Matt Connarton Unleashed 8-2-25 hour 1

0:01 Speaker 1: And now, for the first time on American radio, a Matt Connorton unleashed w m n H ninety five point three FM exclusive the new single from Naked Without It, I'm not Pretty.

0:14 Speaker 2: You are listening to WUMNH.

0:18 Speaker 3: World premiere.

0:31 Speaker 4: I'm not pretty, but I'm pretty you.

0:41 Speaker 5: Dont From the corner of my we'll, I see that I'm the little kim Fly.

0:52 Speaker 6: I'm not pretty, but I'm pretty.

0:59 Speaker 7: I'm not pretty, but I'm not gonna cheege my kids said, it's from the kids wearing.

1:09 Speaker 8: I got cured.

1:12 Speaker 6: She said the stuff in my words to late to real rage.

1:20 Speaker 5: I'm not pretty, but I'm not gonna cheo. I'm not pretty good.

1:29 Speaker 7: I'm not gonna stop.

1:33 Speaker 5: I'm gonna keep bronkie on it said, I drop this life.

1:41 Speaker 7: Ain't gonna in what I aramis to who my friend. I'm not pretty, but I'm not gonna stop. I'm not pretty, but I'm pretty heard at you.

2:02 Speaker 5: I don't know what I'm gone too. From the corner of my eye, well, I can see that I'm looking fly. I'm not pretty good.

2:18 Speaker 7: I'm pretty good than you. I'm not pretty good that he can't keep it down.

2:29 Speaker 5: I'm going to rise to the job. Break can name my crown.

2:36 Speaker 6: Ain't gonna stop me getting half a new month for me to strive. I'm not pretty good that you can't keep it down, mister Kennedy.

3:18 Speaker 5: I'm not really good.

3:21 Speaker 6: I know my please, I know the sect of God's greul.

3:32 Speaker 5: You made me who the vote to see? But do you commit to me?

3:39 Speaker 7: I'm not really but I know my place.

3:46 Speaker 5: I'm not praidy, but I'm pretty of you.

3:53 Speaker 9: I don't know where I'm garnited.

3:59 Speaker 4: Because from the corner of my eye, well I could see that I'm looking mutchily.

4:07 Speaker 6: I'm not free, but I'm pretty you.

4:14 Speaker 7: I'm not pretty Boot, I'm prettier than you. I'm not pretty Boot.

4:23 Speaker 5: I'm pretty.

4:28 Speaker 9: I'm not pretty Boot, I'm pretty than you.

4:44 Speaker 2: This is Jesse Rutstein and Caleb Dyer. Oh oh no, okay, we can let's do that one more time. This is Jesse Rutstein and Caleb Dyer. Oh crap, hold on, what do you want me to say?

4:56 Speaker 5: Right after that?

4:57 Speaker 2: From Hatchet Act from the and I'll say you're listening right? Sounds good. This is Jesse Rutstein and oh ah, this is why I'm the leader. This is Jesse Rutstein and Caleb Dyer from Hatchet Axon Saw Records. You are listening to the Matt Connerton Show on w m n H ninety five point three Manchester.

5:21 Speaker 10: What did I say?

5:24 Speaker 5: Okay, all right, all right, Let's do this again.

5:26 Speaker 2: Let's do this again. This is Jesse Rutstein and Caleb Dyer from Hatchet Axon Saw Records. You are listening to Matt Connorton Unleashed on ninety five to three w NA. Dude,

5:42 Speaker 2: this is Jesse Rutstein and Caleb Dyer from Hatchet Axon Saw Records. You are listening to Matt Connorton Unleashed on ninety five point three wm n H FM.

6:09 Speaker 10: Hey, welcome everybody.

6:10 Speaker 1: It is that time again, Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of WMNH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. And it does seem to be a pretty glorious day outside, nice temperature, nice and sunny. Today is of course, for those of you listening live. It is Saturday August two, two thy twenty five, and we got a fun show for you today. By the way, we did open the show with the American radio premiere of the brand new track from our friends from the UK, Naked Without It, that is called I'm Not Pretty.

6:43 Speaker 1: And we got a lot of music coming up for you today. Oh I should mention two since I played some I love outtakes of Station id's well when they're fun like that. Last week on the show, we had Jesse Rutstein and Caleb Dyer here and they were talking about a couple of different things. Jesse Rutstein's new EP, self titled EP that just came out, which is fantastic. We featured some music from that, and also they've got Hatchet Acts and Saw which is their new record label that just launched. So so those guys had a lot of really interesting things to talk about, which is great.

7:16 Speaker 1: And I enjoyed our discussion and I also really enjoyed after the show we we did some did some station IDs because they were the last guests on the shows, we had time to do it, and it was it.

7:27 Speaker 10: Was something or was that before the show?

7:30 Speaker 1: Oh no, that was actually before the show because they were the first guests on. That's right, so they probably weren't even fully awake yet.

7:36 Speaker 10: No, that was fun.

