Speaker 7: Oh got all three of you. Yeah, Oh wonderful, wonderful. Okay,

3:47 Speaker 7: so we got Jonathan Ordridge, Tom Marfleet and Aaron Bailey.

3:51 Speaker 7: I'm really glad you guys could join us today. I

3:53 Speaker 7: love that song. I listen to the whole album Year

3:56 Speaker 7: of the Villain and it's so good. I love your sound.

3:59 Speaker 7: Who is so? Who's uh? Who's the guitar player?

4:03 Speaker 1: Well, Aaron does a lot of the lead guitar stuff.

4:06 Speaker 1: Tom does a lot of the rhythm stuff.

4:10 Speaker 7: Yeah, and then uh so okay, so Aaron does some

4:15 Speaker 7: Tom does rhythm and then Jonathan. What do you do.

4:19 Speaker 1: So either bass or rhythm.

4:20 Speaker 7: I got you, I got you? Okay? And who's singing?

4:24 Speaker 8: I sing on that one, Johnny, Yes, so, but Tom

4:28 Speaker 8: sings on quite a few as well.

4:29 Speaker 9: So.

4:32 Speaker 7: Gotcha, gotcha? Yeah, that's interesting and obviously, you know, for

4:36 Speaker 7: for a trio, you guys got a big sound. But

4:39 Speaker 7: it's also it's just so cool. I have not heard

4:41 Speaker 7: a lot of bands that have that kind of vibe

4:45 Speaker 7: recently that are that are you know, just doing stuff

4:48 Speaker 7: like that? And uh, I love the guitar solo at

4:52 Speaker 7: the end of that is it's fantastic. Thanks, thanks very much,

5:00 Speaker 7: solutely I love that.

5:03 Speaker 1: Yeah.

5:03 Speaker 10: Yeah, so the sound is really we love classic rock.

5:07 Speaker 10: We're all brought up on classic rock, you know, listening

5:10 Speaker 10: to our parents' records, and so that kind of big,

5:13 Speaker 10: meaty sound of the seventies and eighties is really something

5:16 Speaker 10: that we go for.

5:18 Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, is that something I know this isn't your

5:21 Speaker 7: first release. Is that something that you've kind of uh

5:26 Speaker 7: strove to sound like from the very beginning or has

5:28 Speaker 7: the sound change over changed over time?

5:31 Speaker 10: Our sound the first stuff that we put out was

5:34 Speaker 10: was a bit more poppy but pop orientated. But the sound,

5:39 Speaker 10: particularly when Aaron joined us because it was just me

5:41 Speaker 10: and Johnny as a duo originally, and then Aaron joined us,

5:45 Speaker 10: and the sound's got heavier and heavier since then.

5:48 Speaker 7: Yeah, so, uh well, let me get the obvious question

5:54 Speaker 7: out of the way. So where does the name come from?

5:56 Speaker 7: Viva Lost Villains or is it Viva Low's Villains or

5:59 Speaker 7: doesn't matter.

6:01 Speaker 10: So we were just sort of kicking about names. In fact,

6:03 Speaker 10: the band originally was called Actong. We we wanted something

6:07 Speaker 10: that was kind of really in your face, and then

6:09 Speaker 10: Johnny really fancied he wanted a band with the word

6:14 Speaker 10: villain in it. It was something that you were kind

6:15 Speaker 10: of really into, wasn't it. Yeah, and we just kind of, yeah,

6:19 Speaker 10: worked on the name for a number of weeks, and

6:21 Speaker 10: that's what we landed on.

6:24 Speaker 7: Yeah. No, I like that. Are people surprised, I mean,

6:26 Speaker 7: given given where you're from, uh to have a name

6:30 Speaker 7: like that? Well, actually, where are you, guys from? Exactly

6:32 Speaker 7: where where are you in the UK?

6:35 Speaker 1: So like southern England? Okay, we're about hours south of London, I.

6:42 Speaker 7: Suppose okay, okay, are there other bands in that area

6:45 Speaker 7: that sound anything like you, guys? Or I would imagine

6:47 Speaker 7: you really stand out.

6:49 Speaker 10: Yeah, I don't think as heavy as us. There's a

6:52 Speaker 10: we're lucky to be in quite a musical.

6:54 Speaker 1: Scene down here.

6:55 Speaker 10: Yeah, but certainly, you know, I think guitar bands have

6:59 Speaker 10: been out of for quite a long time, and not

7:03 Speaker 10: not that that matters much to us, but certainly I

7:05 Speaker 10: think our sound is pretty heavy for the scene, right right.

7:10 Speaker 7: Yeah, no doubt. I mean there's something I mean, forgive

7:13 Speaker 7: me for saying this, I don't know if this is

7:14 Speaker 7: okay to say or not, but there's something very like

7:16 Speaker 7: I would not know that you were not an American

7:19 Speaker 7: band if I didn't already know that, you know, just

7:21 Speaker 7: from listening to you, there's something very sort of American

7:25 Speaker 7: Southwestern about your sound, if that makes sense.

7:28 Speaker 11: Yeah, I think this kind of a bluesy kind of

7:31 Speaker 11: vibe behind it, which we've been sort of exploring a

7:34 Speaker 11: little bit. Yeah, somewhat covered up by the sort of

7:37 Speaker 11: the heavier rock sound, but I think it's still there,

7:39 Speaker 11: and sur elements of country as well. We've done some

7:42 Speaker 11: kind of I wouldn't say there were country tracks, but

7:44 Speaker 11: definitely some influences of country in there as well.

7:46 Speaker 1: So we're massive bands of.

7:48 Speaker 10: American music and yeah, again, It's another thing that's kind

7:52 Speaker 10: of fit the fed the sound.

7:54 Speaker 7: I suppose, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Are you guys

7:57 Speaker 7: playing live a lot? Are you touring?

8:01 Speaker 1: Not a huge amount, to be honest with you.

8:02 Speaker 10: We're really focusing on on the studios stuff and kind

8:05 Speaker 10: of getting out good records. But then we've got plans

8:08 Speaker 10: for digging and touring coming up hopefully soon.

8:11 Speaker 7: Part of why I wonder it is I just I

8:13 Speaker 7: bet these songs sound incredible live. I can just I'm

8:16 Speaker 7: just kind of imagining it.

8:21 Speaker 1: Down pretty well, especially the heavy ones.

8:23 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt, And I love it. Okay,

8:26 Speaker 7: So tell me about the album artwork. And by the way,

8:28 Speaker 7: I would encourage anybody to go online and and take

8:32 Speaker 7: a look at the album artwork for this again, it's

8:34 Speaker 7: Viva Loos Villain's Year of the Villain. Did one of

8:37 Speaker 7: you guys do the artwork?

8:40 Speaker 2: Yeah?

8:40 Speaker 1: So we we we have.

8:42 Speaker 8: We we love the idea of this kind of smoking skull,

8:45 Speaker 8: and we use it a little bit on sort of

8:48 Speaker 8: artwork and stuff around us. And I think we quite

8:52 Speaker 8: like the mascot, like Eddie to Iron Maiden. I think

8:55 Speaker 8: this may be used in like future covers for us

8:58 Speaker 8: in the in the future.

9:00 Speaker 1: In various ways.

9:01 Speaker 8: Yeah, but yeah, we like you brought into the smoking

9:05 Speaker 8: skull character and can just see it being rolled out.

9:09 Speaker 10: Yeah, it's very much all the stuff we do, the music,

9:12 Speaker 10: the visuals. It's a team effort and we tend to

9:16 Speaker 10: just knock stuff backwards and forwards. Some have an idea,

9:19 Speaker 10: you know what, hows this for a for an album,

9:21 Speaker 10: an album cover or a single cover.

