Matt Connarton Unleashed 6-14-25 hour 3

0:00 Speaker 1: W M n H rip the novels. You are listening

0:05 Speaker 1: to Double M and H World premiere. They say the.

0:36 Speaker 2: Winds a change.

0:39 Speaker 1: Appear after the Fred, But no they sound my fe.

0:49 Speaker 3: Where does sunline lie? No better?

0:54 Speaker 4: How they bought you? Don't never an you.

1:02 Speaker 3: You're stop getting name?

1:04 Speaker 4: Say you will live another day?

1:21 Speaker 3: Did you go from your place.

1:26 Speaker 1: For your suffering name?

1:30 Speaker 2: Sometimes it's hard to find.

1:35 Speaker 3: You will be subod I always getting you don't the

1:44 Speaker 3: self these things I do. I just can't understand how

1:54 Speaker 3: to make a n W the satrise sunrise and the

2:01 Speaker 3: food like food line.

2:05 Speaker 5: Suicid of that night dot night bring up the sunlight sunlight.

2:26 Speaker 3: All minestly.

2:30 Speaker 1: I know you watched it leave.

2:35 Speaker 6: Averaching in mind, but still by love will stand.

2:44 Speaker 3: No matter how my faine feel. Don't never doubt that

2:50 Speaker 3: you are real. Do not be on me water.

2:57 Speaker 4: You're still searching for the sun. When will the sunrise sunrise?

3:06 Speaker 3: The blood.

3:09 Speaker 5: So said do night dot night bring up the sunlight

3:16 Speaker 5: sun When will the sunrise sun.

3:24 Speaker 3: The bloodlight?

3:28 Speaker 1: So sick?

3:29 Speaker 3: Dot night dot night.

3:32 Speaker 4: Bring up the sunlight sun? Oh?

4:03 Speaker 7: That is so good? Brand new from Soda. The band

4:06 Speaker 7: is It's spelled s O T A h and that

4:10 Speaker 7: is called Sunrise World Radio premiere today on Matt Connorton Unleashed,

4:13 Speaker 7: as we have entered our number three new maeral trace.

4:16 Speaker 7: If I sound a little nervous, I apologize in advance.

4:20 Speaker 7: But well it'll all it'll all make sense in a moment.

4:24 Speaker 7: But let me get these let me get these mics

4:27 Speaker 7: up here. I'm not often Uh well, let me get

4:29 Speaker 7: the camera onto on on Casey, Casey Darren here because uh,

4:34 Speaker 7: you look a little bit different than the last time

4:36 Speaker 7: I saw you, and you appear to have gone through

4:40 Speaker 7: some sort of transition. Shall we say if I can

4:42 Speaker 7: use that term? Oh wait, wait a second, I can't. Oh,

4:47 Speaker 7: I see why I apologize. Please don't don't bite me,

4:51 Speaker 7: don't bite my neck.

4:52 Speaker 1: There we go. I've got to say, I've got to

4:56 Speaker 1: be honest. Tier.

4:57 Speaker 7: Yes, this is legitimately terrifying.

5:00 Speaker 1: You can hear me now out in the space waves,

5:03 Speaker 1: we can.

5:03 Speaker 7: We can hear you. There's no need to do anything

5:05 Speaker 7: anything rash.

5:06 Speaker 1: Well, yes, since the last time that I was here

5:10 Speaker 1: in the studio, you you see, I did go through

5:13 Speaker 1: some major changes. The whole band did. Yes, yes, you

5:18 Speaker 1: know we are in the studio for months on end

5:22 Speaker 1: up in rural Maine, and very few people know this,

5:27 Speaker 1: but in Maine there's actually a large community of vampires.

5:31 Speaker 1: We got to meet them, we got to go into

5:34 Speaker 1: their camp, and after some a few days in Maine,

5:39 Speaker 1: we actually became vampires. You see, we got bit in

5:44 Speaker 1: and we are now undead and this is something that

5:48 Speaker 1: we kind of have to live with. Now.

5:51 Speaker 7: Oh, I'm sorry, Let me go and introduce your partner.

5:55 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, he's never been here before. But this is

5:58 Speaker 1: my younger brother, Killian. He's got a very good vampire name,

6:02 Speaker 1: count Killian. Over here.

6:04 Speaker 7: That is a good vampire name. Yeah, go ahead, Killian.

6:07 Speaker 8: Yeah.

6:07 Speaker 9: The thing is the rest of the band, We're all fine.

6:09 Speaker 9: He's the only one choosing to dress up this way, and.

6:14 Speaker 1: That's not true when you turn into a vampire. This

6:17 Speaker 1: is what happens.

6:18 Speaker 9: It's not the it's not his dress. It's the only

6:20 Speaker 9: thing he's been acting different.

6:22 Speaker 7: Uh huh.

6:23 Speaker 9: Last night he had a garlic knot and he's crying

6:25 Speaker 9: in the bathroom for like an hour.

6:28 Speaker 7: Well I can see how that would be upsetting in

6:31 Speaker 7: a sense. Wow. Okay, so so you but you have

6:35 Speaker 7: also Killian. You are also a vampire now, Yes, because

6:38 Speaker 7: you are kind of pale. I'm usually the most pale

6:40 Speaker 7: person in the room, but you do have you have

6:42 Speaker 7: very light skin. Sir.

6:44 Speaker 1: It's probably just the Irish blood in him.

6:46 Speaker 7: Oh okay, I see, I see Wow, Well is still

6:50 Speaker 7: Irish blood? I mean he's a vampire. Now, well, how

6:52 Speaker 7: does that work?

6:53 Speaker 1: You know, we we still got we have were many

6:56 Speaker 1: different types of blood in us.

6:59 Speaker 7: Well I can imagine.

7:00 Speaker 1: Yes, just you know, the nature of being a vampire,

7:03 Speaker 1: we do partake in the delicious offerings of blood. So yes,

7:09 Speaker 1: he's got the little Irish blood in him. He met

7:12 Speaker 1: a man named Patrick o'hannagan last week. That's where that

7:16 Speaker 1: comes from.

7:17 Speaker 7: So I see, now that makes sense. What is it

7:21 Speaker 7: about Maine? Should should people not go to Maine? You know,

7:25 Speaker 7: we've had guests here on the show who are musicians

7:27 Speaker 7: from the state of Maine, And now I'm concerned I

7:29 Speaker 7: may have put myself in Jenny in danger. Could they

7:32 Speaker 7: have been vampires and we didn't know it as the

7:34 Speaker 7: entire state of Maine vampires? I mean, what what's the situation?

7:36 Speaker 1: And no, it's it's very locked up. It's a locked

7:39 Speaker 1: up community. We actually happened to just stumble upon it,

7:42 Speaker 1: you know, being up in the studio. It's just one

7:45 Speaker 1: of those things that kind of happened. Not many people

7:47 Speaker 1: know about it, but we stumbled upon it and now

7:51 Speaker 1: here we are today. So you don't have to worry. Okay,

7:54 Speaker 1: But you know, if you do smell something a little funky,

7:59 Speaker 1: just you know, don't towards it, because that's what Killian did.

8:02 Speaker 1: And now look at us now.

8:03 Speaker 7: Oh okay, So since Killian's fault, I would say, I

8:06 Speaker 7: would say, okay, any any misconceptions. I mean, you you

8:11 Speaker 7: guys are out in the daylight to come here. I mean,

8:13 Speaker 7: how does that work?

8:14 Speaker 1: Well, we were packaged in a cardboard box on the

8:17 Speaker 1: way here, we were driven in. I've actually we've been

8:21 Speaker 1: up since eight o'clock last night. So where we are

8:24 Speaker 1: giving you some extra daylight hours today being here. We

8:27 Speaker 1: are very tired. We are you know, it has been difficult,

8:32 Speaker 1: but we are here and we are happy to be here.

8:35 Speaker 7: And I assume you were SPF one hundred sunscreen in

8:38 Speaker 7: this situation.

8:39 Speaker 1: The situation like this, Yes, it was a little nerve

8:42 Speaker 1: wracking coming into the studio. Yes, being transported out of

8:45 Speaker 1: the cardboard box and into the studio was a little

8:48 Speaker 1: nerve racking. So yes, we did leather up this morning,

8:51 Speaker 1: that is true.

8:52 Speaker 7: Okay, No, that makes sense, that makes sense. We want

8:54 Speaker 7: you to be want you to be healthy. Now, So

8:58 Speaker 7: how does this relate? Like, did the song and the

9:01 Speaker 7: video come about? I mean, obviously the video came about

9:05 Speaker 7: post transformation? What about the song Sunrise?

