Field Dispatch
Sepsiss (9-13-25) | Matt Connarton Unleashed
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Speaker 6: The band is Sepsis, and we have members of Sepsis
Speaker 6: here with us, live in studio, and we're gonna speak
Speaker 6: with them in just a moment. We've got a lot
Speaker 6: to talk about. Welcome everybody. We have entered our number
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Speaker 6: live from the studios of w m n H ninety
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Speaker 6: you are listening live today is Saturday, September thirteen, twenty
Speaker 6: twenty five. Jenny is here at the news table and
Speaker 6: we have joining us in studio. Let's see, so we
Speaker 6: have William, Melissa hello, and Alexi who is now officially
Speaker 6: in the band.
Speaker 5: Yes, Hi Hello, what a grand introduction. Well, we try,
Speaker 5: we try absolutely so. Uh yeah, there's there's a lot
Speaker 5: going on.
Speaker 6: Should we talk about Swarmyfest first and then we'll and
Speaker 6: then we'll touch back and talk about it later.
Speaker 5: Sure, after we catch up with everything that's been going
Speaker 5: 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
Speaker 7: our fourth time doing this and we are back at
Speaker 7: Jewel in Manchester. Yes, yeah, so we we we did
Speaker 7: the show the first few times we did it at
Speaker 7: Jewel and last year we did it in Lowell at Tifeta.
Speaker 5: That was a lot of fun and I still think
Speaker 5: it's staff it.
Speaker 8: Uh every every time I know we talked about this,
Speaker 8: I know, I know we talked about this last year,
Speaker 8: but every time you say to feta, I think of
Speaker 8: cheese because I love feta cheese.
Speaker 2: It is definitely is I.
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Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: Swarmy Fest is a is a community event and a
Speaker 7: lot of the things that we do there is by request.
Speaker 9: Okay, so by request we're back at Manchester. Yes, yes,
Speaker 9: you know for the.
Speaker 7: Drive and this isn't stepsist show. This isn't stepsis Fest
Speaker 7: with the hosts and organizers of the show, and most
Speaker 7: importantly it's something that we decided to do to really
Speaker 7: showcase new bands every year to our friends and our
Speaker 7: 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,
Speaker 7: but we really the support and local bands thing is
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: work and take it out of the comment sections, take
Speaker 7: it out of the podcasts. It's one thing to sound
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: met so many people online and we are one of
Speaker 7: those local bands that are lucky enough to have fans
Speaker 7: from all over the world. Yeah, and we'd always have
Speaker 7: people fantasizing with us on Twitch in our various streams
Speaker 7: about hey, someday when we get out of this thing,
Speaker 7: someday when.
Speaker 9: We get out of the joint, you know, we're all
Speaker 9: gonna no.
Speaker 7: But it was like that, Yeah, we all shared that,
Speaker 7: and it was like, hey, one day we all got
Speaker 7: to get together and hang out and have a festival.
Speaker 7: And this was our fans on Twitch. This is our
Speaker 7: fans on right, people that we've never met before, not
Speaker 7: people in town. You know, it's hard enough trying to
Speaker 7: get your friends and family and people letting your neighbors
Speaker 7: to support music. But we're lucky enough to have people
Speaker 7: all over the country and all over the world that
Speaker 7: support us. And we'd always kick around the idea. You know,
Speaker 7: maybe because the band doesn't have a huge budget to tour,
Speaker 7: because it's difficult for local and regional acts to move around.
Speaker 7: We kind of joked humbly at the idea of everybody
Speaker 7: just coming to see us because the band couldn't We
Speaker 7: couldn't get out of the state, we couldn't get out
Speaker 7: of the region.
