Sepsiss (9-13-25) | Matt Connarton Unleashed

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Speaker 6: The band is Sepsis, and we have members of Sepsis here with us, live in studio, and we're gonna speak with them in just a moment. We've got a lot to talk about. Welcome everybody. We have entered our number three newmarrow. Trace of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. If you are listening live today is Saturday, September thirteen, twenty twenty five. Jenny is here at the news table and we have joining us in studio.

Speaker 6: Let's see, so we have William, Melissa hello, and Alexi who is now officially in the band.

Speaker 5: Yes, Hi Hello, what a grand introduction. Well, we try, we try absolutely so. Uh yeah, there's there's a lot going on.

Speaker 6: Should we talk about Swarmyfest first and then we'll and then we'll touch back and talk about it later.

Speaker 5: Sure, after we catch up with everything that's been going on with the band. But big event coming up November fifteenth.

Speaker 7: November fifteenth, I'm really excited. This is our fourth it's our fourth time doing this and we are back at Jewel in Manchester. Yes, yeah, so we we we did the show the first few times we did it at Jewel and last year we did it in Lowell at Tifeta.

Speaker 5: That was a lot of fun and I still think it's staff it.

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Speaker 7: Swarmy Fest is a is a community event and a lot of the things that we do there is by request.

Speaker 9: Okay, so by request we're back at Manchester. Yes, yes, you know for the.

Speaker 7: Drive and this isn't stepsist show. This isn't stepsis Fest with the hosts and organizers of the show, and most importantly it's something that we decided to do to really showcase new bands every year to our friends and our fans and fans of our band.

Speaker 5: Yeah, we've met a lot of great bands through through you.

Speaker 9: Oh that's kind of like what.

Speaker 5: We do and through the through the festival. Yeah.

Speaker 9: Some people might think that it's.

Speaker 7: Like a hallmark or maybe even a gimmick or something, but we really the support and local bands thing is not just something we do on Facebook.

Speaker 9: Yeah, and Swarmy Fest is part of that.

Speaker 7: That's how we want to be able to show our work and take it out of the comment sections, take it out of the podcasts. It's one thing to sound fancy on Instagram, support local and the whole bit.

Speaker 5: But what we found was like.

Speaker 7: Out of the the lockdowns and the pandemic stuff, we met so many people online and we are one of those local bands that are lucky enough to have fans from all over the world. Yeah, and we'd always have people fantasizing with us on Twitch in our various streams about hey, someday when we get out of this thing, someday when.

Speaker 9: We get out of the joint, you know, we're all gonna no.

Speaker 7: But it was like that, Yeah, we all shared that, and it was like, hey, one day we all got to get together and hang out and have a festival. And this was our fans on Twitch. This is our fans on right, people that we've never met before, not people in town. You know, it's hard enough trying to get your friends and family and people letting your neighbors to support music. But we're lucky enough to have people all over the country and all over the world that support us. And we'd always kick around the idea.

Speaker 7: You know, maybe because the band doesn't have a huge budget to tour, because it's difficult for local and regional acts to move around. We kind of joked humbly at the idea of everybody just coming to see us because the band couldn't We couldn't get out of the state, we couldn't get out of the region.

Speaker 9: We had minimal touring experience.

Speaker 7: Yeah, and are really the biggest fans of our band are people that invest in us long term. We found that the biggest supporters and fans of our band are the people that don't just leave criticism, but they're here to watch the band grow and they're big investors, not only just like like buying tickets and supporting us that way, but they're also they also invest in the band longevity and they're.

Speaker 9: Here to stay. So it's so hard for bands to tour.

Speaker 7: And a lot of people would say, oh, we you know, a lot of bands get this. You should be bigger, or we think you guys should play this venue, or you guys should be so much bigger, and that could be encouraging to hear, and sometimes it could for some bands that could be like, oh gosh, we've heard that a lot. You know, you guys should be so much bigger or better. And depending on what side of the bed you woke up on that day it could be a compliment. So at a combination of our biggest supporters, they came up with the idea of all getting together, choosing a date and everybody flying in, all of our twitch fans, all of our online fans wanted to do a show.

