The Cherry Fog | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: And we have we have a surprise guest here. We've

0:02 Speaker 1: got Alex from the Cherry Fog is here on the

0:05 Speaker 1: phone with us. Alex, are you there?

0:08 Speaker 2: I'm here.

0:09 Speaker 1: How are you? Man? What's up? What's going on?

0:12 Speaker 3: Not much? I wanted to say hello, see how things

0:15 Speaker 3: were going. I'm looking forward to a show with Sepsis

0:17 Speaker 3: coming up. That's going to be darn in Taunton.

0:21 Speaker 1: Oh very good. When when is that?

0:24 Speaker 3: It's a platinum City gaming. Let me pull up the

0:26 Speaker 3: date for you right now.

0:27 Speaker 2: Yeah.

0:28 Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's going to be a real barn burner

0:29 Speaker 3: backed by Loud Entertainment, and we're really looking forward to

0:33 Speaker 3: the show.

0:35 Speaker 1: Yeah. I love that. Loud Entertainment's great. I really like

0:38 Speaker 1: those guys Rich and of course uh baboo is that ie?

0:43 Speaker 1: He's a character.

0:45 Speaker 2: Yeah.

0:45 Speaker 3: The show actually is on May third. Okay, it's going

0:50 Speaker 3: to be a Platinum City gaming down in Taunton.

0:52 Speaker 1: Oh very good.

0:54 Speaker 3: Yeah. But I also have something for tonight, if anybody's

0:57 Speaker 3: available tonight. I have another band called Wicked Dark Shark

1:01 Speaker 3: and we're going to be celebrating an album release party

1:04 Speaker 3: tonight in of all places with Lawrence. Yeah. I don't

1:10 Speaker 3: know if you've heard of this venue before? Man, it's

1:11 Speaker 3: called like rap skill in music hall.

1:14 Speaker 1: I have not. Is that a new place? I have

1:16 Speaker 1: not heard of that.

1:17 Speaker 3: I think it's relatively new. Yeah, but it's a free show.

1:19 Speaker 3: It's going to be an album release party. We're gonna

1:21 Speaker 3: be rocking out music by Frank Morey as well. He's

1:24 Speaker 3: a Cambridge guy. But yeah, feel free to come by tonight.

1:27 Speaker 3: That starts at six. It's gonna be going till eleven.

1:30 Speaker 3: Gonna be a great show.

1:31 Speaker 1: Very good, very good. And how how's the band? What's

1:34 Speaker 1: the cherry Fog been up to?

1:36 Speaker 3: The Cherry Fog has been up to We've been doing

1:38 Speaker 3: a lot of duo stuff, so we've been kind of

1:40 Speaker 3: rocking out black keystyle, having just Peter on guitar and

1:44 Speaker 3: myself on drums, and people have been really liking it.

1:48 Speaker 3: We've had our bass player had to relocate to Texas

1:51 Speaker 3: to be a professor teaching philosophy, so we've had to

1:56 Speaker 3: go at it on our own and we've actually really

1:58 Speaker 3: enjoyed it. So obviously involved in creative endeavors and obviously

2:02 Speaker 3: helped with the record and stuff, we've been just kind

2:04 Speaker 3: of taking to act as a duo as of late.

2:07 Speaker 1: Oh okay, it sounds like it's working out well. You know,

2:10 Speaker 1: you're keeping busy.

2:12 Speaker 3: Definitely, Yeah, keeping busy, and we have a couple of

2:15 Speaker 3: other shows coming up. But yeah, the place tonight is

2:17 Speaker 3: called rap Scalm Music Hall. But man, those guys at

2:19 Speaker 3: Texas are so cool. You see that award they just won.

2:23 Speaker 1: It's hard to it's hard to keep up with it

2:25 Speaker 1: because they seem to win a lot of stuff. What's

2:27 Speaker 1: the one that they just what's the award that they

2:29 Speaker 1: just won?

2:31 Speaker 3: It was something about like New England's Society of Music

2:34 Speaker 3: or something, but they were like number one band in

2:37 Speaker 3: New England. I think I have it from loud sent

2:39 Speaker 3: it over to me, okay, so let me just see here. Yeah,

2:42 Speaker 3: it was a New England Music Awards winner Band of

2:45 Speaker 3: the Year.

2:46 Speaker 1: Oh okay, Oh, very good, very good. I think they've

2:49 Speaker 1: I know they've won at least two others over the years,

2:54 Speaker 1: so oh that's excellent. Good for them. Yeah, no, we

2:57 Speaker 1: have a great time with them. Always look forward to

2:59 Speaker 1: us Army Fest, which is gonna be I thinks a

3:02 Speaker 1: little early this year. I think it's gonna be in September. Uh,

3:04 Speaker 1: that's always a really good time. So, yeah, Jenny and

3:08 Speaker 1: I are both really big fans of Sepsis. We like

3:10 Speaker 1: them a lot, and they you know, they've been really

3:13 Speaker 1: really good to us. And William always has a lot

3:16 Speaker 1: to say whenever they come on the show.

3:19 Speaker 2: That's why he has his own show.

3:20 Speaker 3: It's so entertaining.

3:22 Speaker 1: Oh that's true. Yeah. The podcast, Yeah, uh that that

3:24 Speaker 1: gets confusing too, because they've had more than one podcast

3:27 Speaker 1: over the year. But I think is he still doing

3:30 Speaker 1: will is it William Versus the World?

3:33 Speaker 3: I haven't seen that one.

3:34 Speaker 1: Okay, I might be wrong on the title. I thought

3:37 Speaker 1: it was something like that, but uh but yeah, yeah, no,

3:40 Speaker 1: we we we like Sepsis a lot. Not everyone does.

