Matt Connarton Unleashed 9-5-26 hour 1

Matt Connarton Unleashed 9-5-26 hour 1

World Premiere of Frequency Overload's "Buoyancy"

0:01 Speaker 1: You are listening to WMNH 95.3.

0:04 Speaker 2: World premiere.

0:10 Speaker 3: Right now, we got a Matt Conderton Unleashed exclusive, the world radio premiere of the new single from Frequency Overload coming out September 9th. But you heard it here first. This is called Buoyancy.

0:22 Speaker 4: Buoyancy. Ha ha.

0:42 Speaker 5: To find a way to break down From a new story to my past.

0:48 Speaker 6: I want to chop the tentacles of.

0:57 Speaker 3: Loneliness Suffocate the dreams Freedom all.

1:00 Speaker 4: You take Whoa, all that I want to throw it away Whoa, all that Do it Gone now, deception in the mind game.

1:16 Speaker 6: I see groups all over the internet game. There's thoughts and schemes that grow to help you step away from the game. One thing I want to try to impart, is to do the right thing out of your heart.

1:28 Speaker 5: It's never life, it was a broken life, out of the quicksand thought.

1:45 Speaker 6: Freedom all you take.

1:49 Speaker 4: Walk on air.

1:50 Speaker 6: Just a while to throw it away.

1:52 Speaker 4: Walk on air. Do it.

1:55 Speaker 6: Freedom all you take. Walk on air.

2:22 Speaker 4: Bye.

2:43 Speaker 6: I want to throw away. I want to throw away.

Matt Connerton Unleashed Exclusive: Blake Rascals' "Tangled Mind"

3:41 Speaker 3: Right now we have another Matt Connerton Unleashed exclusive, the world radio premiere of the new single from Blake Rascals. This is called Tangled Mind.

3:50 Speaker 7: Tangled Mind I read the signs, you pressed my soul into your sticky mind A tiny frame, I'm glued to the line They lock the doors, I knock the salon's only pause A fleeting spark, that dies before it leaves the dark Ice fleek of past Pretending not to hear me cast I push my sound It's swallowed underground Secrets creep My crooked greed I try to keep I strike my note It falls to cracks It cannot float And drowns Through my soul I'm slipping Into my tango mind.

4:58 Speaker 4: I dream on your walls.

5:01 Speaker 7: I'm coming for the shadow coast. I'm coming for the shadow coast.

5:28 Speaker 4: Drowns through my soul.

5:30 Speaker 7: I'm slipping into my tango.

5:36 Speaker 4: Mind.

5:36 Speaker 8: I dream on your walls. I'm gone before.

5:41 Speaker 7: The shadow calls. I'm gone before the shadow calls. I'm

5:47 Speaker 7: gone before the shadow calls. I'm gone before the shadow calls.

5:55 Speaker 8: I'm going before the shadow goes.

5:57 Speaker 3: I'm going before the shadow goes.

6:19 Speaker 8: Vision keeps the touch of me toxic to satisfy. Vision lifts what phantoms leap, hurries back at a time.

6:52 Speaker 7: I read the signs, you press my soul into your sticky mind A tiny frame, I'm glued to the line They lock the doors, I knock the salons Only ports are fleeting spots The dice before a list that.

7:08 Speaker 8: I can trounce Through my soul.

7:13 Speaker 7: I'm slipping into my tiger mind.

7:17 Speaker 8: Oh, that is a cool song.

7:22 Speaker 7: We had a couple of big.

7:47 Speaker 3: Big world radio premieres this week on the show, of course, from Blake Rascals. And before that, the new track from our friends from New York City, Frequency Overload. And we got somebody waiting on the line, actually, on WhatsApp we're going to be talking to in just a moment. Let me just intro the show quickly, and then we can get to it, all of it. We have a busy show, of course, as we always do here. Matt Connerton Unleashed, and we are live from the studios of WMNH 95.3 FM. in glorious Manchester, New Hampshire.

8:16 Speaker 3: And of course, you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to mattconnerton.com slash unleashed for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera.

Introducing Seven Streets and Their Liverpool Sound

8:26 Speaker 3: Right now, what we're going to do, though, is we're going to play the track from Seven Streets, the song called Table for Two. You heard it here first. We did a world radio premiere for this track not too long ago. We're going to play this right now. And then on the other side of this, Niall McInerney from the band Seven Streets is going to be on with us via WhatsApp and cannot wait to talk to him. But here it is. This is Seven Streets and the track is called Table for Two.

8:50 Speaker 4: I want to.

9:09 Speaker 5: Get to know you In this modern world Day is turning tonight Skip around the fights Find a seat at the bar.

9:31 Speaker 4: Your eyes light up the room.

