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Speaker 2: Good morning, everybody, Welcome, here we go. It is that
time again. Matt Connorton unleashed and we are live from
the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM
in glorious Manchester, New Hampshire at our Canal Street location.
Welcome everybody. Today is Saturday, August ten, twenty twenty four.
We just heard by the Way, the new Hope the
Rap single on My Way, week nine of our ten
weeks of new singles from Hope the Rapper. I can't
believe next week will be the last one week ten,
but we love Hope the Rapper. That is great stuff
and we'll play that again later in the show too.
If you miss it, we'll try to hit that every hour.
But I'm not alone, my friends.
Speaker 9: Good morning sunshine.
Speaker 2: Yes, Jenny is here at the news tables of book. Yes, Yes,
we have a very busy show today. We've got Club
Paradise coming up in just a few minutes, skyping in
from across the Pond.
Speaker 12: And I love them.
Speaker 2: I love their sound. And actually before they call, we
are gonna play or before they skype, I should say
we are gonna play their brand new single, their newest single.
And then but we've got a few songs of theirs
we're gonna play today. Really really love them, so you're
gonna love yes, and we have lots We've got Grizzly, uh,
Grizzy Grizzy Hendrix. I almost said, Grizzly, call you out
on that later, Grizzy Hendrix. I don't know why that's
difficult for me to say.
Speaker 9: Ten times past.
Speaker 2: He'll be here in the cannot He'll be here in
the third hour today and we've got some interesting things
to get into it in the second hour as well.
But welcome everybody. This is Matt Connorton unleashed, of course,
and we should mention too before I forget, because this
is uh. I'm excited about this, got a big events.
So we are one week away. Yeah, and it's been
a while since I've done something like this. So next Saturday,
Next Saturday, August seventeenth, there's an event at these Sister
Witch Sister Witch Company, and they were on with us
a couple of months ago and we're gonna be doing
more with them in the future. But they've got an
event coming up at the Sister Witch Company. It's in Hooks.
It it's at eleven ninety three Hooks at Road. It's
a gritting class healing circle and they have hypnotherapy. Guess
who the hypnotherapist is?
Speaker 9: Who me? Why?
Speaker 12: What?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 2: Because they asked me to do it? What and I'm excited.
What so that will be next Saturday. Now, the event
starts at noon. I obviously will not be there at
noon because of this radio show, so but you can
show up there at noon. They'll have lots of great stuff.
My official arrival time is two pm, because it's usually,
you know, almost one o'clock by the time we get
the show uploaded and everything. So I told them I
can be there by two. I'll try to get there
a little bit earlier, but but please, you know, show
up early, don't wait for me. Like I said, it
starts from at noon and it goes till five pm Saturday,
August seventeenth, the Sister Witch Company. But I will be
there doing hypnotherapy, so really looking forward to that.
Speaker 13: Maybe some group any kind of hypnotherapy, particular hypni like
a you're gonna sqush.
Speaker 3: What do you do?
Speaker 4: I do a lot?
Speaker 2: Well, I do a lot of stop smoking sessions. That's
the number one thing that I do. Well, you know,
now as to mention it, the fine folks at the
Sister Witch Company have expressed an interest in that.
Speaker 9: I bet that might be interesting stories from both Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, so that will all be one week from today,
Please come see us, and the event is free to
get in. Obviously, if you want to do you know,
a session with me or with any of the other
fine people there, you know, that costs money, but.
Speaker 9: It's free to get in and calm look around, Gibb.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's a really cool place. You haven't been
there yet, I know, and I'm dying to go. Yes,
I want to check it out. Yeah, very very cool.
So looking forward to that. So that will be one
week from.
Speaker 9: Thinking the show and that in the same day.
Speaker 2: That might be. That might be too, that might be
a bit much.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, my alarm will go off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sit down, sit down. I'm gonna be tired.
Speaker 9: That's what sounds like.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you're gonna be tired.
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, especially because you have show Friday night too,
right right, Yeah, yeah, you're gonna do a twenty four
hour run. It'll be cute.
Speaker 2: Yes, My Friday night into Saturday morning is very busy
because of course Friday nights, I'm here for Retrospect Radio
with Polly c and last night. Not to brag, but
I did win the nine at nine. Name that nine
at nine.
Speaker 4: I was the first to guess, Oh you were the first.
Speaker 2: Well that's not the nine at nine. That's the other thing,
the contest.
Speaker 9: You got the night, Yes, and then the contest I
was the first to guess correctly.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Check out if you don't. If you're not currently a listener,
you should check it out. It's a lot of fun.
Retrospect Radio with Polly see Friday nights from a to
eleven pm, and there is a replay or two during
the week. Uh, check local listings. As Paul likes to say, well, if.
Speaker 9: You want to have some fun, you can actually go
back and listen to last night's show.
Speaker 13: Yes, and here's the kick. All of the songs have
something in common. You got to guess what the theme is.