9:22 Speaker 1: I've got a great photo that I took.

9:24 Speaker 10: Maybe we could we could do something in that, So,

9:27 Speaker 10: you know, really a team effort and getting everything together.

9:30 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, no, I really, I really like the artwork

9:32 Speaker 7: and I like the mascot idea. That makes sense. How

9:36 Speaker 7: long have you guys been around? I mean, it's it.

9:38 Speaker 7: It hasn't been too too long, right.

9:41 Speaker 10: No, well, so Johnny and I, Johnny and I have

9:43 Speaker 10: known each other for nearly twenty years.

9:45 Speaker 7: Oh wow.

9:46 Speaker 1: And Aaron's been part of our.

9:48 Speaker 10: Friendship group for a long time as well. But so

9:52 Speaker 10: Johnny and I wrote a lot of stuff, you know,

9:54 Speaker 10: way back in the day.

9:55 Speaker 12: And.

9:57 Speaker 10: But only in the last couple of years Kin I

9:59 Speaker 10: got together and and started doing stuff a bit more seriously.

10:02 Speaker 10: So we did have kind of a kind of back

10:04 Speaker 10: catalog of stuff we'd written over the years that really

10:07 Speaker 10: helped us kind of drive the early stuff. But you know,

10:11 Speaker 10: we meet up, you know, a few times a month

10:15 Speaker 10: generally writing and recording and rehearsing stuff.

10:19 Speaker 7: So yeah, no, that's great. And then what are your

10:24 Speaker 7: plans after this album? I mean, obviously, right now you're

10:27 Speaker 7: focused on promoting this, but I assume because it sounds

10:29 Speaker 7: like you've got a lot of things in the pipeline

10:32 Speaker 7: that you probably you know, a lot of music written

10:33 Speaker 7: that you haven't necessarily recorded yet. It sounds like you

10:36 Speaker 7: guys are always writing.

10:39 Speaker 10: We've got the label, so they Records would be really

10:43 Speaker 10: angry with us if we didn't mention it. We had

10:45 Speaker 10: a single out yesterday called The Devil in Me, which

10:49 Speaker 10: that came out literally yesterday, so our listeners are interested.

10:52 Speaker 10: They can look that up and they can find us

10:54 Speaker 10: on all popular streaming platforms.

10:57 Speaker 7: Oh, is that not on You're of the Villain?

11:00 Speaker 10: No, this is a standalone single that we released listerally yesterday.

11:05 Speaker 7: Oh, very interesting. Well, because we're going to play something

11:09 Speaker 7: obviously at the end of our conversation as well to

11:11 Speaker 7: bookend the segment, and maybe I will play that nice.

11:18 Speaker 7: Oh it looks like you have a video for it too, good.

11:21 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so that was us.

11:24 Speaker 8: Yes, we filmed that down at a studio near us

11:27 Speaker 8: in Portsmouth.

11:29 Speaker 7: Oh outstanding. Yeah. Yeah, it's so important, you know, And

11:33 Speaker 7: it's funny in America. I don't know if you guys

11:35 Speaker 7: run into this over there at all, but there are

11:37 Speaker 7: some people in America who think. Usually it's people not

11:40 Speaker 7: active in the music industry in any way who are

11:42 Speaker 7: under this impression that because you know, MTV has gone

11:44 Speaker 7: away and and people think that there's no more music

11:47 Speaker 7: videos and they don't realize that actually, if you just

11:50 Speaker 7: go on YouTube, there's more music videos than ever. Everybody

11:52 Speaker 7: makes music videos now. It's really become such an essential

11:56 Speaker 7: thing in terms of promoting your music, especially when you

11:58 Speaker 7: have a new single and sharing that out on social

12:01 Speaker 7: media and all of that.

12:03 Speaker 10: Yeah, totally, And you know, I think the trend is

12:07 Speaker 10: actually people more people watching the music videos than streaming

12:11 Speaker 10: the music. You know, people want to they've got their

12:13 Speaker 10: phone in their hands and they're finding new music. It

12:17 Speaker 10: really helps to have a visual with it.

12:19 Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, Now what one another decision to release a

12:22 Speaker 7: single outside of that's not on the album. Is there

12:25 Speaker 7: is there any particular strategy about it or was it

12:27 Speaker 7: just something you guys felt like doing.

12:30 Speaker 1: We'll have to talk to the label about that.

12:33 Speaker 7: Interesting Damn.

12:35 Speaker 10: He runs the label, as I said, it's Soday Records,

12:38 Speaker 10: and he gives us a schedule. You know, he's very

12:43 Speaker 10: good to say. You know, he doesn't put too much

12:45 Speaker 10: pressure on us. He lets us release what we want,

12:47 Speaker 10: but he'll say, right, we're going to have something coming

12:51 Speaker 10: out on the eighth of May, and then the next

12:53 Speaker 10: month is on such and such a date.

12:54 Speaker 1: And we kind of worked towards that. Really, I think

12:57 Speaker 1: there was more an element that we were so excited

12:59 Speaker 1: about this particular track.

13:01 Speaker 11: Yeah, we've been very passionate about since we since we

13:05 Speaker 11: sort of created about six months ago.

13:07 Speaker 1: That we were just keen to get it out as

13:09 Speaker 1: soon as we could. Yeah, even just as a free

13:12 Speaker 1: standing single.

13:13 Speaker 7: No, that makes sense. That makes sense in terms of

13:15 Speaker 7: being on a label. Do you guys find it's uh?

13:19 Speaker 7: Is it easier? Does it kind of take that off

13:22 Speaker 7: of your plate? Because I know a lot of artists

13:24 Speaker 7: who don't want to be Like, some artists can't function

13:26 Speaker 7: on a label because they they have to be in

13:29 Speaker 7: control of every little thing. I talked to a lot

13:31 Speaker 7: of guests on the show who it's like they're they're

13:35 Speaker 7: so dialed into every little aspect of what they do

13:38 Speaker 7: that the idea of being on a label, you know,

13:40 Speaker 7: unless it was a major label that offered them a

13:41 Speaker 7: million dollar advance or something, which doesn't even happen anymore,

13:44 Speaker 7: but the idea of being on a label is so

13:46 Speaker 7: anathema to how they operate. But it sounds like for

13:49 Speaker 7: you guys, it's working really well.

13:52 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd say it.

13:53 Speaker 12: So.

13:53 Speaker 10: I think it's really nice for us to be able

13:57 Speaker 10: to focus on on the music and sounds very good

14:00 Speaker 10: kind of holding our hand and particularly on the promotional

14:02 Speaker 10: side of stuff, just kind of leading us in the

14:04 Speaker 10: right direction. I think being an artist these days, you

14:09 Speaker 10: have to be everything you have to, you know, be

14:12 Speaker 10: able to play the music, write the music, record the music,

14:14 Speaker 10: produce the music, produce content for the music, and it's

14:17 Speaker 10: it's a lot to kind of to handle. So for us,

14:22 Speaker 10: it's to have Sam holding our hand on certain aspects

14:25 Speaker 10: of it, and I think we have a lot of

14:27 Speaker 10: autonomy as well in terms of being able to produce

14:30 Speaker 10: the kind of music that we want to make yeah

14:32 Speaker 10: for sure.

14:34 Speaker 7: Yeah, So he's obviously not trying to micromanage what your

14:36 Speaker 7: output is, just more what happens to it when it's

14:40 Speaker 7: out right.

