Stephen Decuire | Matt Connarton Unleashed

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0:40 Speaker 2: Looking back. Eat all these smell momies those my I

0:47 Speaker 2: see you're so fifty.

0:52 Speaker 1: Here fray and see.

0:55 Speaker 2: Go and.

0:58 Speaker 3: That's a smell I'll never forget.

1:05 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh, mad line.

1:25 Speaker 3: Sometimes I cry because I wish you will be.

1:31 Speaker 1: Right by my sign and you tattooed. Don't be now,

1:37 Speaker 1: you'll never.

1:40 Speaker 5: We ran out a side a mad line, mad lie.

2:11 Speaker 2: Morning rides in the bhard scene hotel, Splain why you

2:19 Speaker 2: sing into me? It's been so long since you've been over.

2:28 Speaker 1: Those we can fears. It still overwhelmed me. Oh yeah,

2:45 Speaker 1: h oh man lie.

2:56 Speaker 2: Sometimes I cry because I wish you he.

3:02 Speaker 6: Rabama sign and you tattude on me.

3:07 Speaker 1: Now your lover.

3:10 Speaker 7: We ran out oside a man a line, matter line,

3:41 Speaker 7: know your hair off.

3:43 Speaker 2: From more side, Give me my look, gizas of romatize.

3:53 Speaker 1: One, give a place, you your one a backay your

3:59 Speaker 1: long is ye my matter line? Oh yeah home, mad line.

4:26 Speaker 2: Sometimes I cry because I wish you will hear.

4:32 Speaker 5: Rap on my.

4:33 Speaker 1: Side and you attute. Don't be now you never.

4:41 Speaker 8: We ran out of side a mad line, madter line,

4:58 Speaker 8: mad line.

5:25 Speaker 9: I love that that is called Matteline. That is Stephen

5:29 Speaker 9: de Cure and he is here with us and we're

5:31 Speaker 9: gonna talk with him in just a moment. Welcome everybody.

5:33 Speaker 9: We have entered our number two New Marrow dose of

5:36 Speaker 9: Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios

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5:53 Speaker 9: Connorton dot live and there's a brand new site coming

5:57 Speaker 9: specifically devoted to the show, so keep an eye out

6:00 Speaker 9: for that. And Jenny is here, of course at the

6:02 Speaker 9: news table accounted for. I love that song. Oh yeah,

6:06 Speaker 9: I do too. That is really really good. And Stephen

6:09 Speaker 9: de Cura is here.

6:10 Speaker 10: Welcome, Thank you guys very much. Are you guys doing good?

6:12 Speaker 9: Good? Am I saying your name correctly?

6:14 Speaker 10: Correctly?

6:15 Speaker 1: So?

6:15 Speaker 9: I thought, so. I just want to make sure because

6:16 Speaker 9: I remember that was a discussion last time you were here.

6:18 Speaker 9: I was like, is it to cure? Is it to cure? Yeah?

6:22 Speaker 9: What is the what is the strangest I guess would

6:26 Speaker 9: be the way to put it, uh iteration of your

6:29 Speaker 9: name that.

6:29 Speaker 10: You've heard I've gotten. I've gotten a lot I've gotten.

6:34 Speaker 10: I used to got called you know one that I'm

6:37 Speaker 10: sure you could guess in high school.

6:40 Speaker 9: Okay, gotcha, gotcha, I've been.

6:42 Speaker 10: I've been called everything under the book by the last thing.

6:44 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, do you ever have you ever seen it misspelled.

6:47 Speaker 10: On a like on a poster when I've had a

6:49 Speaker 10: Q in it before, they've put they've put a V

6:52 Speaker 10: in it before. Really Yeah, I don't know where they

6:55 Speaker 10: got that.

6:55 Speaker 9: Yeah I don't. I don't either. Oh, that's funny. That's funny.

6:59 Speaker 9: So uh this so and thank you for reading these.

7:01 Speaker 9: By the way, they do ep oh I should too.

7:03 Speaker 9: For those who are watching on YouTube or Facebook or wherever,

7:08 Speaker 9: I'll hold that up for everybody. Uh, this is the

7:10 Speaker 9: uh oh yeah, you've got one there Actually that cameras

7:13 Speaker 9: you know what, I can actually zoom in on that

7:15 Speaker 9: camera for people who are watching the program. Let me

7:19 Speaker 9: see here. Well, well, oh I just went way off,

7:25 Speaker 9: way off. Let me fix that if I can. Oh, no,

7:29 Speaker 9: what have I done?

7:30 Speaker 11: I just.

7:33 Speaker 9: I think I just completely screwed this up. I love it.

7:40 Speaker 10: Enough. Caffeine.

7:41 Speaker 9: Wow, I'll tell you what.

7:42 Speaker 12: Here we go.

7:43 Speaker 9: I apologize to are audio listening on his caffeine morning.

7:47 Speaker 9: It is showing it is a radio show, but somehow

7:51 Speaker 9: I can't seem to Uh, okay, let me try this again.

7:54 Speaker 9: He's lost in the room. Let me try this again.

7:58 Speaker 9: Here we go. Okay, so I am zooming in. For

8:01 Speaker 9: those of you who are listening strictly to the audio,

8:03 Speaker 9: I have to tell you what's going on. I'm zooming

8:05 Speaker 9: in on the Stephen is holding up his new EP

8:11 Speaker 9: called Toward the Sun, and there's the back of it.

8:14 Speaker 9: Very very good, very good. All right, now that we've

8:17 Speaker 9: finally I've accomplished that, I will zoom out very carefully.

8:22 Speaker 9: Why did this come out seven? Or is it out?

8:23 Speaker 4: So?

8:24 Speaker 10: This is actually coming out next Friday, April twenty fourth,

8:28 Speaker 10: at twelve am. It'll be live on all music platforms

8:31 Speaker 10: and I also have CDs available as you just saw,

8:33 Speaker 10: yes t shirts the whole nine yards. April twenty fifth,

8:38 Speaker 10: I'm having an alburbnm lease party at Brownie's Pub in

8:40 Speaker 10: the futin mass I'll be playing there seven to ten pm,

8:43 Speaker 10: so I will be having all the merch there, so

8:46 Speaker 10: if anybody wants to come out and check it out

8:48 Speaker 10: and get to grab a copy. Please come on out.

8:50 Speaker 10: You're more than welcome.

8:50 Speaker 9: Outstanding, outstanding. So why did you decide to do an

8:54 Speaker 9: acoustic EP? What went into that decision?

8:56 Speaker 10: So this is the first EP I've ever done. This

8:59 Speaker 10: is the first I've ever recorded music in my entire life.

9:02 Speaker 1: Oh wow.

9:03 Speaker 10: So Towards the Sun was the first song that I

9:05 Speaker 10: ever written and recorded and I ended up getting that

9:10 Speaker 10: released on ninety two point five the River in Boston, Massachusetts.

9:13 Speaker 10: Oh yes, and that was last September that I got

9:16 Speaker 10: that released on the Homegrown series.

9:18 Speaker 9: And that's great too. You know we we should mention

9:21 Speaker 9: that too. That's because that's a big accomplishment because obviously

9:24 Speaker 9: they get I know this for a fact, they get

9:26 Speaker 9: a lot of submissions they you.

9:28 Speaker 10: Know, it's funny. I randomly just sent it in yeah

9:32 Speaker 10: and hoping, hoping for the best, and you get an

9:34 Speaker 10: email back right away. They said, listen, we get a

9:36 Speaker 10: thousand submissions a day. Oh if if we don't respond

9:40 Speaker 10: to you in a month, don't keep sending us the

9:41 Speaker 10: same song. So a month later, before a gig, I

9:44 Speaker 10: got an email from them and said, hey, congratulations, we

9:46 Speaker 10: love your song. We're going to play it. I was like,

9:49 Speaker 10: this is great. So then afterwards they told me any

9:51 Speaker 10: any other music you have, please send it inm will

9:53 Speaker 10: play it for you.

9:54 Speaker 9: Outstanding. Yeah, outstanding.

