Matt Connarton Unleashed: Devlyn Sydus

0:00 Speaker 1: Joining us a live in studio Sean Devlin from Devil inside Us. Did I say it correctly?

0:05 Speaker 2: Did I did?

0:06 Speaker 3: Yes?

0:07 Speaker 2: Welcome Sean, Welcome, Thank you.

0:09 Speaker 1: Pull that mic up a little a little bit more. Yeah, he's got a These mics are such that you just got to talk right into him.

0:15 Speaker 2: Awesome.

0:16 Speaker 1: So we're gonna play We're gonna play a tune in a minute. But you've got a big show coming up in Nashua.

0:22 Speaker 2: Yes, tonight at one thirty four Heen Street. It's a newer venue called Terminus Underground.

0:29 Speaker 3: Yes.

0:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, Terminus is a great place. Have you been there yet? Have you actually physically been there?

0:34 Speaker 2: I have not.

0:35 Speaker 1: I tell everybody that the same thing. When you walk in, it's like walking into another world. It's it's so cool, it really is. They do such a great job with it. Yeah, I know them very well. Eleanor and Andre and uh, yeah, Terminus is it's a great place. We had uh, we had Green Jello or green Jelly whatever you want to call them, whichever name you want to use on the show not too too long ago. And before they left they ended up well Bill Mansfield said, hey, can or Man's I do that every time? Bill manns speaker.

1:09 Speaker 1: I don't know why I say Mansfield. Bill mans Speaker said something about, you know, we're gonna be back in the area in a couple of months if there's a venue that you that in the area that we could play, because they had just played at the Shaft Skiing, but they wanted to, you know, play another place coming back through and so Jenny got them booked, working with Eleanor got them booked at Terminus And what a show. A little nerve wracking because I just remember thinking the entire time, this is great, but I just hope nothing gets broken.

1:36 Speaker 2: I've worked with Bill a lot, I've booked him on a few shows. Yeah. Yeah, he brings chaos. He's a tornado.

1:44 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah.

1:45 Speaker 1: When they were on because it was so cool, they played Shaskiing on a Friday night and then they came in here on Saturday morning to do this, and as you know, that's kind of unusual. Usually if you're playing a venue in a city, you do all the radio stuff before, you know, to promote the show, so you know, for them to be willing to come in here. And it wasn't just Bill, he brought the whole band for them to be willing to come in the day after the show.

2:12 Speaker 3: That was. That was really.

2:13 Speaker 1: Cool and oh yeah, what an experience. Although just like the show at Terminus that that interview made me nervous too. It was like, you know, I just remember sitting here thinking, if anyone is ever going to get me fired, it's probably going to be Bill Mann speaker, you know.

2:31 Speaker 3: What I mean.

2:32 Speaker 1: It was just like they're like, please, Bill, please don't say anything that's gonna get me in trouble. But we are on an eight second delay, so you know. But yeah, that was. That was a lot of fun. Anyway, the point being you're gonna love Terminus. It's a great place.

2:45 Speaker 3: The show. What is the name of the show tonight?

2:47 Speaker 2: The show is Jimmy Half Dead's Christmas in Hell.

2:50 Speaker 1: Okay, and that's who's headlining, right, Jimmy half Dead.

2:53 Speaker 2: Jimmy half Dead in the dialogus, this is Jimmy's annual event, Okay. It's kind of his chaotic Chrism, his party where he gets to do his version of his holiday. Yeah, is kind of like a punk rock Grinch type of deal. Yeah, dresses up as Santa, drinks a lot of Yeagermeister.

3:14 Speaker 1: Does a Yeah, and we should talk too about this is not only it doesn't sound like it's gonna be a lot of fun, but it's also for a great cause.

3:22 Speaker 2: Yeah. So my friend Ben Campbell who used to be a musician locally here in Manchester.

3:29 Speaker 3: Yep, I know Ben.

3:30 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, yeah, he puts together a toy drive every year for the past eighteen years for CSH in the Squig Health He collects thousands of dollars, personally, goes out, does the shopping, buys the toys and hand delivers them to kids who have been in the holidays in the hospital.

3:49 Speaker 3: Yeah, now that's amazing.

3:52 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know Ben, I know him as Ben Spelman from back in the day, from the band Change of Season. And yeah, always always a really good guy.

3:59 Speaker 2: You know.

3:59 Speaker 1: We were kind of talking off their about how you know he could be a little rambunctious. People might have gotten the wrong idea about.

4:04 Speaker 3: Him back then.

4:05 Speaker 1: But but no, but but always uh, you know, for as long as I knew him, you know, I always had a really good heart and just a really sweet person. So in a way, it doesn't surprise me that he does this every year because he's you know, he's the type of person who would. So that's that's awesome, and uh, I gotta get him on the show. I haven't seen the guy in forever, but that's that's really really cool. Now who else is playing tonight?

