Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed: Midnight Creatives Collective and Terminus Underground
Speaker 1: That is Beach Zombies.
Speaker 2: The band is Dead Harrison and we are playing that
Speaker 2: for a specific reason which we'll get to in a moment.
Speaker 1: But welcome everybody.
Speaker 2: This is the third hour of Matt Connorton Unleashed and
Speaker 2: we are live from the studios of w m n
Speaker 2: H ninety five point three FM in Glorious Manchester, New
Speaker 2: Hampshire on Canal Street. Today is Saturday, August third, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. Jenny is here of course at the news table. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: and we have three very special guests with us, of course,
Speaker 2: uh Eleanor and SPELFI and Andre from the and I
Speaker 2: always say it wrong, the Midnight Creatives Collective.
Speaker 1: Did I get it right?
Speaker 3: Yes, that's okay. If you call us creatures, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Is there a Facebook group with creatures in it? Is
Speaker 1: that why I'm confusing it?
Speaker 3: Well, there might be, there might be.
Speaker 2: So welcome and of course Andre also in the band
Speaker 2: Dead Harrison. So we were looking for a song to play,
Speaker 2: and Beach Zombies was suggested, and.
Speaker 1: We should talk about why, why why? Why?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 1: Why is beach Zombies relevant?
Speaker 4: Why is because tonight we have a cool little thing
Speaker 4: happening at Terminus underground where we're doing a little film
Speaker 4: feature and I got a band playing that's got a
Speaker 4: little Walking Dead theme going on. To the vegans, the vegans,
Speaker 4: thegans might be vegan, there might be vegan.
Speaker 1: A lot of musicians or vegans these days.
Speaker 4: Well, you got to have that healthy lifestyle.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 4: So they're called the vegans, theans n e g. A. M.
Speaker 3: Yes, like Megan and the Walking Dead show, you know,
Speaker 3: the one with.
Speaker 2: See I've never I've never seen an episode of The
Speaker 2: Walking Dead, so I don't know who this Megan is.
Speaker 3: Megan character is very interesting anti hero.
Speaker 1: Oh why why an anti hero is uh? Megan?
Speaker 4: U think versial in some way? Yeah, kind of probably
Speaker 4: to an extent. He liked the use of violence to
Speaker 4: get the ends and the means done. But yeah, I
Speaker 4: mean it's basically the way that it turns out is
Speaker 4: like they're both just two separate groups that are figuring
Speaker 4: out how to operate and run in the new world after,
Speaker 4: you know, post zombie apocalypse, and they just have their
Speaker 4: own ways of doing things. And there was a little
Speaker 4: confrontation that happened between the two groups, and a lot
Speaker 4: of bad things happened, and a lot of and then
Speaker 4: things kind of took a turn a little bit.
Speaker 3: But if you're not familiar with the Walking Dead kind
Speaker 3: of storyline, you wouldn't know that Terminus is also part
Speaker 3: of that. So Terminus Underground was a place of sanctuary. Oh,
Speaker 3: people started to escape the zombie apocalypse.
Speaker 4: But it wasn't a place of stuary.
Speaker 3: There that if you didn't follow all their rules, you
Speaker 3: would end up in a bus and they would eat
Speaker 3: you and serve you to the rest of the commun Ah.
Speaker 3: All right, we're not going to do that.
Speaker 5: We do have a resident cannibal though.
Speaker 1: Agree you do.
Speaker 3: Terrifying he's a leather worker.
Speaker 2: Oh all right, so stay away from him if he's
Speaker 2: hungry and when he's angry. So what exactly is going
Speaker 2: on tonight? I mean, so you're filming video with zombies
Speaker 2: or what.
Speaker 3: We we have our first movie night, So we're actually
Speaker 3: combining music and movie this tonight for a film premiere
Speaker 3: and it's a Silent Hill parody with puppets.
Speaker 1: Oh okay.
Speaker 3: So our friend Ryan Lockhart is the filmmaker and the performer,
Speaker 3: and she has created this entire film based on her
Speaker 3: series of gameplay Foul, which is what it's called very
Speaker 3: popular YouTube gamer series where she goes through and does
Speaker 3: gameplay with her puppet and the Silent Hell back job.
Speaker 5: Okay, so it's for that's for it's different games per episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, different games, but that's kind of the concept. And
Speaker 3: she's created this whole one hour long movie as her
Speaker 3: coming out experience as a trans woman. So we're supporting
Speaker 3: her film as an art and she's also performing. She's
Speaker 3: an amazing rapper and going to be doing several performances
Speaker 3: of some rap battle songs and yeah, so that's part
Speaker 3: of it. And we also have the Megan's Gonna play too,
Speaker 3: so punk rock punk har kind of night. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: so grab your popcorn and candy and come over.
Speaker 1: We gotta get So. So she what's her name again?
Speaker 3: The filmmaker is Ryan Lockhart. Yeah, she's on IMDb.
Speaker 1: Got she's got a fascinating story.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, she's an amaz amazingly fascinating woman.
Speaker 3: She's also an educator and an activist and she's just
Speaker 3: a really like, just very wonderful person altogether.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I absolutely suggest getting her on the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, she sounds fascinating. Has she done other things?
Speaker 2: Do you know with puppets? Involving puppets or is this
Speaker 2: like yes?
Speaker 3: So she does it mainly on her YouTube channel, and
Speaker 3: this is going to be the first time she's presenting
Speaker 3: a live presentation. She doesn't have the puppets tonight because
Speaker 3: they're very like they're constructed very like Hollywood standards, so
Speaker 3: they're very important. Yeah, she doesn't have any road puppets. Oh,
Speaker 3: but it'll just be her and her amazing energy and
Speaker 3: performance aret. So I think you, guys, if you could
Speaker 3: come and make it out, anyone can come. It's ten
Speaker 3: dollars suggested donation. Normally we do a fifteen dollars cover,
Speaker 3: but this is something different we're trying. So I think
Speaker 3: it's going to be fun.