9:57 Speaker 10: So I'll be trying to get some more back on

9:58 Speaker 10: the radio. Yeah this year as well.

10:00 Speaker 9: Oh, very good, very good. So yeah, so when you

10:04 Speaker 9: were with us last time, I think you just played live,

10:06 Speaker 9: right I did.

10:06 Speaker 10: I did play it live, Okay, okay, yeah, I think

10:08 Speaker 10: we did play Everybody's changing and towards us on on

10:11 Speaker 10: the air as well.

10:12 Speaker 9: Okay, okay, gotcha. Yeah. I love that that song, Madeline,

10:17 Speaker 9: that's really good.

10:18 Speaker 10: That's all about my grandmother.

10:20 Speaker 9: Oh okay, okay.

10:22 Speaker 10: So the line in the song you're tattooed on me,

10:24 Speaker 10: you'll never leave because she's always she's oh so she

10:27 Speaker 10: never got to see me play a show. So yeah,

10:30 Speaker 10: now she gets to see every show.

10:31 Speaker 9: Right right?

10:32 Speaker 13: Yeah?

10:33 Speaker 9: Yeah, I gotcha. I gotcha. Well that's uh, that's amazing.

10:37 Speaker 9: So where did you record this because and we were

10:39 Speaker 9: talking earlier about your producer. Yeah, you have a producer

10:42 Speaker 9: you work with Yep, Charlie Barusso.

10:44 Speaker 10: He is the owner of Woodshot Productions over in Atkinson,

10:47 Speaker 10: New Hampshire. Okay, and I started working with him about

10:51 Speaker 10: two and a half years ago. It's a but how

10:53 Speaker 10: long I've been working on the CP Yeah. Yeah, And

10:57 Speaker 10: you know, I went in there, he's he was great.

11:00 Speaker 10: Told him, Hey, I want to learn everything i can.

11:02 Speaker 10: This is the first time I'm doing this, you know,

11:05 Speaker 10: teach me everything, you know. And he just worked with me.

11:08 Speaker 10: He was very easy going, going through the motions and

11:12 Speaker 10: teaching me how to, you know, keep a click track

11:14 Speaker 10: and all those fun things. But yeah, he's is a

11:19 Speaker 10: great He is a great guy. He has an amazing studio.

11:22 Speaker 10: All the equipment there is absolutely professional and standing.

11:26 Speaker 9: Yeah, how how did you how did you decide to

11:28 Speaker 9: work with him? Because you've got so many options as

11:31 Speaker 9: so many.

11:31 Speaker 10: Studio He was recommended by a couple close friends of

11:34 Speaker 10: mine and the family. He's done some work with a

11:38 Speaker 10: few of my friends like Lee Richard's and a few

11:41 Speaker 10: other people that I know, Okay, mostly friends of the

11:43 Speaker 10: family though, Okay, told me, hey, you should work with him.

11:46 Speaker 10: He's great. I went in there, recorded towards the son.

11:48 Speaker 10: He goes, hey, you should throw an EP together. He goes,

11:51 Speaker 10: you have what it takes for it? Yeah, yeah, Okay,

11:54 Speaker 10: he goes come back with like five more songs if

11:56 Speaker 10: you can.

11:56 Speaker 9: Okay, okay, yep, fantastic. So what I mean and in

12:00 Speaker 9: terms of time, how long did it take to do

12:02 Speaker 9: to record those five songs?

12:04 Speaker 10: So the record all five of those songs, I mean,

12:07 Speaker 10: I guess six total, but yeah, the six songs.

12:09 Speaker 9: I'm not.

12:11 Speaker 10: I'm a full time musician, as you guys know. So

12:14 Speaker 10: last year, this past year, I did over one hundred

12:17 Speaker 10: and eighty nine shows. Oh my god, over New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Tonya,

12:21 Speaker 10: all over the place.

12:22 Speaker 9: Good.

12:23 Speaker 10: So it took some time. Yeah, yeah, it took some time.

12:26 Speaker 10: It was about two and a half years that I've

12:28 Speaker 10: been working on this EP, okay, and it started out

12:30 Speaker 10: with Towards the Sun.

12:31 Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, well that's so. Is that the first single

12:35 Speaker 9: officially or that is.

12:36 Speaker 10: The first single officially? Towards the Sun?

12:38 Speaker 9: Well we should play that? What uh what do you

12:40 Speaker 9: want us to know about this before we give it

12:42 Speaker 9: a spend?

12:42 Speaker 10: So towards the Sun Basically, I got this idea in

12:45 Speaker 10: my head. I've had it for many many years now

12:47 Speaker 10: and just never knew how to put into words. But

12:49 Speaker 10: it's always about it's about, you know, having one Eye

12:51 Speaker 10: towards the Sun. No matter where you are in your life,

12:53 Speaker 10: whether you're here, there, high low, doing great, no matter

12:58 Speaker 10: where you are, you're always looking for something to better

13:01 Speaker 10: yourself and looking for you know, better change.

13:04 Speaker 9: Right right, No, that's good. It's a certainly a positive message.

13:08 Speaker 9: So has this been played anywhere on the radio? On Gotcha? Gotcha?

13:16 Speaker 9: But is this the same recording or is this a

13:18 Speaker 9: new recording?

13:19 Speaker 10: The this is the newest recording.

13:20 Speaker 9: This is the newest Okay, so it's a different version

13:22 Speaker 9: than the original.

13:23 Speaker 10: Yeah, it's pretty much the same though, just better better.

13:26 Speaker 9: This sounds better. Yeah, very cool, very cool. All right,

13:28 Speaker 9: let's give this a spend. This is Towards the Sun.

13:30 Speaker 9: This is the first single from from the acoustic ep

13:35 Speaker 9: uh one eye, Well, one Eye towards the Sun is

13:39 Speaker 9: of the of the EP, but Towards the Sun is

13:42 Speaker 9: the first single, all right from Stephen de Cure. Here

13:44 Speaker 9: it is.

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14:31 Speaker 14: loose talks to you me talk again about these things.

14:43 Speaker 1: We fell sit in on theckachin.

14:54 Speaker 11: Floor, shiver and snack from a cool glass job.

15:10 Speaker 1: Because I got out book. So I a son because

15:20 Speaker 1: I got fatsome fun in their fet that we fall

15:54 Speaker 1: and now sure I had new go.

16:04 Speaker 15: It's all loose line street to my face, not apter n',

16:16 Speaker 15: not the.

16:17 Speaker 1: Slap in the face.

16:24 Speaker 16: And now we standumble you in your place. I've said

16:35 Speaker 16: heaven lore the song and pa.

16:44 Speaker 17: Because I got one out of the uber songs.

16:48 Speaker 12: A song.

16:54 Speaker 17: Because I got one out of Uber father fun, because

17:04 Speaker 17: I got.

17:05 Speaker 12: Work old barn.

17:07 Speaker 1: It's all decided because I got old. It's all the.

17:18 Speaker 12: Son because I got don't want old, so I'll.

17:47 Speaker 1: Just son because I got old, fought someome far.

18:07 Speaker 2: Sunzaga open songs.

18:17 Speaker 4: A song.

18:21 Speaker 9: All right, that is towards the Sun. That is Stephen

18:24 Speaker 9: de Cure from his brand new acoustic EP, one Eye

18:28 Speaker 9: Towards the Sun, and that is of course the first single,

18:31 Speaker 9: and a different version of that had played on The

18:34 Speaker 9: River ninety two point five, which again that's a that's

18:37 Speaker 9: a big feather in your caps. Congratulations on that, Thank

18:39 Speaker 9: you very much. Absolutely so. You were just telling us

18:42 Speaker 9: off air that you are working on a full length.

18:44 Speaker 10: I am working on a full length album right now. Okay,

18:47 Speaker 10: I had not set of recording yet, but I do

18:49 Speaker 10: have about six or seven songs that are just about

18:52 Speaker 10: fully done and ready to go. Yeah, ready to get recorded.

18:55 Speaker 9: So do you plan to work at the same studio?

