Speaker 1: Our our number two guests, Eleanor from the Midnight Creatives Collective,
And of course we've got Spelfy Fest, which they were
going to be joining us to talk about today. That
is coming up November twenty fourth.
Speaker 2: November twenty fourth. Yeah, so that's going to be a
twelve hour event all day if featuring many different artists.
It's going to be a section of wrap, section of rock,
and also hypnosis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to do a what are you doing? Yeah,
so I'm going to do something with hypnosis. I am
on the schedule for that. Might kind of read the
room and see what I think everyone would like, because
there's a few different directions I can go with it,
or why do you go there?
Speaker 2: Just now, I'm being told that there's a problem with
the call in line.
Speaker 1: Oh well, let's try have it. She's calling in again.
I hear something, Eleanor. Is that you?
Speaker 3: I hear something? Yes, I got to get us off
so much late. All right, I'm turning that one.
Speaker 2: You gotta get us speak.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 1: I can now yes, yes, not not not not the
best phone connection, but I can hear you. Good morning,
how are you?
Speaker 3: Good morning?
Speaker 4: We are sorry, we're supposed to be there, and we
got so embroiled in all of our plans and everything
that's going on, we completely spaced it.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well happen right now.
Speaker 3: But we're here now, yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, so all right, so tell us about Tell the
audience about Spelfyfest. It's coming right up, ju It's only
a couple of weeks away now, Oh.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's gonna be absolutely epic.
Speaker 4: There's gonna be twenty acts, so a very duel music
venue on Sunday, November twenty fourth, from one one pm
to one am. So is it all day variety show,
music festival with you know, not just music, not just
and so we've got some performers as well, burlesque dancers,
a flow artist that does flag twirling, there's little drag show.
So we've got a whole variety anything you can think of.
Speaker 3: And the amazing Matt Connorson is going to hypnotize.
Speaker 1: Us, that's right, yes, yes.
Speaker 4: And the amazing Jen Coffee will be opening up the
show and speaking about our calls that we're going to
be raising money for as well. So that's for our
s d S, a c r p S and we're
going to be raising some money for that support.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we should talk a little bit about what that
is because most listeners who are tuning in won't know
exactly what that is.
Speaker 3: And Jenny, if you want to, Yeah, that was a
lot of acronyms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's true, a lot of letters.
Speaker 2: You can check out their website at r s d
S dot org r s d S dot org because
what it is is that, unfortunately in medicine they like
to change the names of things a lot and CRPS,
which you guys have heard me talk about. It is
what I have, complex regional pain syndrome. It used to
be known as reflex sympathetic dystrophe RSD, hence the name
RSCS dot org. But the name change occurred, I want
to say, maybe five years ago, give or take so.
And if you look it up, there's probably been at
least fifty different names for this disease. But the bottom
line is it's called the suicide disease because it is
the most painful disease known to modern medicine. There is
no cure and there are limited treatments and even more
limited by funds. So some of the money that it's
getting raised goes to the organization to help educate people
also to help get information out there and to help
patients who need help finding people who can take care
of them, who need help in the way of information
to even understand the disease itself. So unfortunately it affects
people from all ages, from very young children to there.
They don't know exactly why it happens. Unfortunately, it's been
over two eird years since its discovery, so as you
can probably guess, it's a hard disease to crack.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been around for like you said, you know,
over two hundred years since its discovery, but unfortunately, with
rare illnesses, they don't get the it was actually they
don't get the same resources.
Speaker 2: Interesting point, it was discovered during the Civil War here
in the United States. That was when it was first discovered,
was after battle injuries.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, so yeah, so that's a big
part of this event and why So let's talk about
too why Spelfie Fest. We should talk about the origins
and why it is called spelfy Fest.
Speaker 3: For those who don't know, Felfie, I'm just so a
weirdo that likes to celebrate my birthday and few things
big and I love live music and variety shows and
I'm like, okay, all you people are my friends. Do
you want to play for my birthday? And they're like yeah.
I'm like all right, cool, let's have a really big party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 3: Healthy. She's like our.
Speaker 4: Socialite of the music industry. She just goes out to
all the shows and she makes friends and she supports,
and she's an amazing person and a very cool character
and she's got a big heart and a lot of
people love her. And the last year she did her
own show and she brought out eighty five people, and
she just realized at that point that she can do shows.
