Matt Connarton Unleashed: Set the Bar Low

We have joining us live in studio. And by the way, one of these individuals has been here with us before, a band called Sauce on the side, but we have set the bar low live in studio with us. Hello, Hello, welcome, We're super happy to be here. Try to We've got we've got the whole band here, so I assume this is a whole band. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we just trying to make sure I've got everybody's uh, everybody's MIC's up here. But uh, and actually you you have a not only are you gonna play live for us today, but you have a brand new single that uh has this been heard on the radio yet?

I don't believe. So we have another, we have another world radio premiere. We very good, very good. Well, before we do that, let's uh, let's start with you, because you've been here before. Let's go around the room and if you can each tell us who you are and what you do in the band, get to know you a little bit. I'm Martin, I do vocals and I write the lyric. All right, welcome back. I'm Zoe and I play guitar and do backing vocals. Okay, I'm James and I normally play guitar, but today I'm playing banjo.

Oh oh, very cool, very cool? All right, and uh, you know what I think that Mike there, Hang on a second, there we go. Oh oh found testing. Welcome And who are you. I'm Daniel, I played drums. All right, very good. What's going on? I'm Joel. I play bass and I have voice cracks apparently. Well, well, it is the morning, and uh, way too early. Yeah, I'm going to assume that you're all not necessarily used to playing live at nine am. No, we've played at four am in the middle of New York City. Yeah. That was terrible, Yeah, terrible.

Wait is this the story? It is? Oh, let's hear it. We like stories. We like stories. We went on tour with Sauce on the side. Actually last year. It was the tour that I think when we were on the show last year we were talking about it, and we went on tour and we played this show in New York and Brooklyn and the show started at twelve thirty in the morning. That was the start time. Yeah, yeah, that's not unusual for New York. No, it wasn't. And it was actually the best attended show we've ever played in New York.

Oh wow, there's a homeless man who went up to Zoe our guitar gry. No, it wasn't a homeless duit. He was just wearing the weirdest fit he had one of like his. In New York, they all have those like packy sort of like trench coats that they all wear with whatever. Yeah, and he had a drink in his hand and flip flops on his feet. And at that time, I had been working at a coffee shop and I had been going to work at like four thirty in the morning, so I think I worked that morning. Yeah, So we drive to New York.

I'm passing out, and I have this habit of falling asleep at venues, so I will like you'll see me on the floor, Like I fell asleep at like a couple of bigger shows at the Middle East. Downstairs, I'm like sleeping up against and Martin's like, oh my god, like nobody hit her and stuff. So I'm on the sleep of the like I'm falling asleep on the floor war of this bar, and this dude walks up the trench coat flip flop dude, and he's like, you know your song that that second song, you guys play like, is it right if I talk to you like, you know, like I just want to tell you about this song.

And I'm like, okay, yeah, like we wrote that blah blah blah blah blah. And then he's like, you know what, it reminds me of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. And I was like, we make hardcore music, like well, and I just started laughing at this poor dude, and I thought he was joking, but no, He's like no, like it's seriously, like is it inspired by it or something? And I was like, ah, I don't know. You're gonna have to ask one of the dudes. And he's like, okay, sorry for wasting your time, and he disappeared.

Yeah, like just out of nowhere. He was looking for that collab. Well it's the thing, though, you know, music is art, and art is open to whatever interpretation you have, whatever you get out of it. So hopefully hopefully he benefited from that, I would hope. So, yeah, very are you one of those people who can fall asleep anywhere? Yes, yeah, I think that. I was like, we saw one of my favorite bands. It was was it saying it was two hundred. It was two hundred stab wounds, and I had seen them before in Utah because that's where I'm originally from.

And I was in the corner. I was falling asleep standing up, and Martin had to like just be like yo, like, we gotta leave soon because it's gonna look weird as me. Like like if I a six foot tall man is carrying out like a five foot one, like pasted out woman, that's like I can't prove if this woe's like my wife or anything. It's some red flags. Yeah, yeah, no doubt. Well, let's let's give this a spin. So this is so, this is another world radio premiere. This is called is it Stately Lives or Stately Lives, Stately Lives, Stately Lives?

