Matt Connarton Unleashed: Wired For Sound

And we have a great musical guest with us here. Wired for Sound is in the studio. Welcome everybody. How you doing good? Good? Let's see we will start. Let's start with you at the news desk if you want to tell us who you are and what you do in the band. Him. My name's Jessica, and I play guitar and I'm a lead vocalist, all right. And on the couch, I'm Megan. I played bass guitar and I sing backup vocals. Okay, my name is Joe, and I am the drummer. All right, no vocals for you. Nope, I used to, and then Megan joined the band, so now she took all my vocals away.

Yeah. Now I understand, by the way, the reason I chose that track tell me that's I think that's my favorite. I really like all the songs, but I think that's my favorite of what you sent me. It's really good. I find myself kind of the drum part. I'm not a drummer, but I find myself tapping along really really good stuff. And I don't know if you all know this, but you've come up. Your name has come up on the show before, because um, it was a number of weeks ago, I had a Fredo and Axel from Dank Sinatra We're on the show.

Yeah yeah, And and Axel on the show, he was wearing a Wired for Sound shirt. Somebody, you know, because the show's also on Facebook, somebody was asking, you know what what that was, and um, I was not aware of you guys yet, and uh so Fredo's like, that's Wired for Sound man, and Axel's like, yeah, yeah, wired for Sound. So, uh they told us about you, and so I think that's I think when Jenny booked you for for Today, I think that's where we first learned of you. Was was from those guys. Um so um great stuff.

I mean, it's it's kind of punk, but it's also I think it's got a little bit of a grunge vibe. You know. The guitars are nice and heavy, which I like, you know, um, sometimes with a lot of punk bands, the guitars aren't, you know. I mean, I like loud guitars, you know, I like, uh, I like when when it's when the guitars are up from but also, you know, this kind of a little bit of a nineties grunge vibe too, and uh no, really really great. And Joe you were saying offer, you were telling me that you record did everything that you sent?

Was it all recorded in in your living room? Yeah? I do all the engineering and we do all the all the track recording in the living room, and then we send it off to a friend of ours, Corey Holiday, and he does the mix and master. Okay, have you've done it that way from the beginning with this band, not from the very beginning, but very close, you know, only we only tried one album in a studio and it really didn't work out because the found in studios, the engineer in the studio wants to put his information in and because it's his studio, it's hard to say no.

So we made our own studio. What do you mean, like the engineer was trying to, Well, they have their opinions and they want to do like they pushed auto tune on Jess, and Jess does not want her voice auto tune. We said at the beginning no, And at the end of it, he was like, oh, well, you know, you really should use auto tune. It's a lot of easier and you know, basically wasn't giving us it. Told us we had to use it. And it's it's something we're very against auto tuning Jess's voice because she doesn't really need it, you know.

Yeah, yeah, well i'd be weird too anyway for what you're doing. You know. That is why you cannot find that album online anywhere, because we erased it in CD form in their living room. But that's it. Yeah yeah, and I think you took the last copy, so it's basically non existent. Really yeah? Did it? Did it sound really strange? Yeah? It was horrible, horrible that it was just one of those as soon as you hear the first part of the first song. You know, it's a local band, and you know, I like to have I don't like like that because it's not full enough, you know what I mean, Like I just I like little bund Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

You don't want it to sound like a demo. You want it to sound exactly. Yeah. Um, did did those songs? Do those songs live on from that album? Do you still or or did you end up just nope, We don't play any of those songs any longer. Wow, yeah, we kind of It's like, um, it was like our freshman you know, we first formed with those songs, so it was very you know, um it seemed uh not as we hadn't really found ourselves. Yeah, you know, a lot of experimentation. Yeah, yeah, so we kind of outgrew it. Yeah, you know, and our stuff now is a lot better.

Okay, yeah, what about it? I mean in terms of the vibe and the style of the music. Did that did that also change or did the songs just get better? The song's got better? Yeah, and um, you know, I different different instruments and um like types of equipment, you know, pedals, you know, as far as that sound, yeah, it changed. But also we grew um stronger together playing and rehearsing. Yeah. So yeah, just finding our you know, our own sound. And okay, has it always been the three of you? No, No, I'm pretty new.

