Speaker 1: I love it. That is portals. The band is BRSR
and we have members of the band on with us
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Today is January thirty one, twenty twenty six, and let's
go ahead. We'll get this up here. And I think
we've got a few members of the band with us.
Hello everybody, Hello, Hey, hey, good. So let's see. So
it looks like we have Matt Hison, Drew Young and
Chloe Johnston with us. Is that correct? Yeah, that's right, wonderful.
Welcome everybody, And uh yeah, I love that track. I
mean it's it's just and I did listen to the
whole album by the way you've got a just a
big sound. I just uh, you know, that's the easiest
way to describe it. It's just big. It's expansive, and
I really really like that. I love I love the mix.
I love everything about it. So welcome. It is wonderful
to speak to the three of you now, and you're
a five piece correct, Yeah, yeah, I bet when you
play live, I'm sure it also sounds you know, you
know big. I'd love to I'd love to see all live. Obviously,
geographically that would not be uh not be easy to
pull on. But but let's see. So, so Matt you're
you're the guitar player, and Drew you're the drummer, and
Chloe you do vocals and synth. Correct, yep, that's right,
very good, very good. So well, let's start with the
most obvious question first, and then we'll kind of we'll
we'll talk more about the music. But I want to
know about the name. Uh what does b R s
R me?
Speaker 2: So it's actually just short.
Speaker 3: In the version of Bruiser it was Dove who's not
here to their front man who wanted here, originally wanted
to be called Burst, and I thought that was the
worst name we postally go for, because the quotations for
that in Scotland are probably completely different from anywhere else
in the world. But yeah, so we we went with Bruiser,
but I found out there was a DJ also called Bruiser,
so I thought the easiest thing to do was to
shorten it. Also, just it looks, it looks better in
terms of the logo and things like that. Just it
looks looks a little bitter on the T shirt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, it does, it does. So am I
Am I saying it wrong?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 1: Am I?
Speaker 5: Am?
Speaker 1: I not supposed to say b R s R.
Speaker 2: No, it would be bruiser.
Speaker 3: But we get a lot of people all the time
being like, oh hey, what what does it stand for?
I'm like, well, nothing, so.
Speaker 1: I should be saying bruiser Yeah brs Okay, wonderful, Okay, excellent, excellent.
So tell me about that that track portals because it just,
like I said, it just sounds so big. It's atmospheric,
you know, it's it's it kind of reminds me a
little little bit of of some of the at least
what was happening here in America. Some of that Well,
I shouldn't say happening here in America because a lot
of it was happening over there, but it was becoming
very popular here in America. You know that that kind
of a big, expansive sound, But I'm curious, I mean,
is that kind of I listened to the whole album.
It kind of sounds that's like what you're going for broadly,
but you you capture it so well. I think Portals
is an excellent choice for a single, But how do
you how do you describe your sound? What what is
it that you're trying to project with with Bruiser now
that I know how to say the name.
Speaker 3: I think for us, from the start, we've always spoke
about the fact that we feel that the best personal
selves is live and when we recorded this album, we
recorded initially live in a converted church building over.
Speaker 2: The course of two days.
Speaker 1: Oh really.
Speaker 3: So for example, one of the longest song on the
album is the second last track, Buried at Home, which
is just under about eleven minutes, and the take that
is on the album was the was the only take
we did, and it was done live and full. And
I think that that is the way that we want
to capture the band because for me, I feel like
any band should be at the peak of the powers
when they're live and are able to express themselves and
change things as time goes on.
Speaker 2: Because you know the quarterly version of anything.
Speaker 3: I think if you're going to stick to that version
for this, your career is going to get boring pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: Mm hm.
Speaker 3: So this, this is the kind of way the songs
sound now, but it's open to the idea of we
can adapt these as as as the sound progresses, as
we progressive musicians and as we change as people as well.
But I get what you mean about this about the
sound as well. Like we I would say was probably
my attempt to write a hum song. So yeah, as
long as long as we've captured the kind of essence
of that, then I'll be happy with that.
Speaker 1: And what are the lyrics about here? And who writes
the lyrics? I don't know if your singer writes some
or if you read them or who who who?
Speaker 3: It's it's myself for the time being, so that this
this album is written by myself out there in necessity
because we've been we've been a band of six months
and we had about three songs that we we we
sort of rushed together for a gig. The band is
pretty much that the gig goes booked before before a
band essentially, and the band was sort of made for
a gig I still six months later, so one song
became two, two became four, and then ended up just
with the full albums.
