Matt Connarton Unleashed: BPS Records

0:00 Speaker 1: And right now joining us. We have BPS records this here, Hello, Hello, Hello,

0:07 Speaker 1: So let's let's have all three of you introduce yourselves

0:10 Speaker 1: and tell us who you are and what you do

0:12 Speaker 1: in BPS Records, and then we'll, you know, we'll talk

0:15 Speaker 1: about your involvement in tonight's show, of course, but yeah,

0:18 Speaker 1: go ahead, introduce yourselves.

0:20 Speaker 2: I'm Rita, Rita his last song Rita. Okay, as we

0:26 Speaker 2: just discussed, I'm the owner, counter creator all the above

0:30 Speaker 2: as well.

0:31 Speaker 1: Very good. Welcome, and you I'm Jonathan Jonathan okay, welcome.

0:37 Speaker 1: And what do you do in.

0:39 Speaker 3: This basically anything the boss tells me.

0:43 Speaker 1: Whatever Rita tells you.

0:44 Speaker 2: Okay, that's the only part. T make sure that I

0:48 Speaker 2: do everything that I'm.

0:49 Speaker 1: Supposed Okay, very good. And you I'm Remy and same

0:55 Speaker 1: whatever you do Whateverta says pretty much. Yeah, did you

0:58 Speaker 1: say Remy? Yeah? Okay, welcome Remy. So, uh now tell

1:03 Speaker 1: us about your involvement in the show tonight with us

1:05 Speaker 1: swarmy fast, as I believe we have firmly established. I'm

1:08 Speaker 1: now one certain it is Tafia not.

1:14 Speaker 2: But uh in Lowell, I gotta tell you, I looked

1:18 Speaker 2: it up when we were listening to the other interview,

1:20 Speaker 2: it is a lustrous silk, a fine silk, but its

1:25 Speaker 2: original Latin was too shine.

1:27 Speaker 1: Okay, so they kind of right, right, it might be

1:31 Speaker 1: ta feta if it were a Greek restaurant, right, but

1:33 Speaker 1: it's but it's not. I mean, there could be Greek

1:35 Speaker 1: food there. I have no idea, but uh, okay, so

1:37 Speaker 1: what is uh? So BPS Records is one of the

1:39 Speaker 1: sponsors of Tonight's.

1:40 Speaker 2: Evannas sponsored partner with with Obviously it's our first year.

1:46 Speaker 2: We are very very happy to be here. It's it's

1:49 Speaker 2: like finding your people, right, Like we're out out there

1:52 Speaker 2: doing all this stuff on our own. It felt like

1:54 Speaker 2: for so long, and then it was like organically, here

1:57 Speaker 2: we are with the rest of our planet, you know.

1:59 Speaker 2: I mean, so we're very very happy to be here,

2:02 Speaker 2: happy to be a part of it. He ove us

2:05 Speaker 2: right into the hosting of it, which is great. I

2:07 Speaker 2: love being an EMC at my live show, so I

2:09 Speaker 2: was like, it's perfect for me. Yeah, But just being

2:12 Speaker 2: in the thick of it, anything we can do to

2:14 Speaker 2: participate and make it happen is you know, what we're

2:16 Speaker 2: all about.

2:17 Speaker 1: So it sounds like so BBS Records. It sounds like

2:20 Speaker 1: it's been around for a while.

2:21 Speaker 2: So it's so funny when people ask me that because

2:24 Speaker 2: it feels like forever and not forever.

2:27 Speaker 1: Okay, you know what I.

2:27 Speaker 2: Mean, because we're just it's our life, so we're constantly building,

2:30 Speaker 2: living and creating. We started the company in twenty fourteen,

2:36 Speaker 2: but it was like two years of We only started

2:39 Speaker 2: it legally so we didn't lose it, right, We registered

2:42 Speaker 2: the name and did it, and then it was like

2:43 Speaker 2: about two years are really going, Okay, yeah, this is

2:47 Speaker 2: what I want to do. This is what I want

2:48 Speaker 2: to be doing with the rest of my life. Okay,

2:50 Speaker 2: I mean so, and it kind of just grew from

2:52 Speaker 2: there and it's milestone after milestone, just popping up like

2:56 Speaker 2: a little brush.

2:57 Speaker 1: Fires Okay, you know what I mean.

2:59 Speaker 2: Okay, an end goal because, like like Will was saying earlier,

3:04 Speaker 2: if you're constantly doing it, then you're not finished, right,

3:07 Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So we're very similar in

3:09 Speaker 2: that aspect of it.

3:10 Speaker 1: Right exactly what was what was kind of the genesis

3:14 Speaker 1: of it? Like what made you want to start this?

3:16 Speaker 2: So I've been creating my whole life. So when I

3:19 Speaker 2: say that it was twenty fourteen, I realized that it

3:22 Speaker 2: was I've just been doing it my whole life. Yeah,

3:24 Speaker 2: so there was, you know, just living living it. My

3:27 Speaker 2: mother's a singer. My mother actually hooks in New Hampshire

3:30 Speaker 2: out on bail band. I want to throw that out there.

3:32 Speaker 2: I know she's listening, okay, but she's always been. It's

3:35 Speaker 2: been our lifestyle, so it's never been a job. So

3:39 Speaker 2: just kind of branding it is what happened in twenty fourteen.

3:43 Speaker 1: Okay.

3:43 Speaker 2: So you know, my I have children that are creators.

3:46 Speaker 2: So you know, one day I was like, what are

3:47 Speaker 2: we going to do with there's no platform for the

3:50 Speaker 2: beautiful mind? So that's a BPS stands for okay. So

3:54 Speaker 2: and you know everybody's saying it's hobbies, it's this, it's that,

3:57 Speaker 2: and all this original artwork is being brushed side, you know.

4:01 Speaker 2: So kind of you know, organically went together itself that way.

4:06 Speaker 1: You said, so BPS, what is BPS sand for?

4:08 Speaker 3: Exactly?

4:08 Speaker 1: Beautiful People's Society, Beautiful people Society.

4:11 Speaker 2: Okay, So it's it was a platform for art, okay,

4:15 Speaker 2: and just kind of grew into its own individual departments. Okay,

4:18 Speaker 2: we do everything for ourselves. So the independent artist, like

4:22 Speaker 2: the label itself is the label for the independent artist.

4:27 Speaker 2: So there's not we're all making money off of our

4:29 Speaker 2: own talents, and we're offering what we have for our

4:31 Speaker 2: talents to other people. So we all get up to

4:34 Speaker 2: that top where we want to be.

4:36 Speaker 1: Appropriately okay, bye bye.

4:38 Speaker 2: Not it's not a crab barrel, you know what I mean?

4:41 Speaker 2: So I guess that's that's the best way I can answer.

4:45 Speaker 1: So is because obviously, you know, I hear I hear

4:48 Speaker 1: the word records in the title. So but it sounds

4:51 Speaker 1: like it's not necessarily a traditional record label, or I

4:54 Speaker 1: mean it is because the nature of record labels has

4:57 Speaker 1: changed so much over the years too, you.

4:59 Speaker 2: Know, yes, so it's more like a production management as well.

