Matt Connarton Unleashed: Eleanor and Spelfie

0:00 Speaker 1: Our our number two guests, Eleanor from the Midnight Creatives Collective, And of course we've got Spelfy Fest, which they were going to be joining us to talk about today. That is coming up November twenty fourth.

0:11 Speaker 2: November twenty fourth. Yeah, so that's going to be a twelve hour event all day if featuring many different artists. It's going to be a section of wrap, section of rock, and also hypnosis.

0:24 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to do a what are you doing? Yeah, so I'm going to do something with hypnosis. I am on the schedule for that. Might kind of read the room and see what I think everyone would like, because there's a few different directions I can go with it, or why do you go there?

0:40 Speaker 2: Just now, I'm being told that there's a problem with the call in line.

0:43 Speaker 1: Oh well, let's try have it. She's calling in again. I hear something, Eleanor. Is that you?

0:52 Speaker 3: I hear something? Yes, I got to get us off

1:00 Speaker 3: so much late. All right, I'm turning that one.

1:03 Speaker 2: You gotta get us speak.

1:07 Speaker 4: Here.

1:08 Speaker 1: I can now yes, yes, not not not not the best phone connection, but I can hear you. Good morning, how are you?

1:15 Speaker 3: Good morning?

1:16 Speaker 4: We are sorry, we're supposed to be there, and we got so embroiled in all of our plans and everything that's going on, we completely spaced it.

1:27 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well happen right now.

1:31 Speaker 3: But we're here now, yes.

1:33 Speaker 1: Yes, so all right, so tell us about Tell the audience about Spelfyfest. It's coming right up, ju It's only a couple of weeks away now, Oh.

1:42 Speaker 3: Yes, it's gonna be absolutely epic.

1:44 Speaker 4: There's gonna be twenty acts, so a very duel music venue on Sunday, November twenty fourth, from one one pm to one am. So is it all day variety show, music festival with you know, not just music, not just and so we've got some performers as well, burlesque dancers, a flow artist that does flag twirling, there's little drag show. So we've got a whole variety anything you can think of.

2:13 Speaker 3: And the amazing Matt Connorson is going to hypnotize.

2:16 Speaker 1: Us, that's right, yes, yes.

2:20 Speaker 4: And the amazing Jen Coffee will be opening up the show and speaking about our calls that we're going to be raising money for as well. So that's for our s d S, a c r p S and we're going to be raising some money for that support.

2:37 Speaker 1: Yeah, we should talk a little bit about what that is because most listeners who are tuning in won't know exactly what that is.

2:45 Speaker 3: And Jenny, if you want to, Yeah, that was a lot of acronyms.

2:48 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's true, a lot of letters.

2:50 Speaker 2: You can check out their website at r s d S dot org r s d S dot org because what it is is that, unfortunately in medicine they like to change the names of things a lot and CRPS, which you guys have heard me talk about. It is what I have, complex regional pain syndrome. It used to be known as reflex sympathetic dystrophe RSD, hence the name RSCS dot org. But the name change occurred, I want to say, maybe five years ago, give or take so. And if you look it up, there's probably been at least fifty different names for this disease.

3:26 Speaker 2: But the bottom line is it's called the suicide disease because it is the most painful disease known to modern medicine. There is no cure and there are limited treatments and even more limited by funds. So some of the money that it's getting raised goes to the organization to help educate people also to help get information out there and to help patients who need help finding people who can take care of them, who need help in the way of information to even understand the disease itself. So unfortunately it affects people from all ages, from very young children to there.

4:01 Speaker 2: They don't know exactly why it happens. Unfortunately, it's been over two eird years since its discovery, so as you can probably guess, it's a hard disease to crack.

4:11 Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been around for like you said, you know, over two hundred years since its discovery, but unfortunately, with rare illnesses, they don't get the it was actually they don't get the same resources.

4:21 Speaker 2: Interesting point, it was discovered during the Civil War here in the United States. That was when it was first discovered, was after battle injuries.

4:30 Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, so yeah, so that's a big part of this event and why So let's talk about too why Spelfie Fest. We should talk about the origins and why it is called spelfy Fest.

4:45 Speaker 3: For those who don't know, Felfie, I'm just so a weirdo that likes to celebrate my birthday and few things big and I love live music and variety shows and I'm like, okay, all you people are my friends. Do you want to play for my birthday? And they're like yeah. I'm like all right, cool, let's have a really big party.

5:06 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good.

5:08 Speaker 3: Healthy. She's like our.

5:10 Speaker 4: Socialite of the music industry. She just goes out to all the shows and she makes friends and she supports, and she's an amazing person and a very cool character and she's got a big heart and a lot of people love her. And the last year she did her own show and she brought out eighty five people, and she just realized at that point that she can do shows. She's an event planner, she's an event coordinator. So she and I, you know, kind of linked up this year and we've been doing really great sellout events ever since.

