Speaker 1: I'll get the blood pumping on a cold Saturday morning,
on a cold winter's morning.
Speaker 2: Welcome everybody, Here we go.
Speaker 1: We are into our number two New Marrow dose of
Matt Connorton unleashed, our first show of twenty twenty five.
Today is Saturday, January fourth, twenty twenty five. Jenny is
here as well, of course, at the news table, president
and account of for and we have joining us a
live in studio. And again, if you are just joining us,
forgive my voice. I'm still recovering from my recent sound kit.
I don't think it does. I'm very frustrated to my
cracking voice, but still recovering again, still recovering from my
recent asthma incident. But we have joining us alive in studio.
The guys from Scarecrow Hill are here.
Speaker 3: How are you guys?
Speaker 4: Welcome, Hello, hello, hello, Thank you for having us.
Speaker 1: Absolutely I'm excited to talk to you. I really love
your sound. As we were talking off air, and that
track is great? Is that the uh?
Speaker 3: Now that's from the new album of course at Death
in the Family. Yes, excellent, So why don't we We'll start.
Speaker 1: In the corner here and if we could just go
around the room and you can each tell us who
you are, what you do in the band, and any
other pertinent information.
Speaker 4: Tyler A Sting Okay, Joe, lead guitar player.
Speaker 3: Okay, I am Brendan, and I am the drummer.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm Joe.
Speaker 3: I'm the bass player. Okay. And is it just the
four of you?
Speaker 5: No, we actually dominate our rhythm. Guitar player couldn't be with.
Speaker 1: Us, okay, Okay, gotcha, gotcha. Yeah, you guys have a
big sound.
Speaker 3: You know what I like about that track too, Like
you're not in any hurry to get to the end
of it, you know what I mean, Like like that
riff just keeps going for a while. And I think
that because I think that's kind of a lost.
Speaker 1: Thing, like I don't hear a lot of I feel
like we live in a time where a lot of
bands it's like, you know, I don't know if it's
because everybody thinks that people have short attention spans or whatever,
but it's like, Okay, a couple of choruses and we'll
end it or we'll fade it out, but you guys
kind of take your time with it and groove on
that for a while. And I just think that's really cool.
Speaker 5: We had had a lot of fun coming up with
that ending. Yeah, we loved the riffs that they did,
so we wanted to kind of.
Speaker 4: Stretch that out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, that's really cool. How long has Scarecrow
Hill Scarecrow Hill been around?
Speaker 5: Oh gosh, is three for what matters? Since twenty eighteen?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, But there was a version of the band
that existed before that.
Speaker 5: There was Joel and I started the band in two
thousand and three, okay, okay. We went till about twenty fourteen,
and then we had split up, and then at the
end of twenty eighteen beginning of twenty nineteen, we got
back together with these guys.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, now what caused the return.
Speaker 5: Brendan and Joe Okay, we met them and the way
they played the music, we were just like, we need
to do this again.
Speaker 1: When when the band ended the first time, after you said,
what about a ten year run?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the first time?
Speaker 3: Did you did you always kind of know that it
would be back some day or was it like, no,
that's it.
Speaker 5: I think we secretly hoped, yeah, but we didn't really
know what was going to happen either ways.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So the so everything on the new album
is the current lineup, the five of of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I was pretty sure because when when Jenny,
you know, Jenny does all the booking for the show,
and when she mentioned Scarecrow Hill, I was like, that's
a familiar name from like I think, back when I
was still playing. But but I wasn't one hundred percent sure.
And then when I saw online it looked, you know,
I saw the new album, and then I I didn't, like,
I didn't find.
Speaker 3: Does the old material does that survive? Like does or
have you left that kind of in that other era.
Speaker 4: We've tried pretty hard to get rid of that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, there's a there's still one record out there
from like twenty twelve.
Speaker 4: We're pretty alright with that still being around.
Speaker 3: But oh okay, yeah.
Speaker 5: Everything else I've worked pretty hard to it's quiet as
much as possible.
Speaker 3: No kidding, so like actively suppressive, like you don't even
want oh no kidding?
Speaker 1: Interesting, Why is that? Like you just feel that the
sound has evolved so much, and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just everything about the band, like I, like I said,
it's when Joel and Dom and I came back to
the band and we hooked up with Joe and Brendan
here it was just like we didn't care about the
past anymore.
Speaker 4: It's this, this is our band.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, when you I've been in situations like I
don't play anymore. I used to be in a bunch
of bands, and I've been in situations where, you know,
maybe there'd been some sort of a transformation and an evolution,
and then there's that that inevitable conversation about do we
change the name or and and I.
