Matt Connarton Unleashed: The Whole Loaf

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is left turn. The band is the whole loaf, and they are here.

We're gonna speak with them in a moment. Welcome everybody, and uh,

we've got them. We've got the whole the whole band here, the

whole loaf. It was too obvious. I had to say it. Hey

guys, thanks thanks for having thanks for having us. I assume this is

the whole band. I mean, you know, usually if there's five five

people, that's that's the whole. I don't think I've ever interviewed a band.

We got some bread crumbs here and there, but we're the whole loaf.

We try to have the whole loaf on, not just a few slices.

You know, yes, one sandwich, don't cut it, you know,

that's that's right. You gotta do what you gotta do. Well,

let's let's start with you. I'd like to go around, have you each

introduce yourselves and tell us, tell us who you are, what you do

in the band. And I'd like to start with you because, for one

thing, I met you already. Yeah, so you haven't a Oh god,

I didn't realize that. And you're the bass player, correct, I

am the bass player. I'm also a bass player. We have to stick

together. I don't feel that, uh, I don't feel that we get

enough credit for what we do. Absolutely, and you deserve credit for those

bass lines. Yeah, Bryan, I'm the bass player. You know,

Charlie's my main guy. And you know, I take a lot of inspiration

from Phil Lesh and Jack Cassidy and kind of bass players who aren't really bass

players, so I try to be emblematic of that style. Interesting. I

want to come back to that afterward. But uh, and you, sir,

Yes, oh, I can't hear you. I'm sorry, hang on,

something's uh. Why can't I hear you? I think I know why

I can't hear you. I'm still getting used to the new studio. Yeah,

I can hear you. We go. Nice. Hey, everyone,

This is Charlie Kenny and I bank stuff professionally and drums on the side for

a loaf. Very good, Yeah, Charlie, al right, welcome Charlie.

That's our guy. Congratulations on the banging and and uh and you.

I'm Sean Crowley. I like that jacket, by the way. I play

organ and keyboards and I sing you gotta talk right into that. Yeah,

sorry, that's uh. Yeah, there you go. I'm Sean Crowley and

I play organ and keyboards and I sing thank you very good. Yes,

that that it droops? I know it. And you, sir, I'm

Jack. I am one of the two guitarists in this band. H I

try to write more simple stuff as Kyle likes to take a more jazzy approach.

But I think that that balance is something that you know, kind of

sets us apart. I would say, so, okay, and you,

sir, my name is Kyle. I usually try to play the triangle whenever

I can. That's my favorite instrument and it really blends together with our sound.

Sometimes they'll bring out the bongo, but I guess recently I've been playing

the guitar. Okay, well, very good. Now. Now is the

band always been the five of you? Yep? For the most I think

that's a bit of a gray area most of it. We kind of came

in at different stages, but for the most part, yeah, Okay,

how long has the whole of existed? So that's a showing question. Kyle

and I started in January twenty twenty three, okay, and between then and

beginning of May, we slowly picked up everybody. Okay, so it was

first me and Kyle, then we picked up Charlie actually in February, Jack

sometime in early March, and then Ryan was beginning of May. Okay,

we stole Ryan, we did, we did. We just kind of told

him we got that strange brew Oh yeah, yeah, so it sounds like

there's a story. Yeah, So essentially without the Strange crew being how it

is. Without Mitch the owner, without Howard who runs the Sunday night open

Mike Blues Jam, and without all of his crew, John madeiros Mark,

Steve, everybody there, like, we wouldn't have met. So without that

place being there, this band wouldn't have really ever gotten off the ground and

it wouldn't have really even existed. Yeah, So we definitely owe quite a

bit to that place, which is why we love coming up to Manchester because

it's like we kind of consider this place. It's like a home to us

as like, yeah, like our first stomping ground. So we come and

share for our story and be able to hang out. Where are y'all from?

Different? So? I'm from Dunstable, Massachusetts, small cow town.

I don't even know where Dunstable is there twice a week. Yeah, it's

just south of Nashua, New Hampshire, und the line, right right over

the border. Okay, Okay, are you guys all from mass or Yeah?

