Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed: BPS Records
Speaker 1: And right now joining us. We have BPS records this here, Hello, Hello, Hello,
Speaker 1: So let's let's have all three of you introduce yourselves
Speaker 1: and tell us who you are and what you do
Speaker 1: in BPS Records, and then we'll, you know, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about your involvement in tonight's show, of course, but yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead, introduce yourselves.
Speaker 2: I'm Rita, Rita his last song Rita. Okay, as we
Speaker 2: just discussed, I'm the owner, counter creator all the above
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: Very good. Welcome, and you I'm Jonathan Jonathan okay, welcome.
Speaker 1: And what do you do in.
Speaker 3: This basically anything the boss tells me.
Speaker 1: Whatever Rita tells you.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's the only part. T make sure that I
Speaker 2: do everything that I'm.
Speaker 1: Supposed Okay, very good. And you I'm Remy and same
Speaker 1: whatever you do Whateverta says pretty much. Yeah, did you
Speaker 1: say Remy? Yeah? Okay, welcome Remy. So, uh now tell
Speaker 1: us about your involvement in the show tonight with us
Speaker 1: swarmy fast, as I believe we have firmly established. I'm
Speaker 1: now one certain it is Tafia not.
Speaker 2: But uh in Lowell, I gotta tell you, I looked
Speaker 2: it up when we were listening to the other interview,
Speaker 2: it is a lustrous silk, a fine silk, but its
Speaker 2: original Latin was too shine.
Speaker 1: Okay, so they kind of right, right, it might be
Speaker 1: ta feta if it were a Greek restaurant, right, but
Speaker 1: it's but it's not. I mean, there could be Greek
Speaker 1: food there. I have no idea, but uh, okay, so
Speaker 1: what is uh? So BPS Records is one of the
Speaker 1: sponsors of Tonight's.
Speaker 2: Evannas sponsored partner with with Obviously it's our first year.
Speaker 2: We are very very happy to be here. It's it's
Speaker 2: like finding your people, right, Like we're out out there
Speaker 2: doing all this stuff on our own. It felt like
Speaker 2: for so long, and then it was like organically, here
Speaker 2: we are with the rest of our planet, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, so we're very very happy to be here,
Speaker 2: happy to be a part of it. He ove us
Speaker 2: right into the hosting of it, which is great. I
Speaker 2: love being an EMC at my live show, so I
Speaker 2: was like, it's perfect for me. Yeah, But just being
Speaker 2: in the thick of it, anything we can do to
Speaker 2: participate and make it happen is you know, what we're
Speaker 2: all about.
Speaker 1: So it sounds like so BBS Records. It sounds like
Speaker 1: it's been around for a while.
Speaker 2: So it's so funny when people ask me that because
Speaker 2: it feels like forever and not forever.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know what I.
Speaker 2: Mean, because we're just it's our life, so we're constantly building,
Speaker 2: living and creating. We started the company in twenty fourteen,
Speaker 2: but it was like two years of We only started
Speaker 2: it legally so we didn't lose it, right, We registered
Speaker 2: the name and did it, and then it was like
Speaker 2: about two years are really going, Okay, yeah, this is
Speaker 2: what I want to do. This is what I want
Speaker 2: to be doing with the rest of my life. Okay,
Speaker 2: I mean so, and it kind of just grew from
Speaker 2: there and it's milestone after milestone, just popping up like
Speaker 2: a little brush.
Speaker 1: Fires Okay, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Okay, an end goal because, like like Will was saying earlier,
Speaker 2: if you're constantly doing it, then you're not finished, right,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So we're very similar in
Speaker 2: that aspect of it.
Speaker 1: Right exactly what was what was kind of the genesis
Speaker 1: of it? Like what made you want to start this?
Speaker 2: So I've been creating my whole life. So when I
Speaker 2: say that it was twenty fourteen, I realized that it
Speaker 2: was I've just been doing it my whole life. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so there was, you know, just living living it. My
Speaker 2: mother's a singer. My mother actually hooks in New Hampshire
Speaker 2: out on bail band. I want to throw that out there.
Speaker 2: I know she's listening, okay, but she's always been. It's
Speaker 2: been our lifestyle, so it's never been a job. So
Speaker 2: just kind of branding it is what happened in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So you know, my I have children that are creators.
Speaker 2: So you know, one day I was like, what are
Speaker 2: we going to do with there's no platform for the
Speaker 2: beautiful mind? So that's a BPS stands for okay. So
Speaker 2: and you know everybody's saying it's hobbies, it's this, it's that,
Speaker 2: and all this original artwork is being brushed side, you know.
Speaker 2: So kind of you know, organically went together itself that way.
Speaker 1: You said, so BPS, what is BPS sand for?
Speaker 3: Exactly?
Speaker 1: Beautiful People's Society, Beautiful people Society.
Speaker 2: Okay, So it's it was a platform for art, okay,
Speaker 2: and just kind of grew into its own individual departments. Okay,
Speaker 2: we do everything for ourselves. So the independent artist, like
Speaker 2: the label itself is the label for the independent artist.
Speaker 2: So there's not we're all making money off of our
Speaker 2: own talents, and we're offering what we have for our
Speaker 2: talents to other people. So we all get up to
Speaker 2: that top where we want to be.
Speaker 1: Appropriately okay, bye bye.
Speaker 2: Not it's not a crab barrel, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: So I guess that's that's the best way I can answer.
Speaker 1: So is because obviously, you know, I hear I hear
Speaker 1: the word records in the title. So but it sounds
Speaker 1: like it's not necessarily a traditional record label, or I
Speaker 1: mean it is because the nature of record labels has
Speaker 1: changed so much over the years too, you.
Speaker 2: Know, yes, so it's more like a production management as well.
