Matt Connarton Unleashed: Scarecrow Hill

0:00 Speaker 1: I'll get the blood pumping on a cold Saturday morning,

0:04 Speaker 1: on a cold winter's morning.

0:05 Speaker 2: Welcome everybody, Here we go.

0:07 Speaker 1: We are into our number two New Marrow dose of

0:09 Speaker 1: Matt Connorton unleashed, our first show of twenty twenty five.

0:13 Speaker 1: Today is Saturday, January fourth, twenty twenty five. Jenny is

0:18 Speaker 1: here as well, of course, at the news table, president

0:21 Speaker 1: and account of for and we have joining us a

0:23 Speaker 1: live in studio. And again, if you are just joining us,

0:25 Speaker 1: forgive my voice. I'm still recovering from my recent sound kit.

0:30 Speaker 1: I don't think it does. I'm very frustrated to my

0:32 Speaker 1: cracking voice, but still recovering again, still recovering from my

0:37 Speaker 1: recent asthma incident. But we have joining us alive in studio.

0:41 Speaker 1: The guys from Scarecrow Hill are here.

0:44 Speaker 3: How are you guys?

0:44 Speaker 4: Welcome, Hello, hello, hello, Thank you for having us.

0:47 Speaker 1: Absolutely I'm excited to talk to you. I really love

0:49 Speaker 1: your sound. As we were talking off air, and that

0:52 Speaker 1: track is great? Is that the uh?

0:53 Speaker 3: Now that's from the new album of course at Death

0:55 Speaker 3: in the Family. Yes, excellent, So why don't we We'll start.

0:59 Speaker 1: In the corner here and if we could just go

1:00 Speaker 1: around the room and you can each tell us who

1:02 Speaker 1: you are, what you do in the band, and any

1:04 Speaker 1: other pertinent information.

1:06 Speaker 4: Tyler A Sting Okay, Joe, lead guitar player.

1:10 Speaker 3: Okay, I am Brendan, and I am the drummer.

1:12 Speaker 4: Okay, I'm Joe.

1:13 Speaker 3: I'm the bass player. Okay. And is it just the

1:16 Speaker 3: four of you?

1:16 Speaker 5: No, we actually dominate our rhythm. Guitar player couldn't be with.

1:20 Speaker 1: Us, okay, Okay, gotcha, gotcha. Yeah, you guys have a

1:24 Speaker 1: big sound.

1:24 Speaker 3: You know what I like about that track too, Like

1:30 Speaker 3: you're not in any hurry to get to the end

1:31 Speaker 3: of it, you know what I mean, Like like that

1:34 Speaker 3: riff just keeps going for a while. And I think

1:37 Speaker 3: that because I think that's kind of a lost.

1:39 Speaker 1: Thing, like I don't hear a lot of I feel

1:42 Speaker 1: like we live in a time where a lot of

1:43 Speaker 1: bands it's like, you know, I don't know if it's

1:45 Speaker 1: because everybody thinks that people have short attention spans or whatever,

1:48 Speaker 1: but it's like, Okay, a couple of choruses and we'll

1:51 Speaker 1: end it or we'll fade it out, but you guys

1:53 Speaker 1: kind of take your time with it and groove on

1:55 Speaker 1: that for a while. And I just think that's really cool.

1:57 Speaker 5: We had had a lot of fun coming up with

1:59 Speaker 5: that ending. Yeah, we loved the riffs that they did,

2:02 Speaker 5: so we wanted to kind of.

2:02 Speaker 4: Stretch that out.

2:03 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, that's really cool. How long has Scarecrow

2:06 Speaker 3: Hill Scarecrow Hill been around?

2:09 Speaker 5: Oh gosh, is three for what matters? Since twenty eighteen?

2:14 Speaker 3: Okay, okay, But there was a version of the band

2:20 Speaker 3: that existed before that.

2:21 Speaker 5: There was Joel and I started the band in two

2:23 Speaker 5: thousand and three, okay, okay. We went till about twenty fourteen,

2:28 Speaker 5: and then we had split up, and then at the

2:31 Speaker 5: end of twenty eighteen beginning of twenty nineteen, we got

2:34 Speaker 5: back together with these guys.

2:35 Speaker 3: Oh okay, now what caused the return.

2:40 Speaker 5: Brendan and Joe Okay, we met them and the way

2:44 Speaker 5: they played the music, we were just like, we need

2:45 Speaker 5: to do this again.

2:47 Speaker 1: When when the band ended the first time, after you said,

2:50 Speaker 1: what about a ten year run?

2:51 Speaker 4: Yeah, the first time?

2:53 Speaker 3: Did you did you always kind of know that it

2:55 Speaker 3: would be back some day or was it like, no,

2:58 Speaker 3: that's it.

2:59 Speaker 5: I think we secretly hoped, yeah, but we didn't really

3:02 Speaker 5: know what was going to happen either ways.

3:04 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So the so everything on the new album

3:08 Speaker 1: is the current lineup, the five of of you.

3:10 Speaker 3: Yeah, excellent, excellent.

3:13 Speaker 1: Yeah, because I was pretty sure because when when Jenny,

3:16 Speaker 1: you know, Jenny does all the booking for the show,

3:17 Speaker 1: and when she mentioned Scarecrow Hill, I was like, that's

3:20 Speaker 1: a familiar name from like I think, back when I

3:23 Speaker 1: was still playing. But but I wasn't one hundred percent sure.

3:27 Speaker 1: And then when I saw online it looked, you know,

3:29 Speaker 1: I saw the new album, and then I I didn't, like,

3:31 Speaker 1: I didn't find.

3:33 Speaker 3: Does the old material does that survive? Like does or

3:36 Speaker 3: have you left that kind of in that other era.

3:38 Speaker 4: We've tried pretty hard to get rid of that.

3:41 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, there's a there's still one record out there

3:43 Speaker 5: from like twenty twelve.

3:46 Speaker 4: We're pretty alright with that still being around.

3:48 Speaker 3: But oh okay, yeah.

3:49 Speaker 5: Everything else I've worked pretty hard to it's quiet as

3:52 Speaker 5: much as possible.

3:53 Speaker 3: No kidding, so like actively suppressive, like you don't even

3:56 Speaker 3: want oh no kidding?

3:57 Speaker 1: Interesting, Why is that? Like you just feel that the

4:00 Speaker 1: sound has evolved so much, and.

4:02 Speaker 5: Yeah, just everything about the band, like I, like I said,

4:04 Speaker 5: it's when Joel and Dom and I came back to

4:06 Speaker 5: the band and we hooked up with Joe and Brendan

4:10 Speaker 5: here it was just like we didn't care about the

4:13 Speaker 5: past anymore.

4:14 Speaker 4: It's this, this is our band.

4:15 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, when you I've been in situations like I

4:19 Speaker 1: don't play anymore. I used to be in a bunch

4:20 Speaker 1: of bands, and I've been in situations where, you know,

4:24 Speaker 1: maybe there'd been some sort of a transformation and an evolution,

4:26 Speaker 1: and then there's that that inevitable conversation about do we

4:29 Speaker 1: change the name or and and I.

