Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed 6-27-26 hour 1
Game Plan
Speaker 1: You are listening to Matt Connorton Unleashed on wm H
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Speaker 2: Right now, we have a wm n H ninety five
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Speaker 2: hear this anywhere else before July third, but we've got
Speaker 2: it here coming out of New York City, the world
Speaker 2: radio premiere of the new single from Frequency Overload. This
Speaker 2: is called Sunburn.
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Speaker 5: guy his dollars and another man what things for you?
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Speaker 7: It's got to.
Speaker 8: Flicks something, man, there it is.
Speaker 2: That is the world radio premiere of Sunburn from the
Speaker 2: band Frequency Overload. Our friends from those are some real
Speaker 2: New Yorkers there, But we had Frequency Overload on the
Speaker 2: show very recently. Was it last week or the week before?
Speaker 2: It all becomes a blur of my friends. I have
Speaker 2: to be honest with you. But because we talked to
Speaker 2: so many great musicians on the show, but really like
Speaker 2: those guys a lot. So Thomas Bush from Frequency Overload
Speaker 2: sent me that song and you know he's he was
Speaker 2: telling me about and it's his story to tell what
Speaker 2: I'd like to do, even though he just had them
Speaker 2: on the show. And if Thomas is listening hear me
Speaker 2: say this, I'd like to get him on the show,
Speaker 2: like sooner rather than later, just to talk about Sunburn specifically,
Speaker 2: maybe just a short follow up conversation about that, because
Speaker 2: he was saying that it has a lot of deep
Speaker 2: meaning to him, and it's a little bit different from
Speaker 2: the other Frequency Overload songs too, a little bit of
Speaker 2: a departure for them. But this song, again, it's his
Speaker 2: story to tell, but he did tell me some things
Speaker 2: about it. It has a lot of a deep personal
Speaker 2: meaning to him. But it's coming out July third, but
Speaker 2: he said that we could go ahead and do the
Speaker 2: exclusive world radio premiere for it right here on Matt
Speaker 2: Connerton Unleashed on WMNH ninety five point three FM. So
Speaker 2: very honored that he let us do that, especially knowing
Speaker 2: what the song means to him. I thought that was
Speaker 2: very very cool that he gave us that opportunity to
Speaker 2: so you literally heard it here first. So again sunburned
Speaker 2: by the band Frequency Overload. And yeah, we'll get Thomas
Speaker 2: on soon back on to talk about that song, you know,
Speaker 2: if he's willing, if he's able, and if he's got
Speaker 2: time in his schedule. But yeah, such a great band
Speaker 2: from New York City. Again, Frequency Overload. Please check him out,
Speaker 2: and you can, of course check out my conversation with
Speaker 2: the band on the show recently. I think it was
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago. Again, it does become a blur.
Speaker 2: We've got a great but very busy show for you today.
Speaker 2: In just a few minutes, we're gonna be talking to
Speaker 2: c J. Wildheart. He's a legend. Cannot wait to talk
Speaker 2: with him. We're gonna play his brand new single One
Speaker 2: of the Boys, and then we're gonna get CJ. Wildheart
Speaker 2: on with us via WhatsApp in the second hour. Julia
Speaker 2: Greenberg is gonna be with us on the show. In
Speaker 2: the third hour. We've got two bands. We've got Despire
Speaker 2: in the first half of the third hour, and then
Speaker 2: we've got The Rift in the second half of the
Speaker 2: third hour. To get all that. So we've got a
Speaker 2: very busy show, ad which is how I like it.
Speaker 2: I organize the busy show. But this is Matt Connorton Unleashed.
Speaker 2: And of course we are live from the studios of
Speaker 2: WMNH ninety five point three FM in glorious Manchester, New Hampshire,
Speaker 2: and it truly is glorious. The weather has been us perfect,
Speaker 2: so it is wonderful. This is my favorite time of
Speaker 2: year anyway. I love summer. If you know me at all,
Speaker 2: you know that summer is my favorite time. Of course,
Speaker 2: you can also stream the show from anywhere. You can
Speaker 2: go to Matt connorton dot com slash live and you
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Speaker 2: you can also find the archive of the show there
Speaker 2: and some articles. And that site is still fairly new,
Speaker 2: so we're still building a lot onto that website, Matt
Speaker 2: connorton unleashed dot com, but it is a site that
Speaker 2: is specifically dedicated to this program. So speaking of that,
Speaker 2: so speaking of our live feed, a couple of announcements.
Speaker 2: Just very quickly, yeah, very quickly, actually, I'm looking at
Speaker 2: the time, very very quickly. So if you are listening
Speaker 2: at mattconnorton dot com slash live, if you're listening there
Speaker 2: specifically coming up today immediately after my show. My show
Speaker 2: ends at noon Eastern. Immediately after my show, on the
Speaker 2: stream only at Matt connorton dot com slash live, you
Speaker 2: can hear the Big G Breakthrough Hour. And what that
Speaker 2: is is a new syndicated radio show from our friends
Speaker 2: at Big G'SPR. They send us our Big GPR, they
Speaker 2: send us a lot of our guests. We get a
Speaker 2: lot of great guests and a lot of our world
Speaker 2: radio premieres come from there. Our friends Gary and Eden
Speaker 2: from Big GPR, so we have a great relationship with them,
Speaker 2: love the new show. So it's not yet here at WMNH.