Speaker 2: So we do have the recording studios in Middletown, Connecticut,
Speaker 2: so there's live recording, there's venue with it's like a
Speaker 2: venue as well. And then we have a I like
Speaker 2: to call it My Little Whiskey a go go because
Speaker 2: that's basically what it's turned into, where we filter at
Speaker 2: our restaurant. So it's like a cabaret lounge, you know,
Speaker 2: the old dinner in a show, but it's all original music.
Speaker 2: And then we take we do uh, we do a
Speaker 2: live stream show everybody likes to call out a podcast.
Speaker 2: I hate that word really, but yeah, only because we've
Speaker 2: we've kind of channeled in it a little bit differently.
Speaker 2: It's it's similar to what we see here, so I
Speaker 2: love seeing that, but there's there's none of that going
Speaker 2: on down there, you know, So we do it live
Speaker 2: in the restaurant. So all all that the label has
Speaker 2: turned into from there is this, the recording and the
Speaker 2: traditional stuff, but it's just so much more, you know,
Speaker 2: and then bringing it to the front for the public
Speaker 2: to see, to participate that. We do a lot of
Speaker 2: hard work behind these scenes, as you know, as you
Speaker 2: run around and do all the same stuff that I'm doing.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, So bring it to the forefront.
Speaker 2: So our listeners are peers, maybe other you know, people
Speaker 2: networking with us can see that hard work. So that's yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a little of it of all the above.
Speaker 1: Now, how often at the restaurant do you do this
Speaker 1: where you have so so you have the performers come in.
Speaker 2: Yes, every Wednesday we do our show. Okay, it's an
Speaker 2: interview and then they do like a preset performance, okay,
Speaker 2: a preview performance because then we book them after that. Okay,
Speaker 2: they get like their own showcase stage. Oh interesting, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: So it's usually like a two week window so we
Speaker 2: can market. You can see. You don't want to go
Speaker 2: to places and be like, damn, I don't know who's playing,
Speaker 2: or only go to places because you know who's playing, right,
Speaker 2: So you kind of get a little preview on the show.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, it works out very well. And then so
Speaker 1: so they do that, so that happens on Wednesdays, and
Speaker 1: then if you book them, that's on a Friday or Saturday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the Spotlight is on Friday. We do live
Speaker 2: music six days a week. Oh wow, except for the
Speaker 2: school year. We're family first, so Mondays we're closed to
Speaker 2: take care of our little ones. But Tuesday we do
Speaker 2: open my comedy. Oh but it's grown into filtering. So
Speaker 2: everything we do we all, like I said, offer to
Speaker 2: other artists. So we've got a comedian that comes in
Speaker 2: and does a similar version of on my set of
Speaker 2: his podcast that's now his live stream. Oh okay, so
Speaker 2: we do the production for him and such. It's so great.
Speaker 2: It's the only day we don't do music. Oh okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: but it's art and art and creating is the big.
Speaker 1: Factor for Yeah, yeah, owning.
Speaker 2: Your inner potentials to whatever that craft is.
Speaker 1: Now, do you now when you talk about some of
Speaker 1: the other the other things that you do, I mean,
Speaker 1: do you do you release music with artists or do
Speaker 1: you do you get into that.
Speaker 2: Part of So we before the pandemic, everything was a
Speaker 2: little bit different, right, So we're still trying to find
Speaker 2: our bearings and isolating things for that. But we definitely did.
Speaker 2: And but our goal is a little bit bigger in
Speaker 2: that aspect. You know, we don't we don't want to
Speaker 2: down anybody else's in the way they're doing it, but
Speaker 2: we want to do it better. So we want to
Speaker 2: have our own applications for original music that all goes
Speaker 2: much like band camp. I think you referred to band camp. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think they're one hundred percent profits to the artists.
Speaker 1: Correct, No, they they take I think they take ten
Speaker 1: to fifteen percent, depending on what it is.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but we've been misinformed. A lot of my
Speaker 2: guests were saying that they were on the artists. That's
Speaker 2: good to know.
Speaker 1: I mean, something could have changed. I could be wrong,
Speaker 1: but the last I knew, they they took a percent.
Speaker 1: At least if you're if you're selling music through band camp,
Speaker 1: now it might be different. If you're selling merch and
Speaker 1: you're shipping it yourself, that might be different. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure.
Speaker 2: So we want to do it one hundred percent of
Speaker 2: the artists.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: Our big thing is getting the airplay for music, getting
Speaker 2: everything to the forefront, like we said, and it's the
Speaker 2: same thing with that. When we get that, you know,
Speaker 2: organized enough to do it right, it'll be all that.
Speaker 2: And there's no reason for me to make money off
Speaker 2: other people's talents. I've clearly got enough of my own.
Speaker 2: I just got to keep participating and not doing it
Speaker 2: for everybody else instead of myself. And then that's the thing.
Speaker 2: So we want to do that. We all should be.
Speaker 2: There's no there's no room for the starving artists more
Speaker 2: that we're all this talented and we can all be
Speaker 2: helping each other. So that's the goal for that as
Speaker 2: far as the distribution. But you know, we do everything
Speaker 2: in the label paired for the artist, so there's no
Speaker 2: come sign up with us and we promise you all
Speaker 2: this stuff. It's it's if you are. We don't go
Speaker 2: out looking for the artists. It's got to be organic.
Speaker 2: You know, we're not paying our bills off our record label.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's literally a platform to help the
Speaker 2: whole movement. So every single agreement of I hate the
Speaker 2: word contract because we're not we're not we're not selling anything, right,
Speaker 2: but it's a deal. When you come and say this
Speaker 2: is what I need from my career, how do I
Speaker 2: get this done? We all need to help each other,
Speaker 2: right or at least get out. So it itemizes down
Speaker 2: one stop shop for you. All of our departments open
Speaker 2: up because the studio is not just music, So we
Speaker 2: do the portraits. We've got the film department so you
Speaker 2: could do your videos, and at the studio you could
Speaker 2: do your your own versions of your podcasts and your shows.
