The Grey Curtain | Matt Connarton Unleashed

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Speaker 8: That is the Florist. The band is the Gray Curtain. And we've got a couple of the guys here with us in studio. We're gonna talk with them in just a moment. Welcome everybody. We have entered our number two Newmarrow dose of Matt Connorton unleashed, and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. And of course you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com slash live for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 8: I forgot to mention too earlier in the show that the website Matt connorton dot com has been redesigned. It's sleek and sexy and I think you'll like it. So if you haven't been there recently, yes, please check it out. Matt connorton dot com. A little shameless self promotion, Oh, shameless self promotion. They send us a lot of our guests. Yeah, shout out to oh there you go, there you go. So yes, yes, all these these synchronicities. But today is Saturday, April four, twenty twenty six. Genny is here of course at the news table.

Speaker 8: I am president, and we have of course Dennis and Troy from the band The Gray Curtain.

Speaker 7: Welcome back, guys, thanks for having us back. Man having to be here, you got to be.

Speaker 8: In the five Timers club by now right four four.

Speaker 7: This is this is fourth. Uh well, if you count the wait at.

Speaker 9: The old studio, didn't you come over there? He came to the old ones.

Speaker 7: I don't think, no, maybe not, maybe not. I think.

Speaker 10: Uh so there's the first time that Sean and I were here, our bass player Sean okay, uh, Troy has been here twice, and there was the over the.

Speaker 7: Phone interview that I was regretfully late for. Oh okay, okay, yeah, oh wow.

Speaker 9: So well, well we're almost there. Then one more to be in the five timers.

Speaker 7: One more, one more.

Speaker 8: But we've run into you at shows. Maybe that's maybe that's why it seems like we've because we have all done the same room together ultple occasions.

Speaker 9: And Dennis and I vote had our work on display at the Terminus. Uh, you have to undergrounds Terminus, which was really fun. There were a lot of artisans there, and you know, and I know they've been doing a lot of work recently. I'm looking forward to seeing the changes and things they're doing.

Speaker 7: But yeah, yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 8: Mean your art is incredible, absolutely, yeah yeah, because until that I didn't even know that you also were a visual artist until until that event. Well, I mean, leading up to that event, obviously, But by the way, so, uh, Jenny, does Troy remind you of anybody visually?

Speaker 11: Maybe a little people, of a lot of different people.

Speaker 8: Okay, does he remind you of anybody? Not not not somebody, not someone that we've ever met in person, but we've consumed some of his content online, although not recently.

Speaker 9: My brain's not going where your brain is going, because when I am, my brain is going to the band rush.

Speaker 7: See the hair.

Speaker 9: And I've been watching a lot of videos, yes.

Speaker 11: Because I can kind of see that, maybe the facial hair anything like, Yeah, it's.

Speaker 9: The facial hair and the hair and longer face. And yeah, he's been coming up in my YouTube stream a lot lately.

Speaker 7: And it's a very polite.

Speaker 9: Yeah, that Calmnessedty has that calmness.

Speaker 8: That's true, right, No, are you familiar with I mean.

Speaker 9: That complimentary because I think he's a great individual.

Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely held a bass player.

Speaker 7: Are you familiar with pod Awful?

Speaker 6: Uh?

Speaker 8: No, Okay, there's a guy named Jesseps who has a show online called pod Awful.

Speaker 7: And you look a lot like jesse Ps, like a lot like, don't you think so? I'm not certain.

Speaker 9: I'd have to look at it another picture of him because in this moment, I can't pull Jesse.

Speaker 7: Gotcha, have to check it out, gotcha. Yeah, deficits really messing with me. I understand. I understand.

Speaker 8: So so we do have we do have, of course Dennis and Troy from The Gray Curtain here and that track. So we were kind of talking off air about that The Florist, and you were saying, how much now you don't currently play that one.

Speaker 10: Live, but you have with the current lineup, or we play that song, you play that song. We do play the title track. Basically every show we play, we play The Florist. It's usually second right out of breath for all of a sudden. Yeah, that one's a pretty big staple for our setlist.

Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, it's a great song. Well you were talking about why you you really enjoy playing that one live?