Speaker 9: We had minimal touring experience.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and are really the biggest fans of our band
Speaker 7: are people that invest in us long term. We found
Speaker 7: that the biggest supporters and fans of our band are
Speaker 7: the people that don't just leave criticism, but they're here
Speaker 7: to watch the band grow and they're big investors, not
Speaker 7: only just like like buying tickets and supporting us that way,
Speaker 7: but they're also they also invest in the band longevity
Speaker 7: 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,
Speaker 7: a lot of bands get this. You should be bigger,
Speaker 7: or we think you guys should play this venue, or
Speaker 7: you guys should be so much bigger, and that could
Speaker 7: be encouraging to hear, and sometimes it could for some
Speaker 7: bands that could be like, oh gosh, we've heard that
Speaker 7: a lot. You know, you guys should be so much
Speaker 7: bigger or better. And depending on what side of the
Speaker 7: bed you woke up on that day it could be
Speaker 7: a compliment. So at a combination of our biggest supporters,
Speaker 7: they came up with the idea of all getting together,
Speaker 7: choosing a date and everybody flying in, all of our
Speaker 7: twitch fans, all of our online fans wanted to do
Speaker 7: a show. And as we got closer, you know, to
Speaker 7: two thousand and one, closer to the first time we
Speaker 7: did the show, we took the challenge on as a
Speaker 7: reality and we just booked the date. It happened that
Speaker 7: a lot of our a lot of our fans and
Speaker 7: people flying in had some time off, and that's how
Speaker 7: this whole thing started.
Speaker 2: And people continue to fly out to this thing, I
Speaker 2: mean from all over.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So it's it's kind of like a super fan experience.
Speaker 7: And we call it Swarmy Fest because the swarmies aren't
Speaker 7: just like the fans of Stepstance. You've got people that
Speaker 7: are fans of your band or fans of wrestling or whatever,
Speaker 7: but they, you know, they don't mind talking a little
Speaker 7: crap about you, you know in the back hallway. A
Speaker 7: swarmy is somebody that's a little bit bigger than a fan.
Speaker 7: It's bigger than somebody that that just comes out for
Speaker 7: the music. Swarmies are people that publicly support SEPSIS, publicly
Speaker 7: have been storing, been following the storyline. People have been
Speaker 7: day one ers, people who are very cognitive and self
Speaker 7: aware about our mission, about our message and what we're
Speaker 7: trying to do. That's what swarmies are. Yeah, they're you know,
Speaker 7: they're they're the super super duper fan. They're they're the
Speaker 7: next possible thing that you can be as a band
Speaker 7: staff member or an actual band member. So that's why
Speaker 7: we call it Swarmy Fest because it's really it's their show,
Speaker 7: right and they fly in, they drive in our of course,
Speaker 7: our fans locally and our friends all help us our
Speaker 7: responses and all the bands. The twist is each because
Speaker 7: they made it, Because they make it an annual thing.
Speaker 7: You'll recognize some people over the years, and because of it,
Speaker 7: we all curate the show together. Everything is by request.
Speaker 7: If they want a food truck, they get a food truck.
Speaker 7: If they want more hair metal bands, we do more
Speaker 7: hair metal bands. If we want, you know, dancing cage girls,
Speaker 7: we do cage girls. If we want balloon animals, we
Speaker 7: listen to what the swarmies are looking to do. We
Speaker 7: make improvements from the year before, and that's what it's
Speaker 7: all about bringing and of course not only bringing bands
Speaker 7: that we love to work with and bands we want
Speaker 7: to work with, because that's the bands that play on
Speaker 7: Swarmy Fests are the bands that we really loved, that
Speaker 7: we love their music, we admire them, we look up
Speaker 7: to them, and we either work with them in the
Speaker 7: past or we really want to work with them now.
Speaker 7: So that's why you see the bands that you see
Speaker 7: each year on Swarmy Fests. They are also bands that
Speaker 7: want to work with us firm. We're firm and believing
Speaker 7: that band do better when they work with the bands
Speaker 7: that they want to work with. Of course, because everybody
Speaker 7: treats the show as one baby. Everybody treats the show.
Speaker 7: Everybody comes in together, everybody leaves together, and we're all
Speaker 7: working towards the same goals. So each year, the fans,
Speaker 7: the sponsors, the bands and everybody that's involved is all
Speaker 7: working and hoping for the same outcome, and everybody's resonating
Speaker 7: towards the same goals and you get brand new bands
Speaker 7: every year.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, and another thing that makes Swarmy Fest so
Speaker 10: big and special and why it keeps getting bigger and bigger.
Speaker 10: Is the fact that this is all the Swarmy's idea,
Speaker 10: down to the name Swarmy Fest. They named it. We
Speaker 10: didn't name it Swarmy Fast. They named it.
Speaker 9: We had a poll and they're like, what are we
Speaker 9: going to call it?