Speaker 2: Your album covers the long nine yards. Yeah, and you
Speaker 2: know we're all we want is the credit. We want
Speaker 2: the branding credit. That's the thing for me because it's
Speaker 2: such an.
Speaker 1: Overall company, you know, right right.
Speaker 2: Think about like when you see the little Playboy bunny
Speaker 2: everywhere everybody knows what that means.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's what we're going for exactly. Now, are
Speaker 1: there are there artists performing? Are their bands performing tonight
Speaker 1: at Swarmy Fest with whom you're currently working.
Speaker 2: Or not the year, not this year. We definitely wanted
Speaker 2: to just participate wherever they put us in. But you
Speaker 2: bet your bottom dollar, I'm gunning for a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of stuff next year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Now, So I'm curious
Speaker 1: Jonathan and Remy, how did you both get involved in this?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: I forgot two years ago, two but I think two
Speaker 2: years ago you came in for.
Speaker 3: I came in for the oil wrestling thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oil was like sounds sick, I'm doing it. And that's
Speaker 1: how we met and now we're besties. Yeah wait what really?
Speaker 2: Yeah you hung up.
Speaker 1: On the one that that's the thing, Like people still
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: Well, so all right, we're supposed to be a thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's so I'm gonna have to bring it up
Speaker 2: because it originated here my old partner, the late Great
Speaker 2: Captain Chris local DJ around here in Manchester need to
Speaker 2: karaoke DJ okay. But he and I were at places
Speaker 2: cage myself a little bit but nineteen ninety five and
Speaker 2: they were doing uh karaoke and someone pulled out a
Speaker 2: pool and they filled it with yello okay, and I
Speaker 2: was like, you know what would make this so much
Speaker 2: better and it kind of developed into that. So we
Speaker 2: went and bought this big blow up wrestling matt type ring. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and we went on tour. We grabbed six girls and
Speaker 2: we went on tour and it was the best thing
Speaker 2: that I ever did to keep myself in shape.
Speaker 1: And wow, it was great.
Speaker 2: So we're bringing it back since he passed away, We're
Speaker 2: gonna bring it back and just bring it on a
Speaker 2: whole different level. Okay, and that will be next year
Speaker 2: for sure, Okay at Swarmy Fest.
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh wow, all right. Interesting. Interesting. So that's that's
Speaker 1: how you that's how you met.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's how we met and signed up for it,
Speaker 5: and it didn't happen, sadly, but it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: It's gonna Hapenna, it's gonna be right. Yeah, But I
Speaker 2: do have her and she's so very talented, so I
Speaker 2: have her in every aspect of everything we do.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Within our company, everybody is an artist or a creator
Speaker 2: of some sort.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're.
Speaker 2: All kind of just up an overreached apartment and doing
Speaker 2: everything together. So it's pretty beautiful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, excellent. And then Jonathan, how did you get involved.
Speaker 3: So I got involved. Let's say.
Speaker 4: Last year August, I actually came down. Uh, she had
Speaker 4: a studio middle time, as she said, I was saying,
Speaker 4: and I did some rappings things like that at the studio,
Speaker 4: and then when she opened up her lounge, I came
Speaker 4: down every Thursday night. Every Thursday night we do a
Speaker 4: musicians jam there.
Speaker 3: It's a great time.
Speaker 4: We make music on the spot, all unrehearsed, you know,
Speaker 4: all kind of freestyle.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: We have a drummer that comes there, he's the host.
Speaker 4: The guitar player always comes down, bass player, and then
Speaker 4: usually I just.
Speaker 3: Do the vocals.
Speaker 4: But we met there, and you know, it's been a
Speaker 4: kind of a partnership ever since. We kind of developed
Speaker 4: more into a oh got to be closer, Yeah see
Speaker 4: there you go. Yeah, but yeah we met. We met
Speaker 4: there at the lounge and a nice Thursday night, and
Speaker 4: I've kind of been linked at the hip ever since.
Speaker 1: So excellent.
Speaker 2: This tends to happen in this industry because we're doing
Speaker 2: so much and it feels so good to create, right.
Speaker 2: So it's the support that that we have in each
Speaker 2: one of our departments or venues is just like it's overwhelming.
Speaker 2: In a positive way. Like, it's just it's like my
Speaker 2: children graduating from school, you know what I mean, It's
Speaker 2: actually happening. Everything I believe in is happening. Did you
Speaker 2: see it with the support?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's excellent. Now who else is involved? Are there
Speaker 1: other people currently involved in BPS?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, so big shout out to some of them people.
Speaker 2: We've got our drum master that he was referring to
Speaker 2: on our open jam. Chuck Peterson from the Adventures of
Speaker 2: Thatteya's Black I'm on my show, is lead singer of
Speaker 2: his band, is the host of my show Everyond Love Daddy.
Speaker 2: There's just a little little bit of everybody from all
Speaker 2: the bands in the work that we've we've been through
Speaker 2: along the way. It's just where they're all keepers, you know,
Speaker 2: so if something's going down, they're like, I want to
Speaker 2: so a little bit of everybody.
Speaker 1: Did I hear the Adventures of Thaddeus Black That that's
Speaker 1: the name of a band. That's a cool name.
Speaker 2: You've got to look at that band up man. Yeah,
Speaker 2: for sure, all original Connecticut natives, phenomenal, phenomenal music.
Speaker 1: Now you mentioned something about your show, do you also
Speaker 1: do uh? Do you have a podcast or something.
Speaker 2: Or I'm gonna have to figure out what to call it.