Speaker 10: Yeah, Basically, as I've mentioned the last time, the last few times I came on, the whole concept of our music is based around the storyline.

Speaker 7: Very therapeutic for me and for anybody that swims in my sea, and the.

Speaker 10: Story of The Florist is uh, it's the first time that I had a chance to delve into like character work because the first album is very autobiographical, with the exception of the end, but the second album I worked a lot with trying to get more of a metaphor.

Speaker 12: You know.

Speaker 10: The the album is a metaphor for like trying to like hold on and like get back what you can't get back, and how it kind of it makes us less when we hold onto things and just won't let go.

Speaker 8: And that was very which is human nature. I mean, we're all guilty of it to some degree.

Speaker 7: Exactly, We're all human. We all do it.

Speaker 10: So I had a very good friend of mine named Jesse put together a mask that is that symbolizes the character of the Floorist. Okay, you know, maybe next time I'll actually think ahead and bring it and bring it. But what I enjoy is like and we don't really get a chance to do it all that often. We did do it once at at Terminus, Okay, to bring up Terminus again. We did a Halloween show and even though the rest of the set was basically the first album Shadow of a Man, we did play the Flooriest and when we played the Florist, I was able to break into that character and I put the mask on.

Speaker 10: I had the whole get up. You know, the character has a certain look. You know, his hands are ripped up from you know, working in the dirt and basically you know, just wrecking his hands. Because, as the name may suggest, he's a florist. He's not a botanist, so he doesn't know what he's doing. You know, his wife was a botanist, so he's trying to do her job instead of just arranging the flowers and selling them. And he cuts his hands up, so he's got a lot of tape around his hands. He's you know, they're dirty, they're bloody, and you know, he's an elder gentleman, so he's got like the pants up to his stomach and the suspenders.

Speaker 10: He's wearing a scarf that his wife was wearing on the day that she died. It still smells of her, so he's constantly holding it up to his face and he doesn't realize that that scarf is drenched in the the oil of this plant called the Devil's Trumpet, And when he breathes it in and when he's like touching it, he's absorbing this oil and it's making him nuts. You know, it's because in real life, this plant, if you if you ingest it. It's like it uh it causes you to hallucinate, and it doesn't make you hallucinate, and you know, not the fun with no.

Speaker 10: I was gonna say, for anyone listening, don't try this. Yeah, yeah, you know it's it's not it's not the fun kind of hallucinating. And it's uh, you know, I imagine like your worst nightmare cranked up to eleven. Yeah, it's uh, and you know it causes you to have problems breathing and things of that nature, which also causes problems because.

Speaker 7: You're not getting oxygen to your brain. If you eat this plant, you die.

Speaker 10: There's there's coming back and uh he he essentially goes into like this really tail spinning story that uh, you know, I'm a big fan of a twenty four films and.

Speaker 7: Uh, you know what what is that?

Speaker 10: A twenty four If you've ever watched Hereditary midsommer, they talk to Me, I think was, Oh, talk to Me?

Speaker 7: I love that one. Yeah, talk to talk to Me is my favorite. Uh heretic The Green Knight.

Speaker 10: It basically it's a production company and they make some of my favorite movies.

Speaker 7: But I try to I try to work it into.

Speaker 10: The story of like this, This story is not supposed to make you feel comfortable. It's supposed to make you feel the exact opposite. It's supposed to make you think of stuff that may make you think, Wow, you know, there's a problem with me that I need to address, because, like we mentioned, you know, we all have like that thing that we just can't let go of. If somebody brings up this topic and conversation, it makes us feel a little angry and whatnot.

Speaker 7: So when I get up on.

Speaker 10: Stage and I get to portray the floorist, it's almost well, it is. It's therapeutic to be able to, you know, play this character and realize that you know, this, like any other character of the Town of Apathy that I've created, is a way to exercise.

Speaker 7: Demons that I had a long time ago.

Speaker 10: And it's it's a lot of fun because like when I'm on stage and playing myself, uh you know, I I don't know, I generally have a pretty good demeanor and whatnot, But when I'm playing the florist, it you can see the change. Yeah, you know, there's a lot of twitching, there's a lot of there's a lot of spasming and uh, yeah, a lot of staring into the void, right right. So I remember we were playing at Terminus the last time that I put the mask on, and I'm just like staring at at nothing.

