The Surge | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: Ah, that is good. That is see your Face, the

0:04 Speaker 1: new single from the Surge and the upcoming album Meow,

0:08 Speaker 1: which is gonna be out in August. And let's see,

0:10 Speaker 1: we've got the band with us via Microsoft teams. Let

0:13 Speaker 1: me get the volume up on this. We might have

0:16 Speaker 1: the full band. I'm not sure. Hey, guys, who do

0:18 Speaker 1: we have?

0:18 Speaker 2: Uh?

0:19 Speaker 1: Who do we have with us? Here?

0:21 Speaker 3: Let's see you.

0:24 Speaker 2: Three yeah, three fifths. You're doing pretty well with three

0:27 Speaker 2: six the band you've got at the moment, excellently.

0:31 Speaker 4: We're all spread across the south coast of the UK

0:33 Speaker 4: at the moment, various festivals.

0:35 Speaker 1: Oh very good, I'm oh go ahead.

0:39 Speaker 4: Oh no, no, it's gonna say at the White Festival, did

0:42 Speaker 4: the famous sixties one from Bopdylan and Jimmy Hendrix, all

0:46 Speaker 4: that sort of thing. And I think Adrian is a

0:50 Speaker 4: cider festival, drinking cider.

0:52 Speaker 2: I think.

0:55 Speaker 5: The perfect Yes, I mean the famous Jurassic coast. So

0:58 Speaker 5: that's goes further than the sick.

1:00 Speaker 1: Oh wow, can.

1:01 Speaker 6: Sell it download in my head?

1:03 Speaker 1: Oh very good? Very good. All right, so we've got

1:08 Speaker 1: three fifths. I'm not good at math, but is that

1:10 Speaker 1: sixty per No, that's more than sixty percent.

1:12 Speaker 4: I think there was sixty percent. We're doing really well.

1:15 Speaker 4: So just to introduce this, So I'm Pete. I'm the

1:18 Speaker 4: songwriter and bass player and backing vocals.

1:20 Speaker 1: Hi, Pete.

1:21 Speaker 4: We've got Age who is rhythm guitar, and then we've

1:25 Speaker 4: got Queenie who is a very special vocalist for the album.

1:31 Speaker 4: And it's her picture on the front of the album.

1:33 Speaker 1: Yeah, very good, very good. Yeah, Queenye. I love your voice,

1:36 Speaker 1: great voice. I love absolutely I love that song see

1:41 Speaker 1: your Face and I know that. So that's on the

1:42 Speaker 1: upcoming album Meow Are You All?

1:45 Speaker 2: It is all right?

1:46 Speaker 1: So, as someone who loves cats, I'm gonna ask the

1:48 Speaker 1: obvious question right up front, why why is the album

1:51 Speaker 1: called me Ow? And And is it because cats are

1:53 Speaker 1: awesome and so you should call it that? Is that

1:56 Speaker 1: the reason or is there some other reason?

1:58 Speaker 4: Well, I think if it's not actually the reason, but

2:01 Speaker 4: I think we're going to take that as maybe the

2:03 Speaker 4: reason going forward.

2:05 Speaker 6: Well, it's one of my reasons.

2:07 Speaker 7: We've got many reasons, which Pete can tell you, but

2:10 Speaker 7: it's one of us. I've always loved big cats and

2:12 Speaker 7: the choker, you know, I've always loved cats.

2:15 Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, so, Matt.

2:17 Speaker 4: The actual reason was that we were looking through some

2:20 Speaker 4: amazing pictures of Queenie and we just saw the one

2:25 Speaker 4: that's used for the album covered. It just sprung out,

2:27 Speaker 4: and I love pictures which they tell a story, right,

2:30 Speaker 4: It could have been anything could have happened in that picture.

2:33 Speaker 4: But and then after a few days I noticed that

2:36 Speaker 4: there was a choker that around her neck that said

2:39 Speaker 4: me out. And so we all looked at each other

2:41 Speaker 4: and said, that's the title.

2:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that's the best one to kind of presents itself, right,

2:46 Speaker 1: when you don't have to think too hard about it,

2:47 Speaker 1: you don't have to rack your brain, just something sort

2:49 Speaker 1: of presents itself as the answer to whatever the question

2:52 Speaker 1: is that you're seeking, in this case, what you should

2:54 Speaker 1: call the album. So that's great, that's great.

2:56 Speaker 6: There's also some subtle meows in some.

2:59 Speaker 4: Of the oh yeah, you're right, you are, you're right. Yeah,

3:02 Speaker 4: there's certainly there's one. I think there's one. It wasn't intentional,

3:06 Speaker 4: but I think the meals have come from somewhere, and

3:09 Speaker 4: some of the songs it just appears in.

3:12 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well, that that's fair good. Any any

3:15 Speaker 1: purring in any of the songs.

3:18 Speaker 7: Yeah, probably growling if we're going to.

3:22 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, right, very good, very good, and the album

3:27 Speaker 1: comes out and it's out in August.

3:29 Speaker 4: Correct, it's it's that in August. Yeah, we have We've

3:31 Speaker 4: got to launch party which is going to be on

3:37 Speaker 4: the first of August. Really really looking forward to that.

3:39 Speaker 4: So it's going to be a launch show with some

3:42 Speaker 4: of our friends playing. We're going to with CDs remember

3:45 Speaker 4: those we've got on the safe case of the UK,

3:50 Speaker 4: and then the album. The actual release date of the

3:53 Speaker 4: album we're still working through, but it will be some

3:55 Speaker 4: time on all the digital platforms in August.

4:00 Speaker 2: So yeah, it's all happening.

4:01 Speaker 4: The album's finished, it's been mixed, mastered, it's currently set

4:04 Speaker 4: on my laptop and various other people who are pouring

4:08 Speaker 4: over it to see if the mix is as good

4:10 Speaker 4: as we on But we're we're all absolutely delighted with

4:13 Speaker 4: how the mixes have come.

4:14 Speaker 2: So it's been a lot of fun together.

4:16 Speaker 1: Outstanding and you know, it's good to hear too that

4:18 Speaker 1: you're doing CDs, I can tell you, and I guess

4:20 Speaker 1: it's I've talked about this with other guests from your

4:23 Speaker 1: part of the world, and I guess it's a little

4:25 Speaker 1: bit different there than it is here. In terms of

4:28 Speaker 1: here CDs are actually have had a bit of a resurgence.

4:32 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, physical media. Well, of course vinyl never went

4:36 Speaker 1: away fully, but that that's out of resurgence over the

4:39 Speaker 1: last you know, ten years or so. But even CDs

4:43 Speaker 1: people still people here still seem to really like physical media. Yeah,

4:48 Speaker 1: but it sounds like maybe it's not quite as common there.

4:52 Speaker 4: Not quite as common this so I lived in London

4:55 Speaker 4: for a while and that it does seem to be

4:58 Speaker 4: anything that's physical. People want to old or something in

5:01 Speaker 4: their hand, and even people that you know, the sort

5:06 Speaker 4: of millennials and gen Z's want to actually have something

5:09 Speaker 4: which is which has been sort of lovingly put together

5:12 Speaker 4: pictures of the bands, pictures, artwork that actually really means

5:15 Speaker 4: something as opposed to you just click on an icon

5:18 Speaker 4: and there's a and there's a song coming out. Yeah

5:20 Speaker 4: you want to have a keepsake. So yeah, cassettes in

5:23 Speaker 4: some parts of the UK are are coming.

5:26 Speaker 2: Back a little bit.

5:27 Speaker 4: Vinyl of course, as you say, see these not so much.

5:30 Speaker 4: But yes, I think it's really just having that something

5:34 Speaker 4: which was sort of lovingly put together by the band.

5:36 Speaker 2: I think it's great.

5:37 Speaker 1: So you've got cassettes going on there too. Then people

5:39 Speaker 1: are putting things back.

5:40 Speaker 4: I think we I think we may do and I

5:43 Speaker 4: think we'll do a short run of like a limited

5:45 Speaker 4: edition vinyl and then we'll do the full colored vinyl

5:49 Speaker 4: and make something.

5:49 Speaker 2: Really really special for everybody. So oh yeah, yeah, it's

5:52 Speaker 2: all coming it's all coming together. I think.

