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Speaker 5: Mattso wakes up in the morning.
Speaker 6: He gets into the shower and to the top of
his lungs, he sings.
Speaker 2: I do what I want because I can't him.
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Speaker 7: Now. All the best and.
Speaker 2: Jammy Thanks Jerry, Welcome back everybody. We have entered our
number two New Marow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed. We
are live from the studios of wm n H ninety
five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. If
you are listening live today is Saturday August two, twenty
twenty five. In just a moment, Jamie Higgs is going
to be joining us via WhatsApp all the way from
the UK, and I'm really looking forward to talking with
him because I love this song. We did the American
radio premiere for this recently and we're gonna play it again.
This is such a great track from Jamie Higgs. This
is called peace in Your Sound.
Speaker 5: All this live seems I can song.
Speaker 6: Sometimes it's loud, caddy, what's going in all?
Speaker 5: So calm me skinn bad?
Speaker 1: What p say?
Speaker 5: You sound the inside so it's like can a joke?
Were nevis? Men don't beat no strange eyes singing my
d and see me high up highest men. When he
sign sign found B sing you sound and round, it's
like your song.
Speaker 8: As me high round that high stound.
Speaker 5: B sing a sound and round it's.
Speaker 1: Like your song as me.
Speaker 9: I on the crown ever beside a round the say
loud b saying you side shin.
Speaker 10: Shine So do you get it?
Speaker 5: Stay? It's like a magic out of the high you
bulling rabbit feel in the sky. He's just so majestic.
Used to beer sound east side side found be sing
you sound and round.
Speaker 11: It's like your song as Me I grown that found
piecing your sound and round.
Speaker 5: It's like your song as me eye off the growl
every time.
Speaker 9: Around the same loud u p s inside sound shud.
Speaker 5: Found piecing your soul and you round.
Speaker 11: It's like your song as Me high off the growling
up BC.
Speaker 12: So many round.
Speaker 6: It's like your song is me high off the crowd
every time you roll sing loud pc sun.
Speaker 2: I love that song so much. That is piece in
your sound. That is Jamie Higgs, and I believe we
have Jamie Higgs with us via WhatsApp. Jamie, are you there?
Speaker 4: Hi am indeed tms Hey.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the program. I've been really looking forward to
talking with you. I do love that song so much.
The first time I listened to it, it was stuck
in my head just I could not could not get
it out of my brain. Jenny Loves it too. What
a what a great track that is. Congratulations on that.
Is that your newest single?
Speaker 7: It?
Speaker 4: Well, firstly, thank you very much to really appreciate that feedback. Yeah,
it was nice to hear. And yet that's our latest release.
So it was actually the face single that po out
in two years, okay, and it's only asked like my
personal second ever single and it's our face as a band.
Speaker 2: Oh okay.
Speaker 4: It's like a new beginning, right right.
Speaker 13: That's yeah.
Speaker 2: By the way, So I saw something you said in
an interview about that that song. Is this correct that
that song only took twenty minutes to write, like it
came together really fast?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was. It's a very very simple song. It's
like three chords. It literally just I think I was
listening to a Dire Street song and it was about
the melody, even they had a lot more complex complex
with their music. Sure, very like just a nice melody.
And then I was just messing about with these chordes,
and funny enough, I was in a rush. We had
somewhere to be and I just come up with this
line of piecing your sound and.
Speaker 13: I was like that to my.
Speaker 4: Wife, was that you're gonna have to wait just give
me a minute, except you always on. I was like,
you just feel the energy. I was onto something, yeah,
and I just had to finish writing this song. And
then I made a note in my phone with the
lyrics we got in the car, and then I made
the voice notes singing like the full track as a melody,
just tack upellade in the car and I was like
the song formed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well that's how you know you've got something though
that when when it's when it's easy, right, when it
just kind of comes to you quickly, but it's good,
then you know you've got something really good because you
didn't have to force it. It was just natural. It
just kind of, you know, manifests in your brain or
however it works, you know, whatever your process is for
coming up with something like that. No, it's it's really good.
Speaker 4: And thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess it is kind of simple, right in
terms of the the chords, and you know what they say,
three chords and the truth. But but what you take
and then do with that, that's what counts. And I
love the lyrics and yeah, and can you talk to
us a little bit about the lyrics. It seems like
it's kind of about finding like sort of finding peace
in the chaos of life. That's sort of what I
took from it. Am I am, I on the right.
