Hello, everybody, Welcome, here we go. It is that time again,
Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n
H five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. And it
is a glorious day, although it's supposed to get actually cold later, believe
it or not. If I heard that correctly, and I'm going to double
check the weather. We don't usually do a weather report on the show,
but my goodness of the temperature is going to drop. We'll come back to
that. But yes, we are of course from the studios of WMH ninety
five point three also Comcast ninety seven if you happen to be in Manchester,
New Hampshire. And hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and
around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for
all your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives,
etc. Etc. Today is Tuesday, August one, two thousand twenty
three, So welcome everybody. We have an exciting show today. We actually
have two, not one, but two musical guests, very excited. One
of them you just heard one of their songs that we opened the show with
Blue Eyes is the name of the song. The band is called from Starlight.
They're going to be skyping in at four thirty today because they are from
Albany, New York. But they've got a big show. They're gonna be
in the area. They've got a big show tomorrow night at in Allston,
mass which is just an hour south of here, so they wanted to come
on today and talk about that, pump up the show and uh, we'll
get to know those guys a little bit. So that will be coming up
at four thirty and then in the five o'clock hour we will be joined via
Skype. We have a guest from the UK, Jake Dollery, and he's
um. I really like his music a lot. I said in a social
media post earlier about today's show. These UK artists, I'm just fascinated by
by their their music. He's got a really, really cool sound and he's
he's also a fellow broadcaster. It turns out I did some research, so
we've got plenty to talk about with Jake. So he'll be joining us at
five pm in the second hour. Numerow Doose of Matt Connerton, Unleashton we'll
see what kind of trouble we can get into both before and after our musical
guests. Although Jake and I are probably going to be talking for a long
time, I bet, because like I said, I think we have a
lot to discuss, so which is nice. So again, big big show,
big show ahead of us. But if you'd like to get in early
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I'm looking at the weather now. Again, we don't usually do weather,
traffic, sports, any of that on this program, but because you
know, we have people listening online from other places, who aren't necessarily concerned
with these sports, weather and traffic in Manchester, New Hampshire. However,
I will say this tonight, so this is revised from what I saw earlier.
I'm looking at the weather right now and tonight it's supposed to get down
to fifty one degrees Now. That is chilly compared to what we're used to.
Nice to have a break from the heat and all. But earlier,
the report that I heard earlier said it was going to be down in the
forties tonight. It was actually gonna get cold, and I was like,
oh no, because here's the thing with that. So summer is and has
always been my favorite time of year and I want to hold on to it
for as long as we can, right, And don't get me wrong,
I understand this summer has been very hot. So we're having beautiful weather these
last few days, and it looks like it's going to continue in that vein.
I don't see another heat wave on the immediate horizon, so that's good.
It's nice to have a break from the heat. I understand everyone needs
that. But I do love summer and it is my favorite time of year,
and I always say to see it slip away, and usually in late
August, sometimes even earlier, sometimes middle of August, but you know,
usually it's more like late August. One of these signs of summer slipping away,
and I get a little melancholy about it, is when you have those
enormous swings in temperature where in the daytime it'll be your standard hot summer day,
but then at night the temp just plummets, like thirty to forty degrees,
you know, instead of you know, just cooling off but still saying
reasonable staying reasonably warm, it just drops. It gets actually cold out.
And that's usually, like I said, usually late August, last week of
August, sometimes the middle of August that starts to show up where you have
those big swings in temperature that you don't have in say July, where it's
just hot, and then at night it cools off, but it's still hot,
and yeah, it's more comfortable in some ways, better sleeping, whether
I suppose when it cools off at night. But I always hate to see
it because that a sign. It's like night Moves by Bob Seeger when he
says something about autumn closing in. I don't know, I don't even like
the song. I don't know why I'm thinking about it anyway. The point
is I don't like when it gets cold at night in summer, because to
me, that means summer is over. Now this is it's only August first,
and it's not gonna get as cold tonight as I thought. But it's
still a low of fifty one degrees. I mean, that's got me a
little worried. It looks like tonight though, looking at the ten day forecast,
tonight's the lowest it's going to get Tomorrow and night A well, tomorrow
and night a low of fifty three. That's still pretty low high of seventy
eight. You know, I just don't want to see I don't want to
see it suddenly forty degrees at midnight, because then, you know, yeah,
summer's over. We're still gonna have some hot days, but it's cold
at night. Summer's over. I hate to see it. I'm not a
big fall guy. Yeah. Everyone always says, oh, but the leaves,
the leaves, the foliage. Yeah, I grew up here. I'm
over it. Listen. The problem I have with fall is, yeah,
you've got a lot of nice weather, and of course it's very pretty the
leaves, especially north of here, like up in the mountains. But the
problem is what fall leads to, and what fall leads to is winter.
And I'm not a winter guy. I'm a spring and summer guy. Those
are my seasons, Spring and summer. I love fall in winter. M
no, thank you, That's how I feel about it. Let me give
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In the Facebook live chat, John Hopwood says Matt is thinking about a song
from nineteen sixty two, Strange how the night moves. Then he gets to
that line about autumn closing in, and it's like, oh, at them,
I don't even like it. When you say I'm mean, autumn sounds
nice, like it's a nice word. So I guess autumn sounds maybe nicer
than fall, but it's still I don't like it. I love summer.
I want summer to last forever when I was a kid. You know,
of course, you perceive time much differently when you're a child. Uh,
you know, days seem like weeks, and weeks seemed like months, and
you know, summer vacation would start, and it just felt like it was
going to last forever, which sounds like a terribly cliche thing to say.
I'm sorry, but that's that. That's how it felt. It was like,
summer is gonna last forever, you know, and then it would be
back to school time, and it wouldn't even because of the way you perceive
time differently when you're a kid, at least for me, and I've heard
other people say this too. When you get to the end of summer,
it's not like, oh, it flew by. It's like, no,
it's you know, it seemed like about the requisite amount of time that is
allocated for the summer months. And now it's time to go back to school.
It feels normal, you know, but now it's like summer just again.
You know. It's it's my favorite time of year. It never seems
never seems enough. I can't believe it's already. August feels like this.
Yesterday it was Memorial Day. Jay fed from the Great State of Vermont joins
us says good afternoon everyone, Good afternoon. Jenny of course is in the
Facebook live chat and says shalom peeps. DJ Steve joins us and says,
good afternoon everyone. DJ Steve of course, one of our co hosts on
Friday nights for retro Spectrum Radio with Paul C. John Hopwood said, fifty
one degrees. Yes, it's supposed to get down to fifty one degrees.
It's gonna be icicles tomorrow morning. Icicles. No, it won't be that
bad. But the original forecast that's revised. The original forecast I heard this
morning was I was supposed to get down into the low forties. So I'm
glad that's changed. I'm glad that's been revised. I was freaking out.
Let's see. Oh. Melanie Liberty from the Great State of Vermont also joins
us in the Facebook lave chat. Hello Melanie. Hey, something quick and
not a political story, but I just I saw this on CNBC dot com
and it really grabbed my attention. It involves Amazon. Check this out.
Amazon employees leak secret info that marketplace sellers can buy on Telegram. Part of
why that caught my eye. Is you know, I don't really talk about
it much on the show. It's not that interesting. But I've been in
the online retail game for a long time and I've sold much inventory on Amazon,
not currently, but that's not a selling platform I'm currently using. But
I have a lot of experience as a as a third party seller on Amazon
dot Com. Oh hello to Miriam Bannish who joins us in the Facebook live
chat. But I thought this was interesting. If so, in theory,
if I were still selling on Amazon specifically, I could go on Telegram and
buy secret information. This is fascinating to me. Key points from the article
Amazon International information is finding its way onto messaging apps like Telegram, where brokers
are selling data to third party sellers. The brokers act as middlemen between sellers
and Amazon employees, who leak the data in exchange for money. A message
and a Telegram group says quote much more you can find about your account by
ordering screenshots with inside information from US as Sellers Support sees it unquote. By
the way seller support, if you are a third party seller on Amazon,
you don't ever want to have to interact with seller support. It doesn't always
go well you know, because something something goes wrong with your account, or
they're holding up your money or something. You've got to contact seller support and
sometimes they'll side with you, but sometimes they'll find ways to screw you over.