So if you weren't listening last night, you.
Speaker 9: Can go check it out today.
Speaker 13: Listen to the show and see if you can figure
out what the theme is before the end of the
show when he tells you what it actually is.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 13: Oh, by the way, I did call oh did you Yes?
But it went to a machine that said you're somebody's
not available?
Speaker 7: Weird?
Speaker 9: It rang like five times.
Speaker 2: Ah, you've been defeated by technology.
Speaker 7: I was technology got me.
Speaker 2: Let's see. Oh we can say hello. Everybody in the
Facebook Live. Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna play that track.
Let's see. Oh uh, Tom Sira Kusa if I'm saying
his last name correctly from of course, day to Attend
by the way, I'm wearing my day to Attend shirt.
Yes you are, Yes, you are camera, you can see.
Speaker 9: It on Actually I wore mine so week after we
got them.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, love the shirt. Love the band. Oh and
Day to Attend is in official band account. Is in
the EDHI room as well. It says nice shirt.
Speaker 14: Yes. Yes.
Speaker 2: Also, our friend Bruce from Legion of Solid says good
morning friends, good morning, Bruce, good morning. And Carol's the
Warwitz also joins us and says good morning, good morning,
as well as b Pinard. Welcome everybody, Welcome, and all right,
let's do this. We're going to play a track from
our new friends Paradise. Yeah, yeah, I really like.
Speaker 9: That from Across the Pond, and then we're going to
bring them to you.
Speaker 2: Let's play years. I believe this is the newest single,
and they sent us two tracks to play, so we'll
play one now and then we'll get them on Skype
and then we'll play the other at the end of
our conversation. But we're actually going to play a couple
They don't know this, but we're actually going to play
two more of their songs at some point during the show,
because I was listening to them before we got on air,
and I love these guys.
Speaker 9: Totally.
Speaker 2: Yes, but so we're gonna talk with them in just
a couple of minutes. But check this out. The band
is Club Paradise and this is called Years.
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a little time to decompress all of the questions as
around me. Am I fearing being just a good honey.
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can see my mom the bone as he.
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Speaker 7: And murray bowls and range as I would say. The
scene the chap by, So where was the getty mincers?
You know the casts that's around.
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Speaker 7: It's not out of the crash.
Speaker 6: Time in a struggle gives hard to your point, so kind.
Speaker 7: Of be survido calls. I said, I haven't did some.
Speaker 6: Any yoursel.
Speaker 2: I love that. I love that. That is so catchy.
The track is called Years, the band is Club Paradise,
and I think we have them via Skype. Can you
guys hear me?
Speaker 14: Yes, that's what we can.
Speaker 2: Oh, you sound great, wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 4: Who do we have?
Speaker 2: Who do we have with us?
Speaker 5: We've got I'm Ryan, I sing and play guitar.
Speaker 2: Welcome, Yeah, I'm Nathan.
Speaker 16: I'm sorry Ryan, I am I play drums.
Speaker 14: Okay, I'm Jackson and I play guitar, all right.
Speaker 2: All right? And are we missing anybody?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: We've also got Harry who he plays bass. But that's
okay because he plays bass.
Speaker 2: I know those damn bass players. I'll tell you the
hell with them now. I'm a little bit of an
inside joke. I'm a bass player myself, but that's all right,
that's all right. No, I'm glad the three of you
are here. And guys, I love your sound. I gotta
say that right up front.
Speaker 12: You.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we actually, so you sent us two tracks to play,
and we're gonna play the other one at the end
of our conversation, but later in the show too, we'll
probably play a couple more that I found that I
really really like that I found online. So you guys
are awesome. Where are you from?
Speaker 5: Oh, thank you so much. We are from North Shields,
which is just a little town outside of Newcastle upon
Tyne in the northeast of the UK Okay.
Speaker 2: And are there a lot of bands there right now
that that kind of sound like you, guys, because you know,
we we have usually if we have somebody from across
the pond, as we say here in the United States.
I don't know if you say that there about us, but.
Speaker 7: They don't.
Speaker 2: They don't sound quite like you guys. I mean you
have such an accessible you know, like if I were
hearing your music and had no idea that you were
not an American band, I would assume that you were
an American band because you have a sound that's very
accessible in terms of American radio. Are there are there
other bands there that sound like you or do you
guys kind of stand out in that sense.
Speaker 14: In the sense of sounding like an American radio band.
Perhaps not, but.
Speaker 17: That's also that's just a massive compliment. We take that
so like we listen to a lot of American radio stuff.
That's actually kind of something we say as well, like, oh,
this sounds like it could be on us radio when
we're making it.
Speaker 14: So we love we love that compliment. Not a lot
of people from.
Speaker 17: Around here sound like us specifically, I would say, yeah,
but there is a big music scene happening right now.
Speaker 3: What is it like?