5:44 Speaker 4: And this one is going to be, you know, one of those two hundred maybe three hundred, hopefully sellout type of a show.

5:51 Speaker 3: I was gonna say, or tack the building. We do want, we do want to get the word out as much as possible that this is going to.

5:58 Speaker 4: Be an amazing event. Tickets are on our website, Midnight Creatives Collective dot com slash shows right now. You can get early bird tickets, so you can get VIP tickets which includes a bunch of different perks, and you can get general admission tickets and to see twenty.

6:15 Speaker 3: Acts thirty dollars right now, so.

6:17 Speaker 4: It's super cheap and just ten more dollars for a VIP package.

6:22 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's a really good value for what you're getting. There's going to be a lot of great musicians there, and of course you know, as you mentioned, Jenny's going to be uh speaking, and then I'm going to do I love. So let me ask you this because I haven't I haven't made a final decision about what to do exactly in terms of because there's different uh we'll do a little off quick focus group here, because there's different directions I could go with it. What would what would you like to see me do in terms of hypnosis?

6:50 Speaker 1: Should I just should I do a demonstration? Should I maybe make someone do something silly? Should I should I help someone quit smoking? But do that with the because you know there's going to be a lot of musicians. Are musicians, many of them are smokers. Like, what what do you think I should do it?

7:08 Speaker 3: Do you think you could group hypnotize everyone to qush smoking cigarettes.

7:13 Speaker 1: Well we could do that.

7:15 Speaker 3: Not like that very much. It will take healthy up on stage and hypnotize her. I seriously, if you can hypnotize me, I would I would be so surprised. That would be so awesome if you could finally hypnotize me for the first time on my birthday. People have tried hypnotizing me and just can't do it.

7:33 Speaker 1: Well, it is your birthday now. But you have to be willing to go along with it, because that's the only will you will you be able to relax in that environment?

7:45 Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. Maybe that's why I can't be hypnotized. Well, can't relaxed nothing. I always bound. My brain never shuts off.

7:54 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you could try to hypnotize the audience to like dance all night and stay all night.

8:00 Speaker 1: Uh huh uh huh, well there you go. All right, Well we'll see, well we'll wait.

8:04 Speaker 2: In reduce stress.

8:07 Speaker 1: Yeah, reducing stress and anxiety might be a popular thing. Uh uh this uh in this time that we live in. But uh but we abs well we don't. We don't do politics on the show anymore. But so we'll leave that aside. But that might be something to do uh but uh yeah, yeah, we'll see we'll see uh well we'll see what. Uh we'll read the room and see what what and.

8:30 Speaker 4: If anything, this will be an amazing diversion for you know, the things that we've gone through these past few months, and people will come out and just have a really good time together as a community and as a music community. We've got the famous Leon Trout headlining, so that should be an amazing, epically good time.

8:49 Speaker 3: Yeah, And they're leaving the stage around eleven PM and then we're switching to the VIP after party open jams. So for your extra ten dollars gets you to part for two more hours with me, where you may or may not get to see me perform.

9:04 Speaker 4: Yes, you might sing oh.

9:06 Speaker 2: I didn't know that.

9:07 Speaker 1: I didn't know you A wait, Actually, maybe.

9:09 Speaker 4: That's what you can do.

9:10 Speaker 3: You can hit the tize my stage right away so I can get on stage and sing.

9:13 Speaker 2: That is actually something that's actually pretty common that people come to from att Yeah, honestly, I have done. That's a common one.

9:20 Speaker 1: I have done quite a few sessions for that.

9:23 Speaker 4: She should be on stage right.

9:25 Speaker 3: I am just such a chicken And that's so weird.

9:30 Speaker 2: You don't say that, don't say that microphone.

9:34 Speaker 3: You put the microphone in front of my face, and I get weird. It like a sheet over you a costume.

9:44 Speaker 5: Singing or speaking for.

9:48 Speaker 2: A lot of people.

9:50 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

9:51 Speaker 2: One of the more common things that people call you for, actually is when they public speaking.

9:56 Speaker 1: Public speaking is very common. That's a very common phobia, or or any any kind of performance speaking or singing, or some people are just are just terrified. But I assume spellfies. I assume you've sung in public before, right or no or maybe not.

10:13 Speaker 3: I've sung in public, just never at a large crowd like.

10:17 Speaker 1: That, Okay, okay. So so it's the it's the idea of see I'm already doing the pre talk with you. So it's the idea, the idea of being on stage in front of people. That's that's the part that intimidates you.

10:32 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's really funny. I can speak without a microphone in front of a crowd of people. As soon as you hand me a microphone, I'm like, oh crap, now everyone can hear me. Okay, okay, And and I guarantee you could hear you now I can hear me. That means people that aren't looking at me?