Speaker 7: And as we got closer, you know, to two thousand and one, closer to the first time we did the show, we took the challenge on as a reality and we just booked the date. It happened that a lot of our a lot of our fans and people flying in had some time off, and that's how this whole thing started.

Speaker 2: And people continue to fly out to this thing, I mean from all over.

Speaker 5: Yeah.

Speaker 7: So it's it's kind of like a super fan experience. And we call it Swarmy Fest because the swarmies aren't just like the fans of Stepstance. You've got people that are fans of your band or fans of wrestling or whatever, but they, you know, they don't mind talking a little crap about you, you know in the back hallway. A swarmy is somebody that's a little bit bigger than a fan. It's bigger than somebody that that just comes out for the music. Swarmies are people that publicly support SEPSIS, publicly have been storing, been following the storyline.

Speaker 7: People have been day one ers, people who are very cognitive and self aware about our mission, about our message and what we're trying to do. That's what swarmies are. Yeah, they're you know, they're they're the super super duper fan. They're they're the next possible thing that you can be as a band staff member or an actual band member. So that's why we call it Swarmy Fest because it's really it's their show, right and they fly in, they drive in our of course, our fans locally and our friends all help us our responses and all the bands.

Speaker 7: The twist is each because they made it, Because they make it an annual thing. You'll recognize some people over the years, and because of it, we all curate the show together. Everything is by request. If they want a food truck, they get a food truck. If they want more hair metal bands, we do more hair metal bands. If we want, you know, dancing cage girls, we do cage girls. If we want balloon animals, we listen to what the swarmies are looking to do. We make improvements from the year before, and that's what it's all about bringing and of course not only bringing bands that we love to work with and bands we want to work with, because that's the bands that play on Swarmy Fests are the bands that we really loved, that we love their music, we admire them, we look up to them, and we either work with them in the past or we really want to work with them now.

Speaker 7: So that's why you see the bands that you see each year on Swarmy Fests. They are also bands that want to work with us firm. We're firm and believing that band do better when they work with the bands that they want to work with. Of course, because everybody treats the show as one baby. Everybody treats the show. Everybody comes in together, everybody leaves together, and we're all working towards the same goals. So each year, the fans, the sponsors, the bands and everybody that's involved is all working and hoping for the same outcome, and everybody's resonating towards the same goals and you get brand new bands every year.

Speaker 10: Oh yeah, and another thing that makes Swarmy Fest so big and special and why it keeps getting bigger and bigger. Is the fact that this is all the Swarmy's idea, down to the name Swarmy Fest. They named it. We didn't name it Swarmy Fast. They named it.

Speaker 9: We had a poll and they're like, what are we going to call it?

Speaker 10: And they And another thing too that makes it so big and so special is the fact that all these bands throughout the years all run over to our message and they're dying. They look forward to playing it, and they look forward to it every year. It's like something that they look forward.

Speaker 7: It's really sad to turn people away because there's so many people that haven't had the opportunity to play at a place like this, and it.

Speaker 10: Really goes into like a new form of like content creation and being in a band, and that's making a community.

Speaker 9: And what made us.

Speaker 10: Want to do Swarmy Fest is the fact not only do they want to see us and meet us, but they wanted to meet each.

Speaker 2: Other just as bad.

Speaker 10: They wanted to make new friends just as bad within the Sepsis community. And that is why we really strive to do what they ask us to take those requests and keep it going every year because it's built such a strong community that not only do the Swarmies make friends and bring their friends to Swarmy Fest and make friends to the other bands fans and things, but other bands look forward and die almost and like die.

Speaker 7: I she's touching on something though, because when we came out of the lockdowns, and we came out of not playing music for years of being on stage or seeing our friends, it did feel claustrophoba.

Speaker 5: It was hard to get back out.

Speaker 7: And Swarmy Fest was a big part of encouraging people to heal and get back out and get in the room together and make new friends and and and and and and regrow our credibility with each other. So Swarming She's right about that. It proves that music and when and when true fans of music can't get out there and have that experience and that connectivity, it feels like you're dying.

Speaker 9: When us as music musician, people tell.