Speaker 2: What is it like where you guys are, specifically in
terms of are there a lot of places to play
live or you able to get out and do a
lot of shows?
Speaker 14: What's what?
Speaker 2: What is the scene like there where you are?
Speaker 16: And yeah, it's been it's obviously.
Speaker 18: I think it's probably similar to yourselves where post COVID
everyone's still there's still some teving issues and everyone's trying
to get back back to how it was before. But
we find a lot of joy in and around where
we're from, Newcastle, North Shields. We found we found a
lot of joy over the over the water and the
likes of Sunderland and Millersbllt, which are other small city
small towns. But it seems like everyone's trying to support
each other.
Speaker 16: We we travel.
Speaker 18: Outside of the Northeast when we can. As Jackson said,
there's a big, big music scene. It seems like it's
starting to bubble up again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 5: A bit of a funny one after COVID though, because
you had like this massive bottomneck of gigs that needed
to happen, that were postponeding things. But I think now
you start to see a lot of venues close, a
lot of the smaller venues. So while in Newcastle and
and sort of Shields where we're from and all that
sort of place, they have a lot of really good
bands and a lot of good talent, it's kind of
hard to go out and see people that you want
to go and see as much now because some of
those smaller venues, the ones that we would all you know,
take hold of, they're all starting or have closed recently,
especially in Teaside, which is just the borough south of us,
and we've lost a lot of venues there, and recently
in Newcastle we've lost two or three here too, So
it's getting tricky. But all that does, I think it's
kind of fuels the fire for the existing venues for
us to get in there and and sort of you know,
everybody to gather around in a close that environment and
really listen to each other as well.
Speaker 2: What is what is causing that these venues to close?
Speaker 14: Do you know?
Speaker 8: Is it?
Speaker 2: Is it the economics of it? I know here in
the United States, the you know, there's a lot of inflation,
but I think we're probably faring better than a lot
of places. Is that it is everything just too expensive?
Or is there something else going on?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think inflation is definitely one big thing. I
think people aren't sure if they can commit the money
to a ticket so far in advance, so advanced sales
is a huge part of that local scene for us,
and you really don't really find out how many tickets
you've got until maybe's the day before, but even the
night of. We did a show earlier in the air
where we sold like, I don't know, twenty thirty tickets
the week running up to the gig, and then on
the night the venue was full and sold out. So
this instability that we have with ticket purchases and advance
that's causing a lot of upset with promoters and venues.
So the commitment is like the starting to lose the
commitment of people who want to put those shows on,
and it's just just change as well. That's just it's
a natural change that I think people need to sort
of adapt to and react with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting about the tickets because we had someone
here from the Jenny what are they called? Is that
the New I'm sure Music Collective or New England Music
Collective John Macarthurpy.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a promoter from the area and he was here.
We had an extensive conversation with him about this, and
he was talking about how when he puts events, when
his company puts events online, very often people wait till
the last minute to buy tickets and that's been the
trend post COVID, and the problem that that causes is
and he was kind of pleading with people, please, you know,
don't wait till the last minute, because what ends up
happening is, you know, an event will sell out and
he'll be going, you know, we could have done this
in a larger venue, but we didn't know that all
these people were going to show up, because people have
gotten into that habit of waiting until you know, the
day of before they make that commitment, and it causes
a bit of a bottleneck. But I think part of
that too is I don't know if it's if it
has to do with inflation, people being more careful about
how they spend their money, that may be part of it.
But also to I think just the Internet has made
it so. You know, you guys, you guys look pretty
young from what I saw online. I'm old enough to
remember when we didn't even have an internet. So if
you had to buy tickets, you know, you call up
you know, ticket Master, or you go to the I
slept on.
Speaker 9: The sidewalk outside of tickets in order to get tickets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but back then, but back in the day, pre internet,
it was the inverse, right, if you wanted to go
to a show, you had to get the tickets early
or you risk missing out. Whereas now, because you can,
you know, just buy tickets online or you know, or
risk just showing up, you can afford to wait till
the last minute. And I think that's where that problem
comes from.
Speaker 5: Definitely, we we have that memory. We used to go
to venues, We used to queue outside and wait and
buy the tickets. Yeah, when we were like in high school,
that was good fun. Yeah, yeah, And it's so cool
here by the way, once in like a week in October,
back in like twenty ten, we still outside this venue
and we just shivered. We have to wear school uniforms
in the UK and we don't wear coats because it's
not cool to wear a coat from Newcastle, so we
were all just shivering outside waiting to buy tickets. Were
that that was such good fun. But I totally agree
the Internet changes that landscape one hundred percent. And we've
seen a lot of local festivals collapse due to lack
of advanced sales. And people obviously think that there's just
an ease of like accessibility to be able to get
your ticket whenever you want to be like, oh, just
I'll get that closer at the time. That's not a problem.