18:58 Speaker 10: I am, Yeah, I'm on fence a little bit. I'd

19:02 Speaker 10: like to explore my options too. Yeah, And I was

19:04 Speaker 10: also looking at a new studio in Milford called dream

19:07 Speaker 10: Track Studio. Okay, and I have a meeting that I'm

19:10 Speaker 10: supposed to set up with them and within a month

19:12 Speaker 10: or two, okay, talk about possibly doing a recording session there,

19:15 Speaker 10: maybe staying there for a month in their apartment and.

19:18 Speaker 9: Just oh no kidding, writing and recording in Milford, in Milford,

19:21 Speaker 9: New Hampshire. So I can't remember who we've talked about

19:25 Speaker 9: this with and who we haven't, but it's so weird

19:27 Speaker 9: to me in a good way. It's it's a cool

19:29 Speaker 9: thing that Milford for for those you know, because obviously

19:33 Speaker 9: we have a lot of listeners in the area, but

19:35 Speaker 9: we also have listeners online from all over the place.

19:38 Speaker 9: So for people who don't know, Milford is a relatively

19:40 Speaker 9: small town.

19:41 Speaker 10: It is very small, not a city.

19:42 Speaker 9: It's this little town, but I feel like it's it's

19:45 Speaker 9: almost like the epicenter of the music scene in New

19:49 Speaker 9: Hampshire because Milford comes up in so many conversations, this

19:54 Speaker 9: little town. But apparently there's a lot good that goes

19:57 Speaker 9: on in Milford in terms of music.

19:59 Speaker 10: I got my start in Milford.

20:01 Speaker 9: It's so weird and like, who would even expect that

20:05 Speaker 9: anyone would ever say that I got my start in Milford,

20:08 Speaker 9: this little town in New Hampshire. But it's got this

20:11 Speaker 9: vibrant music scene.

20:12 Speaker 10: And that's all thanks to Brad Bossy And do you

20:15 Speaker 10: remember Brad Boston has to be a big part of

20:17 Speaker 10: the music scene in Milford as well, and he used

20:19 Speaker 10: to do the open mic, so I'd go there. He

20:21 Speaker 10: was like, hey, you could do this for three hours. Man,

20:23 Speaker 10: He goes, you can make some money doing this. Yeah,

20:25 Speaker 10: all right, it sounds good.

20:26 Speaker 9: Yeah yeah. So yeah, it's quite remarkable. I mean there's

20:31 Speaker 9: so many guests we have, Like we'll have guests come

20:33 Speaker 9: on the show who are like, you know, I'll ask him,

20:35 Speaker 9: do you have any shows this weekend you want to plug?

20:37 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, we're playing in Milford Stonecutters. Yeah yeah, Station

20:41 Speaker 9: one on one Yeah yeah, next guest comes in next hour.

20:45 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, we're playing in Milfordford. You might be recording

20:48 Speaker 9: in Milford. It's so weird but it's cool. It's awesome.

20:54 Speaker 9: But it's like, you know, who would would have ever

20:56 Speaker 9: guess I thought, Yeah, but uh yeah, so you're you're

21:00 Speaker 9: so you're kind of weighing your options.

21:02 Speaker 10: Yeah, way, my options right now. I love where I'm at,

21:04 Speaker 10: where I'm recording right now. It's so easy going. Charlie

21:07 Speaker 10: Brusso is an incredible dude. He's he's actually worked with

21:10 Speaker 10: run DMC and Godsmack in the past, kidding, yep, So

21:14 Speaker 10: he has some some stature under his belt. So yeah,

21:17 Speaker 10: he does a really good job.

21:19 Speaker 9: And for people who don't know, Godsmack is originally from

21:21 Speaker 9: or at least Sully is originally from, tow him. Sure

21:23 Speaker 9: he is, so that's probably how how they met. But

21:26 Speaker 9: he worked with run DMC.

21:28 Speaker 10: Yes he did.

21:29 Speaker 9: That's really cool yep.

21:30 Speaker 10: In his mom and dad's basement when he had the

21:31 Speaker 10: studio in his mom and dad's basement at first.

21:34 Speaker 9: No kidding, did he did he explain how that came about,

21:38 Speaker 9: because that's fast.

21:39 Speaker 10: I don't know the full story. I just know that

21:41 Speaker 10: he's worked with both of them.

21:43 Speaker 9: Yeah, oh that's wild, yep, very cool, very cool. So

21:49 Speaker 9: the songs that you're so you've got you said, you've

21:51 Speaker 9: got six or seven ready to go, ready to go,

21:53 Speaker 9: just haven't started recording.

21:54 Speaker 10: Haven't started recording it. Like I said, I've been trying

21:56 Speaker 10: to work on getting this first EP out. Yeah, take

21:59 Speaker 10: a look creative break for myself. You know, I booked,

22:03 Speaker 10: you know, a bunch of shows I play, Like I said,

22:05 Speaker 10: I did one hundred and eighty nine shows last summer, yeah,

22:08 Speaker 10: or last year, I should say. And it's it's a

22:11 Speaker 10: never ending grind.

22:12 Speaker 9: Yeah, you're busy. You're busy. When you when did you start?

22:17 Speaker 9: How long have you been doing this?

22:18 Speaker 10: I started so as I told you, I was doing

22:21 Speaker 10: the open Mics with Brad Boston, Yeah, at the pastle Off.

22:24 Speaker 10: That was probably back in twenty sixteen, okay, And then

22:27 Speaker 10: I started. I did like an audition with Paul Costley

22:30 Speaker 10: at the open mics at the Wild Rover when he

22:32 Speaker 10: was doing them there. Now he does them at the

22:33 Speaker 10: Casey's Ripshack in Manchester, Okay every Tuesday, And so I

22:38 Speaker 10: did a little audition there with him. Didn't get through

22:40 Speaker 10: right away. And then the next year after Brad he said,

22:43 Speaker 10: he goes Paul, you got to get him in. Yeah,

22:45 Speaker 10: he's good enough, get him in. So and I've been

22:46 Speaker 10: doing it since like twenty seventeen okay, okay, yep, and

22:49 Speaker 10: then COVID hit I stopped doing it obviously, and then

22:53 Speaker 10: a couple of years ago when I moved out of

22:56 Speaker 10: my when I moved back in took with my parents,

22:59 Speaker 10: I started doing it full time again. And yeah, I've

23:01 Speaker 10: been doing it ever since.

23:02 Speaker 9: Yeah, outstanding, outstanding. So the grand scheme of things not

23:05 Speaker 9: that long for when when you consider like how successful

23:09 Speaker 9: you are with it, you know I be able to

23:10 Speaker 9: do because not everyone can do it full time. No,

23:12 Speaker 9: So that's great. No, that's great. And you're playing a

23:14 Speaker 9: lot yep.

23:15 Speaker 10: Tonight I'll be at The Spice in Nashua, okay, five

23:18 Speaker 10: eight thirty Okay, So I'll be playing there tonight. So

23:20 Speaker 10: if you guys want to come check it out, check

23:22 Speaker 10: it out.

23:22 Speaker 9: Outstanding outstanding. Is that a new place I'm not familiar

23:26 Speaker 9: it is.

23:26 Speaker 10: It's actually so the Sun Bar and Grill in Milford,

23:29 Speaker 10: New Hampshire as well. So they're actually owned by the

23:32 Speaker 10: same people as the Spice, and I play it there

23:35 Speaker 10: as well.

23:35 Speaker 9: Oh, okay, outstanding the news. I assume you're playing out

23:40 Speaker 9: so the songs that you're going to be recording. I

23:42 Speaker 9: assume you're also you're already playing.

23:43 Speaker 10: I'm already playing them out. Yeah, I play them out

23:45 Speaker 10: yeah in a while.

23:45 Speaker 2: Yep.

23:46 Speaker 9: I'm always curious about that because it's funny. So some

23:49 Speaker 9: guests we have on the show, they won't play anything live.

23:53 Speaker 9: I mean, I'm sorry, Well, yeah, they won't play anything

23:55 Speaker 9: live until they've recorded it. I've run into that. I

23:57 Speaker 9: think that's more of a band thing. I've run into

23:59 Speaker 9: that more with bands then I think solo acoustic artists.

