Matt Connarton Unleashed 6-21-25 hour 1

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2:25 Speaker 7: That is called turn this Town around? That is Lydia Ready. And that is the American radio premiere of that track, brand new here on w MNH ninety five point three FM to open up this week's Matt connorton Unleashed Lydia Ready. We'll be on the show with us on July nineteenth. Can't wait for that. But thank you to our friends at Big GPR for sending us out such a great track and a wonderful way to open the show this week. And of course we've got an exciting show for you ahead. But first, I am not alone in the studio.

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3:04 Speaker 9: Bet, good morning sunshine.

3:07 Speaker 7: Jenny is here in the studio with us.

3:08 Speaker 9: I am present on account of four Yes, I'm.

3:11 Speaker 5: Looking for the babies.

3:12 Speaker 9: I can't see the falcon babies.

3:14 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, in the falcon cam. Yes.

3:16 Speaker 9: For all who do not know, you can go to YouTube and find the Falcon cam on top of the Brady Sullivan Building right here in the Queen City, and you can get to see them and it's really cool, especially when the babies are in the camera view.

3:27 Speaker 7: Well, today is of course Saturday, June twenty one, twenty twenty five. Welcome everybody. Matt Connorton Unleashed. And yeah, as I mentioned, that's the American radio premiere of Turn This Town Around by Lydia Ready, and we'll probably play that at the top of each hour today, so if you miss it, if you're just joining us, you'll get to hear it again. But of course we are live from the studios of wm n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Very very busy. Of course, fishes in town doing three nights at the Snooze Center.

3:56 Speaker 7: So lot's going on day away from Elm Street. Well, actual, we should well go there. No, we shouldn't say that, because there's a lot of there's a lot of commerce going on, a lot of vendors and everything, so we want to encourage that bravery.

4:07 Speaker 9: We walk down there, but don't try to drive your car.

4:09 Speaker 7: Down Very good for the city, good for the local economy, and of course if you're a fish fan, it's great for that too.

4:15 Speaker 9: And they're really filling like all of Elm Street with all kinds of vendors, Like, Oh, it's really that cool for the whole weekend. Yeah, the whole whole week I really loved that song. I can't wait till we have her on for an interview.

4:26 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, very catchy. Soon, very catchy. Let's see. So in just a few minutes we're gonna be talking to Moonlight Eclipse, the members of that band. They're from Ireland and they're going to be joining us to via Google Teams, which we've gotten used to using now because Skype is gone. But no looking forward to talking with them. We're gonna play one of their tracks in just a moment and then we'll we'll close out the interview with another one of their songs. But I love their sound and they're very very young, they're just starting out in their their careers as a band.

4:55 Speaker 9: So really all the way from Galway, Ireland.

4:58 Speaker 7: Yes, yes. On the second hour we have Murphy Clark, another great band. Uh, they're gonna be joining us in studio, and then in the third hour Aaron Billodo returns and Aaron Aaron's got to be in the five Timers club by now. He's been on the show a bunch of times over the last few years. Always amazing. He brings his bassin and his rig and plays live for us, and he's you know, as a bass player, I really appreciate what he does, especially because I'm a bass player myself. But I'm amazing. I can't do what he does, you know, I just kind of It's funny.

5:28 Speaker 7: You've probably noticed when he's here and he's playing, I'm just kind of watching his fingers the entire time. You know. He does a lot of that popping and slapping, and I can do a little bit of that, but not like he does. He's amazing. He's just enormously talented. So he's going to come in and play. Really really looking forward to that. So, so we got a lot going on today on the show. We should also mention to the event tomorrow, Yeah that you're going to be set up at.

5:53 Speaker 9: Yes, yes, yes, let me pull up the address real quick for everybody. I am a bad person and did not.

6:04 Speaker 7: Pull it up ahead of time.

6:05 Speaker 10: Yah.

6:06 Speaker 9: Well, actually, like so the Great North Ale works right here in the Queens City on Holt Avenue ten fifty Holt Avenue. They are having their own Fish weekend, so if you want to go check them out today, you can go down there and actually make your own tie dye if you love doing that. Oh but tomorrow they are having a big, like festival like event. There's gonna be lots of vendors there, music people just and amazing beers. They make incredible beers. They have an actual tide one. If you are going to the Fish concert, you can see great North Airworks beers on tap.

6:41 Speaker 9: And they also have a boot set up there as well, So come check it out, come say hi to meet and hi to Maddie. Tomorrow we're going to be there with some friends while they're vending.

6:53 Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, so that will be uh what are the times on that again?

6:57 Speaker 9: It's from noon to five okay, And I'm going to bring some my macromay fun yes, which will be fun. And then there's a friend of ours that is going to be there with her fabric art. She makes all kinds of incredible cool things. And every time they do something like this they always have incredible small business vendors in there that handcraft things that it just nothing is better than a handcrafted gift. I don't care what you get, but when somebody gets you something that somebody made with their own hands, it's just the best to me.