Speaker 2: So that's pretty much what we've been working with the
past year or so.
Speaker 3: Lyrically, it's it's part of the album as a whole,
is as as a concept piece, but it also doubles
up as as individual songs as well, so that they
have their own separate means to me personally as well
to the actual story itself. But it's it's sort of
about being either trap within yourself and looking for a
way out, but it's also about being trapped with another
but feeling like you're together, but you're not feeling together.
So you know, the kind of wor would have been
that you can be living with someone, but you can
feel like you're not actually living with someone, if you
know what I mean. It's almost like so as a
feeling like you're living with someone that you have a
deep connection with, but the connections feeling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I think that's something that's relatable. You know,
certainly a lot of people go through that. I mean
probably everyone goes through that at some point in their lives,
you know. Feeling that way, yeah, I feel like and
again not just with portals, but with the rest of
the album too. You know, there's there's a lot of
emotion there. It's it's as you know, obviously, you know,
songs can be you know, they're up to the interpretation
of the of the listener, but I I could feel
a lot of I just found it. I found it
highly relatable the whole thing, like I said, in addition
to the big sound, it also you know, just hearing
these lyrics and again, you know, I everyone puts their
own interpretation onto what they're hearing, but to me, I
really I really connected with a lot of this. Can
you can Can you tell me more again about how
this band started, because that was interesting. You said something
about a gig and then you had to put a
band together to fit the gig, and tell me about that.
Speaker 3: So essentially, David, our singer, had decided that he we
were in the band previously, and he'd been out to
music for quite a while and he'd said to me,
I'm looking at getting back at the music again.
Speaker 2: But he'd previously been a drummer.
Speaker 3: But we we'd known for I was in a band
with him when when I was fifteen, so we'd always
known that he had a great voice and he wanted
to be He wanted this to be his first solo adventure,
and I was like, okay, that's that's that's kind of cool.
But he went ahead and basically said to someone that
we know that he had, he had music to put
out and he was willing to you want to play?
Speaker 2: What to play the first gig?
Speaker 3: So he put him on a bill and he said
to me, was like, oh, this gig coming up in
about a month's time.
Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, cool, who's playing with you?
And he was like, no one.
Speaker 3: So I said to him, I was like, I wasn't.
I was kind of out of music at this point
as well. And I said to him, right, okay, i'll
cover guitarphy just now, and if you can get a
band together, then I'm quite happy to do.
Speaker 2: The show with you and we'll just take it from there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But I said to him that I wasn't interested in
writing any material or anything like that, so I said
I'll leave that to you and once you've got songs,
let me know and we'll get we'll get this together.
And then about two weeks before the gig, I said
to him, I was like, so, what's happening with us?
How many songs we have? And he was like, I
still have the one. I was like, I kind of
said to him. I was like, right, okay, we'll go
out of the room and we will. We will spend
as long as we need to to get enough songs
together for a settl list. So the first three singles
we put were written within this base of about half
an hour an hour or so, and we wrote we
wrote those together, and I remember we actually finished the
lyrics for the last song on the setlist just as
the bass player and Dromore thumb that for for our
first and only rehearsal before that gig. So that's that's
kind of how it all started. But it's it's obviously
it's involved in Drew and Chloe further on downline as well.
It's just myself and the for a while and Kieran,
who's the best player as well. He's been in there
since since day one. So it's it's essentially a new
a new outfit. Now the chaotic beginnings of the band
have made this. So I'm very grateful for the deciding
that he was going to be a gig with no
songs or no band.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. I mean, you know, it almost kind of
makes you believe in fate, right that that this came
together like that under such chaotic circumstances that sound like
it sounds like it couldn't possibly work out, and then
and then it does and you just you just make
it work out. That's fantastic. So obviously the show went well.
Speaker 3: There's the show went well enough that we decided, you know,
maybe we can continue with this. But as I said,
we waited and I said to him, I was like, okay,
I helped you with the songs. There, it's your baby.