24:02 Speaker 10: But I like to do it to give it a try.

24:03 Speaker 10: I want to get the crowd's reaction, yeah, you know

24:06 Speaker 10: what I mean. And you're not always going to get

24:07 Speaker 10: the same reaction every time obviously. It's like even if

24:10 Speaker 10: you were to play a cover song, you're not going

24:12 Speaker 10: to get the same reaction out of people.

24:13 Speaker 13: Right.

24:14 Speaker 10: If people are liking it, that's half the battle.

24:16 Speaker 9: Yeah, you know what I so, absolutely, Yeah, it's kind

24:19 Speaker 9: of like a focus group in a way.

24:20 Speaker 10: Yeah, helps me helps me be able to, you know,

24:22 Speaker 10: play it out before people even know what it is,

24:24 Speaker 10: you know what I mean, And then when people actually

24:26 Speaker 10: know what it is and it catches on now I've

24:28 Speaker 10: already been playing it for years, and right I have

24:31 Speaker 10: it fully mastered, right, right.

24:33 Speaker 9: Exactly exactly. I'm curious. I'd probably asked you this last time,

24:37 Speaker 9: but I'm curious about your vocal style. You've got to

24:39 Speaker 9: You've got a pretty distinctive voice.

24:41 Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, I don't do voice lessons or anything

24:44 Speaker 10: like that. I kind of just like taught myself everything

24:47 Speaker 10: I know about it and just kind of I kind

24:50 Speaker 10: of wing everything, honest, I wing it, and I try

24:53 Speaker 10: to make it sound as good as possible.

24:55 Speaker 9: Yeah, because especially on that song, Madeline, it's like, you know,

24:58 Speaker 9: I'm listening to it, I'm trying to think, I'm trying

25:00 Speaker 9: to think of who you remind me of, but I

25:02 Speaker 9: can't because you don't necessarily remind me of anyone.

25:04 Speaker 10: You've got your own style. Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. Yeah,

25:08 Speaker 10: I don't want to be anybody else but me.

25:10 Speaker 9: Well, is there anyone who's a big influence on you vocally?

25:13 Speaker 10: Definitely Benson, Boone Ye, Noble con obviously huge influence on me,

25:18 Speaker 10: Steely Dan, Donald Fagan always loved his vocals. Oh yeah,

25:22 Speaker 10: and then obviously Simon and Garfunkle.

25:26 Speaker 9: All right, So speaking of Noah Khan, tell us what

25:28 Speaker 9: you were tell us about this, you were saying, so

25:30 Speaker 9: we're telling Jenny and I have something to off air.

25:32 Speaker 9: So it's really interesting.

25:34 Speaker 10: My girlfriend and I were watching the new Noble Khan

25:36 Speaker 10: documentary the other night on Netflix. Yeah, there's an enormous

25:40 Speaker 10: amount of similarities between the two of us, and yeah,

25:43 Speaker 10: every five minutes she look at me and she's like,

25:44 Speaker 10: oh my god, Oh my god, I can't believe how

25:46 Speaker 10: much you guys have in common. And then towards the

25:48 Speaker 10: end of the show, like back in the day, my

25:52 Speaker 10: babysitter used to ask me all the time, Steven, what

25:54 Speaker 10: do you want to be when you grow up? And

25:55 Speaker 10: I always used to tell her I want to be

25:56 Speaker 10: a fire truck and so on. At the end of

25:59 Speaker 10: the the show that we were watching, he his mom said,

26:03 Speaker 10: you know, we would always ask him what he wanted

26:05 Speaker 10: to be when he grew up, and he always used

26:07 Speaker 10: to say a fire truck man. And my girlfriend jumped up,

26:10 Speaker 10: She's like, this is really creepy. Now it was really creepy,

26:13 Speaker 10: but it was funny though. Yeah, yeah, we have a

26:16 Speaker 10: lot in common, apparently, like like what else, like what

26:19 Speaker 10: his writing style like how he You know, I get

26:22 Speaker 10: my head a lot about like, you know, perfectionist kind

26:25 Speaker 10: of things like we were talking about off air. Yeah,

26:27 Speaker 10: you know, making sure that I'm doing everything right and

26:29 Speaker 10: it sounds correctly how I wanted to, and you know,

26:32 Speaker 10: I'm very particular about it. Yeah, those and he and

26:34 Speaker 10: he gets in his head about about himself and while

26:37 Speaker 10: he's writing creativity, you know, just about anything topics or

26:41 Speaker 10: having trouble writing.

26:42 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, very interesting. Uh, well, we should play another

26:46 Speaker 9: track from the EP absolutely, what would do? I'll let

26:49 Speaker 9: you pick what would uh? What would you like to

26:51 Speaker 9: play next?

26:51 Speaker 10: What's too? Chasing my dream?

26:53 Speaker 9: Chasing my dream? Okay? Anything we should know about this

26:55 Speaker 9: before we play it.

26:56 Speaker 12: All.

26:57 Speaker 10: This song is all about finding my love for music again.

27:01 Speaker 10: And once I started actually writing my own music. This

27:04 Speaker 10: is I knew once I recorded Towards the Sun, I go,

27:07 Speaker 10: I got one taste. Now I'm ready to go. Yeah,

27:10 Speaker 10: let's chase the dream.

27:11 Speaker 9: All right, Let's give this a spend. Chasing the dream

27:14 Speaker 9: here and this is Stephen de Cure.

27:28 Speaker 10: Hang on everybody's technical difficulty. It's the uh the dance mix,

27:35 Speaker 10: chamin esten the other one.

27:37 Speaker 9: No, I don't know how that. No, no, no, it's

27:38 Speaker 9: a problem. It's a problem here. Okay, I think I can.

27:42 Speaker 9: I was like, that's not right. Yeah, I didn't think

27:45 Speaker 9: so either. I was uhue, quite puzzled myself there for

27:49 Speaker 9: a moment. Let's see, I'm just sudjusting this. I don't

27:52 Speaker 9: know how that happened. I honestly don't. Yeah, that doesn't

28:00 Speaker 9: usually occur. Okay, think I've tell me if this sounds

28:11 Speaker 9: right to you, songs me, Okay, let's start that over here.

28:17 Speaker 4: It is.

28:17 Speaker 9: This is chasing the dream Stephen to cure now, I

28:21 Speaker 9: won't play what is going on here? There we go.

28:42 Speaker 1: I'm trying to write some songs of men. There's someone

28:48 Speaker 1: going with Doo and mad spins. They were not the sea,

28:56 Speaker 1: jeez in my dream road to feed and new things

29:01 Speaker 1: on the road, see the fighting and money eyes, the

29:09 Speaker 1: hunger that's inside. Just some days, gimme reeve.

29:26 Speaker 13: All this stuff, scamming rehe man, stay in focused onbu.

29:32 Speaker 1: Behaving, wondering where this journeys leading, chasing my dream abo

29:41 Speaker 1: to feed.

29:42 Speaker 13: And new things on the road, see the faller and

29:50 Speaker 13: my eyes, the hunger that's inside.

29:57 Speaker 1: Just some days. I'm being me, you guys, at least

30:19 Speaker 1: you went through it. You try.

30:23 Speaker 13: Regrets of painful Let it rise, A love of music

30:28 Speaker 13: sets for free.

30:31 Speaker 1: Got one out of a door, chess in my dream.

30:37 Speaker 1: New thing's on the rise.

30:40 Speaker 13: See the fire and my eyes the humber that's inside.

30:49 Speaker 1: Just some days. Let me read.

31:10 Speaker 9: That is chasing my dream. That is Stephen de Cure

31:13 Speaker 9: from the the new Acoustic Kip one I Towards the

31:17 Speaker 9: Sun and we have Stephen de Cure with us live

31:19 Speaker 9: in the studio. And yeah, that's a great song. You

31:22 Speaker 9: very much. You were telling us about the your league

31:25 Speaker 9: guitar player on the album.

31:26 Speaker 10: My lead guitar player, Nathan McGinnis. He does an incredible job.