Quite frankly says here for millions of sellers who make up the booming Amazon
marketplace. You know, because if you don't know what I'm talking about,
by the way, with third party sellers, if you go on Amazon and
you look up a product, you'll see usually Amazon is selling it, right,
but then they have all these third party sellers that are also selling it
on the Amazon platform, and they're all competing with each other. Unfortunately.
Part of what's driven a lot of third party sellers out, like myself,
for example, is Amazon in recent years with a lot of products, they've
begun sort of low balling the third party sellers. So you might sell something
on Amazon at a certain price, and then Amazon is selling it themselves at
a much lower price, and you can't lower your price to compete with Amazon
any more than you already have, because then you will be actually losing money.
You'll have no profit margin on that product. It's terrible. John Hopwood
says, I just got a message from Facebook that I have memories to share
from two people who are now dead. That's very strange, and I think
that might be related to the Satanic portal. Let's see if you don't know
what the Satanic portal is. That's why you have to listen to the show
every day. If you don't listen to this show every single day, you
will miss a lot of very important and to be honest, potentially life saving
information. So it is important to tune in every day, it says here.
Helping third party sellers recover their accounts has turned into a large and lucrative
enterprise because the only way the merchants can get back up and running is to
admit guilt and correct the issue, or show sufficient evidence that they did nothing
wrong. The process is often costly, lengthy, and fraught with challenges.
Yeah, I know it all too well again from my own experience. That's
why this jumped out at me. You know, Amazon can at any time
just shut you down, so you could be You got to understand there's I
don't know a thousands cents of thousands, hundreds of thousands of third party sellers
who make a full time living selling on Amazon. And then one day,
Amazon just says, hey, you broke the rules and we're shutting you down,
and then there's a review process, and meanwhile your income has stopped.
It's no different than you know, we've talked on the show about, for
example, YouTube and some of their arbitrarily enforced rules and the way they go
about it. If you are I mean, I'm not in this position,
but if you are someone who actually makes your living on YouTube, you know,
you've got a thousands or tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of subscribers,
and you know you're cranking out these videos in your channel is monetized,
and that's how you I mean, they're streamers who make their living on platforms
like YouTube and Twitch and others rumble and then all of a sudden one day,
YouTube says, ah, we found an infraction, and we're either we're
suspending your account or we're demonetizing you. You know, it can be crushing.
So it's a terrible situation to find yourself in. So I can see
where this information would be very valuable. The third party sellers Hello to Chris
from the band Edgewise, who joins us in the Facebook lap chat. So
yeah, so the process can be very difficult, and it says here again
this is from CNBC dot com enter the illicit broker for a fee of two
hundred to four hundred dollars. Sellers can pay for services like Amazon Magic a
one broker as one broker on encrypted messaging service Telegram calls it. The offerings
also include access to company insiders who can remove negative reviews on a product and
provide information on competitors. Users are told to send a private message to learn
the price of certain services. The Telegram group has over thirteen thousand members,
and it's far from the only one. Other brokers pedal similar services on Telegram,
as well as on wee Chat, WhatsApp and Facebook groups. The confidential
data is promoted as intelligence Gold for any seller working to get their product or
account reinstated. The groups are part of a robust market of so called black
hats service providers that have cropped up alongside the rise of third party marketplaces on
Amazon, Etsy and Walmart. Amazon's marketplace now accounts for over sixty percent of
good sold on the platform and includes numerous businesses that generate millions of dollars a
year in annual revenue on the site. As it's grown, the sprawling global
marketplace has also seen a surge in the number of counterfeiters and spammers trying to
game the system, which has pushed Amazon to ramp up enforcement. Much of
the activity originates off of Amazon's marketplace and on social media and encrypted messaging apps,
complicating the policing efforts. A public Facebook page identified by CNBC offers an
Internet I'm Sorry, an internal screenshot service with quote valuable insight into your seller
account, allowing you to see how Amazon employees view your account and its performance.
Une Facebook parent Meta did not respond to a request for comment. The
issue of rogue employees taking bribes is not a new one for Amazon. The
company has in the past dealt with low level, low wage seller support staffers
in China, India, and Costa Rica who have accepted payments in exchange for
leaking information. Brokers who act as middlemen between sellers and employees often reach out
to insiders on LinkedIn, said a person familiar with the matter, who asked
not to be named due to confidentiality. Amazon has an internal group tasked with
threat analysis and response, including a team dedicated to investigating employees suspected of leaking
data. The source said. The threat analysis unit monitors social media platforms for
abusive groups where bad actors may congregate before engaging an illicit activity on Amazon's marketplace.
Wow, this goes on. There's apparently so I didn't know this,
but we don't have time to get to the whole article. It's up on
CNBC. It's right on their homepage if you want to see it. But
apparently this kind of thing has been going on for a long time, and
I suppose it was bound to happen, uh with the you know, with
all this technology that we have and encrypted uh encrypted apps and whatnot. I
guess what I would just say, though, is I would warn to people
who are doing that kind of thing. If you're working for Amazon and you're
doing that, or you're you know, if for any other company, you
know, you will get caught eventually. I mean, it's not worth the
risk. It is never worth the risk. John Hopwood shared shared an article
in the in the chat room from the street dot com about what Amazon takes
for from third party sellers. Yeah, it's not as lucrative as it used
to be selling on Amazon third party I used to um, I used to
do something called retail arbitrage, where I would I would purchase products. This
was a part of my business. I would purchase products on eBay and sell
them on Amazon at a profit. But again, you know, after a
while, it's like Amazon sees you selling this stuff, and then they start
selling it themselves and they start lowballing you, and it's like, oh,
okay, so I can no longer compete with Amazon because Amazon is competing directly
with me. There have been weird stories too. There have been stories over
the years of people who invent their own products, manufacture their own trademark products,
the whole deal, right, and they open a seller account on Amazon.
They start selling on Amazon their own stuff that they make, they've trademarked,
they've branded it, everything, and then all of a sudden, one
day, either some other third party seller who had bought some of these items,
they're now selling it and competing directly with the original seller who they bought
the products from, or Amazon it turns out bought a bunch of the stuff,
or somebody selling counterfeit versions of the product that you've ada. That's you
know, I'm not saying I'm not saying it's not worth it, you know,
to sell on Amazon. But there's a lot that can go wrong,
that's for sure. All Right, here's what we're gonna do. We are
approaching for thirty and our first guest is going to be skyping in. We
have a two musical guests today. If you're disowning us, we have from
Starlight who's gonna be joining us at four thirty. They've got a big show
coming up in Allston, Massachusetts. They are from Albany, New York,
but they're gonna be in Allston tomorrow night, so they want to skype in
for a few minutes talk about that. And then at the top of the
hour, we have Jake Dollery from the UK who's gonna be joining us.
So very very exciting show today. But let's see. I'm gonna play this,
Yeah, I'm gonna play another from Starlight track. This is called what
She Needs. This is a really cool song. Let's give this a listen,
and then when we come back, we'll have them with us via skype.
I'm really looking forward to talking with these guys, or it might just
be one guy from the band. I'm not sure. We'll see, we'll
see, but I like these guys a lot. Check this out. This
is called what she needs from from starlight. This, this is what she
said that she needs. And here I wait on my knees. It's times
like the swearing is difficult, times like peace where it's so hot to scream.
But this is what she said, gets so through it, die and
drinking again. I'm sorry, I'm such a mass, So sorry. Coats,
come rest. When the time starts the day, when the taste starts
to change, you'll be back in my embrace again like now they have been
at all is what she said that she means, But it's breaking my heart.
Every time she turns around. It's like a falling alone. Just still
find out it's so when the time does to say, when the day starts
to change, you back in my brace again, like that happenlaint So I
didn't sprain my why my shut down and I explain to my soul. I
can't explain my harm like the kids shut down, he w. When the
time starts the day, when the day starts to change, you'll be back
in my embrace again like that have been that all my embrace again. I
just need to remember that. Oh that's good stuff. What she needs?