10:48 Speaker 4: Can hear?

10:49 Speaker 1: And do you know why that is? Do you know why you have this sphere? Is there a reason for it? There doesn't have to be, But.

10:56 Speaker 3: Do you know I would have to stay. When I was young, I would get shuffled around and made to sing for people and like put on display, like when I should have been studying. My teacher was like parading me around school to sing for people.

11:11 Speaker 1: Oh interesting.

11:13 Speaker 3: And then and then and then when I did the the UH School Talent Show and my music teacher never showed up and I had to sting somewhere over the rainbow a cappella, and and I still got third place at the UH Talent Show. And then there was a recruiter from UH Star Search there that wanted me to go to on the show. And I found out that I would have been going against Lee m Rhymes.

11:42 Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's how old no kidding I had.

11:47 Speaker 3: I've had people say, oh, man, you should have done it, you would have won, and I'm like, yeah, right, mean went against lemn Rhymes.

11:56 Speaker 1: Well what does she have really?

11:57 Speaker 3: What?

11:57 Speaker 1: So she sounds like Patsy Kline, You big deal? You could have beaten her?

12:01 Speaker 3: But I think so with enough training.

12:05 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So so when you think about when you think about singing on stage, this is what comes back to you, that that experience and how something that, something that should be joyous and fun in your case, was made to be something very stressful. It sounds like, yeah it was.

12:24 Speaker 3: I was just I was a spectacle and it's like, this isn't not what I want to be doing right now. I want to be doing my studies.

12:30 Speaker 1: Right, Okay, that makes sense. We can work with that, all right, all right, so we have our plan then, so I'm gonna I'm gonna hypnotize that out of you at the show.

12:42 Speaker 5: All right.

12:42 Speaker 3: That sounds great, yes, And then maybe if you can make the audience just do something really weird, like if you randomly go on the like and just say spaghetti and then everybody just like bark, that would be awesome.

12:53 Speaker 1: Well, the problem is, if I'm getting up there talking about spaghetti, I'm gonna start to get hungry. I'm gonna want some spaghetti. So that's that's going to backfire pretty quickly. It's my stomach's world. You all just live in it. Not everyone's accepted that yet, but that's its.

13:06 Speaker 2: Achilles heel you know, if you ever want him for something, you have to just do food.

13:10 Speaker 1: Yeah, and you'll get him. I can be bribed with food very easily.

13:14 Speaker 4: Uh.

13:15 Speaker 3: But it's going to be a taco truck.

13:17 Speaker 1: So oh, there you go, there you go. I like tacos. Yes, yes, I think we're going.

13:23 Speaker 3: To bring in some pieces to for the VI p Oh very nice.

13:26 Speaker 4: We have a VI Pizza membership tickets.

13:29 Speaker 1: Ah VI Pizza. I like the sound of that.

13:33 Speaker 2: That's his favorite food.

13:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, that is.

13:36 Speaker 2: You're winning them over by.

13:37 Speaker 3: The language of the pizza.

13:41 Speaker 1: That is my staple food. So so who are some of these Who are some of the other artists who are going to be playing there? Do you want to just talk a little bit about some of them? I see Six Minds Combined is on the list, which I'm excited about.

13:54 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we're having a hip hop hour.

13:56 Speaker 4: So we got six Mindes Combined backed up by mis Stir Goodbars himself and possibly Goldie Goddess if they're gonna do some duo stuff excellent. Yeah, and Johnny Ghost might join in on that. So yeah, our little hip hop hour there and then that.

14:15 Speaker 3: Would be on the backstage.

14:16 Speaker 4: So we have two stages going kind of tandomly. Okay, the main stage is mostly our full uh band acts, and then the backstage is kind of more like solo or duo acts and some performers and then yeah, and then the two main main bands are at the end of the night, so we kind of start out, you know, a little bit mellow and then build up to heavy. Yeah, it's gonna be a really good time. So I'm just trying to bring up our poster here so I have everything accurate.

14:49 Speaker 1: I'm looking at the list, I mean, we can, we can kind of go through it and mention everybody. Uh, I see overtime hardcore who I'm not familiar with, so that's interesting to me. A lot of these bands are bands I'm not frommiliar with it all, which to me makes it more fun.

15:02 Speaker 3: Yeah.

15:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's a bunch here that I don't know.

15:05 Speaker 4: It's a nice big mix, like a variety show of rock, metal, punk, hip hop and jam and hippie and some folk mixed in. And then we've got you know, some drag performances and or less performance.

15:19 Speaker 3: So basically, right off the bat, we have.

15:25 Speaker 4: Parts of the overtime hardcore band, and then after that, I believe it's Rags the Stitches that's gonna go on.

