Speaker 1: And now, for the first time on American radio, a
Matt Connorton unleashed w m n H ninety five point
three FM exclusive the new single from Naked Without It,
I'm not Pretty.
Speaker 2: You are listening to WUMNH.
Speaker 3: World premiere.
Speaker 4: I'm not pretty, but I'm pretty you.
Speaker 5: Dont From the corner of my we'll, I see that
I'm the little kim Fly.
Speaker 6: I'm not pretty, but I'm pretty.
Speaker 7: I'm not pretty, but I'm not gonna cheege my kids said,
it's from the kids wearing.
Speaker 8: I got cured.
Speaker 6: She said the stuff in my words to late to
real rage.
Speaker 5: I'm not pretty, but I'm not gonna cheo. I'm not
pretty good.
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna stop.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna keep bronkie on it said, I drop this life.
Speaker 7: Ain't gonna in what I aramis to who my friend.
I'm not pretty, but I'm not gonna stop. I'm not pretty,
but I'm pretty heard at you.
Speaker 5: I don't know what I'm gone too. From the corner
of my eye, well, I can see that I'm looking fly.
I'm not pretty good.
Speaker 7: I'm pretty good than you. I'm not pretty good that
he can't keep it down.
Speaker 5: I'm going to rise to the job. Break can name
my crown.
Speaker 6: Ain't gonna stop me getting half a new month for
me to strive. I'm not pretty good that you can't
keep it down, mister Kennedy.
Speaker 5: I'm not really good.
Speaker 6: I know my please, I know the sect of God's greul.
Speaker 5: You made me who the vote to see? But do
you commit to me?
Speaker 7: I'm not really but I know my place.
Speaker 5: I'm not praidy, but I'm pretty of you.
Speaker 9: I don't know where I'm garnited.
Speaker 4: Because from the corner of my eye, well I could
see that I'm looking mutchily.
Speaker 6: I'm not free, but I'm pretty you.
Speaker 7: I'm not pretty Boot, I'm prettier than you. I'm not
pretty Boot.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty.
Speaker 9: I'm not pretty Boot, I'm pretty than you.
Speaker 2: This is Jesse Rutstein and Caleb Dyer. Oh oh no, okay,
we can let's do that one more time. This is
Jesse Rutstein and Caleb Dyer. Oh crap, hold on, what
do you want me to say?
Speaker 5: Right after that?
Speaker 2: From Hatchet Act from the and I'll say you're listening right?
Sounds good. This is Jesse Rutstein and oh ah, this
is why I'm the leader. This is Jesse Rutstein and
Caleb Dyer from Hatchet Axon Saw Records. You are listening
to the Matt Connerton Show on w m n H
ninety five point three Manchester.
Speaker 10: What did I say?
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, all right, Let's do this again.
Speaker 2: Let's do this again. This is Jesse Rutstein and Caleb
Dyer from Hatchet Axon Saw Records. You are listening to
Matt Connorton Unleashed on ninety five to three w NA. Dude,
this is Jesse Rutstein and Caleb Dyer from Hatchet Axon
Saw Records. You are listening to Matt Connorton Unleashed on
ninety five point three wm n H FM.
Speaker 10: Hey, welcome everybody.
Speaker 1: It is that time again, Matt Connorton Unleashed and we
are live from the studios of WMNH ninety five point
three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. And it
does seem to be a pretty glorious day outside, nice temperature,
nice and sunny. Today is of course, for those of
you listening live. It is Saturday August two, two thy
twenty five, and we got a fun show for you today.
By the way, we did open the show with the
American radio premiere of the brand new track from our
friends from the UK, Naked Without It, that is called
I'm Not Pretty. And we got a lot of music
coming up for you today. Oh I should mention two
since I played some I love outtakes of Station id's
well when they're fun like that. Last week on the show,
we had Jesse Rutstein and Caleb Dyer here and they
were talking about a couple of different things. Jesse Rutstein's
new EP, self titled EP that just came out, which
is fantastic. We featured some music from that, and also
they've got Hatchet Acts and Saw which is their new
record label that just launched. So so those guys had
a lot of really interesting things to talk about, which
is great. And I enjoyed our discussion and I also
really enjoyed after the show we we did some did
some station IDs because they were the last guests on
the shows, we had time to do it, and it
was it.
Speaker 10: Was something or was that before the show?
Speaker 1: Oh no, that was actually before the show because they
were the first guests on. That's right, so they probably
weren't even fully awake yet.
Speaker 10: No, that was fun.
Speaker 1: I do have some actual edited versions of those two,
but I do love outtakes. So but we've got a
fun show for you today. In just a couple of minutes,
we're gonna be joined by three Times seven. They are
a great band from the UK, or it might just
be it's interesting so they function. I'll ask them about this.