Uh, that is the Band from the Starlight, and let's get Chris on
here. He's already on Skype waiting for us. I just got to connect
with him, so if I don't have any trouble like I did last week,
Chris, you're there. Hi. Hey, welcome Chris Stein from the
Band from the Starlight. How are you doing. I'm doing well? How
are you very well? Very well? Is it just you? Any other
band members with you or just you? Just be today? They're running late
for rehearsals. Gotcha, gotcha? Hey, man, I really like your
sound. We played Blue Eyes to open the show today and uh, I
just you know, I just played what she Needs and great stuff. I
really dig what you're doing. And you're gonna be Uh you're from Albany,
right? Is that where you are right now? Is Albany in New York?
Yes, we're out of Albany, New York. And then you're gonna
be in Allston, Massachusetts tomorrow night. Correct, that's right. Yeah,
in Boston, just across the river from Cambridge at at the Silhouette Lounge.
Very cool. I don't think i've ever been there. Um did obviously,
I've been to the area, but not to that venue. Have you played
there before or is this your first time there? This would be my first
time there and probably the last time in a band. I personally have performed
in Boston in almost ten years. Oh get a long time since I've been
on the East coast. Oh wow, okay, gotcha? Gotcha? Um?
Now, how many guys are in the band? Is it four of
you? Four of us in the band? We have a guitarist at him.
He plays in another band called The Young Canny Gentleman H. He also
helps with some of the vocals. Uh, Brendan H. He plays in
a really interesting bluegrass folk band called The Narrow North. And he's playing bass
and he does vocals, And we have a drummer Russ And we're still you
know, we sometimes have a keyboard player join us. We don't have have
one on this leg. I was gonna say, on that song, I
think it was blue Eyes. I thought I heard it sounded like a Moog
synthesizer in there. Definitely. Yeah. I play a lot of the synth
stuff on the record myself. It's uh, you know, layering the different
sounds was a really important part of the music to us this time around.
That was really kind of foundation what we wanted to do. We just wanted
to try to modernize some of the rock sound that we had to blend in
with more modern music. Have you guys been around for a while. No,
this is our first, our first record. Some of the first shows
we're doing as a as a group live. Oh wow, Okay, very
cool, very cool. Well, I mean you're off to a great start.
How long has the record been out? We put it out very quietly
just after COVID. The record was done during COVID as just kind of a
side project, and then as as you know, the pandemic blinded down and
we were able to get people together as a as a group, we decided
to give it a go because we have more songs written and start to support
support the music. Um yeah, I mean it must feel good to get
out there and play. Are you playing a lot of shows? We are
just getting ramped up. We're booking shows in New York and in the Buffalo
area and town in uh Pittsburgh. Yea, but this is this is the
first one we're doing really formally. We've been We've done a couple of shows
where we haven't announced, but the first formal show we're doing and we're starting
up here in Boston. Oh, excellent, excellent. By the way,
what's the scene like in Albany. Do you play in Albany? I've I've
been in Albany, New York, but not for a very long time.
I used to work for a company that their corporate headquarters were in Albany,
So every once in a great while I would I would get to travel there.
But um, but I never really got a sense of what the scene
was like there. It used to be really great. There were a lot
of original bands that came out of the area. You know, count the
Stars got picked up by Victory Records a long time ago in the early two
thousands. Uh, there's a new band, State Champs, out of AVL
Park that's that's been doing really well nationally. But you know, recent years
they've seen a lot of venues closed, but there's there's a new set of
venues developing there. So Troy has a brand new venue, Albany's built a
brand a couple of brand new venues, and so it's like at a turning
point right now where it seems that some of the local original scene is starting
to come back and thrive. Yeah, that's good. That's good. Troy
is close right, pretty close to Albany. Yeah, just a couple of
minutes down the road. It's only about fifteen minutes Troice, Schenectady, Albany
and kind of Clifton Park. Those all kind of blend together as far as
the music is, uh, you know, music's concern. Yeah. Yeah.
UM. What's the kind of the long term plan are you gonna do?
Uh? Are you going to do a tour or are you gonna kind
of stay regional and work on new music or what? What? What?
What's the plan plan right now is to record some new music. We've we've
lined up Tim Leitner to to do a few more songs with us. We're
building a larger rehearsal and recording space right now in Albany, and we're hoping
that's done in the next month or so. And and that'll give us,
you know, a permanent creative space that we can you know, we can
use to write and and build out longer shows and better sets. Uh.
You know. The idea is to definitely, uh to do more and more
shows regionally, uh and perhaps in the summers uh, or or take advantage
of some of the connections I have down south from when I lived in Florida,
so there's a possibility going down there. It's just the logistics are really
difficult to work out. Okay, now, are you from Florida? Originally,
because I was thinking you don't sound like a Northeasterner, I I'm actually
it was I'm from Walbany originally. Oh no, kid, but then I've
traveled all over the place. Yeah, it sounds like, yeah, the
traveling can kind of just uh suck the accent out of you. Um,
It's funny like yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. I've known a
lot of people. I've known people who grew up here and it's like you
can't you know they've but they've been around and you can't tell, you know,
just because they've gone to other places where, you know, like the
Midwest or whatever where that you just Jesus can't this almost like a non almost
like a newscaster's accent where there just is no accent basically, um but uh
yeah, sure, oh yeah, oh no, I'm sorry, go ahead,
Chris. No. And if you live in a place where their strong
accents, like I spent a year in Boston, you find yourself picking up
on some of that as well, even though it's not natural to you,
right right, Oh, yeah, absolutely. I wanted to ask you,
can you tell us more about working with Tim Leitner, because I'd like to
know how that came about, because again, he's worked with some I'm looking
at a list here from your bio. He's worked with Carly Simon, Bruce
Springsteen, Tina Turner, Adam Ezra, whom I've interviewed over the years.
I think a couple of times. He's amazing. I love Adam Ezra,
but um, yeah, he's worked with some some some pretty heavy hitters.
How did you connect with him and how has it been working with him?
Obviously it's been positive because the music sounds great and you said you're going to
do more of it in the future. But how did that all come about?
Yeah? So I was living in Florida at the time I wrote the
songs, and I started to think about, you know, really reaching out
to some great producers to see if they'd be willing to work on the project
with me, because I wanted to have a lot of director I wanted to
have a lot of control over what I was doing, and at the time,
we didn't have a I didn't have a band. You know. Russ
was laying down some drum ideas for me, but I was playing everything else.
And I think I wanted too, for the first time, make a
record that that I wanted to make without without compromising the vision I had,
and Tim really his creative process the way he talked to me. And then
we went up and we drove to New York City, Russ and I,
uh in March of twenty twenty nineteen or yeah, twenty nineteen, just because
the next year would have been the pandemic. We uh. We went to
Sticky Audio and we worked for three or four days and that that was twenty
two uh. And it was a great process, and then we planned on
working together in the future. This record was really very weird because I was
in my rehearsal space up here in Albany via Zoom, sending the mix live
as I was doing things down to Tim in New York City because we you
know, there was a travel band during the during the pandemic. Yeah,
so we did this almost remotely. Uh. And then we got together and
he came up here and we did Stars and Satellites here. So we've we've
worked together about three times now. Kind of fascinating process. He's a brilliant,
brilliant mind. Yeah. I always say too, you know, as
far as like working with someone over zoom and you know, sending files back
and forth and whatnot. One thing, you know, I mean, the
pandemic has been awful in so many ways, but I do think it's good
to try to find those silver linings where we can. And one good thing
is the timing of it, because at least it happened in an era where
we have all this technology, and it's the technology that we have that allowed
people to continue to be creative and to find ways to work together, and
whether it's recording or even you know, there's some some really famous bands who
would do live performances online and you know, just all kinds of crazy stuff
that you know, if this had happened twenty years sooner, or even ten
years sooner, it would have been a lot harder in that sense. So
I think it really brought out a lot of creativity and people. You know,
necessity being the mother of invention. You know that the pandemic made it
necessary for people to find new ways to you know, because I'm sure a
lot of musicians would have been much more resistant to using technology to create music
in this way without being forced to, and the pandemic kind of forced people
to become more adaptable to that and amenable to work in that way. You're
absolutely right, and we were, we were among them. We were.
