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Speaker 2: The band is Sepsis, and we have members of Sepsis
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to talk about. Welcome everybody. We have entered our number
three newmarrow, trace of Matt Connorton unleashed and we are
live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point
three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. If you are
listening live today is Saturday, September thirteenth, twenty twenty five.
Jenny is here at the news table and we have
joining us in studio. Let's see, so we have William,
Melissa hello, and Lexi who is now officially in the band.
Speaker 11: Yes, Hi Hello, what a grand introduction.
Speaker 12: Well, we try, We try so much, absolutely so. Uh yeah,
there's there's a lot going on.
Speaker 2: Should we talk about Swarmyfest first and then we'll and
then we'll touch back and talk about it later. Sure,
after we catch up with everything that's been going on
with the band. But big event coming up November fifteenth.
Speaker 11: November fifteenth. I'm really excited. This is our fourth it's
our fourth time doing this and we are back at
Jewel in Manchester. Yes, yeah, so we we we We
did the show the first few times we did it
at Jewel and last year we did it in Lowell
at That was a lot of fun.
Speaker 12: And I still think it's tafaa.
Speaker 2: Every every time I know we talked about this, I know,
I know we talked about this last year, But every
time you say t Feta I think of cheese because
I love feta cheese.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 2: Definitely I want a Greek salad now, I desperately want
a Greek salad.
Speaker 12: Anyway, I'm sorry.
Speaker 11: Swarmy Fest is a is a community event and a
lot of the things that we do there is by request. Okay,
so by request we're back at Manchester. Yes, yes, you know,
for the drive and this isn't Stepsist show. This isn't
stepsis Fest with the hosts and organizers of the show,
and most importantly it's something that we decided to do
to really showcase new bands every year to our friends
and our fans and fans of our band.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we've met a lot of great bands through through you.
Speaker 11: Oh that's kind of like what we do and through
the through the festival. Yeah, some people might think that
it's like a hallmark or maybe even a gimmick or something,
but we really that the support and local bands thing
is not just something we do on Facebook and Swarmy
Fest is part of that. That's how we want to
be able to show our work and take it out
of the comment sections, take it out of the podcasts.
It's one thing to sound fancy on Instagram. Support local
and the whole bit. But what we was like, out
of the the lockdowns and the pandemic stuff, we met
so many people online. And we are one of those
local bands that are lucky enough to have fans from
all over the world. Yeah, and we'd always have people
fantasizing with us on Twitch in our various streams about hey,
someday when we get out of this thing, someday when
we get out of the joint, you know, we're all
gonna no. But it was like that, Yeah, we all
shared that, and it was like, hey, one day we
all got to get together and hang out and have
a festival. And this was our fans on Twitch. This
is our fans on the right, people that we've never
met before, not people in town. You know, it's hard
enough trying to get your friends and family and people,
let your neighbors to support music. But we're lucky enough
to have people all over the country and all over
the world that support us. And we'd always kick around
the idea, you know, maybe because the band doesn't have
a huge budget to tour, because it's difficult for local
and regional acts to move around. We kind of joked
humbly at the idea of everybody just coming to see
us because the band couldn't We couldn't get out of
the state, we couldn't get out of the region. We
had minimal touring experience, and are really the biggest fans
of our band are people that invest in us long term.
We found that the biggest supporters and fans of our
band are the people that don't just leave criticism, but
they're here to watch the band grow, and they're big investors,
not only just like buying tickets and supporting us that way,
but they're also they also invest in the band longevity
and they're here to stay. So it's so hard for
bands to tour, and a lot of people would say, oh,
we you know, a lot of bands get this. You
should be bigger, or we think you guys should play
this venue, or you guys should be so much bigger,
and that could be encouraging to hear, and sometimes it
could for some bands that could be like, oh gosh,
we've heard that a lot you know, you guys should
be so much bigger or better, And depending on what
side of the bed you woke up on that day,
it could be a compliment. So at a combination of
our biggest supporters. They came up with the idea of
all getting together, choosing a date and everybody flying in,
all of our twitch fans, all of our online fans
wanted to do a show. And as we got closer,
you know, to two thousand and one, closer to the
first time we did the show, we took the challenge
on as a reality and we just booked the date.
