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Speaker 3: All right, that is push the band is Sepsis. Welcome everybody.
We have entered our number three New Marow trace of
Matt Connorton, unleashed and we are live from the studios
of WM and H ninety five point three FM and
Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. If you are listening live. Today
is Saturday, November fifteen, twenty twenty five, and it's the
big day. Swarmy Fest is here, the day we wait
for all year and we are very pleased to have.
So we have Sepsis in the studio with us. Hello everybody.
Oh yeah, Zachi be over there. Who's leaving the band?
We had to mention that, So are you having auditions already,
William or.
Speaker 10: What's well, that's one way you could translate it.
Speaker 3: I guess you call that.
Speaker 2: So there really is a process. In the first process,
because we're a social media band, yeah, is to like
the band, learn a song and upload it to the internet.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: We've had a lot of people that have shown interest,
but nobody who's really gotten past step one. Okay, okay, yeah,
Zach B Jacky B is like step twelve right right, yea,
so he really set the standard.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so we kind of now we kind of know
more close to what we're looking for long term.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's always always a process. We're
not in a rush though, right, okay, good good, Yeah,
that's not something you want to rush into, certainly. Uh
Melissa is here of course as well. Hell well, welcome
back and uh over there is a Lexi who is this?
Is it right? This is the big debut?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the big debut on stage out with
the band to day. Very good, actually, it's pretty good.
She's being demoted.
Speaker 3: Oh it's not a step down from well, the band member,
I could.
Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's spiraling up. It's just
a different department. But like in the business in our company,
the treasury, but the merch girl actually has a higher
administrative oh rank.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, so so you've lost your power. It sounds
like Lexi, yeah, the one player. There you go, there
you go.
Speaker 2: I'm a creative role yeah yeah, no, outstanding. So now
we need a merch girl. So now you need a
bass player.
Speaker 3: And a merch girl.
Speaker 2: Yeah wow, okay, all right, so who else is in
is in the room with us? We have various everyone
hears auditioning for merch and base.
Speaker 3: Excellent, excellent. So this is the crazy thing.
Speaker 2: But a lot of us are Halo players, okay, And
for ten years, Melissa has a gaming community called Inclusive
Community Gaming don't screw it up. Yeah, and you meet
all kinds of crazy people online anyway. But we play
Xbox and is for those of you that are familiar
with Halo. It's a multiplayer respawn shooter. It's an older game,
but there are newer versions of it and you can
play multiplayer with people all over the world.
Speaker 10: So we have a game in community. And we're not
just a band. We're also a gaming community.
Speaker 2: And in all of our communities, you know, people have
things in common if they find common ground a lot
of times. And like video games in general are like
one of the last untapped markets for advertising, Like it's
one of it's one of the few places where you
can go online where there isn't a pop up Okay, right,
Like if you're playing a video game, there isn't constant
advertisements for Nike, And yeah, I never thought.
Speaker 3: I never thought. I never thought about it before.
Speaker 2: But there must be some games that have some sort
of mobile games. Yeah, mobile games are big on advertising. Okay, okay,
but all of this is changing too.
Speaker 9: In app purchases.
Speaker 2: Oh that makes sense, yes, yes, But so we've had
the gaming community and originally the the first time we
ever did like a band created festival, like something that
we organize ourselves.
Speaker 10: Uh, most is gaming community came down and sponsored it.
Speaker 2: Okay, So that's kind of where we started to get
the idea for this originally because a lot of are
the people that we play games with and we play Halo.
They're from all over the country. Okay, so some of
the people in this room are people that we play
Halo with real Yeah, and they may and they may
they may not be directly related to our game and community.
But like our friend Lindorris is here. That's his gamer
tag guy and right he's he's from New Orleans and
he came up wow for the show. So he brought
himself in some of his friends. And Eric is a
good friend of ours from PA we played. We get
around when we can and and he is a returning
swarm me fact I don't know if you remember before,
but he's returned.
Speaker 10: This is your third time I think coming. So oh
second second, So he's returning.
Speaker 2: Okay, And Bernie and Ed in the corner there are
like they are like they're almost like band members. Okay,
they're like the closest thing that you could be as
like staff or band members. Okay, the ogg okay, alright.
And then in the doorway, the young fellow with the
dreads is my son.
Speaker 10: Oh he works for me for free today.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 2: And behind him is staff member Rinse. Okay, he's a
steps a staff member.
Speaker 3: Oh, very good, very good.
Speaker 2: And he has a girlfriend Maggie with him. Okay, all right,
that's a lot of people. Yeah, yeah, very nice. Excellent, excellent.
So let's talk about tonight swarmy Fest.
