Matt Connarton Unleashed: Sotah releases "Sunrise"

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4:03 Speaker 7: Oh? That is so good. Brand new from soda. The

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4:10 Speaker 7: that is called Sunrise World Radio premiere today on Matt

4:13 Speaker 7: Connorton Unleashed, As we have entered our number three numeral trace.

4:17 Speaker 7: If I sound a little nervous, I apologize in advance.

4:20 Speaker 7: But well it'll all it'll all make sense in a moment.

4:24 Speaker 7: But let me get these let me get these mics

4:27 Speaker 7: up here. I'm not often Uh well, let me get

4:29 Speaker 7: the camera onto on uh on, casey, Casey Darren here

4:33 Speaker 7: because uh, you look a little bit different than the

4:36 Speaker 7: last time I saw you, and you appear to have

4:39 Speaker 7: gone through some sort of transition. Shall we say if

4:42 Speaker 7: I can use that term? Oh wait, wait a second,

4:45 Speaker 7: I can't. Oh, I see why I apologize. Please don't

4:50 Speaker 7: don't bite me, don't bite my neck. There we go.

4:54 Speaker 2: I've got to say, I've got to be honest. Heer.

4:57 Speaker 7: Yes, this is legitimately terrifying.

5:00 Speaker 1: You can hear me now out in the space waves,

5:03 Speaker 1: we can.

5:03 Speaker 7: We can hear you. There's no need to do anything

5:05 Speaker 7: anything rash.

5:06 Speaker 1: Well, yes, since the last time that I was here

5:10 Speaker 1: in the studio, you you see, I did go through

5:14 Speaker 1: some major changes.

5:15 Speaker 2: The whole band did.

5:16 Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, you know we are in the studio

5:20 Speaker 1: for months on end up in rural Maine, and very

5:26 Speaker 1: few people know this, but in Maine there's actually a

5:29 Speaker 1: large community of vampires. We got to meet them, we

5:33 Speaker 1: got to go into their camp, and after some a

5:38 Speaker 1: few days in Maine, we actually became vampires. You see,

5:43 Speaker 1: we got bit in and we are now undead and

5:47 Speaker 1: this is something that we kind of have to live with.

5:49 Speaker 3: Now.

5:52 Speaker 7: Oh, I'm sorry, Let me go and introduce your partner in.

5:55 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, he's never been here before. But this is

5:58 Speaker 1: my younger brother, Killian. He's got a very good vampire name,

6:03 Speaker 1: count Killian.

6:03 Speaker 2: Over here.

6:04 Speaker 7: That is a good vampire name. Yeah, go ahead, Killian. Yeah.

6:07 Speaker 8: The thing is the rest of the band, We're all fine.

6:09 Speaker 8: He's the only one choosing to dress up this way, and.

6:14 Speaker 1: That's not true when you turn into a vampire. This

6:17 Speaker 1: is what happens.

6:18 Speaker 8: It's not the it's not his dress. It's the only

6:20 Speaker 8: thing he's been acting different.

6:22 Speaker 7: Uh huh.

6:23 Speaker 8: Last night he had a garlic knot and he's crying

6:25 Speaker 8: in the bathroom for like an hour.

6:28 Speaker 7: Well I can see how that would be upsetting in

6:31 Speaker 7: a sense. Wow. Okay, so so you but you have

6:35 Speaker 7: also Killian. You are also a vampire now, Yes, because

6:38 Speaker 7: you are kind of pale. I'm usually the most pale

6:40 Speaker 7: person in the room, but you do have you have

6:42 Speaker 7: very light skin, sir.

6:44 Speaker 1: It's probably just the Irish blood in him.

6:46 Speaker 7: Oh okay, I see, I see. Wow, Well is the

6:49 Speaker 7: still Irish blood? I mean he's a vampire. Now, well

6:52 Speaker 7: how does that work?

6:53 Speaker 1: You know, we we still got we have were many

6:56 Speaker 1: different types of blood in us. Well, yes, just you

7:01 Speaker 1: know the nature of being a vampire, we do partake

7:05 Speaker 1: in the delicious offerings of blood. So yes, he's got

7:09 Speaker 1: the little Irish blood in him. He met a man

7:12 Speaker 1: named Patrick o'hannagan last week. That's where that comes from.

7:17 Speaker 7: So I see, now that makes sense. What is it

7:21 Speaker 7: about Maine? It should? Should people not go to Maine?

7:25 Speaker 7: You know, we've had guests here on the show who

7:27 Speaker 7: are musicians from the state of Maine. And now I'm

7:29 Speaker 7: concerned I may have put myself in Jenny in danger.

7:32 Speaker 7: Could they have been vampires and we didn't know it

7:33 Speaker 7: as the entire state of Maine vampires? I mean, what

7:35 Speaker 7: what's the situation?

7:36 Speaker 1: And no, it's it's very locked up. It's a locked

7:39 Speaker 1: up community. We actually happened to just stumble upon it.

7:42 Speaker 1: You know, being up in the studio. It's just one

7:45 Speaker 1: of those things that kind of happened. Not many people

7:47 Speaker 1: know about it, but we stumbled upon it and now

7:51 Speaker 1: here we are today. So you don't have to worry. Okay,

7:54 Speaker 1: but you know, if you do smell something a little funky,

7:59 Speaker 1: just you know, don't walk towards it, because that's what

8:01 Speaker 1: Killian did.

8:02 Speaker 2: And now look at us.

8:03 Speaker 7: Now, Oh okay, So since Killian's fault, I would say,

8:06 Speaker 7: I would say, okay, any any misconceptions. I mean, you

8:11 Speaker 7: you guys are out in the daylight to come here.

8:13 Speaker 7: I mean, how does that work?

8:14 Speaker 1: Well, we were packaged in a cardboard box on the

8:17 Speaker 1: way here, we were driven in. I've actually we've been

8:21 Speaker 1: up since eight o'clock last night, so were we are

8:24 Speaker 1: giving you some extra daylight hours today being here. We

8:27 Speaker 1: are very tired. We are you know, it has been difficult,

8:32 Speaker 1: but we are here and we are happy to be here.

8:35 Speaker 7: And I assume you were SPF one hundred sunscreen in

8:38 Speaker 7: this situation, the.

8:39 Speaker 1: Situation like this, Yes, it was a little nerve wracking

8:42 Speaker 1: coming into the studio. Yes, being transported out of the

8:45 Speaker 1: cardboard box and into the studio was a little nerve racking.

8:49 Speaker 2: So yes, we did leather up this morning, that is true.

8:52 Speaker 7: Okay, No, that makes sense, that makes sense. We want

8:54 Speaker 7: you to be I want you to be healthy. Now,

8:58 Speaker 7: So how does this relate? Like, did the song and

9:01 Speaker 7: the video come about? I mean, obviously the video came

9:04 Speaker 7: about post transformation? What about the song Sunrise?

9:08 Speaker 1: I wrote the song Sunrise about three years ago. It

9:12 Speaker 1: is a song about just, you know, being in darkness

9:16 Speaker 1: and wanting to find the light and really wishing that

9:20 Speaker 1: you weren't always in darkness. Something about vampires is that

9:24 Speaker 1: we we live much of our life in darkness.

9:26 Speaker 5: Yes.

9:27 Speaker 1: I think many people vampire or not live their life

9:30 Speaker 1: with some darkness in their life. Yes, And I think

9:32 Speaker 1: that the message of the song it was just me

9:35 Speaker 1: trying to express that I wanted to find the light

9:39 Speaker 1: and I knew that there was some light deep within me.

9:42 Speaker 3: Yes.

9:43 Speaker 2: But yes, it was.

9:43 Speaker 1: Written pre vampire transformation, and I found that the transfer,

9:49 Speaker 1: the transformation into vampire just worked very well.

9:51 Speaker 7: Oh good it did it?

9:52 Speaker 2: Did? It matched the message of the song very well.

9:56 Speaker 7: Well, that's that's good, very convenient, I would say, yes, Yeah,

10:00 Speaker 7: Jenny was saying in the chat room, she woke up

10:02 Speaker 7: with the song in her head this morning. Because it's very,

10:04 Speaker 7: very catchy.