4:26 Speaker 3: Is it just?

4:26 Speaker 1: Is it just your band? And and Jimmy Aftett.

4:29 Speaker 2: Or so the opening band is the musician that worked with Ben as well, Aaron Billy Do.

4:35 Speaker 1: Oh, Aaron's been on the Actually Aaron was here just a few weeks ago. Yeah, a couple of weeks ago. Aaron's amazing. Yeah, Aaron was in Change of Season.

4:44 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's how. That's how I knew who Aaron was.

4:48 Speaker 3: Yeah.

4:49 Speaker 2: And also Dugenstein, who is a member of Green Jelly.

4:54 Speaker 3: Oh see, I didn't know that.

4:55 Speaker 1: Okay, that's wow, that's fantastic.

4:57 Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's a very cool I do mixed genre shows, yeah, because rather than just stick with metal bands metal bands, we try to make sure that the New England music scene plays together, Yeah, plays together well and we have a good time. Of course, now that we're older, we try to throw a good cause in there and make sure that everyone has a good time. Supports something good, helps our community, helps our music community, really keeps us all together.

5:27 Speaker 1: That's fantastic. Let's play something and then we'll come back. And I'm dying to learn more about the band devil inside us and it sounds like you guys, you've been around for a while and I'm sure there's, uh, there's a lot to dig into there. But what should we I'll let you pick kind of put you put you on the spot, because you did send us a few things to play.

5:49 Speaker 3: What should we? I don't know if you have a single that.

5:51 Speaker 2: You're pushing or we have nothing we're pushing right now. Okay, we're currently working on some stuff, so hopefully next year we have some new material. Because we took due to the the pandemic, we took some time off. Yeah, you know, started families and kind of slowed down, and then the last couple of years we're like, we have that itch.

6:09 Speaker 3: Yeah done, Yeah, yeah exactly.

6:12 Speaker 2: I think I had sent you I've.

6:14 Speaker 1: Got a goddess, I'm sorry, uh, Goddess for the Goddess for the godless, and I've got the worthless one.

6:22 Speaker 2: Goddess for the Godless was one of our first one of our first recordings that we actually went into a real studio and put together. So we can, and it's as far as I know. We've made sure that these were the radio friendly songs that we could push.

6:38 Speaker 3: Yes, oh yeah, I did pre screen them.

6:40 Speaker 2: Yes, yeah. So we'll go with Goddess with the Godless first.

6:44 Speaker 1: All right, great, awesome if you're just joining us. Sean Devlin from Devil Inside Us is here with us, and uh, we'll we'll play this. Uh, this is called Goddess for the Goddess for the Godless. I think my u something that's fro because it's so cold out. I don't know if it's my mouth because I can't seem to speak, or maybe it's my brain something neurologically has been affected by the cold weather.

7:08 Speaker 2: So forgive me the up and down. Weather doesn't help it.

7:11 Speaker 3: No, it sure doesn't.

7:14 Speaker 1: But let's give this the spin and then we're gonna come back and talk with Sean.

7:16 Speaker 2: Here.

7:17 Speaker 1: It is Goddess for the Godless in a.

7:20 Speaker 4: Line is dark assures.

7:24 Speaker 5: And it's cold taes.

7:29 Speaker 4: Our tongs are top.

7:33 Speaker 5: With words. It codl like.

7:38 Speaker 6: No matter how long is you chats.

7:43 Speaker 5: Your wageness is the same.

7:48 Speaker 3: You're starting to lose.

7:50 Speaker 5: Yourself as your worshiper.

7:54 Speaker 6: The shut.

8:00 Speaker 4: Visits of the sidless fur other worstastic I try as a time and your father tartness bring tell your lifeless love the best us something I can't tell hers share jow surf.

8:20 Speaker 6: You're nothing in her mind.

8:25 Speaker 5: As you're way to weather in.

8:27 Speaker 6: Time and pine.

8:30 Speaker 4: She sees you right, that's torment in yours.

8:39 Speaker 5: That's raging her.

8:41 Speaker 6: Such joy.

8:44 Speaker 3: Spang off your bad.

8:48 Speaker 5: Like I'm mother that that stop fly.

8:54 Speaker 4: Soon you'll see that she's a beast your rights.

9:00 Speaker 5: I saint, nothing is very a a rise through you'll save that sees the place torrony ands sa nothing.

9:11 Speaker 6: That a real your fride right fry.

9:32 Speaker 2: Rise frid.

10:03 Speaker 5: Sirs the drawings. I'm gonna jaw the sidelines.

10:08 Speaker 6: I'm the drive.

10:09 Speaker 4: Tell the last, I say, Joy, I said you want the John Scramen your lifeless the.

10:18 Speaker 5: Rest of wire last I'll say, I got tell that rise do frasso thraso Rosy swear.

10:45 Speaker 4: Reschid, I swear every snojid.

