Speaker 1: There it is. I love it. That is such a
great track, piece of view. The band is Rivia And
let's see. I know we've got members of the band
on the line. Let's see who we've got. Welcome everybody,
can you hear me? Oh, it's always such a relief
when this works. You know, these international calls don't always
go as planned. Welcome to the show, Welcome back, I
should say. I know you've been on before, but it's
been a while since we've talked. Uh, who do we have?
Who do we have with us from the band?
Speaker 2: Full house, all of us?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Nice, nice, wonderful. So how are things, Uh, how are
things going over there? Says what did we talk last?
It's been a few months, right, I think we talked
after the release of Fallen. Was the last time we
had you on? Correct?
Speaker 2: Yeah? That was a July definitely in the year, wasn't it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, loads of gigs spinning the studio, festivals, stock.
Speaker 1: Too, wonderful, wonderful, So you had to you had a
busy summer.
Speaker 5: It sounds like, hell, yeah, it's been it's been great.
Speaker 1: Outstanding, outstanding. Tell me about tell me about festivals. What
what festivals have you done? Because I always say festivals
are such a fantastic opportunity for for bands, especially younger
new bands like you, new were bands like you, because
not only does it get you in front of audiences,
large audiences that might not otherwise come across you, but
it's also such a fantastic networking opportunity too. You know,
you get in front of new fans, but you also
get in front of of people in the industry and
and other artists that you might work with in the
future or have worked with in the past. Even But
what what are some of the festivals that y'all did
this past summer.
Speaker 2: We've done a couple.
Speaker 6: I mean, the most most memorable for us is because
we made a weekend out at Isle of Wight Festival.
So we'll drive down hop on the ferry and then
head into Islow eight and that was a full weekend,
well just all of it, but the all weekend. Yeah,
we brought some posters down with us and just meeting
a loads of people and chatting about the band and
just made it really personal to no seeing them come
down to the show and never even there of us,
and then they just meet us with a post say
come to our show, please come We got some.
Speaker 3: Nice messages after that as well, people, and we've had
a few comments on things on YouTube and stuff saying,
you know, like this was a really nice thank you
for coming and saying all those us was so glad
we caught your set and stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it goes to show that that human interactions still
goes a long way, like oh, definitely.
Speaker 1: That's a yeah. And that's a good reminder too, because
as Ai continues to uh to take hold of you know, especially,
I mean, it affects everything, but it certainly is effecting
the music industry. So uh, that's a good thing to
remind people about the importance of human interaction, especially when
it comes to music or any kind of art that
you're making. How does a piece of you must go
over really well live? I would imagine the song's got
such a great energy about it. I just love it
so much. How does that go over? How does that
go over live? Because I would imagine, I mean, do
you do you open or close your set with it?
Or where do you put it in the set?
Speaker 5: It's usually second, doesn't it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Seconds?
Speaker 6: And then it's it's a little bit heavier than some
of the other stuff that we've done. So we before
we were unsure on how it will go down, but
the reaction to it's been really good so far.
Speaker 2: It's made mistake. Should we just go a bit heavy? Right? Right?
Speaker 5: Gets the people.
Speaker 1: Going like it is a little more aggressive than the
other songs. But I love it. I love it. There's
almost this is you know what I hear? What I
hear in that song. There's almost like a sort of
a desperation to it and and earnestness maybe that's a
better word. Who wrote that? Who in the bed did
you all write that together? Or who wrote the song?
Speaker 4: So the the instruments are a team effort, like everyone
puts the bits on it, and Matt and my hello.
Speaker 5: Wrote the lyrics for it.
Speaker 4: And for me, it's basically like sort of it's about
about getting revenge basically, but but knowing and being aware
enough to know that it's not the right thing to do. Yeah,
So it's it's tackling trying to tackle the sort of
thoughts and the feelings that you get when you've been
wronged and you want to you want to get revenge
on people who've done done you wrong, but you know
better effectively and just trying to trying to grapple with
that and trying to move forward with that. And like
I've I've been on a bit of a journey personally
of trying to look after myself a little bit more
and trying to trying to live life a little bit
healthier and things like that and be a bit more positive.