But there's so much money that has to be put
up to front these shows, the festivals, whatever it is
that you go into that logistically financially, the deadlines can't
be met, the sort of bar stuff things like that
can't be put in place to make sure that you
can go ahead without.
Speaker 2: That right exactly, And people don't know that, you know,
your average consumer has no idea about any of this,
and you know, and there's no reason that we should
expect them to know. But one of the things that
we try to do with this show is really educate
people about that about how the music industry works, because yeah,
if you know, it's all supply and demand ultimately, and
if if somebody doesn't know, if a promoter or whomever
doesn't know that the demand is there to be met
until the very last minute, then what ends up happening is, yeah,
they don't there's not enough money coming in, and they
end up having to cancel. You said, you said you've
seen that a lot there festivals having to be canceled
for that reason.
Speaker 17: Yeah, Yeah, there was a It was a festival we
were scheduled to play inside of Newcastle and it was
like a big field and uh, we had promoted it,
et cetera, and then you know, six weeks before the show,
it just gets pulled because ticket sales probably weren't good enough.
And we see a lot I think it's it's sort
of like a luxury to be able to wait to
buy your ticket. People don't necessarily feel like the onus
is on them, like there's no burden or responsibility to
like buy these tickets because there isn't really but they
don't also know, like if a promoter sees fifteen tickets
have been sold, then they'll just go, oh, this show
isn't worth putting on, even though fifty people have just said, oh,
we'll just buy the week of like we'll say, you know,
we'll just keep money and if something else, you know,
I think as well, Yeah, there's so much choice as well,
Like it might be a case of like, oh my
other plans have fallen through, so now go to this show, right. Yeah,
so the commitment as well, like people don't want to
commit too early.
Speaker 14: I think that maybe is.
Speaker 17: Because of post COVID, Like you weren't going out anywhere,
so people have learned to live without going out, right,
So maybe people are you know, they've gotten comfortable not
going out.
Speaker 14: And realizing they don't have to. So maybe that's part
of it as well.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense. What uh,
what's the vibe like in terms of working with other bands?
You know here in the United States, it's I find
that in the music scene most there's a lot of
positivity and people kind of work together and whatnot. I mean,
it's competitive obviously, but it's not like saying stand up comedy.
I listen to some podcasts hosted by stand up comedians
in the United States, and everything sounds like it's very
cutthroat and nobody really helps anybody. But with musicians, people
tend to try to kind of work together. Is it
like that there or is it? I mean, how competitive
is it in the scene where you are, where you
guys are operating.
Speaker 5: I think it used to be way more cut throat
than it is now. So we've we've been playing as
a band honestly around twelve or thirteen years or so,
the four of us, the same four guys, So we've
seen a big change locally, and I think at first
it was very much nobody talked to each other. Everybody
went to play the show and you were going to
put on the best so that everybody was going to
see that night. And I feel like for the first
three or four years that was definitely the case. We
then didn't really gig for well while we were still
figuring out what we wanted to do, and then when
we came back to it, there was this complete shift
and and sort of demeanor and that everybody was now friends.
Everyone was wanting to put on the best night collectively,
and I hope that we've kind of we've definitely adjusted
to that since since all that big change, and I
hope that our shows people will also come to that
and feel that and that we are trying to play
with ours who we love and we think everybody else
will love if it's our show or actively, we'll we'll
take slots to play with other bands that offer us
them if if again they love us, and we all
think it's the right move for the for the bill
in full, and it's a much more collaborative effort now
for live shows.
Speaker 16: I think, Yeah, it's nice to be nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly exactly. And what's we talked about it? We
touched on it radio. What's the radio situation there for
a band like you guys, like, are you on the
radio in your area or how does that work there?
Speaker 16: We're on the radio and around the area.
Speaker 18: Yeah, we had we had to play on Radio X,
which is quite a big, a big radio stationing around
the UK. That's that's a rarity that we would get
something like that, and you've got to jump through quite
a lot of hoops and it's a bit of a look.
But in terms of the locality in the very local area. Yeah,
we're we're on radio stations. People are very supportive. We've
got BBC introducing Yeah up here, who who have always
been a.
Speaker 16: Big supporter of us and do a lot for the
local scene.
Speaker 5: You find that with that as well, you get these
little random radio shows that you've never heard of. So
there's one up in the Highlands of Scotland and every
time we play, every time we release a song, they
play us like without fail. And then there's a there's
two or three like that. There's a Welsh speaking one
which also plays us all the time, which is really
cool locally though. BBC in Row is a really cool thing,
but it's kind of being cut back a lot. So
the most local radio show we have for the BBC now,
which used to be in Newcastle, is in Teesside, which
is Middlesbrough's is kind of like an hour out of
the way, so now it's a regional show rather than
a local show. Yeah, which is all fine. It's just
you can see where these changes are happening in the
starting to take place. But we do get we get
the support off the radio and we're really thankful and
we love those teams and they're always really really fun
to work with too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 10: No.