9:08 Speaker 1: I wrote the song Sunrise about three years ago. It

9:12 Speaker 1: is a song about just, you know, being in darkness

9:16 Speaker 1: and wanting to find the light and really wishing that

9:20 Speaker 1: you weren't always in darkness. Something about vampires is that

9:23 Speaker 1: we we live much of our life in darkness.

9:26 Speaker 7: Yes.

9:26 Speaker 1: I think many people vampire or not live their life

9:29 Speaker 1: with some darkness in their life. Yes, And I think

9:32 Speaker 1: that the message of the song it was just me

9:35 Speaker 1: trying to express that I wanted to find the light

9:39 Speaker 1: and I knew that there was some light deep within me.

9:41 Speaker 10: Yes.

9:42 Speaker 1: But yes, it was written in pre vampire transformation, and

9:47 Speaker 1: I found that the transfer, the transformation into vampire just

9:50 Speaker 1: worked very well. Oh good it did it? Did? It

9:53 Speaker 1: matched the message of this song very well.

9:56 Speaker 7: Well, that's that's good, very convenient, I would say, yes, Yes,

10:00 Speaker 7: Jenny was saying in the chat room, she woke up

10:02 Speaker 7: with the song in her head this morning. Because it's very,

10:04 Speaker 7: very catchy.

10:05 Speaker 1: We did try to make it a little hypnotic, that

10:08 Speaker 1: is true.

10:08 Speaker 7: Yes, oh yeah, I understand that. Yes, I was tapping along.

10:12 Speaker 7: You probably saw I couldn't couldn't help it. I couldn't

10:14 Speaker 7: help it.

10:14 Speaker 1: That could have been just because I was looking at you.

10:16 Speaker 7: Well, that might be I can do that might be

10:18 Speaker 7: as well. And I have to say I'm a little anxious.

10:22 Speaker 7: I mean, you know, you tell me I'm not in

10:23 Speaker 7: any danger. But you know, I've never had a vampire

10:26 Speaker 7: on the show before. Vampires.

10:28 Speaker 1: If we get hungry, Killian will be but the first

10:30 Speaker 1: to dive in, so I will try to hold him back.

10:33 Speaker 1: Killian is feisty.

10:34 Speaker 7: I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Yes, yes, now, Killian.

10:37 Speaker 7: What what's your role on the on the track or

10:41 Speaker 7: on the band?

10:41 Speaker 1: I play a bass and backup vocals.

10:45 Speaker 7: Okay, okay, very good. Now are you are you a

10:48 Speaker 7: permanent member of Soda?

10:49 Speaker 1: I am a permanent member.

10:51 Speaker 7: Excellent, excellent, Okay, So, because this is I know this

10:54 Speaker 7: is your first time on the show with us, but

10:56 Speaker 7: obviously you know we've been playing your music for a

10:58 Speaker 7: few years. You know case he's been on you know,

11:01 Speaker 7: Vampiric Era. It has been on the show a bunch

11:04 Speaker 7: of times. But yeah, so it's great to finally meet you.

11:07 Speaker 7: I mean, I hope you don't, you know, buy my neck.

11:09 Speaker 7: But it's wonderful to meet you finally.

11:11 Speaker 1: Nice to be you too.

11:12 Speaker 7: Yes, yes, and the whole band is Vampires.

11:14 Speaker 1: Now we've all done in the Vampires. The other two

11:17 Speaker 1: they were too afraid to come out in the daylight.

11:20 Speaker 1: I had to convince my younger brother to be here,

11:22 Speaker 1: and he is happy to be here. I have to say.

11:24 Speaker 1: He's a wonderful bass player, as you see in the

11:26 Speaker 1: music that you actually learned how to play the upright bass. Yes,

11:30 Speaker 1: he is phenomenal. He's a great musician, and it is

11:34 Speaker 1: an honor to have him in the band. He's been

11:36 Speaker 1: in the band from the very beginning. Yes, this Sunrise

11:40 Speaker 1: is actually the first track that he recorded bass on,

11:43 Speaker 1: which is it's very cool if you listen to the

11:45 Speaker 1: bass lines. He did a very good job, oh yeah,

11:47 Speaker 1: recording his lines.

11:48 Speaker 7: Oh I noticed. Yeah, I'm a bass player myself, so

11:50 Speaker 7: I noticed that. So in the video, you're you're playing

11:53 Speaker 7: an upright bas is that do you do you actually

11:56 Speaker 7: play an upright bass?

11:57 Speaker 9: In high school, I played in orchestra, so I played

12:00 Speaker 9: a little bit of upright but it's not my main Yeah.

12:02 Speaker 7: Yeah, I've always I've always been kind of fascinated, but

12:05 Speaker 7: I've never even attempted to play an up upright base.

12:07 Speaker 7: But it looks awkward. It looks very awkward to me. Yeah,

12:11 Speaker 7: it's some time to learn them. I'm sure.

12:14 Speaker 1: Very cool.

12:15 Speaker 7: Now is this?

12:16 Speaker 1: Uh?

12:17 Speaker 7: Is this track part of an album or is it

12:19 Speaker 7: just a single?

12:19 Speaker 1: Or but it is a standalone single. We do have

12:22 Speaker 1: more tracks coming, but they are also different in nature

12:26 Speaker 1: that we we didn't think that they fit together in

12:28 Speaker 1: a cohesive EP or LP formats. Yes, this is a

12:33 Speaker 1: stand alone single.

12:35 Speaker 7: Okay, okay, very good, very good. Now what what else?

12:39 Speaker 7: What are you? Oh? No, do vampires get sick? How

12:42 Speaker 7: does that work?

12:42 Speaker 1: Is not?

12:44 Speaker 7: Is it allergies?

12:44 Speaker 1: With the blood in the back of my throat, this

12:47 Speaker 1: gravelly voice? It does great on my vocal cords.

12:50 Speaker 7: Oh, I see, I didn't know if it was. You know,

12:52 Speaker 7: there's a lot of pollen. I didn't know if vampires

12:54 Speaker 7: are susceptible to allergies.

12:56 Speaker 1: No, sir, no, sir, it is this This is a

12:58 Speaker 1: side effect of having this new gravelly voice.

13:01 Speaker 7: I see. Do vampires have allergies at all?

13:04 Speaker 1: We can, Okay, we do. We are allergic to garlic.

13:08 Speaker 1: We are allergic to silver. We don't like silver. No,

13:12 Speaker 1: so if there is any silver jewelry in this room,

13:14 Speaker 1: please we ask you to kind of take it off.

13:16 Speaker 7: I can't wear jewelry. I'm allergic. That's interesting.

13:19 Speaker 1: Yeah, actually you're did you just say you are allergic

13:22 Speaker 1: to silver?

13:23 Speaker 7: Yeah?

13:23 Speaker 1: Is there something we do not know about you?

13:26 Speaker 7: I can't why I've never been able to wear a

13:28 Speaker 7: silver jewelry. I am allergic to me.

13:30 Speaker 1: Interesting. I suspect that you might have some sort of

13:33 Speaker 1: vampire lineage in your family somewhere down the lines.

13:37 Speaker 7: Possible. I mean I am quite pale.

13:39 Speaker 1: Well that that could just be the other lineage, but

13:42 Speaker 1: we won't talk about it.

13:43 Speaker 7: I mean, if you ever seen me with a tan,

13:44 Speaker 7: it's fake.

13:46 Speaker 1: U spray tan.

13:47 Speaker 7: I rubbed some stuff in make me a little less pale.

13:49 Speaker 1: I was thinking about doing that, but I broke out,

13:52 Speaker 1: so I had to. I had to stop.

13:54 Speaker 7: I can see where that would be that would be

13:55 Speaker 7: a problem. Yes, yes, So this just came out yesterday.

14:00 Speaker 1: Yes, yesterday, on Friday the thirteen. How fortuitous it worked

14:06 Speaker 1: out perfectly.

14:07 Speaker 7: I must say yes, yes, And where did you shoot

14:11 Speaker 7: the video? I'm really curious about the video, Killian.

14:13 Speaker 1: Why don't you tell Matt Connorton where we shot the video.

14:17 Speaker 9: We went to a castle in Wyndham, New Hampshire.

14:21 Speaker 7: Okay.

14:22 Speaker 9: We also went to a chapel and then we filmed

14:26 Speaker 9: some of the dream sequence you'll see.

14:27 Speaker 1: We went to Hampton Beach.

14:29 Speaker 7: Okay.