10:05 Speaker 1: We did try to make it a little hypnotic, that

10:08 Speaker 1: is true.

10:08 Speaker 7: Yes, oh yeah, I understand that. Yes, I was tapping along.

10:12 Speaker 7: You probably saw I couldn't couldn't help it. I couldn't

10:14 Speaker 7: help it.

10:14 Speaker 2: That could have been just because I was looking at you.

10:17 Speaker 7: Well, that might be I can do that might be

10:19 Speaker 7: as well. And I have to say I'm a little anxious.

10:22 Speaker 7: I mean, you know, you tell me I'm not in

10:23 Speaker 7: any danger. But you know, I've never had a vampire

10:26 Speaker 7: on the show before. Vampires.

10:28 Speaker 1: If we get hungry, Killian will be but the first

10:30 Speaker 1: to dive in, so I will try to hold him back.

10:33 Speaker 2: Killian is feisty.

10:34 Speaker 7: I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Yes, yes, now, Killian.

10:38 Speaker 7: What what's your role on the on the track or

10:41 Speaker 7: on the band?

10:42 Speaker 8: I play a bass and backup vocals.

10:45 Speaker 7: Okay, okay, very good. Now are you are you a

10:48 Speaker 7: permanent member of Soda?

10:50 Speaker 2: I am a permanent member.

10:51 Speaker 7: Excellent, excellent, Okay, So, because this is I know this

10:54 Speaker 7: is your first time on the show with us, but

10:56 Speaker 7: obviously you know we've been playing your music for a

10:58 Speaker 7: few years. You know, case. He's been on you know,

11:00 Speaker 7: pre vampiric era. He's been on the show a bunch

11:04 Speaker 7: of times. But yeah, so it's great to finally meet you.

11:07 Speaker 7: I mean, I hope you don't, you know, buy my neck.

11:10 Speaker 7: But it's wonderful to meet you finally.

11:11 Speaker 2: Nice to be you too.

11:12 Speaker 7: Yes, yes, and the whole band is vampires.

11:14 Speaker 1: Now we've all done into vampires. The other two they

11:17 Speaker 1: were too afraid to come out in the daylight. I

11:20 Speaker 1: had to convince my younger brother to be here, and

11:22 Speaker 1: he is happy to be here.

11:23 Speaker 2: I have to say.

11:24 Speaker 1: He's a wonderful bass player, as you see in the

11:27 Speaker 1: music video, actually learned how to play the upright bass. Yes,

11:31 Speaker 1: he is phenomenal. He's a great musician, and it is

11:34 Speaker 1: an honor to have him in the band. He's been

11:36 Speaker 1: in the band from the very beginning. Yes, this Sunrise

11:40 Speaker 1: is actually the first track that he recorded bass on,

11:43 Speaker 1: which is it's very cool if you listen to the

11:45 Speaker 1: bass lines.

11:46 Speaker 2: He did a very good job, oh yeah, recording his lines.

11:48 Speaker 7: Oh I noticed. Yeah, I'm a bass player myself, so

11:51 Speaker 7: I noticed that. So in the video, you're you're playing

11:53 Speaker 7: an upright bas is that do you do? You actually

11:56 Speaker 7: play an upright bass.

11:57 Speaker 8: In high school, I played in orchestra, so I played

12:00 Speaker 8: a little bit of upright but it's not my main Yeah.

12:03 Speaker 7: Yeah, I've always I've always been kind of fascinated, but

12:05 Speaker 7: I've never even attempted to play it up upright base.

12:07 Speaker 7: But it looks awkward. It looks very awkward to me. Yeah,

12:11 Speaker 7: takes some time to learn them. I'm sure. Very cool.

12:15 Speaker 7: Now is this?

12:16 Speaker 3: Uh?

12:17 Speaker 7: Is this track part of an album or is it

12:19 Speaker 7: just a single?

12:19 Speaker 2: Or but it is a standalone single.

12:22 Speaker 1: We do have more tracks coming, but they are also

12:25 Speaker 1: different in nature that we we didn't think that they

12:28 Speaker 1: fit together in a cohesive EP or LP formats. Yes,

12:33 Speaker 1: this is a stand alone single.

12:35 Speaker 7: Okay, okay, very good, very good. Now what what else?

12:39 Speaker 7: What are you?

12:40 Speaker 3: Oh?

12:40 Speaker 7: No, do vampires get sick? How does that work?

12:42 Speaker 2: If not?

12:43 Speaker 7: It is it allergies?

12:45 Speaker 1: With the blood in the back of my throat this

12:47 Speaker 1: gravity voice, it does great on my vocal cord.

12:50 Speaker 7: Oh, I see, I didn't know if it was you know,

12:52 Speaker 7: there's a lot of pollen. I didn't know if vampires

12:54 Speaker 7: are susceptible to allergies.

12:56 Speaker 1: No, sir, no, sir, it is this. This is a

12:58 Speaker 1: side effect of having this new gravelly voice.

13:01 Speaker 7: I see. Do vampires have allergies at all?

13:04 Speaker 3: We can?

13:05 Speaker 2: Okay, we do.

13:06 Speaker 1: We are allergic to garlic. We are allergic to silver.

13:10 Speaker 1: We don't like silver. No, so if there is any

13:13 Speaker 1: silver jewelry in this room, please we ask you to

13:15 Speaker 1: kind of take it off.

13:16 Speaker 7: I can't wear jewelry. I'm allergic. That's interesting.

13:19 Speaker 2: Yeah, actually you're did you just say you are allergic

13:22 Speaker 2: to silver?

13:23 Speaker 7: Yeah?

13:24 Speaker 2: Is there something we do not know about you?

13:27 Speaker 7: I can't. I've never been able to wear a silver jewelry.

13:29 Speaker 7: I am allergic to me.

13:30 Speaker 1: Interesting. I suspect that you might have some sort of

13:34 Speaker 1: vampire lineage in your family somewhere down the lines.

13:37 Speaker 7: Possible. I mean I am quite pale.

13:39 Speaker 2: Well that that could just be the other lineage, but

13:42 Speaker 2: we won't talk about.

13:43 Speaker 7: I mean, if you ever seen me with a tan,

13:44 Speaker 7: it's fake.

13:46 Speaker 2: U spray tan. H.

13:47 Speaker 7: I rubbed some stuff in make me a little less pale.

13:49 Speaker 1: I was thinking about doing that, but I broke out,

13:52 Speaker 1: so I had to.

13:53 Speaker 2: I had to stop.

13:54 Speaker 7: I can see where that would be that would be

13:56 Speaker 7: a problem. Yes, yes, so this just came out yesterday, correct.

14:00 Speaker 1: Yes, yesterday on Friday the thirteen.

14:04 Speaker 7: How fortuneous it worked out perfectly? I must say, yes, yes,

14:10 Speaker 7: And where did you shoot the video? I'm really curious

14:12 Speaker 7: about the video, Gillian.

14:13 Speaker 2: Why don't you tell Matt Connorton where we shot the video.

14:17 Speaker 8: We went to a castle in Wyndham, New Hampshire.

14:21 Speaker 7: Okay.

14:22 Speaker 8: We also went to a chapel and then we filmed

14:26 Speaker 8: some of the dream sequences you'll see. We went to

14:28 Speaker 8: Hampton Beach.

14:29 Speaker 7: Okay.

14:29 Speaker 8: We got a lot of looks.

14:31 Speaker 2: Definitely.

14:31 Speaker 7: Oh, I can imagine. Yeah.

14:32 Speaker 3: Yeah.

14:33 Speaker 1: The Hampton Beach goers do not take kindly to vampires.

14:37 Speaker 1: They are more of a Jersey Shore type of crowd,

14:40 Speaker 1: and they do not like the vampires.

14:42 Speaker 7: What do you think it is? You think they're just

14:44 Speaker 7: afraid you're gonna like going into the water and bite

14:46 Speaker 7: them or something or what.