Actually I joined about a year and a half ago. Okay, okay, Um, were you in a band before? Yeah, I've been in a few bands, and that's actually how I first met Joe and Jess. Okay, I think both the bands I was in at the time, I think would play with with you guys. So then I met them and I knew them casually, and then when their bassists left, they wanted They asked me if I would come jam, okay, and I said I would, And here we are. What band were you in before our bands? Because what went? It's funny when you walked in.

There's something familiar about you. I've I've seen you in some somewhere. Yeah. I was in the band Marvel Prone for about four years. Oh we wait? Were you here? Did I interview you? No? Okay, okay, because I I had Marvel Prone on the show. But okay, I might have, but I might have seen you online with them in a in a picture of something. Okay, yeah, that might be where I know you're from. Four years. Wow. Yeah, no, it was a really long time. It was about time. I was about twenty yeah, until I'm twenty five now and round a year ago, maybe a little under a year ago, so it was a long time.

Yeah yeah wow. So what happened to the previous bass player? He quit? Just quit? Yeah. Yeah. We had some health issues and oh you know that's that's not fun. Yeah. Yeah, it was sad to see him go. You know, he was with us for four years. Oh wow. Okay, So it was me and Jess. We met in another band and um, we didn't like the direction that the band that we met and was going so we branched off from that and made Wired for Sound. Oh okay, and then we picked up like six months later, we picked up Justin, who was our old Bassis.

He had just quit his band and we'd seen him play a couple of times and we said, hey, you're a good Bassis. It's a shame you're in another band. And he says, well, actually I'm not anymore. And so he started playing with us, and he was with us for four years. He booked all our shows, he did all our social media. Yeah, he was a big part of the band and um, and then it just got to the point where it just our our level of commitment wasn't for him anymore and um, and he said I'm done. Yeah yeah, yeah, um wow.

So now do you play out a lot every weekend? Yeah? Yeah, that's good. That's good. And it's probably with a three piece, it's it's probably a little easier. Like I've been in bands where you know, it's like four or five people, and sometimes it's hard when you're trying to play out a lot and you've got to work around everybody's schedule. But obviously a smaller band, you know, with just three of you. It's probably not not as difficult I would imagine. So you're able to play out play out a lot. Yeah, Um, that's good.

Um do you I mean busy summer, then I would assume some are some are the busiest time as far as live shows. Yeah, yeah, i'd say so for sure. We've Yeah, we've been playing like almost every weekend. That's excellent. Yeah, we're books straight through until September. Yeah. Wow, Yeah, very cool. Are there other bands in the area that you kind of team up with? You know, sometimes bands find other bands that they play a lot of shows with, and Um, we go through little spurts with certain bands, like we'll play like like I think we've got like two or three shows coming up with Thanks and Now.

Yeah, we've played We've played with them a few other times too, so I think they definitely are one Thanks and Natra. We're playing with Johnny Earthquake for a while. We had a lot of a pretty good stretch of shows where we were playing with him. Yep, twenty five cent Habit. Yeah, we played with them a few times. Um, Max Boris we play with a lot. Yeah, they're out he's out of Boston. Okay, cool, cool. Um do you have I mean, how long a set do you do? Because obviously, you know, the band has been around for a while.

I mean not you know, not necessarily this lineup, but the band's been around for a while. Do you have a lot of a lot of tunes? We have like forty really wow. So we have two big pieces of post aboard up on our wall, and we have all our songs listed. Some of them, like you know, the first ones we wrote we don't play anymore, but they're still up there. And um, you know it's like we play a standard forty five minutes set on shows. Yeah, but it's never enough because we never get to play all the songs.

Yeah, when we practice, we practice like a lot of our songs, but they don't always make They never all make the set ever, right, right. It's a good problem to have in a way, though, to have so much music. You know. That's uh, that's really good. I would say confidently we could cover a three hour set, no kidding, yeah, wow, with with all originals. Oh yeah, that's that's really good. That's really good. Um. Yeah, I noticed too some of your songs, I mean some of them are at least a couple of them that we have here are are approaching five minutes, you know, between four and a half to five minutes, which is kind of unusual for a band in your genre.

You know, the songs tend to be shorter. I mean, have you always had songs that are are more than four minutes or it seems like that's our kind that's our time for yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's like not even on purpose. It was for me when we first started recording, like I'm looking at the mixing board and our songs are this long. I mean it doesn't feel like it's that long, but yeah, when we started recording, we realized like our songs are generally over four minutes. Yeah, like that. We have a few that are like three minutes, um, and it just seems like it's not long enough.