Speaker 7: But everyone that was in my eye line was like,

Speaker 7: what what's happening?

Speaker 4: Right right?

Speaker 11: I'll catch a glimpse of it, Like standing from this side of them, I'll look over I'm like, oh my god, he's gonna kill me or somebody else.

Speaker 7: I love theater.

Speaker 10: I've been a cinephile all my life, and you know, any chance I get, I will go to the hanover in uh in Worcester watch a play. You know, I've like some of the best times in my life was going to Broadway when I was in chorus, you know, seeing Rent live and whatnot. Yeah, it's a It's a great feeling to be able to not just uh portray characters and emotion, but to invoke emotion into your audience. I mean, that's why I do it. Yeah, Yeah, it makes me feel better. It makes my audience feel better when people come up to me after a show, especially when we play how does it feel.

Speaker 7: You know there there are there are people? And I brought this up.

Speaker 10: We played Maine and you know, it was like a nice line wrapped around you know, people were buying merchandise. That's basically how we made our money that night, and being able to talk to these people who wanted to share their stories with me. And I'm not going anywhere if people do that. I cannot stress enough. Like a lot of you'll hear a lot of bands and you know they mean it. Yeah, I'm not saying they don't, but you'll hear a lot of bands say this, so it kind of loses its flavor after you hear it so often.

Speaker 10: But I am at the merch table afterwards, and I'm not going anywhere if people want to talk. You know, I always want to listen to people because people should be heard, you know, And I know what it's like to feel the opposite.

Speaker 8: Absolutely absolutely. It's interesting too, you know. Some of what you're saying we had earlier. We had Emm a hunter who's a great artist from the UK and she's got this album, Yolanda, and it tells a story and it's very cinema and some of what she was talking about, it's it's similar to to what you were just saying about, you know, being able to how it's therapeutic. Yeah, you know it is, you know, yeah, because she has a her album Yolanda. It's Yolanda's a fictional character that she made up, but she's she was talking about how some of it's based on things that happened to her and some of it's not, and it's up to the listener to try to figure out what's what if they if they want to.

Speaker 8: But but I think she used that word a couple of times. Actually, I think she said there it's therapeutic.

Speaker 11: Yeah, to be able to do that, Yeah, that that's also a big thing of like what we want to do going forward is like even for the rest of the band, kind of come up with our characters and kind of make it more of a theatrical performance and like we're getting like local artists and like animators involved and having like projection screens cool going on.

Speaker 7: Yeah you beat me to it.

Speaker 11: Yeah, well, working on that and yeah, it's becoming definitely, uh, the kind of bigger project than.

Speaker 7: What it has been.

Speaker 11: And I'm really looking forward to that.

Speaker 8: Too, Yeah, because your music certainly lends itself to that. Definitely those theatrical elements. So that's that's amazing, excellent excellent if you're just joins joining us. We have Dennis and Troy from the Gray Curtain here with us in studio. And then what's so you guys were kind of talking off their about you've got how many songs you're working on? Like you've got like a thousand songs?

Speaker 7: Yeah, something like that.

Speaker 13: Yeah, it feels that way one. Two, yeah, yeah, well we are you know what Troy you want to Yeah, I talk way too much.

Speaker 7: Coming up.

Speaker 11: What we're working on is basically a continuing or kind of another part of this story with the town of Apathy, and it's these two kind of main characters that we're working with. So each album, it's going to be a double album, is what we're going for. And it's yet each album is following each of these characters and the ways that they kind of cross over with each other and just kind of being involved in like this whole, you know, bigger story of everything, and it's just been uh, really interesting, a really interesting challenge too, kind of feel like the the moods that are captured in these two these two character stories, and it's kind of like it's kind of cool, like something that we've figured out, like a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 11: It's like they both start and end in like opposite areas. It's like ones kind of already in this madness and it's kind of like his dissent kind of brings him back up almost to I guess kind of. But then the other one, it's like she starts off more calm and composed, and then like you know, something bad happens and it just kind.

Speaker 7: Of goes off the rails.