4:32 Speaker 3: Always I remember I was in a specific band. I

4:34 Speaker 3: was in a band called My Life Crisis, and I

4:36 Speaker 3: remember actually having that argument with you know, when we

4:38 Speaker 3: had a big shift in personnel and the guys kind

4:42 Speaker 3: of wanted to, oh, let's you know, our sound kind

4:43 Speaker 3: of change, let's change the name. And I fought for

4:45 Speaker 3: keeping the name because I was like, well, look, people

4:48 Speaker 3: know us as this. I understand it's a different band

4:50 Speaker 3: kind of, but we've built up this name. Not you know,

4:53 Speaker 3: not that we ever got anywhere big or anything, but

4:55 Speaker 3: I but I felt there was value in our name.

4:57 Speaker 1: Like that was that a conversation amongst you do we

5:00 Speaker 1: do we be scarecrow Hill, or or do we do

5:03 Speaker 1: something or do we be something new.

5:05 Speaker 4: I don't think we have even discussed it really really yeah.

5:08 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Scarecrow Hill was kind of like such a

5:12 Speaker 2: long standing name and entity for for Tye. Yeah, and

5:17 Speaker 2: Tye being kind of our fearless leader. That's like we

5:22 Speaker 2: we go as he goes.

5:23 Speaker 3: Yeah. No, And that makes sense. I mean, you've got

5:26 Speaker 3: you know, you've got equity in that, you know, So,

5:28 Speaker 3: like I said, I I remembered it. It was familiar

5:30 Speaker 3: to me when Jenny mentioned, I thought you guys had

5:33 Speaker 3: been around for a while.

5:34 Speaker 1: So as I think that makes sense, we're gonna We're

5:38 Speaker 1: gonna play something a little bit later. That's really really

5:43 Speaker 1: interesting in terms of there's there's a bit of a surprise,

5:45 Speaker 1: well a couple of surprises on the track. But I'm

5:47 Speaker 1: curious about how you describe your sound because you're I mean, obviously,

5:50 Speaker 1: you know, you kind of fit in the metal genre broadly,

5:53 Speaker 1: but of course you have all these subgenres and whatnot.

5:55 Speaker 1: But but your your approach, especially from what I was

5:58 Speaker 1: reading online, your your approach is a little bit different

6:00 Speaker 1: in terms of You're not My impression is you're not

6:02 Speaker 1: trying to You're not You're not trying to be one

6:05 Speaker 1: specific thing.

6:06 Speaker 4: You know, you're you're you're boring.

6:08 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly, you know, because most metal bands do

6:12 Speaker 1: try to be one specific thing. But has that always

6:14 Speaker 1: been your approach to kind of be open to different influences.

6:19 Speaker 5: And yeah, I think, I think absolutely, because when you've

6:22 Speaker 5: got you know, five personalities and five sets of influences

6:26 Speaker 5: and five musical directions that everybody wants to go, I

6:29 Speaker 5: think you kind of have to have the open air

6:32 Speaker 5: for that to happen.

6:33 Speaker 4: And yeah, I'm I'm like the least.

6:35 Speaker 5: Metal guy in the world, man, I I like the

6:38 Speaker 5: Beatles and Tech nine, you know what I mean. Like

6:40 Speaker 5: that's so these guys like teach me a lot about

6:43 Speaker 5: the metal genre and the metal community, and.

6:46 Speaker 4: We've all kind of had to work together.

6:48 Speaker 5: And it just makes it so that, you know, when

6:50 Speaker 5: Joe puts his stamp on something and then Dominic comes

6:53 Speaker 5: in and Joe and it just it is so many sounds.

6:57 Speaker 4: Yeah, it makes it cool for us.

7:00 Speaker 3: Does that happen?

7:01 Speaker 1: I assume that happens kind of organically, right, It sounds

7:03 Speaker 1: like it like you don't like, you don't say, you know,

7:06 Speaker 1: we need to try to shove this other influence into

7:08 Speaker 1: this song, but it just kind of happens.

7:10 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it kind of depends, like the way

7:13 Speaker 2: when I'm writing. A lot of the time, I'll be

7:15 Speaker 2: inspired by like a particular song or like an idea

7:19 Speaker 2: that exists in a song. Yeah, so sometimes I'll take

7:21 Speaker 2: that as a starting point and kind of like build

7:24 Speaker 2: a demo around that idea. But like the inspiration comes

7:27 Speaker 2: from so many different directions sometimes that like to not

7:30 Speaker 2: have to pigeonhole into like we have to sound like

7:34 Speaker 2: such and such, It's it's kind of freeing in terms

7:37 Speaker 2: of inspirational direction.

7:40 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.

7:43 Speaker 1: Your live show too, I would imagine it's pretty energetic,

7:45 Speaker 1: you know, to match.

7:46 Speaker 2: Your Yeah, it's a lot of fun, you know. It's yeah,

7:56 Speaker 2: I'll just leave it at that, trying to keep it

7:58 Speaker 2: radio friendly, but yeah, we have a lot of fun,

8:02 Speaker 2: and we try to keep it very high energy.

8:04 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.

8:04 Speaker 5: The live show too, I think is very very organic. Yeah,

8:08 Speaker 5: like it's we don't there's no choreograph or anything like that.

8:11 Speaker 5: We just kind of go into it knowing that we

8:13 Speaker 5: were with our team, like we just see what happens. Yeah,

8:17 Speaker 5: start to rock out, man, like a little bit of

8:18 Speaker 5: old school in the new school.

8:20 Speaker 3: Yeah.

8:20 Speaker 1: Yeah, when you guys play out, do you have opportunities

8:24 Speaker 1: to play with bands that you played with like way

8:26 Speaker 1: back in the day.

8:27 Speaker 6: Or shockingly yes, I suspected as much because I can

8:32 Speaker 6: tell you just doing this, I'll while we've had guests

8:35 Speaker 6: on the show or talk to people about coming on

8:38 Speaker 6: to I'm like, I didn't even know.

8:40 Speaker 4: Wow, Like I remember doing.

8:41 Speaker 3: Shows with them like twenty years ago, and they're back.

8:44 Speaker 3: That's really cool.

8:45 Speaker 1: Like who are some of the bands that you guys

8:47 Speaker 1: get to play with that you played.

8:48 Speaker 3: With back then.

8:49 Speaker 5: So a lot of times it might not even be

8:51 Speaker 5: necessarily be a whole band. But like even just last night,

8:54 Speaker 5: we got to play over here at the Shaskiing, which

8:57 Speaker 5: what a great little room.

8:58 Speaker 4: That was all fun.

8:59 Speaker 3: Oh yeah I love them.

9:01 Speaker 4: Yeah oh yeah, what a great place.

9:03 Speaker 5: And but so Rags to Stitches shout out to our

9:07 Speaker 5: boys from New Hampshire.

9:08 Speaker 4: Uh, they had put the show.

9:10 Speaker 5: On nice and their their bass player is a guy

9:14 Speaker 5: that we have been playing with in different bands.

9:17 Speaker 4: I mean since me and.

9:18 Speaker 5: Joel were kids, like we we grew up playing shows

9:21 Speaker 5: with this guy. And yeah he's still out there doing

9:23 Speaker 5: a whistle out. They're doing it twenty years later, so

9:25 Speaker 5: like it's there's a lot of that. A lot of

9:27 Speaker 5: bands unfortunately don't stay around as long, but right the

9:30 Speaker 5: musicians do, and we'll we'll get out there and get

9:33 Speaker 5: to see this guy. Oh he used to be in

9:35 Speaker 5: this band that we toured with and that that stuff's

9:37 Speaker 5: a lot of fun.

