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Speaker 2: That is reactor number four that is from the EP radiation sickness. I love that. That is so good. It is Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are live on this Saturday morning. Jenny is here, of course at the news table, present account it far and joining us via Skype is the great Dylan Reynolds Dillan. Are you there?
Speaker 9: I am?
Speaker 3: How are you good?
Speaker 2: Good? Hey man? I love that. I love that track. I love this EP really great stuff, and I'm so happy to talk to you this morning, tell us if you would about Radiation Sickness and what the premise is. It's got a as one my guess from the title, there must be a story to it. It has a very specific premise, if you could explain that to us.
Speaker 10: So, yeah, Radiation Sickness, it's it's the entire EP is more like a concept DP. It's kind of building a story. But I love like post apocalyptic theme stuff, like I read novels, I play games, you know, like the Fallout series or Metro stuff like that. Yeah, so I've always always had a really big fascination with post apocalyptic or post nuclear kind of stuff. And I was like, well, you know, I like listening, I like playing stuff like this. But you know, there's a few bands that I like that do similar stuff to that, and I was like, it's always something that I've wanted to do.
Speaker 10: So I just decided to kind of build a little, a little, I guess, minor story about what could possibly happen based off of what has already happened in the world. So kind of just piecing things together out of my brain, just having fun, and.
Speaker 2: You know, and this is this is specifically though about Chernobyl. Right the Chernobyl Disaster or is it a broader concept than than just Chernobyl.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, Reacting number four is definitely about Chernobyl. It's it's actually probably the most or the less fictitious song on the release. So, I mean I went in, I did research, you know, the time, the date, the protocol, procedures to clean up, everything like that. And there was a good series on HBO called Chernobyl. I don't know if you've seen it.
Speaker 8: I have not it.
Speaker 2: I've heard a lot about it.
Speaker 3: Oh dude, it's it's phenomenal.
Speaker 10: So, you know, watching stuff like that, and I'm like, dude, I could, I could definitely write something about this. So I pieced it all together and then you know, I took it from the first song, which was Reacting number four, and I decided just to build this entire story out based off of, you know, the one true event and that really did happen, but then other stuff inspired on kind of like the themes and the imagery and stuff that would fit the narrative but didn't actually happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's particularly intriguing to me because I mean, I love the music, and so regardless of what it's about, I would enjoy this, but particularly intriguing to me because I'm actually I'm old enough to remember when Jernobyl happened, and I still remember coming home from school that day and the news had already broken, and I come home and I'm worried, and I turn on the TV and and you know, there it is. They're talking about Peter Jennings of ABC News. For those of us who who might recall, Uh, there he is talking about it.
Speaker 2: And I was freaked out because I didn't know what was going to happen. You know, is a cloud of nuclear radiation going to float all the way to the United States and kill all of us? And you know, my yeah, and my fears were quelled relatively quickly because you know, these experts are saying, well, you know, it's kind of unlikely that it would make it all the way here and whatnot. But at the in the moment, I was freaked out.
Speaker 10: Well, yeah, you know, you got to think of like the timeline too. You know, it's right towards the very end of the Red Scare. Everybody's afraid of, you know, the tensions with Russia and the tensions we get in the States. So they're thinking, you know, you know, was this a plan thing? Is something terribly gonna go wrong? Can this lead to more nuclear kind of stuff?
Speaker 3: So it's a big level of.
Speaker 10: Uncertainty, you know, definitely before you know, the Iron Curtain came down and.
Speaker 3: Everything like that.
Speaker 10: But yeah, uh, it's you know, it's it's a scary theme because I mean, realistically, nobody other than the people that had to move away from the area, and nobody's really been through anything like that since, right, so you know, imagine what would that be.
Speaker 3: Like if the entire world was like that. So that's the scary part of the topic.
Speaker 2: Right right now you mentioned So there's some fictitious elements to the story also that you tell in these in these songs on the CP.
Speaker 10: Definitely, you know, Prippy At is the third song. It was originally supposed to be the opener track because it has a really, really really long intro in it, But then I started thinking about it and I'm like, as far as the timeline is concerned, that that wouldn't make sense. Decided to put that a little bit farther down. But that's actually based on.
Speaker 3: There's a.
