Matt Connarton Unleashed 8-1-23

Hello, everybody, Welcome, here we go. It is that time again,

Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n

H five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. And it

is a glorious day, although it's supposed to get actually cold later, believe

it or not. If I heard that correctly, and I'm going to double

check the weather. We don't usually do a weather report on the show,

but my goodness of the temperature is going to drop. We'll come back to

that. But yes, we are of course from the studios of WMH ninety

five point three also Comcast ninety seven if you happen to be in Manchester,

New Hampshire. And hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and

around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for

all your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives,

etc. Etc. Today is Tuesday, August one, two thousand twenty

three, So welcome everybody. We have an exciting show today. We actually

have two, not one, but two musical guests, very excited. One

of them you just heard one of their songs that we opened the show with

Blue Eyes is the name of the song. The band is called from Starlight.

They're going to be skyping in at four thirty today because they are from

Albany, New York. But they've got a big show. They're gonna be

in the area. They've got a big show tomorrow night at in Allston,

mass which is just an hour south of here, so they wanted to come

on today and talk about that, pump up the show and uh, we'll

get to know those guys a little bit. So that will be coming up

at four thirty and then in the five o'clock hour we will be joined via

Skype. We have a guest from the UK, Jake Dollery, and he's

um. I really like his music a lot. I said in a social

media post earlier about today's show. These UK artists, I'm just fascinated by

by their their music. He's got a really, really cool sound and he's

he's also a fellow broadcaster. It turns out I did some research, so

we've got plenty to talk about with Jake. So he'll be joining us at

five pm in the second hour. Numerow Doose of Matt Connerton, Unleashton we'll

see what kind of trouble we can get into both before and after our musical

guests. Although Jake and I are probably going to be talking for a long

time, I bet, because like I said, I think we have a

lot to discuss, so which is nice. So again, big big show,

big show ahead of us. But if you'd like to get in early

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I'm looking at the weather now. Again, we don't usually do weather,

traffic, sports, any of that on this program, but because you

know, we have people listening online from other places, who aren't necessarily concerned

with these sports, weather and traffic in Manchester, New Hampshire. However,

I will say this tonight, so this is revised from what I saw earlier.

I'm looking at the weather right now and tonight it's supposed to get down

to fifty one degrees Now. That is chilly compared to what we're used to.

Nice to have a break from the heat and all. But earlier,

the report that I heard earlier said it was going to be down in the

forties tonight. It was actually gonna get cold, and I was like,

oh no, because here's the thing with that. So summer is and has

always been my favorite time of year and I want to hold on to it

for as long as we can, right, And don't get me wrong,

I understand this summer has been very hot. So we're having beautiful weather these

last few days, and it looks like it's going to continue in that vein.

I don't see another heat wave on the immediate horizon, so that's good.

It's nice to have a break from the heat. I understand everyone needs

that. But I do love summer and it is my favorite time of year,

and I always say to see it slip away, and usually in late

August, sometimes even earlier, sometimes middle of August, but you know,

usually it's more like late August. One of these signs of summer slipping away,

and I get a little melancholy about it, is when you have those

enormous swings in temperature where in the daytime it'll be your standard hot summer day,

but then at night the temp just plummets, like thirty to forty degrees,

you know, instead of you know, just cooling off but still saying

reasonable staying reasonably warm, it just drops. It gets actually cold out.

And that's usually, like I said, usually late August, last week of

August, sometimes the middle of August that starts to show up where you have

those big swings in temperature that you don't have in say July, where it's

just hot, and then at night it cools off, but it's still hot,

and yeah, it's more comfortable in some ways, better sleeping, whether

I suppose when it cools off at night. But I always hate to see

it because that a sign. It's like night Moves by Bob Seeger when he

says something about autumn closing in. I don't know, I don't even like

the song. I don't know why I'm thinking about it anyway. The point

is I don't like when it gets cold at night in summer, because to

me, that means summer is over. Now this is it's only August first,

and it's not gonna get as cold tonight as I thought. But it's

still a low of fifty one degrees. I mean, that's got me a

little worried. It looks like tonight though, looking at the ten day forecast,

tonight's the lowest it's going to get Tomorrow and night A well, tomorrow

and night a low of fifty three. That's still pretty low high of seventy

eight. You know, I just don't want to see I don't want to

see it suddenly forty degrees at midnight, because then, you know, yeah,

summer's over. We're still gonna have some hot days, but it's cold

at night. Summer's over. I hate to see it. I'm not a

big fall guy. Yeah. Everyone always says, oh, but the leaves,

the leaves, the foliage. Yeah, I grew up here. I'm

over it. Listen. The problem I have with fall is, yeah,

you've got a lot of nice weather, and of course it's very pretty the

leaves, especially north of here, like up in the mountains. But the

problem is what fall leads to, and what fall leads to is winter.

And I'm not a winter guy. I'm a spring and summer guy. Those

are my seasons, Spring and summer. I love fall in winter. M

no, thank you, That's how I feel about it. Let me give

you the studio line one more time. If you do want to get in

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show ahead of us. Our first guest is skyping in at four thirty.

But if you would like to chime in on anything, six three two five

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In the Facebook live chat, John Hopwood says Matt is thinking about a song

from nineteen sixty two, Strange how the night moves. Then he gets to

that line about autumn closing in, and it's like, oh, at them,

I don't even like it. When you say I'm mean, autumn sounds

nice, like it's a nice word. So I guess autumn sounds maybe nicer

than fall, but it's still I don't like it. I love summer.

I want summer to last forever when I was a kid. You know,

of course, you perceive time much differently when you're a child. Uh,

you know, days seem like weeks, and weeks seemed like months, and

you know, summer vacation would start, and it just felt like it was

going to last forever, which sounds like a terribly cliche thing to say.

I'm sorry, but that's that. That's how it felt. It was like,

summer is gonna last forever, you know, and then it would be

back to school time, and it wouldn't even because of the way you perceive

time differently when you're a kid, at least for me, and I've heard

other people say this too. When you get to the end of summer,

it's not like, oh, it flew by. It's like, no,

it's you know, it seemed like about the requisite amount of time that is

allocated for the summer months. And now it's time to go back to school.

It feels normal, you know, but now it's like summer just again.

You know. It's it's my favorite time of year. It never seems

never seems enough. I can't believe it's already. August feels like this.

Yesterday it was Memorial Day. Jay fed from the Great State of Vermont joins

us says good afternoon everyone, Good afternoon. Jenny of course is in the

Facebook live chat and says shalom peeps. DJ Steve joins us and says,

good afternoon everyone. DJ Steve of course, one of our co hosts on

Friday nights for retro Spectrum Radio with Paul C. John Hopwood said, fifty

one degrees. Yes, it's supposed to get down to fifty one degrees.

It's gonna be icicles tomorrow morning. Icicles. No, it won't be that

bad. But the original forecast that's revised. The original forecast I heard this

morning was I was supposed to get down into the low forties. So I'm

glad that's changed. I'm glad that's been revised. I was freaking out.

Let's see. Oh. Melanie Liberty from the Great State of Vermont also joins

us in the Facebook lave chat. Hello Melanie. Hey, something quick and

not a political story, but I just I saw this on CNBC dot com

and it really grabbed my attention. It involves Amazon. Check this out.

Amazon employees leak secret info that marketplace sellers can buy on Telegram. Part of

why that caught my eye. Is you know, I don't really talk about

it much on the show. It's not that interesting. But I've been in

the online retail game for a long time and I've sold much inventory on Amazon,

not currently, but that's not a selling platform I'm currently using. But

I have a lot of experience as a as a third party seller on Amazon

dot Com. Oh hello to Miriam Bannish who joins us in the Facebook live

chat. But I thought this was interesting. If so, in theory,

if I were still selling on Amazon specifically, I could go on Telegram and

buy secret information. This is fascinating to me. Key points from the article

Amazon International information is finding its way onto messaging apps like Telegram, where brokers

are selling data to third party sellers. The brokers act as middlemen between sellers

and Amazon employees, who leak the data in exchange for money. A message

and a Telegram group says quote much more you can find about your account by

ordering screenshots with inside information from US as Sellers Support sees it unquote. By

the way seller support, if you are a third party seller on Amazon,

you don't ever want to have to interact with seller support. It doesn't always

go well you know, because something something goes wrong with your account, or

they're holding up your money or something. You've got to contact seller support and

sometimes they'll side with you, but sometimes they'll find ways to screw you over.

