Skål | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: I love that the track is called the Whites. The

0:02 Speaker 1: band is Skull And let's see who we have on

0:06 Speaker 1: the line with us? Hello, welcome to the show. Hello, Hello, Hey,

0:11 Speaker 1: hey guys. So who do we have? Who do we

0:13 Speaker 1: have on the line?

0:14 Speaker 2: So this is and I'm the lead singer.

0:17 Speaker 1: My name is Jack, very good, very good. So we've

0:21 Speaker 1: got Evan and Jack with us, guys. I love that track.

0:23 Speaker 1: That is It's catchy. I love the energy of it.

0:26 Speaker 1: It's one of those songs I always say, if it

0:28 Speaker 1: doesn't get you move in check your pulse, you might

0:30 Speaker 1: be dead because it's really really good. So I love you.

0:35 Speaker 1: I love your sound. And by the way, I also

0:37 Speaker 1: really like the first single too, which we're going to

0:40 Speaker 1: play at the end of our conversation today all of

0:41 Speaker 1: the people. That's that's another great song. But I was

0:45 Speaker 1: reading about you, guys, and this is a relatively new project,

0:49 Speaker 1: right if you guys only been around for like a year?

0:51 Speaker 1: Is that correct?

0:53 Speaker 3: Yeah?

0:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, the most part really.

0:57 Speaker 1: Okay, Oh wow, so this is yeah, So that's that's

1:00 Speaker 1: pretty new. You're already having it looks like you're already

1:02 Speaker 1: having a lot of success. Have you been getting uh,

1:05 Speaker 1: have you been getting some airplay with these singles over

1:08 Speaker 1: in the UK.

1:09 Speaker 4: So we've recently just had something come through that we

1:12 Speaker 4: got played on Radio X, which is obviously like a

1:14 Speaker 4: big station around here, quite a few local ones as well.

1:17 Speaker 4: If you play list editions like and obviously yourself are

1:20 Speaker 4: playing it as well.

1:21 Speaker 1: Absolutely With with your music, I mean, do you try

1:25 Speaker 1: to do you try to write things that are are

1:28 Speaker 1: accessible or do you just kind of do what you

1:31 Speaker 1: do and and hope it catches on because it just

1:33 Speaker 1: seems like it seems like these songs are very sort

1:37 Speaker 1: of radio accessible, shall we say, you know, they've got hooks,

1:40 Speaker 1: they've got you know, they pull you in quick. I mean,

1:44 Speaker 1: is that is that the kind of thing you try

1:46 Speaker 1: to write or does that just sort of happen organically?

1:49 Speaker 5: Well, I'll say we don't try and we don't sit

1:52 Speaker 5: down to write Kate for radio. It's just kind of

1:54 Speaker 5: what comes out in the moment. That's fonsaneous singing the

1:57 Speaker 5: practice room when we're writing, yeah, obviously where we go

2:01 Speaker 5: in to the studio work with producer, you know, it

2:05 Speaker 5: gets a bit more like we'll take this bit.

2:08 Speaker 3: Out and we'll make it a bit more radio friendly.

2:11 Speaker 5: That's when that happens in that stage of process rather

2:13 Speaker 5: than when we're actually writing.

2:15 Speaker 4: I think, yeah, the listener as well for some aspects

2:20 Speaker 4: like is that like we like to write a catch

2:22 Speaker 4: up because we enjoy it. But at the same time,

2:24 Speaker 4: it's that you know, if if if it gets catchy,

2:26 Speaker 4: then that's what you want.

2:26 Speaker 2: But you've got to write from the soul as well,

2:28 Speaker 2: you know what I mean. You've got to be truly.

2:29 Speaker 1: Honest in it, right of course, Yeah, that's that's where

2:31 Speaker 1: it starts. Yeah. And then now, so you've got the

2:35 Speaker 1: two singles, is there, what's kind of the long term plan?

2:38 Speaker 1: Do you have more singles in the pipeline or do

2:40 Speaker 1: you plan do you plan to release an EP or

2:41 Speaker 1: an album?

