Matt Connarton Unleashed: Factory of Art

0:00 Speaker 1: The song is Blessing in disguise. The band is Factory

0:03 Speaker 1: of Art, and I think we have a couple of

0:05 Speaker 1: guys from Factory of Art on Skype with us. Hello,

0:08 Speaker 1: can you guys hear me?

0:10 Speaker 2: Hey? Hello?

0:11 Speaker 3: Here is still at a fun factory of Art and

0:14 Speaker 3: the best drama of the world rather is with me today?

0:19 Speaker 1: Okay, Well, welcome guys.

0:22 Speaker 2: How thank you?

0:25 Speaker 1: How are you are you? Are you on the road

0:27 Speaker 1: right now?

0:29 Speaker 2: Yeah? We are not on the road, but on the boat.

0:31 Speaker 3: We play a show tonight on a little metal cruise

0:35 Speaker 3: in a New York Berlin.

0:37 Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool. That's cool. Is the weather. They're a

0:40 Speaker 1: good good cruise weather.

0:42 Speaker 2: Oh very fine.

0:43 Speaker 3: It's not too hot, but it's sunny, and a lot

0:46 Speaker 3: of guys are here on a boat, and we hope

0:50 Speaker 3: we will play a good show tonight, but not as

0:53 Speaker 3: factory of Art. I told you earlier that we have

0:59 Speaker 3: a cover. Ohject we play songs of Inhale on Umstein

1:05 Speaker 3: a CDC and so on. Yeah, tonight is party. Tonight

1:08 Speaker 3: is not the Factory of Art show, it's a factory

1:11 Speaker 3: on the cover.

1:12 Speaker 1: Sure, Oh I gotcha, I got cha. Now that's cool though,

1:16 Speaker 1: that you get to play on a cruise and congratulations

1:19 Speaker 1: by the way on the album. And I love these songs.

1:23 Speaker 1: I mean this is next level. Blessing in Disguise is

1:25 Speaker 1: such an interesting song. You know, it's it's got you know,

1:29 Speaker 1: kind of the power metal thing. But there's also there's

1:32 Speaker 1: also some curveballs in there. There's some things you don't

1:34 Speaker 1: necessarily expect to hear. At one point it sounds almost

1:37 Speaker 1: like a Moog keyboard is in there, or a Wurlitzer

1:41 Speaker 1: or something. It's really interesting.

1:43 Speaker 3: Oh, thank you very much. It's it's so nice to

1:47 Speaker 3: hear that. Because we are very proud. Now the album

1:51 Speaker 3: is ready. We had a very good record release show

1:53 Speaker 3: in Leipsish in June, and the first reviews on the

1:58 Speaker 3: album in the German underground press are very very good.

2:04 Speaker 2: We are very happy with this.

2:05 Speaker 3: Sure and sure it's it's so nice that you like it.

2:11 Speaker 2: Uh, it's it's it's great.

2:13 Speaker 3: The best review says twelve from ten points okay to scale.

2:20 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, excellent, excellent. Now are you guys getting to

2:23 Speaker 1: play these songs live? I I know tonight you're not

2:27 Speaker 1: because you're doing the covers, But do you guys have

2:30 Speaker 1: a lot of opportunities to play these songs live.

2:34 Speaker 3: We played some shows with a new new material. Now

2:38 Speaker 3: we have a little break. It's summertime here and we're

2:42 Speaker 3: too late to be booked on the great festivals here

2:46 Speaker 3: in Germany. We have to try it in the next month.

2:49 Speaker 3: Is in the next year. Yeah, we have some gigs

2:53 Speaker 3: in Leipzig in Germany.

2:54 Speaker 2: At all. It's great.

2:59 Speaker 3: It's a great adventure for us to play the new

3:01 Speaker 3: material live on stage. But it's not the thing that

3:06 Speaker 3: we have a tour. That's yeah, that's the thing we

3:10 Speaker 3: have to work about in the next month.

3:12 Speaker 1: Is okay? Okay? Is it challenging to play the new

3:15 Speaker 1: material live because, like I said, it's it's it's pretty loud.

3:22 Speaker 3: There we were under a bridge, that's why.

3:28 Speaker 2: A little bit too loud.

3:29 Speaker 1: Yet, Yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense. So the boat,

3:32 Speaker 1: the boat is in motion. Is it challenging to play

3:37 Speaker 1: these songs live, because, like I said, it's you know,

3:40 Speaker 1: it's not your standard power metal. There's some there's some

3:43 Speaker 1: other things going on. It's very complex.