Quite frankly says here for millions of sellers who make up the booming Amazon

marketplace. You know, because if you don't know what I'm talking about,

by the way, with third party sellers, if you go on Amazon and

you look up a product, you'll see usually Amazon is selling it, right,

but then they have all these third party sellers that are also selling it

on the Amazon platform, and they're all competing with each other. Unfortunately.

Part of what's driven a lot of third party sellers out, like myself,

for example, is Amazon in recent years with a lot of products, they've

begun sort of low balling the third party sellers. So you might sell something

on Amazon at a certain price, and then Amazon is selling it themselves at

a much lower price, and you can't lower your price to compete with Amazon

any more than you already have, because then you will be actually losing money.

You'll have no profit margin on that product. It's terrible. John Hopwood

says, I just got a message from Facebook that I have memories to share

from two people who are now dead. That's very strange, and I think

that might be related to the Satanic portal. Let's see if you don't know

what the Satanic portal is. That's why you have to listen to the show

every day. If you don't listen to this show every single day, you

will miss a lot of very important and to be honest, potentially life saving

information. So it is important to tune in every day, it says here.

Helping third party sellers recover their accounts has turned into a large and lucrative

enterprise because the only way the merchants can get back up and running is to

admit guilt and correct the issue, or show sufficient evidence that they did nothing

wrong. The process is often costly, lengthy, and fraught with challenges.

Yeah, I know it all too well again from my own experience. That's

why this jumped out at me. You know, Amazon can at any time

just shut you down, so you could be You got to understand there's I

don't know a thousands cents of thousands, hundreds of thousands of third party sellers

who make a full time living selling on Amazon. And then one day,

Amazon just says, hey, you broke the rules and we're shutting you down,

and then there's a review process, and meanwhile your income has stopped.

It's no different than you know, we've talked on the show about, for

example, YouTube and some of their arbitrarily enforced rules and the way they go

about it. If you are I mean, I'm not in this position,

but if you are someone who actually makes your living on YouTube, you know,

you've got a thousands or tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of subscribers,

and you know you're cranking out these videos in your channel is monetized,

and that's how you I mean, they're streamers who make their living on platforms

like YouTube and Twitch and others rumble and then all of a sudden one day,

YouTube says, ah, we found an infraction, and we're either we're

suspending your account or we're demonetizing you. You know, it can be crushing.

So it's a terrible situation to find yourself in. So I can see

where this information would be very valuable. The third party sellers Hello to Chris

from the band Edgewise, who joins us in the Facebook lap chat. So

yeah, so the process can be very difficult, and it says here again

this is from CNBC dot com enter the illicit broker for a fee of two

hundred to four hundred dollars. Sellers can pay for services like Amazon Magic a

one broker as one broker on encrypted messaging service Telegram calls it. The offerings

also include access to company insiders who can remove negative reviews on a product and

provide information on competitors. Users are told to send a private message to learn

the price of certain services. The Telegram group has over thirteen thousand members,

and it's far from the only one. Other brokers pedal similar services on Telegram,

as well as on wee Chat, WhatsApp and Facebook groups. The confidential

data is promoted as intelligence Gold for any seller working to get their product or

account reinstated. The groups are part of a robust market of so called black

hats service providers that have cropped up alongside the rise of third party marketplaces on

Amazon, Etsy and Walmart. Amazon's marketplace now accounts for over sixty percent of

good sold on the platform and includes numerous businesses that generate millions of dollars a

year in annual revenue on the site. As it's grown, the sprawling global

marketplace has also seen a surge in the number of counterfeiters and spammers trying to

game the system, which has pushed Amazon to ramp up enforcement. Much of

the activity originates off of Amazon's marketplace and on social media and encrypted messaging apps,

complicating the policing efforts. A public Facebook page identified by CNBC offers an

Internet I'm Sorry, an internal screenshot service with quote valuable insight into your seller

account, allowing you to see how Amazon employees view your account and its performance.

Une Facebook parent Meta did not respond to a request for comment. The

issue of rogue employees taking bribes is not a new one for Amazon. The

company has in the past dealt with low level, low wage seller support staffers

in China, India, and Costa Rica who have accepted payments in exchange for

leaking information. Brokers who act as middlemen between sellers and employees often reach out

to insiders on LinkedIn, said a person familiar with the matter, who asked

not to be named due to confidentiality. Amazon has an internal group tasked with

threat analysis and response, including a team dedicated to investigating employees suspected of leaking

data. The source said. The threat analysis unit monitors social media platforms for

abusive groups where bad actors may congregate before engaging an illicit activity on Amazon's marketplace.

Wow, this goes on. There's apparently so I didn't know this,

but we don't have time to get to the whole article. It's up on

CNBC. It's right on their homepage if you want to see it. But

apparently this kind of thing has been going on for a long time, and

I suppose it was bound to happen, uh with the you know, with

all this technology that we have and encrypted uh encrypted apps and whatnot. I

guess what I would just say, though, is I would warn to people

who are doing that kind of thing. If you're working for Amazon and you're

doing that, or you're you know, if for any other company, you

know, you will get caught eventually. I mean, it's not worth the

risk. It is never worth the risk. John Hopwood shared shared an article

in the in the chat room from the street dot com about what Amazon takes

for from third party sellers. Yeah, it's not as lucrative as it used

to be selling on Amazon third party I used to um, I used to

do something called retail arbitrage, where I would I would purchase products. This

was a part of my business. I would purchase products on eBay and sell

them on Amazon at a profit. But again, you know, after a

while, it's like Amazon sees you selling this stuff, and then they start

selling it themselves and they start lowballing you, and it's like, oh,

okay, so I can no longer compete with Amazon because Amazon is competing directly

with me. There have been weird stories too. There have been stories over

the years of people who invent their own products, manufacture their own trademark products,

the whole deal, right, and they open a seller account on Amazon.

They start selling on Amazon their own stuff that they make, they've trademarked,

they've branded it, everything, and then all of a sudden, one

day, either some other third party seller who had bought some of these items,

they're now selling it and competing directly with the original seller who they bought

the products from, or Amazon it turns out bought a bunch of the stuff,

or somebody selling counterfeit versions of the product that you've ada. That's you

know, I'm not saying I'm not saying it's not worth it, you know,

to sell on Amazon. But there's a lot that can go wrong,

that's for sure. All Right, here's what we're gonna do. We are

approaching for thirty and our first guest is going to be skyping in. We

have a two musical guests today. If you're disowning us, we have from

Starlight who's gonna be joining us at four thirty. They've got a big show

coming up in Allston, Massachusetts. They are from Albany, New York,

but they're gonna be in Allston tomorrow night, so they want to skype in

for a few minutes talk about that. And then at the top of the

hour, we have Jake Dollery from the UK who's gonna be joining us.

So very very exciting show today. But let's see. I'm gonna play this,

Yeah, I'm gonna play another from Starlight track. This is called what

She Needs. This is a really cool song. Let's give this a listen,

and then when we come back, we'll have them with us via skype.

I'm really looking forward to talking with these guys, or it might just

be one guy from the band. I'm not sure. We'll see, we'll

see, but I like these guys a lot. Check this out. This

is called what she needs from from starlight. This, this is what she

said that she needs. And here I wait on my knees. It's times

like the swearing is difficult, times like peace where it's so hot to scream.

But this is what she said, gets so through it, die and

drinking again. I'm sorry, I'm such a mass, So sorry. Coats,

come rest. When the time starts the day, when the taste starts

to change, you'll be back in my embrace again like now they have been

at all is what she said that she means, But it's breaking my heart.

Every time she turns around. It's like a falling alone. Just still

find out it's so when the time does to say, when the day starts

to change, you back in my brace again, like that happenlaint So I

didn't sprain my why my shut down and I explain to my soul. I

can't explain my harm like the kids shut down, he w. When the

time starts the day, when the day starts to change, you'll be back

in my embrace again like that have been that all my embrace again. I

just need to remember that. Oh that's good stuff. What she needs?