2:44 Speaker 4: We've got more songs and sense at the moments, befair mate,

2:46 Speaker 4: So it's like the planner is is we've got a

2:48 Speaker 4: live session booked in that we're going to do, which

2:50 Speaker 4: will obviously have multiple tracks on the songs that we've

2:53 Speaker 4: not done like that we've not previously done hopefully released

2:57 Speaker 4: of like independently in a slight way that it's not

2:59 Speaker 4: a fully but we'll have like a session from there

3:02 Speaker 4: and then we've got a lot of content you know, video.

3:04 Speaker 2: Wise, to be able to put out everywhere.

3:05 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's interesting. We live in a time when

3:09 Speaker 1: there's so many different ways to approach that in terms

3:11 Speaker 1: of how you release music. I'm old enough to remember

3:14 Speaker 1: when it was you know you you have a single

3:17 Speaker 1: is the Ghost of Radio six eight weeks before the album,

3:19 Speaker 1: and then the album comes out, and then hopefully, if

3:21 Speaker 1: it all goes well, you'll have more singles from the album.

3:23 Speaker 1: But today there's so many different ways to do it,

3:27 Speaker 1: which is fantastic. And I was looking too, it looks

3:31 Speaker 1: like all of the People, which is the first single

3:34 Speaker 1: that that did pretty well for you, that's or continues

3:36 Speaker 1: to do well for you on on Spotify and then

3:40 Speaker 1: I assume, I mean, I don't know what the numbers

3:42 Speaker 1: are like so far for the whites, but I assume

3:44 Speaker 1: it's already taken off.

3:47 Speaker 4: Yeah, as you have finished. Yeah, it's been a great response.

3:50 Speaker 4: Getting played on sort of national radio is always a

3:53 Speaker 4: great win. It's just about being able to extend out

3:56 Speaker 4: to people who have maybe never heard of us before.

3:58 Speaker 4: So obviously things like this is a big help because

4:00 Speaker 4: you know, we're from like you can put across.

4:02 Speaker 1: The water, that's right. Yeah, absolutely. Now, have you guys

4:06 Speaker 1: been in Have you guys both been been in bands

4:08 Speaker 1: before this? I assume you have. It sounds like you've

4:10 Speaker 1: both you know, got's my experience at this.

4:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, Well me and Evan actually bring our first ever

4:17 Speaker 3: band together back for you kids. Yeah. Yeah, there's so

4:22 Speaker 3: many poor renditions of Beatles tracks where so we started

4:27 Speaker 3: from there and we've been doing it for years now.

4:29 Speaker 1: Oh wow, So having started together so young, there's probably

4:35 Speaker 1: kind of almost an intuition right in terms of collaborating

4:38 Speaker 1: in terms of making music. I would assume that it's

4:42 Speaker 1: very that it's very easy at this point and otherwise, Yeah,

4:45 Speaker 1: after all these years.

4:47 Speaker 4: Natural chemistry which like words, calm't truly explain.

4:50 Speaker 2: It just happens within that moment, which what that's what

4:52 Speaker 2: makes it so special.

4:54 Speaker 5: Same with our drummer Toom as well, that I've been

4:56 Speaker 5: playing in bands with Thom since about thirteen fourteen, so

4:59 Speaker 5: we've got that me and we were playing for that

5:02 Speaker 5: long together. Well we know which we know works together,

5:04 Speaker 5: you know what I mean. So it's just it all

5:06 Speaker 5: falls into place really easily.

5:08 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's great. That's great. Now, what about the

5:10 Speaker 1: other guys, because there's there's five of you in the band, correct,

5:13 Speaker 1: it's a five piece yeah, pie. Now, now how did

5:17 Speaker 1: the how did the rest of the band come together?

5:19 Speaker 1: Because I assume the two of you were the nucleus

5:22 Speaker 1: in the beginning, right and then and then you brought

5:24 Speaker 1: in other people or how did the band? How did

5:26 Speaker 1: the band become a band?

5:28 Speaker 4: So the main trio originally was me empty and some

5:32 Speaker 4: like we went to high school together kind of thing,

5:34 Speaker 4: and then the likes of Darcy and Adams. So Darcy's

5:37 Speaker 4: younger brother, Zaki is one of our best mates. He's

5:40 Speaker 4: the same mate, so gast And ended up joining and

5:42 Speaker 4: then Adam was in other bands as well, like we'll

5:44 Speaker 4: they were both in other bands, and then we kind

5:46 Speaker 4: of just like they collided together for a band called Riverstone,

5:50 Speaker 4: and then after that I then joined the band.