11:03 Speaker 3: There is.

11:19 Speaker 1: That'll get your blood pump it on a cold Saturday morning. That is goddess for the godless. The band is Devil inside us, and we have Sean Devlin here with us, alive in studio on the Saturday morning So we were talking off air about the song and what it's about, and there's a reason why why it's particularly interesting to me. But I go go ahead and tell us what that's what that's actually about.

11:39 Speaker 2: That song is about just being addicted to something like the alert the call of whatever it is like that is to you, your your God or your goddess. Ye, you'll do anything for that thing, no matter what it takes. You'll try to get it, whether it be sex, whether it be money, whether it be anything you're greedy for, any vice. That's it's pretty much like how no matter what, no matter how you want that thing mm hmm, that thing doesn't care about you in return, right right, it's just you striving, scratch and clawing to get it.

12:12 Speaker 3: Yeah.

12:13 Speaker 1: No, it's interesting to me because so I'm a I work as a certified hypnotherapist and I help people with addiction quite a bit, smoking being the number one thing that people come to me for to quit smoking. So but yeah, but I like what you said about, you know, when you're addicted to that something that doesn't actually care about you. You know, smoking is a great example of that. There's there's literally nothing good that comes from smoking. A cigarette, right, But you know, but once you become addicted to it, you know you're you're always craving something that does nothing for you, that doesn't give you anything, doesn't care about you.

12:48 Speaker 2: And you'll be in pain, you'll have cancer, you'll die. It doesn't matter, right, cigarettes will still be for sale.

12:53 Speaker 3: Right, exactly exactly.

12:57 Speaker 6: What?

12:57 Speaker 3: Oh and two?

12:58 Speaker 1: Uh tell me about where the name comes from. Devilin side us and we should spell that for people too, because when people look you up online, you know they're not gonna they're not gonna know.

13:08 Speaker 2: So the name devil inside us was pretty much you know, I was, I was young, but it was a take on necessary evil. So it's that thing that everyone has inside them, or like the way it was taught. Because I'm not religious, but I was in a religious family. My family was Buddhist, but in every religion there's this version of this, and it can be applied to daily life. It's that thing you do too much good, something evil comes from it, whether it's envy, whether it's you know, someone looks at you with ill will because you're doing something they're like, what's that person's thing?

13:49 Speaker 2: Or if you do too much bad, someone wants to change it and put good into it. So for us, it was kind of fitting to have a name that kind of to some people would represent evil. To other people, if they knew what it meant, would be like, oh, that's actually kind of cool because we're you know, we're not evil people. We're not bad people, and everyone and everything, you know, no matter what it is, even if it's like, you know, a mainstream charity, there's that underlying, like someone's making a profit off of that.

14:23 Speaker 2: There's a reason for people to do the things that they do. Ye, And that's kind of all in that name.

14:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I dig it And how do you spell it? The name of the band d e v l y n s y d u S And it's two words, so it looks like a name.

14:39 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. When I was a I used to be a professional wrestler as well. Really, judging by the size of me, you might football player or a professional Yeah. So I went to I trained for wrestling in Malden, Massachusetts what started as Killer kawal Skis and then became Superstar Pro Wrestling. Okay, So I was there and at the same time I was involved in local music and another musician Brandon Lee was in a band called Wretched Asylum and he goes, oh, that should be uh your band name now, just before we were called den of Iniquity, okay, and you know there's also other songs and bands called that, and like there he was like, oh, you know, just like I was toying with that name.

15:25 Speaker 2: And he was one of the people that said, oh, you should do that, and then my bandmates all also were like, yeah, you should definitely, you should definitely do that. Yeah, And the name sounded cool and it stuck and people seem to like it. A lot of people pronounce it devlin sidious.

15:40 Speaker 1: Right, but which would not be a bad name, actually devilinis nod it. Oh, that's interesting. I'm curious with a name like that, dude, do people end up spelling it wrong like it? I'm sure it's been spelled wrong on a poster or two over the years, usually just the.

16:01 Speaker 2: One letter the why really yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of people are like, oh, it sounds like it could be a person's name, which was kind of the point, right right, But yeah, no, promoters people like we've when they put us on flyers for like the Worcester Palladium or places like that. They all like, you know, or Jewel across the street. That's one comment is always that's a pretty cool band name. Yeah, you have to read it twice, right, but puts it through your head right right?

16:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I dig it. I like it a lot if you are just joining us. Of course, we have Sean Devlin here from Devil Inside Us and uh, it's interesting that.

16:39 Speaker 4: So.

16:41 Speaker 1: I'm a big wrestling fan, have been since I was a kid, and so is Jenny by the way, who also commented in the chat room she really liked that song. Oh, and I see Andre Dumont is in there as well, of course from the band and Dad Harrison and of course.

16:52 Speaker 2: Uh Ardly Mortuous Orcus.