14:46 Speaker 1: I think they're judgmental, Matt. I think that they are

14:49 Speaker 1: very judgmental to our kind, and I do not appreciate it.

14:53 Speaker 7: I don't blame you. I wouldn't appreciate that either. Wow, Okay,

14:57 Speaker 7: I mean I have kind of a similar thing if

14:59 Speaker 7: I go to the beach and go on water, but

15:00 Speaker 7: that's more just because I have body hair.

15:02 Speaker 1: Oh, tell you about body hair. I might be part

15:05 Speaker 1: wear a wolf as well, because I have got a

15:08 Speaker 1: thick coat.

15:09 Speaker 2: Of for on my chest.

15:10 Speaker 7: Well that makes you a double threat, I would say,

15:13 Speaker 7: so yeah, wow, wow how about you, Killian, Are you

15:16 Speaker 7: also potentially a werewolf?

15:19 Speaker 1: Not as far as I know.

15:20 Speaker 8: I also, we didn't, we didn't develop an accent. When

15:25 Speaker 8: you get bit, you just turn into a vampire. But

15:27 Speaker 8: you don't actually have to talk. This is just something

15:30 Speaker 8: that he's taken too seriously.

15:32 Speaker 1: I don't think that. I don't think that is the case.

15:34 Speaker 1: I am a vampire. This is what vampires do. We

15:37 Speaker 1: all know that this is what happened when you get bitten.

15:41 Speaker 7: Well, I think so are you. I feel like you're

15:45 Speaker 7: you're being a little judgmental of Killian, like because he's not.

15:48 Speaker 7: He's not embracing his new identity as you are.

15:51 Speaker 1: This is not an identity.

15:52 Speaker 3: This is who I am.

15:53 Speaker 1: This is just what happened. And I don't understand. He's

15:56 Speaker 1: over here and he's pretending like this is not something.

16:00 Speaker 1: I I this cloak, it just appeared on me one day.

16:03 Speaker 1: He says that I'm choosing to wear this.

16:05 Speaker 3: That is not true.

16:06 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, well, perhaps it'll just appear on him. I mean,

16:09 Speaker 7: perhaps he's perhaps it takes longer with something with others

16:13 Speaker 7: to become fully vampiric. If that is a word, I.

16:16 Speaker 1: Think it is saying that I'm sorry. You have to

16:19 Speaker 1: stop saying that I am not the vampire.

16:21 Speaker 7: Oh, be careful, they're they're you. Uh you know, I mean,

16:26 Speaker 7: people are going to start to wonder if you're really

16:27 Speaker 7: a vampire. You keep I am a vampire. I understand

16:30 Speaker 7: the vampire, Matt, I understand me angry. I know I

16:34 Speaker 7: could feel you reading my thoughts earlier. The empires can

16:37 Speaker 7: do that.

16:37 Speaker 1: Yes, some of those we are not allowed to repeat.

16:39 Speaker 7: There, you know again, just very fearful. But uh no,

16:42 Speaker 7: I'll mind my p's and q's. So uh let's see. So,

16:46 Speaker 7: for those who don't know the band, where does the

16:49 Speaker 7: name come from? I know we've talked about it before,

16:50 Speaker 7: but for the uninitiated.

16:52 Speaker 1: Yes, for the for these new Sota listeners, our name

16:56 Speaker 1: comes from the story of the poison water. Okay, so

17:00 Speaker 1: back in old ancient times, if you were if you

17:04 Speaker 1: were thought to have committed adultery against your significant other,

17:08 Speaker 1: you would go to the trial of poison water, and

17:11 Speaker 1: if you drank the poison water and you died, you

17:14 Speaker 1: were an adulterer.

17:15 Speaker 7: Seems like an oe situation.

17:17 Speaker 1: Well, if you did drink the poison water and you survived,

17:20 Speaker 1: you were not an adulterer. Very few survived, so there

17:23 Speaker 1: were a lot of these people that they dubbed Sota.

17:27 Speaker 1: Sota is a person who was an adulterer, and it

17:30 Speaker 1: was the trial of poison water. Sota is the trial

17:32 Speaker 1: of poison water.

17:34 Speaker 7: Oh, I see, yeah, I see.

17:36 Speaker 1: And I just guess that at the time when I

17:38 Speaker 1: made the band, it fell into place. We wrote the

17:41 Speaker 1: song Sota, and I had the phrase in my head.

17:44 Speaker 1: Maybe there was some vampire equality in me back then

17:47 Speaker 1: as well, because I heard the phrase poison the water,

17:50 Speaker 1: poison the water, and I loved that phrase. So I

17:52 Speaker 1: wrote a song around that, and then I looked it

17:55 Speaker 1: up on Google. Yes, vampires do use Google, but back

17:58 Speaker 1: then I was not a vampire. Anyways, beside the point,

18:01 Speaker 1: I looked it up on Google, poison the Water, and

18:03 Speaker 1: then I saw Saulta, and I said, Sulta is a

18:06 Speaker 1: beautiful name. Yes, And I looked up on Spotify and

18:09 Speaker 1: there was no Sulta, So I said, that is our name.

18:11 Speaker 7: Okay, Oh, very good, very good.

18:15 Speaker 3: If you don't any kind of like you know.

18:16 Speaker 7: You mentioned you might have like maybe have some vampiric

18:19 Speaker 7: lineage of have you done like twenty three and me

18:21 Speaker 7: or anything like that.

18:22 Speaker 2: I have not done twenty three in me yet?

18:24 Speaker 1: Have you done that?

18:25 Speaker 2: Killian? I not Yeah, I've looked on ancestry, but no,

18:29 Speaker 2: from where where do we come from?

18:31 Speaker 8: We come from Londonderry in Hampshire certainly not Transylvania.

18:35 Speaker 7: Are you sure?

18:37 Speaker 2: Okay?

18:37 Speaker 1: Just because I come from that, just because I come.

18:39 Speaker 2: From London there, it doesn't mean that I don't.

18:41 Speaker 1: I don't talk like this. I am getting very irritated

18:45 Speaker 1: with my younger brother.

18:47 Speaker 7: Yes, I can see that. I can see that. Well

18:51 Speaker 7: I would have say, you know too, just because you're

18:53 Speaker 7: from Londonderry, it doesn't mean you couldn't have visited Maine

18:55 Speaker 7: and become a vampire.

18:58 Speaker 1: Well, you know, Killian a lot of opinions. We'll leave

19:01 Speaker 1: it at that.

19:02 Speaker 7: I mean, because if you think about it, if you're

19:04 Speaker 7: in New Hampshire, the odds of you of even visiting

19:07 Speaker 7: Maine are much higher than say, if you were in Transylvania.

19:10 Speaker 7: If you were from Transylvania, you'd probably never go to

19:12 Speaker 7: Maine so it's true.

19:14 Speaker 2: It's true.

19:14 Speaker 7: I don't know.

19:15 Speaker 1: I think the people up in Maine that we met,

19:17 Speaker 1: I do think that they came from Transylvania.

19:19 Speaker 2: But in the olden times. I see in olden times,

19:21 Speaker 2: and they do.

19:22 Speaker 1: Live in the shadows, you know, they live in the woods,

19:24 Speaker 1: they live in the caves.

19:25 Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know why we ventured that way out there. Again,

19:29 Speaker 2: I'd like to blame it on Killian.

19:31 Speaker 7: Now as your your transformation or apotheosis, I'm not even

19:35 Speaker 7: sure what the right term for this is, so forgive me.

19:38 Speaker 7: Does this affect how you perform on stage?

19:41 Speaker 1: Funny enough? No, When I sing, I sing completely normal,

19:45 Speaker 1: and when I talk on stage, this all goes away.

19:47 Speaker 1: And in fact, let me tell you so much that

19:49 Speaker 1: when I perform on stage, for some reason, the cloak disappears,

19:52 Speaker 1: and then I'm back into my plaid suits with my

19:54 Speaker 1: fun thighs. I don't know what happens. It just seems

19:58 Speaker 1: to me that I own turn into a vampire promotional appearances. Okay,

20:04 Speaker 1: I do not under quite understand what that is all about,

20:07 Speaker 1: but take that for what you will.