Speaker 3: Always I remember I was in a specific band. I
was in a band called My Life Crisis, and I
remember actually having that argument with you know, when we
had a big shift in personnel and the guys kind
of wanted to, oh, let's you know, our sound kind
of change, let's change the name. And I fought for
keeping the name because I was like, well, look, people
know us as this. I understand it's a different band
kind of, but we've built up this name. Not you know,
not that we ever got anywhere big or anything, but
I but I felt there was value in our name.
Speaker 1: Like that was that a conversation amongst you do we
do we be scarecrow Hill, or or do we do
something or do we be something new.
Speaker 4: I don't think we have even discussed it really really yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Scarecrow Hill was kind of like such a
long standing name and entity for for Tye. Yeah, and
Tye being kind of our fearless leader. That's like we
we go as he goes.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, And that makes sense. I mean, you've got
you know, you've got equity in that, you know, So,
like I said, I I remembered it. It was familiar
to me when Jenny mentioned, I thought you guys had
been around for a while.
Speaker 1: So as I think that makes sense, we're gonna We're
gonna play something a little bit later. That's really really
interesting in terms of there's there's a bit of a surprise,
well a couple of surprises on the track. But I'm
curious about how you describe your sound because you're I mean, obviously,
you know, you kind of fit in the metal genre broadly,
but of course you have all these subgenres and whatnot.
But but your your approach, especially from what I was
reading online, your your approach is a little bit different
in terms of You're not My impression is you're not
trying to You're not You're not trying to be one
specific thing.
Speaker 4: You know, you're you're you're boring.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly, you know, because most metal bands do
try to be one specific thing. But has that always
been your approach to kind of be open to different influences.
Speaker 5: And yeah, I think, I think absolutely, because when you've
got you know, five personalities and five sets of influences
and five musical directions that everybody wants to go, I
think you kind of have to have the open air
for that to happen.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I'm I'm like the least.
Speaker 5: Metal guy in the world, man, I I like the
Beatles and Tech nine, you know what I mean. Like
that's so these guys like teach me a lot about
the metal genre and the metal community, and.
Speaker 4: We've all kind of had to work together.
Speaker 5: And it just makes it so that, you know, when
Joe puts his stamp on something and then Dominic comes
in and Joe and it just it is so many sounds.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it makes it cool for us.
Speaker 3: Does that happen?
Speaker 1: I assume that happens kind of organically, right, It sounds
like it like you don't like, you don't say, you know,
we need to try to shove this other influence into
this song, but it just kind of happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it kind of depends, like the way
when I'm writing. A lot of the time, I'll be
inspired by like a particular song or like an idea
that exists in a song. Yeah, so sometimes I'll take
that as a starting point and kind of like build
a demo around that idea. But like the inspiration comes
from so many different directions sometimes that like to not
have to pigeonhole into like we have to sound like
such and such, It's it's kind of freeing in terms
of inspirational direction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Your live show too, I would imagine it's pretty energetic,
you know, to match.
Speaker 2: Your Yeah, it's a lot of fun, you know. It's yeah,
I'll just leave it at that, trying to keep it
radio friendly, but yeah, we have a lot of fun,
and we try to keep it very high energy.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: The live show too, I think is very very organic. Yeah,
like it's we don't there's no choreograph or anything like that.
We just kind of go into it knowing that we
were with our team, like we just see what happens. Yeah,
start to rock out, man, like a little bit of
old school in the new school.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you guys play out, do you have opportunities
to play with bands that you played with like way
back in the day.
Speaker 6: Or shockingly yes, I suspected as much because I can
tell you just doing this, I'll while we've had guests
on the show or talk to people about coming on
to I'm like, I didn't even know.
Speaker 4: Wow, Like I remember doing.
Speaker 3: Shows with them like twenty years ago, and they're back.
That's really cool.
Speaker 1: Like who are some of the bands that you guys
get to play with that you played.
Speaker 3: With back then.
Speaker 5: So a lot of times it might not even be
necessarily be a whole band. But like even just last night,
we got to play over here at the Shaskiing, which
what a great little room.
Speaker 4: That was all fun.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah I love them.
Speaker 4: Yeah oh yeah, what a great place.
Speaker 5: And but so Rags to Stitches shout out to our
boys from New Hampshire.
Speaker 4: Uh, they had put the show.
Speaker 5: On nice and their their bass player is a guy
that we have been playing with in different bands.
Speaker 4: I mean since me and.