It happened that a lot of our fans and people
flying in had some time off, and that's how this
whole thing started.
Speaker 5: And people continue to fly out to this thing, I
mean from all over.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so it's it's kind of like a super fan experience,
and we call it Swarmy Fest because the swarmies aren't
just like the fans of Sepsis. You've got people that
are fans of your band or fans of wrestling or whatever,
but they, you know, they don't mind talking a little
crap about you, you know in the back hallway. A
swarmy is somebody that's a little bit bigger than a fan.
It's bigger than somebody that that just comes out for
the music. Swarmies are people that publicly support Sepsis, publicly
have been storing uh been following the storyline. People have
been day one ers, people who are very cognitive and
self aware about our mission, about our message and what
we're trying to do. That's what swarmies are. Yeah, they're
you know, they're they're the super super duper fan. They're
they're the next possible thing that you can be as
a band staff member or an actual band member. So
that's why we call it Swarmy Fest because it's really
it's their show, and they fly in, they drive in
our of course, our fans locally and our friends all
help us our responses and all the bands. The twist
is each because they made it, Because they make it
an annual thing. You'll recognize some people over the years,
and because of it, we all curate the show together.
Everything is by request. If they want a food truck,
they get a food truck. If they want more hair
metal bands, we do more hair metal bands. If we want,
you know, dancing cage girls, we do cage girls. If
we want balloon animals, we listen to what the Swarmies
are looking to do. We make improvements from the year before,
and that's what it's all about, and bringing in of course,
not only bringing bands that we love to work with
and bands we want to work with, because that's the
bands that.
Speaker 12: Play on Swarmy Fests.
Speaker 11: Other bands that we really loved, we love their music,
we hire them, we look up to them, and we
either work with them in the past or we really
want to work with them now. So that's why you
see the bands that you see each year on Swarmy Fest.
They are also bands that want to work with us.
We're firm and believing that bands do better when they
work with the bands that they want to work with.
Of course, because everybody treats the show as one baby.
Everybody treats the show. Everybody comes in together, everybody leaves together,
and we're all working towards the same goals.
Speaker 12: So each year, the fans, the sponsors, the bands.
Speaker 11: And everybody that's involved is all working and hoping for
the same outcome, and everybody's resonating towards the same goals,
and you get brand new bands every year.
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, And.
Speaker 22: Another thing that makes Swarmy Fest so big and special
and why it keeps getting bigger and bigger is the
fact that this is all the swarmys Idea down to
the name Swarmy Fest named it. We didn't name it
Swarmy Fast. They named it.
Speaker 11: Were like, what are we going to call it?
Speaker 22: And another thing too that makes it so big and
so special is the fact that all these bands throughout
the years all run over to our messages and they're dying.
They look forward to playing, and they look forward to
it every year. It's like something that they look forward.
Speaker 11: It's really sad to turn people away because there's so
many people.
Speaker 12: That haven't had the opportunity to play at a place.
Speaker 22: Like this, and it really goes into like a new
form of like content creation and being in a band,
and that's making a community like the made us want
to do Swarmy Fest is the fact not only do
they want to see us and meet us, but they
wanted to meet each other just as bad. They wanted
to make new friends just as bad within the Sepsis community.
And that is why we really strive to do what
they ask us to take those requests and keep it
going every year because it's built such a strong community
that not only do the Swarmies make friends and bring
their friends to Swarmy Fest and make friends to the
other bands, fans and things, but other bands look forward
and die almost and like dietively.
Speaker 11: I want to She's touching on something though, because when
we came out of the lockdowns, and we came out
of not playing music for years of being on stage
or seeing our friends, it did feel claustrophoba.
Speaker 12: It was hard to get back out.
Speaker 11: And Swarmy Fest was a big part of encouraging people
to heal and get back out and get in the
room together and make new friends and and and and
and and regrow our credibility with each other. So Swarmy She's.
Speaker 12: Right about that.
Speaker 22: It proves that music has died.
Speaker 11: And when and when true fans of music can't get
out there and have that experience and that can activity,
it feels like you're dying when us as music musician,
people tell me to light up, lighting up all the time.
