Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed: Legion of Solace (Bruce, Malcolm, Rebecca)
Speaker 1: Uh, well, let's get our guests in here. So now
Speaker 1: one of these fine people, Bruce has been here with
Speaker 1: us before.
Speaker 2: Welcome back.
Speaker 3: Absolutely my favorite T shirt.
Speaker 1: We asked, Legion of Solace. Yes they are.
Speaker 4: They are, which very much says support local music, and
Speaker 4: I love it and it has this beautiful phoenix on it. Yes,
Speaker 4: so it's it's like dually awesome of a T shirt.
Speaker 1: And uh, Bruce, I'll let you introduce your your comrades.
Speaker 3: Here, colleagues.
Speaker 2: I've got Malcolm.
Speaker 3: Wood Malcolm Wood welcome, Hello.
Speaker 2: Hello, and I also have Rebecca Knockman with me as well.
Speaker 3: Rebecca welcome, thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, let me turn that mic up a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that Mike, that's my least favorite mic in the room.
Speaker 3: You notice that that one's the one that gives us.
Speaker 1: If there's one that gives us trouble, it's always that one.
Speaker 4: Say hi to me so I can see if you're
Speaker 4: sounding good.
Speaker 1: That's that's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just got to
Speaker 1: talk right into it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: These mics are very very unidirectional. Uh so, yeah, so welcome.
Speaker 1: So for the uninitiated, for those who don't know what
Speaker 1: is Legion of Solace, because and I think I even
Speaker 1: might have said this, you bers, when I first heard
Speaker 1: the name Legion of Solace, I assumed it was a band.
Speaker 3: A lot of people do. Yeah, yeah, I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: even lie to you. A lot of people do. So
Speaker 3: what is Legion of Solace? Exactly?
Speaker 5: Well, the founder Tuesday, she shout out to Tuesday. She's
Speaker 5: thinks she's watching right now, sutt to Tuesday. She's our
Speaker 5: founder and we're the co founders. But also Legion of Solace.
Speaker 5: That what we do is to help promote anything in everything
Speaker 5: we can put our helping hand into, Okay, whether it's
Speaker 5: a band, a venue, or anything else beneficial wise that
Speaker 5: will help better the community, whether it's music wise, benu
Speaker 5: wise that says helping that helps the music world to
Speaker 5: anybody who is backing and trying to have more local
Speaker 5: and up and coming bands shows, that's.
Speaker 3: What we're for, okay.
Speaker 5: And we're trying to eventually get to the point where
Speaker 5: we be like a big hub of like, hey, well
Speaker 5: we had a show that didn't it fell through? You know,
Speaker 5: is there anything that we can pick up along the
Speaker 5: way we're going to be traveling through Virginia here and
Speaker 5: such a well, yes, let me call such such such
Speaker 5: such a this venue and we'll try to light something up,
Speaker 5: you know, or just even like I said, we we
Speaker 5: sponsored No Boy too back called No Boy and we
Speaker 5: followed them on their mission of going to glory, you know,
Speaker 5: and helping promote them like on the radio shows that
Speaker 5: we have. Dark Mistress has a radio show and I
Speaker 5: have a radio show Quarantine Malaca that we do music
Speaker 5: videos and have anybody come in mind is more requests
Speaker 5: form you would come in.
Speaker 3: And we'll just have fun and feel the vibe of
Speaker 3: the room for the day. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So now the how how long have all three of
Speaker 1: you been involved in Legion of Solas?
Speaker 2: Malcolm and Rebecca were involved before I was.
Speaker 3: Oh okay.
Speaker 6: It started as more of like a social club mosh
Speaker 6: pit team, and in two thousand twenty one we moved
Speaker 6: into the realm of event sponsorship with Blue Ridge Rock
Speaker 6: Festival that year's iteration okay, And after the event, we
Speaker 6: decided to move from event sponsorship directly into involvement with
Speaker 6: the smaller bands just because of we're not going in
Speaker 6: when we're not going into too many details, just some
Speaker 6: of the things we saw that we thought we could
Speaker 6: change and handle better. Yeah, direct relationships and that that's.
Speaker 2: Worked out quite well for us.
Speaker 6: We actually this September celebrated three years converting to a
Speaker 6: more involved entity in the music scene, and it's worked
Speaker 6: out really well. We call ourselves full service. We can
Speaker 6: do everything but book the show itself. But like we
Speaker 6: even catered the pre party last night. When we're not
Speaker 6: doing this, I cook for a living. Malcolm also cooks
Speaker 6: for a living, So when you put us both in
Speaker 6: the same room, it's like a chop challenge working.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And plus we just wanted to kind of find
Speaker 5: some way to up the annie of what we did
Speaker 5: last year of just coming over and hanging out and
Speaker 5: just being a presence. We were trying to be involved
Speaker 5: as much as possibly can. And like I said, you know,
Speaker 5: when we say we come at you full service, it's
Speaker 5: even to the point where I'm an ordained minister, like
Speaker 5: I can literally marry in every state of Virginia.
Speaker 1: Would you be performing any wedding tonight at Swermyfest.
Speaker 5: I mean, I can throw one down for you real quickly,
Speaker 5: no problem, it needs to be done. It needs to
Speaker 5: be done. I'm there for the service of it as
Speaker 5: well as we need more. We're trying to change it
Speaker 5: up in the world more now, you know, like we
Speaker 5: need more different ways of doing it instead of like,
Speaker 5: don't get me twisted. Traditional weddings are beautiful, it's very
Speaker 5: eclectic and everything else like that, But what why can't
Speaker 5: we be more you know, unique. So if you're a
Speaker 5: metal hit and you don't want to go to the
Speaker 5: traditional ways, come find me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I'm a metal hit too. I love metal hit.
Speaker 3: I don't care, I'll sing it.
Speaker 5: You're comes sobody, you know, whatever gets it done. The
Speaker 5: whole point about it is is just we're here at
Speaker 5: full service for the music because we love music.
Speaker 3: I come from both sides of the spectrum.
Speaker 5: I used to be in a well known band that's
Speaker 5: been around Lensburg, Virginia for over twenty years. But even
Speaker 5: me growing up following that band before I joined them,
Speaker 5: and they were called hateful Bones. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And so I know the whole thing, like all of
Speaker 5: what Will is preaching the same thing. The Will was
Speaker 5: preaching about trying to be there for the music and
Speaker 5: helping there. That's my band down did the same thing
Speaker 5: down where we were at, like we were even getting
Speaker 5: peeped trying to help get people even to go on
Speaker 5: to Blue Red Rock Festival when we want our showcase
Speaker 5: of going to do in the after show at Blue
Speaker 5: Red Rock Festival. So you see what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 5: me following that band is what it eventually got me to.
Speaker 5: Where I'm at now is where I want to be
Speaker 5: a pretty much hub like you or a spot where
Speaker 5: you can come and put your music at where you
Speaker 5: can spend your blood, sweat and tears into it. You
Speaker 5: don't have to sit there and go through the cesspool
Speaker 5: that is the music indust have it done, because I mean,
Speaker 5: if you think about it, legitly, it's here.
Speaker 3: That's what it is. It's successful.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just poison after poison, have to poison.
Speaker 5: So I mean, the better make it easier for everybody
Speaker 5: as well as the more people who help share it.
Speaker 5: And not only not so you're amusing being heard, but
Speaker 5: it helps us to push more across, whether it be
Speaker 5: America or internationally, because that's what our initial goal is.
Speaker 5: We want to be able to be hit up from
Speaker 5: people and you know, Australia, you know it les you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, England and be like hey, we're
Speaker 5: coming to America and you know this gig fell through.
Speaker 3: Can you hook us up? Yeah?