Speaker 10: And they And another thing too that makes it so
Speaker 10: big and so special is the fact that all these
Speaker 10: bands throughout the years all run over to our message
Speaker 10: and they're dying. They look forward to playing it, and
Speaker 10: they look forward to it every year. It's like something
Speaker 10: that they look forward.
Speaker 7: It's really sad to turn people away because there's so
Speaker 7: many people that haven't had the opportunity to play at
Speaker 7: a place like this, and it.
Speaker 10: Really goes into like a new form of like content
Speaker 10: 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
Speaker 10: do they want to see us and meet us, but
Speaker 10: they wanted to meet each.
Speaker 2: Other just as bad.
Speaker 10: They wanted to make new friends just as bad within
Speaker 10: the Sepsis community. And that is why we really strive
Speaker 10: to do what they ask us to take those requests
Speaker 10: and keep it going every year because it's built such
Speaker 10: a strong community that not only do the Swarmies make
Speaker 10: friends and bring their friends to Swarmy Fest and make
Speaker 10: friends to the other bands fans and things, but other
Speaker 10: bands look forward and die almost and like die.
Speaker 7: I she's touching on something though, because when we came
Speaker 7: out of the lockdowns, and we came out of not
Speaker 7: playing music for years of being on stage or seeing
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: to heal and get back out and get in the
Speaker 7: room together and make new friends and and and and
Speaker 7: and and regrow our credibility with each other. So Swarming
Speaker 7: She's right about that. It proves that music and when
Speaker 7: and when true fans of music can't get out there
Speaker 7: and have that experience and that connectivity, it feels like
Speaker 7: you're dying.
Speaker 9: When us as music musician, people tell.
Speaker 7: Me to light up, lighting up all the time. No,
Speaker 7: and I don't want to. Music is my life. So
Speaker 7: for some people that you know, their kids are their
Speaker 7: life and and and I could tell them to lighten
Speaker 7: up about it, you know, when when their kid loses
Speaker 7: a soccer game. I don't light up about music because
Speaker 7: music saved my life. Guitar saved my life. It's responsible
Speaker 7: for my sobriety, it's responsible for the best decisions I've
Speaker 7: ever made in my life. It keeps me happy, saying healthy.
Speaker 7: It's responsible for my best loves, my my my, my
Speaker 7: most deepest friendships. So I don't like nothing about music
Speaker 7: because music and art, one word, one poem can change
Speaker 7: the course of humanity.
Speaker 6: Oh well, well said, well said. Oh by the way, too,
Speaker 6: you were talking about uh, you know, bands, new new
Speaker 6: bands and so forth being added, and I was very excited.
Speaker 6: 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.
Speaker 7: It's crazy. And the silent season thing, we've been trying
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: really want to root for people in your neighborhood when
Speaker 7: they're doing well, because when it when you're doing well,
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 6: in the band now, so you used to be used
Speaker 6: to be officially the merch girl, right, but but you
Speaker 6: were already like really an integral part of things, right, Yes.
Speaker 10: I did start off as the merch girl. I've been
Speaker 10: in the band for six years as the merch girl. Yeah,
Speaker 10: and podcaster and podcaster and screaming within the last couple
Speaker 10: of years. That is not going away, by the way,
Speaker 10: 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
Speaker 10: 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
Speaker 10: until until the summertime when we started talking about playing
Speaker 10: keyboards because the spot's been open for quite some time
Speaker 10: and they wanted to have the keyboards back. And I've
Speaker 10: been doing percussion and rhythm on the drums, and they're like, well,
Speaker 10: there's another instrument out there that could help with your
Speaker 10: 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,
Speaker 10: it has its own little space. It's kind of like
Speaker 10: 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
Speaker 6: it's built there, that's what I would. I don't know
Speaker 6: the terminology, but when you push the keys on a piano,
Speaker 6: it strikes again.
Speaker 5: I don't know the terminology.
Speaker 10: It has its own pattern and stuff. Especially with playing stepsis.
Speaker 10: They the keyboards have like its own pattern along with everything.