Speaker 7: Me to light up, lighting up all the time. No, and I don't want to. Music is my life. So for some people that you know, their kids are their life and and and I could tell them to lighten up about it, you know, when when their kid loses a soccer game. I don't light up about music because music saved my life. Guitar saved my life. It's responsible for my sobriety, it's responsible for the best decisions I've ever made in my life. It keeps me happy, saying healthy. It's responsible for my best loves, my my my, my most deepest friendships.

Speaker 7: So I don't like nothing about music because music and art, one word, one poem can change the course of humanity.

Speaker 6: Oh well, well said, well said. Oh by the way, too, you were talking about uh, you know, bands, new new bands and so forth being added, and I was very excited. Silent season.

Speaker 2: We've got silence seasons. Scarecrow Hill.

Speaker 5: What is going on?

Speaker 2: And Temptress Ye.

Speaker 7: Knockdown stuff. It's not I'm so thrilled. I'm so thrilled. It's crazy. And the silent season thing, we've been trying to get silent season on Swarmy Fast for two years.

Speaker 5: Oh no kidding. Yeah, that's the fun. That's the fun part.

Speaker 7: And they're they're they're awesome dudes, and and they've been so cool every year they wanted to play.

Speaker 5: They've just had so much cooler things going on.

Speaker 7: Not the swarming fest isn't cool, but you know when you're when you're advancing, when you're spiraling up.

Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, they'res you want to you want.

Speaker 7: To root for people, like Lexie was talking about, you really want to root for people in your neighborhood when they're doing well, because when it when you're doing well, we can it's a sign that we can all do well.

Speaker 5: Yes, exactly, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 7: Collaboration happens at the top, competition happens at the bottom.

Speaker 6: Right, right, we should talk to about So Lexi, you're in the band now, so you used to be used to be officially the merch girl, right, but but you were already like really an integral part of things, right, Yes.

Speaker 10: I did start off as the merch girl. I've been in the band for six years as the merch girl. Yeah, and podcaster and podcaster and screaming within the last couple of years. That is not going away, by the way, I'm still going.

Speaker 2: To be screaming.

Speaker 10: But keyboards popped up within the summer actually this year.

Speaker 9: Lexie's a drummer.

Speaker 10: Yeah, I play the drums and drums drums, I love it and that's not going away either.

Speaker 2: Basically a percussionist.

Speaker 10: Yeah, and the keyboards. I didn't really know it first until until the summertime when we started talking about playing keyboards because the spot's been open for quite some time and they wanted to have the keyboards back. And I've been doing percussion and rhythm on the drums, and they're like, well, there's another instrument out there that could help with your percussion musical journey, and that's the keyboard.

Speaker 5: That's the piano's kind of percussion. People debate about that.

Speaker 2: I look more like that.

Speaker 10: It's pretty rhythmic. It's yeah, it has its own rhythm, it has its own little space. It's kind of like sneaky kind of.

Speaker 5: Is it a string instrument or is it a percussion instrument?

Speaker 6: Is it because you know when you know the way it's built there, that's what I would. I don't know the terminology, but when you push the keys on a piano, it strikes again.

Speaker 5: I don't know the terminology.

Speaker 10: It has its own pattern and stuff. Especially with playing stepsis. They the keyboards have like its own pattern along with everything. It's not separate, it is along with it. Yeah, those in the little spaces kind of like atmospheric, is how we kind of use the keyboards.

Speaker 2: Of how atmospheric it can be.

Speaker 7: Yeah, it so a lot, especially a lot of the modern bands and with with a lot of the technology up there, a lot of bands have lapped a lot of bands we play with, especially when we do the bigger festivals of the shows, the national bands, the big touring bands, they all have backtracks, laptops, light shows, and so they have all us to fill in and it sounds great, and I'm just for us. We always want to try to as much as we could. We wanted to try to play the music as close as we could to the records, but there's some layering in there.

Speaker 7: And we're originally a six piece band, so when you take the keyboards out of the band, there's a lot of work that we have to do on stage, the guitar players and the technology that we have on stage, if you've seen us recently, just our pedal boards, our backup vocals, we have to do a lot to try to fill in that space with a keyboard is and a lot of bands, national bands, you know, you got to play night tonight, so they use backtracks with sometimes the backup vocals on and actual keyboard layerings.

Speaker 9: And it's not because they're evil people.