20:09 Speaker 7: But that saves your time on wardrobe changes, right, because

20:12 Speaker 7: if things disappear and disappear. You don't have to, like,

20:15 Speaker 7: you know, get into anything.

20:16 Speaker 1: It makes it for you. It makes for less confusion

20:18 Speaker 1: on stage for sure. I do not have to explain

20:21 Speaker 1: to the audience that no, we are not a ghost

20:23 Speaker 1: to rip off, we are not a ghost cover band,

20:26 Speaker 1: because they it just disappears as I appear on stage.

20:30 Speaker 1: So it works out very well. It's only in appearances

20:32 Speaker 1: like this with you, Matt Connorton, that I turn into

20:35 Speaker 1: a vampire. Wow, I can't explain, explain.

20:40 Speaker 7: I'm getting very I think I'm having a panic attack.

20:44 Speaker 7: To be honest with you. Maybe now's a good time

20:45 Speaker 7: to play a song. You want to play a song

20:47 Speaker 7: you love.

20:48 Speaker 2: To play you a song.

20:48 Speaker 1: And it's funny that you brought up the name of Soto,

20:51 Speaker 1: because I think that that would be a wonderful song

20:54 Speaker 1: for us to play for your audience today.

20:56 Speaker 7: Oh, okay, okay, wonderful. Let's see. So we've got that

21:00 Speaker 7: guitar plugged in. Let's see if I got a level

21:02 Speaker 7: on that. Oh that sounds nice. Guitar sounds great and killy.

21:10 Speaker 7: And do you sing also or do you do you

21:12 Speaker 7: only play?

21:13 Speaker 8: I do some background vocals in some of our songs. Okay,

21:17 Speaker 8: and I sing outside of it, but.

21:19 Speaker 7: Oh, excellent, excellent. Well I think this is uh. I

21:22 Speaker 7: think we're ready dying to hear you. I don't mean,

21:25 Speaker 7: I didn't mean to put it that way. I'm eager

21:27 Speaker 7: to hear you.

21:28 Speaker 2: Guys. I'm dying.

21:30 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, No, I'm not dying too, but we're dying right. No, Well,

21:34 Speaker 7: you're you're dead or you're undead. I don't know. I

21:37 Speaker 7: don't know how this works.

21:38 Speaker 2: It's okay, neither do I.

21:40 Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, well this is new to you. Very good.

21:43 Speaker 9: So yeah, guys, I'm I'm anxious to hear you play

21:46 Speaker 9: live all right. Let we'll drop the voice and we

21:49 Speaker 9: will play you a song. This is a song called

21:51 Speaker 9: Sota by a band called Sota.

21:53 Speaker 7: All Right.

22:08 Speaker 6: A web alize can be hard to keep track of.

22:11 Speaker 6: You're in your head and you spinning your fortune. It's

22:14 Speaker 6: not enough to know you've got them mal tricked. You're

22:17 Speaker 6: tangled up, ben It makes them so sick. One step

22:22 Speaker 6: and you've lost your footing and now you don't even

22:25 Speaker 6: know who you're hurting.

22:27 Speaker 3: It could be them, it could be you. What does

22:31 Speaker 3: your heart tell you to do?

22:33 Speaker 6: Your poison the water, boison the water but I'll be

22:38 Speaker 6: by hide. You poison no water, poison no water. I'll

22:45 Speaker 6: be by Hinde. I don't care what you've done to me.

23:03 Speaker 6: I'm just somad. You heard my family leave. I don't

23:06 Speaker 6: care if the love was true. I know I've done

23:10 Speaker 6: not like a dude. Looking back, the water was clean.

23:19 Speaker 6: It all makes sense.

23:20 Speaker 3: Why you dessop And now it's turn the deepish red

23:29 Speaker 3: so red red da la la.

23:38 Speaker 1: Poison the water, poison the water.

23:42 Speaker 6: I'll be fa hide you poison the water, poison the water.

23:48 Speaker 4: It was just not my hide.

23:51 Speaker 3: You poison the water, poison no water.

23:55 Speaker 5: Lobby by hide you poison no water, poison the water.

24:02 Speaker 4: You're not my bike.

24:04 Speaker 5: You're poison no water again, You're poison no water.

24:14 Speaker 3: My band.

24:16 Speaker 4: Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

24:29 Speaker 3: Whoa You poison no water, poison the water.

24:35 Speaker 6: Robbie fa hide you poison no water, poison no water.

24:43 Speaker 2: Now you're not my hide.

24:48 Speaker 7: Hmmm. Sounding great. Soda is here with us alive in

24:52 Speaker 7: studio and great job, guys. That sounded amazing.

24:55 Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

24:56 Speaker 1: Alive and I'm dead at the same time.

24:59 Speaker 7: Yes, I didn't even think of that as I was

25:01 Speaker 7: saying it. Forgive me if I seemed distracted. I was

25:05 Speaker 7: rummaging through my bag, see if I had like an

25:07 Speaker 7: old crucifix in there or something. I thought, I don't

25:10 Speaker 7: get that out of the beer.

25:11 Speaker 1: Well, I'm sorry, I just, you know, just don't even

25:13 Speaker 1: speak the name of the cruciber Well, sorry, none of

25:16 Speaker 1: that talk.

25:17 Speaker 7: I didn't know, you know, I just uh, you know.

25:19 Speaker 7: I mean, hopefully you guys can control yourselves. I mean,

25:22 Speaker 7: you know, you're trying our best.

25:23 Speaker 1: We are up very late, we are tired, we are

25:27 Speaker 1: getting famished. We'll see if you survive by the end

25:30 Speaker 1: of the scene.

25:31 Speaker 7: So so, vampires do get tired, so I wasn't try that.

25:34 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean we we are undead, but we

25:36 Speaker 1: are not that different from humans. Yes we drink blood.

25:38 Speaker 1: Yes we do not like guarlic. But we get tired, right, Killy,

25:42 Speaker 1: and tell them about that time that one time you

25:44 Speaker 1: got so tired you beat the head off of a cow.

25:48 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, tell us about that, Killy, And I am curious.

25:51 Speaker 8: I pulled an all nighter, as vampires do.

25:54 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I was in the morning.

25:57 Speaker 8: We were tired, and the only thing that was around

26:00 Speaker 8: me it was a cow.

26:01 Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know the end of the story.

26:05 Speaker 7: Right, Is that a vampire thing or is this just

26:06 Speaker 7: something you do while you're in Maine?

26:08 Speaker 2: Well, we do.

26:09 Speaker 1: I think the mainers they do like cow tipping. We

26:13 Speaker 1: do it a little differently. But I don't know that

26:16 Speaker 1: we want to talk about that on air because it

26:18 Speaker 1: is a little graphic.

26:19 Speaker 7: It sounds grizzly.

26:20 Speaker 2: It is grizzly, that is for certain.

26:24 Speaker 7: Yes, yes, wow, well, very exciting, very exciting. Now are

26:27 Speaker 7: you guys playing a lot of shows? Have you been

26:29 Speaker 7: touring or what's the situation there?

26:31 Speaker 2: We have been quite busy.

26:32 Speaker 1: We have been playing about a show locally per month

26:36 Speaker 1: the past six months.

26:37 Speaker 7: Oh.

26:38 Speaker 1: With the excitement of the release of our song Sunrise,

26:42 Speaker 1: we decided to take a step back.

26:45 Speaker 2: We did not do a show in the month of June.

26:47 Speaker 1: However, we are doing a very exciting release party for

26:51 Speaker 1: the single next month at the Shascine in Chester, New Hampshire.

26:55 Speaker 5: Oh.

26:55 Speaker 1: It is dubbed cute fun Music for cute fun people.

26:59 Speaker 7: Oh.

27:00 Speaker 1: We have got a mix of hardcore punk bands, metal

27:03 Speaker 1: bands us.

27:05 Speaker 2: It is going to be a cute fun time and

27:07 Speaker 2: we are very excited.

27:09 Speaker 7: Oh, very good. What's the that's in July.