Speaker 2: I would like to get the show on WMNH, and
Speaker 2: I did pitch the show to management here. I haven't
Speaker 2: been given an answer, so hopefully we can. I think
Speaker 2: it would be a great addition to the lineup here.
Speaker 2: But you can hear the show again if you go
Speaker 2: to the live stream at Matt Coonnerton dot com slash live,
Speaker 2: you will be able to hear the show there immediately
Speaker 2: after this show today, only on that stream specifically. But
Speaker 2: I'm very happy to help with that. Spread the word.
Speaker 2: They've got a great show and it's already been picked
Speaker 2: up by quite a few stations. But like I said,
Speaker 2: I'm hoping to add WM ANDH to that list, but
Speaker 2: it's not up to me. But I did pitch it
Speaker 2: and I will follow up so but again Big GPR.
Speaker 2: But if you go to Matt connorton dot com slash live,
Speaker 2: if you're listening to this show there right now, well
Speaker 2: when it gets to be noontime, don't go away, just
Speaker 2: leave it going. You'll get to hear the new show
Speaker 2: from Big GPR called The Big G Breakthrough Hour, and
Speaker 2: you're gonna hear a lot of really good stuff new artists,
Speaker 2: some of them. Some of them might be artists that
Speaker 2: you've heard on this show, but a lot of them
Speaker 2: will be artists who you might hear in the future
Speaker 2: on this show. And just a lot of really great stuff.
Speaker 2: The other very quicknouncement, and again I do have to
Speaker 2: do this quickly. Tough Bumps if you're a fan of
Speaker 2: the Tough Bumps podcast, which has no affiliation with WMNH.
Speaker 2: That is strictly online. That is an online endeavor that
Speaker 2: I do that every week of course, with my friends
Speaker 2: Eric Pilcher and Austin Hicks. That's been on a little
Speaker 2: bit of a hiatus for a couple of weeks. We
Speaker 2: took a couple of weeks off. That does return tomorrow
Speaker 2: Sunday at four pm Eastern, as far as I know,
Speaker 2: it's still going to be at four pm Eastern. But
Speaker 2: Tough Bumps is back. Of course, today we have the
Speaker 2: Night of Champions WWE premium live event, so we'll be
Speaker 2: talking about that tomorrow night on Tough Bumps or tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 2: I have no doubt. It's even earlier there where they are.
Speaker 2: Those guys are both in the Central time zone, so
Speaker 2: three pm there but four pm Eastern. And look for
Speaker 2: that online. Again, that is not carried on WM ANDH,
Speaker 2: just to be clear, but you can find it online
Speaker 2: of course on the IBM Nation YouTube channel on Facebook,
Speaker 2: and that's the live stream, and then you can get
Speaker 2: the podcast anywhere where you get your favorite pod cast.
Speaker 2: Please like and subscribe in all of that, so that
Speaker 2: will be back. I may have a third announcement soon,
Speaker 2: but the I'm waiting to get a reply on an email.
Speaker 2: But the third announcement I'm gonna have for you guys
Speaker 2: is really interesting. We'll see. I think the only one
Speaker 2: who really knows about what might be about to happen,
Speaker 2: is Jenny. I haven't said anything to anyone else because
Speaker 2: I don't want to until I know if it's definitely happening,
Speaker 2: but something there might be an interesting turn of events coming. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to be so vague. Anyway, on with the
Speaker 2: show we go. So we're gonna get again our first
Speaker 2: guest today we have a very busy show. CJ. Wildheart
Speaker 2: is going to be joining us via WhatsApp, but right
Speaker 2: now we're gonna go ahead and play his newest single,
Speaker 2: I love this. This is so good, it's so catchy.
Speaker 2: This is from his new album Devil. This is called
Speaker 2: one of the Boys from the Great CJ. Wildheart.
Speaker 3: I just got outside the question road.
Speaker 2: I want another life.
Speaker 3: When I saw that time again on No Fing, I
Speaker 3: just play a hundred those body where A change a
Speaker 3: big part of the road out walks where I have
Speaker 3: the thing. Oh my god, I can't even mean growing
Speaker 3: all the way. Oh when Dragon start came back? When
Speaker 3: I am I can not change the dolly when the
Speaker 3: calls out.
Speaker 6: As one of the boys, what's the bat sun sense I?
Speaker 6: I told about the right when I went to the door,
Speaker 6: A new last to blame.
Speaker 3: I just Plassic pol restaurant. Gun, I start to buy
Speaker 3: us from my job. When I changed the bag, I
Speaker 3: got in it. Also, I can't me throw it all
Speaker 3: way when I get stuck, I can bam what I
Speaker 3: can I change the boy when I turns I'm trusting
Speaker 3: one of the boys. Oh, I did anything brown all
Speaker 3: the way? I try at.