9:34 Speaker 5: When I'm lost in the perfume Stairs, I can't help it.

9:45 Speaker 4: One more table for two.

9:58 Speaker 6: Now I don't know what it is I'm supposed to do.

10:24 Speaker 5: Drunk in my brain Don't wanna hear the same story again Can't see the point in this.

10:36 Speaker 6: Walk off on.

10:38 Speaker 5: The road I'll walk back in the cold Where do I go from here? Or past couples who hide from the rain. It's a ticket for the train. Guess that I've had better days.

11:02 Speaker 6: One more day for two. Only when it's not as good.

11:15 Speaker 4: One more day for two.

11:22 Speaker 6: I'm supposed to do.

11:54 Speaker 3: One more table for two Only when this night is.

12:02 Speaker 6: Through One more table for two Now.

12:11 Speaker 4: I don't know what it is.

12:14 Speaker 6: I'm supposed to do One more table for two.

12:44 Speaker 3: Oh, that is catchy, isn't it? I love that so much. That is called Table for Two. The band is Seven Streets.

Niall McInerney Joins the Show

12:51 Speaker 3: And let me bring this up because right now via WhatsApp, We've got Niall McInerney from the band Seven Streets here with us. Hello, Niall.

12:58 Speaker 9: Hi, mate. You okay?

12:59 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. How you doing? Welcome to the show. It's great to have you on.

13:03 Speaker 9: Oh, thank you very much for having me on. It's an absolute pleasure.

13:06 Speaker 3: Oh, wonderful. Yeah, I've been anxious to talk to you because, as I'm sure you're aware, we were the first American radio station here at WMNH to play Table for Two. We did a world premiere for it not too, too long ago. So I've been looking forward to having you on. I really love your sound. I should ask you, too, by the way, are you alone or is anyone else from the band there with you?

13:24 Speaker 9: No, it's just me, man, on the floor today.

13:26 Speaker 3: Just you?

13:26 Speaker 10: The rest of the lads, they're enjoying the Saturday afternoon over in the UK, in the pub.

13:32 Speaker 9: I think, I imagine.

13:33 Speaker 6: Oh, okay.

13:35 Speaker 3: I forget that it's not... See, here where I am, it's morning, so the pubs aren't even open yet here. Well, very good. That's very rock and roll of them, actually. I know, yeah.

13:47 Speaker 9: One of us has to do something, I.

13:49 Speaker 3: Suppose.

The Formation and Dynamics of Seven Streets

13:50 Speaker 3: So now, Seven Streets, the history of the band is relatively short, right? My impression is you guys have come a long way in a very short time, right?

14:00 Speaker 9: Yeah, it seems to.

14:01 Speaker 10: So me and Sean, who's our lead guitarist, we've been just jamming together for about two years, something like that, but wanted to get a band together. And really, the band came together in December 2025. And then since then, we've just been, you know, getting out, doing as much as we can and recording as many songs as we can.

14:22 Speaker 9: And yeah, gigging. And it seems to be going well for us so far.

14:26 Speaker 3: Well, I always say, you know, you've really got something when it comes together quickly. When something just seems to, you know, when you don't have to force it, you don't have to work at it. Not that there's anything wrong with, you know, putting a band together and really working at it. But when things happen organically, when things just gel very quickly, that's when you know you've really got something.

14:43 Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.

14:46 Speaker 3: Sounds like that's what happened here. And of course we should mention too, so you're the front man and lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist. Do you, um, do you also write the songs or is that a band effort or who, who does the writing?

14:57 Speaker 2: Yeah.

14:57 Speaker 10: And a lot of writing so far of the songs that we've got has come from myself, but, um, it tends to be, I, I cut it off with a lot of lyrics and, uh, the lads tend to go, you can't have 10 minutes worth of lyrics. So that's, and then, uh, And then, yeah, we really work on all our songs together. Lyrics-wise, nine times out of ten, it's coming from myself. But the songs come together as a band, and we're all working on it together, which is good.

15:26 Speaker 2: Absolutely.

Liverpool's Music Scene and Community Involvement

15:27 Speaker 3: I get the impression, too, because you guys are from Liverpool, and we've had a lot of bands from Liverpool on the show recently, which is great. so much great music coming out of there, but I ask all the guests that we have on the show who are from Liverpool, I always ask this question, is there, do you feel any, and I get very different answers on this, do you feel any extra, a little bit of pressure being from Liverpool? Obviously, that is kind of the, my impression is Liverpool there is kind of like what what New York city or Austin, Texas or Nashville, Tennessee are here in the United States, you know, places, Seattle, Washington places that are known really for, for having a very powerful music scene, which, which obviously, uh, gives you a lot to draw from, but also a lot to live up to.