She's an event planner, she's an event coordinator. So she
and I, you know, kind of linked up this year
and we've been doing really great sellout events ever since.
And this one is going to be, you know, one
of those two hundred maybe three hundred, hopefully sellout type
of a show.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, or tack the building. We do want,
we do want to get the word out as much
as possible that this is going to.
Speaker 4: Be an amazing event. Tickets are on our website, Midnight
Creatives Collective dot com slash shows right now. You can
get early bird tickets, so you can get VIP tickets
which includes a bunch of different perks, and you can
get general admission tickets and to see twenty.
Speaker 3: Acts thirty dollars right now, so.
Speaker 4: It's super cheap and just ten more dollars for a
VIP package.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's a really good value for what you're getting.
There's going to be a lot of great musicians there,
and of course you know, as you mentioned, Jenny's going
to be uh speaking, and then I'm going to do
I love. So let me ask you this because I
haven't I haven't made a final decision about what to
do exactly in terms of because there's different uh we'll
do a little off quick focus group here, because there's
different directions I could go with it. What would what
would you like to see me do in terms of hypnosis?
Should I just should I do a demonstration? Should I
maybe make someone do something silly? Should I should I
help someone quit smoking? But do that with the because
you know there's going to be a lot of musicians.
Are musicians, many of them are smokers. Like, what what
do you think I should do it?
Speaker 3: Do you think you could group hypnotize everyone to qush
smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 1: Well we could do that.
Speaker 3: Not like that very much. It will take healthy up
on stage and hypnotize her. I seriously, if you can
hypnotize me, I would I would be so surprised. That
would be so awesome if you could finally hypnotize me
for the first time on my birthday. People have tried
hypnotizing me and just can't do it.
Speaker 1: Well, it is your birthday now. But you have to
be willing to go along with it, because that's the
only will you will you be able to relax in
that environment?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. Maybe that's why I can't be hypnotized. Well,
can't relaxed nothing. I always bound. My brain never shuts off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you could try to hypnotize the audience to
like dance all night and stay all night.
Speaker 1: Uh huh uh huh, well there you go. All right,
Well we'll see, well we'll wait.
Speaker 2: In reduce stress.
Speaker 1: Yeah, reducing stress and anxiety might be a popular thing.
Uh uh this uh in this time that we live in.
But uh but we abs well we don't. We don't
do politics on the show anymore. But so we'll leave
that aside. But that might be something to do uh
but uh yeah, yeah, we'll see we'll see uh well
we'll see what. Uh we'll read the room and see
what what and.
Speaker 4: If anything, this will be an amazing diversion for you know,
the things that we've gone through these past few months,
and people will come out and just have a really
good time together as a community and as a music community.
We've got the famous Leon Trout headlining, so that should
be an amazing, epically good time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And they're leaving the stage around eleven PM and
then we're switching to the VIP after party open jams.
So for your extra ten dollars gets you to part
for two more hours with me, where you may or
may not get to see me perform.
Speaker 4: Yes, you might sing oh.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: I didn't know you A wait, Actually, maybe.
Speaker 4: That's what you can do.
Speaker 3: You can hit the tize my stage right away so
I can get on stage and sing.
Speaker 2: That is actually something that's actually pretty common that people
come to from att Yeah, honestly, I have done. That's
a common one.
Speaker 1: I have done quite a few sessions for that.
Speaker 4: She should be on stage right.
Speaker 3: I am just such a chicken And that's so weird.
Speaker 2: You don't say that, don't say that microphone.
Speaker 3: You put the microphone in front of my face, and
I get weird. It like a sheet over you a costume.
Speaker 5: Singing or speaking for.
Speaker 2: A lot of people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2: One of the more common things that people call you for,
actually is when they public speaking.
Speaker 1: Public speaking is very common. That's a very common phobia,
or or any any kind of performance speaking or singing,
or some people are just are just terrified. But I
assume spellfies. I assume you've sung in public before, right
or no or maybe not.
Speaker 3: I've sung in public, just never at a large crowd like.
Speaker 1: That, Okay, okay. So so it's the it's the idea
of see I'm already doing the pre talk with you.