7:26 Speaker 9: So whether you're coming down here onto Elm Street and check it out the vendors there through the weekend, or you're coming to join us at the Great North Airworks on Hold af here in the Queen City, please come say hi and enjoy this wonderful tiede dyed fishy weekend.

7:42 Speaker 7: Very good, very good. I don't know about the fishy part. I don't need seafood.

7:47 Speaker 9: You don't know what's good for you. I love seafood, but this is different. Fishy is not an.

7:55 Speaker 7: Yes yes, yes, yeah, absolutely. Oh it's going to be very hot by the way too. There's a heat advisory, and you know it's funny. I was thinking, well, that's more for our local listeners, but then again, you know, because obviously we have a lot of people who listen all over the country online or even all over the world. I just heard from Sunset Radio in Ireland who are saying hello. But speaking of Ireland and our first guest today in just a moment from Ireland. But I guess this heat advisory is actually quite a bit of the country.

8:27 Speaker 7: So regardless of where you are listening in the United States online, there's an excellent chance that you are included in the heat advisory.

8:35 Speaker 9: Especially those here in New England were not necessarily used one hundred degree heats and with the humidity that will be coming in and it's gonna be hot, So keep yourself hydrated, keep yourself cooled, where some block. If you're outside, UV light is not so great for anybody's skin.

8:50 Speaker 7: Oh hello to w FRM Radio in Wolverton Hampton, UK. See I told you we had listeners all over the world. People don't People don't believe me, But I'm not just hot bands.

8:59 Speaker 9: We had from here. We've had German bands, We've had Australian bands, We've had British bands and of course Ireland, Ireland, Irish, I can't speak Irish bands. We've had bands from all around the globe and it's exciting every time we get them.

9:16 Speaker 7: Absolutely well, let's do this. I'm gonna go ahead and hit this track. This is from Moonlight Eclipse, great band from Ireland who is going to be joining us via Google Teams in just a moment. But check this out. I love their sound. This is called shattery knees and the band is a moonlight eclipse.

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10:11 Speaker 11: Nobody even bout there excited me. You want us all to listen now, but we are screaming at you speak.

10:23 Speaker 5: If something doesn't kill me by tomorrow, I'll get it.

10:27 Speaker 12: Got it right, jump.

10:31 Speaker 13: It's all my boots and still those and things don't miss me.

10:35 Speaker 11: Make a train gets me one morning time won't be long for less behind Sound Prequice makes me want to be the vibrations are getting to be.

10:57 Speaker 12: Sound preque makes me feel the rain.

11:00 Speaker 11: Sucking tide and no it's not a good sounds pretty qu makes me wondering.

11:09 Speaker 5: Sad in the serious ways.

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11:32 Speaker 5: It's a something too put something back. You start.

11:40 Speaker 11: If you keep bucket Bunny answers your finely for sure.

11:47 Speaker 5: But when you look you stopping does it's all.

11:55 Speaker 11: Sin something that makes jumping thing mage trade. It's me want a tide won't belong for less. Stop pray Let's makes me water.

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12:20 Speaker 12: Sound ray please make me build the rays in second time And no it's not a good sound. Prays makes me want to.

12:29 Speaker 5: Read percent I got it.

14:48 Speaker 7: Oh that is epic. I love it. That is Moonlight Eclipse and the track is called Shattering Knees. They are from Ireland and let's see we have them via Google teams Moonlight Eclipse. Can you hear me? Wonderful? Wonderful? Sometimes these international connections don't always don't always go, uh go as planned, so it's always a relief when, uh, when it works out. So I'm very happy that you're joining us this morning on Matt Connorton unleased, or at least it's morning there. I don't know what time it is here, but I have an email here, so I'm gonna try to this.

15:24 Speaker 7: This email very helpfully spells your names phonetically for me. So I'm gonna I'm gonna try these Irish names. Yeah, so I'm gonna I'm gonna try. Uh let's see, so and then you know what, I'll introduce you all and and then you can you can correct me afterward because I'll probably I'll probably screw these up anyway, but okay. So singer and guitarist Blaheen Hogan Uh Lucas Bradley lead guitarist, that one's easy. Uh if keeg bassist and owen keeg drummer, that one's easy. Okay? Did I did I get those even remotely correctly?

16:10 Speaker 3: Oh?

16:10 Speaker 7: Wow, wonderful, wonderful. That's a that's a relief. Okay. I do try to get everyone's names correctly. But so welcome. So, and you're all very young, right, ages sixteen to eighteen.

16:25 Speaker 7: I'm okay, gotcha. No, I marvel at that because your your sound is very mature, at least at least for what we're used to hearing in America. I've rarely heard a band as young as as you all are who can pull off the sophistication of of your songs. And and I love that track Shattering Knees. And then of course we're absolutely absolutely and we're gonna play the other one at the end of the interview. We'll play the other one that you sent us, which is also also really good. But now you all met in high school?

