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Speaker 1: When you're baby. You'll love your baby. You'll love it.
I love it.
Speaker 7: That is Aorta baby. The band is Euphemia, and we've
got a couple members of the band here with us
live and studio. We're gonna be talking with them in
just a moment. But I love that song. As I
like to say, if that doesn't get you moving, check
your pulse, you might be dead because that is really
really catchy. I love that and looking forward to talking
with them. And if you aren't listening live on Saturday.
Today is October twenty five, twenty twenty five. This is
Matt Connorton Unleashed, and we have entered our number three
Numarrow trace of the live show live from the studios
of wm NH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester,
New Hampshire, and of course you can stream the show
from anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com slash live
for all your live streaming options, social links, contact info,
show archives, et cetera, et cetera. But right now we
have Gina and Brian here from the band UPHEMEA. Welcome, Hello,
wonderful to have you here. I've been looking forward to
this because I really love sent me a bunch of
songs and I love all of them. Thank you. Just
catchy as hell, so so good. So what do you
each do in the band? I mean, Gina, I assume
that's you singing.
Speaker 9: That's me singing, and I'm the songwriter as well. Okay,
I didn't write that song. Oh that's the only song
on the album I did not write. That was by
my late great father Kiit Brown. Oh okay, musician as well.
Speaker 7: Oh wow, okay, okay. And what do you do to
in the band?
Speaker 10: Brian? I play guitar and sing backup vocals.
Speaker 7: Excellent, excellent. And who else is who's not with you? Today,
I assume are you a four piece? You're a five piece? Okay?
Speaker 9: Sometimes a six piece?
Speaker 7: Oh wow.
Speaker 9: So we have Josh Dover on drums, Brian who Let
on guitar as well, and Ryan Monario.
Speaker 7: On bass okay yep, and then who six person.
Speaker 9: So sometimes we have my best friend Ellen who comes
and sings background vocals with us to kind of fill
it out a little bit.
Speaker 7: Oh, very good, very good, and we should mention too.
So you came to us through Vice's Inc. Yes, Jagger
recommended you, and you know we love Vice's Inc. Absolutely,
they're so sweet. Yeah. So you're from you're from Portland
as well?
Speaker 9: Portland?
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, great scene there. There's always a
lot going on there. It's been that way forever too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, it's a great music scene and there's a
lot of rock and roll and punk and just music
people aren't really tapped into in other parts of me
and that you wouldn't really know about unless you're in Portland,
and it's really special.
Speaker 7: That's true. Yeah, yeah, very true. So where's the name
come from? Euphemia?
Speaker 9: Euphemia is the name of my great grandmother. My dad's said, yeah, okay,
I never met her, but I always thought it was
such a cool name. And yeah, I know it's kind
of like ambiguous and people are like, what does that mean?
Speaker 11: Is it?
Speaker 9: Is it like euphemia like feminism? And I'm like, no,
it's just just a woman's name.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I was, and I wasn't sure. You know,
we'll pull back the curtain to tell the listeners. I
had to ask you before because I was sure, you know,
because I've been talking about it, you know, leading up
to today. But I wasn't sure if I was saying
it right or yeah, and I was not saying it right.
I assumed it was you, so I was saying it wrong.
Speaker 11: Totally cool.
Speaker 7: Does it ever get misspelled like on posters or anything
like that?
Speaker 9: For we usually have to make the posters.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, just as well. Right, Yeah, I can see.
So how long has the band been around? Has a
band been around a while, because you got a lot
of music.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean we've been a band since twenty thirteen.
Oh okay, we just joined Instagram in twenty twenty four,
so a lot of Oh okay, we've only been around
for like a year. Oh but no, we've been around
since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, probably not the same lineup all the time.
I wouldn't think.
Speaker 9: Myself, Brian and my husband Josh, who's our drummer. We've
all been in the band since twenty thirteen, but we've okay,
a little bit of change up with our bass player
and other guitar player.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, But so the three of you you have
been the core, like the kind of the nucleus of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: How do you describe your sound because you're not you know,
it's not conventional. You know, it's not it's not metal,
it's not punk, it's not I mean what I mean
you describe us?
Speaker 9: I think about the song and.
Speaker 7: Everyone always say it's this question, but yeah, but yeah
for someone who's never heard you.