31:30 Speaker 10: This man is a true professional. I can't say enough

31:33 Speaker 10: great things about him. He is the owner of Mojo's Music. Okay,

31:38 Speaker 10: I don't know if you've ever heard of Jo's.

31:40 Speaker 9: Absolutely.

31:40 Speaker 10: Oh he runs Majo's Music. He does a bunch of

31:42 Speaker 10: stuff with like the School of Rock there.

31:44 Speaker 9: Oh excellent enough, yeah, excellent. Now how did you come

31:47 Speaker 9: to work with him? How did that happen?

31:48 Speaker 10: He's the family friend of ours as well.

31:50 Speaker 9: Oh good god, yeah, I got I got a lot of.

31:52 Speaker 10: Good family friends that are in the business.

31:54 Speaker 9: And yeah, now why is that? Are your parents musicians?

31:58 Speaker 1: Also?

31:58 Speaker 4: Now?

31:58 Speaker 10: My mom and dad just have a lot of good

32:01 Speaker 10: close friends. Oh okay, yeah, it's yeah, like growing up,

32:05 Speaker 10: these people have known me my whole life and I'm

32:07 Speaker 10: still friends with them to this day and they've just

32:08 Speaker 10: become my friends.

32:09 Speaker 9: You know. Oh that's great. That's that's really good. That's

32:12 Speaker 9: really good. And then so now how many of the

32:16 Speaker 9: songs as Jeff planned to two? Okay, okay, yeah, it's

32:20 Speaker 9: it's interesting, you know, because obviously you want to on

32:25 Speaker 9: songs like this, you want to have somebody who who

32:28 Speaker 9: can do a solo that really adds to it without

32:31 Speaker 9: doing too much much. Yeah. And I don't know if

32:33 Speaker 9: that's a conversation you guys had or if he just

32:35 Speaker 9: he probably knew it instinctively.

32:38 Speaker 10: Like when I say, this man is such a professional.

32:40 Speaker 10: He I sent him Chase my dream. Yeah, he didn't

32:42 Speaker 10: even do it in the studio. He sent he recorded

32:45 Speaker 10: it himself, sent it to me, I sent it to Charlie. Yeah,

32:48 Speaker 10: and he put it all together and he just did

32:51 Speaker 10: it like on the spot. And then we went into

32:53 Speaker 10: the studio and did everybody's changing together. Yeah, and he

32:57 Speaker 10: laid the Soulo down in one dake?

32:59 Speaker 9: Oh okay? Was I was? He was like, how was that?

33:01 Speaker 10: And I was like that's it, yeah, I go that's

33:04 Speaker 10: perfect right, It don't change anything.

33:06 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's that's fantastic. Yeah.

33:08 Speaker 10: He knew exactly where to go with it, like professional.

33:11 Speaker 9: Yeah, who else plays on the album? Anybody else?

33:14 Speaker 10: Are So the only other person that I have on

33:16 Speaker 10: the album is Artie Kenyan. He does the bass for

33:19 Speaker 10: me in Madeline Okay yep, and then it's just me

33:23 Speaker 10: that does all the other instruments in the singing.

33:25 Speaker 9: Okay, now why did you have him in for Madeline

33:28 Speaker 9: for the bass part?

33:30 Speaker 10: I could not get a bassline to save my life.

33:33 Speaker 2: I was.

33:33 Speaker 10: I was spending hours and hours trying to figure out

33:35 Speaker 10: a bass line I had. Something wasn't going and I

33:39 Speaker 10: was just like, you know what, let me just have

33:40 Speaker 10: somebody come in and do it for me. Yeah, you

33:42 Speaker 10: know what I mean, make my life a little easier.

33:44 Speaker 10: It was during the summertime when things were very hectic

33:46 Speaker 10: for me.

33:46 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah, no doubt No.

33:48 Speaker 10: I really didn't have the time to do it.

33:50 Speaker 9: Yeah. Was he able to come up with something pretty

33:51 Speaker 9: quick that? Ye? Yeah, yep.

33:53 Speaker 10: He came he just kind of, you know, filled it

33:54 Speaker 10: in for me, yes, you know, even it out.

33:56 Speaker 9: Yeah, it wasn't oh excellent. Was of these song what

34:00 Speaker 9: was the most challenging one too? Maybe it was Madeline

34:03 Speaker 9: because of the best part. I don't know. Was there

34:04 Speaker 9: one that was more challenging than the others.

34:07 Speaker 10: I would have to say Madeline was probably the most

34:10 Speaker 10: challenging that and I mean they were all pretty challenging really.

34:19 Speaker 10: I mean it was my first time ever recording in

34:21 Speaker 10: a studio and doing this, so yeah, I was learning

34:23 Speaker 10: as I was going. Yeah, you know what I mean.

34:25 Speaker 9: So what was the most challenging aspect of it for you?

34:30 Speaker 10: Trying to make sure I got the vocals right every time?

34:33 Speaker 10: Like like I'd always like get in my head and

34:35 Speaker 10: be like, can we do another take? Can we do

34:37 Speaker 10: another take? He's like, stop, asks me. He's like, we

34:39 Speaker 10: can always do another take, right, You're paying for it.

34:42 Speaker 10: He's like I was like, okay, right, So that was

34:44 Speaker 10: just me being shy, right right, But yeah, I mean

34:48 Speaker 10: that was pretty much the hardest thing. And then following

34:49 Speaker 10: like a click track, you know what I mean, Yeah,

34:51 Speaker 10: getting comfortable with that. But now I'm pretty much good

34:54 Speaker 10: with that.

34:54 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah. I mean, did you feel any pressure in

34:57 Speaker 9: terms of because obviously you're not just singing, you know,

35:00 Speaker 9: you're playing a lot.

35:01 Speaker 10: Yeah, I would, I trust me. I had to do multiple,

35:05 Speaker 10: multiple takes on the guitar, so he would have me

35:08 Speaker 10: play and sing it first. Then he would have me do, hey,

35:11 Speaker 10: let's do two takes of just you playing it and

35:15 Speaker 10: not singing.

35:16 Speaker 9: OK.

35:16 Speaker 10: Then I had to you know, my brain, don't sing?

35:19 Speaker 10: Don't sing that all along?

35:22 Speaker 9: Is that difficult? It is when you're not used to that.

35:25 Speaker 10: It is because in some ways, like when you're in

35:27 Speaker 10: your flow, like you know what I mean, when you're

35:29 Speaker 10: in your zone and you're singing and you're you got

35:30 Speaker 10: the emotion going with it, and then when you're not,

35:33 Speaker 10: and it's like, okay, now I'm just like trying to

35:35 Speaker 10: keep on time with it, right, and so it's like

35:37 Speaker 10: I don't have that same emotion going into it with

35:39 Speaker 10: the right hand.

35:40 Speaker 9: What about when when you record the vocals? Are you

35:43 Speaker 9: just vocals?

35:44 Speaker 10: I just have it playing in my in my headset

35:46 Speaker 10: the track, and then I just sing the song over it.

35:49 Speaker 9: So is that weird?

35:50 Speaker 10: That's actually easier, that's easier, that's easier. I'm way more

35:54 Speaker 10: comfortable doing it that way. Okay, it's the guitar playing

35:57 Speaker 10: and doing the double tracks that it took me a

35:59 Speaker 10: little bit.

36:00 Speaker 9: That makes sense. That makes sense. And then so do

36:02 Speaker 9: you have any kind of it's probably too early to know,

36:06 Speaker 9: like do you have any kind of a long term

36:07 Speaker 9: idea of when the full album might be.

36:10 Speaker 10: I'd say a couple of years. A couple of years,

36:12 Speaker 10: I'd say at least two years, because because this.

36:14 Speaker 9: Took a while just to do this.

36:16 Speaker 10: Yeah, it took a while.

36:16 Speaker 9: You're playing a lot of money.