Uh, that is the Band from the Starlight, and let's get Chris on

here. He's already on Skype waiting for us. I just got to connect

with him, so if I don't have any trouble like I did last week,

Chris, you're there. Hi. Hey, welcome Chris Stein from the

Band from the Starlight. How are you doing. I'm doing well? How

are you very well? Very well? Is it just you? Any other

band members with you or just you? Just be today? They're running late

for rehearsals. Gotcha, gotcha? Hey, man, I really like your

sound. We played Blue Eyes to open the show today and uh, I

just you know, I just played what she Needs and great stuff. I

really dig what you're doing. And you're gonna be Uh you're from Albany,

right? Is that where you are right now? Is Albany in New York?

Yes, we're out of Albany, New York. And then you're gonna

be in Allston, Massachusetts tomorrow night. Correct, that's right. Yeah,

in Boston, just across the river from Cambridge at at the Silhouette Lounge.

Very cool. I don't think i've ever been there. Um did obviously,

I've been to the area, but not to that venue. Have you played

there before or is this your first time there? This would be my first

time there and probably the last time in a band. I personally have performed

in Boston in almost ten years. Oh get a long time since I've been

on the East coast. Oh wow, okay, gotcha? Gotcha? Um?

Now, how many guys are in the band? Is it four of

you? Four of us in the band? We have a guitarist at him.

He plays in another band called The Young Canny Gentleman H. He also

helps with some of the vocals. Uh, Brendan H. He plays in

a really interesting bluegrass folk band called The Narrow North. And he's playing bass

and he does vocals, And we have a drummer Russ And we're still you

know, we sometimes have a keyboard player join us. We don't have have

one on this leg. I was gonna say, on that song, I

think it was blue Eyes. I thought I heard it sounded like a Moog

synthesizer in there. Definitely. Yeah. I play a lot of the synth

stuff on the record myself. It's uh, you know, layering the different

sounds was a really important part of the music to us this time around.

That was really kind of foundation what we wanted to do. We just wanted

to try to modernize some of the rock sound that we had to blend in

with more modern music. Have you guys been around for a while. No,

this is our first, our first record. Some of the first shows

we're doing as a as a group live. Oh wow, Okay, very

cool, very cool. Well, I mean you're off to a great start.

How long has the record been out? We put it out very quietly

just after COVID. The record was done during COVID as just kind of a

side project, and then as as you know, the pandemic blinded down and

we were able to get people together as a as a group, we decided

to give it a go because we have more songs written and start to support

support the music. Um yeah, I mean it must feel good to get

out there and play. Are you playing a lot of shows? We are

just getting ramped up. We're booking shows in New York and in the Buffalo

area and town in uh Pittsburgh. Yea, but this is this is the

first one we're doing really formally. We've been We've done a couple of shows

where we haven't announced, but the first formal show we're doing and we're starting

up here in Boston. Oh, excellent, excellent. By the way,

what's the scene like in Albany. Do you play in Albany? I've I've

been in Albany, New York, but not for a very long time.

I used to work for a company that their corporate headquarters were in Albany,

So every once in a great while I would I would get to travel there.

But um, but I never really got a sense of what the scene

was like there. It used to be really great. There were a lot

of original bands that came out of the area. You know, count the

Stars got picked up by Victory Records a long time ago in the early two

thousands. Uh, there's a new band, State Champs, out of AVL

Park that's that's been doing really well nationally. But you know, recent years

they've seen a lot of venues closed, but there's there's a new set of

venues developing there. So Troy has a brand new venue, Albany's built a

brand a couple of brand new venues, and so it's like at a turning

point right now where it seems that some of the local original scene is starting

to come back and thrive. Yeah, that's good. That's good. Troy

is close right, pretty close to Albany. Yeah, just a couple of

minutes down the road. It's only about fifteen minutes Troice, Schenectady, Albany

and kind of Clifton Park. Those all kind of blend together as far as

the music is, uh, you know, music's concern. Yeah. Yeah.

UM. What's the kind of the long term plan are you gonna do?

Uh? Are you going to do a tour or are you gonna kind

of stay regional and work on new music or what? What? What?

What's the plan plan right now is to record some new music. We've we've

lined up Tim Leitner to to do a few more songs with us. We're

building a larger rehearsal and recording space right now in Albany, and we're hoping

that's done in the next month or so. And and that'll give us,

you know, a permanent creative space that we can you know, we can

use to write and and build out longer shows and better sets. Uh.

You know. The idea is to definitely, uh to do more and more

shows regionally, uh and perhaps in the summers uh, or or take advantage

of some of the connections I have down south from when I lived in Florida,

so there's a possibility going down there. It's just the logistics are really

difficult to work out. Okay, now, are you from Florida? Originally,

because I was thinking you don't sound like a Northeasterner, I I'm actually

it was I'm from Walbany originally. Oh no, kid, but then I've

traveled all over the place. Yeah, it sounds like, yeah, the

traveling can kind of just uh suck the accent out of you. Um,

It's funny like yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. I've known a

lot of people. I've known people who grew up here and it's like you

can't you know they've but they've been around and you can't tell, you know,

just because they've gone to other places where, you know, like the

Midwest or whatever where that you just Jesus can't this almost like a non almost

like a newscaster's accent where there just is no accent basically, um but uh

yeah, sure, oh yeah, oh no, I'm sorry, go ahead,

Chris. No. And if you live in a place where their strong

accents, like I spent a year in Boston, you find yourself picking up

on some of that as well, even though it's not natural to you,

right right, Oh, yeah, absolutely. I wanted to ask you,

can you tell us more about working with Tim Leitner, because I'd like to

know how that came about, because again, he's worked with some I'm looking

at a list here from your bio. He's worked with Carly Simon, Bruce

Springsteen, Tina Turner, Adam Ezra, whom I've interviewed over the years.

I think a couple of times. He's amazing. I love Adam Ezra,

but um, yeah, he's worked with some some some pretty heavy hitters.

How did you connect with him and how has it been working with him?

Obviously it's been positive because the music sounds great and you said you're going to

do more of it in the future. But how did that all come about?

Yeah? So I was living in Florida at the time I wrote the

songs, and I started to think about, you know, really reaching out

to some great producers to see if they'd be willing to work on the project

with me, because I wanted to have a lot of director I wanted to

have a lot of control over what I was doing, and at the time,

we didn't have a I didn't have a band. You know. Russ

was laying down some drum ideas for me, but I was playing everything else.

And I think I wanted too, for the first time, make a

record that that I wanted to make without without compromising the vision I had,

and Tim really his creative process the way he talked to me. And then

we went up and we drove to New York City, Russ and I,

uh in March of twenty twenty nineteen or yeah, twenty nineteen, just because

the next year would have been the pandemic. We uh. We went to

Sticky Audio and we worked for three or four days and that that was twenty

two uh. And it was a great process, and then we planned on

working together in the future. This record was really very weird because I was

in my rehearsal space up here in Albany via Zoom, sending the mix live

as I was doing things down to Tim in New York City because we you

know, there was a travel band during the during the pandemic. Yeah,

so we did this almost remotely. Uh. And then we got together and

he came up here and we did Stars and Satellites here. So we've we've

worked together about three times now. Kind of fascinating process. He's a brilliant,

brilliant mind. Yeah. I always say too, you know, as

far as like working with someone over zoom and you know, sending files back

and forth and whatnot. One thing, you know, I mean, the

pandemic has been awful in so many ways, but I do think it's good

to try to find those silver linings where we can. And one good thing

is the timing of it, because at least it happened in an era where

we have all this technology, and it's the technology that we have that allowed

people to continue to be creative and to find ways to work together, and

whether it's recording or even you know, there's some some really famous bands who

would do live performances online and you know, just all kinds of crazy stuff

that you know, if this had happened twenty years sooner, or even ten

years sooner, it would have been a lot harder in that sense. So

I think it really brought out a lot of creativity and people. You know,

necessity being the mother of invention. You know that the pandemic made it

necessary for people to find new ways to you know, because I'm sure a

lot of musicians would have been much more resistant to using technology to create music

in this way without being forced to, and the pandemic kind of forced people

to become more adaptable to that and amenable to work in that way. You're

absolutely right, and we were, we were among them. We were.

