The Marches | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: All right.

0:00 Speaker 2: That is don't fool me twice by the band the Marches,

0:04 Speaker 2: And of course you heard that the first time on

0:05 Speaker 2: American radio here on WM and H on this very program.

0:09 Speaker 2: And we've got let's see who we have here. I

0:11 Speaker 2: believe Kate Morrow is with us via Microsoft teams. Kate,

0:15 Speaker 2: can you hear me?

0:17 Speaker 3: Yeah? I can hear you.

0:18 Speaker 2: Hello, excellent, Welcome to the show. Is anyone else from

0:21 Speaker 2: the band with you?

0:22 Speaker 1: Or are you?

0:23 Speaker 3: Is it?

0:23 Speaker 1: Are you flying solo?

0:25 Speaker 3: Unfortunately the Ghetos couldn't come with me, so I'm playing solo.

0:28 Speaker 3: But I'm very happy to be here.

0:30 Speaker 1: That is quite all right. We're very happy to have you.

0:32 Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.

0:32 Speaker 2: I love your sound particularly and you probably hear this

0:37 Speaker 2: all the time, but I'm particularly taken with the vocals

0:40 Speaker 2: and the harmonies. And do all four of you sing live?

0:45 Speaker 3: Yes? So that's something we've just started to incorporate into

0:49 Speaker 3: our live sets. I was the last one to start

0:51 Speaker 3: singing yes. Vocals.

0:55 Speaker 2: Well, you don't see a lot of singing drummers, and

0:57 Speaker 2: you know, I think it's obvious why. I mean, you know,

1:00 Speaker 2: drumming it's the most physical instrument, right, You're using all

1:03 Speaker 2: four of your limbs, So it's probably challenging. I've always

1:06 Speaker 2: assumed anyway, that's it's challenging for drummers to sing because

1:09 Speaker 2: you're already using a lot of wind.

1:11 Speaker 1: You're already you're you're already.

1:12 Speaker 2: Doing so much. How has that been for you? You

1:14 Speaker 2: said that you were the last of the four to

1:16 Speaker 2: really start singing. I mean, how how has that been

1:18 Speaker 2: for you? Has it been challenging or is it kind

1:20 Speaker 2: of come naturally or what's happened?

1:22 Speaker 3: Like I bet both? You know, when I'm playing live,

1:25 Speaker 3: I usually do tend to sing along with it a microphone,

1:28 Speaker 3: although I don't seem very good. Now we're starting to

1:32 Speaker 3: We're starting to incorporate into our set and I'm having

1:34 Speaker 3: time to practice with the ghettos, get used to playing

1:38 Speaker 3: west the drums at the same time, and it's going

1:40 Speaker 3: really well. It sounds amazing when we have all four

1:42 Speaker 3: of us, so I'm enjoying it.

1:44 Speaker 2: Is it important to you as a band to replicate

1:47 Speaker 2: because I would imagine this is very difficult because again,

1:49 Speaker 2: such a it seems to me, And again when whether

1:53 Speaker 2: it's that song or November, it seems like it's such

1:56 Speaker 2: a key part of your sound. Those those harmonies. Is

2:01 Speaker 2: it important to be able to replicate that live? Or

2:04 Speaker 2: do you not worry about it as much? Maybe live

2:07 Speaker 2: it can be a little looser and a little raw,

2:09 Speaker 2: or I mean, how do you approach that? Do you

2:11 Speaker 2: do you really try to replicate what's what's what you've

2:15 Speaker 2: recorded or or is it not that big of a deal.

2:20 Speaker 3: No, I think we definitely are trying to make sure

2:22 Speaker 3: our life sound is quite similar to the tracks. Yeah,

2:25 Speaker 3: and so we are. We haven't working on it.

2:28 Speaker 2: It is important, do you like, how do you in

2:31 Speaker 2: terms of practicing, uh, kind of replicating that vocally? Do

2:37 Speaker 2: you do you ever, like just sit like the four

2:39 Speaker 2: of you and just try singing the parts and and

2:42 Speaker 2: you know, you each find your octave or do you

2:43 Speaker 2: just or do you just play the songs and practice,

2:46 Speaker 2: you know, the singing obviously while you're playing.

2:49 Speaker 3: Do you know when we've tried to do it like

2:51 Speaker 3: a capella, we usually just end up laughing. We do

2:55 Speaker 3: it with all the instruments in the fields. Yeah, it

2:57 Speaker 3: was we'll just sit and laugh at each other.