Anything you want us to know about this track before we play it. We recorded it and released and produced it entirely ourselves. Oh wow. Yeah. We rented an airbnb in the middle of Worcestern, New York, which is just the middle of nowhere upstate New York, for a weekend and we all moved in and we recorded our the fourteenth song record that we're releasing in June, and the first single off of it very cool. All right, let's give this a listen. This is uh Stately Lives the band Set the bar Low. Check it out World Radio Premiere.

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Awesome Martin, I don't know what you were saying, but you sure meant it whatever it was. Oh yeah, that's the senature freedom. And by the way, too, I encourage people to check out the video. I was playing that from YouTube and I really liked the video. It was a shot by our friend Griffin Rumprey, formerly of after Image. Oh okay, yeah, we've had after Image on the show. Yeah yeah, yeah, that was really cool. I'm gonna watch that again later. And I like the song and I like the uh. I like the there's a subtlety to that, that riff that kind of is underneath it at one point that's all her.

Yeah yeah, I like that. That's that's really cool. Yeah, that's good stuff. That is uh. That is Stately Lives. The band is Set the bar Low. Do you all want to play live for us? I'm really curious. I'm I'm very curious to hear how this how how your music translates to an acoustic in terms of an acoustic performance. So this will be this will be very interesting. Yeah, give me a second here kind of well, yeah, I know it's it's uh, it's close quarters. Yeah, feel feel free to move that mic wherever you need to.

But uh, if you're just joining us, uh yeah, we'll uh we'll kind of let them, but let them get situated here. But uh, we have set the bar low with us live in studio and they're gonna perform. Yeah. We we have a few on the record. We have some softer stuff. We all like a lot of divers different times of music. Yeah, so we wanted the opportunity to get to try and do something that was a lot more lower dynamics than we typically have had the opportunity to do in the past. Okay, all right, this will be cool.

I'm very very interested to hear this. I'm gonna take a sip of water real quick. And we even have a banjo. Yeah it's very cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I assumed as much. Yeah, no, this is awesome. This is Can you hear my guitar? Okay, yeah, I can hear. I can hear both of you. I'm gonna turn up the banjo a little here, Okay, all right, banjo's coming through. I can hear, can hear the bass, I can hear the drum. Yeah, I think we're I think we're good with levels. Okay. So yeah, whenever you're whenever you're ready, this will be interesting.

Yeah. So this is this is gonna be our second single. We're putting it out in two weeks. It's a little more aggressive, but it still has some of these lower dynamics that it's called yellow Belly. You'll murmur in the streets. You're the spinning in my head, leading coming from the sea, the soul that won't be mis repeated from the start, the other mother's broken heart. There's the god it will be. If there's street line,

they can find your belly rat to ster your life. Your life he forgot in Sime. Claim the victories with their tongue battles. You know never thought everybody listens, and everybody's joined us talk. You will fight your father's horse. You will cry your mother's tears. You will feel your father's words, you will feel your mother's spirit. You will exercise restrangth. You will put yourself in change your apologized for not you'll think you did nothing wrong. Hello, Belly rat, mister steel life. Look you smoke lea anything we sen they can find yeo Belly right, that's to stake your life, Robbie, plind steal your life, be forgotten in time.

Thank you? All right? Very good, very good, Yellow Belly. Yeah, that's cool. So is that that's not the first time you've played it that way? I assume that was the first time we played it that way with people around. Yes, no kidding, no kidding, Very cool, very cool. What you wanted to do to? Right? Do? Yes? Do you wanna? Do you wanna? Why don't we go right into the next one while I've got the levels kind of kind of where I think they work. It's on the second Fred, I think I'm pretty sure. So this one on the record, it sounds pretty similar to this.

It's not acoustic, but it's all clean guitars and whatnot. It's kind of atmospheric. Yeah. I could talk a bit more about sort of the meaning behind some of these songs after we've played them, but this one is called Home is where the Heart Gets spent? All right? Love little one sou and in which bloody shell

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Would you leave it at the door when cold? Very nice, very nice. Set the bar Low in studio with us. Here's what Here's what I'll do. I'm gonna play I'm gonna play another studio track. I'm gonna play this let's see, I'm gonna play this song jamba. And Uh. What we'll do is we'll give this a listen while you all get kind of re situated, okay, and uh and then we're gonna talk with Set the Barlow live in studio with us. Check this out, pick shell, why song lies all sound? Oh jeeze at sun that sometime it was left at the sound shot at the start star shot up said the cloud SuDS left in the charm hut it short job j shut shut shop job shot Set the bar low.