16:58 Speaker 7: Is that correct?

17:00 Speaker 4: Yeah?

17:00 Speaker 1: Exactly, or an Irish version.

17:03 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's called secondary.

17:04 Speaker 7: School here, but yeah, secondary school okay? And then so did this band actually start? Well, actually, so is one of you still in high school or secondary school and so actually.

17:15 Speaker 14: Two of those are yeah, two of us are, and then the two other guys they just finished their last.

17:21 Speaker 6: Year like just the other month.

17:23 Speaker 7: So yeah, outstanding. So starting this band, uh obviously with with some members still in school. I mean, how did this come about? How did how did the four of you come together to perform Moonlight Eclips?

17:36 Speaker 1: So we have this like this kind of it's called transition year.

17:40 Speaker 15: It's it's kind of just this year where you go on a bunch of trips and stuff and it's like it's like a break.

17:46 Speaker 1: It's kind of like a doss here break year in between the other.

17:48 Speaker 6: Years, just like figure out what you want to do.

17:50 Speaker 1: And me and Lucas the guitarist we were during that year.

17:55 Speaker 15: We wanted to do something because we were doing like basically nothing, So we said, we've I can start learning instruments and we try and start a band.

18:04 Speaker 1: So me and Lucas and then two other people.

18:07 Speaker 15: From that year started just like learning guitars and I started learning drums and stuff. We didn't think it was going to go anywhere, but like we just said we'd do it for the crack.

18:15 Speaker 1: For the fun.

18:16 Speaker 15: Yeah, And then so we did that for like one or two months and then the other two people kind of stopped they but then we met blocking.

18:27 Speaker 6: Yeah, because I'd been like playing a lot of music.

18:30 Speaker 14: I've played music for like two years for this Yeah, and we like me and if because I own our siblings, yeah, I mean because we're we're two years below owning Lucas and they would be practicing like with their a band in the music room.

18:44 Speaker 6: I mean, if we're just like chilling on the other side, the little sister and her best friend.

18:48 Speaker 4: Yeah.

18:49 Speaker 6: But it was like I always wanted to be in a band. That was like kind of my like dream.

18:54 Speaker 1: But then came up to me, yeah, oh yeah, my friends a singer. Do you want to do you want kid?

18:59 Speaker 15: She don't in the band because we're like, okay, yeah, we'll hear her. So then we heard her singing, I was like, oh wow, yeah, this could actually work.

19:07 Speaker 6: Yeah, so this I did until much later after that.

19:11 Speaker 1: Yeah, the social media yea. She joined because we needed a basically.

19:15 Speaker 6: The pace for the band, because.

19:18 Speaker 7: That's I kind of just like it just worked.

19:20 Speaker 1: We started practicing and we actually realized we're actually very.

19:23 Speaker 6: Good, so we were.

19:29 Speaker 9: Yeah.

19:29 Speaker 1: So then it kind of just kept growing and growing.

19:31 Speaker 7: You know, yeah, it almost it sounds like. I mean, my perception from what you're saying, tell me if I'm right, is that you you went into this with no particular expectations, right.

19:41 Speaker 14: And then our first single, I think it was two months we've been a band, had to play their instruments for two months, and basically my parents, because I play music pages, they got me like a little voucher for a recording studio.

19:56 Speaker 6: And just for Christmas, and I was like, well, guys, we need to a song and go.

20:05 Speaker 1: I remember hearing that first song. We played that song and I thought it was like the best.

20:12 Speaker 6: It's like it's like the simplest song. It has the five chords over and over again.

20:16 Speaker 1: You're like this, We're like, this song is absolutely amazing.

20:20 Speaker 10: You know.

20:20 Speaker 6: I remember you went into the bathroom to call you dad. I was like, oh my god, we just wrote a hitt. I was at the time.

20:28 Speaker 1: A few months later, listening back on it, it's not a great song.

20:34 Speaker 7: No, that's is remarkable how quickly it came together. And then of course here here you are. Now you're you're on American radio already.

20:42 Speaker 16: So.

20:45 Speaker 7: That so that's great. I'm curious too, about influences, partly because you know you're in Ireland and also too you're so young, Like who are who are some of of your And I'm sure among the four of you, you know, there's a variety of different influences. But I'm curious who you all listen to over there and who you're influenced by. Musically.

21:06 Speaker 6: Well, I'm not going to speak for the.

21:09 Speaker 14: Whole band, but for me, like, like I know, we played rock and it's definitely edging on the heavy side. But like, I can't say that pop doesn't influence my songwriting because normally the songs that I write and then chow to the band, they're very kind of like poppy in that way, and then we kind of bring them into that. But yeah, like I don't know, definitely influence the pop, but I love like System Move Down and like I've listened to a lot of their.

21:33 Speaker 6: Music, so I think it's kind of a mix of a lot of different genres.