So it's really sort of it's a it's a it's
a time capsual for me lyrically, and in that respect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's I think it's really good and
I think that you know, the theme that you just described,
I think is universal. I think we've all had moments
like that, situations where you know what you're thinking about,
you know, trying to get revenge on somebody, and you know,
as you get older, you learn you know, really the
best revenge is living well and being successful. But but
but we certainly have, we certainly have those situations occur,
no doubt, no doubt. Now what what what is the
what is the plan? I mean, you know, you've released
some great singles and I think I think one of you,
at the start of our conversation said something about being
in the studio. Are you working on an album or
do you have another single? You're working on or what's
kind of the future plan.
Speaker 4: So we have we have another one sort of in
the chamber, ready ready to fire, and then we're going
we're going back in the studio on Monday actually to
do another one to follow that up, and then if
all goes well, next year, I think we'd really like
to do an album. I feel like we're at that
sort of point as a band where we kind of
want to do that, but it's just a case of
whether we can make it happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the time, the time tying, I love to oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no doubt. I you know, I'm old enough
to remember when it was you know, you release an
album and then first single goes to radio six eight
weeks before the album comes out, and then if everything
goes well, you know, you release the album, and then
if everything goes well, you get a second single and
and maybe a third single and so forth. But today
there's so many different ways to release music, and yeah,
a lot of the guests that we have on the
show in these times are are just doing a series
of singles and just kind of seeing which does keep
you well engaged, you know, in terms of the algorithms
with social media and whatnot if you're you know, because
you release, if you release an album, you know, you
get that big bump from that, and then you don't
necessarily depending on what happens after that, you don't necessarily
get get a lot of traction on social media. But
releasing a series of singles and maybe when you do,
if the goal is to do an album, will the
singles Maybe I haven't thought this far ahead, but I'll
just ask you, will the singles that you've released so
far be a part of that album or will the
will the album be a completely separate thing? Do you think?
Speaker 3: And I think there might be one or two that
have to be Yeah, Yeah, there something that we have
talked about re recording and the like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's tunes that we've.
Speaker 3: Got in the set that we've had for years that
we would like. We've always said that's going on the album.
Speaker 4: They've sort of as we've played them over the years,
they've they've evolved into not new songs.
Speaker 5: But they're definitely.
Speaker 4: And they're sort of different in their versions and and
how we sort of play them. And Yeah, the standard
that we're right now as a band, we'd love to
sort of get back in the studio and redo them
and do them to the standard that that we could
do them to now would be really cool.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. And to be able to do them
too with the current lineup, right, because Rush, you've been
in the band for a while just you joined this
year correct.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I joined like kind of towards the end of April,
so what like sexally seven months, so it's fairly recent. Well,
it feels like I've been here forever.
Speaker 1: That's good, that's good. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was a funny moment where because we said we'll
do like a little trial period Shaw we get on
you know, for all Joe and that, and then we
came to the end of that trial period and basically
like Rush came in and went, so, are we gonna
have a discussion about you know, like being being in
the band and stuff, And we just went, oh, we thought.
Speaker 2: You were in.
Speaker 7: Plan And I was like, you know, it's the trials
coming to and they're like, okay, break it up and
be like, you know.
Speaker 4: What am I in?
Speaker 2: We're still in trial. Didn't realize.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's funny, But that's how you know it's a
good fit, right when when some of you didn't even
you know, give it another thought. It was just like, oh, yeah,
this makes sense, and then but it's good.
Speaker 2: That was the big giveaway for us. Now we were like, yeah,
definitely the one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh that's excellent. That's excellent going into I mean
now that we're jeez, I can't believe it's already almost
the end of October? Are you? Are you still playing
a lot of shows? As I know in the United States,
a lot of a lot of bands, they kind of
they don't go into hibernation. They're still working, but they
kind of use, at least in this part of the
country where it gets cold in the winter, they kind
of use winter time to maybe focus more on recording
because traveling isn't so great when it's snowing and icy out.
But I mean, what, what's kind of your plan? Are
you still playing a lot of shows now? Do you
plan to play through the winter or I don't even
know what the winter is like exactly where you are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's not it's not great. It's definitely wet.
Speaker 6: Ye've got a couple to see us out, But that's
the plan for those as well, to be honest, do
some bits behind the scenes and they out again next year.
