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Speaker 7: In a James and You'll love you baby, You'll love
the baby, You'll love You'll not go.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 8: That is Aorta baby. The band is Euphemia and we've
got a couple members of the band here with us
live and studio. We're gonna be talking with them in
just a moment. But I love that song. As I
like to say, if that doesn't get you move in,
check your pulse, you might be dead, because that is
really really catchy. I love that and looking forward to
talking with them. And if you are listening live on Saturday,
today is October twenty five, twenty twenty five. This is
Matt Connorton Unleashed and we have entered our number three
new Marow trace of the live show live from the
studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM and
Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. And of course you can stream
the show from anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com
slash live for all your live streaming options, social media links,
contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera. But right
now we have Gina and Brian here from the band.
Am a welcome, Hello, wonderful to have you here. I've
been looking forward to this because I really love sent
me a bunch of songs and I love all of them.
Thank you. Just catchy as hell, so so good. So
what do you each do in the band? I mean, Gina,
I assume that's you singing.
Speaker 9: That's me singing, and I'm the songwriter as well. Okay,
I didn't write that song. Oh that's the only song
on the album. I did not write. That was by
my late great father Kit Brown. Oh okay, musician as well.
Speaker 8: Oh wow, okay, okay. And what do you do in
the band, Brian?
Speaker 10: I play guitar and sing backup vocals.
Speaker 8: Excellent, excellent? And who else is who's not with you today?
I assume are you a four piece? You're a five piece? Okay?
Speaker 9: Sometimes a six piece?
Speaker 8: Oh wow?
Speaker 9: So we have Josh Dover on drums, Brian who let
on guitar as well, and Ryan Monario.
Speaker 8: On bass okay yep. And then who's the sixth person?
Speaker 9: So sometimes we have my best friend Ellen who comes
and sings background vocals with us to kind of fill
it out a little bit.
Speaker 8: Oh very good, very good, And we should mention too.
So you came to us through Vice's Inc. Yes, Jagger
recommended you, and you know, we love Vice's inc. Absolutely,
they're so sweet. Yeah. So you're from you're from Portland
as well?
Speaker 9: Portland?
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, great scene there. There's always a
lot going on there. It's been that way forever too.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, it's a great music scene and there's a
lot of rock and roll and punk and just music
people aren't really tapped into in other parts of me
and that you wouldn't really know about unless you're in Portland,
and it's really special.
Speaker 8: It's true. Yeah, yeah, very true. So where's the name
come from? Euphemia?
Speaker 9: Euphemia is the name of my great grandmother on my
dad's side. Yeah, okay, I never met her, but I
always thought it was such a cool name. And yeah,
I know it's kind of like ambiguous and people are like,
what does that mean?
Speaker 10: Is it?
Speaker 9: Is it like euphemia like feminism? And I'm like, no,
it's just just a woman's name.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I was, and I wasn't sure. You know,
we'll pull back the curtain and tell the listeners. I
had to ask you before because I was sure, you know,
because I've been talking about it, you know, leading up
to today. But I wasn't sure if I was saying
it right or yeah, and I was not saying it right.
I assumed it was, so I was saying it wrong totally.
Does it ever get misspelled like on posters or anything
like that, for.
Speaker 9: We usually have to make the posters.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, just as well. Right, Yeah, I can see.
So how long has the band been around? Has a
band been around a while? Because you've got a lot
of music.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean we've been a band since twenty thirteen.
Oh okay, we just joined Instagram in twenty twenty four,
so a lot of Okay, we've only been around for
like a year. But no, we've been around since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, probably not the same line up all the time.
I wouldn't think.
Speaker 9: Myself, Brian and my husband Josh, who's our drummer, we've
all been in the band since twenty thirteen, but we've
a little bit of change up with our bass player
and other guitar player.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, But but so the three of you have
been the core, like the kind of the nucleus of it. Yeah.