Speaker 10: There's an old PC computer game called Stalker, which is about the Uh, there's a bunch of warring factions in the you know, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and there's you know, mutants and stalkers are basically guys that go in. They have you know, wars and gangs and stuff like that, and they go in and they fight mutants, they.
Speaker 3: Fight, uh you know, bandit like that. Sorry and uh, sorry about that. I gotta turn on gotta turn on the radio voice.
Speaker 2: Don't We're on a delay.
Speaker 3: So I caught it.
Speaker 10: It's all good, okay, good deal, and uh but yes, so Pripyat's about the Stalker games.
Speaker 3: Radiation Sickness is more of not really based on.
Speaker 10: Anything, but rather the theme. And then, uh, the Aftermath is a song that I wrote. I probably wrote that song like seven or eight years ago and I just never had anything to kind of put it with.
Speaker 3: And it's it's more of like you know, the big screams, the big terror of the fires.
Speaker 10: Everything is for the most part been put out, but it's about what remains after and it's all these people just basically either one trying to survive or two banding.
Speaker 3: Together to take whatever they want. So kind of mad Max in a way.
Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, I'm curious.
Speaker 7: Do you know.
Speaker 2: How do I fraise it? Do you do you know why you're interested in this subject and these themes, like did you grow up always having a fascination with sort of apocalyptic or post apocalyptic stuff or or is this something you've always been into or and do you know where it comes from? I'm always super curious about this kind.
Speaker 3: Of thing, definitely.
Speaker 10: So I grew up watching Mad Max, some of my favorite movies of all time Road Warrior Beyond Thunderdome, and I've always liked that concept. And then a couple of years when I was growing up later into it, you know, like movies like The Book of Eli came out, and just seeing that kind of down you.
Speaker 3: Know, dirty gritty.
Speaker 10: Themes and imagery, and I'm just like, dude, this is it kind of brings humanity back to its primal stage. You know, there is no you're my neighbor and I'm going to take care of you anymore. It's you have what I want and I'm going to come take it. So it's always kind of fascinated me. I guess maybe like on a I don't know, like a mental or a psychological level, like what could make humanity revert back to the most basic of instincts, and the Great Reset would do that, and so it's just I guess it's just always been fascinating to me on that level.
Speaker 10: So anytime a new book comes out that's post apocalyptic and theme, or a movie year a game, I'm usually the first one to try it. Plus, you know, I grew up playing Fallout. It's one of my favorite game series of all time, so I've always always kind of really read into it from that angle too.
Speaker 2: So is that what I'm not a gamer, but I assume Fallout is that that's about something having to do with nuclear radiation.
Speaker 10: I assume, yeah, yeah, so Fallout is sent in I think it's like two hundred years after a great nuclear war devastates the entire world. Yeah, And I won't get into the lord because it's just too much to talk about. But essentially, the government built underground vaults and bunkers and they decided to risk, you know, certain people underground in a way to write it out or they could come back after most of the radiation goes away, and when a lot of them open up, they realize it never went away. And there's bandits, there's some small vestages of humanity left and it's it's a really cool role playing.
Speaker 3: Experience.
Speaker 10: If if you ever decide to get into any of them, I would heavily recommend it. It's just it's a it's a fun, fun experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I won't. I actually about twenty years ago was the last time I ever held any kind of a game controller. And I had to put it down and I said, I'm never playing any more games because I found it very psychologically addictive. Oh yes, yes, the last video game I ever played. I remember I was at a friend's house and they had fallen asleep and it was like one am, and I had started playing this game at like nine pm, and there it is four hours later, and I'm looking at the clock and I'm like, I can't do this anymore.
Speaker 2: And I actually stopped because that's that's exactly the kind of thing that I would get sucked into.
Speaker 3: And then oh yeah, yes, dude, it's it's even worse.
Speaker 10: Like I had add Man, it's really hard for me to concentrate on certain things. But if you put a controller in my hand, you know, just like you say, it'll be a PM and the next.
Speaker 3: Time you look at the clock it's four or four am, and you're like, what happened? So I get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, this is a little bit, a little bit of a left turn, uh topically, But you mentioned a d D. I uh do some work with some uh podcasting with a gentleman named doctor Kevin ross Emory and a d D ADHD. It's kind of a specialty of his, and he talks about he has a book called Managing the Gift, for example, and he talks about a lot about how people with a d D actually tend to be more creative and and accomplish more in terms of their creativity and and and you know, just uh, you know, whether it be music or visual art or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: I mean, do you feel that, Like I said, I know, this is kind of a curve. You probably didn't expect to be talking about this, But I'm curious since since you mentioned it, do you feel that your ad D helps you because you're you're such a creative person. Do you feel that it helps you in some way with your in terms of making music and everything else.