9:38 Speaker 4: It's really cool.

9:39 Speaker 3: Oh, that's really cool. Did we have U rags of stitches?

9:41 Speaker 3: Did we have them on you remember? I feel like

9:44 Speaker 3: we did.

9:45 Speaker 4: I'm not positive.

9:45 Speaker 3: I'd have to go back and look. I think we

9:47 Speaker 3: might have.

9:47 Speaker 2: Yeah, if not, you should, yeah, definitely if you haven't, or.

9:50 Speaker 1: Or the name has come up on this maybe that

9:52 Speaker 1: might be the name might have come up on the

9:54 Speaker 1: show before.

9:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, are you guys playing out a lot?

9:58 Speaker 4: Or yeah? Yeah, we've been very very busy, good, very good, excellent, excellent.

10:04 Speaker 3: And how long has this album been out? This is

10:06 Speaker 3: this is pretty new right?

10:07 Speaker 4: Uh yeah, July August.

10:09 Speaker 2: Something like that, less than a year, more than a month?

10:12 Speaker 3: Okay, okay, cool? Where do you record?

10:16 Speaker 4: We do it?

10:16 Speaker 1: You know, that's awesome because it sounds like I'm always curious,

10:21 Speaker 1: you know, because we live in a time where you've

10:23 Speaker 1: got so many different options in terms of how you record,

10:26 Speaker 1: and there's so many great studios around, but you can

10:28 Speaker 1: also do it yourself and it sounds like it was

10:32 Speaker 1: recorded in a million dollar studio, you know. Thanks, So

10:35 Speaker 1: it's really impressive. Like, like, do you have a home studio?

10:40 Speaker 1: Does one of you have a home studio set up

10:41 Speaker 1: or what's what's the approach?

10:43 Speaker 2: We kind of each of us has our own little

10:46 Speaker 2: setup at home where well, we'll do some demos, but

10:48 Speaker 2: when it comes time to like actually cut the final thing. Uh,

10:52 Speaker 2: we have a decent setup at the band, like our

10:55 Speaker 2: practice space where we track everything in and then once

11:01 Speaker 2: that's all done, we take it to our guy Joe

11:04 Speaker 2: Clapp who's got like a really nice professional studio and

11:07 Speaker 2: he mixes it and masters it for us.

11:09 Speaker 1: Oh fantastic, Okay, yeah, so it's cool that that you're

11:13 Speaker 1: able to do it that way. You know, I'm old

11:17 Speaker 1: enough to remember, and some of you might be when

11:21 Speaker 1: you know your only options were really you know, like

11:23 Speaker 1: you could, yeah, you could record demos at home on

11:25 Speaker 1: your task and you know, and then but then yeh,

11:29 Speaker 1: then go spend.

11:30 Speaker 3: A ton of money in a studio to do everything there.

11:32 Speaker 2: And me and Brennan were joking on the way over

11:34 Speaker 2: here because we rode together and we're a couple of

11:37 Speaker 2: years younger than the rest of the guys in the band. Yeah,

11:39 Speaker 2: we were joking about I. I had mentioned before how

11:42 Speaker 2: one of the early Scarecrow Hill demos was done on

11:46 Speaker 2: an answering machine, and how how far it's come in

11:51 Speaker 2: the way that you can get like really high quality

11:54 Speaker 2: recordings at home for like a pretty relatively affordable price

11:58 Speaker 2: compared to even like five or ten years ago, where

12:03 Speaker 2: it was the barrier to entry was so high.

12:05 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Oh that's funny though, the answering machine.

12:10 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that.

12:10 Speaker 5: Makes sense though, going to the public library and running

12:14 Speaker 5: off covers for the cassette tapes for Dublin, No kidding,

12:18 Speaker 5: it was you know, there wasn't no distribution around here

12:20 Speaker 5: that anybody could afford.

12:21 Speaker 3: Or anything back, right exactly exactly.

12:24 Speaker 4: If you knew a band that had CDs, they were

12:26 Speaker 4: like big times.

12:27 Speaker 1: Yeah, even over the course of the years just.

12:32 Speaker 3: Doing this. Well, I've I've been at wmn.

12:35 Speaker 1: H for it'll be eight years in April, but I've

12:37 Speaker 1: been interviewing bands for a lot longer. And we were

12:40 Speaker 1: talking talking to somebody last week on the show about

12:43 Speaker 1: how when I first started doing this, like bands would

12:46 Speaker 1: usually show up with a CD. You know, now, of

12:48 Speaker 1: course you can just email everything, but and the move

12:51 Speaker 1: was was very often it would be, you know, just

12:53 Speaker 1: like a CDR with sharpie written on it. You know,

12:56 Speaker 1: these are the songs we want to feature on the show,

12:58 Speaker 1: and they'd handed to me on their finger. It wouldn't

13:01 Speaker 1: even be in a case. Yeah, those were those were

13:04 Speaker 1: the days.

13:05 Speaker 3: Yeah, we actually have I don't use it, but we

13:08 Speaker 3: we do have a functioning CD player here.

13:10 Speaker 4: That's awesome.

13:11 Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that. One of the guys, Rob, I

13:13 Speaker 3: don't know if you know Rob as a vido.

13:15 Speaker 1: He owes a show here called Granted State of Mind

13:16 Speaker 1: and he uses occasionally.

13:18 Speaker 3: But but he's kind of old school with that.

13:20 Speaker 1: But the new album is it available on CD or

13:23 Speaker 1: is it only on streaming platforms?

13:24 Speaker 4: This one is only on streaming platforms.

13:27 Speaker 5: We have three other records that we take physical copies

13:30 Speaker 5: out on the road with us, but this is the

13:31 Speaker 5: one we wanted to try just just to see first.

13:34 Speaker 7: Yeah.

13:35 Speaker 5: I it did his digital only and figured maybe if

13:38 Speaker 5: if it keeps doing as well as it's doing, we'll

13:40 Speaker 5: probably end up doing some physical copies.

13:42 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I want to play So I surprise you

13:46 Speaker 1: guys with this. I made a radio edit of this

13:49 Speaker 1: track that Little Voice featuring Adam Ramie partly well. So

13:55 Speaker 1: a couple things about it that that really grabbed me.

13:59 Speaker 1: One is I just find I'm the subject very relatable,

14:03 Speaker 1: you know, talking about that that little voice that so

14:05 Speaker 1: many of us have in our heads that tries to

14:07 Speaker 1: kind of drag us down and tell us a lot

14:09 Speaker 1: of negative things, negative self talk and all that. So

14:12 Speaker 1: I think a lot of people can really relate to

14:14 Speaker 1: the lyrics. The other thing that's really interesting to me

14:17 Speaker 1: is what's going on in the chorus, which is very

14:21 Speaker 1: unusual and it's it's cool. I was like, what, Oh,

14:24 Speaker 1: that's interesting and it's got and and tell me about

14:28 Speaker 1: uh but we'll talk about that part after we play it.

14:31 Speaker 1: But tell me tell me too about Adam Raymie.