Speaker 10: One thing about swarm Fest. We always bring new bands.
Speaker 2: Yes, I can't ask these guys to keep coming back
and show them the same bands, right, unfair. So one
thing I have to promise is that swarmy Fest remains
something that's grassroots, you know, Yeah, something where we want
to grow it and we hope that it continues to
get bigger. Yeah, And we continue to do it because
people request us every year to do it. Yeah, So
as long as people are having fun and they request
us doing it, and they request cool features, Me and
Melissa and Lexi, everybody in the band are going to
try to make that happen. And the goal is to
grow it, but not grow it to the point where
we can't have a conversation on the phone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, or we can't have a solution.
Speaker 2: Because one of the big things that we see with
festivals or big shows is they get so big or
so corporate. Oh yeah, that people can't supervise or manage
it right barely.
Speaker 3: It becomes this monster. It's hard to even come right.
Speaker 2: You got to have then you have to start making
friends with lawyers, and you got to you have to
know how to speak in court.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's that the kind of relationships that we want
to make.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, not for us, right, We don't want to
be so professional or so industry that we need to
hire people to live out this dream for us.
Speaker 3: We should talk about the lineup. So, of course, obviously
sepsis Silent Season, under the Horizon, Pulsifier, Temptress and the
Cherry Fog. It's quite a show.
Speaker 10: I'm blown away, Yeah, I believe it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, and these are all we were talking earlier
Jenny and I too, about how these are all bands
that have been on the show except for the Cherry Fog,
but I did, but I was checking.
Speaker 10: Them out and I love them and I have been
like corresponding with them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: So I think they were hoping that they could come
on some time in the near future.
Speaker 3: Oh, definitely. Yeah, we got to get them.
Speaker 10: Mind, I'll try to make that. I'll try to keep
that conversation.
Speaker 3: Going really good, really good. And then, uh, and who
are a Little Kat and the Blood Witch again? Yeah?
Speaker 10: So they are horror alternative.
Speaker 2: Dancers models, and I think I think Lilith Cat does
some like like like restraint or like I don't know
what you would call.
Speaker 10: It, like dangling.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, is that what it's called? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know when I'm just forgive me, I don't
have the education of the English for it, but you
know when they either do like hooks or ropes girl,
they okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all right, oh interesting, interesting, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they they have they have a stage dancing
performance right before the steps set.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, excellent, good time, excellent, excellent. So we should
talk about the sponsors, So of course, you know, we're
very honored and privileged. Matt Connorton unleash to be involved
as always, and we have Legion of Solas on with
us in the last hour let's see. So also speed
given promotions.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, shout out to Josh and them. Yeah, okay,
and what do they what do they do exactly? I
think I think Josh was supposed to be on the
show with us at one point and the reschedule. But
I love Josh and I'm trying to I'm always trying
to get him on this show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because he has just such.
Speaker 10: A wealth of information.
Speaker 3: He's a vet. Yeah, he's a straight shooter, yep.
Speaker 2: And he as well as everybody that's sponsoring this show,
we keep a close circle.
Speaker 10: And the reason why we do that is so we
can all communicate.
Speaker 2: And what we're communicating is the same type of goals
of like community enrichment, independent business to business relationships, long
term growth, you know, not screw no, who's a little
guy creating opportunities where you know, there's not a lot
of money in rock and roll, in local music, but
we want to try to create event where they're incentivized
they're fair.
Speaker 10: If people do get paid, they're getting paid fairly, right.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So is that kind of what Josh is doing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and that that that's his theme. And we both
we both resonate and share that same goal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we we we tend to have the same
sponsors come back, I think because I think I spoke
on this before. You all do such a great job,
and we don't want to take up a lot of
flyer space, right with people clout chasing or yah. You know,
and if you and if you have a flyer and
you put one hundred sponsors on it, and people tend
to overlook it, right, Yeah, So we really want to
have a little more quality over quantity, especially this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's hard to do ten bands in two rooms. Oh yeah,
and then some bands get missed, some people don't get
to see.
Speaker 3: Did you do that two years ago? Obviously you didn't
do that at U Tafa, but two years ago Julia
did that, right.
Speaker 10: Yeah, And I don't think I do it again.
Speaker 2: And and it's because we still want to be the
type of the type of people that can hang out
with everybody a little bit. Yeah, and we want to
be able to we want swormy Fest to continue to
be a social event as I was being able to
like support the bands and check out a few vendors.