Speaker 2: I was particularly curious because, like I said, you guys
have such an accessible sound and these these songs. You know,
at the end of the conversation, we're gonna play Chasing
the Summer, another great track, and I have to tell
you later in the show because I mentioned if you're curious, Yeah,
we're we're also gonna play later. We're gonna play Another
Life and no, I'm sorry, that's the Uh wait.
Speaker 3: Is that the song?
Speaker 5: That is a name of a song? Y?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was another one. There was another one too.
I'll have to find it. I'll have to find it
to play it. Oh, Neighborhood that was the other one.
Speaker 5: Oh oh yeah, yeah, they came out together. That was
a double A side that we did.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, I really like those. I really like those.
You guys are such a great sound. Tell me a
little bit about influences. What are you what do you guys?
What do you listen to? What did you grow up
listening to that kind of thing?
Speaker 17: I grew up listening to like emo rock and like
all that sort of stuff. And then I think when
we so we all pretty much went to high school
together bon Nathan. He was in separate high school, but
they Ryan and Nathan lived very very close, so we've
all known each other growing up. And I think when
we hit like thirteen fourteen, we were listening to indie
rock all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 14: I was still listening to emo stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but.
Speaker 14: Maybe like.
Speaker 17: In the past four years three years, we've been really
into country music as a collective, like like their modern
country music artists like so much. And that's kind of
like now, especially with years, you can kind of hear
that influence. We're not trying to do it on purpose,
it's just sort of coming out naturally now.
Speaker 14: So I think country music is kind of an influence now.
Speaker 17: I've also maybe like synth wavy stuff that was that
was a big part of our sound when we like
launched as Club Paradise, like that was sort of a
direction we wanted to head in as well.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I think the the one band that sort of
springs to mind simply what Wise is the Midnight from
the US, who we we actually went to see in
Newcastle a couple of weeks ago together. Yeah, so that
was that was great. But if he's on overly familiar
with their with their sound.
Speaker 18: I would we well, we would all recommend that band definitely,
and I think we take a lot of influence from
from what those guys do.
Speaker 2: I'll have to check them out. Yeah, I was reading
in your bio about, you know, sort of the country
rock influence, and it surprised me a little bit. Are
there are there artists in your area or are there
UK artists who who kind of are working in that genre,
or when you listen to that, are you listening to
American artists? Because because I don't know offhand, I mean,
I'm really curious about this.
Speaker 16: I don't think I don't think there's any.
Speaker 17: Interesting to get local like folk music, which takes roots
from country stuff. But we the like the country music
we are currently just there. It's like Keith Urban, Aaronkinsey,
Morgan Wallen is a massive one. People like Nate Smith
as well. I'm just thinking Dereks Bentley as well. We
love by.
Speaker 14: Luke Bryan, Uh Doughty.
Speaker 17: But even like like Scotty McCreary as well. We we
all love Scotty McCreary. It's yeah, yeah, we we. I
mean this is stuff that we genuinely like. Say we're
on a road trip like we just went to some
amusement park in the UK. It was like a two
hour drive. All we would listen to was country music
on the way there and on the way back Kid
It's fair.
Speaker 14: We love it.
Speaker 5: It started as like I think between the four of us,
it started as a bit of a guilty pleasure. I remember, like,
Jackson has cousins in Canada and their wedding song when
he went to their wedding in Canada was Florida George Holy.
Speaker 14: Yeah Holy by Florida Georgia Line.
Speaker 5: And then It's I think we kind of listened to
that song together. After Jackson came back, we were like, WHOA,
something's going on here, and we were like a teenagers
at the time that being came this like really big
guilty pleasure for us all to talk about. And then
over time it's been like, actually, no, this is just amazing.
But because it's so kind of alien to the UK
and that it doesn't exist here, we didn't really.
Speaker 14: Talk about it.
Speaker 5: And now over time, like now on the radio, Morgan
Mullin's on the radio here, those new tunes worth Post
Malone that he's been doing, those are getting some tensions.
So I feel like Country's growing sea to see happens
over here now. And we've got Absolute Country, which is
the radio station that is never off in my car,
and that's got all the shows from Nashville coming live
to us. So it's growing here and I'm really really
glad and I feel really passionate about that. It's a
really really cool thing. Yeah, so yeah, it's all American stuff.
Speaker 18: We've still got some routes in this sort of UK
indie scene, but there's not a we We grew up
on Four's Bombay, Bicycle Club, wild that sort of thing,
and a lot of those bands have called it a day.
Speaker 16: You've still got some of them, nothing about and Were.
Speaker 18: You still listen to a lot about The Monkey's Kings
of Leon and we're still love those bands and putting out.
So it was a bit of a dynamic, shifting dynamic
when all the countries. So I think we'll try and
blend it subconsciously in what we do.