14:29 Speaker 9: We got a lot of looks.

14:30 Speaker 1: Definitely.

14:31 Speaker 7: Oh, I can imagine. Yeah. Yeah.

14:33 Speaker 1: The Hampton Beach goers do not take kindly to vampires.

14:37 Speaker 1: They are more of a Jersey short type of crowd,

14:40 Speaker 1: and they do not like the vampires.

14:42 Speaker 7: What do you think it is? You think they're just

14:44 Speaker 7: afraid you're gonna like go into the water and bite

14:45 Speaker 7: them or something or what.

14:46 Speaker 1: I think they're judgmental, Matt. I think that they are

14:49 Speaker 1: very judgmental to our kind, and I do not appreciate it.

14:53 Speaker 7: I don't blame you. I wouldn't appreciate that either. Wow, Okay,

14:57 Speaker 7: I mean I have kind of a similar thing if

14:59 Speaker 7: I go to the beach and go on to the

15:00 Speaker 7: but that's more just because I have body hair.

15:02 Speaker 1: Oh, tell you about body air. I might be part

15:05 Speaker 1: wear a wolf as well, because I have got a

15:08 Speaker 1: thick coat of for on my chest.

15:10 Speaker 7: Well that makes you a double threat, I would say,

15:13 Speaker 7: so yeah, wow, wow how about you, Killian, Are you

15:16 Speaker 7: also potentially a werewolf?

15:19 Speaker 9: Not as far as I know. I also, we didn't,

15:22 Speaker 9: we didn't develop an accent. When you get bit, you

15:26 Speaker 9: just turn into a vampire. But you don't actually have

15:28 Speaker 9: to talk. This is just something that he's taken too seriously.

15:32 Speaker 1: I don't think that. I don't think that is the case.

15:34 Speaker 1: I am a vampire. This is what vampires do. We

15:36 Speaker 1: all know that this is what happened when you get bitten. Well,

15:41 Speaker 1: I think, so.

15:43 Speaker 7: Are you. I feel like you're you're being a little

15:45 Speaker 7: judgmental of Killian, like because he's not. He's not embracing

15:49 Speaker 7: his new identity as you are.

15:51 Speaker 1: This is not an identity. This is who I am.

15:53 Speaker 1: This is just what happened. And I don't understand. He's

15:56 Speaker 1: over here and he's pretending like this is not something

16:00 Speaker 1: I this cloak. It just appeared on me. One day.

16:03 Speaker 1: He says that I'm choosing the way this That is

16:05 Speaker 1: not true.

16:06 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, well, perhaps it'll just appear on him. I mean,

16:09 Speaker 7: perhaps he's perhaps it takes longer with something with others

16:13 Speaker 7: to become fully vampiric. If that is a word, I

16:16 Speaker 7: think it is saying.

16:17 Speaker 1: That I'm sorry. You have to stop saying that I

16:20 Speaker 1: am not the vampire.

16:21 Speaker 7: Oh, be careful, they're they're you. Uh you know, I mean,

16:26 Speaker 7: people are going to start to wonder if you're really

16:27 Speaker 7: a vampire.

16:28 Speaker 1: You keep I am a vampire. I understand the vampire, Matt,

16:31 Speaker 1: I understand me angry.

16:33 Speaker 7: I know I could feel you reading my thoughts earlier.

16:36 Speaker 7: The empires can do that.

16:37 Speaker 1: Yes, some of those we are not allowed to repeat.

16:39 Speaker 7: There, you know again, just very fearful. But uh no,

16:42 Speaker 7: I mind my p's and q's. So uh let's see. So,

16:46 Speaker 7: for those who don't know the band, where does the

16:48 Speaker 7: name come from? I know we've talked about it before,

16:50 Speaker 7: but for the uninitiated.

16:52 Speaker 1: Yes, for the for these news Sota listeners, our name

16:56 Speaker 1: comes from the story of the poison water. Okay, so

17:00 Speaker 1: back in old ancient times, if you were if you

17:04 Speaker 1: were thought to have committed adultery against your significant other,

17:07 Speaker 1: m you would go to the trial of poison water,

17:11 Speaker 1: and if you drank the poison water and you died,

17:13 Speaker 1: you were an adulterer.

17:15 Speaker 7: Seems like an oe situation.

17:16 Speaker 1: Well, if you did drink the poison water and you survived,

17:20 Speaker 1: you were not an adulterer. Very few survived, so there

17:23 Speaker 1: were a lot of these people that they dubbed Sota.

17:27 Speaker 1: Sota is a person who was an adulterer, and it

17:30 Speaker 1: was the trial of poison water. Sota is the trial

17:32 Speaker 1: of poison water.

17:34 Speaker 7: Oh, I see, yeah, I see.

17:36 Speaker 1: And I just guess that at the time when I

17:38 Speaker 1: made the band, it fell into place. We wrote the

17:41 Speaker 1: song Sota, and I had the phrase in my head.

17:44 Speaker 1: Maybe there was some vampire quality in me back then

17:47 Speaker 1: as well, because I heard the phrase poison the water,

17:49 Speaker 1: poison the water, and I loved that phrase. So I

17:52 Speaker 1: wrote a song around that, and then I looked it

17:55 Speaker 1: up on Google. Yes, vampires do use Google, but back

17:58 Speaker 1: then I was not a vampire. Any Ways, beside the point,

18:01 Speaker 1: I looked it up on Google, poison the Water, and

18:03 Speaker 1: then I saw Saulta, and I said, Solta is a

18:05 Speaker 1: beautiful name. Yes, And I looked up on Spotify and

18:09 Speaker 1: there was no Suta. So I said, that is our name.

18:11 Speaker 7: Okay, Oh, very good, very good.

18:14 Speaker 1: If you don't any kind of like.

18:16 Speaker 7: You know, you mentioned you might have like maybe have

18:18 Speaker 7: some vampiric lineage of have you done like twenty three

18:20 Speaker 7: and me or anything like that.

18:22 Speaker 1: I have not done twenty three in me yet? Have

18:24 Speaker 1: you done that? Killian? I not Yeah, I've looked on ancestry,

18:27 Speaker 1: but no, we're from where where do we come from?

18:31 Speaker 9: We come from Londonderry in Hampshire certainly not Transylvania.

18:35 Speaker 7: Are you sure?

18:37 Speaker 1: Okay? Just because I come from just because I come

18:39 Speaker 1: from London there, it doesn't mean that I don't. I

18:41 Speaker 1: don't talk like this. I am getting very irritated with

18:45 Speaker 1: my younger brother.

18:47 Speaker 7: Yes, I can see that. I can see that. Well

18:51 Speaker 7: I would have say, you know too, just because you're

18:53 Speaker 7: from Londonderry, it doesn't mean you couldn't have visited Maine

18:55 Speaker 7: and become a vampire.

18:58 Speaker 1: Well, you know, Killian is a lot of opinions will

19:00 Speaker 1: leave it at that.

19:02 Speaker 7: I mean because if you think about it, if you're

19:04 Speaker 7: in New Hampshire, the odds of you of even visiting

19:07 Speaker 7: Maine are much higher than say, if you were in Transylvania.

19:09 Speaker 7: If you were from Transylvania, you'd probably never go to Maine.

19:12 Speaker 7: So it's true.

19:14 Speaker 1: It's true. I don't know. I think the people up

19:16 Speaker 1: in Maine that we met, I do think that they

19:17 Speaker 1: came from Transylvania. But in the olden times. I see

19:20 Speaker 1: in olden times, and they do live in the shadows,

19:23 Speaker 1: you know, they live in the woods, they live in

19:25 Speaker 1: the caves. Yes, I don't know why we ventured that

19:28 Speaker 1: way out there. Again, I'd like to blame it on Killian.

19:31 Speaker 7: Now as your transformation or apotheosis, I'm not even sure

19:35 Speaker 7: what the right term for this is, so forgive me.

19:38 Speaker 7: Does this affect how you perform on stage?

19:41 Speaker 1: Funny enough? No, When I sing, I sing completely normal,

19:45 Speaker 1: and when I talk on stage, this all goes away.

19:47 Speaker 1: And in fact, let me tell you so much that

19:49 Speaker 1: when I perform on stage, for some reason, the cloak disappears,

19:52 Speaker 1: and then I'm back into my plaid suits with my

19:54 Speaker 1: fun ties. I don't know what happens. It just seems

19:58 Speaker 1: to me that I only turn into a vampire and

20:02 Speaker 1: promotional appearances. Okay, I do not under quite understand what

20:06 Speaker 1: that is all about, but take that for what you will.