Speaker 9: For me, I just describe it as rock and roll.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Like I'm a big fan of all different sorts
of music, but for me, it just sounds like pure
rock and roll, yeah, with the punk undertones to it.
But yeah, for me, it's just rock and roll.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And the songs are the length of punk songs. Yeah,
they are a lot of them. That's the longest one.
So A Order Baby is three p fifty nine. But
I think of everything you said, that's the uh?
Speaker 11: Is that?
Speaker 7: Is that a full album?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 7: Yep? These are all part of Okay.
Speaker 9: That's the Yeah. We put our self titled album in
April of twenty twenty four and ten songs on. It's
twenty five minutes long. Yeah, yeah, all kill no filler.
Speaker 7: Oh that's funny. Yeah, it's only twenty five minutes. But yeah,
that makes sense giving the uh yeah yeah, now what
so is that by design? I mean, do you just
prefer short songs? Or there was somebody who was it.
There was somebody who said, uh, they just it's like
that express. Well there's that expression, don't borius get to
the chorus. But there's there was somebody else I can't
remember who it was, what band, I'm drawing a blank
now who said it's really important to you know, if
you want to hook somebody into the song you've got,
you've at least got to get to that first chorus
fairly quickly. Yeah, and so that ends up making for
a short song. But I mean, is that something you
set out to do or does that just happen organically
when you're writing these.
Speaker 9: It kind of just happens organically. I'm just you know,
usually alone in my room writing these, and I say
what I need to say, Yeah, try to at least
get through a couple verses and choruses and then a
turnaround usually, but it's usually just like does it need
it or not?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 9: If I've said what I needed to say and it's
sounding good, I kind of just leave it there. Yeah,
I'll take it to practice and show the guys, and
they're really good at arranging them with me and kind
of like editing with me, saying we need a little
bit more or less or this part isn't working, so
we kind of like all work it out together.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, is a order?
Speaker 1: Baby?
Speaker 7: Is that the longest song you've ever recorded as a band?
Speaker 9: I think so today?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Now, so this is so this is from a full
length album? Do you have other like what else have
you recorded? Because obviously you know you've been around for
so I'm not going to math that's twelve years, right, yeah,
twenty thirteen. Yeah, so I assume you've probably recorded quite
a bit over the year as well.
Speaker 9: We haven't. We recorded this album in twenty nineteen, yeah,
and it took me almost five years to get it
out because it was like a lot of things happened
when we recorded it. I was pregnant with my daughter
and I recorded it, and then COVID happened in twenty twenty,
so we weren't able to go into the studio and
mix it. And then my dad passed away in twenty
twenty one, so it was like this series of circumstances
where I couldn't think about touching it, you know what
I mean. I like mixing it, and we weren't quite
happy with the mix right away, so it was we
just kind of put it on the backshelf for a while,
and then we finally put it in Gears in October
of twenty twenty three, got it out by April of
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So yeah, that's really all we have recorded for a
full length. And we have a single called Blah Blah
Blah that we released in July of this year, which
is only like a minute and a half.
Speaker 7: Oh really yeah, yeah, yeah, So we have that full.
Speaker 9: Length album in that single, and hopefully we'll be back
in the studio this winter. Oh record our second album.
Speaker 7: Oh excellent, excellent, Yeah, yeah, I was talking with in
the first hour we had the band Rivia, who were
in the UK. They joined us via WhatsApp and I
was telling them about how in this where we are,
at least in the Northeast here in the US, a
lot of bands kind of take winter to record because yeah,
that's the worst time to go out and play shows. Winter.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, nobody wants to come out. There's parking bands.
Speaker 7: Yeah it's fun. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Did your father get to hear a orda Baby?
Speaker 11: He did.
Speaker 9: He actually played lead guitar on it, no kidding, him
playing lead guitar and background vocals with me.
Speaker 7: Oh that's so cool.
Speaker 9: He came in the studio, he was well enough to
do that. We really just wanted to do it as
a tribute to him because he wasn't well at the time. Yeah,
he laid down like the meanest guitar solo I think
on that record. Yeah, no events to you, Brian, You're
so amazing too. But oh my gosh, that every time
I hear it, it just gives me chills take no kidding,
really yeah, wow, so good. He was just the best,
and and he got to hear it before he passed
as a mix as well.