Speaker 4: Track, absolutely right. Yeah. So it's so I'm married with
two kids, which is chaos in itself, and then obviously
a gig like three or four nights a week, and
the music scene is very chaotic. Yeah, so I found
then obviously with your friends and your social life, I
just found life is very loud and chaotic all the time,
it seems, yes, and sometimes it can kind of get
you down because you feel like you don't have a
minute to breathe. And then in the moment of writing
that song, I was like, I love my life even
though it's very crazy and loud. It's amazing. I'm surrounded
by amazing people. I loved me job of singing. I
was like my pieces in the sound because I know
people who don't have a lot going on for themselves
and then spending a lot of time on their own
actually struggle with depression and everything else. So it's actually
being busy and having a loud life that's where the
piece is.
Speaker 13: So it's kind of based around that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I like that. That really connects with me,
and I think that's something too that's relatable for a
lot of people. You know, even if you have you know,
you might have a lot of great things going on
and things are very very busy, but it you know,
you can get overwhelmed. Even when life is really really good,
you can get get overwhelmed. And sometimes you have to
be able to stop and take stock and all the
good things that you have. And you know, and you know,
in America we talk a lot about gratitude and you know,
you'll hear motivational speakers talk a lot about that stuff
and yeah, you know, but it but it really is important,
and you know, and to be able to find piece
in the chaos. And no, I love that song. It's
very very catchy too, are you. I'm curious about your
influences because obviously, like I think a little bit about Oasis,
when I hear that song, that sounds like something that
might have been might have fit well on definitely maybe
for example, I'm a big Oasis fan. But I'm curious
to know more about your influences. I assume you've taken
something from the Gallagher brothers, but but probably a lot
more than that too, So I'm curious about your influences.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think as a guitarist ever and as
similar sort of influencers. So when you think like singer songwriter,
so you've got like your sor you Bob Dylan's and
your Bruce Springsteen's and even like more modern times with
your Ed Sheen and stuff. I know Edgen's a lot
considered a lot more pop. But if you played guitar
in the last decade, you've took inspiration from Edgi and yes, sure.
And then I think obviously I love David Gray. I'm
not sure how big David Gray is in America, but
he's done an album called The White lad Album.
Speaker 2: Yeah he was, he was, He was really big here
at one point, yeah, David Gray.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so I think I think he peaked with
that album. It was in like the nineties, but like that,
that inspired so much to me writing for a long time.
And then I got more into the band stuff, so
maybe like a band called the Kooks, who like a
big British band. Then you've got obviously your Oasist and
Beatles and everyone else. And I think I've tried to
take the sing a song right sort of heart filmed
lyrics but put it with like a sort of indie
pop music that's right, and try and made them too.
I don't know, I guess that's the way I kind
of look at it.
Speaker 2: That makes sense.
Speaker 4: I think I have to give like, for this song,
we have to give big credit to my guitarist, Eddie Ponting,
because I loved what I wrote and I loved the song,
but because of the simplicity of it, I couldn't seem to.
Speaker 13: Fall in love with it, if that makes sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And then we were jamming in the room and
he just does not riff that down down.
Speaker 13: And when he done that, it was like love. A
face slight.
Speaker 4: As soon as he'd done that, I was like, that's
what makes the song. That's what gives it like the
full feel. That's what's going to help sell it. So
that was a big part of the inspiration for the song.
Speaker 2: Is I was also reading that you you started guitar
playing kind of lay you know, in contrast with most people,
I mean, there is no right age to Obviously, the
younger you are, the more you know. In terms of research,
they say that the brain can absorb information quicker when
you're younger. So if you start an instrument, just like
learning a language. The younger you start, the better in theory,
But you started when you were nineteen, is that correct?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I like you, Matt, You've done you like this?
Speaker 2: Oh I try, I try.
Speaker 13: You know it's good though, I like it.
Speaker 2: What was it that made you start at nineteen? What
was it that inspired you to to start learning guitar?
Or or maybe it just kind of happened organically. I
don't know, but it was.