36:18 Speaker 10: Took a lot of money, yeah, a lot of you know, organizing,

36:23 Speaker 10: and you know, because I was I wrote towards the Sun,

36:26 Speaker 10: I didn't have any other songs, yeah, and he was like,

36:29 Speaker 10: see what you can do. So and then I had

36:31 Speaker 10: to get to work. My dad and I started working

36:34 Speaker 10: in on writing songs together. Yeah, and he's been a

36:37 Speaker 10: big help with me on that good. So he helps

36:39 Speaker 10: me a lot with like some of my lyrics and

36:41 Speaker 10: things like that, and then I do all the music,

36:44 Speaker 10: so he'll help me with some of the lines and

36:46 Speaker 10: like just kind of trying to get it to the

36:47 Speaker 10: direction of like where I want to take it. Yeah,

36:49 Speaker 10: the message that I want to deliver to people.

36:52 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, outstanding.

36:54 Speaker 2: Ye.

36:54 Speaker 9: Will the when you do the album, will these songs

36:57 Speaker 9: be included on the full album or were the full

37:00 Speaker 9: album be?

37:00 Speaker 10: The full album is going to be completely different songs?

37:02 Speaker 10: Oh okay, actually completely different songs.

37:04 Speaker 9: Excellent? Yeah. Will it be mostly acoustic like the EP

37:09 Speaker 9: or do you?

37:10 Speaker 10: I'm not sure yet. I'd like to get a band together.

37:13 Speaker 10: Oh okay, that's my next thing. I'd like to get

37:15 Speaker 10: a band together so I can hopefully go play these

37:18 Speaker 10: these albums out live.

37:19 Speaker 9: Yeah.

37:20 Speaker 10: Yeah, for people to actually hear and not just hear acoustically.

37:24 Speaker 9: Right now, when you play live, is it always just

37:26 Speaker 9: it just.

37:26 Speaker 10: Always just me and the guitar? Yeah yeah yeah, And

37:28 Speaker 10: I do pretty well with these ones, you know, off

37:30 Speaker 10: the album, so sure sure, yeah.

37:33 Speaker 9: They lend itself to that. Yeah, but yeah, it makes sense.

37:35 Speaker 9: So when you record the album you might you might

37:37 Speaker 9: have things that you want to be able to play

37:39 Speaker 9: with a full band.

37:40 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, and get some other ideas and you know,

37:43 Speaker 10: connect with some other people.

37:45 Speaker 9: Have you ever played in a band?

37:46 Speaker 7: No?

37:47 Speaker 10: No, never played in a band. Oh ever played in

37:49 Speaker 10: a band? I have always been the one man band.

37:50 Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, yeah, it can be it can be hard.

37:54 Speaker 9: I mean the hardest thing I think is just the

37:56 Speaker 9: logistics of it. You know when you when you you know,

37:58 Speaker 9: when you're trying to book shows and you gotta.

38:00 Speaker 10: The comfortability with it. You got to be you know, yep,

38:03 Speaker 10: the communication. You know, everybody's gonna be in the same

38:05 Speaker 10: page like nowadays. Like yeah, like the David Crole says,

38:08 Speaker 10: he's like, go get some friends and go start a

38:11 Speaker 10: garage band, right, you know what I mean, and like

38:13 Speaker 10: make sure that you guys do it. You guys want

38:15 Speaker 10: to actually do it right. I'm not going to do

38:16 Speaker 10: it unless you actually want to do it right, exactly.

38:19 Speaker 13: Yeah.

38:19 Speaker 9: I mean as far as finding people to play with,

38:21 Speaker 9: you know, there's so much as you know, there's so

38:23 Speaker 9: much incredible talent around.

38:25 Speaker 10: Absolutely absolutely, and yeah, like I said, I'm looking for

38:27 Speaker 10: people that are that want to do it and be

38:30 Speaker 10: professional about it. Yeah, actually go somewhere with it.

38:33 Speaker 13: You know.

38:33 Speaker 9: The hardest thing will be the finding a drummer. Yeah,

38:37 Speaker 9: And that comes up all the time on the show,

38:38 Speaker 9: like every every drummer, it's it's sort of a running joke,

38:41 Speaker 9: but it's not even really a joke, Like every drummer

38:42 Speaker 9: is in ten bands you know. And my theory has

38:45 Speaker 9: always been, and regular listeners hear me say it all

38:48 Speaker 9: the time. But if you uh, you know, when you're

38:49 Speaker 9: growing up and you first develop an interest in playing

38:52 Speaker 9: an instrument, if you approach your parents and you say

38:54 Speaker 9: I want to play drums, that's you know that and

38:57 Speaker 9: maybe the tuba or the two things they are gonna

38:59 Speaker 9: actively try to talk you out of right away.

39:01 Speaker 10: It's funny because the first thing, the first thing I

39:03 Speaker 10: did in school was played the snare drum. Oh no kidding, Yeah,

39:06 Speaker 10: I wanted to play drums growing up before I started

39:08 Speaker 10: playing guitar.

39:09 Speaker 9: Me too. I had a snare drum when I was

39:10 Speaker 9: a kid. I would banging on yeah, before I ever

39:12 Speaker 9: picked the guitar and stuff. Yep, yep, totally yeah, yeah. Yeah,

39:17 Speaker 9: So that's that's my theory about why that is. But yeah,

39:20 Speaker 9: bass players can be a little hard to find, but

39:21 Speaker 9: drummers are very you know, to find one who's available

39:25 Speaker 9: when you need them, that's that's the that's the difficult

39:28 Speaker 9: part of that. No, no, but I think that's great.

39:30 Speaker 9: We should play another track from the EP. What do

39:32 Speaker 9: you want to play it?

39:33 Speaker 10: News, let's do. Everybody's changing since we were just talking

39:38 Speaker 10: about Jeff McGinnis and his solos.

39:39 Speaker 9: Ah, yes, yes, everybody's changing. And if you are just

39:42 Speaker 9: joining us, of course we have steven to cure here

39:44 Speaker 9: with us, live in studio and we're talking and playing

39:46 Speaker 9: some songs. From one eye towards the sun is great

39:49 Speaker 9: acoustic EP and here it is. Everybody's changing.

40:20 Speaker 1: Sit in her hair.

40:23 Speaker 18: In the chair thing again, wanddon wear hair. This squirrel

40:37 Speaker 18: scol socks of fool horror all low round, watch these

40:59 Speaker 18: boo dans grumble to them.

41:04 Speaker 6: Graha s everyboy change.

41:17 Speaker 1: The true, the mountains, mountain, fierce.

41:23 Speaker 10: Be e's world, All this change.

41:29 Speaker 6: Waiting, waiting, waiting.

41:33 Speaker 1: When the waiting we come wrong.

41:49 Speaker 12: See this he.

41:52 Speaker 19: Spreading through the crowd, affording boots.

42:05 Speaker 1: Are alt.

42:14 Speaker 13: Two parties, says Storm, designed to DEVI.

42:27 Speaker 20: Friends and family, bus you on shi everybody's change.

42:46 Speaker 1: Or minds and mon emphies me a the world this

42:55 Speaker 1: change whining me wearing wit we go.

43:54 Speaker 13: Balla chest shunts ohly no, don't all strings, We'll just

44:08 Speaker 13: fall bits.

44:10 Speaker 1: In this ballidic go worry, lead.

44:20 Speaker 3: With your hall heart, loves with it all big games.

44:32 Speaker 3: Let's stand together.

44:36 Speaker 1: And learn to love fuck.

44:38 Speaker 9: Game that is everybody's changing. And that is a Stephen

44:46 Speaker 9: de Cure and he is with us in studio and

44:48 Speaker 9: we're playing some songs from his new EP, One Eye

44:51 Speaker 9: Towards the Sun, and uh, yeah, that's that's really good.

44:55 Speaker 9: I love what's our last line, Let's.

44:58 Speaker 10: Let's stand together, Let's learn to love again?

45:00 Speaker 9: Yes, yes, So what's the significance of that? I mean,

45:03 Speaker 9: other than the obvious?