We did not want to do an I think virtually we put it off and

pushed the project back and back and back, and it was actually towards the

end of twenty twenty when we finally said, Okay, we're just going to

give up. It doesn't seem like this is relenting and and we're very lucky

that the technology existed where we could have live transmission of high quality audio back

and forth almost instantaneously. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah, it's

uh, it's it's really incredible. And do you have you probably it's too

soon, I would guess, But do you have any kind of an idea

when music that you created in the future, the next batch of songs or

the next album, when that might be out, or are you shooting for

some time in the next year. We're trying to get at least another four

or five out soon. We've got several written that we were rehearsing right now,

and a couple that you know, are are pretty pretty developed. But

we want to take every together as a package, you know, to look

at as a whole and make sure we make smart decisions on what we you

know, what we release, because we're trying to set a pretty high bar

for for the songs we put out right right now. And like I said,

everything sounds great and it's uh, it sounds like you're in a fantastic

position as far as recording and getting to work with somebody that the caliber of

Tim Leitner, that that certainly helps. And uh, and the songwriting is

really strong. Who do you write? I get the impression do you write

the songs yourself? Yeah? I do this batch dispatch, I did write,

Uh, you know, Stars and Satellites Russ. Russ helped me with

some of the lyrics on that. And we're more collaborative now that we have

you know, more musicians and we're able to you know, be in a

room together for a long period of time. Right. So that's yeah,

that's been much much welcome to to take some of the pressure of writing everything

off of my shoulders. Oh, absolutely, absolutely, Yeah. It does

seem like, you know a lot of bands start out that way too,

where it's kind of like a solo project and then it turns into a band,

and you'll often hear the person with whom the band started as a solo

project will say, oh, it's just so much easier now. I mean

famous example, the Food Fighters. You know that first Food Fighters album was

all Dave Grohl and and you know he has said many times an interview,

so it's so nice. You know, once I add an actual band officially

together to record instead of to you know, just all all the pressure being

on me, so and it is h you know, one of the great

joys of making music is being able to collaborate with other people. So that's

that's great. The time goes by so quick. I don't want to run

out of time, Chris, So, I want to make sure people know

well two important things. If you can remind us about the show tomorrow night,

so our listeners in the area can get there. But also too,

anything you want our listeners to know about where to find you online, website,

social media, anything. Where's the best place to go to keep up

with everything that from Starlight is doing. Yeah, so we're playing tomorrow night

at eight o'clock at the Silhouette Lounge in Boston, Massachusetts, just across the

river from Cambridge, with the White Bear Principle at Sleep, Jumper and Dead

Vapor. That should be a really great lineup. I think it goes eight

to eleven o'clock. And as far as keeping in touch with the band or

looking us up, we're on all the streaming platforms, although it seems from

metrics everybody's using Spotify, So you can find us on Spotify, and then

you can also find us on Twitter at at makes Underscore Chris and At from

Starlight twenty one excellent, excellent. Oh one other thing too, by the

way, where does the name come from? From Starlight? What does that

mean? That's that came out of writing stars and satellites. I was gonna

call the project that, but but we ended up with a song like that,

and so we just, uh, we started to think about some of

you know, a lot of these tunes are about love from weird or different

perspectives, either from you know, drugs, singing to an addict or you

know, people struggling singing to other people. And so we just we kind

of we're thinking of different metaphysical things and that's kind of where it came from

plus the music. We tried to have a little soaring and sometimes some sci

fi elements drift in, so I think that's where we ended up settling on

that. Yeah, yeah, very cool. I like it a lot.

All right, Well, Chris Stein, we're gonna let you go, my

friend, and uh and we're gonna actually close out the segment with one more

song, but I'd like you to pick. So I played what She Needs

and I played blue Eyes. What song would you like us to play to

close out the segment? You get to choose. I think Stars and Satellites.

It's short and seems to be one people gravitate towards, and we were

just talking about it, so that's perfect. All right, all right,

I'm gonna play that one in a moment, but I'll let you go.

Chris, Thank you again so much. A great show tomorrow night, and

I'm sure we will we'll do this again in the future. Thank you,

my friend, Thank you so much. We appreciate it. All right,

Chris, you got it, Take care, byebye. All right. That

was the great Chris Stein from the band from Starlight and uh yeah, check

them out tomorrow night. They will be in Austin. And I'm gonna play

we will close out. We'll close out this segment with that track, and

then after that, coming up in the second hour, we have Jake Dollery

with us skyping in from the UK. So we're gonna play this track from

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around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for

all your live streaming options, social media links, conduct in folk show archives,

etcetera, etcetera. Today is Tuesday, August first, two thousand and

twenty three. Thank you again to Chris Stein from the band from Starlight for

joining us today. They got a big show tomorrow night in Austin, mass

check it out. I really like their music, I really like their sound

and that was great talking to Chris. And in just a couple of minutes

we are going to be joined via skype by We've got two musical guests today.

Jake Dolery is going to be calling I'm sorry not calling skyping man of

course, because he is across the pond as they say in the UK.

So really looking forward to talking to him. And he's got a great sound

as well. It's a little different. It's really cool. Um. We've

a lot of these artists that we talked to from the UK are just really

remarkable. Um, who is it? Oh? Last week we had Lewis

Tivy who was just fantastic. I really love what he's doing. But I'm

gonna go ahead and play one of these Jake Dolery tracks now, and then

once the song is over, we'll have him with us via Skype. This

is called come and get Me and this is really really catchy. I like

this a lot. Check this out. Come and get me from Jake Dollery

right here on Matt Connerton unleashed. Yeah, fine, I can see your

mind. We might find you've been crying for too many years. He's up

with a single tips so wrong with me. Don't push me away, try

rise out for to day and come and get me. Come and get me

here. I am, Come and get me here. I am, come

and get me one man. How long since you can't gonna ring? You've

been kept some end of the chain trapsing world about love for him? Your

good enough, he's my love. Give me a call like the promise,

will have a ball. Let me know what you desire because I'm my mom

bi. Don't come and get me here. I am, Come and get

me here. I come and get me here. I am, Come and

get me a wan of me, a man, come and get me a

hen's to night. You know that I'll treat you right, So let me

make this feel. Come and get me and my hare stop. Get what's

gone? The boy. You don't need you cry anymore. Look into my

eyes gone, say a thing. It's time for you to begin. Don't

come and get me out, Come and get there. Out Come and get

me here, Come and get me. A want of me, so come

get me, Come and get me so I get me out. I want

to be up. I don't even have the words for how much I like

that song. That is so good. Come and get me Jake Dollery and

I think we have him on Skype. Jake, are you there? Yeah,

I'm right here. Man. Oh. It's always a relief when when

everything works out with Skype, because sometimes when we have these Skype calls that

are you know, transcontinental, we are run into technical difficulties. So I'm

glad. I'm glad we're connected. I love that song. I love that

song. Come and get me that is so good. Thank you very much.

I'm I can hear you, but I can't see you. Yeah that

that that that's okay, they'll they'll you don't need to see me. What's

that? Can you see me? I can well if I turn so our

listeners can't see you. But they can't see Uh, they can't see whoever's

on Skype anyway. I can see you. You're a you're all that there's

no seeing me. It's probably not a bad thing. Noah, I don't

worry about it. No, we're good. We're good. I I can

I can see you if I turn to look at that monitor. But no,

the important thing is that we can hear each other. By the way,

how do you say your last name? Because I'm worried that I'm not

saying it correctly? Hopefully right? Dollary Okay, American currency with a Y

on the end. Gotcha, dollary? Okay, very good, very good?

Hey um, Yeah, I really really like that song. I love

your sound. UM. I think that track in particular, the bassline,

it just is so good. Now do you do you do you do everything

yourself? Or do you have other musicians that you work with? UM on

that particular track, was or me? Apart from drums, I have to

kind of source drums from UM. How can I put this? Sometimes they're

elicited, sometimes the drum machine. Sometimes they're live drums that that you download

from from people that provide that kind of thing. Yeah, but on this

yeah, it's pretty much all me. All the vocals, the guitar work,

based work is all me. Yeah, I just I just kind of

like that little bassline. Well, I was just noodling about one day with

a bass in my lap, and and I thought, I, hang on,

I could build something around this, and I just wanted something a little

bit bluesy, a little bit rocky, you know, just just to um

create a bit of energy. And you know, you know, my lyrics

obviously, I like to try and you know, be pretty cool with them.