3:43 Speaker 1: They're a little controversial in a way. I'm not exactly

3:46 Speaker 1: sure why. Uh you know, there's some people in the

3:48 Speaker 1: scene who look down on them a little bit or whatever.

3:50 Speaker 1: But uh no, Jenny and I have always had a

3:52 Speaker 1: good experience with with that band, and we you know,

3:55 Speaker 1: we've done Swarmy Fest because Matt Connorton Unleashed. We're one

3:58 Speaker 1: of the sponsors of that show, and we've done that

4:00 Speaker 1: for I think this will be our fourth year, maybe

4:04 Speaker 1: fourth or fifth, at least fourth yeah.

4:06 Speaker 2: Yeah, so no, it was cool because Cherry Fog was

4:09 Speaker 2: kind of like an outlier at that show in a way,

4:12 Speaker 2: like a lot of the other bands were really heavy

4:14 Speaker 2: like rock and metal, maybe a little bit thrashy.

4:17 Speaker 3: But it was cool because we were able to bring

4:18 Speaker 3: that vintage kind of feel to the show and everybody

4:21 Speaker 3: seemed to appreciate it. It was like a sort of like

4:24 Speaker 3: a motif of like heavy metal and then like it

4:26 Speaker 3: was us like vintage hard rock. So it was a

4:28 Speaker 3: cool like twist of the show. I thought it was.

4:31 Speaker 1: I thought you guys fit in great though. I mean, yeah,

4:33 Speaker 1: you know, it was a little different, but but it

4:36 Speaker 1: still worked, you know. I mean, but you know, loud guitars,

4:40 Speaker 1: you know, always work. But yeah, you guys were up in.

4:45 Speaker 3: Bass, loud drums. You know, I play very lightly as

4:48 Speaker 3: you know.

4:50 Speaker 1: No, it was uh no, it was excellent. Yeah, you

4:53 Speaker 1: guys were amazing.

4:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, But for anybody who's curious about the Cherry Fog,

4:57 Speaker 3: just check to wook us up on Spotify, on Apple

4:59 Speaker 3: mu music and just typing the cherry fot. We got

5:02 Speaker 3: an album out, we've got a single, and we've been

5:06 Speaker 3: at it for a couple of years. So more music

5:08 Speaker 3: to come, but you know, pick your favorite song. Maybe

5:10 Speaker 3: let us know what it is on Instagram and we'd

5:12 Speaker 3: be happy to kind of make sure it gets included.

5:14 Speaker 1: A more sell list outstanding. Yeah, the album Curious Creature.

5:18 Speaker 3: Correct, that's the name.

5:20 Speaker 1: Yeah, what's what's the newest single from that? Because I'll

5:23 Speaker 1: play it. I'll play it at the end of our conversation.

5:25 Speaker 1: I'll play it.

5:26 Speaker 3: So is that on the album? But our latest single

5:29 Speaker 3: is called look Out Below?

5:30 Speaker 1: All right, let me see if I can find it.

5:33 Speaker 3: It should be up on all the platforms.

5:36 Speaker 1: Look Out Below. Found it? Yes, yes, yeah, I'll play

5:39 Speaker 1: this wat I assume there's no I assume there's no

5:42 Speaker 1: swears in it.

5:44 Speaker 3: No, no explayers on that one.

5:46 Speaker 1: Awesome, it is FCC friendly.

5:48 Speaker 2: Yeah.

5:48 Speaker 1: Has this been played anywhere on the radio?

5:51 Speaker 3: Nothing I'm aware of. I know it was kind of

5:54 Speaker 3: circling a little bit on like Reddit playlists here and there,

5:58 Speaker 3: kind of underground stuff. But I think this might be

6:00 Speaker 3: the debut of Lookout Below on the radio.

6:03 Speaker 1: I'm sure with I'm sure. As you know, we do

6:05 Speaker 1: love to do the world radio premieres here on the program,

6:08 Speaker 1: so I can give this the world radio premiere Treatment

6:11 Speaker 1: the world radio premiere of Lookout Below from The Cherry Fog.

6:14 Speaker 1: What do you think?

6:15 Speaker 3: I'm honored to be a part of this one.

6:17 Speaker 1: I love it. I love it all right, so we'll

6:19 Speaker 1: hit that. We'll let you go, Alex. Do you want

6:21 Speaker 1: to plug the show that's happening for our live listeners?

6:24 Speaker 1: Plug that one more time before you go.

6:26 Speaker 3: Yep, two shows. So I got one at Rap Scale

6:28 Speaker 3: and Music off for the Wicked Dark Shark record release party.

6:31 Speaker 3: Another brand new album just came out today, and then

6:34 Speaker 3: may Stepsis Down and Totton at Platinum City Gaming. I'm

6:40 Speaker 3: going to be a hell of a show, going to

6:42 Speaker 3: be some serious people watching and some loud music.

6:45 Speaker 1: Very good, very good. All right Alex from the Cherry Fog,

6:48 Speaker 1: thank you so much for calling us today. Man, this

6:50 Speaker 1: was a cool surprise, and we'll wait. We'll talk to

6:53 Speaker 1: you soon. Thanks man, Bye bye, all right, man, take care?

6:57 Speaker 2: All right?

6:57 Speaker 1: Wonderful, Well this is cool, so let's do it. Here

6:59 Speaker 1: we go. Oh, this is the world radio premiere of

7:03 Speaker 1: the new single from The Cherry Fog, and this is

7:06 Speaker 1: called look Out Below.