Speaker 10: It's not separate, it is along with it. Yeah, those
Speaker 10: in the little spaces kind of like atmospheric, is how
Speaker 10: 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
Speaker 7: modern bands and with with a lot of the technology
Speaker 7: up there, a lot of bands have lapped a lot
Speaker 7: of bands we play with, especially when we do the
Speaker 7: bigger festivals of the shows, the national bands, the big
Speaker 7: touring bands, they all have backtracks, laptops, light shows, and
Speaker 7: so they have all us to fill in and it
Speaker 7: sounds great, and I'm just for us. We always want
Speaker 7: to try to as much as we could. We wanted
Speaker 7: to try to play the music as close as we
Speaker 7: could to the records, but there's some layering in there.
Speaker 7: And we're originally a six piece band, so when you
Speaker 7: take the keyboards out of the band, there's a lot
Speaker 7: of work that we have to do on stage, the
Speaker 7: guitar players and the technology that we have on stage,
Speaker 7: if you've seen us recently, just our pedal boards, our
Speaker 7: backup vocals, we have to do a lot to try
Speaker 7: to fill in that space with a keyboard is and
Speaker 7: a lot of bands, national bands, you know, you got
Speaker 7: to play night tonight, so they use backtracks with sometimes
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: trying to keep their voices, and they're trying to stay
Speaker 7: on stage every night because touring is difficult and to
Speaker 7: get on night after night you might need some extra
Speaker 7: technology to push you. We're not a national band or
Speaker 7: a touring band, so we want to take advantage of
Speaker 7: that so we get to have a good rest before
Speaker 7: every show. Yeah, right, So we really want to avoid
Speaker 7: we always have up until this point. We have a big, rich,
Speaker 7: robust sound, but we want to avoid as much as
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: to play music. So that's why we love having a
Speaker 7: keyboard player in the band. And for a while there
Speaker 7: we were like complaining, like we need a DJ, like
Speaker 7: we need a DJ, or we need a some sort
Speaker 7: of thing.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: We just felt like we were ready for it, and
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 10: touched a keyboard, and I was like, I'll try out,
Speaker 10: I'll learn.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 10: At first, I was a little skeptical because I have
Speaker 10: tendonitis in my hands. Oh really, so playing with the
Speaker 10: fingers and everything, I was like, I don't know if
Speaker 10: this is going to trigger something, but I was playing
Speaker 10: through it and looking online at some of the other
Speaker 10: people that play keyboards and pianos and stuff and have
Speaker 10: the same issues. They're able to come up with exercises
Speaker 10: and stretchings and things to help prevent stuff like that.
Speaker 10: So I am like, so on top of every time
Speaker 10: before I play the keyboard, I have to stretch. I
Speaker 10: have to warm up my fingers just in order to play,
Speaker 10: so that I can continue to play, play in sepsis
Speaker 10: 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
Speaker 10: a C minor, but my fingers might want to my
Speaker 10: thumb might want to be on the black my So
Speaker 10: finger placement is on top is a big and not intricate,
Speaker 10: but a big part of playing the keyboard. I'm just
Speaker 10: knowing what it.
Speaker 7: Is absolutely and staying on stage for years. We would
Speaker 7: 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,
Speaker 7: in order to be a surviving local band, you need longevity.
Speaker 7: You know, you have to have You can't screw people over,
Speaker 7: you can't burn a lot of bridges. You can't go broke,
Speaker 7: you can't you can't have health problems, you can't have
Speaker 7: drug habits, you can't have issues with the law, you
Speaker 7: can't have tons of debt, and you can't have well,
Speaker 7: you know what we all have is uh if if
Speaker 7: you're my age and you're still in the band, is
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: stretch right if you're going to live. You know, we
Speaker 7: don't people. It was always our plan to be in
Speaker 7: a band forever. Yeah, this is a legacy and forever band.
Speaker 7: And that's why we've never worried about getting rich or
Speaker 7: being famous because this is who we are. It's not
Speaker 7: something we want to become, right, So if this is
Speaker 7: who we are, we have to be ourselves every day.
Speaker 7: Every day I wake up Brown, I can't you know,
Speaker 7: so I so every day I wake up sepsis every
Speaker 7: day I wake up in the band. I'm not a hobbyist.
Speaker 7: This isn't a side gig for me so, because it
Speaker 7: is who I am. I have to be sound mind,
Speaker 7: I have to be I have to do yoga. I
Speaker 7: have to There's a lot that goes on outside of
Speaker 7: what we do in a twenty second clip orty a
Speaker 7: 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,
Speaker 7: there's a lot more friendship that's.
Speaker 5: Going on, you know, behind the scenes. That makes sense.
