Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed: Eleanor and Spelfie
Speaker 1: Our our number two guests, Eleanor from the Midnight Creatives Collective,
Speaker 1: And of course we've got Spelfy Fest, which they were
Speaker 1: going to be joining us to talk about today. That
Speaker 1: is coming up November twenty fourth.
Speaker 2: November twenty fourth. Yeah, so that's going to be a
Speaker 2: twelve hour event all day if featuring many different artists.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a section of wrap, section of rock,
Speaker 2: and also hypnosis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to do a what are you doing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to do something with hypnosis. I am
Speaker 1: on the schedule for that. Might kind of read the
Speaker 1: room and see what I think everyone would like, because
Speaker 1: there's a few different directions I can go with it,
Speaker 1: or why do you go there?
Speaker 2: Just now, I'm being told that there's a problem with
Speaker 2: the call in line.
Speaker 1: Oh well, let's try have it. She's calling in again.
Speaker 1: I hear something, Eleanor. Is that you?
Speaker 3: I hear something? Yes, I got to get us off
Speaker 3: so much late. All right, I'm turning that one.
Speaker 2: You gotta get us speak.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 1: I can now yes, yes, not not not not the
Speaker 1: best phone connection, but I can hear you. Good morning,
Speaker 1: how are you?
Speaker 3: Good morning?
Speaker 4: We are sorry, we're supposed to be there, and we
Speaker 4: got so embroiled in all of our plans and everything
Speaker 4: that's going on, we completely spaced it.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well happen right now.
Speaker 3: But we're here now, yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, so all right, so tell us about Tell the
Speaker 1: audience about Spelfyfest. It's coming right up, ju It's only
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks away now, Oh.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's gonna be absolutely epic.
Speaker 4: There's gonna be twenty acts, so a very duel music
Speaker 4: venue on Sunday, November twenty fourth, from one one pm
Speaker 4: to one am. So is it all day variety show,
Speaker 4: music festival with you know, not just music, not just
Speaker 4: and so we've got some performers as well, burlesque dancers,
Speaker 4: a flow artist that does flag twirling, there's little drag show.
Speaker 4: So we've got a whole variety anything you can think of.
Speaker 3: And the amazing Matt Connorson is going to hypnotize.
Speaker 1: Us, that's right, yes, yes.
Speaker 4: And the amazing Jen Coffee will be opening up the
Speaker 4: show and speaking about our calls that we're going to
Speaker 4: be raising money for as well. So that's for our
Speaker 4: s d S, a c r p S and we're
Speaker 4: going to be raising some money for that support.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we should talk a little bit about what that
Speaker 1: is because most listeners who are tuning in won't know
Speaker 1: exactly what that is.
Speaker 3: And Jenny, if you want to, Yeah, that was a
Speaker 3: lot of acronyms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's true, a lot of letters.
Speaker 2: You can check out their website at r s d
Speaker 2: S dot org r s d S dot org because
Speaker 2: what it is is that, unfortunately in medicine they like
Speaker 2: to change the names of things a lot and CRPS,
Speaker 2: which you guys have heard me talk about. It is
Speaker 2: what I have, complex regional pain syndrome. It used to
Speaker 2: be known as reflex sympathetic dystrophe RSD, hence the name
Speaker 2: RSCS dot org. But the name change occurred, I want
Speaker 2: to say, maybe five years ago, give or take so.
Speaker 2: And if you look it up, there's probably been at
Speaker 2: least fifty different names for this disease. But the bottom
Speaker 2: line is it's called the suicide disease because it is
Speaker 2: the most painful disease known to modern medicine. There is
Speaker 2: no cure and there are limited treatments and even more
Speaker 2: limited by funds. So some of the money that it's
Speaker 2: getting raised goes to the organization to help educate people
Speaker 2: also to help get information out there and to help
Speaker 2: patients who need help finding people who can take care
Speaker 2: of them, who need help in the way of information
Speaker 2: to even understand the disease itself. So unfortunately it affects
Speaker 2: people from all ages, from very young children to there.
Speaker 2: They don't know exactly why it happens. Unfortunately, it's been
Speaker 2: over two eird years since its discovery, so as you
Speaker 2: can probably guess, it's a hard disease to crack.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been around for like you said, you know,
Speaker 1: over two hundred years since its discovery, but unfortunately, with
Speaker 1: rare illnesses, they don't get the it was actually they
Speaker 1: don't get the same resources.
Speaker 2: Interesting point, it was discovered during the Civil War here
Speaker 2: in the United States. That was when it was first discovered,
Speaker 2: was after battle injuries.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, so yeah, so that's a big
Speaker 1: part of this event and why So let's talk about
Speaker 1: too why Spelfie Fest. We should talk about the origins
Speaker 1: and why it is called spelfy Fest.
Speaker 3: For those who don't know, Felfie, I'm just so a
Speaker 3: weirdo that likes to celebrate my birthday and few things
Speaker 3: big and I love live music and variety shows and
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, all you people are my friends. Do
Speaker 3: you want to play for my birthday? And they're like yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm like all right, cool, let's have a really big party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 3: Healthy. She's like our.
Speaker 4: Socialite of the music industry. She just goes out to
Speaker 4: all the shows and she makes friends and she supports,
Speaker 4: and she's an amazing person and a very cool character
Speaker 4: and she's got a big heart and a lot of
Speaker 4: people love her. And the last year she did her
Speaker 4: own show and she brought out eighty five people, and
Speaker 4: she just realized at that point that she can do shows.