I don't like just writing empty lyrics, yeah, just random, you

know. I like to I like to try and create a meaning in what

I write. I don't want to sound pretentious, sorry no, but yeah,

the bassline just really drives it. It propels the song forward, and

I really like it. It's very very catchy. And you sound to some

other music too, you know. Well, well we'll play something else at

the end of the segment as well. But yeah, great, great stuff.

And you've been at this a while, haven't you. Yeah, I've

been knocking around a few years. I'm not sure how, you know,

if I should actually tell your listeners, but yeah, yeah, I've been

I've been making music since I was seventeen. UM, and here we are

forty years on. I'm fifty seven now. I've just released a new album

which I'm really proud of. Um, it seems to be gathering a little

bit of attention. UM, I mean not big time. I'm not going

to pretend you know that it's anything more than that. But I've but I've

had a lot of independent stations like yourselves, um, picking up on what

I'm doing and I'm really liking it, which is really encouraging it. It's

really it's really great to get that validation from people to say, you know,

we like what you're doing. You know, I've been, like I

said, I've been making music for forty years, and then in the last

five or six years, I finally find an audience which is like wow,

which is probably a good thing because if I had found that when I was

starting out, I probably have an ego the size of the Empire State Building's

probably not very healthy. But right there you go. No, I mean,

you know, music, music's been there for me through the good times

and bad times, you know, through I mean, especially through COVID.

I had such a purple patching in writing because that had so much time you

know, being being isolated at home and stuff, and you know, and

I think I created some of my best music during that period. But so

yeah, there we go. It's that's what it's. It's interesting that you

say that about COVID because we were just talking with um. We had Chris

Stein from the band from Starlight on the show earlier, and we were at

talking about that, how you know, the pandemic kind of forced people to

be more creative because all of a sudden, you know, a lot of

options were limited in terms of you know, like he plays in a in

a full band and you know, they couldn't get together and whatnot. But

they started recording together online, you know, emailing tracks back and forth.

And UM, I always say, too, as awful as the pandemic was,

you know, a little bit of a silver lining and we have to

find those where we can and that at least we live in a time where

we have the technology to still be able to be creative and to put that

put what we create out into the world and disseminate it while being kind of

kind of stuck at home or stuck in some form of isolation. Yeah,

well for me because I'm because I'm not in a band, and that's that's

not because I don't want to be. Yeah, you know, I'm I'm

in a position where I'm not making enough money out of my music to to

not work. So you know, I'm you know, I've got other projects,

you know I do. I do my own radio show here in the

UK. Um. I I just found that it was helping with with my

sanity. I speak if I think, if you speak to most creative people,

most most musicians, artists, whatever their craft is, is that we're

quite fragile souls at times. And and you know, during the pandemic,

my mental health took a big hit and I found solace in making music and

um, and you know, when your mind is in those dark periods,

you can be you're most creative and come up with some of the some of

your best work ironically, and then when you look back on it, when

you're in a better place, you go, wow, did I really do

that? That's wow? So um, Yeah, I'm you know, I'm

you know, I'm obviously very proud of what I do. I know I'm

not the best. I'm not the best. I sing a best songwright,

I'm not the best musician, but I do feel that what I do,

the sum of what I can do, is greater than their parts. And

hence, you know, you just you had one of my you know,

one of the chains I'm really proud of Come and Get Me because it's just

a good driving rock song. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I noticed

too your music. I mean, it sounds not just that song, but

that song is a great example of it. It sounds like a band.

It doesn't sound like it doesn't sound like it's um. I don't know if

this is quite the right way to put it, but it doesn't even sound

like one guy who just recorded everything himself. It sounds live. It sounds

like a band, And I'm curious, is that is that intentional? Is

that something you're striving for or does it just wind up sound in that way.

I think a bit of both, really, you know, because I'm

you know, as any artists will tell you that they're they're learning all the

time, and I'm still learning, you know, even in my well,

I don't know, I don't know what your demographic is over over there in

Manchester, but me neither, I'm sorry, me neither who knows, you

know, I mean, you know, over here, um in the UK,

I think I'm just going to digress slightly. Is the You know,

music platforms like Spotify are both demon and devil, sorry, Angel and Devil.

Um. You know, I've been able to release my music through a

distribution company which is very very affordable, UM Distro Kid, which I believe

is an American American company. Yes, and I can get my music hurd

it's great. And I've also spent a lot of time emailing shows and networking

and getting to know where I might be able to get my music heard,

which never would have happened when I started out. You know, your only

hope was that a record company would sign you and get your music out there.

Where it's now you can self release, and so when I when I

put my music together, coming back to your point about deliberately sounding like a

band, yes, I do want to. I do want it to sound

like a band. I try and when I'm writing my music and playing my

instruments, I try to think, right now, I'm being a guitarist,

Now I'm being a bass player. Now I'm being a vocalist rather than just

being It's all just me, and that's not me being conceited or anything like

that. It's It's just that I want to make music and I don't have

the people immediately around me to do that. I do get help, I

do get you know. I do collaborate on stuff. I've I've collaborated with

two or three artists over there in the US. I'm not sure what.

I can't remember which songs I sent you to play. But there was a

track I did called Drive with this guy called Rad Grandad, and he just

created this really nice vibe of a track that was is very basic, and

I just love the vibe of it. And I added, I didn't actually

add that much. I added some guitars, I added some vocals and harmonies

and stuff, and he came out really well. And so yeah, so

yeah, it's anything to create something new and listenable and exciting. It is

where I'm coming from. I'm not here too to be labeled as one thing,

because you know, if you go into my back catalog, it's quite

diverse. You know. I've released seven albums plus the compilation album Wow.

You know, like I said, I've been knocking around a little while.

Um yeah, that's a lot of music. Um now, so I want

to the circle back though, so you said, referring to Spotify and these

um other services you said, they can be both the angel and the devil.

What's the devil part? What the devil is they pay you absolutely nothing,

you know, you know through my my you know, without promote,

I don't have a marketing company behind me. I don't have any you know,

I'd literally do it all myself. And I spend a lot of time,

you know, trying to get radio stations to play my stuff, and

thankfully a lot of them do they think it's good enough. Um, you

know, I've I've got YouTube channel and I've got like over one hundred and

fifty videos on YouTube, um, you know, and I'm there on Spotify,

Amazon. You know, I'm not going to promote them, but any

major streaming and download site, I'm what I'm on there, and the returns

are pitiful. Yeah, I've had tens of thousands of plays and streams and

you know today I've probably one hundred and fifty pound which is probably about two

hundred dollars wow, in all the time for all those plays, you know,

and that that's that's the sad part of it. But for me personally,

being a man who's you know, let's face it, you know,

at the wrong end of a career, I'm not marketable. I mean,

if you can see my face, you can see I'm I'm a little bit

wrinkly, you know, I'm I'm not gonna face, you know, I'm

you know, I'm no Simon Lebonn or I don't know, he's a good

like Justin Bieber or whatever. Whatever. If if if girls go, oh,

what's his name? Who's that one direction guy? Oh, Harry Styles,

Harry Styles. Yeah, I ain't no Harry. You know, I'm

a middle aged I'm a middle aged man. So I'm not marketable to a

record company. And I accept that. Yeah. You know, one thing

I do get from it, like I referred to earlier, is that validation

is being recognized as as a musicians, as an artist, as a credible

artist, which is really humbling because I've been trying to for full decades,

trying to refrain from them the ruder words. Yeah. Yeah, um,

so obviously too. So you've been around a while, so you know how

much it's all changed. And yeah, and I think one of the it

is a it really is a double edged sword as far as how it's changed,

because obviously, um, you know, at one time, it was

pretty straightforward in terms of how it worked. You know, you you record

an album or an EP, although when I was growing up there weren't a

lot of EPs, mostly albums and occasional EP you know. But you record

an album and you and then you go on to her and then eventually you

record another album and go on to her, you know. And there was

a that was the Psyche call. And now you know, the Internet changed

everything, so now it's it's um Now you've got all kinds of options.

You know, you can record albums, you can record singles. A lot

of the artists that I have on the show, they just record singles and

then when they have enough singles that they've released, then they put them into

an album. So it's kind of it's almost like they've reverse engineered it,

where you know, they're putting the singles out, just one right after another,

you know, and then they make an album. Yeah, I've kind

of I totally get that, and I for me, I almost fell into

that, fell into that trap where I'd write a new song, I'd really

think it's you know, it's it's got some it's got something, and I'd

release it and then I realized well, perhaps perhaps I'm just old school,

and I've withheld some of the tracks that I you know, I've I think

have got something and then just released them as an album. Because what I

tend to do is is I, rather than release and our release a single

now, I tend to just farm out a certain track to to whoever.