5:02 Speaker 2: So we do have the recording studios in Middletown, Connecticut,

5:08 Speaker 2: so there's live recording, there's venue with it's like a

5:11 Speaker 2: venue as well. And then we have a I like

5:15 Speaker 2: to call it My Little Whiskey a go go because

5:17 Speaker 2: that's basically what it's turned into, where we filter at

5:21 Speaker 2: our restaurant. So it's like a cabaret lounge, you know,

5:23 Speaker 2: the old dinner in a show, but it's all original music.

5:26 Speaker 2: And then we take we do uh, we do a

5:29 Speaker 2: live stream show everybody likes to call out a podcast.

5:32 Speaker 2: I hate that word really, but yeah, only because we've

5:35 Speaker 2: we've kind of channeled in it a little bit differently.

5:37 Speaker 2: It's it's similar to what we see here, so I

5:39 Speaker 2: love seeing that, but there's there's none of that going

5:42 Speaker 2: on down there, you know, So we do it live

5:45 Speaker 2: in the restaurant. So all all that the label has

5:49 Speaker 2: turned into from there is this, the recording and the

5:53 Speaker 2: traditional stuff, but it's just so much more, you know,

5:57 Speaker 2: and then bringing it to the front for the public

6:00 Speaker 2: to see, to participate that. We do a lot of

6:02 Speaker 2: hard work behind these scenes, as you know, as you

6:05 Speaker 2: run around and do all the same stuff that I'm doing.

6:07 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, So bring it to the forefront.

6:10 Speaker 2: So our listeners are peers, maybe other you know, people

6:13 Speaker 2: networking with us can see that hard work. So that's yeah,

6:18 Speaker 2: it's a little of it of all the above.

6:20 Speaker 1: Now, how often at the restaurant do you do this

6:22 Speaker 1: where you have so so you have the performers come in.

6:27 Speaker 2: Yes, every Wednesday we do our show. Okay, it's an

6:31 Speaker 2: interview and then they do like a preset performance, okay,

6:35 Speaker 2: a preview performance because then we book them after that. Okay,

6:38 Speaker 2: they get like their own showcase stage. Oh interesting, yeah, okay,

6:41 Speaker 2: So it's usually like a two week window so we

6:43 Speaker 2: can market. You can see. You don't want to go

6:45 Speaker 2: to places and be like, damn, I don't know who's playing,

6:47 Speaker 2: or only go to places because you know who's playing, right,

6:50 Speaker 2: So you kind of get a little preview on the show.

6:53 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, it works out very well. And then so

6:58 Speaker 1: so they do that, so that happens on Wednesdays, and

7:00 Speaker 1: then if you book them, that's on a Friday or Saturday.

7:02 Speaker 2: Yeah, so the Spotlight is on Friday. We do live

7:05 Speaker 2: music six days a week. Oh wow, except for the

7:08 Speaker 2: school year. We're family first, so Mondays we're closed to

7:11 Speaker 2: take care of our little ones. But Tuesday we do

7:15 Speaker 2: open my comedy. Oh but it's grown into filtering. So

7:19 Speaker 2: everything we do we all, like I said, offer to

7:21 Speaker 2: other artists. So we've got a comedian that comes in

7:24 Speaker 2: and does a similar version of on my set of

7:27 Speaker 2: his podcast that's now his live stream. Oh okay, so

7:30 Speaker 2: we do the production for him and such. It's so great.

7:34 Speaker 2: It's the only day we don't do music. Oh okay, yeah,

7:36 Speaker 2: but it's art and art and creating is the big.

7:39 Speaker 1: Factor for Yeah, yeah, owning.

7:41 Speaker 2: Your inner potentials to whatever that craft is.

7:44 Speaker 1: Now, do you now when you talk about some of

7:46 Speaker 1: the other the other things that you do, I mean,

7:47 Speaker 1: do you do you release music with artists or do

7:51 Speaker 1: you do you get into that.

7:52 Speaker 2: Part of So we before the pandemic, everything was a

7:55 Speaker 2: little bit different, right, So we're still trying to find

7:57 Speaker 2: our bearings and isolating things for that. But we definitely did.

8:02 Speaker 2: And but our goal is a little bit bigger in

8:05 Speaker 2: that aspect. You know, we don't we don't want to

8:07 Speaker 2: down anybody else's in the way they're doing it, but

8:10 Speaker 2: we want to do it better. So we want to

8:12 Speaker 2: have our own applications for original music that all goes

8:16 Speaker 2: much like band camp. I think you referred to band camp. Yeah,

8:19 Speaker 2: I think they're one hundred percent profits to the artists.

8:22 Speaker 1: Correct, No, they they take I think they take ten

8:26 Speaker 1: to fifteen percent, depending on what it is.

8:29 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but we've been misinformed. A lot of my

8:31 Speaker 2: guests were saying that they were on the artists. That's

8:34 Speaker 2: good to know.

8:35 Speaker 1: I mean, something could have changed. I could be wrong,

8:37 Speaker 1: but the last I knew, they they took a percent.

8:42 Speaker 1: At least if you're if you're selling music through band camp,

8:46 Speaker 1: now it might be different. If you're selling merch and

8:49 Speaker 1: you're shipping it yourself, that might be different. Okay, I'm

8:52 Speaker 1: not sure.

8:53 Speaker 2: So we want to do it one hundred percent of

8:55 Speaker 2: the artists.

8:55 Speaker 3: Okay.

8:56 Speaker 2: Our big thing is getting the airplay for music, getting

9:01 Speaker 2: everything to the forefront, like we said, and it's the

9:03 Speaker 2: same thing with that. When we get that, you know,

9:06 Speaker 2: organized enough to do it right, it'll be all that.

9:09 Speaker 2: And there's no reason for me to make money off

9:11 Speaker 2: other people's talents. I've clearly got enough of my own.

9:14 Speaker 2: I just got to keep participating and not doing it

9:17 Speaker 2: for everybody else instead of myself. And then that's the thing.

9:20 Speaker 2: So we want to do that. We all should be.

9:24 Speaker 2: There's no there's no room for the starving artists more

9:26 Speaker 2: that we're all this talented and we can all be

9:29 Speaker 2: helping each other. So that's the goal for that as

9:32 Speaker 2: far as the distribution. But you know, we do everything

9:34 Speaker 2: in the label paired for the artist, so there's no

9:38 Speaker 2: come sign up with us and we promise you all

9:40 Speaker 2: this stuff. It's it's if you are. We don't go

9:43 Speaker 2: out looking for the artists. It's got to be organic.

9:46 Speaker 2: You know, we're not paying our bills off our record label.

9:50 Speaker 2: You know, it's it's literally a platform to help the

9:53 Speaker 2: whole movement. So every single agreement of I hate the

9:58 Speaker 2: word contract because we're not we're not we're not selling anything, right,

10:01 Speaker 2: but it's a deal. When you come and say this

10:03 Speaker 2: is what I need from my career, how do I

10:05 Speaker 2: get this done? We all need to help each other,

10:08 Speaker 2: right or at least get out. So it itemizes down

10:11 Speaker 2: one stop shop for you. All of our departments open

10:15 Speaker 2: up because the studio is not just music, So we

10:18 Speaker 2: do the portraits. We've got the film department so you

10:24 Speaker 2: could do your videos, and at the studio you could

10:27 Speaker 2: do your your own versions of your podcasts and your shows.