3:00 Speaker 2: No, that makes sense, That makes sense. Now, how long

3:01 Speaker 2: has the band been around? You're relatively new, right the marches?

3:06 Speaker 3: Yeah, we are so and the four of us came

3:09 Speaker 3: together in May twenty twenty four, so it's been in

3:12 Speaker 3: nearly two years. Nearly two years.

3:14 Speaker 1: Next, okay, okay, so relatively relatively new. Now I'm curious

3:20 Speaker 1: about So.

3:22 Speaker 2: I was reading this So the BBC it says here

3:26 Speaker 2: and you can tell me if this is right, but

3:28 Speaker 2: it says here the BBC kind of has introduced you

3:31 Speaker 2: as calling you, uh, Glasgow's freshest girl band. And when

3:38 Speaker 2: I see that, something occurs to me. Now, obviously, so

3:40 Speaker 2: you're you're all females in the band, but I find

3:43 Speaker 2: it odd that that someone would.

3:49 Speaker 1: Point that out.

3:49 Speaker 2: I'm only bringing it up because I'm curious how you

3:51 Speaker 2: feel about when say, the BBC refers to you as

3:54 Speaker 2: Glasgow's freshest girl band, Because to me, it's weird that.

3:59 Speaker 2: You know, it's like, you don't call a bunch of

4:03 Speaker 2: dudes in a rock band. You don't call them a

4:05 Speaker 2: boy band, you know, unless you're referring to you know,

4:07 Speaker 2: a specific genre.

4:09 Speaker 1: Right, But but how do you feel about that?

4:12 Speaker 2: Like, to me, it seems almost sexist when the BBC

4:15 Speaker 2: goes out of their way to label you as that.

4:18 Speaker 2: You know, you're a rock band you happen to be

4:20 Speaker 2: for women, but why do you need this special label?

4:24 Speaker 1: I'm curious how you feel about that, do you know?

4:30 Speaker 3: I think you can take it in a number of ways.

4:32 Speaker 3: And you know, we are all females. We are all

4:37 Speaker 3: female bands, so that's simplely understandable. And the presenters who

4:41 Speaker 3: said that they were females themselves, okay, and the Glasgow

4:45 Speaker 3: sine there aren't many for or aren't many all female bands. Yeah,

4:53 Speaker 3: I can understand why they have said that. You know,

4:55 Speaker 3: it's not something that we're deliberately, you know, not trying

4:58 Speaker 3: to mark ourselves as obviously we are get band that

5:00 Speaker 3: is us. However, you know, like you said, you could

5:03 Speaker 3: see a rock band, you could say whatever. However we

5:06 Speaker 3: just took it as we just took it as our

5:08 Speaker 3: compliment from the BBC and all the lessen do so

5:10 Speaker 3: many bands every day that if they're calling those the

5:13 Speaker 3: freshiesh ghetto bands in Glasgow, then I think we are

5:15 Speaker 3: quite happy to take that as a compliment.

5:18 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's good. That's a great way to look

5:20 Speaker 2: at it. Yeah, it just struck me as strange. But

5:22 Speaker 2: as you mentioned too, it was it was women who

5:23 Speaker 2: are saying it so that changes the context a bit too,

5:26 Speaker 2: so so that that's good. That's good, But I mean,

5:31 Speaker 2: but you are you are a rock band. And and

5:33 Speaker 2: for for anyone who you know, for anyone who is

5:36 Speaker 2: joining us late who didn't hear the track, don't fool

5:38 Speaker 2: me twice. I mean, you're I'm curious to know more

5:40 Speaker 2: about your sound and your influences because I I hear

5:43 Speaker 2: some different things in there, But like, who are some

5:49 Speaker 2: of your influences?

5:52 Speaker 3: Well, some of our influences definitely have to be Fleet

5:57 Speaker 3: with Mac. For example, the Angles when we're starting out,

6:01 Speaker 3: those were the kind of bands that we're saying very

6:03 Speaker 3: much our sound. Now we have changed direction, you know,

6:07 Speaker 3: don't for me twice as the start of our more

6:09 Speaker 3: rockier sound.

6:10 Speaker 1: Yeah, and so we are.

6:12 Speaker 3: Just came to finding their feet there. You could say,

6:15 Speaker 3: like alanis motor Set for example, definitely an influence there.