You know. I put it on social media, um, send it off

to radio stations, and I hope they might play it. And and I've

I've got a good I've got a you know, quite a nice little stock

of radio stations that will play my music. Yeah, And I'm you know,

the only thing I hope for is is a nice little Royaly checks sometime

in the future from the radio plays. Right. But but like I said

earlier, and I'm not making any money out of it. I do it

because I love making music. I do it because, um, you know,

it's my creative art is my legacy, you know, and and you

know and and I'm you won't believe how proud I am to be invited to

be on this show, you know, to to to you know, this

is my first first radio interview in the US, So you've got you've got

an exclusive man. Oh that's wonderful. No, I'm glad. Well that's

that's wonderful to hear. Yeah, yeah, I mean I've had plenty of

air play over there on on on various stations, but but nobody's nobody's been

so kind as to invite me on and have a chat with me. So

thank you very much. Oh yeah, no, thank you, thank you

for joining us. And of course Jenny, you know, she does all

the booking and uh and she does a wonderful job. And um yeah,

do you um, do you miss being in bands or do you prefer do

you think you're just gonna gonna stick with um doing everything yourself because it's it's

funny, you know again. You know, like I said, we had

on earlier Chris Stein from from Starlight and with him he started out as a

solo artist and then his solo project kind of turned into a band. But

I know from reading your bio you were in bands at one time and then

it kind of evolved into doing things on your own. Do you ever miss

being in a full band? I do so much. But it's trying to

find like my ended people that well, it's slightly difficult from me because I've

got so much material behind me. It would have to be if I do

get into another band, it would be a band that would be basically my

backing band. You know. I'm more happy to perform under a name of

a band. Yeah. I've even a few ideas of what that band might

be called. But I'm trying. You know. The problem is it's finding

time, finding the right musicians, finding the right committed musicians. I mean,

I don't know what it's like in the States, but in the UK,

finding committed musicians is hard work. And being in a band, you

know, if there's like four members, you've got four separate egos or dragging

you in different directions. And that's I found that hard work in my early

days of being in bands because I've got an ego. It's it's a lot

smaller than it was years ago, but you know it, you know,

it's hard, you know, because I mean, I am the last band

I nearly got together, um, which was pre COVID. It was like

twenty and eighteen, and we were a band. We were going to be

the black rock Vandals. That is a cool name. Yeah, we were

gonna you know, we were going to be a bouncy rock rock but heavy

rock band. Um, I was going to lead it. I was going

to you know, be the vocalist, guitarist in it. Out of bassis

we had another. The other guitarist in the band was a guy who toured

with Johnny Thunders when he toured the UK back in back in the early eighties,

and you know Johnny Thunders and Heartbreakers. He played with him, so

he had a great, you know, great pedigree. But just as at

the point where we were ready to gig, the band fell apart and I

was so gutted and and this point with it, with the amount of work

and effort I put in, yeah, it kind of I just felt so

sad and so I kind of made a At that time, I made a

decision say right now, I'm just going to go it alone. I'm not

going to play live. I'm just going to be a recording artist. Just

chuck stuff out there and hope it sticks, hope people like it. But

then now here a few years on, I think I really would like to

get back on stage. I really like to just get up there and entertain

it, entertain a little crowd. Yeah, you know, even if it's

in a small club or pub, you know, and just bash out some

tunes. Yeah, I do miss that a lot. I do miss that

a lot. Yeah. I mean, in theory, it's something you could

wade back into, right if you just grabbed an acoustic guitar and went out

and did some solo shows. Right. Well, I did that for a

few years. I did that for about a decade. Yeah. I just

got up on stage and just strummed out some tunes. Um, you know,

some of my own, some covers and stuff. Um put them out

there. They were well received. But you know, time restraints were working.

Also at the time, there was parenting as well. My daughter um

at the time, was in her early teens, trying to find time to

and I'm I was a single parent. It's trying to find time to be

able to go out and play a gig and organized stuff. Sometimes she came

along with me, but it wasn't great for her. She didn't really enjoy

that. You know. The first couple were great fun, and then after

that, after the third you know, glass coke and packet of crisps or

chips as you when and so. Um. So I kind of stepped away

from that and I got a little bit board playing the same songs over and

over, and then I didn't have enough time to rehearse up new songs and

stuff. But no, I mean music is in blood, it's in my

heart, you know, and I really enjoy enjoy what I'm doing. Yeah,

yeah, Now it's great like that that song Come and Get Me,

I mean, that's that's a hit? Is that? Is that if you

got an airplay with that? Or is there a specific track that you've gotten

a significant amount of airplay with? Um that actually, funnily enough, is

my most popular track on on Spotify. So that that's why I leave it

to you. Yeah. I mean, although it's only had about four or

five thousand UM listens, I mean it's had plenty on YouTube, it's had

plenty on other other music platforms, and you know, you have your own

little favorite babies, and that's that's one of mine. Is It's quite a

simple song, but I think it kind of delivers a bit of a punch,

you know. And my my compil I did a compilation album which was

the album before the one I've just released. I've just released an album called

paroxysm Um, which is just kind of rock, a bit of rock pop.

It's not a particularly heavy rock album apart from the title track. But

what I what I did last year was released an album of like all my

heavier tracks to you know, so right if you if you want to be

slapped around the face and punched in the year with some some really good rock.

Um, you know, I released a fifteen track best of album,

ok and there's yeah, there's a number of tracks on that I released as

singles that that that did okay and yeah, you know so if you listen

as want to check it out, you know where it is, you know,

go to YouTube. You don't have to pay for YouTube. Just listen

to it there right, or you can go to camp band camp and download

it and paying me a couple of couple of dollars and I'll be happy,

buy me a coffee. There you go, There you go. Um.

I wanted to ask you too. You're you're a fellow broadcaster, and I

keep hearing about this radio wigwam. Yeah, I respect of not not mentioning

it because I didn't want to, you know, create a a a arrival

for you. We're not arrival to anyone. No, no, it's fine,

it's fine. I mean in this in this the media environment, the

way it is now. I mean, you know, obviously like I wouldn't.

I wouldn't talk about another local radio station here in this market, for

example. I wouldn't do that. But I have no problem you know,

talking about another online station or streaming platform or anything like that. It's fine.

No, I'm part of why I bring it up too, is I've

just been hearing a lot about it and I think we've I think, um,

we even had we had someone on the show recently, Steve Gamblin,

who I think I think he has a show on there. Uh, and

he's he's here in Uh, he's right here in Manchester, but I think

he Um, I think he has a segment that runs on a show there.

But but I've been hearing about Radio Wig why I'm a lad. Can

you tell us about it and tell us about your show? I say we

I only came in. The station was about eight years old. Um,

A guy called Christian John and Mike Greene founded it about eight years ago.

They're from Wales, part of the UK. Um. I found them just

purely by you know, chucking my music at any radio station I could find

that the ask for submissions. Yeah, um, they really liked what I

did. Musically. They nominated me for an award as their best Male Artists

for twenty twenty because they really liked my stuff. Wow, I didn't.

I didn't win, that's all right. I don't mind the nominations more than

us. Yeah, And then they invited me to do a takeover show.

So there's a slot, a weekly slot on the station where they invite one

of the artists, unsigned artists they feature to to do a show and just

tell the world about what music they influenced them, what music they like,

and introduced the tracks and such like. And they liked the fact the way

I delivered the show that they invited me to do basically a weekly show of

me playing music I like, and that's great. And so when I started,

I was a bit rubbish because I wasn't I'd never done anything like that

before. And so I've kind of found my radio presenter identity now and I've

got a weekly show that goes out three times a week. One show goes

out three times a week Tuesdays. In fact, my show just finished just

as we started this one. Oh no kidding, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

Well I don't do it live, okay, we record it. Yeah,

And so I do that. That show goes out three times a week

and again I just play sort of like indie indie rock, some normal rock.