20:09 Speaker 7: But that saves your time on wardrobe changes, right, because

20:12 Speaker 7: if things disappear and disappear. You don't have to, like,

20:15 Speaker 7: you know, get into anything.

20:16 Speaker 1: It makes it for you. It makes for less confusion

20:18 Speaker 1: on stage for sure. I do not have to explain

20:21 Speaker 1: to the audience that no, we are not a ghost

20:23 Speaker 1: to rip off, we are not a ghost cover band,

20:25 Speaker 1: because they it just disappears as I appear on stage.

20:30 Speaker 1: So it works out very well. It's only in appearances

20:32 Speaker 1: like this with you, Matt Connorton, that I turn into

20:35 Speaker 1: a vampire. Wow, I can't explain, explain.

20:40 Speaker 7: Getting very I think I'm having a panic attack, to

20:44 Speaker 7: be honest with you. Maybe now's a good time to

20:45 Speaker 7: play a song. You want to play a song you.

20:47 Speaker 1: Love, to play you a song. And it's funny that

20:49 Speaker 1: you brought up the name of Sota, because I think

20:52 Speaker 1: that that would be a wonderful song for us to

20:54 Speaker 1: play for your audience today.

20:56 Speaker 7: Oh, okay, okay, wonderful. Let's see. So we've got that

21:00 Speaker 7: guitar plugged in. Let's see if I got a level

21:02 Speaker 7: on that. Oh that sounds nice. Guitar sounds great and killy.

21:10 Speaker 7: And do you sing also or do you do you

21:12 Speaker 7: only play?

21:13 Speaker 9: I do some background vocals in some of our songs. Okay,

21:17 Speaker 9: and I sing outside of it.

21:18 Speaker 7: But oh, excellent, excellent. Well I think this is uh.

21:22 Speaker 7: I think we're ready dying to hear you. I don't mean,

21:25 Speaker 7: I didn't mean to put it that way. I'm eager

21:27 Speaker 7: to hear you.

21:28 Speaker 1: Guys. I'm dying.

21:30 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, No, I'm not dying too, but we're dying right. No,

21:34 Speaker 7: Well you're you're dead or you're undead. I don't know.

21:37 Speaker 7: I don't know how this works.

21:38 Speaker 1: It's okay, you neither do I yeah.

21:40 Speaker 7: Okay, well this is new to you. Very good. So yeah, guys,

21:44 Speaker 7: I'm I'm anxious to hear you play live all right.

21:47 Speaker 1: Let we'll drop the voice and we will play you

21:49 Speaker 1: a song. This is a song called Sota by a

21:52 Speaker 1: band called Sota.

21:53 Speaker 11: All Right, A weblize can be hard to keep track of.

22:11 Speaker 1: You're in your head and you spending your fortune.

22:14 Speaker 12: It's not enough to know you've got them mal tricked.

22:17 Speaker 12: You're tangled up, ben It makes them so sick. One

22:21 Speaker 12: step and you've lost your footing and now you don't

22:25 Speaker 12: even know who you're hurting. It could be them, it

22:28 Speaker 12: could be you. What does your heart tell you to do?

22:33 Speaker 12: Your poison the water, poison the water.

22:37 Speaker 1: But I'll be by Hide.

22:40 Speaker 13: You poison the water, poison no water. I'll be Bhide.

23:00 Speaker 13: I don't care what you've done to me. I'm just somad.

23:03 Speaker 13: You heard my family leave, and I don't care.

23:07 Speaker 12: If the love was true, I know I've done now

23:10 Speaker 12: like a dude looking back, the water was clean.

23:19 Speaker 7: It all makes sense.

23:20 Speaker 1: Why you deserve and now it's turned the deep.

23:27 Speaker 12: Biz red so red.

23:32 Speaker 2: Da la la.

23:38 Speaker 1: Poison the water, poison the water. I'll be fahine. You

23:44 Speaker 1: poison the water, poison the water.

23:48 Speaker 7: It was just not my hid.

23:51 Speaker 14: You poison the water, poison the water. Robby by Hinde,

23:57 Speaker 14: you poison no water. Boy in the water, She's not

24:02 Speaker 14: my bike. You're poison the water again. You're poison no water.

24:14 Speaker 3: My band.

24:16 Speaker 8: W whoa whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.

24:30 Speaker 1: You poison no water, poison the water.

24:35 Speaker 13: Ibbi fa hide, you poison no water, poison no water.

24:42 Speaker 1: Now you're not my hide.

24:48 Speaker 7: Hmmm, sounding great. Soda is here with us alive in

24:51 Speaker 7: studio and great job, guys. That sounded amazing, Thank you

24:55 Speaker 7: so much.

24:56 Speaker 1: Alive and I'm dead at the same time.

24:59 Speaker 7: Yes, I didn't even think of that as I was

25:01 Speaker 7: saying it. Forgive me if I seemed distracted. I was

25:05 Speaker 7: rummaging through my bag, see if I had like an

25:07 Speaker 7: old crucifix in there or something. I thought, I don't

25:10 Speaker 7: get that out of the beer. Well, I'm sorry, I just,

25:12 Speaker 7: you know.

25:12 Speaker 1: Just don't even speak the name of the cruciber Well, sorry,

25:16 Speaker 1: none of that talk.

25:17 Speaker 7: I didn't know, you know, I just, uh, you know.

25:19 Speaker 7: I mean, hopefully you guys can control yourselves. I mean,

25:22 Speaker 7: you know, you're.

25:23 Speaker 1: Trying our best. We are up very late, we are tired,

25:26 Speaker 1: we are getting famished. We'll see if you survive by

25:29 Speaker 1: the end of the scene.

25:31 Speaker 7: So, so, vampires do get tired, so I wasn't trying that.

25:33 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean we we are undead, but we

25:36 Speaker 1: are not that different from humans. Yes, we drink blood.

25:38 Speaker 1: Yes we do not like garlic. But we get tired, right, Killy,

25:42 Speaker 1: and tell them about that time that one time you

25:44 Speaker 1: got so tired you beat the head off of a cow.

25:48 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, tell us about that, Killy, And I am curious.

25:51 Speaker 9: I pulled an all nighter, as vampires do. Yeah, and

25:56 Speaker 9: I was in the morning. We were tired, and the

25:59 Speaker 9: only thing that was around me it was a cow. Yeah,

26:02 Speaker 9: And you know, the end of the story, right, is.

26:05 Speaker 7: That an empire thing or is this just something you

26:07 Speaker 7: do while you're in Maine?

26:08 Speaker 1: Well, we do. I think the mainers they do like

26:11 Speaker 1: cow tipping. We do it a little differently. But I

26:15 Speaker 1: don't know that we want to talk about that on

26:17 Speaker 1: air because it is a little graphic.

26:19 Speaker 7: It sounds grizzly.

26:20 Speaker 1: It is grizzly, that is for certain.

26:24 Speaker 7: Yes, yes, wow, well, very exciting, very exciting. Now are

26:27 Speaker 7: you guys playing a lot of shows? Have you been

26:29 Speaker 7: touring or what's the situation there?

26:31 Speaker 1: We have been quite busy. We have been playing about

26:34 Speaker 1: a show locally per month the past six months.

26:37 Speaker 7: Oh.

26:38 Speaker 1: With the excitement of the release of our song Sunrise,

26:42 Speaker 1: we decided to take a step back. We did not

26:45 Speaker 1: do a show in the month of June. However, we

26:48 Speaker 1: are doing a very exciting release party for the single

26:52 Speaker 1: next month at the Shascine in Chester, New Hampshire.

26:55 Speaker 7: Oh.

26:55 Speaker 1: It is dubbed cute fun Music for cute fun people.

26:59 Speaker 3: Oh.

27:00 Speaker 1: We have got a mix of hardcore punk bands, metal

27:03 Speaker 1: bands us. It is going to be a cute fun

27:06 Speaker 1: time and we are very excited.

27:09 Speaker 7: Oh, very good. What's the that's in July?

27:12 Speaker 1: It is Thursday, July seventeenth. There's five dollars at the door,

27:17 Speaker 1: and so for a cheap time. It is a cheap

27:20 Speaker 1: time and you can have a cheap date with us, Sota,

27:22 Speaker 1: and I promise you we will try not to scare

27:25 Speaker 1: you because I do think, like I said, we probably

27:28 Speaker 1: will not be donned in this attire at that point.

27:31 Speaker 7: Okay, okay, yeah, I don't know if like you need

27:34 Speaker 7: like special zoning for that.