3:46 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a it's a challenge for us. It was

3:49 Speaker 3: a challenge for us, but we were well prepared for

3:52 Speaker 3: the first show, our record release.

3:54 Speaker 2: Show, like this.

3:55 Speaker 3: We had all our vocal singers guest singers.

4:01 Speaker 2: On stage during the show. That was so so nice.

4:05 Speaker 3: And we we trained very very hard to give the

4:11 Speaker 3: best on stage.

4:12 Speaker 2: It's it's a challenge for us. You're right, yeah, yeah?

4:15 Speaker 1: Do you I mean, are you able to play like

4:19 Speaker 1: when you do these shows? Do you just focus on

4:22 Speaker 1: the newer material because you you got you guys have

4:25 Speaker 1: been around for more than three decades, right.

4:27 Speaker 2: Yeah, so it is.

4:29 Speaker 3: We just last week we we created a new Settlers

4:34 Speaker 3: a mix of the new album and older songs. And

4:41 Speaker 3: now we have the ninety one hundred minute show program

4:46 Speaker 3: and we have I think seven new tracks and.

4:51 Speaker 2: Three or four of the both former earlier albums.

4:55 Speaker 1: Yeah, I assume, I mean obviously, I don't know that

5:00 Speaker 1: I've listened to anything like really early from you guys.

5:04 Speaker 1: Has the sound changed over the years. I would imagine

5:06 Speaker 1: it has somewhat, right, Yeah.

5:09 Speaker 2: So it is.

5:10 Speaker 3: The sound changed, the songwriting process changed a little bit.

5:15 Speaker 3: But when we play on stage new material or all

5:21 Speaker 3: of material, it's the same band, it's the same sound,

5:26 Speaker 3: and that I think it's a unit. The people like

5:31 Speaker 3: the old songs too. We play the best of them,

5:36 Speaker 3: I think, and it's a good it's a good mix

5:40 Speaker 3: of all and and people say, oh yeah, nice to

5:45 Speaker 3: have the new material. Ah, but it's nice to hear

5:49 Speaker 3: songs again that we never heard for twenty years live

5:53 Speaker 3: on stage.

5:54 Speaker 1: Yeah. I was gonna say, so. There must be people

5:56 Speaker 1: who've been there from the beginning, right, Do you see

5:58 Speaker 1: people at the shows who you remember from way back

6:01 Speaker 1: in the beginning when they first started to come out

6:03 Speaker 1: and see the band.

6:05 Speaker 2: Yeah, still of them are still alive.

6:08 Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh best best for us is that these

6:15 Speaker 3: people uh uh, the the die hard from fans from

6:19 Speaker 3: the first hour of the band say, it's so nice

6:23 Speaker 3: that you are back. And we like our new material too.

6:28 Speaker 3: I think it's for the for the for the people.

6:30 Speaker 3: It's nice to have the best of both worlds.

6:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt when you guys, when

6:42 Speaker 1: you guys do shows with the new material, are you

6:45 Speaker 1: doing festivals or have you been able to do any

6:48 Speaker 1: of those this summer?

6:50 Speaker 2: Yeah?

6:51 Speaker 3: We we played two shows, uh, two slots at festivals,

6:57 Speaker 3: but we were so so heavy that we played the

7:02 Speaker 3: whole new album in in on these two festivals.

7:08 Speaker 2: For it.

7:09 Speaker 3: It was for us to to to train our new material.

7:14 Speaker 3: The people asked us, oh, would you play some some

7:18 Speaker 3: older songs, and we said, sorry, not tonight. We want

7:22 Speaker 3: to show you that the whole new album. And uh yeah,

7:26 Speaker 3: that's why it was very nice. But it was an

7:30 Speaker 3: interesting effect for us.

7:31 Speaker 2: The people heard very very with I don't know the

7:37 Speaker 2: English word of maxim. We both don't know.

7:43 Speaker 3: They heard the new material and we're and but they

7:49 Speaker 3: needed a little bit time to understand it.

7:52 Speaker 1: Sure, sure, no, that makes sense, but nice to have.

7:58 Speaker 3: We sell our albums, our physical albums on our merg

8:04 Speaker 3: stand and it works, but only it works if you

8:09 Speaker 3: play a good show, right why And that's why we

8:13 Speaker 3: try to make it very good.