15:35 Speaker 3: I'm not here.

15:36 Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with Rags to Stitches either, so much fun.

15:40 Speaker 4: It's a punk rock band, Andy Raggedy Andy is a front man, and they just do a really really fun show.

15:48 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, oh sorry, go ahead, no, you go ahead.

15:56 Speaker 4: I'm still pulling up my list. I have a bunch of cabs in front of me, right.

16:00 Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm up at Yes, yes, so.

16:06 Speaker 4: And then the Marvels, which is the drag show okay, and they actually, I believe there's three of them, and they're going to be doing two sets, so they'll do their first set on the main stage area on the floor, and then they'll do custom change and go into the backstage.

16:25 Speaker 1: Okay.

16:26 Speaker 3: Very cool, and like, well all this is happening.

16:28 Speaker 4: There's entertainment happening at all times. So you know, after the Marvel's, the Nigans is gonna come on. And they're punk as well. They're a Walking Dead parody band and they do a lot of really fun things.

16:41 Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm looking after that Dead Harrison.

16:44 Speaker 1: Yep, Dead Harrison of course. Yeah. We we've actually played a Dead Harrison track coming into the segment. Yeah, I always always love Dead Harrison, and I'm looking forward to seeing the Nigans too, because you've told us a lot about them on a previous disappearance on the show, but Jenny and I haven't seen them be out live, so really looking forward to that.

17:03 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, have a lot of fun.

17:05 Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, they's fantastic, much fun. They put on a great show, and Dead Harrison is going to be doing a mix of old and new stuff that everyone loves.

17:15 Speaker 1: Cool.

17:17 Speaker 4: And then we have a band coming up from Connecticut which maybe've heard of. They've played a Terminus. They're more in the Light and they're kind of a dooom band. And Dwayne Eldridge is the front runner of that band, and he's been so super helpful with helping us put together the flyer for this event, and he's going to be donating his equipment because he runs a production company. So everybody who has been, you know, connected with this event has been so helpful and willing to volunteer their time and their energy and their passions.

17:47 Speaker 3: Yeah, those guys are great. They're a great bands. They played for us a Terminus a few months ago. It's an awesome show and they were on your radio show too.

17:58 Speaker 1: I was going to say, yeah, I remember more in the light. Yeah, absolutely yeah.

18:04 Speaker 4: But so then after that we kind of go into the dance part of the night with the burlest Dancer, and let's see, Letho is a really interesting person. She also has a pain story and this particular burless dance of hers is an expression of that. So she, you know, kind of warned me. She's like, it's going to be a little triggering for some people, and I said, that's.

18:25 Speaker 1: What we want.

18:26 Speaker 4: We want to raise that awareness. We want people to not be in their comfort zone when it comes to things. And one of the things that I've found is someone who's been out to shows for you know, twenty plus years, we see a lot of micro judgments, unfortunately with people who have disabilities. Like someone will come in with a wheelchair or a cane, but then they'll go on the floor and dance and people are like, oh, why are they dancing? Well, it's because they can, for like maybe a moment in time, just let them do it exact.

18:54 Speaker 4: So we're trying to raise awareness for those people as well, because you know, that's some thing yes selfy deals with. We had a friend previously who was a cheam user who dealt with that at punk shows. Yeah, it's really important for people to just let people be Oh.

19:12 Speaker 1: Absolutely, you You make a great point with that, because it's it's the it's human nature. Unfortunately, people make snap judgments, uh, based on what they see with no actual information.

19:26 Speaker 3: Uh. People.

19:27 Speaker 1: People do this on all kinds of things, of course, but but especially with the example you just gave, where people look at someone and say, oh, they don't look sick, or they don't look disabled, or they don't look this, or they don't look that, so and then they and then they form this judgment in their mind that is completely unfair because they have no idea what's going on on the inside of that person's body. So that that's a great point that you raised big time, big time.

19:50 Speaker 2: Right after one of my surgeries, somebody looked at me in a wheelchair and said I had breast cancer and I didn't need a wheelchair.

19:56 Speaker 1: Literally, Yeah, oh yeah, I.

20:00 Speaker 3: Get dirty looks because I have my wheelchair. And I was at GLAR on Sunday and I got out of the bathroom and I wheeled my chair out of the handicapped stall, pushing it and people were looking at me funny, and I had like I had. Somebody was like, I will deck you. I don't even look at Spelfie like that, right, he has a hard time walking. You can you can fright them.

20:25 Speaker 2: We have devices doesn't mean having a assist of device doesn't mean you have to be glued to it at all moments. If you have a moment that you get to feel slightly human without it, you know, don't deprive somebody of that. That's huge for that moment. So when somebody does that to you, it kills It just kills you.

20:42 Speaker 1: It kills you.