Speaker 5: But if not already have our own you know, eventually
Speaker 5: in due time land space property where we can throw
Speaker 5: on our own leaders and solves of it. And it's
Speaker 5: not paid to play. It's you come in and you
Speaker 5: get paid and you play. You see what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 5: not you paying and sell tickets? I mean yes, obviously, yes,
Speaker 5: we want you to promote and try to help push
Speaker 5: to where.
Speaker 3: Some of your people will buy tickets. But it's not
Speaker 3: going to be a guarantee.
Speaker 5: Like how you got to go play on these big
Speaker 5: festivals and like Sonic Temple whatever. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: like you gotta you gotta go out there and put
Speaker 5: in some extra work to do so.
Speaker 3: But we don't want that.
Speaker 5: We want you to be able to come in and
Speaker 5: have as much fun as you can, enjoy the full experience,
Speaker 5: because that's what that's what happened back in the day,
Speaker 5: you know Woodstock. You know people they were just coming
Speaker 5: and having a ball. You know, it wasn't like pay
Speaker 5: to play. They probably would looked at you, stupid with
Speaker 5: a guitar case. Of course, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: Now what about you were back at how did you
Speaker 3: get involved in this?
Speaker 7: So I actually met Malcolm back Blue Ridge when he
Speaker 7: was working for Hafel Bones, Okay, and I was just
Speaker 7: a bubbly, bouncy little child. So I was like, what
Speaker 7: can I do to help? And he was like, here's
Speaker 7: a ticket or backstage pass. You can go ahead and
Speaker 7: help us with pictures and a whole bunch of other things.
Speaker 7: And so I just kind of picked up and followed
Speaker 7: him around. And it's always been a big part of
Speaker 7: my life to just help bands. I've got tons of
Speaker 7: friends down in Radford and Roanoke area that are bands.
Speaker 7: I've got friends down in Woodbridge, Virginia that are also
Speaker 7: bands trying to get big. And so when he was like, yeah,
Speaker 7: we're actually converting it from just this group that we
Speaker 7: hang out with. We're going to go big and we
Speaker 7: want to do stuff with it, I'm like helping people.
Speaker 7: I'm in what can I do?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh, excellent, excellent? And so how long I may have
Speaker 1: asked this before, but how long has this? How long
Speaker 1: has this existed? It's been a number of years now, right.
Speaker 5: Right, Well, to give the backstory, and I'm not going
Speaker 5: to stay in the other club. It initially started off
Speaker 5: where we all met in a whole other music club.
Speaker 5: Like we was even to the point where when we
Speaker 5: says the club experience, meaning is like most people thought
Speaker 5: we were MC's Yeah, because we were, because we were
Speaker 5: the whole battle vest. We had our heart patch, we
Speaker 5: had our you know, but we didn't have the three
Speaker 5: piece on the back, like it literally says leads to
Speaker 5: solid music promotion because we want to, you know, separate
Speaker 5: ourselves from that look. But we love that look because
Speaker 5: that's what's in rock and roll. That's what's always You
Speaker 5: always wears your battle vest to a festival. You've always
Speaker 5: wears your battle vest to a monspit. You've always done
Speaker 5: you know, you've always had your stuff where Hey, this
Speaker 5: man I saw back in nineteen eighty seven, and uh,
Speaker 5: they rocked my world and I had to get some
Speaker 5: kind of memory, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta you have that jacket.
Speaker 5: Where it has those war wounds where you know, like
Speaker 5: I was in that modspit of you know, Metallica where
Speaker 5: that dude almost got his neck burk.
Speaker 6: You know, even even before the age of the battle vest,
Speaker 6: it was the washed out, acid washed denim jacket the
Speaker 6: eighties with with your your old favorite band T shirt
Speaker 6: that you've worn one too many times, so you cut
Speaker 6: the front of it off and iron it onto the
Speaker 6: back of the jacket. Now it's totally aware.
Speaker 5: But yeah, so that's initially what it was, and it
Speaker 5: was the club experience. But and we were doing both simultaneously.
Speaker 5: But to uh, to get ourselves more format and structured
Speaker 5: and stable within the music community, to know that we
Speaker 5: are dead serious about this, we took away the club
Speaker 5: aspect for a little while and then uh just focused
Speaker 5: and so focus on just.
Speaker 3: Fine bands, fine bands, fine bands.
Speaker 5: Like I said, I wanted to do my radio show because,
Speaker 5: like I said, I've always wanted to be on radio
Speaker 5: show earlier to you.
Speaker 3: You've got the voice for it. Yeah, I try. I'll
Speaker 3: show you a little skin of what I do.
Speaker 5: But like, if you like, if you wanted to listen
Speaker 5: to it on fing radio, cool, I would like to
Speaker 5: do that also. But my thing was is I wanted
Speaker 5: to be the visual one because I've always entertained being
Speaker 5: on some kind of stage. So, you know, in order,
Speaker 5: especially when I'm not doing my music, I miss music
Speaker 5: so much that I would rather you know, start a
Speaker 5: radio show where I can have the music video up
Speaker 5: and me sitting in the corner like showing all right
Speaker 5: and just going at it, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: Just having fun and banging, getting the crowd wrapped up,
Speaker 5: rilled up, and have an entertainment, just pretty much purely
Speaker 5: bringing as much true passion to this thing. Because when
Speaker 5: I grew up, it was you know, it was rebel radio.
Speaker 5: Say oh, you don't want me to play that? Screw
Speaker 5: you d You know what I'm saying, It's done, it's on.
Speaker 5: So that's what I mean. I grew up in that
Speaker 5: area and I would love to get that back because
Speaker 5: it's some of the things that we grew up on
Speaker 5: in rock and roll and how it went it should
Speaker 5: have never changed.
Speaker 3: It wasn't broken. Let's not break it again, you know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Let's fix it and put it back the way it was,
Speaker 5: because obviously it was going better that way than it
Speaker 5: was you breaking it and trying to sell it, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So I'm all about rubber radio.
Speaker 5: I'm all about, you know, just going out there and
Speaker 5: having fun, just enjoying music, like how anybody would do.
Speaker 5: I would love to be able to have somebody call
Speaker 5: in and say, hey, man, that last song you play
Speaker 5: we're on a road trip, but it set the moment
Speaker 5: for our you know, our thing.
Speaker 3: And it's not even a band. I know who is
Speaker 3: that band? You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: We want to get everybody passionate and loving music again
Speaker 5: instead of just being like, well, I listened to Slip
Speaker 5: Night from nineteen ninety eight for you know, the past
Speaker 5: twenty five years and Creed the Farms wide open, you know,
Speaker 5: some Lincoln Park from back in the day, and you know,
Speaker 5: we want you to be able to still open your
Speaker 5: mind and be collected to new stuff and not just
Speaker 5: to be stuck in the same world.
Speaker 1: Right, It's hard to get a lot of people, it's
Speaker 1: hard to even get them into new stuff. This is
Speaker 1: a subject that comes up a lot on the show
Speaker 1: because a lot of people they get to a certain
Speaker 1: age and it's like, I mean, if I had to
Speaker 1: guess what the averages, I would guess thirty. But I
Speaker 1: think for some people it's like when they graduate high
Speaker 1: school where they just kind of go, Okay, I've heard
Speaker 1: all the music I ever need to hear. I'm only
Speaker 1: going to like music up to this point, and anything
Speaker 1: after this I don't like because all the good music
Speaker 1: has already been made and people just get locked in.
Speaker 1: And I like to bring up my father is a
Speaker 1: great exception to that. My dad's in his seventies. He
Speaker 1: lives on the seacoast and he listens to WUNH, the
Speaker 1: great college station there because he loves to hear new stuff.
Speaker 1: He's always listening.
Speaker 3: To new music.