That is called is a jamba or jamba? Jumba jamba? All right? Very good. They are here with us in studio. We have the entire band here and uh yeah, I like that track a lot. What uh, Martin, you were saying something earlier about you know, the talking about you wanted to explain some of the meaning and the inspiration behind these songs. I'm very curious. Yeah, So the whole record is in sense, the new one that we're having we have coming out. It's kind it's not really a concept record, but there is like an overarch arcing theme.

I would say, just kind of. It's the name of the record's gonna be called Repercussions, And the lyrical content is mostly just about like what happens when when things, when we do things without really thinking it through, kind of on a personal level, but also as like a cultural like sort of note and a lot of it to me when writing it, it's very kind of trying to express the feeling of like of feeling like we've we've been here before, and it feels like we kind of have these touchstones in time where like domino effects happen and then we end up in the same place we were, and then another one happens and it kind of spirals around and all.

It's like an infinite sort of chain of events that lead us back into similar circumstances. And I feel like that happens on a wider level with everything, but I think it also happens in your personal life and like you're gonna you're gonna repeat like, yeah, the mistakes that your family might have made or yeah, and it's kind of about I would say, like the first part of the record is mostly about just sort of that being the case, and then the second record or second part of the record is I hope, somewhat more optimistic in trying to figure out how to cope with that and work through it.

Yeah, it's interesting. I was kind of thinking about that. I was thinking about that last night, sort of along the lines of what you're saying. On a personal level. I was I don't even know what made me think of it. Maybe may but it was after listening to some of your songs because I was I was, uh, yeah, yeah, I don't know, because I was, I was scanning through them on band camp and uh, and again I really like what you're doing. But I was kind of thinking about, you know, things from my childhood and it I'm also I don't know if you know this about me.

I'm a hypnotherapist and a lot of the times people clients come to me for, you know, for help with uh. Oftentimes it's basic phobias things like that and things that are rooted in our childhood, things that happened to us in our childhood and affects us, affect us as adults. And I was actually thinking last night about patterns of behavior from when I was a kid, you know, I was. I ruminate a lot, far, far more than it's healthy. But yeah, and and that's that's probably an element of human nature too.

We probably all do it to varying degrees, definitely, But I was I was thinking about I was thinking about ways I'm different and how I've changed and evolved in in in ways, but also ways where I feel like I haven't, where I feel like I'm the same person as I was when I was fifteen in some ways, and how frustrated I am by that. So I was kind of thinking about that kind of thing where you know, and history repeats both personally and Yeah, no, definitely, I think it would be fair to say that most people forget that they need to continue to actively try and grow as you get older.

I think a lot of people don't realize that working on yourself is not something that is particularly pleasant or that will always come easy, but it's a necessity for happiness in opinion. Yeah, and you also said too in terms of your lyrics, you were talking about that on a broader scale as well. There's a lot of I hesitate to say like political because I don't want to. Well, Martin's a very big history buff. We like go to Barnes and Noball all the time, and he finds like a really cool book and he gets really educated on it.

Read this book about how they trained bears to dance, Like where was it like in Russia? Yeah, And he wrote a song about it and it was like a really cool thing. Yeah. I think I saw that on band camp. Yes, if you teach a bear to dance? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, just yeah. A lot of historical things I like reading about, and it often like gets under my skin in a way, and I kind of feel the need to write about it to alleviate some of that. And I find it's interesting when you look at history how much you can find the similarities and in your everyday life and then also in the world at large, Like it's interesting to realize that figures of history are people and they had like feelings, and it's that's an interesting because we kind of glorify them and we like iconize them into like being this thing.

But it's not like they were like you and I, but they were in a circumstance in which this is what happened. And I feel like that's very fascinating, right, and yeah, and and and things do repeat. It kind of feels like humanity. We kind of go in circles. Yeah, you know, right there with you about the same stuff. Yeah, and then you know, and and those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And humans are really bad at learning from history. We we we we learn history, but we don't actually learn from it unfortunately.