10:31 Speaker 2: Your album covers the long nine yards. Yeah, and you

10:34 Speaker 2: know we're all we want is the credit. We want

10:37 Speaker 2: the branding credit. That's the thing for me because it's

10:40 Speaker 2: such an.

10:40 Speaker 1: Overall company, you know, right right.

10:43 Speaker 2: Think about like when you see the little Playboy bunny

10:45 Speaker 2: everywhere everybody knows what that means.

10:47 Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's what we're going for exactly. Now, are

10:53 Speaker 1: there are there artists performing? Are their bands performing tonight

10:56 Speaker 1: at Swarmy Fest with whom you're currently working.

10:59 Speaker 2: Or not the year, not this year. We definitely wanted

11:02 Speaker 2: to just participate wherever they put us in. But you

11:05 Speaker 2: bet your bottom dollar, I'm gunning for a whole bunch

11:07 Speaker 2: of stuff next year.

11:08 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Now, So I'm curious

11:12 Speaker 1: Jonathan and Remy, how did you both get involved in this?

11:16 Speaker 3: Uh?

11:17 Speaker 2: I forgot two years ago, two but I think two

11:20 Speaker 2: years ago you came in for.

11:22 Speaker 3: I came in for the oil wrestling thing.

11:24 Speaker 4: Yeah.

11:24 Speaker 1: Oil was like sounds sick, I'm doing it. And that's

11:26 Speaker 1: how we met and now we're besties. Yeah wait what really?

11:31 Speaker 2: Yeah you hung up.

11:33 Speaker 1: On the one that that's the thing, Like people still

11:37 Speaker 1: do that.

11:38 Speaker 2: Well, so all right, we're supposed to be a thing. Yeah,

11:41 Speaker 2: it's it's so I'm gonna have to bring it up

11:43 Speaker 2: because it originated here my old partner, the late Great

11:48 Speaker 2: Captain Chris local DJ around here in Manchester need to

11:53 Speaker 2: karaoke DJ okay. But he and I were at places

11:58 Speaker 2: cage myself a little bit but nineteen ninety five and

12:01 Speaker 2: they were doing uh karaoke and someone pulled out a

12:04 Speaker 2: pool and they filled it with yello okay, and I

12:07 Speaker 2: was like, you know what would make this so much

12:09 Speaker 2: better and it kind of developed into that. So we

12:12 Speaker 2: went and bought this big blow up wrestling matt type ring. Yeah,

12:16 Speaker 2: and we went on tour. We grabbed six girls and

12:18 Speaker 2: we went on tour and it was the best thing

12:20 Speaker 2: that I ever did to keep myself in shape.

12:22 Speaker 1: And wow, it was great.

12:24 Speaker 2: So we're bringing it back since he passed away, We're

12:26 Speaker 2: gonna bring it back and just bring it on a

12:27 Speaker 2: whole different level. Okay, and that will be next year

12:30 Speaker 2: for sure, Okay at Swarmy Fest.

12:33 Speaker 1: Okay, Oh wow, all right. Interesting. Interesting. So that's that's

12:38 Speaker 1: how you that's how you met.

12:39 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's how we met and signed up for it,

12:42 Speaker 5: and it didn't happen, sadly, but it's gonna happen.

12:44 Speaker 2: It's gonna Hapenna, it's gonna be right. Yeah, But I

12:47 Speaker 2: do have her and she's so very talented, so I

12:49 Speaker 2: have her in every aspect of everything we do.

12:52 Speaker 1: Okay.

12:52 Speaker 2: Within our company, everybody is an artist or a creator

12:55 Speaker 2: of some sort.

12:56 Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're.

12:58 Speaker 2: All kind of just up an overreached apartment and doing

13:01 Speaker 2: everything together. So it's pretty beautiful.

13:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, excellent. And then Jonathan, how did you get involved.

13:08 Speaker 3: So I got involved. Let's say.

13:13 Speaker 4: Last year August, I actually came down. Uh, she had

13:18 Speaker 4: a studio middle time, as she said, I was saying,

13:21 Speaker 4: and I did some rappings things like that at the studio,

13:25 Speaker 4: and then when she opened up her lounge, I came

13:29 Speaker 4: down every Thursday night. Every Thursday night we do a

13:33 Speaker 4: musicians jam there.

13:35 Speaker 3: It's a great time.

13:36 Speaker 4: We make music on the spot, all unrehearsed, you know,

13:41 Speaker 4: all kind of freestyle.

13:43 Speaker 2: Uh.

13:43 Speaker 4: We have a drummer that comes there, he's the host.

13:46 Speaker 4: The guitar player always comes down, bass player, and then

13:49 Speaker 4: usually I just.

13:50 Speaker 3: Do the vocals.

13:51 Speaker 4: But we met there, and you know, it's been a

13:56 Speaker 4: kind of a partnership ever since. We kind of developed

14:00 Speaker 4: more into a oh got to be closer, Yeah see

14:04 Speaker 4: there you go. Yeah, but yeah we met. We met

14:08 Speaker 4: there at the lounge and a nice Thursday night, and

14:13 Speaker 4: I've kind of been linked at the hip ever since.

14:16 Speaker 1: So excellent.

14:17 Speaker 2: This tends to happen in this industry because we're doing

14:21 Speaker 2: so much and it feels so good to create, right.

14:24 Speaker 2: So it's the support that that we have in each

14:28 Speaker 2: one of our departments or venues is just like it's overwhelming.

14:31 Speaker 2: In a positive way. Like, it's just it's like my

14:34 Speaker 2: children graduating from school, you know what I mean, It's

14:37 Speaker 2: actually happening. Everything I believe in is happening. Did you

14:40 Speaker 2: see it with the support?

14:42 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's excellent. Now who else is involved? Are there

14:45 Speaker 1: other people currently involved in BPS?

14:47 Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, so big shout out to some of them people.

14:50 Speaker 2: We've got our drum master that he was referring to

14:53 Speaker 2: on our open jam. Chuck Peterson from the Adventures of

14:56 Speaker 2: Thatteya's Black I'm on my show, is lead singer of

15:01 Speaker 2: his band, is the host of my show Everyond Love Daddy.

15:06 Speaker 2: There's just a little little bit of everybody from all

15:09 Speaker 2: the bands in the work that we've we've been through

15:13 Speaker 2: along the way. It's just where they're all keepers, you know,

15:16 Speaker 2: so if something's going down, they're like, I want to

15:18 Speaker 2: so a little bit of everybody.

15:20 Speaker 1: Did I hear the Adventures of Thaddeus Black That that's

15:23 Speaker 1: the name of a band. That's a cool name.

15:25 Speaker 2: You've got to look at that band up man. Yeah,

15:28 Speaker 2: for sure, all original Connecticut natives, phenomenal, phenomenal music.

15:35 Speaker 1: Now you mentioned something about your show, do you also

15:37 Speaker 1: do uh? Do you have a podcast or something.

15:40 Speaker 2: Or I'm gonna have to figure out what to call it.

15:42 Speaker 1: Well, that's right, you don't like you don't like that.