14:42 Speaker 10: And like we come from a really a DIY music background.

14:45 Speaker 10: You know, we are doing you know, pretty much everything ourselves,

14:49 Speaker 10: which you know a lot of people are doing these days,

14:53 Speaker 10: and Sam just kind of gives us the freedom to

14:55 Speaker 10: be able to do that. I mean, he's never once

14:57 Speaker 10: said I'm not releasing that.

15:01 Speaker 7: That's excellent. That's excellent. By the way. So for the

15:05 Speaker 7: for the album You're of the Villain, I'm curious, is it, uh,

15:08 Speaker 7: you have physical Do you have physical copies of it

15:10 Speaker 7: as well?

15:12 Speaker 10: At the moment though, just just just just the digital

15:16 Speaker 10: you know, it's it's it's one of it's. It's a

15:18 Speaker 10: difficult one because you know the cost of getting getting

15:21 Speaker 10: vinyl or CDs.

15:22 Speaker 1: Out there is is pretty high. You know, it can

15:25 Speaker 1: be a high risk strategy for.

15:29 Speaker 12: Sorry, it's a pretty.

15:32 Speaker 1: High risk strategy for kind of investment. Investment wise.

15:36 Speaker 10: We're kind of happy building our you know, our following

15:39 Speaker 10: and presence online, but definitely be interested in doing some

15:42 Speaker 10: some physical releases in the future.

15:44 Speaker 7: It would be wonderful to see that. You guys have

15:46 Speaker 7: probably thought of this too. It would be wonderful to

15:48 Speaker 7: see that artwork which I just love so much from

15:51 Speaker 7: your the Villain on a on a big vinyl record,

15:54 Speaker 7: you know what I mean. But but it is very

15:57 Speaker 7: expensive to do that, absolutely absolutely great. Well, so what

16:04 Speaker 7: should people know about where to find you guys online

16:06 Speaker 7: for people who want to keep up with everything that

16:07 Speaker 7: you're doing with all things Viva Los Villains.

16:11 Speaker 10: Yeah, so we're pretty busy on Instagram and on Facebook,

16:17 Speaker 10: Sam and the rec Word label produce pushing it on

16:21 Speaker 10: TikTok YouTube, So yeah, most of the social media channels.

16:26 Speaker 10: If you search for viv Villains on Google, you'll probably

16:28 Speaker 10: find us.

16:29 Speaker 7: Yeah, you're very googleable, certainly a word that I like

16:33 Speaker 7: to use, which is extremely important in the times that

16:37 Speaker 7: we live in. So very easy to find you. So

16:39 Speaker 7: I love it. I love the album again. I encourage

16:41 Speaker 7: everybody please go check out the album Viva Lost Villains

16:45 Speaker 7: Year of the Villain, and we are about to play

16:46 Speaker 7: the new single Devil and Me. We'll give that a

16:49 Speaker 7: spin as soon as we wrap up with you guys.

16:51 Speaker 7: Anything else we should know about this track Devil and Me?

16:54 Speaker 7: Is it kind of the same. I mean, we'll hear

16:56 Speaker 7: it in a moment. But is it kind of the

16:57 Speaker 7: same vibe as the album or is this truly a

17:00 Speaker 7: separate piece.

17:02 Speaker 1: Yes, so it is a separate piece. But I think

17:05 Speaker 1: it's you know, it's pretty slightly more.

17:08 Speaker 8: I think it would fit a dance floor more than

17:11 Speaker 8: the album would.

17:11 Speaker 7: Interesting.

17:13 Speaker 8: Yeah, it's it's a bit more funky, but it's still rocking,

17:17 Speaker 8: still catchy.

17:18 Speaker 1: We were writing. We wrote it back in November.

17:20 Speaker 10: We had a kind of band away weekend writing weekend,

17:23 Speaker 10: and we started writing.

17:24 Speaker 1: Someone came up with the chords and.

17:26 Speaker 10: Then someone said, do you know what this will sound

17:28 Speaker 10: amazing with a disco kind of on the floor beat

17:32 Speaker 10: on it, and we put it on there we all.

17:33 Speaker 1: Just went, yeah, that's it. That's fantastic. So yeah, it's

17:36 Speaker 1: it's it's.

17:37 Speaker 10: Kind of upbeat but still heavy and yeah, I hope

17:40 Speaker 10: you and your listeners like him.

17:42 Speaker 12: That.

17:42 Speaker 7: Oh very cool. I cannot wait to listen to this. Okay, So,

17:46 Speaker 7: by the way, has this been played anywhere on the radio?

17:50 Speaker 1: No?

17:50 Speaker 10: Literally, come out literally yesterday, so I'd be surprised.

17:53 Speaker 1: I think I think it's exclusive.

17:55 Speaker 7: So this is a world we love the world radio

17:57 Speaker 7: premieres here so I get to use the world premiere bumper,

18:01 Speaker 7: so that's great. I love it. I love it well, guys,

18:06 Speaker 7: thank you all three of you for joining us here today, Johnny,

18:09 Speaker 7: Tom and Aaron. Wonderful to speak with you. We'll definitely

18:12 Speaker 7: do it again in the future, especially as you're releasing

18:14 Speaker 7: new music, because it sounds like you've got a lot

18:16 Speaker 7: of stuff coming up. So but like I said, I

18:20 Speaker 7: love the album. I encourage everyone to check it out.

18:22 Speaker 7: So we will let you, guys go and we will

18:24 Speaker 7: hit this track, brand new Devil in Me, and guys,

18:28 Speaker 7: thank you again so much. You got it, Take care, bye, bye, cheers.

18:35 Speaker 7: All right, that is the guys from Viva Los Villains

18:38 Speaker 7: and right now this is spontaneous, but we're gonna do

18:43 Speaker 7: the world radio premiere of the brand new single from

18:45 Speaker 7: Viva Los Villains, Devil in Me.

18:48 Speaker 2: You are listening to t wuminh.

18:52 Speaker 5: World premiere.

19:12 Speaker 13: One day, Swells swats Up twice, wish return Me Lad

19:22 Speaker 13: may Day, which you tell me what came first selling

19:38 Speaker 13: or so I'm trying to tell.

19:40 Speaker 6: With me, I just send me a fool the.

19:45 Speaker 14: Execution pas to tell with me. Co trud can't control

20:15 Speaker 14: that Sap the Control made night Side just as out

20:44 Speaker 14: si Quiens spell my night to sleep it out of

20:49 Speaker 14: his name. Come, it's cold, the is, it's old swam,

20:56 Speaker 14: It's out.

21:08 Speaker 5: Trot from Can't Control, trot from Control.

21:55 Speaker 7: Oh, I love it, I love it. That is the

21:58 Speaker 7: world radio premiere of the brand new single just came

22:02 Speaker 7: out yesterday on streaming platforms. That is the first time

22:04 Speaker 7: you have ever heard that on the radio, The Devil

22:07 Speaker 7: in Me brand new from Vivlos Villains and I really

22:11 Speaker 7: like those guys a lot. And we have we have

22:13 Speaker 7: a surprise guest here. We've got Alex from the Cherry

22:16 Speaker 7: fogg Is here on the phone with us. Alex, are

22:19 Speaker 7: you there?

22:20 Speaker 1: I'm here.

22:21 Speaker 7: How are you?

22:22 Speaker 9: Man?

22:22 Speaker 7: What's up? What's going on?

22:24 Speaker 9: Not much? I wanted to say hello, see how things

22:27 Speaker 9: were going. I'm looking forward to a show with Stepsis

22:30 Speaker 9: coming up. That's gonna be Darrevin Taunton.