We did not want to do an I think virtually we put it off and
pushed the project back and back and back, and it was actually towards the
end of twenty twenty when we finally said, Okay, we're just going to
give up. It doesn't seem like this is relenting and and we're very lucky
that the technology existed where we could have live transmission of high quality audio back
and forth almost instantaneously. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah, it's
uh, it's it's really incredible. And do you have you probably it's too
soon, I would guess, But do you have any kind of an idea
when music that you created in the future, the next batch of songs or
the next album, when that might be out, or are you shooting for
some time in the next year. We're trying to get at least another four
or five out soon. We've got several written that we were rehearsing right now,
and a couple that you know, are are pretty pretty developed. But
we want to take every together as a package, you know, to look
at as a whole and make sure we make smart decisions on what we you
know, what we release, because we're trying to set a pretty high bar
for for the songs we put out right right now. And like I said,
everything sounds great and it's uh, it sounds like you're in a fantastic
position as far as recording and getting to work with somebody that the caliber of
Tim Leitner, that that certainly helps. And uh, and the songwriting is
really strong. Who do you write? I get the impression do you write
the songs yourself? Yeah? I do this batch dispatch, I did write,
Uh, you know, Stars and Satellites Russ. Russ helped me with
some of the lyrics on that. And we're more collaborative now that we have
you know, more musicians and we're able to you know, be in a
room together for a long period of time. Right. So that's yeah,
that's been much much welcome to to take some of the pressure of writing everything
off of my shoulders. Oh, absolutely, absolutely, Yeah. It does
seem like, you know a lot of bands start out that way too,
where it's kind of like a solo project and then it turns into a band,
and you'll often hear the person with whom the band started as a solo
project will say, oh, it's just so much easier now. I mean
famous example, the Food Fighters. You know that first Food Fighters album was
all Dave Grohl and and you know he has said many times an interview,
so it's so nice. You know, once I add an actual band officially
together to record instead of to you know, just all all the pressure being
on me, so and it is h you know, one of the great
joys of making music is being able to collaborate with other people. So that's
that's great. The time goes by so quick. I don't want to run
out of time, Chris, So, I want to make sure people know
well two important things. If you can remind us about the show tomorrow night,
so our listeners in the area can get there. But also too,
anything you want our listeners to know about where to find you online, website,
social media, anything. Where's the best place to go to keep up
with everything that from Starlight is doing. Yeah, so we're playing tomorrow night
at eight o'clock at the Silhouette Lounge in Boston, Massachusetts, just across the
river from Cambridge, with the White Bear Principle at Sleep, Jumper and Dead
Vapor. That should be a really great lineup. I think it goes eight
to eleven o'clock. And as far as keeping in touch with the band or
looking us up, we're on all the streaming platforms, although it seems from
metrics everybody's using Spotify, So you can find us on Spotify, and then
you can also find us on Twitter at at makes Underscore Chris and At from
Starlight twenty one excellent, excellent. Oh one other thing too, by the
way, where does the name come from? From Starlight? What does that
mean? That's that came out of writing stars and satellites. I was gonna
call the project that, but but we ended up with a song like that,
and so we just, uh, we started to think about some of
you know, a lot of these tunes are about love from weird or different
perspectives, either from you know, drugs, singing to an addict or you
know, people struggling singing to other people. And so we just we kind
of we're thinking of different metaphysical things and that's kind of where it came from
plus the music. We tried to have a little soaring and sometimes some sci
fi elements drift in, so I think that's where we ended up settling on
that. Yeah, yeah, very cool. I like it a lot.
All right, Well, Chris Stein, we're gonna let you go, my
friend, and uh and we're gonna actually close out the segment with one more
song, but I'd like you to pick. So I played what She Needs
and I played blue Eyes. What song would you like us to play to
close out the segment? You get to choose. I think Stars and Satellites.
It's short and seems to be one people gravitate towards, and we were
just talking about it, so that's perfect. All right, all right,
I'm gonna play that one in a moment, but I'll let you go.
Chris, Thank you again so much. A great show tomorrow night, and
I'm sure we will we'll do this again in the future. Thank you,
my friend, Thank you so much. We appreciate it. All right,
Chris, you got it, Take care, byebye. All right. That
was the great Chris Stein from the band from Starlight and uh yeah, check
them out tomorrow night. They will be in Austin. And I'm gonna play
we will close out. We'll close out this segment with that track, and
then after that, coming up in the second hour, we have Jake Dollery
with us skyping in from the UK. So we're gonna play this track from
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all your live streaming options, social media links, conduct in folk show archives,
etcetera, etcetera. Today is Tuesday, August first, two thousand and
twenty three. Thank you again to Chris Stein from the band from Starlight for
joining us today. They got a big show tomorrow night in Austin, mass
check it out. I really like their music, I really like their sound
and that was great talking to Chris. And in just a couple of minutes
we are going to be joined via skype by We've got two musical guests today.
Jake Dolery is going to be calling I'm sorry not calling skyping man of
course, because he is across the pond as they say in the UK.
So really looking forward to talking to him. And he's got a great sound
as well. It's a little different. It's really cool. Um. We've
a lot of these artists that we talked to from the UK are just really
remarkable. Um, who is it? Oh? Last week we had Lewis
Tivy who was just fantastic. I really love what he's doing. But I'm
gonna go ahead and play one of these Jake Dolery tracks now, and then
once the song is over, we'll have him with us via Skype. This
is called come and get Me and this is really really catchy. I like
this a lot. Check this out. Come and get me from Jake Dollery
right here on Matt Connerton unleashed. Yeah, fine, I can see your
mind. We might find you've been crying for too many years. He's up
with a single tips so wrong with me. Don't push me away, try
rise out for to day and come and get me. Come and get me
here. I am, Come and get me here. I am, come
and get me one man. How long since you can't gonna ring? You've
been kept some end of the chain trapsing world about love for him? Your
good enough, he's my love. Give me a call like the promise,
will have a ball. Let me know what you desire because I'm my mom
bi. Don't come and get me here. I am, Come and get
me here. I come and get me here. I am, Come and
get me a wan of me, a man, come and get me a
hen's to night. You know that I'll treat you right, So let me
make this feel. Come and get me and my hare stop. Get what's
gone? The boy. You don't need you cry anymore. Look into my
eyes gone, say a thing. It's time for you to begin. Don't
come and get me out, Come and get there. Out Come and get
me here, Come and get me. A want of me, so come
get me, Come and get me so I get me out. I want
to be up. I don't even have the words for how much I like
that song. That is so good. Come and get me Jake Dollery and
I think we have him on Skype. Jake, are you there? Yeah,
I'm right here. Man. Oh. It's always a relief when when
everything works out with Skype, because sometimes when we have these Skype calls that
are you know, transcontinental, we are run into technical difficulties. So I'm
glad. I'm glad we're connected. I love that song. I love that
song. Come and get me that is so good. Thank you very much.
I'm I can hear you, but I can't see you. Yeah that
that that that's okay, they'll they'll you don't need to see me. What's
that? Can you see me? I can well if I turn so our
listeners can't see you. But they can't see Uh, they can't see whoever's
on Skype anyway. I can see you. You're a you're all that there's
no seeing me. It's probably not a bad thing. Noah, I don't
worry about it. No, we're good. We're good. I I can
I can see you if I turn to look at that monitor. But no,
the important thing is that we can hear each other. By the way,
how do you say your last name? Because I'm worried that I'm not
saying it correctly? Hopefully right? Dollary Okay, American currency with a Y
on the end. Gotcha, dollary? Okay, very good, very good?
Hey um, Yeah, I really really like that song. I love
your sound. UM. I think that track in particular, the bassline,
it just is so good. Now do you do you do you do everything
yourself? Or do you have other musicians that you work with? UM on
that particular track, was or me? Apart from drums, I have to
kind of source drums from UM. How can I put this? Sometimes they're
elicited, sometimes the drum machine. Sometimes they're live drums that that you download
from from people that provide that kind of thing. Yeah, but on this
yeah, it's pretty much all me. All the vocals, the guitar work,
based work is all me. Yeah, I just I just kind of
like that little bassline. Well, I was just noodling about one day with
a bass in my lap, and and I thought, I, hang on,
I could build something around this, and I just wanted something a little
bit bluesy, a little bit rocky, you know, just just to um
create a bit of energy. And you know, you know, my lyrics
obviously, I like to try and you know, be pretty cool with them.
I don't like just writing empty lyrics, yeah, just random, you
know. I like to I like to try and create a meaning in what
I write. I don't want to sound pretentious, sorry no, but yeah,
the bassline just really drives it. It propels the song forward, and
I really like it. It's very very catchy. And you sound to some
other music too, you know. Well, well we'll play something else at
the end of the segment as well. But yeah, great, great stuff.