27:36 Speaker 1: If you're the Irish pubs, they do not take kindly

27:40 Speaker 1: to vampires. I'll tell you what. There is a for

27:43 Speaker 1: some reason, a very large Catholic presence in the Irish pubs.

27:46 Speaker 7: Oh see.

27:48 Speaker 1: We try to, you know, subvert that and we try

27:50 Speaker 1: to sneak in and blend in with the crowd.

27:53 Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I completely understand. Now who else is on

27:56 Speaker 7: the show with you? Do you recall off in?

27:58 Speaker 1: Yes, we have Bastard Curse trading tombstones.

28:03 Speaker 7: I love that.

28:04 Speaker 1: Yes they are phenomenal. Yes, and Paint the Town Dead,

28:08 Speaker 1: so it goes very well under dead theme. But like

28:13 Speaker 1: I said, it is all cute fun music.

28:15 Speaker 7: Yes, yes, Paint the Town Dead. That's a cool name.

28:17 Speaker 1: Yes, they're actually they were a band that was formed

28:20 Speaker 1: twenty years ago in our hometown of Londonderry, New Hampshire,

28:23 Speaker 1: and they broke up twenty years ago and for the

28:26 Speaker 1: first time ever, they are actually playing tonight in Londonderry

28:29 Speaker 1: in New Hampshire and they're coming back next month to

28:32 Speaker 1: play with us. Oh, we're very excited. It's the reunion

28:35 Speaker 1: of Paint the Town.

28:37 Speaker 7: Wow after twenty years. The twenty years, that's amazing. Yes,

28:41 Speaker 7: that is amazing. Now do you want to talk it

28:45 Speaker 7: all about what else you've been doing outside of soda?

28:48 Speaker 1: Oh? Sure, sure, yes. My last year was very busy.

28:53 Speaker 1: Before I had gotten turned into a vampire. I was

28:56 Speaker 1: on tour with The Defiant, which is a supergroup of

29:00 Speaker 1: the phenomenal punk musicians. It is Dicky Barrett of the

29:03 Speaker 1: Mighty Mighty Ballstones. We have Greg Camp of smash Mouth,

29:07 Speaker 1: Pete Parratta formerly of The Offspring, Joey Laraka from The Briggs,

29:12 Speaker 1: and did I mention Johnny Rio of Street Dogs Yet?

29:16 Speaker 1: Johnny Rio of Street Dogs a wonderful, really cool punk band.

29:21 Speaker 1: We did a tour last year with me first in

29:23 Speaker 1: the Gimmy gimmeis Oh Okay. In this past December, we

29:25 Speaker 1: went out on a West Coast tour with Social Distortion,

29:29 Speaker 1: and I don't do much for the band. I made

29:32 Speaker 1: some of their music videos, I am their merch guy.

29:35 Speaker 1: I helped them roadying, so it's not like I'm front

29:38 Speaker 1: and center. But I do enjoys my time with the Defiant.

29:42 Speaker 1: They treat me well and it is very fun being

29:45 Speaker 1: in the professional world of music on the road.

29:48 Speaker 7: Yes, that's exciting. Are you. Are you concerned at all

29:51 Speaker 7: like when you when you go out on the road

29:53 Speaker 7: with them in the future, like if you because obviously

29:57 Speaker 7: in terms of in your new forum, I mean what

30:00 Speaker 7: you like what you can eat on the road changes, right.

30:02 Speaker 1: Like you can't have pizza quite often. But I am

30:05 Speaker 1: hoping to find some sort of cure by the end

30:08 Speaker 1: of this promotional cycle of Sunrise. I'm really hoping that

30:12 Speaker 1: that can turn back into my human form.

30:14 Speaker 7: Yeah, because otherwise you'll be out on the road and

30:16 Speaker 7: you'll have to like go, like when everyone else is

30:18 Speaker 7: eating at a restaurant, you go into the woods or something.

30:20 Speaker 1: Try it won't work. It just won't work. So I

30:22 Speaker 1: am really hoping that by some stroke of luck, by

30:25 Speaker 1: the end of the rollout of Sunrise, I will no

30:27 Speaker 1: longer be it won't work for our band. I got

30:29 Speaker 1: to tell you, we have songs that being a vampire,

30:31 Speaker 1: it just it just does not make sense.

30:33 Speaker 5: Yeah.

30:33 Speaker 1: So I am hoping that we can find some sort

30:36 Speaker 1: of remedy for this disease that we have been inflicted you.

30:40 Speaker 7: Oh my goodness, Now what about you, Killian? Did you

30:42 Speaker 7: intend to also seek a cure it? It seems to

30:46 Speaker 7: have affected you quite differently, and by that I mean

30:48 Speaker 7: very little.

30:50 Speaker 9: Yeah, have you it affects me obviously? Obviously I have

30:54 Speaker 9: to stay away from the sun, but yeah I don't.

30:56 Speaker 9: It doesn't affect what I wear or definitely not my voice. Yeah,

31:01 Speaker 9: I would like got the higher strain of it.

31:03 Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, well that can happen.

31:05 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, he doesn't know.

31:07 Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, I mean that can happen. Yeah yeah. So yeah,

31:11 Speaker 7: so so I didn't know that you could even cure this.

31:15 Speaker 7: I didn't think it was like I thought it was

31:16 Speaker 7: like a permanent thing, like once you're a vampire, it's

31:18 Speaker 7: like eternal, right, because don't you live forever?

31:20 Speaker 1: That that that's what they say. But I did hear

31:23 Speaker 1: that from a marketing standpoint, that it does not look

31:26 Speaker 1: too good to be a vampire and a band, especially

31:29 Speaker 1: when you're in a SKA band. So from a marketing standpoint,

31:33 Speaker 1: I'm really hoping that there.

31:34 Speaker 7: Is a yes, yes, Well, I hope you can find something.

31:37 Speaker 7: I mean, you know, the medical technology today is remarkable,

31:39 Speaker 7: it's incredible.

31:40 Speaker 1: I got to tell you some of these doctors that

31:42 Speaker 1: we had back in the eighteen hundreds, they did not

31:44 Speaker 1: do it. But nowadays it is not much better, but

31:47 Speaker 1: it is eighties somewhat better.

31:49 Speaker 7: I just thought of something. Doesn't what about what Keith

31:51 Speaker 7: Richards does, because doesn't he have like a full Maybe

31:55 Speaker 7: this is urban legend, but I've I've heard that he

31:57 Speaker 7: has like a full blood transfusion.

32:00 Speaker 1: He did do a blood transfusion, and we do our

32:02 Speaker 1: morning blood transfusions. It helps us very well, you know,

32:06 Speaker 1: we get the blood of our neighbors and whoever else

32:09 Speaker 1: is in the area.

32:09 Speaker 7: No, I understand, But by transfusion, I don't mean like

32:12 Speaker 7: you know, when you have to feed, I mean like

32:14 Speaker 7: an actual like you know, take all the blood output,

32:16 Speaker 7: new blood in, or however it works.

32:18 Speaker 1: I think I might want to go and have a

32:20 Speaker 1: blood transfusion. Shortly after this interview wraps up, Matt Connort.

32:23 Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what I meant doesn't mean click no, no, no,

32:26 Speaker 7: I meant like a medical procedure.

32:27 Speaker 1: You know, I don't know it's extrectly medical here.

32:30 Speaker 7: I don't you know. I mean there's look. I mean

32:32 Speaker 7: we can't. We can't stay in the studio here with blood.

32:36 Speaker 7: I'll get in trouble.

32:36 Speaker 1: I know these white walls, but I so noticed up

32:39 Speaker 1: on the walls you have these soundproof boards and they

32:41 Speaker 1: are red. So I might take a couple of those.

32:43 Speaker 1: I mean, we do have red carpets, so it might

32:46 Speaker 1: not be as bad as you think. Matt Connor, I can.

32:48 Speaker 7: I mean, I can recommend somewhere you can go to, uh,

32:51 Speaker 7: you know feed.

32:54 Speaker 1: Will you be there?

32:55 Speaker 7: No? I mean, well, we have you know, woods, and

32:58 Speaker 7: I'm sure there's wildlife and maybe an elk or something.

33:01 Speaker 1: We're in the middle of Manchester. This is a city.

33:03 Speaker 1: I don't I don't. I don't know about that. I

33:05 Speaker 1: think I'm I'm getting hungry and I want to feed soon. Well,

33:08 Speaker 1: I don't want to go on the trip into the woods.