It's quite a collectic, you know. Some I play a lot of

m eighties and nineties rock music, you know, from britt Park to you

know, some spandex American rock. Yeah. I play some classic seventies rock,

you know, and stuff like that. And at the end of the

show, I chuck in a couple of unsigned artists. Yeah, just just

to kind of keep the ethos of the radio station up, because the ethos

of the radio station is very much about playing the music you don't particularly hear

too much on mainstream radio, right and and and try and say, you

know, here in the UK and we've got in terms of terrestrial FM and

DAB radio stations, there aren't that many, and they tend to play the

same commercial stuff. They forget about, you know, hang on. I

grew up with I grew up with the sex pistols, I grew up with

a clash, I grew up with you know some you know, Faith No

More. And I grew up with Guns and Roses and you know, all

those kind of bands and Navana and Foo Fighters and they're just not getting the

same level of airplay as as the commercial stuff, and so the focus of

the station is to promote that kind of music and also kind of promote,

you know, the unsigned artists. And it's not just British artists we play.

We play, we play artists literally from all over the world, you

know, Canada, US, Europe, South America, Australia. It doesn't

matter where you're from. You find the website and if you've got, you

know, a well produced track, we'll play it. Yeah, as simple

as that. Of course. I was just gonna ask you, Jake,

what what is the AB for our listeners who don't know? I mean,

I kind of have an idea, but sorry, it's digital audio broadcast,

okay, so that yeah, so that's strictly I'm no, no, no,

no here and well I'm sure you've got it in the US. You

know, in the UK we're moving away from um FM and everything is broadcast

digitally, so if you've got a digital radio, you just pick it up

on that, gotcha, gotcha. Okay, We're not quite there as a

radio station at the moment, but that's where we're heading. Oh okay,

gotcha. Yeah, So Radio Wig WIMS is online but will eventually be on

the AB. Yeah. Well that's that's the plan. You know, it's

expensive. Yeah. And when I say if it is massively expensive, yeah,

you're talking to go full on with it. You're talking of you know,

hundreds of thousands of puns, dollars whatever currency you want to put in

to stay on air for a year, so that you know, you would

need a hell of a lot of advertising and sponsorship do that. But you

know, you know, why not dream big? Not dream big? Absolutely?

And and for terrestrial radio, so you have FM, do you also

have AM there? Yeah, but that's that's kind of dying out. And

it's almost died out completely. I mean, most most new cars that are

manufactured will what don't even have they they they're pretty much all dab radios in

your car. Oh okay, gotcha, gotcha? Um you know, I

mean I you know, I don't I don't have a radio. I have

smart speakers. That's all dab. Yeah yeah, yeah, um, god,

bless technology. It's it's just yeah. So it's always a double edged

thought, right right. Um, So, what's what's the current trajectory for

you, Jacob? Do you have new music that you're working on. Well.

Well, like I said, I've just released a new album thirteen tracks,

UM. Couple of a couple of reworkings, some old demos that I

did back in back in the nineties, UM and just revisited the songs and

re recorded them in my little home studio here um. And a handful of

brand new tracks, some co written with with lyric writers, some that I've

just put together on your own. UM. And you know, I'm quite

proud of it. I'm thinking. The thing is, with where I am

in the music industry, releasing singles doesn't really do much for me. So

it's about releasing an album and shouting as loud as you can about it,

right and yeah, and just hope other people to you know, pick up

on it and send individual tracks to radio stations and hope they play it.

And then you sit back, put your feet up on the desk and watched

twenty twenty seven cents come in, right. I know, I know it's

frustrating. Um, Well, Jake, I really appreciate you being here with

us today, and I'm gonna play in a moment, we'll let you go,

and then I'm gonna close out the segment with my Nila Tequila is Nila

Nila. How do you say that, Neila Tequila? It's um. This

song came from a nickname I gave one of my co workers. And her

name's Nila Patel. Okay. She's such a lovely person and and we have

a little bit of a giggle together when we work together, and so I

gave her this nickname with Neila, Neila Tequila. And then one day she's

just turned around, he say, why didn't you write a song about me?

And so I came up with Neila Tequila. Oh, and it's it's

it's actually not about her. Yeah, it's just using the name that I

gave her to create create this. This the lyrics to this song. And

again again it's it's not in a dissimilar vein to come and get me.

It's it's kind of like a bass driven rock song. Yeah, yeah,

which meant to be fun. It's meant to be a fun tune. Now

it's really good and like you said, you know, the basses drive it.

What was her reaction when you presented the song to her when she heard

it the first time, giggled a lot. Yeah, and she actually she

actually then went home and played it to her husband and her kids. Yeah,

like I have to say, it's not about you, It's just about

the nickname I've given you, and it's trying to so look, yeah,

it was taken in the faith it was made. So yeah, yeah,

excellent, excellent. Yeah, husband isn't hunting me down right right? Yes,

we don't want to. We don't want to cause any trouble. Well,

but you know, when you're a rock star, these things happen,

Jake, these things happening. Well yeah, well um no, no,

no, no, no legacy babies out there like Mick Jagger. I'm afras

I know of anyway, right right, right, all right, well very

good, all right, So we're gonna play that in a moment. And

Jake, what do you want our listeners to know in terms of how to

keep up with what you're doing online? Where to find your music? A

website you want to plug or social media or anything? Yeah? Yeah,

sure, I mean, if if you're remotely interested, I have a website

which is quite simply www dot Jake Dollery dot co dot uk. Um.

I'm all over over YouTube, so just look up Jake Dollery. I'm all

over social media. You can follow me at Twitter, on at JD Rocks

sixty six. That's j D r o c K s sixty six. I'm

on Instagram, I'm on Facebook. So yeah, if you want to check

me out, look me up, send me a message, say hi.

I'll reply, as long as you're not rude to me. And yeah,

yeah, I don't. I'm not into all that. Yeah, that kind

of stuff, but yeah, yeah no, and you know, and and

and if you if you you're fancy tuning into my radio show that that that

goes out three times a week, and that's all mentioned on my website,

I won't overplug that. And yeah, I'm just putting out there. If

you like it, great, it's a bonus to me. Thank you for

your love. If you don't, that's all right, there's plenty of other

music to listen to. You absolutely well. I like it a lot.

I think it's great. And we're gonna we're gonna play this track in a

moment. Manila Tequila and Jake Dollery, thank you so much for joining us

today, my friend. You've been generous with your time. We will do

this again in the future. And yeah, and for having me in a

real pleasure. Thank you. And by the way, I'm very happy that

we were your first American radio interview. That's very cool. So you can

claim that's your claim to fame from now, that's right, that's right,

all right, Jake, We're gonna let you go and I'm gonna hit this

track. Thank you again, my friend. It's been a real pleasure.

Thank you so much. Hello to everybody out there in Manchester, Massachusetts.

I love you all close. But okay, Jake, thank you, bye

bye, thank you all right, very good, Jake Dolery. Actually we're

in for those listening online who might not know we're actually in Manchester, New

Hampshire. But but I think there is a Manchester, Massachusetts. That's okay,

though, we won't hold that against him. Um, there's you know,

he's where the original Manchester was, Manchester, England. Well, I

don't know what city he's in, but there's Manchester is a very common name.

There's a whole bunch of There's a Manchester, Connecticut. There's a I

don't know, there's there's like h seventeen Manchesters. Okay, probably not that

many. That's all right though, but let's give this a listen again.

Another great track. I love his music so much and uh, very interesting

guy too, so I really enjoyed speaking with But this is my Nila Tequila

from Jake Dolery. We're gonna give this a spin and then we will be

back with the balance of our show today on Matt Connerton Unleashed. There is

more to come. But again I love that driving baseline. This is good

stuff, my Neila Tequila Jake Dolery right here on Matt Connerton Unleashed. Learning

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Tuesday, August one, two thousand twenty three, As we cruise into our

final segment today on the show, but I do want to think of course,

we just talked with Jake Dolery and just I love his music. We

are going to close out today's show with one more of his songs. He's

got a track called no More Hearts to Steal, another great song. Really

really like him a lot. He was skyping in from the UK and great

talking with him. Also. Of course, earlier in the show, we

talked with Chris Stein from the band from Starlight. They are going to be

playing in Allston, mass tomorrow night. They're from Albany, New York,

but they're gonna be in Allston, just about an hour south of here.

Wanted to promote that show and really loved talking with him as well. Another

great band. So a couple of musical guests today. It's a very very

fun show. We do have a few minutes left in today's show. By

the way, we have some big breaking news, although not entirely surprising.