5:52 Speaker 2: It's like a sort of new alias of skout kind

5:54 Speaker 2: of thing. And then like the rebirth of the sort

5:56 Speaker 2: of the band.

5:57 Speaker 4: So these were going for a good couple of years

5:59 Speaker 4: before as well with a separate band who were unreal

6:02 Speaker 4: like you know what I mean.

6:03 Speaker 2: It was over the past few years really, but.

6:07 Speaker 1: It sounds like this project again because it hasn't been

6:10 Speaker 1: around for too too long. So it sounds like it

6:12 Speaker 1: came together pretty quickly, right once you had all the

6:14 Speaker 1: Once you had all the pieces of the puzzle together,

6:16 Speaker 1: it really gelled fast.

6:18 Speaker 4: Well, yeah, we were all friends previously as well, So

6:20 Speaker 4: I think when your friends were something like you know,

6:22 Speaker 4: you can go out for a drink with them.

6:23 Speaker 2: And you can go spend time with him. You kind

6:25 Speaker 2: of know them then. So it makes life in the

6:27 Speaker 2: practice room a lot easier at.

6:29 Speaker 4: The same time harder when you know what I mean,

6:31 Speaker 4: someone's had a worse day than other. But that's that's

6:33 Speaker 4: the beauty of it, Like you know what I mean,

6:34 Speaker 4: you have to have that sort of piece.

6:36 Speaker 3: We all are.

6:36 Speaker 5: We're all really cloks made and we are row brothers,

6:38 Speaker 5: and I think that's same. I think if you could,

6:42 Speaker 5: if you saw his live, it shows outside the band

6:46 Speaker 5: as well. You know, it shows out We really jelled

6:49 Speaker 5: to everyone we're playing live. Because you can spot bands

6:51 Speaker 5: a mile away when they play. Ay, you can sell

6:54 Speaker 5: to just a group of people who.

6:55 Speaker 3: Meet up in a room every now and then go

6:57 Speaker 3: play a gig.

6:57 Speaker 5: You know, there's no there's no like brotherly chemistry to it.

7:00 Speaker 5: Whereas we did, we have that you know what I mean.

7:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes such a huge difference. I just know

7:06 Speaker 1: from my own experience playing in bands, when you actually

7:08 Speaker 1: have a genuine friendship with the people you're in the

7:11 Speaker 1: band with it, it makes all the difference in the world.

7:13 Speaker 1: You know, you could have you could have great songs

7:15 Speaker 1: and great everything, right, but if you're not, if you're

7:18 Speaker 1: not friends, it's not gonna last, you know. So that's

7:24 Speaker 1: that's really good. And then now I read something too

7:27 Speaker 1: about you guys. Are are you guys doing this independently

7:29 Speaker 1: or are you actually you're because I see something here

7:32 Speaker 1: about Snowdonia Records. Are you signed to a label?

7:35 Speaker 2: Oh?

7:36 Speaker 4: So there's a long story on that behind that one

7:38 Speaker 4: that was like a previous thing.

7:39 Speaker 2: We're not working with people of like Noisy Neighbors. We

7:42 Speaker 2: believe in Roadhouse.

7:43 Speaker 4: Okay, so the Noisy Neighbors and we believe in a

7:47 Speaker 4: few other partners have joined together to create this Roadhouse

7:49 Speaker 4: and it's like they sort of have like sort of yeah,

7:54 Speaker 4: a few bands on the roster, like and then you're

7:56 Speaker 4: sort of all around the country. So it's like a

7:58 Speaker 4: new it's a new leaf for us kind of thing,

8:00 Speaker 4: a chance to be able to sort of take over

8:02 Speaker 4: cities like Liverpool, which is like our closest one in

8:05 Speaker 4: Manchester as well. Quite lucky to be Winsford because we

8:08 Speaker 4: are like a sandwich between two of the greatest musical

8:11 Speaker 4: cities this earth ever had, you know what I mean,

8:12 Speaker 4: And we have like a beautiful combination of the pair

8:15 Speaker 4: of them, and that's sort of predominantly where our sounds

8:18 Speaker 4: come from, you know what I mean.