14:33 Speaker 4: Adam. Adam is amazing.

14:35 Speaker 5: So Adam is one of the vocalists for the band

14:38 Speaker 5: Dropout Kings, Okay, and he's at the range that this

14:42 Speaker 5: man has where he can you know, he does the

14:44 Speaker 5: dirty vocals, screaming stuff. He does these absolutely beautiful, powerful

14:49 Speaker 5: lead vocals. And then we had We've done a few

14:52 Speaker 5: shows together over the years, and we had talked a

14:54 Speaker 5: few times about doing a track. So when I sent

14:56 Speaker 5: him this, he said, well, you know, what are you

14:58 Speaker 5: going to do with it? I said, we trust you.

15:01 Speaker 5: You know your your range is ridiculous, and this was

15:04 Speaker 5: the last thing we were expecting. Yeah, he said. We

15:06 Speaker 5: were like, wow, this is all right, Like he went

15:08 Speaker 5: different with this and we were super excited about it.

15:12 Speaker 5: But he's he's just one of those guys that he

15:13 Speaker 5: can do anything, and he's so much fun to work

15:16 Speaker 5: with on this.

15:17 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, very cool.

15:18 Speaker 1: So this is of course from the new album, but

15:20 Speaker 1: Death of the Family will give this to spend uh.

15:22 Speaker 1: This is called that Little Voice featuring Adam Raby. This

15:25 Speaker 1: is Scarecrow Hills.

15:39 Speaker 8: I got this voice up inside of my head side

15:41 Speaker 8: of me. I should beat my bloody I'm one. I

15:43 Speaker 8: should never Recladdy. Who's ever readon call to take him?

15:45 Speaker 7: Another thing?

15:45 Speaker 4: Problem me?

15:46 Speaker 7: You just can't just stand on the plattlefield. But I

15:47 Speaker 7: keep telling you want of my boots have been money.

15:49 Speaker 8: The biggest surprise of my entire life is still that

15:51 Speaker 8: I managed you on the my twenties. No matter how

15:53 Speaker 8: hard that I'm working no matter how much I have

15:55 Speaker 8: rissen aplaw. Why he he's whistles all taking my hand,

15:57 Speaker 8: telling me that my best is so lucky enough. So

16:00 Speaker 8: I keep pushing and fighting them, sucking this home. Everybody

16:02 Speaker 8: should drop my dog. Then these things other voices they

16:04 Speaker 8: tell me that I should just couldn't get Bob. I

16:07 Speaker 8: swear to God sometimes in my head all I hate

16:08 Speaker 8: where the ghost.

16:09 Speaker 7: On my past.

16:09 Speaker 8: I hate to tell you if there's no reason why

16:11 Speaker 8: it doesn't exist when your heart, if I die every day, my.

16:13 Speaker 7: Bread keep telling to me that everyone.

16:15 Speaker 3: My mum on Sunday stopped me in the back.

16:16 Speaker 9: I said, my I'm just bring in this circles because

16:18 Speaker 9: in my three ready, when they hurt sh Charles hurt shoes,

16:25 Speaker 9: it's flash sense, char.

16:37 Speaker 7: Sues.

16:38 Speaker 2: That's whe.

16:54 Speaker 8: I got these voices inside of my head telling me

16:56 Speaker 8: I can never be saved. And if I keep tightening,

16:58 Speaker 8: and if I keep trying, I'm gonna find myself and.

16:59 Speaker 7: Then of the grave.

17:00 Speaker 8: But that's okay, because I got another one telling me

17:02 Speaker 8: nobody cares any weighing apart of the world.

17:04 Speaker 7: They will bring no sorrow. No one will even remember

17:06 Speaker 7: my name. I ever thought.

17:08 Speaker 8: This is side of me that I have never been

17:09 Speaker 8: able to fight, and he keeps telling me, yet does

17:11 Speaker 8: a matter?

17:12 Speaker 7: There's nothing that I ever do will be right.

17:14 Speaker 3: I hear her voices.

17:15 Speaker 8: I'm telling me I don't deserve I begins of my

17:17 Speaker 8: largess I personal reave allowed him with the world, and

17:19 Speaker 8: it's making your rhindo.

17:20 Speaker 7: Of living the lone. I got this voice in the

17:22 Speaker 7: back of my mind telling me that I'll never rea.

17:24 Speaker 8: I got the voice in the back of my mind,

17:26 Speaker 8: and I had got some of them pre j my mind.

17:28 Speaker 7: Keep telling me everything out. I was barely hanging by

17:30 Speaker 7: a stitch.

17:31 Speaker 8: I spent my whole I just feel in this art

17:32 Speaker 8: because trying to catching one.

17:33 Speaker 7: Of two sis. So man sense choice, so.

17:52 Speaker 9: True, the man.

17:58 Speaker 10: Who these little voices are screaming to me that I'm

18:10 Speaker 10: not the one you really blaunch.

18:11 Speaker 7: I remember the way that you wished me in the beginning.

18:14 Speaker 7: I hate that it's gone. The truth of the matter

18:16 Speaker 7: is this hoporable situation is going on too wrong. I

18:18 Speaker 7: wish that.

18:18 Speaker 8: Somebody had to make or told me I was losing

18:20 Speaker 8: myself before I was lost. I got just voice in

18:22 Speaker 8: my head telling me that the shadows I'm seeing orail.

18:25 Speaker 8: My brain is almost by you in my heart. Because

18:27 Speaker 8: I cannot.

18:27 Speaker 7: Trust what I feel.

18:28 Speaker 8: I keep the weight on my shoulders to myself, the

18:30 Speaker 8: same way the weight on my.

18:31 Speaker 4: Hippos con seal.

18:31 Speaker 8: Sometimes I get in the booth and I met it

18:33 Speaker 8: all all, but you know I'm shrinking the seal. I

18:35 Speaker 8: get the voice in the back of my mind and

18:37 Speaker 8: we're trying to kill it.

18:38 Speaker 7: Shot. I got the voice in the back of my mind,

18:40 Speaker 7: and I hate my mother. I creak game my brain.

18:42 Speaker 7: You're telling me all that I have to look forward to.

18:44 Speaker 7: It's warm dress.

18:45 Speaker 3: I said, I'm a whole.

18:46 Speaker 7: I just feel in the turk because because I can't

18:47 Speaker 7: give the couse out of my ship truss my.

18:54 Speaker 11: Flashing sensors.

19:06 Speaker 7: Spot this man and st I hate a lot up

19:27 Speaker 7: in my egg.

19:28 Speaker 3: I do got a nice ship that dry. Don't even

19:34 Speaker 3: recognize this man from.

19:35 Speaker 7: Tough Guy had his fag shot. I had a lot

19:39 Speaker 7: up y voices in my head. It's not a guy

19:42 Speaker 7: that would shut up. Don't COTTO try by this.

19:49 Speaker 1: Guy that is that little voice featuring Adam Raymie and

19:54 Speaker 1: the band is a Scarecrow Hill with us in the

19:57 Speaker 1: studio this morning. Yeah, so tell me about that, Guys,

20:00 Speaker 1: tell me about that chorus, like, because that was was

20:04 Speaker 1: that something Adam did?

20:05 Speaker 4: Yeah?