Speaker 7: So oh that's great. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 4: Is that.
Speaker 7: So obviously you know growing up with your dad who
is a musician, Is that what why you became a musician?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I started out playing farfeza organ in his band that
they were called the Pontiffs when I was fourteen years old,
no kidding, Yeah, so I joined his band in nineteen
ninety eight, and that was kind of like my introduction
to the music wow Portland, outside of always hearing music
in my house and yeah, growing up playing I played
classical violin growing up. Okay, yeah, I've always like having
a dad who is basically a encyclopedia of knowledge for
music was really helpful to like introduce me to all
different genres and writers and styles and no.
Speaker 7: Doubt, Yeah, yeah that's cool. Yeah yeah. What about your Brian,
did you grow up in a musical family or.
Speaker 10: Kind of My mom kind of met my dad by
playing guitar on an Air Force base. Oh no kidding, uh,
and then I kind of got my musical talent from her,
but she used to play guitar at home sometimes. Oh,
but it wasn't until like high school that I started playing,
like learning guitar and figuring out what I wanted to
do with music and stuff.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, oh excellent. Did did you play in bands
prior to Euphemia.
Speaker 10: Or yeah, a few local bands in Portland. I've been
playing wow since like two thousand and one. Okay, really
here and there bands the fall kind of dissolved at
this point.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, what's that? What's the scene like? And
they're currently In terms of venues, are there a lot
of places to play original music?
Speaker 9: There are a few places to play.
Speaker 7: Because I feel like just my impression is just from
like talking to bands like Vices for example, that does not. Unfortunately,
right now, there's not as many original places to play
as there used to be everywhere.
Speaker 9: But no, you're right, you're right there, there's a few.
There's always a couple of staples that we play at
that the owners are always great. We're so grateful they
let us play there because it's very hard to to
ask for gigs around Portland if you're not established. Yeah,
but bands that are up and coming, how do you
get established if no one will let.
Speaker 7: You play, right exactly. Yeah, that's always the it's kind of.
Speaker 9: A catch twenty two. So we're really grateful that we
kind of have a little bit of notoriety now. So
it's nice. Hard to get gigs and people are asking
us to play, so it's that's good, that's really nice.
Speaker 7: Yeahah yeah. I mean it's kind of like the way
I've always thought of it is, you know, it's like
just trying to get over that hump of when you
get to the point where people are asking you to play,
you know, and you still got to you still got
to do the work of getting you know, in the
new places and stuff. But but once you but once
you get over that hump where you know, not not
every show is one that you're begging for, but you're
people are actually coming to you saying, hey, can you
you know you want to play this? That's the sweet Yeah, yeah, exactly,
yeah exactly. I think we should play another track from
the album what uh what should we play next? Let's
play Magic Magic? I like that one, like that when
that one clocks in at a minute forty six great
song though. I like all these I was listening to
them yesterday and just just so all all so good.
You absolutely if you're just joining us, we have a
Gina and Brian from the band Euphemeia here with us
in studio and let's check this out. This is called magic.
Speaker 1: When you.
Speaker 13: Inside it does not take up you take when I'm looking,
so you won't know what staycause.
Speaker 5: N Jack Gotpeal. It is my Jick got feel. It
is my Jack Gotel. And it is my Jack dopeal.
It is my Jack Cope. It is Majic got feel. Wow,
it is Majieal.
Speaker 1: And it's my jigot Bee.
Speaker 7: That is a song is so short. I wasn't ready
for atten no, but I was in a good way though.
I mean I was getting lost in it. It's so good.
It's so catchy. Absolutely, that is called Magic. And the
band is Euphemia. And we have a Gina and Brian
from the band Euphemia here with us in studio. And
now where did you record these? You might have mentioned it.
I can't remember it. There's so many great studios around.
Where did you do the album?
Speaker 9: We did it with a person named Scott Weber at
Pigcat Studios, Okay, and it's over by the Riverside area
of Portland, Okay.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And how did you come to work work with him?
Because there's so many You know, what's funny is if
you go back ten years or ever and twenty years
a lot of people were predicting the end of the
recording studio, you know what I mean, because you can
record at home now and there's so many different ways
to record and the technology. It's amazing what you can do,
you know, on your own as far as recording now.