Speaker 10: Yeah, they don't get too much way, yeah ye, but yeah, ye a, a negative point happens and she goes into the madness spectrum of it.

Speaker 7: Okay, it's just the the finding these uh.

Speaker 11: Like the the way to convey these moments and these these feelings within the music has been a cool, cool experience for me because like I've only done like death metal in the past.

Speaker 8: Oh really yeah yeah, So how far into this are you into the I mean, are you actually recording? Are you still writing or writing?

Speaker 7: We're still very much in the writing process. Unfortunately. Living in New England, you know, you face certain challenges like the weather. Uh you know this.

Speaker 10: I mentioned at our twelve year anniversary show last month that uh, you know, the New England weather doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up, you know. So, uh yeah, we ended up losing a lot of time.

Speaker 11: It was that, and like it seems like one after the other, like everybody's cars just started dying.

Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah, it was like some sort of curse, I'm telling you. Yeah, because his car died. So I went to go pick him up for a rehearsal. It was our last rehearsal before the twelve year anniversary show, and we got about five miles away from his house and my car died.

Speaker 8: Really, oh, what are the odds?

Speaker 7: And then like the very next week, Sean, our bass player's car died. Wow.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 10: Yeah, but you know, obviously, you know, we're we got it all squared away. But yeah, but as far as the album, we're hard at work on the writing end of it. Okay, the story end of it is done.

Speaker 7: Oh okay.

Speaker 10: I'm working with a very talented writer, my writing partner, April, and we're a little over twelve hundred pages of this script that goes along with oh with not just this album that we're working on, all of them, okay, all twenty chapters of the Town of Apathy.

Speaker 7: Oh okay, And what's nice.

Speaker 10: Is before with the old line up, we you know, it was basically like fill in the blank, like what's happening here? And we're writing the story as we go along. What's nice about this time is the story's there. We basically go, okay, let's write a song around this scene. Let's write a song around this feeling and this emotion that's happening right now.

Speaker 11: It is good to have like the source material to work off of instead of kind of just like you know, playing on the fly, like yeah, okay, so what happens next?

Speaker 10: Well, even with the Florists, you know, it was like we would write a song and as I was writing the lyrics, I'd sit there in the studio and go, I don't I don't know where to put this song like in the in the spectrum of the story.

Speaker 7: Okay.

Speaker 10: But then, as you know, with my old bandmate's help, I'd be able to be like, oh wait, no, it makes sense to add like this lyric, and then we can fit it in here.

Speaker 7: And this is what's happening with.

Speaker 10: Again with this one, it's like we are currently working on I believe twenty six okay, twenty six different songs of three or four of them are done. We're just uh, you know, we need to work on them as a band and tighten them up before we play them live.

Speaker 7: Right, like any band. Right, But yeah, we're currently yeah, we're currently deep in the writing process. Then the recording. God, I don't know how long that's going to take. I really don't, you know.

Speaker 10: Thankfully, our our drummer Tyler, who you know from Scarecrow Hill. Yes, yes, he is very averse in the recording aspect. He loves that part of He's told us many times.

Speaker 7: He's like, this is what I like doing.

Speaker 8: Oh that's good because a lot of musicians don't a lot of musicians only one to play live right in the studio.

Speaker 11: So I know a little bit here and there, like enough to get like a demo together or like yeah, just kind of get ideas onto the daw But it's like he I can't do any of the mixing or anything like that. That's all foreign language to me.

Speaker 4: Yeah.

Speaker 10: Yeah, And then you know, Tyler introduced me to Joe Clap at Ultrasound Studios. Okay, great guy. I can't wait to work with him. To be honest, I'm so excited for the possibilities that is going to be this new album, like and the fact that we we already know like titles, okay, like the next album you know we have we already have the title for the album after that, you know, depending on where we go, like which story we choose, right, already has a name.

Speaker 8: Okay, but so do you literally already have the all twenty six titles.

Speaker 7: For yeah, oh you do? Okay? Yeah, okay, yeah, you know there's a couple that are working chartles, but even the even the ones that are like, oh, you know, we don't know if this is actually yeah.

Speaker 11: The working title just kind of becomes the name of the song.

Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, okay, Yeah, it's like it's just.