Speaker 1: Like you wouldn't get into You wouldn't get into a
Speaker 1: car with my dad and you're the oldies station on
Speaker 1: the radio. This is not gonna happen. He loves hearing
Speaker 1: new stuff and he's always been like that. But that's rare.
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of people they just get
Speaker 1: to a certain point and they go, oh, that's it.
Speaker 1: Everything after this I just don't.
Speaker 3: I just don't like right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm thirty seven and I still want to go
Speaker 5: find newer things. That's the whole reason for this, as
Speaker 5: well as how can you say call this work like
Speaker 5: this is I literally do cooking, but when this is
Speaker 5: supposed to be a second job too, Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 5: Because we have so much passion and love for it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's a vacation. Yeah, yeah, I mean the whole entire
Speaker 5: time me and Becka was on the way up here.
Speaker 5: We have not been able to decompress from our years
Speaker 5: of stress because the whole incident Blue and Rock Festival happened,
Speaker 5: and you know a few other places just disappearing, like
Speaker 5: Epics Center only coming around for one year.
Speaker 3: We have not been able to find, you know, affordable.
Speaker 5: Festival to go to, you know what I'm saying, to
Speaker 5: decpress and enjoy what we love and hearing new bands
Speaker 5: and finding new bands or whatever, yeah, around my area.
Speaker 5: So it's like coming up here is our decompression to
Speaker 5: reset our minds to be able to deal with the
Speaker 5: rest of distress of the year that's going to come
Speaker 5: to us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you see what I'm saying. Oh yeah, absolutely, So,
Speaker 3: like that's how.
Speaker 5: Much we love music, is that it helps us in
Speaker 5: more ways in one yeah, you know, other than just
Speaker 5: passing time, Like oh that was just that was just
Speaker 5: a good song, you know what I'm just I'm glad
Speaker 5: I accidentally listened to that. No, no, this is we're
Speaker 5: really going. I literally sat there, sat there. Sometimes not
Speaker 5: here recently because I've been busy with working as a
Speaker 5: cook yeah, that I would sit there and I wouldn't
Speaker 5: even tell him.
Speaker 3: Like the next day, like I barely got three. I
Speaker 3: was asleep. Man, I've been.
Speaker 5: I went down what I call it, you know, the wormhole.
Speaker 5: I went down the rabbit hole, and I went so
Speaker 5: far that it's like I'm, you know, pretty much the
Speaker 5: mad Hatter sitting there on my twentieth cup of coffee
Speaker 5: or tea, and just like, man, let mean, what do
Speaker 5: I find? Because once I start finding new stuff that
Speaker 5: I've never heard in my life, whether either they've been
Speaker 5: signed to something a label that is not very fancy
Speaker 5: or one of the big labels, I'm all about finding
Speaker 5: new music. Like That's why I have a segment in
Speaker 5: my thing called Mystery Bands with Malachi.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So like where I spend at least thirty seconds to
Speaker 5: a minute dead radio solids and just sit there and
Speaker 5: go scroll, scroll, just so I can also knock out
Speaker 5: two birds with one stone and prove that it is
Speaker 5: not that hard to find new music.
Speaker 3: Well that's the thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's easier than ever. There's no excuse not to
Speaker 1: not to.
Speaker 5: I mean, you have Apple, you have you know Spotify,
Speaker 5: you have all these other.
Speaker 7: Things, but you got TikTok.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got TikTok. You got all these bands.
Speaker 5: Like That's how I'm finding some of these bands that
Speaker 5: are before they get too big where you can't play
Speaker 5: them because I don't have any certifications to play through
Speaker 5: my radio station except for on Twitch. They'll let so
Speaker 5: much go. But if you start playing some godsmack, right,
Speaker 5: you know, it's like all right, no, we got to
Speaker 5: meet that, you know what I'm saying. So I have limits,
Speaker 5: so as long as I stay where I'm supposed to
Speaker 5: be at, which is the content of local and up
Speaker 5: and coming as well as requests and every now and again,
Speaker 5: like I said, I love my Rebel radio, So because
Speaker 5: I'm on to Rebel to the core, every now and again,
Speaker 5: you might see me sneak something in there, even if
Speaker 5: it's like thirty to forty five seconds of you know,
Speaker 5: five minutes alone or you know what I'm saying, like
Speaker 5: something really cool that everybody to kind of just keep
Speaker 5: the hypeness and the joy of the room. But other
Speaker 5: than that, that's what our platforms are made for, is
Speaker 5: to help up and coming and anything local.
Speaker 3: Where do you stream I do it?
Speaker 5: I've been on the mix on the mix of going
Speaker 5: back and forth between Facebook and Twitch, because Facebook for
Speaker 5: the longest time was letting me play whatever, even if
Speaker 5: it was something well known.
Speaker 3: And then it cut to the point where as long
Speaker 3: as it.
Speaker 5: Was local and the AI couldn't pick it up, I
Speaker 5: could play it on Facebook. And then I was like,
Speaker 5: all right, I was tired of losing all my fans
Speaker 5: because for the longest time, for like the first few years,
Speaker 5: I've been doing according to your malcoa almost little almost
Speaker 5: five years, yeah and some And when I first started out,
Speaker 5: I was playing to nobody, even on Facebook. It was
Speaker 5: like one two people come in and like, oh, you're
Speaker 5: playing videos. No, no, we don't go away. I don't want
Speaker 5: to listen to that. I don't want to see the
Speaker 5: light show. I don't want you know what I'm saying, Like, so, uh,
Speaker 5: for a couple of years I played to myself, which
Speaker 5: is fine. I still went on there and say, all
Speaker 5: have fun. The experience is what it was needed, and uh.
Speaker 5: But I initially started doing it on there, and then
Speaker 5: when they started really hardcore getting into it, like pretty
Speaker 5: much redstream and immediately blocking your your feed, it was like,
Speaker 5: all right, now I need to find something else. So
Speaker 5: I went to Twitch. Okay, we're on the mixture of
Speaker 5: Twitch and all that, and now that Discord is coming
Speaker 5: more suis to of actually doing live shows. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: feel like over there they would give you. And then
Speaker 5: this is like some places like Patreon and all that,
Speaker 5: if you do a lot, they don't care what you
Speaker 5: do over there. You can literally go over there and
Speaker 5: spit into a bucket, you know what I'm saying, all
Speaker 5: day long and the har entire time, and they wouldn't care,
Speaker 5: you see what I'm saying. So yeah, that being that,
Speaker 5: it's all depending on the where you go and how
Speaker 5: much you want to pay. So Twitch is kind of
Speaker 5: like in our feed because right now what we're doing,
Speaker 5: we're running this company off our own wallet.
Speaker 3: Yeah. This is not like we're out here scamming people
Speaker 3: and getting it all over. No. We Actually that's what
Speaker 3: I'm said.
Speaker 5: When we go to you go to our Legion of
Speaker 5: Solace dot com page, and you go to lesion on
Speaker 5: and you buy merch that money is not going into
Speaker 5: our pockets. If it does help to us to either
Speaker 5: a get up here to do something or a B
Speaker 5: two spots or something, yes we might use a little bit.
Speaker 5: Other than that, most of that money goes to Hey,
Speaker 5: use this band said they needed a sponsorship. They're about
Speaker 5: to go on toward there's short two hundred dollars in
Speaker 5: between two to four hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, we all talk amongst each other.
Speaker 5: You have enough to do it this week, Yeah, put
Speaker 5: the money together, send it off to them.
Speaker 3: There you go. Like everything that we're doing, we're running
Speaker 3: straight out of pocket.
Speaker 5: Like I just bought a new gamer laptop just to
Speaker 5: make sure I have good enough multitasking streaming.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to be able to do this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: It's all my own TM.