Speaker 5: There's a flavor of that. I think there's a flavor
death of those bands with the country stuff with the
Midnight so you kind of get that synth element. But
then I also feel like there's a really nice element
of like Brian Adams in some of the things that
we do, like in Chasing the Summer, it just gives
us atmosphere that used to get a lot of stuff,
maybe even like a Don Henley type of vibe type
of thing. So I feel like as a as like
a big melting pot of all those things that come
together is what we we created.
Speaker 18: It's a shot were in the foot a little bit.
And because as we've just rattled off about fifty different things,
sometimes sometimes UK radio stations, certainly the bigger ones.
Speaker 16: One, I think a certain sound and if you're Indy,
you need to be Indy, you know what I mean?
Speaker 14: And we we don't.
Speaker 18: We don't fit into a certain genre and its conscious
other bands do, and it's it's it's.
Speaker 16: Been difficult to to pitch where we should be.
Speaker 18: But so that's why it's so kind of yourselves say
how accessible it is, and we yeah, yeah, well I
don't think we have that in the forefront of our mind.
Speaker 16: But when you think of the choruses and.
Speaker 5: We'll keep how the someone's we're always told that we're
not rock enough for rock and we're not popping the foot.
So it's kind of like, okay, that's fine, but here's
the music anyways, right right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I can hear the Brian Adams, uh and and
Don Henley. I can hear those influences in there. Yeah,
the country stuff is interesting that that influence because we
and and again I'm old enough to remember when it
wasn't this way, but modern country and I'm not a
big country fan, but occasionally I'll hear something I like,
and I'm always very aware of these artists. I try
to keep up with all of it. But but modern
country now sounds a lot like you can hear the
influences of eighties rock in modern country and and the production.
I always say this again, it's not it's not my
my first go to on my list of sort of
genres and sub genres of what I listened to, But
I listen to a lot of different kinds of stuff.
But I have to say Nashville, which you know is
the kind of the epicenter of country music in the
United States, Nashville's got it down as far as production.
Like I'm very picky about how drums sound, for example,
and you listen to any modern country and the drums
sound exactly the way they should sound. In my opinion.
You know, everything and the way things are mixed, and
even the guitars are are louder than they used to be.
In country music, you can really hear the rock. You know,
there's there's kind of been this melding that I think
is really interesting, and I kind of suspect that had
that not I guess it's chicken or the egg, right,
you know, is that happening because that helps country to
be more accessible to the mainstream or or is it
a reaction to country becoming more accessible on its own?
But you know, we saw that happen, you know. I
can remember, you know, back in the nineties when Garth
Brooks got really big. That was sort of the first
real wave of country music becoming sort of mainstream. But
now it's like it's really you hear a lot of
rock influences in modern country music.
Speaker 17: Yeah, absolutely, when you touch it about like drums and
guitars as well. That's something that I'm like particularly interested in,
stuff like the recording process.
Speaker 14: So these.
Speaker 17: Last few songs that we've put out were pretty much
recorded independently, and I'm massive on guitar tones, and I like,
I look up what people are using and I remember
a unique project I did. It's so long ago a way,
I was just essentially researching Blackbird Studios, which is in Nashville,
and I was just like reading about Studio A and
Studio B, and like what the drums will sound like
in each room, and and then like they have like
a client list and then like a record list, and
you know, you listen to some of the people that
have recorded in the like Kings of William was the
big one for me, which is why I got into them.
But like, I think Hayes has recorded their Rascal Flats
as well. We love the Rascal Flats. I think they
definitely hit the pop and the rock pop sort of thing.
And I know what you mean, like it it you
listen to like stuff from the nineties that Cole Swindon,
he did a What's What's what song?
Speaker 14: Did he just do?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 14: She had me heads Carolina?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 17: So obviously you listen to the original of that and
the instrumental, like the parts are the same, but they
recorded so differently and so like it's so everything's like
hyper and now like everything's so big compared to maybe
more understated of the original. So I get and I
understand what you mean, things are changing, like they are
getting just bigger.
Speaker 3: And more.
Speaker 17: Like you said eighties eighties rock influenced, where everything was
just big and massive, and maybe I think you might
start like we see it over here. A lot of
the music coming out, Like in the UK, drums are
really quiet and understated. There's a lot of like snare
drums with towels on, you know, like everything's going to
be quite more mute. I think maybe the trend and
the UK at least is going to go back from
big eighties stuff to more natural sounding I'm using air quotes,
but natural sound and drums. But with the air with
US radio rock, it's just full throttle now right, But
we love that.
Speaker 5: I think it's funny. We were in the studio a
couple of weeks ago doing some new stuff and we
just pulled up country rock drums said like, this is
the reference, this is the sound we want, and we're
going to set the drum kit up to sound exactly
like this. Yeah, it's good fun. I think there's also
I think you're right, like there's an element that couldn't
you want to be more accessible and more mainstream in general.