How do you describe your sound because you're not you know,
it's not conventional, you know, it's not. It's not metal,
it's not punk.
Speaker 10: It's not I mean what I mean you describe us?
Speaker 9: I think about the song and.
Speaker 8: Everyone always says it's this question. But yeah, but yeah
for someone who's never heard you.
Speaker 9: For me, I just describe it as rock and roll.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Like I'm a big fan of all different sorts
of music. But for me, it just sounds like pure
rock and roll, yeah, with the punk undertones to it.
But yeah, for me, it's just rock and roll.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: And the songs are the length of punk songs. Yeah,
they are a lot of them have short that's the
longest one. So A Order Baby is three point fifty nine.
But I think of everything you said, that's the uh?
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 8: Is that a full album?
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 8: Yep? These are all part of okay.
Speaker 9: Ye it's the Yeah. We put our our self titled
album in April of twenty twenty four and ten songs
on it. It's twenty five minutes long. Yeah, yeah, all killer,
no filler.
Speaker 8: Oh that's funny. Yeah, it's only twenty five minutes. But yeah,
that makes sense giving the uh yeah, yeah, Now what
is so is that? By the I mean, do you
just prefer short songs, or there was somebody who was it.
There was somebody who said, uh, they just it's like
that expression, Well, there's that expression, don't BORI us get
to the chorus. But there's there was somebody else I
can't remember who it was, what band, I'm drawing a
blank now, who said it's really important to you know,
if you want to hook somebody into the song you've got,
you've at least got to get to that first chorus
fairly quickly, and so that ends up making for a
short song. But I mean, is that something you set
out to do or does that just happen organically when
you're writing these?
Speaker 9: It kind of just happens organically. I'm just, you know,
usually alone in my room writing these, and I say
what I need to say. Yeah, try to at least
get through a couple verses and choruses and then a
turn around usually, but it's usually just like does it
need it or not?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, If I've said what I needed to say and
it's sounding good, I kind of just leave it there
and yeah, I'll take it to practice and show the guys.
And they're really good at arranging them with me and
kind of like editing with me saying we need a
little bit more or less or this part isn't working,
so we kind of like all work it out together.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, is a orda baby? Is that the longest
song you've ever recorded as a band?
Speaker 9: I think so today?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Now no, so this is so this is from
a full length album. Do you have other like what
else have you recorded? Because obviously you know you've been
around for so I'm not going to math that's twelve years, right, yeah,
twenty thirteen. Yeah, so I assume you've probably recorded quite
a bit over the year as well.
Speaker 9: We haven't. We recorded this album in twenty nineteen, Yeah,
and it took me almost five years to get it
out because it was like a lot of things happened
when we recorded it. I was pregnant with my daughter
when I recorded it, and then COVID happened in twenty twenty,
so we weren't able to go into the studio and
mix it. Yeah, and then my dad passed away in
twenty twenty one, So it was like this series of
circumstances where I couldn't think about touching it, you know
what I mean, Like mixing it and we weren't quite
happy with the mix right away, so it was we
just kind of put it on the backshelf for a while,
and then we finally put it in Gears in October
of twenty twenty three, got it out by April of
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So yeah, that's really all we have recorded for a
full length and we have a single called Blah Blah
Blah that we released in July of this year, which
is only like a minute and a half.
Speaker 8: Oh really yeah yeah, yeah, so we have.
Speaker 9: That full length album in that single, and hopefully we'll
be back in the studio this winter. Oh Reward our
second album.
Speaker 8: Oh excellent, excellent. Yeah. Yeah, I was talking with in
the first hour we had the band Rivia, who were
in the UK. They joined us via WhatsApp, and I
was telling them about how in this where we are,
at least in the Northeast here in the US, a
lot of bands kind of take winter to record because yeah,
that's the worst time to go out and play shows winter.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, nobody wants to come out. There's parking bands.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's fun. Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Did your father get to hear a orda baby?