Speaker 5: And it's not like we're you know, it's basically like
Speaker 5: I said, we're gonna be becoming an LLC, yeah and
Speaker 5: all that stuff. We're working towards all everything, but it's
Speaker 5: just got to do what we got to do for
Speaker 5: right now.
Speaker 1: At the top, I was curious about the streaming because
Speaker 1: my experience with this show is so like, right now,
Speaker 1: we're streaming a Facebook and YouTube. Yeah, and what what
Speaker 1: has been happening lately is so Facebook. I'll get a
Speaker 1: notification afterward that says you're sharing ad revenue with whoever
Speaker 1: the guests music that we played was, which is fine,
Speaker 1: and then I just click except so so it stays
Speaker 1: on Facebook. They don't take it down because for there
Speaker 1: was a little bit of a period where they would
Speaker 1: actually just.
Speaker 3: Take it down. Now they don't.
Speaker 1: And with YouTube, I usually get a notification that just
Speaker 1: says sometimes it'll say your video is blocked in certain countries,
Speaker 1: but never the US, which is good, and and they
Speaker 1: just you know, I can't monetize it, which I don't
Speaker 1: expect to be able to anyway, because I'm you know,
Speaker 1: it's copyrighted stuff.
Speaker 5: But once they see that you're an actual legit FM
Speaker 5: and AM radio station, yeah, they probably like, oh, well,
Speaker 5: he has the the credits to do.
Speaker 1: So I think you're right, because I because I used
Speaker 1: to get blocked, like on Facebook. They would block it,
Speaker 1: and then I would file the appeal and I would
Speaker 1: say that I would say, we're a federally LICENSEDUFF and
Speaker 1: radio station. But I had this whole spiel, and then
Speaker 1: after a while they just stopped blocking it. And then
Speaker 1: and then instead I started getting the ad revenue share
Speaker 1: of thing. So yeah, but you said so, but Twitch
Speaker 1: doesn't give you a hard time.
Speaker 5: So I'm playing something extremely well known, like a well
Speaker 5: known bay like five a death punch.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm a god or something that.
Speaker 5: Immediately as soon as you hear like, oh that's for sugar,
Speaker 5: Oh that's you know, bullon Parade, that's this.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: If it ain't got that, it's good, like anything that's
Speaker 5: up and coming. That's why I try this, like, because
Speaker 5: I'm one person and I can't get all the way
Speaker 5: around America and deep into the bowels of it. That's
Speaker 5: why we, like I said, we have the Legion of
Speaker 5: Solace to where you can come into any of our pages. Yeah,
Speaker 5: talk to us right and say, hey, man, I came
Speaker 5: across this band that I saw last night at an
Speaker 5: underground show. Here's their credentials, here's what this is. Here's
Speaker 5: a good video that you can put upon your show,
Speaker 5: or you can just come in and drop the link
Speaker 5: in to my radio a radio show. Yeah, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5: As long as it's not something well known, We're good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was curious about that too, because I could in theory,
Speaker 1: I could stream this to Twitch and it's set up
Speaker 1: to do that. But the only reason I don't is
Speaker 1: because I've just heard horror stories about them being super
Speaker 1: touchy about.
Speaker 5: It is what it is. I think it's more along
Speaker 5: the lines, especially like if you can fighting it, like
Speaker 5: with you having all the conditionals to do so, yeah,
Speaker 5: they're immediately like all right, well we'll let you go
Speaker 5: and we we'll leave you alone.
Speaker 3: I have a feeling that feeling.
Speaker 5: The only time they've ever bothered me is actually if
Speaker 5: I'm putting up a legit video of like, you know,
Speaker 5: Loan of Shores and I put up you know, the
Speaker 5: hell fire video and you know, actually put it to
Speaker 5: where people can go back and rewatch it, then that'll
Speaker 5: be a problem. But if it's a band or unlike
Speaker 5: up and coming band or local band, it's not gonna
Speaker 5: be it's not gonna be matter because there's not on
Speaker 5: their registry to be like, well we can't we can't buck.
Speaker 3: There's no stopping that.
Speaker 5: That's why that's why I was like wanted to also
Speaker 5: talk to you, like how did you even be able
Speaker 5: to get disappeal on that field radio? Because I wanted
Speaker 5: to figure out how I can do that same thing
Speaker 5: down in Listbord, Virginia in my home because that's literally
Speaker 5: what I do. I sit in my studio and I
Speaker 5: just go down the rabbit hole and find up and
Speaker 5: coming bands and design bands or whoever somebody comes in
Speaker 5: and request. Yeah, and play it like we've been playing
Speaker 5: a bunch of the bands like Dead by Wednesday.
Speaker 3: I'll play them just about all the time on the
Speaker 3: radio show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've played Uh, I played Sepsist all the time,
Speaker 5: playing now bite what inverter? Yeah, we play all the
Speaker 5: inverter guys. You know anybody that we I've ben't come
Speaker 5: across personally or just I found a monst going down
Speaker 5: the rabbit hole. Okay, I'm playing on the radio show,
Speaker 5: And like I said, you're always welcome, And I'm even
Speaker 5: about to start on what's up app things to where
Speaker 5: you can call in just like on your show. Like
Speaker 5: your show, you can call in and talk to me,
Speaker 5: and you can do your request per calling and we
Speaker 5: can even have a conversation. Because my podcast is whatever
Speaker 5: it is about music, whether we can talk about the
Speaker 5: whole it doesn't matter what genre you want to talk about.
Speaker 5: The Diddy situation. Let's talk about the Didy situation. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I geme my opinion on it. Cool, you know, blah
Speaker 5: blah blah. It's totally unsensored. And that's the great thing
Speaker 5: about twitch too, you can use as long as you
Speaker 5: set the the things right where it's you know, saying, hey,
Speaker 5: this is supposed to be something that's over eighteen blah
Speaker 5: blah blah blah, and then next thing, you know, you
Speaker 5: can do whatever you want and talk, you know, about
Speaker 5: whatever situations you want. Yeah, because I like, like Will,
Speaker 5: I'm a very I'm very I as you could tell,
Speaker 5: I'm trying to keep mine my composure about me and
Speaker 5: not trying to do anything stupid and just automatically like
Speaker 5: I'm on my own radio show and just go at it.
Speaker 5: I'm just one of those type of people. Yeah, I'm very.
Speaker 5: I don't have no filter. I have no filter at
Speaker 5: all whatsoever. So like you, it's even worse when I'm
Speaker 5: in the kitchen. I kid you, not even worse when
Speaker 5: I'm in the kitchen. So the thing about it is,
Speaker 5: it's just we're all here to have fun, man and
Speaker 5: live life. And our passion is music. My music is
Speaker 5: always in passion. Like my passion always in music, even
Speaker 5: when I was in middle school, all that stuff, growing
Speaker 5: up with a chorus, the band, everything that I possibly could,
Speaker 5: even to the point of getting kicked out about the
Speaker 5: music teacher because I'm wearing a Maryland Manson shirt. Oh okay, yeah,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. My music teacher could not
Speaker 5: staying anybody who wanted to start a band. If you
Speaker 5: want to start a band with some trumpets, trumboes, some flutes,
Speaker 5: some sacks, He's down for that, right, but he wasn't
Speaker 5: for the whole Oh you coming into Maryland, Masster. Sure,
Speaker 5: Oh you got a navana, get a class. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 5: come from all that. Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 1: And you're so you're from Virginia and Bruce, you're in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: I'm in Massachusetts. I grew up in Ohio. I've been
Speaker 2: out here for years.
Speaker 3: And Rebecca, where are you from?
Speaker 7: So I'm from northern Virginia, like right outside of DC.