Speaker 9: What I am?
Speaker 3: I can I change a dolly?
Speaker 6: Wa gotcha?
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Speaker 7: The way up follows I'm chod, Hey, everybody, Well, wouldn't
Speaker 7: be Saturday without a technical problem.
Speaker 2: WhatsApp just crashed on me. So c J is aware
Speaker 2: of the problem, and we're to go ahead and play
Speaker 2: another great track from our friends c J Wildheart will
Speaker 2: uh while I get WhatsApp restarted. This one's called Oh
Speaker 2: this is a great song to at least he's got
Speaker 2: a lot of great tunes. This is called you got
Speaker 2: the best part of me? Check this out?
Speaker 3: What is gone? You want to raising today? What I can't?
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Speaker 3: the best UDEO, you got the best. We can't in
Speaker 3: your whel we can't in your ride fails. And keep
Speaker 3: inside what you need to clue.
Speaker 1: We're win it.
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Speaker 10: Kill.
Speaker 3: That's not me.
Speaker 10: I have spot you.
Speaker 3: He got the guys like job. I see you at
Speaker 3: the Barron in the stress. I said, been after night
Speaker 3: a whole way this taking had. Let's being some time.
Speaker 4: I kill myself.
Speaker 3: I there to guarantee. I feel like it will never
Speaker 3: bother me. Scream a puppy by I come up on that.
Speaker 3: I want to scream the shop. When I see got
Speaker 3: the g I'm down, You're crazy? Say why sujas sleep,
Speaker 3: shot up shop? Oh my days and now my John's
Speaker 3: hopping hit the bar. I left my senses at the
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Speaker 3: I come alive. I play the scene like in the movies.
Speaker 3: I'm playing name Brown number dead, like under a Bye trast.
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Speaker 2: This guy, Hey everybody. So here's an update. WhatsApp has
Speaker 2: just restricted my account and is accusing me of spam
Speaker 2: and my account is restricted for the next five hours.
Speaker 2: This is something. This is unusual. Okay, So I am communicating,
Speaker 2: so I'm still able to message with CJ. CJ Wildheart
Speaker 2: via WhatsApp. I just can't make a call. So here's
Speaker 2: what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna send him a link
Speaker 2: for Microsoft Teams and we're gonna try it that way.
Speaker 2: But in the meantime, let's play some more from his
Speaker 2: album Devil and we're gonna we're gonna try this.
Speaker 3: God st right outspread an explications, get to the right
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Speaker 3: Somebody t say time day day, some FDA, no long, Friday,
Speaker 3: no long. We're going to guys, want to stay strong?
Speaker 3: You would have been strong? Who wanting to take it out?
Speaker 3: Trying to train you? When s somebody I can't say
Speaker 3: what it tells you wouldn't write any write another.
Speaker 2: Watch all right? What a relief crisis averted. I think
Speaker 2: let me bring this up here. I think we've got
Speaker 2: c J Wildheart with us via Microsoft Team.
Speaker 8: CJ.
Speaker 2: Are you there, I am, yes, Oh, wonderful, wonderful, Thank
Speaker 2: you for your flexibility. We are live on the air,
Speaker 2: and I'm really glad to get John because I've been
Speaker 2: dying to talk to you, and we you know, you
Speaker 2: are here to experience a first here on Matt Connorton
Speaker 2: on Leafsed. I've never had WhatsApp crash on me like that.
Speaker 2: And then apparently WhatsApp has restricted my account. They are
Speaker 2: accusing me of spam, which is very very strange. So
Speaker 2: thank you for being flexible and welcome to the show.
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me. It's probably my fault you've
Speaker 4: been banned from WhatsApp.
Speaker 2: You're gonna take the blame for that. Well, that's very
Speaker 2: generous of you.
Speaker 11: Thank you.
Speaker 2: My reputation for it does that's funny. Well listen, so
Speaker 2: welcome to the show. I love that song, you know.
Speaker 2: We did open with the single One of the Boys,
Speaker 2: such a great track. And but you you've been at
Speaker 2: this for a while, and of course you've got the
Speaker 2: new album Devil or how long? How is now new
Speaker 2: is Devil? At this point I should say how long
Speaker 2: has this been out? This is pretty new, is it?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean the official release was yesterday.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 4: I run my online store so I do pre orders.
Speaker 4: So most people who bought it on vinyl which you
Speaker 4: sold that now and CDs have received. You know, they
Speaker 4: received their vinyl and the CDs a week or so
Speaker 4: before the album officially came out. But we we ran
Speaker 4: into a glitch yesterday, so it isn't up on all
Speaker 4: the usual streaming sights at the moment, so oh okay,
Speaker 4: trying to sort that out. It's just up on band
Speaker 4: camp digitally, but you know, it's it's the way of
Speaker 4: the soul trader, the entrepreneurial punk rock musician these days.
Speaker 4: You know, you get your music out there by any
Speaker 4: means possible.