8:16 Speaker 2: Every every night tonight we have the cover program. It's

8:22 Speaker 2: nice to have for us, but we try to.

8:28 Speaker 3: Reach the people with a few informations about our Factory

8:33 Speaker 3: of Art project.

8:34 Speaker 2: Let's see how it works tonight.

8:37 Speaker 1: Yeah. I would imagine your music too. You must see

8:40 Speaker 1: like multiple generations. I assume you see young people at

8:44 Speaker 1: your shows too, right, because you you have music, I

8:47 Speaker 1: feel it's timeless. I feel that probably anyone of any

8:50 Speaker 1: age could get into what you're doing. Do you see

8:51 Speaker 1: a lot of young people at your shows?

8:54 Speaker 3: You're absolutely right, it's when you hear in Germany go

9:00 Speaker 3: to a festival, you have a mixture of people elder people,

9:04 Speaker 3: young people, and we have.

9:09 Speaker 2: Good response of both of them. You're right, it's it's.

9:16 Speaker 3: Seems we weself cannot say it's time this, but if

9:21 Speaker 3: you say it, the people say, okay, it's it's it's

9:25 Speaker 3: a I think, Uh.

9:28 Speaker 2: That's the truth. That's that's the truth. Yeah, and.

9:32 Speaker 3: This is this is our experiences of the last two shows.

9:37 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. Are you guys, are are you

9:44 Speaker 1: getting any traction at radio or radio stations they're playing you.

9:47 Speaker 1: I don't know what the what the situation is with

9:49 Speaker 1: radio in that part of the world currently, if there's

9:52 Speaker 1: a format that supports what you're doing. But I'm curious,

9:57 Speaker 1: I don't.

9:58 Speaker 3: We like the American and radio scene very much. Every

10:02 Speaker 3: time when i'm as a tourist a'm in in the States,

10:09 Speaker 3: I like it.

10:09 Speaker 2: So very much. But here in Germany it's so commercial. Yeah,

10:14 Speaker 2: it's so commercial there we have with our music no chance.

10:18 Speaker 2: But there is a really great and.

10:24 Speaker 3: Interesting underground radio scene and these guys are loving the

10:30 Speaker 3: new album and we have airplay in Internet ratings stations

10:35 Speaker 3: here in Germany.

10:36 Speaker 1: Oh, excellent, excellent, very good, Yeah, very good.

10:40 Speaker 3: We are an album of the months June or July

10:43 Speaker 3: in five or six radio stations here in Germany. And

10:48 Speaker 3: that's for us a very good thing.

10:51 Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, yeah, congratulations on that. That is outstanding. Well, listen, guys,

10:58 Speaker 1: it's great to speak with you. We'll we'll let you go.

11:01 Speaker 1: It sounds like there's a band. Is there a band

11:03 Speaker 1: on stage right now? Or is that a stereo?

11:06 Speaker 2: Yeah?

11:06 Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, as another band on stage. We look for

11:10 Speaker 3: the quietest place on this boat. But we have to

11:16 Speaker 3: go swim if you want to have it still.

11:20 Speaker 1: I understand, I completely understand. No, it sounds like a

11:23 Speaker 1: great time. It sounds fun. And uh uh when when

11:27 Speaker 1: do you guys play? Is it in a few hours

11:28 Speaker 1: or is it soon?

11:29 Speaker 2: Yeah? We have we have just have time.

11:31 Speaker 3: We have uh stage time is here in Germany seven pm? Yeah,

11:38 Speaker 3: it means to an half hour. We have to go

11:40 Speaker 3: on stage and we play our open promsdike.

11:45 Speaker 1: Usher excellent.

11:49 Speaker 2: From a from a little German band. I've seen the.

11:54 Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen Ramstein. I can't pronounce it correctly but

11:58 Speaker 1: my American mouth, but but I've seen Ramstein live and

12:03 Speaker 1: it's it's quite a show. In fact, the times that

12:07 Speaker 1: I've seen them, if you're close enough to the stage,

12:09 Speaker 1: you can feel the heat coming from the pyro, which

12:12 Speaker 1: is a little scary.

12:13 Speaker 2: But.

12:16 Speaker 3: There's a nice story of our earlier days. I played

12:20 Speaker 3: two shows as local support with rumsheine In in the

12:26 Speaker 3: late nineties in Leipzigh. It was a great experience for us.