20:05 Speaker 5: Yeah, we did that, Yeah, we did. We had sent

20:08 Speaker 5: him the basic demo at the track and I hadn't

20:10 Speaker 5: even laid my vocals yet. Yeah, like he had just

20:14 Speaker 5: you know, what do you want to do? So well,

20:15 Speaker 5: we trust you, man, like obviously we're fans and we

20:18 Speaker 5: know the things you're capable of. And yeah, he sent

20:21 Speaker 5: that back and he was like, you know, I hope

20:22 Speaker 5: you dig it. He was like, because I love this.

20:25 Speaker 5: He's like, I think it's one of one of my

20:26 Speaker 5: favorite features I've done. And I was so taken back

20:30 Speaker 5: by it. I was like, wow, I'm going to rewrite

20:32 Speaker 5: everything I had because like I need my stuff to

20:34 Speaker 5: be cooler.

20:34 Speaker 4: Now.

20:35 Speaker 1: Okay, so that that caused you to read your Yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah.

20:40 Speaker 1: The chorus is I think we were talking about it

20:42 Speaker 1: off air. It's like nothing I've ever heard. It's it's

20:44 Speaker 1: it's it's such a unique sound. And uh now, Joe,

20:48 Speaker 1: you were saying too, so what do you the genre

20:51 Speaker 1: that that you call?

20:52 Speaker 4: Uh?

20:52 Speaker 2: Yeah, So we were talking about genre before. I think

20:54 Speaker 2: if if for Scarecrow Hill, if you were kind of

20:57 Speaker 2: to nail it down to something. We kind of used

20:59 Speaker 2: the tagline hip hop death rock.

21:00 Speaker 3: Okay.

21:01 Speaker 2: So Tye especially has a lot of like hip hop influences.

21:07 Speaker 2: So you know, in a song like that, you can

21:09 Speaker 2: hear the rapping and that. That's a lot of the

21:11 Speaker 2: songs that we do have a lot of like hip

21:13 Speaker 2: hop influence to it. So we try to have like,

21:17 Speaker 2: you know, a groove and a bounce to a lot

21:19 Speaker 2: of you know, while it might be a heavy riff,

21:21 Speaker 2: you know, it can be broken down into a groove

21:23 Speaker 2: that grooves.

21:25 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, no, well put yeah, no, that makes

21:28 Speaker 3: sense to me. Now, that's that's a great Do you

21:31 Speaker 3: play that live or is it hard to do without?

21:33 Speaker 4: Uh we we haven't.

21:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, we haven't played that one live.

21:36 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's that's really good. Also another track, maybe

21:42 Speaker 1: we'll play it at the end of if we have time.

21:43 Speaker 1: But you do a cover on this that I that

21:46 Speaker 1: I really like on the new album, of course we

21:47 Speaker 1: should mention again a death in the family.

21:50 Speaker 3: We're in this together now.

21:51 Speaker 1: And I remember looking at the track list and I

21:53 Speaker 1: was like, I wonder if that's an original or if

21:54 Speaker 1: that's a nine inch Nails cover And I listened to it, and, uh, man,

21:58 Speaker 1: you sing the hell out of that.

21:59 Speaker 4: Thank you.

22:00 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really like there's there's an emotion to it.

22:04 Speaker 1: There's almost like a like a desperation that comes across

22:07 Speaker 1: in your vocal. I don't know if that's what you're

22:09 Speaker 1: going for, probably, but.

22:11 Speaker 4: I mean it, it happens.

22:12 Speaker 5: I've I've actually heard that several times about several songs

22:16 Speaker 5: that we do, Yeah, which I think is I take

22:20 Speaker 5: that as as a pretty huge compliment because I don't

22:24 Speaker 5: I've never been one of those guys that can like

22:25 Speaker 5: just sing a cover song. Yeah, It's got to be

22:28 Speaker 5: something that really resonates with me. It's got to be

22:29 Speaker 5: something that like means something.

22:31 Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I was playing it, it was like, wow,

22:33 Speaker 3: you know I really really feel this, you know, was

22:36 Speaker 3: that challenging to sing?

22:39 Speaker 4: Yeah?

22:39 Speaker 5: I mean yes, and no, it's uh yes in the

22:43 Speaker 5: fact that like it. It's you know, it's pretty up

22:45 Speaker 5: there and it's a hard song in general. But yeah, personally,

22:50 Speaker 5: Trent Reznor has been like one of my biggest vocal

22:52 Speaker 5: influences ever. Yeah, And I've been singing that song for

22:57 Speaker 5: as long as I can remember. Yeah, when I finally

22:59 Speaker 5: get to get into the with it, and I was like, wow,

23:01 Speaker 5: all right, like this is this is gonna be awesome.

23:03 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, it came out great. It came out great.

23:07 Speaker 1: Is there any kind of a theme to the album?

23:08 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's got a pretty ominous title

23:10 Speaker 1: of Death in the Family. I'm curious about does the

23:12 Speaker 1: title have any meaning specifically and is there a theme

23:15 Speaker 1: to this?

23:16 Speaker 3: To this album?

23:17 Speaker 5: We had gone through a small lineup change. We had

23:23 Speaker 5: so since twenty eighteen, we did a trilogy of records

23:28 Speaker 5: not Dead Yet, Never Say Die and Until Death, and

23:31 Speaker 5: that was our It was just kind of about everything

23:35 Speaker 5: that was going on at the time and as well

23:37 Speaker 5: as kind of like a not necessarily a promise or

23:40 Speaker 5: an oath or something, but something.

23:41 Speaker 4: That we did for each other, like this, this is it,

23:43 Speaker 4: this is what we're going to do.

23:44 Speaker 5: Yeah, and we for a while we're a six member

23:49 Speaker 5: band in that fizzled away and that became a Death

23:55 Speaker 5: in the Family as a way to just kind.

23:56 Speaker 4: Of put closure on that chapter.

23:58 Speaker 5: Oh okay, and then the thing is that we we

24:00 Speaker 5: have coming now are moving on to the next chapter.

24:03 Speaker 3: Okay, So this band was a six piece at one point. Yeah, wow,

24:08 Speaker 3: what did the other member.

24:10 Speaker 4: Do the little percussion, some backup vocals.

24:12 Speaker 5: It's kind of an auxiliary, remember yeah, which which was fun,

24:16 Speaker 5: It was a it was a great thing to have.

24:18 Speaker 5: But I think all that really did was just kind

24:22 Speaker 5: of solidify our five member band and yeah, and approved

24:25 Speaker 5: to us that we didn't necessarily need anybody else there

24:29 Speaker 5: with us.

24:29 Speaker 3: Right right, Yeah. I mean, I know from my own experience,

24:34 Speaker 3: it's it's hard.

24:36 Speaker 1: It can be hard enough, you know, like with a

24:37 Speaker 1: five piece or even a four piece, it can be

24:39 Speaker 1: hard enough trying to work with everyone's schedules and everyone's

24:42 Speaker 1: you know, everyone's got lives and and you know, and

24:46 Speaker 1: trying to book shows and everything. So I can only

24:47 Speaker 1: imagine what a six piece what that was like. Some

24:51 Speaker 1: of the it's funny, you know, we have a lot

24:53 Speaker 1: of singer songwriters on the show, and very often there

24:57 Speaker 1: are people who used to play in bands who you know,

25:00 Speaker 1: got they get to a point where it's it's it

25:03 Speaker 1: just becomes too much to manage. So then they decide

25:05 Speaker 1: to do their own thing, you know, and and just

25:09 Speaker 1: and not have to deal with all the Somebody somebody

25:12 Speaker 1: said to me, I forget who it was who said it.