Speaker 4: I'd met a couple of new friends at like eighteen,
I got me faced job, I was wearing the suits.
It was like, I was like, I felt like a
man at eighteen, with working with men and everything else.
And I met a few older lads and they rolling
into different genres of music and just different things in
life in general. And we would at a house party
and one of them was just playing a guitar and
I just, I don't know, I just seen it. Yeah,
that that line again of the face sight. When I
seen it, I was like, that just looks cool, it
sounds amazing. So then I just kind of saw His
name was Michael Hilton. He always moans that I don't
mention him, Okay, so give him his little showers.
Speaker 13: Hell, but yeah, just something about it.
Speaker 4: I'd never really grew up around that type of music,
so I always joke saying I grew up in like
a ghetto, so it was like I didn't see a
lot of it, and then once a kind of discovered it,
I just loved it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I assume, because it sounds like you were pretty motivated,
like once you started, once you started learning, did you
learn quickly?
Speaker 4: Did it did it come with it become like an addiction?
Speaker 13: It become like I just I love doing it. I
don't even know why.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe maybe it was escapism.
Speaker 13: I don't know.
Speaker 4: It was just something to bury into. And I'm not
I'm not an overly emotional person, okay, but with the guitar,
with the with the guitar, and we right, and it's
like that's my way of getting it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't know that that makes sense.
Speaker 2: No, absolutely, because I think a lot of creative people.
I think you know, and obviously we talk to creative
people all the time on the show, and I think
that we tend to When I say we, I mean
we who are are creative in some way. I think
that's that is how we tend to express ourselves and
and maybe some of us, maybe not, might not be
so good at expressing or emoting you know, emotions and
feelings just in our everyday lives in terms of dealing
with people interpersonally. But it comes out through our art.
That's that's where we tend to channel it, channel it through.
So that makes a lot of sense. And you know,
I use the word therapy, I mean music, you know,
creating anything, whether it's music or visual art or whatever
it is that you're creating. I think that is the
best therapy because that's a way to kind of work
things out and express things and and you know, kind
of show everyone what you're feeling and what you're thinking.
Speaker 4: And and then yeah, that's the beauty of art, isn't
it matter? Like you just hit the nail on the
head as you say, It's an expression, isn't it? And
the beauty of art is I can express someone and
say a song form and people are listening to it
and they'll tee they don'twn expression out of it.
Speaker 13: Yes, It's like that's what kind of makes art cool. Yeah,
So I definitely love that side, and.
Speaker 4: It's something when I face come into I never really
considered that. I've just done it sort of naturally, and
then over the years you just kind of learn these
things that you learn about yourself through your song writing,
because I always say, when you start writing the song,
you might have an idea or an emotional or something,
but you have no idea what's about to come out, right,
You don't have no idea what you're about to write.
And then like with Piecing Sound, I come out of
no Ways twenty minute Lays some Saturday with this song
that went on to become what I sort of classes
are face Release. Yes, you just you have no idea
that that's where it's going. And that's what I love
about it. It's creating something out and nothing.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of an adventure. You don't know how
it's going to end up. And when you bring when
you bring other people to into the process, like your
guitar player, who who came up with that that riff
that is so that is so central to that song,
and then it's like, wow, Okay, I didn't I wasn't
expecting that, but it's it's amazing and that that you know,
that really helps.
Speaker 15: You so.
Speaker 4: Helps massively, not just in the same terms of like,
so the creation of the song then becomes big, bigger
and better because there's more influence. But also from a
personal point of view, when it comes to performing the
song or talking about the song, I don't have as
much ego because I know it's not all me. Sure
in the past, when you talk about your music, you
always feel a bit egotistical talking about your art because oh,
it's it's all me and look how good I am
and all that.
Speaker 13: It just comes across the bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, it just comes across a bit ego. But
because all the band have helped and shape the song,
I feel like I can perform it and talk about
it with less weight. It's like it's more freeom That
makes sense. Yeah, And I enjoy that side of it.
Speaker 2: That makes sense. It sounds like collaboration is very important
to you.
Speaker 13: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, am I am I right about that? Is it?