Speaker 11: A funny string of words that kind of came together, and it's like, you know what, it kind of fits. So Sean's February song, Like yeah, Sean's February Surprise or something like that.

Speaker 10: That's what it was, Sean's February Surprise. It sounds like something you got at a restaurant, right.

Speaker 7: It does, it does?

Speaker 10: But uh, it was the other spider soup. Dude, I cannot stress enough. I want spider Soup on this program so bad. When it when it's done, I want to. I want to be able to. I want to be able to have that herd.

Speaker 7: Excellent, excellent.

Speaker 8: So do you plan to play any of these live before the album is done?

Speaker 7: We already are playing too.

Speaker 10: Oh okay, yeah, we've been playing two of the tracks now for oh good years going on.

Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 10: There's Hollow, which is a song that Shawn, our bass player, basically, you know, it's like, here's the song, completely done, lyrics and all, and it just so happened to fit very well with one of the characters very well. And it was funny because he didn't write it to be like, you know, oh, you know, this is a song for this character. He was just like, I wrote this song. I think it's very good for the Great Curtain? What do you guys think? And we played it and for a while I was like, oh man, I'm gonna miss this guy's song up so bad because because he has a tenor register, I am more of a baritone.

Speaker 10: I can hit some tenor. Yeah, he is up there really yeah, and which makes great for harmonies with the three of.

Speaker 7: Us, Oh, no doubt. Yeah yeah.

Speaker 10: But for a long time I was so afraid to play this song live. Because I'm like, yeah, when you don't write the song, you know, I know I'm not alone, but you know, I feel bad about this. When I didn't write the lyrics, I'm like, I'm gonna mess his lyrics up.

Speaker 7: And for a long time I was.

Speaker 10: Very tense about that really, but now we play it live and it's like I'm in it. Yeah, yeah, everything's fine. And the other song is I Live in Shame. Okay, so one song is one character, one song is the other character. And yeah, Hollow is a very h.

Speaker 7: It's very like heavy, kind of like driven like this. I don't know, I was gonna say more like emotional, like theatrical, but yes, it's definitely, especially towards the end. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Meanwhile, I Live in Shame.

Speaker 10: It is dark, it's moody, moody, it's uh but again it's got like that, it's got that driving force in it.

Speaker 7: Yeah.

Speaker 11: But yeah, I Live in Shame was like the first one that we wrote in this iteration of the band, and it's just kind of the first one that came together with you know, with me and Sean at least we had some Joe from uh A billion of bands drums writing that one and then but yeah that that that was the first one, like this ineration iteration of the band wrote together.

Speaker 7: Oh okay, oh very cool. Big shout out to Joe. Yeah, big shout out to Joe.

Speaker 10: Excellent, Joe soo, Guello, the Megans, Rags, Stitches, watch like, watch any of those bands, They're all great.

Speaker 7: Yeah.

Speaker 8: Absolutely, we have the Megans on the show, didn't we?

Speaker 7: Did we have the Megans on? I'm not positive. I have to do the search. Yeah.

Speaker 8: Yeah, I gotten to that point where, oh my god, it's uh nine years uh today, w M and H real nice. I've I forgot to even mention it at all the in the show, yat because nine nine is an odd like like the ten year anniversary will be a bybody else.

Speaker 9: Is a little older in the room though.

Speaker 8: Thank you Birthdays.

Speaker 7: Donnis Layton's birthday, Ye, well, Thursday was.

Speaker 9: Today. I apologize.

Speaker 7: Oh it's fine, it's close enough, thank you.

Speaker 10: Thursday was my birthday. Uh turned forty five. Uh yeah, it's uh, it's it's tough. It's tough sometimes because you know when you reach us, you know, when you're a certain age and you know you're still struggling and whatnot.

Speaker 7: You know and do the things that you love to do.

Speaker 10: It's like, you know, the voice in the back of your head that sounds like the people that told you when you were a kid that you you wouldn't amount to anything or starting to sound like your voice right and uh it, but I cannot stress enough. I'm really looking forward to to my forty fifth year on this planet. Couldn't say that, you know a few moons ago, sure, you know, and if anybody listens to the first Gray Curtain album, you definitely get the idea that I didn't always like life. But yeah, I I celebrated with one of my best friends and we went to the movies.