Speaker 4: He did?
Speaker 9: He actually played lead guitar on it, No kidding, him
playing lead guitar and background vocals with me.
Speaker 8: That's so cool.
Speaker 9: He came in the studio, he was well enough to
do that. We really just wanted to do it as
a tribute to him because he wasn't well at the time.
And yeah, he laid down like the meanest guitar solo
I think on that record. Yeah, no events to you, Brian,
You're so amazing too. But oh my gosh, that every
time I hear it, it just gives.
Speaker 8: Me chills take no kidding, really yeah, wow, so good.
Speaker 9: He was just the best, and and he got to
hear it before he passed as a mix as well.
Speaker 8: So oh that's great. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 7: Is that.
Speaker 8: So obviously? You know growing up with your dad who
is a musician, Is that what? What why you became
a musician?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I started out playing farfeza organ in his band they
were called the Pontiffs, when I was fourteen years old,
no kidding. Yeah, so I joined his band in nineteen
ninety eight and that was kind of like my introduction
to the music wow Portland. Outside of always hearing music
in my house and growing up playing I played classical
violin growing up. Okay, yeah, I've always like having a
dad who is basically a encyclopedia of knowledge for music
was really helpful to like introduce me to all different
genres and writers and styles and no doubt.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah that's school. Yeah yeah. What about you, Brian,
did you grow up in a musical family or.
Speaker 10: Kind of My mom kind of met my dad by
playing guitar on an air force base. Oh no kidding,
and then I kind of got my musical talent from her,
but she used to play guitar at home sometimes. Oh
but it wasn't until like high school that I started playing,
like learning guitar and figuring out what I wanted to
do with music and stuff.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, oh excellent. Did did you play in bands
prior to Euphemia or yeah?
Speaker 10: A few local bands in Portland. I've been playing, wow
since like two thousand and one. Okay, really here and
there bands the fall kind of dissolved at this point,
but yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah. What's what's the scene like in there currently?
In terms of venues? Are there a lot of places
to play original music?
Speaker 9: There are a few places to play.
Speaker 8: Because I feel like just my impression is just from
like talking to bands like Vices think for example, that
does not. Unfortunately, right now there's not as many original
places to play as there used to be true everywhere,
but yeah.
Speaker 9: You're right, you're right there, there's a few. There's always
a couple of staples that we play at that the
owners are always great. We're so grateful they let us
play there because it's very hard to to ask for
gigs around por if you're not established. Yeah, but bands
that are up and coming, how do you get established
if no one will let you.
Speaker 8: Play, right, exactly. Yeah, that's always the it's.
Speaker 9: Kind of a catch twenty two. So we're really grateful
that we kind of have a little bit of notoriety now.
So it's nice. Hard to get gigs and people are
asking us to play, So it's that's good. That's really nice.
Speaker 8: Yeahah, yeah, I mean it's kind of like the way
I've always thought of it is, you know, it's like
just trying to get over that hump of when you
get to the point where people are asking you to play,
you know, and you still got to you still got
to do the work of getting you know, in a
new places and stuff. But once you but once you
get over that hump where you know not not every
show is one that you're begging for, but you're people
are actually coming to you saying, hey, can you you
know you want to play this?
Speaker 9: That's the speech.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah exactly. I think we should play
another track from the album what uh what should we
play next? Let's play Magic Magic? I like that one.
I like that one. That one clocks in at a
minute forty six. Great song though. I like all these
I was listening to them yesterday and just just so
all all so good. Absolutely, if you're just joining us,
we have Gina and Brian from the band Euphemeia here
with us in studio, and let's check this out. This
is called magic.
Speaker 4: When you consue the.
Speaker 3: House, Mama, come inside because it is montic.
Speaker 1: Got it is not.
Speaker 4: Well I look into your song, you won't know what
to see this whistle and go to that because it
is not too got me is magic.