So it's the idea, the idea of being on stage
in front of people. That's that's the part that intimidates you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's really funny. I can speak without a
microphone in front of a crowd of people. As soon
as you hand me a microphone, I'm like, oh crap,
now everyone can hear me. Okay, okay, And and I
guarantee you could hear you now I can hear me.
That means people that aren't looking at me?
Speaker 4: Can hear?
Speaker 1: And do you know why that is? Do you know
why you have this sphere? Is there a reason for it?
There doesn't have to be, But.
Speaker 3: Do you know I would have to stay. When I
was young, I would get shuffled around and made to
sing for people and like put on display, like when
I should have been studying. My teacher was like parading
me around school to sing for people.
Speaker 1: Oh interesting.
Speaker 3: And then and then and then when I did the
the UH School Talent Show and my music teacher never
showed up and I had to sting somewhere over the
rainbow a cappella, and and I still got third place
at the UH Talent Show. And then there was a
recruiter from UH Star Search there that wanted me to
go to on the show. And I found out that
I would have been going against Lee m Rhymes.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's how old no kidding I had.
Speaker 3: I've had people say, oh, man, you should have done it,
you would have won, and I'm like, yeah, right, mean
went against lemn Rhymes.
Speaker 1: Well what does she have really?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: So she sounds like Patsy Kline, You big deal? You
could have beaten her?
Speaker 3: But I think so with enough training.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So so when you think about when you
think about singing on stage, this is what comes back
to you, that that experience and how something that, something
that should be joyous and fun in your case, was
made to be something very stressful. It sounds like, yeah
it was.
Speaker 3: I was just I was a spectacle and it's like,
this isn't not what I want to be doing right now.
I want to be doing my studies.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, that makes sense. We can work with that,
all right, all right, so we have our plan then,
so I'm gonna I'm gonna hypnotize that out of you
at the show.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 3: That sounds great, yes, And then maybe if you can
make the audience just do something really weird, like if
you randomly go on the like and just say spaghetti
and then everybody just like bark, that would be awesome.
Speaker 1: Well, the problem is, if I'm getting up there talking
about spaghetti, I'm gonna start to get hungry. I'm gonna
want some spaghetti. So that's that's going to backfire pretty quickly.
It's my stomach's world. You all just live in it.
Not everyone's accepted that yet, but that's its.
Speaker 2: Achilles heel you know, if you ever want him for something,
you have to just do food.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you'll get him. I can be bribed with
food very easily.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: But it's going to be a taco truck.
Speaker 1: So oh, there you go, there you go. I like tacos. Yes, yes,
I think we're going.
Speaker 3: To bring in some pieces to for the VI p
Oh very nice.
Speaker 4: We have a VI Pizza membership tickets.
Speaker 1: Ah VI Pizza. I like the sound of that.
Speaker 2: That's his favorite food.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is.
Speaker 2: You're winning them over by.
Speaker 3: The language of the pizza.
Speaker 1: That is my staple food. So so who are some
of these Who are some of the other artists who
are going to be playing there? Do you want to
just talk a little bit about some of them? I
see Six Minds Combined is on the list, which I'm
excited about.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we're having a hip hop hour.
Speaker 4: So we got six Mindes Combined backed up by mis
Stir Goodbars himself and possibly Goldie Goddess if they're gonna
do some duo stuff excellent. Yeah, and Johnny Ghost might
join in on that. So yeah, our little hip hop
hour there and then that.
Speaker 3: Would be on the backstage.
Speaker 4: So we have two stages going kind of tandomly. Okay,
the main stage is mostly our full uh band acts,
and then the backstage is kind of more like solo
or duo acts and some performers and then yeah, and
then the two main main bands are at the end
of the night, so we kind of start out, you know,
a little bit mellow and then build up to heavy. Yeah,
it's gonna be a really good time. So I'm just
trying to bring up our poster here so I have
everything accurate.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the list, I mean, we can, we
can kind of go through it and mention everybody. Uh,
I see overtime hardcore who I'm not familiar with, so
that's interesting to me. A lot of these bands are
bands I'm not frommiliar with it all, which to me
makes it more fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's a bunch here that I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's a nice big mix, like a variety show of rock, metal, punk,
hip hop and jam and hippie and some folk mixed in.
And then we've got you know, some drag performances and
or less performance.
Speaker 3: So basically, right off the bat, we have.
Speaker 4: Parts of the overtime hardcore band, and then after that,
I believe it's Rags the Stitches that's gonna go on.