Speaker 7: But for the past four years I was actually out
Speaker 7: in Colorado and just recently got back to northern Virginia.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, very good. What what set you
Speaker 1: to Colorado?
Speaker 7: Personal life issues. I kind of had to abandon ship
Speaker 7: pretty quick and get out to safe zone with momtcha,
Speaker 7: and then rebuilt up. And now I'm kind of picking
Speaker 7: up the messes of what happened. But we're getting better
Speaker 7: and we're going up and good yeah.
Speaker 3: Good, good, very good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you are joining us, we have members of
Speaker 1: Legion of Solace here with us alive in studio. What
Speaker 1: are some of the things that you that you see
Speaker 1: wrong that because Bruce, you had made a reference to
Speaker 1: this earlier, you said some of the things that you
Speaker 1: see wrong in the in the music scene that that
Speaker 1: are part of the motivation for why you're doing the
Speaker 1: things that you want to fix or help with.
Speaker 6: The biggest issue is pay to play. Yeah, if you
Speaker 6: are providing talent and you are providing entertainment, why do
Speaker 6: you have to pay me to do so?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 6: You are the artist in that situation. Shouldn't you be
Speaker 6: paid for your art?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: So if you're invited, if like Jen, you don't get
Speaker 6: you don't get invited to Mosaic with a bill, you
Speaker 6: get invited to Mosaic with a hanging hook.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, she doesn't.
Speaker 4: But I do pay an entrance.
Speaker 3: There is an entrance, there's an entrance for you.
Speaker 4: That but but that's the jury show, so.
Speaker 2: Right, right, right, right?
Speaker 6: So, so the the entrance for you is to be juried, correct,
Speaker 6: But so so, but what once you're invited to be
Speaker 6: on the bill.
Speaker 2: There's no more money, right right.
Speaker 6: So and like so some of the bigger festivals, not
Speaker 6: only do they have an application fee if you're not selected,
Speaker 6: it's a non refundable application fee. Really so if it's so,
Speaker 6: like to take Blue Ridge for example, if they're booking
Speaker 6: one hundred and eighty six bands for the four days,
Speaker 6: they might take six hundred applications. Now, of those six
Speaker 6: hundred applications, they might only book forty of the small, independent,
Speaker 6: unsigned bands. So now that's five hundred and fifty bands.
Speaker 6: That just gave seventy five dollars application fee per band.
Speaker 6: Wow that they don't get back. Now, how many gigs
Speaker 6: could they have driven to for that seventy five dollars?
Speaker 6: How many meals could they have bought while they were
Speaker 6: on the road for that seventy five dollars?
Speaker 3: Rightactly?
Speaker 2: That that's where we come in.
Speaker 6: A lot of these promoters, especially like at the merch
Speaker 6: table things like that. My opinion is the venues are
Speaker 6: making a nice up charge on the liquor at the bars.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's where they make their money.
Speaker 6: Off, and especially ticket fees, especially with some of the
Speaker 6: national acts, even if you're not going through Ticketmaster, Live
Speaker 6: Nation or any any of the big demons in the
Speaker 6: ticket industry, even like e Tics or front Gate Tickets,
Speaker 6: ticket fly, You're still paying convenience fees. You're still paying
Speaker 6: a third party just for printing a ticket or putting
Speaker 6: your name on a list, and that that has to stop. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 6: I understand that venues need an income as well, and
Speaker 6: I understand that the service fee has a purpose, But
Speaker 6: why am I paying a nineteen dollars and seventy five
Speaker 6: cent service fee on a thirty five dollars ticket?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Well, the thing is too if you if you buy
Speaker 1: tickets online through Live Nation, Ticketmaster, it's the same thing spent.
Speaker 1: Like for a big tour. Very often, you have no
Speaker 1: idea what that final price is going to be until
Speaker 1: you get to that last screen and you might be
Speaker 1: going to see you know, you might think it's one
Speaker 1: hundred bucks a ticket to see whoever, and then and
Speaker 1: it's it's set up, so you don't know until you
Speaker 1: get to that very last screen. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: there's all these fees and maybe you bought two tickets
Speaker 1: for one hundred bucks and it's gonna be two hundred
Speaker 1: total and uh, or you know, you might be savvy
Speaker 1: enough to think, wow, it's not gonna be two hundred bucks,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be more than that. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: some sort of taxes or whatnot. And you get to
Speaker 1: that final screen where it's you know, time to click
Speaker 1: purchase now, and it's like almost twice as much, right,
Speaker 1: It's it's incredible, I mean like.
Speaker 6: That, And it it's pricing a lot of the younger
Speaker 6: generations out of the bigger shows and out of the rooms.
Speaker 6: So it's also putting our local music scene and our
Speaker 6: younger music scene in jeopardy because every day we're losing
Speaker 6: small music venues because people are so disgusted with the
Speaker 6: way that it's going on at big music venues sure
Speaker 6: that they're just walking away from live music altogether and
Speaker 6: just and they're going back to the grassroots, going back
Speaker 6: to the bar, sit down, have a couple of beers,
Speaker 6: pay a five dollars cover charge, listen to three or
Speaker 6: four quality bands, or like in today's case, it's for
Speaker 6: me fast eight quality bands.
Speaker 2: It's what twenty bucks to get in the door tonight.
Speaker 6: If I remember correctly, I believe so yeah, so, and
Speaker 6: and they do have a bit of a service fee
Speaker 6: at the venue, and it's like maybe five or six
Speaker 6: dollars per Yeah, you know, so, which makes sense. You
Speaker 6: have to you have to help keep the lights on somehow.
Speaker 6: You have to pay the staff, which is which is respectable. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but five six dollars service charge is no different than
Speaker 6: giving your giving your waitress or your bartender a five
Speaker 6: dollars bill on your way out the door, saying thank
Speaker 6: you for what you did, right, right.
Speaker 1: But it's not a situation where you're you end up
Speaker 1: paying twice what you were expecting.
Speaker 5: Right yeah, right, Well, seeing that's the glorious thing about
Speaker 5: all the smaller bands. The band like events is like,
Speaker 5: come on now, I'm just like tonight, you get how
Speaker 5: many bands you get to go watch for that Bucky
Speaker 5: know yeah yeah it's twenty bucks. Like, man, I don't
Speaker 5: even know these bands. Why I should I have to
Speaker 5: pay this much? Because hell, you know you have those
Speaker 5: type of people.
Speaker 6: Right, I just I just want to take a second
Speaker 6: and mention all eight bands on the bill.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, please?
Speaker 6: Opening is Diamond Edge, followed by Exception, then Lone Wolf,
Speaker 6: James Joint Damage, Hero and The Horror Casting Shadows Dead
Speaker 6: by Wednesday, and then Sepsis will be headlining the party.
Speaker 6: A reminder, doors are going to open at five, music
Speaker 6: starts at five thirty, and it's going to go almost
Speaker 6: continuously until roughly the eleven o'clock hour.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, very good.
Speaker 6: And a tomato tomato, taffaa tafeta. Either way, it's easy.
Speaker 6: It's easy to find at one ten Western Avenue in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Speaker 3: I'm ninety nine, it's taffay. We're argument time.
Speaker 6: We have been having that internal discussion since about Tuesday ourselves.
Speaker 3: There is no way you.
Speaker 5: Should definitely hear you should hear our founder Tuesday. She's
Speaker 5: like she's trying to say to it's kind of like
Speaker 5: she's calling it taffy sometimes. But to answer your question
Speaker 5: more so, another reason why we try to do this is,
Speaker 5: like I said, I've been on the Blue Ridge two years,
Speaker 5: the first two years of and thank god we didn't
Speaker 5: have to pay the play. But I've seen everybody else's methods.