Speaker 2: Exactly, absolutely. And band Camp, by the way, you know,
Speaker 2: this comes up a lot on the show. Band Camp
Speaker 2: is such a great site because it's very artist friendly,
Speaker 2: as you know, and also too, when you get your
Speaker 2: music from band camp, you get the highest quality file
Speaker 2: that you can get. It's it's not like you know,
Speaker 2: just streaming it from YouTube or whatnot, which is fine,
Speaker 2: but band Camp really does you right, you know, in
Speaker 2: terms of the quality of the file that you're getting
Speaker 2: when you buy your music on band Camp. And of course,
Speaker 2: like I said, very artist friendly. So so that's excellent
Speaker 2: that you're you know that you've got it up on
Speaker 2: there can can you talk about you know, because you
Speaker 2: you mentioned, uh, you kind of alluded to some of
Speaker 2: the challenges obviously that that it can happen to an
Speaker 2: independent artist. And I was reading something about how this
Speaker 2: album nearly didn't happen because you were kind of struggling
Speaker 2: to sort of figure out how to navigate through the
Speaker 2: current industry and some of the challenges that come with it.
Speaker 2: Is that true?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean a lot of it. I'll be honest
Speaker 4: with you. I mean, I've been I'm fifty eight now,
Speaker 4: and i've been you know, I signed my first record
Speaker 4: deal when I was eighteen, so that's like, you know,
Speaker 4: forty years ago, and you know, I'm Generation X and
Speaker 4: I've gone through the whole change from Analog to Digitol,
Speaker 4: and so much has changed in the music industry. But
Speaker 4: you know, my time was the nineties. That was my
Speaker 4: time when I had a huge record deals with massive corporations.
Speaker 4: And if I hadn't had those big record deals, I
Speaker 4: wouldn't be talking to you today. You know, because I
Speaker 4: sell predominantly to a fan base that was started in
Speaker 4: the nineties. They ate it. And the problem with my
Speaker 4: fan base is they're getting older. A lot of them
Speaker 4: are dying off. A lot of them don't buy physical
Speaker 4: music anymore. And I make a living from selling physical music,
Speaker 4: not digital music. See these vinyl t shirts. And when
Speaker 4: your fan base is getting smaller, you start making less
Speaker 4: and less money, and so it gets harder each year
Speaker 4: to you know, call this a job, call it a living.
Speaker 4: But it's all I've done all my life, you know,
Speaker 4: I haven't. You know, I've never ran a day job
Speaker 4: alongside the music. Music has always been my day job.
Speaker 4: And on this album, I kind of knew how much
Speaker 4: I was going to sell, and I knew it was
Speaker 4: going to take me about six months to make I
Speaker 4: record mostly on my own, and I was thinking, Wow,
Speaker 4: am I doing this? I would probably earn more money
Speaker 4: put in the fries in the bag, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean?
Speaker 2: Understood, It is challenging, and obviously, you know, you've been
Speaker 2: around long enough that you've seen all of the changes
Speaker 2: in the music industry over the years. And it is
Speaker 2: true too. You know, you make money on merchant things
Speaker 2: like that and physical media, but in terms of what
Speaker 2: you're putting out digitally, you know, obviously we talked about
Speaker 2: it on the show a lot. Spotify doesn't pay very
Speaker 2: much it's it's hard, you know, it's it's hard to
Speaker 2: make a living. A lot of people don't realize that,
Speaker 2: you know. They think that if you're a musician and
Speaker 2: you're active, that you're in a mansion and you're driving
Speaker 2: a sports car and you know, you're flying a private
Speaker 2: jet everywhere, and it's, uh, it's not how it works.
Speaker 11: It is.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'll be really honest with you. I had
Speaker 4: to sell the mansion in the private jet. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: travel in most places by hot air balloon. Now they
Speaker 4: go the way we roll in England. Had to get
Speaker 4: rid of the carton as well.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 4: Sure, times are.
Speaker 2: Hard times, absolutely absolutely, And this is Your Devil is
Speaker 2: your eighth solo album? Is that right?
Speaker 3: It is?
Speaker 4: I mean it's my eighth studio solo studio album. I
Speaker 4: have a I put out a live album as well,
Speaker 4: and I had a best of album where I re
Speaker 4: recorded fifteen of the old tracks as well. So on
Speaker 4: my label it's album number ten. And I have two
Speaker 4: unofficial demo albums as well, so technically it's album number twelve.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, okay, you've been busy now. Originally, so
Speaker 2: when you first when you first signed your Wow, eighteen, right,
Speaker 2: So was that with the Wildhearts when you signed your
Speaker 2: first deal?
Speaker 3: No, No.
Speaker 4: I used to have a glam sleazy band called the
Speaker 4: Tattooed love Boys in the eighties and it was the
Speaker 4: band that kind of got me into London and got
Speaker 4: me on the London scene. And we were signed to
Speaker 4: a subsidiary of RCA and I made an album with them.