16:55 Speaker 6: Yes.

16:55 Speaker 1: Oh I knew those guys when they were always speaking of bands that would have their names. Their name is spelled on posters when they were when they were mortuous Mortuous Ortis is that what it was?

17:05 Speaker 3: Yeah?

17:06 Speaker 1: I saw their name butchered a few times. But uh yeah, Dead Harrison is amazing, great great band and great people. But yeah, Andre says, good morning. Uh it's story time.

17:20 Speaker 2: What Oh?

17:20 Speaker 1: I also see who I am is in the chat room. Hello,

17:25 Speaker 1: So I'm just curious about that. So you so you trained and were you actively a professional wrestler?

17:31 Speaker 2: Did you independently? Yeah? Yeah, I wrestled a little bit for n W a New England up in Maine kidding

17:40 Speaker 2: v c W in the Malden area and I w

17:46 Speaker 2: so a few of those places. Yeah, a lot of independent places between Maine and Rhode Island mostly.

17:52 Speaker 3: Okay, okay, very cool.

17:54 Speaker 1: Did you did you ever get the ring with anybody who went on to be or or maybe somebody who had are hed been established but was on the ends.

18:02 Speaker 2: There's there's guys like Todd Hansen, who is now known as IVAR and the WWE. Oh no kidding, Yeah, he was the guy who was I was on many independent shows with Holy Battle Royals, or I would job to him in a tag team match or something. Yeah, yeah, you know and in front of like fifteen people in a speaker store parking lot.

18:22 Speaker 3: Sure.

18:23 Speaker 2: And there's guys like when John Cena was the prototype. I got to work out with him in the ring a few times, no kidding, Yeah, he was because he was wrestling for Chaotic Wrestling and I used to put the ring together for them. Yeah, and he would come in and he would work out and bump with guys and yeah, a little bit of that. So yeah, mister USA, Tony Atlas, we Hall of Famer. That's someone I know pretty well. He's a pretty cool guy.

18:48 Speaker 1: Yeah, he seems like us. He's probably got a lot of great stories.

18:51 Speaker 2: Yeah, and off the top of my head, like my stepfather's daughter was a wrestler for TNA. Oh no kidding. Yeah, So wrestling was kind of all around me. My stepfather who raised me, kind of push pushed that on me a lot. And then I played football and a couple of guys from that wrestling school saw me and they're like, oh, you're a big dude. Well you come over here and and you know, maybe make a little money. Wasn't that much money?

19:19 Speaker 6: Right?

19:19 Speaker 4: Right?

19:20 Speaker 1: Make a little money hot dog in a handshake, as they say when you're when you're starting out. Yeah what uh Now? Was that always intended to just be something you did kind of part time or.

19:34 Speaker 2: It was kind of something I got pulled into, yeah, through some friends, because overall I was always a musician first. Yeah, and like I played guitar. But what it did do for me is it really got rid of my stage fright. Oh interesting because in wrestling. You don't focus on the crowd. You focus on the task at hand, right, and.

19:51 Speaker 1: And you get to be somebody else, if you know, if you want to be, I mean you can you can be whoever you want to be, really, as a character.

19:57 Speaker 2: Or anything I want to. I was quite a few characters. Yeah, And what the weird thing was, you know? I was a chorus vocalist, I mean a soloist coming up in school, so I was taught how to sing yeah, through chorus and I would always freeze. I would do so well, and then the day of like a recital, I would freeze, and then uh, yeah, I was like I was in high school. My junior year, I did my first professional wrestling show, and from that point forward, you can't see anybody pass the lights, which made it a lot easier to get on stage, and it made it second nature.

20:33 Speaker 1: Interesting.

20:34 Speaker 3: Yeah, oh that's really cool. How long did you do that?

20:37 Speaker 2: For my most recent one? Because I stopped maybe maybe like eight years ago. I completely stopped, Yeah, after because I was getting beat up. Yeah, there's no health insurance in that, right. But last summer, I not this past summer, the summer before I wrestled some of my my friends Fenway Park.

20:57 Speaker 1: Oh wow, Oh that's wild. That's cool, that's really cool. And that's I assume that's something too. You you like, you never forget how to do it right.

21:05 Speaker 2: Yeah, the itch is always there until the next day when you can go right right a psiatic nervous pinched and you don't know why.

21:13 Speaker 1: No, that's that's fantastic. But like you were saying, though the band, you know, being a musician is really number one, your number one passion.

21:20 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And now, now when did the band start? How long has devilin side Us been around? So we were called Den of Iniquity. We had a couple of other names. But when I was in when I was ten years old, my neighbor who was in a band called Travel and magdaland now he was he was like, let's start a band and ever since then. That was like ninety seven. Yeah, and then by the time we had hit high school and we were kind of fairly known and my Space days, we were like all of a sudden, you know, we put out some really crappy demos, but we played the Wister Palladium and they handed us a live CD and people liked that live CD.