I live way out way out east. Okay, how about how about

the rest of you guys? Are I'm the only New Hampshire in the you're

the only one? Yeah? I was originally from Salem, but I just

moved to Manchester a year ago. Oh okay, okay, very good,

very good. It's interesting about the strange brew I've heard. I've heard that

from other people too. It's a that's a that's one of the places that's

really good to kind of meet and network with other musicians. Yeah. Yeah,

and you guys have a it's a relatively new project, it sounds like,

but you've you've already got a whole bunch of well we'll we'll play more

too as we go along, But you've already got a bunch of great sound

in studio tracks on all home produced too. For it's really all the work,

yeah, mixing, mastering, right that I have a little like home

studio set up in my basement with like nice that's the benefits of having a

dad who's also a musician play with all his fun toys. Oh, very

cool, very cool. Cracks are fresh out of the Kenny basement, no

kidding, Yeah, Left Turn in Halifax Blues. We're both recording in a

recording studio which we mixed and the rest of the and they were recorded in

Charlie's baceman. It kind of oh okay, in practice, we record everything,

okay, So where where We're Left Turn and Halifax Blues recorded. That

was in Cambridge. I work at a studio called Blink Music. Oh okay,

cool, So we just kind of got a time there and we recorded

and we mixed it. Took UBU think like a month to mix that.

We pushed it out on Halloween. Oh no kidding, okay, okay,

very cool. That's the only track we've released so far, but everything else

has just been unreleased from the vaults. Yeah, okay, we're on the

way though, too. Yeaheah. Definitely. All of the unreleased stuff is

cataloged and available on our website. Oh what's the website. It's www dot

the Whole Loaf dot net one more time dot net. Yeah okay, that's

how you know. It's official dot net, not dot right right. We're

not at a dot org yet, but we hope to get there, maybe

at dot gov if we're lucky dot there you go. Oh yeah, bass

players, tell me why do you like? Who do you like? Again?

And why do you like them? I want to go back to that.

Oh okay, So I'm a massive, massive deadhead. Friend of mine

got me into him almost ten years ago, and I really really just love

their sound. I just think what they do is amazing, especially Phil Lesh.

He's the bass player for the Dead, and if you listen to his

stuff, he plays things very melodically, and he doesn't attack a certain song,

and he doesn't attack how the song is structured. He just kind of

plays what he wants to and he plays and if you hone it in and

you just listen to his bass playing, it's really not a bass part.

Yet somehow, the way he layers in and the way he's able to dive

in and out of the rhythm and the melody, it's absolute insanity and it

somehow works with everything that's going on. Same with Jack Cassidy to a degree.

He was the bass player for Jefferson Airplane and he does a very similar

thing, especially if you listen to any of the live stuff that he played

with Country Joe and the Fish or even Jefferson Airplane is kind of all over

the place and stuff. Yeah, I know what you mean. I saw.

I can't. I don't know about Phil Lesh. I mean, I

know who he is, obviously, but I never listened to much Dad,

But I know what you mean about Jack Cassidy now that you bring it up.

Yeah, yeah, I can. I can definitely hear that. Okay,

Yeah, I was. I was curious as a bass player. My

holy, my holy trinity of like bass players is Phil Lesh, Jack Cassidy,

and John Paul Jones. Oh nice, John Paul Jones. Those are

my three major inspirations. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, Ryan as

a bass player does bring He has more of like a melodic style, which,

like from the rhythm perspective or like from the drummer, opens up like

different opportunities to kind of like make the beat a little more interesting. Yeah.

So it's a cool dynamic. They're both in love with each other.

They really love each other a lot. We have this like telepathic thing where

I can just we're in the middle of a jam or a song and I

can just look at him and he knows exactly what I'm thinking, Yeah,

and he just brings it right there. And it's the thing of magic.

It's the universal unspoken relationship between the bassis and the drummer. Yea where it

comes about. Yeah, that's awesome, very good, very good. Now,

what about in terms of songwriting, you guys all write together or how

does that work? It's a little funny. We kind of all write songs

separately, so we end up with a pretty wide range of sounds. Like

if you listen to the difference between Left Turn and Halifax Blues, it's it's

very, very different. I think you two, Sean and Kyle wrote Halifax

Blues together and then kind of brought it to the rest of us and we

made our parts for it. And Left Turn I wrote just a rift four

and sent it off to Kyle and Sean, and next thing we knew we

had a song. So we don't really have a set process, I don't

think. Yeah, it's it's a very collaborative process. So kind of how

it works is somebody comes up with a song idea, be it Jack or

Kyle and Sean or just Sean, Kyle, whatever, Charlie, even myself,

and we get together when we practice and we just say, hey,

here's a song idea, here are the chords, and we just kind of

build it up from there. Okay, That's one thing I really like,

is I like having that collaborative process instead of somebody just writing a song and

saying, hey, here's how it needs to be. I like the collaboration.