8:19 Speaker 2: It's it's all very British based sort of.

8:23 Speaker 1: Now when you talk about the two cities. So for

8:26 Speaker 1: for our American listeners, we're in Manchester, but we're in Manchester,

8:30 Speaker 1: New Hampshire in the US of course. So when you

8:34 Speaker 1: talk about the two cities, what two cities are you

8:35 Speaker 1: speaking of specifically, if everyone's clear, Manchester and Liverpool.

8:40 Speaker 4: Yeah, so we've got like a Manchester over here, which

8:42 Speaker 4: is a big northern city.

8:44 Speaker 2: You obviously got bands like Oasis, the Stone Roses, and then.

8:46 Speaker 4: Liverpool is obviously the birthplace with the Beatles and many

8:49 Speaker 4: other great bands at the real.

8:50 Speaker 2: People as UTAs you know what I mean.

8:52 Speaker 4: Yeah, the Lares, Yeah, yeah, of our biggest you know

8:54 Speaker 4: what I mean, it's like they are the coolest. There's

8:57 Speaker 4: a cool scene that's always been going around here for

8:59 Speaker 4: many years, and especially within our little town of Winsford,

9:02 Speaker 4: Like we've had we've had a couple of venues where

9:04 Speaker 4: we've had like bands coming through and that's what sort

9:07 Speaker 4: of influenced those from being so young, is just being

9:09 Speaker 4: introduced to the cool side of music and just the

9:12 Speaker 4: realness of being like true to your craft, being honest

9:15 Speaker 4: about what you say, being like full focused into the music,

9:18 Speaker 4: and just like it's it's it's a feeling that not

9:20 Speaker 4: many people can truly appreciate because you've never grown up

9:23 Speaker 4: around it, you know.

9:23 Speaker 2: What I mean?

9:24 Speaker 1: Right, right, So, geographically, you're in a great place in

9:28 Speaker 1: terms of yeah.

9:30 Speaker 2: In the heart of the country, you know what I mean.

9:32 Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that's fantastic. Yeah, And I mean, is there

9:37 Speaker 1: I don't know if this is a strange question, but

9:38 Speaker 1: I'll ask it. Is there any kind of pressure that

9:40 Speaker 1: comes with that in terms of where you are geographically?

9:43 Speaker 1: Is there like a pressure to be really good because

9:48 Speaker 1: you know, there is so much great those two cities,

9:51 Speaker 1: Like you said this, you know, in terms of the

9:54 Speaker 1: musical output from those those cities, I mean, is there

9:57 Speaker 1: a pressure that comes with that being kind of sandwiched

9:59 Speaker 1: but between them. Like you, you have to be great

10:02 Speaker 1: in order to in order for people to take you seriously.

10:04 Speaker 1: You can't just be good. You've got to be really,

10:06 Speaker 1: really good.

10:08 Speaker 3: I don't know.

10:09 Speaker 5: I don't think we do you feel any pressures to

10:10 Speaker 5: be honest, I mean, yeah, the bands that we've grown

10:13 Speaker 5: up listening to for our Northwest of England, you know,

10:15 Speaker 5: we are inspired by them, but there's a lot of

10:18 Speaker 5: good young bands around at a minute. The all fit

10:20 Speaker 5: Insight scenes and you know, scenes of Liverpool, scenes in Manchester.

10:23 Speaker 3: But we're not concerned anybody else but ourselves.

10:27 Speaker 5: If we don't want to be, you know, put ourselves

10:29 Speaker 5: into a box of sounds a certain way to fit

10:31 Speaker 5: into a certain scene.

10:32 Speaker 3: We just want to do our thing and that's all

10:33 Speaker 3: we're bothered about.

10:34 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that makes sense. I think that's a healthy

10:37 Speaker 1: way to approach it, right, just you know, don't you know,

10:39 Speaker 1: Rather than worrying about what everyone else is doing, worry

10:42 Speaker 1: about what you're doing and doing it the best that

10:43 Speaker 1: you can. And obviously you guys are off to a

10:45 Speaker 1: fantastic start, so you're you've clearly got the right attitude

10:48 Speaker 1: and the right approach. I'm curious about what you guys

10:52 Speaker 1: have learned? You probably, I mean, you can tell the

10:56 Speaker 1: story if you want to. I'd love to hear it,

10:57 Speaker 1: but I don't know if you want to get into that.