22:02 Speaker 2: Awesome and actively, I would say since two thousand and five,

22:09 Speaker 2: together playing music since ninety seven, but yeah, two thousand and five. Currently I have a different band lineup, a lot of guys local to New Hampshire. Yeah, originally from the north Shore, but now we're based out of up here.

22:20 Speaker 1: Oh okay, So I assume you're you're the one consistent members throughout the.

22:25 Speaker 2: Twelve or so years. Our drummer Tim has has been there, kind of been He's the quiet guy, but he's the backbone, kind of keeps everything together. He's the reason why we have good timing. He's the reason we sound as tight as we do. Yeah, he's the reason we go on stage places and people like, oh, you guys are really put together. Yeah. Has nothing to do with me, and it's the guys I surround myself with.

22:45 Speaker 4: Yeah.

22:45 Speaker 2: Guitar player Gabe, he's really great. He's great at working with the other members to try to make sure everybody's up to speed.

22:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, now that's excellent.

22:53 Speaker 1: Has any of the material like from way back when he started, has any of that Have any of those songs kind of served? Do you still play the early stuff or.

23:02 Speaker 2: One or two of those songs still survived that. We have like a really cool thrash metal song called Crimson Widow that we keep there, but a lot of that earlier stuff because it was kind of a meld. We were new new metal was big. Yeah, so we still kind of have that new metal sound to this day. But back then, also, you know, I liked Metallica, but the other members liked say Nirvana and some punks, so there's like like punk riffs. Yeah, kind of gives it that like cool thrashy sounds. But yeah, once once I heard New Metal, it was like, this is this is the stuff, right right?

23:39 Speaker 2: I like Metallica, but I liked Prodigy and yeah, I heard Static X for the first time and I was like, oh, well you can put these types of music together and create something cooler.

23:48 Speaker 1: Exactly exactly. Well, let's let's play another tracks. So we'll play uh, let's see the other one you sent.

23:54 Speaker 2: Us, the worthless one, the worthless one. We'll play that one.

23:59 Speaker 1: We'll play that one next. Anything we should know about this one before we play it.

24:03 Speaker 2: The worthless one is pretty much you know I was. It was in a time of my life where I was like, oh, well, things weren't really going my way. I was in my late twenties, about to enter my thirties, and it's like I really hadn't pulled my life together yet.

24:18 Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know I was.

24:20 Speaker 2: I was drinking a lot, and one day I was just like, man, I'm worthless. And all the people around me knew that I felt that way and kind of took advantage of it. And you know, a little bit of an emo backstory to this one, but you know what, it was a true story and that's how I felt. And then I turned it into you know, I turn it into something different.

24:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, great, let's give this a spin. This is called the Worthless One. The band is devil inside.

24:50 Speaker 6: Us, right fella.

25:04 Speaker 4: I under the law every day not I know some last until lunch in my mom actually find not drop right still die. So I've never a drag IX tried to work world to a wire. I watched my whole worldfar no Bard in West There's nothing like a the word bless the wine sun and known that.

25:30 Speaker 5: Was just a ball in the bar. No, And so I still James Away wants a ji yar Wi.

25:38 Speaker 4: The warm class one sudden known Now it's just a bar warn No it's my stag.

25:44 Speaker 5: Drives the wire. What's a ji yar one bless?

25:48 Speaker 4: I never want to I saw rob the small side, don't stop for it's a slim.

25:54 Speaker 6: To row in my life.

25:56 Speaker 5: It's a rag a bard where I think that.

26:00 Speaker 4: As I stand alone and the gases off by the traveling.

26:03 Speaker 5: World, you'll walk away from.

26:06 Speaker 4: There you'll feel a remorse. Second voice called wars.

26:14 Speaker 5: An less sense are.

26:19 Speaker 6: O, so.

26:25 Speaker 5: Arn't less sense wall? But I do know that's true, right, knowing that the gun of the law everything.

26:46 Speaker 4: And I thought I know a lot starting on the lunch of my mind, and I try all said dons of time as I have right thing, and I tried to work more are away, I lost my whole world.

27:01 Speaker 2: Far b west, that's time for that?

27:05 Speaker 5: Ah the wordless?

27:07 Speaker 4: Why so No, that was just a by far off, that's less Yeah, just a why what's got of why?

27:17 Speaker 5: The less one?

27:19 Speaker 6: That was just a bar.

27:22 Speaker 5: That's the last seg just a while, that's good.

27:31 Speaker 3: Let's that is the worthless one.

27:42 Speaker 1: The band is devil inside us and we have shown from the band here with us live in studio on this Saturday morning.

27:49 Speaker 3: And yeah, that's another another great track. Yeah we were talking.

27:53 Speaker 1: Uh, we were talking off air while I was playing about you guys have played some big shows and some great shows at the Palladium and yeah you got to play. You mentioned Ministry getting to play with them.