22:33 Speaker 7: Oh very good. When when is that?

22:37 Speaker 9: It's a Platinum City Gaming. Let me pull up the

22:39 Speaker 9: date for you right now?

22:40 Speaker 7: Yeah.

22:40 Speaker 9: Yeah, but it's going to be a real barn burner

22:42 Speaker 9: backed by Loud Entertainment, and we're really looking forward to

22:45 Speaker 9: the show.

22:47 Speaker 7: Yeah, I love them. Loud Entertainment's great. I really like

22:50 Speaker 7: those guys Rich and of course uh Baboo is that

22:55 Speaker 7: he's a character.

22:57 Speaker 15: Yeah.

22:58 Speaker 9: The show actually is on May twenty third. It's gonna

23:02 Speaker 9: be a Platinum City gaming down in Taunton.

23:05 Speaker 7: Oh, very good.

23:07 Speaker 11: Yeah.

23:08 Speaker 9: But I also have something for tonight, if anybody's available tonight.

23:11 Speaker 9: I have another band called Wicked Dark Shark and we're

23:14 Speaker 9: gonna be celebrating an album release party tonight in of

23:18 Speaker 9: all places of Lawrence. Yeah. I don't know if you've

23:22 Speaker 9: heard of this venue before. Man, it's called like Rap

23:24 Speaker 9: Skill in music Hall.

23:26 Speaker 5: I have not.

23:27 Speaker 7: Is that a new place? I have not heard of that.

23:29 Speaker 9: I think it's relatively new. Yeah, but it's a free show.

23:32 Speaker 9: It's going to be an album release party. We're gonna

23:34 Speaker 9: be rocking out music by Frank Morey as well. He's

23:36 Speaker 9: a Cambridge guy. But yeah, feel free to come by tonight.

23:40 Speaker 9: That starts at six. It's gonna be going till eleven.

23:42 Speaker 9: Gonna be a great show.

23:44 Speaker 7: Very good, very good. And how how's the band? What's

23:46 Speaker 7: the cherry Fog been up to?

23:49 Speaker 9: The Cherry Fog has been up to We've been doing

23:51 Speaker 9: a lot of duo stuff. So we've been kind of

23:52 Speaker 9: rocking out black keystyle, having just Peter on guitar and

23:57 Speaker 9: myself on drums, and people have been liking it. We've

24:00 Speaker 9: had our bass player had to relocate to Texas to

24:04 Speaker 9: be a professor teaching philosophy, so we've had to go

24:08 Speaker 9: at it on our own and we've actually really enjoyed it.

24:11 Speaker 9: So obviously he's involved in creative endeavors and obviously helped

24:15 Speaker 9: with the record and stuff. We've been just kind of

24:16 Speaker 9: taking to act as a duo as of late.

24:20 Speaker 7: Oh okay, it sounds like it's working out well.

24:22 Speaker 9: You know, you're keeping busy, definitely, Yeah, keeping busy, and

24:27 Speaker 9: we have a couple of other shows coming up. But yeah,

24:28 Speaker 9: the place tonight is called rap Scalm Music Hall. But man,

24:31 Speaker 9: those guys at Texas are so cool. You see that

24:33 Speaker 9: award they just won.

24:35 Speaker 7: It's hard to it's hard to keep up with it

24:37 Speaker 7: because they seem to win a lot of stuff. What's

24:39 Speaker 7: the one that they just what's the award that they

24:41 Speaker 7: just won.

24:43 Speaker 9: It was something about like New England's Society of Music

24:46 Speaker 9: or something, but they were like number one band in

24:49 Speaker 9: New England. I think I have it from Loud sent

24:52 Speaker 9: it over to me.

24:52 Speaker 7: Okay, but let me just see here.

24:54 Speaker 9: Yeah, it was a New England Music Awards winner Band

24:57 Speaker 9: of the Year.

24:58 Speaker 7: Oh okay, oh very good. Good. I think they've I

25:02 Speaker 7: know they've won at least two others over the years.

25:06 Speaker 7: Uh so, oh that's excellent. Good for them. Yeah, no,

25:09 Speaker 7: we have. We have a great time with them. Always

25:11 Speaker 7: look forward to a Swarmy Fest, which is gonna be

25:13 Speaker 7: I thinks a little early this year. I think it's

25:15 Speaker 7: gonna be in September. That's always a really good time.

25:18 Speaker 7: So yeah, Jenny and I are both really big fans

25:22 Speaker 7: of Sepsis. We like them a lot, and they you know,

25:25 Speaker 7: they've been really really good to us. And William always

25:28 Speaker 7: has a lot to say whenever they come on the show.

25:32 Speaker 9: That's why he has his own show. It's so entertaining.

25:34 Speaker 7: Oh that's true. Yeah. The podcast, Yeah that that gets

25:37 Speaker 7: confusing too, because they've had more than one podcast over

25:39 Speaker 7: the year. But I think is he still doing will

25:42 Speaker 7: is it William versus the World?

25:45 Speaker 9: I haven't seen that one.

25:47 Speaker 7: Okay, I might be wrong on the title. I thought

25:49 Speaker 7: it was something like that, but but yeah, yeah, no,

25:52 Speaker 7: we we we like Sepsis a lot not everyone does.

25:56 Speaker 7: They're a little controversial in a way. I'm not exactly

25:58 Speaker 7: sure why. You know, there's some people in the scene

26:01 Speaker 7: who look down on them a little bit or whatever.

26:03 Speaker 7: But no, Jenny and I have always had a good

26:05 Speaker 7: experience with that band, and we you know, we've done

26:08 Speaker 7: Swarmy Fest because Matt Connorton Unleashed. We're one of the

26:10 Speaker 7: sponsors of that show, and we've done that for I

26:13 Speaker 7: think this will be our fourth year, maybe fourth or fifth,

26:17 Speaker 7: at least fourth. Yeah, yeah, So no, it was.

26:20 Speaker 9: Cool because Cherry Fog was kind of like an outlier

26:23 Speaker 9: at that show in a way, like a lot of

26:25 Speaker 9: the other bands were really heavy like rock and metal,

26:28 Speaker 9: maybe a little bit thrashy. But it was cool because

26:30 Speaker 9: we were able to bring that vintage kind of feel

26:33 Speaker 9: to the show and everybody seemed to appreciate it. It

26:34 Speaker 9: was like a sort of like a motif of like

26:37 Speaker 9: heavy metal and then like it was us like vintage

26:39 Speaker 9: hard rock. So it was a cool like twist of

26:41 Speaker 9: the show.

26:42 Speaker 7: I thought it was. I thought you guys fit in

26:44 Speaker 7: great though. I mean, yeah, you know, it was a

26:47 Speaker 7: little different, but but it still worked, you know. I mean,

26:50 Speaker 7: but you know, loud guitars, you know, always work like time.

26:56 Speaker 9: But yeah, you guys were up in bass, loud drums.

26:58 Speaker 9: You know, I play very lightly as you know.

27:02 Speaker 7: No, it was no, it was excellent. Yeah, you guys

27:05 Speaker 7: were amazing.

27:07 Speaker 9: Yeah. But for anybody who's curious about the Cherry Fog,

27:10 Speaker 9: just check to look us up on Spotify, on Apple

27:12 Speaker 9: Music and just typing the Cherry Fog. We got an

27:15 Speaker 9: album out, we've got a single and we've been at

27:18 Speaker 9: it for a couple of years. So more music to come.