Speaker 2: Now do the Megans are Why why them or did
Speaker 2: it just work out that way or do they have
Speaker 2: some sort of connection to the whole.
Speaker 5: There's there's a big connection. Jimmy from the Megans and
Speaker 5: Ryan are besties. Okay, So Jimmy uh does extra on
Speaker 5: Ryan's show on it on a regular basis on her show,
Speaker 5: and he does videos with her and stuff too.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, very cool.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen Jimmy Organs before? I don't think so,
Speaker 3: you're should be in for a treat. Very very fun. Yeah,
Speaker 3: very high energy. It's you know, kind of old rock,
Speaker 3: old rock punk, you know. Okay, so there's a lot
Speaker 3: of woes and yeah jumping around.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, very cool, very cool.
Speaker 2: We should talk about to uh, you know, Jenny and
Speaker 2: I were there the other night because she's got her
Speaker 2: art there amazing. It's like, you're, oh wow, you're like
Speaker 2: way in the corner over there.
Speaker 3: Now you're on the spotlight. Jenny. I'm like, I'm literally
Speaker 3: to stay out of it.
Speaker 1: Literally, I'm like, where'd she go?
Speaker 3: Your video that I posted with all your art got
Speaker 3: eighty three views? Oh wow, that's that's organic views. That
Speaker 3: means eighty three people were looking at that little show.
Speaker 3: And what we mentioned on that clip was that Jenny
Speaker 3: is a healthcare advocate. That's very important to people knowing
Speaker 3: how our healthcare industry is not advocating for us.
Speaker 6: Right right, So imagine that trying to get healthcare to
Speaker 6: be healthcare.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, imagine the care and quotations.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that comes out a lot in the art too,
Speaker 6: and especially in the collection that you guys have for
Speaker 6: like my darkest pieces, those.
Speaker 3: Dark pieces are dark, Yeah, like those things of nightmares.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, my daughter loves them though, she's like, this
Speaker 3: is like the back rooms.
Speaker 1: No kidding, no kidding.
Speaker 3: Oh that's crazy, very cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now is that something you do every month? Every month
Speaker 2: you have feature a different artists or yeah, how does
Speaker 2: that work?
Speaker 1: Like how do you.
Speaker 2: Do people submit? Or what's what's the process like for deciding?
Speaker 3: It's pretty loose right now. You know, we have had
Speaker 3: people that have asked us, We have had people that
Speaker 3: we've sought out, people that just are like, yep, I'm
Speaker 3: putting my art on your wall. This is the coolest
Speaker 3: thing ever. Because we do an eighty twenty split consignment
Speaker 3: if it's something sells, and we do a number of
Speaker 3: promotional things to get the art scene and recognize not
Speaker 3: only through the Terminus shows and you know our open
Speaker 3: house every Tuesday where people can come. We allow the
Speaker 3: artists to set up their own gallery showing. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: you know they can do basically whatever they want. They
Speaker 3: can teach art classes, they can you know, have a reception,
Speaker 3: they can auction off their art at the Terminus. Yea,
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of opportunities.
Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent. Yeah, we should also talk to more broadly.
Speaker 2: About what what you do at the Midnight Creatives Collective,
Speaker 2: because you know, we have a lot.
Speaker 1: Of musicians who listen to the show.
Speaker 3: Hi musicians, we want yeah.
Speaker 2: Talk about that, talk about what you do with with musicians.
Speaker 5: And in terms of promotion, we do a lot of
Speaker 5: different things, but one of the main things that we
Speaker 5: do is we run underground music live music a few
Speaker 5: times a month in a little place that we call Terminus,
Speaker 5: and that's Andre's a little spot there that he graciously
Speaker 5: opens up for us living room style for us to
Speaker 5: be able to put on shows.
Speaker 1: But oh yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know we open up the business bar,
Speaker 5: which is Eleanor Space and the bar quotation bar. No
Speaker 5: alcohol served, so yeah, but BYO B stuff like that.
Speaker 5: And then I've got the green room for the musicians
Speaker 5: and yeah, we treat our bands like family.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're very hospitable. Are key Like the key phrase
Speaker 3: if you were to put us in an SEO search
Speaker 3: would be hospitality. And that's We've had over sixty bands
Speaker 3: since we started perform at Terminus over the last six months,
Speaker 3: and every single one of them says, oh my god,
Speaker 3: thank you, we cannot believe you. A pay the bands
Speaker 3: every time, serve them dinner food when they're there, bell
Speaker 3: a fridge filled with their favorite beverages, and they have
Speaker 3: just a genuinely good time being so intimate in this
Speaker 3: environment with their fans. Knowing that energy is like being
Speaker 3: built in a small space. But it's really ideally what
Speaker 3: everyone seems to be wanting these days. Yeah, it's really
Speaker 3: nice to be able to do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think. I think the end goal of it
Speaker 4: is like to also try and provide a place for
Speaker 4: musicians to be working with other musicians that for new ideas,
Speaker 4: seasoned people learning the craft of not just like the
Speaker 4: the performance section of things, but also the behind the scenes,
Speaker 4: Like if you want to do things to push out farther, like,
Speaker 4: these are the things that you have to start taking
Speaker 4: care of yourself with and like whether it's signing up
Speaker 4: and being a member of ASKAP or BMI, there's little
Speaker 4: things that can help benefit you to like really make
Speaker 4: it into something that now it's not just you know,
Speaker 4: being a garage band anymore. You're trying to push yourself
Speaker 4: to an actual professional place. And that's what we're trying
Speaker 4: to do here is to like take the craft seriously.