Speaker 7: It's because they're trying to keep their jobs and they're trying to keep their voices, and they're trying to stay on stage every night because touring is difficult and to get on night after night you might need some extra technology to push you. We're not a national band or a touring band, so we want to take advantage of that so we get to have a good rest before every show. Yeah, right, So we really want to avoid we always have up until this point. We have a big, rich, robust sound, but we want to avoid as much as possible bringing.

Speaker 5: Computers up there and and you know, having to.

Speaker 7: Log into the Wi Fi and look for Bluetooth just to play music. So that's why we love having a keyboard player in the band. And for a while there we were like complaining, like we need a DJ, like we need a DJ, or we need a some sort of thing.

Speaker 5: You know.

Speaker 7: We just felt like we were ready for it, and like it's it's like, well, I'll do it.

Speaker 5: Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 10: Spot popped up and it was over the summer. Never touched a keyboard, and I was like, I'll try out, I'll learn.

Speaker 5: Yeah.

Speaker 10: At first, I was a little skeptical because I have tendonitis in my hands. Oh really, so playing with the fingers and everything, I was like, I don't know if this is going to trigger something, but I was playing through it and looking online at some of the other people that play keyboards and pianos and stuff and have the same issues. They're able to come up with exercises and stretchings and things to help prevent stuff like that. So I am like, so on top of every time before I play the keyboard, I have to stretch.

Speaker 10: I have to warm up my fingers just in order to play, so that I can continue to play, play in sepsis and not have it trigger.

Speaker 2: You also had to learn correct posture is the finger positioning.

Speaker 10: It's one thing to learn the music like you're playing a C minor, but my fingers might want to my thumb might want to be on the black my So finger placement is on top is a big and not intricate, but a big part of playing the keyboard. I'm just knowing what it.

Speaker 7: Is absolutely and staying on stage for years. We would talking about longevity, you know, this is.

Speaker 9: Wow.

Speaker 5: This is our fourteenth year as a band.

Speaker 7: So in order to be a band in New England, in order to be a surviving local band, you need longevity. You know, you have to have You can't screw people over, you can't burn a lot of bridges. You can't go broke, you can't you can't have health problems, you can't have drug habits, you can't have issues with the law, you can't have tons of debt, and you can't have well, you know what we all have is uh if if you're my age and you're still in the band, is you have lower back pain?

Speaker 5: So let's touched on it.

Speaker 7: If you want to stay on stage, you got to stretch right if you're going to live. You know, we don't people. It was always our plan to be in a band forever. Yeah, this is a legacy and forever band. And that's why we've never worried about getting rich or being famous because this is who we are. It's not something we want to become, right, So if this is who we are, we have to be ourselves every day. Every day I wake up Brown, I can't you know, so I so every day I wake up sepsis every day I wake up in the band.

Speaker 7: I'm not a hobbyist. This isn't a side gig for me so, because it is who I am. I have to be sound mind, I have to be I have to do yoga. I have to There's a lot that goes on outside of what we do in a twenty second clip orty a thirty minute set.

Speaker 5: There's a lot more stretching.

Speaker 7: There's a lot more eating, there's a lot more therapy, there's a lot more friendship that's.

Speaker 5: Going on, you know, behind the scenes. That makes sense. That makes sense.

Speaker 6: So will this be a swarm fel SLEXI? Will this be your debut as a keyboard player because you've been on stage with the band before screaming I remember that.

Speaker 10: Yeah, but definitely this will be the first keyboard performance. Will be at Swormy Fest.

Speaker 5: Okay, okay, excellent. Are you nervous? I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 10: I am a little bit.

Speaker 2: She's like I am now, and it's.

Speaker 10: Mainly because of the whole just being in the experience of it all. Like it's not just because the people are watching me, it's the is the fact that this is the first time ever I'm playing an instrument and not.

Speaker 9: Only in accountable. She's a great friend.

Speaker 5: She doesn't want to let her friends down.

Speaker 10: But like in a band with a group of other people that are also playing instrument It's not in my.

Speaker 5: Room right with people professionals.

Speaker 10: In front of others on a stage. So that part of the experience is what makes me a little nervous.

Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, I'm just so used.