7:37 Speaker 1: I do have some actual edited versions of those two, but I do love outtakes. So but we've got a fun show for you today. In just a couple of minutes, we're gonna be joined by three Times seven. They are a great band from the UK, or it might just be it's interesting so they function. I'll ask them about this. They seem to function in two different configurations, a duo and a full so we'll see who's who's on the line with us via WhatsApp in just a couple of minutes. We're gonna play their new single Weight, which we did.

8:07 Speaker 1: We did an American radio premiere for that not long ago. I think it was just maybe a couple of weeks ago. It becomes a bit of a blur. But we're gonna get to talk to them today, So we're gonna play Wait again in just a couple of minutes, and then we're gonna get them on the line via WhatsApp.

8:20 Speaker 10: Looking forward to that. In the second hour.

8:22 Speaker 1: Jamie Higgs, another great UK artist, is gonna be also joining us via WhatsApp. We recently played his song piece in Your Sound, which I absolutely love. Jenny loves it too. It is so catchy, just really really good tune and we're gonna play that, and we'll also play one of his older ones to a great song called Unconditional, which is amazing. So he'll be joining us today in the second hour. In the third hour, we have an in studio guest, our friend Keegan also known as Crafty K from Chaotic Photography.

8:54 Speaker 10: She's gonna be coming in. So she's an amazing.

8:57 Speaker 1: Artist, but she also does a lot of photography for musicians. In fact, if you look online, if you ever look at some of the pictures from performances at Terminus Underground, our friends Eleanor and Andre of course in Nashua, at Terminus Underground, which is part of New Hampshire Underground, they do a lot to help the scene and working with independent artists and they put on some amazing shows there. But if you see pictures online from Terminus Underground, there's a very good chance that those were taken by Crafty K. So, so she does great work between her art and her photography.

9:36 Speaker 10: Well, I mean, photography is art, but you know what I'm saying.

9:39 Speaker 1: She's she works with multiple mediums and is really impressive. So so she's gonna be joining us today in the third hour. Really looking forward to that. So we've got a lot going on, let's see. I think in a moment we should probably go ahead and hit that track Wait, and then I'm really looking forward to speaking with them. We also we're also going to play at the end of our conversation the newest single from three Times seven, which is called Big Train, another great song. I love their sound. I cannot wait till well pun fully intended.

10:08 Speaker 1: I cannot wait to speak with them.

10:10 Speaker 10: But here it is.

10:11 Speaker 1: This is one of the new singles from three Times seven. This is called Wait. This is really really catchy, and you'll be tapping along. If you're not check your pulse, you might be dead. But here it is, And then we're gonna talk with them. Stick around, not save.

10:40 Speaker 11: Wait, I'm begging for my baby, don't wait over not save wait, oh wait, oh wait. It was Sunday evening, and all my ropes were clear and my eyes were dry to spy my fear.

11:08 Speaker 2: But I was flying too close to the sun.

11:10 Speaker 11: When I got your cold half the radio long, I began to star wait, oh, begging for my baby.

11:18 Speaker 5: Don't wait, don't go bud up your.

11:21 Speaker 11: Heart not sad ways way, oh wait.

11:35 Speaker 8: Sometimes I'm lonely.

11:38 Speaker 5: Sometimes I want to be alone.

11:40 Speaker 2: Sometimes I'm freezing.

11:42 Speaker 5: Sometimes I need that cold. Sometimes you're shining.

11:46 Speaker 11: It's over ahead, I'm staring at the sun. I want to spend the night with you with the light on. Wait, begging for my baby, no.

11:55 Speaker 10: Way out your.

11:58 Speaker 11: Heart, not save way to.

12:04 Speaker 12: Wait?

12:06 Speaker 13: Oh wait, I I want, I want, I want you leavese wait, beg him for my baby to wait, orpenen up your heart, not sad.

12:30 Speaker 7: Way begging for my baby to wait.

12:32 Speaker 5: All burn up you.

12:38 Speaker 13: So beg it for my baby to leave the line.

12:49 Speaker 5: Beg you for my baby to.

12:55 Speaker 14: Leave the line.

12:58 Speaker 7: Began for my baby to wait. Thanks for maybe no way off.

13:20 Speaker 1: I love that the song is called wait. The band is three times seven. And let's see who we have on the line with us from the band. Hello, welcome to the show.

13:31 Speaker 8: Hello, Hello, this is Jenny. Hey Jenny, We've got David here as well.

13:36 Speaker 14: Hi.

13:36 Speaker 10: Hey, welcome Jenny and David.

13:38 Speaker 5: Yeah.

13:39 Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard right before the track I was commenting on, and this is one of the things I want to ask you about. It seems that, so from what I could glean online, you function as both a duo and a full band, Is that correct?

13:52 Speaker 8: Yeah, we've actually got three, so we've got a duo, a full band with bass and drums, and we've got a four piece acoustic setup as well well. So yeah, we can become in all forms.

14:03 Speaker 1: That's pretty cool because that gives you a lot of flexibility, right in terms of where you can play and and uh, because obviously different kinds of venues, different uh, different audiences might require a different you know, a different vibe.

14:16 Speaker 10: And I mean, is it is it confusing.

14:18 Speaker 1: At all kind of managing these different versions of the band or does does all the music kind of convert to whatever configuration you're playing in pretty easily?