Speaker 4: Don't just don't listen to everybody else. That's just like
Speaker 4: musicians are just like you.
Speaker 3: Know, or that the scene isn't united. I don't like
Speaker 3: hearing that, because you know how to unite it. It
Speaker 3: is about, you know, doing what we're doing and inviting
Speaker 3: and welcoming as many people in the underground scene that
Speaker 3: we can take part. So this is you know, where
Speaker 3: the community is actually happening. And there's other places too,
Speaker 3: like other collectives have started to pop up, which is
Speaker 3: really awesome, and we like to collaborate with just about everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because we're all about, like you know, seeing it as
Speaker 3: a future perspective, like you know, we're going to be
Speaker 3: those boomers again, I mean not again, but eventually. And
Speaker 3: so who are we teaching and what are we teaching
Speaker 3: for the next people to you know, be able to
Speaker 3: rock and roll and keep rock and roll alive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's basically set up like a nice little
Speaker 4: membership like you would have a gym membership or something,
Speaker 4: but you get to come in and work with people
Speaker 4: you have, you have a place to come and do
Speaker 4: things that kind of like separate you from the world
Speaker 4: and like sometimes you try to do the stuff at home,
Speaker 4: but there's always a distraction. Yea, this gives you a
Speaker 4: place to actually go and work on your craft. Yeah,
Speaker 4: work on the behind the scenes, bring your laptop, hook
Speaker 4: up to internet, make pictures and pages and set things up.
Speaker 4: Work on a website. Have somebody that can help you
Speaker 4: work on a website to get things going, and what's
Speaker 4: my next step? You know, the place to have those
Speaker 4: little conversations that so yeah, and I mean and even
Speaker 4: with Terminus, like I want to use it as a
Speaker 4: place where there's Katie Red who is a sound person
Speaker 4: that has been working with us and does a great job.
Speaker 4: And we were just having a discussion of having a
Speaker 4: class for bands to come in so that they can
Speaker 4: learn how to communicate with the sound person what they
Speaker 4: need on stage, so that they can get past the
Speaker 4: things of I got to deal with the grumpy sound guy. Well,
Speaker 4: if you spoke the language and you understand what a
Speaker 4: sound person is trying to understand, you would be able
Speaker 4: to increase your performance because you were able to communicate
Speaker 4: the things that you needed to sound good for yourself
Speaker 4: on stage.
Speaker 1: That is a fantastic idea.
Speaker 4: It things like that.
Speaker 2: Now that specifically though, is because nobody I don't know
Speaker 2: if there's a course at Berkeley where they I don't
Speaker 2: think so, where they teach out.
Speaker 1: How to deal with the sound guy. But I mean
Speaker 1: level but right, that's what. Yeah, that's the thing, because yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's.
Speaker 3: The textbook stuff at well that's.
Speaker 2: What i'm But that's what I mean though, like, actually,
Speaker 2: you know, because you have to. It's not so much
Speaker 2: the technical stuff when you're dealing with a sound guy
Speaker 2: at a club. It's you know, the personality aspects of
Speaker 2: it that that can come into play. And there's a
Speaker 2: fly in here, that's unusual, but uh, probably because we
Speaker 2: were talking about zombies.
Speaker 4: Some of the rotten made it with us our reputations.
Speaker 2: I heard somebody on the morning show the other day
Speaker 2: saying there was a fly in here, so it must
Speaker 2: be the same fly. I've never seen a fly in here.
Speaker 2: But no, I think that's that's a fantastic idea. I
Speaker 2: don't know anybody around here who's doing anything like that.
Speaker 3: We're doing lots of things no one else has even
Speaker 3: thought of. I went into a women's empowerment group for
Speaker 3: women's CEOs this last week and I tried to do
Speaker 3: it elevator pitch for what all we do and it
Speaker 3: really I don't have a short way of saying any
Speaker 3: of what we do because we do a lot, but
Speaker 3: it's all like really beneficial stuff, Like it's next level stuff.
Speaker 3: So it's like we've got the School of Rock in
Speaker 3: Nashua now and they're teaching all the young kids, and
Speaker 3: I feel like we're just that next extension that.
Speaker 2: No, that makes sense too, yeah, because you know, obviously,
Speaker 2: you know, especially for people, I mean there's probably a
Speaker 2: lot of musicians around who you know, yeah, they're not
Speaker 2: gonna they're not gonna go enroll at the School of Rock,
Speaker 2: but they but there's.
Speaker 1: Things that they they need to know.
Speaker 2: That maybe part of the challenge, though, I would imagine
Speaker 2: is there's a lot of musicians who don't know that
Speaker 2: there's things that they need to know, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 4: And that's the and that's the thing is trying to
Speaker 4: you know, pass that information along that people aren't thinking about, right.
Speaker 4: And it's like, you know, she threw me in and
Speaker 4: made me do a class a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 4: to be like I'm gonna make a class. You're gonna
Speaker 4: teach some people how to like learn to run our
Speaker 4: soundboard and it but it also like put a thing
Speaker 4: like for musicians to learn how to actually like work
Speaker 4: a soundboard to the things to look at to like
Speaker 4: whether it's setting up monitors and setting up stage things
Speaker 4: and and having levels and where to look at in
Speaker 4: your EQ settings. And there's a lot of little things
Speaker 4: that it only makes your craft that much better that
Speaker 4: you know these little behind the scene things, because that's
Speaker 4: going to help you just dial in what you're looking for,
Speaker 4: like say your sound.
Speaker 2: And if you have a better understanding of what the
Speaker 2: sound person goes through exactly.
Speaker 3: And we have a very you know, it's not a
Speaker 3: club that we have. It's a private space where we
Speaker 3: open it up. It's not very big. I mean it's
Speaker 3: bigger than the studio, but we have specific like sound
Speaker 3: needs for that room. So it's really nice to be
Speaker 3: able to, you know, teach people how to hone in
Speaker 3: the sound even in a small space and make it
Speaker 3: sound phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Well, what I tell everybody, I'm sure you've heard me
Speaker 2: say it is when you walk into terminus.