Speaker 4: She's an event planner, she's an event coordinator. So she
Speaker 4: and I, you know, kind of linked up this year
Speaker 4: and we've been doing really great sellout events ever since.
Speaker 4: And this one is going to be, you know, one
Speaker 4: of those two hundred maybe three hundred, hopefully sellout type
Speaker 4: of a show.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, or tack the building. We do want,
Speaker 3: we do want to get the word out as much
Speaker 3: as possible that this is going to.
Speaker 4: Be an amazing event. Tickets are on our website, Midnight
Speaker 4: Creatives Collective dot com slash shows right now. You can
Speaker 4: get early bird tickets, so you can get VIP tickets
Speaker 4: which includes a bunch of different perks, and you can
Speaker 4: get general admission tickets and to see twenty.
Speaker 3: Acts thirty dollars right now, so.
Speaker 4: It's super cheap and just ten more dollars for a
Speaker 4: VIP package.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's a really good value for what you're getting.
Speaker 1: There's going to be a lot of great musicians there,
Speaker 1: and of course you know, as you mentioned, Jenny's going
Speaker 1: to be uh speaking, and then I'm going to do
Speaker 1: I love. So let me ask you this because I
Speaker 1: haven't I haven't made a final decision about what to
Speaker 1: do exactly in terms of because there's different uh we'll
Speaker 1: do a little off quick focus group here, because there's
Speaker 1: different directions I could go with it. What would what
Speaker 1: would you like to see me do in terms of hypnosis?
Speaker 1: Should I just should I do a demonstration? Should I
Speaker 1: maybe make someone do something silly? Should I should I
Speaker 1: help someone quit smoking? But do that with the because
Speaker 1: you know there's going to be a lot of musicians.
Speaker 1: Are musicians, many of them are smokers. Like, what what
Speaker 1: do you think I should do it?
Speaker 3: Do you think you could group hypnotize everyone to qush
Speaker 3: smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 1: Well we could do that.
Speaker 3: Not like that very much. It will take healthy up
Speaker 3: on stage and hypnotize her. I seriously, if you can
Speaker 3: hypnotize me, I would I would be so surprised. That
Speaker 3: would be so awesome if you could finally hypnotize me
Speaker 3: for the first time on my birthday. People have tried
Speaker 3: hypnotizing me and just can't do it.
Speaker 1: Well, it is your birthday now. But you have to
Speaker 1: be willing to go along with it, because that's the
Speaker 1: only will you will you be able to relax in
Speaker 1: that environment?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. Maybe that's why I can't be hypnotized. Well,
Speaker 3: can't relaxed nothing. I always bound. My brain never shuts off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you could try to hypnotize the audience to
Speaker 4: like dance all night and stay all night.
Speaker 1: Uh huh uh huh, well there you go. All right,
Speaker 1: Well we'll see, well we'll wait.
Speaker 2: In reduce stress.
Speaker 1: Yeah, reducing stress and anxiety might be a popular thing.
Speaker 1: Uh uh this uh in this time that we live in.
Speaker 1: But uh but we abs well we don't. We don't
Speaker 1: do politics on the show anymore. But so we'll leave
Speaker 1: that aside. But that might be something to do uh
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, yeah, we'll see we'll see uh well
Speaker 1: we'll see what. Uh we'll read the room and see
Speaker 1: what what and.
Speaker 4: If anything, this will be an amazing diversion for you know,
Speaker 4: the things that we've gone through these past few months,
Speaker 4: and people will come out and just have a really
Speaker 4: good time together as a community and as a music community.
Speaker 4: We've got the famous Leon Trout headlining, so that should
Speaker 4: be an amazing, epically good time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And they're leaving the stage around eleven PM and
Speaker 3: then we're switching to the VIP after party open jams.
Speaker 3: So for your extra ten dollars gets you to part
Speaker 3: for two more hours with me, where you may or
Speaker 3: may not get to see me perform.
Speaker 4: Yes, you might sing oh.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: I didn't know you A wait, Actually, maybe.
Speaker 4: That's what you can do.
Speaker 3: You can hit the tize my stage right away so
Speaker 3: I can get on stage and sing.
Speaker 2: That is actually something that's actually pretty common that people
Speaker 2: come to from att Yeah, honestly, I have done. That's
Speaker 2: a common one.
Speaker 1: I have done quite a few sessions for that.
Speaker 4: She should be on stage right.
Speaker 3: I am just such a chicken And that's so weird.
Speaker 2: You don't say that, don't say that microphone.
Speaker 3: You put the microphone in front of my face, and
Speaker 3: I get weird. It like a sheet over you a costume.
Speaker 5: Singing or speaking for.
Speaker 2: A lot of people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2: One of the more common things that people call you for,
Speaker 2: actually is when they public speaking.
Speaker 1: Public speaking is very common. That's a very common phobia,
Speaker 1: or or any any kind of performance speaking or singing,
Speaker 1: or some people are just are just terrified. But I
Speaker 1: assume spellfies. I assume you've sung in public before, right
Speaker 1: or no or maybe not.
Speaker 3: I've sung in public, just never at a large crowd like.
Speaker 1: That, Okay, okay. So so it's the it's the idea
Speaker 1: of see I'm already doing the pre talk with you.