Speaker 3: I'm not here.
Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with Rags to Stitches either, so much fun.
Speaker 4: It's a punk rock band, Andy Raggedy Andy is a
front man, and they just do a really really fun show.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, oh sorry, go ahead, no, you go ahead.
Speaker 4: I'm still pulling up my list. I have a bunch
of cabs in front of me, right.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm up at Yes, yes, so.
Speaker 4: And then the Marvels, which is the drag show okay,
and they actually, I believe there's three of them, and
they're going to be doing two sets, so they'll do
their first set on the main stage area on the floor,
and then they'll do custom change and go into the backstage.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Very cool, and like, well all this is happening.
Speaker 4: There's entertainment happening at all times. So you know, after
the Marvel's, the Nigans is gonna come on. And they're
punk as well. They're a Walking Dead parody band and
they do a lot of really fun things.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm looking after that Dead Harrison.
Speaker 1: Yep, Dead Harrison of course. Yeah. We we've actually played
a Dead Harrison track coming into the segment. Yeah, I
always always love Dead Harrison, and I'm looking forward to
seeing the Nigans too, because you've told us a lot
about them on a previous disappearance on the show, but
Jenny and I haven't seen them be out live, so
really looking forward to that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, have a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, they's fantastic, much fun. They put on a
great show, and Dead Harrison is going to be doing
a mix of old and new stuff that everyone loves.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 4: And then we have a band coming up from Connecticut
which maybe've heard of. They've played a Terminus. They're more
in the Light and they're kind of a dooom band.
And Dwayne Eldridge is the front runner of that band,
and he's been so super helpful with helping us put
together the flyer for this event, and he's going to
be donating his equipment because he runs a production company.
So everybody who has been, you know, connected with this
event has been so helpful and willing to volunteer their
time and their energy and their passions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those guys are great. They're a great bands. They
played for us a Terminus a few months ago. It's
an awesome show and they were on your radio show too.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, yeah, I remember more in
the light. Yeah, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 4: But so then after that we kind of go into
the dance part of the night with the burlest Dancer,
and let's see, Letho is a really interesting person. She
also has a pain story and this particular burless dance
of hers is an expression of that. So she, you know,
kind of warned me. She's like, it's going to be
a little triggering for some people, and I said, that's.
Speaker 1: What we want.
Speaker 4: We want to raise that awareness. We want people to
not be in their comfort zone when it comes to things.
And one of the things that I've found is someone
who's been out to shows for you know, twenty plus years,
we see a lot of micro judgments, unfortunately with people
who have disabilities. Like someone will come in with a
wheelchair or a cane, but then they'll go on the
floor and dance and people are like, oh, why are
they dancing? Well, it's because they can, for like maybe
a moment in time, just let them do it exact.
So we're trying to raise awareness for those people as well,
because you know, that's some thing yes selfy deals with.
We had a friend previously who was a cheam user
who dealt with that at punk shows. Yeah, it's really
important for people to just let people be Oh.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you You make a great point with that, because
it's it's the it's human nature. Unfortunately, people make snap judgments, uh,
based on what they see with no actual information.
Speaker 3: Uh. People.
Speaker 1: People do this on all kinds of things, of course,
but but especially with the example you just gave, where
people look at someone and say, oh, they don't look sick,
or they don't look disabled, or they don't look this,
or they don't look that, so and then they and
then they form this judgment in their mind that is
completely unfair because they have no idea what's going on
on the inside of that person's body. So that that's
a great point that you raised big time, big time.
Speaker 2: Right after one of my surgeries, somebody looked at me
in a wheelchair and said I had breast cancer and
I didn't need a wheelchair.
Speaker 1: Literally, Yeah, oh yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Get dirty looks because I have my wheelchair. And I
was at GLAR on Sunday and I got out of
the bathroom and I wheeled my chair out of the
handicapped stall, pushing it and people were looking at me funny,
and I had like I had. Somebody was like, I
will deck you. I don't even look at Spelfie like that, right,
he has a hard time walking. You can you can
fright them.
Speaker 2: We have devices doesn't mean having a assist of device
doesn't mean you have to be glued to it at
all moments. If you have a moment that you get
to feel slightly human without it, you know, don't deprive
somebody of that. That's huge for that moment. So when
somebody does that to you, it kills It just kills you.