Speaker 1: I still remember walking in there the first time. It's
Speaker 1: like another world.
Speaker 3: Even better now. Andrea just tweaked some things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I had no idea about the whole with
Speaker 2: is the Walking Dead. Yep, I don't know any of
Speaker 2: these zombie things. But I had no idea about that
Speaker 2: part of it. But even just not knowing that, like
Speaker 2: just walking into that room, it's like, wow.
Speaker 3: There will be no zombies tonight. Yeah, if anyone's scared, Yeah,
Speaker 3: zombies are bad.
Speaker 4: But I may have to add a couple of skeletons
Speaker 4: in the ceiling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go, there you go.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, earlier we had on Dylan Reynolds, who
Speaker 2: has this EP called radiation sickness, and it's about like
Speaker 2: like one of the songs is about Chernobyl and it's
Speaker 2: all about you know, these things that can But it
Speaker 2: sounded like he's in a zombies too. He mentioned a
Speaker 2: video game. Did he mentioned a video game that involves zombies.
Speaker 1: She's over there in the corner. But h yes, I
Speaker 1: hear what's up?
Speaker 3: Yes, I heard you?
Speaker 1: With the zombies? Okay, yes, yes.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of video games with the zombies. Silent
Speaker 3: Hill was one of the first, I think, right.
Speaker 4: No, it wasn't particularly as zombie, it was I don't
Speaker 4: I don't know. I didn't play the game.
Speaker 1: He mentioned he mentioned a video game see I've never
Speaker 1: seen any of those.
Speaker 4: It's like just weird dark, it's curious.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when we agreed to do the video or the
Speaker 3: movie and we had to preview what it was about
Speaker 3: because we weren't too familiar with the Silent Hill brand. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the movie, yeah, I'm glad you are. I was silent
Speaker 3: part of the movie.
Speaker 5: But yeah, the video game was great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, we were talking about that with Dylan too,
Speaker 2: the video games and see, I'm not a I'm completely like,
Speaker 2: I'm not a gamer at all. I I the last time,
Speaker 2: it's probably been twenty years since I played a video game.
Speaker 2: But the reason I've always avoided it since because the
Speaker 2: last time I played a video game, I was at
Speaker 2: a friend's house. They actually fell asleep.
Speaker 1: It was late.
Speaker 2: I think I started playing the game at like nine pm,
Speaker 2: and next thing I know, four hours has gone by.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the clock at one am. And I
Speaker 2: made a decision in that moment, I said, because I've
Speaker 2: been you know, when I was a kid, I'd spent
Speaker 2: hours in front of the game system, and I just
Speaker 2: made a decision in that moment, I put that controller
Speaker 2: down and I said, I'm never doing this again, and
Speaker 2: I haven't. I haven't picked up a game controller since
Speaker 2: it's just so psychologically addictive, you.
Speaker 3: Know, addictive, and then you start to get angry, like
Speaker 3: I only play the Witcher and sometimes I'm like in
Speaker 3: the middle and I feel myself with that, like I'm like,
Speaker 3: I gotta I gotta quit. I don't want this. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but we have a lot of gamer musicians in the community,
Speaker 3: Like you guys just had mister Goodbars and he does gaming.
Speaker 3: Axel Bailey does gaming, the drummer of Dead Harrison, and
Speaker 3: there's a lot of gamers. So I kind of think
Speaker 3: that this is a cool niche because we're appealing to
Speaker 3: both movie nerds and gaming.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the trunks and you know, just a really
Speaker 3: cool vibe that is going to be tonight.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now, at the at the collective, there's because you're you're
Speaker 2: talking about some of the information and education of musicians.
Speaker 2: You've got like levels, right, You've got like memberships people
Speaker 2: can sign up for.
Speaker 3: We have several different memberships. So just the Midnight Creatives
Speaker 3: Collective has three membership levels, Patron being the one that
Speaker 3: gives you access to come in and co work with
Speaker 3: us as artists or you know whatever. You're working on.
Speaker 3: We have writers to musicians, so anybody could co work
Speaker 3: in a positive environment. That just is twenty five dollars
Speaker 3: a month and you can come in anytime that we're open,
Speaker 3: which is Tuesdays from six pm to eleven pm right now.
Speaker 3: But we are starting to think about expansion, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because as more people start understanding what's going on,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: And then the next level is the rock star member,
Speaker 3: which we have two rock star members right now at
Speaker 3: artists who's a painter and her name is my art
Speaker 3: by kf Keagan Fitzgerald. And we have a writer her
Speaker 3: name is Ellie Beach. She's an author and she does
Speaker 3: poetry and she also does cosplaying under Aowen of the Shire.
Speaker 3: So those our two rock star members. And then we
Speaker 3: have a VIP level membership which covers everything and where
Speaker 3: I can use my skills learned as a music business
Speaker 3: manager and you know, teach them how to basically start
Speaker 3: from the top, I mean from the bottom and make
Speaker 3: it to the top with like their evks and their
Speaker 3: web presence and you know, doing album covers and designing
Speaker 3: like logos for them and then getting them into video
Speaker 3: and media and signing them up for the music pros
Speaker 3: like vm I and ASCAP. So that's what I do
Speaker 3: at that VIP level. And we have one musician that
Speaker 3: I also manage. His name is Rick Everhart and his
Speaker 3: band is called Six Minds Combined. It's a modern hip
Speaker 3: hop band. It's a a lot of hip hop band.