27:20 Speaker 9: But you know, pick your favorite song, maybe let us

27:23 Speaker 9: know what it is on Instagram and we'd be happy

27:24 Speaker 9: to kind of make sure it gets included.

27:26 Speaker 7: A more sell lists outstanding. Yeah, the album Curious Creature, correct.

27:31 Speaker 5: That's the name.

27:32 Speaker 7: Yeah, what's what's the newest single from that? Because I'll

27:35 Speaker 7: play it. I'll play it at the end of our conversation.

27:37 Speaker 7: I'll play it.

27:39 Speaker 9: So is that only the album? But our latest single

27:41 Speaker 9: is called Lookout Below?

27:42 Speaker 7: All right, let me see if I can find it.

27:45 Speaker 9: It should be up on all the platforms.

27:48 Speaker 7: Look Out Below found it? Yes, yes, yeah, I'll play this.

27:52 Speaker 7: I assume there's no I assume there's no swears in it.

27:56 Speaker 9: No, no explayers on that one.

27:58 Speaker 7: Awesome. It is FCC for Yeah. Has this been played

28:01 Speaker 7: anywhere on the radio?

28:04 Speaker 9: Nothing I'm aware of. I know it was kind of

28:06 Speaker 9: circling a little bit on like Reddit playlists here and there,

28:10 Speaker 9: kind of underground stuff. But I think this might be

28:12 Speaker 9: the debut of Lookout Below on the radio.

28:15 Speaker 7: I'm sure with I'm sure, as you know, we do

28:17 Speaker 7: love to do the world radio premieres here on the program,

28:21 Speaker 7: so I can give this the world radio premiere treatment,

28:23 Speaker 7: the world radio premiere of Lookout Below from the Cherry Fog.

28:26 Speaker 7: What do you think?

28:27 Speaker 9: I'm honored to be a part of this one A.

28:30 Speaker 7: I love it. I love it all right, So we'll

28:32 Speaker 7: hit that. We'll let you go, Alex. Do you want

28:34 Speaker 7: to plug the show that's happening for our live listeners?

28:36 Speaker 7: Plug that one more time before you go.

28:39 Speaker 16: Yep.

28:39 Speaker 9: Two shows. So I got one at rap Scale and

28:41 Speaker 9: Music Off for the Wicked Dark Shark record release party.

28:43 Speaker 9: Another brand new album just came out today, and then

28:47 Speaker 9: May Stepsis Down and Totton at Platinum City Gaming. I'm

28:52 Speaker 9: going to be a hell of a show, going to

28:54 Speaker 9: be some serious people watching and some loud music.

28:57 Speaker 7: Very good, very good. All right, Alex from the Cherry Fog,

29:00 Speaker 7: thank you so much for calling us today. Man, this

29:02 Speaker 7: was a cool surprise and we'll wait. We'll talk to

29:05 Speaker 7: you soon.

29:07 Speaker 9: Thanks man.

29:07 Speaker 7: Bye, all right, man, take care, all right, wonderful. Well

29:10 Speaker 7: this is cool, so let's do it. Here we go.

29:12 Speaker 7: This is the world radio premiere of the new single

29:17 Speaker 7: from the Cherry Fog, and this is called look Out. Below.

29:21 Speaker 2: You are listening to.

29:22 Speaker 12: W M and H.

29:24 Speaker 5: World premiere.

29:41 Speaker 2: You gamman jumping at.

29:43 Speaker 17: Job shadow now, yeah, you jump it jumping at job

29:53 Speaker 17: Shadow now.

30:00 Speaker 9: Yeah, but I want you to know right now.

30:08 Speaker 5: Yeah, I need you to know.

30:09 Speaker 2: I need you to know.

30:10 Speaker 7: How did you know?

30:15 Speaker 3: Then?

30:16 Speaker 5: I've been feeling like I'm.

30:18 Speaker 17: Following up and Jesus guy Firs, why said I feel

30:23 Speaker 17: the sweat?

30:24 Speaker 6: I'm telling me that it's so.

30:26 Speaker 3: Vers on me.

30:27 Speaker 2: Yesterday I saw st gas. Can't be getting you hold

30:32 Speaker 2: the candle when I get out from moon. Yeah, I

30:38 Speaker 2: want you to know right now.

30:43 Speaker 6: Now, why do you know where you go?

30:45 Speaker 2: Where you show? Look? Cowpo got a.

31:00 Speaker 15: Bar you comment jumping at you? All settle down? Jumping

31:38 Speaker 15: at you all settle down?

31:41 Speaker 18: Yeah you gotment jumping that's you.

31:44 Speaker 6: All settle down.

32:06 Speaker 7: Oh my god, I love that. Oh they have such

32:11 Speaker 7: a good sound. That is called Lookout below the world

32:14 Speaker 7: radio premiere the newest single from the Cherry Fog. And

32:18 Speaker 7: thank you again to Alex for calling in. That was

32:20 Speaker 7: a fun surprise. Good to talk to him. And yeah,

32:22 Speaker 7: I love that band, like I said Jenny, and I

32:24 Speaker 7: saw them for the first time at Swarmfest last year

32:26 Speaker 7: and they're incredible live. If you get a chance to

32:30 Speaker 7: see them live, you must, you know. And Alex had

32:32 Speaker 7: mentioned a couple of shows, one of them is coming

32:33 Speaker 7: up tonight in Lawrence. So but such a good band.

32:37 Speaker 7: I love that song. That is so good. Look Out

32:39 Speaker 7: below the new single from the Cherry Fog. And as

32:43 Speaker 7: far as terrestrial radio goes, you heard it here first

32:46 Speaker 7: on Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the

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33:08 Speaker 7: We just put up an article about the something we

33:10 Speaker 7: talked about on the show last week, Busta Rhymes getting

33:14 Speaker 7: sued by his former assistant because apparently Buster Rhymes violently

33:18 Speaker 7: assaulted his former assistant and you know, because his dinner

33:23 Speaker 7: was late or something. You just can't do that. But

33:26 Speaker 7: even if you're a bust To Rhymes, So lots of

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33:59 Speaker 7: So it's been an exciting shows so far. We do

34:01 Speaker 7: have a little bit to go. If you are listening

34:04 Speaker 7: live on Saturday, a little bit more music News. Now

34:07 Speaker 7: I just learned something, and as someone who's worked in

34:10 Speaker 7: the music industry for a long time, I'm a little

34:12 Speaker 7: embarrassed that I did not know this term. But there

34:16 Speaker 7: is a term in the touring industry called blue dot fever.

34:20 Speaker 7: This is from musiclly dot com. Again. This is another

34:24 Speaker 7: one of these websites that I really like as far

34:25 Speaker 7: as getting access to music industry news, and of course

34:29 Speaker 7: it's very handy doing a show like this. Actually, let's

34:33 Speaker 7: start with the first. This two articles about this, so

34:36 Speaker 7: blue dot fever. I did not know that this is

34:38 Speaker 7: a thing, or I knew that it was a thing.

34:39 Speaker 7: I guess I didn't know that it had a name. Again,

34:43 Speaker 7: this is from music Ally. So this is the first

34:45 Speaker 7: story that just went up a couple days ago, Ticketmaster

34:48 Speaker 7: Live Nation and the quietly canceled tours catching blue dot fever. Oh,

34:59 Speaker 7: actually hanging on on.

35:01 Speaker 15: Uh.