5:54 Speaker 4: Yeah, the love of vinyl, it's never really going to

5:56 Speaker 4: go away. That smell, the sort of ceremony of taking

5:59 Speaker 4: some vinyl, that the sleeve, and then you've got a

6:03 Speaker 4: You've got a lot of real estate on the cover.

6:06 Speaker 2: The can really really do something special, that's.

6:09 Speaker 1: True, and nothing sounds better than vinyl, you know, the warrant.

6:12 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah. I think it's I think it's

6:15 Speaker 4: to do with the dust. You know, you've got the

6:17 Speaker 4: dust and Kracker always in a slightly different way.

6:21 Speaker 1: We've got a We actually have a record player here

6:23 Speaker 1: in the studio at w M and H. I don't

6:26 Speaker 1: I've never used it, but I know at least one

6:27 Speaker 1: of the other hosts who does a show here actually

6:30 Speaker 1: brings in vinyl and and uses the record player. We

6:33 Speaker 1: also have a CD player, which I don't know if

6:34 Speaker 1: anyone uses, but we do. We do have a functioning

6:37 Speaker 1: CD player here.

6:38 Speaker 4: Yeah, but no, we've gotta We've got a DJ. He's

6:41 Speaker 4: going to join us on the for for our launch party,

6:45 Speaker 4: and she only plays she only plays Vinyl, and so

6:49 Speaker 4: we've had to arrange some some decks to come into

6:52 Speaker 4: to the venue. But yeah, really really looking forward to that.

6:55 Speaker 4: But yeah, I agree with you, there's so much love.

6:59 Speaker 1: Absolutely, I think to a lot of people who My

7:02 Speaker 1: theory is. I don't know if there's any statistics that

7:04 Speaker 1: back this up, but I think most people who buy vinyl,

7:07 Speaker 1: at least younger people who buy it now don't own

7:09 Speaker 1: a record player, but they buy it because, you know,

7:11 Speaker 1: if you're really a fan of a band or any

7:14 Speaker 1: any artist and you just want to have you know,

7:17 Speaker 1: even if you're just going to mount the cover on

7:18 Speaker 1: the wall almost like yeah, you know, it's just nice

7:21 Speaker 1: to have.

7:22 Speaker 4: It, You're right, Yeah, I think there's some One of

7:29 Speaker 4: my friends has got a company where that he makes

7:31 Speaker 4: presentation boxes for vinyl. Hmm, so you buy you buy

7:35 Speaker 4: these boxes, then you can you can you stick them

7:37 Speaker 4: on the on the wall, just as if they're painted,

7:40 Speaker 4: and then you can then you can swap over the

7:42 Speaker 4: different vinyls whatever mej you're in.

7:44 Speaker 2: So yeah, it's great.

7:46 Speaker 1: Oh that's cool.

7:47 Speaker 6: That's very cool.

7:50 Speaker 2: Beauty things a beaty and it means something to you.

7:52 Speaker 1: Right right exactly Now, how long has the Surge existed

7:56 Speaker 1: as a band? How long have you been around, because

7:58 Speaker 1: you've got you've got a fair amount of music out.

8:01 Speaker 4: Yeah, we've been so we've been in various formats, so

8:05 Speaker 4: just sort of very brief history. So Adrian who's on

8:08 Speaker 4: the call, and I have been just working together slowly

8:13 Speaker 4: for maybe six years something like that, and various sort

8:18 Speaker 4: of iterations, lots of different musicians, and we had an

8:22 Speaker 4: album in twenty twenty three and a whole bunch of singles,

8:26 Speaker 4: and then we had a bit of a lineup change

8:28 Speaker 4: and then spent some time real time writing a new

8:35 Speaker 4: album and we met Queenie and yeah, she's just been

8:41 Speaker 4: such a breath of her share and really just a

8:44 Speaker 4: mut've heard a voice. It's quite remarkable voice on stage.

8:48 Speaker 4: She's a real presence and you need that sort of

8:51 Speaker 4: stage craft we need to deliver the messaging from.

8:54 Speaker 2: Some of the songs.