It's like, wow, that was fast. Yeah yeah, no, that's interesting. Um And like I said, for the genre that you're working in, it's unusual, which you know, it kind of helps you stand out in a way. So that's that's cool. Now do you get out of as far as shows you you get out of New Hampshire a lot. You you play in Boston or where we play in Boston quite often you're playing Boston Saturday. Yeah, excellent, Oh, no, getting very cool, that's awesome. Yeah. We play in Maine a lot. Um, yeah, so main Maine, New Hampshire and mass Yeah, generally where and we want to get outside of there, but you know, with our jobs in our lives, just trying to find two weeks where we can just go across the country and play different clubs.

It is rather tummy. Yeah, coming, we'd like to go to the West Coast and see how we fare out there, see what they think about Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Well let's uh, let's play another track. Um uh, but I'll let you I'll let you pick what what what should uh? What should we play? What do you guys think? Well, off of Choke, this is our our album called our EP called Choke. Okay, these are all from that. We should play Wicked, Wicked? Yeah all right, cool, Well we'll play that. Um and I think this is one of the longer ones too, if I remember correctly, so I think it is, yeah, which is cool?

Yeah, all right, very cool. So this is uh, this is Wicked. We have the band Wired for Sound with us alive in studio. This is from their EP choke. Check this out and then we're gonna we're gonna chat for for a bit more. Here we go pay out. Why don't you come over? You know, really like your teams. Don't think you just go with the feeling. Pay you. I want to taste yours.

You take the well me you make MiNet. You have to be scared.

This doesn't have to be just feeling in the mound. Man, this doesn't love me love. Hey, why don't you come closer? You know I really like yourtas. Don't think it just got to feel like hell. I need to chant your laugh. You take a broad bad you make my heart beat. You don't have to be scar This doesn't have to be just stop hearing in my mind. Man, this doesn't have to be love. I love the ending of that. It's really well done with that's really cool. That is wicked. The band is wired for sound and we have Jess, Megan and Joe all hear it with us in studio and what a great track.

And you know, listening to that, it's um. It's I mean, you guys call yourselves as far as genre, you call yourselves punk, right, yeah, okay, because I feel like it's um Yeah, it's it's pretty sophisticated. It's um. You know, when you first listen to it, it sounds it sounds simple, It kind of sounds like it might be a three chord thing. But then you get into the song and you realize, I mean, especially during that solo, you know, your bassline really comes through because there's only you know, it's it's not like you've got multiple guitars going right, so you can really hear your bass, which is a really sophisticated bass line.

Thank you, and and Jess, your solo is really good, so you know, obviously you can really play, you know, it's not like it's not like musicians who were just kind of winging it, like you know, you know what. So there's a sophistication there. And and the double bass you don't usually hear that in punk or grune, so that really elevates it too. That's unusual, and that gives it a little extra heavy and that's really good. And that ending with what you do at the end, at the ending of that song with the drums, it's just amazing.

So it's really kind of um, it's uh, you know what, you know, if you want to call it punk or grunge or whatever it's it's yeah, that's where you'd put it, but but it's more sophisticated than that, and I think I think that's what makes it so good. That's that's just my sort of my music critic. Well, thank you assessment of it. Yeah, no, really, I mean the songs are really good. Did you did you do double bass from the beginning in this band or is that something where you just kind of started to bring that in.

No, I've always played the double kick pedal. Yeah. It was one of those things where it was like when I started playing with Jess, she wasn't real big fan it first. Really, yea double bass is part of me, and if you want me as your drummer, double bass will exist. Yeah yeah, you know you had to be talked into it, Yess. Yeah for sure. Um, I just I just was aiming toward more of the punk grunge. Yeah, and I'm not necessarily metal, right right, So, I mean wind first sound is like a sprinkle of each of our yeah tastes.

Yeah. Yeah, so I'm more than nineties grunge type and Joe's more metal. Yeah, so I'm literally right in between. Yeah, I'm big into metal I always have been. But I'm also really big on nineties music, yeah, grudge music. So yeah, it's like a nice happy medium. I feel like I'm sort of like both yep. So like we just compromised, like, yeah, all right, so maybe not through the whole song, right, let's not ruin it. Well that's true. I mean it's tasteful, you're you're restrained with it. It's not like you're yeah, you're not pounding the double bass the whole time.