35:02 Speaker 7: This website wants me to sign up for a free account,

35:06 Speaker 7: which is fine, except I'm trying to do this in

35:09 Speaker 7: real time. All right, Let's let's read the newest story

35:12 Speaker 7: because this will update us. So here's what blue dot

35:14 Speaker 7: fever is. So it says here Thursday. Again. This is

35:17 Speaker 7: from music ally dot com. It says, Actually, yesterday we

35:20 Speaker 7: wrote about the blue dot fever phase or phrase that's

35:24 Speaker 7: been prominent in music trade media this week, following a

35:27 Speaker 7: spate of big tours being canceled or delayed amid rumors

35:32 Speaker 7: of poor sales as the and by the way, you

35:35 Speaker 7: know the inflation that is really gripping the economy, affordability

35:41 Speaker 7: issues and so forth. They absolutely affect the touring industry,

35:44 Speaker 7: no doubt about it, and touring itself has become increasingly

35:49 Speaker 7: cost prohibitive in the last few years, it says here.

35:51 Speaker 7: As the company involved in many of those tours, Live

35:55 Speaker 7: Nation has now responded to speculation that blue dot fever

35:58 Speaker 7: is a worrying trend for twenty twenty six, and as

36:01 Speaker 7: you may have guessed, it has an alternative view. Quote.

36:05 Speaker 7: Of all the shows Live Nation has on the books

36:08 Speaker 7: this year, less than one percent have been canceled. That's

36:12 Speaker 7: not blue dot fever. It's a normal touring year, unquote,

36:17 Speaker 7: said Live Nation's a spokesperson to Music Ally told Music

36:21 Speaker 7: Ally quote. In fact, twenty twenty six is shaping up

36:24 Speaker 7: to be a record with concert sales up eleven percent

36:29 Speaker 7: for the year unquote. That surprises me. Especially with the

36:34 Speaker 7: price of tickets. These are figures for all the shows

36:37 Speaker 7: Live Nation is putting on, rather than just the bigger

36:40 Speaker 7: arena and stadium shows that are the focus of the

36:43 Speaker 7: blue dot fever talk. So I guess, and again I'm

36:46 Speaker 7: just learning the serm. I guess when you talk about

36:48 Speaker 7: blue dot fever, that tends to apply more to the

36:50 Speaker 7: big tours, arena and stadium tours, and Live Nation is

36:54 Speaker 7: kind of lumping in. You know, you've got theaters, you've

36:56 Speaker 7: got smaller venues, and Live Nation of course controls. I mean,

37:00 Speaker 7: it is a monopoly, let's call it what it is.

37:02 Speaker 7: And they control and Live Nation and Ticketmaster are the

37:05 Speaker 7: same thing. For people who don't know, Ticketmaster is a

37:07 Speaker 7: subsidiary of Live Nation. Live Nation controls most the vast

37:13 Speaker 7: majority of the national artist touring industry in this country.

37:19 Speaker 7: But so they're putting some spin on it. They're saying, well,

37:24 Speaker 7: there's no blue dot fever. Look where ticket sales are

37:26 Speaker 7: up eleven percent for us. But again that's including everything,

37:31 Speaker 7: not just the big arena and stadium tours, which is

37:34 Speaker 7: where the blue dot fever talk comes into play apparently,

37:36 Speaker 7: So it says you're going back to the article. Even so,

37:39 Speaker 7: the stats open a new speculation path. A lot of

37:44 Speaker 7: big artists are out on tour this year, and a

37:46 Speaker 7: lot of them are clearly doing good box office business.

37:50 Speaker 7: But this is a highly competitive environment. So the trend

37:55 Speaker 7: may be that when a promoter gets it wrong, where

37:58 Speaker 7: the venue size and or ticket prices don't match the

38:01 Speaker 7: true demand for that artist, it can be really wrong

38:04 Speaker 7: and obvious very quickly. So the debate is not our

38:08 Speaker 7: big concerts in trouble, but perhaps it's more about why

38:12 Speaker 7: specific tours have overshot so brutally and whether external factors

38:16 Speaker 7: costs in particular, are making the subsequent downgrades, delays, and

38:21 Speaker 7: cancellations swifter than in the past. So there you go. So,

38:25 Speaker 7: you know, I learned something new. Like I said, I

38:27 Speaker 7: was not aware of this blue dot fever phenomenon or

38:32 Speaker 7: that that was a term, but apparently it is. And

38:36 Speaker 7: you know, and again like I said, when there's difficulty

38:38 Speaker 7: in the economy in this case, you know, we talk

38:43 Speaker 7: about affordability and inflation and all that, it does very

38:47 Speaker 7: much affect the concert business. What's the first thing that

38:51 Speaker 7: you have to cut back on is entertainment. Right when

38:55 Speaker 7: you're when you're having difficulty, you know, I mean, if

38:58 Speaker 7: if you've got to choose between you know, grocery or

39:00 Speaker 7: buying a ticket to see a concert, and these tickets

39:03 Speaker 7: are so incredibly expensive, you know, you gotta spend your

39:08 Speaker 7: money at the grocery store. Right, So either way, one

39:15 Speaker 7: other thing I saw that I wanted to look at.

39:17 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, since we're talking about Ticketmaster. Apparently Ticketmaster boy.

39:22 Speaker 7: We talked about Ticketmaster a lot on the show. This

39:25 Speaker 7: is from Digital Musicnews dot com. Major cuts at Ticketmaster.

39:29 Speaker 7: The company has cut three hundred and fifty jobs. As

39:32 Speaker 7: Live Nation divestor dangles. Let's see what this is about.

39:39 Speaker 7: It says here Ticketmaster cut eight percent of its global staff,

39:42 Speaker 7: are around three hundred and fifty employees in its on

39:46 Speaker 7: in its engineering, product and design divisions. The company also

39:50 Speaker 7: cut contractors. By the way, I wonder if some of

39:54 Speaker 7: this is the result of AI, you know, just aibby

39:58 Speaker 7: being able to do certain tasks that you don't necessarily

40:03 Speaker 7: need humans to do, and a company like Ticketmaster, because

40:07 Speaker 7: any company that I mean, I don't know if you

40:10 Speaker 7: would use the term tech company to describe Ticketmaster. Necessarily

40:13 Speaker 7: it's a ticketing platform, but it's a ticketing platform on

40:17 Speaker 7: the Internet. They do depend heavily on probably a lot

40:21 Speaker 7: of things, a lot of tasks that you can train

40:24 Speaker 7: AI models to do. Again, this is from Digital Music News.

40:28 Speaker 7: It says Ticketmaster has cut eight percent of its global

40:30 Speaker 7: staff this week. According to a new report from Pollstar.

40:34 Speaker 7: The cut effects approximately three hundred and fifty employees across

40:36 Speaker 7: twenty five countries, primarily in its engineering, product and design divisions,

40:41 Speaker 7: as well as reducing its contractors. Notably, the company's executive

40:45 Speaker 7: leadership team has not changed. Samil Meta, Ticketmaster Global president,

40:51 Speaker 7: who joined the company last October, said, quote, the purpose

40:54 Speaker 7: of these cuts is stronger prioritization, especially in engineering, product

40:58 Speaker 7: and design unquote.

41:01 Speaker 12: Oh.