8:54 Speaker 4: So yeah, we've been together for a while, but just

8:58 Speaker 4: sort of taking time to to get the songs together,

9:02 Speaker 4: to get the right people in the room, and and.

9:07 Speaker 2: You know, like like all good things, you just have

9:08 Speaker 2: to work at it, don't. You've got a problem, work

9:10 Speaker 2: the problem.

9:11 Speaker 4: And uh, and you get the right anchor right right.

9:14 Speaker 8: About next album. Next album is going to be called Wolf.

9:20 Speaker 2: Well, very good.

9:21 Speaker 1: Well I like dogs too, They're not They're not as

9:23 Speaker 1: cool as cats in my opinion.

9:24 Speaker 6: But oh, hang on, hang on, I've got two hours.

9:32 Speaker 1: And I'm curious about so at the end of our conversation,

9:35 Speaker 1: we're not wrapping up yet, but I do want to

9:37 Speaker 1: talk to you guys some more about At the end,

9:38 Speaker 1: we are going to play rich Girl, and I'm curious

9:41 Speaker 1: what went into the which is great. You've had a

9:43 Speaker 1: lot of success with that song, correct, Yeah.

9:45 Speaker 2: Very much, very much. So, Yeah, I love, absolutely love

9:48 Speaker 2: that's say. It's such a live favorite as well.

9:53 Speaker 4: And and yeah, always well received. Queenie always seems to

9:58 Speaker 4: present a different side of it in in a live

10:02 Speaker 4: setting gigs, so including giving away like two inch high

10:07 Speaker 4: bunny rabbits and all sorts of things, throwing them off

10:09 Speaker 4: the stage.

10:10 Speaker 2: But yeah, it's been brilliant.

10:11 Speaker 6: About context that just sounds mad.

10:13 Speaker 2: I know it does, but but it works. It really

10:16 Speaker 2: works life.

10:19 Speaker 8: Quite a contrast to See Your Face.

10:20 Speaker 5: I think I think you've got sort of two ends

10:23 Speaker 5: of the of the third there with See your Face

10:26 Speaker 5: and Rich.

10:28 Speaker 8: Two ends.

10:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.

10:32 Speaker 6: As well.

10:33 Speaker 4: I think Risk Girl really seems to get picked up

10:36 Speaker 4: in in sort of the Boston area, which is fantastic

10:40 Speaker 4: for us.

10:41 Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely, absolutely. What do you think it is about

10:43 Speaker 1: that song that caught on?

10:47 Speaker 4: I think it's just that it's the direct delivery, yeah,

10:52 Speaker 4: and I think the I think it's also it's very topical.

10:56 Speaker 4: We know, so it's about Instagram and it's about influencer

11:00 Speaker 4: and not everybody.

11:03 Speaker 2: I think.

11:03 Speaker 4: You know, in all social media, people present their best

11:06 Speaker 4: side and in uh, it's often not a true reflection

11:10 Speaker 4: of who people are as individuals, and they portray one thing,

11:15 Speaker 4: but actually it's something else that's going on in the background,

11:18 Speaker 4: and I think it's resonated with people.

11:21 Speaker 6: Yeah, a lot of energy as well.

11:22 Speaker 1: It's really good hired yea, yeah, absolutely.

11:25 Speaker 6: The boys vocals as well, to be honest.

11:29 Speaker 1: You think, well, I'm sorry say that again, Quinny.

11:31 Speaker 6: What the boy? The boy?

11:32 Speaker 7: They call them the boys the Gentleman's vocals.

11:36 Speaker 8: Yes, wow, I think.

11:37 Speaker 1: You know, yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely, I am I do

11:40 Speaker 1: have to ask. I mean, I am curious. Has anyone

11:42 Speaker 1: been confused when you know? Because when I saw that

11:45 Speaker 1: the title, my first thought was, oh, did they cover

11:48 Speaker 1: a rich Girl by Holland Oates? And obviously you did not.