Speaker 10: We went to see, Uh, They Will Kill You, which I highly recommend for anybody who's a fan of Kill Bill and Evil Dead, you know, like the original Evil deads Sam Raimi, great movie.

Speaker 7: Who directed this?

Speaker 10: You know, I don't know, I will know because I need I need, like all the information about this movie when it comes out, you know, when it when it's out on streaming. But yeah, I didn't catch that. But Patricia Katt's great in it. Heather Graham, who I've never really said like, oh, you know, this is a She's a great actress. She is amazing in this movie. No kidding, she is great. But yeah, I can't remember his name, but he played Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films. He's in it, but he's great and it's a great cast.

Speaker 10: It's if you're into like visceral action scenes and things like that, it's right up your out.

Speaker 7: No kidding.

Speaker 10: Okay, if you if you go in, if you watch it going into it thinking, uh, you know, this is gonna be like the best movie I've seen. It's gonna be like best picture next year. Then you're gonna hate it. Right, you're gonna hate it. But if you go into it thinking, okay, kill Bill meets like Evil Dead two, yeah, you're gonna love this movie. Okay, all right, very cool.

Speaker 7: But anyway, I had you know it was a good birthday and thank you guys.

Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely if you're just jing Us, Dennis and Troy from The Great Curtainer here with us in studio. Yeah, speaking of movies, I did notice The Reservoir Dogs. Sure, Yeah, my favorite movie of all time? Oh is it?

Speaker 7: Yeah? It is. It's a good choice. It's a good choice.

Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm a like I mentioned I'm a big centophile.

Speaker 7: Yeah, and there's something to be said.

Speaker 10: There's something to be said about a movie about a diamond heist that never shows the diamond heist. Yep, you have to paint the whole picture with the dialogue. You know, it centers mostly around one scene. It's completely dependent on how great the actors are, and they all are great. Yes, Tarantino's second film, or you know, first film, it.

Speaker 7: Was one of the one of the first.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm trying to remember if Four Rooms was before Reservoir Dogs, but I don't think so.

Speaker 7: It was after. Oh yeah, then Reservoir Dogs was his first. Yeah. It's uh, it's always hit home to me. It's my comfort movie. Yeah.

Speaker 10: An anytime that somebody says, you know, oh, I've never seen Reservoir Dogs, I immediately I will be at a festival in a different state if somebody says they you know, if I'm having a conversation with somebody and they say they haven't seen Reservoir Dogs, I immediately turned the car around, go.

Speaker 7: To the nearest place that we can watch it. Yeah, it's you know, it's one of my favorite movies.

Speaker 8: Yeah, it's not my favorite, so you guys playing a lot live or you doing a lot of shows.

Speaker 11: I think we only have a couple lined up right now.

Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean you're busy with you got a lot on your place with the double album.

Speaker 7: Yeah.

Speaker 10: Yeah, well that and uh, it's a it's a blessing and a curse having somebody in our band that is in a such a busy band.

Speaker 8: Oh yeah, Tyler from Scarecrow Hill.

Speaker 7: Yeah, and they are about to put out this album. Yeah. And I cannot stress enough.

Speaker 10: I've heard like four or five songs on this album, even people that have been fans of this band for decades.

Speaker 7: Yeah, not ready for this album.

Speaker 4: Really.

Speaker 7: Yeah, it's that good. Oh it's so good.

Speaker 10: Oh wow, there's one song in particular I'm kind of biased about.

Speaker 7: But you know, okay, you'll hear that when yeah, Okay, people will understand when that when that comes up. Okay.

Speaker 10: But but yeah, they're gonna be playing a lot of shows. Uh so you know, as they're promoting and painting shows for this album, gives us time to write.

Speaker 7: Yeah, but we will. We have two shows in May. One will be up.

Speaker 11: Here at a Jewel on the exteenth.

Speaker 10: Excellent, making our debut at Jewel, like, oh wow, okay, good good, Yeah, opening up for Who's forty Below Summer? Yeah okay, yeah, very cool, along with Scarecrow Hill.

Speaker 7: Okay.