10:59 Speaker 1: But but you men, there's there's a bit of a

11:01 Speaker 1: story with your previous label. But I'll ask the question

11:04 Speaker 1: this way, just more broadly, what have you guys in

11:06 Speaker 1: the short time that you guys have been together as

11:08 Speaker 1: a band? What have you learned business wise, industry wise?

11:13 Speaker 1: And and maybe even have there been some surprises along

11:15 Speaker 1: the way, because it sounds like you've already been through

11:17 Speaker 1: some things and now you're on a very positive path.

11:20 Speaker 1: But it sounds like you you might have hit a

11:22 Speaker 1: speed bump or two. I don't know if they call

11:24 Speaker 1: them speed bumps in the UK, but oh, there's always.

11:28 Speaker 2: Speed bumps in the road. There's always pathways that you

11:30 Speaker 2: can lead down.

11:30 Speaker 4: And the yeah, promise and did like at the end

11:34 Speaker 4: of the day, like when we did it, it did

11:35 Speaker 4: the little we had things that worked well. It was

11:37 Speaker 4: just a differences of like sort of models and understandings

11:41 Speaker 4: and things, and like you have to stay true to

11:43 Speaker 4: your word and stay true to what you believe in

11:45 Speaker 4: when you do stuff like this, so if you're mixing

11:47 Speaker 4: with people who don't quite have that same thing, and

11:51 Speaker 4: then you witness people for like kind of who they

11:53 Speaker 4: truly are at times, and.

11:54 Speaker 5: I think I think a lot of our speed bumps

11:56 Speaker 5: has come down to him lack of.

11:59 Speaker 3: Knowledge of the industy.

12:00 Speaker 5: M being back beyond in the ears in that regard,

12:03 Speaker 5: not in regards to music, but in regard to the industry.

12:06 Speaker 5: But we've got a good team working behind us now

12:08 Speaker 5: and it's looking pretty good for the future.

12:10 Speaker 3: But I think next year is going to be a

12:11 Speaker 3: good year for us.

12:12 Speaker 4: And there's a lot of people in the pipelines as

12:14 Speaker 4: well and on the underground of an underlayer, like people

12:17 Speaker 4: within the industry and very respective people within the industry

12:20 Speaker 4: who have.

12:20 Speaker 2: Like obviously like close to us.

12:22 Speaker 4: You will also give us a help and add along

12:23 Speaker 4: the way you I mean, you can advise you and

12:26 Speaker 4: tell you how it truly is from an aspect where

12:29 Speaker 4: we may not understand, but from a viewpoint of people

12:32 Speaker 4: who are probably working class like us growing up and

12:34 Speaker 4: then had to deal with this sort of big industry

12:36 Speaker 4: where there's a lot of money and there's a lot

12:38 Speaker 4: of pressure and a lot of power. But we don't

12:41 Speaker 4: feel no pressure currently, like so it's one of them.

12:43 Speaker 4: You just have to wing getting to see how you

12:45 Speaker 4: get on dot.

12:46 Speaker 1: No, that's great. I think you've got the right approach.

12:49 Speaker 1: And and it's so important too to have a good

12:51 Speaker 1: team around you and to have people that you can trust,

12:53 Speaker 1: because yeah, you know, there's a lot of you know,

12:58 Speaker 1: there's there's there's a lot of people in the industy

13:00 Speaker 1: who maybe are not trustworthy. Of course it's the entertainment industry.

13:03 Speaker 1: There's also some people who you know, maybe they mean well,

13:07 Speaker 1: but they don't maybe quite quite have you know, as

13:10 Speaker 1: you said, the knowledge, yeah, to be really helpful and

13:14 Speaker 1: to and to support you. And uh so it sounds like, yeah,

13:18 Speaker 1: it sounds like you've got a great team and it

13:20 Speaker 1: sounds like too, so there's it sounds like there's also

13:22 Speaker 1: other bands that you I mean, do you play out

13:24 Speaker 1: Are there certain bands that you guys share the stage

13:27 Speaker 1: with a lot or what what is the live situation there?