Speaker 1: So it's the idea, the idea of being on stage
Speaker 1: in front of people. That's that's the part that intimidates you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's really funny. I can speak without a
Speaker 3: microphone in front of a crowd of people. As soon
Speaker 3: as you hand me a microphone, I'm like, oh crap,
Speaker 3: now everyone can hear me. Okay, okay, And and I
Speaker 3: guarantee you could hear you now I can hear me.
Speaker 3: That means people that aren't looking at me?
Speaker 4: Can hear?
Speaker 1: And do you know why that is? Do you know
Speaker 1: why you have this sphere? Is there a reason for it?
Speaker 1: There doesn't have to be, But.
Speaker 3: Do you know I would have to stay. When I
Speaker 3: was young, I would get shuffled around and made to
Speaker 3: sing for people and like put on display, like when
Speaker 3: I should have been studying. My teacher was like parading
Speaker 3: me around school to sing for people.
Speaker 1: Oh interesting.
Speaker 3: And then and then and then when I did the
Speaker 3: the UH School Talent Show and my music teacher never
Speaker 3: showed up and I had to sting somewhere over the
Speaker 3: rainbow a cappella, and and I still got third place
Speaker 3: at the UH Talent Show. And then there was a
Speaker 3: recruiter from UH Star Search there that wanted me to
Speaker 3: go to on the show. And I found out that
Speaker 3: I would have been going against Lee m Rhymes.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's how old no kidding I had.
Speaker 3: I've had people say, oh, man, you should have done it,
Speaker 3: you would have won, and I'm like, yeah, right, mean
Speaker 3: went against lemn Rhymes.
Speaker 1: Well what does she have really?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: So she sounds like Patsy Kline, You big deal? You
Speaker 1: could have beaten her?
Speaker 3: But I think so with enough training.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So so when you think about when you
Speaker 1: think about singing on stage, this is what comes back
Speaker 1: to you, that that experience and how something that, something
Speaker 1: that should be joyous and fun in your case, was
Speaker 1: made to be something very stressful. It sounds like, yeah
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 3: I was just I was a spectacle and it's like,
Speaker 3: this isn't not what I want to be doing right now.
Speaker 3: I want to be doing my studies.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, that makes sense. We can work with that,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, so we have our plan then,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna I'm gonna hypnotize that out of you
Speaker 1: at the show.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 3: That sounds great, yes, And then maybe if you can
Speaker 3: make the audience just do something really weird, like if
Speaker 3: you randomly go on the like and just say spaghetti
Speaker 3: and then everybody just like bark, that would be awesome.
Speaker 1: Well, the problem is, if I'm getting up there talking
Speaker 1: about spaghetti, I'm gonna start to get hungry. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: want some spaghetti. So that's that's going to backfire pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: It's my stomach's world. You all just live in it.
Speaker 1: Not everyone's accepted that yet, but that's its.
Speaker 2: Achilles heel you know, if you ever want him for something,
Speaker 2: you have to just do food.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you'll get him. I can be bribed with
Speaker 1: food very easily.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: But it's going to be a taco truck.
Speaker 1: So oh, there you go, there you go. I like tacos. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I think we're going.
Speaker 3: To bring in some pieces to for the VI p
Speaker 3: Oh very nice.
Speaker 4: We have a VI Pizza membership tickets.
Speaker 1: Ah VI Pizza. I like the sound of that.
Speaker 2: That's his favorite food.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is.
Speaker 2: You're winning them over by.
Speaker 3: The language of the pizza.
Speaker 1: That is my staple food. So so who are some
Speaker 1: of these Who are some of the other artists who
Speaker 1: are going to be playing there? Do you want to
Speaker 1: just talk a little bit about some of them? I
Speaker 1: see Six Minds Combined is on the list, which I'm
Speaker 1: excited about.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we're having a hip hop hour.
Speaker 4: So we got six Mindes Combined backed up by mis
Speaker 4: Stir Goodbars himself and possibly Goldie Goddess if they're gonna
Speaker 4: do some duo stuff excellent. Yeah, and Johnny Ghost might
Speaker 4: join in on that. So yeah, our little hip hop
Speaker 4: hour there and then that.
Speaker 3: Would be on the backstage.
Speaker 4: So we have two stages going kind of tandomly. Okay,
Speaker 4: the main stage is mostly our full uh band acts,
Speaker 4: and then the backstage is kind of more like solo
Speaker 4: or duo acts and some performers and then yeah, and
Speaker 4: then the two main main bands are at the end
Speaker 4: of the night, so we kind of start out, you know,
Speaker 4: a little bit mellow and then build up to heavy. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be a really good time. So I'm just
Speaker 4: trying to bring up our poster here so I have
Speaker 4: everything accurate.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the list, I mean, we can, we
Speaker 1: can kind of go through it and mention everybody. Uh,
Speaker 1: I see overtime hardcore who I'm not familiar with, so
Speaker 1: that's interesting to me. A lot of these bands are
Speaker 1: bands I'm not frommiliar with it all, which to me
Speaker 1: makes it more fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's a bunch here that I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's a nice big mix, like a variety show of rock, metal, punk,
Speaker 4: hip hop and jam and hippie and some folk mixed in.
Speaker 4: And then we've got you know, some drag performances and
Speaker 4: or less performance.
Speaker 3: So basically, right off the bat, we have.
Speaker 4: Parts of the overtime hardcore band, and then after that,
Speaker 4: I believe it's Rags the Stitches that's gonna go on.