So it's yeah, yeah, so that works. That was part of the trick was getting it to be where it wasn't overwhelming the song, right. Yeah. So now I find myself saying double bass would sound really good. So it's kind of become our thing. Yeah, yeah, that's cool, I'm sure, and I'm sure other people notice too, Like when you're playing films with other bands. I'm sure I'm sure people come up and say, wow, that's unusual. But but it works. It works, It works really well. What about the songwriting, do you all write together or it just does a lot?

It just like gives us a show and then we we kind of we do our best at it. But most of the writing that's really where it's at yeah, yeah, including lyrics. Did you write all the lyrics? Yeah? Is there any kind of a theme or are there are there certain common themes that come up a lot? Or what's your approach to the lyrics? Um? I mostly write about um, you know, personal experiences, UM, whatever I'm going through at the moment at that time. Yeah, you know, um, you know yeah, Yeah, I grew up a little rough, so did you.

Yeah, so a lot of it has some of that in there too. Yeah. Yeah. Is I assume the band is a great way to, you know, if you had a rough upbringing um to kind of is it like therapy in a way, because because I always say, you know, anything that you whether it's a rough childhood or whatever it is that you're going through in life, anything anything negative that's challenging, you know, the best way to deal with it is to do something positive with it by creating something. And I think that's what draws most people to art, whatever kind of art it is, whether it's music or painting or whatever it is.

You know, it's it's a way to to take things that you've experienced that might drag you down, but you don't let them drag you down. Instead you create. Yes, yeah, I mean a lot of you know, different problems I've had. You know, music has been my way of getting through it. Yeah, yeah, for sure, Yeah, no doubt. Um. And so the EP is called show. Yeah is this is this your first? Um? Oh no, you did the the Well there's the original album right that that we don't there's Catharsis is also on um, on iTunes and okay, Spotify and it's everywhere.

It's wired for Sound New Hampshire. Is how you access it? Okay? Or Whired for Sound any h? I'm sorry? And is that a full length or is that? Well? Okay, So Catharsis we did with justin our last bass player okay, yeah. Um. Originally that EP came about because we signed up for the RPM Challenge. Ah, yes, I've I've had a lot of guests on the show. We've done that. Yeah yeah, we didn't actually complete it in time. So um, as a result of us writing so hard to try to do that, Catharsis was born. Oh no kidding, Oh that's cool.

That's cool. Um. And why what goes into the decision to do EPs? Because you know, we live in a time where you've got so many different is because of the Internet. Like when I was growing up, it was, you know, most artists, you know, they release an album or an EP, but usually a full album. EPs were kind of rare, you know, release an album and then go on tour and then release another album eventually and go on tour. It. Now you've got because of the Internet, you've got all these different options.

Uh. Some some artists just do singles, you know, or they'll even put out a series of singles that eventually become an EP or eventually become a full album. But but they're kind of feeding the machine as they go. Um at what goes into the decision for the three of you to release an EP. I feel like it is just attentions, ye, short attentions then in general, and it is people don't you know, no one really listens to albums anymore. And whether that that's a good or bad thing. I mean, I like albums personally, but I mean I don't think everyone necessarily should have to listen to a full album.

They don't want to. Yeah, so it's almost like you get to do an album without having to do an album in a way, you know what I mean? In between Yeah, Yeah, the first in the beginning, it was because we didn't have enough songs. Yeah, sure, sure we were. We could barely play a show in the beginning, like we had to do like a bunch of covers with it. But yeah, and then from there it was just you know, attention spans, like nobody, nobody wants to put, you know, listen to a full length album anymore. It's just too too much for them.

Yeah. I think some people probably do, but but the majority in dwindling numbers. Yeah, yeah, that's true. I mean we're we're kind of spoiled in that sense too. We live in an era where you can just listen to anything you want to at any time, and uh, you know, if you are listening to a full album, if you get tired of it and you want to listen to something else, you can and it's very easy to access whatever. Yeah, we're recording now, and we're kind of talking about possibly doing one at a time and then making it into like an EP or something like that.

Yeah, so we haven't really decided yet, but we're just gonna try to get through the recording first. Yeah. Yeah, if you already started it, you've already started. We've got one song completed. Yeah, and more than one, can't we got broken and just nothing? Oh yeah, yeah, okay, all right, technically we have three recorded, okay, and same process I assume in the in the living room and yeah yeah yeah, well we just got recently got a vocal booth. Oh cool. Yeah, we set it right up in there. It's really cool because it gives you privacy, you know, it's nice.

Yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Well, let's uh yeah, let's hear another track. I'll let I'll let y'all pick again. Uh what should I play next? Um?

Yes, well I like that one a lot too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I like this a lot. Um. I have to ask Jess with a title like that is a lot of meaning to this one. Yeah, this one's uh, this one's a personal one. Okay, okay, gotcha. Um, let's give this a listen. So this is suffering silence from a Wired for sound who are here with us live in studio. We'll check this out and then we'll and then we'll see you on the other side. She live, Hello, lone still remember all love that time they will get Superside Lass, Superside Lass superside As super It is sid

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super side As, super super And if you're just joining us, we have in studio with us the band Wired for Sound. We've been talking and playing some music from their EP Choke. Y'all were talking while the song was on about you've got a show coming up at the Shaft Skene. We should make sure people know about that. Yeah, we are playing the Shaft Skene August twenty six. We'll be playing with two Boston bands, Andrew Queen and Gretchen Shay in the middle eight. Okay, okay, both there female fronted bands and they are great, excellent, excellent.

Now, we were talking before the song about you're working on some some new music that you're recording. Do you have any kind of any eta on that. When when that's going to be out or probably probably a while right, it's pretty early in the process, I would imagine. Yeah, I mean, if we had to shoot for a planet, would be probably by the end of winter. Okay, okay, so it'll be a while. How long is um, how long has Choke been out? Twenty twenty? I think it came out it was that it was it was twenty It was like twenty twenty two winter.

Yeah. Oh okay, yeah, so that one's still fairly recent. Okay, Um, Joe, I wonder if you experience, uh, because you were off by two years, I wonder, I wonder, I wonder if you experienced that sort of COVID time distortion that I experienced and that a lot of people seem to experience, where it seems like like things seem like they were either longer ago than they actually were or not as long ago as they actually were. I feel like the pandemic just it like disrupted the whole h spacetime continuum.

Yeah, I mean everything just went on pause. You know. Yeah, it's crazy. So yeah, to mention, we had like we went through like two bass players during that recording, and you know, yeah, it didn't come out un till Megan was in the band. Yeah. Yeah, that's true, that's true. Yeah, all right, Oh so you had two bass players before Megan, Well, I mean they weren't they were like, oh, I got you, I got you. Um now what was so was the audition process like or did was there an audition process or Megan did you just did you just join or did you have to audition or I mean it wasn't really formal like that.

I kind of just came over on the premise to like jam yeah yeah, and they were like, so, yeah, would you want to like join the band if Sean? I don't know, because at the time, I think it was still sort of up in the air about whether or not Sean was going to be like a full member quote unquote or just a fill in. Yeah. Yeah, So basically I kind of joined on the premise that like when Sean couldn't do something, I would do it. Then they just liked me better. I mean, she's just awesome. She's a great bass player, and yeah, you know, we just like her.

She's awesome. Well and she does backing vocals, right yeah, well yeah yeah, And everybody says it who you know knows us and stuff, like they're like just with Megan and the harmonies, it's just it kicks us up another notch. Yeah yeah. Are there any live performances online? Like if I go on YouTube, do you have anything up there or any videos. Everybody's making videos. Yeah, you should go on Instagram for stuff like that. Okay, Facebook, I am just I don't keep up on YouTube as much, but I'm gonna work on it.

We do have a professionally done music video for No Way Out on YouTube. Oh okay, okay, yeah cool, it's funny. I was talking with somebody on the show recently, I forget who. It was, one of our musical guests, and we were talking about how some people have a misconception that nobody makes videos anymore because it's been so long since MTV really played videos, and and it's it's actually the opposite, like there's more music videos than ever because you know, if you don't have a music video on YouTube, but it's almost like people look at you funny, like, what, you haven't made a video yet.

Well, to be fair, the means of making a video pretty much at everyone's disposal all the time now true. Yeah, yeah, So it's like it doesn't surprise me. I feel like content is you know, people talk about and content generation and stuff like that, Like it makes total sense to me that there is a you know, a plethora of videos and other media available online just because I mean we all, you know, our phones can do most of it. Oh yeah yeah, so yeah, I think that's pretty It's kind of cool in a way.