But recording studios are still thriving, and there's there's a
lot of them. I know in the Portland area there
must be a ton. So how did you come to
work with uh with?
Speaker 9: What was his name again, Scott Weber?
Speaker 7: Scott Weber? How did you come to work with him?
Speaker 9: I let Brian take the leak because he's friends with him.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 4: Perfect.
Speaker 10: We were in a band together called four Player co Op. Okay, Tim,
his brother was in the band with us for a
long time, and then eventually Scott joined and we used
to rehearse in that studio that they recorded. So yeah,
when we came time to record, I was like, hey,
I know a guy so yeah, oh that's cool.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because you know, I mean situations where it you know,
it ends up, you know, I know a guy that
doesn't always work out great, but in this case it
certainly did because the album sounds fantastic. Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he was great, and we recorded it in like
two and a half days. It was like Friday through
a Sunday.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we went back in to do like I was
sick at the time when we recorded, so yeah, I
had to go back in and do vocals like at
a different time for most of them. Yeah, Aora we
did on the first day and we kept it one take.
Speaker 7: Oh wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 9: Yeah but yeah, no, it was like he's super efficient
with everything. Yeah, and it just it took me a
long time with the mixing because I'm just really picky,
but really yeah. Yeah, but yeah, No, he was amazing
and we can't wait to work with him again. He
also plays drums for East End Redemption and records them
at his studio too, and they're fantastic.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, yeah, okay yeah yeah. And then what's the
live situation? Like we talked about venues, but I mean,
how like, are you playing out a lot in Portland?
Do you get out of that area?
Speaker 9: We have been, Yeah, we we've been getting out of
Portland more this year, I would say good. We played
in Dover for Vices Fest for Advices in't put on, Yeah,
and we played or else do we played. We played
in Lewiston at their Arts center that they have there.
That was really cool.
Speaker 7: Yeah. And Boston good good, yeah, yep, excellent.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I would think with your sound, I mean there's there's
a lot of that would open up a lot of
opportunities because it's very you know, it's accessible. You know
it's Oh, Mike Hill from Charlie Hill is in the
Chatterman says, we love original music on the Hill. Have
you played Charlie Shill?
Speaker 4: We have not.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we Jenny and I have not been there, but
we hear about it constantly. Apparently it's a pretty amazing venue.
So and and I think I think we're gonna get
Mike on the show soon too, because someone else was
suggesting we get we get Mike on from Charlie's Hill.
But are there are there other bands in the I mean,
I don't know. Do you play with Vice's Inc. On
a Sometimes bands kind of team up, you know, it
happens organically. You just end up playing a lot of shows.
Do you play a lot of shows with Devices Inc?
Or a lot?
Speaker 9: We've played a couple and yeah, we try. We used
to play with kind of the same bands all the time.
And now I kind of made it a rule like
the past two years, like I wanted to just play
with a different band on every bill, like different like
different lineups just because you get to see a different show,
make different connections, you know, just see what else is
out there exactly, and you know, it's just it's fun
for the audience to hear a different lineup too. We
have our favorites for sure, but yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, well, let's all let's play another track. What
should we play? I wanted to do oop.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Bryan is a great solo in that.
Speaker 7: All right, very good if you're just joining us. We
have two members of Euphemia are here with us live
in studio, and we're going to play another studio track.
What's the album called again, it's self titled. Oh, it's
self titled. That's right, yes, just Euphemia very good. And
this is called do Wop song.
Speaker 1: Wood a brother, lose myself and do too. She's something
about full the sung been to worry about getting occur.
Speaker 4: They bring it.
Speaker 5: Down, no day, bring it down, no day, wiping it down, nodding.
Speaker 14: Me rem just a bill the sum then too, we're
boun get in.
Speaker 7: That is called dou wop song. The band is Euphemia,
and we've got two members of Euphemia here with us
in studio. We have Gina and Brian is here and
uh yeah, she was right. That is a great solo. Brian, Yeah,
that is really good every time. Yeah, Yeah, it's you know,
it's it's just very melodic, and it's you know, you're
not like Shred or anything. You're just playing a really
good it's just really Yeah, it's just beautiful.
Speaker 11: Is that.
Speaker 7: I'm curious about your influences as a guitar player.