6:20 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I like the Fleewood Mac. I can definitely

6:24 Speaker 2: hear that. I'm a big Fleewood Mac fan, and I

6:27 Speaker 2: know what you mean. Yeah, that's that's definitely And and

6:30 Speaker 2: again it kind of goes to that vocal approach, right,

6:33 Speaker 2: you know, it reminds me of a very very evocative

6:36 Speaker 2: of Fleewood Mac.

6:39 Speaker 1: And then oh.

6:40 Speaker 3: Absolutely we do call our singer Stevie Nix because she

6:42 Speaker 3: does so just like her rethink it's amazing.

6:46 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's fantastic. That's fantastic.

6:48 Speaker 2: So Don't Fool Me Twice as the newest single, and

6:51 Speaker 2: then you've got November, which we also did play on

6:55 Speaker 2: the show. Really like that, and then you've got You've

6:58 Speaker 2: got a couple others before that. What's what's kind of

7:00 Speaker 2: the do you have plans to do an EP or

7:04 Speaker 2: a full album or I mean, there's so many different

7:08 Speaker 2: ways to release music these days, but are you going

7:10 Speaker 2: to do more singles? Do you know kind of what

7:12 Speaker 2: your forward trajectory is as far.

7:14 Speaker 3: As that, Yes, absolutely, so I think our next plan

7:18 Speaker 3: is to release an EP okay, which is very exciting,

7:22 Speaker 3: going along the lines of Don't Form Me Twice and

7:25 Speaker 3: that more rockier sound. Yeah, November and Don't Form Twice

7:29 Speaker 3: was released on like our double asage release, it was

7:32 Speaker 3: put on vinyl, and November was the end of our

7:35 Speaker 3: first chapter together kind of like our old sound, and

7:38 Speaker 3: then Don't for Me Twice is the beginning of our

7:40 Speaker 3: new sound. So the beginning then of our EP and

7:42 Speaker 3: what's the Cup in twenty twenty six?

7:44 Speaker 1: Oh, very cool.

7:45 Speaker 2: Now in terms of because you talk about that kind

7:48 Speaker 2: of your old sound and your new sound, that that transition,

7:51 Speaker 2: is that something that you decided as a band in

7:56 Speaker 2: other words, was it Is it intentional or is it

8:00 Speaker 2: more just sort of organic, like that's kind of the

8:03 Speaker 2: direction you're you're going and you're just going with it.

8:06 Speaker 2: I'm curious about that. Is that something you where you

8:09 Speaker 2: sat down and you said, you know, the four of

8:10 Speaker 2: you said we need to go, we want to change direction,

8:14 Speaker 2: or or is it just kind of something that's happening.

8:18 Speaker 3: So it just kind of happened in the room. The

8:21 Speaker 3: four of us set and we write our songs together.

8:23 Speaker 3: Whilst writing Don't for Me twice and a couple of

8:26 Speaker 3: our others which are unreleased, we realized, wow, we love

8:29 Speaker 3: playing this sound. It comes so easy to us, like

8:32 Speaker 3: it's definitely the direction we wanted to head, and so

8:34 Speaker 3: we decided to make that kind of move and say, okay,

8:38 Speaker 3: it is quite a big change up going down the

8:40 Speaker 3: more rockier route, but definitely yeah, that's when we decided

8:43 Speaker 3: this is where we want to go.

8:44 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah, So it sounds like kind of a

8:48 Speaker 2: kind of a combination of both. Right, it's you know,

8:51 Speaker 2: you kind of naturally started doing that, but but then

8:55 Speaker 2: once you realize it's working, you know, and don't exactly Yeah,

8:59 Speaker 2: and it makes sense. I mean, you don't Fool Me

9:00 Speaker 2: Twice is a great track. I definitely want to hear

9:02 Speaker 2: more of that. So that's that's that's really good. And

9:05 Speaker 2: you've done some festivals, right, yes, we have.

9:09 Speaker 3: We did our first set of festivals this year. Yeah.

9:11 Speaker 2: I was looking at this, so let's see, uh, come

9:15 Speaker 2: back around. Oh yeah, oh there's a bunch of them.

9:17 Speaker 1: Listen here.

9:18 Speaker 2: How many of you done? It looks like you've done

9:19 Speaker 2: quite a few, right, Yeah, so yeah.