Speaker 1: It kills you.
Speaker 2: If you get a moment of humanity and somebody calls
you out for actually being human, it's like.
Speaker 4: And people also don't realize after how much recovery time
behind the scenes happens after you expend that type of energy.
Speaker 2: This is the most I've done since last Saturday. We
had an event last Saturday, and I haven't been really
out of the house except for Tuesday to vote and
that was it. I haven't been out of the house
since because I'm still recovering from it.
Speaker 4: It was worth it go out of the house once
a months, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's worth it. You end up flaring, but
it's worth it to have the lived experience and have
a quality life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's you know, the rest of us just
take it for granted, you know. But I always say,
you know, health is the single easiest thing to take
for granted, you know, until something.
Speaker 2: So when it's when it takes to going places, like
when Spelfie and I need to go someplace, it's not
just where we're going and what we're going to do
we get there. It's getting ready, getting down to the car,
it's getting out of the car. It's how far do
we have to walk? Is their staircases, It's everything that
it takes to get there and to get home, plus
the events.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and where am I going to sit during this
time because I know I'm not going to be able
to stand the whole time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So this will be a great test for us,
this whole day event to see if we can you know,
make ourselves you know, take some breaks and self care
during this full time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a given, a given.
Speaker 1: So I see on the list too, there's so Whaleam Park.
I feel like I know whalam Park, but I'm not.
Speaker 3: You guys, interviewed Whaleam Park back in May.
Speaker 1: Oh goodness, it becomes such a blur. Okay, I thought
the name was familiar.
Speaker 2: But I love us that we have that problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good problem to have in a sense
because we have to interview.
Speaker 3: So many We've interviewed so many people we forget. That's what.
Speaker 4: I need a spreadsheet to look at when I'm talking
to you, so I make sure I'm hitting the point.
Speaker 2: That's awesome, no doubt.
Speaker 1: No doubt.
Speaker 3: I think now I need like AI assists to tell
me my schedule too, because cly, I'm.
Speaker 1: Forgetting right right. Yes, let's see, we've got Rabbit's Foot,
who I definitely don't know.
Speaker 2: Nope, don't know that. There's a bunch of these bands
that I definitely want us to get to talk to,
and yeah, come on, I would like them.
Speaker 3: I would definitely recommend interviewing Rabbit's Foot.
Speaker 4: They are a group of characters.
Speaker 3: I absolutely love them. What's the standadlined my birthday last year?
It was awesome?
Speaker 1: Are they?
Speaker 3: One of the only complaints I got about the show
that I threw for my birthday last year was that
Rabbit's Foot didn't get along enough.
Speaker 4: Set Okay, so that's why they have a long enough sets.
Speaker 3: That's why that's why they have an hour.
Speaker 1: Are they are they? Are they a jam band? It
just sounds like the name of a jam band. Are
they a jam band?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Jam I figured the evening out with you know, going
into the jam space and Leon Trout does a lot
of that, but a lot of other different things. And
then the open damn at the end is something that
Selthy's compiling with a bunch of different musicians and people
can jump on board and participate. And that's only the
first stage.
Speaker 3: You know, we haven't even talked about this. That's just
the main stage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see all that's happening.
Speaker 4: We also have, you know, the second stage, which is
a huge ceiling room. It's a little bit of a
smaller space, but it's kind of cool because it's not
a very big acoustic ceiling.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And on that side we have Lacey Beebee from Who
I Am.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 4: Wave Radio Boston and seeing that stage.
Speaker 3: So we've got two radio show hosts hosting so well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had I remember when we had Lacy on
the show. That was so much fun.
Speaker 3: At of that song fantastic.
Speaker 1: That song let Me Know when It's Time to Rock
was stuck in my head for weeks afterwards.
Speaker 3: That's my favorite song.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's a lot of fun. And I see
Temple the show, okay, and I see Temple Mountain on
the list. We were talking about Temple Mountain actually with
our guests in the first hour.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who was recognized.
Speaker 4: Nominal Support of the scene. And he's just been such
a good friend since we've known him, so we're so excited.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's always such a nice, nice guy, great talent,
and so when he was like, can I play for Spelfifest?
I was like, shut up. I was going to ask you.
Speaker 4: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't know. Yes too, that's so cool.