Speaker 10: Uh, I kind of grew up playing Green Day. I
grew up in the nineties, so like, yeah, that was
a big proponent for me. Yeah, saying like I want
to do that. Yeah, but I also kind of used
to jam on like Metallica songs and stuff like that
when I was a kid.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, seemed probably shred if you want to write
a little bit, but on a song like that, I mean,
what you did is just so perfect, you know, because
a lot of people, you know, guitar players, they like
to show off, but you're just doing it. It's a
pretty straightforward melody, but it's so it's just so perfect.
Speaker 10: Well, thank you. Yeah, yeah, I try. I try and
write for the song. Yeah, I try not to do
too much, like I guess, like Ca noodling.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 10: I don't I don't like to show off too much,
I guess.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, no, it works, It definitely works. I'm curious
to Gena about you like your influences as a singer.
Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, they're all over the place. When I
was very little, I loved Mariah Carey.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she's my girl.
Speaker 9: That got me started. Oh yeah, and then Joan jet Ada,
James John Lennon, my Little Ackerman from The Descendants, Paul Westerberg.
I really love that rasp they have.
Speaker 7: Yeah you know, yeah, so.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I have like a very wide range of people
I like, right.
Speaker 7: Right, no doubt.
Speaker 4: So what are they?
Speaker 7: I mean, are you thinking about the are you thinking
about the next album already or what's kind of the
future plan? Yeah, we have.
Speaker 9: I'm almost done writing the album. There's maybe like two
more songs I need to write for it, but we've
been in the process of working out the songs this
past year. We play a few of them live, a
few new songs live.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So yeah, we're hoping like midwinter to go in and
record hopefully Okay, we'll.
Speaker 7: Be done with it, and then similar similar vibe or
similar vibe.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I would say the songs are pretty much the
same in terms of length, Yeah, subject matter. It's a
little different because with the Euphemia songs, those were written
over a period of my life, ranging from like twenty
one to thirty four and now I'm forty one. So
this next album is all from the past couple of years. Okay,
you know, so it's it's a lot more.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 9: I don't want to say mature, because I'm not like
a pretentious person. Sure, but you know, theme wise, there's
been a lot more complexities of my life over the
past few years. And there have previously.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no doubt. Yeah you probably started a family and
yeah yeah, all that kind of thing. So yeah, now
that makes sense. Yeah, you know, and it's important to evolve.
I mean, if you don't, if you don't evolve, you
get bored. Right, If you get bored, then you're not
doing anything very much of value, if you're just you know,
rehashing the same the same territory.
Speaker 9: Yeah, right, And I think on this one we're going
to do a little bit more instrumentation to Like, I've
been talking with this incredibly talented woman who plays violin
named Maybe. She's awesome, and she asked if we'd want
to collaborate. Ever, so I've been kind of writing in
terms of thinking about that and having her in the studio,
and I kind of want to bring my far Visa
organ back and play on that. Oh a couple of tracks.
Speaker 7: So yeah, tell what kind of organ is it?
Speaker 9: It's a far Fesa organ, so.
Speaker 7: What I've heard the term, but I don't know, like
what makes an organ a far Visa organ.
Speaker 9: So it basically it's run by like a panel of flutes. Okay,
a certain sound and the more flutes you put out
is like a This kind of sounds like a swell.
Think about those sixties garage organs, like in question Mark
and the Mysterians or like, okay, a great band from Boston,
the Liars, Like how they use that sound. It's like
if it's from nineteen sixty nine. So it's like a
very old school sounding.
Speaker 7: Is it like the kind of using churches?
Speaker 9: No, no, no, it's like a it's like a keyboard,
but it has like legs that you put on and
stand up. They're really heavy. They're like, okay, as much
as I do. But yeah, and it's it just looks
like a keyboard, but it's just like sounds like it
has like a I don't know how to describe it,
like a like a trill on it. Okay, like yeah, okay, yeah, okay,
sixties garage down vibra interesting.
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, Yeah, I'm curious. I'd heard the term far visa. Yeah,
I've heard that before, but I wasn't sure what that
was exactly. Yeah, to play the organ a little bit
when I was a kid too, so I was curious
about that. I didn't keep up with that. But no,
very good. So you're gonna kind of introduce that more
into the Yeah.
Speaker 9: It would be cool to put that on something or
like some kind of rock and roll piano of some sort. Yeah, like, yeah,
it's I can't sing and play at the same time.