And you've been at this a while, haven't you. Yeah, I've
been knocking around a few years. I'm not sure how, you know,
if I should actually tell your listeners, but yeah, yeah, I've been
I've been making music since I was seventeen. UM, and here we are
forty years on. I'm fifty seven now. I've just released a new album
which I'm really proud of. Um, it seems to be gathering a little
bit of attention. UM, I mean not big time. I'm not going
to pretend you know that it's anything more than that. But I've but I've
had a lot of independent stations like yourselves, um, picking up on what
I'm doing and I'm really liking it, which is really encouraging it. It's
really it's really great to get that validation from people to say, you know,
we like what you're doing. You know, I've been, like I
said, I've been making music for forty years, and then in the last
five or six years, I finally find an audience which is like wow,
which is probably a good thing because if I had found that when I was
starting out, I probably have an ego the size of the Empire State Building's
probably not very healthy. But right there you go. No, I mean,
you know, music, music's been there for me through the good times
and bad times, you know, through I mean, especially through COVID.
I had such a purple patching in writing because that had so much time you
know, being being isolated at home and stuff, and you know, and
I think I created some of my best music during that period. But so
yeah, there we go. It's that's what it's. It's interesting that you
say that about COVID because we were just talking with um. We had Chris
Stein from the band from Starlight on the show earlier, and we were at
talking about that, how you know, the pandemic kind of forced people to
be more creative because all of a sudden, you know, a lot of
options were limited in terms of you know, like he plays in a in
a full band and you know, they couldn't get together and whatnot. But
they started recording together online, you know, emailing tracks back and forth.
And UM, I always say, too, as awful as the pandemic was,
you know, a little bit of a silver lining and we have to
find those where we can and that at least we live in a time where
we have the technology to still be able to be creative and to put that
put what we create out into the world and disseminate it while being kind of
kind of stuck at home or stuck in some form of isolation. Yeah,
well for me because I'm because I'm not in a band, and that's that's
not because I don't want to be. Yeah, you know, I'm I'm
in a position where I'm not making enough money out of my music to to
not work. So you know, I'm you know, I've got other projects,
you know I do. I do my own radio show here in the
UK. Um. I I just found that it was helping with with my
sanity. I speak if I think, if you speak to most creative people,
most most musicians, artists, whatever their craft is, is that we're
quite fragile souls at times. And and you know, during the pandemic,
my mental health took a big hit and I found solace in making music and
um, and you know, when your mind is in those dark periods,
you can be you're most creative and come up with some of the some of
your best work ironically, and then when you look back on it, when
you're in a better place, you go, wow, did I really do
that? That's wow? So um, Yeah, I'm you know, I'm
you know, I'm obviously very proud of what I do. I know I'm
not the best. I'm not the best. I sing a best songwright,
I'm not the best musician, but I do feel that what I do,
the sum of what I can do, is greater than their parts. And
hence, you know, you just you had one of my you know,
one of the chains I'm really proud of Come and Get Me because it's just
a good driving rock song. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I noticed
too your music. I mean, it sounds not just that song, but
that song is a great example of it. It sounds like a band.
It doesn't sound like it doesn't sound like it's um. I don't know if
this is quite the right way to put it, but it doesn't even sound
like one guy who just recorded everything himself. It sounds live. It sounds
like a band, And I'm curious, is that is that intentional? Is
that something you're striving for or does it just wind up sound in that way.
I think a bit of both, really, you know, because I'm
you know, as any artists will tell you that they're they're learning all the
time, and I'm still learning, you know, even in my well,
I don't know, I don't know what your demographic is over over there in
Manchester, but me neither, I'm sorry, me neither who knows, you
know, I mean, you know, over here, um in the UK,
I think I'm just going to digress slightly. Is the You know,
music platforms like Spotify are both demon and devil, sorry, Angel and Devil.
Um. You know, I've been able to release my music through a
distribution company which is very very affordable, UM Distro Kid, which I believe
is an American American company. Yes, and I can get my music hurd
it's great. And I've also spent a lot of time emailing shows and networking
and getting to know where I might be able to get my music heard,
which never would have happened when I started out. You know, your only
hope was that a record company would sign you and get your music out there.
Where it's now you can self release, and so when I when I
put my music together, coming back to your point about deliberately sounding like a
band, yes, I do want to. I do want it to sound
like a band. I try and when I'm writing my music and playing my
instruments, I try to think, right now, I'm being a guitarist,
Now I'm being a bass player. Now I'm being a vocalist rather than just
being It's all just me, and that's not me being conceited or anything like
that. It's It's just that I want to make music and I don't have
the people immediately around me to do that. I do get help, I
do get you know. I do collaborate on stuff. I've I've collaborated with
two or three artists over there in the US. I'm not sure what.
I can't remember which songs I sent you to play. But there was a
track I did called Drive with this guy called Rad Grandad, and he just
created this really nice vibe of a track that was is very basic, and
I just love the vibe of it. And I added, I didn't actually
add that much. I added some guitars, I added some vocals and harmonies
and stuff, and he came out really well. And so yeah, so
yeah, it's anything to create something new and listenable and exciting. It is
where I'm coming from. I'm not here too to be labeled as one thing,
because you know, if you go into my back catalog, it's quite
diverse. You know. I've released seven albums plus the compilation album Wow.
You know, like I said, I've been knocking around a little while.
Um yeah, that's a lot of music. Um now, so I want
to the circle back though, so you said, referring to Spotify and these
um other services you said, they can be both the angel and the devil.
What's the devil part? What the devil is they pay you absolutely nothing,
you know, you know through my my you know, without promote,
I don't have a marketing company behind me. I don't have any you know,
I'd literally do it all myself. And I spend a lot of time,
you know, trying to get radio stations to play my stuff, and
thankfully a lot of them do they think it's good enough. Um, you
know, I've I've got YouTube channel and I've got like over one hundred and
fifty videos on YouTube, um, you know, and I'm there on Spotify,
Amazon. You know, I'm not going to promote them, but any
major streaming and download site, I'm what I'm on there, and the returns
are pitiful. Yeah, I've had tens of thousands of plays and streams and
you know today I've probably one hundred and fifty pound which is probably about two
hundred dollars wow, in all the time for all those plays, you know,
and that that's that's the sad part of it. But for me personally,
being a man who's you know, let's face it, you know,
at the wrong end of a career, I'm not marketable. I mean,
if you can see my face, you can see I'm I'm a little bit
wrinkly, you know, I'm I'm not gonna face, you know, I'm
you know, I'm no Simon Lebonn or I don't know, he's a good
like Justin Bieber or whatever. Whatever. If if if girls go, oh,
what's his name? Who's that one direction guy? Oh, Harry Styles,
Harry Styles. Yeah, I ain't no Harry. You know, I'm
a middle aged I'm a middle aged man. So I'm not marketable to a
record company. And I accept that. Yeah. You know, one thing
I do get from it, like I referred to earlier, is that validation
is being recognized as as a musicians, as an artist, as a credible
artist, which is really humbling because I've been trying to for full decades,
trying to refrain from them the ruder words. Yeah. Yeah, um,
so obviously too. So you've been around a while, so you know how
much it's all changed. And yeah, and I think one of the it
is a it really is a double edged sword as far as how it's changed,
because obviously, um, you know, at one time, it was
pretty straightforward in terms of how it worked. You know, you you record
an album or an EP, although when I was growing up there weren't a
lot of EPs, mostly albums and occasional EP you know. But you record
an album and you and then you go on to her and then eventually you
record another album and go on to her, you know. And there was
a that was the Psyche call. And now you know, the Internet changed
everything, so now it's it's um Now you've got all kinds of options.
You know, you can record albums, you can record singles. A lot
of the artists that I have on the show, they just record singles and
then when they have enough singles that they've released, then they put them into
an album. So it's kind of it's almost like they've reverse engineered it,
where you know, they're putting the singles out, just one right after another,
you know, and then they make an album. Yeah, I've kind
of I totally get that, and I for me, I almost fell into
that, fell into that trap where I'd write a new song, I'd really
think it's you know, it's it's got some it's got something, and I'd
release it and then I realized well, perhaps perhaps I'm just old school,
and I've withheld some of the tracks that I you know, I've I think
have got something and then just released them as an album. Because what I
tend to do is is I, rather than release and our release a single
now, I tend to just farm out a certain track to to whoever.