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ears must have been burning, sir. We talked to him last week.

And other great artists from the UK really enjoy speaking of the UK. Also,

our friend Alex Whiteley is in the Facebook live chat. Alex says only

just got here. Work has been busy. Hope you're all well. I'll

call in in the week when we have more time to chat. Yes.

Absolutely. By the way, on tomorrow's show, I should mention too a

quick programming note, So usually on Wednesdays we do a segment in the first

hour with Eric Pilcher, my favorite conservative as I like to call him,

which is kind of morphed into becoming the name of the segment itself. But

Eric will not be able to join us this week unfortunately, so so we'll

have the first hour open to take call so, Alex, if you want

to skype in during the first hour tomorrow, we'll be wide open. In

the second hour, we do have a musical guest joining us in studio.

I hope I'm saying this correctly. Honky Gabacho is going to come in and

play live in studio for us in the second hour tomorrow. That will be

our musical guests, So looking forward to that. But the first hour will

be sort of a open for whoever would like to join us in call in

or skype or whatever it maybe. By the way, Mike from Queen City

Cabinetry is in the Facebook live chat. Mike uh not only one of our

great sponsors here at WMH ninety five point three, but one of our co

hosts on Friday nights for retro Spectrum Radio with Paul c and Mike says Manchester,

Tibet, which is a little bit inside, but Jake Jake did get

the state run. Our friend Jake Dolery. He said, uh, Manchester,

Massachusetts and close close enough. It's still New England. But there are

many manchesters was saying earlier, and uh, Mike said, Manchester, Tibet.

But again that's a little bit inside. But if you know, you

know, if paulc is listening, he knows. Oh. Speaking of which,

by the way, if you haven't had a chance to check it out,

I don't know if it's in the archive yet or not. Actually,

but Friday night, last Friday's Retro Spectrum Radio, a lot less music than

usual, a lot more talk because we had an incredible guest in studio.

Paul knows this gentleman all the way back to when they were much much younger

at the Connecticut School of Broadcasting, a gentleman named Aaron Sadovski who's a very

successful producer and director and just had a ton of great stories. The stories

he told off air were even better. But really loved meeting Aaron and what

a great guy. And I hope oh Paul is able to get him back

on the show soon because that was a lot of fun. Mike agrees,

Yes, it was awesome, all right, wow, Yeah, big breaking

news before almost out of time, although, like I said, I did

offer a hint that it was predictable. So if you don't know already,

media dot Com reporting breaking Trump indicted on charges related to efforts to overturn twenty

twenty election. It says here former President Donald Trump was indicted today on four

counts stemming from special counsel Jackson Smith's investigation into the January sixth Capital riot and

larger effort to overturn the results of the twenty twenty presidential election. A CNN

reported Trump's lawyers were told to prepare for as much last Thursday morning during a

meeting with federal prosecutors. Is that what Trump meant when he said the meeting

had been productive. This would mark the second time Trump has been indicted on

federal charges this year, and the third criminal indictment he's faced in as many

months. Another federal grand jury indicted Trump on charges related to his mishandling of

classified documents in June, while a grand jury in New York indicted him for

a falsification of business records in March. Oh By the way, Jake Dollery's

in the Facebook live chat says, I'm sorry to all the people of Manchester,

New Hampshire. Love peace and keep rocking to you all. Yeah,

no, no need to apologize. Jake loved aving you on my friend and

I love your music. So it's all good. And we don't we don't

take offense here. I mean, you know, it's you know, it's

New England. We're just all one big thing. No. Actually, some

people would probably get mad at me for saying that, but no, it's

all good. Let's see. Although there is a difference between the New Hampshire

accent and the Massachusetts accent in terms of dropping the rs and so forth,

but we won't get into all that, okay. So it says here another

federal grand jury indicted Trump on charges. Oh no, I read that already.

Sorry, let me go down here. Even before the meeting between his

attorney and Smith's team on Thursday, Trump had indicated that he believed he would

be indicted. In a truth social post on July eighteen, he posted this

deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden coj sent a letter again it

was Sunday night, stating that I am a target of the January sixth grand

jury investigation in giving me a very short four days to report to the grand

jury, which almost always mean means and arrest and indictment. Nothing like this

has ever happened in our country before, or even close. That was his

By the way, that's true, nothing like this has ever happened before.

There's reasons for that week though in fairness, by the way, pet this

has nothing to do with how I feel about Trump, although if you're a

regular listener you don't know. I'm not a fan. But a big pet

peeve that I have, but I have a few of them. Whenever anybody

writes something and they capitalize random letters that should not be capitalized for no apparent

reason, it really irks me. Something about that really bothers me. I

don't know why the word country is capitalized. I don't know why the word

arrest is capitalized. I don't know why the word indictment is capitalized. Grand

jury is capitalized, but that's appropriate. But some of these other words,

I don't know why they're capital lies. That just bothers me. It's a

pet peeve. But there you go. We knew that this was probably in

the works, and here we are. Let's see, that's from media.

I think, oh, what's this CNN Dot Com has some more details here.

Again, this is breaking news if you're just joining us CNN's reporting Donald

Trump has been indicted. Okay, we know that part. I'm gonna skip

down because we're running out of time here. So the indictment states, oh,

there go, the sirens happens once a show. The indictment states,

quote, shortly after election day, the defendant also pursued unlawful means of discounting

legitimate votes and subverting the election results unquote. The newest case against Trump strikes

it what as what's seen as the former president's most serious betrayal of his constitutional

duties, when his efforts to remain in the White House after losing the twenty

twenty election sought to undermine US democracy and the long held American tradition of a

peaceful transfer of presidential power. The plot to overturn the twenty twenty election shattered

presidential norms. Okay, we know all that. Okay, let's get to

this part quickly because we're up against the clock here. The four accounts are

conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction

of an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. Smith's move

to bring charges will test whether criminal justice system can be used to hold Trump

to account for his post election conduct after he was acquitted in his impeachment trial

related to his actions that day. The indictment is the second time in two

months. Okay, we know that already skipping down. Oh, this isn't

the part that I was interested in. There was something about a witness.

Maybe I clicked the wrong link. Let me go back here. There was

something about a witness breaking news. Trump approves summons. Oh sorry, judge

approves summons. Let see if I can get to this quickly. Uh,

nope, the link, this link keeps bringing me to the wrong place.

Now because there's a lot of questions about a witness whom the I forget his

name now? Is at OLIVERA? Something to OLIVERA. Oh de OLIVERA.

I think it is his last name. The property manager at Marlago who it

is suspected that that he may have flipped against Trump. Oh. Other breaking

news, completely unrelated. But Fitch has downgraded the US debt rating. Oh,

might have to look at that tomorrow. Let's see, all right,

we gotta we are out of time we need to wrap up, so well,

this is a big, big, big news though. All right again,

thank you so much to Chris Stein from the band from Starlight for joining

us in the first hour, and of course in the second hour, the

great Jake Dollery. We are going to close out with one more of his

songs. But if you miss any part of today's show, it will be

up in just a little bit WMH radio dot org and on my website Matt

Connerton dot com as we do archive all the shows, and thank you,

thank you everyone who joined us today. If you missed um oh, I'm

sorry. I was going to say today is Tuesday, which means if you

are listening live on Tuesday. Immediately following this show is through the Stage Store

hosted by the great Rob Dion, and immediately following that, coming up tonight

at seven pm here on WMH is a replay of Friday Nights Retro Spectrum Radio

with Police. So again, if you didn't hear it, you want to

check that out. Great great episode. We had Aaron sadofski And with us,

and Paul is known Aaron for decades and it was really cool. Get

actually it's cool getting to see them together two old friends catching up but also

just really really fun having Aaron here. What a great guest, So check

that out. That will be the replay will be tonight at seven, right

after through the Stage Store with Rob Dan. If, of course, you

are listening live on Tuesday, and if you're listening to the podcast, well

never mind. But you can always go back and check out those shows later

though. They are all archived as I mentioned, and don't forget to be

back bright and early seven am for the morning show with Peter White. And

we will close with this another great track from Jake Dollery. This is called

no More Hearts to Steal. And that's it. We're out of here.

I will talk to y'all a little later. By Everybody to Love Love to

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