Speaker 3: It is matt It is magic. It is magic, got
it it is magic.
Speaker 4: Got wow, it is magic. It is mantic got me.
Speaker 8: That is uh that song and so short. I wasn't
ready for atten no, but I was in a good
way though. I mean I was getting lost in it.
It's so good, it's so catchy. Thank you absolutely. That
is called Magic and the band is Euphemia and we
have a Gina and Brian from the band Euphemia here
with us in studio. And now where did you record these?
You might have mentioned it. I can't remember it. There's
so many great studios around. Where did you do the album?
Speaker 9: We did it with a person named Scott Weber at
Pigcat Studios, Okay, and it's over by the Riverside area
of Portland, Okay.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And how did you come to work work with him?
Because there's so many You know, what's funny is, if
you go back ten years or even twenty years, a
lot of people were predicting the end of the recording studio,
you know what I mean, because you can record at
home now and there's so many different ways to record
and the technology. It's amazing what you can do, you know,
on your own as far as recording now. But recording
studios are still thriving and there's a lot of them.
I know in the Portland area there must be a ton.
So how did you come to work with what was
his name again, Scott Webers? Got Weber. How did you
come to work with him?
Speaker 9: I let Brian take the lead because he's friends with him.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, perfect.
Speaker 10: We were in a band together called four Player co Op. Okay, Tim,
his brother was in the band with us for a
long time, and then eventually Scott joined and we used
to rehearse in that studio that they recorded. So yeah,
when we came time to record, I was like, hey,
I know a guy, so yeah, oh that's cool. Yeah,
because you know, I mean situations where it you know,
it ends up. You know, I know a guy that
doesn't always work out great, but in this case it
certainly did it because the album sounds fantastic.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he was great, and we recorded it in like
two and a half days. It was like a Friday
through a Sunday.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we went back in to do like I was
sick at the time when we recorded, so yeah, I
had to go back in and do vocals like at
a different time for most of them. Yeah, Aora we
did on the first day and we kept it one take.
Speaker 8: Oh wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 9: But yeah, no, it is like he's super efficient with everything. Yeah,
and it just it took me a long time with
the mixing because I'm.
Speaker 8: Just really picky, but really yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9: But yeah, no, he was amazing and we can't wait
to work with him again.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: He also plays drums for East End Redemption and records
them at his studio too, and they're fantastic.
Speaker 8: Oh okay yeah, okay yeah yeah. And then what's the
live situation? Like we talked about venues, but I mean
how like are you playing out a lot in Portland?
Do you get out of that area?
Speaker 9: But we have been Yeah, we we've been getting out
of Portland more this year. I would say good. We
played in Dover for Vices fast for advices, ain't put on?
Speaker 8: Yep?
Speaker 9: And we played or else do we play? We played
in Lewiston at their Arts center that they live there.
That was really cool.
Speaker 8: Yeah. And Boston good good, yeah, yep, excellent. Yeah. I
would think with your sound, I mean there's there's a
lot of that would open up a lot of opportunities
because it's very you know, it's accessible, you know, it's yeah. Oh.
Mike Hill from Charlie shill Is in The Chatterman says
we love original music on the Hill. Have you played
Charlie Shill. We have not Yeah, we Jenny and I
have not been there, but we hear about it constantly.
Apparently it's a pretty amazing venue. So and and I
think I think we're gonna get Mike on the show
soon too, because someone else was suggesting we get we
get Mike on from Charlie Hill. But are there are
there other bands in the I mean, I don't know.
Do you play with Vices Inc? On a Sometimes bands
kind of team up, you know, it happens organically. You
just end up playing a lot of shows. Do you
play a lot of shows with Vice's Inc. Or a lot?