9:23 Speaker 3: We've done quite a few. Most noticeable we played Scotland's

9:27 Speaker 3: biggest outdoor festival, Beldrum up in Inverness. Okay, we managed

9:31 Speaker 3: to do two stages there. We did a live electric

9:34 Speaker 3: set and then we also did an acoustic set as

9:36 Speaker 3: well on a slightly smaller stage, which was really fun.

9:39 Speaker 3: And we've done some festivals local to where we live

9:42 Speaker 3: in the west of Scotland as well. Yeah, that's been

9:44 Speaker 3: a nice mix of the smaller ones and then obviously

9:47 Speaker 3: Scotland's biggest, so it'd been really fun.

9:49 Speaker 2: That's great because the thing about festivals is, you know,

9:52 Speaker 2: and I always say, and obviously you know this because

9:55 Speaker 2: you're experiencing it, but I always say, especially for young

9:59 Speaker 2: new bands, festivals, not only do they get you in

10:03 Speaker 2: front of these very large crowds, so they expose you

10:06 Speaker 2: to you know, a potentially whole new fan base and

10:11 Speaker 2: can help you to build a fan base very quickly,

10:13 Speaker 2: but also the networking opportunities that come with playing festivals

10:17 Speaker 2: it's unparalleled. You know, you meet you meet all these

10:19 Speaker 2: other artists that you're playing with, but also you know

10:22 Speaker 2: all kinds of industry people at these festivals and that

10:24 Speaker 2: helps you build so you know, so you build an audience,

10:27 Speaker 2: but you also build a network and a reputation within

10:31 Speaker 2: the industry that is so critical. So festivals are if

10:35 Speaker 2: you can play. And we've got a lot of guests.

10:38 Speaker 2: We've had a lot of guests from the UK who've

10:39 Speaker 2: been you know, we've done a festival or two, but

10:43 Speaker 2: no one who's done as many as you have. And

10:45 Speaker 2: it seems like you really, I mean, you're really just

10:47 Speaker 2: approaching that head on, which is fantastic. I tell everybody

10:51 Speaker 2: play every festival you can because it is so it

10:55 Speaker 2: is so critical. I mean you can make big leaps

10:57 Speaker 2: and bounds as playing festivals. So that's that's fantastic.

11:02 Speaker 3: Absolutely, yep. You don't know who's going to be there

11:04 Speaker 3: watching you, so as it's just a great way to

11:06 Speaker 3: reach new people, nu audances, different places, make connections, as

11:09 Speaker 3: you said, for your network. So absolutely, And.

11:12 Speaker 2: What is this by the way, the uh it says

11:14 Speaker 2: you sold out the SWG three Poetry Club show.

11:18 Speaker 1: What's that?

11:19 Speaker 3: Yes? So s WG three is a venue in Glasgow.

11:23 Speaker 3: The Poetry Club is the name of the venue. So

11:26 Speaker 3: that was where we did our headline show for our

11:29 Speaker 3: single Feel at All and we managed to completely sell

11:32 Speaker 3: out that show.

11:33 Speaker 2: Oh excellent, excellent, Okay, very good. Yeah, so you're off

11:36 Speaker 2: to a great start. Now are you playing? Are you

11:39 Speaker 2: playing consistently? Are you touring? Are you are you doing

11:41 Speaker 2: a lot of like like what's the live situation?

11:44 Speaker 1: Now?

11:44 Speaker 2: I can tell you here in the United States, a

11:46 Speaker 2: lot of a lot of bands kind of high at

11:49 Speaker 2: least in this part of the country. A lot of

11:50 Speaker 2: bands kind of hibernate a little bit in the winter.

11:52 Speaker 2: They you know, they're active recording and writing, but they

11:55 Speaker 2: don't play out as much. But what's what's the situation

11:57 Speaker 2: where you are as far as live shows.

12:00 Speaker 3: So we did our last live show of the year

12:03 Speaker 3: on the sixth of December. That was our headline show

12:06 Speaker 3: for the release of Don't Film Me Twice in November,

12:09 Speaker 3: so that as well, that was in Glasgow. That was

12:11 Speaker 3: really cool. We are taking a little bit of a

12:14 Speaker 3: break over new year, starting to write some new songs

12:17 Speaker 3: and then in February and March time we're actually going

12:20 Speaker 3: on a tour.

12:21 Speaker 1: Oh outstanding. Are you now?