Speaker 11: I think that one's like one of those festival type shows. There's like two stages back and forth between each stages like teen bands or something.

Speaker 7: Oh wow, okay, put on by Justin Marcott. Yeah, excellent, excellent.

Speaker 10: Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be a lot of I always have fun at these multi stage oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to see so many local bands. Yeah, you know, so like for anyone that says, oh, you know, oh you're in a local band, it's like, yeah, but you obviously don't go to a lot of local shows. If you did, you'd know that there were great bands in this area, so much, so much great.

Speaker 7: I mean you're the masses.

Speaker 11: I got there, the masses.

Speaker 7: Yeah, I love I love all those guys. Yeah, great guys.

Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, we've had we've had them, but I think we just had we had.

Speaker 7: Yeah. Love love those guys. Yeah.

Speaker 10: Uh, you're a wrestling fan, so you'll probably dig this anytime. Scarecrow, Greg Hurtin Devlin and Fear of the Masses are on the same bill.

Speaker 7: I always put up the four fingers.

Speaker 10: Oh you, yes, I always like my My cover on my cover photo on my Facebook is the four of Us Okay, and I've had it up for pretty close to a year now.

Speaker 7: I'm not taking that down. Yeah, yeah, that's one of my favorite pictures.

Speaker 11: I have Terminus again, that was that Terminus Terminus.

Speaker 7: Yeah. But but yeah, we got we got that show.

Speaker 10: Then we're playing Charlie's Hill, another one of our favorite places, in May thirtieth.

Speaker 7: Excellent. Yeah, yeah, I believe it's May thirtieth.

Speaker 10: We're playing there for another multi stage, multi band festival, Gaganza.

Speaker 7: Yeah.

Speaker 10: Well, probably book a couple of shows throughout the summer. But again, you know, it's kind of like at the whim of Tyler's schedule because for obvious reasons, is.

Speaker 7: Going to be busy.

Speaker 10: Yeah, we're very grateful for Oh, Tyler is one of my favorite people. I think I think it's I think it goes my kid, and then Tyler is like somewhere around yeah, and then Joe is like right below, uh but no, but anyway.

Speaker 8: They're all ahead of Troy.

Speaker 11: I'm somewhere down here.

Speaker 7: You can't even see you know, the desk is in the ways behind the.

Speaker 10: Sure we put that, we put Troy right, very nice. Troy knows not much he means to me. Yeah, obviously because he can joke around with me like that. Yeah, a lot of people don't. A lot of people are like, what do you mean by that. It's like Troy helped me help them understand this is my sense of humor. Yeah, I'm being glid bumper.

Speaker 4: Uh.

Speaker 7: But we do have like other shows like in the works.

Speaker 10: Yeah, but nothing that we can really announce, okay without the promoter being like, yep, we're one is happening. Yeah, one or two that I'm very excited for, you know, the possibilities. But now for the most part, like you mentioned, we're going to be taking a lot of time to write this album because it's uh, I've always wanted to write a double album, and now that it's here, I am dreading it.

Speaker 7: Yeah.

Speaker 8: Yeah, I was curious if there was a part of you that was like.

Speaker 2: It is a lot.

Speaker 11: We definitely want to do it right, but we absolutely don't want to like drag our feet are on anything.

Speaker 7: Yeah.

Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I think it was a couple of days ago. I was I was on Facebook, as one does, and I put up a saying I'm working on over twenty songs worth of lyrics at the same time. My brain is not cooperating with me, and the comments just made me laugh so much that Yeah, one guy said, pro tip, don't do that, right. I was like, you know, I've been doing this since I was five years old, right,

Speaker 10: fourteen bands, chamber choir, men's choir, State Competition's voice lessons, all that jazz. It's like, pro tip, here's pro tip that is That is funny. But I understood what they were trying to say. Yeah, yeah, you're purposely frying your brain.

Speaker 7: You're crazy. I am insane.

Speaker 10: I am insane. I've never doubted that. I've never denied that. You know, I'll never played the fifth on that.

Speaker 7: You know there. You have to be a little crazy to do this.

Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely if you're just doing honest. We have Dennis and Troy from the The Gray Curtain here with us in studio and then so you probably don't have any kind of an ETA on the album, right because it's going to be a lot of work.