Yeah. Yeah, I have a hunch too that do these change live

sometimes because it seems like the style of what you're doing, you know,

you've got room to breathe. It's built around improv. Yeah, yeah,

I was gonna say that's another That's another facet to the songwriting is a lot

of times we'll just have a rehearsal and do a warm up jam and I'll

just kind of make something up. We do two of those twice a week.

That's roughly four new songs a week. Wow. Yeah, So how

many songs do you guys have currently? We have four hundred and sixty.

Each of them are different stage box, all them ideas. So like somebody

gets an idea, even if it's like a five second little thing, you

send it to Sean. He catalogs it, and then we go back and

we retrace them and work on them together, bring them to the whole band,

and then everyone kind of gets a chance to write on it. Yeah.

Yeah. It's very best thing about having Sewn in the band for us

is his uh yeah, it's his cataloging ability because he will note down every

single little riff idea for its and it all gets neatly organized, uh in

our dropbox. So we could be able to even it's something like back four

months ago and it was just like a random get together. He'll still have

a little note for it. We can go back and revisit it all.

It can it can be. It can be as simple as just a song

title that doesn't have a lyric, or that doesn't have any lyrics, or

doesn't even have any chords. Yeah, and it goes and the ideas folder.

Yeah. Oh that's good. It's good. Good to have somebody who's

super organized. We can that's the saving grace. Yeah. Yeah, it

might be a freak of nature, as Ryan often says, but you know

it keeps us organized. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's good. That's

important. We should all since we were talking about it, we should play

this track Halifax Blues. So this is the other one that was recorded at

the studio that you work at. Any any any story behind the song or

is there. Kyle and I were just sitting in my bedroom one day and

he goes, wow, you can really make a song with anything, and

he starts playing this this weird uh, whatever theory you wanted to attached to.

He started playing that, and then all of a sudden, I start

playing a one to five under that and it's like, Wow, I guess

you're right. We can make a song out of anything. That was the

first song we released. Yeah, but why Halifax Blues. What's the significance

or is there any Yeah, I couldn't tell you that just yeah, that

was one that just kind of spawned. We don't just transmit them. Yeah,

they kind of sometimes get delivered to us straight into our brains like radio

towers exactly. I like it. The song storms pro that one. I

think the song Stork is a divine delivery, very title. There we go.

That's another one. There you go. The idea is folder. Put

it on the folder. Ye, all right, and it down as we

speak. Well, now we definitely have to listen to this. All right,

let's check this out. This is Halifax Blues. The band is the

whole loaf, lom the top, a cat who rolls around down cigaretts,

don't drown me. How I got the windows down to let it all out

and willing Bubasu's tuck up on the facts. Please run the top of dog

mots too when I see him. When lead I can help myself. Don't

you got me rolling round and chasing my tail and wing does like the Blues

that is Halifax Blues. The band is the Whole Loaf, and we have

the Whole Loaf with us in studio, literally the entire band. Hey,

where's the name come from? By the way, Sean Jean, There's got

to be a story behind the name. Yeah, I just woke up one

morning and it was in my head and I thought to myself, Wow,

see when when when I was looking for all the musicians before I met these

guys, I thought, well, I want to start a band that does

everything. I want to have no restrictions. I want everybody to play what

they want the way they want, and I want everyone to compromise rather than

people say no, I don't want to do that, so we can't do

that. So I don't know, I just kind of woke up one morning

and it was in my head. I'm like, wow, the Whole Loaf,

the whole spectrum, spectrum of music. Yeah, and uh, you

know, at first everybody hated it. They're like, no, no,

what the hell is that? Then it slowly grew on everyone and they're like,

yeah, okay. So I was saying like, yeah, just let

it, let it sit for a little bit and if we come up with

anything better, we'll take that, and we never did, so it stuck.

Did did you did you think about consider some other name? I love

rejected band names so much. Did you have other names that you were thinking

about or I don't. I don't really know that we had any that stuck.