41:01 Speaker 7: He also said, quote that comes with flattening layers, consolidating ownership,

41:06 Speaker 7: changing how teams are structured, and ensuring that we put

41:11 Speaker 7: more energy behind specific initiatives. We're going to keep investing

41:14 Speaker 7: in specific areas so that we can actually achieve the

41:18 Speaker 7: vision we laid out unquote. Meta presented his vision for

41:22 Speaker 7: Ticketmaster's future on April fifteen during a keynote address at

41:26 Speaker 7: the Pollstar Live conference. There, he explained the importance of

41:30 Speaker 7: Ticketmaster meeting fans where they are and optimizing the checkout

41:34 Speaker 7: process via new technologies like AI. And there it is,

41:39 Speaker 7: there it is, he said during his presentation. Quote what

41:43 Speaker 7: I learned over the last ten years, which I'm trying

41:46 Speaker 7: to apply to Ticketmaster, is how to engage with commerce

41:49 Speaker 7: at scale, how to move billions, tens of billions, hundreds

41:53 Speaker 7: of billions all over the world between buyers and sellers,

41:56 Speaker 7: how to fight bad actors fraud, and most importantly, how

42:00 Speaker 7: to take a technology first approach to problem solving, especially

42:05 Speaker 7: in the age of AI. Unquote. Meta was formerly the

42:09 Speaker 7: chief product Officer and head of Business org at Square,

42:12 Speaker 7: whose holdings include the likes of Title, Cash, app after pay,

42:16 Speaker 7: bit Key, and Spiral. So as you can see from

42:19 Speaker 7: his background, you know this is a guy who's thinking

42:22 Speaker 7: about this stuff, right, he said. Quote to me, the

42:25 Speaker 7: strong performance reflects the past, and this is about what

42:29 Speaker 7: we are doing to set ourselves up for the earnings

42:32 Speaker 7: report twelve months from now, eighteen months from now, twenty

42:34 Speaker 7: four months from now. I'm thinking. The thinking is, let's

42:39 Speaker 7: do this so we are well positioned for two years

42:41 Speaker 7: down the road, one year down the road, or eighteen

42:43 Speaker 7: months down the road. So there you go. There you

42:48 Speaker 7: have it. I think we should play so earlier. Well

42:53 Speaker 7: by earlier, I mean during the first hour we talked

42:56 Speaker 7: to Johnny Collins from the band Modesty Blaze, who have

42:59 Speaker 7: such an interesting sound. I think we should play another

43:02 Speaker 7: one of their songs, and then we'll come back and

43:03 Speaker 7: we'll begin to wrap things up this week on the show.

43:07 Speaker 7: But again, you know, they released re released Melancholia. It's

43:11 Speaker 7: the twenty fifth anniversary of that album, completely remastered, and

43:15 Speaker 7: we talked a lot. If you missed it during the

43:16 Speaker 7: first hour, you'll want to check it out on the podcast,

43:19 Speaker 7: which will be available within the hour after we get

43:22 Speaker 7: off the air today. But really really enjoyed talking with

43:26 Speaker 7: Johnny Collins and talking about how, you know, the whole

43:28 Speaker 7: process of remastering this album. But let's give this a spin.

43:33 Speaker 7: This is another great track from the remaster of Melancholia,

43:37 Speaker 7: the twenty fifth anniversary edition. This is called I'm Going Dancing.

43:40 Speaker 7: We're gonna give this a spin and then we'll come

43:42 Speaker 7: back and we'll start to wrap things up on the

43:44 Speaker 7: other side. I'm going Dancing, Modesty Blaze, I'm.

44:21 Speaker 3: Going when you singing.

44:37 Speaker 16: Spots conta, but I.

46:00 Speaker 15: Do I thought.

46:05 Speaker 18: My back starting your star, my thought.

46:42 Speaker 3: Going up.

47:01 Speaker 7: That is I'm going out from Odyssey Blaze. Hope there's more.

47:08 Speaker 7: It's the Matt Connorton Unleashed remix.

47:12 Speaker 9: There we go.

47:13 Speaker 7: Thank you again to Johnny Collins for joining us in

47:15 Speaker 7: the first hour to talk about the twenty fifth anniversary

47:17 Speaker 7: remaster of Melancholia that features that song. Really enjoyed talking

47:21 Speaker 7: with him. Hey, really quick, because we spent some time

47:26 Speaker 7: last week on the show talking about the Buster Rhymes thing,

47:28 Speaker 7: and I referenced it earlier. So Buster Rhymes, I have

47:32 Speaker 7: some more details about that that I want to just

47:34 Speaker 7: hit before we run out of time on today's show.

47:36 Speaker 7: This is from USA Herold. It says Busser Rhymes folds

47:42 Speaker 7: aging rapper quietly settles lawsuit I'm sorry, settles assault and

47:46 Speaker 7: workplaces abuse case before jury could deliver verdict. So when

47:49 Speaker 7: we last left off, we were talking on the show

47:51 Speaker 7: last week about Buster Rhymes. His former assistant was suing

47:55 Speaker 7: him for assault and battery because Buster Rhymes again, apparently

47:59 Speaker 7: if you you are working for him as a personal

48:01 Speaker 7: assistant and you upset him, he might punch you in

48:03 Speaker 7: the face. You better make sure that he gets his

48:06 Speaker 7: dinner on time and things like that. So difficult to

48:08 Speaker 7: work for a lot of famous people tend to be.

48:11 Speaker 7: But apparently there was a violent assault involved, and so

48:13 Speaker 7: we talked about that last week on the show. So

48:15 Speaker 7: it has been settled and that's it. That's the end

48:19 Speaker 7: of that. But this article does have some details that

48:22 Speaker 7: were missing from the other article that we were looking at,

48:25 Speaker 7: because the other article was focused mainly on what was

48:27 Speaker 7: happening in court on their way to settling. But this

48:30 Speaker 7: not only updates that the settlement is final and everybody

48:33 Speaker 7: can move on, but just some interesting details about exactly

48:36 Speaker 7: what happened here. So again this is from USA Harold.

48:41 Speaker 7: It was a confrontation that started with a text message,

48:45 Speaker 7: so rewind to January twenty twenty five. Gables that was

48:49 Speaker 7: his name, Dash Gables, the assistant. Gables is unloading luggage

48:53 Speaker 7: at Busta's luxury Brooklyn high rise when his daughter calls

48:57 Speaker 7: his phone. He doesn't answer, he texts her back, a

49:01 Speaker 7: simple human moment between a father and his child. According

49:05 Speaker 7: to Gables, that text cost him his face. He alleged

49:09 Speaker 7: bus stuff flew into a rage and punched him multiple

49:12 Speaker 7: times in the lobby of the upscale building. Gables was hospitalized.

49:18 Speaker 7: He filed a police report. Prosecutors, however, declined to bring

49:21 Speaker 7: criminal charges, leaving Gables with one path to accountability civil court.

49:28 Speaker 7: Why obvious question, But why did prosecutors decline to bring

49:34 Speaker 7: criminal charges? What's going on there?

49:38 Speaker 1: You know?

49:38 Speaker 7: Did bust Or Rhymes pay them? I mean, you know,

49:41 Speaker 7: are they just big Buster Rhymes fans? You know what

49:46 Speaker 7: is going on there?

49:47 Speaker 2: Why?

49:48 Speaker 7: Why would prosecutors not bring charges? That's bizarre. So because

49:52 Speaker 7: they didn't bring charges, Gables had to sue. So, getting

49:56 Speaker 7: back to the article from us A Herald, when he

49:58 Speaker 7: filed suit in August of twenty twenty five, the allegations exploded.