21:37 Speaker 15: Yeah, like we all come from fairly different backgrounds, like music wise, yes, yeah, I did a lot of traditional music when I was younger and stuff, but yeah, so that's why, like I also listened to heavy stuff as well though, But then like Etho would listen to some pop music, I listened to like some heavy music.

21:55 Speaker 1: Bline listen to another genre. And then they all kind of come together to make this on a new thing.

22:00 Speaker 16: You know.

22:01 Speaker 15: It's like, yeah, influences come from all over the place. Yeah, it's not set on one set.

22:07 Speaker 1: Kind of thing.

22:07 Speaker 6: You know, Like they don't like some of the music I listened to, and I would like some like you know, it's kind of like so much we all bring it together.

22:13 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, no, that's great. What what is it like there in terms of if you're to be to be your age going through the school system there? What what is it like in terms of the arts because here in the United States, you know, it varies a lot depending on the school system and how much money they put into their budgets and whatnot. There's, uh, some school systems that are very encouraging of you know, they have music classes and everything, and and some some school systems are just cutting everything.

22:42 Speaker 7: But I'm curious what it's like over there. And and maybe the four of you have had similar experiences or different experiences, but I'm curious what like like when you're growing up and you decide to do something like this is is the the education system. They're very encouraging. It kind of sounds like like it is is because you mentioned one of you is it called the discovery year? Is that what you called it?

23:06 Speaker 7: Transition year, which which I've heard of before, But so I'm assuming there's there's kind of a support system there if you want to get into the arts, right.

23:15 Speaker 17: Yeah.

23:15 Speaker 18: Yeah, the school we uh go to went to, know, they're very supportive with everything Kardia did because it's kind of.

23:23 Speaker 1: A small school.

23:25 Speaker 18: You kind of know all the teachers and everything there.

23:28 Speaker 17: Like for the music, We're so grateful for the school because they let us stay in the music room during lunch breaks and in the morning before classes started.

23:39 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, do practice write songs in there. A lot of writing went on in there and everything.

23:45 Speaker 18: And even in transition year, there's like plays you do and they just take you to a bunch of different places, like there was a comedy show or something at one point as well, just get people interest it in, like the arts around the place and everything.

24:04 Speaker 14: Very like they definitely like for the last and in two three years, every lunch break we've you know, had guitar drovecho blasts like singing our heart set and it's right like the wall between the music room and the massive like lunch fall is as thin as a piece of paper and everyone has to listen to her music every single day. So pretty grateful that they will get up with them for so long. And we go to an all Irish school as well.

24:28 Speaker 6: Yeah, we take Irish all day.

24:29 Speaker 9: So in school, did they do you guys get opportunities to like learn string instruments or.

24:37 Speaker 16: Like we all study music in the schools like mandatory.

24:41 Speaker 14: They'll teach us UK just so we have like like you can do whatever instrument you want, but it's just like you can pick because it's.

24:48 Speaker 15: Kind of like they do it very in a universal way, as in like if you want to God and learn a specific instrument, you go and get.

24:56 Speaker 1: Lessons outside the school. But like yeah, they'll teach like a more you universal way in music class.

25:02 Speaker 6: Yeah, and just like the youth scene like in Ireland is so good. They haven't this.

25:07 Speaker 14: We have this thing called Music Generation which is funded by you too, and it's like it's just basically like this massive like music organization that helps like young bands. You have artists, they do gigs around like around the country, and like if you need instruments, you can go to them and figure out something.

25:25 Speaker 6: Like they're just really good. They have free practice spaces around, Like it's just they're really helpful as class.

25:29 Speaker 7: Oh that's fantastic, that's actly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely. Now, so what's kind of the I mean, you know, you're you're so young. Do you have a long term plan for this band? Or I mean, is this something that you think you're going to be doing for you know, because you're you're off to a fantastic start, you know, so, I mean it'd be a shame if I assume you're not gonna tell me no, we're just kind of doing this for fun and we're just gonna you know, I assume there's some sort of long term ambition here, but but maybe not.

26:00 Speaker 7: I'm curious that's.

26:01 Speaker 15: The dream anyways, you kind of you kind of always hope that it like we're definitely not going to stop now.

26:07 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely keep going for now, and you kind of kind of just see where it goes. Yeah, it's it's we're definitely not going to stop. But yeah, you just you don't know where road take it.

26:17 Speaker 14: I think we all have like like I think we all have like those of those things in your life and like other things that we want to receive.

26:23 Speaker 6: But I think the band will always be a.

26:26 Speaker 10: Definitely dream if.

26:28 Speaker 15: We don't make it anywhere big, Like you always, you'll always be playing on the weekends.

26:31 Speaker 1: You'll always you have for the fun, you know.

26:34 Speaker 7: Yeah, now you've got so these the two the two tracks that you sent to us, Caught in a Fire and Shattering Knees? Are those Are those the only two you've recorded so far? Or do you have more?