14:26 Speaker 8: Thankfully now it kind of converts quite easily. It took a little bit of work at the start. Yeah, on the website, we always make sure it's clear whether what type of band you're going to see, right. It's just because if you particularly like the full band, we will make sure that you are coming to a full band gig, and if you particularly like the acoustic set, that you're coming down to see the acoustic stuff. But yeah, it takes a bit of work, especially with some of the guitar solos and things. We have to rework the song format to make it work for all the different variations.

14:59 Speaker 8: Yeah, but it's really good and it keeps us on our toes.

15:02 Speaker 1: Okay, So I assume three times seven started with the two of you. You're the you're obviously the core, right of the band.

15:09 Speaker 15: Yeah, that's that sweet. Yeah. We've been playing together for about sort of like eight nine years now. Oh okay, and then I used to joke that we're called three times seven because we had the twenty one honoring members that would come and play with us.

15:21 Speaker 10: Now, that would be quite the configuration.

15:26 Speaker 16: Super group and half yeah on speed up.

15:32 Speaker 1: Well, okay, so let's well, since you refer to it, let's get to the obvious question. I'm sure this is you're probably tired of answering it because you probably get asked us and every interview it is the most obvious question.

15:41 Speaker 10: But what what does the name mean?

15:44 Speaker 8: So officially, it's from a song called Tippetina, which is a New Orleans jazz standard, and in it's a line that says she was three times seven baby, and at the time I was in my early twenties and it felt pretty cool and we are Ah, it's all right, that'll do we'll change it later and then it's now later and obviously we haven't changed it. Yeah, it's also the cards. It's the best age for whiskey.

16:13 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's.

16:15 Speaker 14: Yeah.

16:15 Speaker 1: No, it's cool, and you know, it makes people curious obviously, it gives uh, it gives you something to talk about, you know, where the name comes from.

16:22 Speaker 10: I'm curious.

16:23 Speaker 1: Does anyone ever approach you and ask you like, does anyone ever kind of know have an inkling? Maybe they're maybe they're familiar with that song. Maybe they you know, maybe they love jazz. Maybe they're from New Orleans and they and they say to you, hey, does the name come from this?

16:37 Speaker 10: And they kind of know what it is. Does that ever happen?

16:41 Speaker 16: No, no, never happened, but.

16:43 Speaker 8: It would be quite amusing if it did.

16:45 Speaker 10: Yeah.

16:46 Speaker 8: Yeah, you people go, oh okay, yes I've heard that song or I haven't even heard that song before.

16:51 Speaker 1: Right right, right, So now in terms of recording, so is the full band obviously a song like wait, that's that's everybody in the band, right, that's the full Uh, that's everybody who's involved on that.

17:04 Speaker 8: We had Haley and Steve join us as well. So they are from a band called futurism, and they join us occasionally to do some harmony work. And when we get them involved as well, then we've basically become a little supergroup so that we can do all the harmonies, which is really really fun. But yes, everyone was involved in Wait, yeah.

17:25 Speaker 1: No, that's really cool, and is that your approach with all, because we're also going to play at the end of our conversation, because obviously I like to bookend the interviews with your music. So at the end we're going to play Big Train, which is another great track, and I love the video, by the way, the video is really cool.

17:42 Speaker 8: That was really fun.

17:43 Speaker 15: Yes, that's without Haley and Steve. I mean, our latest album released, Silver Linings. We've got tracks from there which are basically just Jenny and I with a little bit of piano. Oh and we have other tracks from there which I've got an Italian horn section on one track, I've got Turkish violinist on another. So yeah, it's very much a collaboration of friends and.

18:10 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, now, how do you describe your music because you know, obviously I can hear a lot of different influences in there. You know, there's some blues, there's some jazz. I mean it sounds and if I didn't know, and I hope you don't take this wrong, but if I didn't know where you were from, I would assume you were an American band, because you remind me of a lot of you know, especially out of the American South from a certain time period, music that would come from there. I mean, how do you how do you describe your music?

18:38 Speaker 1: Everyone always hates this question, but how do you describe your music and what what kinds of influences go into what you're doing?

18:45 Speaker 15: Well, I think I think that's the main thing we play. We started off as very much primarily a blues band. Yeah, and I do believe you can't play blues unless you go to the heart blue. So we did a little tour down from Chicago. We were from Louisville, Kentucky, Memphis, now Bill all the way down to New Orleans and we made it down to New Orleans for Halloween as well, Oh wow, which was a hell of an experience. And I can imagine all of that definitely influenced our music. And Jenny is a massive fan of John Cleary.

19:16 Speaker 15: Yes, it is the of the Kentish British boy who went over to New Orleans and never came back, which.

19:24 Speaker 8: A note in my heart because New Orleans is like it's awesome, Like we had such a good time on that trip. But we also have other influences as well, other than blues. We've got funk, soul rock, like all of the things that we grew up with and the music that we discovered, like it all lives in our music as well. It all comes through. So I think if I was to describe it, it's funky, solely bluesy tunes.