27:12 Speaker 1: It is Thursday, July seventeenth. There's five dollars at the door,

27:17 Speaker 1: and so for a cheap time. It is a cheap time,

27:20 Speaker 1: and you can have a cheap date with us, Sota,

27:23 Speaker 1: and I promise you we will try not to scare you,

27:26 Speaker 1: because I do think, like I said, we probably will

27:28 Speaker 1: not be donned in this attire at that point.

27:31 Speaker 7: Okay, okay, yeah, I don't know if like you need

27:34 Speaker 7: like special zoning for that. If you're doing the Irish.

27:38 Speaker 1: Pubs, they do not take kindly to vampires. I'll tell

27:41 Speaker 1: you what. There is a for some reason, a very

27:44 Speaker 1: large Catholic presence in the Irish pubs.

27:46 Speaker 7: Oh see.

27:48 Speaker 1: We try to, you know, subvert that, and we try

27:51 Speaker 1: to sneak in and blend in with the crowd.

27:53 Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I completely understand. Now who else is on

27:56 Speaker 7: the show with you? Do you recall off in?

27:58 Speaker 1: Yes, we have Bastard Curse Trading tombstones.

28:03 Speaker 7: I love them.

28:04 Speaker 1: Yes, they are phenomenal. Yes, and Paint the Town Dead.

28:08 Speaker 1: So it goes very well under dead theme. But like

28:13 Speaker 1: I said, it is all cute fun music.

28:15 Speaker 7: Yes, yes, Paint the Town Dead. That's a cool name.

28:17 Speaker 1: Yes, they're actually they were a band that was formed

28:20 Speaker 1: twenty years ago in our hometown of Londonderry in New Hampshire,

28:24 Speaker 1: and they broke up twenty years ago and for the

28:26 Speaker 1: first time ever, they are actually playing tonight in Londonderry

28:29 Speaker 1: in New Hampshire and they're coming back next month to

28:32 Speaker 1: play with us.

28:33 Speaker 2: Oh, we're very excited. It's the reunion of Paint the Town.

28:37 Speaker 7: Wow after twenty years. For twenty years, that's amazing. Yes,

28:41 Speaker 7: that is amazing. Now do you want to talk it

28:45 Speaker 7: all about what else you've been doing outside of soda?

28:48 Speaker 1: Oh? Sure, sure, Yes. My last year was very busy.

28:53 Speaker 1: Before I had gotten turned into a vampire. I was

28:56 Speaker 1: on tour with The Defiant, which is a supergroup of

29:00 Speaker 1: phenomenal punk musicians. It is Dicky Barrett of the Mighty

29:03 Speaker 1: Mighty Balls Stones, We have Greg Camp of smash Mouth,

29:07 Speaker 1: Pete Parata formerly of The Offspring, Joey Laraka from The Briggs,

29:12 Speaker 1: and did I mention Johnny Rio of Street Dogs?

29:15 Speaker 2: Yet?

29:16 Speaker 1: Johnny Rio of Street Dogs a wonderful, really cool punk band.

29:21 Speaker 1: We did a tour last year with me first in

29:23 Speaker 1: the Gimmy gimmeis Oh Okay. In this past December, we

29:25 Speaker 1: went out on a West Coast tour with Social Distortion,

29:29 Speaker 1: and I don't do much for the band. I made

29:32 Speaker 1: some of their music videos. I am their merch guy.

29:35 Speaker 1: I helped them roadying, so it's not like I'm front

29:38 Speaker 1: and center. But I do enjoy my time with the Defiant.

29:42 Speaker 1: They treat me well and it is very fun being

29:45 Speaker 1: in the professional world of music on the road.

29:48 Speaker 7: Yes, that's exciting. Are you. Are you concerned at all

29:52 Speaker 7: like when you when you go out on the road

29:53 Speaker 7: with them in the future, like if you because obviously

29:57 Speaker 7: in terms of in your new forum, I mean what

30:00 Speaker 7: you like what you can eat on the road changes, right,

30:02 Speaker 7: like you.

30:03 Speaker 2: Can't have pizza quite often.

30:05 Speaker 1: But I am hoping to find some sort of cure

30:07 Speaker 1: by the end of this promotional cycle of Sunrise.

30:11 Speaker 2: I'm really hoping that that can turn back into my

30:13 Speaker 2: human form.

30:14 Speaker 7: Yeah, because otherwise you'll be out on the road and

30:16 Speaker 7: you'll have to like go, like when everyone else is

30:18 Speaker 7: eating at a restaurant, you go into the woods or something.

30:20 Speaker 1: Try it won't work. It just won't work. So I

30:22 Speaker 1: am really hoping that by some stroke of luck, by

30:25 Speaker 1: the end of the rollout of Sunrise, I will no

30:27 Speaker 1: longer be it won't work for our band. I got

30:29 Speaker 1: to tell you, we have songs that being a vampire

30:31 Speaker 1: just it just does not make sense.

30:33 Speaker 7: Yeah.

30:33 Speaker 1: So I am hoping that we can find some sort

30:36 Speaker 1: of remedy for this disease that we have been inflicted with.

30:40 Speaker 7: Oh my goodness, Now what about you, Killian? Did you

30:42 Speaker 7: intend to also seek a cureate? It seems to have

30:46 Speaker 7: affected you quite differently, and by that I mean very little.

30:50 Speaker 8: Yeah, have you it affects me obviously? Obviously I have

30:54 Speaker 8: to stay away from the sun, but yeah I don't.

30:56 Speaker 8: It doesn't affect what I wear or definitely not my voice.

31:01 Speaker 2: Yeah, I would like got the higher strain of it.

31:03 Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, well that can happen.

31:05 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, he doesn't know.

31:07 Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, I mean that can happen. Yeah yeah. So yeah.

31:12 Speaker 7: So so I didn't know that you could even cure this.

31:15 Speaker 7: I didn't think it was like I thought it was

31:16 Speaker 7: like a permanent thing, like once you're a empire, it's

31:18 Speaker 7: like eternal, right, because don't you live forever?

31:20 Speaker 2: That that that's what they say.

31:22 Speaker 1: But I did hear that from a marketing standpoint, that

31:25 Speaker 1: it does not look too good to be a vampire.

31:27 Speaker 1: And a band, especially when you're in a ska band.

31:31 Speaker 1: So from a marketing standpoint, I'm really hoping that there.

31:34 Speaker 7: Is a yes, yes, Well, I hope you can find something.

31:37 Speaker 7: I mean, you know, the medical technology today is remarkable,

31:39 Speaker 7: it's incredible.

31:40 Speaker 1: I got to tell you some of these doctors that

31:42 Speaker 1: we had back in the eighteen hundreds, they did not

31:44 Speaker 1: do it. But nowadays it is not much better, but

31:47 Speaker 1: it is eighties somewhat better.

31:49 Speaker 7: I just thought of something. Doesn't what about what Keith

31:51 Speaker 7: Richards does, because doesn't he have like a full Maybe

31:55 Speaker 7: this is urban legend, but I've heard that he has

31:58 Speaker 7: like a full blood transfusion.

32:00 Speaker 1: He did do a blood transfusion, and we do our

32:02 Speaker 1: morning blood transfusions. It helps us very well. You know,

32:06 Speaker 1: we get the blood of our neighbors and whoever else

32:09 Speaker 1: is in the area.

32:09 Speaker 7: No, I understand, But by transfusion, I don't mean like

32:12 Speaker 7: you know, when you have to feed, I mean like

32:14 Speaker 7: an actual like you know, take all the blood out,

32:16 Speaker 7: put new blood in, or however it works.

32:18 Speaker 1: I think I might want to go and have a

32:20 Speaker 1: blood transfusion. Shortly after this interview wraps up, Matt Connort.

32:23 Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what I meant doesn't mean click no, no, no,

32:26 Speaker 7: I'm meant like a medical procedure.

32:27 Speaker 1: You know, I don't know it's extrectly medical here.

32:30 Speaker 7: I don't you know, I mean there's look. I mean

32:33 Speaker 7: we can't. We can't stay in the studio here with blood.

32:36 Speaker 7: I'll get in trouble.