Speaker 1: Well, that's right, you don't like you don't like that.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know why. It's just the
Speaker 2: stigma I think of. You know, it's not the same, right,
Speaker 2: so that for me is important. But it's you know,
Speaker 2: it's not that big of a deal. It's called BPS Talks. Currently,
Speaker 2: we ared film it live at hot Rod Spotlight Lounge
Speaker 2: on Main Street in Middletown, Connecticut, but we only are
Speaker 2: airing it on the Facebook, okay, because we're gonna be
Speaker 2: We're in transition of doing some really big things with
Speaker 2: the show, so in some colleagues that haven't quite we
Speaker 2: haven't quite made it terms with it yet, so I
Speaker 2: don't want to mention it.
Speaker 1: But sure, sure, you know, bringing.
Speaker 2: It to the next level, and then we'll have it
Speaker 2: on other platforms. Yeah, you know, we keep them up there.
Speaker 2: You can link everything on the website links to every
Speaker 2: department we have, so it's a big, long splash page.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Yeah, It's funny the term podcast it's become,
Speaker 1: it's become a broader term over the years because when
Speaker 1: I first started, I think I think I I think
Speaker 1: I first started doing podcasting, and I think it was
Speaker 1: two thousand and six. Wow, is that long ago. Well,
Speaker 1: we didn't call it, but the term podcast you didn't
Speaker 1: even hear that word yet, right, so at that time,
Speaker 1: but we were streaming, so we call that. My friends
Speaker 1: and I who are doing it, we called it internet radio,
Speaker 1: which is a term you never hear now now now
Speaker 1: literally anything you know, like like obviously we're live on
Speaker 1: FM radio right now, but we're also streaming to Facebook
Speaker 1: and YouTube and everything, and so so it's like we're
Speaker 1: podcasting but at the same time. But it used to
Speaker 1: be like then, when the term podcast started being used,
Speaker 1: it seems like people referred to that as anything that
Speaker 1: was recorded, like recorded audio of a show was a podcast,
Speaker 1: but if you were going live, it was still called
Speaker 1: internet radio. But then over time podcasts just became you know,
Speaker 1: if you're streaming, it's podcasting, if you're podcasting, you're streaming.
Speaker 1: And it's just kind of well.
Speaker 2: It brings me back to like my whole, you know,
Speaker 2: plan or my whole the importance of my movement is
Speaker 2: bringing all that hard work that we're doing to the forefront.
Speaker 2: And I think I just always felt like it was
Speaker 2: being taken away with that whole like you said it
Speaker 2: was this, it was that. Yeah, So kind of combining
Speaker 2: the two is how I'm overcoming that negative stick for me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: with with my podcast clients, right yeah, and I'm I'm
Speaker 2: true and true to my word and what I believe in.
Speaker 2: So if I catch myself being hypocritical, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 2: how do we fix this?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: What do we do about it? Because creating is creating?
Speaker 2: So yeah, open the platform for the podcast guys, Let's
Speaker 2: show them how it's done. There you go, there, you go,
Speaker 2: really and they love it. They love every minute.
Speaker 1: No, absolutely, if you are just joining us. We have
Speaker 1: BPS Records here with us talking about well, of course
Speaker 1: getting to know them and and all about BPS Records
Speaker 1: and of course they're a very important part of Swarmy
Speaker 1: Fest tonight at Taffada in Lowell. I believe doors are
Speaker 1: at five pm five yeah, and Jenny and I will
Speaker 1: be there of course, and yes, yes, really looking forward
Speaker 1: to that. Have you, as BPS Records been involved in
Speaker 1: other shows like this, like what Swarmy Fest is?
Speaker 2: We it's it's crazy because I was saying, like it's
Speaker 2: so odd for me, I'm kind of appreciating being like
Speaker 2: the newcomer to swarm with because I had the weight
Speaker 2: up my shoulders usually always because they're always my productions.
Speaker 2: So now since we've opened the lounge, it's a tracted
Speaker 2: all these other great productions, where now it's just here's
Speaker 2: my room, here's my floor. Yeah, and it's really nice
Speaker 2: to always add to everything like that. But yeah, we
Speaker 2: did cet Rocks Rock. We were just listening earlier. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Bob the April with c t Rocks. He's been doing
Speaker 2: it for years as well. I mean I had never
Speaker 2: heard of him, right, So because I'm we're all so
Speaker 2: focused on our movements and what we're doing, right. So
Speaker 2: he had a spot show up and I was like,
Speaker 2: he's like, can we do twelve bands in your place?
Speaker 2: And I was like wait, Like he thought it was
Speaker 2: gonna be a problem. I'm like absolutely. He's like great,
Speaker 2: So he's just gonna give me the place all day.
Speaker 2: What about your other customers? They said, well, they're gonna
Speaker 2: have to listen to the music, right, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. But and it was twelve original phenomenal bands
Speaker 2: you had. You know, your you always have your solo
Speaker 2: acts where you're like okay, I see where they're going,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. But the point of it
Speaker 2: was just the promotion of the independent art and they
Speaker 2: just kept going. When things went wrong, I was always like,
Speaker 2: give them my card, like I know how to fix
Speaker 2: that much time, you know, But that was like one
Speaker 2: of my favorites. Soundhoum Productions. That's another one we do.
Speaker 2: Uh it's four four original bands back to back, okay,
Speaker 2: and it's like, you know, ska, punk, punk, folk, you
Speaker 2: know everything. Were actually twenty twenty five. We have a
Speaker 2: lot more that we're going to be doing as far
Speaker 2: as answering that question, So yeah, I know. We got
Speaker 2: Eric Raboska from Highest Frequency Record Records in Connecticut. He's
Speaker 2: gonna come take over the first Saturday of every month
Speaker 2: and kind of do the same thing, but a totally
Speaker 2: different line of musicians. Phenomenal. Yeah, there's so much great
Speaker 2: hard work out there. Oh yeah, And I just want
Speaker 2: everyone to see like we're not just paying and record
Speaker 2: labels to play our music, like we're doing everything, you know,
Speaker 2: and that goes for everyone. That's a part of the movements.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you ever have anyone approach you? Do you
Speaker 1: ever have a musician who approaches you who wants to
Speaker 1: work with you, but they're not. They're just not ready.