16:10 Speaker 3: I mean, is there pressure being a band from Liverpool?

16:14 Speaker 10: I think I say pressure is not the right, not the right word. It's excitement really, because there's all, I said, there's a lot of, a lot of bands in Liverpool and a lot of lads and a lot of girls who are wanting to do the same thing so you all tend to be in the same boat and it's a bit of a camaraderie kind of thing I think none of us are daft enough to say let's try and be as big as the Beatles because they're the biggest band in the world so if you take that out of the equation and you just go it's a music city we're all in the same boat there's a lot of people who like going to see live bands and like seeing local bands so you feel the support so I think press is the right word but It's exciting and it's good to be from Liverpool and be able to pick up the mantle and have our own go at it.

16:59 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. And I know that, you know, I was reading that you guys are really very focused, too, on kind of giving back to the scene in a way. You know, you're not there in Liverpool just you take from what Liverpool has to offer, but you've been very supportive of local venues there and... and really trying to do all that you can, uh, you know, to help the, because regardless of, of where it is, it's always a struggle in, in music. Even if you're in a place like Liverpool, which has such a rich history of, of musicians, it's, um, it, it's never easy, you know, uh, being a musician is, it's never easy if you're trying to, you know, really kind of forge your way.

17:36 Speaker 3: Uh, but I get the impression that you guys have been really kind of focused on sort of giving back to Liverpool in that sense.

17:43 Speaker 10: Yeah I think if it was easy everyone would do it and obviously you know as a lot of people do how difficult it can be in the music industry and at the time we're at now it's a bit difficult in Liverpool and a lot of places in the UK.

17:58 Speaker 9: Because places for bands to go and practice.

18:03 Speaker 10: The trade and get in front of live audiences and see what they sound like in big venues and.

18:09 Speaker 9: Stuff like that. It's, it's quite limited.

18:11 Speaker 10: Um, so the venues that are still open and willing to put bands on local bands, we just want to do as many gigs as we can there and, you know, get as many people down and keep these venues going. So it's a challenge, but it's, it's, it's good.

18:25 Speaker 9: And again, it's exciting for us.

18:27 Speaker 3: And tell me about, I was reading too, that you were recently introduced to Kevin McManus, who's a pretty important, you know, since we're talking about Liverpool, uh, And I don't know anything about Kevin McManus, but I'm curious what you can tell me. I guess he's a pretty important guy there in the music scene in Liverpool and culturally, is that correct?

18:44 Speaker 10: Yeah, so he's a big wig, is something I'd say over here, in terms of the culture and the music scene and the.

18:53 Speaker 9: the art scene in Liverpool. Um, so he's been very supportive of us.

18:57 Speaker 10: And so, yeah, I was introduced to him a couple of, uh, a couple of months ago and yeah, just keep sending him videos, keep talking to him over the phone.

19:05 Speaker 9: And he's, he's very supportive of us and he's, you know, threw an article up on, um, on, on the internet, on.

19:11 Speaker 10: Liverpool's heritage website, um, you know, showcasing us and to be alongside of, um, he names bands such as like Quayside and, Red Room Club and to be alongside those names and if he had asked me that 12 months ago I'd have said no chance but yeah.

19:27 Speaker 9: He's been so supportive of us so I can't thank him enough No.

19:30 Speaker 3: That's fantastic good for you guys good for you now what's kind of the future trajectory because obviously you have Table for Two great track like I said we were the first at least I know we were the first American radio station to play that and then at the end of our conversation in a couple minutes we're going to play Live In which I know is the first single another great great track from you guys but what's kind of the or maybe you don't know the the answer to this yet but i'm curious what kind of the future trajectory is as far as releases do you plan to keep releasing singles are you going to do an ep or an album or what's um what's kind of next for you guys and what's sort of the the short term and the long term plan if you know.

20:07 Speaker 10: Yeah, so short-term plan now is to get back in the studio and record our next single.

Seven Streets' Future Plans and Festivals

20:14 Speaker 9: I think we've narrowed it down to two songs, depending on.

20:17 Speaker 10: Which one we want to do first. But that'll be for the discussion over a beer. So that'll be probably, look to the end of September, we'd love to get in.

20:29 Speaker 9: So probably release the end of November.

20:31 Speaker 4: Okay.

20:31 Speaker 9: That's the plan. And then EP is probably the next milestone for us.

20:38 Speaker 10: And yeah, we've got a good few songs there that we can release. But yeah, it's just get an EP sorted and gig as much as we can.

20:48 Speaker 9: Get out there.

20:48 Speaker 10: And I think we want to spread across more of the UK now. I think we're doing a lot of gigs in Liverpool. Our next step, live gig and performance-wise, would be to extend more into the North West and then around the UK.