33:10 Speaker 7: Well, this is very worrisome. Would you guys like to

33:12 Speaker 7: play another song? Maybe maybe you can, maybe you can

33:15 Speaker 7: say siate yes, maybe maybe calm me down. Perhaps yes, we'd.

33:20 Speaker 1: Like to perform a song for you. This is a

33:22 Speaker 1: cover by a band Ghost. Everyone has been telling us

33:24 Speaker 1: lately we remind me, we remind them of Ghost. I

33:29 Speaker 1: do not understand the comparison. I really do not. Some

33:33 Speaker 1: say that this is a gimmick. I say, this is

33:35 Speaker 1: just life. But we are going to play a song.

33:38 Speaker 1: This is a song about depression. It fits very well

33:41 Speaker 1: with the darkness of sunrise. This is a song called

33:44 Speaker 1: if you have Ghosts, all right, you have got.

33:57 Speaker 12: You have everything. If you have gold, you have everything.

34:08 Speaker 12: You can say anything you want, and you can do

34:13 Speaker 12: anything you want to do. If you have gold, you

34:18 Speaker 12: have everything. One never does that. One never does that.

34:36 Speaker 12: You can call it surprise. There it is, and a

34:40 Speaker 12: part of me is me. One never does that.

34:51 Speaker 7: In the night I am real.

34:58 Speaker 1: In the ninet I am read.

35:04 Speaker 12: The moons of the Left is a part of my thoughts,

35:07 Speaker 12: and a part of me is me. Forever is the.

35:11 Speaker 2: Wind in the night I am read.

35:29 Speaker 1: Now this next part I will talk about my vampire equalities.

35:33 Speaker 11: I will talk a little bit about the physical assets.

35:36 Speaker 1: Of being a vampire.

35:38 Speaker 11: And it goes something a little like this.

35:47 Speaker 15: Out of one my thanks too long, that of one

35:55 Speaker 15: man thanks to long.

36:00 Speaker 12: The Boots of the Left is a part of my

36:03 Speaker 12: thoughts and a part of me is me forever is

36:07 Speaker 12: the wind in the nine I am read.

36:13 Speaker 3: If you have.

36:14 Speaker 12: Gold, you have everything. If you have gold, you have everything.

36:27 Speaker 3: If you have.

36:28 Speaker 12: Gold a load, you have everything. If you have gold

36:36 Speaker 12: load you have everything.

36:58 Speaker 7: Oh my god, that was so good. Good job, guys,

37:02 Speaker 7: love it. I love it. If you're just joining us,

37:04 Speaker 7: we have a soda here in studio with us. Casey

37:07 Speaker 7: and Killian are here live and sounded amazing. By the way,

37:13 Speaker 7: So uh, where does uh? Where do you guys record?

37:16 Speaker 4: Like?

37:16 Speaker 7: Like where were Sunrise recorded?

37:18 Speaker 1: So we took a different approach this time. We used

37:21 Speaker 1: to record a Black Black Heart sound in Manchester, New Hampshire.

37:25 Speaker 1: He was a very good what we did there. We

37:28 Speaker 1: wanted a very local approach. When we used to record

37:31 Speaker 1: our music, we went for a very nice, homegrown, very

37:34 Speaker 1: diy approach. But with this single cycle and with the

37:40 Speaker 1: new songs that we are recording, I really wanted to

37:43 Speaker 1: step outside of my comfort zone. So for the first

37:46 Speaker 1: time ever in my entire musical career, we worked with

37:51 Speaker 1: a producer and we worked with the producer Kevin Billingsley.

37:54 Speaker 1: He's a wonderful, wonderful producer who's up in Maine. And

37:58 Speaker 1: you see he has recorded many bands like Major Moment.

38:02 Speaker 1: He has worked with bands, he has understudied for Avenge Sevenfold,

38:07 Speaker 1: just incredible bands. Troll is another band their local. Yes, yes,

38:14 Speaker 1: Kevin Billingsley does some of their music as well. Wonderful,

38:17 Speaker 1: wonderful bands. And I said, I've been wanting to work

38:19 Speaker 1: with this man for many, many years. So we went

38:23 Speaker 1: up to the Halo Studio just north of Portland, Maine,

38:26 Speaker 1: and we recorded with him, and it was a wonderful experience.

38:29 Speaker 1: It changed my mindset on what musical recording could be

38:33 Speaker 1: and songwriting could be. He really pushed us to our limits.

38:37 Speaker 1: He got the best out of us, and he put

38:40 Speaker 1: together just a beautiful sounding product. I have to say

38:44 Speaker 1: I am for the first time ever in my musical career,

38:47 Speaker 1: I am just so excited with how the music sounds.

38:51 Speaker 1: I listened to it, and I don't go back and say,

38:53 Speaker 1: oh I wish I did something like this, No, it is.

38:56 Speaker 1: He just he got perfection out of us and I

38:58 Speaker 1: am so so excited to have worked with him. He's wonderful.

39:02 Speaker 7: Oh very good do you plan to work with him again.

39:05 Speaker 1: Oh by far By Killian who talk a little bit

39:08 Speaker 1: about your experience with Kevin. Tell tell us how did

39:11 Speaker 1: you feel about Kevin?

39:13 Speaker 9: He was amazing, Like this was my first time, like uh, well,

39:16 Speaker 9: this is my first time recording with Soda and it

39:18 Speaker 9: was just like right off the gun, like he was

39:21 Speaker 9: he's so so nice. He helped us, like, uh, he

39:25 Speaker 9: gave us things we could change about our songs, and

39:28 Speaker 9: he just like the production value was just so surreal

39:31 Speaker 9: and yeah, and he was just so so good.

39:33 Speaker 1: To work with. He was very friendly the whole time.

39:35 Speaker 9: It wasn't like we're like it wasn't like a producer

39:38 Speaker 9: that like makes you stressed out, like oh you have

39:40 Speaker 9: to do this, like right, he was like, oh, here's

39:42 Speaker 9: how we can change this. And like if if we

39:44 Speaker 9: were struggling, like recording something or like we're struggling getting

39:48 Speaker 9: apart down, he like worked.

39:49 Speaker 1: Through it with us and like, yeah, just very very

39:51 Speaker 1: he never got frustrated. That's right. He brought the best

39:54 Speaker 1: qualities out of you, and he he did it in

39:58 Speaker 1: a way where he knew that you could do something

40:01 Speaker 1: musically or and he never put you down if it

40:03 Speaker 1: was difficult for you to get there. He walked you

40:07 Speaker 1: along the way, and he did it in such a

40:08 Speaker 1: kind Yes, you're right. It was just a wonderful experience

40:12 Speaker 1: to have him change your mind and approach it in

40:17 Speaker 1: a way that you never felt like you were a

40:18 Speaker 1: bad musician for not coming up with this idea first.

40:20 Speaker 1: He was like, this is how he can enhance your idea. Yeah,

40:23 Speaker 1: he did a wonderful job.

40:25 Speaker 7: I feel like a good producer kind of becomes like

40:28 Speaker 7: an extra member of the band.

40:29 Speaker 1: It's very true. Look at the Beatles, they had their

40:31 Speaker 1: fifth Beatle. Yes, it was their producer, and because of him,

40:35 Speaker 1: they put out a great quality work. And I think

40:37 Speaker 1: that Kevin has been our fifth and half. I say

40:42 Speaker 1: half because we have a half member in our band.

40:45 Speaker 1: He was severed in two, so that is why he

40:47 Speaker 1: is half. He plays the piano for us in Souta.

40:50 Speaker 7: Was that also in Maine?

40:51 Speaker 1: That that did happen in Maine? Yes, yes, he did

40:54 Speaker 1: not want to become a vampire. He's not in the

40:56 Speaker 1: music video because of which, so we decided to eat

40:58 Speaker 1: his lower half. So, yes, he plays the piano at

41:03 Speaker 1: about half of our shows.

41:04 Speaker 7: Okay, yes, yeah, I see so.

41:06 Speaker 1: That's why I say that Kevin was our fit and

41:08 Speaker 1: a half member of Sota for this recording.

41:11 Speaker 7: Yes, well that makes sense. So did you intend to

41:14 Speaker 7: record with him again?

41:15 Speaker 1: Almost definitely. Yes, yes, we actually we have three more

41:19 Speaker 1: songs that we are going to release over the course

41:21 Speaker 1: of the next year. But h do I have songs brewing.

41:26 Speaker 1: I have many songs that we are going to go

41:28 Speaker 1: back and record, and I'm very excited to do So.