So we've got two Liverpool shows, you know, one on
Halloween which will all go in this pilots.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we want we want everyone to everyone.
Speaker 6: Rib Crews taking a nice and we've got there on
the sixth of December as well, which was really good,
really good line up on that. So we're looking forward
to that and you know, who knows something some might
come our way.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I was just squeeze in there, but at the moment
definitely slowed down a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we want to focus only on writing
for next year.
Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent. Oh by the way too, I wanted to
circle back to a piece of you for a moment.
I wanted to ask about the video because I love
the video. It's really really cool. I like that. I
really dig the whole aesthetic of it, and and I
was just curious if that was something that you all
did on your own, or if you worked with with somebody,
or how did the video come about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was quite funny.
Speaker 6: It was just kind of yeah, yeah, it was kind
of it was just an idea that come to us
and we went, what's the best and cheapest way we
can do this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it ended up being Matt in the alley.
Speaker 6: We're holding the hose pipe over his head on the
waterfall mode and one of.
Speaker 2: Us fell in with it and that was it and
stick it in black and White's good to go.
Speaker 3: Well, you can't see behind the cameras me and was
in suits because we just come from where Yeah he's
old pipe molding the camera and.
Speaker 5: Post just laughing at me while I'm shivering. End right,
it's a good idea for like shark time called dragons
then no warm hose pipes.
Speaker 1: Well, if you go down, I mean, if you can,
if you can come up with something that that is cheap,
you know, but but still looks cool, then you've got
something right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: That's some really good some good feedback.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, videos cost us a few quids.
Speaker 5: Yeah that was maybe three pounds.
Speaker 1: There you go. Oh you've also got this is cool too,
by the way, and I want our listeners to know
about this on YouTube. The piece of you Rivia in
Matchbox Studio is a live recording and this is really
good too. This is really cool, Thank you, Sean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we love those guys.
Speaker 6: Batchbox are great over there, and you've got an amazing
studio the recording as well as well as all the
video stuff the package. Man, Yeah, the spot on make
really nice lads.
Speaker 2: That was a good day.
Speaker 6: Every done Falling there as well. Yeah, so yeah, that's
really good.
Speaker 1: Do you intend to continue to work with them?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely, Yeah, yeah I did the live The live
videos are great with them and they do go down well.
Falling Us now you can know, go and see that
on the on YouTube as well.
Speaker 2: Ready to go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so if anybody listening, it's only on YouTube. You
can see the full thing if you want to go see.
Speaker 2: It, but we'd recommend them. That's to anyone for videos
or the fantastic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah. Oh there's also two Falling. There's this
this acoustic version live from Northwest Connection that's also very
very cool. We're going to play actually at the end
of our conversation today too, we're going to play Falling
to close out Side because that's another that's another great,
great track.
Speaker 2: But I forgot me to that was the boss.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like it looks like there's only three
of you there, but the the oh this was yeah
live from Northwest Connect. What is Northwest Connection?
Speaker 2: So that those guys.
Speaker 5: With the same talents as that.
Speaker 6: Can't remember the exact location, but it's a really cool spot.
Speaker 2: A radio station, a podcast.
Speaker 8: Mm hmmm, so we were we were on the podcast
where we had a good, good shot for a good
forty five minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of tubes, Yeah, good luck with them.
Speaker 1: Very nice, very nice.
Speaker 4: So what.
Speaker 1: I know I've asked you this question before the last
time we talked, but for were listeners, are people who
aren't familiar with you tell us about the name? I'm
sure this is probably you probably hate this question because
you probably get asked this question every single day of
your lives. But what does that? What does Rivia mean?
Speaker 4: It's it's from It's from the Witcher if if you
know what that is. It's a it was a series
of books that got turned into video games that's now
a crappy Netflix show. Yeah, and basically the main guy
and it's called Garrels of Rivia.
Speaker 8: And when we were when we were making the band,
I really I fell in love with this character. Basically,
I just thought he was the coolest dude ever. And
I was like, Riva is a really cool name. And
then I was like, are there any other bands called Rivia?
Speaker 5: And look through the.