Speaker 12: No, and I don't want to. Music is my life.
Speaker 11: So for some people that you know, their kids are
their life and and and I could tell them to
lighten up about it, you know, when when their kid
loses a soccer game. I don't lighten up about music
because music saved my life. Guitar saved my life. It's
responsible for my sobriety. It's responsible for the best decisions
I've ever made in my life. It keeps me happy
saying healthy. It's responsible for my best loves, my my my,
my most deepest friendships. So I don't lighten up about
music because music and art, one word, one poem can
change the course of humanity.
Speaker 2: Oh well, well said, well said. Oh by the way, too,
you were talking about uh, you know, bands, new new
bands and so forth being added, and I was very excited.
Silent Season.
Speaker 12: Oh my god, the show.
Speaker 5: We've got Island seasons, scarecrow Hill, what is going on?
And Temptress.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's knockdown stuff.
Speaker 11: It's not I'm so thrilled. I'm so thrilled. It's crazy.
And the Silent Season thing. We've been trying to get
Silent Season on Swarmy Fest for two.
Speaker 12: Years, no kidding. Yeah, that's the fun. That's the fun part.
Speaker 11: And they're they're they're awesome dudes, and and they've been
so cool every year they wanted to play. They've just
had so much cooler things going on.
Speaker 12: Not the swarming Fest isn't cool.
Speaker 11: But you know, when you're when you're advancing, when you're
spiraling up, you know, you know you want to you
want to root for people, like Lexie was talking about,
you really want to root for people in your neighborhood
when they're doing well. Because when it when you're doing well,
we can it's a sign that we can all do well.
Speaker 12: Exactly exactly.
Speaker 11: Biration happens at the top, competition happens at the bottom.
Speaker 2: Right, right, We should talk too about So Lexi, you're
in the band now so used to be used to
be officially the merch girl, right, but but you were
already like really an integral part of things, right, Yes,
So I.
Speaker 22: Did start off as the merch girl. I've been in
the band for six years as the merch girl. Yeah,
and podcaster and podcaster and screaming within the last couple
of years. That is not going away, by the way,
I'm still going to be screaming. But keyboards popped up
within the summer actually of this year.
Speaker 11: Okay, Lexie's a drummer, yeah, Todd.
Speaker 22: The drums and drums, drums, I love it, and that's
not going away either.
Speaker 5: Basically a percussionists.
Speaker 22: Yeah, and the keyboards. I didn't really know it first
until until the summertime when we started talking about playing
keyboards because the spot's been open for quite some time
and they wanted to have the keyboards back. And I've
been doing percushion and rhythm on the drums, and they're like, well,
there's another instrument out there that could help with your
percussion musical journey, and that's the keyboard.
Speaker 11: That's piano's kind of percussion. People debate about that.
Speaker 5: I look more like that.
Speaker 22: It's pretty rhythmic. It has its own rhythm, it has
its own little space. It's kind of like sneaky kind
of is it a.
Speaker 11: String instrument or is it a percussion instrument?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 2: Because you know when you know the way it's built there,
that's what. I don't know the terminology, but when you
push the keys on a piano, it strikes again. I
don't know the terminal.
Speaker 22: Like it has its own pattern and stuff. Especially with
playing stepsis. They the keyboards have like its own pattern
along with everything. It's not separate, it is along with it. Yeah,
those in the little spaces kind of like atmospheric is
how we kind of use the.
Speaker 5: Keyboards of atmospheric. It can be.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it so a lot, especially a lot of the
modern bands and with with a lot of the technology
up there. A lot of bands have lap A lot
of bands we play with, especially when we do the
bigger festivals of the shows, the national bands, the big
touring bands, they all have backtracks, laptops, light shows, and
so they have all us to fill in and it
sounds great, and I'm just for us. We always want
to try to as much as we could. We wanted
to try to play the music as close as we
could to the records, but there's some layering in there.