Speaker 5: Joel were kids, like we we grew up playing shows
with this guy. And yeah he's still out there doing
a whistle out. They're doing it twenty years later, so
like it's there's a lot of that. A lot of
bands unfortunately don't stay around as long, but right the
musicians do, and we'll we'll get out there and get
to see this guy. Oh he used to be in
this band that we toured with and that that stuff's
a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: It's really cool.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's really cool. Did we have U rags of stitches?
Did we have them on you remember? I feel like
we did.
Speaker 4: I'm not positive.
Speaker 3: I'd have to go back and look. I think we
might have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if not, you should, yeah, definitely if you haven't, or.
Speaker 1: Or the name has come up on this maybe that
might be the name might have come up on the
show before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, are you guys playing out a lot?
Speaker 4: Or yeah? Yeah, we've been very very busy, good, very good, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 3: And how long has this album been out? This is
this is pretty new right?
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, July August.
Speaker 2: Something like that, less than a year, more than a month?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, cool? Where do you record?
Speaker 4: We do it?
Speaker 1: You know, that's awesome because it sounds like I'm always curious,
you know, because we live in a time where you've
got so many different options in terms of how you record,
and there's so many great studios around, but you can
also do it yourself and it sounds like it was
recorded in a million dollar studio, you know. Thanks, So
it's really impressive. Like, like, do you have a home studio?
Does one of you have a home studio set up
or what's what's the approach?
Speaker 2: We kind of each of us has our own little
setup at home where well, we'll do some demos, but
when it comes time to like actually cut the final thing. Uh,
we have a decent setup at the band, like our
practice space where we track everything in and then once
that's all done, we take it to our guy Joe
Clapp who's got like a really nice professional studio and
he mixes it and masters it for us.
Speaker 1: Oh fantastic, Okay, yeah, so it's cool that that you're
able to do it that way. You know, I'm old
enough to remember, and some of you might be when
you know your only options were really you know, like
you could, yeah, you could record demos at home on
your task and you know, and then but then yeh,
then go spend.
Speaker 3: A ton of money in a studio to do everything there.
Speaker 2: And me and Brennan were joking on the way over
here because we rode together and we're a couple of
years younger than the rest of the guys in the band. Yeah,
we were joking about I. I had mentioned before how
one of the early Scarecrow Hill demos was done on
an answering machine, and how how far it's come in
the way that you can get like really high quality
recordings at home for like a pretty relatively affordable price
compared to even like five or ten years ago, where
it was the barrier to entry was so high.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Oh that's funny though, the answering machine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that.
Speaker 5: Makes sense though, going to the public library and running
off covers for the cassette tapes for Dublin, No kidding,
it was you know, there wasn't no distribution around here
that anybody could afford.
Speaker 3: Or anything back, right exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: If you knew a band that had CDs, they were
like big times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even over the course of the years just.
Speaker 3: Doing this. Well, I've I've been at wmn.
Speaker 1: H for it'll be eight years in April, but I've
been interviewing bands for a lot longer. And we were
talking talking to somebody last week on the show about
how when I first started doing this, like bands would
usually show up with a CD. You know, now, of
course you can just email everything, but and the move
was was very often it would be, you know, just
like a CDR with sharpie written on it. You know,
these are the songs we want to feature on the show,
and they'd handed to me on their finger. It wouldn't
even be in a case. Yeah, those were those were
the days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we actually have I don't use it, but we
we do have a functioning CD player here.
Speaker 4: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that. One of the guys, Rob, I
don't know if you know Rob as a vido.
Speaker 1: He owes a show here called Granted State of Mind
and he uses occasionally.
Speaker 3: But but he's kind of old school with that.
Speaker 1: But the new album is it available on CD or
is it only on streaming platforms?
Speaker 4: This one is only on streaming platforms.
Speaker 5: We have three other records that we take physical copies
out on the road with us, but this is the
one we wanted to try just just to see first.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I it did his digital only and figured maybe if
if it keeps doing as well as it's doing, we'll
probably end up doing some physical copies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I want to play So I surprise you
guys with this. I made a radio edit of this
track that Little Voice featuring Adam Ramie partly well. So
a couple things about it that that really grabbed me.
One is I just find I'm the subject very relatable,
you know, talking about that that little voice that so
many of us have in our heads that tries to
kind of drag us down and tell us a lot
of negative things, negative self talk and all that. So
I think a lot of people can really relate to
the lyrics. The other thing that's really interesting to me
is what's going on in the chorus, which is very
unusual and it's it's cool. I was like, what, Oh,
that's interesting and it's got and and tell me about
uh but we'll talk about that part after we play it.
But tell me tell me too about Adam Raymie.
Speaker 4: Adam. Adam is amazing.