21:03 Speaker 9: And then hopefully in a few years' time in the US as well.

21:07 Speaker 3: Absolutely. No, that would be amazing. Do you have any, have you guys done any festivals yet or do you have any festivals that are kind of on the docket?

21:12 Speaker 10: Um, so we're signing up to literally every festival we can get up to. So I think the look to do festivals would be for 2027. I think we just missed, probably just missed the boat for 2026. Um, but yeah, probably next.

21:26 Speaker 9: Year will be the, where we go. Let's, let's, let's go at the festival scene.

21:31 Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's good because I know there's a lot of it. Again, I know this from talking to guests who are from that, uh, that, that area. There's a lot of great festivals that you have access to where you are, and it's so important. The thing that I tell everybody, just from my own experience, is not only when you play a festival, not only does it get you in front of a very large audience who might not otherwise be familiar with you, and it exposes you to potentially this entire new fan base, but also just the people that you meet, the industry people that you meet backstage.

21:58 Speaker 3: It can be incredibly... A festival, really, in my mind, it's the ultimate music industry networking event because of the people that you're going to meet and potentially impress when you hit the stage.

22:14 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's it.

22:14 Speaker 10: You never know who you're going to meet sometimes in these kind of places. So as long as when we get there, we're.

22:20 Speaker 9: Top of our game. That's all I can ask for.

The Origin of the Band's Name

22:24 Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, where does the name come from, Seven Streets?

22:28 Speaker 9: It's interesting.

22:28 Speaker 10: So we wanted a name that linked us to Liverpool, but we didn't want to be like it too on the nose, you know, sort of too cringy or sort of, how would I describe it? Like something that's too like, oh yeah, they're just from Liverpool. But we did want that link. So Seven Streets came from when Liverpool was founded as a city. It was founded on Seven Streets in the centre of where Liverpool is now. And some of these streets still exist, like Castle Street and Tyburn Street. So as a city, it was founded on Seven Streets.

23:07 Speaker 10: So we thought, oh, that'd be a cool name to have.

23:09 Speaker 9: And it stuck.

23:11 Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that is a very cool name. In a moment, so we'll let you go in a second, Niall, but when we do that, we're going to play the track, Livin'. That's how I want to close out our conversation. And by the way, thank you for being with us today, and we'll definitely have you back as you continue to release new music and things progress with the band, and really looking forward to following your career. I became an instant fan as soon as I heard Table for Two. But what can you tell us about this song, Livin', and how did this come to be your first single as a band?

The Story Behind "Livin'"

23:42 Speaker 10: Living came out of, so I'm a big Liverpool Football Club fan. I'm not sure if you're aware of who they are or whatever, but big soccer team over in the UK. So I went away last year to watch them play in the Champions League in Germany. So we were coming home and we missed the flight by like 10 minutes, the connecting flight. So we ended up stuck in an airport in southern Spain. four lads in front of a pool stuck in an airport in Spain what do you do but just go on the aisle we ended up leaving the airport and just having a few drinks and staying up all night and then getting the first plane home but that whole experience came from the whole story of living came from that experience really and I took the lyrics to the lads in the rehearsal studio and I had a few chords to it and it wasn't quite working Um, and then, yeah, and our bass player just started, you know, playing a couple of, a couple of chords and.

24:46 Speaker 9: It sounded, he sped it, he sped it up a bit and changed the melody a bit. And then, yeah, it came together and half an hour. And then it was like, that needs to be our first single.

24:56 Speaker 1: Oh, wow.

24:56 Speaker 5: Wow.

24:57 Speaker 3: Well, it's like we were talking about, you know, when it comes together quickly like that, then, you know, you've got something, you've got some of that magic. That's excellent.

25:04 Speaker 5: Very good.

25:05 Speaker 3: So we're going to play that track in a moment. But before we let you go, Niall, too, I want to make sure that we let our listeners know where should people go online to keep up with everything that Seven Streets is doing? Where's the best place to go?

25:17 Speaker 10: Best place to follow is on Instagram. Instagram and TikTok is probably the best place to keep up to what we're doing and what we're up to. So it's SevenStreets underscore band. And that's for both Instagram and TikTok. And yeah, that's probably the best place to keep up with what we're doing.

25:34 Speaker 3: Okay. All right. Outstanding. Well, Niall McInerney, thank you so much for joining us today. This has been great.

25:39 Speaker 9: Thank you for having me on.

25:41 Speaker 3: Absolutely. And like I said, we will definitely do it in the future. And I wish you continued success with the band. We're going to hit that track, but we'll let you go for now. But thank you. And we'll talk again soon.

25:50 Speaker 4: I'm sure.

25:52 Speaker 9: Definitely. Thank you very much for having me on. And I'll speak to you soon.