41:31 Speaker 1: What's the name of the studio again, it's the Halo

41:33 Speaker 1: Studio Halo. Yes.

41:35 Speaker 7: Are you able to in your current form or forms

41:38 Speaker 7: because you've both technically, I mean, are you able to

41:41 Speaker 7: go to a place called with Halo and the name?

41:43 Speaker 1: Well, i'll tell you what. The whole vampire thing it

41:46 Speaker 1: happened the day after we finished recording up in Maine.

41:49 Speaker 7: It was.

41:49 Speaker 1: Yes, it was very fortuitous that we did not go

41:52 Speaker 1: into the Halo as vampires, because I don't think we

41:54 Speaker 1: would have made it through the night.

41:56 Speaker 7: Yeah.

41:57 Speaker 1: Yes, But again, as I said, I'm hoping by the

41:59 Speaker 1: end of this release schedule for Sunrise that I will

42:03 Speaker 1: no longer be a vampire and I can go back

42:05 Speaker 1: into the Halo Studio.

42:07 Speaker 7: Yes, yes, Oh, excellent, well, we'll, we'll, we'll hope for that.

42:11 Speaker 7: Do you have any plans to do a new EP

42:13 Speaker 7: or an album? I know this is a standalone single,

42:16 Speaker 7: What's What's because of so many different ways, so many

42:18 Speaker 7: different approaches you can take to release in music.

42:20 Speaker 1: I do have an album in my sights. It is

42:24 Speaker 1: a matter of finalizing some of the songs. When I

42:28 Speaker 1: make a musical project, I like to have cohesion with it.

42:31 Speaker 1: I like to have a cohesiveness, and like I said,

42:35 Speaker 1: these songs did not necessarily have a cohesiveness quality to them.

42:39 Speaker 1: But I do have an album that I have been

42:40 Speaker 1: writing and it will We'll talk more about it in time.

42:44 Speaker 1: But it is a record about time. It's about life,

42:47 Speaker 1: It's about fleeting time. And I have many songs that

42:50 Speaker 1: I have written, life and death and wanting to cheat death,

42:53 Speaker 1: wanting to escape death, but coming to reality that sometimes

42:57 Speaker 1: you cannot cheat death. So that is on the horizon.

43:00 Speaker 1: I have a handful of songs that the next time

43:03 Speaker 1: we go to Kevin it will be a full EP

43:06 Speaker 1: LP LP my Own Mistake. It will be on SODA's

43:09 Speaker 1: First LP.

43:10 Speaker 7: Oh very good, very good. Yes, Now, do either of

43:13 Speaker 7: you have any other projects that you're also involved in

43:16 Speaker 7: or is it h Soda exclusively or Killian.

43:20 Speaker 1: He plays a lot of music, from from theaters to

43:23 Speaker 1: other bands. Tell him what you do.

43:25 Speaker 9: I have a lot of other music outlets I play.

43:28 Speaker 9: I played drums in another smaller SKA band.

43:33 Speaker 1: I do.

43:33 Speaker 9: Yeah, I do pits for a bunch of music halls

43:35 Speaker 9: here and there.

43:36 Speaker 7: Oh wow, so cool.

43:38 Speaker 1: He recently did Swingey Todd so it worked very well

43:41 Speaker 1: being a vampire in that in that setting.

43:43 Speaker 7: Oh that makes sense. Yes, yes, wow, very cool. Now

43:46 Speaker 7: what's the other band?

43:47 Speaker 9: It's called hand Me Down. So they're out of Southern

43:50 Speaker 9: New Hampshire, Dairy London, Dairy Manchester.

43:52 Speaker 7: Okay, okay, very cool, very cool. And if you guys know,

43:56 Speaker 7: so you guys are brothers, how how long have you

43:58 Speaker 7: been making music together? A long time?

43:59 Speaker 1: Right, Well, we have been playing together for a number

44:04 Speaker 1: of years now. In Sota, I exclusively write the music

44:09 Speaker 1: and I give it to the rest of my band

44:11 Speaker 1: members and I tell them take this as a palette

44:14 Speaker 1: and do what you want with it. And I try

44:16 Speaker 1: to let them have the freedom to kind of embellish

44:20 Speaker 1: their parts the way that they would want to play them.

44:23 Speaker 1: So Killian and I don't necessarily write together, but we

44:26 Speaker 1: have been performing together for since very early on in

44:30 Speaker 1: the band. I would say this probably four years now.

44:33 Speaker 1: We've been playing with Sota together.

44:35 Speaker 7: Oh okay, yes, okay, and Killian. Are you on all

44:38 Speaker 7: the Soda tracks that have been released so far?

44:40 Speaker 9: I'm not so. The Sunrise that just came out. That

44:43 Speaker 9: is my first song that I'm.

44:45 Speaker 7: Oh, well, that's the first one. Okay. Cool.

44:48 Speaker 1: For the early Sota material, I really wanted it to be.

44:52 Speaker 1: I wanted to take a Dave Grohl approach where I

44:54 Speaker 1: did as many of the instruments as possible, So I

44:57 Speaker 1: played bass on the first the are six songs that

45:01 Speaker 1: we ever released, it was me, and then I outsourced

45:04 Speaker 1: the drumming elsewhere because I cannot do drums, so we

45:07 Speaker 1: had others do that.

45:09 Speaker 7: Yeah, yes, okay, okay, but a Chillian, you'll be on

45:12 Speaker 7: everything going forward, I assume, right, yes, oh very nice.

45:15 Speaker 1: I changed my mentality and I want to make sure

45:18 Speaker 1: that all of my band members are featured equally because

45:23 Speaker 1: I have accrued a very good ensemble of phenomenally talented

45:28 Speaker 1: musicians and I want them to have their moments.

45:31 Speaker 7: Yes, well, I'm not necessarily equally right, because you have

45:33 Speaker 7: one guy who's been several.

45:34 Speaker 1: He is half he is in half, so he you know,

45:36 Speaker 1: he gets half of the rest of everyone else.

45:39 Speaker 7: But yeah, yeah, no that makes sense, that makes sense. Yeah, absolutely,

45:43 Speaker 7: very good, very good. So the next show, so you've

45:46 Speaker 7: got the official release in July at Chaskey and I

45:49 Speaker 7: forget the day.

45:50 Speaker 1: Yes, it's Thursday, July seventeenth.

45:52 Speaker 7: Seventeen, okay, with trading tombstones, whom I love. I think

45:56 Speaker 7: we've had them on the show.

45:57 Speaker 1: Yes, I believe you have.

45:59 Speaker 7: We must have.

45:59 Speaker 1: Yes, I think I tuned into that one.

46:01 Speaker 7: Okay, yes, it becomes a blur.

46:03 Speaker 1: Oh, I understand, although.

46:04 Speaker 7: I shall not forget this one ever.

46:07 Speaker 1: Well, you might not live to tell the tale.

46:10 Speaker 3: I know.

46:11 Speaker 7: I recommended that there's there's neighborhoods I can send you to.

46:14 Speaker 7: Don't worry. What are your fresh meat for you to.

46:17 Speaker 1: Be skirting around the issue out there?

46:18 Speaker 8: Oh?

46:19 Speaker 7: I you know? I?

46:21 Speaker 9: Uh?

46:22 Speaker 1: Who else?

46:23 Speaker 7: Oh? Uh?

46:24 Speaker 1: What was the other one?

46:25 Speaker 7: The band that was apart for twenty years?

46:28 Speaker 1: Yeah, painted the Town Dead?

46:31 Speaker 7: The Town Dead? Yes? And uh there was one other band,

46:35 Speaker 7: right or was there?

46:35 Speaker 1: Yes, Bastard Curse, Oh yes, yes, we really pick him

46:39 Speaker 1: out don't we.

46:40 Speaker 7: Yes, that sounds like a great show.

46:42 Speaker 1: It's very doomy and gloomy.

46:44 Speaker 7: That'll be at the shaky Yeah, yes, and then you

46:47 Speaker 7: have anything planned beyond that or.

46:49 Speaker 1: Well, our drummer he is getting married very soon. He's

46:52 Speaker 1: getting married, so we are kind of I think we

46:55 Speaker 1: are going to go back into into the shadows for

46:58 Speaker 1: a little bit. And he, you know, he's doing some

47:01 Speaker 1: life changing things, even more so than becoming a vampire.

47:05 Speaker 1: So so being married is a big committement. So we

47:09 Speaker 1: will probably take some time off, but we have more

47:12 Speaker 1: music on the way, so we will supplement the time

47:15 Speaker 1: that we are not playing live shows with more music.