Speaker 9: We've played a couple and yeah, we try. We used
to play with kind of the same bands all the time,
and now I kind of made it a rule like
the past two years, like I wanted to just play
with a different band on every bill, like different like
different lineups, just because you get to see a different show,
make different connections, you know, just see what else is
out there exactly, and you know, it's just it's fun
for the audience to hear a different lineup too.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Oh, we have our favorites for sure, but.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Well let's all let's play another track.
What should we play? I wanted to do wop?
Speaker 9: Yeah, Bryan is a great solo in that.
Speaker 8: All right, very good if you're just joining us. We
have two members of Euphemia are here with us live
in studio, and we're gonna play another studio track.
Speaker 9: What's the album called again, it's self titled.
Speaker 8: Oh, it's self titled. That's right, yes, just Euphemia, very good.
And this is called do wop song.
Speaker 4: Oh, just something that full of song.
Speaker 12: That it's a word about getting a close.
Speaker 4: They bring it down, No day bring me down. No
day will bring it down.
Speaker 1: No day, don't know never.
Speaker 4: Just something.
Speaker 12: Some then too, we're bun get in.
Speaker 8: That is called do wop song. The band is Euphemia,
and we've got two members of Euphemia here with us
in studio. We have Gina and Brian is here and
uh yeah, she was right. That is a great solo.
Speaker 10: Brian, Oh, okay.
Speaker 9: Every time.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, it's you know, it's it's just very melodic
and it's you know, you're not like shredding or anything.
You're just playing a really good it's just really yeah,
it's just beautiful. Is that I'm curious about your influences
as a guitar player.
Speaker 10: I kind of grew up playing Green Day. I grew
up in the nineties, so like, yeah, that was a
big proponent for me. Yeah, saying like I want to
do that. Yeah, but I also kind of used to
jam on like Metallica songs and stuff like that when
I was a kid.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, she seemed probably shred if you want to
right a little bit. But on a song like that,
I mean, what you did is just so perfect, you know,
because a lot of people, you know, guitar players, they
like to show off, but you're just doing it's a
pretty straightforward melody. But it's so it's just so perfect.
Speaker 10: Well, thank you. Yeah, yeah, I try. I try and
write for the song.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I try not to do too much, like I guess,
like canodling.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 10: I don't. I don't like to show off too much,
I guess.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, no, it works, It definitely works. I'm curious
to gena about you like your influences as a singer.
Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, they're all over the place. When I
was very little, I loved Mariah Carey. She's my girl.
That got me started. Yeah, and then Joan jet I
had to James John Lennon, my little Ackerman from The Descendants,
Paul Westerberg. I really love that rasp they have, you know. Yeah,
so yeah, I have like a very wide range of
people I like.
Speaker 8: Right right, no doubt.
Speaker 12: So what are they?
Speaker 8: I mean, are you thinking about the are you thinking
about the next album already? Or what's done of the future.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have.
Speaker 9: I'm almost done writing the album. There's maybe like two
more songs I need to write for it, but we've
been in the process of working out the songs this
past year. We play a few of them live, a
few new songs live. So yeah, we're hoping like midwinter
to go in and record hopefully, Okay, we'll.
Speaker 8: Be done with it and then similar similar vibe or
similar vibe.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I would say the songs are pretty much the same
in terms of length subject. It's a little different because
with the Euphemia songs, those were written over a period
of my life, ranging from like twenty one to thirty
four and now I'm forty one. So this next album
is all from the past couple of years. Okay, you know,
so it's it's a lot more. Uh, I don't want
to say mature, because I'm not like a pretentious person.
But you know, theme wise, there's been a lot more
complexities of my life over the past few years than
there have previously.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, you probably started a family and yeah, yeah,
all that kind of thing. So yeah, now that makes sense. Yeah,
you know, and it's important to evolve. I mean, if
you don't, if you don't evolve, you get bored. Right,
If you get bored, then you're not doing anything very
much of value, if you're just you know, rehashing the
same the same territory.