Speaker 4: But I was gigging heavily with that band in the
Speaker 4: late eighties round you know, in the UK sort of
Speaker 4: rock scene. And it's how me and Ginger met. I
Speaker 4: was playing a club in London and a mutual friend
Speaker 4: of ours Boredom along and you know, from that initial
Speaker 4: meeting we said, yeah, let's form a band together. And
Speaker 4: that band was the Wildharts.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, gotcha. So with the original deal with RCA,
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, what was your output on that deal
Speaker 2: with the first band that you had. I mean was
Speaker 2: that because sometimes, and this is another thing that people
Speaker 2: outside the industry don't realize, just because you signed with
Speaker 2: the label doesn't mean that the label is necessarily going
Speaker 2: to actually release your music and that you're going to
Speaker 2: you know, immediately have a lot of success and whatnot.
Speaker 2: I mean, what was that experience like with that first deal?
Speaker 3: Was it was good?
Speaker 4: I mean the album came out in the States, but
Speaker 4: we never made it over to America. And I mean,
Speaker 4: to be honest with you, from the ages of about
Speaker 4: say eleven, until I was twenty, I went through various
Speaker 4: scenes very quickly. So I went from being into heavy
Speaker 4: metal to being into sleeves well to be in for
Speaker 4: fresh metal, and I was into sleeves for a couple
Speaker 4: of months, and ultimately I landed in punk. You know,
Speaker 4: punk is where I've always stayed, but it was a
Speaker 4: real learning curve those formative teenage years and just find
Speaker 4: I mean, where I felt comfortable because I've loved I
Speaker 4: love all sorts of music, and especially guitar music, and
Speaker 4: you know, I had to go through I had to
Speaker 4: be in like a kind of glammy sleeves band to
Speaker 4: get to the clash place where I feel most comfortable.
Speaker 2: Right now, that makes sense, uh, do you? I mean
Speaker 2: ideally you've released so many albums as a solo artist.
Speaker 2: I assume that's what your preference is at this point,
Speaker 2: Like have you thought about have you thought about starting
Speaker 2: another band or joining a band or are you is
Speaker 2: this kind of the trajectory that you intend to stay
Speaker 2: on in terms of having a solo career.
Speaker 4: No, I mean it's purely survival. So I run my
Speaker 4: own label and everything I release as a solo artist
Speaker 4: comes out of my own own label. But you won't
Speaker 4: get it in the shop. You have to buy it
Speaker 4: from my online shop and or you buy it from
Speaker 4: a streaming site digitally that I record the albums, I
Speaker 4: do everything in house. I even you know, this week,
Speaker 4: I've sent out about a thousand albums and I've packaged
Speaker 4: them all myself.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 4: So it was like a real cottage industry. And that's
Speaker 4: how I make a living my albums. I have my
Speaker 4: own home, little studio home set up, and I record
Speaker 4: most of my albums on my own in my house,
Speaker 4: so I'm not paying for studio time. Once I've recorded
Speaker 4: these albums, I use a program drums. I go to
Speaker 4: a proper studio and work with a producer. And I've
Speaker 4: used Jason Bold from Bullet for my Valentine for my
Speaker 4: last albums. He's played drums on my last eight solo albums.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, okay, excellent, but yeah so sorry, oh no,
Speaker 2: go ahead, go ahead. CJ.
Speaker 4: So the way I survive is by doing d I Y.
Speaker 4: You know, it's doing it yourself. But if the food
Speaker 4: Fighters called me and said come on board CJ, you
Speaker 4: wouldn't You wouldn't be hearing many solo albums.
Speaker 2: Right, that makes sense?
Speaker 6: Did uh?
Speaker 2: Did you always kind of have it in the back
Speaker 2: of your mind that that you were going to do
Speaker 2: this diy as as you are today because you mentioned
Speaker 2: it's kind of it's survival. But there's also something I
Speaker 2: would think very satisfying, right about having the level of
Speaker 2: control that you have over everything that you're doing, by
Speaker 2: having your own label and by doing this all yourself.
Speaker 2: I would imagine there's there's a certain gratification that comes
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 9: Or maybe not.
Speaker 2: Maybe some days, maybe sometimes you have days where you go,
Speaker 2: I really could use some help here.
Speaker 4: I feel so freed the way I work. There's no
Speaker 4: one telling me what to do, how to sound, how
Speaker 4: to look. It's like going shopping in the mood. You know,
Speaker 4: I can let whatever I want hang out when wherever
Speaker 4: I want to, whenever I want to, And that is
Speaker 4: really it's an amazing feeling having that much control over
Speaker 4: everything you do, right, But you know it comes at
Speaker 4: a cost, because yeah, I don't have a big record deal,
Speaker 4: I don't have a distribution network all over the world.
Speaker 4: I have a deal in Japan still, which is I'm
Speaker 4: really grateful for, you know, and this this album has
Speaker 4: actually come out properly in Japan. You can get it
Speaker 4: in shops and but as far as the rest of
Speaker 4: the world is concerned, if you don't come to my store,
Speaker 4: you won't know who I am. You know, it'd be
Speaker 4: really hard to track me down, right, And so you
Speaker 4: know it's I am what's known as a real underground musician.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm a mold right right. Well, but you're
Speaker 2: doing it, You're making it work, and that's that's more
Speaker 2: than a lot of people can can manage to pull off.