And we're originally a six piece band, so when you
take the keyboards out of the band, there's a lot
of work that we have to do on stage, the
guitar players and the technology that we have on stage,
if you've seen us recently, just our pedal boards, backup vocals,
we have to do a lot to try to fill
in that space with a keyboard is and a lot
of bands, national bands, you know, you got to play
night tonight, so they use backtracks with sometimes the backup
vocals on and actual keyboard layerings. And it's not because
they're evil people. It's because they're trying to keep their
jobs and they're trying to keep their voices and they're
trying to stay on stage every night because touring is
difficult and to get on night after night you might
need some extra technology to push you. Yeah, we're not
a national band or a touring band, so we want
to take advantage of that so we get to have
a good rest before every show. Yeah, right, So we
really want to avoid we always have up until this point.
We have a big, rich, robust sound, but we want
to avoid as much as possible bringing computers up there
and you know, having to log into the Wi Fi
and look for Bluetooth just to play music. So that's
why we love having a keyboard player in the band.
And for a while there we were like, come planning
like something we need a DJ, Like we need a DJ,
or we need a some sort of thing.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 11: We just felt like we were ready for it. Yeah,
and like it's like, well, I'll do it.
Speaker 12: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 22: Spot popped up and it was over the summer. Never
touched a keyboard, and I was like, I'll try it out,
I'll learn.
Speaker 20: Yeah.
Speaker 22: At first, I was a little skeptical because I have
tendonitis in my hands. Oh really, so playing with the
fingers and everything, I was like, I don't know if
this is going to trigger something. Yeah, but I was
playing through it and looking online at some of the
other people that play keyboards and pianos and stuff and
have the same issues. They were able to come up
with exercises and stretchings and things to help prevent stuff
like that. So I am like, so on top of
every time before I play the keyboard, I have to stretch.
I have to warm up my fingers just in order
to play, so that I can continue to play, play
in sepsis and not have it trigger.
Speaker 5: You also had to learn correct posture.
Speaker 22: Finger positioning. It's something to learn the music like you're
playing a C minor, but my fingers might want of
my thumb might want to be on the black finger
placement is on top. Is a big not intricate, but
a big part of playing the keyboard alone, just knowing what.
Speaker 11: It is absolutely and staying on stage for years. We
would talk about longevity.
Speaker 12: You know, this is wow, this is our fourteenth year
as a band.
Speaker 11: So in order to be a band in New England,
in order to be a surviving local band, you need longevity.
Speaker 12: You know, you have to have You can't.
Speaker 11: Screw people over, you can't burn a lot of bridges.
You can't go broke, you can't. You can't have health problems,
you can't have drug habits, you can't have issues with
the law, you can't have tons of debt, and you
can't and have well, you know what we all have
is uh if if you're my age and you're still
in the band as you have lower back pain, so
let's see touched on it. If you want to stay
on stage, you got to stretch, right if you're going
to live. You know, we don't people. It was always
our plan to be in a band forever.
Speaker 16: Ye.
Speaker 11: This is a legacy and forever band. And that's why
we've never worried about getting rich or being famous because
this is who we are. It's not something we want
to become. Right, So if this is who we are,
we have to be ourselves every day. Every day I
wake up brown, I can't you know so I so
every day I wake upsis every day I wake up
in the band. I'm not a hobbyist. This isn't a
side gig for me. So because it is who I am,
I have to be sound mind, I have to be
I have to do yoga, I.
Speaker 5: Have to.
Speaker 11: There's a lot that goes on outside of what we
do in a twenty second clip or a thirty minute set.
There's a lot more stretching, there's a lot more eating, Yep,
there's a lot more therapy. There's a lot more friendship
that's going on, you know, behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: That makes sense. That makes sense. So will this be
at Swormy Fest? LEXI, will this be your debut as
a keyboard player? Because you've been on stage with the
band before, screaming right next.
Speaker 12: I remember that.
Speaker 22: Yeah, but this definitely this will be the first keyboard performance.
Will be at Stormy Fest.
Speaker 12: Okay, okay, excellent. Are you nervous?
Speaker 22: I'm not gonna lie. I am a little bit. Yeah,
she's like I am now, And it's mainly because of
the whole just being in the experience of it all. Like, yeah,
it's not just because the people are watching me. It's
the is the fact that this is the first time
ever I'm playing an instrument.
Speaker 11: And not only he's accountable, she's a great friend. She
doesn't want to let her friends down.