45:04 Speaker 10: But so I mean, yeah, other than the obviously, you know,

45:08 Speaker 10: everything that's going on in the world. Yeah, and we

45:10 Speaker 10: all just come together right and figure this out, you

45:12 Speaker 10: know what I mean? And stop being so hateful towards

45:15 Speaker 10: each other. Yeah, what I mean, they please and thank you,

45:17 Speaker 10: hold the door for somebody, let somebody go when they're driving,

45:20 Speaker 10: or you know what I mean, on the road, you know, yeap,

45:23 Speaker 10: just have common courtesy for people.

45:24 Speaker 9: It's not hard, exactly exactly. Yeah, very good and and

45:29 Speaker 9: uh yeah, what's it Jeff what Jeff McGinnis. Jeff McGinnis, Yeah,

45:33 Speaker 9: was a guitar playing on that.

45:33 Speaker 10: It's just so absolutely incredible, so perfect.

45:36 Speaker 9: Tasteful would be a good word, yes, to describe it,

45:39 Speaker 9: very very tasteful. Jenny is leaving us. She's not gonna

45:43 Speaker 9: be here for the Uh. In the third hour, we're

45:45 Speaker 9: going to be talking with Charles Richardson about WrestleMania and uh,

45:50 Speaker 9: you know, but we didn't get a chance to watch

45:51 Speaker 9: SmackDown yet. So Jenny doesn't want to hear the spoilers.

45:54 Speaker 10: Yes, I don't need I don't either. I didn't get

45:56 Speaker 10: to watch it either. I watched it once in a while.

45:57 Speaker 10: So yeah, I look I look forward to the the WrestleManias.

46:01 Speaker 10: Oh yes, I've always been a fan of the kids

46:03 Speaker 10: the big weekend.

46:04 Speaker 9: They'll mess up my stories, you know, I was a kid.

46:07 Speaker 9: My aunties will be like, don't call during my stories,

46:09 Speaker 9: you know, general hospital. But these are my stories. I

46:12 Speaker 9: don't want spoilers to mess up my stories. That's right, man,

46:16 Speaker 9: that's right. You'll be safe. All right, good Jenny leaves us.

46:20 Speaker 9: But yes, we are talking with with Stephen de Cure.

46:23 Speaker 9: And so where are you so this weekend you've got

46:29 Speaker 9: so you've got a show for our live listeners. You've

46:30 Speaker 9: got a show later today.

46:31 Speaker 10: Yeah, later tonight the Spice in Nashville, New Hampshire. Okay,

46:35 Speaker 10: that's five thirty, okay, all right, And it's where the

46:38 Speaker 10: old KFC used to be.

46:40 Speaker 9: Gotcha, gotcha? Do you have like, where do you There's

46:44 Speaker 9: a lot of places to play around here, obviously, but

46:47 Speaker 9: do you venture out of New Hampshire?

46:50 Speaker 5: I go.

46:50 Speaker 10: So I play all over the place in Massachusetts. I

46:53 Speaker 10: do Muddy Waters Pub, I do Brownies Pub and Thewin.

46:58 Speaker 10: I actually just got put on the as an opener

47:02 Speaker 10: for July twenty fourths feel the Dreams Festival. Oh very

47:06 Speaker 10: good and sell in New Hampshire, So that'll be my

47:08 Speaker 10: first festival that I'll be playing.

47:10 Speaker 1: And then.

47:12 Speaker 10: Yeah, I play all over the place, Laconia, Massachusetts, everywhere.

47:15 Speaker 9: Yeah, everywhere. Yeah, excellent. I'm glad you're going to be

47:18 Speaker 9: playing a festival because I always say festivals are great

47:21 Speaker 9: because not only do you obviously get in front of

47:23 Speaker 9: a crowd that you know might not otherwise know you,

47:26 Speaker 9: So there's an opportunity to really build your fan base,

47:28 Speaker 9: but also the connections that you make, the people that

47:31 Speaker 9: you make with in the industry. You know, other performers, managers,

47:35 Speaker 9: you know, promoters, everybody you know that it's such a

47:39 Speaker 9: you know, it can't be overstated just how much of

47:41 Speaker 9: an opportunity it is to play a festival. Yeah, So

47:44 Speaker 9: I tell everybody to get on as many festivals as

47:47 Speaker 9: you can.

47:47 Speaker 10: Absolutely. Like I said, I was trying to get on

47:49 Speaker 10: there last year. They didn't have a spot for me.

47:51 Speaker 10: And then I started work with Massive Entertainment Group. Okay,

47:54 Speaker 10: they booked for like all the like the Nash Casino

47:56 Speaker 10: and all that, so I'll be playing there as well,

47:58 Speaker 10: and may actually just booked there. And then so they

48:02 Speaker 10: called me and said, hey, we you're on the list

48:04 Speaker 10: and we'd like to have you for the festival.

48:05 Speaker 9: So yeah, oh that's fantastic.

48:07 Speaker 10: It was, It was really it was really nice opportunity.

48:10 Speaker 9: Why is it? Do you know why it's called the

48:11 Speaker 9: Field of Dreams Festival.

48:13 Speaker 10: I'm honestly not sure.

48:14 Speaker 9: I'm just I'm just curious because when I when I

48:16 Speaker 9: hear Field of Dreams, I think of the movie. Yeah,

48:19 Speaker 9: and I just wonder if there's a baseball connection. Maybe

48:21 Speaker 9: it's sure.

48:22 Speaker 10: I think it's more of like a community thing, ok

48:24 Speaker 10: because it's like a free concert pretty much. Yeah, and

48:27 Speaker 10: they do a bunch of like community stuff in Salem

48:29 Speaker 10: with like you know, parks for the kids and stuff

48:33 Speaker 10: like that, dog parks, all kinds of stuff for the community.

48:36 Speaker 9: Oh okay, Oh that's very positive. That's good. That's good,

48:41 Speaker 9: very good. Do you know how long you're set is

48:42 Speaker 9: going to be at that?

48:43 Speaker 10: So I go on at five forty five, I'm opening

48:46 Speaker 10: for wild Side, the band wild Side okay, And and

48:49 Speaker 10: then I played till six thirty, so about forty five

48:52 Speaker 10: minutes set.

48:52 Speaker 9: Oh okay, Oh that's great.

48:53 Speaker 13: Yeah.

48:54 Speaker 9: Actually at a festival, forty five minutes is a pretty good,

48:56 Speaker 9: pretty good a lot of time. Yeah, that's that's really good.

48:59 Speaker 10: Good for you, Good for you, Thank you.

49:01 Speaker 9: Do you have a favorite place to play?

49:03 Speaker 1: You know?

49:04 Speaker 10: So I just started playing. I actually just played there

49:06 Speaker 10: last night. It's this place called the Sweet Hill Farm

49:09 Speaker 10: and plast out in New Hampshire, Okay. And it's a

49:12 Speaker 10: farm and they do barbecue there and they you go

49:16 Speaker 10: into the farm they have obviously live music, and you

49:20 Speaker 10: sit right in the greenhouse and you eat barbecue and

49:23 Speaker 10: drink bottles of wine.

49:25 Speaker 9: Okay.

49:25 Speaker 10: It's it's amazing. It's such a unique and cool spot.

49:29 Speaker 10: It's one of my favorite spots that I've been playing.

49:31 Speaker 9: Okay so lately. Yeah, okay, yeah, is that somewhere new or.

49:34 Speaker 10: Is that Yeah, that's a new place for me, and

49:36 Speaker 10: I'm not sure that it's a new spot. They did

49:38 Speaker 10: just start doing live music. Oh okay, so it's new

49:42 Speaker 10: for that, gotcha.

49:43 Speaker 9: Yeah, Oh, that's that's great. The nice thing about you know,

49:47 Speaker 9: being a solo act, a singer songwriter, is it you know,

49:51 Speaker 9: there's so many like you'll never you'll never run out

49:53 Speaker 9: of place to play, and you'll never stop finding new opportunities.

49:57 Speaker 10: Absolutely, And you know, I was telling myself too, I

49:59 Speaker 10: go know, when I started recording the CP, I said,

50:02 Speaker 10: I can either play at bars the rest of my life.