Speaker 2: But obviously all your experience and everything and the you know,
Speaker 2: the legacy that you've built is helpful with that. And
Speaker 2: that which kind of leads me to a question about
Speaker 2: is the song one of the Boys. It feels like
Speaker 2: it's it's really kind of about looking back and and
Speaker 2: can you can you tell I love that song and
Speaker 2: we did open with that, that was our our opening track.
Speaker 2: As far as the segment goes, can you tell us
Speaker 2: about that song, And I don't know if I'm reading
Speaker 2: Sometimes I wonder if I'm reading too much in the lyrics,
Speaker 2: and they really don't mean as much as whatever my
Speaker 2: brain tries to assign in terms of lyrics. But it
Speaker 2: feels like it's about looking back, looking back on success
Speaker 2: and mistakes and and all of it. Am I am
Speaker 2: I on the right track with that.
Speaker 4: It's the song is when I started this album, started
Speaker 4: the writing process because it wasn't. It was really hard
Speaker 4: for me to just get going because because of you know, ultimately,
Speaker 4: when you're a musician, you want you want, you want
Speaker 4: some level of success. And when you know before you've
Speaker 4: written a note how many albums you're gonna sell, and
Speaker 4: that it's going to be a struggle, it's hard to
Speaker 4: find the motivation. So One of the Boys was was
Speaker 4: was written from the perspective of an older musician coming
Speaker 4: to the end of his career, maybe saying goodbye, and
Speaker 4: then just looking back and say, like, you know, it
Speaker 4: doesn't matter what you've done, what mistakes you've made, you know,
Speaker 4: how many big shows, small shows, how many tours you've done.
Speaker 4: When you look at yourself, you're just one of the boys.
Speaker 4: One of the lads. You know you're no lets. You
Speaker 4: know your ego, your size of your car or how
Speaker 4: small your car is. Our bigger houses, our smaller houses.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter, right, stripped back way, You're just blood,
Speaker 4: guts and bones.
Speaker 2: Right right. Absolutely, So I'm curious about this. Is this
Speaker 2: true that you're you're nineteen eighty nine Gibson bb King
Speaker 2: Lucille guitar is featured in the Punk exhibition at the
Speaker 2: Gibson Garage and in London?
Speaker 8: Is that true?
Speaker 4: It worked? Yeah, So Gibson contacted me and said, we're
Speaker 4: celebrating fifty years of punk and we really want to
Speaker 4: have like Lucy my guitar in there. And I was
Speaker 4: like really, you know, and I was like really flattered,
Speaker 4: and yeah, we know the guitar is so well known
Speaker 4: and people know you see you from the Wildhearts and
Speaker 4: all your other bands and know you know, you're a
Speaker 4: lot of your solo stuff is very very punk and
Speaker 4: and it's going to be up there with Captain Sensible's guitar.
Speaker 4: And then they said Mick Jones and I was like, yep,
Speaker 4: you can take her, take her, do whatever you want
Speaker 4: with her. And she was down in London for about
Speaker 4: a month and it was at the Gibson Garage down
Speaker 4: in Oxford Street and a lot of people saw it,
Speaker 4: and Gibson gave me an update and they said a
Speaker 4: lot of people made a beeline to her because she's
Speaker 4: such a unique looking, you know, Gibson guitar and they
Speaker 4: just said, you know, it's such a cool guitar, and yeah,
Speaker 4: I was really honored. My guitar is actually better known
Speaker 4: than me, which is brilliant.
Speaker 2: That's that is wild. Oh that that is so cool.
Speaker 2: That is so cool. So what's kind of your forward trajectory?
Speaker 2: And maybe you don't know yet. Obviously the album literally
Speaker 2: just came out right devil, So do you know where
Speaker 2: you're going after that? Do you plan to make another
Speaker 2: solo album? And part of why I ask, is it
Speaker 2: almost I think you had said somewhere I read that
Speaker 2: you refer to this album as a possible swan song,
Speaker 2: but which I find hard to believe. It sounds to
Speaker 2: me like you've got a lot more music in you.
Speaker 2: But but do you you know what's next for you
Speaker 2: after this album?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I've started the follow up already.
Speaker 2: Oh good good.
Speaker 4: One song isn't a fun song anymore? The follow up
Speaker 4: is called Chalk and I've started compiling the ideas and
Speaker 4: the songs for that. My artist has already done the
Speaker 4: cover for it, and yeah, so it's literally I'm not
Speaker 4: touring in the UK. I've got a Japanese tour in April.
Speaker 4: I'm looking for some support tours for next year for
Speaker 4: the UK, But for the rest of the summer and
Speaker 4: the rest of the fall, I'm heads down working on
Speaker 4: the next album, Gotcha.
Speaker 2: Gotcha very good? And is there a theme with the album?