Speaker 5: So Adam is one of the vocalists for the band
Dropout Kings, Okay, and he's at the range that this
man has where he can you know, he does the
dirty vocals, screaming stuff. He does these absolutely beautiful, powerful
lead vocals. And then we had We've done a few
shows together over the years, and we had talked a
few times about doing a track. So when I sent
him this, he said, well, you know, what are you
going to do with it? I said, we trust you.
You know your your range is ridiculous, and this was
the last thing we were expecting. Yeah, he said. We
were like, wow, this is all right, Like he went
different with this and we were super excited about it.
But he's he's just one of those guys that he
can do anything, and he's so much fun to work
with on this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, very cool.
Speaker 1: So this is of course from the new album, but
Death of the Family will give this to spend uh.
This is called that Little Voice featuring Adam Raby. This
is Scarecrow Hills.
Speaker 8: I got this voice up inside of my head side
of me. I should beat my bloody I'm one. I
should never Recladdy. Who's ever readon call to take him?
Speaker 7: Another thing?
Speaker 4: Problem me?
Speaker 7: You just can't just stand on the plattlefield. But I
keep telling you want of my boots have been money.
Speaker 8: The biggest surprise of my entire life is still that
I managed you on the my twenties. No matter how
hard that I'm working no matter how much I have
rissen aplaw. Why he he's whistles all taking my hand,
telling me that my best is so lucky enough. So
I keep pushing and fighting them, sucking this home. Everybody
should drop my dog. Then these things other voices they
tell me that I should just couldn't get Bob. I
swear to God sometimes in my head all I hate
where the ghost.
Speaker 7: On my past.
Speaker 8: I hate to tell you if there's no reason why
it doesn't exist when your heart, if I die every day, my.
Speaker 7: Bread keep telling to me that everyone.
Speaker 3: My mum on Sunday stopped me in the back.
Speaker 9: I said, my I'm just bring in this circles because
in my three ready, when they hurt sh Charles hurt shoes,
it's flash sense, char.
Speaker 7: Sues.
Speaker 2: That's whe.
Speaker 8: I got these voices inside of my head telling me
I can never be saved. And if I keep tightening,
and if I keep trying, I'm gonna find myself and.
Speaker 7: Then of the grave.
Speaker 8: But that's okay, because I got another one telling me
nobody cares any weighing apart of the world.
Speaker 7: They will bring no sorrow. No one will even remember
my name. I ever thought.
Speaker 8: This is side of me that I have never been
able to fight, and he keeps telling me, yet does
a matter?
Speaker 7: There's nothing that I ever do will be right.
Speaker 3: I hear her voices.
Speaker 8: I'm telling me I don't deserve I begins of my
largess I personal reave allowed him with the world, and
it's making your rhindo.
Speaker 7: Of living the lone. I got this voice in the
back of my mind telling me that I'll never rea.
Speaker 8: I got the voice in the back of my mind,
and I had got some of them pre j my mind.
Speaker 7: Keep telling me everything out. I was barely hanging by
a stitch.
Speaker 8: I spent my whole I just feel in this art
because trying to catching one.
Speaker 7: Of two sis. So man sense choice, so.
Speaker 9: True, the man.
Speaker 10: Who these little voices are screaming to me that I'm
not the one you really blaunch.
Speaker 7: I remember the way that you wished me in the beginning.
I hate that it's gone. The truth of the matter
is this hoporable situation is going on too wrong. I
wish that.
Speaker 8: Somebody had to make or told me I was losing
myself before I was lost. I got just voice in
my head telling me that the shadows I'm seeing orail.
My brain is almost by you in my heart. Because
I cannot.
Speaker 7: Trust what I feel.
Speaker 8: I keep the weight on my shoulders to myself, the
same way the weight on my.
Speaker 4: Hippos con seal.
Speaker 8: Sometimes I get in the booth and I met it
all all, but you know I'm shrinking the seal. I
get the voice in the back of my mind and
we're trying to kill it.
Speaker 7: Shot. I got the voice in the back of my mind,
and I hate my mother. I creak game my brain.
You're telling me all that I have to look forward to.
It's warm dress.
Speaker 3: I said, I'm a whole.
Speaker 7: I just feel in the turk because because I can't
give the couse out of my ship truss my.
Speaker 11: Flashing sensors.
Speaker 7: Spot this man and st I hate a lot up
in my egg.
Speaker 3: I do got a nice ship that dry. Don't even
recognize this man from.
Speaker 7: Tough Guy had his fag shot. I had a lot
up y voices in my head. It's not a guy
that would shut up. Don't COTTO try by this.