You run with it and you do the songs and
we'll just get a practice together whenever. And then about
five six months past and I was like, how's it
coming with the writing, and then he was like, yes,
I'm not got anything. And I was like, okay, I'm
kind of bored of playing the same like four or
five songs. Let's try something. And it's been the first
time since I've written a song myself and probably about
nine to twelve months, I would say the first song
that I wrote was on My Reasons, which is the
second track on the album, and then Portals pretty much
quickly followed after that, and it was sort of just
a snow wall effect of just I think I had
a headspace of just I was back writing again and
I had a purpose to write and we needed material,
so it all just came out one after another, and
it wasn't an intention to write an album, but when
we ended up with mante material we did, I was like,
this feels like a cohesive units as a as eight songs,
so we may as well. And then the more I
was looking at the lyrics myself, I was like, this
is telling more of a full story rather than individual
stories themselves. So yeah, it's it's been.
Speaker 2: It's been a blessing.
Speaker 3: Disguss because I didn't think I would have I would
ever be in a band again.
Speaker 2: They've been writing songs again, but yeah, it's been.
Speaker 3: It's been great for myself and it's been really really
good having these guys with me as well on this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. Well, when it comes together too like that,
when it just feels like I said, there's almost a
sense of fate or destiny to it, uh, you know
the way you tell it. And when when it comes
together like that, you know you've got something. You know,
you're like, like if it's one thing, if you're if
you decide to start a band with somebody, and then
you're you know, you're spending a year or whatever, you know,
trying to come up with some songs, and you're working
hard at it. And there's nothing wrong with working hard
at it. But but when it when it almost sounds
like you know, it just sort of uh, there's almos
in alchemy to it, and it all just sort of
comes together like that, that's when you know you've really
got something and it's interesting to you. So you said
you didn't think you'd ever be in a band again.
Why is that?
Speaker 3: Well, personally, I'd been through quite a bad stint with
my own mental and physical health over the past two
years before this, and it kind of continued in the
start of this. Is why it was taking us quite
a while to actually get to this point, because I
was essentially bed bound for most of like twenty twenty two,
twenty twenty three. So to be able to get to
this point and be be here just now as a
medical inner of itself. But as I say as well,
like this is a this is a project that couldn't
have been done without everyone involved, because it can. You
can write as many songs as you like, but if
you don't have a unit around you understand everything and
are invested in the project as much as yourself, then
it's it's really all for nothing.
Speaker 1: Right, absolutely, So, how long has the band actually existed
at this point.
Speaker 3: Well, from from our first Our first gug was twenty
twenty two, so you're you're talking about three three and
a bit years or so.
Speaker 2: But her most recent member just now.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Drew's the new guy.
Speaker 2: Yes, drink.
Speaker 3: Cloe came in towards towards the probably bout mid section
last year. I'd say Chloe originally was just providing backing
vocals on a lot of the album, and I felt
that she contributed so much to the harmonic balance of
a lot of the songs. Yeah, felt wrong to just
have her as essentially like a studio musician. And I
said there, I was like, what would you feel about
joining the band? And she was like, but I can't
play anything, And I was like, you can play synth.
She was like, I can't play it, and I was like,
you can learn. Yeah, So that's that's so she now
plays synth and she learned and she goes and she's
doing very very well.
Speaker 1: Oh that's actually yeah, yeah, yeah, I go ahead, Chloe.
Speaker 5: I was just gonna say, and keeping with the band
being forced in kales, I've only been playing some since July.
Speaker 1: Last year, no kidding. So is this your first So
is this actually your first musical instrument that you've played.
Speaker 5: So I've played like a little bit of guitar and
stuff in the past, spot I've never been in any
bands or anything, just sort of doing it for fun.
And then obviously this is the first project where I've
really had to get my head down and learn an
instrument from scratch. So it's been a challenge, but a
good one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's good. And you know, I've heard a
lot of this comes up a lot on the show.
I've heard a lot of you know, music teachers and
music professors say that everybody, and by the way, I
did not take this advice. I can't play anything on
a keyboard, but that every musician should at least know
some some synth, keyboard, piano, whatever, because it helps you.
It helps you just knowing even a little bit of
that helps you with everything else in terms of music.
It helps you to understand chord structure better, It helps
you with everything. And and a lot a lot of
them will say too that that's the best place to start.
Obviously you're already playing guitars, you said, but to, but
to even if you start, even if it's not going
to be your primary instrument, if you start on a keyboard,
it's going to help you with everything. So but but yeah,
but it does fit the chaotic nature of how the
band started, right, So that's great. Good for you, Good
for you. I mean, has it been scary or do
you just take the challenge and say now I'm going
to do this, or or what's been your mindset with it?