It's also a place where people can talk about culture
and art and share their ideas. Swormy Fest is a
safe space, so people can speak there and beat themselves
and support the bands at the same time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and let's see also Viole its rain for all
the sponsors.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Gypsy is a good friend of mine. She
she brings in like healing oils candles, Okay, yeah, okay,
pretty much. Yeah, this this year, we wanted to go
with with a magical theme. Okay, you know, you know,
healing aroma therapy.
Speaker 3: She does.
Speaker 10: I think she's making a black light invasion steps as candle.
Speaker 3: Oh okidding, Oh that's cool. That's a cool idea.
Speaker 9: You's got a bunch of stones and things too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Dnay Lyns Creations is similar where it's like everything from
like patches and trinkets and you know, self help, motivation.
Speaker 10: And LGBTQ inclusive themes.
Speaker 9: Yeah, knitting, crochet.
Speaker 3: Chakra stones yea.
Speaker 10: And of course you know, and you got all the
bands there with this stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, and then what about BPS records. Are they
still going to be there? I know, and they were,
they were supposed to be on the show with us,
and I know there was some sort of an emergency,
so I don't know if there is, I'm not.
Speaker 2: I hope they can make it to the actual limit. Yeah, yeah,
I've yet to get a full update.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, yeah, I hope everything's okay with them. I know,
I know something went wrong, but hopefully nothing too serious.
Speaker 2: When you have a show like this, this is the
weirdest thing, and not just depart I don't like when
you have a show like this because it's getting a
little bit bigger.
Speaker 10: You know, you start with thirty people, then you have
forty people.
Speaker 2: But as the show gets bigger, the more people, you know,
you make relationships with and you're trying to hold it together.
If you have the larger your audience, something's going to
go wrong, Oh of course, with somebody. You know, if
you have an audience at ten people, the likelihood of
somebody twisting their ankles a little low. But once you
have an audience of seventy five people, somebody's mother passes away,
somebody gets sick that week, So you know, when you
have a show at this size and you're one of
the organizers, you kind of have to prepare for some
a little bit disappointment.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you have to.
Speaker 10: It's not really prepared.
Speaker 2: My job isn't prepared for things to go well, right,
it's kind of and my job is to is to
prepare for how am I going to behave and how
am I not? How am I going to bond and
not react when they don't go my way?
Speaker 3: Exactly? Exactly? Have you had this is the fourth uh
fourth Swarmy Fests? Have you had a lot of surprises
over the years doing this or My impression is that
that things have gone smoothly overall, right, But I mean
I'm sure, I'm sure things go wrong.
Speaker 2: That is a that is a fair impression. We have
a lot of people working on this, yeah. Yeah, so
it's it's not like you've got a good team. I do,
and then and and many of them are in this room.
Yeah so, and we're working on it all year.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I want to give a special shout out to my
partner for Swarmy Fest, Larry Loud from Loud Entertainment.
Speaker 3: Oh he's great. Yeah, we had him and uh, I'm
never sure to bab Yep. We had them on the
on the show not too long ago. Hopefully Baboo's okay.
I know he has some health. He's doing good.
Speaker 2: He's at that he's at their new club tonight, the
Canary they got they got, they got that big club
now up in Massachusetts.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so he's doing that. But Larry will be there tonight.
Speaker 3: Oh excellent, excellent. Yeah, yeah, he's an eye ye yeah.
And how did that come about working with Loud Entertainment
because you didn't have them on board? Want me to
tell you the truth.
Speaker 2: So the truth is we were doing an event and
I won't say where, but we were doing an event
and Larry wanted to book us for a show.
Speaker 3: Why won't Why won't you say where? I'm curious? Can
you say why? You won't say where?
Speaker 2: Just because because people become emotional and and and there
are there are levels of emotional where people tend to
throw out rational thought.
Speaker 3: Okay, and that's just something I'm not.
Speaker 2: Going to engage with people online because then it becomes
negative and if it's negative, it's a failure. Okay, So
you know I don't kiss and tell, ok fair enough,
But Larry was asking you know, promoters want to know
who can you get in the door? Can you get
five people? Can you get ten people? It's not ugly,
but it is a question that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a valid, valid concern.
Speaker 2: So you know, if you got a room capacity at
two fifty, promoters interested in you, they're gonna they might
ask a band, or they might ask the talent, Hey,
how many people do you think? How many tickets? How
many pre sale tickets do you think you can sell?
And I had, you know, I have an open door.
I have a pretty open policy. You know, we sepstants.