I'm not as coordinated as my band bad Well you.
Speaker 7: Think you can, but you probably I'm sure you could learn.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so I could easily do that in the studio,
though I don't have to do that.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, but if you but then if you do that,
will it be important to you to be able to
replicate that lie or or.
Speaker 9: Not necessarily a different experience.
Speaker 7: But yeah, yeah, which is cool, you know, because a
lot of people they want to It's like, oh, anything
we do in the studio, we have to be able
to replicate it live exactly. And my attitude about that
has always been, why if if you can't replicate it live,
so then an element is missing, then live you just
have a more kind of a raw, stripped down sound.
What's wrong with that? Sometimes that's sometimes that's better, you
know what I mean. That's how I've always felt about it.
But but a lot of people are they're very particular
about well, we have to be able to sound exactly
like we did on the record.
Speaker 9: It's like they're two different experiences in exactly.
Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly. Well, let's let's play another Oh yeah, we
have time, let's play another one. Of course we have time.
They're so short, we'll probably have time to get a
couple more. But I would like to play another track
from the album. But yeah, I'll let you both pick
what what should we go with next? How about love Love? Okay?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Anything we should know about this one before we play
it or not?
Speaker 9: Really, it's a I think it's like mutually our favorite song.
Speaker 7: It's one of the most fun ones I think, so yeah, yeah,
all right, cool, let's give this a spend if you're
just joining us. We have two members of Euphemia here
with us in studio and this is a track from
their self titled album, and this is called love m.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: So clum to get you. I'm just with chef rap
from this time old hand of my heart. I don't
tell no Homy Joan dope and I'm alla.
Speaker 6: The whole dad at my heart.
Speaker 1: Wow, So wann to get you? Be there. I knew
about that, I knew it good stuff. I won't try.
I'm telling you you dull it and you so say
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and I promise the hold dad of my heart. I
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Speaker 6: Me the whole dad at my heart.
Speaker 14: Will I promised the whole dad at my heart.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 7: That is fantastic. That it's called Love. The band is Euphemia.
We have Gina and Brian from the band here with
us in studio. And yeah, Gina, you were saying off
air while that was playing, you kind of wanted it
to have like you wanted the drums and the guitar
to go together and go kind of give it a
little bit of a Zeppelin vibe.
Speaker 9: Yeah, like that stomp you feel.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, I think that one's my favorite. Actually, that's
that's that's really good. That's really good. Yeahem is here
with us live. I learned how to say it and
I'm stumbling on it. But they are here with us
live in studio. And have you made any videos for
for any of these.
Speaker 9: Songs or we haven't purposely made any videos? We want to.
One of our friends made a video of us from
a show we did at a festival. Yeah, kind of
put it together for us. He's like a professional videographer. Yeah,
and kind of just surprised us with one. So there
is one out there song rock show, Okay, but we
haven't like intentionally made any yet.
Speaker 7: We want to. Yeah, it will be working with him, Yeah, yeah, excellent.
Actually have you have you done multiple festivals or what
what's uh, we've done three? Now you've done three? Yeah,
that's great. No, I say all the time. Festivals are
the best opportunity because you not only does it get
you in front of fans, potential new fans who might
not be familiar with you, but the but also it
gets you in front of industry people. You know, you
meet people at the networking opportunities at a festival are unparalleled. Yeah, yeah,
so yeah, that's great. Yeah, yeah, what what what festivals
have you done?
Speaker 9: We did Gold Rocks, which was a festival that USM
and Maine put on summer end of the summer, and
then we did Wild Pines Festival this year, and we
did Vices in festival.
Speaker 7: Oh vis Yeah, yeah, oh fantastic, Yeah good good. Did
you meet like Vices Fest? Did you meet a lot
of bands there who who you were not already familiar with?
Speaker 9: Or yeah, I don't think we knew any of the bands, Okay,
for maybe we need and we knew Vices, and we
knew Plague Dad but and a couple of our other
friends on other days that played there. But other than that,
we didn't know any of the other bands.
Speaker 7: So that must have been cool. Yeah, we had you know,
vices Inc. Obviously they've been on a few times, but
we had Jagger on. I did there's a separate podcast
version of the show that we do sometimes if like
I did one with Jagger where it was just he
and I on the podcast version, because it was a
situation where we didn't have any room to get him on.