Speaker 10: Definitely, I feel like I to a degree, I hyper fixate on things.
Speaker 3: That I like.
Speaker 10: So you know, I'm not gonna say, like, I'm a teetotal perfectionist. But if I look at something and I realize, you know, that could be slightly better, you know, I'll it's it's there's an old common saying. It's like, you know, if you're painting something, you're never really done painting it. It's just when you decide to quit, because you can always add more pain, right, So it's the same thing with music.
Speaker 3: You know, I do graphic art.
Speaker 10: It's the same thing with that as well. I can sit at a computer and make a million tiny changes that probably ninety percent of people wouldn't realize. But if I don't do them, I'll look at it and I think I should have done that.
Speaker 3: So yeah, kind of. And then on the flip side of it.
Speaker 10: You know, you get like writer's blog or designer's block a lot. So sometimes you just sit there and be frustrated at a computer trying to write something or trying to design something, to the point where you have to take a break, and sometimes it sucks, but that break is like a month long, and then when you come back from that break, it's like everything falls into place. But you know, if you spend too much time on something, then you'll you'll just get annoyed with it, right, But but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you You've always got multiple things going on creatively anyway, right, so i'd imagine, Oh yeah, it's kind of move from one thing to the next, but but they're all they're all always in motion.
Speaker 10: Yeah, And that's the way to keep it fresh too, is you know, you get a little frustrated with one thing, put it down, run to the next, knock that out, come back.
Speaker 3: So that definitely does help.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you mentioned too being a graphic artist, so obviously you do all the artwork for you know, like radiation sickness. You did all all that yourself, I would imagine.
Speaker 10: Right, Uh yeah, So normally, under normal circumstances, I'll be one hundred percent transparent with it for normal clients I have. I never use AI generated art. I think it's a cool tool to get inspiration, but I don't ever use it for clients of mine. I did use it for my stuff just because it's something I wanted to put out as quick as possible, so I did a.
Speaker 3: Lot of editing to it.
Speaker 10: But for the most part, it is generated. But like I said, it's it's only stuff that I've used for for my personal stuff.
Speaker 3: That way, I'm not.
Speaker 10: I'm not going to charge somebody, you know, however much I charge for a design when it took ten seconds to generate versus you know them, tell me something specific and I'll make it myself.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, yeah, but but yeah, that's interesting because that's another subject that comes up a lot on this show, you know, AI and and how it affects the music industry and art and so forth. Are you how do you feel about AI in terms of music? Are you worried about it?
Speaker 3: Do you care?
Speaker 9: Is it?
Speaker 2: There's a lot of varying opinions on the matter.
Speaker 10: Well, you know me, I love rock music right as far as when it comes to playing it live. You know, rock bands historically have played every for the most part, played every instrument live. Pop music resorts a little bit more towards backing tracks and not as many live musicians.
Speaker 3: So in a way it's a stretch.
Speaker 10: But in a way I kind of look at it like, how is AI any different than a pop singer playing live if they're just playing to music behind them and then somebody hits a button and generates a couple beats.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of in that it.
Speaker 10: Like I said, it's a stretch now as far as being like a complete creative process, Like you know, I'm going to pump in a formula on the computer and it's gonna pull out beats for me, it's gonna pull out chord patterns. It's gonna do that. Don't really believe in that. I don't find that creative at all, right, But maybe using it as just an inspiration tool rather than the the means to an end I think would probably be okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, It's going to be very interesting in the coming years to see how the music industry deals with it and and so forth. But getting back to radiation sickness for a moment, So are you performing these songs live or is this strictly a studio project or how are you proceeding with it?
Speaker 3: Currently? Studio project?
Speaker 10: Only in my normal day to day, I'm extremely busy, so I don't have a lot of time to go out and find guys that I trust you can learn all the material and then grind and play a whole bunch of shows. So it's more just fun for me
Speaker 10: and a little bit of a segue. It helps me build up a catalog which gets me. You know, different doors open. Like right now, I am writing the soundtrack for a local movie based out of Hickory, North Carolina.