13:30 Speaker 1: Are you? Are you playing a lot of shows? Have

13:31 Speaker 1: you been doing festivals this summer? Like, what's what's the

13:34 Speaker 1: touring situation over there?

13:36 Speaker 4: It's been sill early days, Like we've had a few

13:38 Speaker 4: obviously at the least party for our second single, like

13:41 Speaker 4: we did the Whites and that was a good night.

13:43 Speaker 4: We had like qualms in our Matland support. And we

13:46 Speaker 4: have a regular sort of Scottish band that we play

13:48 Speaker 4: with called ocean Views. It's like we met them playing

13:52 Speaker 4: a festival on like the Island but which is like

13:54 Speaker 4: a little Scottish island a few years ago.

13:56 Speaker 2: Yeah, and we do it. We do like a so

13:59 Speaker 2: we like a venue up in where we're from.

14:01 Speaker 4: At Winston called the Delamey Dog, and then we do

14:04 Speaker 4: like a thing called Stalloween, which is like a big

14:06 Speaker 4: Halloween party.

14:07 Speaker 2: We do a big gig obviously, everyone dresses up and

14:10 Speaker 2: like that.

14:10 Speaker 4: Like ocean Views are like a traditional character and an

14:13 Speaker 4: integral part of that with us, you know what I mean.

14:16 Speaker 1: Oh, that's very cool, and that's so important to getting

14:19 Speaker 1: to play festivals because uh, not only does it give

14:22 Speaker 1: you an opportunity to be in front of an audience

14:24 Speaker 1: who might not some of who might not be aware

14:26 Speaker 1: of you, but also the networking opportunities and you know

14:29 Speaker 1: involved in those types of situations are unparalleled. You know,

14:32 Speaker 1: you'll you'll never get a better chance than when you're

14:34 Speaker 1: at a festival to really meet a lot of people,

14:37 Speaker 1: meet other bands, meet other people in the industry. That's great.

14:41 Speaker 5: Well, networking is just as a supporting this music in

14:45 Speaker 5: talking to people and getting people on board of what

14:49 Speaker 5: you're doing and you know, creating a buzz around yourself

14:52 Speaker 5: speaking to people at gigs and just generally being friendly

14:56 Speaker 5: and talking to people and checking out their bonds rather

14:59 Speaker 5: than being like arrogant and thinking, yeah, we're rock and roll,

15:02 Speaker 5: may we don't need to speak to people and kill

15:05 Speaker 5: you know, it's that way.

15:08 Speaker 3: I think that works against you a lot of the

15:09 Speaker 3: time these days.

15:10 Speaker 5: So it's good to you know, show your face and

15:12 Speaker 5: speak to people, like saying networking and.

15:14 Speaker 3: Just be real, you know what I mean.

15:15 Speaker 2: Like it's that we do it because we love it,

15:17 Speaker 2: you know what I mean.

15:18 Speaker 4: You see, you can say you can you can sell

15:19 Speaker 4: a black artist from a mile away, you can tell

15:21 Speaker 4: a fake, you know what I mean. It's like, if

15:23 Speaker 4: you do it, you do it because you love it

15:24 Speaker 4: and you want to be able to do it and

15:26 Speaker 4: you want to have that passion.

15:27 Speaker 2: And then when you meet like minded people like that,

15:29 Speaker 2: then that natural connection and chemistry just works, you know

15:32 Speaker 2: what I mean.

15:33 Speaker 3: That's what it's about.

15:33 Speaker 5: Those natural connection. That's what music is. It speaks for

15:36 Speaker 5: the soul, doesn't it. You know, it's a universal language.

15:39 Speaker 3: Music is when you find up, then you know it's good,

15:43 Speaker 3: isn't it? Yeah?

15:44 Speaker 2: One?

15:45 Speaker 1: Absolutely? Hey. By the way, what's the correct way to

15:47 Speaker 1: pronounce your name? Is it?

15:49 Speaker 3: Is?

15:49 Speaker 1: It? Is it skall? I was saying skall? Is that correct? Or?