15:45 Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know why. It's just the

15:47 Speaker 2: stigma I think of. You know, it's not the same, right,

15:51 Speaker 2: so that for me is important. But it's you know,

15:54 Speaker 2: it's not that big of a deal. It's called BPS Talks. Currently,

15:59 Speaker 2: we ared film it live at hot Rod Spotlight Lounge

16:02 Speaker 2: on Main Street in Middletown, Connecticut, but we only are

16:07 Speaker 2: airing it on the Facebook, okay, because we're gonna be

16:10 Speaker 2: We're in transition of doing some really big things with

16:13 Speaker 2: the show, so in some colleagues that haven't quite we

16:18 Speaker 2: haven't quite made it terms with it yet, so I

16:19 Speaker 2: don't want to mention it.

16:20 Speaker 1: But sure, sure, you know, bringing.

16:22 Speaker 2: It to the next level, and then we'll have it

16:23 Speaker 2: on other platforms. Yeah, you know, we keep them up there.

16:26 Speaker 2: You can link everything on the website links to every

16:28 Speaker 2: department we have, so it's a big, long splash page.

16:32 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Yeah, It's funny the term podcast it's become,

16:37 Speaker 1: it's become a broader term over the years because when

16:41 Speaker 1: I first started, I think I think I I think

16:45 Speaker 1: I first started doing podcasting, and I think it was

16:49 Speaker 1: two thousand and six. Wow, is that long ago. Well,

16:52 Speaker 1: we didn't call it, but the term podcast you didn't

16:55 Speaker 1: even hear that word yet, right, so at that time,

16:57 Speaker 1: but we were streaming, so we call that. My friends

17:01 Speaker 1: and I who are doing it, we called it internet radio,

17:03 Speaker 1: which is a term you never hear now now now

17:06 Speaker 1: literally anything you know, like like obviously we're live on

17:10 Speaker 1: FM radio right now, but we're also streaming to Facebook

17:12 Speaker 1: and YouTube and everything, and so so it's like we're

17:16 Speaker 1: podcasting but at the same time. But it used to

17:18 Speaker 1: be like then, when the term podcast started being used,

17:21 Speaker 1: it seems like people referred to that as anything that

17:25 Speaker 1: was recorded, like recorded audio of a show was a podcast,

17:29 Speaker 1: but if you were going live, it was still called

17:32 Speaker 1: internet radio. But then over time podcasts just became you know,

17:35 Speaker 1: if you're streaming, it's podcasting, if you're podcasting, you're streaming.

17:38 Speaker 1: And it's just kind of well.

17:40 Speaker 2: It brings me back to like my whole, you know,

17:42 Speaker 2: plan or my whole the importance of my movement is

17:46 Speaker 2: bringing all that hard work that we're doing to the forefront.

17:49 Speaker 2: And I think I just always felt like it was

17:51 Speaker 2: being taken away with that whole like you said it

17:54 Speaker 2: was this, it was that. Yeah, So kind of combining

17:57 Speaker 2: the two is how I'm overcoming that negative stick for me. Yeah,

18:01 Speaker 2: with with my podcast clients, right yeah, and I'm I'm

18:05 Speaker 2: true and true to my word and what I believe in.

18:07 Speaker 2: So if I catch myself being hypocritical, I'm like, Okay,

18:10 Speaker 2: how do we fix this?

18:11 Speaker 3: Right?

18:11 Speaker 2: What do we do about it? Because creating is creating?

18:14 Speaker 2: So yeah, open the platform for the podcast guys, Let's

18:17 Speaker 2: show them how it's done. There you go, there, you go,

18:20 Speaker 2: really and they love it. They love every minute.

18:22 Speaker 1: No, absolutely, if you are just joining us. We have

18:24 Speaker 1: BPS Records here with us talking about well, of course

18:28 Speaker 1: getting to know them and and all about BPS Records

18:30 Speaker 1: and of course they're a very important part of Swarmy

18:33 Speaker 1: Fest tonight at Taffada in Lowell. I believe doors are

18:37 Speaker 1: at five pm five yeah, and Jenny and I will

18:40 Speaker 1: be there of course, and yes, yes, really looking forward

18:44 Speaker 1: to that. Have you, as BPS Records been involved in

18:48 Speaker 1: other shows like this, like what Swarmy Fest is?

18:51 Speaker 2: We it's it's crazy because I was saying, like it's

18:55 Speaker 2: so odd for me, I'm kind of appreciating being like

18:58 Speaker 2: the newcomer to swarm with because I had the weight

19:02 Speaker 2: up my shoulders usually always because they're always my productions.

19:06 Speaker 2: So now since we've opened the lounge, it's a tracted

19:10 Speaker 2: all these other great productions, where now it's just here's

19:13 Speaker 2: my room, here's my floor. Yeah, and it's really nice

19:17 Speaker 2: to always add to everything like that. But yeah, we

19:20 Speaker 2: did cet Rocks Rock. We were just listening earlier. Yeah,

19:26 Speaker 2: Bob the April with c t Rocks. He's been doing

19:28 Speaker 2: it for years as well. I mean I had never

19:30 Speaker 2: heard of him, right, So because I'm we're all so

19:32 Speaker 2: focused on our movements and what we're doing, right. So

19:35 Speaker 2: he had a spot show up and I was like,

19:37 Speaker 2: he's like, can we do twelve bands in your place?

19:41 Speaker 2: And I was like wait, Like he thought it was

19:43 Speaker 2: gonna be a problem. I'm like absolutely. He's like great,

19:45 Speaker 2: So he's just gonna give me the place all day.

19:47 Speaker 2: What about your other customers? They said, well, they're gonna

19:49 Speaker 2: have to listen to the music, right, you know what

19:51 Speaker 2: I mean. But and it was twelve original phenomenal bands

19:56 Speaker 2: you had. You know, your you always have your solo

19:59 Speaker 2: acts where you're like okay, I see where they're going,

20:02 Speaker 2: you know what I mean. But the point of it

20:05 Speaker 2: was just the promotion of the independent art and they

20:08 Speaker 2: just kept going. When things went wrong, I was always like,

20:10 Speaker 2: give them my card, like I know how to fix

20:13 Speaker 2: that much time, you know, But that was like one

20:16 Speaker 2: of my favorites. Soundhoum Productions. That's another one we do.

20:22 Speaker 2: Uh it's four four original bands back to back, okay,

20:28 Speaker 2: and it's like, you know, ska, punk, punk, folk, you

20:32 Speaker 2: know everything. Were actually twenty twenty five. We have a

20:35 Speaker 2: lot more that we're going to be doing as far

20:37 Speaker 2: as answering that question, So yeah, I know. We got

20:40 Speaker 2: Eric Raboska from Highest Frequency Record Records in Connecticut. He's

20:45 Speaker 2: gonna come take over the first Saturday of every month

20:47 Speaker 2: and kind of do the same thing, but a totally

20:51 Speaker 2: different line of musicians. Phenomenal. Yeah, there's so much great

20:55 Speaker 2: hard work out there. Oh yeah, And I just want

20:58 Speaker 2: everyone to see like we're not just paying and record

21:00 Speaker 2: labels to play our music, like we're doing everything, you know,

21:05 Speaker 2: and that goes for everyone. That's a part of the movements.