26:47 Speaker 4: Uh?

26:48 Speaker 7: Or maybe you're working on more?

26:50 Speaker 1: There's yeah, there's more. We have like eight singles out now on Spotify.

26:54 Speaker 14: Actually we have two recorded that aren't released, with three three recording, three recorded.

27:02 Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm gonna have to go back and listen to your other tracks on Spotify because I'm very I'm very curious because like I said, I love these. I love these.

27:11 Speaker 1: You'll hear that first one we didn't?

27:12 Speaker 13: Yeah?

27:12 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it's not the dates and make sure you do, okay, gotcha. No, I'm very I'm very curious. Where does the name come from? Moonlight Eclipse? Is there a particular meaning to that?

27:26 Speaker 14: No, we were we were pushed to make a name, Like, I think it took us months to sign the name who went through about five We were like over.

27:33 Speaker 1: Exclosure like a week.

27:37 Speaker 16: Yeah, we're going to call ourselves Shattering Knees as well, so that's why the song's name.

27:42 Speaker 6: Yeah, through a lot of different names, but you.

27:45 Speaker 1: See most of them.

27:46 Speaker 15: We we would decide on a name and then realized there was a band that already had that name.

27:51 Speaker 1: Oh really, you'd be amazed at like how many bands are actually obscure names.

27:58 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like every name is yah, where did you come from with moonshine.

28:05 Speaker 1: Moonshiny clips?

28:09 Speaker 19: And then we were like, yeah, but that sounds too much like moonshine, like the drink, So let's just change the bits because it's kind of nice.

28:19 Speaker 9: You know.

28:19 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, no, I like it. I like it a lot.

28:23 Speaker 6: We do have to say a really weird thing though.

28:25 Speaker 20: We've been like people forget the name our band lot and not like not like people who know each other, but different people in like different places and different venues have called us Midnight Eclipse, but they're not connected.

28:38 Speaker 1: Express Moon Express or Midnight Eclipse.

28:42 Speaker 6: And because they've all comes to this like it's another one.

28:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know where that.

28:51 Speaker 7: Oh wow, well that'll uh you know, hopefully in time, you know, as you as you continue to build a following and build a fan base, uh, people will will be more accurate with your name. That's funny though, but but yeah, it is. It is hard to find a name that's not already you know, because you One thing you obviously don't want to get into a situation of is when you have a name that uh, you've established and then it turns out, you know, somebody else says, oh no, we were using that first, and then they're threatening you with some sort of legal action or something.

29:19 Speaker 16: So this website where you can put in a bound right and it will tell you no matter how unknown the band is, if they are like anything released.

29:28 Speaker 1: It's taken that Oh wow.

29:31 Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a good tool to have. Do you remember what the site is? You know, off hand?

29:37 Speaker 18: Before I think it's it's gone now years ago, so yeah, okay, you know, because you can just look up the like band.

29:46 Speaker 6: Registration name or something.

29:51 Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, yeah, I was just curious. No, that's uh no, that's very cool. And then have you done any videos for for any of these tracks yet?

29:59 Speaker 9: Not yet?

30:00 Speaker 14: That is definitely something we want to have a friend of ours, he like makes a lot of short films and he's coming like into that. I have like good quality cameras and I think he's hoping to make a music video with sometimes productions on YouTube.

30:17 Speaker 7: Yeah. Excellent, excellent.

30:19 Speaker 1: Yeah, So maybe maybe this summer because we'll be free.

30:23 Speaker 6: So it's just been so busy because so much and Lucas.

30:29 Speaker 1: And final exams this year as well.

30:31 Speaker 7: Oh yeah yeah, And what's the live schedule, Like what's like are you able to get out and play a lot of shows or I don't know, last night? Yeah, yeah, excellent.

30:45 Speaker 1: Yeah.

30:45 Speaker 15: So for the past like a few months, we've been taking a break because of the exams, but now that they're finished, we have a lot of gigs.

30:52 Speaker 6: Yeah.

30:53 Speaker 14: I also, though I broke my finger two months ago, I've been trying to work around that because I'm not able to play guitar.

31:01 Speaker 1: Why didn't you tell them how you broke it?

31:04 Speaker 18: That it's on the.

31:05 Speaker 6: Mechanical bull.

31:07 Speaker 7: Really Yeah.

31:11 Speaker 14: See we're in transition here and we're going on all these like stupid weird trips around the world and.

31:18 Speaker 7: So what so what happened? Did you get thrown from the mechanical bull and you landed on your.

31:22 Speaker 14: Hands or something or like a broke that you had to hold onto on the bowl, but the rope like you pull it out and pulled it out. I didn't like continually continuously holding up force and my like finger got launched in with the rope and then the bulls started going around and just.

31:38 Speaker 16: Like yeah, and then she had to go to like an Italian hospital and there's a language bowrier.