They seem to function in two different configurations, a duo
and a full so we'll see who's who's on the
line with us via WhatsApp in just a couple of minutes.
We're gonna play their new single Weight, which we did.
We did an American radio premiere for that not long ago.
I think it was just maybe a couple of weeks ago.
It becomes a bit of a blur. But we're gonna
get to talk to them today, So we're gonna play
Wait again in just a couple of minutes, and then
we're gonna get them on the line via WhatsApp.
Speaker 10: Looking forward to that. In the second hour.
Speaker 1: Jamie Higgs, another great UK artist, is gonna be also
joining us via WhatsApp. We recently played his song piece
in Your Sound, which I absolutely love. Jenny loves it too.
It is so catchy, just really really good tune and
we're gonna play that, and we'll also play one of
his older ones to a great song called Unconditional, which
is amazing. So he'll be joining us today in the
second hour. In the third hour, we have an in
studio guest, our friend Keegan also known as Crafty K
from Chaotic Photography.
Speaker 10: She's gonna be coming in. So she's an amazing.
Speaker 1: Artist, but she also does a lot of photography for musicians.
In fact, if you look online, if you ever look
at some of the pictures from performances at Terminus Underground,
our friends Eleanor and Andre of course in Nashua, at Terminus Underground,
which is part of New Hampshire Underground, they do a
lot to help the scene and working with independent artists
and they put on some amazing shows there. But if
you see pictures online from Terminus Underground, there's a very
good chance that those were taken by Crafty K. So, so
she does great work between her art and her photography.
Speaker 10: Well, I mean, photography is art, but you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1: She's she works with multiple mediums and is really impressive.
So so she's gonna be joining us today in the
third hour. Really looking forward to that. So we've got
a lot going on, let's see. I think in a
moment we should probably go ahead and hit that track Wait,
and then I'm really looking forward to speaking with them.
We also we're also going to play at the end
of our conversation the newest single from three Times seven,
which is called Big Train, another great song. I love
their sound. I cannot wait till well pun fully intended.
I cannot wait to speak with them.
Speaker 10: But here it is.
Speaker 1: This is one of the new singles from three Times seven.
This is called Wait. This is really really catchy, and
you'll be tapping along. If you're not check your pulse,
you might be dead. But here it is, And then
we're gonna talk with them. Stick around, not save.
Speaker 11: Wait, I'm begging for my baby, don't wait over not
save wait, oh wait, oh wait. It was Sunday evening,
and all my ropes were clear and my eyes were
dry to spy my fear.
Speaker 2: But I was flying too close to the sun.
Speaker 11: When I got your cold half the radio long, I
began to star wait, oh, begging for my baby.
Speaker 5: Don't wait, don't go bud up your.
Speaker 11: Heart not sad ways way, oh wait.
Speaker 8: Sometimes I'm lonely.
Speaker 5: Sometimes I want to be alone.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I'm freezing.
Speaker 5: Sometimes I need that cold. Sometimes you're shining.
Speaker 11: It's over ahead, I'm staring at the sun. I want
to spend the night with you with the light on. Wait,
begging for my baby, no.
Speaker 10: Way out your.
Speaker 11: Heart, not save way to.
Speaker 12: Wait?
Speaker 13: Oh wait, I I want, I want, I want you
leavese wait, beg him for my baby to wait, orpenen
up your heart, not sad.
Speaker 7: Way begging for my baby to wait.
Speaker 5: All burn up you.
Speaker 13: So beg it for my baby to leave the line.
Speaker 5: Beg you for my baby to.
Speaker 14: Leave the line.
Speaker 7: Began for my baby to wait. Thanks for maybe no
way off.
Speaker 1: I love that the song is called wait. The band
is three times seven. And let's see who we have
on the line with us from the band. Hello, welcome
to the show.
Speaker 8: Hello, Hello, this is Jenny. Hey Jenny, We've got David
here as well.
Speaker 14: Hi.
Speaker 10: Hey, welcome Jenny and David.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard right before the track
I was commenting on, and this is one of the
things I want to ask you about. It seems that,
so from what I could glean online, you function as
both a duo and a full band, Is that correct?
Speaker 8: Yeah, we've actually got three, so we've got a duo,
a full band with bass and drums, and we've got
a four piece acoustic setup as well well. So yeah,
we can become in all forms.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool because that gives you a lot of flexibility,
right in terms of where you can play and and uh,
because obviously different kinds of venues, different uh, different audiences
might require a different you know, a different vibe.
Speaker 10: And I mean, is it is it confusing.