Speaker 3: Oh, so we're writing.
Speaker 10: It's a full, completely independent movie. So they wanted to do an eighties style slasher thriller.
Speaker 3: Oh and they.
Speaker 10: Wanted a complete hard rock soundtrack to go with the movie. So it's somebody that I've known for years. That's he's a writer, he's an author, he's done a lot of really cool stuff. And he asked me, He's like, hey, do you want to do this? And I said, yeah, you don't even have to pay me, let's do it.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So you know, even if it's something small like that, they can get the door open.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 10: I'm I'm extremely I've already got five or six songs. If I get permission when it gets closer to release time, I'd love to.
Speaker 3: Send you one.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that way we can.
Speaker 3: We can do a little bit of promotion on that.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Absolutely. Oh that's very cool and that's uh, that's certainly right up your alley. Are you Are you playing out at all currently? Do do you do any live shows of any kind? I know you you have the I don't know if you still do it the Judas Priest start for you.
Speaker 10: Ben, Yes, yeah, we still do Unleash the Classic Judas Priests Tribute. We actually just got back from Virginia about three weeks ago. We played a showdown there for a biker rally.
Speaker 3: Cool, so we did that. We got some stuff coming up in October. We we try to do, like bar Hop.
Speaker 10: We don't want to be weekend Warriors because we all have full time jobs and families and everything like that.
Speaker 3: So yeah, we try to do like five, six, seven big shows a year and then just spend the rest of the time with family.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well that's cool. Is it challenging singing?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: Halford obviously one of the greats, some would say the best, you know, the metal god Rob Halford. Is that challenging to do? I mean, do you have to especially whereas like you said, if you're only doing five or six big shows a year with that project, is that to get your voice in shape for that? Is that challenging at all? Or is it perfectly natural? Or how do you approach that vocally?
Speaker 10: Now that I have spent years singing it, you know, I could go weeks without practice, go to you know, then go to a rehearsal.
Speaker 3: And play it like we've been playing in it for a year straight.
Speaker 10: I would probably indirectly, I would probably credit Halford for getting my voice the way it is, learning how to sing his stuff, because you know, if you listen vocally on the Radiation Sickness EP, it's very guttural, it's very raspy, rolly, which is how I originally learned to sing. I grew up listening to you know, early Pauldiano, Iron Maiden, really deep voice, because that's what I had. I didn't have a high pitched voice growing up singing, so I learned how to sing like that. And then I get into it, and you know, that's these guys that I've been playing with for a while.
Speaker 3: We were doing like.
Speaker 10: Variety eighties metal, just you know, for fun, going and playing a couple of shows a year, doing whatever, and then we all decided let's do let's do one band, and we all agreed on Priest. Then I'm sitting here thinking, oh my, I have to learn how to sing like Priest. So it took years, years and years and years to learn how to how to get Halford's nuances, especially his highests. Those are some of those are really brutal.
Speaker 3: But but like I said, man, the only way to do it is to do it.
Speaker 10: And I just I went out there and I practiced for years just that, I mean, the same songs over and over and over and just tried to get a little better at each time. And man, I've probably grown at least an entire octave range learning how to sing his stuff. Yeah, it's been tough, is.
Speaker 2: There I'm curious is there any particular pre song that really gave you a hard time? Is there is there one you can pinpoint as being the most challenging.
Speaker 10: Yes, there is a song called Devil's Child and it is off of the Screaming for Vengeance album.
Speaker 3: It is absolutely and it was.
Speaker 10: One of the first songs they wanted to learn too, so right, So, I mean it's it's tough, man. There is a there's kind of like a bridge section where it's just nothing but you know, his highest screaming piercing notes. And it's not like there's different levels to Holford's screams. There's low screams and there's high and that mid section is nothing but high screams. Chorus is high screams. I mean it's Yeah, it's tough, man, I think. I mean, honestly, this is kinda gonna be weird to say, but I think I could sing Painkiller easier than I could sing Devil's Child.
Speaker 3: Really, it's right in the pocket.
Speaker 10: I don't know how to describe other than that with my voice, but I can hit those screams all day long because they're not they're right about in the same zone. So it's the not monotonous, but it doesn't gas me out. Devil's Child for some reason, Dude, that song kills me every time.