19:54 Speaker 15: Like every year we make we make it a habit to go and see Mayor Staples when she comes around. Oh okay, I always say, I love maybe. She plays a beautiful venue in London called the Union Chapel, and she always says, we need you should leave here feeling better than you when you arrived. So I would say, I'll started. Music is positivity. Basically, it's just making you feel better.

20:18 Speaker 5: Now.

20:19 Speaker 1: That's interesting because I saw so I was doing a little bit of research and I don't know which one of you said this, but one of you said something about approving that brew that blues is not the original emo.

20:31 Speaker 15: Yeah, that was an old basis of mine. When I first first formed this barer Jenny, he said, why would you want to play blues? Because it's just that was just the original em My music.

20:44 Speaker 1: Really, yeah, that's a that's a strange comment for a couple of different reasons.

20:50 Speaker 10: But well, so, now, so you do a longer work with that bass player, right.

20:55 Speaker 15: No, No, I don't know. He's he's retired and lives in a white picket fence with his family, went away from the music scene as he should be, right.

21:02 Speaker 1: Right, I assume he's not listening to blues because it sounds like it depresses him.

21:09 Speaker 10: So you're but so you're on a mission to prove that it's not that.

21:13 Speaker 1: Obviously I've never although I don't know why you would have to prove that because I've never heard other than him, I've never heard anyone say that to begin with.

21:20 Speaker 10: That's really interesting.

21:22 Speaker 15: Well, you've got the whole thing. I'm feeling blue, isn't it?

21:24 Speaker 14: So?

21:25 Speaker 15: Oh, blues music must be just sad. It's all about beings. Yeah, And I was brought up on a bb King and Buddy guy. You know, she's a sweet girl. Angel always spread her wings for me. Let me tell you, there's nothing sad about that.

21:37 Speaker 10: There you go, there you go absolutely how much?

21:42 Speaker 1: How much music do you have in terms of original songs that you have released as a as.

21:48 Speaker 10: A band, or or as a duo or any configuration.

21:52 Speaker 1: Do you have a lot of music that you've put out over the past, Because you said it's it's been almost a decade right that you've been together.

22:00 Speaker 15: Got about three albums, two EPs, and a few singles out on Spotify.

22:04 Speaker 8: And a new set of four tracks coming out end of this month. More tracks coming soon. Okay, we've only ever recorded and released one cover, which is I'd rather go blind. Everything else on all of our recordings is original.

22:23 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, excellent. And what's the process like in terms of writing? Do the two of you write together or how does that work?

22:31 Speaker 10: Again?

22:31 Speaker 1: I assume the I assume the core of the songwriting and the band is the two of you, but maybe not so tell me about.

22:37 Speaker 15: It much so so, I'm quite often I'll come up with an idea. I'm a big fan turning sort of like bad things on their head. I remember when we were in Chicago, it absolutely rained down and we were in the Museum of Chicago sort of learning about the history of it. Having a couple of tea in the cafe, and Jenny just wrote down and I hate it when it was into Chicago because it was really loud and we could re speak to each other. And I thought, no, I like it when it rains in Chicago, and so I wrote this entire song about how you know, actually it's great it range in Chicago and yeah, but we're dancing around in the street, and.

23:16 Speaker 8: We still kept some elements of the like the original real bluesy World where the rain is so it's soaking through my feet, absolutely drenched, like I couldn't be anyware if I dried, And so there's still some elements of that in Rain in Chicago, which is a really upbeat track that everyone loves to sing along with now so, which is lovely.

23:36 Speaker 15: Yes, it's basically taking I always think that there's a good good to find in every situation. Really for the most part. Yeah, absolutely, it's all that making people feel good. Like we have another song, Money to Burn, which I think Jenny did most of the lyrics song, which was all basically about you know, I should have a ton of cash to go out and spend on someone and have a really good time. But I don't. But it's okay, because we've got to go out and have a good sign many way, even though we should be.

24:04 Speaker 8: You know, yes, sitting in a nice restaurant thinking.

24:06 Speaker 15: Champagne, so that even if we can't do that, it's still going to be good and maybe one day we will and it'll be fine.

24:11 Speaker 1: Yeah, right, No, that's very cool, very cool. Yeah, I get the impression. You know, there seems to be a lot of positivity in your music. Are there is there anyone else where you're from who is doing what you do? Because like I said, you know, I hear so many American influences in your music, and obviously, you know, uh, music from the UK in the past has been a tremendous influence on American music, obviously, But but I'm.

24:36 Speaker 10: Curious, like, who is there anyone else in your area.

24:38 Speaker 1: Who's kind of doing what what you're doing and with this particular mix of influences, is there anybody we should know about from over there who's.

24:49 Speaker 15: There's a lot of purists in funk purists and blues purists, and we get on well with all of them. Yeah, and we in the same bill as all of them. But I haven't really met anyone who's quite doing it the way that we do it.

25:00 Speaker 8: Yeah, there are some ful bands locally to hear though. We're very lucky that we get to play alongside some really, really good musicians on a regular basis. There's a band called Twin two Weeks in Nashville. They're very good.

25:14 Speaker 15: There's a light yeah, but again they're very different times, so much more the sort of like the indie rocky side of what we do. As There's another great band Canada Hill Yeah.