Speaker 5: Ye go in through this as well as the whole
Speaker 5: the whole way of the thing about it is it
Speaker 5: sucks because it should not have to go down the
Speaker 5: way It us Like we were trying to do a
Speaker 5: sponsorship to that we did do a sponsorship to them,
Speaker 5: and we made a big giant, you know, drop poster
Speaker 5: and all that to be put somewhere where they told
Speaker 5: us to do never got put up. We were supposed
Speaker 5: to put on the big teleproperters, teleprompters with our picture,
Speaker 5: you know, our logo. We was actually put upon the
Speaker 5: you know Savenger Hunt and all that stuff, but every
Speaker 5: nothing was properly advertised. We want to stop that because
Speaker 5: if people are paying to help you run this thing,
Speaker 5: our our thing for legion assoloshould have been up instead
Speaker 5: of at art. I have pictures of it where it's
Speaker 5: sitting at our tent site. Because they didn't want to.
Speaker 5: Nobody was communicating well enough, nobody was doing their job
Speaker 5: per se.
Speaker 1: And just to be clear, this is something that you
Speaker 1: paid for, yes, like out of podcast yes, and what
Speaker 1: did they have an excuse ready for you?
Speaker 5: We didn't even say nothing about it, like the next
Speaker 5: year that we tried to go do the same thing again.
Speaker 5: A Well, we need to have an insurance policy, especially
Speaker 5: if you're going to have a vendor setup, whether you're
Speaker 5: selling selling something or not, you need to make sure
Speaker 5: that the insurance on it is what a meal.
Speaker 2: I think it was two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that we haven't had an insurance policy on just
Speaker 3: our of us.
Speaker 5: One of the set up spot to bring the information
Speaker 5: to people who love unsigned bands and up and coming talent.
Speaker 6: And it was literally or just in case like somebody
Speaker 6: fell down and hit their head on a table or
Speaker 6: are or like our our ten by ten canopy blew
Speaker 6: away and hit somebody, which twenty twenty three would would
Speaker 6: have made a lot of sense for that policy.
Speaker 5: Right, which I understand it's understand about how some kind
Speaker 5: of insertience policy, but it's all depending on what you're doing.
Speaker 5: Like with us, we're more like you come into the
Speaker 5: you know, coming into a new state, and it's like, hey,
Speaker 5: here's a welcome center. That's pretty much what we are
Speaker 5: after we get more stuff established. But even so then
Speaker 5: we roughly sell most of our stuff online. Yeah, we
Speaker 5: were for that year, we were going to push to
Speaker 5: try to get more long lives our dot com up
Speaker 5: and going and having traffic going to it. Yeah, but
Speaker 5: it didn't happen that way because for one, they didn't
Speaker 5: put our banner anywhere. They didn't have us up on
Speaker 5: the on the big teleproperties which were supposed to happen,
Speaker 5: what three times every third band?
Speaker 2: Okay, three times a day all four days.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, for every third band on each set of stages.
Speaker 5: It's supposed to go three times a day. Yeah, we
Speaker 5: had ever happened.
Speaker 2: We had a group of fifteen people not a single
Speaker 2: eye sawt Oh wow.
Speaker 5: I mean literally, we have friends that we that me
Speaker 5: and Becca know from going to multiple festivals that we
Speaker 5: were like, hey, if you see it, sap a picture,
Speaker 5: text it to me, even though it might take the
Speaker 5: whole rest of the day to send it to me,
Speaker 5: because we're around.
Speaker 7: So many people, not added like another eighty set of
Speaker 7: eyes just from that individual group of people that I
Speaker 7: was hanging out with. I was like, keep an eye out,
Speaker 7: no one.
Speaker 3: So that's the saying, we.
Speaker 5: Want to stop that thing because that's something that you
Speaker 5: can easily be bypassed and that none of us could
Speaker 5: see because we're either we're in motion to another spot
Speaker 5: or you know what I'm saying. We want to stop
Speaker 5: the n needy not necessarily even if it was that's
Speaker 5: a problem. Sure, we don't want it to happen anymore.
Speaker 5: And then once we once we establish our own thing
Speaker 5: of doing our own concert thing, that's where we wanted
Speaker 5: to be. You want you to come in, live comfortably,
Speaker 5: drink it the water. Relax, he's talking to your show.
Speaker 5: We might even have some crew that will help put
Speaker 5: your equipment up there after you set it up there
Speaker 5: to where it makes it quicker for you, whatever the
Speaker 5: whole point about it is. And then at the end
Speaker 5: we hand you some money. Yep, as long as you're
Speaker 5: helping to push, promote and all that. Share share share
Speaker 5: share share that brings a lot more and the whole
Speaker 5: another thing. Competitiveness bands, that's another thing we want to stop.
Speaker 5: We want everybody to work together. We want to prove
Speaker 5: to everybody there's enough out here for everybody to get
Speaker 5: their their dreams desired, right right. There's no need to
Speaker 5: sit here and fight like, oh well no, no, we
Speaker 5: don't need that, man, because they're gonna outshine us tonight.
Speaker 5: Because my voice is a little rasping. We just did
Speaker 5: three shows the other night, you know, and I'm hitting
Speaker 5: you with the you know how you're doing the all
Speaker 5: faith you know voice. You know what I'm saying, like,
Speaker 5: oh well, whatever, so be if that's what happened, y'all
Speaker 5: did a great show tonight.
Speaker 3: Everybody has an off night. Stop the competitiveness work with
Speaker 3: each other.
Speaker 5: Stop saying well they're not just because they're not in
Speaker 5: our genre and we're doing heavy metal with the growls
Speaker 5: and screams, and they're they're more clean vocals, like like
Speaker 5: I saw knock Fest. It was Behemoth, but you're a
Speaker 5: slip knot bowlbeat.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I was security for that concert show because I was
Speaker 7: my first official paid job, and I don't know how
Speaker 7: many fights I had to stop that night because Bulbat
Speaker 7: and Yep and.
Speaker 3: That, and you got a slipknode like come on, And.
Speaker 7: The biggest thing was like personal from something not themselves.
Speaker 7: That was the tour where everybody started like fighting each
Speaker 7: other and like hitting each other with all the spikes
Speaker 7: on their jackets and everything like that.
Speaker 3: So I didn't hear about any of this really.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so it got really bad. I think the show
Speaker 7: previous to the venue that I was working at was
Speaker 7: like down in North Carolina or something like that, and
Speaker 7: people started grabbing their umbrellas and beating each other with it,
Speaker 7: and we don't, like, that's not a part of our crew.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just crazy what we've all seen experienced in
Speaker 5: our time of being is because before I met back
Speaker 5: and she was traveling with our peoples all the time,
Speaker 5: going to festivals more than me. I didn't start going
Speaker 5: to festivals until well know, like eight nine years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, and fell in love with it.
Speaker 5: I said, screw one night, or I'd rather pay that
Speaker 5: money that you would pay to have the VIP event
Speaker 5: all that stuff and go literally stay there and camp.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because that's.
Speaker 5: It makes it that much more memorable, that much more
Speaker 5: fun that you could meet new people that are in
Speaker 5: that world. I have just about every friend I've met
Speaker 5: I've met at an event. Yeah, and I've been really
Speaker 5: good friends except for like my childhood friends. Yeah, so everybody,
Speaker 5: like every time I go to a festival, it's a
Speaker 5: new friend. And I've met a new person in a
Speaker 5: new state, city, country. You know, it does not matter,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. That's the whole point. We
Speaker 5: want to communicate and do this pretty much like how
Speaker 5: it was back in the day. Hey, Ozzie, you want
Speaker 5: to come play with you know, Jimmy and you know
Speaker 5: everybody else. Sure, I'll see you on the next flight.
Speaker 5: All right, Cool, we get it done. You see what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, we wanted back to the way back it was.