Speaker 10: To playing music in the living room right right.

Speaker 7: Yeah, and like and like, Lexi's the baby of the bunch. Everything that she's experienced in the band, she's always been the youngest one or the she's she's right, she's picking up the drums for the first time, or she's playing video games for the first time, or it was her first time on podcasting. But you know, now everybody knows her for podcasting, and I think she's gonna do just as good and just as she does and other things that Lexi seems to do good at everything she tries to do or wants to do.

Speaker 5: There you go, there you go excellent.

Speaker 6: Can you talk about the podcast too, Yeah.

Speaker 9: So it's new, Okay, it's new and we're still kind of working on it.

Speaker 7: So the the the newest version is called The Sepsist Show, and The Sepsist Show is really a jambalaya, a compilation of all of our best live streams. So originally we had the me Honey's podcast all right our Lexi, that was the very first podcast.

Speaker 5: That we didney then we had the Honeycomb hide Out.

Speaker 7: The girls had their live stream which is a little bit different as you know Swarm TV, and Swarm TV.

Speaker 9: Was like more like band news and band updates.

Speaker 7: And then we had Honeycomb Hideout version two point zero with me Zach our bass player and and Lexi, and then I decided to do it alone for a little while and William Versus the World, which, oh yes, which is much more like a kinetic everyone.

Speaker 9: Yeah, it was a good show.

Speaker 7: It was a lot on yeah, but you know, me yelling at people a lot.

Speaker 2: But you haven't gone anywhere though, So.

Speaker 7: Now there's there is now all of those shows kind of fit in to our segments.

Speaker 9: So now there's a William versus the World part.

Speaker 5: I think that's smart.

Speaker 7: There is there's there's so now the Swarm TV that was there before is there now. It's just in the beginning of the show as a segment. And then we move on to articles and we talk about like the rock Metal Reset stuff where we're still doing the educational you know, teaching people about YouTube, you know, letting people know about updates on Instagram and how to do marketing and basically the technologies is moving so quickly.

Speaker 9: H We use this stuff to stay up.

Speaker 5: You know.

Speaker 7: Yes, it's a podcast and we're teaching people, but we we're double dipping here because it's a way for us to stay up to date with what's coming in matt if we didn't. We kind of like multipurpose in this stuff. So we get a lot of articles, and we get a lot on technology and social media and as musicians, if you want to do what we're doing steps this isn't just a band. We're models or photographers or videoographers or streamers or podcasters or mars. We do commercials. You're everywhere. So if you're everywhere, you need to know everything.

Speaker 7: You need a big toolbox. You need you know, you need to make friends, you need large networks, you need credibility, you know, you need receipts, you need to be able to come with it, and you need and you need to stay up to date. So we get a lot of information and we go, oh my god, what are we going to do with all this information?

Speaker 9: We bring it on podcast.

Speaker 2: And when it comes to the podcast. I'm the girl behind the scenes doing all the production. Yeah, so I'm the one in the comments. I might not be like on the stream anymore, but I do plan on streaming again soon. I will be back on Twitch this October, like the first week of October, okay, because October third is going to be my first live stream.

Speaker 9: Oh, she does everything, crafts, cooking.

Speaker 2: I'm going to be bringing back a lot of that. People want to see me painting again, crafting, I'm definitely going to be doing some jewelry and probably some gaming.

Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, we sell paint things, like I mean, and we really do. You're in a band and you I don't know if people notice, but paint, do karaoke, talk with people.

Speaker 2: You're gonna do all that?

Speaker 7: Do do do drops or radio drops or do commercials.

Speaker 9: I'm not I'm not.

Speaker 7: I'm not sure people know how much we make just being on social media. We don't have personal social media accounts. We're only there to do the Stepsis thing. So because of it, we built up a relationship with all of these companies Instagram, Google and for you bands out there. Instead of posting about your dinner or getting arguments online, encourage your band to play music, to talk with people, to podcast, to niit you know, Lexi knits, crochets, we paint, use a combination, use everything you got, you know, and use it not just to make money, but to start conversations and make connections with people.

Speaker 7: Because Facebook, we don't just spend a lot of time on Facebook.

Speaker 9: We don't just scream at the microphone.