25:54 Speaker 4: All right.

25:54 Speaker 3: You got it. Take care. Bye-bye.

25:56 Speaker 8: Take care.

25:56 Speaker 9: Bye now.

25:57 Speaker 3: All right, that's Niall from Seven Streets. And let's give this a spin. So this was the first single that the band put out. This is another really great song. I like this a lot. This is called Livin' from Seven Streets.

26:38 Speaker 6: So he rushes by empty hole next to me.

26:44 Speaker 5: Never know when her baby's gonna cry.

26:51 Speaker 6: Shots that dance through the romance. Make the most of what it all comes crashing down.

26:59 Speaker 4: Looking for a familiar place.

28:16 Speaker 5: I guess we'll have to stay another night in a town unknown.

28:48 Speaker 6: You're not saying it's living between When you're standing close to the places that you've been You know.

29:00 Speaker 4: Why your life's so easy Oh baby Thank you.

29:46 Speaker 3: That is called Livin'. The band is Seven Streets from Liverpool. And thank you again, Niall McHenry, for joining us today on the program. And I really enjoyed speaking with him. We've gotten some great guests from Liverpool lately. Obviously, historically, a great city as far as music.

Website Updates and Labor Day Reflections

30:03 Speaker 3: But this is, if you're just joining us, of course, Matt Connerton Unleashed. And we are live from the studios of WMNH 95.3 FM in glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. And of course, you can stream the show from anywhere. You've got many, many options. But if you go to mattconnerton.com slash unleashed, it's got an updated list. Well, actually, it's about to be even more updated. But keep an eye on that. I won't say anything more until I know it's definitely, definitely a done deal, but I'll just say this.

30:32 Speaker 3: Hello to our friends in Australia. Um, hint, hint, but, uh, I did spend a lot of time. If you haven't been to the site recently, by the way, if you have a, yes, I'm going to, uh, shamelessly shill my website, uh, for a moment because I worked on it a lot this week. So mattconnerton.com, the main purpose of the website, really, I mean, the radio show and the other radio and podcast projects that I have are a part of that, but are represented on the site. But the main thing is, of course, to be able to promote and book sessions for my hypnotherapy practice.

31:11 Speaker 3: I am a professional hypnotherapist, a certified hypnotherapist. And this week, I dug into a project. I had some extra time. Well, I don't know if it's extra time, really, because I spent a lot of it asleep. But I got rather sick this week, and I even really didn't do anything on Wednesday other than sit on the computer. You know, slept a lot. Slept a lot this week. But I went through and I rebuilt my entire online booking system. So again, I'm shamelessly shilling, but it is now easier than ever to book a session with me or even a free 15-minute phone consultation with me through mattconnerton.com.

31:54 Speaker 3: But then, so I just, like I said, I completely rebuilt the entire booking system, streamlined it, made it very easy. But then... You ever start a project and that project, not only does that project end up taking you much longer than you thought it was going to be. and you invest a tremendous amount of time in it but then you uh... there's another project that it sort of leads you to and she feel like you have to just keep going into this other project which is related to the first project but then there's other project ends up taking you literally hours and hours and hours and i don't know how many hours this week i've spent working on matt connerton dot com but in the process of completely rebuilding the booking system i did up completely rebuilding the entire site It won't be obvious if you have been to the website.

32:44 Speaker 3: It won't be obvious at first glance because the basic style and layout of the site is the same, but every page has been torn down and rebuilt, every single page on the website, with the exception of the archives page, you know, because we have a full archive of the show on there, of this program, but everything else. And I'm getting a headache just thinking about it, but it's done. It's done. Oh, my God. But I audited and rebuilt. And when I say audited, because everything has to be, if you've ever done any sort of digital marketing, you know what SEO is, search engine optimization.

33:23 Speaker 3: Everything has to be search engine optimized and all of this so that Google can find your site and present your site to other people. So, you know, if you, it's important, right? You know, I'm in Manchester, New Hampshire. If you Google hypnosis, Manchester, New Hampshire, it's important that my website shows up as one of the options. So it was a lot of work, but it's done. It's finally done. So check out mattconnerton.com. I'm very proud of it. It's finished for now until I find something else about it that I need to fix, and it ends up turning into another 10-hour project.

34:01 Speaker 3: Uh, next I have to do, I also have to do this, uh, same thing with Matt Connerton unleashed.com, which is a website specifically for the show and with IPM nation.com. And, um, we'll see if I survive all of that. Those are going to be the next things. Hey, it's a long weekend. Maybe I'll, maybe I will get it all done. Uh, and I should say to a happy labor day. Of course it is labor day weekend. Uh, I say that somewhat grudgingly. I am not a fan of Labor Day. And the reason I don't like Labor Day is because Labor Day represents the unofficial end of summer.