Speaker 2: Boy do I are? So that agreement that I was
Speaker 2: telling you about, it's funny because it's now disclosed with
Speaker 2: what I'm intolerant to. Okay, right, So because I don't
Speaker 2: have time for that, you know, being a mother as
Speaker 2: well as being a mother of all my creations, I
Speaker 2: really just don't have time for that. So if you
Speaker 2: don't have discipline to your own career, you don't even
Speaker 2: have to have a plan. But the dedication, the discipline
Speaker 2: and the poise of what they taught you in karate
Speaker 2: class for crying out, you know what I mean. We've
Speaker 2: learned everything we need to know in kindergarten about life.
Speaker 2: If you don't have that, then there's nothing we could
Speaker 2: do for you. You know, you may need a lot,
Speaker 2: which is great and fine, but that's the core stuff
Speaker 2: you have to come with. Your drive is the most
Speaker 2: important thing to original use it. You know, we all
Speaker 2: have our ups and downs. I have my days where
Speaker 2: I'm like, what am I doing? I didn't go to
Speaker 2: the beach at all this year? Like you know what
Speaker 2: I mean? But it goes that way.
Speaker 4: So we say they party like rock stars before they
Speaker 4: make it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's the biggest downfall. It's like, what are
Speaker 2: you doing? So we do have a lot of mostly positive,
Speaker 2: but you do have a lot of people that come
Speaker 2: and then. And I'm really a stickler with it. I
Speaker 2: love I love everything, and I want to help everyone.
Speaker 2: But if in the first three seconds of what you
Speaker 2: play for me, I don't want to hear it anymore.
Speaker 2: You know, you got a little more work to do.
Speaker 2: And I know that sounds harsh, but it's real. It's
Speaker 2: about being being realistic with where you are and what
Speaker 2: you want. But we never turn anybody away, you know,
Speaker 2: if you come around and you need help, even with
Speaker 2: those beautiful mind problems that we have, you know, all squirrel,
Speaker 2: you know, we just we attend to that. But if
Speaker 2: you're just not good, you're not good and someone should
Speaker 2: tell you that, right. I know it sounds rough.
Speaker 1: No, but it's true. It's true. You're not You're not
Speaker 1: doing anybody any favors by, you know, pretending that they've
Speaker 1: got something that they don't have.
Speaker 2: Right and you and it can weaken it can weaken
Speaker 2: their path and they're creating if you put them in
Speaker 2: a room with people that might make them feel insecure
Speaker 2: about where they're at, and you don't do that, so
Speaker 2: being honest with that. But I do have some people
Speaker 2: that just think that there's some place that they're not
Speaker 2: and I'll kindly tell them, you know, just mn't you
Speaker 2: do this, come on back, you know. But we always
Speaker 2: create a platform to perform. So at the studio, that's
Speaker 2: where you can work out those kinks and you go
Speaker 2: down there, Hey, take the room for a night through yourself.
Speaker 2: A concert be the the highlight, right, because that's important
Speaker 2: if you can't. We talk about that all the time.
Speaker 2: If you have five people in a band, but we're
Speaker 2: all supposed to be supporting one another, but it is
Speaker 2: very hard when all your friends are musicians. You can't
Speaker 2: be anywhere, right, I mean everywhere at the same time. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: but we will look at you know, the crowds that
Speaker 2: come in. If you can five people in a band
Speaker 2: and not one person comes, I mean, you've got a mom,
Speaker 2: you've got a wife, you've got a brother, you've got
Speaker 2: a husband, and someone should be coming to support you, right,
Speaker 2: So like those are the kinks I think, like you know,
Speaker 2: putting the horse car before the horse and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So we offer that platform at the studio for them
Speaker 2: to get that stuff out of the way and learn
Speaker 2: that organically.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like, uh, you know, in my my own
Speaker 1: experience working with musicians and I used to play in bands,
Speaker 1: and but I also you know, I do other things
Speaker 1: in the industry, and I feel like I've all I've
Speaker 1: got an axiom. I've always sad everybody wants to be
Speaker 1: a rock star, but only as long as it's easy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know, and then you know some some people,
Speaker 1: you know, they're like, whoa, there's actual work involved. It's
Speaker 1: not all you know, it's not all glamorous, and no
Speaker 1: it is not.
Speaker 2: You got those people that come in and they're like,
Speaker 2: you got to listen to my song right now. I'm
Speaker 2: it like that they're going to be discovered, and it's
Speaker 2: like I have to be the bad guy. This is
Speaker 2: this is why we're the independent label for the independent artist.
Speaker 2: You know, we're not going to lie to you, We're
Speaker 2: not going to do all that, yeah know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The other delusion that I've always talked about is
Speaker 1: the mythical record company scout. You know, you know the
Speaker 1: guys who play, you know, the same bar every weekend,
Speaker 1: and they're they're just convinced that you know, any any
Speaker 1: any weekend now that this mythical record company scout is
Speaker 1: going to walk in during their set and be so
Speaker 1: impressed with what they see and handing them a five
Speaker 1: album deal. And it's so true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I you know, we I like to
Speaker 2: call it my movement rather than my label because of
Speaker 2: that stigma with it too. Yeah, And they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: nobody gets discovered this. This stuff is hard, man, Like
Speaker 2: we aren't me can't remember the last time. She ate,
Speaker 2: like where you ago? You know what I mean. We're
Speaker 2: just we're constantly doing it, and they just don't get
Speaker 2: that if you can't, and I get like, there is
Speaker 2: the part time artist right that is working in nine
Speaker 2: to five because you have to have a nine to
Speaker 2: five too, right to cover it all unless you can
Speaker 2: be one hundred percent in it. Yeah, But like I
Speaker 2: only see my children because I've created family friendly businesses.