20:43 Speaker 2: If you get a moment of humanity and somebody calls you out for actually being human, it's like.

20:48 Speaker 4: And people also don't realize after how much recovery time behind the scenes happens after you expend that type of energy.

20:57 Speaker 2: This is the most I've done since last Saturday. We had an event last Saturday, and I haven't been really out of the house except for Tuesday to vote and that was it. I haven't been out of the house since because I'm still recovering from it.

21:09 Speaker 4: It was worth it go out of the house once a months, Yeah.

21:14 Speaker 2: I mean, it's worth it. You end up flaring, but it's worth it to have the lived experience and have a quality life.

21:22 Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's you know, the rest of us just take it for granted, you know. But I always say, you know, health is the single easiest thing to take for granted, you know, until something.

21:31 Speaker 2: So when it's when it takes to going places, like when Spelfie and I need to go someplace, it's not just where we're going and what we're going to do we get there. It's getting ready, getting down to the car, it's getting out of the car. It's how far do we have to walk? Is their staircases, It's everything that it takes to get there and to get home, plus the events.

21:52 Speaker 3: Yeah, and where am I going to sit during this time because I know I'm not going to be able to stand the whole time.

21:59 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly.

22:01 Speaker 4: Yeah, So this will be a great test for us, this whole day event to see if we can you know, make ourselves you know, take some breaks and self care during this full time.

22:12 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a given, a given.

22:15 Speaker 1: So I see on the list too, there's so Whaleam Park. I feel like I know whalam Park, but I'm not.

22:22 Speaker 3: You guys, interviewed Whaleam Park back in May.

22:26 Speaker 1: Oh goodness, it becomes such a blur. Okay, I thought the name was familiar.

22:30 Speaker 2: But I love us that we have that problem.

22:32 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good problem to have in a sense because we have to interview.

22:35 Speaker 3: So many We've interviewed so many people we forget. That's what.

22:38 Speaker 4: I need a spreadsheet to look at when I'm talking to you, so I make sure I'm hitting the point.

22:44 Speaker 2: That's awesome, no doubt.

22:45 Speaker 1: No doubt.

22:47 Speaker 3: I think now I need like AI assists to tell me my schedule too, because cly, I'm.

22:53 Speaker 1: Forgetting right right. Yes, let's see, we've got Rabbit's Foot, who I definitely don't know.

23:00 Speaker 2: Nope, don't know that. There's a bunch of these bands that I definitely want us to get to talk to, and yeah, come on, I would like them.

23:10 Speaker 3: I would definitely recommend interviewing Rabbit's Foot.

23:13 Speaker 4: They are a group of characters.

23:16 Speaker 3: I absolutely love them. What's the standadlined my birthday last year? It was awesome?

23:23 Speaker 1: Are they?

23:24 Speaker 3: One of the only complaints I got about the show that I threw for my birthday last year was that Rabbit's Foot didn't get along enough.

23:29 Speaker 4: Set Okay, so that's why they have a long enough sets.

23:31 Speaker 3: That's why that's why they have an hour.

23:34 Speaker 1: Are they are they? Are they a jam band? It just sounds like the name of a jam band. Are they a jam band?

23:39 Speaker 2: Yeah?

23:40 Speaker 4: Jam I figured the evening out with you know, going into the jam space and Leon Trout does a lot of that, but a lot of other different things. And then the open damn at the end is something that Selthy's compiling with a bunch of different musicians and people can jump on board and participate. And that's only the first stage.

24:01 Speaker 3: You know, we haven't even talked about this. That's just the main stage.

24:05 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see all that's happening.

24:08 Speaker 4: We also have, you know, the second stage, which is a huge ceiling room. It's a little bit of a smaller space, but it's kind of cool because it's not a very big acoustic ceiling.

24:18 Speaker 1: Yeah.

24:19 Speaker 3: And on that side we have Lacey Beebee from Who I Am.

24:24 Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that.

24:25 Speaker 4: Wave Radio Boston and seeing that stage.

24:28 Speaker 3: So we've got two radio show hosts hosting so well.

24:33 Speaker 1: Yeah, we had I remember when we had Lacy on the show. That was so much fun.

24:36 Speaker 3: At of that song fantastic.

24:38 Speaker 1: That song let Me Know when It's Time to Rock was stuck in my head for weeks afterwards.

24:43 Speaker 3: That's my favorite song.

24:44 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's a lot of fun. And I see Temple the show, okay, and I see Temple Mountain on the list. We were talking about Temple Mountain actually with our guests in the first hour.

24:57 Speaker 2: Yeah, who was recognized.

25:00 Speaker 4: Nominal Support of the scene. And he's just been such a good friend since we've known him, so we're so excited.