Speaker 1: At all kind of managing these different versions of the
band or does does all the music kind of convert
to whatever configuration you're playing in pretty easily?
Speaker 8: Thankfully now it kind of converts quite easily. It took
a little bit of work at the start. Yeah, on
the website, we always make sure it's clear whether what
type of band you're going to see, right. It's just
because if you particularly like the full band, we will
make sure that you are coming to a full band gig,
and if you particularly like the acoustic set, that you're
coming down to see the acoustic stuff. But yeah, it
takes a bit of work, especially with some of the
guitar solos and things. We have to rework the song
format to make it work for all the different variations. Yeah,
but it's really good and it keeps us on our toes.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I assume three times seven started with the
two of you. You're the you're obviously the core, right
of the band.
Speaker 15: Yeah, that's that sweet. Yeah. We've been playing together for
about sort of like eight nine years now. Oh okay,
and then I used to joke that we're called three
times seven because we had the twenty one honoring members
that would come and play with us.
Speaker 10: Now, that would be quite the configuration.
Speaker 16: Super group and half yeah on speed up.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, so let's well, since you refer to it,
let's get to the obvious question. I'm sure this is
you're probably tired of answering it because you probably get
asked us and every interview it is the most obvious question.
Speaker 10: But what what does the name mean?
Speaker 8: So officially, it's from a song called Tippetina, which is
a New Orleans jazz standard, and in it's a line
that says she was three times seven baby, and at
the time I was in my early twenties and it
felt pretty cool and we are Ah, it's all right,
that'll do we'll change it later and then it's now
later and obviously we haven't changed it. Yeah, it's also
the cards. It's the best age for whiskey.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, it's cool, and you know, it makes people curious obviously,
it gives uh, it gives you something to talk about,
you know, where the name comes from.
Speaker 10: I'm curious.
Speaker 1: Does anyone ever approach you and ask you like, does
anyone ever kind of know have an inkling? Maybe they're
maybe they're familiar with that song. Maybe they you know,
maybe they love jazz. Maybe they're from New Orleans and
they and they say to you, hey, does the name
come from this?
Speaker 10: And they kind of know what it is. Does that
ever happen?
Speaker 16: No, no, never happened, but.
Speaker 8: It would be quite amusing if it did.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you people go, oh okay, yes I've heard that
song or I haven't even heard that song before.
Speaker 1: Right right, right, So now in terms of recording, so
is the full band obviously a song like wait, that's
that's everybody in the band, right, that's the full Uh,
that's everybody who's involved on that.
Speaker 8: We had Haley and Steve join us as well. So
they are from a band called futurism, and they join
us occasionally to do some harmony work. And when we
get them involved as well, then we've basically become a
little supergroup so that we can do all the harmonies,
which is really really fun. But yes, everyone was involved
in Wait, yeah.
Speaker 1: No, that's really cool, and is that your approach with all,
because we're also going to play at the end of
our conversation, because obviously I like to bookend the interviews
with your music. So at the end we're going to
play Big Train, which is another great track, and I
love the video, by the way, the video is really cool.
Speaker 8: That was really fun.
Speaker 15: Yes, that's without Haley and Steve. I mean, our latest
album released, Silver Linings. We've got tracks from there which
are basically just Jenny and I with a little bit
of piano. Oh and we have other tracks from there
which I've got an Italian horn section on one track,
I've got Turkish violinist on another. So yeah, it's very
much a collaboration of friends and.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, now, how do you describe your music because
you know, obviously I can hear a lot of different
influences in there. You know, there's some blues, there's some jazz.
I mean it sounds and if I didn't know, and
I hope you don't take this wrong, but if I
didn't know where you were from, I would assume you
were an American band, because you remind me of a
lot of you know, especially out of the American South
from a certain time period, music that would come from there.
I mean, how do you how do you describe your music?
Everyone always hates this question, but how do you describe
your music and what what kinds of influences go into
what you're doing?
Speaker 15: Well, I think I think that's the main thing we play.
We started off as very much primarily a blues band. Yeah,
and I do believe you can't play blues unless you
go to the heart blue. So we did a little
tour down from Chicago. We were from Louisville, Kentucky, Memphis,
now Bill all the way down to New Orleans and
we made it down to New Orleans for Halloween as well,
Oh wow, which was a hell of an experience. And
I can imagine all of that definitely influenced our music.
And Jenny is a massive fan of John Cleary. Yes,
it is the of the Kentish British boy who went
over to New Orleans and never came back, which.
Speaker 8: A note in my heart because New Orleans is like
it's awesome, Like we had such a good time on
that trip. But we also have other influences as well,
other than blues. We've got funk, soul rock, like all
of the things that we grew up with and the
music that we discovered, like it all lives in our
music as well. It all comes through. So I think
if I was to describe it, it's funky, solely bluesy tunes.