47:18 Speaker 1: In your ear.

47:19 Speaker 7: Waves, oh, very good, very good. What is your hearing?

47:24 Speaker 7: Does the hearing change at all when you're a vampire?

47:26 Speaker 7: I've I thought like vampires can hear like longer distances, right.

47:30 Speaker 1: I hear frequencies that no man should ever hear. I

47:34 Speaker 1: hear dog whistles. There's somebody to two towns over and

47:38 Speaker 1: they're using a dog whistle and it is grating on

47:42 Speaker 1: my nerves.

47:42 Speaker 7: Yes, yes, well, don't don't get to okay, Yeah, well,

47:47 Speaker 7: very good, So I think we should we should end

47:51 Speaker 7: with uh, we'll play uh, We'll play Sunrise again. Such

47:53 Speaker 7: a great track to close out for people who are

47:56 Speaker 7: just tuning in. But where should people go online to

47:58 Speaker 7: keep up with everything that you guys?

48:00 Speaker 1: Just anywhere you want to. We are on the facebooks,

48:03 Speaker 1: we are on the instagrams. We are on TikTok. I

48:07 Speaker 1: make a lot of tiktoks, and whether they're funny or not,

48:09 Speaker 1: that is for you to design. We're on Spotify YouTube.

48:13 Speaker 1: We have the music video. You if you're listening and

48:16 Speaker 1: you're not seeing the visuals, you will understand why I

48:19 Speaker 1: sound the way I sound. Yeah, watching our music video.

48:22 Speaker 1: It is on our YouTube anywhere. If you just look

48:25 Speaker 1: up Sota so O t Ah band, you'll probably find us.

48:30 Speaker 7: By the way, does your name ever get misspelled like

48:32 Speaker 7: on a flyer or something that.

48:34 Speaker 1: More often than not it gets mispronounced. People just don't understand.

48:37 Speaker 1: They don't understand. They say Sota and I say, no,

48:40 Speaker 1: it's just Sota. It's so you can there is no annunciation,

48:44 Speaker 1: just say you know. But then every now and then, yes,

48:47 Speaker 1: I'll say oh, we're a band called Soda and they'll

48:48 Speaker 1: go s O d A and I go, no, it

48:50 Speaker 1: is not so o da, Why would I name my

48:51 Speaker 1: band soda?

48:53 Speaker 7: Right right?

48:54 Speaker 1: I get the confusion. I get it.

48:55 Speaker 7: No, no, yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense. Well, guys,

48:58 Speaker 7: thank you. This has been wonderful and we will play

49:00 Speaker 7: that again in just a moment. And if you miss

49:02 Speaker 7: any part of today's show, it'll be up in just

49:04 Speaker 7: a little bit at w mnhradio dot org at my

49:06 Speaker 7: website Matt Connorton dot com. If I'm not here next week,

49:10 Speaker 7: or Jenny, if I don't come home today, it's because

49:12 Speaker 7: I've been eating or turned a new vampire or something.

49:15 Speaker 7: But you guys want to do that to me?

49:17 Speaker 1: Would you? The verdict is not out yet.

49:20 Speaker 7: I just realized something. You can't do that to me.

49:23 Speaker 7: You know why? Because I have to upload the show.

49:26 Speaker 1: Oh no, we need our we need our content. Killian

49:29 Speaker 1: for the Instagram. Ah, you got us there, Matt, I.

49:34 Speaker 7: Got you there. Aha. Very good. Well, I feel much better.

49:39 Speaker 7: Jenny will be back next week. Go to her website

49:42 Speaker 7: Jencoffee dot com to keep up with everything that she's doing.

49:44 Speaker 7: Very proud of her doing great stuff. And thank you

49:47 Speaker 7: again to Rachel Molein for joining us in the first hour,

49:51 Speaker 7: and again Casey and Killian, thank you so much.

49:55 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having us. This has been wonderful.

49:57 Speaker 1: It's been something that I have loved sink my teeth into.

50:01 Speaker 7: Yeah, well well said, well said, And uh here it

50:05 Speaker 7: is again. If you miss it. This is the World

50:06 Speaker 7: radio premiere today. This is Sunrise and the band is Soda.

50:11 Speaker 1: You are listening to Taluminate World Premiere.

50:41 Speaker 3: They say the wings of change.

50:46 Speaker 12: Up here after they set five.

50:55 Speaker 3: Where the sunlight lies.

50:59 Speaker 16: No matter how they bought to you, don't never let

51:05 Speaker 16: it bother you. You stop doing the say.

51:13 Speaker 4: You will live a er day.

51:27 Speaker 3: Do you go frond u thing.

51:32 Speaker 5: But your suffering way.

51:37 Speaker 2: Sometimes it's hard to find.

51:42 Speaker 3: You will be subod I away get things of you,

51:50 Speaker 3: don't the self these things I.

51:52 Speaker 16: Do, I just can't it understand.

52:00 Speaker 3: Out to make a man.

52:02 Speaker 4: When the sunrise, sunrise, the floodlight, good life, so sick

52:12 Speaker 4: of that night dot night, bring up the sunlight sunlight.

52:33 Speaker 1: So honestly I know you watched it leave approaching in night.

52:46 Speaker 6: But still by love will stand no matter how my

52:51 Speaker 6: pain you feel.

52:54 Speaker 4: Don't never doubt that you are real. You're not the

53:00 Speaker 4: only one who's still searching all the sun. When will

53:07 Speaker 4: the sunrise sunrise and the bloodlight mood.

53:16 Speaker 1: So sick.

53:17 Speaker 16: No night dot night, bring.

53:21 Speaker 4: Up the sunlight sun? When will the sunrise sunrise? The

53:30 Speaker 4: bloodlight mod.

53:34 Speaker 3: So sick? Do night dot night.

53:39 Speaker 16: Bring up the sunlight sun?

54:33 Speaker 3: Want someone to.

54:35 Speaker 17: Trust mon Lately the world is dreads so unjust. They

54:39 Speaker 17: want us up when we blame it on each other.

54:42 Speaker 17: They destroyed our our families, all our sisters and our brothers,

54:45 Speaker 17: their posterity, individual league. It's quickly weakening our humanity.

54:51 Speaker 12: No mo unity the left for you with me, lander

54:55 Speaker 12: is braved where no monstree.

55:00 Speaker 2: I dude, I know it's not the tree.

55:06 Speaker 3: What you're telling me reality.

55:10 Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know what to do. It's hurt as

55:19 Speaker 2: me that it's part in you.

55:34 Speaker 3: It can make you feel so cold, so isolated like

55:38 Speaker 3: your runners.

55:39 Speaker 1: No, don't want to turn to so you're lying.

55:42 Speaker 12: In the gutters to sit up on the thrones by repeating.

55:45 Speaker 1: Against each other.

55:46 Speaker 2: Now the red of it just cause the spread of

55:48 Speaker 2: it you don't increase.

55:50 Speaker 1: So now you are the hereted.

55:51 Speaker 17: Can't if you don't command you know, the throb a

55:54 Speaker 17: bit so much nature.

55:56 Speaker 12: In mensi sa.

56:10 Speaker 1: Features preach out to us meet.

56:13 Speaker 13: We believe that every word they speak bread to his

56:17 Speaker 13: bilsers ross the heads of.

56:19 Speaker 6: Fris go out to account there that retrict into a

56:24 Speaker 6: world up peace.

56:25 Speaker 3: The guns keeps.

56:26 Speaker 17: Placing in the streets, the hundred districts in lockdown with

56:31 Speaker 17: children scattered on the ground.

56:34 Speaker 3: Fast summer from shot to take.

56:38 Speaker 12: From her by planter pain and spose gun fictions coupled.

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56:48 Speaker 4: The stross four comfort of folks, the cover of free digests.

56:55 Speaker 3: There's what acceptance to their test? You know it's not

56:59 Speaker 3: like lost you nye? Together we could read the fire

57:05 Speaker 3: to get up on your head the glass because the

57:08 Speaker 3: body reported.

57:09 Speaker 1: Together we start.

57:12 Speaker 3: See rid.

57:15 Speaker 2: And I know it's not the truth. What's telling me reality?

57:25 Speaker 3: See right? And I don't know what to do?

57:32 Speaker 2: That's hurting me that it is hurting you?

57:36 Speaker 1: A sight and I know it's not the truth.

57:44 Speaker 3: What's telling me reality? A scene right?

57:52 Speaker 2: And I don't know what to do.

57:56 Speaker 3: That's hurting me, that is hurting you.

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