We show our mistakes. Yeah, So he said, what'd you
get at your last show? And I said, oh, you know,
go ask the promoters themselves. I said, don't take my
word for it. Get in touch with the venue, and
I want you to double check to so you could
see what our attendance was. So he had been in
contact with the venue and they said, oh, well, Sepsist,
they only brought sixty people to the show, so I
wouldn't recommend them. They said that we that Sepsist only
brought sixty people to the show, and that we're not
a big enough band, which I accepted, and then I
reminded them all that not many bands in New England
get twenty five people in the door. It's tough, yeah,
And I'm not trying to be mean. I'm trying to
tell the truth right exactly. You can think whatever thought
and focus on that, but ignoring your thoughts and focusing
on the truth.
Speaker 3: The truth is.
Speaker 2: The biggest local bands in New England don't draw twenty
five people every show. Sure it's hard, yeah, or consistently,
it's very difficult. And if they did, we would be
the first band that sent them an email to try
to book with them, right of course, because it's a win.
Well to me is to lose if you're the only
person in the band and Zachi b has to get
all the audience members, or Melissa has to write all
the songs, or the headliner and the co headliner are
responsible for the for the majority of the draw. We
have a we and I think that creates an inside
circle from an outside circle, and it leaves independent artists subservient,
submissive and relying on national acts and talent buyer talking power.
And we don't want nobody to be able to repurpose, misuse,
or set our value for us. So it's a good
way of putting it our our our pathway, and there
is no wrong way for anybody.
Speaker 3: This is just for us.
Speaker 2: We're not telling people what to do, to continue doing
whatever works for you, yep. But we believe that no band,
and that's what Swormifest is about, that no band should
have to get one hundred people in the door. Not
not because we're moral or there's good guys and bad
guys or evil or good. Is because we just don't
have to. Logistically, Yeah, local bands don't have to get
one hundred people in how about just ten?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 10: But if you've got five bands.
Speaker 2: And this, you know, five people in the bands, twenty
five people there, and every band member brings two or
three people, then it's not You're not leaving it to
one band member, right or or a headliner, and then
then you don't have all of the lobbying in playing
with the paperwork when it comes to local when it
comes to national acts coming.
Speaker 9: Into town, right right, it takes team work.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, one hundred Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely. This
is a little bit of a side street, but I
know Jenny had told you that. So this show we
usually stream it on Facebook and we're not doing that
for right now, and she said you kind of chuckled
that about that and the reason we're not and we're
still going to YouTube. And actually, don't believe it or not,
but Facebook has banned me from live streaming until December.
And I have and I have no idea why, because
they don't like to tell you. You know, these social
media platforms, they don't like to tell you what you
did wrong. They just like to tell you did something wrong.
I can do everything else on Facebook. I just can't
live stream the show.
Speaker 2: That's the I mean, that's the way it is for
That's the way it is now for all of the apps. Yeah,
you know they have that for sure. I mean that's
kind of a hack, isn't it. You know, you create
a special program. There's no human beings that you can talk.
Speaker 3: To rights, does it Twitch? Does it?
Speaker 10: All the apps on your phone do that? Yeah, there's
no customer service.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. It's funny too because people, you know, we
talk a lot about AI, but AI is all supposed
to make the world easier for us, right in theory,
We're supposed to save money and be happier, but it's
been with us. It's also been with us for longer
than people realize, because if you're talking to a chat bot,
I mean, you're literally talking to a chat bot, you know.
And and I know that I know that the person
who told me via Facebook Support that I'm banned from
live streaming until December, who couldn't tell me the reason why.
I know that that wasn't a real person, right, I
know that was a chat I was talking to AI,
and you know, and I don't know if they even
fully understood what I was describing as the problem, right,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: But most people, most people, if you sit most people
down and you remove them from a group of other
people from the construct, and you sit them down and
you ask them what the purpose of artificial intelligence is,
they're not going.
Speaker 3: To be able to tell you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but I mean, isn't it supposed to be intelligent?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 10: Well what made the intelligent thing a human being?
Speaker 2: So so, if you're a gamer, you know, I gotta
tell like me and my gamer friends, like AI is
not new to us, like if like the idea of
AI or just all of these gadgets and gizmos. If
you're a gamer, if you've been playing Xbox, your whole life.
It's not really a new concept for us, right right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: That makes sense, that makes sense. Are you concerned about
and curious any any of you? Are you concerned about
AI and its effect on on music? Did you see
the news?
Speaker 2: Did you see the new Bathwater video where where the
hornets were flying out of Lexi's Yeah, that's.
Speaker 3: Oh so those weren't actual hornets. I was concerned when
I watched it. I was like, poor Alexi.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately our lead singer Melissa sets herself on fire and
her body skeleton burn up into flames.
Speaker 3: But that didn't actually happen, right, That was a because
I was also concerned about that. I was like, poor Melissa,
that looks very painful.