Speaker 3: He wraps and he likes to partner with tjs and
Speaker 3: other musicians and do like, you know, cooperative things. So
Speaker 3: his first album's coming out and I'm helping him produce
Speaker 3: the album cover and the booklet, and mister Goodbars at
Speaker 3: the Toy Box Studio did all the production on the
Speaker 3: album itself. It's called Issue zero Cool Six Minds Combined.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, you have to keep your eye out for
Speaker 3: that one. But yeah, we'd love to have more VIP members,
Speaker 3: people who want to you know, grow their band as
Speaker 3: a business and want to reach that next level in
Speaker 3: their careers. It's for real people who have a lot
Speaker 3: of get up and go. If I had to say anything,
Speaker 3: Dead Harrison was basically my model for this. So everything
Speaker 3: I did to get Dead Harrison to the level they
Speaker 3: are now I can use as a like an accomplishment
Speaker 3: and repeat it.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh oh that's excellent.
Speaker 3: I mean I did it with my own band back
Speaker 3: in the day, so it's you know, kind of just
Speaker 3: the logical steps of growing a business at this point.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep.
Speaker 3: So those are the three levels, and then if you
Speaker 3: want Terminus membership, we have kind of two different levels there.
Speaker 3: We have the regular entry level which is twenty dollars
Speaker 3: a month. Oh no, sorry, fifteen dollars a month, and
Speaker 3: then you get discounted tickets for Terminus or if you
Speaker 3: want our VI Pizza membership which includes pizza with the bands,
Speaker 3: that's twenty dollars a month, and then you get discounted
Speaker 3: tickets at the door.
Speaker 2: By the way, did I hear you correctly? Did you
Speaker 2: say that guy's name was Rick Everhard?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: It is Rick Everhard, the eleven year old boy, and
Speaker 2: me loves that.
Speaker 3: Yes. I asked him the first time I knew his name,
Speaker 3: I was like, is that your real real name?
Speaker 1: And he's like, yes, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: And his middle name I can't remember it, but it
Speaker 3: makes it even better.
Speaker 4: Well, he loves it.
Speaker 1: Though, shout out to Rick Everhard.
Speaker 5: It's not short for Richard either, It's Frederick.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, all right, Oh wow, oh boy.
Speaker 1: So spellfee.
Speaker 2: I don't know much about your background. How did you
Speaker 2: get involved in all of this? And I don't did
Speaker 2: you already? Have you known Eleanor and Andre for a
Speaker 2: long time?
Speaker 5: I met Eleanor and Andre six years ago, a little
Speaker 5: bit more than six years ago, and we became friends
Speaker 5: really quickly. We got close really quickly, and I was
Speaker 5: in Nashua for a little bit, moved down to Massachusetts,
Speaker 5: and the two of them were two of the only
Speaker 5: people who came and visited me after removed. Yeah, they're
Speaker 5: two of my best friends. And so after the passing
Speaker 5: of our friends Steve last year, we got together and
Speaker 5: we were talking about dreams and ideas that we had,
Speaker 5: and then I realized that we had a lot of
Speaker 5: the same ideas, a lot of the same dreams and
Speaker 5: goals and plans of things that we wanted to do.
Speaker 5: So we decided to just combine forces and do it together.
Speaker 2: Did you all? Well, let me ask you the story.
Speaker 2: Are you a musician? Are you an artist?
Speaker 1: Or you like? What what do you do?
Speaker 5: I sing, but I'm not in a band. I'm oh, okay,
Speaker 5: I'm a chicken ship, but I am working on a
Speaker 5: starting a project.
Speaker 2: Sorry, sorry about that, That's okay.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I've I've got a big passion for music.
Speaker 5: I grew up music. I came out of the wombs
Speaker 5: singing practically. According to my parents, they they don't like
Speaker 5: to agree on much, but one of the things that
Speaker 5: they agree on is that I started singing before I
Speaker 5: started talking. So I've always loved music, always had a
Speaker 5: passion for music. I've been asked what the meaning to
Speaker 5: life was, and I just say music. Without it, there's
Speaker 5: no point. Everything is a wave. Everything vibrates. Some waves
Speaker 5: you can see, some you can hear, yeah, and some
Speaker 5: you can feel. And just when you get good live
Speaker 5: music and you just close your eyes and you can
Speaker 5: feel the waves, the vibration. You're in a crowd of
Speaker 5: people and you can feel the energy coming off of
Speaker 5: all of those people who are also feeling the same
Speaker 5: vibrational energy that you are.
Speaker 1: It's a good way of describing it. Yeah, it's magic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, magic instincts when it comes to music too. She
Speaker 3: knows what bands go with what on a bill. She's
Speaker 3: got really solid because of how she feels.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I literally I just feel the music. Yeah, And I
Speaker 5: don't just listen.
Speaker 2: I feel yeah, and you mentioned so you sing, but
Speaker 2: you're not. Have you been in a band?
Speaker 5: I have, I've I did like band classes, I did
Speaker 5: chorus classes and all that stuff. Growing up. I grew
Speaker 5: up my dad's very religious. I grew up in the church.
Speaker 5: I grew up in children's choir and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: Very sour to organized religion. So I no longer do that.
Speaker 5: But that was the one thing that I enjoyed about
Speaker 5: church was singing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting. A lot of musicians that's how they
Speaker 2: that's how they start out learning to sing. Is I
Speaker 2: shouldn't say a lot, but I've just heard a lot
Speaker 2: of a lot of people who don't aren't particularly religious,
Speaker 2: but they but because they came from a religious background,
Speaker 2: that's something that they did get out of it, at least,
Speaker 2: you know, an exposure to to singing in choirs and
Speaker 2: choruses and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, according to my parents. Six months old, I started
Speaker 5: singing Jesus Loves Me with my dad. And then the
Speaker 5: first thing that I said I kind of egotistical, but
Speaker 5: at the same time not because it wasn't just the
Speaker 5: word I it was a whole phrase. I told my
Speaker 5: dad I love him I said, I love you. So
Speaker 5: I guess the story is is my mom would put
Speaker 5: me and my little baby swaying in front of the door.