Speaker 2: But it's probably kind of cool in a way that you had to You said that was one of the first ones, or the first one they wanted you to learn, because I mean, if you can sing that, you can sing any of it, right, If that's yes, So that's probably a good way to start from that standpoint.
Speaker 3: Oh definitely, yeah, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Very cool. Uh, Dylan, the time goes so quickly. I do want to so we'll let you go in a moment, but I want to end the segment by playing another track from Radiation Sickness. Uh, But I'd like you to choose what would be a good What would be a good one?
Speaker 3: To end with, let's go with the title track.
Speaker 2: Oh there it is. Yeah, I'm staring right at it and not seeing it. Clearly, I need more caffeine. All right, very good, So we'll play that. We'll play the title track from Radiation Sickness and Dylan, where should people go online to keep up with everything that you're doing? To find the EP and and just anything else if you want to plug your your work as a graphic artist, anything our listeners should know about you.
Speaker 10: So for graphic artwork, you can find me at atom A t O M bomb Artwork dot com, music general updates, or on my YouTube channel YouTube dot com slash Dangerous Dylan with a.
Speaker 3: Z not an S.
Speaker 10: And you can just find me generally on Facebook under Dying Reynolds or doing Reynolds music, and that's typically where I keep everything else. Also, if you want to check out the unleased tribute, we are on Facebook as Unleashed the Classic Judas Priest Tribute.
Speaker 2: Very cool, very cool. All right, Dylan Reynolds, thank you so much, my friend. I'm gonna hit this track and I appreciate you joining us today and we will we'll do this again, uh in the uh your future I'm.
Speaker 3: Sure alrighty man, thank you for letting me be.
Speaker 2: On absolutely anytime. All right, Thanks Dylan, take care later, buddy. All right, the great Dylan Reynolds and uh, if you are listening live, Factory of Art is going to be coming up in a few minutes. But let's give this a listen. This is the title track from the Dylan Reynolds ep Radiation Sickness, the ban, the sunning, the screams.
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Speaker 6: Jumping your fad.
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Speaker 2: I love that. That is epic. The song is blessing in disguise. The band is Factory of Art, and I think we have a couple of guys from Factory of Art on Skype with us. Hello, can you guys hear me?
Speaker 8: Hey? Hello, here's still a fun Factory of Art and the best drama of the world rather is with me today?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, welcome guys. How are you? How are you are you? Are you on the road right now?
Speaker 8: Yeah? We are not on the road, but on the boat. We play a show tonight on a little metal cruise in a New York Berlin.
Speaker 2: Oh that's cool. That's cool. Is a weather, they're a good good cruise weather.
Speaker 8: Oh very fine. It's not too hot, but it's sunny and a lot of guys are here on a boat. And we hope we will play a good show tonight, but not as factory of art. We I told you earlier that we have a cover project. We play songs of Inhale, Pumstein, a CDC and so on. Yeah, tonight is party. Tonight is not the factory of art show. It's a factory under cover. Sure.
Speaker 2: Oh I gotcha, I got cha.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: That's cool though, that you get to play on a cruise And congratulations by the way on the album. And uh, I love these songs. I mean this is next level. Blessing in Disguise is such an interesting song. You know, it's it's got you know, kind of the power metal thing. But there's also there's also some curveballs in there. There's some things you don't necessarily expect to hear. At one point, it sounds almost like a Moog keyboard is in there, or a wurlitzer or something. It's really interesting.
Speaker 8: Oh, thank you very much. It's it's so nice to hear that, because we are very proud. Now the album is ready. We had a very good record release show in Leipsish in June, and the first reviews on the album in the German underground press are very very good. We are very happy with this. Sure and sure it's so nice that you like it. It's great. The best review says twelve from ten points.
Speaker 3: Okay the scale.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, excellent, excellent. Now are you guys getting to play these songs live? I know tonight you're not because you're doing the covers, But do you guys have a lot of opportunities to play these songs live.
Speaker 8: We played some shows with a new new material. Now we have a little break. It's summertime here and we're too late to be booked on the great festivals in Germany. We have to try it in the next month. Is in the next year. Yeah, we have some gigs in Leipzig in Germany at all. It's great. It's a great adventure for us to play the new material live on stage. But it's not the thing that we have a tour. That's yeah, that's the thing we have to work about in the next month.