11:53 Speaker 1: It's this is this is an original song. But it

11:56 Speaker 1: is kind of interesting how just those two words together,

12:00 Speaker 1: and even if the Hall and Oats song never existed,

12:03 Speaker 1: you know, that phrase rich girl, it does evoke a

12:06 Speaker 1: certain oh, this is going to be about somebody I

12:10 Speaker 1: don't like or the type of person I don't like. Right,

12:13 Speaker 1: it does evoke a certain thing which which is born

12:17 Speaker 1: out in the in the presentation and the lyrics of

12:19 Speaker 1: the song.

12:21 Speaker 4: Yeah, you're not wrong that I hadn't thought about the

12:25 Speaker 4: whole notes song.

12:26 Speaker 2: But yeah, it's a great song.

12:28 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Hall of Oats song, it was

12:31 Speaker 1: originally Darryl Hollis said, it was originally supposed to be

12:34 Speaker 1: rich Boy and someone I think maybe John Oats or

12:37 Speaker 1: someone convinced him to change it, but but it is.

12:41 Speaker 2: Do you think that's why they fell out?

12:43 Speaker 4: That's it?

12:43 Speaker 2: That that that may be one that reason that they

12:46 Speaker 2: don't work together. Anymore.

12:48 Speaker 1: That may be the reason. But now on the upcoming

12:50 Speaker 1: album meow, how many tracks are on the album?

12:53 Speaker 4: So there's eleven tracks on the album, okay, and so yeah,

12:58 Speaker 4: all original tracks and just complete spread of everything from

13:04 Speaker 4: just observations in life, observations in society. There's a bit

13:09 Speaker 4: about love in there, but yeah, really I think, I think,

13:14 Speaker 4: And one of the quotes is, let's sort of it's

13:16 Speaker 4: all about you know, sort of you know, love, life

13:20 Speaker 4: and the pursuit of happiness in twenty twenty twenties UK.

13:25 Speaker 6: Look out for each other as well.

13:27 Speaker 2: There's a lot of that, isn't there There is? Yeah?

13:29 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we all have to look out for each other.

13:31 Speaker 4: No one's no one's in an Ireland, right, we all need

13:34 Speaker 4: to help each other.

13:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, we all need more of that, no doubt. Will

13:38 Speaker 1: will Rich Girl be on that on Is that included

13:41 Speaker 1: on me How the remaster version it is?

13:44 Speaker 4: Yeah, it is the remaster words version has been given

13:47 Speaker 4: a bit, it's been given a bit of extra sparkle

13:50 Speaker 4: in the studio. We've We've got were a long time

13:53 Speaker 4: collaborator with guy call Matt MacDonald and so yeah, the

14:01 Speaker 4: first part of the album is a real sort of

14:04 Speaker 4: assault on the census. So it just gives that extra Yeah,

14:08 Speaker 4: that extra sort of spring is as the first five

14:12 Speaker 4: or six albums, the first of five or six tracks

14:14 Speaker 4: on the album come through and then it sort of

14:17 Speaker 4: settles into something different. So we try to work on

14:20 Speaker 4: try to work on the album. I think it's just

14:22 Speaker 4: we're in the way that modern music is consumed. It's

14:26 Speaker 4: often just cherry picking songs that people like and see

14:30 Speaker 4: you find a lot of albums where they're top loaded

14:32 Speaker 4: with all the hits, whereas we try to make this

14:34 Speaker 4: a bit more of a journey and and you know,

14:39 Speaker 4: match the match the tempos and the themes of the song.

14:43 Speaker 2: So hopefully it sort of gives that impressions listened to

14:46 Speaker 2: as a one piece of music.

14:47 Speaker 1: Is that challenging to kind of figure out the sequencing

14:51 Speaker 1: of the songs? I'm such a nerd for this kind

14:53 Speaker 1: of thing. All This is something I'm always so curious

14:57 Speaker 1: about because I'm wondering, like, is that is hard to

15:00 Speaker 1: make those decisions or.

15:01 Speaker 2: Or oh yeah, very hard.

15:03 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's just it's lots of stuff about It's

15:06 Speaker 4: about momntum, just making sure that you've got that right

15:10 Speaker 4: pace and so yes, it starts off with a really

15:13 Speaker 4: the album starts off with a really good sense of urgency. Uh,

15:16 Speaker 4: and then it just it settles into something subtly different

15:21 Speaker 4: and takes you off in a totally different direction. So

15:24 Speaker 4: and then it ends actually on on really on a ballot, queeny,

15:29 Speaker 4: how would you describe boobies.