Speaker 5: That makes sense.
Speaker 6: So will this be a swarm fel SLEXI? Will this
Speaker 6: be your debut as a keyboard player because you've been
Speaker 6: on stage with the band before screaming I remember that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but definitely this will be the first keyboard performance.
Speaker 10: 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
Speaker 10: of it all. Like it's not just because the people
Speaker 10: are watching me, it's the is the fact that this
Speaker 10: 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
Speaker 10: 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
Speaker 10: 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.
Speaker 7: Everything that she's experienced in the band, she's always been
Speaker 7: the youngest one or the she's she's right, she's picking
Speaker 7: up the drums for the first time, or she's playing
Speaker 7: video games for the first time, or it was her
Speaker 7: first time on podcasting. But you know, now everybody knows
Speaker 7: her for podcasting, and I think she's gonna do just
Speaker 7: as good and just as she does and other things
Speaker 7: that Lexi seems to do good at everything she tries
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 9: of working on it.
Speaker 7: So the the the newest version is called The Sepsist Show,
Speaker 7: and The Sepsist Show is really a jambalaya, a compilation
Speaker 7: of all of our best live streams. So originally we
Speaker 7: had the me Honey's podcast all right our Lexi, that
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: with me Zach our bass player and and Lexi, and
Speaker 7: then I decided to do it alone for a little
Speaker 7: while and William Versus the World, which, oh yes, which
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: was there before is there now. It's just in the
Speaker 7: beginning of the show as a segment. And then we
Speaker 7: move on to articles and we talk about like the
Speaker 7: rock Metal Reset stuff where we're still doing the educational
Speaker 7: you know, teaching people about YouTube, you know, letting people
Speaker 7: know about updates on Instagram and how to do marketing
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: we're double dipping here because it's a way for us
Speaker 7: to stay up to date with what's coming in matt
Speaker 7: if we didn't. We kind of like multipurpose in this stuff.
Speaker 7: So we get a lot of articles, and we get
Speaker 7: a lot on technology and social media and as musicians,
Speaker 7: if you want to do what we're doing steps this
Speaker 7: isn't just a band. We're models or photographers or videoographers
Speaker 7: or streamers or podcasters or mars. We do commercials. You're everywhere.
Speaker 7: So if you're everywhere, you need to know everything. You
Speaker 7: need a big toolbox. You need you know, you need
Speaker 7: to make friends, you need large networks, you need credibility,
Speaker 7: you know, you need receipts, you need to be able
Speaker 7: to come with it, and you need and you need
Speaker 7: to stay up to date. So we get a lot
Speaker 7: of information and we go, oh my god, what are
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 2: behind the scenes doing all the production. Yeah, so I'm
Speaker 2: the one in the comments. I might not be like
Speaker 2: on the stream anymore, but I do plan on streaming
Speaker 2: again soon. I will be back on Twitch this October,
Speaker 2: like the first week of October, okay, because October third
Speaker 2: 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.
Speaker 2: People want to see me painting again, crafting, I'm definitely
Speaker 2: going to be doing some jewelry and probably some gaming.
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, we sell paint things, like I mean, and
Speaker 7: we really do. You're in a band and you I
Speaker 7: don't know if people notice, but paint, do karaoke, talk
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: being on social media. We don't have personal social media accounts.
Speaker 7: We're only there to do the Stepsis thing. So because
Speaker 7: of it, we built up a relationship with all of
Speaker 7: these companies Instagram, Google and for you bands out there.
Speaker 7: Instead of posting about your dinner or getting arguments online,
Speaker 7: encourage your band to play music, to talk with people,
Speaker 7: to podcast, to niit you know, Lexi knits, crochets, we paint,
Speaker 7: use a combination, use everything you got, you know, and
Speaker 7: use it not just to make money, but to start
Speaker 7: conversations and make connections with people. Because Facebook, we don't
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: on social media. The social media companies pay us to
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: fill you fill your day with stress. For those of
Speaker 7: you that make music or have skills or talents, and
Speaker 7: you think, oh, I don't know if it belongs in
Speaker 7: the band, I don't know if it belongs in my business.