21:07 Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you ever have anyone approach you? Do you

21:09 Speaker 1: ever have a musician who approaches you who wants to

21:11 Speaker 1: work with you, but they're not. They're just not ready.

21:15 Speaker 2: Boy do I are? So that agreement that I was

21:18 Speaker 2: telling you about, it's funny because it's now disclosed with

21:21 Speaker 2: what I'm intolerant to. Okay, right, So because I don't

21:25 Speaker 2: have time for that, you know, being a mother as

21:27 Speaker 2: well as being a mother of all my creations, I

21:30 Speaker 2: really just don't have time for that. So if you

21:32 Speaker 2: don't have discipline to your own career, you don't even

21:36 Speaker 2: have to have a plan. But the dedication, the discipline

21:39 Speaker 2: and the poise of what they taught you in karate

21:43 Speaker 2: class for crying out, you know what I mean. We've

21:45 Speaker 2: learned everything we need to know in kindergarten about life.

21:48 Speaker 2: If you don't have that, then there's nothing we could

21:51 Speaker 2: do for you. You know, you may need a lot,

21:53 Speaker 2: which is great and fine, but that's the core stuff

21:56 Speaker 2: you have to come with. Your drive is the most

21:58 Speaker 2: important thing to original use it. You know, we all

22:01 Speaker 2: have our ups and downs. I have my days where

22:03 Speaker 2: I'm like, what am I doing? I didn't go to

22:06 Speaker 2: the beach at all this year? Like you know what

22:07 Speaker 2: I mean? But it goes that way.

22:10 Speaker 4: So we say they party like rock stars before they

22:16 Speaker 4: make it.

22:16 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's the biggest downfall. It's like, what are

22:19 Speaker 2: you doing? So we do have a lot of mostly positive,

22:23 Speaker 2: but you do have a lot of people that come

22:25 Speaker 2: and then. And I'm really a stickler with it. I

22:27 Speaker 2: love I love everything, and I want to help everyone.

22:30 Speaker 2: But if in the first three seconds of what you

22:33 Speaker 2: play for me, I don't want to hear it anymore.

22:36 Speaker 2: You know, you got a little more work to do.

22:37 Speaker 2: And I know that sounds harsh, but it's real. It's

22:41 Speaker 2: about being being realistic with where you are and what

22:44 Speaker 2: you want. But we never turn anybody away, you know,

22:48 Speaker 2: if you come around and you need help, even with

22:50 Speaker 2: those beautiful mind problems that we have, you know, all squirrel,

22:55 Speaker 2: you know, we just we attend to that. But if

22:59 Speaker 2: you're just not good, you're not good and someone should

23:02 Speaker 2: tell you that, right. I know it sounds rough.

23:04 Speaker 1: No, but it's true. It's true. You're not You're not

23:06 Speaker 1: doing anybody any favors by, you know, pretending that they've

23:11 Speaker 1: got something that they don't have.

23:12 Speaker 2: Right and you and it can weaken it can weaken

23:16 Speaker 2: their path and they're creating if you put them in

23:19 Speaker 2: a room with people that might make them feel insecure

23:22 Speaker 2: about where they're at, and you don't do that, so

23:24 Speaker 2: being honest with that. But I do have some people

23:27 Speaker 2: that just think that there's some place that they're not

23:30 Speaker 2: and I'll kindly tell them, you know, just mn't you

23:33 Speaker 2: do this, come on back, you know. But we always

23:35 Speaker 2: create a platform to perform. So at the studio, that's

23:39 Speaker 2: where you can work out those kinks and you go

23:41 Speaker 2: down there, Hey, take the room for a night through yourself.

23:44 Speaker 2: A concert be the the highlight, right, because that's important

23:48 Speaker 2: if you can't. We talk about that all the time.

23:51 Speaker 2: If you have five people in a band, but we're

23:53 Speaker 2: all supposed to be supporting one another, but it is

23:55 Speaker 2: very hard when all your friends are musicians. You can't

23:58 Speaker 2: be anywhere, right, I mean everywhere at the same time. Yeah, yeah,

24:02 Speaker 2: but we will look at you know, the crowds that

24:04 Speaker 2: come in. If you can five people in a band

24:06 Speaker 2: and not one person comes, I mean, you've got a mom,

24:09 Speaker 2: you've got a wife, you've got a brother, you've got

24:10 Speaker 2: a husband, and someone should be coming to support you, right,

24:14 Speaker 2: So like those are the kinks I think, like you know,

24:17 Speaker 2: putting the horse car before the horse and stuff like that.

24:20 Speaker 2: So we offer that platform at the studio for them

24:22 Speaker 2: to get that stuff out of the way and learn

24:24 Speaker 2: that organically.

24:26 Speaker 3: Yeah.

24:26 Speaker 1: I feel like, uh, you know, in my my own

24:29 Speaker 1: experience working with musicians and I used to play in bands,

24:33 Speaker 1: and but I also you know, I do other things

24:34 Speaker 1: in the industry, and I feel like I've all I've

24:37 Speaker 1: got an axiom. I've always sad everybody wants to be

24:39 Speaker 1: a rock star, but only as long as it's easy.

24:41 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know, and then you know some some people,

24:45 Speaker 1: you know, they're like, whoa, there's actual work involved. It's

24:47 Speaker 1: not all you know, it's not all glamorous, and no

24:50 Speaker 1: it is not.

24:52 Speaker 2: You got those people that come in and they're like,

24:53 Speaker 2: you got to listen to my song right now. I'm

24:56 Speaker 2: it like that they're going to be discovered, and it's

24:58 Speaker 2: like I have to be the bad guy. This is

25:00 Speaker 2: this is why we're the independent label for the independent artist.

25:03 Speaker 2: You know, we're not going to lie to you, We're

25:05 Speaker 2: not going to do all that, yeah know what I mean.

25:07 Speaker 1: Yeah. The other delusion that I've always talked about is

25:09 Speaker 1: the mythical record company scout. You know, you know the

25:14 Speaker 1: guys who play, you know, the same bar every weekend,

25:16 Speaker 1: and they're they're just convinced that you know, any any

25:19 Speaker 1: any weekend now that this mythical record company scout is

25:23 Speaker 1: going to walk in during their set and be so

25:24 Speaker 1: impressed with what they see and handing them a five

25:27 Speaker 1: album deal. And it's so true.

25:29 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I you know, we I like to

25:32 Speaker 2: call it my movement rather than my label because of

25:34 Speaker 2: that stigma with it too. Yeah, And they're like, oh,

25:38 Speaker 2: nobody gets discovered this. This stuff is hard, man, Like

25:42 Speaker 2: we aren't me can't remember the last time. She ate,

25:46 Speaker 2: like where you ago? You know what I mean. We're

25:50 Speaker 2: just we're constantly doing it, and they just don't get

25:54 Speaker 2: that if you can't, and I get like, there is

25:57 Speaker 2: the part time artist right that is working in nine

26:00 Speaker 2: to five because you have to have a nine to

26:02 Speaker 2: five too, right to cover it all unless you can

26:04 Speaker 2: be one hundred percent in it. Yeah, But like I

26:07 Speaker 2: only see my children because I've created family friendly businesses.