Speaker 9: Yeah, right, And I think on this one we're going
to do a little bit more instrumentation to Like I've
been talking with this incredibly talented woman who plays violin
named me. She's awesome, and she asked if we'd want
to collaborate. Ever, so I've been kind of writing in
terms of thinking about that and having her in the studio,
and I kind of want to bring my far Visa
organ back and play on that.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, a.
Speaker 9: Couple of tracks, So yeah, tell what kind of organ
is it. It's a far Feza organ.
Speaker 8: So what I've heard the term, but I don't know,
like what what makes an organ a far visa organ.
Speaker 9: So it basically it's run by like a panel of flutes. Okay,
a certain sound and the more flutes you put out
is like a This kind of sounds like a swell.
Think about those sixties garage organs, like in question Mark
and the Mysterians, or like a great band from Boston,
the Lyars, Like how they use that sound. It's like
if it's from nineteen sixty nine. So it's like a
very old school sounding.
Speaker 8: Is it like the kind they using churches?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 9: No, No, it's like a it's like a keyboard, but
it has like legs that you put on and stand up.
They're really heavy. They're like oha as much as I do.
But yeah, and it's it just looks like a keyboard.
But it's just like sounds like it has like a
I don't know how to describe it, like a like
a trill on it. Okay, like yeah, okay, yeah, okay,
sixties garage down vibra.
Speaker 8: Interesting okay, Okay, Yeah, I'm curious. I'd heard the term
far visa. Yeah, I've heard that before, but I wasn't
sure what that was exactly. Yeah, to play the organ
a little bit when I was a kid too, so
I was curious about that. I didn't keep up with that.
But no, very good. So you're gonna kind of introduce
that more into the.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it'd be cool to put that on something or
like some kind of rock and roll piano of some sort. Yeah,
it's like, yeah, it's I can't sing and play at
the same time and not as coordinated as my band bids.
Speaker 8: Well you think you can, but you probably, I'm sure
you could learn.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so I could easily do that in the studio,
though I don't have to do that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, but if you But then if you do that,
will it be important to you to be able to
replicate that live or or.
Speaker 9: Not necessarily it be a different experience.
Speaker 8: But yeah, yeah, which is cool, you know, because a
lot of people they want to It's like, oh, anything
we do in the studio, we have to be able
to replicate live exactly. And my attitude about that has
always been, why if if you can't replicate it live,
so then an element is missing, then live you just
have a more kind of a raw, stripped down sound.
What's wrong with that? Sometimes that's sometimes that's better, you
know what I mean. That's how I've always felt about it,
but but a lot of people are. They're very particular
about well, we have to be able to sound exactly
like we did on the record.
Speaker 9: It's like they're two different experiences in my mind.
Speaker 8: Exactly, yeah, exactly. Well, let's let's play another Oh yeah,
we have time, let's play another one. Of course we
have time. They're so short, we'll probably have time to
get a couple more. But I would like to play
another track from the album. But yeah, I'll let you
both pick. What what should we go with next?
Speaker 9: How about love Love?
Speaker 8: Okay?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Anything we should know about this one before we play
it or not?
Speaker 9: Really, it's a I think it's like mutually our favorite song.
Speaker 10: It's one of the most fun ones I think.
Speaker 8: So yeah, yeah, yes, all right, cool, let's give this
a spend. If you're just joining us. We have two
members of Euphemia here with us in studio, and this
is a track from their self titled album, and this
is called love.
Speaker 6: Wow, So clum to get you there, I'll rap there.
I'm just w with chef dun wrap.
Speaker 1: From this time.
Speaker 4: I'm oh, I'm.
Speaker 1: Promis hold it in my heart?
Speaker 4: Oh tell, And I'm calling the whole day had at
my heart. Wow, to wane to get you be there.
Speaker 1: I knew about that. I knew a good stuff.
Speaker 5: Oh, wal try, I'm telling you you dull and you
so says, how'll do a good stuff.