Speaker 5: My dad would come home from work and the first
Speaker 5: thing he would do is put his stuff down and
Speaker 5: say I love you. And so he walked in the
Speaker 5: door in the first thing I said, I love you.
Speaker 1: Oh, very nice, very nice.
Speaker 5: That was That was my my my story of I
Speaker 5: started talking before I started Yeah, I mean I started saying.
Speaker 1: I started singing before I started talking yet, But.
Speaker 5: Jesus loves me and I won't catch me singing that
Speaker 5: ever again.
Speaker 1: Hey you never know. Probably, Well what about uh? You
Speaker 1: could these songs? It's funny, there's uh what was I.
Speaker 2: Why did I heard the other night that I heard
Speaker 2: a long time that Jesus is just all right by
Speaker 2: the Doobie Brothers. It was like, I don't think they're
Speaker 2: religious though some people sing about Jesus without being actually religious.
Speaker 1: It's interesting.
Speaker 3: But I say Jesus a lot every day.
Speaker 1: Yeah. See, there you go.
Speaker 3: I guess it could be a phrase.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. Well, let's do this.
Speaker 2: I think we should play another Dead Harrison song and
Speaker 2: then we'll come back and talk some more. Uh, do
Speaker 2: we have a actually all right, maybe I'll be selfish.
Speaker 1: I really like Terror Grinder.
Speaker 4: You read my mind?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so I'm not being selfish. That's good. Not
Speaker 1: all right?
Speaker 4: A good song?
Speaker 3: I think we should play from Beach Zombies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this is and this is you and Sean
Speaker 1: sing this together? Right? Yes?
Speaker 3: The one?
Speaker 2: Yeah, trying to get it to load up here.
Speaker 1: Let's going on almost sofy.
Speaker 3: What are you holding?
Speaker 6: There was a question in the in the chat room
Speaker 6: if that's an ax A lotty a lottle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ax a lot plushy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's an excell lottle. This is my es A,
Speaker 5: my emotional support acts a lottel. His name is Sausage.
Speaker 5: He's a gift from a friend.
Speaker 3: He's very cute. He is.
Speaker 5: It's much better than the actual live emotional support animal
Speaker 5: that I used to have because I don't have to
Speaker 5: feed this one, right or take it out for a walk, right.
Speaker 5: I don't have to worry about cleaning up messes and
Speaker 5: it can get in a doggy sitter.
Speaker 2: You don't have to worry about somebody giving you hard
Speaker 2: time about it.
Speaker 5: Right, And if they pissed me off enough, I can
Speaker 5: just hit them with it. Well I need this for
Speaker 5: my emotional support.
Speaker 1: Well, that's true.
Speaker 3: I got you, I got you. I like this. Try
Speaker 3: not to get arrested for us.
Speaker 1: All that's right.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. I got it. This is
Speaker 1: Tera regarded and this is Dad Harrison. Check this out.
Speaker 7: So again, Lord, the chamber of your God WestEd asleep
Speaker 7: for a long time, the days survived to have some fall.
Speaker 1: Fall head receive as that's with the mast den.
Speaker 8: I'll be bread drag f.
Speaker 9: But the bestnamy of a row. Let's till rid the scrolling.
Speaker 9: It's tasteful good, it's real. Look God, and a trail
Speaker 9: that it's quick you victory, you can feel trot to
Speaker 9: that settled by the n't know kings on its wrong.
Speaker 9: Now ta send this battle buy and.
Speaker 10: Make us it snow goes and make.
Speaker 8: Johnny just see.
Speaker 10: It.
Speaker 8: Go to the waste of thou silk, take of Thos
Speaker 8: and long tegant.
Speaker 10: Race rids Man's lad. It came to us and our stay.
Speaker 10: It's a rage had to go round and came to
Speaker 10: a human race.
Speaker 9: Looking up the sky around us, it's falling through the sea.
Speaker 9: This thing you call your nighttime will soon be.
Speaker 6: Just a tree the.
Speaker 8: Tawne, the take and give it up to thee.
Speaker 11: When all the world is getting called one thing, what's
Speaker 11: still rookiesh said, go test like my t stuff.
Speaker 8: Fine I go, don't I go fla tess so say
Speaker 8: I say my Ta.
Speaker 2: Ta said, yeah, I definitely think that is my favorite
Speaker 2: Dead Harrison song, Terror Grinder. The band is Dead Harrison.
Speaker 2: We have Andre Dumont here from Dead Harrison. We have
Speaker 2: Eleanor and Spelfe here as well. And we've been talking
Speaker 2: about the Midnight Creators Collective and Terminus Underground and for
Speaker 2: people just joining us, we should remind them what you've
Speaker 2: got going on tonight there.
Speaker 3: So tonight is our first music and movie night. We're
Speaker 3: going to be premiering a Silent Hill fan parody film
Speaker 3: with puppets. So it's called Silent Foul and it is
Speaker 3: basically the Ryan Lockhart is the filmmaker and the performer,
Speaker 3: an actress and she's a trans woman and this is
Speaker 3: her coming out film and night. So she is going
Speaker 3: to be doing a rap performance. She's an amazing rap
Speaker 3: battle artist and a rapper and so she's going to
Speaker 3: be doing some of that performing as well as premiering
Speaker 3: her show. And we also have the Megans, a Walking
Speaker 3: Dead parody band themselves who they are like punk rock
Speaker 3: and misfit style. So a lot of fun, a lot
Speaker 3: of woes, a lot of haze, a lot of jumping
Speaker 3: up and down. It's going to be really fun. So
Speaker 3: we are doing a little bit differently. Ten dollars suggested
Speaker 3: donation at the door. It is still twenty one plus,
Speaker 3: bring your candy and a chair to sit on and
Speaker 3: come and watch a movie and have some fun with us.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'm.