Yeah, we we just repeat. Yeah, yeah, Well, I mean it's it's tough to I think admit. I think it's equally as tough to admit where we've gone wrong as it is to admit where we've gone right. I fel like it's difficult in general to to to concede our failures and also concede that it's not all bad and that we have one at times. And that also can be true on both a micro and a macro level. Right, Yeah, absolutely, how long has how long has this band been the five of you? Has it always been this lineuper so?

It was the four of us? So Okay, let me give a brief history. So when I was in Sauce on the side of the band I played drums for, we went on tour in twenty twenty one. We went to Utah and I met Zoe Well. I booked the show. Zoe booked the show in Utah because we had met online and she booked the show in Utah, and then we started talking, and then we started dating, and then we thought wouldn't it be cool we started a band, and me and James and Danny were in a separate band at the time that we decided to not do that anymore.

We went into this like heavier thing and so then Zoe moved over here. But before that, I had like shows where James was living in New Jersey and I was living in Utah. So I'd strap my guitar on my back and fly with it for the six hour flight wow, and then come to the shows. We practiced like if we were lucky two times before the show. Yeah, And we just had like these dope shows and Martin's basement. So we wrote our first DP remotely. We all sent each other like rifts and stuff and recorded them remotely, and then we all showed up in a room, practiced once, and then the next day it played our first show, Wow Wow, which was very stressful, and we did that twice.

And then after a couple months, James moved here and Zoe moved here. They both moved in with me, and we kind of just started playing shows. And at this point we were a four piece. We had two guitarists, vocals, and drums. And then we did that for a while and then Joel is actually an old friend of James and I. We met when we were kids and we just got back in contact and I was like, hey, you should come join my band because you're a good bass you're a good dude. And he thought about it for a bit and then he decided that he was going to come hang out with the best decision I ever made.

Yeah, Yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome, and it's I think, what is a testament to you know that you've really got something good going here, is that you were really kind of against the odds getting this band off the ground, right, because what you just told me and how this came about, it shouldn't have worked. No, No, definitely not. Yeah, yeah, somehow you all here, you all are I mean you you know, you used to live in Utah and now you're flying here and everything. And yet somehow, in in spite of all of that, here you all are sitting in this room together as a band.

Pretty amazing, and that is amazing. Also, in that time we got married. We yeah, we're a happy bunch. I'd say, yeah, yeah, well now the band can never break up. Then no, yeah, no Fleetwood Mac business. But that's that's right, that's right, very cool. So now, so you've got a big tour coming, right we do, yes, So in starting at the end of May, we're going to Canada, and then in June we are going all over the place. We're hitting Let's see if I can name the Ohio, Illinois, Nebraska, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico.

Four dates in Texas, Louisiana, two dates in Florida, North Carolina, West Virginia, Georgia. I don't think we did get at Georgia, and then New Jersey and New Hampshire. Yeah, we'll have a big homecoming show, hopefully in Milford at a skate park with all of our friends. Oh, very cool, very cool. Is it difficult to uh like? Who handles that part of it booking all those shows. Well, so I have a really bad habit, Like I have all the internet connections. Like I said, I met Martin on TikTok and I during the pandemic, you know, just kind of bored at home, and I really liked music, and the place where I grew up, I there weren't there wasn't a lot of kids listening to the same sort of music that I was because it was seeing the like devil music, and so they're like, oh yeah, my church said I couldn't listen to that, But that was something I was really into.

And I started branching out and meeting new people. So I have friends all over the country that were gonna go meet Like I have a couple of friends in Texas, friends in Georgia. We just recently played with one of my really close internet friends in Virginia. So I hit them all up, and I I don't know, like whatever is in my brain, like goldfish brain. I was like, James Martin, Danny Joel, can you can you guys follow up on these because I I just can't remember. I'll yeah, I just annoy people online until they have no option but to book us.

I just them and they're like, I'll book your band if you leave me alone. Yeah, persistence is what it takes. Yeah, absolutely, And James has definitely been the main guy for this, Like we've all done our part when we can, but James says he's really been the dude to He's booked, Like he's booked pretty much every show for this. There's like twenty three dates that he's booked with no help. Wow. Yeah, so he's he's been in a powerhouse with this. With the rest of us are just like doing our part and pretending that we're helping.