26:11 Speaker 2: So you know, my teenagers in the kitchen cook and

26:13 Speaker 2: he's making beats in the studio. My ten year old's

26:16 Speaker 2: telling my bartenders how to run the computer. Like, you

26:19 Speaker 2: know what I mean, you got to find a way

26:21 Speaker 2: to bring the two together to do that. For the

26:24 Speaker 2: part time artists, we still give them that same love,

26:27 Speaker 2: like creating is creating and I love that they don't

26:30 Speaker 2: even care where their music goes. They're just you played

26:33 Speaker 2: that at your place?

26:33 Speaker 1: Yes, right right?

26:35 Speaker 2: You know, so it's really just the movement of the

26:38 Speaker 2: creating and stuff.

26:39 Speaker 1: Yeah, totally. What would you say is the biggest misconception

26:44 Speaker 1: that you run into when when you know these artists

26:46 Speaker 1: come to you, what are the biggest expectation they have

26:50 Speaker 1: that maybe they shouldn't or you.

26:52 Speaker 2: Know, oh well, if I'm going to pick one or

26:55 Speaker 2: you don't have to pick it. The first one that

26:57 Speaker 2: comes to mind is that I'm going to do your job,

27:01 Speaker 2: you know what I mean? And because I'm guilty of that,

27:04 Speaker 2: I will catch myself going why is this so hard?

27:06 Speaker 2: Because it's not my job, it's not my career, and

27:10 Speaker 2: I want to help, but I want to do all that.

27:12 Speaker 2: It's that nurturing part, you know. But sometimes I got

27:15 Speaker 2: to turn around and switch the hat and be like, wait,

27:18 Speaker 2: you're supposed to do this. I had an artist that phenomenal,

27:22 Speaker 2: he had so much potential and he still does that

27:25 Speaker 2: I signed with and it was always my fault that

27:29 Speaker 2: something wasn't getting done and I would go back to

27:31 Speaker 2: my meeting minutes because now I keep meeting minutes. You

27:34 Speaker 2: were supposed to do this by this state, so I

27:36 Speaker 2: could do all this yours, you know. And they just

27:39 Speaker 2: don't understand the value and importance of keeping that that system.

27:44 Speaker 2: Like I can't shut down the house because you today

27:47 Speaker 2: wanted to do what you're supposed to do two months ago,

27:49 Speaker 2: And why am I not where I'm supposed to be? Well, yeah,

27:53 Speaker 2: you know, you have to do the work. So yeah,

27:55 Speaker 2: that's the biggest thing that that we're just going to do.

27:57 Speaker 2: Their jobs are not a management label. We are having

28:02 Speaker 2: a hard enough time managing all our businesses, right Yeah.

28:06 Speaker 2: And then that and other than that is like the

28:09 Speaker 2: organic nature of real original music, Like I will not

28:14 Speaker 2: let people sing over their own tracks. If you if

28:17 Speaker 2: you don't know the difference between a show mix and

28:19 Speaker 2: a performance mix and a track, we got to bring

28:22 Speaker 2: you way back in the step in the process because

28:26 Speaker 2: that value is so different, you know what I mean,

28:28 Speaker 2: if you run into that a lot, a lot more

28:31 Speaker 2: than you would think. Yeah, the only it's it's it's

28:36 Speaker 2: kind of genre specifically more you know, there's a lot

28:40 Speaker 2: of hip hop. I would love to take over the

28:41 Speaker 2: hip hop world right now in Connecticut because there's some

28:44 Speaker 2: phenomenal people, but the stigma because of that, it's so

28:48 Speaker 2: hard that people are just you know, it's kind of

28:52 Speaker 2: like a quick buck, I guess for them to start them,

28:54 Speaker 2: but they just really don't do it right. So that

28:57 Speaker 2: would be a full time job for me. I take

28:59 Speaker 2: on that, but not as much in you know, other genres,

29:05 Speaker 2: you know what I mean, You do get a lot

29:07 Speaker 2: of people that, Like we had a big shout out

29:09 Speaker 2: to Jamie Starchild and the Dream Factory. He was a

29:13 Speaker 2: guest on our show last week. I was an honor

29:15 Speaker 2: to have him there and seeing he's got the same

29:19 Speaker 2: views as us too, Like that's big for me seeing

29:21 Speaker 2: these national big stars that are like, yeah, let's do this.

29:25 Speaker 2: What can I do with you? And I'm like what,

29:27 Speaker 2: you know what I mean, I'm star struck on my

29:28 Speaker 2: own show, trying to keep it together. But he did

29:31 Speaker 2: this one man show and it was fifteen minutes and

29:34 Speaker 2: I needed more, but he was you know what I mean.

29:36 Speaker 2: So if you had your eyes close, it would be

29:38 Speaker 2: like a Prince song because he did everything and he sang,

29:41 Speaker 2: and so you'll have your your stuff sometimes on backtracking

29:45 Speaker 2: when you're an independent, original by yourself artist. But you know,

29:49 Speaker 2: we strongly love that when it's your craft. Yes, but

29:53 Speaker 2: if it's happening because you're not ready to perform, meaning

29:57 Speaker 2: you don't have a band, and again, put put your

30:01 Speaker 2: your priorities in order to get to where you need

30:03 Speaker 2: to be with your.

30:04 Speaker 1: Grad Yeah, sure, yeah, absolutely, any any like sort of

30:10 Speaker 1: success stories or anybody who you've worked with who's really

30:15 Speaker 1: kind of, you know, gone to that next level, who

30:18 Speaker 1: you want to kind of give some shine to, anybody

30:20 Speaker 1: you want to mention or oh.

30:21 Speaker 2: Gosh, I feel that. Oh my god, I don't think

30:26 Speaker 2: I can do that, And everybody's gonna be mad at me.

30:29 Speaker 2: For me though, what it is is like I used

30:32 Speaker 2: to always tell everybody when they're like my contracts, right, yeah,

30:36 Speaker 2: they're like, this has got to be a gimmick. You

30:38 Speaker 2: don't want anything for me, You're not going to do

30:39 Speaker 2: this for me different And I'm like, yeah, I mean

30:42 Speaker 2: if you come to me and someone finds you like

30:46 Speaker 2: they all think it's gonna happen, right, Hell, yea, I'll

30:48 Speaker 2: sign you out of that. I just let them, Know,

30:50 Speaker 2: I looked you up, like, yeah, that's the thing, Like

30:53 Speaker 2: wherever they go from there is not about that. To

30:56 Speaker 2: answer that question. There's a ton of people out there

30:59 Speaker 2: finally living through music, doing what they love appropriately, and

31:04 Speaker 2: you know, I don't want to take credit for that,

31:05 Speaker 2: but I love being a part of it, you know

31:07 Speaker 2: what I mean. So even like, even with my ties

31:12 Speaker 2: with the Avengs of That is Black, I have no

31:15 Speaker 2: connections in any way, shape or form to their artistry

31:18 Speaker 2: and what they do other than their participate in my movement.

31:21 Speaker 2: And for me, what I do for that is we

31:25 Speaker 2: non stop promote and market as well. So it's it

31:28 Speaker 2: goes both ways in every every area of it. You know,

31:30 Speaker 2: we'll go to their shows, the pr that we do

31:33 Speaker 2: for our guests, the eliminating of these crazy, outrageous fees

31:38 Speaker 2: for artists, because if you're a part of our movement,

31:41 Speaker 2: it means you've been on our show, you've attended our places,

31:45 Speaker 2: and then you get this member access for pricing, right

31:47 Speaker 2: because we do have to make money, right, Yeah, of course,

31:50 Speaker 2: So all of my talents are making money. I'm making

31:52 Speaker 2: T shirts for the public as well as for bands.