Speaker 2: Is Okay, Okay. Is it challenging to play the new material live? Because, like I said, it's it's it's pretty loud.
Speaker 8: There we were under a bridge. That's why, a little bit too loud.
Speaker 2: That makes sense, That makes sense. So the boat, the boat is in motion. Is it challenging to play these songs live? Because, like I said, it's you know, it's not your standard power metal. There's some there's some other things going on. It's very complex.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a it's a challenge for us. It was a challenge for us, but we were well prepared for the first show, our record release show, and like this, we had all our vocal singers, guest singers on stage during the show. That was so so nice, and we we trained very very hard to give the best on stage. It's it's a challenge for us.
Speaker 2: You're right, yeah, yeah, do you I mean, are you able to play like when you do these shows? Do you just focus on the newer material because you you got you guys have been around for more than three decades, right.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so it is. We just last week we created a new Settlers, a mix of the new album and older songs. And now we have the ninety one hundred minute show program. We have I think seven new tracks and three or four of the both former earlier albums.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I assume. I mean obviously, I don't know that I've listened to anything like really early from you guys. Has the sound changed over the years, I would imagine it has somewhat, right.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so it is the sound changed, the songwriting process changed a little bit. But when we play on stage new material or all of material, it's the same band. It's the same sound, and that I think it's it's a unit.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 8: The people like the old songs too. We play the best of them, I think, and it's a good it's a good mix of all and and people say, oh yeah, she nice to have the new material but it's nice to hear songs again that we never heard for twenty years live on stage.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was gonna say, so. There must be people who who've been there from the beginning, right, Do you see people at the shows who you remember from way back in the beginning when they first started to come out and see the band.
Speaker 8: Yeah, still of them are still alive. Yeah, and uh, best best for us is that these people, uh uh, the the die hard fans from the first hour of the band say, it's so nice that you are back. And we like our new material too. I think it's for the for the for the people. It's nice to have the best of both worlds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. When you guys, when you guys do shows with the new material, are you doing fast?
Speaker 6: Of all?
Speaker 2: Are have you been able to do any of those this summer?
Speaker 8: Yeah? We we played two shows, uh, two slots at festivals, but we were so so heavy that we played the whole new album in in on these two festivals.
Speaker 9: For it.
Speaker 8: It was for us to to to train on new material. The people asked us, oh, would you play some some older songs, and we said, sorry, not tonight. We want to show you at the whole new album. And yeah, it was very nice, but it was an interesting effect for us. The people heard very very I don't know the English word ox. We both don't know. They heard the new material and we're and but they needed a little bit time to understand it.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, no, that makes sense, but nice to have.
Speaker 8: We sell our albums, our physical albums on our merge stand and it works, but only it works if you play a good show. Why and that's why we try to make it very good every every night. Tonight we have the cover program. It's nice to have for us, but we try to to reach the people with a few informations about our factory, of our project. Let's see how it works tonight.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I would imagine your music too. You must see like multiple generations. I assume you see young people at your shows too, right, because you you have music, I feel it's timeless. I feel that probably anyone of any age could get into what you're doing. Do you see a lot of young people at your shows?
Speaker 8: You're absolutely right. It's when you're here in Germany, go to a festival. You have a mixture of people, elder people, young people, and we have good response of both of them. You're right, it's it's seems yourself cannot say it's timeless, but if you say it, the people say, okay, it's it's it's a I think, uh, that's true. That's that's the truth here and this is this is our experiences of the last two shows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. Are you guys, are are you getting any traction at radio or radios they're playing you? I don't know what the what the situation is with radio in that part of the world currently. If there's a format, it supports what you're doing. But I'm curious, I don't.
Speaker 8: We like the American radio scene very much every time when i'm as a tourist.
Speaker 15: Am in in the States, I like it so very much. But here in Germany it's so commercial. Yeah, it's so commercial there we have with our music, no chance. But there is a really great and.
Speaker 8: Interesting underground radio scene. And these guys are loving the new album. And we have Airplane in internet ratios stations here in Germany.
Speaker 2: Oh, excellent, excellent, very good, yeah, very good.
Speaker 8: We are an album of the months June or July in five or six radio stations here in Germany. And that's for us, a very good thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, congratulations on that. That is outstanding. Well, listen, guys, it's great to speak with you. Uh, we'll We'll let you go. It sounds like there's a band. Is there a band on stage right now? Or is that a stereo?