Speaker 5: It was much more or easier back in the day
Speaker 5: than what it is today.
Speaker 1: Right right, Well, Ozzie might not show up, though I
Speaker 1: wouldn't depend on him.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, I mean I guess if he's if
Speaker 3: he's still having that ant addiction, right.
Speaker 1: Dirt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love the dirt. Jenny and I watched that.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 3: I love that movie. I fell in love with it.
Speaker 5: And also, you know, the longest little wristband I ever
Speaker 5: had was a Moley Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: For the longest time.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean I'm a big fan of the
Speaker 5: old I grew up with a band right behind my
Speaker 5: my grandmother's house.
Speaker 3: Oh really yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean when I was saying, I would hear them
Speaker 5: playing everything from clapt Into you know, Disturbed to whatever,
Speaker 5: like they were just very eglected to what they do.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If you are just joining us, we have members of
Speaker 1: Legion of Solace here with us live in studio on
Speaker 1: this Saturday morning. It's a very special Saturday. Tonight is
Speaker 1: Swarmy Fast at Taffia in Lowell, which looks like now
Speaker 1: have any of you been there already I have, Yes.
Speaker 3: You have.
Speaker 1: It looks from what I saw online, it looks like
Speaker 1: a nice place.
Speaker 2: It's it's a nice room.
Speaker 6: It's very it's a very dark room, Okay, I have,
Speaker 6: in my opinion, has very much an old speakeasy feel
Speaker 6: to it.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 6: It's kind of a galley down one side where you'll
Speaker 6: find the entrance, the ticket window, the bar. There's a
Speaker 6: permanent merch booth as well that'll will probably expand upon
Speaker 6: for all the bands.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 6: There is a small sitting lounge off in the corner,
Speaker 6: so if you need to get away from the loud
Speaker 6: of the stage area itself, there's some comfy chairs in
Speaker 6: the corner. Yeah, and then you can move into the
Speaker 6: actual square concert space as well.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 6: But look, look, room looks to hold I'd say just
Speaker 6: a gas maybe three to six hundred people comfortably.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, Yeah, so decent sized room. Absolutely is big
Speaker 3: stage or.
Speaker 6: Good sized stage, very good sound quality, a very punctual venue,
Speaker 6: which I like to see some some venues will be
Speaker 6: like yeah, show goes to eleven two thirty years, still
Speaker 6: waiting on the headliner. But where this particular venue is located,
Speaker 6: it's also around a brewing company and it's in a
Speaker 6: residential district. They're in a high rise complex with some
Speaker 6: studios and some loft spaces as well, so they to
Speaker 6: be very conscious of their time.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I laughed when you said that about the punctuality.
Speaker 1: And because people in this area around Manchester, probably some
Speaker 1: people probably remember the bomb Shelter.
Speaker 3: I don't know if any of.
Speaker 2: You were, or I have heard stories.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and yeah, I I remember. I remember playing
Speaker 1: there and none of the bands that I were in
Speaker 1: were headliners so to speak. But I remember going on
Speaker 1: stage at two a m. And you know, being the
Speaker 1: only ones left in the room. Yeah, So I appreciate
Speaker 1: a punctual venue as.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's some There's a lot of stories about
Speaker 1: the Bomb Shelter and some of them are some of
Speaker 1: them are good stories and some some not not not
Speaker 1: that great.
Speaker 6: But while we're speaking about Swarmy Fest, I just want
Speaker 6: to take a moment and mention all of the sponsors
Speaker 6: yes for the event as well. Not only are we
Speaker 6: the lead sponsor and co host for the event, we
Speaker 6: thank our family here at Matt Connorton Unleashed for joining
Speaker 6: us as well as BPS Records Speed Demon Promotions and
Speaker 6: our friends over it and h Guitars.
Speaker 5: Okay, big shout out to those guys, especially for me
Speaker 5: because they actually worked on my guitar for me. They
Speaker 5: did a great job on it, brought everything back, helped
Speaker 5: me out with it because I'm not very I guess
Speaker 5: smart with the whole internal part of the guitar. So
Speaker 5: I mean, I had to have them check it out.
Speaker 5: My thing was making my guitars making some weird sound.
Speaker 5: So he was like, yeah, that's some dirt and it's like,
Speaker 5: come to find out, you know, it's called dyslexic wiring somebody.
Speaker 3: The person that I got it from, and it makes sense.
Speaker 5: The person I got it from it was a little dyslexic,
Speaker 5: you know, so all the wiring was just like it's
Speaker 5: backed up. It's like it's still weird, but it still works.
Speaker 5: So it's just it's just what it is. But so
Speaker 5: I mean, big shout out to Guitars, thank you for
Speaker 5: looking out for me. Guys did an amazing job. We
Speaker 5: will be also doing a write up about our experience
Speaker 5: with going to go see the Spot of Guitars. I mean,
Speaker 5: it just made me feel like you're a part of
Speaker 5: the family the moment that you walk in. So it's amazing.
Speaker 5: Big shout out to those guys.
Speaker 3: And we met them at a show. Was it was
Speaker 3: it the first Swarmy Fest? You remember we met the
Speaker 3: guys from an Age Guitars.
Speaker 7: Yes, it wasn't the first.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were really nice.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but Paul did mentioned that they were. They were
Speaker 6: one of the sponsors of the original swarm.
Speaker 2: A couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, I think we were the first.
Speaker 1: The first two was a yeah, might might have been, Yeah,
Speaker 1: might have been.
Speaker 3: And that's what we love.
Speaker 5: That's saying that being able to show that you can
Speaker 5: come around and work with anybody who is locally doing
Speaker 5: something like this like Stepsis, like you know, uh, everybody
Speaker 5: in the sponsorship as well as the venue itself. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and we see how we all you could all work
Speaker 5: together and still make them an amazing show and have
Speaker 5: fun and not be so stressed out of pay to
Speaker 5: play being on somebody else's time, like strict time was
Speaker 5: being like going to Blue Ridge like with us, literally
Speaker 5: we there was there was no venturing around, you know,
Speaker 5: so we literally had to stay in spot and.
Speaker 3: Wait before our time.
Speaker 5: Just we didn't want you to be lost just so
Speaker 5: happen to get caught up with some fans and you know,
Speaker 5: waste too much time.
Speaker 3: Yea. So it's just it's just it is what it is.
Speaker 3: We like what we're doing and we love what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Now are any of you, because Malcolm
Speaker 1: you mentioned you play guitar, Yes, are any of you
Speaker 1: currently in bands? Active bands?
Speaker 5: I'm in between bands. I'm working on trying to get
Speaker 5: my own one backup. Okay, okay, be able to be
Speaker 5: touring and traveling. I was doing it that when I uh,
Speaker 5: when we first initially started this, I was still doing
Speaker 5: this with Legion of Solids as well as my band.
Speaker 5: It was it was a twofer to be able to
Speaker 5: help spread the word along the music community to every
Speaker 5: other local band that no matter what state we went to,
Speaker 5: because we were traveling. We used to go up come
Speaker 5: up here to Ficiate Cantina and you know Hellstore, Maryland.
Speaker 5: We did the Blue Rays and we went down south
Speaker 5: to the Outback, the outback atv Park and all that
Speaker 5: other stuff. So we we we've ventured out of quite
Speaker 5: a lot of places and a lot of places that
Speaker 5: we do show. There's a lot of local bands that
Speaker 5: don't even know that. They're like, there's a Mike Connerton
Speaker 5: out there that's actually allowing you to go, hey, can
Speaker 5: you this on your show? And it's not like, well
Speaker 5: you need to give us a commission for playing your
Speaker 5: your song on the show, or you need to do this,
Speaker 5: you need to go through this, you know wormhole right, No,
Speaker 5: it's just legitly you come to us, we want us
Speaker 5: to play it.