15:52 Speaker 1: Am I awful little bit?

15:54 Speaker 3: So?

15:54 Speaker 4: I think I think with the American accent, maybe skull,

15:56 Speaker 4: but we see scalped so it's like it's like, so

15:59 Speaker 4: they a lingo like, which is if you were a scaley.

16:03 Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of.

16:03 Speaker 4: What the counterpoint would be for that. But at the

16:07 Speaker 4: same time, it's Swedish for reason, cause and motive.

16:11 Speaker 3: That's what the music. That's why we do it music.

16:16 Speaker 1: Oh I like that. That's that's cool. Okay, So so technically, okay,

16:19 Speaker 1: so I am off a little bit. So scal is

16:22 Speaker 1: that closer?

16:23 Speaker 3: Yeah?

16:24 Speaker 2: Yeah, ill you know what I mean?

16:26 Speaker 4: But we can't we can't say that if we have

16:29 Speaker 4: to drop the two lots, but we will put it.

16:31 Speaker 1: Scal Yeah, scal Okay, Okay, good, I'm glad I asked.

16:34 Speaker 1: I wasn't I wasn't one hundred percent sure. Do you

16:38 Speaker 1: ever see it? Do people ever get it wrong? Like

16:41 Speaker 1: on on poster? Is there anything do they do they

16:44 Speaker 1: leave out? Because uh, because of the way the A is.

16:48 Speaker 1: Do people ever mess that up?

16:49 Speaker 2: Okay, well we're not too fuss like you know what

16:51 Speaker 2: I mean that like, it's yeah, it's one of them.

16:56 Speaker 4: If anything, the correct way to spell the way we

16:58 Speaker 4: say it would be without it. But when you do

17:00 Speaker 4: some fans and you have them two dots at the top,

17:02 Speaker 4: it looks pretty funky.

17:03 Speaker 5: Yeah, if you don't know us and they don't know

17:04 Speaker 5: how to save the name properly. After we've watched us live,

17:06 Speaker 5: the definitely all are.

17:09 Speaker 1: Outstanding. Outstanding. Well, now, so what's next for you guys? So, uh,

17:14 Speaker 1: you know you've got the two singles out, what's what's

17:16 Speaker 1: the next thing that we should be looking for from you?

17:19 Speaker 3: Thank you?

17:20 Speaker 5: We've got this live studio session thing that we're going

17:22 Speaker 5: to be doing. Okay this year, hopefully get back in

17:26 Speaker 5: the studio, get.

17:26 Speaker 3: Another single in the pipeline.

17:28 Speaker 5: But at the moment, it's preparing for next year. Hopefully

17:32 Speaker 5: it's going to be a really good year for us.

17:34 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, outstanding. No, we look forward to uh, we

17:37 Speaker 1: look forward to keeping track of everything that you do. Which,

17:39 Speaker 1: by the way, my other question about that, where is

17:42 Speaker 1: the best place for people to go online to keep

17:44 Speaker 1: up with everything that you guys are doing.

17:47 Speaker 2: Instagram's always good. We need to get to the modern

17:50 Speaker 2: world and develop a TikTok, you know what I mean.

17:52 Speaker 4: We've got an account too much any streaming services, but

17:57 Speaker 4: the best one for now once we do this live

17:59 Speaker 4: session was make sure to keep an eye out on SoundCloud. Okay,

18:02 Speaker 4: the sound it's the really true underground sort of music.

18:05 Speaker 2: Like you know what I mean.

18:06 Speaker 4: I've seen the recently did something where they're like helping

18:09 Speaker 4: some like certain artists to release records and singles and stuff.

18:12 Speaker 4: So they're doing something that's helping out with the industry.

18:15 Speaker 4: And yeah, there'll certainly be a few bits and bobs

18:17 Speaker 4: on there, but the Instagram, TikTok and the SoundCloud, and

18:20 Speaker 4: obviously you know what I mean, you can Spotify Spotify.

18:23 Speaker 1: Yeah, outstanding, outstanding Well, Evan and Jack. I want to

18:27 Speaker 1: thank both of you so much for joining us today.