Speaker 3: Sorry I should say the time. It's oh, cours start
Speaker 3: at eight?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that is important. That is important.
Speaker 2: I'm curious how does something like like an event like
Speaker 2: this which is so unique, Like, how does something like
Speaker 2: this happen? Does she approach you because she thinks that
Speaker 2: this would be a good venue.
Speaker 1: You for that, or do you approach her? How does
Speaker 1: that happen?
Speaker 5: I saw her post online she was like, yeah, check
Speaker 5: out my movie. I was like, do you want to
Speaker 5: have a viewing?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah kind of like all.
Speaker 5: Right, cool. So I talked to these two heroes like, yeah,
Speaker 5: why don't we put on a movie nighted Terminus and
Speaker 5: show movies made by people that we know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And we had gotten a couple of people who
Speaker 3: are filmmakers interested early on and they came by the
Speaker 3: open house. One of them was Matt Martino, who's done
Speaker 3: some be horror films with our friend and resident cannibal
Speaker 3: Greek Abdon, so we had him come by a couple
Speaker 3: of times. And then Rod Weber, who is the documentary
Speaker 3: filmmaker for Vermin Supreme. Oh yeah, so we started talking about,
Speaker 3: you know, yeah, that there could be a possibility to
Speaker 3: work with film people here too, given the space. And
Speaker 3: this is the first time we're trying, and I think
Speaker 3: it's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah are you are you doing something with Vermin Supreme
Speaker 1: or or.
Speaker 3: Every time he comes to New Hampshire. Our house is
Speaker 3: literally his campaign house at Sporters, so yeah, whenever he
Speaker 3: comes here, if he comes with his ponies, they're in
Speaker 3: our yard. In Nashua. Last year he came and did
Speaker 3: like the Holidays stroll with us and the ponies. It
Speaker 3: was our first introduction to it. And then you know,
Speaker 3: I'll be doing something with him if he wants to
Speaker 3: tour New England. So yeah, I think something might happen
Speaker 3: in September, but it's still up.
Speaker 1: In the air. He actually brings ponies sometimes, Yep, he does.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like these many many Shetland ponies, really cute.
Speaker 1: How does he so? He transports them here in a truck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have friends, they have friends trailer. Yeah it's
Speaker 3: oh you know they're from a farm and these are
Speaker 3: friends and colleagues of Vermin's. Yeah, donate the ponies.
Speaker 1: Wow, I know, it is so cool. I love Vermin.
Speaker 2: I've interviewed him a few times. Actually, I think Jenny
Speaker 2: had introduced me to him originally, but but yeah, I've
Speaker 2: interviewed him a few times over the years. And no,
Speaker 2: very very fun, very fascinating. And I didn't realize though,
Speaker 2: he actually travels sometimes with actual ponies. I mean, talk
Speaker 2: about committing of the bit. Wow, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I never really knew what kind of ponies, and I
Speaker 3: in my mind, I was thinking, like just the regular
Speaker 3: sized ponies, but these are little mini ones. I think
Speaker 3: it's probably much easier to transport them.
Speaker 1: Probably probably Wow, that's wild.
Speaker 3: But I imagine my surprise when I looked out my
Speaker 3: window and saw ponies grazing in my yard.
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, starstruck. Yeah, I can imagine.
Speaker 3: I do get starstruck. Even though I've been in this
Speaker 3: industry since nineteen ninety nine, I still get starstruck. And
Speaker 3: it's mostly weirdly by political people I'm like, but even stars,
Speaker 3: like even musicians. Sometimes. I got to meet my favorite
Speaker 3: band Ghara recently. They came and played Terminus I h
Speaker 3: Okay and they're here from They're in Manchester. They're a
Speaker 3: melodic post metal band with huge, huge cabs and amps.
Speaker 3: And I was introduced to them in the winter. Andrea's
Speaker 3: friend John introduced them to us and I wrote to them.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god, I really love this band.
Speaker 3: It's amazing. Never expected to hear back from him and
Speaker 3: then like they're like, hey, can we do a show?
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh my god, yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 3: So I get to meet a lot of amazing, amazing people.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: And there's a we should mention too, speaking of interesting people,
Speaker 2: green Jello or green Jelly, I never I don't know
Speaker 2: what to call it anymore.
Speaker 3: So I've been in touch with William Mann Speaker, and
Speaker 3: he has arranged a one hundred thirty day Pool Noddle
Speaker 3: Bus tour. So a pool noodle bus, a bus filled
Speaker 3: with pool noodles painted with green jelly and green yellow logos,
Speaker 3: is traveling the country right now. They're in Calgary. A
Speaker 3: little bit of a problem getting over the border with
Speaker 3: the bust that it wasn't the bus, it was him.
Speaker 1: I didn't know about this. I missed this.
Speaker 6: He got Yeah, he got turned away at the Canadian border.
Speaker 3: He got back through, he had to go.
Speaker 6: He had to fly back to Los Angeles, go to court,
Speaker 6: get a piece of paper that said he had his
Speaker 6: name searched and he's never been a felon. Wow, and
Speaker 6: fly that back to to Calgary to get into Canada
Speaker 6: and be permitted.
Speaker 3: To come in. And he made it to the concert.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 6: But it was an insane thing watching him like emergently
Speaker 6: fly to La heu abounded energy.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: He's very much about showing people how to be a winner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 3: So he'll be here in this direction at terminus on
Speaker 3: August twenty seventh. That's a Tuesday show. So you know
Speaker 3: you gotta work, maybe take the day off because it's
Speaker 3: gonna be just so much fun and we're gonna try
Speaker 3: to do a parade through the city with the pool
Speaker 3: noodles and oh wow, yeah, so we're gonna try to
Speaker 3: have a punk rock parade.