Speaker 2: So you know, my teenagers in the kitchen cook and
Speaker 2: he's making beats in the studio. My ten year old's
Speaker 2: telling my bartenders how to run the computer. Like, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, you got to find a way
Speaker 2: to bring the two together to do that. For the
Speaker 2: part time artists, we still give them that same love,
Speaker 2: like creating is creating and I love that they don't
Speaker 2: even care where their music goes. They're just you played
Speaker 2: that at your place?
Speaker 1: Yes, right right?
Speaker 2: You know, so it's really just the movement of the
Speaker 2: creating and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally. What would you say is the biggest misconception
Speaker 1: that you run into when when you know these artists
Speaker 1: come to you, what are the biggest expectation they have
Speaker 1: that maybe they shouldn't or you.
Speaker 2: Know, oh well, if I'm going to pick one or
Speaker 2: you don't have to pick it. The first one that
Speaker 2: comes to mind is that I'm going to do your job,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? And because I'm guilty of that,
Speaker 2: I will catch myself going why is this so hard?
Speaker 2: Because it's not my job, it's not my career, and
Speaker 2: I want to help, but I want to do all that.
Speaker 2: It's that nurturing part, you know. But sometimes I got
Speaker 2: to turn around and switch the hat and be like, wait,
Speaker 2: you're supposed to do this. I had an artist that phenomenal,
Speaker 2: he had so much potential and he still does that
Speaker 2: I signed with and it was always my fault that
Speaker 2: something wasn't getting done and I would go back to
Speaker 2: my meeting minutes because now I keep meeting minutes. You
Speaker 2: were supposed to do this by this state, so I
Speaker 2: could do all this yours, you know. And they just
Speaker 2: don't understand the value and importance of keeping that that system.
Speaker 2: Like I can't shut down the house because you today
Speaker 2: wanted to do what you're supposed to do two months ago,
Speaker 2: And why am I not where I'm supposed to be? Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, you have to do the work. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the biggest thing that that we're just going to do.
Speaker 2: Their jobs are not a management label. We are having
Speaker 2: a hard enough time managing all our businesses, right Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then that and other than that is like the
Speaker 2: organic nature of real original music, Like I will not
Speaker 2: let people sing over their own tracks. If you if
Speaker 2: you don't know the difference between a show mix and
Speaker 2: a performance mix and a track, we got to bring
Speaker 2: you way back in the step in the process because
Speaker 2: that value is so different, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: if you run into that a lot, a lot more
Speaker 2: than you would think. Yeah, the only it's it's it's
Speaker 2: kind of genre specifically more you know, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of hip hop. I would love to take over the
Speaker 2: hip hop world right now in Connecticut because there's some
Speaker 2: phenomenal people, but the stigma because of that, it's so
Speaker 2: hard that people are just you know, it's kind of
Speaker 2: like a quick buck, I guess for them to start them,
Speaker 2: but they just really don't do it right. So that
Speaker 2: would be a full time job for me. I take
Speaker 2: on that, but not as much in you know, other genres,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, You do get a lot
Speaker 2: of people that, Like we had a big shout out
Speaker 2: to Jamie Starchild and the Dream Factory. He was a
Speaker 2: guest on our show last week. I was an honor
Speaker 2: to have him there and seeing he's got the same
Speaker 2: views as us too, Like that's big for me seeing
Speaker 2: these national big stars that are like, yeah, let's do this.
Speaker 2: What can I do with you? And I'm like what,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, I'm star struck on my
Speaker 2: own show, trying to keep it together. But he did
Speaker 2: this one man show and it was fifteen minutes and
Speaker 2: I needed more, but he was you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So if you had your eyes close, it would be
Speaker 2: like a Prince song because he did everything and he sang,
Speaker 2: and so you'll have your your stuff sometimes on backtracking
Speaker 2: when you're an independent, original by yourself artist. But you know,
Speaker 2: we strongly love that when it's your craft. Yes, but
Speaker 2: if it's happening because you're not ready to perform, meaning
Speaker 2: you don't have a band, and again, put put your
Speaker 2: your priorities in order to get to where you need
Speaker 2: to be with your.
Speaker 1: Grad Yeah, sure, yeah, absolutely, any any like sort of
Speaker 1: success stories or anybody who you've worked with who's really
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, gone to that next level, who
Speaker 1: you want to kind of give some shine to, anybody
Speaker 1: you want to mention or oh.
Speaker 2: Gosh, I feel that. Oh my god, I don't think
Speaker 2: I can do that, And everybody's gonna be mad at me.
Speaker 2: For me though, what it is is like I used
Speaker 2: to always tell everybody when they're like my contracts, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're like, this has got to be a gimmick. You
Speaker 2: don't want anything for me, You're not going to do
Speaker 2: this for me different And I'm like, yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: if you come to me and someone finds you like
Speaker 2: they all think it's gonna happen, right, Hell, yea, I'll
Speaker 2: sign you out of that. I just let them, Know,
Speaker 2: I looked you up, like, yeah, that's the thing, Like
Speaker 2: wherever they go from there is not about that. To
Speaker 2: answer that question. There's a ton of people out there
Speaker 2: finally living through music, doing what they love appropriately, and
Speaker 2: you know, I don't want to take credit for that,
Speaker 2: but I love being a part of it, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. So even like, even with my ties
Speaker 2: with the Avengs of That is Black, I have no
Speaker 2: connections in any way, shape or form to their artistry
Speaker 2: and what they do other than their participate in my movement.