25:05 Speaker 3: Yeah, he's always such a nice, nice guy, great talent, and so when he was like, can I play for Spelfifest? I was like, shut up. I was going to ask you.

25:14 Speaker 4: That's awesome.

25:15 Speaker 2: Oh I didn't know. Yes too, that's so cool.

25:18 Speaker 1: That's very cool, very cool cool. He is so talented. Yeah, let's see, it's crazy.

25:25 Speaker 3: Like half the bands I was going to ask hit me up before I even had to hit them up, and they were like, can I play Spelfifest? I was like, oo, wow, you teach me to get out of my head, because how do you know? I love you that much. I was going to invite you.

25:37 Speaker 4: I even had a national as contact me last night saying we'd love to play your festival, and I'm like, wow, okay, so now we have nationals asking us, so next year is going to be even bigger.

25:46 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. Yeah, looking at the list. So then after Temple Mountain, I see good Bars and Six Minds combined, So looking forward to that. That's going to be awesome. And then the Marvels are oh sorry, So.

26:01 Speaker 4: Marvel is kind of back, you know, back and forth through the stages. And then we have a flow artist, Nicolette Reid, who's.

26:11 Speaker 3: What is her company?

26:12 Speaker 1: It's not Redkite, yeah, it says uh here red Kite Entertainment is that.

26:17 Speaker 3: Uh, that's an introduction house.

26:21 Speaker 4: That's her out there. That's her DJ business because she's also a DJ.

26:24 Speaker 3: Okay, it's oh, it's airflow projection art.

26:27 Speaker 4: So what she does is she has huge flags and she spins them with projection art, you know, any kind of projection art, and she does a choreograph dance to a specific song and it's just beautiful and engaging and it, you know, just captures your attention. So it's different than anything I've ever seen. And she was over at Terminus for our Halloween show outside in the parking lot dressed as a ghost and she had all this haunting h imagery going on, and it really drew in the crowd.

26:57 Speaker 3: So it's pretty cool.

26:59 Speaker 2: It sounds really.

27:02 Speaker 4: He's going to be doing that and accompanying a little bit with the next act, which is Mike mcdell.

27:08 Speaker 3: And he's the Healer, So he is an edm DJ, but he does a.

27:12 Speaker 4: Lot of really cool low progression stuff that also, you know, kind of sets the vibe.

27:20 Speaker 1: And why why does he call himself the Healer.

27:23 Speaker 4: Because his whole personality and the way that he interacts with the world is based on like everyone loving each other and healing from their trauma together through music.

27:34 Speaker 1: Oh interesting, Okay, Oh he's someone. He's someone we have to get on the show to get.

27:38 Speaker 3: Off that energy. When you meet him, you feel like you're in the presence of somebody who just wants you to feel better.

27:44 Speaker 1: Okay.

27:45 Speaker 4: And he's a business owner. He owns a couple of businesses and he's opening up a new place, a's non alcoholics he and coffee shop in Nashalla called The Spot. So that should be opening up in January and it'll be just another place for people to come and be comfortable perform and you know, enjoy a cool vibe.

28:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh excellent. No, I look forward to meeting him absolutely. And then you've got Dog eight Dog, and uh.

28:13 Speaker 3: I love those guys. Yeah, they're so much fun. They are. They are some of my good friends. And they played met my birthday last year and I feel so great that I'm immortalized on some of their merch. They put their their dates of that they played last year on their merch and one of them being my birthday party. And I'm like, no special, I am immortalized on merch from a band.

28:38 Speaker 1: Very nice, very nice. And then the Whole Loaf who we had on the show, and they're amazing. Love those guys.

28:44 Speaker 4: Love those They're so amazing.

28:45 Speaker 3: Those guys are, like Sean, such a sweetie, well before their time or ahead of their time or beyond their time really because they just play music like it.

28:54 Speaker 4: Comes from the depths of their soul. And literally Sean who plays keyboards, he sounds like George Jim more of them from the doors.

29:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, now, they're they're great. Looking forward to that. And then of course the uh, the Spelfy, the Spelfy encore. So is that Spelfy is that when you're supposed to sing.

29:15 Speaker 3: No, that's just been we're going to do like the cake and stuff.

29:18 Speaker 1: Really I thought I thought that's when you were singing.

29:20 Speaker 3: I think I think that's going to be the open jam after.

29:23 Speaker 1: Oh, that's going to be the open jam after. Okay, all right, I got you. But you are going to sing, right,

29:30 Speaker 1: that's the goal. You might find yourself at the event having an urge to sing, and you may find.

29:36 Speaker 3: You I would that would be great.

29:40 Speaker 4: From telling you from telling you to sing when he's talking.

29:43 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I am going to be working with some people on learning U a song or two come Monday. Anyway, so it may happen.

29:52 Speaker 1: You might find yourself feeling.