Is it really important? Because you know some artists. To
some artists it's kind of the opposite. Some don't want
to let anybody in, you know what I mean, And
and that that's fine too. You know somebody who just
says a solo acoustic thing, for example, and maybe they
don't want to work with other people. Maybe they just
want to write their songs and play their songs and
that's it. But it sounds like to you collaboration is
really important.
Speaker 4: I think it's a balance. For me, I think, well
that's where it. Obviously life changes constantly and so does
your mindset. But for me at the minute, it's a balance.
So I love having the final say. I I'd admit
that I like being the one who says that works,
that doesn't.
Speaker 13: I do like having that sort of control.
Speaker 4: If you will.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 13: But I also love saying to the lads, I don't
want to tell you what to play.
Speaker 4: Just feel the music, feel emotion. And they'll be playing
something and I'll say no, to be honest, they don't
like that, or you'll do something to go, wow, play
that again, can you maybe change it a little bit?
Or and it's collaborating, like you say, it's working together yeah,
or I do like to try and have the last
say what I think is the best sound or.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 13: It's a balance balance on act.
Speaker 2: So I'm curious about the band dynamic because you you know,
online you basically you know, you sort of prevent present
I should say as a as a solo artist. But
but you have a band that that records with you
and and uh and plays live shows with you. I assume, right,
And I assume it's the same people in the studio
who also play with you live.
Speaker 4: Yes and no, So we do. We do have a
set band, but it's already changed twice. Oh and we've
only been We've only been going like three months. So
part of the reason sticking with the Jamie Higgs is
my name in Liverpool was doing well at the time.
I think Me and Me Instagram was getting like nearly
half a million views a month, So it didn't make
sense to change the name at the time, right right,
because you'd lose lose that momentum.
Speaker 13: And then I think over the last.
Speaker 4: Few months it kind of seems like a good decision
because we've been changing band members and stuff. I really
want a band name. I just wanted to be a
step band. So we're everyone's invested in it. Where at
the minute it's a it's a little bit up than that.
Speaker 13: But we're doing good.
Speaker 4: But we're all great players.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's just everyone's very busy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we're just I think the idea is to
get like seven band members, and there'll always be someone
who can't can't make it until we get until we
get to a point where people don't want to miss out.
Speaker 13: Yeah, if that makes sense.
Speaker 4: I always hate talking about this side. It was the
side of the music and people don't really expose. But
once you've made it, everyone obviously wants to be involved
climbing up that climbing up that ladder. It's it's obviously
harder to get people to commit two nights a week
and traveling to places where you're not going to make
much money, probably going to cost more money to go
and play the gig dinner is to make. So it's
trying to find that level of quality players and commitment.
I think that's the hardest bit of the bond industry.
Speaker 2: I know, I know that pain. I don't play anymore,
but I've played in a lot of bands and over
the years, and yeah, the hardest part to me is
exactly what you described. It's like, you know, if you're
in a band with three other people or four other people,
and it's you know, everybody's got a different level. You know,
hopefully the levels are close, but everyone has their own
level of commitment that they're able to bring or willing
to bring, and maybe different goals and aspirations you might have.
You know, you might have someone in the band who says,
I want to take this as far as it can
possibly go, and you might have someone else in the
band who feels more like, no, this is a hobby
for me. I know, I know this isn't going anywhere.
I'm just doing this for fun. You know, there's all
kinds of dynamics that can play there, and that can
be really challenging trying to navigate that, especially when not
everyone's moving in the same direction, and there's also drama
that can happen too. But what I think a lot
of people don't realize is, you know, for it not
to work out, it doesn't have to be about drama.
It's not always about drama. Sometimes it's just a matter
of different people have different priorities, and yeah, that can
be really hard.
Speaker 4: No, absolutely, like you sum that up very well there,
And just as an example, so we had a bit
of a band meeting and a rehearsal on Wednesday, and
we address the issues then and there's absolutely zero bad
feeling in the band. Everyone understands what I was saying. Yeah,
I love every I love everyone except some of them.
Speaker 13: At the time.
Speaker 4: I appreciate everyone's time and effort up to this point,
I was like, oh, I kind of need more.
Speaker 13: And that's not a knock on anyone, even from yourself.
Speaker 4: You've got a demand more from yourself and everyone around you.