12:24 Speaker 2: Are you going on your own tour or are you

12:26 Speaker 2: opening for for somebody or what's what are you doing

12:29 Speaker 2: for the tour?

12:32 Speaker 3: So far, it's I believe it as a headline tour.

12:35 Speaker 3: I believe it might be a joint headline in one

12:37 Speaker 3: of the locations. It's oh to be one hundred percent

12:41 Speaker 3: confirmed as yet, however, yet it does look as if

12:44 Speaker 3: will be the headline. So it's very exciting.

12:47 Speaker 2: Oh, very good. That is outstanding. Outstanding And can you

12:51 Speaker 2: talk a little bit too about the themes of of

12:54 Speaker 2: your songs because I saw something about you know this

12:57 Speaker 2: is more than you know you kind of think of

12:59 Speaker 2: it as it's not just a band but a movement,

13:01 Speaker 2: and it's it seems like there's there's certain themes that

13:04 Speaker 2: come up, you know, like empowerment and and uh you

13:08 Speaker 2: know and and uh taking control and and so forth.

13:11 Speaker 2: I mean, can can you talk a little bit about that?

13:13 Speaker 2: And I'm curious how important that is to you as

13:16 Speaker 2: a band to kind of like, you know, do you

13:18 Speaker 2: have a certain message that you're trying to put forth.

13:23 Speaker 3: Yeah, I would definitely say impowerment is a really good one.

13:25 Speaker 3: Definitely one of the themes. Yeah, I guess like our

13:30 Speaker 3: message is just I suppose it is empowerments. Really, we

13:35 Speaker 3: just write music. We love what we do, and we

13:37 Speaker 3: want to just put out music that we love to play,

13:41 Speaker 3: we love to listen to, and so yeah, that's that's

13:45 Speaker 3: definitely what I would say for that.

13:46 Speaker 2: Yeah, outstanding. Well Will in a moment, I'm gonna play

13:51 Speaker 2: this track November, which is the I think the first

13:54 Speaker 2: song of your band that we've played on the show.

13:58 Speaker 2: But uh, you know, we're always happy to kind of

14:00 Speaker 2: be the you know, the entry point into American radio

14:04 Speaker 2: for for some of these great bands that are that

14:07 Speaker 2: are coming out of your your area. There's so much

14:10 Speaker 2: so much incredible talent there. But so we're gonna play

14:13 Speaker 2: that track in a moment and we'll let you go.

14:15 Speaker 2: But Kate, thank you so much for joining us. And

14:18 Speaker 2: where where's the best place to go online or the

14:20 Speaker 2: best places to go for people to keep up with

14:23 Speaker 2: everything that The Marches is doing, because you've got a

14:25 Speaker 2: lot going on, So we want to make sure our

14:26 Speaker 2: listeners know how they can follow you online.

14:30 Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely so the best place you can beaches is

14:33 Speaker 3: probably our Instagram. We are The Marches Music on Instagram.

14:37 Speaker 3: We've got a blue tech so you'll be able to

14:38 Speaker 3: find those and you can get our music all on

14:40 Speaker 3: Apple Music, in Spotify and all the use of stream.

14:43 Speaker 2: Insights outstanding, outstanding.

14:46 Speaker 1: All right, Kate Morrow, thank you so much. We'll let

14:48 Speaker 1: you go.

14:48 Speaker 2: We're going to hit that track, but we will definitely

14:50 Speaker 2: do this again in the future. Like I said, we're

14:52 Speaker 2: big fans. I love the vocals, it's it just sounds

14:55 Speaker 2: so good. And I'm glad Fleewood Matt came up because

14:57 Speaker 2: now that totally makes sense to me.

14:59 Speaker 3: But but yes, absolutely.

15:02 Speaker 1: Absolutely so, we will do this again in the future.

15:04 Speaker 1: Keep up the great work. We'll talk to you soon.

15:06 Speaker 3: Thanks Kate, thank you so much for having me. Thank

15:10 Speaker 3: you you got it.

15:10 Speaker 1: Bye bye bye. All right, I didn't mean to start

15:15 Speaker 1: the track yet.

15:16 Speaker 2: That is Kate Morrow from the band The Marches, and

15:20 Speaker 2: I really this is another great song. You heard it

15:22 Speaker 2: here first on American radio here on WM and H.

15:25 Speaker 2: This is another great track. This is called November and

15:28 Speaker 2: the band is The Marches.