Speaker 22: But like in a band with a group of other people,
he also playing instrument. It's not in my room right
with people professionals front of others on a stage, so
that part of the experience is what makes me a
little nervous.
Speaker 12: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 22: It's so used to playing music in the living room,
right right, yea other people and like.
Speaker 11: And like, Lexi's the baby of the bunch. Everything that
she's experienced in the band, she's always been the youngest
one or the least she's she's right, she's picking up
the drums for the first time, or she's playing video
games for the first time, or it was her first
time on podcasting. But you know, now everybody knows her
for podcasting, and I think she's gonna do just as
good it this says she does and other things that
Lexi seems to do good at everything she tries to
do or wants to do.
Speaker 12: There you go, there you go excellent. Can you talk
about the podcast too, Yeah, So it's new. Okay, it's new.
We're still kind of working on it. Yeah.
Speaker 11: So the the the newest version is called The Sepsist Show,
and the Stepsist Show is really a jambalaya, a compilation
of all of our best live streams. So originally we
had the Metal Honeys podcast all right, o, Lexi, that
was the very first podcast that we did. Then we
had the Honeycomb hide Out. The girls had their live
stream which is a little bit different as you know
Swarm TV and Swarm TV was like more like band
news and band updates. And then we had Honeycomb Hideout
version two point zero with me zach Our bass player
and and Lexi, and then I decided to do it
alone for a little while and William Versus the World, which, oh, yes,
which is much more like a kinetic Yeah, it was
a good show. It was a lot on Yeah, but
you know, me yelling at people a lot.
Speaker 5: But but I mean you haven't gone anywhere though now, So.
Speaker 11: There is now all of those shows kind of fit
in to our segments. So now there's a William versus.
Speaker 12: The World part. I think that's smart.
Speaker 11: There is there's there's so now the Swarm TV that
was there before is there now. It's just in the
beginning of the show as a segment. And then we
move on to articles and we talk about like the
Rock Metal Reset stuff where we're still doing the educational
you know, teaching people about YouTube, you know, letting people
know about updates on Instagram and how to do marketing
and basically the technologies is moving so quickly. We use
this stuff to stay up. You know, yes, it's a
podcast and we're teaching people, but we it we're double
dipping here because it's a way for us to stay
up to date with what's coming in matt if we didn't.
Speaker 12: We kind of like multi purpose and this stuff.
Speaker 11: So we get a lot of articles, and we get
a lot on technology and social media and as musicians,
if you want to do what we're doing, Stepsi. This
isn't just a band or models or photographers or videoographers
or streamers or podcasters or marketers. We do commercials. We're everywhere.
So if you're everywhere, you need to know everything. You
need a big toolbox. You need you know, you need
to make friends, you need large networks, you need credibility,
you know, you need receipts, you need to be able
to come with it, and you need and you need
to stay up to date. So we get a lot
of information and we go, oh my god, what are
we going to do with all this information? We bring
it on podcast.
Speaker 5: And when it comes to the podcast, I'm the girl
behind the scenes doing all the production. Yeah, I'm the
one in the comments. I might not be like on
the stream anymore. But I do plan on streaming again soon.
I will be back on Twitch this October, like the
first week of October. Okay, I think it's October. Third
is going to be my first live stream.
Speaker 12: Oh, she does everything, crafts.
Speaker 5: Cooking, I'm going to be bringing back a lot of that.
People want to see me painting again, crafting. I'm definitely
going to be doing some jewelry in probably some gaming.
Speaker 11: Okay, Okay, we sell paintings like I mean, and we
really do. Oh you're in a band and you I
don't know if people notice, but paint, do karaoke, talk
with people.
Speaker 5: You're gonna do all that?
Speaker 11: Do do do drops or radio drops or do commercials.
Speaker 12: I'm not I'm not.
Speaker 11: I'm not sure people know how much we make just
being on social media. We don't have personal social media accounts.