15:31 Speaker 6: It's acoustic, isn't it? And yeah, it's a it's a

15:36 Speaker 6: bat it is. I don't know how to describe it.

15:39 Speaker 6: It's really it's just completely you would not think it was.

15:42 Speaker 2: Us the record.

15:46 Speaker 8: It's a surprise at the end of the album, isn't it.

15:48 Speaker 7: You might not even recognize my voice that much because

15:50 Speaker 7: it's a completely different part of my voice. There's no belt,

15:52 Speaker 7: there's no growling, there's no you know, mix, there's nothing

15:56 Speaker 7: like that. It's just it's just acoustic and soft and yeah,

15:58 Speaker 7: ballad and just that is a bit of a loved one,

16:01 Speaker 7: isn't it.

16:01 Speaker 6: That's a lovely one.

16:02 Speaker 1: Interesting, And that's that's how the album ends with that track.

16:10 Speaker 6: Train.

16:12 Speaker 1: That's cool though, that's cool.

16:14 Speaker 4: Yeah, just just take you off somewhere different and and

16:17 Speaker 4: that's that's what music's about, isn't it. You've gotta it's

16:19 Speaker 4: just distracts you from your day to day and just

16:23 Speaker 4: takes you up on a journey.

16:24 Speaker 2: I do think at the end, Oh yeah, I do think.

16:28 Speaker 1: It makes sense. So if you're gonna have something that's

16:30 Speaker 1: really kind of different than the rest of the album,

16:31 Speaker 1: to put it at the end as almost like a punctuation.

16:35 Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of another example. I feel like

16:39 Speaker 1: there's there's other examples of artists doing that exact thing,

16:42 Speaker 1: and I literally at the moment cannot think of a

16:45 Speaker 1: single one, but I know that there are examples of

16:48 Speaker 1: artists doing that where it's like, Okay, we have this

16:50 Speaker 1: one song that's different than everything else on the album,

16:54 Speaker 1: so we're gonna put it at the end, and it'll

16:56 Speaker 1: kind of be just, uh, you know, just just well

17:00 Speaker 1: ended on a different a different vibe or something.

17:04 Speaker 8: Everything else that springs. One that springs to mind, good,

17:07 Speaker 8: but back in the Day is.

17:09 Speaker 5: Training in Vain on London, calling by the Clash, which

17:11 Speaker 5: is not even actually listed on the on the sleeve,

17:15 Speaker 5: and it's a very different song for the rest album.

17:17 Speaker 8: It's a very eclectic album anyway.

17:18 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a sort of different song, a love song

17:23 Speaker 5: which I think they were sort of pushed by their

17:26 Speaker 5: manager not to put on, and they snuck it on

17:28 Speaker 5: in the end. Anyway, they didn't get listed on the

17:30 Speaker 5: track on the sleeve even But yeah, I think that's

17:33 Speaker 5: the only one I can think of at the moment.

17:34 Speaker 8: I know what you mean.

17:35 Speaker 5: I think quite a few songs like that crop up

17:38 Speaker 5: at the end of albums.

17:39 Speaker 8: Yeah.

17:40 Speaker 6: You don't need to stick to a genre, do you.

17:42 Speaker 6: Let's just do everything.

17:44 Speaker 5: Yeah, well, London Calling great example, where you know they

17:46 Speaker 5: go through the clash, go through scar rockabilly punk, yeah,

17:51 Speaker 5: you know, even a bit of jazz and yeah, it's

17:53 Speaker 5: all on that.

17:54 Speaker 2: Yeah.

17:54 Speaker 6: I didn't realize influenced by something.

17:57 Speaker 1: Yeah, I just learned something interesting. I didn't realize it

17:59 Speaker 1: wasn't even listed on the sleeve. That's I didn't know

18:02 Speaker 1: that it.

18:02 Speaker 8: Wasn't in the UK.

18:04 Speaker 5: The I think the US release was was a bit later,

18:07 Speaker 5: but it possibly was listed by them. But in the

18:09 Speaker 5: UK now it wasn't even listed on the on the sleeve.