Speaker 13: That's the only way to keep pushing up.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: And I said to the lads, what I'm going to
do is, because I didn't want to do it behind
anyone's back, is I'm going to get a few new
band members into trials. Because it doesn't mean anyone's going
to be pushed out as I but it's kind of
my way. I'm putting a bit of pressure on your
toes to see how you react. And if someone else
comes in who was willing to push more, then that's
when it might be thanks for your time, but someone
else is willing to do more.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And it's just it sounds like a brutal side of it,
but again, there was no bad feelings. Everyone understood. Everyone
was still happy, and that's good it was. It was
just a conversation that needs to be hard because I
love where we've got to for now. But obviously I'm pushing.
I mean, I'd love to be number one in the
world at some point. I'm not saying I'll ever be there,
but if you don't push for that, then you're never
going to get as high as you can.
Speaker 2: Right, Right exactly? Did you have anxiety going into that?
Because that would be that that's the kind of thing
that would would make me nerve, like, because I'm the
kind of person, whether it's personally or professionally, I dread
having to risk hurting anyone's feelings. I I and and
you know, obviously you go into it not with the
idea that it's a confrontation but just a very mature
You're going to express this in a mature, professional manner
and with positivity. But you did. There's that little thing
there where you don't know how everyone's going to necessarily react. Right,
I would be anxious doing that? Were you anxious doing that?
Speaker 4: I suppose I understand what you're saying. And it wasn't
like a conversation I was looking forward to. It wasn't
something that I was excited excited about doing well. I wasn't.
I wasn't dreading it because I thought it was a
conversation that needed to be had. So it was like,
like I've always played football or soccer, as you might say,
I've always played that in my whole life. So I
use it as a conference, a confidence, I use it
as a constant reference point.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So playing football, I was the captain for my team
for like ten years, So there's loads of times when
we had to have serious conversations, and there's times when
you have to question people's commitment levels.
Speaker 13: And output levels. And it's not a slight at anyone.
Speaker 4: It's not trying to put anyone down. It's demand them more.
And I unfortunately, like music is a business and it's
something that you want to achieve it and be successful
as much as it's fun and we enjoy it and
we love it. I want to play to the biggest
crowds and to the biggest radio stations in the world
if we can, right, And the only way to sort
of have that ambition in his eyes, is to demand
more of myself and everyone else around me. So it
was just one of them conversations I felt needed to
be had. I've done it in the best way I could,
for sure, calm and as pleasurable as you can make it.
And I think the lads took it well. Everyone was
understood what I was saying, and yeah, everyone was happy.
We still then jammed and enjoyed our session. And yeah
we'll just I said to them, in two weeks time,
it could still be all us and everyone's just leveled
up and so what I've said on board, but we
could have a different druma or a different guitar.
Speaker 13: I don't know, but it was just something that needed
to happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds like your background too as a team
captain really uh really helps you out there. You know.
It's it's funny too because it's not something that someone
would necessarily expect would translate, but you know that having
that skill set. But but but it clearly does and
that's that's great. But it makes sense too because this
is a very you know, the music industry is very competitive.
You know, sports is competitive and the music industry is
very competitive.
Speaker 4: And you know, not one hundred percent agree with you.
I actually had this little conversation to myself, like going
into Wednesday night, so I was like, I never thought
like the football stuff with translations to the music stuff
as much because in my head, I keep saying I'm
trying to build a team of like photographers videographers. So
we've got like the Piece and Love project with a
project based on the purely do loads of videography and
photography for artists, and we have them helping us outloads.
And we've got Liam Gerrards and Louis Neighbor who's helping
like manage and promoters at the minute.
Speaker 13: And then there's.
Speaker 4: People he knows like Shell and Lee and stuff like that,
and then Gary from the PR team who's probably organized this.
Like we've had loads of people helping us, and that's
what I love. And like, maybe you're right when you're
saying earlier about the collaboration stuff. I know for a
fact I couldn't achieve it on my own. Yeah, there's no,
There's absolutely zero way. So I'm trying to build a
big team and a good team who all want to
achieve something.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd say it's just funny how to translate through
the fotball Beau. Obviously you want to win your league,
you want to win the cup or if it all
comes in with the drive and yeah the winner mentality.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah exactly. Uh no, no, So what's kind of
the future, So speaking of that. So what's what's the
future uh trajectory here? What's what's your plan? Because you
obviously you approach this uh seriously and and I assume
that you've got strategies and so forth in terms of
how you're proceeding. You're you're you're clearly not someone who
just throws it all against the wall and sees what sticks,
which is what a lot of musicians do, which is
which is fine. But but I sense that you've probably
got a pretty clear strategy going forward.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I do, But I get I think it's
a balance you think sometimes because it is art at
the end of the day, you never want to lose
that side of it. So you do need to just
throw some stuff at the wall and see what sticks.