Well, it's genuinely a job, like people don't realize how much work goes into it. Like me and Joel we just recently quit our jobs so we could go onto this tour. My my job is really cool at first because I I'm really upfront with my managers and I'd like to say that I'm a good employee. So I was like, hey, just so you know, like just to profess everything, like I am a musician, I'm in a band. This is like my life's passions, like goals, and like I play shows a lot, so I'm gonna be diligent and I'm gonna take off all the time that I need so I don't harm your guys's business.

And they were like, oh yeah, so cool. And just lately the business has been kind of going terribly and so I'm glad I liquidated All by Socks before it started going downhill. But my manager was like, yeah, we're just gonna have to write you up because you called out like twice, and you know, we can't have you go on all in all these tours and stuff. And I'm like, well, I put in the time off and I have the vacation time. So at that point I was a little fed up. It was after Christmas, and I was like, I want to do music and if I'm going to go all in with like me and my bandmates, I'm just gonna go all in, Like there's no reason not to.

We're on this earth for such a short amount of time, and if I'm not doing something I enjoy, it's not really worth it at all, right, right, Yeah, Yeah, it's too bad too that they treated you that way. Yeah, what you get for corporations. Yeah yeah, it was very unfortunate circumstance. But I feel like it's it's made it all like there's there's a really nice sort of pressure to it all. It's like we have like something right on this that is like I think could be seen as a negative, but I kind of see it as a positive because it's like there's so many people who who I feel like look back and wish they had done things they wanted to do.

And I'm not. I'm not going to say that this is gonna work out and we're gonna make it, so to speak, but I will. I'll be able to like tell my kids someday like, yeah, well I did that right, Like it might not have worked out, but I did it. Yeah. Well. My dad he also grew up in the same place, born in the same hospital, same little town. He was number eight out of eleven kids, just because that's the culture over there. Yeah, and he told his parents He's like, I want to be a rock star, and his parents looked at him and were like, no, no, you're not.

So he tried to have all these bands and stuff and music's something he's wanted to do his whole life, and yeah, I had all this equipment and it just seemed kind of like a broken dream because he got married young and like he absolutely loves my mom and loves my siblings, but like I always feel like there was a part of him that missed out on being a muse musician. But I was very like thankful and like he was very grateful because he gave me all the tools that I needed and had the stepping stones for like, so he could basically live vicariously through me.

And I'm like forever grateful for that. Yeah, yeah, that's really cool. Does he still play? Yeah, he honestly, Like he taught me how to play guitar, and like his rifts and stuff bleed through into like my music and my inspirations. Cause he lived in Mexico City. I think it was about four years with my mom because that's where my mom's from. Oh so they did the whole long distance thing too, like oh wow, repeating cycles. Yeah, yeah, so they did all of that. And he's got like a lot of Latin influences in his guitar playing, and like I love my dad's guitar playing.

So if you hear a lot in our music, Like we played with this band from Texas and they came up to me and they were like, yo, you guys got that like Texas Latin groove going on, and my heart just melted. I was like, you guys get it, like seriously. Yeah, both of our parents were music so my mom and dad were also musicians in the punk scene in New England in the nineties and uh so I was raised on punk and all that stuff. Like, so they've always been super super supportive of what we do. They're probably listening right now.

Yeah, yeah, good good Yeah. And and you know, to take the chance to you know, like like you were talking about quitting the job and whatnot. You know, now's now's the time to do it too, right, I mean you're young and you know you don't I assume you don't have kids yet, right, yeah, before before you start the family and you know, do all that. Now's now's the time to do it because you know, well you can afford to you know, part of your life. So yeah, now's the time to to take that chance. And you you know, you've got a great thing going here.

And uh and like I said, you know, the five of you getting together like this, it it from from what you told me, it shouldn't have worked out, but but it did. So so that's a that's a great testament to what you're doing. We should have. I was thinking we could play in other studio track because oh yeah, because uh, Martin, you were talking about or Zoe maybe you brought it up. But if if you teach a bear to if you teach a bear to dance, let me let me just make sure the lyrics to that are clean real quick.