I feel like it opens up a whole new realm of like possibility for you know, music and media and stuff like that. Oh. Absolutely absolutely. And what's so the video that you do have? It's what's the song No Way Out? Is that? What if I'm looking for it? Yeah? That yeah, No Way Out? It's it's the song off Catharsis. Okay, okay? Cool? Is that now? Is that something you you made with someone who's did you do it yourselves? Or was that because you said it was a professionally done video or I mean it wasn't like super professional it's um mister Goodbar's studios.

Yes, yeah, no him, Well he's been on the show multiple times. Actually, friend Timothy um did it for us, Timothy Thorpe. Yeah, yeah, very cool, very cool. Yeah he's um. Oh, Shane Ballen was and recently and because mister Goodbars said produced, do you guys do you know Shane Ballen local singer songwriter? Yeah yeah, yeah he just he just played solos, but yeah, really good, such a great voice. Um, but yeah, mister Goodbars, I produced at least one, maybe more, of some of the tracks of his that we've recently played on the show.

So it sounds like he's been doing a lot um used to be in sepsis, of course, I don't think he still is. Yeah, yeah, I don't know what happened there. They lost like yeah, yeah, yeah, well they they've reformed, They've got a whole new lineup now and actually they just released a video for their song bleed Lines, which is really good. So yeah, they're they're doing a lot of stuff. But yeah, they really went through a whole quite a quite a change, Yeah for sure. Oh uh, Nate Pejari or Pajerry, I'm never sure if I'm saying that right from dank Sinatra is in the chat room, Uh says, uh says, what's up?

Can't wait to have you guys at dank Fest. Yeah, yeah, what what is I see? I don't even know about dank Fast. Dank Fest is an area of twenty three and conquered. Oh okay that I know area twenty three. Well, I've had Kirk McNeil on the show, the second one. Yeah, this is the second annual, right, yeah, oh, I said it right, I said his last name right the first time. Very cool. When is that? When is dank Fest September second? Okay, we're also playing with them before that though, on the twenty fifth of August.

Right, yea and Dover. Yes, yeah, we're playing with them with the strand it's a battle of the bands. I don't really want to battle, thanks, because we're friends, but yeah, that's the way it's gonna be. Yeah, you going down. We could take the clubs off for a night. I didn't know that was still a thing. Battle of the bands. It's every once in a while there there's one, you know, like, um, what was it last year? We got invited to a battle of the bands? And yeah, in Portland it was at all liked was I think they just wanted to see us play?

Oh wow? Yeah. It was like we were one rock band in a group of just kind of jam bands and it was like we just did not fit and I was like, what were we doing here? Wowde it was extremely awkward. Yeah, it really was. Because the prize was a spot in a like a jam band festival. Yeah you know, yeah we didn't get it. We didn't get Well, it's nice it's nice to be invited though, I guess. Yeah. The venue was cool. The way they did the floor was like, um, it was all colorful and it was a it was a cool, cool floor and a nice venue.

Yeah. Yeah, it's fun to stand out though sometimes, right, Yeah, when when when you're in a situation like that, Nate says, wait, it's a battle of the bands. We didn't even know this. We didn't know until recently either prepare for battle. Um, how how far away of you guys toured in terms of playing out like you do? Get out of Hampshire obviously, as we talked about earlier, you go to Boston, you go to Maine. Have you gone further than that or I think the first two okay, yeah, and then we've been pretty far up north and Maymi and Jesse have played in Poland before, but that's you know, not any state.

We went up by bang or oh that's on there. Yeah. Oh and then form that Charlie Oo's world famous. We played out there, oh wow, yeah. Yeah. Um, do you plan to do a lot of that going forward or getting out? And it's interesting because, um, there's a lot of bands who are actually kind of doing the opposite where they're sort of limiting how much they play out. And I think a lot of it just has to do with the cost. You know, gas is a lot more expensive than it used to be and whatnot. But um, but I also think too a pre pandemic, it was like everybody just wanted to play out as much as they could, and the attitude's about that with a lot of musicians is kind of shifted.

And again, I think part of it has to do with expense. It's even like like those major bands now that are saying, you know, we're not we're not touring as extensively because it's become cost prohibitive, but it's it's to me, it's just it's such a different world because like when I was active, I used to playing a lot of bands, and I always wanted to just play, like every weekend. I just wanted to play out as much. You know, I was at one point, I was in three bands at one time, and I just wanted to because all I wanted to do was play.