31:42 Speaker 6: Like was faster.

31:44 Speaker 7: Yeah, oh no, wow, oh that's that's that's terrible. How are you?

31:50 Speaker 6: Italian doctors were like they're like, you know, it's fine, you know, just go back to hostel maybe in ten days in Ireland.

31:55 Speaker 14: And then as soon as I got back home, we went straight to hospel and they're like, yeah, you need surgery.

32:00 Speaker 7: Okay, wow yeah now that's uh, but you're able to work around it as far as playing or how are you? How are you doing that?

32:07 Speaker 6: Yeah, because like Nigas plays lead, so he just kind of.

32:10 Speaker 7: Okay, they combine.

32:14 Speaker 6: Turn the base of real.

32:16 Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be like we probably have to wait until her finger heels, until.

32:21 Speaker 15: We can do more original records exactly because our songs are very.

32:28 Speaker 21: Yeah, like like.

32:31 Speaker 1: I have a lot of rhythm stuff and a lot of sort of stuff at the same time.

32:35 Speaker 14: But like we're definitely grateful for the opportunity because it's cool to see how, like how our stage presence kind of works, because like it's definitely I can be more kind of interactive with the crowd obviously when I don't.

32:47 Speaker 6: Know, guitar on me and I can kind of walk around with the microphone, you know. Yeah, it's cool to like, you know, it's grateful.

32:53 Speaker 1: To have his pros and cons.

32:55 Speaker 7: You know, Well, that's a that's a good way to look at it. And yeah, I mean, and that's and that's part of and something like this, right, you know, these things will happen and then you find a way to work around it. And no, that's that's great, that's great. Where should people Where should people go online to to learn more about I've obviously you mentioned you know, you're on Spotify, But is there any place in particular people should go online to keep up with everything that Moonlight Eclipse is doing a very.

33:19 Speaker 1: Active Instagram with Facebook, So on Facebook eclips.

33:25 Speaker 14: It's just Midlight clips on Instagram and like TikTok it's the clips official.

33:31 Speaker 6: Yeah, and We have a YouTube as well.

33:33 Speaker 14: Yeah, that's just Moonlight Clips and then Spotify and like all the other stream platforms is Moonlight.

33:38 Speaker 1: Most of our updates are on Instagram and then we post videos of some like yeah, I think that we went live on the YouTube yesterday as well.

33:52 Speaker 7: Oh excellent, excellent, and then where where's when is your next show? We should we should mention that we actually have believe it or not. I don't know if you know this, but we actually have listeners in Ireland who tune in online. Yeah that's the you know, this wonderful thing about the internet. Well, yeah, go.

34:12 Speaker 6: Ahead, we are on the Unfortunately, these guys are going to Italy. I'm going to France fortunately.

34:21 Speaker 7: Unfortunately. Wow.

34:24 Speaker 1: We are looking forward to.

34:27 Speaker 14: The next few weeks we are away. But actually the day after I come back from the States, we are on the nineteenth of July. We're playing in Dallians so it's a pub and athen Ry Go Away and.

34:41 Speaker 6: But the Capital.

34:42 Speaker 14: We're playing in Dublin on the fourteenth of August and the Santa which is quite a popular venue. So shout out to anyone in Irelands.

34:51 Speaker 6: Fourteenth of August.

34:53 Speaker 7: Excellent, excellent, very good, well listen. I want to thank all four of you for joining us this morning. This is wonderful and we will definitely do this again in the future as you're releasing new music and whatnot. And uh and in a moment, we're gonna play this. We're gonna hit this track Caught in a Fire, another great song. I love this. Uh, I love this very much. So I think you've got a great sound. You're off to a great start, and and congratulations on everything that you're doing. This is wonderful.

35:19 Speaker 7: So absolutely we will do it again. I'll let you go and we'll hit this track, Moonlight Eclipse. Thank you so much. Bye bye. All right, very good, very good. That is Moonlight Eclips And uh, yeah, like I said, they're off to a wonderful start there. You know, they're so young. I wish I had that. I wish I had that level of ambition and discipline when I was that age.

35:42 Speaker 9: I think, well, obviously some of it comes from their environment. Oh yeah, it sounds like they have such an amazing exposure to arts and this transition year where they get even more I mean, I wish we did that here, I really do.

35:54 Speaker 16: I know.

35:55 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, you should be introducing music in elementary school. Kids will be able to read music, they'd be able to play a different instruments, because when they're so young, they're pliable, right, Those brains suck up everything you give them. Yeah, And I think that's wonderful that these kids are. So they sound very confident. Yeah, I mean excellent to have somebody from Ireland who reached out to us, Yeah, which is always an honor. And I'm really excited to see where they go from here.