Speaker 3: I'm not here.
Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with Rags to Stitches either, so much fun.
Speaker 4: It's a punk rock band, Andy Raggedy Andy is a
Speaker 4: front man, and they just do a really really fun show.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, oh sorry, go ahead, no, you go ahead.
Speaker 4: I'm still pulling up my list. I have a bunch
Speaker 4: of cabs in front of me, right.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm up at Yes, yes, so.
Speaker 4: And then the Marvels, which is the drag show okay,
Speaker 4: and they actually, I believe there's three of them, and
Speaker 4: they're going to be doing two sets, so they'll do
Speaker 4: their first set on the main stage area on the floor,
Speaker 4: and then they'll do custom change and go into the backstage.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Very cool, and like, well all this is happening.
Speaker 4: There's entertainment happening at all times. So you know, after
Speaker 4: the Marvel's, the Nigans is gonna come on. And they're
Speaker 4: punk as well. They're a Walking Dead parody band and
Speaker 4: they do a lot of really fun things.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm looking after that Dead Harrison.
Speaker 1: Yep, Dead Harrison of course. Yeah. We we've actually played
Speaker 1: a Dead Harrison track coming into the segment. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: always always love Dead Harrison, and I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: seeing the Nigans too, because you've told us a lot
Speaker 1: about them on a previous disappearance on the show, but
Speaker 1: Jenny and I haven't seen them be out live, so
Speaker 1: really looking forward to that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, have a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, they's fantastic, much fun. They put on a
Speaker 4: great show, and Dead Harrison is going to be doing
Speaker 4: a mix of old and new stuff that everyone loves.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 4: And then we have a band coming up from Connecticut
Speaker 4: which maybe've heard of. They've played a Terminus. They're more
Speaker 4: in the Light and they're kind of a dooom band.
Speaker 4: And Dwayne Eldridge is the front runner of that band,
Speaker 4: and he's been so super helpful with helping us put
Speaker 4: together the flyer for this event, and he's going to
Speaker 4: be donating his equipment because he runs a production company.
Speaker 4: So everybody who has been, you know, connected with this
Speaker 4: event has been so helpful and willing to volunteer their
Speaker 4: time and their energy and their passions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those guys are great. They're a great bands. They
Speaker 3: played for us a Terminus a few months ago. It's
Speaker 3: an awesome show and they were on your radio show too.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, yeah, I remember more in
Speaker 1: the light. Yeah, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 4: But so then after that we kind of go into
Speaker 4: the dance part of the night with the burlest Dancer,
Speaker 4: and let's see, Letho is a really interesting person. She
Speaker 4: also has a pain story and this particular burless dance
Speaker 4: of hers is an expression of that. So she, you know,
Speaker 4: kind of warned me. She's like, it's going to be
Speaker 4: a little triggering for some people, and I said, that's.
Speaker 1: What we want.
Speaker 4: We want to raise that awareness. We want people to
Speaker 4: not be in their comfort zone when it comes to things.
Speaker 4: And one of the things that I've found is someone
Speaker 4: who's been out to shows for you know, twenty plus years,
Speaker 4: we see a lot of micro judgments, unfortunately with people
Speaker 4: who have disabilities. Like someone will come in with a
Speaker 4: wheelchair or a cane, but then they'll go on the
Speaker 4: floor and dance and people are like, oh, why are
Speaker 4: they dancing? Well, it's because they can, for like maybe
Speaker 4: a moment in time, just let them do it exact.
Speaker 4: So we're trying to raise awareness for those people as well,
Speaker 4: because you know, that's some thing yes selfy deals with.
Speaker 4: We had a friend previously who was a cheam user
Speaker 4: who dealt with that at punk shows. Yeah, it's really
Speaker 4: important for people to just let people be Oh.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you You make a great point with that, because
Speaker 1: it's it's the it's human nature. Unfortunately, people make snap judgments, uh,
Speaker 1: based on what they see with no actual information.
Speaker 3: Uh. People.
Speaker 1: People do this on all kinds of things, of course,
Speaker 1: but but especially with the example you just gave, where
Speaker 1: people look at someone and say, oh, they don't look sick,
Speaker 1: or they don't look disabled, or they don't look this,
Speaker 1: or they don't look that, so and then they and
Speaker 1: then they form this judgment in their mind that is
Speaker 1: completely unfair because they have no idea what's going on
Speaker 1: on the inside of that person's body. So that that's
Speaker 1: a great point that you raised big time, big time.
Speaker 2: Right after one of my surgeries, somebody looked at me
Speaker 2: in a wheelchair and said I had breast cancer and
Speaker 2: I didn't need a wheelchair.
Speaker 1: Literally, Yeah, oh yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Get dirty looks because I have my wheelchair. And I
Speaker 3: was at GLAR on Sunday and I got out of
Speaker 3: the bathroom and I wheeled my chair out of the
Speaker 3: handicapped stall, pushing it and people were looking at me funny,
Speaker 3: and I had like I had. Somebody was like, I
Speaker 3: will deck you. I don't even look at Spelfie like that, right,
Speaker 3: he has a hard time walking. You can you can
Speaker 3: fright them.
Speaker 2: We have devices doesn't mean having a assist of device
Speaker 2: doesn't mean you have to be glued to it at
Speaker 2: all moments. If you have a moment that you get
Speaker 2: to feel slightly human without it, you know, don't deprive
Speaker 2: somebody of that. That's huge for that moment. So when
Speaker 2: somebody does that to you, it kills It just kills you.