18:12 Speaker 1: I'll be damned. Yeah, I didn't know that. Oh, I've

18:15 Speaker 1: thought of an American version of that. I don't know

18:18 Speaker 1: if any of you were Van Halen fans, but the

18:20 Speaker 1: Van Halen album fifty one to fifty, which was the

18:23 Speaker 1: first album with Sammy Hagar and lead vocals. How's a song.

18:25 Speaker 1: There's a song at the end called Inside. It's the

18:28 Speaker 1: last track on the album, and it's very odd.

18:32 Speaker 8: It does not.

18:33 Speaker 1: Sound like anything on the rest of the album. But

18:36 Speaker 1: I'm a bit I'm a big Van hale Yeah, yeah,

18:38 Speaker 1: I'm a big Van Halen fan. So no, but I

18:41 Speaker 1: think that I think that is a great strategy. Did

18:43 Speaker 1: you did you decide to remaster anything else or just

18:46 Speaker 1: rich girl.

18:50 Speaker 2: Just rich? Goot?

18:51 Speaker 4: We did. So we have a song called Coda Royale

18:56 Speaker 4: and there are there's there's one word which I think

18:59 Speaker 4: some people could consider an expletive. So so we've done it.

19:03 Speaker 4: We've done a little remaster of that. It's nothing, it's

19:05 Speaker 4: nothing that your that your grandma.

19:07 Speaker 2: Would be but but we thought we're just clean it up.

19:12 Speaker 4: But no, there's plenty of there's plenty of scope for

19:14 Speaker 4: for I think some remixes coming out, maybe maybe a

19:18 Speaker 4: bit more of a so most of the music is

19:20 Speaker 4: pretty punky, so maybe maybe add a bit more of

19:25 Speaker 4: a dance element to it, but that that will be

19:28 Speaker 4: for for other people to work through. So so we're

19:32 Speaker 4: maybe we'll see we can get some remixes to work

19:34 Speaker 4: on it.

19:34 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, excellent, and then what's the plan as far

19:37 Speaker 1: as touring. Are you gonna be touring a lot for

19:39 Speaker 1: the album?

19:40 Speaker 4: So we've been relatively quiet for for for gigs and shows,

19:46 Speaker 4: but but things are really starting to build up that

19:49 Speaker 4: we've got a new album out, so so we we

19:52 Speaker 4: were we were gonna going to start sort of from

19:55 Speaker 4: September onwards, so we've got pretty September is pretty busy,

19:58 Speaker 4: but actually we're getting shows at the end of July

20:02 Speaker 4: and into August. So yeah, we're we're certainly working through, through,

20:07 Speaker 4: through through these things at the moment. But yeah, there's

20:11 Speaker 4: some really good shows coming out, so we'll tag onto

20:16 Speaker 4: the end of the UK festival circuit. But but yeah,

20:20 Speaker 4: I mean we're we're open.

20:21 Speaker 8: So any contact you've.

20:23 Speaker 2: Got for the.

20:26 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Well you mentioned festivals too, I mean, that's

20:30 Speaker 1: that's great. It's I always say festivals are such a

20:32 Speaker 1: fantastic opportunity because not only does it get you in

20:35 Speaker 1: front of a large audience that might not otherwise be

20:39 Speaker 1: aware of you, but also to just that the people

20:42 Speaker 1: you meet, the contacts that you make within the industry,

20:44 Speaker 1: at a festival. I mean it's it's really it's like

20:47 Speaker 1: the single best thing you can do for your career

20:50 Speaker 1: is play a festival. You know what I mean, it

20:51 Speaker 1: it really is. I mean just the opportunity there. So

20:54 Speaker 1: that's that's great.

20:56 Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I get I couldn't agree with you more

20:58 Speaker 4: and an awesome although you can see that some people

21:01 Speaker 4: are really.

21:02 Speaker 2: Put up on this pedestal. They're just people.

21:04 Speaker 4: Just go speak to them, say hi, how are you,

21:07 Speaker 4: and people are more than happy to talk.

21:09 Speaker 1: To you exactly exactly. Where is the best place to

21:14 Speaker 1: go online for people to keep up with the surge,

21:16 Speaker 1: So our listeners know where to find you.