Speaker 3: Well, we have two radio shows.
Speaker 5: We have Dark Mistress, which is the founder, and then
Speaker 5: we have Corcy Malachi, So you have to radio as
Speaker 5: well as you can just write any one of us
Speaker 5: that's in the crew and just say hey, this is
Speaker 5: a band.
Speaker 3: I think you guys should check out.
Speaker 6: We're a far cry from the days where you showed
Speaker 6: up at the studio with the studio with the forty
Speaker 6: five in your hands of the envelope.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: By the way, we have some folks in the Facebook
Speaker 1: live chat.
Speaker 2: So Tuesday faith is is that is our Presa founder?
Speaker 3: Okay, very good?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tuesday says, thank you for having us and allowing
Speaker 1: us to tell y'all who we are. Oh, absolutely happy
Speaker 1: to do it. Angel Don stark Uh says, and I
Speaker 1: think this is about you, Malcolm. That's one reason I
Speaker 1: love you lol.
Speaker 3: No filter about the show that you do. Yeah. Yeah uh.
Speaker 1: And Angel also said Manson yes uh. Chris Queensberry is
Speaker 1: in the chat and says yeah, says I keep pushing
Speaker 1: on supporting local skies.
Speaker 5: Yes, he's another person who is very hardcore into the
Speaker 5: the scene. He's actually a part of a mash team okay,
Speaker 5: and like they actually go out and support just about
Speaker 5: every band that's around the Central or Virginia area.
Speaker 2: Shout out to the Icon Pit crew.
Speaker 5: Icon, I got friend, I got mad Frans Indent and
Speaker 5: it's another lady who actually makes merch.
Speaker 3: It's inside the Icon crew.
Speaker 5: Like, we know quite a few people that are in
Speaker 5: the crew that we could, you know, reach out to
Speaker 5: the help out and make it even better.
Speaker 6: If you have if you have been to Blue Ridge
Speaker 6: Rock Festival, Incarceration or Sonic Temple and have seen the
Speaker 6: bed sheet sign pit here flying between two two by
Speaker 6: one by fours, that's either the Icon Pit Crew or
Speaker 6: our good friends in the Hounds of helmash team.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, so yeah, we we tryed Like I said,
Speaker 5: we try to put ourselves out there as much as
Speaker 5: far and as deep as we can't into the news community.
Speaker 5: Let people know, like we have a spot straight strictly
Speaker 5: for local and up and coming talent. Well, you don't
Speaker 5: have to go fight through it. You don't have to.
Speaker 5: If you don't want to upload it on YouTube, you
Speaker 5: want to play it strictly through us, you can do
Speaker 5: that that way. It saves you money in stress of
Speaker 5: like how many numbers do we have today? Wilson, You
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying exactly, Yeah, like who goes? I mean,
Speaker 5: don't get me wrong, I don't like looking at the incise,
Speaker 5: but I do because you know, just for my own self.
Speaker 5: But the thing about this, it is a confusing situation
Speaker 5: to deal with in general, But why not you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, It's worth it if you know that
Speaker 5: you can make it that much better for somebody's dreams
Speaker 5: to come true, whether that dream just be one hundred
Speaker 5: thousand people hear my music, you know, even if it
Speaker 5: is through a playback. People saw all music and like
Speaker 5: we we shared to big shout outs to Ireland metal heads.
Speaker 5: They allow us coming to their private me and allow
Speaker 5: me to share my my radio show over there where
Speaker 5: they can come in and actuallyquest something from over there
Speaker 5: because we don't know anything there, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: But we want to be international, so the only way
Speaker 5: we can do that is actually pretty much dig ourselves
Speaker 5: into wherever we can.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Evan Gordon is in the chat and says, love you guys,
Speaker 1: love my Legion family.
Speaker 2: You see that is our founder and president's husband.
Speaker 3: Yes, oh, very good, very good. All right.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm going to say this correctly.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: Zia, Oh that's oh, Zia.
Speaker 2: Shout out to the prep crew at the Cut Live
Speaker 2: and Gloucester.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Zida says, my friends are on the radio, Love you guys,
Speaker 1: Bruce Heberlin, Junior, Malcolm and Becca.
Speaker 3: Miss you guys. Wishing I was there with y'all. Very nice.
Speaker 7: Uh so you can make it out.
Speaker 1: Uh. Brandon Morris that's in the chat, said something I
Speaker 1: can't read on the air, but also throwing the horns
Speaker 1: just in myles from four HM Clothing I was on
Speaker 1: the show recently, says, let's see four HM clothing line
Speaker 1: loves y'all.
Speaker 3: Very nice, very nice. Oh.
Speaker 1: Brandon also said this I can read on the air.
Speaker 1: I can't wait till tonight.
Speaker 5: Right, very good, hen't wait for the night we both
Speaker 5: talked about it's going to be a great party.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, our friend Maria Banish is also in there
Speaker 1: and says good morning.
Speaker 3: Good morning, good morning, And I just want to make
Speaker 3: sure I didn't miss anybody in there. Well, we are.
Speaker 1: The time goes quickly. We are already approaching the hour.
Speaker 1: So remind us anything anything the three of you want
Speaker 1: to make sure that we know about tonight and anything
Speaker 1: that you want to make sure that we know about
Speaker 1: Legion of Solace before we conclude the segment.
Speaker 6: Just a reminder, doors open at five, music starts at
Speaker 6: five thirty continues till eleven. If you want to know
Speaker 6: more about Legion of Solace, you can find us on Facebook,
Speaker 6: I believe we are on Twitter, Instagram, and you can
Speaker 6: also find us at Legionosolace dot com. We have a
Speaker 6: full merch and a reminder. Any purchase that you make
Speaker 6: helps us put it right back directly into the local
Speaker 6: music community and help keep entertainment on the stages in
Speaker 6: your towns.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, Leason of solid dot com. You said, did
Speaker 1: you say the website, yes, w Leason of Solace dot com. Yep,
Speaker 1: So everybody check that out and uh, thank you all
Speaker 1: three of you for coming in today. Thank you for
Speaker 1: having this has been wonderful. Yeah, we'll do it again
Speaker 1: in the future, definitely, definitely. I would love to be
Speaker 1: back on here, absolutely absolutely. And then we've got BPS.
Speaker 3: Records coming up third hour. Is that correct, Jenny, Yes,
Speaker 3: BPS Records.
Speaker 5: Big oh, big shoutout, real quick, big shout out to
Speaker 5: BPS Records, because you know, I saw y'all's podcast the
Speaker 5: other night and y'all shout out to us, so all, respectfully,
Speaker 5: we need to shout out shout out back to y'all
Speaker 5: live on the stream too. Why not send that retort
Speaker 5: back the same way did you send it to us?
Speaker 5: Thank you for shouting us out and letting people know
Speaker 5: who are and that we know we're sponsoring this show
Speaker 5: when we're here to help.
Speaker 3: Very nice, very nice.
Speaker 1: And uh we'll close the segment with the I'm gonna
Speaker 1: play another Dead by Wednesday track. This is one that
Speaker 1: because they were on the show with us last week,
Speaker 1: it all gets to be a blur. Was the last
Speaker 1: week I think it was last week, the last week
Speaker 1: of the week. It might have been the week before,
Speaker 1: but they were here talking about the show tonight. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be uh, they're gonna be playing today. This is
Speaker 1: one of the ones that we didn't get to.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: This is called uh Mars in Exile. So we'll close
Speaker 1: out this segment with this. But if you are listening
Speaker 1: live on Saturday, we have another hour to go. BPS
Speaker 1: Records coming up next and Legion of Solace.
Speaker 3: Thank you again.
Speaker 5: You
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