Speaker 1: Oh very cool, very cool.
Speaker 3: I did not know about the parade aspect. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I haven't put the event up yet, but I will shortly.
Speaker 1: So yeah, excellent, excellent, And anything new with the world
Speaker 1: of Dad Harrison that we should know.
Speaker 4: About my Brain is not able to.
Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 4: No, I think we have a show coming up over
Speaker 4: at Terminus next month.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, they're playing with Vigil and Swarm of Eyes
Speaker 3: and a new band called Tech Slave. I had the
Speaker 3: show set up for Vigil and they said to me, well,
Speaker 3: why is Dead Harrison not on this bill? We need
Speaker 3: Dead Harrison. So we put them on the bill and
Speaker 3: they do have They're playing the Keen Music Festival on
Speaker 3: August thirty first.
Speaker 4: So all the bands that we know said, my brain
Speaker 4: is just like I just wait for it to come
Speaker 4: and then I go.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm the manager, so I can keep everything
Speaker 3: in line that we need to do, because you know,
Speaker 3: it's a lot.
Speaker 1: We do a lot.
Speaker 3: We're constantly moving. There's a lot of moving pieces. We
Speaker 3: have a lot of really great volunteers. So I actually
Speaker 3: wanted to shout out today some of the people that
Speaker 3: have helped us, like just out of the goodness of
Speaker 3: their heart and feeling for the scene. We have Katie
Speaker 3: Read our sound which Brian Mulanson who's really technical, tech
Speaker 3: savvy and has been helping us, Axel Bailey who's doing
Speaker 3: our videos and our interviews with SPELFI for the artists
Speaker 3: and musicians. Chris Barton who has helped us with sound
Speaker 3: and parking detail. Rick Everhart, he's been helpful. He wants
Speaker 3: to be our bouncer and you know, help us out
Speaker 3: that regard Eric and Polomini. He's bounced the door before
Speaker 3: too with Stacy his girlfriend. So everybody who's just like
Speaker 3: picked up and just helped us in any way that
Speaker 3: they can just to be part of it has been amazing.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure there's so many more people that
Speaker 3: I'm not even mentioning. I don't know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, We've got Bryant Galler. He's one of
Speaker 5: our our patron members and he does a lot to
Speaker 5: help me get to meetings and stuff like that. As
Speaker 5: far as giving me rides. He's always there. He's like,
Speaker 5: you need something, let me know. I've got you cool.
Speaker 5: I will support any which way I can. He's down
Speaker 5: to support this whatever, Like he doesn't come to Terminus
Speaker 5: shows and stuff like that because he works on Saturday
Speaker 5: nights because he's a dealer over at Gate City Casino.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, so he can only request so many nights
Speaker 5: off for concerts.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I didn't even know there was a casino
Speaker 1: in Nashville.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a couple are there. There's gonna be one
Speaker 3: more student in them all too.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'll be damned. I had no idea. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not a gambler, but yeah, I just didn't realize that.
Speaker 1: You know, for years, I had no idea. I had
Speaker 1: no idea there was one on South will Street.
Speaker 11: I was.
Speaker 1: I was oblivious. Apparently it's been there forever. I didn't realize. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you just mentioned it right now. Oh really yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bingo. I want to play Bingo for some reason, really,
Speaker 3: mostly because I want to try to get them as
Speaker 3: a client.
Speaker 1: Oh there you go, there you go. Uh, we are
Speaker 1: running out of time, please plug the event.
Speaker 2: Uh you have tonight and uh anything anybody else should
Speaker 2: know about how to find you online? Keep up with
Speaker 2: everything that you're doing all the all the pertinence.
Speaker 3: So we have the Midnight Creatives Collective is on Instagram
Speaker 3: and Facebook. We have a group as well as a page,
Speaker 3: and then we also have Terminus Underground as a page
Speaker 3: so you can go on and find out all the
Speaker 3: shows from there. We always put the events through the
Speaker 3: Midnight Creatives Collective and share them to the Terminus page.
Speaker 3: And we also have a website, but it's in process,
Speaker 3: but that should be coming soon. We just encourage people
Speaker 3: to come over and experience it. You know, you can
Speaker 3: see what we do online, but the key is coming
Speaker 3: and we're at one thirty four Haynes Street. It is
Speaker 3: in an industrial mill building set off the road. It's
Speaker 3: a little hard to find. We like it that way.
Speaker 3: That's why we're underground. So if you type two hundred
Speaker 3: Haines Street into your GPS, you're more likely to find us.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, that's the secret. We're living a little
Speaker 3: secrets here, but yeah, please come to the shows. We're
Speaker 3: going to have. The next one after this is August
Speaker 3: seventeenth with the Whole Loaf earthmark Alana, Corvette and egg
Speaker 3: with an exclamation point. So that's a really groovy sixties
Speaker 3: style psychedelic rock night, and prior to that we're going
Speaker 3: to be shooting six Minds combines first music video. So
Speaker 3: people are also welcome to come. We want the public
Speaker 3: to come and be part of It is a house party,
Speaker 3: So if you're you know, interested in what we're trying
Speaker 3: to do, check out the address on our website or
Speaker 3: on Facebook rather and you can check that information out
Speaker 3: there too.
Speaker 2: Very cool, very cool, and we should remind people too.
Speaker 2: Jenny's artwork is currently hanging there and.
Speaker 6: You can see more of it at Jencoffee dot com.
Speaker 6: J E N N C O F f uy dot com.
Speaker 2: Yes, very good, well, thank you, thank you all three
Speaker 2: of you for coming in today. This has been one
Speaker 2: of absolutely.
Speaker 3: Good to see you guys.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, thank you,
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