25:14 Speaker 1: On the show that being in a band with four

25:16 Speaker 1: other people is like being in four relationships. It's like

25:20 Speaker 1: it is like or is like being in a relationship

25:22 Speaker 1: with four other people who are all in a relationship

25:24 Speaker 1: with four other people.

25:25 Speaker 4: That is true.

25:27 Speaker 1: I wish I could remember who said it so I

25:29 Speaker 1: could give them credit. But I thought it was a

25:31 Speaker 1: great I thought it was a great insight. But you

25:35 Speaker 1: guys have a lot going on with you know, you're

25:36 Speaker 1: you're playing a lot, and I mean, is it hard

25:39 Speaker 1: to is it hard to manage all that with with

25:41 Speaker 1: with a five piece band?

25:42 Speaker 5: Or I think it would be more difficult if we

25:46 Speaker 5: weren't as tight knit. Yeah, But the fact that you know,

25:50 Speaker 5: like these this is we're a team. Yeah, And we

25:53 Speaker 5: worked very hard to make sure that you know, maybe

25:56 Speaker 5: we can't grab every opportunity like today with Dorminic Nabi

26:00 Speaker 5: able to be here, but Dominic also very much understood

26:02 Speaker 5: and you know, you know, you guys go do this.

26:04 Speaker 4: I have to do some other things right now.

26:06 Speaker 5: Yeah, And that's usually the way it always goes, is

26:10 Speaker 5: we work very hard to make sure that it's amicable

26:12 Speaker 5: for everyone and that we're amicable to everything. It might

26:16 Speaker 5: not be a show Joe's crazy about playing, but he

26:19 Speaker 5: you know, he believes in his band and he's here

26:21 Speaker 5: for his band, so we can make that.

26:22 Speaker 4: Work, right.

26:23 Speaker 2: And I think another thing too is that you know,

26:26 Speaker 2: I've been in bands before where and you know, it's

26:30 Speaker 2: just like ty said, with a team dynamic on like

26:32 Speaker 2: a sports team or in a lot of situations, there's

26:36 Speaker 2: you know, leadership and there's not followers, but like people

26:40 Speaker 2: who look up to the leader. And Tye being the leader,

26:44 Speaker 2: he does the booking, he has the majority of the connections,

26:48 Speaker 2: and he kind of sets the schedule for us. We've

26:50 Speaker 2: all kind of committed Sunday, you know, Sunday afternoons is

26:53 Speaker 2: band day. That's when we get together, that's when we practice,

26:55 Speaker 2: we talk about band business. And then we've got a

26:58 Speaker 2: group calendar that you know, if there's a date that

27:02 Speaker 2: anybody can't do something, we put it in the group calendar.

27:05 Speaker 2: And then other than that, it's basically free reign. Yeah,

27:10 Speaker 2: and ty knows to you know, he does writ by

27:14 Speaker 2: us and not booking something that's gonna totally you know,

27:20 Speaker 2: derail everybody's lives because you know, as much as we'd

27:23 Speaker 2: all love to be the full time touring bands and everything.

27:28 Speaker 2: It's it's so hard to get to that level. So yeah,

27:30 Speaker 2: we get day jobs.

27:31 Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, of course.

27:34 Speaker 1: Do you guys like, how how far do you go

27:36 Speaker 1: in terms of when you're playing shows, Like you said,

27:37 Speaker 1: you're playing a lot.

27:38 Speaker 5: You get out of New England, do you go, We'll

27:40 Speaker 5: go wherever we'll have us. Yeah, we just we want

27:44 Speaker 5: to get out to as many people as possible. But

27:46 Speaker 5: we love new venues, we love new bands, we love

27:49 Speaker 5: all the things that we were very lucky enough to

27:51 Speaker 5: get to do. So anywhere that we'll have us, we

27:54 Speaker 5: are we are glad to go.

27:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, excellent. Where does the name come from? By

27:57 Speaker 3: the way, scarecrow Hill.

27:59 Speaker 5: That we have been we have ended this question for

28:02 Speaker 5: so long, So scarecrow Hill. It was actually when when

28:06 Speaker 5: we were very first trying to start this band, we

28:09 Speaker 5: had had a different name and everything, and we had

28:12 Speaker 5: written kind of like this mission statement. It was like

28:17 Speaker 5: partial lyrics, partial, just eighteen year old Bravado. And yeah,

28:21 Speaker 5: we had used the term scarecrow Hill as a metaphor

28:25 Speaker 5: because you know, scarecrows are.

28:28 Speaker 4: They're they're warning.

28:29 Speaker 5: It's like to stay away from somewhere, it's to keep

28:32 Speaker 5: you out of something and hills are like steep and

28:35 Speaker 5: hard to climb, and so we used scarecrow Hill as

28:37 Speaker 5: a metaphor of like we need to get past a

28:41 Speaker 5: scarecrow hill into the music business.

28:43 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's.

28:45 Speaker 5: Actually my mom looked at us and was like, that's

28:47 Speaker 5: your band name, Like, that's that's what your band name

28:49 Speaker 5: should be.

28:50 Speaker 4: Yeah, we're all right, we'll give it a shot. It's different.

28:53 Speaker 3: Yeah, right, And it's speaking of moms, Hi, moms, yes, time, moms.

29:00 Speaker 3: What was what was the do you want to say

29:02 Speaker 3: what the name was?

29:03 Speaker 4: Before?

29:03 Speaker 3: You see?

29:04 Speaker 4: We were called standing Room.

29:05 Speaker 1: Because I love hearing about rejected band names to the

29:08 Speaker 1: standing room? Why why didn't you? Why didn't you stick

29:11 Speaker 1: with that?

29:12 Speaker 5: Honestly, just like I said when she was like, scarecrow

29:14 Speaker 5: Hill is a better band name. It does sound kind

29:17 Speaker 5: of cool.

29:18 Speaker 3: Actually yeah, yeah, yeah, I do think it's a better

29:20 Speaker 3: name than standing Room. Yeah, no doubt.

29:24 Speaker 1: Well let's oh boy, my voice is cracking. Let's do this,

29:27 Speaker 1: which is the perfect time to do this because we

29:28 Speaker 1: were talking about it. Let's play uh, let's play wearing

29:31 Speaker 1: this together.

29:31 Speaker 7: Now.

29:32 Speaker 3: I just I'm so amazed by this.

29:34 Speaker 1: Now, who's because obviously this this is not the full

29:37 Speaker 1: band on this track, So who else is playing?

29:40 Speaker 3: Who else is doing what on this.

29:42 Speaker 5: Yeah, So myself and our our other producer, Joe Clapp,

29:46 Speaker 5: did a lot of stuff, and then there was a

29:50 Speaker 5: lady that we had reached out to a couple of

29:53 Speaker 5: years back actually to get some of the original piano pieces,

29:58 Speaker 5: and we just kind of combined every thing, and then

30:00 Speaker 5: he and I sat in the booth and did a

30:02 Speaker 5: lot a lot of additional piano and the strings and

30:05 Speaker 5: all that kind of stuff, and.