Speaker 15: Like every year we make we make it a habit
to go and see Mayor Staples when she comes around.
Oh okay, I always say, I love maybe. She plays
a beautiful venue in London called the Union Chapel, and
she always says, we need you should leave here feeling
better than you when you arrived. So I would say,
I'll started. Music is positivity. Basically, it's just making you
feel better.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: That's interesting because I saw so I was doing a
little bit of research and I don't know which one
of you said this, but one of you said something
about approving that brew that blues is not the original emo.
Speaker 15: Yeah, that was an old basis of mine. When I
first first formed this barer Jenny, he said, why would
you want to play blues? Because it's just that was
just the original em My music.
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, that's a that's a strange comment for a
couple of different reasons.
Speaker 10: But well, so, now, so you do a longer work
with that bass player, right.
Speaker 15: No, No, I don't know. He's he's retired and lives
in a white picket fence with his family, went away
from the music scene as he should be, right.
Speaker 1: Right, I assume he's not listening to blues because it
sounds like it depresses him.
Speaker 10: So you're but so you're on a mission to prove
that it's not that.
Speaker 1: Obviously I've never although I don't know why you would
have to prove that because I've never heard other than him,
I've never heard anyone say that to begin with.
Speaker 10: That's really interesting.
Speaker 15: Well, you've got the whole thing. I'm feeling blue, isn't it?
Speaker 14: So?
Speaker 15: Oh, blues music must be just sad. It's all about beings. Yeah,
And I was brought up on a bb King and
Buddy guy. You know, she's a sweet girl. Angel always
spread her wings for me. Let me tell you, there's
nothing sad about that.
Speaker 10: There you go, there you go absolutely how much?
Speaker 1: How much music do you have in terms of original
songs that you have released as a as.
Speaker 10: A band, or or as a duo or any configuration.
Speaker 1: Do you have a lot of music that you've put
out over the past, Because you said it's it's been
almost a decade right that you've been together.
Speaker 15: Got about three albums, two EPs, and a few singles
out on Spotify.
Speaker 8: And a new set of four tracks coming out end
of this month. More tracks coming soon. Okay, we've only
ever recorded and released one cover, which is I'd rather
go blind. Everything else on all of our recordings is original.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, excellent. And what's the process like in terms
of writing? Do the two of you write together or
how does that work?
Speaker 10: Again?
Speaker 1: I assume the I assume the core of the songwriting
and the band is the two of you, but maybe
not so tell me about.
Speaker 15: It much so so, I'm quite often I'll come up
with an idea. I'm a big fan turning sort of
like bad things on their head. I remember when we
were in Chicago, it absolutely rained down and we were
in the Museum of Chicago sort of learning about the
history of it. Having a couple of tea in the cafe,
and Jenny just wrote down and I hate it when
it was into Chicago because it was really loud and
we could re speak to each other. And I thought, no,
I like it when it rains in Chicago, and so
I wrote this entire song about how you know, actually
it's great it range in Chicago and yeah, but we're
dancing around in the street, and.
Speaker 8: We still kept some elements of the like the original
real bluesy World where the rain is so it's soaking
through my feet, absolutely drenched, like I couldn't be anyware
if I dried, And so there's still some elements of
that in Rain in Chicago, which is a really upbeat
track that everyone loves to sing along with now so,
which is lovely.
Speaker 15: Yes, it's basically taking I always think that there's a
good good to find in every situation. Really for the
most part. Yeah, absolutely, it's all that making people feel good.
Like we have another song, Money to Burn, which I
think Jenny did most of the lyrics song, which was
all basically about you know, I should have a ton
of cash to go out and spend on someone and
have a really good time. But I don't. But it's okay,
because we've got to go out and have a good
sign many way, even though we should be.
Speaker 8: You know, yes, sitting in a nice restaurant thinking.
Speaker 15: Champagne, so that even if we can't do that, it's
still going to be good and maybe one day we
will and it'll be fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, No, that's very cool, very cool. Yeah, I
get the impression. You know, there seems to be a
lot of positivity in your music. Are there is there
anyone else where you're from who is doing what you do?
Because like I said, you know, I hear so many
American influences in your music, and obviously, you know, uh,
music from the UK in the past has been a
tremendous influence on American music, obviously, But but I'm.
Speaker 10: Curious, like, who is there anyone else in your area.
Speaker 1: Who's kind of doing what what you're doing and with
this particular mix of influences, is there anybody we should
know about from over there who's.
Speaker 15: There's a lot of purists in funk purists and blues purists,
and we get on well with all of them. Yeah,
and we in the same bill as all of them.