50:05 Speaker 10: I know I can do that and do the covers,

50:06 Speaker 10: I know, But that's about as far as I'm gonna

50:09 Speaker 10: go with it. Yeah, I want to go further. Yeah,

50:11 Speaker 10: I mean I want to be on a bigger stage.

50:13 Speaker 10: I'd like to sell on an arena someday. Oh yeah,

50:15 Speaker 10: I mean yeah, that's that's that's the goal exactly. Absolutely.

50:19 Speaker 10: Do you do covers?

50:20 Speaker 9: Do you have covers?

50:21 Speaker 10: I do a bunch of covers. Do Teddy Swims, Jim Croche,

50:25 Speaker 10: Simon and Garfunkel, beatles? Yeah, just about everything.

50:29 Speaker 9: Do you do any obscure ones that where where people

50:32 Speaker 9: sometimes aren't sure that yes? Yeah, like I do so.

50:36 Speaker 10: I do a few off of Donald Fagan Soul album.

50:38 Speaker 9: Oh, no kidding, I do.

50:40 Speaker 10: Uh, it's weather in my head? Play that one I do,

50:45 Speaker 10: Sweet Shooty Blue Eyes, Yeah, I do. Going to California

50:49 Speaker 10: by Led Zeppelin. You know a lot of like stuff

50:52 Speaker 10: that people really wouldn't attempt.

50:54 Speaker 9: To play out live. Yeah, technically all the time.

50:56 Speaker 10: You know what I mean. But yeah, I try to

50:58 Speaker 10: challenge myself with it.

50:59 Speaker 9: What do you do that? Does anyone ever come up

51:01 Speaker 9: to you after a show and they don't, like they

51:02 Speaker 9: have no idea how to cover and they're like, oh,

51:04 Speaker 9: I really like that song I've had.

51:05 Speaker 10: I've had a lot of people like so when I

51:08 Speaker 10: play at Telvi's and Epping, yeah, yeah, they put me

51:10 Speaker 10: through like the speakers, like just right through the house music. Okay, right,

51:14 Speaker 10: So people will be in the bathroom like, oh, we

51:17 Speaker 10: thought we were listening to the radio, but it's me

51:19 Speaker 10: that's playing.

51:19 Speaker 9: Yeah.

51:19 Speaker 10: Yeah, they're like, that's not it just like the song

51:22 Speaker 10: on the radio. Oh, thank you. I really appreciate that.

51:24 Speaker 9: Oh wow, oh that's cool. That's cool. Well we are

51:28 Speaker 9: running out of time. I do want to play one

51:30 Speaker 9: more song, but I also want to make sure very

51:34 Speaker 9: very important. Where should our listeners go? Where's the best

51:37 Speaker 9: place to go? To keep up with everything that you.

51:39 Speaker 10: Are, everything that you that I'm doing. You guys can

51:42 Speaker 10: find everything on Facebook. You can add me right on Facebook,

51:45 Speaker 10: Stephen de Keer. You can also add my music page

51:47 Speaker 10: just Steven de Keer Music. Okay, I'm going to be

51:49 Speaker 10: having Matt Conorton build me a website pretty soon. You're

51:53 Speaker 10: talking about off the air absolutely, And yeah, you can

51:56 Speaker 10: find out where I'm playing every single month. I post

51:59 Speaker 10: all my monthly dates, weekly dates as well. You'll find

52:02 Speaker 10: out where I'm playing every single weekend, okay, and all

52:05 Speaker 10: the fun stuff about my own music coming out.

52:07 Speaker 9: And you should definitely spell your last name for our listeners.

52:09 Speaker 10: Yes, my last name is spelled d E c U

52:12 Speaker 10: I r E and it's pronounced Q.

52:15 Speaker 9: Is that a rare name?

52:16 Speaker 10: It's French Canadian?

52:17 Speaker 9: Yeah, are there a lot of Yeah.

52:21 Speaker 10: I think it's like from like Louisiana. Oh really, yeah,

52:24 Speaker 10: you find it a lot in Louisiana.

52:25 Speaker 9: Oh, okay, I have a very rare last name, you do.

52:28 Speaker 9: There are very very few Connortons. Yes, there is another

52:31 Speaker 9: Matt Connorton right here in New Hampshire, but he's yeah,

52:33 Speaker 9: but he's my uncle, so it kind of doesn't and

52:35 Speaker 9: then I did find another Matt Connorton somewhere else, but

52:38 Speaker 9: he spells it co O N and E R t

52:40 Speaker 9: o n okay, which actually is the more common common spelling,

52:45 Speaker 9: even though there's very few. There's just very few Connortants generally.

52:49 Speaker 9: There are some contortants in the Boston area. Yeah, but

52:51 Speaker 9: I think they all spell it c O N and

52:52 Speaker 9: E R t O N. So yeah, I have a

52:54 Speaker 9: very I was joking at the top of the show.

52:56 Speaker 9: I was saying, you know, there's gonna be a new website,

52:58 Speaker 9: Matt Connorton dot Live. And I was saying to Jenny,

53:02 Speaker 9: I said, uh, this might surprise you, but it's very

53:05 Speaker 9: easy to get a domain with Matt Connorton in it

53:10 Speaker 9: because nobody else. There's no other Matt Connorton along the

53:17 Speaker 9: website certainly, so it's very very easy. All right. So,

53:21 Speaker 9: Stephen de Cure, thank you so much, Thank you very much,

53:23 Speaker 9: appreciate it. This has been absolutely wonderful. And what should

53:26 Speaker 9: we play to close out the segment?

53:28 Speaker 10: Well, what do you think? And we were talking off

53:30 Speaker 10: the air about Quiet Moments being in that upcoming film.

53:34 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, anything more that you can.

53:37 Speaker 10: You were telling us my friend Catherine Taylor. She she

53:41 Speaker 10: had messaged me after our last interview on here about

53:45 Speaker 10: Quiet Moments when I played that live on the air,

53:48 Speaker 10: and she said, we absolutely love Quiet Moments. She goes,

53:50 Speaker 10: and we have a spot, a particular scene in a

53:54 Speaker 10: film that I'm working on and directing right now that

53:56 Speaker 10: we think Quiet Moments would go great and oh wow,

53:59 Speaker 10: and she asked me if they could put it in

54:01 Speaker 10: the film. I said, yes, so waiting. I'll probably hear

54:04 Speaker 10: back in about a week or two and I'll know

54:07 Speaker 10: all the details for it.

54:08 Speaker 9: Oh fantastic.

54:09 Speaker 10: Guys, want to just follow me on Facebook. You guys

54:11 Speaker 10: will find out all about that as well.

54:12 Speaker 9: Outstanding. Oh that's very exciting. So that's a perfect way

54:16 Speaker 9: to end the segment. So we will end with this

54:18 Speaker 9: Quiet Moments. If you are listening live on Saturday stick around.

54:22 Speaker 9: Coming up in our number three, we have Charles Richardson

54:26 Speaker 9: joining us online all the way from the great state

54:28 Speaker 9: of Florida. He is the host of the Charles Richardson Show.

54:31 Speaker 9: And we're going to be talking about WrestleMania Weekend. It

54:33 Speaker 9: is upon us. So I look forward to that and

54:36 Speaker 9: I hope you do as well. But we will close

54:39 Speaker 9: out with this quiet Moments. The album or I'm Sorry.

54:43 Speaker 9: The EP is one I towards the Sun and this

54:47 Speaker 9: is the great Stephen to cure Stephen again.

54:49 Speaker 10: Thank you so much, you guys very much. I appreciate it.

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55:37 Speaker 1: Fill these pages with my stories. Rangel your way sing

55:53 Speaker 1: for me Looking at my window is the song reads

56:03 Speaker 1: the day were a singing lay tree to tree.

56:11 Speaker 13: Writing songs come sweetly.

56:16 Speaker 1: So writing by me, just be me, play the kids

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56:59 Speaker 1: Fill these ages with joy, both store hories. Rangel Y

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57:27 Speaker 1: The wind is going ringing song and sway.

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58:21 Speaker 13: quiet moments, Oh houses, sempty.

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