30:07 Speaker 1: Yeah, now it's really impressive. So I'm eager to play it.

30:10 Speaker 1: Let's give this a listen if you're just joining us.

30:13 Speaker 1: Scarecrow Hill is with us here in studio this morning,

30:16 Speaker 1: and this is their cover of nine Inch Nails.

30:19 Speaker 3: This is called We're in this Together now.

31:13 Speaker 7: M hm hm hm ah. Become impossible, holy to win,

31:32 Speaker 7: where everything seems mad more ViRGE of how you use

31:44 Speaker 7: all you use and beating up watching face as if

31:51 Speaker 7: don't knopass we have joked.

32:00 Speaker 11: Where at least together and nod.

32:05 Speaker 7: They're gonna stop us.

32:09 Speaker 4: Wave on the get Jose.

32:15 Speaker 11: Yeah, when mad if the wort of breaking child, then

32:23 Speaker 11: tell the very end of man until the very end

32:29 Speaker 11: of your who wakes on the sound does appeal about

32:39 Speaker 11: the skin they pack in their pall, trying to get

32:44 Speaker 11: the vegers in. Whether they're gonna kill what we found

32:47 Speaker 11: while they're gonna hate what they fear.

32:50 Speaker 7: Well they're gonna make it go away, Well, they gotta

32:52 Speaker 7: make it disappear. The father of all. I'm just side you,

33:02 Speaker 7: as lost as I guess.

33:04 Speaker 11: I will find you the tea bottle warm don inside

33:09 Speaker 11: you if you're rather and delor, I.

33:13 Speaker 7: Am a part of Joe and May were released to tiln.

33:22 Speaker 9: No the can stop us.

33:24 Speaker 7: Now we will make get to some man and the

33:37 Speaker 7: wilch of FREAKINSI than Tili and the man until the

33:46 Speaker 7: very end of your Oh we were is gone. We

33:56 Speaker 7: have to fd on all that we were is gone.

34:04 Speaker 7: We have to hold on we all hobbies gone. We

34:14 Speaker 7: have to hold on all that we wereris gone. But

34:23 Speaker 7: we gain all you in May. We're in this together.

34:36 Speaker 11: None of them can stop us. Now we will make

34:41 Speaker 11: it through something chain made.

34:50 Speaker 7: He didn't answer everything you don't cleaning on the jack

34:59 Speaker 7: everything else.

35:11 Speaker 3: H H, that's so good.

35:39 Speaker 1: I didn't even want to talk over that slow fade.

35:41 Speaker 1: At the end, I was like, no, I got to

35:42 Speaker 1: give that a few more seconds. That's intense.

35:44 Speaker 3: That is so good.

35:46 Speaker 1: Scarecrow Hill is here with us in studio if you

35:48 Speaker 1: are just joining us, and that is their cover of

35:52 Speaker 1: We're in This Together Now by Nine Inch Nails and yeah, great,

35:55 Speaker 1: great job on that. What do you guys, uh, what

35:59 Speaker 1: do you guys coming up in terms of are you

36:02 Speaker 1: are you already working on material for I know this

36:04 Speaker 1: album just came out, but you know, you strike me

36:07 Speaker 1: as guys who probably have a lot of ideas, who're

36:10 Speaker 1: probably already working on some new stuff.

36:12 Speaker 4: We're pretty much constantly.

36:16 Speaker 5: Anytime we put anything out, we'll give it a few

36:18 Speaker 5: months and really hone in on the live part of

36:22 Speaker 5: the show and things that we got to do. But

36:25 Speaker 5: I think genuinely we enjoy writing together so much that

36:28 Speaker 5: we just we never stopped. It's yeah, we we just

36:32 Speaker 5: came finished and started polishing a new track a week ago.

36:36 Speaker 4: Yeah.

36:36 Speaker 12: Well that's like the exciting part because I'm speaking for myself,

36:40 Speaker 12: I'm kind of the impatient type. But pretty much even

36:43 Speaker 12: before we put an album out, we're already kind of

36:47 Speaker 12: looking at the next next new material that we're going

36:50 Speaker 12: to be writing, and we're looking at ways really, how

36:55 Speaker 12: one we can improve in two, how we can I

37:00 Speaker 12: don't just moving forward, what we can do to evolve

37:03 Speaker 12: our sound, yeah, which you know, I think it's.

37:06 Speaker 2: Awesome, And there's a lot of a lot of time.

37:08 Speaker 2: There's enough time between when you're done writing a batch

37:12 Speaker 2: of songs for a record and the time that that

37:14 Speaker 2: comes out, that between that you're already I mean personally,

37:20 Speaker 2: sometimes I get a little fatigued from like the writing

37:23 Speaker 2: and recording process. So like to have like maybe even

37:26 Speaker 2: just like a month to kind of like forget about

37:28 Speaker 2: it is good. Yeah, But even still, like once we're

37:30 Speaker 2: done with the writing and recording, even before the next

37:33 Speaker 2: one comes out, it's a lot of the time it's

37:35 Speaker 2: already creative juices are flowing for the next thing.

37:38 Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt exactly. And honestly, it comes to the

37:40 Speaker 3: most random times.

37:41 Speaker 12: I always joke around like some of the best ideas

37:45 Speaker 12: coming to me in the shower evolved. Yeah, And you know,

37:48 Speaker 12: if that's the case, it could be a day after

37:51 Speaker 12: we put out the new album and already putting down

37:54 Speaker 12: new ideas. Sometimes you're listening to the final mix of

37:57 Speaker 12: the album and you're like, oh, really good idea you

38:01 Speaker 12: know all right, Yeah, it's always an evolving process.

38:04 Speaker 2: And that's the thing I think I love most about it.

38:06 Speaker 7: I think we do.

38:06 Speaker 3: I shouldn't even speak for myself, we all do.

38:09 Speaker 9: Do.

38:10 Speaker 1: Any of the songs that you guys are working on,

38:11 Speaker 1: you end up playing them out live before before they've

38:13 Speaker 1: been recording.

38:14 Speaker 3: Usually the Yeah, not all, but sometimes yeah, yeah.

38:18 Speaker 2: There's usually like if we put out a record that

38:22 Speaker 2: I mean, the first three of the tri that that

38:24 Speaker 2: trilogy that was that I I was talking about earlier

38:27 Speaker 2: was the start of that was the beginning of this

38:31 Speaker 2: iteration of the lineup. So since then, there was always

38:35 Speaker 2: like one or two or three that were like the

38:38 Speaker 2: ones that we knew would would go over well live,

38:40 Speaker 2: and those were always the ones that we took out

38:42 Speaker 2: and played first before anything came out.

38:45 Speaker 3: Okay, yeah that makes sense, that makes sense.

38:48 Speaker 1: And then, uh so so even though obviously we're in winter,

38:52 Speaker 1: a lot of bands kind of slowed down with the

38:54 Speaker 1: live shows, but it sounds like, are you guys gonna

38:56 Speaker 1: be continuing to play through the winter.