31:55 Speaker 2: You know, small businesses helping each other. So it's really

31:57 Speaker 2: this really big web of our artistry and basically change

32:02 Speaker 2: in the world so we can all afford it. Yeah. Yeah,

32:04 Speaker 2: you know, my Building and Zoning department told me I

32:07 Speaker 2: rewrote the Chamber of Commerce. So the way my brain

32:11 Speaker 2: works just out in the hallway, I was like, you

32:13 Speaker 2: know what we're going to do that. We're going to

32:14 Speaker 2: make bps a chamber of arts, and it's make it

32:17 Speaker 2: happen for the state, you know.

32:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So what's the Is there a kind of

32:24 Speaker 1: a what's an example of something that artists need that

32:29 Speaker 1: they don't know that they need, like when they come

32:31 Speaker 1: to you, something that you can do for them that

32:34 Speaker 1: they didn't even think was important.

32:37 Speaker 3: Oh, that's a great question.

32:39 Speaker 2: Structure first of all. Structure right away, that's the most

32:43 Speaker 2: valuable for the beautiful minds. We want to do everything

32:46 Speaker 2: all at once, right, Yeah, the things like the branding,

32:51 Speaker 2: branding yourself. I think people think that the work itself

32:54 Speaker 2: is branding.

32:55 Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not.

32:57 Speaker 2: And if you are all like I'm all over the place,

32:59 Speaker 2: I keep opening businesses because I have that much more

33:02 Speaker 2: to do in the brain. But at the end of

33:07 Speaker 2: the day, if there isn't a line of branding for it.

33:10 Speaker 2: Like if you're doing rock today and then you're doing

33:13 Speaker 2: wrap tomorrow, that's phenomenal talent, but how do you organize

33:17 Speaker 2: it to maintain that, you know, for for the long

33:20 Speaker 2: term event, And so that I think is the most

33:23 Speaker 2: part is really situating a plan. And I'll have a

33:27 Speaker 2: plan sometimes most of the time. Plan is to get

33:30 Speaker 2: famous most of these people, but like we're always talking about,

33:34 Speaker 2: you know, just in common conversation, like Will and I

33:37 Speaker 2: and you know, my guys on my show and everyone

33:39 Speaker 2: that we know down there for musicians, like Jamie said

33:42 Speaker 2: it best, We're like, where do you see yourself in

33:43 Speaker 2: the future. He's like, hopefully still working like this. If

33:48 Speaker 2: I get like Will said earlier, if I get there.

33:51 Speaker 3: Then I'm done.

33:52 Speaker 2: You know, there should just for us, we're doing what

33:56 Speaker 2: are our main and long term goal is regardless of

33:59 Speaker 2: the outcome, you know what I mean. So even if

34:02 Speaker 2: for some reason I'm not able to juggle all this

34:05 Speaker 2: phenomenal stuff and it doesn't pass off to my kids

34:08 Speaker 2: or some other great young artists, I'm still going to

34:10 Speaker 2: be in my own studios and I'm still going to

34:12 Speaker 2: be talking everybody's ear off on my shows.

34:15 Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

34:16 Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I got to keep creating.

34:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, if someone wants to uh so you know

34:23 Speaker 1: this show. You know, we know a lot of industry

34:25 Speaker 1: people listen and a lot of musicians listen. If someone's

34:29 Speaker 1: interested in working with you, like, what should they do?

34:32 Speaker 1: What's the best way to go about reaching out?

34:34 Speaker 2: So I got a lot of avenues. But if you

34:37 Speaker 2: go to the website, you can always click my email.

34:39 Speaker 2: But the problem is I've got so many emails. So

34:42 Speaker 2: I did put my personal cell phone on my website.

34:45 Speaker 2: I know a lot of people say not to do that.

34:47 Speaker 2: My text me call me, I will get back to you,

34:50 Speaker 2: and that is the best way reach out directly or

34:52 Speaker 2: come on down. Yeah, you know I am. I live

34:54 Speaker 2: at my lounge unfortunately, because that's like the hub for everything,

34:58 Speaker 2: right yeah, but I'm so as soon as we're remodeling

35:01 Speaker 2: the studio right now, so in a couple of weeks

35:03 Speaker 2: I'll probably be glued to the studio again, you know,

35:06 Speaker 2: And so you just come down. I'm at five point

35:09 Speaker 2: forty four Main Street in Middletown, Connecticut.

35:12 Speaker 1: Okay.

35:12 Speaker 2: The website is bpslife dot com and some great stuff

35:17 Speaker 2: on there. So all my merch on there are from

35:20 Speaker 2: other artists as well. Okay, so this kind of grows

35:24 Speaker 2: into everyone else's platform, and I don't take any of

35:27 Speaker 2: their money, you know, I take whatever I would have

35:29 Speaker 2: because we make everything in house. So whatever the customer

35:34 Speaker 2: is buying, we take it. We take it off the

35:36 Speaker 2: VIC you know what we would have charged you anyways

35:38 Speaker 2: as a merchandise.

35:39 Speaker 1: Okay, you know what I mean.

35:40 Speaker 2: So everybody platforms. It's like because that other one Etsy,

35:44 Speaker 2: everybody uses Etsy. And I was like, no, no, no,

35:46 Speaker 2: this is all wrong. We gotta do this right here

35:49 Speaker 2: on the ground level, right, so you know, check out

35:52 Speaker 2: some of that stuff on there, because it's artists sharing

35:54 Speaker 2: each other's work. But that's the best way to reach me.

35:57 Speaker 2: Either drop in and say stop what you're doing. I

35:59 Speaker 2: need to talk to you. I like that best. I'm

36:02 Speaker 2: old fashioned.

36:02 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that's great. That's great. Before we run

36:07 Speaker 1: out of time too, let me just ask you, so,

36:11 Speaker 1: what what do you want Anything that we didn't talk

36:14 Speaker 1: about that you want to make sure people know about

36:16 Speaker 1: BPS records and and or anything about the show tonight

36:19 Speaker 1: too that maybe we didn't talk about today that you

36:22 Speaker 1: want to make sure people know because obviously you're going

36:24 Speaker 1: to be there. I assume, well all three of you

36:26 Speaker 1: be there tonight. Yes, excellent, excellent.

36:28 Speaker 2: We definitely want to We want to reach out to

36:32 Speaker 2: as target as much of New England. And uh, it's

36:37 Speaker 2: nostalgic for me to be here, so I'd love to

36:39 Speaker 2: get some artists from up here to come down there.