32:37 Speaker 1: I know these white walls, but I so noticed up

32:39 Speaker 1: on the walls you have these soundproof boards and they

32:41 Speaker 1: are red. So I might take a couple of those.

32:43 Speaker 1: I mean, we do have red carpets, so it might

32:46 Speaker 1: not be as bad as you think. Matt Connor, I can,

32:48 Speaker 1: I mean, I.

32:48 Speaker 7: Can recommend somewhere you can go to, uh, you know feed.

32:55 Speaker 3: Will you be there?

32:56 Speaker 5: No?

32:57 Speaker 7: Well, we have you know, woods, and I'm sure there's wildlife,

33:00 Speaker 7: maybe an elk or something. We're in the.

33:01 Speaker 1: Middle of Manchester. This is a city. I don't I don't.

33:04 Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I think I'm I'm getting

33:06 Speaker 1: hungry and I want to feed soon. Well, I don't

33:08 Speaker 1: want to go on the trip into the woods.

33:10 Speaker 7: Well, this is very worrisome. Would you guys like to

33:12 Speaker 7: play another song? Maybe maybe you can, maybe you can sayciate.

33:16 Speaker 1: Yes, maybe maybe so calm me down.

33:18 Speaker 7: Oh, perhaps yes.

33:20 Speaker 1: I'd like to perform a song for you. This is

33:22 Speaker 1: a cover by a band Ghost. Everyone has been telling

33:24 Speaker 1: us lately, we remind me the we remind them of Ghost.

33:29 Speaker 2: I do not understand the comparison. I really do not.

33:33 Speaker 2: Some say that this is a gimmick. I say, this

33:35 Speaker 2: is just life.

33:36 Speaker 1: But we are going to play a song. This is

33:38 Speaker 1: a song about depression. It fits very well with the

33:42 Speaker 1: darkness of sunrise. This is a song called if you.

33:44 Speaker 2: Have Ghosts a right.

33:53 Speaker 1: You have got.

33:57 Speaker 3: You have everything. If you have gold, you have everything.

34:08 Speaker 6: You can say anything you want, and you can do

34:13 Speaker 6: anything you want to do. If you have gold, you

34:19 Speaker 6: have everything. One never does that. One never does that.

34:36 Speaker 6: You can call it surprise. There it is, and a

34:40 Speaker 6: part of me is me. One never does that. In

34:52 Speaker 6: the night, I am real. In the ninet I am read.

35:04 Speaker 3: The moons of the Left is a part of my thoughts,

35:08 Speaker 3: and a part of me is me. Forever is the

35:12 Speaker 3: wind in the nine I am read.

35:29 Speaker 1: Now this next part I will talk about my vampire equalities.

35:34 Speaker 1: I will talk a little bit about the physical essence

35:37 Speaker 1: of being a vampire.

35:38 Speaker 10: And it goes something a little like this. I don't

35:48 Speaker 10: one my thanks too long. I don't one my thanks

35:57 Speaker 10: to long. The boots of the Left is a part

36:02 Speaker 10: of my thoughts and a part of me is me.

36:06 Speaker 10: Wherever is the wind in the nine I am read.

36:13 Speaker 10: If you have gold, you have everything. If you have gold,

36:24 Speaker 10: you have everything. If you have gold lo load, you

36:31 Speaker 10: have everything. If you have gold lo load you have everything.

36:58 Speaker 7: Oh my god, that was so good. Good job. Guys,

37:02 Speaker 7: love it.

37:02 Speaker 2: I love it.

37:03 Speaker 7: If you're just joining us, we have a soda here

37:05 Speaker 7: in studio with us. Casey and Killian are here live

37:09 Speaker 7: and sounded amazing. By the way, So uh where does uh?

37:15 Speaker 7: Where do you guys record?

37:16 Speaker 3: Like?

37:16 Speaker 7: Like where were Sunrise recorded?

37:18 Speaker 2: So we took a different approach this time.

37:20 Speaker 1: We used to record a Black Black Heart sound in Manchester,

37:24 Speaker 1: New Hampshire. He was a very good what we did there.

37:28 Speaker 1: We wanted a very local approach. When we used to

37:31 Speaker 1: record our music, we went for a very nice, home grown,

37:34 Speaker 1: very diy approach. But with this single cycle and with

37:40 Speaker 1: the new songs that we are recording, I really wanted

37:43 Speaker 1: to step outside of my comfort zone. So for the

37:45 Speaker 1: first time ever in my entire musical career, we worked

37:51 Speaker 1: with a producer and we worked with the producer Kevin Billingsley.

37:54 Speaker 1: He's a wonderful, wonderful producer who's up in Maine. And

37:58 Speaker 1: you see he has recorded many bands like Major Moment.

38:02 Speaker 1: He has worked with bands, he has understudied for Avenge Sevenfold,

38:07 Speaker 1: just incredible bands.

38:10 Speaker 2: Troll is another band their local.

38:13 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, Kevin.

38:14 Speaker 1: Billingsley does some of their music as well. Wonderful, wonderful bands.

38:18 Speaker 1: And I said, I've been wanting to work with this

38:20 Speaker 1: man for many, many years. So we went up to

38:23 Speaker 1: the Halo Studio just north of Portland, Maine, and we

38:27 Speaker 1: recorded with him, and it was a wonderful experience. It

38:30 Speaker 1: changed my mindset on what musical recording could be and

38:34 Speaker 1: songwriting could be. He really pushed us to our limits.

38:38 Speaker 1: He got the best out of us, and he put

38:40 Speaker 1: together just a beautiful sounding product. I have to say,

38:44 Speaker 1: I am for the first time ever in my musical career,

38:47 Speaker 1: I am just so excited with how the music sounds.

38:51 Speaker 1: I listened to it, and I don't go back and say,

38:53 Speaker 1: oh I wish I did something like this, No, it is.

38:56 Speaker 1: He just he got perfection out of us and I

38:58 Speaker 1: am so so excited to have worked with him. He's wonderful.

39:02 Speaker 7: Oh very good. Do you plan to work with him again? Oh?

39:05 Speaker 1: By far By Killian. Talk a little bit about your

39:08 Speaker 1: experience with Kevin. Tell tell us how did you feel

39:11 Speaker 1: about Kevin?

39:13 Speaker 8: He was amazing, Like this was my first time, like well,

39:16 Speaker 8: this is my first time recording with Soda, and it

39:18 Speaker 8: was just like right off the gun, like he was

39:21 Speaker 8: he's so so nice. He helped us like, uh, he

39:25 Speaker 8: gave us things we could change about our songs, and

39:28 Speaker 8: he just like the production value was just so surreal

39:31 Speaker 8: and yeah, and he was just so so good to

39:34 Speaker 8: work with.

39:34 Speaker 2: He was very friendly the whole time.

39:36 Speaker 8: It wasn't like we're like it wasn't like a producer

39:38 Speaker 8: that like makes you stressed out, like oh you have

39:40 Speaker 8: to do this Liker. He was like, oh, here's how

39:42 Speaker 8: we can change this. And like if if we were

39:44 Speaker 8: struggling like recording something or like we're struggling getting apart down.

39:48 Speaker 2: He like worked through it with us and like, yeah,

39:50 Speaker 2: just very very He.

39:51 Speaker 1: Never got frustrated.

39:52 Speaker 2: That's right.

39:53 Speaker 1: He brought the best qualities out of you, and he

39:58 Speaker 1: he did it in a way where he knew that

40:00 Speaker 1: you could do something musically or and he never put

40:03 Speaker 1: you down if it was difficult for you to get there,

40:05 Speaker 1: he walked you along the way, and he did it

40:08 Speaker 1: in such a kind.

40:10 Speaker 2: Yes, you're right.

40:11 Speaker 1: It was just a wonderful experience to have him to

40:14 Speaker 1: change your mind and approach it in a way that

40:17 Speaker 1: you never felt like you were a bad musician for

40:19 Speaker 1: not coming up with this idea first. He was like,

40:21 Speaker 1: this is how he can enhance your idea. Yeah, he

40:24 Speaker 1: did a wonderful job.