But I also think that part of the reason it
sounds that way is there's a lot of sampling going
on now, and that's a good speed thing. So we've
had friends who've gone to Nashville to do writing sessions
and writing camps, and they talk about how fast it
is in Nashville that already sits around in a circle
and throws a lyric out and the next lerik that
comes out is the one that's going to follow that one.
So it's not debated, it just goes on and on
and on. That sounds so alien to us, It sounds crazy,
But I think that maybe's the tone of the drums
and all these different sampled instruments and the access you
have to do in things digitally now, that speed that
they've created in these writing camps might sort of blend
with that pace that you can get from the sound
of the drums if they do sort of sample the
kits and recreate them that way too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, Nashville. You know, we've we've
had guests on the show, we've spent some time in Nashville,
and uh, either you know, either just short trips to
just write and record, or or people who've lived there
for a while and yeah, they do things like you
know they have, Yeah, the these writing sessions that like
you described, are very fast and and and these songwriting circles.
You know, they all they'll sit in a circle, or
they'll do this live, you know, where they'll they'll be
in a in a club and they're they're writing songs
live in front of a crowd. You know, almost like
what a stand up comedian does when they go to
say an open mic, and they they're just kind of
workshopping new material.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: It's really interesting because I don't know if anywhere else
where they they approach it that way. And how nerve
racking that must be. I'm a musician myself, but I
can't imagine like being in front of a crowd of
people with other musicians and writing something on the spot,
and you know, you're in front of people, so it
better be good. But uh yeah, I mean that's like
the Nashville is like, you know, that's like boot camp
for musicians.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you would not catch me doing that.
Speaker 2: And uh so, now where do you guys record? Because
this all sounds like it was done in a million
dollar recording studio, but as as we know it, again,
we live in a time where it's you know, you've
got a lot of different options in terms of how
you record.
Speaker 14: Yeah, so we we tend to so.
Speaker 17: Since maybe since twenty twenty, we've we've kind of recorded
at least guitars and vocals, just.
Speaker 14: No real amps. It's all simulated stuff.
Speaker 17: So it's bedroom like half, maybe sixty percent of the
song is bedroom stuff. The only thing that we tracked
live now is drums, like in a in a studio space,
just because we can't anywhere else. But and it saves money, Like,
we have the ability to do it at home, so
why don't we We've had we've had fifteen years of
experience as a band. We kind of know what we're
after at this point. And now technology is caught up
to where we can just do it at home. And
you know, some people might hear that the guitars aren't real.
Some people might not, Oh, but I mean I spent
them live. When when it comes to like tracking guitars
and stuff, we just do it at home. But drums,
drums were always in the local studios we've we've actually
been through a few of them in the Northeast at
the moment, just trying to find where we work best.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's nice to change it up as well though, because, yeah,
Jackson's pretty modest in that jack for Neighborhood and Another Life.
Jackson produced all of that, and Yeah, to say that
we did all of that at home other than the
drums and it's come out sounding like that is insane.
We had some help with the marstering at the end
and things like that, but yeah, really the full body
of that work came out from Jacksonston at home with
headphones on, just mixing at home and really just digging
into that. It's really really fun to go into different
studios and work with different people and to see how
what they say about drim kits and also to just
see how when we showed them the song as a
reference what we're doing, they're kind of like, okay, cool,
what about this and we just learn. I think that's
that's one thing that we always do, no matter where
we record, if it's at home or whatever it is,
song by song, we try and do something different, and
we're always trying to research and learn about the best
way to bring the elements of that song out that
make it stand on its own.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's amazing what you can do now. In fact,
the shirt that I'm wearing for those watching online day
to attend. We had these guys on a couple of
weeks ago, and U and I said something similar to
them because their stuff sounds so good. It sounds like
it was done in a million dollar recording studio. And
Ed the guitar player is telling me, yeah, I don't
even plug into an amp. I just you know, I mean,
you know, you plug into a model or whatever term,
and it's just it's it's incredible what you can do now.
It really is a it's an amazing time to be alive,
especially if you're a musician. So you guys, yeah, except
for the money, well yeah, true, that never seems to change.
What the time period, right, Yeah, that that's true. It's
always been a problem unless you're you know, unless you're famous.
But you know, if your tailor swift, then you then
you get all the money. But uh, by the way,
did you guys say what have you said? Fifteen years?
You guys have been together.
Speaker 18: Yeah, we've not been paradise for that long, but yeah,
we've we've it's been the same for four guys.
Speaker 16: As Jackson said earlier, I mean me and Ryan grew up.
Speaker 18: In the same street, and Jackson and Harry grew up
a couple of doors down from each other. They all
went to school with each other, and naturally I sort
of gravitated towards them when went with early teens.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Oh that's incredible. Yeah, most fans don't last
that long. That's amazing. How do you how do you guys?