Speaker 7: Bands people out there, creators, people pay Sepsis to go on social media. The social media companies pay us to be there and talk in the comment sections.

Speaker 9: And you could do it too. Everybody can be doing this.

Speaker 7: You don't have to argue in the comments sections or fill you fill your day with stress. For those of you that make music or have skills or talents, and you think, oh, I don't know if it belongs in the band, I don't know if it belongs in my business. Work it in right if you came working in working in especially the social media, and spent wasting time and sitting there and burning out. Right, these guys when we go on, every time we go on and we put something on social media, remember we're getting paid for it.

Speaker 9: Yeah, So if you see me in a twenty, if you see me in a twenty second clip. Yeah, it's my jobs.

Speaker 5: That's good. Yeah. Yeah. Uh.

Speaker 6: Speaking of comments, by the way, we got somebody sent this in on the website for people someone I assume listening to Matt Connerson dot com. Slash Live asks the question what can a true first time Swarmy Fest visitor look forward to in November? And what's your favorite aspect of the night? And this question is signed Lendoris.

Speaker 9: Oh someone, you know this.

Speaker 2: Is going to be the sexiest rock and roll show in New England?

Speaker 7: Right, This isn't this Yeah, this isn't like a This isn't like a teenage boys sweaty T shirts, people beating each other.

Speaker 9: Up in bloody knows this thing?

Speaker 7: Okay, people come out right, No, I mean, for one, for one, I don't know if people notice, but we're a heavy metal band that gets girls out to come.

Speaker 5: The women come out. Yep.

Speaker 2: We've got some sexy dancers that are going to.

Speaker 9: Be We've got we've got stage dancers.

Speaker 2: We've got Cat and the Blood Witch.

Speaker 7: We've got yeah, Lili's Kat and the Blood Wish they have. They're doing a two to three song set. It's before the Steps is set, which is great. So if you want to see the girls, you got to stay all night.

Speaker 2: Yeah, they're going to have a special performance of their own. You're not gonna want to miss.

Speaker 5: Yep. I mean we got we got, we got the Zachi b raffle.

Speaker 2: We people have been asking for it, so we brought a food truck.

Speaker 5: We finally got. Yeah.

Speaker 7: The way we the way we do the music is a little bit different too. You know, like a lot of local bands or or traditional shows might have, you know, forty minute sets or bands get up there. Because of so many bands, we like to do a thing called jump sets. We all kind of share gear. We're all moving quickly.

Speaker 9: Yeah, bands get up you've obviously been.

Speaker 7: But for the people that don't know at home, there's not allowed to stand around and wait stuff. Bands are on and off the stage rather quickly, and the sets are short.

Speaker 5: Yeah.

Speaker 7: Yeah, it's you know, it's it's twenty twenty six coming up. And we for the the harmony and the motivation of the time. We like to keep things moving and we like to keep the show to be fast and fluid.

Speaker 5: Yep.

Speaker 9: So not a not a not a lot of long set times.

Speaker 7: Good And of course we have the Pajama Jammy jam Hotel after party.

Speaker 2: Okay, it's going to be a blast, But you.

Speaker 9: Can't bring any kids to that.

Speaker 5: No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't think. So we have.

Speaker 7: We have something special for that too, and so here's the deal too with that. For those folks that want to do the after party, pre sale tickets to Swarmy Fast are twelve bucks. We keep it twelve bucks because we're a local band. This is a local show.

Speaker 5: Yep.

Speaker 7: We encourage everybody to go buy pre sale tickets because it really helps the bands.

Speaker 2: Yeah, right now it's only it's twelve bucks pre sale Stormy Films.

Speaker 5: It's really good.

Speaker 7: The cool thing about that is if you screenshot your pre sale ticket and you send it to the band page, it automatically for now, for a limited time, it guarantees you.

Speaker 9: A spot at the after party.

Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, those are extremely limited at this point.

Speaker 7: To the after party and the after party is awesome. This I mean there's select private and extra performances. As you know, the Friday night, those of you that are flying in and also doing vi P on Friday night, we do a karaoke show and we do an extra sepsist performance separate and Saturday too, So.

Speaker 2: You got a karaoke and jam night the night before, just because a lot of our friends they're flying in.