Speaker 1: Guy that is that little voice featuring Adam Raymie and
the band is a Scarecrow Hill with us in the
studio this morning. Yeah, so tell me about that, Guys,
tell me about that chorus, like, because that was was
that something Adam did?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we did that, Yeah, we did. We had sent
him the basic demo at the track and I hadn't
even laid my vocals yet. Yeah, like he had just
you know, what do you want to do? So well,
we trust you, man, like obviously we're fans and we
know the things you're capable of. And yeah, he sent
that back and he was like, you know, I hope
you dig it. He was like, because I love this.
He's like, I think it's one of one of my
favorite features I've done. And I was so taken back
by it. I was like, wow, I'm going to rewrite
everything I had because like I need my stuff to
be cooler.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that that caused you to read your Yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah.
The chorus is I think we were talking about it
off air. It's like nothing I've ever heard. It's it's
it's it's such a unique sound. And uh now, Joe,
you were saying too, so what do you the genre
that that you call?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we were talking about genre before. I think
if if for Scarecrow Hill, if you were kind of
to nail it down to something. We kind of used
the tagline hip hop death rock.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So Tye especially has a lot of like hip hop influences.
So you know, in a song like that, you can
hear the rapping and that. That's a lot of the
songs that we do have a lot of like hip
hop influence to it. So we try to have like,
you know, a groove and a bounce to a lot
of you know, while it might be a heavy riff,
you know, it can be broken down into a groove
that grooves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, no, well put yeah, no, that makes
sense to me. Now, that's that's a great Do you
play that live or is it hard to do without?
Speaker 4: Uh we we haven't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we haven't played that one live.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's that's really good. Also another track, maybe
we'll play it at the end of if we have time.
But you do a cover on this that I that
I really like on the new album, of course we
should mention again a death in the family.
Speaker 3: We're in this together now.
Speaker 1: And I remember looking at the track list and I
was like, I wonder if that's an original or if
that's a nine inch Nails cover And I listened to it, and, uh, man,
you sing the hell out of that.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really like there's there's an emotion to it.
There's almost like a like a desperation that comes across
in your vocal. I don't know if that's what you're
going for, probably, but.
Speaker 4: I mean it, it happens.
Speaker 5: I've I've actually heard that several times about several songs
that we do, Yeah, which I think is I take
that as as a pretty huge compliment because I don't
I've never been one of those guys that can like
just sing a cover song. Yeah, It's got to be
something that really resonates with me. It's got to be
something that like means something.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I was playing it, it was like, wow,
you know I really really feel this, you know, was
that challenging to sing?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean yes, and no, it's uh yes in the
fact that like it. It's you know, it's pretty up
there and it's a hard song in general. But yeah, personally,
Trent Reznor has been like one of my biggest vocal
influences ever. Yeah, And I've been singing that song for
as long as I can remember. Yeah, when I finally
get to get into the with it, and I was like, wow,
all right, like this is this is gonna be awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, it came out great. It came out great.
Speaker 1: Is there any kind of a theme to the album?
I mean, you know, it's got a pretty ominous title
of Death in the Family. I'm curious about does the
title have any meaning specifically and is there a theme
to this?
Speaker 3: To this album?
Speaker 5: We had gone through a small lineup change. We had
so since twenty eighteen, we did a trilogy of records
not Dead Yet, Never Say Die and Until Death, and
that was our It was just kind of about everything
that was going on at the time and as well
as kind of like a not necessarily a promise or
an oath or something, but something.
Speaker 4: That we did for each other, like this, this is it,
this is what we're going to do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we for a while we're a six member
band in that fizzled away and that became a Death
in the Family as a way to just kind.
Speaker 4: Of put closure on that chapter.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, and then the thing is that we we
have coming now are moving on to the next chapter.
Speaker 3: Okay, So this band was a six piece at one point. Yeah, wow,
what did the other member.
Speaker 4: Do the little percussion, some backup vocals.
Speaker 5: It's kind of an auxiliary, remember yeah, which which was fun,
It was a it was a great thing to have.
But I think all that really did was just kind
of solidify our five member band and yeah, and approved
to us that we didn't necessarily need anybody else there
with us.
Speaker 3: Right right, Yeah. I mean, I know from my own experience,
it's it's hard.
Speaker 1: It can be hard enough, you know, like with a
five piece or even a four piece, it can be
hard enough trying to work with everyone's schedules and everyone's
you know, everyone's got lives and and you know, and
trying to book shows and everything. So I can only
imagine what a six piece what that was like. Some
of the it's funny, you know, we have a lot
of singer songwriters on the show, and very often there
are people who used to play in bands who you know,
got they get to a point where it's it's it
just becomes too much to manage. So then they decide
to do their own thing, you know, and and just
and not have to deal with all the Somebody somebody
said to me, I forget who it was who said it.