But I haven't really met anyone who's quite doing it
the way that we do it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there are some ful bands locally to hear though.
We're very lucky that we get to play alongside some really,
really good musicians on a regular basis. There's a band
called Twin two Weeks in Nashville. They're very good.
Speaker 15: There's a light yeah, but again they're very different times,
so much more the sort of like the indie rocky
side of what we do. As There's another great band
Canada Hill Yeah.
Speaker 8: Velveteen Orchestra. They're very much more muse kind of sounding.
They've got this lovely, beautiful singing voice, unbelievable. But yeah,
I wouldn't say there's many people that do what we do.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 15: I always think that that's that's our biggest strength. That
was the fact that you know, I will take in general,
take inspiration from anywhere. We're not that. We do a
really fun version of Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel, which we
try and doing the sort of There's a band called
the Brand New Heavy. I did this really crunky version
of it, absolutely brilliant, worth checking out, and so we
kind of took that and moved it slightly more towards
Prince okay, and sort of to get that even more
sort of like that more Prince funk rather than the
sort of I guess you call it sort of average
white band fund thing going.
Speaker 8: It's it's pretty funky, brilliant.
Speaker 15: We've had people come up to us afterwards. She said,
that's my favorite song. And I still think that's my favorite.
Speaker 1: You know, I have a memory, by the way of
when when I was a kid, my mother sitting there
with her walkman and and her headphones on and just
listening to Sledgehammer over and over.
Speaker 10: She loved it so much.
Speaker 8: It's a really good tune, and it's got lots of
different parts, which is what makes it so fun, and
you can really play with the timings and pull on things,
and yeah, it's it's a it's a really fun song
to play.
Speaker 1: Is there a studio version of that that you've done
or do you only do that live?
Speaker 15: I know it's that's all your life. So we've only
had recorded one song as a cover. Currently, I'm toiling
with the idea of taking the Badge into the studio
and doing a sort of this is the set kind
of thing, a bit like what the Beetles sipp please
please meet, because while I'm a huge number two, we're
starting to sound really really sort of like tight live
with this particular set, so it'd be nice to kind
of like capture it.
Speaker 1: No doubt, I agree to do that. What is the
one cover that you've recorded.
Speaker 15: And so I'd rather go blind Sie James.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay, any particular reason you chose that.
Speaker 15: It was so we don't. As we said, we're quite positive.
So when we do sad songs, they really do hit.
And I remember we were doing this tiny gig and
this little pub in Sustan and there was a woman
at the bar who came up to us at the
end and was, as she goes, I heard you play
that song. I've just gone through a divorce and this
is the first time I've actually cried.
Speaker 8: And she was in a state. I gave her a
hug and like She's like, I just I felt like
I needed to have a release and this this was
that moment and it was it was really beautiful and
it really touched us how emotional people got over this
particular song. We played it a couple of times. We've
had people in tears and it was it was it's
a beautiful feeling. It's a really hard feeling as a
singer because I just want to give him a big cuddle.
But it really does. It speaks. It's it's quite vocal,
it's quite loud in the way that it's emotive.
Speaker 15: And again we've kind of mashed it up a little bit.
So the original song was just a two chord song,
but I pulled in a couple of sort of like
hints from Hallelujah. So it'll start off and so everyone's like, oh,
this is going to be you know, Jeff Buckby like
quibble song there, and then breaks into I'd Rather Go
Blind and it kind of really hits on that big
emotional level.
Speaker 10: Yeah, oh wow, I'd have to listen to that. Interesting live.
Speaker 8: We always say, right, we're gonna do a sad song
and then I promise you a happy song.
Speaker 16: At again, because it's what yeah, yeah, yeah, in terms
of being you know, we were talking about how you
stand out in your scene, right because there's nobody else
kind of doing what you're doing in this mix of influences,
and you know.
Speaker 1: You've got the purists who uh maybe uh you know,
wouldn't wouldn't dare do what you're doing.
Speaker 10: But does that do you find that that's an advantage
for you?
Speaker 1: From my vantage point, just getting to know, just getting
familiar with the project, it seems like that's a big
advantage because you know, everything is so there's so much
there's so much noise to cut through. So if you
can do something that makes you stand out, I think
it's an advantage, you know. But the other side of
that being maybe you have some people who are like,
oh no, I don't understand how to Some people can't
deal with not being able to categorize things. You know
a lot of people in the industry they have to
be able to categorize things, and that happens in radio too,
with radio formats. Do you think it's Do you think
it's an advantage though, to be able to stand out?