Speaker 5: It has been quite intimidating, and especially since all the
guys have been in bands before and bands that have
done quite well. And I sort of sometimes get a
little bout that imposter syndrome where I sort of get
up on stage with them and I'm like, I'm surrounded
by these people who've been playing their instrument for like
decades now, and here I am just plunking away at
my keys. No, I do what I actually doing right
in that regard, it's been a little a little bit.
I have a dating, but the guys are so just
so lovely and so so encouraging, and I couldn't be
surrendered by better people.
Speaker 1: So yeah, oh that's fantastic. And then so Drew. So
you're the newest member. So how long have you been
in the band now?
Speaker 4: I am yeah, it will be coming up on a year.
Speaker 1: I reckon a year in okay maybe, okay, okay.
Speaker 4: But it's been great fun. I think myself and Matt
we played in a different band maybe two or three
years ago. That just open the pandemic sort of lust steam.
So when Matt had got in touch that their drummer
or the previous drummer Kyle had stepped aside, totally jumped
at the chance to be.
Speaker 2: Able to play with Matt again.
Speaker 4: It's always been great fun, and as he said, I've
always really enjoyed his songwriting. Yeah, and also all the
stuff that Kyle had recorded for the album has been
super super fun to just sink my teeth into and
learn all these parts.
Speaker 1: And then when you do that, when you come into
a project like this. This is something I'm always curious about.
Speaker 5: Do you.
Speaker 1: Do you then try to learn exactly what he did
or do you try to kind of, you know, learn
what he did, but then maybe kind of put your
own Because I've known drummers who will They'll come into
a situation and they'll say, I'm going to or someone
in the band will tell them if they're you know,
if they're coming in new to a situation, I'm going
to try to learn everything. I'm going to learn the
fills exactly. I'm going to replicate exactly what the previous
drummer did, you know, And other drummers, of course want
to come in and well probably everybody wants to kind
of put their own stamp on it. But what's been
your approach with that? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think definitely taking the you know, the skeletons and
the muscles of what Kyle had written on the drums
and building on that with my own flavor, my own taste. Obviously,
every drummer is unique in what they play. Yeah, I
think I appreciate that Matt trusted me to be able
to fit the bill for what was already built. Yeah,
and I guess if you want to really top shop.
Speaker 2: And get it.
Speaker 4: I am a left handed drummer that plays on a
right handed drum kitas whereas Kay Kyle is right handed.
And so there's a lot of the films that I
really liked the sign of wanted to play very true
to what he plays physical physically. I would have to
swap a lot of my like sticking in the nation
around to make these work. So that's been really really
fun to try and work around lots of these problems
as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, how has that been hard to pull off?
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, it's been hard, but it's been well
worth the challenge, you know, yeah, to play drums and
like to learn fun things.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's very cool. That's something
that wouldn't have even occurred to me, but that's yeah,
that's interesting. Yeah. So now you've already you guys have
already gotten some some success with radio, right you're it's
you've gotten some traction over there, some early radio support.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're actually go on, We've we've had amazing video
in the UK and the US has been pretty early
champions of the music and gym and scott and Scotland
has been. It has been really good for us, and
this is this is but this is only like this
is a third interview in one day, but this is
a interview of all time.
Speaker 1: So Okay, it's been.
Speaker 2: Order to be here.
Speaker 3: It's it's been good to get to talk people who
are actually interested in music. Yeah, and have I've actually
listened to what we've done, because in the past we
found it quite difficult to talk to people who kind
of you're like kind of where they kind of like
they've heard about thirty seconds of it and they're like, yeah,
and I know what we're talking about, what you guys
are all about it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I'm also curious to know about the
live situation there because it looks like you're you're having
a lot of success. You've been playing some solid out shows. Correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, so this is something.
Speaker 3: But as Drew mentioned, the drummer on the album, Kyle,
he stepped aside earlier last year just just due to
the fact that we were talking about going on to
alast year and we ended up pushing the album back
because he said that the concept of a tour wasn't
his cup.
Speaker 2: Of tea anymore.
Speaker 3: He'd been in the bar before who would toured quite extensively,
and he was like, I'm not cut out for this anymore.
So it's been a bit of a shame because he
left at a point where we started actually building more
of a fan base in our own in Glasgow and
sourround the areas. So we played a place called the Cools.
I think it was drew it your third gig, second.
Speaker 2: Gig, second I think yeah, second second.