We're only there to do the Stepsis thing. So because
of it, we built up a relationship with all of
these companies Instagram, Google, and for you bands out there,
instead of posting about your dinner or getting in arguments online,
encourage your band to play music, to talk with people,
to podcast, to nick you know, Lexi knits crochets, we paint,
use a combination, use everything you got, you know, and
use it not just to make money, but to start
conversations and make connections with people. Because Facebook, we don't
just spend a lot of time on Facebook. We don't
just scream at the microphone. Bands. People out there, creators,
people pay Sepsis to go on social media. The social
media companies pay us to be there and talk in
the comments sections. And you could do it too. Yeah,
everybody can be doing this. You don't have to argue
in the comments sections or fill your fill your day
with stress. For those of you that make music or
have skills or talents, and you think, oh, I don't
know if it belongs in the band. I don't know
if it belongs in my business. Work it in, right,
if you can work it in, work it in, especially
the social media. And spent a wasting time and sitting
there and burning out these guys when we go on.
Every time we go on and we put something on
social media, remember we're getting paid for it.
Speaker 12: Yeah. So if you see me in a twenty if
you see me in a twenty second clip, yeah, it's
my jobs. That's good. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, speaking of comments By the way, we got somebody
sent this in on the website for people someone I
assume listening to Matt Connerson dot com. Slash Live asks
the question what can a true first time Swarmy Fest
visitor look forward to in November? And what's your favorite
aspect of the night? And this question is signed Lendorris.
Speaker 12: Someone.
Speaker 5: You know this is going to be the sexiest rock
and roll show in New England.
Speaker 17: This is this is sir.
Speaker 11: Yeah, this isn't like a This isn't like a teenage
boys sweaty T shirts, people beating each other up in
bloody noses thing. Okay, people come out right, no, I mean,
for one, for one, I don't know if people notice,
but we're a heavy metal band that gets girls out
to come.
Speaker 12: The women come out.
Speaker 5: Yep. We've got some sexy dancers that are going.
Speaker 11: To be We've got we've got stage dancers. We've got
Cat in the Blood Witch, We've got yea Lilist and
the Blood Wish they have. They're doing a two to
three song set. It's before the steps is set, which
is great. So if you want to see the girls,
you got to stay all night.
Speaker 5: They're going to have a special performance of their own.
You're not gonna want to miss yep.
Speaker 11: I mean we got we got, we got the Zachie
b Raffle.
Speaker 5: We people have been asking for it, so we brought
a food truck.
Speaker 12: We find they got. Okay, it's a lot of Yeah.
Speaker 11: The way we do the music is a little bit
different too, you know, like a lot of local bands
or or traditional shows might have you know, forty minute
sets or bands get up there. Because of so many bands,
we like to do a thing called jump sets, where
we all kind of share gear. We're all moving quickly. Yeah,
bands get up you've obviously been. But for the people
that don't know at home, there's not allowed to stand
around and wait stuff. Bands are on and off the
stage rather quickly, and the sets are short. Yeah, it's
you know, it's it's twenty twenty six coming up, and
we for the the harmony and the motivation of the time.
We like to keep things moving. We like to keep
the show to be fast and fluid.
Speaker 12: Yep.
Speaker 11: So not a not a not a lot of long
set times. Good And of course we have the Pajama
Jammy jam Hotel after party. Okay, it's going to be
a blast, but you can't bring any kids to that, No,
I wouldn't.
Speaker 12: I wouldn't think, So we have.
Speaker 11: We have something special for that too, and so here's
the deal too with that. For those folks that want
to do the after party, pre sale tickets to Swarmy
Fast are twelve bucks. We keep it twelve bucks because
we're a local band. This is a local show.
Speaker 12: Yep.
Speaker 11: We encourage everybody to go buy pre sale tickets because
it really helps the bands.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right now it's only it's twelve bucks pre sale
for Stormy Fast.
Speaker 12: It's really good.
Speaker 11: The cool thing about that is if you screenshot your
pre sale ticket and you send it to the band page,
it automatically for now, for a limited time, it guarantees
you a spot at the after party.
Speaker 12: Okay, yeah, so.
Speaker 5: Those are extremely limited at this point.
Speaker 11: Right Tickets to the after party and the after party
is awesome. I mean there's select private and extra performances.
As you know, the Friday night, those of you that
are flying in and also doing VIP on Friday night,
we do a karaoke show and we do an extra
sepsist performance separate and Saturday.