I know we had a side project with when I was one of the

band. One of the cover bands I was in broke up. So I

took some of these guys from the very beginning to you know, kind of

fill in for one of the shows, and it was us three yeah,

and the band name was called Zeke and the Zamboni's Oh that's cool. There

was a oh sorry, No, I was just going to say, as

for our rejected band names, I don't know that there are any that we

remember. On a personal note, like by the time I joined, the

band name was already kind of there. Yeah, Like, as I forget

who said it earlier, I want to say it was Kyle, Who's like

they basically just stole me. They just picked me up and said yep,

you're with us, And I said, all right, I guess. So

we convince him to come to a practice and after a couple of songs,

we're like, yeah, you're the guy. Well, well, you're the

guy, time out, time out. How it actually happened was Kyle messaged

me. We had played at the Brew a couple of times, and he

said, you know, we're looking shopping around for a bass player. Would

you be interested in filling in if we have any shows coming up? And

I said, yeah, sure, I don't mind filling in. I'm not

really in any projects, like, let me know. And he's like he's

like, all right, great, solid. Well, after a while,

you know, they said, hey, we have a gig coming up.

Do you want to fill in? And I said yeah, So I came

through for a few practices to practice for the gig, and then eventually it

was just like, yep, you're the guy we want. You're right.

So it's nice when you know, when it's organic like that. Yeah,

then it's when it's easy to put a band together like that, then you

know you've really got something. You know, well, and yeah, my

introduction story to these two over here or it's like, I'm not really a

big fake guy. But the amount of pieces that had to go together in

order to make this introduction happen was super random. It was at the time

I was in another college band called Night Visions, and we had hosted a

show in our college apartment basement at some point. And at the time one

of was my brothers. I'd say, a friend from middle school his name

was Brenner, happened to see that I was a drummer and like just turd

through the grape vine for that I was able to play drums. And then

it was a random January day where it's I had never really interacted with him

much, but he just like hit me up on Snapchat out of the blue.

But just like, hey, I was looking to start up a new

project, would you be interested to go play drums on it? And at

the time, for I was I love playing with my college band, but

also like I was open to experimenting with new styles. Yeah, and like

my college band was more of a I wouldn't say like scripted, but more

of that, Like it's kind of like a set party. Were playing with

these guys. It was like the first time I played with them at Dargan

Hall. We just went off on a whole like twenty minute jam session for

just making stuff up. We went on a journey. The first song we

jammed out together was called lock me in the cupboard their first original jam.

And it's kind of funny because that first session was January February twenty fourth of

twenty twenty three. Do you know the time too, Probably around six o'clock

and I was definitely wearing this jacket. Wow, all right, Yeah,

for context, this is Sean's outfit every day the time. At least change

my shirt. It's a good look every once in a while. Excuse me,

it's too bad that people can't see it. You look like you stepped

out of the time the listeners where Sewan looks like he was just born in

the wrong generation, travel straight out of the sixties, right right, Well,

actually the shirt though, is not that unlike Ryan's shirt. There just

no just so you guys can have matching jackets, then we could go full

sixties, get the haircuts sewn and the crowleys. Now do you guys play

out a lot? Are you? Are you playing out every week or how

often? We wish? Yeah? Well, actually in May we are playing

every weekend for the most part. Yeah, it comes in bursts. Yeah,

So we have three shows coming up in May. We have a show

May fourth at Sammy's Patio down and Revere. Then The weekend after on May

eleventh, we're playing at Strange Brew Tavern home Turf. And then the weekend

after that, on May eighteenth, we're opening porch fests down in Malden,

Okay. Now, what is that porch Fest? Is that a big multi

day thing. No, it's just a small one day festival. Starts at

noon. We'll be playing noon to one. It's put on by the Porch

Juke Joint Okay down in Malden Medford area, and they set it up outside

and it's kind of a free event for the public. They actually partner with

the City of Malden to put it on. Oh cool, cool, very

cool. Do you guys ever, do you ever do anything acoustic or is

it always electric? Because it seems like your music would you know you could?

You could probably play in a lot of different configurations. I'm the big

acoustic guy over here. I mean, we love to play some hog blues.