Speaker 1: It kills you.
Speaker 2: If you get a moment of humanity and somebody calls
Speaker 2: you out for actually being human, it's like.
Speaker 4: And people also don't realize after how much recovery time
Speaker 4: behind the scenes happens after you expend that type of energy.
Speaker 2: This is the most I've done since last Saturday. We
Speaker 2: had an event last Saturday, and I haven't been really
Speaker 2: out of the house except for Tuesday to vote and
Speaker 2: that was it. I haven't been out of the house
Speaker 2: since because I'm still recovering from it.
Speaker 4: It was worth it go out of the house once
Speaker 4: a months, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's worth it. You end up flaring, but
Speaker 2: it's worth it to have the lived experience and have
Speaker 2: a quality life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's you know, the rest of us just
Speaker 1: take it for granted, you know. But I always say,
Speaker 1: you know, health is the single easiest thing to take
Speaker 1: for granted, you know, until something.
Speaker 2: So when it's when it takes to going places, like
Speaker 2: when Spelfie and I need to go someplace, it's not
Speaker 2: just where we're going and what we're going to do
Speaker 2: we get there. It's getting ready, getting down to the car,
Speaker 2: it's getting out of the car. It's how far do
Speaker 2: we have to walk? Is their staircases, It's everything that
Speaker 2: it takes to get there and to get home, plus
Speaker 2: the events.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and where am I going to sit during this
Speaker 3: time because I know I'm not going to be able
Speaker 3: to stand the whole time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So this will be a great test for us,
Speaker 4: this whole day event to see if we can you know,
Speaker 4: make ourselves you know, take some breaks and self care
Speaker 4: during this full time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a given, a given.
Speaker 1: So I see on the list too, there's so Whaleam Park.
Speaker 1: I feel like I know whalam Park, but I'm not.
Speaker 3: You guys, interviewed Whaleam Park back in May.
Speaker 1: Oh goodness, it becomes such a blur. Okay, I thought
Speaker 1: the name was familiar.
Speaker 2: But I love us that we have that problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good problem to have in a sense
Speaker 1: because we have to interview.
Speaker 3: So many We've interviewed so many people we forget. That's what.
Speaker 4: I need a spreadsheet to look at when I'm talking
Speaker 4: to you, so I make sure I'm hitting the point.
Speaker 2: That's awesome, no doubt.
Speaker 1: No doubt.
Speaker 3: I think now I need like AI assists to tell
Speaker 3: me my schedule too, because cly, I'm.
Speaker 1: Forgetting right right. Yes, let's see, we've got Rabbit's Foot,
Speaker 1: who I definitely don't know.
Speaker 2: Nope, don't know that. There's a bunch of these bands
Speaker 2: that I definitely want us to get to talk to,
Speaker 2: and yeah, come on, I would like them.
Speaker 3: I would definitely recommend interviewing Rabbit's Foot.
Speaker 4: They are a group of characters.
Speaker 3: I absolutely love them. What's the standadlined my birthday last year?
Speaker 3: It was awesome?
Speaker 1: Are they?
Speaker 3: One of the only complaints I got about the show
Speaker 3: that I threw for my birthday last year was that
Speaker 3: Rabbit's Foot didn't get along enough.
Speaker 4: Set Okay, so that's why they have a long enough sets.
Speaker 3: That's why that's why they have an hour.
Speaker 1: Are they are they? Are they a jam band? It
Speaker 1: just sounds like the name of a jam band. Are
Speaker 1: they a jam band?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Jam I figured the evening out with you know, going
Speaker 4: into the jam space and Leon Trout does a lot
Speaker 4: of that, but a lot of other different things. And
Speaker 4: then the open damn at the end is something that
Speaker 4: Selthy's compiling with a bunch of different musicians and people
Speaker 4: can jump on board and participate. And that's only the
Speaker 4: first stage.
Speaker 3: You know, we haven't even talked about this. That's just
Speaker 3: the main stage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see all that's happening.
Speaker 4: We also have, you know, the second stage, which is
Speaker 4: a huge ceiling room. It's a little bit of a
Speaker 4: smaller space, but it's kind of cool because it's not
Speaker 4: a very big acoustic ceiling.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And on that side we have Lacey Beebee from Who
Speaker 3: I Am.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 4: Wave Radio Boston and seeing that stage.
Speaker 3: So we've got two radio show hosts hosting so well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had I remember when we had Lacy on
Speaker 1: the show. That was so much fun.
Speaker 3: At of that song fantastic.
Speaker 1: That song let Me Know when It's Time to Rock
Speaker 1: was stuck in my head for weeks afterwards.
Speaker 3: That's my favorite song.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's a lot of fun. And I see
Speaker 1: Temple the show, okay, and I see Temple Mountain on
Speaker 1: the list. We were talking about Temple Mountain actually with
Speaker 1: our guests in the first hour.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who was recognized.
Speaker 4: Nominal Support of the scene. And he's just been such
Speaker 4: a good friend since we've known him, so we're so excited.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's always such a nice, nice guy, great talent,
Speaker 3: and so when he was like, can I play for Spelfifest?
Speaker 3: I was like, shut up. I was going to ask you.
Speaker 4: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't know. Yes too, that's so cool.