Speaker 1: That's very cool, very cool cool. He is so talented. Yeah,
let's see, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: Like half the bands I was going to ask hit
me up before I even had to hit them up,
and they were like, can I play Spelfifest? I was like, oo, wow,
you teach me to get out of my head, because
how do you know? I love you that much. I
was going to invite you.
Speaker 4: I even had a national as contact me last night
saying we'd love to play your festival, and I'm like, wow, okay,
so now we have nationals asking us, so next year
is going to be even bigger.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. Yeah, looking at the list.
So then after Temple Mountain, I see good Bars and
Six Minds combined, So looking forward to that. That's going
to be awesome. And then the Marvels are oh sorry, So.
Speaker 4: Marvel is kind of back, you know, back and forth
through the stages. And then we have a flow artist,
Nicolette Reid, who's.
Speaker 3: What is her company?
Speaker 1: It's not Redkite, yeah, it says uh here red Kite
Entertainment is that.
Speaker 3: Uh, that's an introduction house.
Speaker 4: That's her out there. That's her DJ business because she's
also a DJ.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's oh, it's airflow projection art.
Speaker 4: So what she does is she has huge flags and
she spins them with projection art, you know, any kind
of projection art, and she does a choreograph dance to
a specific song and it's just beautiful and engaging and it,
you know, just captures your attention. So it's different than
anything I've ever seen. And she was over at Terminus
for our Halloween show outside in the parking lot dressed
as a ghost and she had all this haunting h
imagery going on, and it really drew in the crowd.
Speaker 3: So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: It sounds really.
Speaker 4: He's going to be doing that and accompanying a little
bit with the next act, which is Mike mcdell.
Speaker 3: And he's the Healer, So he is an edm DJ,
but he does a.
Speaker 4: Lot of really cool low progression stuff that also, you know,
kind of sets the vibe.
Speaker 1: And why why does he call himself the Healer.
Speaker 4: Because his whole personality and the way that he interacts
with the world is based on like everyone loving each
other and healing from their trauma together through music.
Speaker 1: Oh interesting, Okay, Oh he's someone. He's someone we have
to get on the show to get.
Speaker 3: Off that energy. When you meet him, you feel like
you're in the presence of somebody who just wants you
to feel better.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: And he's a business owner. He owns a couple of
businesses and he's opening up a new place, a's non
alcoholics he and coffee shop in Nashalla called The Spot.
So that should be opening up in January and it'll
be just another place for people to come and be
comfortable perform and you know, enjoy a cool vibe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh excellent. No, I look forward to meeting him absolutely.
And then you've got Dog eight Dog, and uh.
Speaker 3: I love those guys. Yeah, they're so much fun. They are.
They are some of my good friends. And they played
met my birthday last year and I feel so great
that I'm immortalized on some of their merch. They put
their their dates of that they played last year on
their merch and one of them being my birthday party.
And I'm like, no special, I am immortalized on merch
from a band.
Speaker 1: Very nice, very nice. And then the Whole Loaf who
we had on the show, and they're amazing. Love those guys.
Speaker 4: Love those They're so amazing.
Speaker 3: Those guys are, like Sean, such a sweetie, well before
their time or ahead of their time or beyond their
time really because they just play music like it.
Speaker 4: Comes from the depths of their soul. And literally Sean
who plays keyboards, he sounds like George Jim more of
them from the doors.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now, they're they're great. Looking forward to that. And
then of course the uh, the Spelfy, the Spelfy encore.
So is that Spelfy is that when you're supposed to sing.
Speaker 3: No, that's just been we're going to do like the
cake and stuff.
Speaker 1: Really I thought I thought that's when you were singing.
Speaker 3: I think I think that's going to be the open
jam after.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's going to be the open jam after. Okay,
all right, I got you. But you are going to sing, right,
that's the goal. You might find yourself at the event
having an urge to sing, and you may find.
Speaker 3: You I would that would be great.
Speaker 4: From telling you from telling you to sing when he's talking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I am going to be working with
some people on learning U a song or two come Monday. Anyway,
so it may happen.
Speaker 1: You might find yourself feeling.
Speaker 2: It's kind of sound like a Talking Heads radio fun song.
Speaker 1: Now, Oh that you might find yourself yourself no very good?