36:19 Speaker 7: Absolutely, me too, Me too. So we're gonna hit this track Caught in a Fire. When we come back. We might have a little surprise. We might have somebody call in for just a few minutes who is not who we haven't talked to in a long time, but I really think I might know. But I'm really excited to talk to He's someone who does a lot in the music industry and the music scene here in New Hampshire and I love it and just a wonderful person, just a great friend who I haven't talked to in a long time. So but in the meantime, let's hit this track.

36:45 Speaker 7: This is called Caught in a Fire and this is Midnight Eclipse.

37:55 Speaker 12: Lets can bout you.

37:57 Speaker 13: I can I.

38:03 Speaker 12: Get you down and run the line.

38:10 Speaker 5: Of the plain. Bell is not your ride. Gotta get out of this burning home. Backing is a heart of stone.

38:34 Speaker 12: They won't mix you up, broken bones, Try to avoid them.

38:43 Speaker 5: Yourself, Try to the wires. Now know that matters. When you got in the fire, when you got in the fire.

39:13 Speaker 12: Yeah, leave that floondle that flones say, don't pick.

39:52 Speaker 13: Up the phone.

39:55 Speaker 5: No, not secret.

39:59 Speaker 12: Try you leave it, don't you say? I'm trying to say that. There's no pet agreement with this way that you love in God.

40:30 Speaker 13: Yeah, but there's a circle, there's a lie.

41:04 Speaker 5: I don't care. The leave you to die.

41:12 Speaker 22: They will deny you the chance to go higher. Would not even matters when you count it a fire?

41:25 Speaker 5: Would you die?

41:27 Speaker 12: Bion't? It's got like they won't get up.

41:52 Speaker 5: Trying to make them onside.

41:54 Speaker 7: Everything is long, that is caught in a fire. That is moonlight eclipse. So good, so good, love them from Ireland. Thank you again to them for joining us. And uh, a little bit of a surprise here, Slicko is that you?

42:34 Speaker 4: It's me dude.

42:36 Speaker 7: Hey, Slicko is joining us. We haven't talked in a long time. How are you doing.

42:41 Speaker 10: I'm doing great. I'm doing great. I got a corporate job.

42:45 Speaker 16: Uh.

42:45 Speaker 10: We won't discuss that, you know how I am the jobs.

42:48 Speaker 7: Yeah, but no, I'm doing great.

42:50 Speaker 10: I'm doing great, kind of working on a new podcast, working on some promoting a little bit of this little bit that.

42:57 Speaker 7: Oh, very good.

42:58 Speaker 10: I don't know you know about crime, but of prime, so you do?

43:01 Speaker 7: Okay? All right, cool?

43:03 Speaker 23: Cool?

43:04 Speaker 7: Well, No, I'm glad. You've got a lot going on. That's that's usually the case with you. And you mentioned in a messenger. I'm sorry, not a messenger in the chat room. Uh that you got a show tonight, A big show tonight to talk about.

43:15 Speaker 10: Yeah, big show tonight. Uh oh, big show tonight. It's gonna be Enhanton at Club Madison, a bunch of rappers, AJ Reynolds. Oh, it's gonna be Eighth the Grim, this guy Onyx from Dover. It's gonna be amazing. A lot of time. I do got to go, Matt, but I just want to say I miss you. We got to get on the podcast soon. Let's do some work and you gotta get me on the wrestling podcast. Man. Oh, definitely Things of the Wrestling Podcast.

43:42 Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely. Yeah, Yeah, we'll we'll talk offline and we'll make something happen. Absolutely yeah. It's been a while since we've since we've seen you, brother, so it would be be very cool to do something.

43:52 Speaker 10: We need a good long interview, good hour, solid me and Matt breaking the ratings again like the good old days.

43:58 Speaker 7: I agree, that sounds good to me. Man.

44:00 Speaker 10: All right, well, good luck, well down tonight, Hampton Beach Club, Madison, AJ Reynolds eighth the Grim Allix, It's gonna be wild. I'll be there, all.

44:10 Speaker 7: Right, sweet love Madison, all right, very good, all right, Slicko. Good good to your for you and my friend talk soon, all right, bye bye. All right, that was our friend, Slicko. And what we're going to do now if you are listening live on Saturday morning, we're going to take a quick commercial break, and then our next guests have arrived. Very excited about this, but stick around, plenty more to come.

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52:50 Speaker 4: so full of life. Oh it was wonderful. Then came the d when she did her leave.

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53:06 Speaker 5: Like you would not believe. That's why I told my heart.

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54:49 Speaker 7: That's so good. Another world radio premiere here at wu m n H ninety five point three FM on Matt Connorton Unleashed. That is go ahead and break. That is the Murphy Clark Band. Guys, okay, right out of the gate. What's the correct way to say?

55:03 Speaker 10: Is it?

55:04 Speaker 7: Do I say Murphy Clark or is it the Murphy Clark Band?

55:07 Speaker 2: Yes?

55:08 Speaker 23: One is what you want to call it, Murphy Clark.