Speaker 15: I think live really and fantastic because we're not we're
definitely not playing the same song over and over and
over again. With variety, the ability to change the lineup
as quickly as we do the different things means we
can never turn I'm not turning down gigs. If I
go up to a place and they're like, we can
afford to give you half of that, I can offer
them half the bands. You know, that's really good. But
when it comes to things like radio play, when it
comes to put the things on playlists and things, because
all of our songs are so different, it means that
I can show them one song and they'll be like, hey,
that's brilliant. Have you got anything else like this?
Speaker 8: No, we've now started finding like sister songs, so there
are a couple of songs that if you particularly like
our song Shiver, you're quite likely to like Still Dawn,
for example, because they're a bit rockier. But it's it's
quite nice to be a mixed bag. It means that
we can fit in with everyone. But sometimes if we're
going to apply for like a blues festival, for example,
it's very difficult because we're not straight blues. It's a
bit more straight blues and so it's a bluesy rock
song or it's a bluesy soul song, but it's still
got the influences there. So sometimes it's a detriment. But
if we do get on the playlist, it's lovely because
we then can do something that's slightly different, and you know,
if you're listening to blues all day, which is lovely
and I love blues. It's quite nice to have something
that's bluesy rather than just straight twelve bar. It's something
that's a little bit more something for you is to
cheer on if you like.
Speaker 1: Right right, absolutely, I read something too about it. Do
you have a tour coming up in September?
Speaker 15: Yeah, so not this September, but next September. We are
going back to Europe for our third third go round.
It's really good fun. I love touring Europe. Last time
we've got to play some very fun shows, including a
couple of prisons just aside of Frankfurt, I think Johnny
Cash or end of the Blues Brothers. So they did
get up and dance. It was good fun.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, and Johnny Cash of course you have
awesome prison blues yep.
Speaker 8: Oh yes, that was really interesting. So we were there
as a reward basically for those people who got merits, oh,
which is that they use within Europe. So the prisoners
that were able to attend had to have been on
best behaviors basically, and they had to be approved by
the person who runs the prison, and then they had
to write a letter to say why they wanted to attend.
And then that got further approved. So the people that
actually ended up in the room with us whilst we
were playing the music. These guys haven't heard music for ages.
They haven't even had a rape, like, so they're so
excited about live music. And then afterwards we spent about
an hour with them just talking about fans who they'd
send play live, what instruments they used to play. They
they were so, they were so up, they were it
was such a lovely, lovely experience. It's a bizarre experience.
Speaker 15: Which is great because when I first heard Reward, I
thought I thought it suffered enough called they were our
most captive ordierence.
Speaker 1: That's perfect, that's awesome. Yeah, how many bands can say
that that they've played that kind of show. That's that's
really cool. That's really cool.
Speaker 8: I would do it again though. It was absolutely amazing.
Speaker 15: Really on the next tour we will be going through
a couple of shows again.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's great. That's great.
Speaker 1: By the way, so you said that, and now the
European tour is not this September, but next September.
Speaker 15: Ne September twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so you're you're planning, you're planning pretty far ahead,
which is great because most musicians are not good at
long term planning.
Speaker 8: But it's an expensive endeavor and with us, all the
money we make from playing live goes into the band,
so it takes us a little while to save up
for it all because by the time you've got hotels
and ferries and all the other things that we need,
it is quite an expensive trip. But it's so worth
it for meeting the people playing in these wonderful venues
like and just having some time as a band together.
It's really it's worth it. But yeah, it does take
us a little while to save up.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 15: Also, I don't know what it's like in the US,
but in the UK festivals will be booking for summer
twenty twenty six in October. Pubs will be fully booked
up by the end of December for the next year,
So you have to be really, really on it otherwise
you're picking up the scraps unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Right, And that's the same everywhere in the US festivals. Yeah,
they're they're planning, you know, a way in advance. It's
funny that that comes up because we had talked about
we do a lot of music industry news on the
show too, and there was I forget what it was called,
that there was a country music festival here that had
to be canceled kind of at the last minute. They
were re funding tickets because they tried to do this.
They tried to put together this big festival with only
three months of lead time, and it got to be
it got to be like three weeks before before showtime,
and they started refunding everybody's tickets because you know, they
just couldn't do it. So, yeah, festivals take tremendous long
term planning and things even still go wrong. But but yeah,
if you get if you get out and play festivals,
that's great.
Speaker 15: Well, it's funny you mentioned that. So there's quite a
few things on like Netflix at the moment about things
like obviously like fire fests and things like that. Well,
and Jenny's real real job, head job from nine to five,
is in events organizing. Oh so perfect loves and obviously
knows all this, this is the amount of stuff that's
going to go involved and just loves watching these trainmates
going I know exactly what's going to happen seconds into
the dog and.