On the show that being in a band with four
other people is like being in four relationships. It's like
it is like or is like being in a relationship
with four other people who are all in a relationship
with four other people.
Speaker 4: That is true.
Speaker 1: I wish I could remember who said it so I
could give them credit. But I thought it was a
great I thought it was a great insight. But you
guys have a lot going on with you know, you're
you're playing a lot, and I mean, is it hard
to is it hard to manage all that with with
with a five piece band?
Speaker 5: Or I think it would be more difficult if we
weren't as tight knit. Yeah, But the fact that you know,
like these this is we're a team. Yeah, And we
worked very hard to make sure that you know, maybe
we can't grab every opportunity like today with Dorminic Nabi
able to be here, but Dominic also very much understood
and you know, you know, you guys go do this.
Speaker 4: I have to do some other things right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And that's usually the way it always goes, is
we work very hard to make sure that it's amicable
for everyone and that we're amicable to everything. It might
not be a show Joe's crazy about playing, but he
you know, he believes in his band and he's here
for his band, so we can make that.
Speaker 4: Work, right.
Speaker 2: And I think another thing too is that you know,
I've been in bands before where and you know, it's
just like ty said, with a team dynamic on like
a sports team or in a lot of situations, there's
you know, leadership and there's not followers, but like people
who look up to the leader. And Tye being the leader,
he does the booking, he has the majority of the connections,
and he kind of sets the schedule for us. We've
all kind of committed Sunday, you know, Sunday afternoons is
band day. That's when we get together, that's when we practice,
we talk about band business. And then we've got a
group calendar that you know, if there's a date that
anybody can't do something, we put it in the group calendar.
And then other than that, it's basically free reign. Yeah,
and ty knows to you know, he does writ by
us and not booking something that's gonna totally you know,
derail everybody's lives because you know, as much as we'd
all love to be the full time touring bands and everything.
It's it's so hard to get to that level. So yeah,
we get day jobs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, of course.
Speaker 1: Do you guys like, how how far do you go
in terms of when you're playing shows, Like you said,
you're playing a lot.
Speaker 5: You get out of New England, do you go, We'll
go wherever we'll have us. Yeah, we just we want
to get out to as many people as possible. But
we love new venues, we love new bands, we love
all the things that we were very lucky enough to
get to do. So anywhere that we'll have us, we
are we are glad to go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, excellent. Where does the name come from? By
the way, scarecrow Hill.
Speaker 5: That we have been we have ended this question for
so long, So scarecrow Hill. It was actually when when
we were very first trying to start this band, we
had had a different name and everything, and we had
written kind of like this mission statement. It was like
partial lyrics, partial, just eighteen year old Bravado. And yeah,
we had used the term scarecrow Hill as a metaphor
because you know, scarecrows are.
Speaker 4: They're they're warning.
Speaker 5: It's like to stay away from somewhere, it's to keep
you out of something and hills are like steep and
hard to climb, and so we used scarecrow Hill as
a metaphor of like we need to get past a
scarecrow hill into the music business.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's.
Speaker 5: Actually my mom looked at us and was like, that's
your band name, Like, that's that's what your band name
should be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're all right, we'll give it a shot. It's different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, And it's speaking of moms, Hi, moms, yes, time, moms.
What was what was the do you want to say
what the name was?
Speaker 4: Before?
Speaker 3: You see?
Speaker 4: We were called standing Room.
Speaker 1: Because I love hearing about rejected band names to the
standing room? Why why didn't you? Why didn't you stick
with that?
Speaker 5: Honestly, just like I said when she was like, scarecrow
Hill is a better band name. It does sound kind
of cool.
Speaker 3: Actually yeah, yeah, yeah, I do think it's a better
name than standing Room. Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 1: Well let's oh boy, my voice is cracking. Let's do this,
which is the perfect time to do this because we
were talking about it. Let's play uh, let's play wearing
this together.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 3: I just I'm so amazed by this.
Speaker 1: Now, who's because obviously this this is not the full
band on this track, So who else is playing?
Speaker 3: Who else is doing what on this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So myself and our our other producer, Joe Clapp,
did a lot of stuff, and then there was a
lady that we had reached out to a couple of
years back actually to get some of the original piano pieces,
and we just kind of combined every thing, and then
he and I sat in the booth and did a
lot a lot of additional piano and the strings and
all that kind of stuff, and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now it's really impressive. So I'm eager to play it.