Speaker 1: That's very cool, very cool cool. He is so talented. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's see, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: Like half the bands I was going to ask hit
Speaker 3: me up before I even had to hit them up,
Speaker 3: and they were like, can I play Spelfifest? I was like, oo, wow,
Speaker 3: you teach me to get out of my head, because
Speaker 3: how do you know? I love you that much. I
Speaker 3: was going to invite you.
Speaker 4: I even had a national as contact me last night
Speaker 4: saying we'd love to play your festival, and I'm like, wow, okay,
Speaker 4: so now we have nationals asking us, so next year
Speaker 4: is going to be even bigger.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. Yeah, looking at the list.
Speaker 1: So then after Temple Mountain, I see good Bars and
Speaker 1: Six Minds combined, So looking forward to that. That's going
Speaker 1: to be awesome. And then the Marvels are oh sorry, So.
Speaker 4: Marvel is kind of back, you know, back and forth
Speaker 4: through the stages. And then we have a flow artist,
Speaker 4: Nicolette Reid, who's.
Speaker 3: What is her company?
Speaker 1: It's not Redkite, yeah, it says uh here red Kite
Speaker 1: Entertainment is that.
Speaker 3: Uh, that's an introduction house.
Speaker 4: That's her out there. That's her DJ business because she's
Speaker 4: also a DJ.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's oh, it's airflow projection art.
Speaker 4: So what she does is she has huge flags and
Speaker 4: she spins them with projection art, you know, any kind
Speaker 4: of projection art, and she does a choreograph dance to
Speaker 4: a specific song and it's just beautiful and engaging and it,
Speaker 4: you know, just captures your attention. So it's different than
Speaker 4: anything I've ever seen. And she was over at Terminus
Speaker 4: for our Halloween show outside in the parking lot dressed
Speaker 4: as a ghost and she had all this haunting h
Speaker 4: imagery going on, and it really drew in the crowd.
Speaker 3: So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: It sounds really.
Speaker 4: He's going to be doing that and accompanying a little
Speaker 4: bit with the next act, which is Mike mcdell.
Speaker 3: And he's the Healer, So he is an edm DJ,
Speaker 3: but he does a.
Speaker 4: Lot of really cool low progression stuff that also, you know,
Speaker 4: kind of sets the vibe.
Speaker 1: And why why does he call himself the Healer.
Speaker 4: Because his whole personality and the way that he interacts
Speaker 4: with the world is based on like everyone loving each
Speaker 4: other and healing from their trauma together through music.
Speaker 1: Oh interesting, Okay, Oh he's someone. He's someone we have
Speaker 1: to get on the show to get.
Speaker 3: Off that energy. When you meet him, you feel like
Speaker 3: you're in the presence of somebody who just wants you
Speaker 3: to feel better.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: And he's a business owner. He owns a couple of
Speaker 4: businesses and he's opening up a new place, a's non
Speaker 4: alcoholics he and coffee shop in Nashalla called The Spot.
Speaker 4: So that should be opening up in January and it'll
Speaker 4: be just another place for people to come and be
Speaker 4: comfortable perform and you know, enjoy a cool vibe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh excellent. No, I look forward to meeting him absolutely.
Speaker 1: And then you've got Dog eight Dog, and uh.
Speaker 3: I love those guys. Yeah, they're so much fun. They are.
Speaker 3: They are some of my good friends. And they played
Speaker 3: met my birthday last year and I feel so great
Speaker 3: that I'm immortalized on some of their merch. They put
Speaker 3: their their dates of that they played last year on
Speaker 3: their merch and one of them being my birthday party.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, no special, I am immortalized on merch
Speaker 3: from a band.
Speaker 1: Very nice, very nice. And then the Whole Loaf who
Speaker 1: we had on the show, and they're amazing. Love those guys.
Speaker 4: Love those They're so amazing.
Speaker 3: Those guys are, like Sean, such a sweetie, well before
Speaker 3: their time or ahead of their time or beyond their
Speaker 3: time really because they just play music like it.
Speaker 4: Comes from the depths of their soul. And literally Sean
Speaker 4: who plays keyboards, he sounds like George Jim more of
Speaker 4: them from the doors.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now, they're they're great. Looking forward to that. And
Speaker 1: then of course the uh, the Spelfy, the Spelfy encore.
Speaker 1: So is that Spelfy is that when you're supposed to sing.
Speaker 3: No, that's just been we're going to do like the
Speaker 3: cake and stuff.
Speaker 1: Really I thought I thought that's when you were singing.
Speaker 3: I think I think that's going to be the open
Speaker 3: jam after.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's going to be the open jam after. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I got you. But you are going to sing, right,
Speaker 1: that's the goal. You might find yourself at the event
Speaker 1: having an urge to sing, and you may find.
Speaker 3: You I would that would be great.
Speaker 4: From telling you from telling you to sing when he's talking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I am going to be working with
Speaker 3: some people on learning U a song or two come Monday. Anyway,
Speaker 3: so it may happen.
Speaker 1: You might find yourself feeling.
Speaker 2: It's kind of sound like a Talking Heads radio fun song.
Speaker 1: Now, Oh that you might find yourself yourself no very good?
Speaker 5: So uh yeah, I mean if Matt Connors almost to
Speaker 5: hypnotize me and I wake up with a beautiful white
Speaker 5: I mean.
Speaker 1: Oh there you go, well in a beautiful house, right
Speaker 1: drive So this is uh so, this all happens November
Speaker 1: twenty fourth at Jewel So looking forward to that. And
Speaker 1: where should people go for tickets?