Speaker 10: Back then we used to have to really throw bugs
at them, and that.
Speaker 3: Is that why you're leaving the band? It sounds very
remember we signed that paper, sounds very dangerous.
Speaker 10: Whatever happens in days?
Speaker 3: And yes, yes, yeah we should? Uh you want to
play another what should we? Let's play something? We can
play a Sepsis track unless you want to play something
from one another bands tonight? Or what do you play
a Silent Season song? Want to play silent which one?
Speaker 1: Hopeless?
Speaker 3: My favorite song. Yeah, we played this one in the
first hour, but I'm happy to play it again. That's okay,
we can play it again. Different it was a different hour,
it was a whole different hour. No, this is my
favorite Silent Season song. This is a great choice. All right,
let's give this a spend silent season. Of course, one
of the bands playing tonight at Swarmyfest, and we're going
to talk more about that on the other side of this.
But this is a great track. This is called hopeless
and I don't hear anything and I think I know why.
I'm gonna try that again. I might have to edit
that on the podcast. This is called hopeless Silent Season.
Speaker 6: A feel of pressure falling, tell my, I'm so feel
safe behind.
Speaker 1: Every single day it's all the same sons and him.
Speaker 2: No is gonna make me fall.
Speaker 3: From God?
Speaker 1: And chancing suits say well alas and well will go sinks,
don listen.
Speaker 3: Pass I'm buried and I'm no raise.
Speaker 1: I how it so so sad, And.
Speaker 3: I'd say that I can't everything.
Speaker 1: I charge change she be so that starts so row.
Nora's kind of stable.
Speaker 5: With that.
Speaker 1: No, and Chacy soon sang show.
Speaker 6: I'll say.
Speaker 1: Us not well know no son, thank god, it's a
big sidney with.
Speaker 3: I'm not a such with my inshide.
Speaker 1: Don't know which.
Speaker 3: Way is still for.
Speaker 2: My ears my shot make you work God, you'll feel alone,
my god.
Speaker 1: Watch it actual wat very fo.
Speaker 3: Picnic shows here.
Speaker 1: Chatty sang s.
Speaker 3: I'll say.
Speaker 1: As no, no.
Speaker 3: There it is. The track is hopeless. The band is
a Silent Season and they will be playing tonight at Swarmyfest.
If you are listening live on Saturday, it is November fifteen,
twenty twenty five. This is Matt Connorton Unleashed And of
course we're talking today. It's all about Swarmyfest tonight at
Jewel right across the street really on Canal Street here
in Manchester and really looking forward to tonight. And of course,
uh we have William and Zachie b and Melissa and
Lexi I hear from the band and uh and you
brought you brought some other folks with you and who now,
Who's who's going on last night?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 3: Is it Sepsis? Yeah, yeah, we we like to do that.
Yeah because of the clock, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so if we're running a little late, we could
either add or take away music.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it gives you a little a little bit of
flexibility there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good. That's good. Who's
opening the show? Do you know?
Speaker 10: At this spoint? I think I think Temptris is opening
the show.
Speaker 3: Temprist is opening. Yeah, yeah, we have them on. We
played I don't know if you've listened to that song
Carly that they have, but Jenny and I are like
addicted to that song.
Speaker 2: We make we make sure this is this probably sounds crazy,
but we listen to the bands that we book. Yeah, well, yeah,
I know it seems like that would be like a
generic thing, but a lot of times people don't do that,
you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, true.
Speaker 2: You know, if if a band said to a promoter, hey,
I pretty pretty pinky swear promise, right then I'm gonna
that I'm really good and I'm gonna bring fifty people,
sometimes people believe that, right.
Speaker 3: Right, that is true.
Speaker 2: I've never met a band that says my band is
terrible and we're bringing no one, right Yeah, yeah, of course,
of course.
Speaker 3: So now what is now after? Obviously, you know, today
is a very big deal, but yes, after you get
through today, what's what's kind of the what else does
the band have? In the works other than you know,
you got to find a new bass player or replace
them with AI or whatever. But I can talk about
the a I think forever. I think.
Speaker 2: I Well, the Swarmy Fest really starts on the Friday,
which is last night, so we all, yeah, we all
hang out and we do like staff and the VIPs
and people that helped getting the show together, we all
hang out together, and folks that may have came used
years before and new people get to all meet each other. Yeah,
and it's nice because that way you can go to
the venue some of the people that are traveling are
familiar with people there, instead of telling everybody, hey, just
just meet.
Speaker 10: At the venue and we're the only people they know. Yeah,
it's just nice to have a few other people that
you're familiar with of course.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, But the real cherry on top is the Swarmy
Fest after party.