25:26 Speaker 8: Velveteen Orchestra. They're very much more muse kind of sounding. They've got this lovely, beautiful singing voice, unbelievable. But yeah, I wouldn't say there's many people that do what we do.

25:40 Speaker 10: Yeah.

25:41 Speaker 15: I always think that that's that's our biggest strength. That was the fact that you know, I will take in general, take inspiration from anywhere. We're not that. We do a really fun version of Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel, which we try and doing the sort of There's a band called the Brand New Heavy. I did this really crunky version of it, absolutely brilliant, worth checking out, and so we kind of took that and moved it slightly more towards Prince okay, and sort of to get that even more sort of like that more Prince funk rather than the sort of I guess you call it sort of average white band fund thing going.

26:19 Speaker 8: It's it's pretty funky, brilliant.

26:22 Speaker 15: We've had people come up to us afterwards. She said, that's my favorite song. And I still think that's my favorite.

26:28 Speaker 1: You know, I have a memory, by the way of when when I was a kid, my mother sitting there with her walkman and and her headphones on and just listening to Sledgehammer over and over.

26:40 Speaker 10: She loved it so much.

26:42 Speaker 8: It's a really good tune, and it's got lots of different parts, which is what makes it so fun, and you can really play with the timings and pull on things, and yeah, it's it's a it's a really fun song to play.

26:54 Speaker 1: Is there a studio version of that that you've done or do you only do that live?

26:58 Speaker 15: I know it's that's all your life. So we've only had recorded one song as a cover. Currently, I'm toiling with the idea of taking the Badge into the studio and doing a sort of this is the set kind of thing, a bit like what the Beetles sipp please please meet, because while I'm a huge number two, we're starting to sound really really sort of like tight live with this particular set, so it'd be nice to kind of like capture it.

27:23 Speaker 1: No doubt, I agree to do that. What is the one cover that you've recorded.

27:28 Speaker 15: And so I'd rather go blind Sie James.

27:31 Speaker 10: Okay, okay, any particular reason you chose that.

27:35 Speaker 15: It was so we don't. As we said, we're quite positive. So when we do sad songs, they really do hit. And I remember we were doing this tiny gig and this little pub in Sustan and there was a woman at the bar who came up to us at the end and was, as she goes, I heard you play that song. I've just gone through a divorce and this is the first time I've actually cried.

27:57 Speaker 8: And she was in a state. I gave her a hug and like She's like, I just I felt like I needed to have a release and this this was that moment and it was it was really beautiful and it really touched us how emotional people got over this particular song. We played it a couple of times. We've had people in tears and it was it was it's a beautiful feeling. It's a really hard feeling as a singer because I just want to give him a big cuddle. But it really does. It speaks. It's it's quite vocal, it's quite loud in the way that it's emotive.

28:30 Speaker 15: And again we've kind of mashed it up a little bit. So the original song was just a two chord song, but I pulled in a couple of sort of like hints from Hallelujah. So it'll start off and so everyone's like, oh, this is going to be you know, Jeff Buckby like quibble song there, and then breaks into I'd Rather Go Blind and it kind of really hits on that big emotional level.

28:49 Speaker 10: Yeah, oh wow, I'd have to listen to that. Interesting live.

28:54 Speaker 8: We always say, right, we're gonna do a sad song and then I promise you a happy song.

28:57 Speaker 16: At again, because it's what yeah, yeah, yeah, in terms of being you know, we were talking about how you stand out in your scene, right because there's nobody else kind of doing what you're doing in this mix of influences, and you know.

29:14 Speaker 1: You've got the purists who uh maybe uh you know, wouldn't wouldn't dare do what you're doing.

29:20 Speaker 10: But does that do you find that that's an advantage for you?

29:24 Speaker 1: From my vantage point, just getting to know, just getting familiar with the project, it seems like that's a big advantage because you know, everything is so there's so much there's so much noise to cut through. So if you can do something that makes you stand out, I think it's an advantage, you know. But the other side of that being maybe you have some people who are like, oh no, I don't understand how to Some people can't deal with not being able to categorize things. You know a lot of people in the industry they have to be able to categorize things, and that happens in radio too, with radio formats.

29:53 Speaker 1: Do you think it's Do you think it's an advantage though, to be able to stand out?

29:58 Speaker 15: I think live really and fantastic because we're not we're definitely not playing the same song over and over and over again. With variety, the ability to change the lineup as quickly as we do the different things means we can never turn I'm not turning down gigs. If I go up to a place and they're like, we can afford to give you half of that, I can offer them half the bands. You know, that's really good. But when it comes to things like radio play, when it comes to put the things on playlists and things, because all of our songs are so different, it means that I can show them one song and they'll be like, hey, that's brilliant.

30:33 Speaker 15: Have you got anything else like this?

30:35 Speaker 8: No, we've now started finding like sister songs, so there are a couple of songs that if you particularly like our song Shiver, you're quite likely to like Still Dawn, for example, because they're a bit rockier. But it's it's quite nice to be a mixed bag. It means that we can fit in with everyone. But sometimes if we're going to apply for like a blues festival, for example, it's very difficult because we're not straight blues. It's a bit more straight blues and so it's a bluesy rock song or it's a bluesy soul song, but it's still got the influences there.