Speaker 4: So online our website, The Midnight Creatives Collective dot com
Speaker 4: clash shows, So Midnight Creatives Collective dot com slash shows
Speaker 4: and you can see the event page there buy tickets.
Speaker 4: You could also buy tickets at the door. They're going
Speaker 4: to go up just a little bit, but you can
Speaker 4: use then lower cash app or cash at the door.
Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent. We should too while we have you, we
Speaker 1: should talk, uh, tell us about the Midnight Creatives Collective.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously long time listeners who tune in consistently
Speaker 1: are aware of what you do. But for but for
Speaker 1: people who don't know what is the Midnight Creatives Collective
Speaker 1: because you do such great well, you have a lot
Speaker 1: going on there. In fact, you know you've got that,
Speaker 1: you've got terminus underground. You've got a lot going on.
Speaker 1: But you know, but especially for the musicians who are listening,
Speaker 1: who might want to know more about it and and
Speaker 1: who can benefit, Uh, give us a little synopsis of
Speaker 1: what you've got going on with the collective.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there is a lot.
Speaker 4: Going on, and there's kind of always more, but we
Speaker 4: are The Midnight Creatives Collective is an organization that's been
Speaker 4: built to support local artists and musicians. Do you kind
Speaker 4: of get the deck leg up in their music and
Speaker 4: art career and have the support that they need finding
Speaker 4: shows and meeting people and networking. There's several different arms
Speaker 4: to the organization, and eventually the organization itself is going
Speaker 4: to become a nonprofit so that we can give even
Speaker 4: greater support like sponsors, ship opportunities, or scholarships to people
Speaker 4: in need of things like that, and associate with different
Speaker 4: music associations. So eventually that's going to happen as the overarch.
Speaker 4: But through the Midnight Creatives Collective, we have a coworking
Speaker 4: space called the Business Bar where musicians and artists can
Speaker 4: come in and sit together and hang out and it's
Speaker 4: like a social space where you don't have to kind
Speaker 4: of be alone off in your own little island. You
Speaker 4: can do your social media, you can do your promotions,
Speaker 4: you can work.
Speaker 3: On your art, your music.
Speaker 4: You can.
Speaker 1: Get hypnotized there.
Speaker 4: You can get hypnotized there because that will rent out
Speaker 4: the space too. Yeah, you can also rent out the space.
Speaker 3: You can rent it out for art workshops, for hypnosis sessions,
Speaker 3: you can rent it out to.
Speaker 4: Your needs a mediator for an example. It's a roundtable
Speaker 4: kind of environment, so you can rented out for that purpose.
Speaker 4: We have memberships. We base everything on membership, so we
Speaker 4: have certain levels of membership. The top level of the
Speaker 4: IP memberships includes musicians who want to learn the next
Speaker 4: level of the music business. So I teach that getting
Speaker 4: people out and creating their online presence, getting them involved
Speaker 4: in how to understand copyright and how to get signed
Speaker 4: up with a pro. So all of those details happened
Speaker 4: there too. We also have space for a podcast studio
Speaker 4: or radio show that you can rent out and we
Speaker 4: call it the Clubhouse. And most recently we opened up
Speaker 4: what we call Steve's Place, which is a community jam
Speaker 4: space where people can sign up to either solo jam
Speaker 4: or have up to five people in a community jam setting. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and then we also have Terminus Underground, you know, that's
Speaker 4: our kind of main arm. Andre from Dead Harrison he
Speaker 4: opened up his very large rehearsal space for us so
Speaker 4: that we can have semi monthly or monthly shows of
Speaker 4: all genres. Yeah, we've been really successful because Nashala does
Speaker 4: not have any place for local underground musicians to play,
Speaker 4: but we have a huge pool of talent and people
Speaker 4: who want to listen to that kind of music. Who
Speaker 4: are you know, kind of on the alternative side of life,
Speaker 4: where the you know, they're not mainstream and they don't
Speaker 4: have to feel like they have a place to go,
Speaker 4: and Terminus is the place for them to go, right.
Speaker 4: It's like a really cool living room style environment. We're
Speaker 4: very low key there. The vibe is always good, the
Speaker 4: hospitalities on point, and then sound is excellent. So true
Speaker 4: music lovers love coming to Terminus.
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, even our Dentist show, which we only had
Speaker 3: ten paying customers, which is great considering me as just
Speaker 3: opened and it was a icy storm and people still
Speaker 3: showed up. Yeah, and even then with ten people in
Speaker 3: the audience, people were like, this is the best show
Speaker 3: I've happened.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 3: The game the place said, this is the best show
Speaker 3: we've had, and we've had more people in the audience before.
Speaker 1: Oh that's excellent, excellent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, multiple times.
Speaker 3: You hear that.
Speaker 4: We have had consistent feedback from both bands and sands,
Speaker 4: and we've continue to send upwards and sell out at
Speaker 4: every show within the last five months. Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: The thing too, that I like to tell everybody about
Speaker 1: Terminus Underground is that when you walk into that room,
Speaker 1: it's like walking into a different world. And of course,
Speaker 1: you know, I I that was before I even knew
Speaker 1: about the you know, the connection to the inspiration, you know,
Speaker 1: the Walking Day. It's the Walking Day. I get all
Speaker 1: these zombie things mixed up. But that was before I
Speaker 1: even knew about that. That's you know, what the inspiration was.