34:39 Speaker 3: Just as Memorial Day, people think of Memorial Day, I mean, in addition, of course, to, you know, it's an important day honoring our fallen veterans and so forth. But people gave their lives for the country. But also Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer. And then Labor Day, the unofficial ending of summer. And summer is my favorite time of year. I love summer. I'm strange, actually. Not only do I not mind the heat, I actually enjoy it. When it's 90 degrees out, I'm very happy. So I always hate to see it go.

35:09 Speaker 3: Fall to me, you know, when the leaves, not to be morbid, but when the leaves start changing and falling off the trees, it reminds me, I mean, it's pretty and all, the foliage, but honestly, at its core, it reminds me of death.

35:23 Speaker 9: So.

35:27 Speaker 3: Yeah, happy Labor Day weekend. So that's how I feel about it. So I love spring because spring means winter is over and then we go into summer, my favorite time. And then fall makes me, I get a little melancholy about it. So anyway, I say all that to say happy Labor Day, even though I hate it. I hate Labor Day.

35:56 Speaker 5: Ugh.

35:56 Speaker 3: Memorial Day is great. It's the start of summer. It's already getting hot, you know?

36:02 Speaker 5: Ugh.

36:02 Speaker 3: Anyway. Happy Labor Day, everybody. I hope I didn't ruin it for you with my talk of leaves changing and death. That's what it makes me think of, though. Let's see. So I don't think I mentioned the date at the top of the show. We were in kind of a hurry because we had two world premieres. One of them was very last minute. I don't know if anyone heard it. I might have to edit it on the podcast version of the show. For some reason, at least in my headphones, I don't know how it sounded on the air, but because I pre-record the world premiere segment and I voice track that part so I don't have to do it live.

36:40 Speaker 3: But when I do, when I play our two world premieres this week again later in the show, because I try to do it every hour, I'm just going to do that live. Because something sounded very strange with the audio of my voice. The songs sounded great, but the audio of my voice introing the songs on the recording that I made sounded very weird. I don't know what was going on there. Maybe it's me. Oh, let's see. Oh, I have some breaking news. Charles Richardson will be joining us today in the third hour.

37:16 Speaker 3: Now, why will Charles Richardson be joining us in the third hour today of the show? Well, a couple things. So first of all, Charles invited me to go on his show on Wednesday night in the second hour because the Charles Richardson show is Wednesdays from 8 to 10 p.m. Eastern Time. And Charles invited me to go on in the second hour Wednesday night to talk about, because, you know, do some wrestling talk. Because we are fans, we are connoisseurs, if you will, of professional wrestling. So there's a big wrestling event tomorrow night, Sunday night, for those of you listening live.

37:52 Speaker 3: There is Sunday night's main event. And Charles wanted me to go on the show to talk about it and the matches that are going to be happening and whatnot. And at first I said yes, and then I had to back out. And I hate to do this. I pride myself on being dependable, reliable. I hate to ever cancel anything for any reason on anybody. But like I said, I mentioned earlier, I'd gotten sick during the week. And Wednesday was the worst of it. I woke up Wednesday morning feeling sick. terrible. So I messaged Charles and I said, dude, I'm really sorry to do this to you, but I'd

38:31 Speaker 3: think I should back out of tonight because I feel awful and I'm very skeptical that I will still be conscious at 9 p.m. And I was right to be skeptical because I think I was, in fact, on Wednesday night in bed by 9 p.m. So I could not stay awake. Wednesday was the worst of it, and then Thursday I started to feel better. So I had to cancel on Charles. Now, I had someone cancel on me Sort of. So today on the show, so obviously we had Niall McHenry from Seven Streets on with us. And in the second hour, coming up at the top of the hour, we're going to have Joan as Policewoman, great indie artist from New York.

39:14 Speaker 3: She's going to be joining us. We're going to talk with her. And then in the third hour, we were supposed to have Higher Selves, an acoustic duo who they were going to come in live on the show and play. They're from up north, northern New Hampshire. And they had a last-minute opportunity. to play a big show today. And they emailed me, very professional, totally not upset at all. They emailed me and just said, hey, here's the situation. We have this opportunity. We've got to take it. Do you want us, we could still do the interview.

39:45 Speaker 3: We just would have to do it remote because you mentioned that that's an option, which obviously I have a lot of remote guests. Some weeks, all my guests are remote, like today, for example. They said, we could do that if you don't mind, or if you'd want to just reschedule, we would love to come in live on the show and actually join you in studio. And I thought about it for a minute and I said, yeah, you know what? If they want to reschedule, we'll just do that. Um, so I emailed back and I said, let's just reschedule.