29:55 Speaker 2: It's kind of sound like a Talking Heads radio fun song.

29:58 Speaker 1: Now, Oh that you might find yourself yourself no very good?

30:03 Speaker 5: So uh yeah, I mean if Matt Connors almost to hypnotize me and I wake up with a beautiful white I mean.

30:19 Speaker 1: Oh there you go, well in a beautiful house, right drive So this is uh so, this all happens November twenty fourth at Jewel So looking forward to that. And where should people go for tickets?

30:37 Speaker 4: So online our website, The Midnight Creatives Collective dot com clash shows, So Midnight Creatives Collective dot com slash shows and you can see the event page there buy tickets. You could also buy tickets at the door. They're going to go up just a little bit, but you can use then lower cash app or cash at the door.

30:59 Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent. We should too while we have you, we should talk, uh, tell us about the Midnight Creatives Collective. I mean, obviously long time listeners who tune in consistently are aware of what you do. But for but for people who don't know what is the Midnight Creatives Collective because you do such great well, you have a lot going on there. In fact, you know you've got that, you've got terminus underground. You've got a lot going on. But you know, but especially for the musicians who are listening, who might want to know more about it and and who can benefit, Uh, give us a little synopsis of what you've got going on with the collective.

31:36 Speaker 3: Yeah, so there is a lot.

31:37 Speaker 4: Going on, and there's kind of always more, but we are The Midnight Creatives Collective is an organization that's been built to support local artists and musicians. Do you kind of get the deck leg up in their music and art career and have the support that they need finding shows and meeting people and networking. There's several different arms to the organization, and eventually the organization itself is going to become a nonprofit so that we can give even greater support like sponsors, ship opportunities, or scholarships to people in need of things like that, and associate with different music associations.

32:17 Speaker 4: So eventually that's going to happen as the overarch. But through the Midnight Creatives Collective, we have a coworking space called the Business Bar where musicians and artists can come in and sit together and hang out and it's like a social space where you don't have to kind of be alone off in your own little island. You can do your social media, you can do your promotions, you can work.

32:40 Speaker 3: On your art, your music.

32:42 Speaker 4: You can.

32:44 Speaker 1: Get hypnotized there.

32:47 Speaker 4: You can get hypnotized there because that will rent out the space too. Yeah, you can also rent out the space.

32:53 Speaker 3: You can rent it out for art workshops, for hypnosis sessions, you can rent it out to.

32:59 Speaker 4: Your needs a mediator for an example. It's a roundtable kind of environment, so you can rented out for that purpose. We have memberships. We base everything on membership, so we have certain levels of membership. The top level of the IP memberships includes musicians who want to learn the next level of the music business. So I teach that getting people out and creating their online presence, getting them involved in how to understand copyright and how to get signed up with a pro. So all of those details happened there too.

33:33 Speaker 4: We also have space for a podcast studio or radio show that you can rent out and we call it the Clubhouse. And most recently we opened up what we call Steve's Place, which is a community jam space where people can sign up to either solo jam or have up to five people in a community jam setting. Yeah, and then we also have Terminus Underground, you know, that's our kind of main arm. Andre from Dead Harrison he opened up his very large rehearsal space for us so that we can have semi monthly or monthly shows of all genres.

34:12 Speaker 4: Yeah, we've been really successful because Nashala does not have any place for local underground musicians to play, but we have a huge pool of talent and people who want to listen to that kind of music. Who are you know, kind of on the alternative side of life, where the you know, they're not mainstream and they don't have to feel like they have a place to go, and Terminus is the place for them to go, right. It's like a really cool living room style environment. We're very low key there. The vibe is always good, the hospitalities on point, and then sound is excellent.

34:47 Speaker 4: So true music lovers love coming to Terminus.

34:50 Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, even our Dentist show, which we only had ten paying customers, which is great considering me as just opened and it was a icy storm and people still showed up. Yeah, and even then with ten people in the audience, people were like, this is the best show I've happened.

35:08 Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool.

35:09 Speaker 3: The game the place said, this is the best show we've had, and we've had more people in the audience before.

35:15 Speaker 1: Oh that's excellent, excellent.

35:16 Speaker 4: Yeah, multiple times.

35:18 Speaker 3: You hear that.

35:18 Speaker 4: We have had consistent feedback from both bands and sands, and we've continue to send upwards and sell out at every show within the last five months. Yep.

35:30 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.

35:31 Speaker 3: Well.

35:31 Speaker 1: The thing too, that I like to tell everybody about Terminus Underground is that when you walk into that room, it's like walking into a different world. And of course, you know, I I that was before I even knew about the you know, the connection to the inspiration, you know, the Walking Day. It's the Walking Day. I get all these zombie things mixed up. But that was before I even knew about that. That's you know, what the inspiration was. But yeah, just walking into that room, it's it's just so cool.