Speaker 8: Fire Instagram like every sort of music thing you can find,
and there was no bands called Rivia, so we were like, well,
that's that's a good start. The rarely condensed version of
the story is he's in the sort of books. He's
not actually from there. He sort of goes there and
he saves them and they accept him.
Speaker 2: And I thought it was.
Speaker 8: Really cool, the idea of like, it doesn't matter where
you come from, it's what you do that defines who
you are.
Speaker 1: Yes, I like that. I like that very much. That
is that's excellent. So what is now? What's kind of
the short term? Do you do you have where's your
Obviously we're in the United States, but we have listeners everywhere.
When is when is your next show? When do you
do you have anything this weekend that you're doing that
you're playing?
Speaker 2: Is it next next Halloween? And we will be pirates? Yeah.
Speaker 6: So that's in Liverpool Cosmia stock Room, Saty First Report
and the band called Holy Cove so a Welsh I believe.
Speaker 2: In the great bands.
Speaker 6: Looking forward to getting down seeing them there.
Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent, And then uh, where should people go online?
Where's the best place for people to go to keep
up with everything that Rivia is.
Speaker 6: Doing Instagram definitely, definitely Instagram at Rivia top and most
of our stuff goes there, was putting up stories of
what we're up to as well.
Speaker 3: So we've got all the other we've got like TikTok
you too, You've got Twitter and stuff, all of them all,
but our main sort of go to is his Instagram.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you like nonsensical quotes and there is the
place to go.
Speaker 3: Was Ho can full control of the Twitter and he
does just put his thoughts out there.
Speaker 2: Yes, all welcome, you're go ahead.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say our TikTok's more like our behind
the scenes stuff, isn't it Like he still having a
bit of fun silly stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that's excellent. Well, your social media game is
strong and that's very very important of course, uh these days.
So I commend you for that. And that's excellent And yeah.
Speaker 2: Thanks man. We've been working on that a lot this year,
so appreciate that.
Speaker 5: I think we've got Rush to thank for a lot
of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely saved us.
Speaker 1: Excellent hard work.
Speaker 2: For me.
Speaker 7: It is stock hard work, like you know, thinking and
stuff and then just having the time to like film
it and the then edit stuff.
Speaker 6: It's hard, is it?
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, well, it's just it's.
Speaker 7: So important today, Like it's just a massive part of
the music industry and I so.
Speaker 1: Right right because you're you're doing it all yourselves too, right,
You're or do you have a label that you work
with or is this all the I y, that's all
the warm one. Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 6: We've got managers of management engineering from. We believe that
love those guys the bits. In terms of social media, yeah,
that's unfortunately just.
Speaker 1: Well unfortunately in the sense that it's a lot of work, right,
but fortunately in the sense that that gives you maximum control,
total control really over what you're putting out there and
in terms of your image and everything, and that that
can be that can be a wonderful thing to have
that kind of autonomy. So that's that's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a bit more personal for social media now.
That's kind of like we talk, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: We used to really struggle with like what what should
we put off?
Speaker 3: And then we've realized we put it everyone, so yeah,
ourselves exactly.
Speaker 1: It's it's easy to overthink it, but once you once
you realize you know your fans, they just want engagement.
So whatever you can put out there, you know, and
and uh and if they don't like it, whatever, they'll
ignore it. But if they do like it, then uh great,
you know, then you've you've created that engagement that is
absolutely critical to being successful in the music industry today.
So uh so, yeah, absolutely, I commend you on that. Well, listen,
we're gonna we'll uh, we'll let you go. We're gonna
get to this track. We're gonna play Fallen to close
out the segment, another great song.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: But I do want to thank all of you, Matt, Warren, Rash, Chris,
thank you all.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: It doesn't always work out where we get an entire
band on all at once, so I appreciate that. Absolutely.
We'll do it again and keep us posted on when
the next single is ready to and and we'll uh
we'll give it. We'll give it a spin here of
course always and uh and we'll have you back on
to talk about it and uh and I wish you
continued to success. And thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 5: Thank you, so thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Touching about it.
Speaker 1: All right, Rivia, thank you. We'll talk to you soon.
Take care, bye bye. All right, that is the members
of the band Rivia, and we're going to close out
our conversation, UH with this track. This is another great single.
We were the first American radio station to play this.
Of course, this is Fallen