Let's give this a listen if you're just joining us.
Scarecrow Hill is with us here in studio this morning,
and this is their cover of nine Inch Nails.
Speaker 3: This is called We're in this Together now.
Speaker 7: M hm hm hm ah. Become impossible, holy to win,
where everything seems mad more ViRGE of how you use
all you use and beating up watching face as if
don't knopass we have joked.
Speaker 11: Where at least together and nod.
Speaker 7: They're gonna stop us.
Speaker 4: Wave on the get Jose.
Speaker 11: Yeah, when mad if the wort of breaking child, then
tell the very end of man until the very end
of your who wakes on the sound does appeal about
the skin they pack in their pall, trying to get
the vegers in. Whether they're gonna kill what we found
while they're gonna hate what they fear.
Speaker 7: Well they're gonna make it go away, Well, they gotta
make it disappear. The father of all. I'm just side you,
as lost as I guess.
Speaker 11: I will find you the tea bottle warm don inside
you if you're rather and delor, I.
Speaker 7: Am a part of Joe and May were released to tiln.
Speaker 9: No the can stop us.
Speaker 7: Now we will make get to some man and the
wilch of FREAKINSI than Tili and the man until the
very end of your Oh we were is gone. We
have to fd on all that we were is gone.
We have to hold on we all hobbies gone. We
have to hold on all that we wereris gone. But
we gain all you in May. We're in this together.
Speaker 11: None of them can stop us. Now we will make
it through something chain made.
Speaker 7: He didn't answer everything you don't cleaning on the jack
everything else.
Speaker 3: H H, that's so good.
Speaker 1: I didn't even want to talk over that slow fade.
At the end, I was like, no, I got to
give that a few more seconds. That's intense.
Speaker 3: That is so good.
Speaker 1: Scarecrow Hill is here with us in studio if you
are just joining us, and that is their cover of
We're in This Together Now by Nine Inch Nails and yeah, great,
great job on that. What do you guys, uh, what
do you guys coming up in terms of are you
are you already working on material for I know this
album just came out, but you know, you strike me
as guys who probably have a lot of ideas, who're
probably already working on some new stuff.
Speaker 4: We're pretty much constantly.
Speaker 5: Anytime we put anything out, we'll give it a few
months and really hone in on the live part of
the show and things that we got to do. But
I think genuinely we enjoy writing together so much that
we just we never stopped. It's yeah, we we just
came finished and started polishing a new track a week ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Well that's like the exciting part because I'm speaking for myself,
I'm kind of the impatient type. But pretty much even
before we put an album out, we're already kind of
looking at the next next new material that we're going
to be writing, and we're looking at ways really, how
one we can improve in two, how we can I
don't just moving forward, what we can do to evolve
our sound, yeah, which you know, I think it's.
Speaker 2: Awesome, And there's a lot of a lot of time.
There's enough time between when you're done writing a batch
of songs for a record and the time that that
comes out, that between that you're already I mean personally,
sometimes I get a little fatigued from like the writing
and recording process. So like to have like maybe even
just like a month to kind of like forget about
it is good. Yeah, But even still, like once we're
done with the writing and recording, even before the next
one comes out, it's a lot of the time it's
already creative juices are flowing for the next thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt exactly. And honestly, it comes to the
most random times.
Speaker 12: I always joke around like some of the best ideas
coming to me in the shower evolved. Yeah, And you know,
if that's the case, it could be a day after
we put out the new album and already putting down
new ideas. Sometimes you're listening to the final mix of
the album and you're like, oh, really good idea you
know all right, Yeah, it's always an evolving process.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing I think I love most about it.
Speaker 7: I think we do.
Speaker 3: I shouldn't even speak for myself, we all do.
Speaker 9: Do.
Speaker 1: Any of the songs that you guys are working on,
you end up playing them out live before before they've
been recording.
Speaker 3: Usually the Yeah, not all, but sometimes yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: There's usually like if we put out a record that
I mean, the first three of the tri that that
trilogy that was that I I was talking about earlier
was the start of that was the beginning of this
iteration of the lineup. So since then, there was always
like one or two or three that were like the
ones that we knew would would go over well live,
and those were always the ones that we took out
and played first before anything came out.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah that makes sense, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: And then, uh so so even though obviously we're in winter,
a lot of bands kind of slowed down with the
live shows, but it sounds like, are you guys gonna
be continuing to play through the winter.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, So we've got We've got a more this month,
and then we're actually we're taking our first break from
live shows in almost three years. Wow, We're taking the
month of February to kind of go home and reassess
and rehune in on some things and get some things
lined back up. But then I mean, right the first
week in March, we're right back at it. We're back
out of there.