But and it sounds like that's that's kind of the approach that the three of you are taking, you know, just play as much as you can, school play whatever. It's definitely labor of love. We'll just we'll play anywhere anytime. Yeah, yeah, it's awesome. I love it. You're doing any Um well you said, uh, you've got Diank Fest. You do any outdoor festivals or have you? Or oh? Yeah cool? Cool? Those are fun? Yeah that live laugh love coming up that oh in Lebanon, Lebanon, Maine and Charlie still Oh okay, I know that three day weekend.

Oh that's very cool. Yeah yeah, excellent, excellent. Um you ever opened for any uh national acts coming through the area? Have you done that yet? Or one time at Club Jewel they were a national tour he was a national touring guy. I forget his name, but um, nobody, I mean nobody bigged that you would like recognize there. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, anybody, Yeah, anybody on the list as kind of a goal that you've all talked about, anybody that you want to open for. I mean it would be cool to like open I think would fit good with like local h yeah you oh yeah you would.

I've I've seen them live yeah, really really good. Yeah. Do they are they still touring now? Though? Are they active? I mean because when a touring was Soul Asylum for a while where they Yeah, that the show. We had tickets to the show and it got canceled and a little while now. Oh okay, I saw them in Boston like ten years ago. Uh, they were really good. It wasn't the same drummer though, different drummer. Yeah, they didn't have a different drummer when we saw them a few years ago. Yeah, yeah, but really good.

But yeah, you would fit really well. I really want to play with I really want to play with Scissor Fight, which is not They're not so much. They're more like Boston Big you know, it's not really like world renowned. But I'd love Scissor Fight and Sissor Fight play with us. Yes, I'd love to play with the Deaf Tones. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt. Yeah, yeah, Scissor Fight too. They only um, they only occasionally, yeah reunite, right, They don't really play out as much anymore. Yeah for sure. Like, yeah, I've only seen I've seen him like once or twice, not even that many times because they don't really play that much.

Yeah. Yeah, but the bass player of Scissor Fight, my um my boyfriend is friends with and he lives in the same town as him. Yeah, like he kind of knows him, so then I kind of know them and I see them and they'll say hi, and I'm like, oh, yeah, hi, I do know you a little bit. Yeah. I like that song New Hampshire is all right if you like fight ain't. I've played that on the show. I had to make a radio edit of it because it's a bad word, but great stuff. I'd like to interview those guys, but yeah, they're not They're not around that much unfortunately anymore.

But um we are. Oh yeah, we are rapidly running out of time, so so before we do, and we're gonna play one more song in a minute to wrap up the show. But I want to make sure our listeners know where they should go online to keep up with what you're doing and social media, anything you want us to know about and when your next show is and and anything you want to make sure our listeners are aware of. All right, Um, you can keep up with us on Instagram. Uh. We were there mostly at Wired for Sound n h okay.

Um, we also have a TikTok account. It's Wired for Sound Underscore n h okay. And of course Facebook, yeah yeah, wired dot fs on Facebook. Uh yeah, and we're playing this weekend at O'Brien's Pub in Alston, mess And um yeah, just check us out online and we're always playing out. Yeah. We always get good Ale smans on Instagram and stuff, so that's usually the most reliable place to find you know what's next. Yeah, excellent, we'll have some new music for you guys too. Yeah, very cool, very cool. Well, I I appreciate the three of you joining us today.

This has been fun. Yeah, thank you, thank you for having us to shout out to our friends dank so this is awesome. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, let's uh, we'll play one more track. What haven't we played that? You would like me to play? Here? Here? I am here? I am well do that? Okay, that's our short song. Oh okay, Well we might end up well if that's if that's all right, If if I end up having time for a second one, what should uh? What should I play fun? We haven't played fun? Right? Yeah? Yeah, you're Fun's a good one.

Actually, let's go with fun because it's long. Yeah, it's a little longer, right, yeah, let's go with that. And then if if we have time, I'll also play here. I am all right? All right, Well, We'll see how it lines up, and we will leave you with this fun wired for sound, fun always bad. We can smell too good. No water for this spring. Let's go night away, bab we stout to get one fly sway. Let's go n preak out, break out, break out now, break out, wat wake oh wow, have flame, bladi blame, have way lay play convincing.

I know it's hard dealizing fun with me. We can go no no, no, toment s. I know it's hard. Felizing fun with me when you go the free play out break down now, break out, break down Now, have way, have way,

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