31:15 Speaker 8: So sometimes it's a detriment. But if we do get on the playlist, it's lovely because we then can do something that's slightly different, and you know, if you're listening to blues all day, which is lovely and I love blues. It's quite nice to have something that's bluesy rather than just straight twelve bar. It's something that's a little bit more something for you is to cheer on if you like.

31:39 Speaker 1: Right right, absolutely, I read something too about it. Do you have a tour coming up in September?

31:48 Speaker 15: Yeah, so not this September, but next September. We are going back to Europe for our third third go round. It's really good fun. I love touring Europe. Last time we've got to play some very fun shows, including a couple of prisons just aside of Frankfurt, I think Johnny Cash or end of the Blues Brothers. So they did get up and dance. It was good fun.

32:10 Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, and Johnny Cash of course you have awesome prison blues yep.

32:15 Speaker 8: Oh yes, that was really interesting. So we were there as a reward basically for those people who got merits, oh, which is that they use within Europe. So the prisoners that were able to attend had to have been on best behaviors basically, and they had to be approved by the person who runs the prison, and then they had to write a letter to say why they wanted to attend. And then that got further approved. So the people that actually ended up in the room with us whilst we were playing the music. These guys haven't heard music for ages.

32:45 Speaker 8: They haven't even had a rape, like, so they're so excited about live music. And then afterwards we spent about an hour with them just talking about fans who they'd send play live, what instruments they used to play. They they were so, they were so up, they were it was such a lovely, lovely experience. It's a bizarre experience.

33:05 Speaker 15: Which is great because when I first heard Reward, I thought I thought it suffered enough called they were our most captive ordierence.

33:16 Speaker 1: That's perfect, that's awesome. Yeah, how many bands can say that that they've played that kind of show. That's that's really cool. That's really cool.

33:25 Speaker 8: I would do it again though. It was absolutely amazing.

33:28 Speaker 15: Really on the next tour we will be going through a couple of shows again.

33:33 Speaker 10: Yeah, that's great. That's great.

33:35 Speaker 1: By the way, so you said that, and now the European tour is not this September, but next September.

33:40 Speaker 15: Ne September twenty twenty six.

33:42 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so you're you're planning, you're planning pretty far ahead, which is great because most musicians are not good at long term planning.

33:49 Speaker 8: But it's an expensive endeavor and with us, all the money we make from playing live goes into the band, so it takes us a little while to save up for it all because by the time you've got hotels and ferries and all the other things that we need, it is quite an expensive trip. But it's so worth it for meeting the people playing in these wonderful venues like and just having some time as a band together. It's really it's worth it. But yeah, it does take us a little while to save up.

34:17 Speaker 5: Yeah.

34:18 Speaker 2: Yeah.

34:19 Speaker 15: Also, I don't know what it's like in the US, but in the UK festivals will be booking for summer twenty twenty six in October. Pubs will be fully booked up by the end of December for the next year, So you have to be really, really on it otherwise you're picking up the scraps unfortunately.

34:39 Speaker 1: Right, And that's the same everywhere in the US festivals. Yeah, they're they're planning, you know, a way in advance. It's funny that that comes up because we had talked about we do a lot of music industry news on the show too, and there was I forget what it was called, that there was a country music festival here that had to be canceled kind of at the last minute. They were re funding tickets because they tried to do this. They tried to put together this big festival with only three months of lead time, and it got to be it got to be like three weeks before before showtime, and they started refunding everybody's tickets because you know, they just couldn't do it.

35:18 Speaker 1: So, yeah, festivals take tremendous long term planning and things even still go wrong. But but yeah, if you get if you get out and play festivals, that's great.

35:27 Speaker 15: Well, it's funny you mentioned that. So there's quite a few things on like Netflix at the moment about things like obviously like fire fests and things like that. Well, and Jenny's real real job, head job from nine to five, is in events organizing. Oh so perfect loves and obviously knows all this, this is the amount of stuff that's going to go involved and just loves watching these trainmates going I know exactly what's going to happen seconds into the dog and.

35:51 Speaker 8: Just thinking about trying to organize a festival in three months all that that said, shit was down my spine. No, no, thank you please.

35:58 Speaker 10: Right, not very I know, I know, yeah, it's it's it's crazy.

36:02 Speaker 1: They thought they could do it, but they learned the hard way and probably it probably cost them a lot of money. But uh yeah no, that's great though that you're going to be doing festivals, have you you've done festivals before, I assume right.

36:14 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah. So this year we played a little festival called Gilfest which is just southeast of England, which was really good fun. And we've played Wayfest and.

36:24 Speaker 15: We've got.

36:26 Speaker 9: The park.

36:26 Speaker 15: Yeah, pub of the Park was fun.

36:29 Speaker 8: Any we love the festival. So it's really fun. And because again you get such a lovely mix of different sounds at the festivals, it's actually a bit easier for us to fit in a little bit because because everyone's so open to listening to original songs and different things, and so it's a it's a really nice melting pot of people to play to.

36:50 Speaker 15: Also, I do love a good locally made beer and quite a lot of these festivals now have these little parker breweries come along, so it's a great opportunity to go and test taste.