Speaker 2: And for me, what I do for that is we
Speaker 2: non stop promote and market as well. So it's it
Speaker 2: goes both ways in every every area of it. You know,
Speaker 2: we'll go to their shows, the pr that we do
Speaker 2: for our guests, the eliminating of these crazy, outrageous fees
Speaker 2: for artists, because if you're a part of our movement,
Speaker 2: it means you've been on our show, you've attended our places,
Speaker 2: and then you get this member access for pricing, right
Speaker 2: because we do have to make money, right, Yeah, of course,
Speaker 2: So all of my talents are making money. I'm making
Speaker 2: T shirts for the public as well as for bands.
Speaker 2: You know, small businesses helping each other. So it's really
Speaker 2: this really big web of our artistry and basically change
Speaker 2: in the world so we can all afford it. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, my Building and Zoning department told me I
Speaker 2: rewrote the Chamber of Commerce. So the way my brain
Speaker 2: works just out in the hallway, I was like, you
Speaker 2: know what we're going to do that. We're going to
Speaker 2: make bps a chamber of arts, and it's make it
Speaker 2: happen for the state, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So what's the Is there a kind of
Speaker 1: a what's an example of something that artists need that
Speaker 1: they don't know that they need, like when they come
Speaker 1: to you, something that you can do for them that
Speaker 1: they didn't even think was important.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's a great question.
Speaker 2: Structure first of all. Structure right away, that's the most
Speaker 2: valuable for the beautiful minds. We want to do everything
Speaker 2: all at once, right, Yeah, the things like the branding,
Speaker 2: branding yourself. I think people think that the work itself
Speaker 2: is branding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not.
Speaker 2: And if you are all like I'm all over the place,
Speaker 2: I keep opening businesses because I have that much more
Speaker 2: to do in the brain. But at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, if there isn't a line of branding for it.
Speaker 2: Like if you're doing rock today and then you're doing
Speaker 2: wrap tomorrow, that's phenomenal talent, but how do you organize
Speaker 2: it to maintain that, you know, for for the long
Speaker 2: term event, And so that I think is the most
Speaker 2: part is really situating a plan. And I'll have a
Speaker 2: plan sometimes most of the time. Plan is to get
Speaker 2: famous most of these people, but like we're always talking about,
Speaker 2: you know, just in common conversation, like Will and I
Speaker 2: and you know, my guys on my show and everyone
Speaker 2: that we know down there for musicians, like Jamie said
Speaker 2: it best, We're like, where do you see yourself in
Speaker 2: the future. He's like, hopefully still working like this. If
Speaker 2: I get like Will said earlier, if I get there.
Speaker 3: Then I'm done.
Speaker 2: You know, there should just for us, we're doing what
Speaker 2: are our main and long term goal is regardless of
Speaker 2: the outcome, you know what I mean. So even if
Speaker 2: for some reason I'm not able to juggle all this
Speaker 2: phenomenal stuff and it doesn't pass off to my kids
Speaker 2: or some other great young artists, I'm still going to
Speaker 2: be in my own studios and I'm still going to
Speaker 2: be talking everybody's ear off on my shows.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I got to keep creating.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, if someone wants to uh so you know
Speaker 1: this show. You know, we know a lot of industry
Speaker 1: people listen and a lot of musicians listen. If someone's
Speaker 1: interested in working with you, like, what should they do?
Speaker 1: What's the best way to go about reaching out?
Speaker 2: So I got a lot of avenues. But if you
Speaker 2: go to the website, you can always click my email.
Speaker 2: But the problem is I've got so many emails. So
Speaker 2: I did put my personal cell phone on my website.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people say not to do that.
Speaker 2: My text me call me, I will get back to you,
Speaker 2: and that is the best way reach out directly or
Speaker 2: come on down. Yeah, you know I am. I live
Speaker 2: at my lounge unfortunately, because that's like the hub for everything,
Speaker 2: right yeah, but I'm so as soon as we're remodeling
Speaker 2: the studio right now, so in a couple of weeks
Speaker 2: I'll probably be glued to the studio again, you know,
Speaker 2: And so you just come down. I'm at five point
Speaker 2: forty four Main Street in Middletown, Connecticut.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: The website is bpslife dot com and some great stuff
Speaker 2: on there. So all my merch on there are from
Speaker 2: other artists as well. Okay, so this kind of grows
Speaker 2: into everyone else's platform, and I don't take any of
Speaker 2: their money, you know, I take whatever I would have
Speaker 2: because we make everything in house. So whatever the customer
Speaker 2: is buying, we take it. We take it off the
Speaker 2: VIC you know what we would have charged you anyways
Speaker 2: as a merchandise.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So everybody platforms. It's like because that other one Etsy,
Speaker 2: everybody uses Etsy. And I was like, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: this is all wrong. We gotta do this right here
Speaker 2: on the ground level, right, so you know, check out
Speaker 2: some of that stuff on there, because it's artists sharing
Speaker 2: each other's work. But that's the best way to reach me.
Speaker 2: Either drop in and say stop what you're doing. I
Speaker 2: need to talk to you. I like that best. I'm
Speaker 2: old fashioned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that's great. That's great. Before we run
Speaker 1: out of time too, let me just ask you, so,
Speaker 1: what what do you want Anything that we didn't talk
Speaker 1: about that you want to make sure people know about
Speaker 1: BPS records and and or anything about the show tonight
Speaker 1: too that maybe we didn't talk about today that you
Speaker 1: want to make sure people know because obviously you're going
Speaker 1: to be there. I assume, well all three of you
Speaker 1: be there tonight. Yes, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 2: We definitely want to We want to reach out to
Speaker 2: as target as much of New England. And uh, it's
Speaker 2: nostalgic for me to be here, so I'd love to
Speaker 2: get some artists from up here to come down there.