You know. I put it on social media, um, send it off
to radio stations, and I hope they might play it. And and I've
I've got a good I've got a you know, quite a nice little stock
of radio stations that will play my music. Yeah, And I'm you know,
the only thing I hope for is is a nice little Royaly checks sometime
in the future from the radio plays. Right. But but like I said
earlier, and I'm not making any money out of it. I do it
because I love making music. I do it because, um, you know,
it's my creative art is my legacy, you know, and and you
know and and I'm you won't believe how proud I am to be invited to
be on this show, you know, to to to you know, this
is my first first radio interview in the US, So you've got you've got
an exclusive man. Oh that's wonderful. No, I'm glad. Well that's
that's wonderful to hear. Yeah, yeah, I mean I've had plenty of
air play over there on on on various stations, but but nobody's nobody's been
so kind as to invite me on and have a chat with me. So
thank you very much. Oh yeah, no, thank you, thank you
for joining us. And of course Jenny, you know, she does all
the booking and uh and she does a wonderful job. And um yeah,
do you um, do you miss being in bands or do you prefer do
you think you're just gonna gonna stick with um doing everything yourself because it's it's
funny, you know again. You know, like I said, we had
on earlier Chris Stein from from Starlight and with him he started out as a
solo artist and then his solo project kind of turned into a band. But
I know from reading your bio you were in bands at one time and then
it kind of evolved into doing things on your own. Do you ever miss
being in a full band? I do so much. But it's trying to
find like my ended people that well, it's slightly difficult from me because I've
got so much material behind me. It would have to be if I do
get into another band, it would be a band that would be basically my
backing band. You know. I'm more happy to perform under a name of
a band. Yeah. I've even a few ideas of what that band might
be called. But I'm trying. You know. The problem is it's finding
time, finding the right musicians, finding the right committed musicians. I mean,
I don't know what it's like in the States, but in the UK,
finding committed musicians is hard work. And being in a band, you
know, if there's like four members, you've got four separate egos or dragging
you in different directions. And that's I found that hard work in my early
days of being in bands because I've got an ego. It's it's a lot
smaller than it was years ago, but you know it, you know,
it's hard, you know, because I mean, I am the last band
I nearly got together, um, which was pre COVID. It was like
twenty and eighteen, and we were a band. We were going to be
the black rock Vandals. That is a cool name. Yeah, we were
gonna you know, we were going to be a bouncy rock rock but heavy
rock band. Um, I was going to lead it. I was going
to you know, be the vocalist, guitarist in it. Out of bassis
we had another. The other guitarist in the band was a guy who toured
with Johnny Thunders when he toured the UK back in back in the early eighties,
and you know Johnny Thunders and Heartbreakers. He played with him, so
he had a great, you know, great pedigree. But just as at
the point where we were ready to gig, the band fell apart and I
was so gutted and and this point with it, with the amount of work
and effort I put in, yeah, it kind of I just felt so
sad and so I kind of made a At that time, I made a
decision say right now, I'm just going to go it alone. I'm not
going to play live. I'm just going to be a recording artist. Just
chuck stuff out there and hope it sticks, hope people like it. But
then now here a few years on, I think I really would like to
get back on stage. I really like to just get up there and entertain
it, entertain a little crowd. Yeah, you know, even if it's
in a small club or pub, you know, and just bash out some
tunes. Yeah, I do miss that a lot. I do miss that
a lot. Yeah. I mean, in theory, it's something you could
wade back into, right if you just grabbed an acoustic guitar and went out
and did some solo shows. Right. Well, I did that for a
few years. I did that for about a decade. Yeah. I just
got up on stage and just strummed out some tunes. Um, you know,
some of my own, some covers and stuff. Um put them out
there. They were well received. But you know, time restraints were working.
Also at the time, there was parenting as well. My daughter um
at the time, was in her early teens, trying to find time to
and I'm I was a single parent. It's trying to find time to be
able to go out and play a gig and organized stuff. Sometimes she came
along with me, but it wasn't great for her. She didn't really enjoy
that. You know. The first couple were great fun, and then after
that, after the third you know, glass coke and packet of crisps or
chips as you when and so. Um. So I kind of stepped away
from that and I got a little bit board playing the same songs over and
over, and then I didn't have enough time to rehearse up new songs and
stuff. But no, I mean music is in blood, it's in my
heart, you know, and I really enjoy enjoy what I'm doing. Yeah,
yeah, Now it's great like that that song Come and Get Me,
I mean, that's that's a hit? Is that? Is that if you
got an airplay with that? Or is there a specific track that you've gotten
a significant amount of airplay with? Um that actually, funnily enough, is
my most popular track on on Spotify. So that that's why I leave it
to you. Yeah. I mean, although it's only had about four or
five thousand UM listens, I mean it's had plenty on YouTube, it's had
plenty on other other music platforms, and you know, you have your own
little favorite babies, and that's that's one of mine. Is It's quite a
simple song, but I think it kind of delivers a bit of a punch,
you know. And my my compil I did a compilation album which was
the album before the one I've just released. I've just released an album called
paroxysm Um, which is just kind of rock, a bit of rock pop.
It's not a particularly heavy rock album apart from the title track. But
what I what I did last year was released an album of like all my
heavier tracks to you know, so right if you if you want to be
slapped around the face and punched in the year with some some really good rock.
Um, you know, I released a fifteen track best of album,
ok and there's yeah, there's a number of tracks on that I released as
singles that that that did okay and yeah, you know so if you listen
as want to check it out, you know where it is, you know,
go to YouTube. You don't have to pay for YouTube. Just listen
to it there right, or you can go to camp band camp and download
it and paying me a couple of couple of dollars and I'll be happy,
buy me a coffee. There you go, There you go. Um.
I wanted to ask you too. You're you're a fellow broadcaster, and I
keep hearing about this radio wigwam. Yeah, I respect of not not mentioning
it because I didn't want to, you know, create a a a arrival
for you. We're not arrival to anyone. No, no, it's fine,
it's fine. I mean in this in this the media environment, the
way it is now. I mean, you know, obviously like I wouldn't.
I wouldn't talk about another local radio station here in this market, for
example. I wouldn't do that. But I have no problem you know,
talking about another online station or streaming platform or anything like that. It's fine.
No, I'm part of why I bring it up too, is I've
just been hearing a lot about it and I think we've I think, um,
we even had we had someone on the show recently, Steve Gamblin,
who I think I think he has a show on there. Uh, and
he's he's here in Uh, he's right here in Manchester, but I think
he Um, I think he has a segment that runs on a show there.
But but I've been hearing about Radio Wig why I'm a lad. Can
you tell us about it and tell us about your show? I say we
I only came in. The station was about eight years old. Um,
A guy called Christian John and Mike Greene founded it about eight years ago.
They're from Wales, part of the UK. Um. I found them just
purely by you know, chucking my music at any radio station I could find
that the ask for submissions. Yeah, um, they really liked what I
did. Musically. They nominated me for an award as their best Male Artists
for twenty twenty because they really liked my stuff. Wow, I didn't.
I didn't win, that's all right. I don't mind the nominations more than
us. Yeah, And then they invited me to do a takeover show.
So there's a slot, a weekly slot on the station where they invite one
of the artists, unsigned artists they feature to to do a show and just
tell the world about what music they influenced them, what music they like,
and introduced the tracks and such like. And they liked the fact the way
I delivered the show that they invited me to do basically a weekly show of
me playing music I like, and that's great. And so when I started,
I was a bit rubbish because I wasn't I'd never done anything like that
before. And so I've kind of found my radio presenter identity now and I've
got a weekly show that goes out three times a week. One show goes
out three times a week Tuesdays. In fact, my show just finished just
as we started this one. Oh no kidding, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Well I don't do it live, okay, we record it. Yeah,
And so I do that. That show goes out three times a week
and again I just play sort of like indie indie rock, some normal rock.