35:58 Speaker 4: It's yeah, it's like it on it was even crazier.

36:02 Speaker 1: I can imagine, I can imagine.

36:04 Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, we really capitalized on the Walking Dead scene because we we had the Megans and they actually rehearse on the other end of the mill building that we have, and they called them side Sanctuary, which is a Walking Dead reference and Terminus is uh the other like it's like a place people go to in the Walking Dead themology. It's a place of cannibalism.

36:30 Speaker 3: Ok So we have to say, okay, you know, we've given up our cannibalistic ways. It's okay for you to come over right right.

36:36 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we might have.

36:38 Speaker 4: One cannibal in the back, but that's only for the really, really bad people.

36:41 Speaker 3: Yeah, and he he only does cannibalism with consent. You'll only eat your lunch if you give him permission.

36:49 Speaker 1: Why do I appreciate that. Yeah, even during the Green Jello show, no one was actually consumed, which is good.

36:57 Speaker 3: Yeah.

36:58 Speaker 2: That was a.

36:59 Speaker 4: Phenomenal show, and we're really grateful that Jenny got that opportunity out for us to have that type of a show because I think that's what really helped launch the idea of Terminus in the hearts and minds of the community.

37:11 Speaker 1: Oh that's cool. Yeah, Yeah, that was a lot of fun. That was a lot of fun, little nerve racking. I just remember looking around quite I hope nothing, I hope nothing gets broken or you know, anything like that. But no, but that was that was a lot of fun. That was a great night. That was a great night. Do you have any do you have anything coming up at Terminus before Spelfy Fests that you want to plug or I don't know if you have anything between.

37:35 Speaker 3: You but directly after.

37:37 Speaker 4: So for the kind of wind down of our twenty twenty fourth season, we're gonna have a couple shows in December. The first is December seventh. It's a doom show with fog Wizard, who's releasing their vinyl. So fog Wizard is a really cool doom pledge band that asked us if they could perform at Terminus, and so Dead Harrison will be on that bill. And then we have another band called Arctic Horror who's on the bill, and we're still confirming, but I'm hoping this will be there too. Okay, the four band bill, you know, special Winter Doom performances.

38:13 Speaker 4: And then on the twenty first, we're going to be having a Soultice party and so everyone who wants to come, We're probably gonna do some sort of a Yankee swap, but we're having Who I Am the Healer and Six Minds combined performing and we're kind of trying to like, you know, end it on like a really high note. So we're gonna have a lot of lights and it's going to be really really fun. So we'd love to see you guys if you want to come by that.

38:42 Speaker 1: Yeah, and what's the date for that again?

38:45 Speaker 4: That would be December twenty first.

38:47 Speaker 1: December twenty first, very good, very good.

38:50 Speaker 4: I'll have flyers up soon and invites going out soon. But the Stealthy Best is such a big thing. We're like really focused.

38:56 Speaker 1: Oh micro focus, Yeah, I don't blame you, No, is a big thing. I mean people, people who've never been involved in any kind of concert promotion have no idea how much goes into it. Like I tell I tell everyone, how how any anyone who's never done it, I tell them, you know, no matter how much you think goes into it, it's ten times more.

39:20 Speaker 4: Than what you can And then there's the thing that you can't account for that.

39:24 Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, there's there's Wow.

39:27 Speaker 3: I did not think to take ahead of plans for that contingency. That is something I was not expecting.

39:33 Speaker 5: To pop up.

39:34 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly.

39:36 Speaker 3: Always something. Yeah, there's always something that you're not going to plan for.

39:40 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, Well listen, we'll you got a lot going on, obviously, you have a lot on your plate planning for this, so we'll let we'll get you, get you back to it. But Eleanor and Spelfe, thank you so much for joining us. Appreciate it. Really looking forward to spellfee Fest and any anything.

39:56 Speaker 3: So excited. I'm so excited anything I'm still looking for. We were to seeing you guys there, and thank you guys for having us again.

40:03 Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, I love talking.

40:04 Speaker 3: To you guys.

40:05 Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, yeah, No, glad to do it. I was thinking I'm going to close out the segment with a Dead Harrison track. I was thinking about playing some Doom Train. I agree, absolutely love that song.

40:17 Speaker 4: We welcome that, and we welcome everyone who's been listening to this show to come on and buy your tickets for Selfie Fest, and we look forward to meeting everybody and it's.

40:26 Speaker 3: Going to be a grand time.

40:28 Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely can't wait. All right, Eleanor and Spelfie, Well we'll let you go, but thank you so much.

40:35 Speaker 4: Thanks so much, Matt and Jenny, have a great day.

40:37 Speaker 5: You got it.

40:37 Speaker 1: Take care, Bye bye,