Speaker 1: But yeah, just walking into that room, it's it's just
Speaker 1: so cool.
Speaker 4: It's yeah, it's like it on it was even crazier.
Speaker 1: I can imagine, I can imagine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, we really capitalized on the Walking Dead scene
Speaker 4: because we we had the Megans and they actually rehearse
Speaker 4: on the other end of the mill building that we have,
Speaker 4: and they called them side Sanctuary, which is a Walking
Speaker 4: Dead reference and Terminus is uh the other like it's
Speaker 4: like a place people go to in the Walking Dead themology.
Speaker 4: It's a place of cannibalism.
Speaker 3: Ok So we have to say, okay, you know, we've
Speaker 3: given up our cannibalistic ways. It's okay for you to
Speaker 3: come over right right.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we might have.
Speaker 4: One cannibal in the back, but that's only for the really,
Speaker 4: really bad people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he he only does cannibalism with consent. You'll
Speaker 3: only eat your lunch if you give him permission.
Speaker 1: Why do I appreciate that. Yeah, even during the Green
Speaker 1: Jello show, no one was actually consumed, which is good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That was a.
Speaker 4: Phenomenal show, and we're really grateful that Jenny got that
Speaker 4: opportunity out for us to have that type of a
Speaker 4: show because I think that's what really helped launch the
Speaker 4: idea of Terminus in the hearts and minds of the community.
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool. Yeah, Yeah, that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: That was a lot of fun, little nerve racking. I
Speaker 1: just remember looking around quite I hope nothing, I hope
Speaker 1: nothing gets broken or you know, anything like that. But no,
Speaker 1: but that was that was a lot of fun. That
Speaker 1: was a great night. That was a great night. Do
Speaker 1: you have any do you have anything coming up at
Speaker 1: Terminus before Spelfy Fests that you want to plug or
Speaker 1: I don't know if you have anything between.
Speaker 3: You but directly after.
Speaker 4: So for the kind of wind down of our twenty
Speaker 4: twenty fourth season, we're gonna have a couple shows in December.
Speaker 4: The first is December seventh. It's a doom show with
Speaker 4: fog Wizard, who's releasing their vinyl. So fog Wizard is
Speaker 4: a really cool doom pledge band that asked us if
Speaker 4: they could perform at Terminus, and so Dead Harrison will
Speaker 4: be on that bill. And then we have another band
Speaker 4: called Arctic Horror who's on the bill, and we're still confirming,
Speaker 4: but I'm hoping this will be there too. Okay, the
Speaker 4: four band bill, you know, special Winter Doom performances. And
Speaker 4: then on the twenty first, we're going to be having
Speaker 4: a Soultice party and so everyone who wants to come,
Speaker 4: We're probably gonna do some sort of a Yankee swap,
Speaker 4: but we're having Who I Am the Healer and Six
Speaker 4: Minds combined performing and we're kind of trying to like,
Speaker 4: you know, end it on like a really high note.
Speaker 4: So we're gonna have a lot of lights and it's
Speaker 4: going to be really really fun. So we'd love to
Speaker 4: see you guys if you want to come by that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and what's the date for that again?
Speaker 4: That would be December twenty first.
Speaker 1: December twenty first, very good, very good.
Speaker 4: I'll have flyers up soon and invites going out soon.
Speaker 4: But the Stealthy Best is such a big thing. We're
Speaker 4: like really focused.
Speaker 1: Oh micro focus, Yeah, I don't blame you, No, is
Speaker 1: a big thing. I mean people, people who've never been
Speaker 1: involved in any kind of concert promotion have no idea
Speaker 1: how much goes into it. Like I tell I tell everyone,
Speaker 1: how how any anyone who's never done it, I tell them,
Speaker 1: you know, no matter how much you think goes into it,
Speaker 1: it's ten times more.
Speaker 4: Than what you can And then there's the thing that
Speaker 4: you can't account for that.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, there's there's Wow.
Speaker 3: I did not think to take ahead of plans for
Speaker 3: that contingency. That is something I was not expecting.
Speaker 5: To pop up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3: Always something. Yeah, there's always something that you're not going
Speaker 3: to plan for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, Well listen, we'll you got a lot
Speaker 1: going on, obviously, you have a lot on your plate
Speaker 1: planning for this, so we'll let we'll get you, get
Speaker 1: you back to it. But Eleanor and Spelfe, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining us. Appreciate it. Really looking forward
Speaker 1: to spellfee Fest and any anything.
Speaker 3: So excited. I'm so excited anything I'm still looking for.
Speaker 3: We were to seeing you guys there, and thank you
Speaker 3: guys for having us again.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, I love talking.
Speaker 3: To you guys.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, yeah, No, glad to do it. I was
Speaker 1: thinking I'm going to close out the segment with a
Speaker 1: Dead Harrison track. I was thinking about playing some Doom Train.
Speaker 1: I agree, absolutely love that song.
Speaker 4: We welcome that, and we welcome everyone who's been listening
Speaker 4: to this show to come on and buy your tickets
Speaker 4: for Selfie Fest, and we look forward to meeting everybody
Speaker 4: and it's.
Speaker 3: Going to be a grand time.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely can't wait. All right, Eleanor and Spelfie, Well
Speaker 1: we'll let you go, but thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Thanks so much, Matt and Jenny, have a great day.
Speaker 5: You got it.
Speaker 1: Take care, Bye bye,
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