Speaker 7: Work it in right if you came working in working
Speaker 7: in especially the social media, and spent wasting time and
Speaker 7: sitting there and burning out. Right, these guys when we
Speaker 7: go on, every time we go on and we put
Speaker 7: something on social media, remember we're getting paid for it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So if you see me in a twenty, if
Speaker 9: you see me in a twenty second clip. Yeah, it's
Speaker 9: my jobs.
Speaker 5: That's good. Yeah. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 6: Speaking of comments, by the way, we got somebody sent
Speaker 6: this in on the website for people someone I assume
Speaker 6: listening to Matt Connerson dot com. Slash Live asks the
Speaker 6: question what can a true first time Swarmy Fest visitor
Speaker 6: look forward to in November? And what's your favorite aspect
Speaker 6: 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
Speaker 2: in New England?
Speaker 7: Right, This isn't this Yeah, this isn't like a This
Speaker 7: isn't like a teenage boys sweaty T shirts, people beating
Speaker 7: each other.
Speaker 9: Up in bloody knows this thing?
Speaker 7: Okay, people come out right, No, I mean, for one,
Speaker 7: for one, I don't know if people notice, but we're
Speaker 7: 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.
Speaker 7: They're doing a two to three song set. It's before
Speaker 7: the Steps is set, which is great. So if you
Speaker 7: 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.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna want to miss.
Speaker 5: Yep. I mean we got we got, we got the
Speaker 5: Zachi b raffle.
Speaker 2: We people have been asking for it, so we brought
Speaker 2: a food truck.
Speaker 5: We finally got. Yeah.
Speaker 7: The way we the way we do the music is
Speaker 7: a little bit different too. You know, like a lot
Speaker 7: of local bands or or traditional shows might have, you know,
Speaker 7: forty minute sets or bands get up there. Because of
Speaker 7: so many bands, we like to do a thing called
Speaker 7: jump sets. We all kind of share gear. We're all
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: not allowed to stand around and wait stuff. Bands are
Speaker 7: on and off the stage rather quickly, and the sets
Speaker 7: are short.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's you know, it's it's twenty twenty six coming up.
Speaker 7: And we for the the harmony and the motivation of
Speaker 7: the time. We like to keep things moving and we
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 9: set times.
Speaker 7: Good And of course we have the Pajama Jammy jam
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: the deal too with that. For those folks that want
Speaker 7: to do the after party, pre sale tickets to Swarmy
Speaker 7: Fast are twelve bucks. We keep it twelve bucks because
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: it really helps the bands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right now it's only it's twelve bucks pre sale
Speaker 2: Stormy Films.
Speaker 5: It's really good.
Speaker 7: The cool thing about that is if you screenshot your
Speaker 7: pre sale ticket and you send it to the band page,
Speaker 7: 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.
Speaker 7: This I mean there's select private and extra performances. As
Speaker 7: you know, the Friday night, those of you that are
Speaker 7: flying in and also doing vi P on Friday night,
Speaker 7: we do a karaoke show and we do an extra
Speaker 7: sepsist performance separate and Saturday too, So.
Speaker 2: You got a karaoke and jam night the night before,
Speaker 2: 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,
Speaker 7: right of course, you know. So a lot of our
Speaker 7: good friends are coming in. They might be flying in
Speaker 7: Thursday staying till Monday. So we we take this time
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: still booths. And this is important because sometimes you get
Speaker 7: there you want to buy some merch. Merch goes early
Speaker 7: in the day at Swarmy Fest. Yeah, posters go early,
Speaker 7: so a lot of people they want to buy stuff early,
Speaker 7: and then the happy where to put it if you're coming,
Speaker 7: If you're coming with three to five people, it's best
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 6: the hippo press, this was a very long time ago,
Speaker 6: 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
Speaker 5: next time I was in there. They got it right.
Speaker 5: But yeah, yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to direct. That's okay.
Speaker 5: 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
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: this year and that's inclusion. The big theme this year
Speaker 7: is brown people, gay people, women, white people, brown people.
Speaker 7: If you like metal, if you like country, if you're
Speaker 7: there for for human peace, and you're there to for
Speaker 7: the music, and you're there for the neighborhood and you're
Speaker 7: there to make friends.
Speaker 5: You're welcome there. Yeah, that's the theme. Excellent, outstanding. No,
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 2: I heard Rain is going to be bringing some cool
Speaker 2: Stepsist themed candles.