36:59 Speaker 10: Some is oh that's very cool.

37:01 Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, I think a festival, I mean, that's such a great opportunity anytime you can play a festival to get in front of a big audience. And also a festival audience I feel is more open to being surprised.

37:13 Speaker 10: You know, if there's.

37:14 Speaker 1: A band there they're not familiar with, and then the band comes out and they play a set or they you know, they start that first song and you know you're in the audience and it's like, Okay, this isn't quite what I expected, or you know, that's that's a lot of fun. That's one of the fun things about a festival is being surprised by some of the artists who you're not familiar with, who end up sounding like something you maybe weren't expecting, or a mix of things that you weren't expecting.

37:38 Speaker 8: We love that as well. We love discovering new music, and if we're ever invited to a festival, we'll make sure that we go and see the other stages and go and see what's going on and make sure we're making some friends.

37:48 Speaker 15: Yeah, stories of sort of going to Hyde Park back in the day and going to go see the Rolling Stones for free and then, or what's this band overhead? Oh? This is this is a new band called Free and this is a new band called Blind Faith or something. And they're like, oh that's pretty cool. Yeah, go check them out. And you're like, of course you did, you sort of free right.

38:10 Speaker 1: Right right exactly. I'm gonna so it's been wonderful speaking with you. The time goes quickly, but I'm going to let you go in a minute, but I'm going to play at the end of our conversation. I want to play this track, Big Train. This is the newest single correct Big Train. Yeah, what can you tell me about the video?

38:28 Speaker 10: The video is really impressive.

38:31 Speaker 8: Thank you. So the video is filmed at a little local train station to us called the bluebellt Railway, and they specialize in bringing back old steam trains basically, and it's just this one little line that they go up and down on, but they rebuild steam trains and they try and keep it as original as possible. So all the stations are well, they're nineteen twenties nineteen thirties style. They're beautiful and they all wear the old uniforms and the steam trains coming in out. It's a really fun place to be and we turned up there and said, you know, would you mind very much if we made a little video whilst we're here, as we're a local band and we'd love to showcase the Blue Bell And they said absolutely, And then they let us into the ticket booth, They let us into the signal box.

39:21 Speaker 8: We were allowed to stand on the trains like we had the best day. They let us in all these like amazing little places. We got to go in the carriages, we rode the trains. It was it was so fun.

39:32 Speaker 15: I think the whole thing was shot in about three hours.

39:34 Speaker 7: Yeah.

39:34 Speaker 10: Wow.

39:36 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's so cool too that they were so cool about it, because you walk into that situation not knowing, right are they going to be like, oh I got to get an approval from my boss for you to be here, or you need a permit or whatever, right.

39:49 Speaker 10: But they just they just let you do it. Huh. That's great.

39:52 Speaker 8: I think we were quite chill and they and we were quite happy. We didn't need to close We weren't trying to close down any stations to do filming. Yeah, they do lots of like the old puaros and like the beautiful BBC productions that look amazing, but they have to close the station down for those. We were like, no, no, we're fine. We'll just stand down the end of the platform and do our bit. Like we don't we don't need to close anything, we don't need to separate anything off. And it's just the two of us and our friend Josh with his camera.

40:19 Speaker 8: Yeah, and I think it's come out really nicely. I think it shows how much fun we were having as well.

40:24 Speaker 15: Yeah, a friend of mine, how did you do that short of you standing at the end of the platform with playing guitar or the train goes by it, So that's quite easy. I waited for the train to come, then I went to the end of the platform and started playing the guitar.

40:36 Speaker 10: Was that scary at all?

40:37 Speaker 1: Were you an all concerned that you were going to get like knocked over by the you know, the wind from the train or anything.

40:45 Speaker 15: No, it's all good. I was. I was thought I was in safe hands.

40:48 Speaker 10: Okay, oh that's good, that's good.

40:51 Speaker 15: And they were hands. But I just told myself was fine.

40:54 Speaker 10: Right right, well, very good.

40:56 Speaker 1: Yeah, And I encourage people to check out the video. It's it's uh, it is excellent And where should people go where's the best place to go to keep up with everything that you're doing, with everything that three times seven is doing.

41:07 Speaker 10: Where should they go online?

41:08 Speaker 8: So the best place is our website, which is www. Dot the number three, the word times the number seven, dot co, dot uk okay, and that has got all the links on it for our social media. It's got all the dates that we're playing, it's got information about us as the band, it's got photos, it's got all sorts of things on there. So that's that's our main hub of information. But if not, we're on Facebook, we're on Instagram, we're on TikTok, we're on all sorts of things. So, yeah, we're fairly easy to find.

41:39 Speaker 10: You are easy to find.

41:40 Speaker 15: Yes, I would warn you that. It turns out I thought three times seven terrible band name, no one else would have it. There is an electronic drum and bass band I believe in the Netherlands called three times seven. So if you start hearing some sort of like drum beats and stuff like that and the technical techno techno, you might have the room one.

42:01 Speaker 1: Yeah, just imagine like, uh, yeah, I didn't stumble upon them when looking you guys up, But yeah, that would be funny, being like, wow, I didn't think they were that versatile to this.