28:04 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, back when we were way more active, we would get pulled into, like pulled onto some bills that were really great. Yeah, you know, we would play with bands like Ministry. There was a band Death Grips that was on there. That show was almost sold out. We'd played there with cold bands like Coal Chamber.

28:23 Speaker 3: Yeah.

28:25 Speaker 2: In Rhode Island, we would play with bands like Static x Dope. Even up here in New Hampshire we would do the same things, like, you know, bands that were new metal bands as new metal was starting to slowly come back, and we were we were much younger when we started playing that type of music. But as younger kids being you know, younger bands, being able to pull younger people in to see those bands was really fun.

28:50 Speaker 5: Yeah.

28:51 Speaker 1: Yeah, you must have played the Bomb Shelter up here, right.

28:53 Speaker 2: I've never played the Bomb Shelter by the.

28:55 Speaker 3: Time I could, Okay, yeah yeah yeah.

29:02 Speaker 1: Now so obviously, well how often do you play now, because, like you said, so, you're not the band is not as active as it was at that time, but do you still play a lot of.

29:11 Speaker 2: Shows or recently? So last year we kind of tested the water. We did a couple of things for to raise money and collect can goods so that we could drop them off at a food shelter. We chose the FBC in Derry, New Hampshire, because what they do is they do a drive up line where they fill bags with groceries and if you can't afford food, you just pull up there, no questions asked. They give you a bag of groceries to your family. We did that. You know, we're not I've never been to charge of my life, but I saw one day I was getting gas next door and I saw I was like, wow, that's really cool.

29:51 Speaker 2: I looked into it and I said, there's a lot of people who can't feed their families. So you know, I'm fortunate now that I can. I don't have those problems, so why not help some people? Much like what Ben's doing, which what we're taking care of tonight. So now every every year in October we do can goods collection and drive and you know, this year we were able to do it for multiple things. We did some for the MSPCA. We collected over a thousand, almost one thousand dollars and bought pet food, beds, kennels, all kinds of stuff, and we were able to in my super cross track, we filled it three times front to back with things to drop off.

30:37 Speaker 2: And yeah, that's kind of was the basis of it. And then last year we got asked to play a lot more, kind of turned it down because we weren't. Then this year, once we started, we haven't stopped good. So it's booking, booking, booking. Now we're starting. I think it's looking like we're going to start booking all the way into next spring. Wow. As of right now, we're excellent. Yeah, the plan was we're gonna slow down this winter put about new music. We've been working on music for a couple of years with the help of the newer musicians in the band, Gabe Zach and Johnny and Tim and I are.

31:16 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're putting it all together and we're hopefully, hopefully we'll have newer stuff out and we'll be playing more shows and for more good causes in the next couple of years.

31:24 Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent, Where are you recording?

31:28 Speaker 2: I built a studio in my house.

31:30 Speaker 3: Yeah.

31:30 Speaker 2: So you know, as we're getting older, we used to pour thousands of dollars into it. We have a lot of unreleased music that you know, we've gone into studios and put together and just never got a finished product that we wanted. And then the stuff that we have put out is stuff that you know, it's scattered singles. Yeah, so we're right now. We thought the easiest route was to just put it together ourselves and then we're going to hire an engineer to mix a master it and then have some quality stuff.

32:00 Speaker 2: There are a lot of really good engineers. There's a lot of really good engineers in New England, Yes, who take a lot of good time and learn their craft, you know, not to keep plugging local musicians and stuff that.

32:13 Speaker 1: No, that's that's what we do here. That's absolutely Yeah.

32:16 Speaker 2: There's a musician Dave Gannon. He was in a band called Patient Zero that he does a solo project. Gannon now he does great work. Dave Weird Beard who records in Tiwksbury. He was in a band name Yeah Weird Beard. He was in a lot of local bands. He was involved with some recordings. He had some stories for some of our favorite bands like seven dustin Cold Chamber. Yeah, like he was happened to be at recording sessions for them when they were at the farm. So there's a lot of really good engineers the Brickheait House.

32:49 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So you can find places that will put out you know, you record it yourself and they'll bring it to the next level and you'll have quality to put out. Yeah.

32:59 Speaker 1: I always say, because it comes up a lot on the show. I'm always curious how people are approachein recording because there's so many different ways to do it. And you know, there was a time and where you know, yeah, your only real option was to go to a recording studio and spend a lot of money. And now and you know, you can still do that if you find the right studio, if you find the right person to work with them. There's a lot of great talent around, like Eric Sotter from Blackheart. You probably know Eric or.

33:21 Speaker 3: Have met him. But but yeah, but you can or you can do it the way you're doing it.

33:26 Speaker 1: It's there's so many options now because of the technology, so many different ways you can record and and and you really can. You can do something at home and build your own thing and it sounds like it was done in a million dollar studio. It's it's amazing.