Speaker 5: Too, so you got a karaoke and jam night the.
Speaker 11: Night before, just because a lot of our friends they're
flying in. They don't want to hang out for Saturday.
Speaker 5: Something special for our VIPs.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and watch us get up on stage and leave
right of course, you know. So a lot of our
good friends are coming in. They might be flying in
Thursday staying till Monday. So we we take this time
off for the year and put everything into it.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, no, that's fantastic.
Speaker 11: I heard all the tables are sold Oh yes, yes,
there is there. The VIP tables are sold out, unfortunately,
but there are still booths. And this is important because
sometimes you get there you want to buy some merch.
Merch goes early in the day at Swarmy Fest. Yeah,
posters go early, so a lot of people they want
to buy stuff early and then they happy where to
put it. If you're coming, if you're coming with three
to five people, it's best to get a booth because
they're good for five tickets. You're saving a bunch of.
Speaker 5: Cash, right right, and you got somewhere to put your stuff.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 11: So, unfortunately, tables are sold out, but they're still booths.
Speaker 5: There's like four boots left.
Speaker 11: Okay, So I think that I think that the two
biggest features of this year. Three silent season.
Speaker 12: This is all for me.
Speaker 11: Uh and of course the girls man Dancing Girls Silent
Season in the food truck.
Speaker 12: Okay, oh yeah, yeah, very cool.
Speaker 5: We also got a bunch of sponsors for this thing.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, Velvet, Velvet rain, Dney's Creations.
Speaker 12: Of course. I don't know who these people are.
Speaker 7: W m n h.
Speaker 11: Some guy named Matt Connorton.
Speaker 12: That guy right, that guy my corner. I don't know.
Speaker 2: The first time, the first time I was ever in
the Hippopress, this was a very long time ago, they
spelled my name Cornington.
Speaker 12: Oh my god, Cornington.
Speaker 22: That's interesting.
Speaker 17: Read.
Speaker 11: That's when people call me Williams Savant.
Speaker 12: I was that, Yeah, I was. I was displeased.
Speaker 2: The next time I was in there they got it right.
But yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to direct. We should
definitely show some love to these sponsors.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you want to Denay's Creations. Lots of crafters, and
I don't mean like corny crafting. These these folks are good.
Speaker 22: I'm talking beautiful stuff.
Speaker 12: Apparel, jewelry, yes, everything is.
Speaker 11: Yeah. We have a theme going this year, and that's inclusion.
The big theme this year is brown people, gay people, women,
white people, brown people. If you like metal, if you
like country, if you're there for for human peace and
you're there to for the music, and you're there for
the neighborhood and you're there to make friends, you're welcome there. Yeah,
that's the theme.
Speaker 12: Excellent, outstanding. No, I like that.
Speaker 5: I heard Rain is going to be bringing some cool
Stepsist themed candles.
Speaker 11: Oh there's Yeah, a lot of the crafters are doing
like Swarmy Fest theme stuff or Stepsist theme stuff or
it feels good, the energy is good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's so much chakra things to chacra set cool.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and of course again it's it's been hard to
actually get new sponsors because our sponsors are so awesome
every year. That's a good sign when your sponsors want
to come back, and when you want the same sponsors,
it's really good. So Legion of Solace is bad as
our main sponsors shout out to Tuesday and them shout
out to Bruce and they're so awesome.
Speaker 23: Actually, God, Legion Bracelet at last year swarming.
Speaker 12: Right now.
Speaker 11: And the reason why we keep bringing Legion of Solace
back as well as Matt Connorton is because they're perfect fits.
They know, you guys know what we're trying to do.
It's clear English, it's straight lines. And if anybody ever
wanted to experience being in a band and having authentic,
legit sponsors come in and sponsor your band and sponsor
a local show, Legion of Solace is it. They are
the reason every Swarmy Fest, Legion of Solace has been
our main sponsors. And the reason why is because they're legit.
Speaker 12: Yep. Absolute.
Speaker 22: I love their new logo and they got it logo
is awesome.
Speaker 12: I'll have to check that out. I really want a
T shirt.