18:29 Speaker 1: And in a moment we're going to play this track

18:30 Speaker 1: all of the People, which is the first single. Anything

18:33 Speaker 1: we should know about this track this is another really

18:35 Speaker 1: great song, and anything we should know about it or

18:38 Speaker 1: what it's about or anything.

18:40 Speaker 4: Well, we wrote both of these songs at the same time,

18:43 Speaker 4: about sixty seventeen, and they were all just kind of

18:45 Speaker 4: about that age where you're sort of like so in

18:48 Speaker 4: Swear about You Manchester, New.

18:49 Speaker 1: Hampshire, Manchester, New I'm sure, yeah.

18:53 Speaker 2: So is is it's kind of it's legal over there?

18:57 Speaker 1: What say that again?

18:59 Speaker 2: Is the is like the album Mary Jane legalong with that?

19:02 Speaker 1: Oh oh well, oh well, well, okay, interesting interesting, uh

19:06 Speaker 1: interesting question because so, uh no, in in the state

19:10 Speaker 1: of New Hampshire. Now we're surrounded by places where it's legal,

19:13 Speaker 1: all the surrounding states and Canada, which borders us to

19:16 Speaker 1: our north, it is legal in New Hampshire. We have

19:19 Speaker 1: d CREM decriminalization. So uh oh yeah, so we have that.

19:24 Speaker 1: It's sort of like a like a light legalization in

19:28 Speaker 1: a sense we're medical.

19:30 Speaker 2: It's very frowned upon.

19:31 Speaker 4: But yeah, for a period it was just a pound

19:33 Speaker 4: of like writing song as well, when you were just

19:35 Speaker 4: sort of like looking around at people who just sort

19:37 Speaker 4: of maybe seem like didn't want you're there.

19:38 Speaker 2: You felt like you were.

19:39 Speaker 4: Sort of like trying to understand the grass of the

19:42 Speaker 4: roughness of life and the underground thing that obviously can

19:45 Speaker 4: be taboo to a lot of people.

19:46 Speaker 2: You know what I mean?

19:47 Speaker 4: Sure, but right and like making sense of it before

19:50 Speaker 4: we truly understood it.

19:51 Speaker 1: If you get what I mean, I do, I do.

19:53 Speaker 1: And by the way, uh, most, according Topoling, most Americans

19:57 Speaker 1: seem to think that it should be fully legal here. Uh,

20:00 Speaker 1: we just happen to live in a state that's a

20:01 Speaker 1: little behind on that, one of.

20:04 Speaker 2: The few that's a little behind on it because the

20:06 Speaker 2: majority of the country is already there.

20:08 Speaker 1: That's true, a majority of the country is already there.

20:10 Speaker 4: So but uh yeah, those people it doesn't make you

20:13 Speaker 4: like alcohols rouse you up?

20:16 Speaker 1: Oh yeah alcohol alcohol is state makes so much money

20:21 Speaker 1: off of alcohol. Oh yeah, that they love. It's totally twisted.

20:27 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we have state liquor stores on the whole deal.

20:29 Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, it's it's it's uh, there's a lot

20:33 Speaker 1: of there's a lot of things over here that were

20:35 Speaker 1: a little uh out of whack. But uh anyway, well

20:38 Speaker 1: guys again, Evan and Jack, thank you both so much.

20:40 Speaker 1: We're gonna hit this track and we'll let you go

20:42 Speaker 1: for now. But we will uh. We'll definitely talk again

20:44 Speaker 1: in the near future because we want to. We're fans

20:47 Speaker 1: and we want to keep track of everything that you're doing.

20:48 Speaker 1: So we appreciate you joining us today for.

20:53 Speaker 3: Appreciate it absolutely.

20:55 Speaker 1: Okay, thanks guys, Stake care. Listen to them all right,

21:00 Speaker 1: I was listen to them all day. Yeah. So that's

21:04 Speaker 1: Jack and Evan from the band SCAL. I was pronouncing

21:08 Speaker 1: it a little bit off, but we're gonna hit this track.

21:10 Speaker 1: This is called all of the People. This is uh,

21:12 Speaker 1: this is such a great song. Later in the show

21:14 Speaker 1: we'll probably play the Whites again to the newest single,

21:17 Speaker 1: but give this a spin. This is really good. All

21:19 Speaker 1: of the People. The band is Scal