40:25 Speaker 7: I feel like a good producer kind of becomes like

40:28 Speaker 7: an extra member of the band.

40:30 Speaker 1: It's very true. Look at the Beatles, they had their

40:32 Speaker 1: fifth Beatles. Yes, it was their producer, and because of him,

40:36 Speaker 1: they put out a great quality work. And I think

40:38 Speaker 1: that Kevin has been our our fifth and a half.

40:42 Speaker 1: I say half because we have a half member in

40:43 Speaker 1: our band. He was severed in two, so that is

40:47 Speaker 1: why he is half. He plays the piano for us

40:49 Speaker 1: in Sota.

40:50 Speaker 7: Was that also in Maine?

40:52 Speaker 1: That that did happen in Maine? Yes, yes, he did

40:54 Speaker 1: not want to become a vampire. He is not in

40:56 Speaker 1: the music video because of which so we decided to

40:58 Speaker 1: eat his lower half. Sure, so, yes, he plays the

41:02 Speaker 1: piano at about half of our shows.

41:04 Speaker 7: Okay, yes, yeah, I see.

41:06 Speaker 1: So that's why I say that Kevin was our fit

41:08 Speaker 1: and a half member of Sota for this recording.

41:11 Speaker 7: Yes, well that makes sense. So did you intend to

41:14 Speaker 7: record with him again?

41:15 Speaker 2: Almost definitely.

41:16 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we actually we have three more songs that

41:19 Speaker 1: we are going to release over the course of the

41:21 Speaker 1: next year.

41:23 Speaker 2: But h do I have songs brewing.

41:26 Speaker 1: I have many songs that we are going to go

41:28 Speaker 1: back and record, and I'm very excited to do.

41:30 Speaker 5: So.

41:31 Speaker 1: What's the name of the studio again, It's the Halo

41:33 Speaker 1: Studio Halo. Yes.

41:35 Speaker 7: Are you able to in your current form or forms

41:39 Speaker 7: because you've both technically, I mean, are you able to

41:41 Speaker 7: go to a place called with Halo and the names?

41:43 Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what.

41:45 Speaker 1: The whole vampire thing it happened the day after we

41:47 Speaker 1: finished recording up in Maine.

41:49 Speaker 3: It was.

41:49 Speaker 1: Yes, it was very fortuitous that we did not go

41:52 Speaker 1: into the Halo as vampires, because I don't think we

41:55 Speaker 1: would have made it through the night.

41:56 Speaker 7: Yeah.

41:57 Speaker 1: Yes, But again, as I said, I'm hoping by the

42:00 Speaker 1: end of this release schedule for Sunrise that I will

42:03 Speaker 1: no longer be a vampire and I can go back

42:05 Speaker 1: into the Halo studio.

42:07 Speaker 7: Yes, yes, oh excellent, Well we'll we'll, we'll hope for that.

42:11 Speaker 7: Do you have any plans to do a new EP

42:13 Speaker 7: or an album? I know this is a standalone single,

42:16 Speaker 7: What's What's because of so many different ways, so many

42:18 Speaker 7: different approaches you can take to release in music.

42:20 Speaker 1: I do have an album in my sights. It is

42:24 Speaker 1: a matter of finalizing some of the songs. When I

42:28 Speaker 1: make a musical project, I like to have cohesion with it.

42:31 Speaker 1: I like to have a cohesiveness, and like I said,

42:35 Speaker 1: these songs did not necessarily have a cohesiveness quality to them.

42:39 Speaker 1: But I do have an album that I have been writing,

42:41 Speaker 1: and it well, we'll talk more about it in time,

42:44 Speaker 1: but it is a record about time. It's about life,

42:47 Speaker 1: It's about fleeting time. And I have many songs that

42:50 Speaker 1: I have written, life and death and wanting to cheat death,

42:53 Speaker 1: wanting to escape death, but coming to reality that sometimes

42:57 Speaker 1: you cannot cheat death.

42:59 Speaker 2: So that is a the horizon.

43:00 Speaker 1: I have a handful of songs that the next time

43:03 Speaker 1: we go to Kevin it will be a full EP

43:06 Speaker 1: LP LP my own Mistake. It will be on SODA's

43:09 Speaker 1: first LP.

43:10 Speaker 7: Oh very good, very good. Yes, Now do either of

43:13 Speaker 7: you have any other projects that you're also involved in

43:16 Speaker 7: or is it Soda exclusively or Killian.

43:20 Speaker 1: He plays a lot of music, from from theaters to

43:23 Speaker 1: other bands.

43:24 Speaker 2: Tell him what you do.

43:25 Speaker 8: I have a lot of other music outlets I play.

43:29 Speaker 8: I played drums in another smaller SKA band.

43:33 Speaker 2: I do.

43:33 Speaker 8: Yeah, I do pits for a bunch of music halls

43:35 Speaker 8: here and there.

43:36 Speaker 7: Oh wow, so cool.

43:38 Speaker 1: He recently did Sweeney Todd so it worked very well

43:41 Speaker 1: being a vampire in that in that setting.

43:43 Speaker 7: Oh that makes sense. Yes, yes, wow, very cool. Now

43:46 Speaker 7: what's the other band?

43:47 Speaker 2: It's called hand Me Down.

43:49 Speaker 8: So they're out of Southern New Hampshire, Dairy, London, Derry, Manchester.

43:53 Speaker 7: Okay, okay, very cool, very cool. And if you guys know,

43:56 Speaker 7: so you guys are brothers, how how long have you

43:58 Speaker 7: been making music together? A long time?

43:59 Speaker 2: Right, Well, we have been playing together for a number

44:04 Speaker 2: of years now.

44:06 Speaker 1: In Sota, I exclusively write the music and I give

44:10 Speaker 1: it to the rest of my band members and I

44:12 Speaker 1: tell them take this as a palette and do what

44:15 Speaker 1: you want with it. And I try to let them

44:17 Speaker 1: have the freedom to kind of embellish their parts the

44:21 Speaker 1: way that they would want to play them. So Killian

44:24 Speaker 1: and I don't necessarily write together, but we have been

44:26 Speaker 1: performing together for since very early on in the band.

44:31 Speaker 1: I would say this probably four years now. We've been

44:33 Speaker 1: playing with Sota together.

44:35 Speaker 7: Oh okay, yes, okay, and Killian, are you on all

44:38 Speaker 7: the Soda tracks that have been released so far?

44:40 Speaker 8: I'm not so the Sunrise that just came out. That

44:43 Speaker 8: is my first song that I'm.

44:45 Speaker 7: Oh, well, that's the first one. Okay. Cool.

44:48 Speaker 1: For the early Sota material, I really wanted it to be.

44:53 Speaker 1: I wanted to take a Dave Grohl approach where I

44:55 Speaker 1: did as many of the instruments as possible. So I

44:57 Speaker 1: played bass on the first the the first six songs

45:01 Speaker 1: that we ever released, it was me, and then I

45:03 Speaker 1: outsourced the drumming elsewhere because I cannot do drums, so

45:07 Speaker 1: we had others do that.

45:09 Speaker 7: Yeah, yes, okay, okay, but Killian, you'll be on everything

45:13 Speaker 7: going forward, I assume, right, yes, oh very nice.

45:15 Speaker 1: I changed my mentality and I want to make sure

45:18 Speaker 1: that all of my band members are featured equally because

45:23 Speaker 1: I have accrued a very good ensemble of phenomenally talented

45:28 Speaker 1: musicians and I want them to have their moments.

45:31 Speaker 7: Yes, well, I'm not necessarily equally right, because you have

45:33 Speaker 7: one guy who's been seven he is half.

45:35 Speaker 2: He is in half, so he you know, he gets

45:37 Speaker 2: half of the rest of everyone else.

45:39 Speaker 7: But yeah, yeah, no that makes sense, that makes sense. Yeah, absolutely,

45:43 Speaker 7: very good, very good. So the next show, So you've

45:46 Speaker 7: got the official release in July at Chaskey and I

45:49 Speaker 7: forget the day.