But at the same time, it's being sort of savvy
enough to understand what is sticking, Like there's no butt
in just keep on throwing and stuff. You kind of
see what sticks and like work with some of that
stuff as well as adding to it and having a direction.
So we in my edit's like a two year plan. Yeah,
which again I understand because they are and this is
very easy going and sort of creative freedom, which I love.
I still like the side of it. But because I
do have the ambition of I want to achieve something,
I've set myself like a two year plan to go
with the creative side of it, and I'm hoping that's
what helps us. So I know what we've got come
up in a couple of months, I know what a
one plan for next year, and I know what where
I want to be in two years time. Whether all
that comes together, whether it changes on the way, which
I imagine at all will I'm expecting for that.
Speaker 13: We have an old saying.
Speaker 4: Prepare for the worst, hope for the best, and like
that's kind of ware me mentality is, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's important to plan, but it's also important
to be flexible and be able to adapt and and
and you know, to kind of be limber with that.
Is it hard, by the way, balancing that you mentioned
you have you have two kids, right, yeah? Is it
hard balancing all of that, which I mean we talked
a little bit about it earlier, And that's kind of
where a piece in your sound comes from. Right, But
I mean, like, are your kids, I don't know how
old they are, do like do they understand what you do?
And that you create music, and and and why uh,
why it's important to you and all that, and and
I'm curious too, while we're at it, do they have
any musical Do you see any musical inclinations from them?
You know, do they do they show any interest in
maybe picking up an instrument. I assume they're very young,
because you're a young guy. But but I'm curious about
that dynamic.
Speaker 4: Well, obviously i'll be lying of us. And it was easy. Yeah, Yeah,
anyone who's got a family will tell you that's hard
in itself. It's a it's a constant battle kids. Just
one of those, he's told. But that's I love them. Then,
the absolute inspiration in my life. Good me little boy, kay,
And he's four, and I've got a little girl, Rosabella
who's six months Okay, oh wow, so she's still very young.
But me little boy loves it. He loves the music,
he loves piecing your sound good.
Speaker 13: He's got a little guitar and he's.
Speaker 4: A stand in the living room like piece yourself. He
loves it.
Speaker 13: Yeah, And obviously there's not a more half. And I
was made than seeing that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But the juggle of family life and the music
life is it's it's my biggest challenge in life. Definitely.
The way I'm kind of fortunate is because I do
sing him for the living, so I gig in the
bars around Liverpool City Center. So music is my lifestyle,
which kind of makes it that bit easier because if
you're waken a regular Monday to Friday or regular job
to then find time to do music, I think will
be harder.
Speaker 13: Because I'm already so I'm going to be out gigging
in a.
Speaker 4: Few hours, so excellent, So I'm classing this is a
way time. So I've come to the studio because we
have a rehearsal room, so I've come here to do
if it's like you have an office, and that helps
me real be balanced. And then my wife Tasha, she
obviously she's very supportive and that has to deal with
a lot of late lights and sure me and the
lad are going to practice tonight, so the kids to
bed on your own.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, but you have a supportive partner and
that's that that helps tremendously with anything.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, God bless you.
Speaker 2: She puts up with a love absolutely well, very good
in a moment. Well, we'll let you go in a moment, Jamie,
You've been very generous with your time, but I also
want to play at the end of our conversation, I
want to play the song. I can additional and this
actually came out now, this came out a couple of
years ago, right, yeah, this is this is another great song.
Jenny and I both love this. Is there anything you
can tell us about this about this song?
Speaker 4: Absolutely I can yet. So this was I think it's
probably the most emotional song I'll ever write, because it
just the family were going through such a difficult time
and we had just lost my granddad, which that wasn't
like a big deal. He was getting on so we
kind of it wasn't out of Norway type of thing.