Speaker 9: Yeah, with our best Pajama contest.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, Yeah, this we do a theme, so there's
a you know, just like with every show, Stepsis does
a wardrobe theme for anybody that's keeping score, and we
also do an after party theme and this year is
the after party Pajama Jamie jam Okay, and if you
bring if you don't have to, but there's a limited
amount of people. Yeah, you know, we don't want to
get arrested.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but.
Speaker 2: Folks can if they if they buy tickets early, they
can send us screenshots and it automatically gets them into
the after party.
Speaker 10: Oh okay, and then if they bring pajamas, they can
win a gift card.
Speaker 3: Oh that's a cool concept. Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, who's got the coolest pajamas on?
Speaker 3: We have.
Speaker 2: Or cosplay and we have you know, female judges that
are gonna judge. Everybody'll be fun.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, cool, So that's tonight.
Speaker 10: So if you're the only person out there and you
brought your pajamas, you won.
Speaker 3: Wow. Wow. So you can win by forfeit basically.
Speaker 2: A lot of people, Yeah, a lot of people. Look, man,
I don't want to wear any pajamas. But that's good
because that that just narrows down the competition. So when
no matter what, when no matter what, and I guess
if nobody wears their pajamas, we'll spend a gift card.
Speaker 3: And then so what happens after all this, So after
you get past Swarmy Fest, so like do you know,
like are you are you recording new music?
Speaker 10: Oh that's what you meant.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yes, yes, we would, we would record more music,
but it's expensive to record our music. Yeah, it really is,
and because we really want the best quality we could
get for us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Where do you record normally?
Speaker 10: I mean, so there's two processes we record. We track
out a lot of it at our house.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then the second half is working with Glenn Robinson. Okay,
we either meet with him video or he mixing masters
on his own. Okay, is he in the area or
he's some Canada. Oh he's Oh he is, Okay, but
he's got studios.
Speaker 10: In New York, Vermont.
Speaker 3: Okay, because I was gonna say, I know the name.
Speaker 10: Glenn Robinson is is world renowned you know?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know Gore Jason Newstead. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Is that what makes it so expensive? Because you talked
about well, no, but we are we are in an
industry of showing people that we know, important people, that
we've worked with, important people. Oh yeah, that's the whole
purpose of Swarmy Fest is for all of us to
create a long lasting resume.
Speaker 3: H mm hmm. How do you when you're when you're
putting together Swarmy Fest in terms of the bands that
you have booked, and you know, you talk about how
you don't want to have the same bands every year
obviously because I get stale. But but what what is
kind of the criteria that you look for with with
the band. It's because it's a really good mix.
Speaker 2: It's it's disappointing, and it's depressing because I have to
do it, and because you have to tell people, you
have to, you have to, you have to tell people no.
Speaker 10: That's something I want to do. I don't want to
make people unhappy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to tell people or or I
don't I don't want to tell them no, and then
they feel that I don't like their band or that
I don't like their because I like everything.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like I like, I loved I love death metal.
Speaker 2: But over the we used to book with a lot
of death metal bands in our shows, and and like
we had a lot of people say, you know, can
we just do one or two? Like a lot of
our fans, they want to more of a mix. So
we've been trying to do more of a blend. Yeah,
you know, or you'll get people to say, you know,
we book a lot of rappers and stuff, and people
wanted more of a blend. So just with with with
Because we book around Sepsis, we try to now book
the bands that really like us and fit in with us.
We used to book bands that didn't even like us. Really, Yeah,
why do you got to like our music? All you
got to do is be professional and get people in
the door.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 10: You don't got to like me, right, that's true. All
you got to do, all you got to do is
what you agreed to do.
Speaker 3: You don't.
Speaker 2: You don't have to do what you're not committed to do.
And you don't have to do what you agreed to do.
You don't have to do which you didn't agree to do.
Speaker 3: Right, So, if they didn't agree to like Sepsis, we don't.
We don't. We don't don't.
Speaker 2: We don't force people to like us, and we don't.
We don't make music, and some bands do do that.
I'm not being sarcastic, of course, some artists make music
for people to like it. Yeah, we just make music
and if you like it, you like it. If you don't,
then you don't.
Speaker 10: We don't care.