Speaker 2: You know, we talked about the song one of the Boys,
Speaker 2: but the album Devil, I mean, is there a theme
Speaker 2: throughout the album or is it just And I did
Speaker 2: listen to the whole thing, so I didn't necessarily detect
Speaker 2: anything specific, but I'm curious from your perspective. It's great,
Speaker 2: by the way, but I'm curious from your perspective, is
Speaker 2: there is there kind of a theme or a unif
Speaker 2: find message to the album.
Speaker 4: I mean, all my albums I write about what's going
Speaker 4: on in my life, and a lot of reviewers have
Speaker 4: picked up on the kind of there's almost like a
Speaker 4: tinge of bitterness and there's a lot of retrospective sort
Speaker 4: of soul searching going on in this album, and they're
Speaker 4: quite right. And the bitterness isn't it's not bitterness, it's
Speaker 4: more frustration. Yeah, you know, forty odd years of making music,
Speaker 4: and I see myself here. Although I am in a
Speaker 4: good place emotionally and spiritually, financially it's a struggle, you know.
Speaker 4: I'm like a lot of people on this planet, struggling financially.
Speaker 4: But this album, it covers a lot. There's a lot
Speaker 4: more songs on here looking back. There's a song called
Speaker 4: sob called Sad Old Boy, and that's me looking back
Speaker 4: at the eighties and the nineties. There's also a lot
Speaker 4: of frustration with the world at the moment. Nine ninety
Speaker 4: nine is about what's going on in this country at
Speaker 4: the moment, and it's a song called No More, which
Speaker 4: is all about the wars and knife crime and stuff
Speaker 4: is going around the world. I have a very young son.
Speaker 4: Although I'm almost sixty, my son turns twelve in August,
Speaker 4: and my constant worry is about the world he is
Speaker 4: going to inherit when he's a young adult, and I
Speaker 4: just hope it's better than the planet we're living on
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's also something very relatable. I think I think
Speaker 2: a lot of people, especially from our generation. I'm also
Speaker 2: a gen xer, and I think a lot of our
Speaker 2: generation kind of feels that way. You know, we're we
Speaker 2: blame the boomers for for a lot of what we
Speaker 2: were left with, and then we worry about what. I
Speaker 2: don't have any kids myself, but we worry about what
Speaker 2: the what, what the generation that is after us is
Speaker 2: gonna deal with, and what kind of a world we're
Speaker 2: leaving for them, and and you know, and that cycle continues.
Speaker 2: But I think that's relatable. I think a lot of
Speaker 2: people feel that way, so and that that might be
Speaker 2: someone of some of what really connected with me about
Speaker 2: the album, Like I said, I listen to the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I think it's great. Where does the title come from?
Speaker 2: Why did you decide to call it devil?
Speaker 4: A couple of things. I knew it was going to
Speaker 4: be like a devil of an album to make. And
Speaker 4: I also have a hot source brand called Devil's Fit.
Speaker 4: So the artwork of the album is taken from the
Speaker 4: artwork of my Hot Sauce brand. So the devilhead is
Speaker 4: the logo for my my Hot Sauce. So it's kind
Speaker 4: of all connected.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I've had my own hot Souce brand for about twelve
Speaker 4: years now and it's based on my mum made hot sauce,
Speaker 4: So everything's connected. I can't I can't sing about anything
Speaker 4: or do anything that is connected to my life. It
Speaker 4: has to. I mean, there's a song on Devil called
Speaker 4: Fade right at the End, which is about my mum
Speaker 4: and dad, who both succumbed to dementia Alzheimer's. I had
Speaker 4: to watch them fade in front of my eyes very
Speaker 4: slowly over many years, and you know, it was a
Speaker 4: really hard song to write and sing, but I needed
Speaker 4: to do something. I needed to immortalize the feeling of
Speaker 4: love and hate and guilt I felt watching both my
Speaker 4: parents slowly die in front of my eyes, And to
Speaker 4: put it into music is a really, really good way
Speaker 4: of just exercising those feelings and kind of letting them
Speaker 4: out of you. And that's what I use a lot
Speaker 4: of my music to do, especially feelings of anger and frustration.
Speaker 4: I use my songs to let those feelings out. I
Speaker 4: think it's better I put it into art, into something
Speaker 4: like that, rather than drinking them away or you know,
Speaker 4: snorting them away or fighting them away. My way of
Speaker 4: exercising the beast, the demon is through through my music.
Speaker 4: So that's why a lot of the subjects on my
Speaker 4: albums can sometimes be a little bit heavy. But if
Speaker 4: I write a love song, you know it's going to
Speaker 4: be about you know, my wife or my child.
Speaker 2: Now I'm glad to hear you say that too, because
Speaker 2: that's the subject that comes up a lot on the show.
Speaker 2: Is how you know, music is such great therapy. And
Speaker 2: if you anytime that you can take trauma or stress
Speaker 2: or things that you're worried about, whether it's something that's
Speaker 2: happened to you or something that you're worried about happening,
Speaker 2: or whatever it is, whatever is bothering you or in
Speaker 2: your case, you know, you talked about fade and what
Speaker 2: that song means witches. You know, I can only imagine
Speaker 2: what it's like to go through that. But anytime you
Speaker 2: can take something that's negative and turn it into art,
Speaker 2: then you're taking something negative and making something positive from it.