That's a that's a genre we created where we get some acoustic guitars and

we just kind of have some fun. Well, it's less of a genre

and more of our unique style. He knows all the all the cool chords

and I kind of just pick out melodies by ear. Yeah, one plays

me from the ear. He has no idea what music theory is, but

it's actually incredible. Like he listens to so much music so he just picks

it up by ear. And I'm the opposite. I really like to study.

I teach guitar too. It's great. I like to study all that.

So it kind of works very well when we play together. Yeah,

because I could do something that's decently cool and then he could tell me what

it is that I did, and then I'll be like, oh, yeah,

yeah, okay, I can relate to Like I don't know any theory

I can, so I can I can relate. I also I played by

ear, yeah, and I can never understand. But I'm not good at

math, and I think that's I think that's why because it is math,

right, I mean basically it's like math. And how long do you guys

play when you when you do a set? Because I would imagine again with

these songs, you know you can you can kind of open them up and

let them breathe do you do you have you done like multi hour sets or

so typically when we are the only band playing that night. So for example,

it's strange brew the last gig we had at Strange Brew February fifteenth,

we were the only band there. Same with the Gate coming up on May

eleventh. We usually play about three hours. Wow, yeah, no kidding.

I play a full three hour set, two sets with like a fifteen

to twenty minute break in between. Yeah. Yeah, oh that's really good.

Is it all originals? Do you do any Do you throw some covers

in there? Or there's plenty of covers? Yeah? Are there? We

we like our covers. Yeah. Yeah. You know, some of these

guys keep saying like, oh, well, we can't be a cover bands,

you know, we got to do originals. And I always keep saying

there's way too many good songs out there to not play well. It's kind

of goes back to what Sean was saying about the idea behind the whole Loaf

name for in, just like our inclusive vibe that we have, it's we

still want to be able to mix in for those covers, right as well

as the originals. Yeah yeah, no, that makes sense. And is

it challenging with five of you in the band? Is it? Is it

challenging in terms of scheduling like getting together for rehearsals and booking shows and whatnot.

Is that actually where it goes all We all chip in a little bit

on getting show is doing all kind of all that kind of work. But

we have set days where we practice. Yep. I wouldn't say it's too

much of a struggle. We rehearsed twice a week consistently. If someone is

out one of those days, typically the rest of the guys will do something

whether it's recording or rehearsal with one less person and then ask for shows.

Those usually work out pretty good too, Yeah, yeah, good, And

it goes back we acustic thing too, Like we're hosting an open jam in

Nashua and it's just gonna be the two of us meet and Kyle at the

Kaba Bar. Yep, oh very good. Well, when it comes to

gigs where it's we don't, I would say we don't operate in Let's find

a day convenient for us and then we'll figure out our schedule. It's more

we get offered a day and we'll cancel everything else that's going off to go.

Yeah, yeah, yes, that is accurate. There you go,

there you go. Oh and how did you how did you get we we

ended up not Jenny and I weren't able to stay for your set that night.

But you guys played at the Midnight I never got the name right,

Midnight Creators Collective, Midnight Creators Collective. Thank you. Yeah, Eleanor is

amazing, She's she's doing a great job with that. But how did you

guys get involved with that, with with playing that? Uh that show?

We didn't play that show. We didn't play that show. We were just

there. We got invited. Oh I thought you guys played that night.

No, no, no, no, just visiting. We got offered.

It was all because of Greg He. I honestly don't know his last name.

I wish I did, but he is the proprietor of the Kava Bar

down in Ashua. Rude Awakening Kava Bar. Check it out. It's a

very interesting spot. We played there a couple of times, and we're we're

doing a reoccurring open mic now month. Oh okay, it's the last Saturday

of every month, So come down and either play with us or play by

yourself. Pretty much, do whatever you want. Yeah, yeah, you're

not, you're not gonna We're not We're not sour dough. People were very

friendly. Yeah yeah, but but yeah, Greg, he's the owner there,

and he mentioned how Eleanor was the main investor trying to get something going

in the Nashuay area. And then another friend of ours, who's actually he

takes lessons from Kyle, Mike McDowell offered sent us like a Facebook thing inviting

us to it, and I said, hey, we should go check it

out. See if it's beneficial. See what's going on there. Yeah,

it's Yeah, it's a cool. It's a cool space. We should.

We can play another song if you guys want to pick something. Uh,

what's uh do you have? Do you have the list? Let's see we've

got do I see the way I was thinking Pink Gypsy? Maybe? Oh

yeah, good one? Did we did we send them New Canaan Blues.