Speaker 4: I don't tell no, I'll be.
Speaker 1: John Dope and I'm gonnass the whole.
Speaker 4: Tair of my heart.
Speaker 12: I don't tell no, I'm be.
Speaker 4: John Dope and I probably the whole tair of my heart.
I don't know, honey doing that? Promise to hold dead
to my heart? Oh no, honey, don no hold dead
in my heart?
Speaker 12: Will I promise to hold dead in my heart?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 8: That is fantastic that it's called love. The band is Euphemia.
We have Gina and Bram from the band here with
us in studio. And yeah, Gina, you were saying off
air while that was playing, you kind of wanted it
to have like you wanted the drums and the guitar
to go together and go kind of give it a
little bit of a Zeppelin vibe.
Speaker 9: Yeah, like that stomp you feel.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Yeah, I think that one's my favorite. Actually, that's
that's that's really good. That's really good. Yeah, is here
with us live? I learned how to say it and
I'm stumbling on it now. But they are here with
us live in studio. And have you made any videos
for for any of these songs.
Speaker 9: Or we haven't purposely made any videos?
Speaker 4: We want to.
Speaker 9: One of our friends made a video of us from
a show we did at a festival. Yeah, kind of
put it together for us. He's like a professional videographer
and kind of just surprised us with one. So there
is one out there's a song rock show. Okay, but
we haven't like intentionally made any yet. We want to. Yeah,
it'll be working with him.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, excellent. Actually, have you have you done multiple
festivals or what? What's uh?
Speaker 9: We've done three?
Speaker 8: You've done three? Yeah that's great. No, I say all
the time. Festivals are the best opportunity because you not
only does it get you in front of fans, potential
new fans who might not be familiar with you, but
the but also it gets you in front of industry people.
You know, you meet people at the networking opportunities at
a festival are unparalleled. Yeah yeah, so yeah, that's great. Yeah, yeah,
what what what festivals have you done?
Speaker 9: We did Gold Rocks, which was a festival that USM
and Maine put on. Okay, summer, end of the summer,
and then we did Wild PUNEs Festival this year and
we did vices in Festival.
Speaker 8: Oh Vices Yeah, yeah, yea, oh fantastic, Yeah good good.
Did you meet like Vices Fest? Did you meet a
lot of bands there who who you were not already
familiar with?
Speaker 9: Or yeah, I don't think we knew any of the bands, Okay,
for maybe we knew Troll and we knew Vices, and
we knew Plague Dad, but yeah, and a couple of
our other friends on other days that played there. But
other than that, we didn't know any of the other bands.
Speaker 8: So that must have been cool. Yeah, we had you know,
Vices inc. Obviously they've been on a few times. But
we had Jagger on. I did. There's a separate podcast
version of the show that we do sometimes if like
I did one with Jagger where it was just he
and I on the podcast version because it was a
situation where we didn't have any room to get him
on on this version. We were booked up, but it
was right before vices Fest, so we did the podcast
just like almost like an emergency podcast, like a last
minute think about vices Fest, and it was just all
about vices Fest. And I told him, I said, it
amazes me. I think I said this to him too
the night Jenny and I saw them at Bad Burger
recently a few weeks ago. It just to put on
a festival like that, and and to be able to
do that without getting, you know, just almost on the
verge of a nervous breakdown, because that's a lot of uh,
you know, I used to I don't really do it anymore.
I used to promote live shows, you know, and even
just doing a night somewhere with with you know, three
or four bands can be challenging in some ways, you know.
So to do Vices fast, I mean that's a huge
undertaking when you look at the lineup. Yeah, of bands
on that over three days. And man, I mean he
handles it well obviously, because you know, he told me,
because I said to him, I said, how do you
do that without losing your mind?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 8: And yeah, you know, but apparently he's very organized and
he knows what he's doing. So I commend him. But
that's more than I would want to take on its undertaking.