It's quite a collectic, you know. Some I play a lot of
m eighties and nineties rock music, you know, from britt Park to you
know, some spandex American rock. Yeah. I play some classic seventies rock,
you know, and stuff like that. And at the end of the
show, I chuck in a couple of unsigned artists. Yeah, just just
to kind of keep the ethos of the radio station up, because the ethos
of the radio station is very much about playing the music you don't particularly hear
too much on mainstream radio, right and and and try and say, you
know, here in the UK and we've got in terms of terrestrial FM and
DAB radio stations, there aren't that many, and they tend to play the
same commercial stuff. They forget about, you know, hang on. I
grew up with I grew up with the sex pistols, I grew up with
a clash, I grew up with you know some you know, Faith No
More. And I grew up with Guns and Roses and you know, all
those kind of bands and Navana and Foo Fighters and they're just not getting the
same level of airplay as as the commercial stuff, and so the focus of
the station is to promote that kind of music and also kind of promote,
you know, the unsigned artists. And it's not just British artists we play.
We play, we play artists literally from all over the world, you
know, Canada, US, Europe, South America, Australia. It doesn't
matter where you're from. You find the website and if you've got, you
know, a well produced track, we'll play it. Yeah, as simple
as that. Of course. I was just gonna ask you, Jake,
what what is the AB for our listeners who don't know? I mean,
I kind of have an idea, but sorry, it's digital audio broadcast,
okay, so that yeah, so that's strictly I'm no, no, no,
no here and well I'm sure you've got it in the US. You
know, in the UK we're moving away from um FM and everything is broadcast
digitally, so if you've got a digital radio, you just pick it up
on that, gotcha, gotcha. Okay, We're not quite there as a
radio station at the moment, but that's where we're heading. Oh okay,
gotcha. Yeah, So Radio Wig WIMS is online but will eventually be on
the AB. Yeah. Well that's that's the plan. You know, it's
expensive. Yeah. And when I say if it is massively expensive, yeah,
you're talking to go full on with it. You're talking of you know,
hundreds of thousands of puns, dollars whatever currency you want to put in
to stay on air for a year, so that you know, you would
need a hell of a lot of advertising and sponsorship do that. But you
know, you know, why not dream big? Not dream big? Absolutely?
And and for terrestrial radio, so you have FM, do you also
have AM there? Yeah, but that's that's kind of dying out. And
it's almost died out completely. I mean, most most new cars that are
manufactured will what don't even have they they they're pretty much all dab radios in
your car. Oh okay, gotcha, gotcha? Um you know, I
mean I you know, I don't I don't have a radio. I have
smart speakers. That's all dab. Yeah yeah, yeah, um, god,
bless technology. It's it's just yeah. So it's always a double edged
thought, right right. Um, So, what's what's the current trajectory for
you, Jacob? Do you have new music that you're working on. Well.
Well, like I said, I've just released a new album thirteen tracks,
UM. Couple of a couple of reworkings, some old demos that I
did back in back in the nineties, UM and just revisited the songs and
re recorded them in my little home studio here um. And a handful of
brand new tracks, some co written with with lyric writers, some that I've
just put together on your own. UM. And you know, I'm quite
proud of it. I'm thinking. The thing is, with where I am
in the music industry, releasing singles doesn't really do much for me. So
it's about releasing an album and shouting as loud as you can about it,
right and yeah, and just hope other people to you know, pick up
on it and send individual tracks to radio stations and hope they play it.
And then you sit back, put your feet up on the desk and watched
twenty twenty seven cents come in, right. I know, I know it's
frustrating. Um, Well, Jake, I really appreciate you being here with
us today, and I'm gonna play in a moment, we'll let you go,
and then I'm gonna close out the segment with my Nila Tequila is Nila
Nila. How do you say that, Neila Tequila? It's um. This
song came from a nickname I gave one of my co workers. And her
name's Nila Patel. Okay. She's such a lovely person and and we have
a little bit of a giggle together when we work together, and so I
gave her this nickname with Neila, Neila Tequila. And then one day she's
just turned around, he say, why didn't you write a song about me?
And so I came up with Neila Tequila. Oh, and it's it's
it's actually not about her. Yeah, it's just using the name that I
gave her to create create this. This the lyrics to this song. And
again again it's it's not in a dissimilar vein to come and get me.
It's it's kind of like a bass driven rock song. Yeah, yeah,
which meant to be fun. It's meant to be a fun tune. Now
it's really good and like you said, you know, the basses drive it.
What was her reaction when you presented the song to her when she heard
it the first time, giggled a lot. Yeah, and she actually she
actually then went home and played it to her husband and her kids. Yeah,
like I have to say, it's not about you, It's just about
the nickname I've given you, and it's trying to so look, yeah,
it was taken in the faith it was made. So yeah, yeah,
excellent, excellent. Yeah, husband isn't hunting me down right right? Yes,
we don't want to. We don't want to cause any trouble. Well,
but you know, when you're a rock star, these things happen,
Jake, these things happening. Well yeah, well um no, no,
no, no, no legacy babies out there like Mick Jagger. I'm afras
I know of anyway, right right, right, all right, well very
good, all right, So we're gonna play that in a moment. And
Jake, what do you want our listeners to know in terms of how to
keep up with what you're doing online? Where to find your music? A
website you want to plug or social media or anything? Yeah? Yeah,
sure, I mean, if if you're remotely interested, I have a website
which is quite simply www dot Jake Dollery dot co dot uk. Um.
I'm all over over YouTube, so just look up Jake Dollery. I'm all
over social media. You can follow me at Twitter, on at JD Rocks
sixty six. That's j D r o c K s sixty six. I'm
on Instagram, I'm on Facebook. So yeah, if you want to check
me out, look me up, send me a message, say hi.
I'll reply, as long as you're not rude to me. And yeah,
yeah, I don't. I'm not into all that. Yeah, that kind
of stuff, but yeah, yeah no, and you know, and and
and if you if you you're fancy tuning into my radio show that that that
goes out three times a week, and that's all mentioned on my website,
I won't overplug that. And yeah, I'm just putting out there. If
you like it, great, it's a bonus to me. Thank you for
your love. If you don't, that's all right, there's plenty of other
music to listen to. You absolutely well. I like it a lot.
I think it's great. And we're gonna we're gonna play this track in a
moment. Manila Tequila and Jake Dollery, thank you so much for joining us
today, my friend. You've been generous with your time. We will do
this again in the future. And yeah, and for having me in a
real pleasure. Thank you. And by the way, I'm very happy that
we were your first American radio interview. That's very cool. So you can
claim that's your claim to fame from now, that's right, that's right,
all right, Jake, We're gonna let you go and I'm gonna hit this
track. Thank you again, my friend. It's been a real pleasure.
Thank you so much. Hello to everybody out there in Manchester, Massachusetts.
I love you all close. But okay, Jake, thank you, bye
bye, thank you all right, very good, Jake Dolery. Actually we're
in for those listening online who might not know we're actually in Manchester, New
Hampshire. But but I think there is a Manchester, Massachusetts. That's okay,
though, we won't hold that against him. Um, there's you know,
he's where the original Manchester was, Manchester, England. Well, I
don't know what city he's in, but there's Manchester is a very common name.
There's a whole bunch of There's a Manchester, Connecticut. There's a I
don't know, there's there's like h seventeen Manchesters. Okay, probably not that
many. That's all right though, but let's give this a listen again.
Another great track. I love his music so much and uh, very interesting
guy too, so I really enjoyed speaking with But this is my Nila Tequila
from Jake Dolery. We're gonna give this a spin and then we will be
back with the balance of our show today on Matt Connerton Unleashed. There is
more to come. But again I love that driving baseline. This is good
stuff, my Neila Tequila Jake Dolery right here on Matt Connerton Unleashed. Learning
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Tuesday, August one, two thousand twenty three, As we cruise into our
final segment today on the show, but I do want to think of course,
we just talked with Jake Dolery and just I love his music. We
are going to close out today's show with one more of his songs. He's
got a track called no More Hearts to Steal, another great song. Really
really like him a lot. He was skyping in from the UK and great
talking with him. Also. Of course, earlier in the show, we
talked with Chris Stein from the band from Starlight. They are going to be
playing in Allston, mass tomorrow night. They're from Albany, New York,
but they're gonna be in Allston, just about an hour south of here.