50:02 Speaker 7: Beyond the punches. Gables painted a portrait of systematic workplace abuse,

50:08 Speaker 7: a hostile environment where he claimed Buster forced him to

50:13 Speaker 7: unclog a toilet with his bare hand and later retaliated

50:17 Speaker 7: against him for going to police, allegedly using his industry

50:20 Speaker 7: influence to blacklist Gables from future work. The price tag

50:23 Speaker 7: on that destruction at least six million dollars in damages

50:27 Speaker 7: sought for assault, wage violations and career annihilation. By the way,

50:31 Speaker 7: so for anyone who thinks, wait, he made him unclog

50:33 Speaker 7: a toilet with his bare hands. That's just inhumane. Yeah,

50:37 Speaker 7: but think about it, that's what happens. This is not

50:41 Speaker 7: unusual to hear stories about people who become very famous

50:45 Speaker 7: and very wealthy who also, for some reason or maybe

50:49 Speaker 7: it was always in them, but for some reason, also

50:53 Speaker 7: are very cruel and they have this power thing. So,

50:58 Speaker 7: I mean, anybody who watched the Diddy documentary series knows,

51:05 Speaker 7: and Jenny and I Binge watched that. We were just

51:08 Speaker 7: captivated by it. But you know, this is just something

51:12 Speaker 7: that happens to some people. They become rich and famous

51:15 Speaker 7: and powerful and then they decide to also be evil

51:19 Speaker 7: on top of it all. It's not you know, so

51:23 Speaker 7: on one hand, it's shocking that Busta Rhymes would make

51:26 Speaker 7: his assistant do that, But at the same time, it's like, hmm,

51:29 Speaker 7: but actually it's not that shocking because that's just something

51:32 Speaker 7: A rich, wealthy person who's probably so rich and i'm

51:36 Speaker 7: sorry rich wealthy, I mean rich and famous, rich and wealthy,

51:39 Speaker 7: that's redundant. A rich and famous person who's probably so

51:42 Speaker 7: rich and so famous, they've also probably become severely mentally

51:47 Speaker 7: ill in some way. You know, that's something that a wealthy, famous,

51:54 Speaker 7: mentally ill person would do is make their just for

51:58 Speaker 7: the hell of it, make their assistant unclock toilet with

52:00 Speaker 7: their bare hands, just saying. I mean it's something, it's

52:03 Speaker 7: it's I really do think that's part of the human condition. Obviously,

52:07 Speaker 7: not everyone who is wealthy and famous is a psychopath

52:10 Speaker 7: becomes a psychopath, or maybe they already were, but there

52:14 Speaker 7: now the their wealth and their fame enables them to

52:18 Speaker 7: really activate their their worst impulses. But you know, but

52:25 Speaker 7: but again, see something like that. It's shocking, but it's

52:29 Speaker 7: not shocking at the same time. Uh, the entertainment industry

52:32 Speaker 7: is replete with stories like that anyway. So it says

52:35 Speaker 7: here Busta came out swinging then settled again. This is

52:39 Speaker 7: from USA Herald Buster Rhymes didn't take it lying down.

52:43 Speaker 7: His legal team fired back with everything they had, calling

52:47 Speaker 7: the lawsuit a calculated, attempted shakedown by a disgruntled former

52:52 Speaker 7: employee who fabricated the entire story for a payday. Bust

52:56 Speaker 7: A countersuit for defamation. That's always the move, by the way,

53:00 Speaker 7: countersuit for defamation, that's always the move. Bust A countersuit

53:03 Speaker 7: for defamation, claiming gables public allegations cost him two major

53:09 Speaker 7: advertising contracts and torched his reputation. For a moment, it

53:13 Speaker 7: looked like this was headed toward a dramatic courtroom showdown,

53:17 Speaker 7: but it was not. By January twenty twenty six, both

53:21 Speaker 7: sides agreed to pause proceedings and enter mediation. Eighteen months

53:26 Speaker 7: of legal combat, police reports, countersuits, public allegations, and reputation

53:31 Speaker 7: warfare collapsed into a private agreement that neither side will

53:36 Speaker 7: discuss publicly. And that's it. That's the end of that

53:40 Speaker 7: that's the end of that article, and apparently that's the

53:42 Speaker 7: end of that story. All right, We are coming perilously

53:47 Speaker 7: close to the end of the program, So just a

53:51 Speaker 7: couple things to wrap up again. Thank you to all

53:53 Speaker 7: of our great guests today. Of course, we had Johnny

53:55 Speaker 7: Collins from Modesty Blaze in the first hour. In the

53:59 Speaker 7: second hour, Sofihaicle we talked about her new single and

54:01 Speaker 7: her new album coming up. And in the third hour,

54:03 Speaker 7: of course, we had the guys from Viva Los Villains,

54:06 Speaker 7: a big fan of theirs, and we had Alex from

54:10 Speaker 7: the Cherry Fog. That was a surprise, and we got

54:12 Speaker 7: to do a bonus world radio premiere Cherry FOG's newest single.

54:16 Speaker 7: So that was great. I really enjoyed today's show. I

54:18 Speaker 7: hope you enjoyed it. I will remind you if you

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55:08 Speaker 7: plenty to talk about. We actually took last Sunday off

55:10 Speaker 7: because both the guys were not feeling well, so we

55:13 Speaker 7: will be back with a vengeance. I say this Sunday night,

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55:40 Speaker 7: Please follow me on social media all of that, you know,

55:43 Speaker 7: all this stuff. I think we're gonna end today's show

55:46 Speaker 7: with a little bit of Jerry and the Scumbags because

55:48 Speaker 7: we haven't played this track in a while. Unicycle. It

55:51 Speaker 7: is the radio edit, of course, and that's gonna do

55:54 Speaker 7: it for us for now. So thanks everybody, Love to

55:57 Speaker 7: you all, and we'll talk to you a little bit later.

55:59 Speaker 7: Bye bye.

56:33 Speaker 12: When I was a boy, all I think about this one,

56:38 Speaker 12: A stupid boy that I was.

56:41 Speaker 2: When I was a kid. I got my face up, damn,

56:46 Speaker 2: not boilets with the des out, Damn. I wasn't always

56:51 Speaker 2: a stool.

56:53 Speaker 13: Um but when I was I was a jump I didn't.

56:59 Speaker 2: Always okay, So I used to have him go fill

57:04 Speaker 2: man bus. I remember, roll the man sids and picks

57:11 Speaker 2: member Bob. It feels like someone that's shopping their sad

57:19 Speaker 2: fun all to my far.

57:23 Speaker 3: Right.

57:24 Speaker 2: Done your nest side call where no scene down, Bob me.

57:29 Speaker 5: Roll the live.

57:30 Speaker 12: I ride do you ness side.

57:34 Speaker 2: Go where no scene down? No body, roll up live.

57:46 Speaker 17: Y.

57:54 Speaker 2: When I was in school, didn't make those grades. I

57:59 Speaker 2: was yeah, still being numb fool. When I was still young,

58:05 Speaker 2: all I cared about proud white girls, but they didn't

58:10 Speaker 2: like my temples. I used to be sun just a

58:13 Speaker 2: wool reform. They an crying on the floor.

58:19 Speaker 5: They used to wear your fans.

58:21 Speaker 12: Read me of my milk money taken. When I was

58:26 Speaker 12: growing up, I remember the van times, did them my PM.

58:36 Speaker 2: It feels like someone is shoving the same angs of

58:41 Speaker 2: my part. I ride down your nest side go w

58:48 Speaker 2: no sin down.

58:49 Speaker 5: No bomb me roll alive.

58:52 Speaker 2: I ride done mass side can win, no se down

58:57 Speaker 2: the bomb roll up.

59:16 Speaker 16: You know.

59:17 Speaker 12: When I was a boy, my father used to look

59:20 Speaker 12: down at me insane, What God helle even that?

59:25 Speaker 2: Go outside and cut some grass. Why don't you go kids,

59:29 Speaker 2: A girl, you stupid loser,