On this version. We were booked up, but it was
right before vices Fest, so we did the podcast just
like almost like an emergency podcast, like a last minute
thing about vices Fest. And it was just all about
vices Fest. And I told him, I said, it amazes me.
I think I said this to him too the night
Jenny and I saw them at Bad Burger recently a
few weeks ago. It just to put on a festival
like that, and to be able to do that without
getting you know, just almost on the verge of a
nervous breakdown, because that's a lot of you know, I
don't really do it anymore. I used to promote live shows,
you know, and even just doing a night somewhere with
with you know, three or four bands can be challenging
in some ways, you know, So to do vices Fest,
I mean, that's a huge undertaking when you look at
the lineup, Yeah, of bands on that over three days,
and man, I mean he handles it well obviously, because
you know, he told me, because I said to him,
I said, how do you do that without losing your mind?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 7: And yeah, you know. But apparently he's very organized and
he knows what he's doing, so I commend him. But
that's more than I would want to take on an undertaking.
Speaker 9: I wouldn't want to do it either. I'm usually in
charge of booking our shows yep, or being a part
of it in some way, and that's always. Yeah, for
the most part, it's okay, but it can be a headache.
So I can't imagine dealing with like thirty bands, oh
yeah for three days. And you know, but they ran
a very tight ship yeah while we were there, and
everything was organized and shared equipment, so that made it easier.
Speaker 7: So everything I've heard has been overwhelmingly positive. It sounds
like like nothing nothing major went wrong, you know, and
just everything went pretty smooth from from what I hear
and from what he's told me. And that's so that's great.
I'm just kind of in awe of that. And I
know he's doing another one next year, so it just
keeps going to him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely, Yeah,
And we love vices inc. You kind of you remind
me your vocals. You remind me a little bit of Eleanor.
Oh really I think so. Yeah. I mean, you know,
like you're distinguishable, but but kind of, I don't know,
kind of the vibe on some of these songs, the
way you sing it kind of reminds me of her
a little bit.
Speaker 9: O wow, thank you. I mean she's got a great voice,
so I'll take that.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, oh yeah, no, you both do. Absolutely. What
should people know? We have time, we'll sneak in one
more track at the end. But what should people know
about where to find you online? Like, where's the best
place to go to keep up with everything that Euphemia
is doing.
Speaker 9: We have an Instagram okay at Euphemia Underscore band okay,
and then other than that, we're on all the streaming
services audibly except for our one video yeah yeah on YouTube.
But yeah, we're on all the streaming services Apple, Spotify.
Speaker 7: Yeah, excellent, excellent. Well we're going to uh in a moment,
we're going to play one more track. I'll give you
a moment though, to think about, think about what you
want to play to end the show, because we got
to talk about just quickly too, Jenny, did you want
to mention before we run out of time? John Oliver?
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, check out John Oliver this weekend. You might
see somebody you know that's right on Sunday night. It
will be on their main channel, but it will be
loaded up onto YouTube on Monday.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, they put it on YouTube the next day. Yeah,
so keep it out for that and you want to
plug your website maybe I.
Speaker 12: Guess so only kidding, No, I hope you guys do
check out John Oliver. It's going to be fun to
be on the show, and then you can check me
out and all the good trouble I get up to
at Jencoffee dot com j E N N C.
Speaker 7: O F f U I dot com. Yes, yes, And
of course if you want to know more about me
and everything I'm up to, you can go to my
website Matt Connorton dot com. And if you missed any
part of today's show, it'll be up in just a
little bit at Matt Connorton dot com. And of course
w Mnhradio dot org. And uh what would uh oh,
and I do want to thank everybody who joined us too.
Of course Rivia in the first hour, and in the
second hour we had Kevin Kirstaid also known as k
t K so and wonderful to finish out the show
with the both of you, uh, Gina and Brian from
EUPHEMA so grateful that you were able to and it's it.
It was a little bit of a hall. So I
appreciate you making the drive.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 9: It's our pleasure.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, no, it's wonderful to have you here. And uh,
what should we uh what should we play to close out?
Speaker 9: Let's play where My rock and Roll?
Speaker 7: Oh, that's a good one.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a good all encompassing about kind of what
we're about.
Speaker 7: So okay, all right, very good. So we will close
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