Speaker 5: So uh yeah, I mean if Matt Connors almost to
hypnotize me and I wake up with a beautiful white
I mean.
Speaker 1: Oh there you go, well in a beautiful house, right
drive So this is uh so, this all happens November
twenty fourth at Jewel So looking forward to that. And
where should people go for tickets?
Speaker 4: So online our website, The Midnight Creatives Collective dot com
clash shows, So Midnight Creatives Collective dot com slash shows
and you can see the event page there buy tickets.
You could also buy tickets at the door. They're going
to go up just a little bit, but you can
use then lower cash app or cash at the door.
Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent. We should too while we have you, we
should talk, uh, tell us about the Midnight Creatives Collective.
I mean, obviously long time listeners who tune in consistently
are aware of what you do. But for but for
people who don't know what is the Midnight Creatives Collective
because you do such great well, you have a lot
going on there. In fact, you know you've got that,
you've got terminus underground. You've got a lot going on.
But you know, but especially for the musicians who are listening,
who might want to know more about it and and
who can benefit, Uh, give us a little synopsis of
what you've got going on with the collective.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there is a lot.
Speaker 4: Going on, and there's kind of always more, but we
are The Midnight Creatives Collective is an organization that's been
built to support local artists and musicians. Do you kind
of get the deck leg up in their music and
art career and have the support that they need finding
shows and meeting people and networking. There's several different arms
to the organization, and eventually the organization itself is going
to become a nonprofit so that we can give even
greater support like sponsors, ship opportunities, or scholarships to people
in need of things like that, and associate with different
music associations. So eventually that's going to happen as the overarch.
But through the Midnight Creatives Collective, we have a coworking
space called the Business Bar where musicians and artists can
come in and sit together and hang out and it's
like a social space where you don't have to kind
of be alone off in your own little island. You
can do your social media, you can do your promotions,
you can work.
Speaker 3: On your art, your music.
Speaker 4: You can.
Speaker 1: Get hypnotized there.
Speaker 4: You can get hypnotized there because that will rent out
the space too. Yeah, you can also rent out the space.
Speaker 3: You can rent it out for art workshops, for hypnosis sessions,
you can rent it out to.
Speaker 4: Your needs a mediator for an example. It's a roundtable
kind of environment, so you can rented out for that purpose.
We have memberships. We base everything on membership, so we
have certain levels of membership. The top level of the
IP memberships includes musicians who want to learn the next
level of the music business. So I teach that getting
people out and creating their online presence, getting them involved
in how to understand copyright and how to get signed
up with a pro. So all of those details happened
there too. We also have space for a podcast studio
or radio show that you can rent out and we
call it the Clubhouse. And most recently we opened up
what we call Steve's Place, which is a community jam
space where people can sign up to either solo jam
or have up to five people in a community jam setting. Yeah,
and then we also have Terminus Underground, you know, that's
our kind of main arm. Andre from Dead Harrison he
opened up his very large rehearsal space for us so
that we can have semi monthly or monthly shows of
all genres. Yeah, we've been really successful because Nashala does
not have any place for local underground musicians to play,
but we have a huge pool of talent and people
who want to listen to that kind of music. Who
are you know, kind of on the alternative side of life,
where the you know, they're not mainstream and they don't
have to feel like they have a place to go,
and Terminus is the place for them to go, right.
It's like a really cool living room style environment. We're
very low key there. The vibe is always good, the
hospitalities on point, and then sound is excellent. So true
music lovers love coming to Terminus.
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, even our Dentist show, which we only had
ten paying customers, which is great considering me as just
opened and it was a icy storm and people still
showed up. Yeah, and even then with ten people in
the audience, people were like, this is the best show
I've happened.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 3: The game the place said, this is the best show
we've had, and we've had more people in the audience before.
Speaker 1: Oh that's excellent, excellent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, multiple times.
Speaker 3: You hear that.
Speaker 4: We have had consistent feedback from both bands and sands,
and we've continue to send upwards and sell out at
every show within the last five months. Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: The thing too, that I like to tell everybody about
Terminus Underground is that when you walk into that room,
it's like walking into a different world. And of course,
you know, I I that was before I even knew
about the you know, the connection to the inspiration, you know,
the Walking Day. It's the Walking Day. I get all
these zombie things mixed up. But that was before I
even knew about that. That's you know, what the inspiration was.