Speaker 3: Show, and it was it was it was parked and
it was sort of just came out of nowhere because
we we've been playing, you know, we've been playing to
like ten to fifteen people for so long that we
just kind of think, okay, it's just going to be
this or like added finium. So we just turned up
and it was like about an hour before doors and
they were like, oh, so out and I was like,
you mean it sold out and I was.
Speaker 2: Like, that's it's just there's no tick left how and
it was. It was.
Speaker 3: It was crazy for a start because there's a lot
of people we've never seen before, and it just it's
kind of continued from there. We had our prober bus
this year for gigs last year, which building one of us.
Speaker 2: It's worth for the for the best.
Speaker 3: With the album this year, and we've got quite a
lot of shows or the books for this year, so
it's it's been great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh that's excellent, very very good. You do any
I didn't think to look do you have any music videos,
because like a song like Portals, I think would really
lend itself to something and and and I feel like,
you know, looking at the artwork that you have, like
the visual component is important. It is important to the
to the span to bruiser. But do you have you
met any music videos?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've actually got well for funny, as you mentioned,
we're actually finished recording.
Speaker 2: The music with for Portals yesterday.
Speaker 1: Wow. Good.
Speaker 2: So I'll be in that over the next couple of
couple of days or so.
Speaker 3: We try we've tried to do everything in house from
the start here because it's it's quite hard to get
any sort of funding or support in the UK for
for music.
Speaker 2: So any money that we can.
Speaker 3: Save for you know, recording or going on tour like that,
like that, like that the actually important things for people
hearing music, we will cut that. So I've learned how
to do you know, filming and editing and that kind
of thing to save the cost of that.
Speaker 5: So we do.
Speaker 4: We have.
Speaker 3: We've got a video for Judas, which was our first
proper single, and there is a visualizer for man Made Fires,
which was a single before. There was plan to be
music with you for that, but we we sort of
run out of time to do it, and the weather
over here is so temperamental that to try and from
outside was it got to got to point where we
tried to start filming it and my hands were on
the camera and I actually couldn't feel I lost all
sensation of feeling on my fingers. I was like, actually,
don't know if I'm pressing the record button.
Speaker 5: Here's not.
Speaker 2: So the port Ports music video will be out soon,
we do. We did plan on having a video for
every song on the album.
Speaker 3: Really, as I say, the the connotations of trying to
get a budget together and when we all work full
time as well, Yeah, it's trying to think the thing
to get it all done while also keeping the set
as tight as possible and working on as well.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely no, it's always a challenge. But
so Judis was the previous single.
Speaker 2: So Juis was was our first proper single.
Speaker 3: I came out about June last year, in the record
of the video for that that is on that's on YouTube,
and yeah, so port Portals will will.
Speaker 2: Be our second port music video. We do have music
videos for our first three singles, but those are only
one band campus.
Speaker 3: Now, we weren't really one hundred percent on this on
the sound on those ones for those three singles as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, by the way, I think I forgot to mention,
so the name of the album A Field of man
Made Fires? What what I'm really curious about the title?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: What are does that mean?
Speaker 3: So I look at as I mentioned earlier on my
health issues of the past couple of years, I went
through a period of time where I was not feeling
like I was being the person that I should.
Speaker 2: Have been, and I kind of view to kind of
a bit of reflected perspective. I had.
Speaker 3: One of the worst cases in the UK of psoriasis
that they've ever seen. So I got to the point
where where I couldn't leave my bed, and I started
to think that every mark that I had in my
skin and every scale that came up was a punishment
for me being.
Speaker 2: Basically false to myself.
Speaker 3: So the kind of concept of I feel the Marmory
f is was me just surveying my mistakes and putting
the playing on myself for a lot of things in retrospect.
I mean, a lot of things have probably been a
bit too harsh on myself for But I think when
you are on it in such a low position, you
do just kind of start to fixate on the thing
that you could have done things so much better. But
at the same time, it's it's hindsight's a wonderful thing,
and when you look back on things regarding that, I mean,
there's only so much you could have done right. And
I think I've grown as a person since since then.
But it's pretty much chronicles my life from a bit
of ages of nineteen to about twenty four, and that's
that's pretty much the whole concept of the of the
album is just dealing with the mistakes that you've made
and either accepting it and moving on or wallowing on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I totally get that. I just heard a weird sound.
Are you all still there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're still here?