55:12 Speaker 7: Okay. So Jenny and I are joined a live in studio by of course, Brian Murphy. Brian Murphy and Mike Clark. It's probably not Murphy, right, because then it would be the Murphy Clark, right, Brian Murphy and Mike Clark. You're in studio and uh I love that track and of course as you as you witnessed, I could not help but sing along with it. And that's how you know you've got something right to the point, right, Yeah, when you when you play something for somebody and they can't help it sing along like it's not even like it's not like, oh I think I'll sing along to this, It's just an involuntary motion, you know I.

55:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's what we hope for.

55:46 Speaker 7: Absolutely, and we'll play some more of your stuff as we as we go along. But it's great to have you guys here.

55:52 Speaker 23: You're having us and thank you for doing this.

55:53 Speaker 16: Oh.

55:54 Speaker 23: Absolutely, no local bands need the support.

55:57 Speaker 7: Absolutely absolutely well, we love it and there's so much you know, Jenny does all the booking and sometimes people will ask her, you know, where do you find all these great artists and it's so much.

56:06 Speaker 32: Talent around here. Absolutely, you know, it's incredible. You just use the word yeah, yeah, I looked it up this morning.

56:13 Speaker 2: Good.

56:13 Speaker 23: Don't ask me to spell it though, butther is a great word.

56:16 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, hell does it mean.

56:20 Speaker 32: A lot of pluor yeah, you know sometimes Brian needs help. Yeah, well we all need help something, that's for sure.

56:29 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, No, I love it. You guys have a great sound. I feel like kind of the secret weapon is the vocals and the harmonies and everything is. And how long has this project existed? Have you guys been at this a while or is this new or.

56:43 Speaker 33: We've been collaborating for about thirty years. I think we started working.

56:48 Speaker 7: That's been a while.

56:49 Speaker 23: Yeah you started, you weren't even from born, Matt, I don't.

56:52 Speaker 7: Think, Oh my goodness, I probably I probably was.

56:55 Speaker 33: But you know, we started, you know, way back back in the day in the mid nineties, I was I was recording with Aquatanang was the name of the band. We were with Sony and Manhattan back in the big record days, and uh, you know, we we worked there and then I wanted to find somebody local, so I did a session with Mike and I really liked the way he mixed, and so we started working. Back then he started running sound for us with Aquatanang and then started doing records together.

57:30 Speaker 26: You know.

57:30 Speaker 2: At that point, we've been doing him ever since.

57:32 Speaker 23: Okay, okay, that was in a bridge version.

57:35 Speaker 2: I sped it up a little yit ye, So but yeah, that's that's how it's done.

57:41 Speaker 32: You know, a bit more from there, Okay, yeah, okay, people changed, you know, members changed, and the sound of the band changed. We went we're all electric now yeah. Aquartang was all acoustics.

57:53 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so Folk.

57:55 Speaker 7: Dylan did it.

57:55 Speaker 23: We figured we could do it.

57:56 Speaker 4: Yeah.

57:57 Speaker 33: Yeah, that actually because before you know, after Aquatinang, well, with Aquatanang, Mike started to do percussion for us and work his way in. And then after that we decided to start a different project of the first iteration of Murphy Clark, which was Americana up right bass. I played the mandola oh no kidding, Yeah, And we did that, I think like twelve years until COVID hit Yeah, and that wiped everything.

58:27 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah.

58:28 Speaker 33: Our guitar player had like fourteen kids and yeah. Then so then Mike's always wanted to go electric anyway. The acoustic thing was my thing. So yeah, you know, during the pandemic when we had the shutdown, it was just he and I and we sort of broke the rules and I kept going into the studio and we just started doing studio.

58:49 Speaker 32: Stuff, and I kept handing him an electric See I'm in a rocker from way back when, nothing wrong with acoustic stuff.

58:56 Speaker 33: So he kept saying, you know, so I took a couple of years and you know, got comfortable with the electric guitar. And yeah, now we we have a new format, uh with you know, but some of the like the female vocals uh, Marion and Cindy have been with us of course since the awkward.

59:14 Speaker 9: O.

59:14 Speaker 33: So four of us have been together since all that time. Okay, and now we have Gary Young, who's a world class lead guitar player. He does a wonderful job is on the guitar now, Jeff Harrington on drums.

59:26 Speaker 2: Who's who Indie Music? He owns Cindy Music, and Amherst oh a little.

59:31 Speaker 23: Bit drum teacher there, yeah yeah, yeah, okay, I.

59:35 Speaker 2: Teach voice there, you voice teacher there?

59:38 Speaker 6: Yeah.

59:38 Speaker 2: Oh actually yeah we love it.

59:40 Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, the music all the time. That's great, that's great.

59:44 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's tremendous, you know.

59:46 Speaker 33: I mean and as a songwriter to and you know, doing music to accompany other singers with every kind of song you can think of, it really helps you see, chord progressions, melodies, all kinds of things like that,