Speaker 2: And not only is that great therapy for you as
Speaker 2: the person who is creating that art, but it also
Speaker 2: might help other people who then can enjoy that art
Speaker 2: and connect with it, and maybe it helps them with
Speaker 2: what they're going through as well. So I think, uh,
Speaker 2: I think music is the best, the best therapy that
Speaker 2: you can whether it's making it or listening to it.
Speaker 2: It's it's really is the best therapy in my opinion, So.
Speaker 4: And creative, I agree with you, yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: There's most people are the same. It doesn't matter how
Speaker 4: you wrapped up. You know, the plumber and the Thames, adopted,
Speaker 4: adopted is the same as the rock star. The rock
Speaker 4: stars the same as the mechanic. We're all the same underneath,
Speaker 4: And it doesn't matter what standing you have in life.
Speaker 4: You could be the billionaire, the millionaire, the plumb on
Speaker 4: the street, or you just could be a normal, everyday
Speaker 4: working class dude or woman. And we're all connected by
Speaker 4: the same stories. We all breathe the same air. People
Speaker 4: die around us, we can all fall in love, we
Speaker 4: can all lose something, win something. And if you sing
Speaker 4: about stuff that is actually happening in your life, there's
Speaker 4: a good chance that it's happening in billions of other
Speaker 4: people's lives. So there's always that connection there. So I
Speaker 4: always sing about or write songs about things that have
Speaker 4: happened to me, and I always have a lot of
Speaker 4: people come back at me, not millions, but you know
Speaker 4: enough saying that they're connected to the songs because it
Speaker 4: happened to them and they understand where I'm coming from.
Speaker 4: And you know, for me, that's a really important thing.
Speaker 4: I won't sing about dragons and wizards and things, nothing
Speaker 4: about there's I've been wrong with that, but I don't
Speaker 4: deal in and to see deal in reality right right?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Well, CJ Wildheart, this has been wonderful. It's great
Speaker 2: to have you on the show. We'll definitely do this
Speaker 2: again in the future, especially as they're going to be
Speaker 2: releasing new music. And I do want to again thank
Speaker 2: you for you know, thank you for your flexibility in
Speaker 2: terms of what platform we use to bring you on.
Speaker 2: Technology will fail us at times.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, definitely. Can I just say this, I said
Speaker 4: it with Devil it's my last album. This next one
Speaker 4: I'm making could potentially be my last album. When you
Speaker 4: say it's your last album, people tend to buy more
Speaker 4: copies of them, So it's a really good strategy to
Speaker 4: sell more.
Speaker 8: Else that is true.
Speaker 2: And it works with touring too. If you say you're
Speaker 2: going on a farewell tour, you know, and then it works.
Speaker 2: It works for a lot of Yeah, it's worked for
Speaker 2: a lot of artists. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, So we will
Speaker 2: end our conversation with another track from the album Devil.
Speaker 2: But I not to put you on the spot, but
Speaker 2: we already we played a bunch of them while I
Speaker 2: was trying to get the situation worked out with WhatsApp
Speaker 2: and and and all that. So I would like you
Speaker 2: to pick what should we what should we play from
Speaker 2: the album to end the segment. It's just the only
Speaker 2: stipulation being because we're on terrestrial radio in the United States,
Speaker 2: can't have any swears in it.
Speaker 4: But uh uh, the art of being free?
Speaker 2: Okay, that's what decades Oh excellent, all right, very good,
Speaker 2: So we'll we'll end with that. So again c J Wildheart.
Speaker 2: Oh one other thing, where's the best place for people
Speaker 2: to go online to keep up with everything that you're
Speaker 2: doing and to buy the album?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so if you go to uh, it's h CJ.
Speaker 4: Devil Spit all one word, CJ Devil Spit.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I've been to the site, by the way,
Speaker 2: it's excellent.
Speaker 12: So I really like that.
Speaker 2: I'm a website nerd.
Speaker 4: So a lot of the album, a lot of my
Speaker 4: albums are sold out now, so it's a good and
Speaker 4: it's a good place to be selling out.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely all right, my friend c J. Wild Heart,
Speaker 2: we'll let you go. We will hit that track, but
Speaker 2: we will do it again in the future. And thank
Speaker 2: you so much for joining us today. This has been wonderful.
Speaker 4: Appreciate you, Matt. All right, you take care, all.
Speaker 2: Right, you two take care, bye bye, all right. That
Speaker 2: is c J. Wildheart. The new album with very new
Speaker 2: just came out, Devil, and let's play this track. Oh wait,
Speaker 2: which one? I want to make sure, Oh, the art
Speaker 2: of being free? I want to make sure I play
Speaker 2: the one that he asked us to play. And again
Speaker 2: I did listen to the whole thing. It's great. I
Speaker 2: suggest you check it out, Devil by CJ. Wildheart. And
Speaker 2: this is called the art of being free.
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