Speaker 1: Okay, So I heard a strange sound. It must just
be in my headphones. No, I can. I can totally
relate to that, you know, And I'm someone who you know,
as you mentioned mental health, like I struggle with depression.
My listeners know this about me, and I ruminate a
lot and almost constantly, and so I can, I can.
I can relate to a lot of what you're saying.
And maybe that's why you know so many of these
these lyrics really connect with me too. Like I said,
I listened to the whole thing. How is your how
are you now? Matt, Like how how are you doing?
Speaker 2: As we said here today, as I'm as close to
cured as it possibly can be.
Speaker 3: I'm on I'm on medication. It's helped, but I went
through a period the long time. I think if anyone
who's listening who's been through or is suffering with the risis,
I think I have been at the lowest point you
could possibly be with with the disease and understand that
it might seem like there's no escape from it. But
I've been dealing with this since I was about eighteen
and I'm twenty six now, so it's taken me into
the past year to actually get to the point where
I can do normal things. I can go to work,
I can go to the gym, I can live a
normal life again. So and I suppose it goes it
goes hand in hand with depression as well, and I
think I think that's why a lot of people spoke
spoke about lyricism on the album and it connecting people.
And I think it's because when when you talk with
things like the pandemic and things like that, I think
that made people realize just how bad the mental who
possibly could be. And David as well is the front man,
he's you said, battles with depressions as I think we
all we all have at different points. I think it's
trying to be I think we're now in a in
a time where we can be more open ourselves and
everyone around those that you know, we we can we
can say, you know, I'm not actually doing great today,
and there's things where where you're we're doing great for
one periods of time. But I think knowing that you've
got a group around you who have been through the
same thing, it makes things so much easier now.
Speaker 1: It does it does? I know for me because it's
been a it's been a struggle for me since I
was probably a teenager. And you know, in my case,
I mean as far as depression, I got to a
point in my life where it's like it's too exhausting
to try to hide it. I'm just not gonna hide
it anymore, you know. And then you you know, and
then you're up about it and you talk to people
and you realize it's so so common, like there's no
reason for there to be any stigma because it's something
so many of us deal with. So yeah, So, like
I said, I really love the album A series of
man made fires, and we will we'll begin to wrap
up all three of you. I appreciate you. You've been
very generous with your time. Mattrew and Chloe, thank you
so much for joining us. I'm thinking at the end
of our conversation, I will play Judas another great track
from the album, because we did talk about it. I
love I Love Portals, great great song, love the whole album.
And where is the best place where should people go?
Especially because again because of the way that you spell it,
we want to make sure people know where's the best
place for people to go online to keep up with
everything that Bruiser is doing as a band, so we
are most active.
Speaker 3: On Instagram and tech talk for music related things. I
would say that currently I mean Spotify as were. Most
people see people for things, but we are trying to
push this on buoncomp as much as possible. Yeah, I
think when we're living in this world New Were Combat
and AI and everything else, is the best thing you
can postally do is be as close to your grusher
supporters as possible. So the album will be up towards
end of February on band Camp and it will be
pay what you want. So if you if you can't
afford that, take it for free, come to a show.
We'd much rather that than people giving us, like, you know,
five quid, ten quid.
Speaker 2: Here here they are.
Speaker 3: It's more important that people hear the songs and hear
the stories we want to tell than giving us any
extra money.
Speaker 1: So yeah, absolutely band camp does offer that option. And
I'm a big advocator. You know, a lot of industry
people to listen to the show, and so they've heard
me say this, but I'm a big advocator for band
camp because what a lot of people don't realize too
is you get a higher quality file from band Camp
then you do you know, say just streaming it on
YouTube or wherever, you know, wherever people get their music.
So so I'm a I'm a big fan of band camp.
Their whole their whole model of how they do things
and everything. I think it's it's it's so artist friendly
in an industry where there are not enough artist friendly
tools that you can use. But I'm a huge fan
of band camp. So so that's good to hear. But well, listen,
so we'll wrap up, We'll let the three of you go.
I'm going to hit that track Judas, another great song
from the album, A series of man made fires. But again,
Matt Trew Chloe from Bruiser, thank you so much for
joining us, and we will definitely do this again, obviously.
I'm sure you're gonna be you know, whenever the next
single is ready, or if you got another album down
the line, or you know, whatever you got coming up.
We would love to have you back in the future.
I'm a big fan, so.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you got it all right. We'll talk to you soon,
I'm sure. Take care,