Speaker 9: I wouldn't want to do it either I'm usually in
charge of booking our shows yep, or being a part
of it in some way, and that's always Yeah, for
the most part, it's okay, but it can be a headache.
So I can't imagine dealing with like thirty bands oh
yeah for three days and you know, but they ran
a very tight ship, yeah while we were there, and
everything was organized and shared equipment, so that made it easier.
Speaker 8: So everything I've heard has been overwhelmingly positive. It sounds
like like nothing, nothing major went wrong, you know, and
just everything went pretty smooth from what I hear and
from what he's told me. And that's so that's great.
I'm just kind of in awe of that. And I
know he's doing another one next year, so it just
keeps going.
Speaker 9: Tops to him. Yeah, yeah, cool dude.
Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, Yeah, And we love Vices inc. You
kind of you remind me your vocals. You remind me
a little bit of Eleanor Oh really, I think so, yeah,
I mean, you know, like you're distinguishable, but but kind of,
I don't know, kind of the vibe on some of
these songs, the way you sing it kind of reminds
me of her a little bit.
Speaker 9: Oh, wow, thank you. I mean she's got a great voice,
so I'll take that.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, oh yeah, no, you both do. Absolutely. What
should people know? We have time, we'll sneak in one
more track at the end, but what should people know
about where to find you online? Like, where's the best
place to go to keep up with everything that Euphemia
is doing.
Speaker 9: We have an Instagram okay at Euphemia Underscore band okay,
and then other than that, we're on all the streaming
services audibly except for our one video, yeah yeah on YouTube.
But yeah, we're on all the streaming services Apple, Spotify.
Speaker 8: Yeah, excellent, excellent. Yeah, well, we're going to uh in
a moment, we're going to play one more track. I'll
give you a moment though to think about, think about
what you want to play to end the show, because
we got to talk about just quickly too, Jenny, did
you want to mention before we run out of time?
John Oliver?
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, check out John Oliver.
Speaker 8: This weekend.
Speaker 11: You might see somebody you know that's right on Sunday night.
It will be on their main channel, but it will
be loaded up on a YouTube.
Speaker 8: On Monday, okay, Yeah, they put it on YouTube the
next day. Yeah, so keep it out for that and
you want to plug your website maybe, I guess so only.
Speaker 11: Kidding, No, I hope you guys do check out John Oliver.
It's going to be fun to be on the show,
and then you can check me out and all the
good trouble I get up to at Jencoffee dot com.
Speaker 8: J E N N C O F f U I
dot com. Yes, yes, And of course if you want
to know more about me and everything I'm up to,
you can go to my website Matt dot com. And
if you missed any part of today's show, it'll be
up in just a little bit at Matt Connorton dot com.
And of course w MNH Radio dot org and uh
what would uh oh? And I do want to thank
everybody who joined us too, of course Rivia in the
first hour, and in the second hour we had Kevin
Kerstad also known as k t k so and wonderful
to finish out the show with the both of you, Uh,
Gina and Brian from Euphemia. So grateful that you were
able to and it's it was a little bit of
a hall so I appreciate you making the drive. It's
our pleasure, absolutely no, it's wonderful to have you here.
And uh what should we uh what should we play
to close out?
Speaker 9: Let's play where my rock and Roll.
Speaker 8: Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's all encompassing about kind of what we're about.
Speaker 8: So okay, all right, very good. So we will close
out with this. This is called where my rock and
Roll and the band is. Euphemia Rockey rolls.
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Speaker 12: To sit on the rest.
Speaker 4: I say, nigga, a little dog cat.
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my shelf? Bad is where rock bound those head it
its with it my sut.
Speaker 1: No, I'll just sw up hot in time my right
on my shelf.
Speaker 4: Bad is where bound says, where the my sail on
the way around canro.
Speaker 1: The way roun.
Speaker 4: Every day evers
Speaker 3: Every day in a way, every day, everywhere, every day
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