36:41 Speaker 2: We just want to cross pollinade, I said the other day. Yeah,

36:44 Speaker 2: it's it's the biggest thing. You know. We do everything

36:46 Speaker 2: local in Connecticut, but I lived here for most of

36:49 Speaker 2: my adult life, so I would love to be able

36:52 Speaker 2: to Manchester. Yeah. I'm originally from Lynn, mass but they

36:57 Speaker 2: forced me here in fifth grade. Oh no, I did

37:00 Speaker 2: not come easily, but Lynn never come out the way

37:04 Speaker 2: went in asked for water, We'll give you Gin. Never

37:06 Speaker 2: trust a girl from Lynn. But yeah, so for me,

37:10 Speaker 2: it's just reach out. I want. Everybody's like, oh, well,

37:13 Speaker 2: what kind of genres? All genres. I don't care if

37:15 Speaker 2: you made up your own genre.

37:17 Speaker 1: Yeah.

37:17 Speaker 2: We have a lot of the ability of connecting. We

37:19 Speaker 2: have a lot of networking, and we have a great

37:22 Speaker 2: roster of other labels and everything we're doing. You know,

37:26 Speaker 2: we've all kind of just got together and we're doing it,

37:28 Speaker 2: so yeah, whenever you got bring it on. Yeah, that's

37:31 Speaker 2: that's basically what it is. We're so honored to be

37:34 Speaker 2: here tonight with uh with with the swarmy fests that

37:37 Speaker 2: I just want to let it rock and meet everybody

37:41 Speaker 2: and then see what we do next year. You know,

37:43 Speaker 2: we're we're in for the long haul with with Sepsis,

37:45 Speaker 2: so you're going to be seeing a lot of different

37:47 Speaker 2: things with us as we cross Polony.

37:50 Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent and being in Connecticut too. You must cross

37:53 Speaker 1: paths with Dead by Wednesday.

37:55 Speaker 2: Yeah, we loved it by Wednesday.

37:56 Speaker 1: Yeah.

37:57 Speaker 2: I I just saw them at Toad's Place. Yeah, I

38:00 Speaker 2: was like forgotten Toad's places. I've been so on the grind,

38:03 Speaker 2: but they were down there with Sepsis and a couple

38:05 Speaker 2: of bands. It was a great show.

38:07 Speaker 1: Last time I saw them, no joke, was like fifteen

38:10 Speaker 1: years ago because I used to do I used to

38:13 Speaker 1: promote a lot of shows like I used to do shows. Well,

38:15 Speaker 1: you probably remember the Uptown Tavern.

38:16 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I worked there.

38:18 Speaker 1: Oh you did.

38:18 Speaker 2: I was a good old martiner there.

38:20 Speaker 1: When we may have, we may we've probably met, we

38:25 Speaker 1: must have. It's very likely you and I have met

38:27 Speaker 1: before at some point.

38:28 Speaker 2: It isn't my real hair. Oh really, it's funny.

38:32 Speaker 3: Many we must have.

38:34 Speaker 2: I did think your name sounded familiar when I was

38:36 Speaker 2: like I got in all this guys.

38:38 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, most likely we've met, but yeah

38:41 Speaker 1: I had, I had DoD by Wednesday. There might have

38:45 Speaker 1: been more than fifteen years actually, but anyway, that was

38:47 Speaker 1: the last time I saw them was at the Uptown.

38:49 Speaker 2: Yeah, we did a lot of it was spiderwork, remember

38:52 Speaker 2: the spider Yes, yes, we did a lot of good

38:54 Speaker 2: stuff over there too.

38:55 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely, well, really looking forward tonight. Thank you

38:59 Speaker 1: all three of you for coming in, very very happy.

39:03 Speaker 1: This has been wonderful swarmy fest of course tonight at

39:06 Speaker 1: Taffa or is it it's Club Taffida technically right? Is

39:09 Speaker 1: it a music hall? Taffita music Hall? Thank you? I

39:12 Speaker 1: got it. I knew there was more name.

39:16 Speaker 2: Shine.

39:17 Speaker 1: Have you have you been there already?

39:18 Speaker 2: Event I hadn't been, but we had you know, a group,

39:21 Speaker 2: Wise sent videos and everybody went to check it out. Yeah,

39:23 Speaker 2: so we we saw it video footage.

39:25 Speaker 3: But yeah, it's take a nice place.

39:27 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah it does, it does. Yeah, looking forward to

39:29 Speaker 1: it should also Jenny you want to plug your website

39:32 Speaker 1: and mention the art the next art showing at Mosaic.

39:36 Speaker 5: Absolutely, you can check me out at gen Coffee dot com.

39:38 Speaker 5: J E N N C O f f uy dot

39:41 Speaker 5: com find all my musings, artwork and so forth there,

39:44 Speaker 5: and don't forget to check out the Mosaic Art Collective

39:47 Speaker 5: dot com for more information on the next show, Small

39:50 Speaker 5: Wonders Miniature art show opening on November eighth. Right here

39:54 Speaker 5: in the Queens City located in the Daily Mirror building

39:57 Speaker 5: is sixty six an over.

39:58 Speaker 1: Suite, yes to, and then we should also mention too

40:04 Speaker 1: after Swarmy Fest, which is tonight, the next big festival

40:08 Speaker 1: that we're involved in is spelfy.

40:10 Speaker 5: Fest selfie fest that's going to come up on November

40:12 Speaker 5: twenty fourth, be held right near us here at Jewel Yes,

40:15 Speaker 5: and we'll have more information coming soon, but we're excited.

40:20 Speaker 5: Yea loots bands, music artisans and they're actually doing this

40:24 Speaker 5: as a fundraising event to raise awareness and funds for

40:27 Speaker 5: the treatment of Complex regional pain syndrome in the organization RSCSA,

40:32 Speaker 5: which is the national organization here in the United States

40:35 Speaker 5: for people with CRPS like me.

40:37 Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, Sister Witch Company at eleven ninety three hooks

40:41 Speaker 1: It Road in hooks It. They've got the big lighting

40:44 Speaker 1: of the Yule Tree coming up on November twenty second

40:48 Speaker 1: from five thirty to nine thirty pm. And then they've

40:50 Speaker 1: got the I should look at the email to make

40:52 Speaker 1: sure I get it right, because I have a hard

40:53 Speaker 1: time saying it. The Magical Market, Small Business Psychic event

40:58 Speaker 1: that's going to be on November thirtieth from eleven thirty

41:00 Speaker 1: am to six pm. And you can get more information

41:02 Speaker 1: on that and everything they've got going on there at

41:05 Speaker 1: Sister Witch Company dot com. And we'll close the show

41:09 Speaker 1: out with one more Sepsis track but BPS Records. Thank

41:12 Speaker 1: you again, all three of you. This has been wonderful.

41:14 Speaker 1: We hope to see you tonight in Lowell at the

41:17 Speaker 1: Taffada Music Hall Music Hall, Yes, music Hall, Tafada Music Hall.

41:22 Speaker 1: Trying to make sure I get the name right now

41:24 Speaker 1: that we've established it's not a food, it's a what

41:28 Speaker 1: did you say it.

41:28 Speaker 2: Was a place to shine now I think also lustrous

41:33 Speaker 2: silk fabric.

41:34 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, oh yes, that's true. Yes, very good, very good,

41:38 Speaker 1: all right, And if you miss any part of today's show,

41:40 Speaker 1: it'll be up in just a little bit into my

41:41 Speaker 1: website Matt connorton dot com. And that's it for us

41:43 Speaker 1: for now. Hope to see you tonight. Bye everybody, Bye

41:46 Speaker 1: bye