But yeah, just walking into that room, it's it's just
so cool.
Speaker 4: It's yeah, it's like it on it was even crazier.
Speaker 1: I can imagine, I can imagine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, we really capitalized on the Walking Dead scene
because we we had the Megans and they actually rehearse
on the other end of the mill building that we have,
and they called them side Sanctuary, which is a Walking
Dead reference and Terminus is uh the other like it's
like a place people go to in the Walking Dead themology.
It's a place of cannibalism.
Speaker 3: Ok So we have to say, okay, you know, we've
given up our cannibalistic ways. It's okay for you to
come over right right.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we might have.
Speaker 4: One cannibal in the back, but that's only for the really,
really bad people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he he only does cannibalism with consent. You'll
only eat your lunch if you give him permission.
Speaker 1: Why do I appreciate that. Yeah, even during the Green
Jello show, no one was actually consumed, which is good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That was a.
Speaker 4: Phenomenal show, and we're really grateful that Jenny got that
opportunity out for us to have that type of a
show because I think that's what really helped launch the
idea of Terminus in the hearts and minds of the community.
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool. Yeah, Yeah, that was a lot of fun.
That was a lot of fun, little nerve racking. I
just remember looking around quite I hope nothing, I hope
nothing gets broken or you know, anything like that. But no,
but that was that was a lot of fun. That
was a great night. That was a great night. Do
you have any do you have anything coming up at
Terminus before Spelfy Fests that you want to plug or
I don't know if you have anything between.
Speaker 3: You but directly after.
Speaker 4: So for the kind of wind down of our twenty
twenty fourth season, we're gonna have a couple shows in December.
The first is December seventh. It's a doom show with
fog Wizard, who's releasing their vinyl. So fog Wizard is
a really cool doom pledge band that asked us if
they could perform at Terminus, and so Dead Harrison will
be on that bill. And then we have another band
called Arctic Horror who's on the bill, and we're still confirming,
but I'm hoping this will be there too. Okay, the
four band bill, you know, special Winter Doom performances. And
then on the twenty first, we're going to be having
a Soultice party and so everyone who wants to come,
We're probably gonna do some sort of a Yankee swap,
but we're having Who I Am the Healer and Six
Minds combined performing and we're kind of trying to like,
you know, end it on like a really high note.
So we're gonna have a lot of lights and it's
going to be really really fun. So we'd love to
see you guys if you want to come by that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and what's the date for that again?
Speaker 4: That would be December twenty first.
Speaker 1: December twenty first, very good, very good.
Speaker 4: I'll have flyers up soon and invites going out soon.
But the Stealthy Best is such a big thing. We're
like really focused.
Speaker 1: Oh micro focus, Yeah, I don't blame you, No, is
a big thing. I mean people, people who've never been
involved in any kind of concert promotion have no idea
how much goes into it. Like I tell I tell everyone,
how how any anyone who's never done it, I tell them,
you know, no matter how much you think goes into it,
it's ten times more.
Speaker 4: Than what you can And then there's the thing that
you can't account for that.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, there's there's Wow.
Speaker 3: I did not think to take ahead of plans for
that contingency. That is something I was not expecting.
Speaker 5: To pop up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3: Always something. Yeah, there's always something that you're not going
to plan for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, Well listen, we'll you got a lot
going on, obviously, you have a lot on your plate
planning for this, so we'll let we'll get you, get
you back to it. But Eleanor and Spelfe, thank you
so much for joining us. Appreciate it. Really looking forward
to spellfee Fest and any anything.
Speaker 3: So excited. I'm so excited anything I'm still looking for.
We were to seeing you guys there, and thank you
guys for having us again.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, I love talking.
Speaker 3: To you guys.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, yeah, No, glad to do it. I was
thinking I'm going to close out the segment with a
Dead Harrison track. I was thinking about playing some Doom Train.
I agree, absolutely love that song.
Speaker 4: We welcome that, and we welcome everyone who's been listening
to this show to come on and buy your tickets
for Selfie Fest, and we look forward to meeting everybody
and it's.
Speaker 3: Going to be a grand time.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely can't wait. All right, Eleanor and Spelfie, Well
we'll let you go, but thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Thanks so much, Matt and Jenny, have a great day.
Speaker 5: You got it.
Speaker 1: Take care, Bye bye,