42:10 Speaker 10: This is really different.

42:13 Speaker 15: One of the shows in the Netherlands, someone came up to me and was when this isn't what I was expecting. I'm so glad you're not the other back.

42:20 Speaker 1: Oh that's funny, that's funny, that's amazing.

42:25 Speaker 10: Uh well, yeah, so we're gonna play this.

42:27 Speaker 1: We'll let you go, but Jenny and David, thank you both so much, and we will definitely do this again in the future. It looks like you've got a lot coming up and you've got new music on the way. I'm sure, so we'll we'll definitely do this again. But I really appreciate the both of you joining us today.

42:41 Speaker 8: Thank you so much for having us. It's been a real fun time.

42:43 Speaker 1: Absolutely, I'm gonna hit this track big train, and I'll let you both go, but thank you, and yeah, we'll talk to you again soon.

42:51 Speaker 10: All right, you got it? Bye bye?

42:52 Speaker 5: All right.

42:52 Speaker 10: Wonderful.

42:53 Speaker 1: So that was Jenny and David from three Times seven and without further ado, this is another great song. I really like this a lot, and I do encourage you to go on YouTube. Not right now, stick with me. But later go on YouTube check out the video there. Their YouTube channel is three times seven London if you want to get right there. But here it is. This is big Train. This is the newest single from three Times seven.

43:32 Speaker 5: I'm gonna gave me a.

43:33 Speaker 11: Big train to tav to heaven and I'm ready to ride.

43:40 Speaker 11: I'm talking big train vibrations.

43:44 Speaker 5: Have nois on the other side.

43:47 Speaker 1: Now it's the esteem.

43:50 Speaker 11: Boy goes like a dream.

43:54 Speaker 5: Rhythm of the track goes nick clack.

43:57 Speaker 17: That engine goes.

44:00 Speaker 11: What I mean, I fall into the station, but I won't use the break because Queen, your race shots aation running he spreading base, not your shape. You gave me a big strain to take me to heaven, and I'm ready to ride.

44:29 Speaker 13: I'm talking in big tree vibrations.

44:33 Speaker 5: Oh helllloy so on.

44:35 Speaker 11: The on the side, not a signal screen, a tree at antion mean.

44:44 Speaker 2: Attention, saw steam my head with.

44:47 Speaker 5: Speed and like going away what or like gorn away?

45:01 Speaker 11: Who you're run away? Can heave me a big dream?

45:35 Speaker 5: Take me it?

45:37 Speaker 11: Tae knows I can't do.

45:44 Speaker 13: Rot almost dream.

45:52 Speaker 9: Riddle and the likes a big dream.

45:59 Speaker 13: Riddle and hold.

46:16 Speaker 7: I'm not pretty, but I'm prettier than you.

46:23 Speaker 5: I took the word that I'm gone to from the corner of my eye, well, I can see that I'm a looking fly. I'm not pretty, mus I'm pretty of you.

46:44 Speaker 7: I'm not pretty, but I'm not gone to change.

46:51 Speaker 5: My kids said, it's from the kids.

46:53 Speaker 7: When I got killed, she said the stuff in my.

47:01 Speaker 5: Toe late two real rage. I'm not pretty, but I'm not gonna you. I'm not pretty good. I'm not gonna stop.

47:18 Speaker 7: I'm gonna keep bnky on, unsaid. I drop.

47:25 Speaker 6: This life ain't corner in what I promise you, my friend. I'm not pretty, but I'm not gonna stop. I'm not pretty, but.

47:42 Speaker 5: I'm pretty good at you. I don't know the word I'm gonna to.

47:53 Speaker 4: From the corner of my eye, well I can see.

47:57 Speaker 5: That I'm looking fly.

48:00 Speaker 7: I'm not pretty, but i'm pretty oa than you. I'm not pretty, but they can't keep bed down.

48:14 Speaker 18: I'm going to rise to the job, Frank, can they My crown ain't gonna stop me getting half a new month for me.

48:26 Speaker 5: That's drive. I'm not pretty good.

48:30 Speaker 9: They can't keep bed down, mister Kennedy, I'm not praty gooods.

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49:16 Speaker 5: You made me be who to vote to see, But do you compare to me? I'm not pretty, but I know my place. I'm not pretty, Boots, I'm pretty of you.

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57:09 Speaker 17: When Matts wakes up in the morning, he gets into the shower and to the top of his lungs, he sings, I.

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57:34 Speaker 1: We have entered our number two Newmerow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. If you are listening live today is Saturday, August two, twenty twenty five. In just a moment, Jamie Higgs is going to be joining us via WhatsApp all the way from the UK, and I'm really looking forward to talking with him because I love this song. We did the American radio premiere for this recently. We're gonna play it again.

58:00 Speaker 1: This is such a great track from Jamie Higgs. This is called peace in Your Soundly live it.

58:40 Speaker 7: Seems like a song.

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59:06 Speaker 2: Sing me high up.

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59:24 Speaker 8: Me I row on that found be sing your sound where you rock.

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59:43 Speaker 7: Shot shot, So do you get it?