33:40 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, especially like locally, the guys like Tony and Jake. There's a local band from Manchester called Temptris. Those guys, they're always willing to help. Yeah, bands bring something to the next level. Sergio, Jess and Dan from Anaria and Matt and Matt works at the Music Mill here in Manchester and it's always helping people out. They're always willing to help out other music musicians too. Yeah, and they have their own production studio in Nashua in the same I think they're they're housed close to Terminus.

34:10 Speaker 2: Okay, so they have like a production studio in there.

34:13 Speaker 3: Yeah.

34:14 Speaker 2: They they put out what looked like million dollar music videos.

34:17 Speaker 3: Yeah.

34:18 Speaker 2: Yeah, their own leisure. It's very really great.

34:20 Speaker 3: Yeah, in terms of video content too.

34:22 Speaker 5: Yeah.

34:22 Speaker 1: The way the technology is now. It's funny because some people think people who aren't people who don't pay attention, people who aren't involved in music. They there's a misperception out there that that there's no more music videos, you know what I mean. Like there's some people who think, well, you know, MTV doesn't do it. Anymore, and and so there really are no music videos when in reality there's more music videos than ever. Yeah, it's put them on YouTube and other social media, but it's it's still probably now more than at any time, a very important tool in terms of marketing your music.

34:54 Speaker 1: Do you guy, do you guys have any videos for Devil and Sidis?

34:57 Speaker 3: Yeah?

34:58 Speaker 2: Not yet. We well we we do. We put out a music video for single Eyes of a Psychopathy. Yeah, for for me, like we've grown so much since then. And we had we have a friend he used to work in movies in California, and he did it. He did it as a favor, my friend, Brandon Rose. He did it as a favor because when he was battling cancer once again, we put together a benefit and had some bands come out play, raise money and help his mom get an apartment out there to go back and forth from Massachusetts to LA And so he said, you know, he always wanted to repay me somehow, and with no budget at all, absolutely zero budget, he threw a music video together for our song Ays of Psychopath.

35:48 Speaker 2: You know it's a song we threw together about Michael Myers and Halloween origin story that came out and that that version that came out around that time. And yeah, so that's about it, and we have for music videos. Yeah, hopefully in the next year or two we can tap Sergio or one of these guys and get something cool.

36:09 Speaker 3: Yeah.

36:09 Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes sense because obviously really kind of ramp things back up again with all the shows that you're playing. And yeah, yeah, no, I think that would be that would be very cool. In a moment, we'll play We'll play that Jimmy Half Dad. So is it officially it's Jimmy Half Dad that's the name of the artists or is there something else.

36:28 Speaker 2: To Jimmy Half Dead and the dialogue and the dialogue? Gotcha?

36:32 Speaker 3: Yeah.

36:33 Speaker 2: The members of that band are Johnny their drummer, and Kurt Dobel, who you will know as Psycho Deestructo from the band Green Jelly in Guelo.

36:43 Speaker 3: Oh okay, gotcha.

36:44 Speaker 2: Gotcha. So there's a lot of like a lot of the Green Jelly guys are on the show tonight.

36:48 Speaker 3: Yeah.

36:48 Speaker 1: No, that's that's really cool. That's really cool. And we should remind people too. For people just joining us, we have Sean from Devil inside us here and uh, they're going to be playing tonight at Terminus Underground in Nashua, which is and it's a very important event. We should tell people again who are just joining us, what tonight's all about.

37:07 Speaker 2: Yeah. So our mutual friend Ben he Ben Spellman, Ben Campbell, however you know him. He he does a charity every year for the past eighteen years for Chs Manchester Amiskig Health where he collects toys for kids. He goes out, he raises the money, puts his own money and purchases them himself, delivers the toys. And this year, like you know, he has the power of his popular YouTube channel Speards and Bruise, and we decided to team with him. Jimmie hafteded does his annual Christmas show, make it for a good cause.

37:45 Speaker 2: That was kind of one of the stipulations of us playing, was like, we'll make it a good cause, brings something good of it, and we'll do it at Terminus Underground, which is a new venue which is really up and coming. Oh yeah, and bring the scene together, bring people together and do something good. So that'll be a Terminus Underground tonight. Jimmy Half Dead and the Dialogues Christmas in Hell to support the Bike's beards and brew toy Drive and all for HS Manchester.

38:15 Speaker 1: That's fantastic. By the way, Andre I mentioned earlier is in the chat room and he gave us a great comment here. It's always a great way to start off a show day. Get up in the morning, suck down some coffee and listen on in hearing the milestones, seeing our musicians tell their stories and histories, all to top it off with a great music event at the end of the day at Terminus Underground. The music, the artists, the feeling and atmosphere is why.

38:43 Speaker 2: We do what we do.