Speaker 8: Just thinking about trying to organize a festival in three
months all that that said, shit was down my spine. No, no,
thank you please.
Speaker 10: Right, not very I know, I know, yeah, it's it's
it's crazy.
Speaker 1: They thought they could do it, but they learned the
hard way and probably it probably cost them a lot
of money. But uh yeah no, that's great though that
you're going to be doing festivals, have you you've done
festivals before, I assume right.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah. So this year we played a little
festival called Gilfest which is just southeast of England, which
was really good fun. And we've played Wayfest and.
Speaker 15: We've got.
Speaker 9: The park.
Speaker 15: Yeah, pub of the Park was fun.
Speaker 8: Any we love the festival. So it's really fun. And
because again you get such a lovely mix of different
sounds at the festivals, it's actually a bit easier for
us to fit in a little bit because because everyone's
so open to listening to original songs and different things,
and so it's a it's a really nice melting pot
of people to play to.
Speaker 15: Also, I do love a good locally made beer and
quite a lot of these festivals now have these little
parker breweries come along, so it's a great opportunity to
go and test taste.
Speaker 10: Some is oh that's very cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, I think a festival, I mean, that's
such a great opportunity anytime you can play a festival
to get in front of a big audience. And also
a festival audience I feel is more open to being surprised.
Speaker 10: You know, if there's.
Speaker 1: A band there they're not familiar with, and then the
band comes out and they play a set or they
you know, they start that first song and you know
you're in the audience and it's like, Okay, this isn't
quite what I expected, or you know, that's that's a
lot of fun. That's one of the fun things about
a festival is being surprised by some of the artists
who you're not familiar with, who end up sounding like
something you maybe weren't expecting, or a mix of things
that you weren't expecting.
Speaker 8: We love that as well. We love discovering new music,
and if we're ever invited to a festival, we'll make
sure that we go and see the other stages and
go and see what's going on and make sure we're
making some friends.
Speaker 15: Yeah, stories of sort of going to Hyde Park back
in the day and going to go see the Rolling
Stones for free and then, or what's this band overhead? Oh?
This is this is a new band called Free and
this is a new band called Blind Faith or something.
And they're like, oh that's pretty cool. Yeah, go check
them out. And you're like, of course you did, you
sort of free right.
Speaker 1: Right right exactly. I'm gonna so it's been wonderful speaking
with you. The time goes quickly, but I'm going to
let you go in a minute, but I'm going to
play at the end of our conversation. I want to
play this track, Big Train. This is the newest single
correct Big Train. Yeah, what can you tell me about
the video?
Speaker 10: The video is really impressive.
Speaker 8: Thank you. So the video is filmed at a little
local train station to us called the bluebellt Railway, and
they specialize in bringing back old steam trains basically, and
it's just this one little line that they go up
and down on, but they rebuild steam trains and they
try and keep it as original as possible. So all
the stations are well, they're nineteen twenties nineteen thirties style.
They're beautiful and they all wear the old uniforms and
the steam trains coming in out. It's a really fun
place to be and we turned up there and said,
you know, would you mind very much if we made
a little video whilst we're here, as we're a local
band and we'd love to showcase the Blue Bell And
they said absolutely, And then they let us into the
ticket booth, They let us into the signal box. We
were allowed to stand on the trains like we had
the best day. They let us in all these like
amazing little places. We got to go in the carriages,
we rode the trains. It was it was so fun.
Speaker 15: I think the whole thing was shot in about three hours.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's so cool too that they were so
cool about it, because you walk into that situation not knowing,
right are they going to be like, oh I got
to get an approval from my boss for you to
be here, or you need a permit or whatever, right.
Speaker 10: But they just they just let you do it. Huh.
That's great.
Speaker 8: I think we were quite chill and they and we
were quite happy. We didn't need to close We weren't
trying to close down any stations to do filming. Yeah,
they do lots of like the old puaros and like
the beautiful BBC productions that look amazing, but they have
to close the station down for those. We were like, no, no,
we're fine. We'll just stand down the end of the
platform and do our bit. Like we don't we don't
need to close anything, we don't need to separate anything off.
And it's just the two of us and our friend
Josh with his camera. Yeah, and I think it's come
out really nicely. I think it shows how much fun
we were having as well.
Speaker 15: Yeah, a friend of mine, how did you do that
short of you standing at the end of the platform
with playing guitar or the train goes by it, So
that's quite easy. I waited for the train to come,
then I went to the end of the platform and
started playing the guitar.
Speaker 10: Was that scary at all?
Speaker 1: Were you an all concerned that you were going to
get like knocked over by the you know, the wind
from the train or anything.
Speaker 15: No, it's all good. I was. I was thought I
was in safe hands.