Speaker 5: I love the art.
Speaker 11: Right, they changed their logo and then you know, we
had the podcast and we got caught wearing the old shirt.
Speaker 5: We definitely need some shirts.
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, I have a shirt.
Speaker 11: I'll have to and we have shirts from Matt Connorton
when we get off right, Yes I forget that, yes, yes, well,
speaking of that, So the time does go quickly. So
let's remind everybody where. So where should they go to
get tickets for a Swarmy Fest.
Speaker 5: So there's a link to event, right, you can go
to the website, our website. Oh yeah, go on our
website as well.
Speaker 12: Oh and I like the new site. By the way,
I like to redesign.
Speaker 20: Well done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it looks really good. I'm a website nerd,
so I noticed things like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely time for an upgrade. We were feeling like
we were stuck in the nineties or something. Yeah, we
had to improve that a little bit. Much easier to
like find.
Speaker 12: Our merch The integration is better too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so that there's mad categories. You can just click up.
Speaker 11: Bands, bands, bands, get a website. It's so impt because
what seriously, all of these crazy oligarchs and all these billionaires,
what if they changed their mind and enclosure storefront. What
if you wake up one day and your Instagram page
is down because of some weird community standard or it's
not even your fault. It could be a technical era,
a misunderstanding. But you don't own the IP. You don't
own them, you're not it's not your register dot com.
Speaker 12: Yeah that.
Speaker 11: People ask me all the time. What's the most powerful
thing we've ever done as a band. It's not write
a song. It's register a website and own and own our.
Speaker 12: Name many home exactly very important.
Speaker 11: Just in just in case things go down like they did,
we started in the steps that started in the MySpace era.
We had a MySpace page and we built it and
we built a lot of value on it, remember, and
then one day it went down.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, absolutely, all right, what's saying you were about
to tell us the website so.
Speaker 5: At the stepsis dot com spelled s E P s
I S S dot com. Don't forget that extra S
at the end. Yeah, you won't be able to find us.
Speaker 11: You'll find all type all the stuff.
Speaker 5: To remind everybody. Swarmy Fest will be November fifteenth at
the Jewel Nightclub in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Speaker 2: Outstanding, No, I can't wait, can't wait, and we're excited
to be a part of it as always, so really
looking forward to that. So thank you, thank you all
three of you for coming into that absolutely and for
those of you listening live, Jenny, we've got your art
showing at Mosaic.
Speaker 23: Yes today, opening is today, The Full Circle Art Show
is today from four to eight pm.
Speaker 11: You're gonna bring some art Swarmy Fest, right, yes, awesome.
Speaker 23: Sixty six Hanover Street, Sweet two oh one right here
in the Queen City, so definitely come say hi to
set the Mosaic Art Collective for the art show and
then after that we are heading to Bad Burger.
Speaker 2: Vice's Inc. Invited us tonight. It's Vices Inc. And Plague Dad,
a couple of great acts from Portland. They've both been
on the show. And uh and of course Under the Horizon. Yes,
we're also at Swarby Fest.
Speaker 11: Yeah, we got to play the Plague Dad too at
vices Fast. If you have not seen Vice's band about
they playing tonight, No.
Speaker 12: Yes they are.
Speaker 11: Yeah, they're so good.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: They invited Jenny and I to go to vices Fest,
but it was just too hard to get away that weekend,
just too many things going on.
Speaker 11: It was a great show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's right, that's right. Yeah, you were there outstanding.
So we're gonna close with this track, play the game.
So this is one of the newer ones, right, yes,
all right, very good. Anything we should know about this
before we play it? Yeah, to close out the show. Yeah,
Lexi's on Screams Okay.
Speaker 11: Me and Lexi are screaming in the song okay, and
this song is also it's a bit of a duet.
Me and Melissa go back and forth on cleans Okay,
Me and Lexie are on the screams.
Speaker 12: All right, very good.
Speaker 2: So we'll give this a spin, and if you miss
any part of today's show, it will be up in
just a little bit at w m n hradio dot
org and at my website Matt connorton dot com. And again,
thank you all three of you. Come see Sepsis. That's
warmy fest on November fifteenth. That's gonna be a great day.
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