Speaker 5: They don't want to hang out for Saturday.

Speaker 2: Something special for our VIPs.

Speaker 7: Yeah, and watch us get up on stage and leave, right of course, you know. So a lot of our good friends are coming in. They might be flying in Thursday staying till Monday. So we we take this time off for the year and put everything into it.

Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, no, that's fantastic.

Speaker 2: I heard all the tables are sold.

Speaker 9: Oh yes, yes, there is there.

Speaker 7: The VIP tables are sold out, unfortunately, but there are still booths. And this is important because sometimes you get there you want to buy some merch. Merch goes early in the day at Swarmy Fest. Yeah, posters go early, so a lot of people they want to buy stuff early, and then the happy where to put it if you're coming, If you're coming with three to five people, it's best to get a booth because they're good for five tickets.

Speaker 9: You're saving a bunch of cash, right right.

Speaker 2: And you got somewhere to put your stuff.

Speaker 5: Yeah.

Speaker 7: So, unfortunately tables are sold out, but they're still booths.

Speaker 2: There's like four boots left.

Speaker 7: Okay, so I think that I think that the two biggest features of this year three silent season.

Speaker 5: This is all for me.

Speaker 7: Uh and of course the girls man dancing girls Silent Season in the food truck.

Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, yeah, very cool.

Speaker 2: I also got a bunch of sponsors for this thing.

Speaker 7: Oh yeah, Velvet, Velvet rain, Dney's Creations.

Speaker 5: Of course.

Speaker 9: I don't know who these people are.

Speaker 2: W m n h.

Speaker 5: Some guy named Matt Connorton. That guy right, that guy

Speaker 5: my corner. I don't know.

Speaker 6: The first time, the first time I was ever in the hippo press, this was a very long time ago, they spelled my name Cornington.

Speaker 5: Oh my god, Cornington.

Speaker 2: That's interesting. Read the horror.

Speaker 9: That's when people call William Savant.

Speaker 5: I stop that, Yeah, I was. I was displeased. The next time I was in there. They got it right. But yeah, yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to direct. That's okay. We should definitely show some love to these sponsors.

Speaker 9: Yeah you want to.

Speaker 7: Dnay's Creations, lots of crafters, and I don't mean like corny crafting.

Speaker 5: These these folks are good. I'm talking beautiful stuff.

Speaker 7: Apparel, jewelry, everything is. Yeah, we have a theme going this year and that's inclusion. The big theme this year is brown people, gay people, women, white people, brown people. If you like metal, if you like country, if you're there for for human peace, and you're there to for the music, and you're there for the neighborhood and you're there to make friends.

Speaker 5: You're welcome there. Yeah, that's the theme. Excellent, outstanding. No, I like that.

Speaker 2: I heard Rain is going to be bringing some cool Stepsist themed candles.

Speaker 7: Oh there's Yeah, a lot of the crafters are doing like Swarmy Fest theme stuff or Stepsist theme stuff or.

Speaker 5: It feels good, the energy is good.

Speaker 2: Yeah, there's so much chakra things to chac cool.

Speaker 7: Yeah, and of course again it's it's been hard to actually get new sponsors because our sponsors are so awesome every year. That's a good sign when your sponsors want to come back and when you want the same sponsors, it's really good.

Speaker 9: So Legion of Solace is.

Speaker 7: Back as our main sponsors shout out to Tuesday and them shout out to Bruce.

Speaker 9: Excellent and now they're so awesome them.

Speaker 11: Yeah, actually got my Legion bracelet at last year Swarming.

Speaker 2: I'm wearing it right.

Speaker 7: Now and in the reason why we keep bringing Legion of Solace back as well as Matt Connorton is because they're perfect fits. They know you guys know what we're trying to do. It's clear English, it's straight lines. And if anybody ever wanted to experience being in a band and having authentic, legit sponsors come in and sponsor your band and sponsor a local show, Legion of Solace is it. They are the reason every Swarmy Fest, Legion of Solace has been our main sponsors. And the reason why is because they're legit.

Speaker 2: Ye absolutely, I love their new logo and they got a logo.

Speaker 5: I'll have to check that out.

Speaker 2: I really want a t shirt.