40:13 Speaker 3: Cause I would like to meet them in person and have them on the show live. They can come in and play, bring their guitars and play. So, uh, so that left an open spot and usually an open spot's pretty easy to fill on this show. And it would have been had I tried, but I got so wrapped up in in rebuilding mattconnerton.com that i never i never filled the slot and uh which is fine because we always find other things to do on the show anyway this show i mean i could have all my guests cancel and it wouldn't even matter really i mean don't get me wrong i don't mean to sound disrespectful to my guests they're you know i love interviewing musicians and other people as well but If I had to, I mean, there's always lots of interesting things going on in the music industry we could talk about.

41:03 Speaker 3: There's a fascinating story. Maybe we'll get to it. Yeah, maybe we'll get to it. Alanis Morissette, what just happened to her is unbelievable. But yeah, so then I just, but I just never filled the slot because I was so distracted with rebuilding my website. So then I'm sitting here getting ready for the show this morning. And I thought, you know, why don't I ask Charles? Because he's joined us in the third hour of the show before. Why don't I ask Charles if he wants to come on the show since I have the third hour open and we can do what we were supposed to do Wednesday night on his show when I had to back out.

41:42 Speaker 3: So Charles messaged me and he agreed. So I told you that whole big story to tell you that Charles Richardson will be here in the third hour. Okay, here's what we're going to do right now, though. Really quickly, because I mentioned it, Alanis Morissette. Okay, this is crazy. This is nuts. Now, look, throughout the history of the music industry, There is no shortage of stories of famous musicians, very successful musicians, be them solo artists or bands, who have somehow or another been screwed over by a manager, by an accountant, by a tour manager, by somebody who is on their team professionally, who screws them over, usually manages to rob them of tremendous amounts of money.

42:30 Speaker 3: It has happened so many times. It's a tale as old as time. Not as old as time. It's a tale as old as the music industry, right? People in the business end screwing over the artists, right? There is no shortage of this. It's happened to so many people. You know, Billy Joel, he was his own brother-in-law, if I remember correctly. Screwed him out of millions of dollars. Stole millions of dollars from him. It happened to Sting. I think in the case of Sting, it might have been a family member, too. Even family will do this to you.

43:02 Speaker 3: So there is no shortage of stories of people being screwed over by their managers, by their accountants, etc. That is a very, very common tale. But this is what just happened to Alanis Morissette. This is crazy. Okay.

43:19 Speaker 3: I decided to go with this story. This is from the CBC. Alanis Morissette sues former tour manager over alleged calculated blackmail campaign. Lawsuit claims Karen Urinov threatened to frame Canadian singer-songwriter for drug trafficking. How's that for a tour manager, huh?

43:41 Speaker 9: Ha ha ha!

43:44 Speaker 3: With tour managers like that, who needs enemies, right? Okay, it says here, this is so, this is out there. I mean, again, this is so far beyond what, you know, when I first see a headline like, you know, Alanis Morissette suing tour manager, I'm thinking that tour manager stole some money somehow. No, this is beyond anything imaginable. Okay, it says here, Alanis Morissette is suing her former tour manager for what she calls a calculated blackmail campaign to frame her for drug trafficking unless the Canadian singer-songwriter agreed to sign her to a lengthy contract.

44:20 Speaker 3: Morissette filed a lawsuit in California on Tuesday, obtained by CBC News, alleging that Karen Urinov is threatening to report her to British authorities for drug trafficking unless Morissette agrees to employ her as a tour director for 15 years and pay her massive compensation. Now, look, by the way, I do understand the play. I remember one time I had this job. And I won't get into the details of it, but it's because I don't know what the statute of limitations is on anything. So I won't say when I did this or who my employer was at the time, but I did, I will admit, I did go to my boss because I'd been there for a while.

45:02 Speaker 3: I felt I deserved a raise. I said, listen, you got to give me at least another dollar an hour, or I'm going to find a way to frame you for drug trafficking. And in my case, it worked. I don't know. My boss was like, Oh, OK. I don't want you to frame me for drug trafficking. I guess I'll give you a raise. So, you know, I do understand the play. It can work out. But clearly it did not work out for Karen Yurov. By the way, don't this is not I'm not giving advice. OK, don't don't go to your do not go to your boss on Tuesday because Monday is a holiday.

45:39 Speaker 3: Do not go to your boss on Tuesday morning and threaten to frame them for drug trafficking. If they don't sign you to a long-term contract or offer you a raise or some sweet benefits or anything like that, don't do that. You know, I mean, I know everything's a gamble. Granted, they might respect you for demanding what you think you're worth and what you're owed, but it can go wrong. Okay, so it says here, again, getting back to the article, Morissette is suing Uranoff for civil extortion, fraud, and negligent misrepresentation.