No, that's disappointing. Yeah, but I do have Pink Gypsy. Yeah,

pink Gypsy. Yeah. And uh now this is one of the basement

recordings. Yes, eat, yeah, okay cool? Kyle and I wrote

this one right most part yeah, and this one. And I'll say too

for saying like playing wise for the take that we got from that we sent

in for this take, it wasn't perfect for like there there there are a

few little mistakes here there, But like the mixing engineer has to has to

say that, you don't don't tell them that, Charlie, you can say

that, you could say that, just don't tell them the time. Sam,

I'm just saying this gives you a taste of our more like raw.

Like this was just a one take, like we just hit record and went

for it. All right, cool, This was the This was a standard

Tuesday night for us, all right, So we'll get a sample of the

whole loaf on a standard Tuesday night. Here it is. This is pig

gypsy. Let's check it out. Dance up to dote your music. Say

man, you pose me? Tell joy put on the side of the wall.

Bensun said he was inside besides being maybe got a play a man downside,

got a past, kill your weather, what about your money? Down

the dog head? His name is ware but you bet you and went up

and see said it. That's the mo the gas. We can still a

grass on the scremy down in the middle of the road. The baby a

the mask in the way that's look at both plays to his name all down

the Mexico your go with the son of Pico. Sid came in on the

given say hey, by what mother saying? I want you gain the ad

the head guy he loved men that ain't too coold? Hold no man was

trying to bands plays most burning fine, Why don't you June man man man

jesuit? Won't you go with them? Got my stuff? I'm my girl.

God b gets on a week and here on the road. Make it

pretty far up. Then you don't believe in me. God gets up.

I can play game, don't you want? I still got that jazz met

at a time? All right? That is uh? I think gypsy very

good. That is the whole loaf in studio with us. No, I

like that a lot. And I was saying off air, you get a

really good recording there in the in the basement there, So that's no,

that's really good. Guys. We're we're The time goes quickly before we run

out of time at the end of the hour, and we'll finish off with

one more song. We won't be able to fit the whole thing, but

well we'll play a little something at the end. But what should people know

about? Where to find you online? How to keep up with everything that

you're doing? Website, social media, all of that, so we have

our own website, beautifully crafted by yours truly, it's www dot thewhole loaf

dot net. Don't forget the www because I might have screwed up some DNS

settings by accident. Sean Crawley, Sean Crowley, everyone, I'm here all

day. Actually I'm here for the next ten minutes. Are you Are you

serious about the DNS settings? I'm a web designer, so I'm just curious.

I'm yeah, the geek and me is like, what Google domains?

Just switch to Squarespace and our site doesn't come up if you don't put the

WWW. Really, yeah, I still have to look into that. I

just haven't had the time. Weird, Yeah, but we know. What's

funny about it is because anybody who knows me knows, so I always cringe

when I hear people say the www, like I hear it in radio ads

still in the year twenty twenty four, and I'm like why, And I've

been saying that for twenty years, So I was kind of thinking that when

you were saying it, But now that you've explained why you have to do

that, it makes sense. But it's also like, wow, that's so

weird. Yeah, I can. I have Google to think. Wow,

well, I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah, I have a couple of

minutes during the day. John's really broken up about it. Yeah I am.

Yeah, he hasn't slept in days. Oh, it would frust it

would frustrate me to no end. I'd be like, I wouldn't sleep ever

again until I hadn't figured out. I'd be so I'd be so upset.

It's a one who hasn't written a song about it yet, to be honest,

Oh, I have don't start anyway. Our other socials besides the Whole

Loaf dot net, you could find us on Instagram and TikTok at the dot

Whole Loaf. That's it. Facebook, I believe is the Whole Loaf.

Ryan can probably confirm that for me that would be confirmed. Yes, YouTube

as well as the Whole Loaf, and I don't know what else we have.