38:44 Speaker 1: So glad to know so many of these amazing people and work with them over the course of their life. Thank you Matt Connerton and Jen Coffee for being so amazing and sharing to the world over the airwaves.

38:55 Speaker 3: Love you all.

38:56 Speaker 1: Well, thank you andre that's a wonderful comment. We really appreciate that, and uh, you know, we're happy to do it, happy to do our part. And uh you know, this is one of the things I love to do, is talking to musicians and and you know, when it's for a great cause, you know, that's that makes it even better, you know, So, so I love that you're I love that you're doing that, and you know, and I, like I said, I got to get Bet on the show because I haven't. I haven't seen that guy in so long. But a lot of great memories there.

39:21 Speaker 2: Yeah, And what I said about Andre off air, you know, when he approached me and told me what he was doing with Terminus, it was kind of based on something that had gotten shut down years ago. He wants an accessible music venue, something like there was a small club called mose Isley. It was built into this small area where bands were rehearsing and getting together. And when Andre said, this is kind of like the basis is to do that but amplify it, and a lot of that, you know, it was the mentality of someone like Anderson Mahr, who has who's passed a long time ago now.

40:06 Speaker 2: But it was always about bringing bringing the music community together and doing really cool things. And there's a lot more than people know as far as the music community all over New England all friends and we all get along and we all do stuff like this.

40:23 Speaker 1: When you were when you mentioned when we were talking off air, you mentioned Moseley and I thought that's familiar. I remember Moseley, And then I realized why I remember it. I actually played at Moseley when I was in Chemical Distance. I don't know if you remember Kem D. We had a we had a short run. It wasn't for that long, but had we played a show at Moseley, and I remember it being definitely one of the most unique, if not the most unique venue.

40:49 Speaker 2: They took that play. Rehearsal spaces, knocked down a wall, built a bar in the middle. You walked in, it was like a nightclub. Was in an industrial building. Yes, yes, we rehearsed next door at one of the other section of the building.

41:00 Speaker 3: Oh, no, kidding.

41:01 Speaker 2: It was in the Everett Music Complex.

41:03 Speaker 3: I'll be damned.

41:03 Speaker 1: That's such a small world, isn't it. Yeah, Or it's a small scene.

41:07 Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody.

41:07 Speaker 1: Everybody really does kind of know each other or is connected in some way, you know, one or two degrees of separation.

41:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, Moseley. Yeah.

41:16 Speaker 1: When you said it, I was like, oh, it sounds familiar, and I remember, now that's a Star Wars reference, right, I'm more of a trekye. I never really got much into Star Wars, but I know that's because if I remember correctly, Yeah, there was some sort of Star Wars related theme. Wait, is Moseley the bar with all the aliens and the first one or the second one?

41:35 Speaker 2: I remember which movie?

41:36 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the same with me. Yeah but okay, no that it's it's all coming back to me now. Yeah, that was a cool place. But see, so I didn't know that part of it though.

41:45 Speaker 3: I didn't know that, Like I knew.

41:49 Speaker 1: I knew the terminus because I remember Eleanor explaining it. I knew the connection to is at the Walking Dead. I knew that part, but I didn't know that that the inspiration for it originally was most Iley had no idea.

42:01 Speaker 2: I didn't know either. And I saw Andrea at a show in Lowell at Coto and when he explained that to me, yea, and when we were talking briefly, and I was like, oh, that's pretty cool. That is now we get to do something cool there.

42:17 Speaker 1: That is very very cool, awesome. Oh hello to b Pinard by the way, one of our very loyal listeners who is in the chat room. Good morning, and Carol's the warow it's also in there, good morning. So we will we'll wrap up the segment with that that track from Jimmy Half Dad and the dialogues. But uh, the other thing too, I want to make sure people know because you know, we talked a lot about the show tonight. I want to encourage people to attend that. Also, Uh, where should people go to?

42:48 Speaker 2: Uh?

42:48 Speaker 1: Where's the best place to go to keep up with everything you're doing?

42:52 Speaker 2: You can find us on Instagram and Facebook at devil inside us d e v l y n S y d U S. We don't really have a dot com anymore. We feel like that didn't really bring in a lot of traffic dot com and uh, we're not on TikTok oh Okay, I don't fully trust it. It's new to me and I'm a very simple dude.

43:17 Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't done much with it myself actually, to be honest with you, Like, I have a TikTok account, but I haven't really done much with it. But very cool and uh, and you're very googleable, you know if you type in type in your name. Although the good thing that's one of the good things too about having a really unique name, you know, Yeah, it's easy to google. And it's extraordinarily unlikely that somebody else is going to pop up that another band or somebody's gonna pop up with the same name.

43:42 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's important, especially when it pops up on like fagelovers Dot. You know, my friends from high school that are jugglers, or some people who've seen us play with Twisted, they're like, oh my god, you're on this website. Yeah, but I mean, so's Bill Jilly those guys exactly, exactly