45:50 Speaker 1: Yes, it's Thursday, July seventeenth.

45:52 Speaker 7: Seventeen, okay, with trading tombstones, whom I love. I think

45:56 Speaker 7: we've had them on the show.

45:58 Speaker 2: Yes, I believe you have.

45:59 Speaker 7: We must have.

45:59 Speaker 2: Yes, I think I tuned into that one.

46:01 Speaker 7: Okay, yes, it becomes a blur.

46:03 Speaker 2: Oh, I understand, although I shall not forget this one ever.

46:07 Speaker 1: Well, you might not live to tell the tale.

46:10 Speaker 5: I know.

46:11 Speaker 7: I recommended that there's there's neighborhoods I can send you to.

46:14 Speaker 7: Don't worry. What are your fresh meat for you?

46:17 Speaker 2: To skirting around the issue at there?

46:19 Speaker 3: Oh?

46:19 Speaker 7: I you know? I?

46:21 Speaker 5: Uh?

46:22 Speaker 1: Who else?

46:23 Speaker 7: Oh?

46:24 Speaker 4: Uh?

46:25 Speaker 7: Was the other one the band that was apart for

46:27 Speaker 7: twenty years?

46:28 Speaker 2: Yeah? Painted the Town Dead?

46:31 Speaker 7: The Town Dead? Yes? And uh there was one other band,

46:35 Speaker 7: right or was there?

46:36 Speaker 2: Yes?

46:36 Speaker 1: Bastard Curse?

46:37 Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, we really pick them out, don't we.

46:40 Speaker 7: Yes, that sounds like a great show.

46:43 Speaker 2: It's very doomy and gloomy.

46:44 Speaker 7: That'll be at the shask game. Yeah, yes, and then

46:47 Speaker 7: you have anything planned beyond that.

46:48 Speaker 1: Or well, our drummer he is getting married very soon.

46:52 Speaker 1: He's getting married, so we are kind of I think

46:55 Speaker 1: we are going to go back into into the shadows

46:58 Speaker 1: for a little bit as he you know, he's doing

47:01 Speaker 1: some life changing things, even more so than becoming a vampire.

47:05 Speaker 2: So so being married is a big commitment.

47:08 Speaker 1: So we will probably take some time off, but we

47:12 Speaker 1: have more music on the way, so we will supplement

47:14 Speaker 1: the time that we are not playing live shows with

47:17 Speaker 1: more music.

47:18 Speaker 2: In your ear waves, Oh very good, very good.

47:22 Speaker 7: What is your hearing? Does the hearing change at all

47:25 Speaker 7: when you're a vampire? I've I thought like vampires can

47:28 Speaker 7: hear like longer distances, right.

47:30 Speaker 1: I hear frequencies that no man should ever hear. I

47:34 Speaker 1: hear dog whistles. There's somebody to two towns over and

47:38 Speaker 1: they're using a dog whistle and it is grating on

47:42 Speaker 1: my nerves.

47:42 Speaker 7: Yes, yes, well, don't don't get to okay, Yeah, well,

47:47 Speaker 7: very good. So I think we should we should end

47:51 Speaker 7: with uh, we'll play We'll play Sunrise again. Such a

47:54 Speaker 7: great track to close out for people who are just

47:56 Speaker 7: tuning in. But where should people go online to keep

47:59 Speaker 7: up with everything that you got?

48:00 Speaker 1: Just anywhere you want to. We are on the facebooks,

48:03 Speaker 1: we are on the instagrams. We are on TikTok. I

48:07 Speaker 1: make a lot of tiktoks, and whether they're funny or not,

48:09 Speaker 1: that is for you to decide.

48:11 Speaker 2: We're on Spotify YouTube. We have the music video.

48:15 Speaker 1: You if you're listening and you're not seeing the visuals,

48:18 Speaker 1: you will understand why I sound the way I sound. Yeah,

48:21 Speaker 1: watching our music video. It is on our YouTube anywhere.

48:24 Speaker 1: If you just look up Sota so Otah band, you'll

48:28 Speaker 1: probably find us.

48:30 Speaker 7: By the way, does your name ever get misspelled like

48:32 Speaker 7: on a flyer or something.

48:33 Speaker 1: That, more often than not it gets mispronounced. People just

48:37 Speaker 1: don't understand. They don't understand. They say Sota and I say, no,

48:40 Speaker 1: it's just Sota. It's so you can there is no annunciation,

48:44 Speaker 1: just say you know. But then every now and then, yes,

48:47 Speaker 1: I'll say oh, we're a band called Soda and they'll

48:48 Speaker 1: go so o d A and I go, no, it

48:50 Speaker 1: is not so Da. Why would I name my band

48:52 Speaker 1: Soda right?

48:53 Speaker 7: Right?

48:54 Speaker 2: But I get the confusion. I get it.

48:55 Speaker 7: No, no, yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense. Well, guys,

48:58 Speaker 7: thank you. This has been wonderful and we will play

49:00 Speaker 7: that again in just a moment. And if you miss

49:02 Speaker 7: any part of today's show, it'll be up in just

49:04 Speaker 7: a little bitut wmhradio dot org at my website Matt

49:07 Speaker 7: Connorton dot com. If I'm not here next week, or Jenny,

49:10 Speaker 7: if I don't come home today, it's because I've been

49:13 Speaker 7: eating or turned a new a vampire or something. But

49:16 Speaker 7: you guys want to do that to me? Would you?

49:19 Speaker 2: The verdict is not out yet.

49:21 Speaker 7: I just realized something. You can't do that to me.

49:23 Speaker 7: You know why? Because I have to upload the show.

49:26 Speaker 2: Oh no, we need our we need our content. Killian

49:29 Speaker 2: for the Instagram. Ah, you got us there, Matt.

49:33 Speaker 7: Got us there, I got you there. Aha. Very good. Well,

49:38 Speaker 7: I feel much better. Jenny will be back next week.

49:41 Speaker 7: Go to her website Jencoffee dot com to keep up

49:43 Speaker 7: with everything that she's doing. Very proud of her doing

49:46 Speaker 7: great stuff. And thank you again to Rachel Molein for

49:49 Speaker 7: joining us in the first hour, and again Casey and Killian,

49:53 Speaker 7: thank you so much, Thank you so.

49:55 Speaker 2: Much for having us. This has been wonderful.

49:57 Speaker 1: It's been something that I have loved to sink my

50:00 Speaker 1: teeth into.

50:01 Speaker 7: Yeah, well well said, well said. And uh here it

50:05 Speaker 7: is again if you miss it. This is the World

50:07 Speaker 7: Radio premiere today. This is Sunrise and the band is Soda.

50:11 Speaker 2: You are listening to to wuminate World Premiere. They say

50:42 Speaker 2: the winds of change.

50:46 Speaker 10: Up here after they sut my fi.

50:55 Speaker 3: Where the sunlight lies. No, don't how they bought to you.

51:04 Speaker 3: Don't never let the body you stop doing there say.

51:13 Speaker 4: You will live with on the day.

51:27 Speaker 3: Do you go from the thing for your suffering way

51:37 Speaker 3: Sometimes it's hard to find you will be subod.

51:46 Speaker 4: I always get things of you.

51:50 Speaker 5: Don't sell these things I do. I just can't understand

52:00 Speaker 5: now to make a man well the sunrise, sunrise and

52:07 Speaker 5: the moonlight food live so sake of that night, dot night,

52:16 Speaker 5: bring out the sunlight sunlight my honestly, I.

52:37 Speaker 3: Know you watched it leave approaching in But still they

52:47 Speaker 3: love will stand baha. But pain you be. Don't ever

52:55 Speaker 3: dou that you are real good. The only one.

53:03 Speaker 5: Who's still searching all the sun. When will the sunrise satrise?

53:12 Speaker 5: The moodlight mood.

53:16 Speaker 3: So sick That night dot Night.

53:20 Speaker 5: Bring up the sunlight Sun. When will the sunrise satrise.

53:30 Speaker 3: The mood light mood so sick.

53:35 Speaker 5: Donight dot night bring up the sunlight Sun