12:31 Speaker 3: But they were so fantastic, so good as well as

12:34 Speaker 3: little stage as well, a hall, not a stadium, but

12:38 Speaker 3: it was so great for us, and and it's what

12:42 Speaker 3: was nice too to meet the guys.

12:43 Speaker 2: It us is the time of their first album, had

12:46 Speaker 2: the light? Now in these times the bridge? May we

12:53 Speaker 2: come under the bridge? Sorry, it will be allowed for

12:55 Speaker 2: a few seconds.

12:56 Speaker 1: Oh that's okay, Yeah.

12:59 Speaker 2: They've got here we go. Oh see legs have a

13:04 Speaker 2: paranoid Yeah, yes, they are prying here. It's so nice.

13:09 Speaker 1: Yeah, so there we go, there we go.

13:14 Speaker 2: Sorry, now it's better.

13:15 Speaker 1: They should put some soundproofing panels under the bridge for

13:19 Speaker 1: when that happens.

13:20 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, we went through and everything's fine,

13:24 Speaker 3: I hope, yes, yes, yeah, And we play some songs.

13:28 Speaker 3: Tonight Helps Bells is the second song from Acy DC

13:32 Speaker 3: and our less song. Sure, Motorhead is of Space and

13:36 Speaker 3: then we have fifteen, sixteen, twenty twenty tracks to play tonight.

13:42 Speaker 2: We are the last band headline on you Boo and Cool.

13:47 Speaker 2: It's nice.

13:48 Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear I hear a Black Sabbath Paranoid in

13:53 Speaker 1: the background. It sounds good.

13:54 Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, yeah.

13:56 Speaker 1: Whoever that band is, they sound good, but you will

13:58 Speaker 1: sound even better, I have no doubt.

14:00 Speaker 2: I hope that will. We try it.

14:05 Speaker 3: You know, it's it's it's party time for us tonight,

14:07 Speaker 3: but we want to we want to play a good show.

14:12 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, No, you guys are amazing. Like I said,

14:15 Speaker 1: I love the album, Thank you so much for sending

14:18 Speaker 1: it to us, and I love these songs. I'm gonna

14:21 Speaker 1: let you go in a moment so you can you

14:22 Speaker 1: can get back to it. But I have a question.

14:25 Speaker 1: What song should I finish the segment with. I opened

14:29 Speaker 1: with the single of course, Blessing in Disguise, But do

14:32 Speaker 1: you guys have a suggestion on what you would like

14:34 Speaker 1: me to end the segment with.

14:37 Speaker 3: Just let's let us talks launch bick to Life, Back

14:41 Speaker 3: to the Life.

14:42 Speaker 2: Back to the Life. The lasted tracks the title track

14:45 Speaker 2: would be.

14:45 Speaker 1: Nice, Okay, okay, yeah, we can go with that. Very cool,

14:49 Speaker 1: very cool, all right, And what should our listeners know?

14:52 Speaker 1: What should our listeners know here in America about how

14:55 Speaker 1: to find you guys online to keep up with what

14:58 Speaker 1: you're doing. Anything special you want them to.

15:00 Speaker 3: No, yeah, sure, we have a new system. You find

15:06 Speaker 3: everything about Factory of Art.

15:08 Speaker 2: On the Factory Minus minus Art dot band.

15:16 Speaker 1: Okay, and we'll share the link out too to make

15:18 Speaker 1: sure people have it. But very good, very good. All right,

15:22 Speaker 1: Hey guys, thank you so much. Have a great show tonight.

15:24 Speaker 1: We'll let you go so we can hit this track.

15:26 Speaker 1: But I really appreciate you joining us today.

15:30 Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Think it's nice to be with

15:32 Speaker 3: you and the best greetings from Berlin from the boat Factory.

15:39 Speaker 1: All right, guys, thank you so much. Take care, have fun. Yep,

15:44 Speaker 1: you too, al all right, bye bye? All right, Factory

15:48 Speaker 1: of Art. What a great band. We will play this

15:51 Speaker 1: next to finish out the segment. This is a track

15:54 Speaker 1: called back to Life. Back to the Life rather from,

15:56 Speaker 1: of course, their album of the same name, the title

15:59 Speaker 1: track Factory of Art. I definitely recommend you check them out.

16:03 Speaker 1: Great guys, and I love their music.