Speaker 2: That's not it's not a goal of ours to create
music that Spotify likes, right, because then we have to go, well,
let's find out what Spotify likes. What's the method of
Spotify likes to two minutes and eighty seconds? Spotify likes
it when you don't use swears Spotif so, then who's
right in the art now our fans. So if we
let our fans hold us hostage, if we let the
apps and the gadgets hold us hostage, me and Melissa
can't write, right, yeah, yeah, then we can't be authentic. Yeah,
so that's there's already a lot of bands that are
writing for the industry. Oh sure, there are a lot
of Always, there are plenty of bands that write for
their fans. Yeah, there are plenty of bands that write
to be monetized.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: We write to be honest, We write to be authentic. Yeah,
we write to just be ourselves. We just write to
to do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Are the two of you, You're the principal songwriters,
you and Melissa, the two of you write everything.
Speaker 2: These days it's it's whoever's doing it, Okay, Okay, these
days it's like, what if we're in the creative process,
you know, we were in the we were in the
studio last year, and and Zach sat sat down for
a few minutes, and we just didn't have a baseline,
you know. Yeah, And it's just sitting here listening to
the music, I think, trusting our ears and playing with
each other. We've all been working with each other for
so long. Yeah, there's a little bit of our personality
of the music. So we we've all gotten accustomed to
what each other like. Yeah, so sometimes you know, Lexi
will write up a drum pattern that she knows I'll
be impressed with, or you know, or I'll throw I'll
throw a riff at Melissa and I'll know because you know,
she'll be sitting there like, okay, yeah, that's that's stock.
Speaker 10: I'm not ready yet. It's got to be bigger than that.
Speaker 2: And when it gets big, you know, and then Melissa
doesn't doesn't say much, but but but she's got you know,
she got the communication when she likes something, you know,
that big old smile. I'll come up sure, and really,
I want to write music that my band members want
to play.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I'm not just quiet here, I'm quiet
in reality.
Speaker 2: So like I, I go around and we have like
a peer reviewing process and some of our most passionate
friends and fans and people that have been working with
us are in our staff chats and stuff. So like
we'll come up with with riffs, our creative ideas, and
we'll just ask people do you like it, and like
if they like it or if they have extra feedback.
Speaker 10: We usually go as a team together what we all
feel is best for the music.
Speaker 3: Right right, excellent? So what so tonight are you playing? Uh,
let's see, so are you playing the new song Bathwater?
Are you playing that tonight?
Speaker 10: Or we're playing Bathwaters?
Speaker 3: Excellent? Excellent? What about Force to Lay Down? You're playing
that one? Yes? Okay, good because I we played that
in the first hour today of the show and I
and I hope they play that tonight. Yeah. Yeah, so.
Speaker 10: Tonight's set list.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you're answering these questions because I don't know
if you remember this, but last year I asked you
and you you didn't want to reveal anything on the
arab get mad.
Speaker 9: At me, people get mad if we give everything away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll go, Hey, tune into Matt Connorton and then
we'll tell them the set list. Yeah, that has happened. Yeah,
And people don't get like raging man. Of course they're
like busting with.
Speaker 3: Us, you know, yeah, yeah, okay, but you are playing
those two Yeah, so you've committed, you've committed to that.
Speaker 10: You I'll give you a cheat.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: We have a new band member joining the band, so
naturally we're going to play a lot of songs that
incorporate the new band member, whether it be whether it
be keyboards are screaming, You're going to see a lot
of the new band member. Yeah, all right, all right,
that is the because that is the new edition. Okay,
so that people haven't heard. People haven't heard us with
keyboards in a while. We've had DJ's keyboards. We have
all kinds of different versions of this band.
Speaker 3: That's true. Yeah, the band has gone through a lot
of iteration.
Speaker 2: I shown somebody a picture of ten years ago with
Melissa before the braids, and they were like, what, Yeah,
they didn't even.
Speaker 10: Know who they were looking at such a baby face.
Yeah they don't know. Yeah, yeah, they thought we were
showing them another band.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's gonna be a geared more toward newer
material then, right, I hope.
Speaker 2: So if it, if it's I always want to because
a because you know, we're responsible for still pushing our
very first song. Yeah, Like, artists make that mistake of
believing that everybody heard their first favorite.
Speaker 9: Song and then they stopped pushing it and they stopped
pushing it.
Speaker 2: That's why we don't have a huge library or catalog,
because we don't want to be one of those artists
with like twenty albums of music that nobody listens to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a really good point.
Speaker 10: Yeah, really good music that nobody listens to.
Speaker 2: Right, because I had right, because if you so much
music gets missed, even with the even with national artists,
to the big artist. Sure, even traditionally they only push
a couple of singles, right, even ten years ago, thirty
years ago, even when the albums had seventeen tracks on it,
they only picked one or two of songs. And that's
what the Yeah that that hasn't changed. Well, yeah, everybody
pushed the singles. No, they push singles back then too.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well yeah, like when I work with clients,
when I work with radio clients doing college radio promotion,
you know, we pick a we pick a single, and
we send that out and you know, if if a
station isn't biting on that single. You know, maybe you'll
try to well, you know, here's the whole album, maybe
there's something here, you like, try to get them to
play something.