38:58 Speaker 5: Uh yeah, So we've got We've got a more this month,

39:01 Speaker 5: and then we're actually we're taking our first break from

39:05 Speaker 5: live shows in almost three years. Wow, We're taking the

39:09 Speaker 5: month of February to kind of go home and reassess

39:14 Speaker 5: and rehune in on some things and get some things

39:17 Speaker 5: lined back up. But then I mean, right the first

39:19 Speaker 5: week in March, we're right back at it. We're back

39:21 Speaker 5: out of there.

39:22 Speaker 3: So excellent.

39:23 Speaker 4: Nice to have a little time off, But I'm glad

39:26 Speaker 4: it's the shortest month.

39:27 Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah, exactly.

39:30 Speaker 1: Well, it seems like you have a lot of momentum

39:31 Speaker 1: and uh, you know, like I said, the album is great.

39:36 Speaker 1: And then, by the way, do you guys do any

39:39 Speaker 1: covers live other than I don't, like, I don't know really,

39:43 Speaker 1: I'm just all I was curious. I always say you

39:46 Speaker 1: can kind of tell tell a little bit about a

39:47 Speaker 1: band's influences by the covers that they do. But you

39:49 Speaker 1: guys have such an interesting sound and such a disparate

39:53 Speaker 1: influences anyway, that which I think is really cool. Is

39:57 Speaker 1: there anybody in the scene, by the way, that you

39:58 Speaker 1: play a lot of shows with? You know, sometimes it

40:00 Speaker 1: happens organically, you just end up sort of teaming up

40:03 Speaker 1: unofficially with bands.

40:05 Speaker 3: And like like like who who uh who around here?

40:08 Speaker 3: Do you guys play a lot with.

40:09 Speaker 4: Well, I mean, like, like we said, we get Rags

40:11 Speaker 4: of Stitches right here in New Hampshire.

40:13 Speaker 3: Oh, I finally remembered. Now why Jenny, you know why

40:16 Speaker 3: that Dave is so familiar. We saw them at a

40:19 Speaker 3: Spelfy fest. Rags of Stitches was there, That's why. Okay,

40:23 Speaker 3: so yeah, we will get them on. I'm sorry, I mean,

40:25 Speaker 3: but yeah.

40:26 Speaker 5: So we love this and I mean there's fear of

40:29 Speaker 5: the Masses out of Connecticut or you know, good Buddies

40:32 Speaker 5: of ours that.

40:32 Speaker 4: We play with a lot.

40:33 Speaker 3: That's a name I've heard.

40:34 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're they're phenomenal.

40:36 Speaker 2: The Great Curtain. Shout out the Great Curtain.

40:38 Speaker 3: Oh I love we had the Great Curtain on the show.

40:40 Speaker 3: Great band. Yeah, great band.

40:42 Speaker 2: Dennis Layton is great, one of the one of the

40:45 Speaker 2: greatest humans you will ever meet.

40:46 Speaker 3: Oh he's awesome.

40:47 Speaker 1: And another guy who too like really tries to do

40:50 Speaker 1: something different, yes, like really unique.

40:53 Speaker 3: Oh love love that band.

40:54 Speaker 2: You cannot say that he is not one hundred percent

40:57 Speaker 2: himself when he's doing what he's doing. He's not trying

41:00 Speaker 2: to be anything else other than that.

41:01 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly.

41:03 Speaker 5: It's one of the things that we all really seem

41:06 Speaker 5: to love and enjoy about the New England scene is

41:10 Speaker 5: there'sn't a whole lot of competition going on like in

41:13 Speaker 5: some scenes around. It's much more of a teamwork thing

41:19 Speaker 5: that a lot of bands that are friends, a lot

41:21 Speaker 5: of bands.

41:21 Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, Rising Tide lifts all ships.

41:23 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.

41:24 Speaker 5: And we'll go play this show, you know, down in

41:28 Speaker 5: the middle of nowhere, Connecticut, and there's ten bands on

41:31 Speaker 5: the bill, and eight of them are bands that we've

41:33 Speaker 5: played twenty five shows with, yeah, and guys that we're

41:36 Speaker 5: like genuinely looking forward to seeing, right. It makes it

41:39 Speaker 5: a lot of fun, It makes it very cool.

41:41 Speaker 3: Yeah.

41:42 Speaker 1: I always feel like, you know, music is very much

41:46 Speaker 1: people are supportive of each other. I always kind of

41:48 Speaker 1: contrast it with stand up comedy because I listen to

41:51 Speaker 1: some podcasts where, you know, you've got these stand up

41:53 Speaker 1: comics who talk about about that industry, and my impression

41:56 Speaker 1: is that in stand up comedy, everyone is very cutthroat

41:59 Speaker 1: and everyone kind of secretly hates each other. And I

42:01 Speaker 1: feel like music is the opposite of that. Like in music,

42:04 Speaker 1: I mean, don't.

42:04 Speaker 3: Get me wrong, there are sharks and there are cutthroat

42:06 Speaker 3: people in the music industry too, obviously, but I think

42:08 Speaker 3: generally musicians try to really support each other and try

42:12 Speaker 3: to support each other and uplift everybody.

42:16 Speaker 1: So I so I think that's that's really cool. And

42:18 Speaker 1: then do you guys, what do you guys have coming up?

42:20 Speaker 1: Do you have any shows this weekend that you're playing

42:22 Speaker 1: that you want to plug?

42:23 Speaker 5: We have so on January fifteenth, we're actually at the

42:27 Speaker 5: Worcester Palladium with Dropout Kings and The Browning Okay.

42:31 Speaker 4: Which we're very much looking forward to.

42:34 Speaker 5: Excellent, and then yeah we get gosh on the seventeenth,

42:38 Speaker 5: we're in our hometown, which is a rare thing but

42:41 Speaker 5: an awesome thing.

42:42 Speaker 4: We love getting to play there.

42:45 Speaker 3: Where is that?

42:46 Speaker 4: That's at a place called the New World Tavern in Plymouth,

42:49 Speaker 4: mass Excellent.

42:50 Speaker 2: One of the coolest venues in that section of Massachusetts. Yeah,

42:54 Speaker 2: for sure. Okay, it's like a very like when you

42:56 Speaker 2: go in the front, it's a very unassuming tavern looking place,

42:59 Speaker 2: but you go down the little hallway to the back

43:01 Speaker 2: and there's probably like a two hundred person venue with

43:04 Speaker 2: a nice stage sound set up. It's it's pretty awesome.

43:07 Speaker 4: They treat us very well.

43:09 Speaker 3: That's awesome. That's awesome. Well, guys, the time goes so quick.

43:12 Speaker 1: We're already approaching the top of the hour, and I

43:14 Speaker 1: am going to play to end the segment this track

43:17 Speaker 1: Wasting Time, another great, great song. I really like this

43:20 Speaker 1: one a lot from the new album of Death in

43:22 Speaker 1: the Family from Scarecrow Hill. But before we let you

43:26 Speaker 1: go to what should our listeners know about? Where to

43:28 Speaker 1: keep up with everything that you're doing online? Where's the

43:30 Speaker 1: best place to go?

43:31 Speaker 5: I mean, just like anybody else man where we have

43:33 Speaker 5: the Instagram, Facebook, any anywhere there's a band begging for attention,

43:37 Speaker 5: We're on.

43:37 Speaker 3: There you go, there you go? All right, guys, thank

43:41 Speaker 3: you so much.