Speaker 7: Right they changed their logo and then you know we had the podcast and we got caught wearing the old shirt.

Speaker 2: Definitely needs some shirts.

Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I have a shirt. I'll have to and we have from Matt Connorton. When we get off right, yes, forget that.

Speaker 6: Yes, yes, well speaking of that, So the time does go quickly, So let's remind everybody where So where should they go to get tickets for a Swarmy Fest.

Speaker 2: So there's a link to event, right.

Speaker 5: You can go to the website our website.

Speaker 2: Oh yeah, go on our website as well.

Speaker 6: Oh and I like the new site, by the way, I like to redesign.

Speaker 5: Well done.

Speaker 6: Yeah, no, it looks really good. I'm a website nerd, so I noticed things like that.

Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely time for an upgrade. We were feeling like we were stuck in the nineties or something. Yeah, we had to improve that a little bit, much easier to like find our merch and everything.

Speaker 5: Integration is better too.

Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so that there's mad categories.

Speaker 7: You can just click on bands, bands, get a website. It's so because seriously, all of these crazy oligarchs and all these billionaires, what if they changed their mind right and close your storefront? Yeah yeah, what if you wake up one day and your Instagram page is down because of some weird community standard or it's not even your fault. It could be a technical era, a misunderstanding. But you don't own the I P You don't own them.

Speaker 5: You're not.

Speaker 9: It's not your register dot com.

Speaker 5: Yeah that.

Speaker 9: People ask me.

Speaker 7: All the time, what's the most powerful thing we've ever done as a band. It's not write a song, it's register a website and own and own our name.

Speaker 5: Man, very very import exactly very important.

Speaker 7: It's just just in case things go down like they did. We started in the steps that started in the MySpace era. We had a MySpace page and and we built it and we built a lot of value on it, remember, and then one day it went down.

Speaker 5: Ye yeah, absolutely, all right, what's you were about to tell us? The website?

Speaker 2: So the steps is dot com spelled s E P S I S S dot com. Don't forget that extra S at the end. Yeah, you won't be able to find us.

Speaker 5: You'll find all type of the stuff.

Speaker 2: To remind everybody. Swarmy Fest will be November fifteenth at the Jewel Nightclub in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Speaker 6: Outstanding, No, I can't wait, can't wait, and we're excited to be a part of it as always, so really looking forward to that.

Speaker 5: So thank you, thank you all three of you for coming in tonight.

Speaker 6: Absolutely and for those of you listening live, Jenny, we've got your art showing at Mosaic Yes coming up.

Speaker 11: Today's opening is today. The Circle Art show is today from four to eight pm.

Speaker 5: You're gonna bring some art Swormy Fest, right, yes, awesome.

Speaker 11: Sixty six Hanover Street Sweet two oh one right here in the Queen City. So definitely come say hi to us at the Mosaic Art Collective for the art show, and then after that we are.

Speaker 5: Heading to Bad Burger.

Speaker 6: Vices Inc. Invited us tonight. It's Vices Inc. And Plague Dad, a couple of great acts from Portland. They've both been on the show and of course Under the Horizon. Yes, we're also at Swarmy Fest.

Speaker 9: Yeah, we got to play with play that too.

Speaker 7: As if you have not seen Vice's band about are they playing tonight?

Speaker 5: No, yes they are. Yeah, they're so good. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6: They invited Jenny and I to go to Vice's Fest, but it was just too hard to get away that weekend, just too many things going on.

Speaker 5: It was a great show.

Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's right, that's right. Yeah, you were there outstanding. So we're gonna close with this track play the game. So this is one of the newer ones, right, yes, all right, very good. Anything we should know about this before we play it? Yeah, to close out the show.

Speaker 7: Yeah, Lexi's on screams okay, Me and Lexi are screaming in the song okay, and this song is also it's a bit of a duet. Me and Melissa go back and forth on the Cleanska, Me and Lexie are on the screams.

Speaker 5: All right, very good. So we'll give this a spin.

Speaker 6: And if you missed any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit at w m n H Radio dot org and at my website Matt connorton dot com. And again, thank you all three of you. Uh come see Sepsis. That's warmy Fest on November fifteenth. That's gonna be a great day.

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