They should be. I think they are, because the nice thing about your band camp is it has the lyrics it does on it. Yeah. Yeah, there's no, there's no yeah yeah. I mean you're screaming anyway, So if somebody had like a good enough ear maybe they could understand. But I try not to be too sweary in our lyrics. Yeah, I noticed that. I noticed that, I think, didn't I I think I said to Jenny too, didn't I say to you? I don't think there's any Yes, is this the band I was talking about? I don't think there's any swears, but even if there are, I can't understand them.

Yeah this yeah all right, Yeah, let's uh, let's give this a listen because we were talking about it earlier. This is if you teach a bear to dance, and uh, the band is set the bar low there here with us in studio. Check this out, B time gop ji alright, why father job jo Jo jop up back jack alright, what god b b blas who love right? Did a jot yup jod while I water? Yeah, by my doctor jou before doctor by God, Yeah, wow, job dread jack job jazz ja jasam John. I love that ending. Very cool. Traditional Bulgarian folk music.

Yeah, that's awesome. If you teach a baron to dance is the name of the song. And of course the band is set the Barlow, and we have set the barlow with us here in studio, by the way, so we do have In the chat room, Karen Harvey Olsen, I assume that is my mother. Your mother. Very nice, very nice that she's supportive. That's extremely nice. That's awesome. Melanie, our friend Melanie law Liberty in the chat room, said something about oh yeah. She said, were you wondering what the blank happened to these guys as kids?

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that's funny. How do you describe your music for people who haven't heard it? Everyone always say it's a question, but I'm just curious. Yeah, so it depends. I usually just say, like hardcore metal or punk. Just if people are like into the type of music and want more specifics. I'll say, like, depends. I don't know. We've only been a band for less than three years now, and I feel like we're only just kind of now starting to really establish what our sound is. Nowadays, i'd probably say we're just like a hardcore like metal or punk band.

But yeah, in the earlier stuff like we just heard, I would have said grindcore, which is like a specific subgenre of metal that is just very fast and very aggressive and over very quickly. Yeah. Yeah, your songs, speaking of over very quickly, your most of your songs are kind of short. Yeah. Is that is that by design or does that so on the earlier stuff, I think it was definitely by the design. On the new record, we kind of tried to have it be a little more traditional song length and structuring.

We actually the last song on the new record is ten minutes long. Oh wow, it's got like sections and so many different instruments on it too. Yeah. We were so we so we recorded I think I mentioned this earlier. We recorded this in a cabin in the middle of the woods in upstate New York that we rented. We brought all of our own gear in to record it ourselves. Yeah, and we brought every instrument we had. We brought a pump organ, banjo's, twelve string, acoustics,

trump stylophone, every little like noise making thing that we could, pretty much everything we own. Wow, And we brought it in and we tracked it. We set up two studios rooms in the cabin. We had Studio A and Studio B is the bathroom and that is where we would track all the acoustic instruments and all the vocals in the shower, and then Studio A was the living room, which is where we tracked all the guitars, bass and drums. Yeah and yeah. So on the new stuff, To answer your original question, I would say we kind of try and have it be a little more song length, but the quicker ones there just because we want to get to the point when we play live, we'd like to be able to play as many songs as we can.

So if every song is a minute long, we can play like ten songs and it'll be fifteen minutes. We have interlude tracks too that are very like synth and pop and I don't even know, it's just very different. Yeah, Now, when is the new album supposed to be out. Is that, I believe June fourteenth. Okay, yes, we have another single coming out May tenth, and then we with a music video also shot and directed by Griffin Rompri he has If you guys listening want to check him out, he is available for video shoots and he is very good and he's just starting, so you should hit him up.

He's shooting our music video for that. And then we have another single in the beginning of June, right before the record, and then the record comes out, we'll have CDs. We're hoping to get tapes to, no kidding, yep. Yeah. The tape thing is interesting to me because I think it was probably, uh, maybe six or seven years ago. Now I was I was actually on band camp and I was poking around. I was looking for for local artists and uh and I was stunned. I remember this moment vividly when I saw that someone was selling cassette tapes.