46:11 Speaker 3: writing in the lawsuit that she, quote, will not be coerced into delivering her blackmailer an extraordinary payday, unquote, and that she pursued legal action, quote, to expose Uranoff's scheme and hold her accountable, unquote. Okay, so here's the details of what happened. Again, this is from cbc.ca. Uranoff, who previously worked for Live Nation's Israeli operations, was hired in 2025 as a temporary tour manager for Morissette's world tour. In July 2025, the singer and her team, including Yurinov, were allegedly flying from the UK to Spain for a concert at the airport.

46:57 Speaker 3: The lawsuit claims a British border force official flagged a bag asking who owned it. When Yurinov said it was hers, she was arrested and issued a seizure notice alleging... that the bag contained marijuana and xylosine, a non-opioid animal tranquilizer. During questioning, Uranov allegedly admitted that the bag and the drugs were hers, showing the authorities her Israeli medical marijuana license, the lawsuit says. It was returned to her and she was released. The next day, Uranov was allegedly detained again at an airport for questioning about the bag they'd taken the previous day.

47:37 Speaker 4: Okay.

47:38 Speaker 5: Okay.

47:41 Speaker 3: The next section is titled, A Series of Increasingly Extortionate Letters. The suit claims Yurinov told Morissette that, again, she admitted the bag and the drugs belonged to her. But after the tour wrapped, Yurinov and her lawyers allegedly sent, quote, a series of increasingly extortionate letters to Morissette, unquote, threatening to sue her in the UK for unspecified claims if Morissette refused to tell British law enforcement that the drugs were hers. According to the lawsuit, the letters said Morissette could, quote, put an end to the matter, unquote, by giving Urinov a fixed 15-year contract that included, quote, income equivalent to that of a tour director with annual increases and bonuses, unquote.

48:23 Speaker 3: She also allegedly demanded Morissette arrange for an immigration lawyer to get her a work visa that would allow Urinov to work in the U.S. and that if the visa couldn't be obtained, she'd demand more pay, unquote. This is one of the craziest. This is definitely the craziest manager, or in this case, tour director, screws over artist story I've ever heard. This is actually probably one of the craziest just music industry stories. And believe me, I've heard some crazy stories. But this is wild. Okay.

48:59 Speaker 3: The lawsuit also details reasons Morissette felt Uranov was a terrible manager for the 2025 tour. This includes unnecessarily spending nearly $ 70, 000 after, quote, an inexplicable error with a hotel booking that no competent tour manager would have made, unquote, the court filing states. Morissette. also alleges that while on tour, Yurinov told the singer's team that she had a friend, oh, that she and a friend were arrested in Latin America years ago for smuggling drugs in a surfboard and that Yurinov legally fled the country, illegally fled the country after being released on bail.

49:40 Speaker 3: The lawsuit states, quote, this was an astounding revelation given that Uranoff had told Morissette's team during her interview for the tour manager position that nothing in her past would cause any complications with obtaining visas or traveling. And she never mentioned her arrest or crimes in Latin America, unquote. By the way, always, always, always do a background check.

50:03 Speaker 3: The lawsuit says Morissette was reluctant to file, but that she had no choice but to sue. It reads, quote, Morissette will not agree to work with an incompetent blackmailer for the next 15 years or pay her a ransom under the gun.

50:18 Speaker 6: Unquote.

50:19 Speaker 3: Morissette is seeking a trial by jury. CBC News has reached out to Yuranov and representatives for Morissette, but has not yet heard back. So that's crazy. And I'm pretty sure that woman is going to jail. That's unbelievable. By the way, not even the first time that this has happened, that something terrible like this has happened to Alanis Morissette.

50:52 Speaker 4: 2017.

50:54 Speaker 3: Like I said, it's, it's a story as old as the music industry, 2017, Jonathan Todd Schwartz, a former business manager who admitted to embezzling roughly a 4.8. He embezzled 4.8 to 6.5 million from Alanis Morissette, a former business manager stole millions and millions of dollars from Alanis Morissette. Um, And, of course, there's always the question. I mean, aside from these people obviously being horrible, they're thieves, why does anyone think they're going to get away with any of this? Especially in the case of this Karen Yuranov woman.

51:40 Speaker 3: I mean, she had her lawyers drafting these letters? I mean, what is going on? Crazy stuff. Okay, we had to get to that. All right, what we're going to do right now, though, is we're going to take a commercial break and show some love to our amazing sponsors here at WMNH, of which we have many. And then when we come back on the other side of that, we're going to be talking with our next guest, our second guest in our number two numeros, Joan as policewoman. Cannot wait to speak with her. So there is plenty more to come if you are listening live on Saturday, Labor Day weekend.

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