Speaker 7: Oh there's Yeah, a lot of the crafters are doing
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: actually get new sponsors because our sponsors are so awesome
Speaker 7: every year. That's a good sign when your sponsors want
Speaker 7: to come back and when you want the same sponsors,
Speaker 7: it's really good.
Speaker 9: So Legion of Solace is.
Speaker 7: Back as our main sponsors shout out to Tuesday and
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: of Solace back as well as Matt Connorton is because
Speaker 7: they're perfect fits. They know you guys know what we're
Speaker 7: trying to do. It's clear English, it's straight lines. And
Speaker 7: if anybody ever wanted to experience being in a band
Speaker 7: and having authentic, legit sponsors come in and sponsor your
Speaker 7: band and sponsor a local show, Legion of Solace is it.
Speaker 7: They are the reason every Swarmy Fest, Legion of Solace
Speaker 7: has been our main sponsors. And the reason why is
Speaker 7: because they're legit.
Speaker 2: Ye absolutely, I love their new logo and they got
Speaker 2: 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
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: we have from Matt Connorton. When we get off right, yes,
Speaker 7: forget that.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, well speaking of that, So the time does
Speaker 6: go quickly, So let's remind everybody where So where should
Speaker 6: 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,
Speaker 6: I like to redesign.
Speaker 5: Well done.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, it looks really good. I'm a website nerd,
Speaker 6: so I noticed things like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely time for an upgrade. We were feeling like
Speaker 2: we were stuck in the nineties or something. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: had to improve that a little bit, much easier to
Speaker 2: 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.
Speaker 7: It's so because seriously, all of these crazy oligarchs and
Speaker 7: all these billionaires, what if they changed their mind right
Speaker 7: and close your storefront? Yeah yeah, what if you wake
Speaker 7: up one day and your Instagram page is down because
Speaker 7: of some weird community standard or it's not even your fault.
Speaker 7: It could be a technical era, a misunderstanding. But you
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: done as a band. It's not write a song, it's
Speaker 7: 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.
Speaker 7: We started in the steps that started in the MySpace era.
Speaker 7: We had a MySpace page and and we built it
Speaker 7: and we built a lot of value on it, remember,
Speaker 7: and then one day it went down.
Speaker 5: Ye yeah, absolutely, all right, what's you were about to
Speaker 5: tell us? The website?
Speaker 2: So the steps is dot com spelled s E P
Speaker 2: S I S S dot com. Don't forget that extra
Speaker 2: S at the end. Yeah, you won't be able to
Speaker 2: find us.
Speaker 5: You'll find all type of the stuff.
Speaker 2: To remind everybody. Swarmy Fest will be November fifteenth at
Speaker 2: the Jewel Nightclub in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Speaker 6: Outstanding, No, I can't wait, can't wait, and we're excited
Speaker 6: to be a part of it as always, so really
Speaker 6: looking forward to that.
Speaker 5: So thank you, thank you all three of you for
Speaker 5: coming in tonight.
Speaker 6: Absolutely and for those of you listening live, Jenny, we've
Speaker 6: got your art showing at Mosaic Yes coming up.
Speaker 11: Today's opening is today. The Circle Art show is today
Speaker 11: 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
Speaker 11: in the Queen City. So definitely come say hi to
Speaker 11: us at the Mosaic Art Collective for the art show,
Speaker 11: 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,
Speaker 6: a couple of great acts from Portland. They've both been
Speaker 6: on the show and of course Under the Horizon. Yes,
Speaker 6: 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
Speaker 7: 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,
Speaker 6: but it was just too hard to get away that weekend,
Speaker 6: 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.
Speaker 6: So we're gonna close with this track play the game.
Speaker 6: So this is one of the newer ones, right, yes,
Speaker 6: all right, very good. Anything we should know about this
Speaker 6: before we play it? Yeah, to close out the show.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Lexi's on screams okay, Me and Lexi are screaming
Speaker 7: in the song okay, and this song is also it's
Speaker 7: a bit of a duet. Me and Melissa go back
Speaker 7: and forth on the Cleanska, Me and Lexie are on
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 6: will be up in just a little bit at w
Speaker 6: m n H Radio dot org and at my website
Speaker 6: Matt connorton dot com. And again, thank you all three
Speaker 6: of you. Uh come see Sepsis. That's warmy Fest on
Speaker 6: November fifteenth. That's gonna be a great day.
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