But me uncle had kind of stopped speaking to his
dad and when he passed away to break down because
instant regrets or not like making making up when he
had the chance, and it had just felt a bit
of a ripple effect through the family. And then there
was a lot of other emotional things going on in
the family at the time.
Speaker 13: Which I won't go into too much.
Speaker 4: I just can't remember the time thinking, wow, everyone falls
out with people that you love. But at the end
of the day when the crunch comes to it, once
they're gone, and you realize that love was always still late.
Speaker 13: It never went.
Speaker 4: You might stop talking, or you might push away and
whatever else, but whether you like to admit it or not,
you'll always love the people that you've loved. For your family, right,
that the big one for me, his family. I used
to always joke saying about there's someone and new who
was like the coaxes persions and them was the dog.
But if they absolutely loved the dog, and it was
like that unconditional lovely no matter what happens, if you
can't realize that love is unconditional, and once you kind
of experience it, it's like an ex partner. You could
break up with your ex partner, but there'll always be
a part of you that I'll have love for that
ex panner, for the time that you spend together, on
what you went through of course, if it was real
love obviously. And Yeah, it just comes from so many
different emotions into one song. And again it was another
one of them where I had had the code progression
for years years. I had wrote like two or three
different songs to it and never liked any of them. Yeah,
and then this one just kind of come out of
nowhere in like a sort of heartfled like way. And
then yeah, it was kind of people around me who
wanted me to release that more than myself.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: So I think it's one of them where my family
all love it and it'll always be something to them.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, no, it's it's it's it's a beautiful song,
beautiful thank you.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that absolutely.
Speaker 2: And before we do that, Jamie, and before we let
you go, where should people go online? Where's the best
place for people to go online to keep up with
everything that Jamie Higgs is doing.
Speaker 4: Instagram's meet soors of main use for social media, that's
what I kind of use.
Speaker 13: I try and go on that daily.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to build me TikTok because everyone says TikTok's
the way to go.
Speaker 2: Now that's right.
Speaker 13: I'm trying to use that more.
Speaker 4: I think TikTok's a little bit more cringey, and that's
what It just takes a bit of get used to that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, you know, you know here in America too,
there's always politicians threatening to take it away from us.
They haven't done it yet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, it's just it's a weird one of TikTok
because the whole China, this whole China connection and everyone
else to the sort of yeah, yeah, yeah, the opinions
on that. But we won't open that though.
Speaker 2: No, no, that's a big door to open. But but yeah,
so so Instagram is.
Speaker 4: The main the main place I would say, so yeah,
so yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 2: Very good Jamie. Listen, it's been wonderful speaking with you,
and we'll definitely do this again in the future as
you're releasing new music. Well, we'll have you back. Certainly,
love what you're doing. And uh and you said you've
got a show tonight, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got three tonight and then I'm doing all
guest appearing is a studio oh tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got a busy night ahead of you.
Speaker 4: That's great, absolutely off mart Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good.
Speaker 4: But I'd also like to say things I've really enjoyed.
This has probably been the best one I've done, so
oh absolutely absolutely credit means have enjoyed this.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, Jamie. I appreciate that. I appreciate that
very very much. We love to hear that. All right, well,
we will let you go, my friend. I'm gonna hit
that track Unconditional, and then I'm probably gonna sneak in
piece in your sound one more time too for people
who are just joining us. Sometimes I cheat it. Sometimes
I cheat a little bit. If I really love a song,
I'll sneak it in a second time in the hour,
because why not. But uh, thank you, thank you again
Jamie so much, and we will talk to you soon.
I'm sure.
Speaker 4: Absolute pleasure. Thanks, Steve and Jenny appreciate it.
Speaker 2: You got it all right.
Speaker 4: Take care byeye much love may take care. Thank you,
you got it all right.
Speaker 2: Wonderful. That was the great Jamie Higgs really enjoyed our conversation.
And let's play this song again. This is called Unconditional.
This is such a beautiful song. Jenny and I both
love this. And then we're also gonna play a piece
in your sound again too. Another just such a great track.
So and look forward to watching his career as it
continues to evolve. But he's doing great stuff. But here
it does. This is Unconditional by Jamie Higgs.
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