Speaker 8: Yeah? Yeah, yes, as another band on stage. We look for the quietest place on this boat. But we have to go swim if you want to have it.
Speaker 2: Still, I understand, I completely understand. No, it sounds like a great time. It sounds fun. And uh uh when when do you guys play? Is it in a few hours or is it soon?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: We have we have just have time.
Speaker 7: We have uh.
Speaker 8: Stage time is here in Germany seven pm. Yeah, it means to an half hour. We have to go on stage and we play our open plumstick.
Speaker 2: Usher excellent.
Speaker 8: From a from a little German band.
Speaker 2: I've seen them, Yeah, I've seen Ramstein. I can't pronounce it correctly but my American mouth, but but I've seen Ramstein live and it's it's quite a show. In fact, the times that I've seen them, if you're close enough to the stage, you can feel the heat coming from the pyro, which is a little scary.
Speaker 8: But there's a nice story of our earlier days. I played two shows as local support with rumshein In in the late nineties in Leipzigh. It was a great experience for us. But they are so fantastic, so good as well as little stage as well as a hall, not a stadium, but it was so great for us, and and it's what was nice too to meet the guys of us is the time of their first album, Had the Light now in these times.
Speaker 11: Oh, oh.
Speaker 8: The bridge, May we come under the bridge? Sorry, it's it will be allowed for a few seconds.
Speaker 2: Oh that's okay, yeah, it's come.
Speaker 6: Here we go.
Speaker 16: Oh see Blacks have a paranoid. Yeah, yes they are, Bryan here. It's so nice here, So there we go, there we go.
Speaker 8: Sorry, now it's better.
Speaker 2: They should put some soundproofing panels under the bridge for when that happens.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, we went through and everything's fine. I hope, yes, yes, yeah, And we play some songs tonight. Helps Bells is the second song from a cy DC and our last song, Sure Motorhead is of Space, and then we have fifteen sixteen, twenty twenty tracks to play tonight. We are the last band headline on you boo and sure it's nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah I hear, I hear a Black Sabbath paranoid in the background. It sounds good. Yeah, sure yeah, whoever that band is, they sound good, but you will sound even better.
Speaker 3: I have no doubt.
Speaker 8: I hope that it will try it. You know, it's it's it's party time for us tonight. But we want to we want to play a good show.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, no, you guys are amazing, Like I said, I love the album, thank you so much for sending it to us, and I love these songs. I'm gonna let you go in a moment so you can you can get back to it. But I have a question, Uh what song should I finish the segment with? I opened with the single of course, Blessing in Disguise. But do you guys have a suggestion on what you would like me to end the segment with.
Speaker 8: Just let's let us talk bick to life, back to the Life, back to the Life, the lasted track, the title track would be.
Speaker 2: Nice, okay, okay, yeah, we can go with that. Very cool, very cool, all right? And what should our listeners know? What should our listeners know here in America about how to find you guys online to keep up with what you're doing. Anything special you want them to know?
Speaker 8: Yeah, sure, we have a new system. You find everything about Factory of Art on the Factory minus off minus Art dot band.
Speaker 2: Okay, and we'll share the link out too to make sure people have it. But very good, verty good, All right, Hey, guys, thank you so much, have a great show tonight. We'll let you go so we can hit this track. But I really appreciate you joining us today.
Speaker 8: Thank you very much. It's nice to be with you, and the best greetings from Berliant from the Boat Factory.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, thank you so much. Take care, have fun. Yep, you too, all right, bye bye, all right. Factory of Art. What a great band. We will play this next to finish out the segment. This is a track called back to Life. Back to the Life rather from, of course, their album of the same name, the title track Factory of Art. I definitely recommend you check them out. Great guys, and I love their music and if you are listening live on Saturday, of course. Coming up in the third hour, we have Eleanor and Spelfee from the Midnight Creatures creat No Midnight, I always get it wrong.
Speaker 2: Midnight Creative Collective. The Creatures is the Facebook and terminus underground. Yes, where Jenny's paintings are currently hanging.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 2: That is it's very very cool, but we'll talk about that in the third hour when Eleanor and Spelfy are here with us in studio. But give this a listen. This is called back to the Life Factory of Art. This is really good.
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