21:19 Speaker 4: We're all over the place, so so Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify.

21:27 Speaker 4: We're also on Facebook and Instagram, all the sort of

21:30 Speaker 4: social places that social touch points that you'd expect us

21:33 Speaker 4: to be. So yeah, yeah check us check us out

21:36 Speaker 4: and the search and you've mentioned some song titles. I'm

21:41 Speaker 4: sure people can find can find us, so but yeah,

21:45 Speaker 4: we'd love to hear from people.

21:46 Speaker 1: By the way, the song in Love with Yourself is

21:48 Speaker 1: that on the upcoming album Mia, Yeah that is, yeah, yeah,

21:53 Speaker 1: because I found I found that online too. A radio

21:56 Speaker 1: edit of that because what I plan to do, what

21:58 Speaker 1: I planned, what I plan to do at the end

22:00 Speaker 1: of our conversation is I'm gonna play rich Girl, But

22:02 Speaker 1: rich Girl is a short song, so I'm gonna sneak

22:04 Speaker 1: in one more after it. I'm also gonna play I'm

22:06 Speaker 1: also going to play in Love with Yourself because this

22:08 Speaker 1: is a song that I really really like a lot,

22:11 Speaker 1: and I'm curious about it. Is it Is it about

22:13 Speaker 1: somebody specific?

22:14 Speaker 6: Is it just?

22:15 Speaker 1: Is it kind of a relationship song?

22:16 Speaker 2: Like?

22:16 Speaker 1: What's any backstory you can give us?

22:19 Speaker 2: No?

22:20 Speaker 4: No, no, that's I can't I can't possibly disclose.

22:23 Speaker 2: Oh no, it says.

22:26 Speaker 1: Like that I really want to know.

22:29 Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no no, We've we've worked on that

22:32 Speaker 2: a lot.

22:34 Speaker 4: Uh no, it does, it does. It's suffice to say

22:39 Speaker 4: the name will remain a mystery to bribery and free drinks, obviously,

22:46 Speaker 4: but we'll we do all like that.

22:49 Speaker 1: All right, well, fair enough, fair enough, well very good.

22:53 Speaker 2: Well.

22:53 Speaker 1: I want to thank all three of you for joining

22:55 Speaker 1: me today, of course, Queenie, Pete and Adrian, and.

22:58 Speaker 3: We absolutely thanks to, absolutely absolutely thank you, and we

23:08 Speaker 3: will definitely do it again in the future because you've

23:10 Speaker 3: got a lot coming up.

23:11 Speaker 1: Uh maybe when the next single comes out and you know,

23:13 Speaker 1: so forth, so we'll have you back soon. Uh, definitely,

23:16 Speaker 1: we're gonna hit We're gonna hit those two tracks, Rich

23:18 Speaker 1: Girl and in Love with Yourself.

23:20 Speaker 2: But uh but again, thank you so much.

23:23 Speaker 1: Absolutely you two all right, the Surge, thank you so much,

23:27 Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you soon. Take care.

23:28 Speaker 2: You got it.

23:31 Speaker 1: All right, wonderful. So that was three members of the Surge, Queenie,

23:35 Speaker 1: Pete and Adrian and what we're gonna do right now,

23:38 Speaker 1: So again, as promised, we're gonna hit this track, rich Girl,

23:41 Speaker 1: and they've had a lot of success with this, so

23:43 Speaker 1: depending on where you are in the world, you might

23:45 Speaker 1: have already heard it. Actually, but this is really good,

23:47 Speaker 1: but it is short, so we're gonna seek in one

23:48 Speaker 1: more too. We're also gonna play in Love with Yourself,

23:50 Speaker 1: which is a song that I really like. If you

23:53 Speaker 1: are listening to the show on Saturday Live, please stick around.

23:56 Speaker 1: Coming up in the second hour, we have low Sunday

23:59 Speaker 1: and we got a long way to go on today's show,

24:02 Speaker 1: so lots of good stuff coming up. But right now

24:03 Speaker 1: here it is this is the Surge. On the track

24:06 Speaker 1: is called rich Girl,