Speaker 10: Okay, oh that's good, that's good.
Speaker 15: And they were hands. But I just told myself was fine.
Speaker 10: Right right, well, very good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I encourage people to check out the video.
It's it's uh, it is excellent And where should people
go where's the best place to go to keep up
with everything that you're doing, with everything that three times
seven is doing.
Speaker 10: Where should they go online?
Speaker 8: So the best place is our website, which is www.
Dot the number three, the word times the number seven,
dot co, dot uk okay, and that has got all
the links on it for our social media. It's got
all the dates that we're playing, it's got information about
us as the band, it's got photos, it's got all
sorts of things on there. So that's that's our main
hub of information. But if not, we're on Facebook, we're
on Instagram, we're on TikTok, we're on all sorts of things. So, yeah,
we're fairly easy to find.
Speaker 10: You are easy to find.
Speaker 15: Yes, I would warn you that. It turns out I
thought three times seven terrible band name, no one else
would have it. There is an electronic drum and bass
band I believe in the Netherlands called three times seven.
So if you start hearing some sort of like drum
beats and stuff like that and the technical techno techno,
you might have the room one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just imagine like, uh, yeah, I didn't stumble upon
them when looking you guys up, But yeah, that would
be funny, being like, wow, I didn't think they were
that versatile to this.
Speaker 10: This is really different.
Speaker 15: One of the shows in the Netherlands, someone came up
to me and was when this isn't what I was expecting.
I'm so glad you're not the other back.
Speaker 1: Oh that's funny, that's funny, that's amazing.
Speaker 10: Uh well, yeah, so we're gonna play this.
Speaker 1: We'll let you go, but Jenny and David, thank you
both so much, and we will definitely do this again
in the future. It looks like you've got a lot
coming up and you've got new music on the way.
I'm sure, so we'll we'll definitely do this again. But
I really appreciate the both of you joining us today.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much for having us. It's been a
real fun time.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I'm gonna hit this track big train, and I'll
let you both go, but thank you, and yeah, we'll
talk to you again soon.
Speaker 10: All right, you got it? Bye bye?
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 10: Wonderful.
Speaker 1: So that was Jenny and David from three Times seven
and without further ado, this is another great song. I
really like this a lot, and I do encourage you
to go on YouTube. Not right now, stick with me.
But later go on YouTube check out the video there.
Their YouTube channel is three times seven London if you
want to get right there. But here it is. This
is big Train. This is the newest single from three
Times seven.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna gave me a.
Speaker 11: Big train to tav to heaven and I'm ready to ride.
I'm talking big train vibrations.
Speaker 5: Have nois on the other side.
Speaker 1: Now it's the esteem.
Speaker 11: Boy goes like a dream.
Speaker 5: Rhythm of the track goes nick clack.
Speaker 17: That engine goes.
Speaker 11: What I mean, I fall into the station, but I
won't use the break because Queen, your race shots aation
running he spreading base, not your shape. You gave me
a big strain to take me to heaven, and I'm
ready to ride.
Speaker 13: I'm talking in big tree vibrations.
Speaker 5: Oh helllloy so on.
Speaker 11: The on the side, not a signal screen, a tree
at antion mean.
Speaker 2: Attention, saw steam my head with.
Speaker 5: Speed and like going away what or like gorn away?
Speaker 11: Who you're run away? Can heave me a big dream?
Speaker 5: Take me it?
Speaker 11: Tae knows I can't do.
Speaker 13: Rot almost dream.
Speaker 9: Riddle and the likes a big dream.
Speaker 13: Riddle and hold.
Speaker 7: I'm not pretty, but I'm prettier than you.
Speaker 5: I took the word that I'm gone to from the
corner of my eye, well, I can see that I'm
a looking fly. I'm not pretty, mus I'm pretty of you.
Speaker 7: I'm not pretty, but I'm not gone to change.
Speaker 5: My kids said, it's from the kids.
Speaker 7: When I got killed, she said the stuff in my.
Speaker 5: Toe late two real rage. I'm not pretty, but I'm
not gonna you. I'm not pretty good. I'm not gonna stop.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna keep bnky on, unsaid. I drop.
Speaker 6: This life ain't corner in what I promise you, my friend.
I'm not pretty, but I'm not gonna stop. I'm not pretty, but.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty good at you. I don't know the word
I'm gonna to.
Speaker 4: From the corner of my eye, well I can see.
Speaker 5: That I'm looking fly.
Speaker 7: I'm not pretty, but i'm pretty oa than you. I'm
not pretty, but they can't keep bed down.
Speaker 18: I'm going to rise to the job, Frank, can they
My crown ain't gonna stop me getting half a new
month for me.
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