Speaker 10: But but it's Push was that song?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Push was the Push?
Speaker 5: Was that?
Speaker 2: So when our album came out and our record label like,
you know, we wanted we want a black Light to
be to be fun, you know, oh yeah, but in
the middle of black Light it says let's go f
it right right.
Speaker 10: We didn't know that getting into this.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: As a result, you haven't seen you haven't seen a
Septis song since with a bad word in it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, everything on our first well again.
Speaker 3: There is one.
Speaker 10: Uh fair to say it's on our first album.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, Well never like anything anything that was
written after that, we will never yeah yeah'll never do
it ever again.
Speaker 3: We never swear yeah yeah yeah. I don't know if
you even realize this. I played black Light Invasion I
made I made a radio edit of it. I played
it years ago. It was before we ever even met,
because I do that other show, Local Outbreak, and I
played it on that show just because I just found
you guys online and I was like, oh, I like
this song, and I just I made a radio edit
of it. So when it gets to that part instead
of you know what, it says yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Exactly, yeah, thank you yeah yeah, to send that to it, yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think I still have it, but that that
would have been geez, that would have been at least well,
what when did that song come out? It's over ten.
Speaker 2: Years, right, so I think I think I think the
first time we ever gave that to you it was
like a demo version, I believe.
Speaker 3: Well, no, when I when I played it originally, I
just found, like I said, we hadn't even met. I
found it online. I found you guys online on band camp.
I think is right.
Speaker 2: So that song, the song that the version that everybody
hears now wasn't really was not recorded until twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: Oh, so the one I played was what was it
a demo? Yes? That was online?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, strange steps is fact. We we we
didn't we we've been a band for fourteen years, yeah,
but we didn't. We didn't release music until five years ago.
Speaker 9: Oh, because we've gone through so many different lineups.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and the music changes, you know.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh wow, Okay, that's Sue at.
Speaker 10: A couple a couple of steps of facts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, most most people that play in Stepsis don't play over,
don't play over eighteen to thirty months, okay, And and
most members that play in Steps play under thirty shows.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's just it's just what it is. Yeah, yeah,
that's just what it is, all right, So don't feel bad, Zach.
Speaker 2: There they hold on, hold on, hold on, never there
are there are no band members except for Robert Pan
and Lexi, who have lasted in the band more than
two and a half three years.
Speaker 3: Wow, no kidding, that's just that's just what it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Lexi's been in the band for seven years
and Robert's been in the band on and off for
ten years.
Speaker 3: Well but she's only been in the band band today, right,
So that that resets the clock, doesn't that reset the
clock in a new department? Yeah, so you're starting all over, yes, yeah,
complete newbie. So now you can't leave at least for
another two and a half years. Why I could break
that's true, that's true. Well we are oh wow, we
are rapidly approaching the top of the hour. It all
goes so fast. So one last push for tonight, So
swarmy fest tonight doors open at seven or is the
show start at.
Speaker 10: Seven, doors at six music six thirty.
Speaker 3: Oh, music starts at six thirty.
Speaker 9: Yes, okay, gotcha's changed since the flyer?
Speaker 10: Oh okay, okay, no, that's what the original flyer did
say that though, And that's good.
Speaker 3: To tell our live listeners that though. So yeah, so
so Tonight, Loud Entertainment presents US Swarmy Fest Sepsis Silent
Season under the Horizon Pulsifier, The Cherry Fog Temptress, also
featuring Lilith Kat and the Blood Witch, and of course
Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are very proud and honored to
again be participating along with Legion of Solace, Speed Demon Promotions, Violets,
Rain BPS Records, Denny Lynz Creations. Did I miss anybody
that was really good? Thank you? I try. Well, we're
Jenny and I are really excited about tonight. So we're
we're very very happy and always wonderful to have you
on and wonderful to have all of you here. Thank
you for coming in, Thanks for having us absolutely absolutely
so yeah. So if you're listening live on Saturday, make
sure you come to Jewel tonight for swarmy Fest, and
yeah we are. I don't even have time to play
another song. We are out of time, but that's okay.
We had a lot to talk about. That's a good problem.
So if you missed any part of today's show, it'll
be up in just a little bit at wmhradio dot
orgon on my website Matt connorton dot com. And that's
it for us for now. We'll see it swarmy Fest.
Bye everybody, Bye
Speaker 2: All ten