Speaker 2: We just want to cross pollinade, I said the other day. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's the biggest thing. You know. We do everything
Speaker 2: local in Connecticut, but I lived here for most of
Speaker 2: my adult life, so I would love to be able
Speaker 2: to Manchester. Yeah. I'm originally from Lynn, mass but they
Speaker 2: forced me here in fifth grade. Oh no, I did
Speaker 2: not come easily, but Lynn never come out the way
Speaker 2: went in asked for water, We'll give you Gin. Never
Speaker 2: trust a girl from Lynn. But yeah, so for me,
Speaker 2: it's just reach out. I want. Everybody's like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: what kind of genres? All genres. I don't care if
Speaker 2: you made up your own genre.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: We have a lot of the ability of connecting. We
Speaker 2: have a lot of networking, and we have a great
Speaker 2: roster of other labels and everything we're doing. You know,
Speaker 2: we've all kind of just got together and we're doing it,
Speaker 2: so yeah, whenever you got bring it on. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: that's basically what it is. We're so honored to be
Speaker 2: here tonight with uh with with the swarmy fests that
Speaker 2: I just want to let it rock and meet everybody
Speaker 2: and then see what we do next year. You know,
Speaker 2: we're we're in for the long haul with with Sepsis,
Speaker 2: so you're going to be seeing a lot of different
Speaker 2: things with us as we cross Polony.
Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent and being in Connecticut too. You must cross
Speaker 1: paths with Dead by Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we loved it by Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I I just saw them at Toad's Place. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: was like forgotten Toad's places. I've been so on the grind,
Speaker 2: but they were down there with Sepsis and a couple
Speaker 2: of bands. It was a great show.
Speaker 1: Last time I saw them, no joke, was like fifteen
Speaker 1: years ago because I used to do I used to
Speaker 1: promote a lot of shows like I used to do shows. Well,
Speaker 1: you probably remember the Uptown Tavern.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I worked there.
Speaker 1: Oh you did.
Speaker 2: I was a good old martiner there.
Speaker 1: When we may have, we may we've probably met, we
Speaker 1: must have. It's very likely you and I have met
Speaker 1: before at some point.
Speaker 2: It isn't my real hair. Oh really, it's funny.
Speaker 3: Many we must have.
Speaker 2: I did think your name sounded familiar when I was
Speaker 2: like I got in all this guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, most likely we've met, but yeah
Speaker 1: I had, I had DoD by Wednesday. There might have
Speaker 1: been more than fifteen years actually, but anyway, that was
Speaker 1: the last time I saw them was at the Uptown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we did a lot of it was spiderwork, remember
Speaker 2: the spider Yes, yes, we did a lot of good
Speaker 2: stuff over there too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely, well, really looking forward tonight. Thank you
Speaker 1: all three of you for coming in, very very happy.
Speaker 1: This has been wonderful swarmy fest of course tonight at
Speaker 1: Taffa or is it it's Club Taffida technically right? Is
Speaker 1: it a music hall? Taffita music Hall? Thank you? I
Speaker 1: got it. I knew there was more name.
Speaker 2: Shine.
Speaker 1: Have you have you been there already?
Speaker 2: Event I hadn't been, but we had you know, a group,
Speaker 2: Wise sent videos and everybody went to check it out. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so we we saw it video footage.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's take a nice place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah it does, it does. Yeah, looking forward to
Speaker 1: it should also Jenny you want to plug your website
Speaker 1: and mention the art the next art showing at Mosaic.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, you can check me out at gen Coffee dot com.
Speaker 5: J E N N C O f f uy dot
Speaker 5: com find all my musings, artwork and so forth there,
Speaker 5: and don't forget to check out the Mosaic Art Collective
Speaker 5: dot com for more information on the next show, Small
Speaker 5: Wonders Miniature art show opening on November eighth. Right here
Speaker 5: in the Queens City located in the Daily Mirror building
Speaker 5: is sixty six an over.
Speaker 1: Suite, yes to, and then we should also mention too
Speaker 1: after Swarmy Fest, which is tonight, the next big festival
Speaker 1: that we're involved in is spelfy.
Speaker 5: Fest selfie fest that's going to come up on November
Speaker 5: twenty fourth, be held right near us here at Jewel Yes,
Speaker 5: and we'll have more information coming soon, but we're excited.
Speaker 5: Yea loots bands, music artisans and they're actually doing this
Speaker 5: as a fundraising event to raise awareness and funds for
Speaker 5: the treatment of Complex regional pain syndrome in the organization RSCSA,
Speaker 5: which is the national organization here in the United States
Speaker 5: for people with CRPS like me.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, Sister Witch Company at eleven ninety three hooks
Speaker 1: It Road in hooks It. They've got the big lighting
Speaker 1: of the Yule Tree coming up on November twenty second
Speaker 1: from five thirty to nine thirty pm. And then they've
Speaker 1: got the I should look at the email to make
Speaker 1: sure I get it right, because I have a hard
Speaker 1: time saying it. The Magical Market, Small Business Psychic event
Speaker 1: that's going to be on November thirtieth from eleven thirty
Speaker 1: am to six pm. And you can get more information
Speaker 1: on that and everything they've got going on there at
Speaker 1: Sister Witch Company dot com. And we'll close the show
Speaker 1: out with one more Sepsis track but BPS Records. Thank
Speaker 1: you again, all three of you. This has been wonderful.
Speaker 1: We hope to see you tonight in Lowell at the
Speaker 1: Taffada Music Hall Music Hall, Yes, music Hall, Tafada Music Hall.
Speaker 1: Trying to make sure I get the name right now
Speaker 1: that we've established it's not a food, it's a what
Speaker 1: did you say it.
Speaker 2: Was a place to shine now I think also lustrous
Speaker 2: silk fabric.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, oh yes, that's true. Yes, very good, very good,
Speaker 1: all right, And if you miss any part of today's show,
Speaker 1: it'll be up in just a little bit into my
Speaker 1: website Matt connorton dot com. And that's it for us
Speaker 1: for now. Hope to see you tonight. Bye everybody, Bye
Speaker 1: bye
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