Wanted to promote that show and really loved talking with him as well. Another
great band. So a couple of musical guests today. It's a very very
fun show. We do have a few minutes left in today's show. By
the way, we have some big breaking news, although not entirely surprising.
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And other great artists from the UK really enjoy speaking of the UK. Also,
our friend Alex Whiteley is in the Facebook live chat. Alex says only
just got here. Work has been busy. Hope you're all well. I'll
call in in the week when we have more time to chat. Yes.
Absolutely. By the way, on tomorrow's show, I should mention too a
quick programming note, So usually on Wednesdays we do a segment in the first
hour with Eric Pilcher, my favorite conservative as I like to call him,
which is kind of morphed into becoming the name of the segment itself. But
Eric will not be able to join us this week unfortunately, so so we'll
have the first hour open to take call so, Alex, if you want
to skype in during the first hour tomorrow, we'll be wide open. In
the second hour, we do have a musical guest joining us in studio.
I hope I'm saying this correctly. Honky Gabacho is going to come in and
play live in studio for us in the second hour tomorrow. That will be
our musical guests, So looking forward to that. But the first hour will
be sort of a open for whoever would like to join us in call in
or skype or whatever it maybe. By the way, Mike from Queen City
Cabinetry is in the Facebook live chat. Mike uh not only one of our
great sponsors here at WMH ninety five point three, but one of our co
hosts on Friday nights for retro Spectrum Radio with Paul c and Mike says Manchester,
Tibet, which is a little bit inside, but Jake Jake did get
the state run. Our friend Jake Dolery. He said, uh, Manchester,
Massachusetts and close close enough. It's still New England. But there are
many manchesters was saying earlier, and uh, Mike said, Manchester, Tibet.
But again that's a little bit inside. But if you know, you
know, if paulc is listening, he knows. Oh. Speaking of which,
by the way, if you haven't had a chance to check it out,
I don't know if it's in the archive yet or not. Actually,
but Friday night, last Friday's Retro Spectrum Radio, a lot less music than
usual, a lot more talk because we had an incredible guest in studio.
Paul knows this gentleman all the way back to when they were much much younger
at the Connecticut School of Broadcasting, a gentleman named Aaron Sadovski who's a very
successful producer and director and just had a ton of great stories. The stories
he told off air were even better. But really loved meeting Aaron and what
a great guy. And I hope oh Paul is able to get him back
on the show soon because that was a lot of fun. Mike agrees,
Yes, it was awesome, all right, wow, Yeah, big breaking
news before almost out of time, although, like I said, I did
offer a hint that it was predictable. So if you don't know already,
media dot Com reporting breaking Trump indicted on charges related to efforts to overturn twenty
twenty election. It says here former President Donald Trump was indicted today on four
counts stemming from special counsel Jackson Smith's investigation into the January sixth Capital riot and
larger effort to overturn the results of the twenty twenty presidential election. A CNN
reported Trump's lawyers were told to prepare for as much last Thursday morning during a
meeting with federal prosecutors. Is that what Trump meant when he said the meeting
had been productive. This would mark the second time Trump has been indicted on
federal charges this year, and the third criminal indictment he's faced in as many
months. Another federal grand jury indicted Trump on charges related to his mishandling of
classified documents in June, while a grand jury in New York indicted him for
a falsification of business records in March. Oh By the way, Jake Dollery's
in the Facebook live chat says, I'm sorry to all the people of Manchester,
New Hampshire. Love peace and keep rocking to you all. Yeah,
no, no need to apologize. Jake loved aving you on my friend and
I love your music. So it's all good. And we don't we don't
take offense here. I mean, you know, it's you know, it's
New England. We're just all one big thing. No. Actually, some
people would probably get mad at me for saying that, but no, it's
all good. Let's see. Although there is a difference between the New Hampshire
accent and the Massachusetts accent in terms of dropping the rs and so forth,
but we won't get into all that, okay. So it says here another
federal grand jury indicted Trump on charges. Oh no, I read that already.
Sorry, let me go down here. Even before the meeting between his
attorney and Smith's team on Thursday, Trump had indicated that he believed he would
be indicted. In a truth social post on July eighteen, he posted this
deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden coj sent a letter again it
was Sunday night, stating that I am a target of the January sixth grand
jury investigation in giving me a very short four days to report to the grand
jury, which almost always mean means and arrest and indictment. Nothing like this
has ever happened in our country before, or even close. That was his
By the way, that's true, nothing like this has ever happened before.
There's reasons for that week though in fairness, by the way, pet this
has nothing to do with how I feel about Trump, although if you're a
regular listener you don't know. I'm not a fan. But a big pet
peeve that I have, but I have a few of them. Whenever anybody
writes something and they capitalize random letters that should not be capitalized for no apparent
reason, it really irks me. Something about that really bothers me. I
don't know why the word country is capitalized. I don't know why the word
arrest is capitalized. I don't know why the word indictment is capitalized. Grand
jury is capitalized, but that's appropriate. But some of these other words,
I don't know why they're capital lies. That just bothers me. It's a
pet peeve. But there you go. We knew that this was probably in
the works, and here we are. Let's see, that's from media.
I think, oh, what's this CNN Dot Com has some more details here.
Again, this is breaking news if you're just joining us CNN's reporting Donald
Trump has been indicted. Okay, we know that part. I'm gonna skip
down because we're running out of time here. So the indictment states, oh,
there go, the sirens happens once a show. The indictment states,
quote, shortly after election day, the defendant also pursued unlawful means of discounting
legitimate votes and subverting the election results unquote. The newest case against Trump strikes
it what as what's seen as the former president's most serious betrayal of his constitutional
duties, when his efforts to remain in the White House after losing the twenty
twenty election sought to undermine US democracy and the long held American tradition of a
peaceful transfer of presidential power. The plot to overturn the twenty twenty election shattered
presidential norms. Okay, we know all that. Okay, let's get to
this part quickly because we're up against the clock here. The four accounts are
conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction
of an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. Smith's move
to bring charges will test whether criminal justice system can be used to hold Trump
to account for his post election conduct after he was acquitted in his impeachment trial
related to his actions that day. The indictment is the second time in two
months. Okay, we know that already skipping down. Oh, this isn't
the part that I was interested in. There was something about a witness.
Maybe I clicked the wrong link. Let me go back here. There was
something about a witness breaking news. Trump approves summons. Oh sorry, judge
approves summons. Let see if I can get to this quickly. Uh,
nope, the link, this link keeps bringing me to the wrong place.
Now because there's a lot of questions about a witness whom the I forget his
name now? Is at OLIVERA? Something to OLIVERA. Oh de OLIVERA.
I think it is his last name. The property manager at Marlago who it
is suspected that that he may have flipped against Trump. Oh. Other breaking
news, completely unrelated. But Fitch has downgraded the US debt rating. Oh,
might have to look at that tomorrow. Let's see, all right,
we gotta we are out of time we need to wrap up, so well,
this is a big, big, big news though. All right again,
thank you so much to Chris Stein from the band from Starlight for joining
us in the first hour, and of course in the second hour, the
great Jake Dollery. We are going to close out with one more of his
songs. But if you miss any part of today's show, it will be
up in just a little bit WMH radio dot org and on my website Matt
Connerton dot com as we do archive all the shows, and thank you,
thank you everyone who joined us today. If you missed um oh, I'm
sorry. I was going to say today is Tuesday, which means if you
are listening live on Tuesday. Immediately following this show is through the Stage Store
hosted by the great Rob Dion, and immediately following that, coming up tonight
at seven pm here on WMH is a replay of Friday Nights Retro Spectrum Radio
with Police. So again, if you didn't hear it, you want to
check that out. Great great episode. We had Aaron sadofski And with us,
and Paul is known Aaron for decades and it was really cool. Get
actually it's cool getting to see them together two old friends catching up but also
just really really fun having Aaron here. What a great guest, So check
that out. That will be the replay will be tonight at seven, right
after through the Stage Store with Rob Dan. If, of course, you
are listening live on Tuesday, and if you're listening to the podcast, well
never mind. But you can always go back and check out those shows later
though. They are all archived as I mentioned, and don't forget to be
back bright and early seven am for the morning show with Peter White. And
we will close with this another great track from Jake Dollery. This is called
no More Hearts to Steal. And that's it. We're out of here.
I will talk to y'all a little later. By Everybody to Love Love to
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