Yeah, it's a it's a big thing these days. Cool again yeah, and then uh yeah, and then I was like and then I realized a lot of a lot of people were doing it. I was like, oh, I'll be down. Yeah, I collect me and Martin. We have a pretty big like physical music collection, and uh, like I just recently with Savers. Yeah, I thought, but I went to Savers and I found like Slayers first album, like the first release, and they go for a lot of money nowadays. Wow, yeah, yeah, are you crazy. Yeah, It's it's interesting to see like what technology goes away and what technology sticks around, or when they go away and then come back.

Yeah, yeah, exactly, because it's very often it doesn't go the way everyone's predicting. Like years and years ago, I was a manager at a CD store, and you know, CDs were supposed to be gone, yep, at least a decade ago. You know, people were saying there's not gonna be any more CDs, it's all gonna be digital media. But CDs are still Yeah, I love them, and uh, you know in Vinyl, which of course never went away. But I think not only did Vinyl have such an incredible resurgence, but I think it was twenty twenty two maybe was sold CDs for the first time.

Yeah, just amazing. Of course with Vinyl, a lot of people too, you know, they open it, I mean they buy it and they never actually open it because it's an art, you know, they just want to collect you just collected. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So now when does the tour start? The tour? The first day of the tour is June seventeenth, Okay, it might be the eighteenth, I don't remember. It's the first date is in Columbus, Ohio. I think we're playing a laundromat. Yeah, it's a laundromat. That also is a venue, I believe.

And it's Ohio. Yeah, okay, And that is the first date of the US tour. The first date of the run where we're going to Canada is h May thirtieth. We're playing in Vermont and then we're playing two dates in Quebec and then a date in Ontario.

Now, what do you do? You rent a do you rent a van or do you have a van? We just bought a vant A twelve Theedar van. Yeah, we're going to rent a U haul trailer for our gear. Yeah, but we have a twelve Theedar van for Zoe and I just purchased it. And yeah it's very nice. We've done tours before. We slept in it and in mini vans, and it was much less nice the last tour that we did and set the Barlow in January. We set it up. This is very not okay, I don't recommend doing this, Okay. We set up the back of the mini van.

We put the seats down, and we loaded in gym matts and three people just laid on the gym mats in the back of the van on top of so we put the guitars down, and then we put the mats on top of the guitar cases because they're hardshell. And then we loaded me and Zoe and Joel into the back of the van and we just laid down and played Mario Kart for them because you're like sitting the wrong way. And then like I don't know if you've seen Joel and Martin, but they're very, very tall, so I had to like take the like side seat and just like keep to myself.

Yeah, but we did that and it was not horrible. But we're never doing it again. Yeah, and we have a van now so we never need to. Yeah. No, it's smart though, with the gym that's so that's a that's a good idea. Well, let's uh, we are already approaching the top of the hour. It goes so quickly. Well, we'll actually play one more we can play one more studio track from stand up to solution uh to uh to wrap up the segment. But thank you. I appreciate all five of you coming in. This is great. I really enjoyed the live performance.

Anytime we have a banjo, that's cool. Yeah, something different, you know, I really really enjoyed that a lot. Where should people go online to keep up with everything that you're doing? So we have an Instagram that's probably the most active. We also have a Facebook, but it's a little less active than the Instagram. We also have a YouTube where we have our music videos coming out, and we have some live shows on there, but predominantly Instagram is our main tool. St b L Underscore band Insta. I'm glad you remember it.

I did it. I got you excellent, excellent, very good. And what should we finish off with here? We got to let me think, what's a good one that doesn't no, don't do bees bees there's definitely I forgot uh. We've got nobody suspects. The Butterfly is the last track on that. I think that one should be good. I did listen to that one because I remember I remember thinking I really liked this one. Yeah, as you said, nobody'll be able to tell either way, but I think it should be good. And I do remember reading the lyrics because it's got the lyrics here on band camp, and yeah, I'm glad I did that because I don't.

Yeah, that's it. I wish everyone did that. It would make it a lot easier when I'm trying to figure out, you know, does this somebody swears on it? But no, that's very very cool. So yeah, so we'll finish with this Nobody Suspects the Butterfly. Uh, set the bar low. Thank you so much for coming in. This has been great and thank you for having us. Absolutely this is called Nobody Suspects the Butterfly. The band is set the bar low. Say for time, flop right? I saw well, I was like lock blot offlock the line by That's why I brock cap blot not work out.

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