We're on Spotify, we have Halifax Blues and Left Turnout, and we'll

be releasing some more music shortly. Yeah, it's all the music are is

on all major streaming services far as we use one of those distribution services for

it. Make sure that all the songs get released everywhere. Excellent. More,

I would say, if you'd have to pick one to go to for

it's the Instagram and our bio. We have a link tree that will redirect

you to all of our other associated websites. So that's probably the easiest way

to get to know the whole loaf. Yea more importantly too, if you

go to our website and you go under I want to say it's media and

you go on archive Media, archive sessions, it is. I'm looking at

it. I'm looking at it right now. If you to Media archives sessions,

that's pretty much everything we've ever done, every practice, every practice,

every gig, everything we record everything we've ever done. Wow, So you

can scroll through, pick a random thing and you can see everything that we

play during that practice or what have you, gig whatever. Yeah, yeah,

no, actually sorry, it's it's it's recordings, not sessions. So

it's media. Yeah, radio and Sean. How many recordings did we are

we at? Now? Oh, dear god. So as I said,

we're at four hundred and sixty eight originals and the recordings themselves covers the originals.

All the session stuff is well over a thousand. I lost track.

Yeah, I'm looking at the page Yeah, it's got Each one has the

date, rehearsal at Charlie's house, rehearsal at Kyle's house. Yeah. Wow,

I'm a this is cool. It's really cool to do that. And

if you and then if you click into the date, it gives you the

set list, and then if you click each song in the set list,

it will bring you to a Google page to play it. Oh my god.

Wow. So you can hear all of our music for free on our

website. So not only can you see the evolution of how songs develop over

time, but we also include what they're called like intermission snippets, but also

just some of the fun like banter moments. Yeah, we have in practice,

those are treats. Oh that's awesome. No, good for you guys,

Good for you for doing that. Thank you. I went to the

the reason I pulled up the website on the browsers. I was like,

I gotta test this, and sure, I typed in the whole loaf dot

net. Nothing happened. It said not secure or something. I put in

the WWW and it took me right to it. Yeah, I'm just I

just have to go in and set up a redirect. But we don't even

have a Squarespace account yet, so I'm gonna have to create that, yeah,

to access the domain again and then make the edits do some surgery.

That's crazy that you have to do that. And I've been putting it off

because I want to wait until I have time to actually sit down and go

through all of the I'm essentially going to be exploring a completely new platform from

scratch, so I want to make sure I do it thoroughly rather than yeah,

I can relate to that, because I'm the same way with stuff like

that. It's like I'll have something that I really want to do, like

something like this would be driving me nuts, But at the same time,

it's like, but I need to find time where I can just sit uninterrupted

for what could potentially be several hours. Ye and and so it's that battle

that goes on in my mind. It's like, oh, I really got

to get this done because this is killing me. But I got to wait

for a time when I can really dig into it because I know it's going

to be so I can I can relate and instead of just going to like

a provider that could do it for us, or it's I think as we

want to take the time to get the experience of like figuring out how all

these pieces come together. And we also have an idea too, it's we're

also interested in starting up a record label, too Bad Records. Being able

to have all these tools and disposal would be cool to have for we venture.

Yeah, definitely. What's it gonna be called? Unslice? Mind?

I think you said, well, the whole loaf can't be on sliced,

right right? Gotcha, There's no point in putting it back together, I

gotcha. We just have a couple. Well, here a little bit of

U should we do black and white radio? Black and white? I don't

know why I said black and white radio? Obviously it's just black and white?

You want? You want to do our garage floors? Yeah? Well

this is going to be our next next single. I don't state yet,

but this is it and the B side is going to be fullsome Prison Blues.

Kidding one is garage floors, Jack codges very cool. I didn't write

full Someome Prison right right right? Anybody's wondering I got to mention that one's

a cover. You didn't tell me that. How long has this been going

on? Well, guys, thank you so much. This has been wonderful.

It's great to meet all of you and have you in and I've really

enjoyed the discussion. I'm a big fan of your music, and so thank

you for coming in today. Thank you for having us, absolutely, thank

you very much. You man. Before we get off the air, man,

I wanted to give you our first official piece of band merch. Some

stickers. Oh, very for you and two for Jen who unfortunately couldn't be

here in the studio. Yeah, thank you, Yeah, of course,

very nice, very nice. I appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah, she's

got Fox and the Flamingos gave us a couple of stickers too, and I

was saying, you know, Jenny, she likes to put stickers on her

laptop. Perfect, She's got stickers all over them, so she'll love those.

Yeah, thank you very much, thank you, thank you for having

us again. Absolutely, and we'll leave you with a little bit of garage

floors from the whole loaf. Thanks again, guys, Thank you. Sas

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