How do you how do you keep it together? I mean,
because do you ever do any of you do side
projects or anything? A are you just fully committed to
this band?
Speaker 18: Oh?
Speaker 14: We we all have side stuff now, but we didn't
for the longest time.
Speaker 2: Really, yeah, it was.
Speaker 17: I think Ryan, I mean, I'll speak for Ryan for now,
but yeah, he plays bass in his partner's band, and
Nathan also drums for that band. I've been in a
like a goth pop band over the years, and we
we we have split up time that way, but to
stay together for that long as we haven't, it's never
really never thought about it.
Speaker 5: You're forgetting the most important one. We do a Paramoure
tribute band together, so not only.
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, that's where the money comes from.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's how we record. So we do Clip
Paradise all together and it's an and then the Paramore
tribute band Ain't It Fun Is also Clip Paradise plus Robin,
who sings in my partner's band playing, So it's like
it's just one big group of friends and we just
play loads of different bands and we just see what
we can do.
Speaker 14: It keeps it easy.
Speaker 18: If it's the same like seven people and it's different bands,
you're on each other's schedules that way.
Speaker 2: But it's so you guys do a Paramore a tribute band?
Oh yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 3: Do you do that? Do you do some?
Speaker 2: Sorry? I I have to know because my two favorite
Paramore songs Misery Business?
Speaker 14: Do you do that one? Of course?
Speaker 2: And do you do Ain't It Fun?
Speaker 10: Of course?
Speaker 14: That's that's the name of the band in It fun?
Speaker 2: No kidding? Oh awesome? Awesome? Yeah? I uh yeah, that's
Ain't it fun is?
Speaker 14: Is?
Speaker 2: Probably actually well, Misery Business was the first song where
I was like, oh, I really like this band. I
think that might have been their first hit single, at
least in America. But then Ain't It Fun is? Ain't
It Fun? Is so like it's impossible to hear it
and not sing along, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's good fun. It's good fun, and it keeps
you on your toes when you have to think about
all the different songs they need to play. So we've
all collectively got numerous setlists in our heads all the time,
and we just ruck up different gigs and thing what
shows it today.
Speaker 16: Specifics?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's fantastic. Well listen, guys, the time goes quickly.
We are approaching the top of the hour. It's been
wonderful talking with the three of you, Ryan, Nathan and
Jackson from Club Paradise, And like I said in the moment,
we're gonna play Chasing the Summer another great track by
the way, which is the newest single? Is yours the
new one? Or is it Chasing the Summer? Yours?
Speaker 18: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, is the latest one. Chasing the Summer was
out in June. We've got we're doing a single every
month October, So at the end of this month we'll
have a track out called what If These Days. At
the end of September we'll have another track out which
I'm not gonna name yet, and then we've got an
October EP coming out called Life on TV. And that'll
be a collection of six songs, including the singles.
Speaker 2: Oh very cool, very cool. Yeah, feel free to send
those two as they're released. We would love to do.
You know, we like to do world radio premieres here,
so if we can kind of be your oh, your
conduit in that way on American radio, we'll we'll do
a world radio premiere for each new single as it
comes out. That'd be great.
Speaker 5: Let's do that, definitely, that'd be so fun.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely. And the other thing too, what should people know?
What should our listeners know about where to go online
to keep up with everything that you guys are doing
in terms of music and shows. If we have any
listeners and I don't know if you plan to get
to America at any point, but but if you know,
we do have listeners because of again God bless the Internet,
we have listeners over there to online. But what should
people know about keeping up with everything that you guys
are doing.
Speaker 5: All of the handles are at this is club paradise.
We probably update Instagram the most, and then I'll handle
on Twitter X sorry is a club paradise with two
underscores at.
Speaker 2: The I still call it Twitter, by the way, because
much changing. Yeah, you call it X and people don't
know what you mean necessarily, whereas everybody knows what Twitter is.
Definitely definitely much much easier. Guys, thank you again so much.
We're gonna hit this track, Chasing the Summer. But h
I appreciate us speaking with the three of you. We'll
do it again in the future, of course. And uh
and I look forward to playing the new singles too
as they're released on the show. So uh, guys, thank you,
thank you again, really appreciate it. Thank you so much
for having you got it, You got it all right.
Thanks guys, take care all right. That is a club paradise,
and we're gonna play this track.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: This is called Chasing the Summer.
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the Summer.
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sowar else but summers the night she was, Oh summer else,
I was summers to.
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from me, paintbills on the ground and green and my
back like a corner, really chasing in the summer.
Speaker 7: I never felt so lonely. No, I was just calling
was I was feeling like I knew who I could be.
But it's not what you want from me. Okay, oh shit,
I could see myself. I could see myself there night.
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us too vain.
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to say, its not forever you look time from me pain.
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car being.
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against ain't captain. They making this bell for the impact.
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