Speaker 10: If I had my way, would be out by by middle of twenty twenty seven. But that is like if everything goes like perfectly smooth, perfectly smooth, which how often does that?

Speaker 7: He never, never, never and again.

Speaker 10: You know when when you have a band member in such a busy band as Tyler is with Scarecrow, it's basically like, Okay, Tyler's busy this week, so Troy and I or Sean, Troy and I will all get together and we'll work on these songs, and then when Tyler's available, we'll go down to his house and we'll work on these songs.

Speaker 11: Meantime, I need to learn how to use like easy drummer or something like that.

Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yep, but it's uh as far as any I mean, god, I want it out as soon as possible. But yeah, when you're working on like, like you know, at the risk of sounding redundant, when you're working on twenty six songs at the same time, you want them all to match up. You want them all to be understood, You want them you want people to listen to all of them and be like, right, they didn't they didn't just write this one in right, right, right. Yeah, So we're going to agonize over this for probably a good year year and a half no doubt, and then hopefully you go into the studio after that.

Speaker 7: Yeah.

Speaker 8: Yeah, very cool, very cool. So where should people go online? Where's the best place to go online to keep up with everything that the Great Curtain is doing?

Speaker 11: We got Facebook, Great Curtain, Instagram, Uh, we're on YouTube. I think we should probably get on like centralizing all of our YouTube stuff because it's like April like puts videos that that she takes that's at uh Inner Child Studios on YouTube, So she's got a lot of our stuff on there, a lot really yep.

Speaker 7: And what else do we have? We're on Spotify, Apple Music for some reason, we're not on Amazon. We really need like we need to work on that.

Speaker 10: Yeah, band camp, you know, uh you know, uh, I was gonna say our e p K, but uh, you know, like outside of promoters, no one really has access to that, right.

Speaker 7: But man, wouldn't it be.

Speaker 10: Great to have like like a public ePK that people can just be like, oh, you know, everything's in one spot right.

Speaker 7: It's like I only have Apple Music, so I'll click on their link.

Speaker 11: But yeah, pretty much where where you get your music unless you're on Amazon Music?

Speaker 10: Yeah, and again, can't stress enough. I want to be back on We were at one point, but I want to get back on that.

Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, well, very good, very good. Well, guys, thank you so much. How long was your drive, by the way, because you're are you in Massachusetts or I forget exactly.

Speaker 7: Where you guys are. It was about an hour and twenty five?

Speaker 11: Oh wow, that was about two hours.

Speaker 7: Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, well, I really appreciate you guys coming all the way here. Glad to be here. I was going to say, love that you guys have a song.

Speaker 8: Absolutely absolutely absolutely very very glad to do it. I do think we should end the segment with burn that Bridge because this happens to be my favorite Great Curtains song. Love this one as as I think we've talked about this before. Should we talk about the song before we play it before we uh?

Speaker 2: Uh?

Speaker 10: Well, burn that Bridge is much like with the song that uh that Sean put in for this upcoming album.

Speaker 4: Uh.

Speaker 10: The old lineup made up of the Miller Brothers and Sean donnellan. They worked on this song for a long time. Musically, yeah, they didn't have any lyrics for it, and we basically chopped it up and uh, you know, can dentsed it to be a more I don't want to say radio friendly, but you know it was easier to digest, and I put the lyrics in to kind of fit it in with the Florist concept.

Speaker 7: Then it became burn That Bridge.

Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, no, I love it absolutely well. Guys, Thank you again so much. And if you are listening live on Saturday, stick around. We've got Warhog coming up in the third hour.

Speaker 7: They're going to be joining.

Speaker 8: Us via Microsoft teams from Texas and really looking forward to talking with them.

Speaker 7: They might be in the five Timers club. Actually they've been on a lot.

Speaker 8: Maybe maybe's hard to work over there.

Speaker 9: Special nice seek.

Speaker 8: All right, very good. So we will end this segment with this. This is Burned That Bridge. The album is the Florist and the band is the Great Curtain. Guys, thank you again, thanks for having us. Absolutely had.

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Speaker 9: Got King.

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Speaker 7: I'm a summer.

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