Speaker 3: So excellent.
Speaker 4: Nice to have a little time off, But I'm glad
it's the shortest month.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Well, it seems like you have a lot of momentum
and uh, you know, like I said, the album is great.
And then, by the way, do you guys do any
covers live other than I don't, like, I don't know really,
I'm just all I was curious. I always say you
can kind of tell tell a little bit about a
band's influences by the covers that they do. But you
guys have such an interesting sound and such a disparate
influences anyway, that which I think is really cool. Is
there anybody in the scene, by the way, that you
play a lot of shows with? You know, sometimes it
happens organically, you just end up sort of teaming up
unofficially with bands.
Speaker 3: And like like like who who uh who around here?
Do you guys play a lot with.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, like, like we said, we get Rags
of Stitches right here in New Hampshire.
Speaker 3: Oh, I finally remembered. Now why Jenny, you know why
that Dave is so familiar. We saw them at a
Spelfy fest. Rags of Stitches was there, That's why. Okay,
so yeah, we will get them on. I'm sorry, I mean,
but yeah.
Speaker 5: So we love this and I mean there's fear of
the Masses out of Connecticut or you know, good Buddies
of ours that.
Speaker 4: We play with a lot.
Speaker 3: That's a name I've heard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're they're phenomenal.
Speaker 2: The Great Curtain. Shout out the Great Curtain.
Speaker 3: Oh I love we had the Great Curtain on the show.
Great band. Yeah, great band.
Speaker 2: Dennis Layton is great, one of the one of the
greatest humans you will ever meet.
Speaker 3: Oh he's awesome.
Speaker 1: And another guy who too like really tries to do
something different, yes, like really unique.
Speaker 3: Oh love love that band.
Speaker 2: You cannot say that he is not one hundred percent
himself when he's doing what he's doing. He's not trying
to be anything else other than that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: It's one of the things that we all really seem
to love and enjoy about the New England scene is
there'sn't a whole lot of competition going on like in
some scenes around. It's much more of a teamwork thing
that a lot of bands that are friends, a lot
of bands.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, Rising Tide lifts all ships.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: And we'll go play this show, you know, down in
the middle of nowhere, Connecticut, and there's ten bands on
the bill, and eight of them are bands that we've
played twenty five shows with, yeah, and guys that we're
like genuinely looking forward to seeing, right. It makes it
a lot of fun, It makes it very cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I always feel like, you know, music is very much
people are supportive of each other. I always kind of
contrast it with stand up comedy because I listen to
some podcasts where, you know, you've got these stand up
comics who talk about about that industry, and my impression
is that in stand up comedy, everyone is very cutthroat
and everyone kind of secretly hates each other. And I
feel like music is the opposite of that. Like in music,
I mean, don't.
Speaker 3: Get me wrong, there are sharks and there are cutthroat
people in the music industry too, obviously, but I think
generally musicians try to really support each other and try
to support each other and uplift everybody.
Speaker 1: So I so I think that's that's really cool. And
then do you guys, what do you guys have coming up?
Do you have any shows this weekend that you're playing
that you want to plug?
Speaker 5: We have so on January fifteenth, we're actually at the
Worcester Palladium with Dropout Kings and The Browning Okay.
Speaker 4: Which we're very much looking forward to.
Speaker 5: Excellent, and then yeah we get gosh on the seventeenth,
we're in our hometown, which is a rare thing but
an awesome thing.
Speaker 4: We love getting to play there.
Speaker 3: Where is that?
Speaker 4: That's at a place called the New World Tavern in Plymouth,
mass Excellent.
Speaker 2: One of the coolest venues in that section of Massachusetts. Yeah,
for sure. Okay, it's like a very like when you
go in the front, it's a very unassuming tavern looking place,
but you go down the little hallway to the back
and there's probably like a two hundred person venue with
a nice stage sound set up. It's it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 4: They treat us very well.
Speaker 3: That's awesome. That's awesome. Well, guys, the time goes so quick.
Speaker 1: We're already approaching the top of the hour, and I
am going to play to end the segment this track
Wasting Time, another great, great song. I really like this
one a lot from the new album of Death in
the Family from Scarecrow Hill. But before we let you
go to what should our listeners know about? Where to
keep up with everything that you're doing online? Where's the
best place to go?
Speaker 5: I mean, just like anybody else man where we have
the Instagram, Facebook, any anywhere there's a band begging for attention,
We're on.
Speaker 3: There you go, there you go? All right, guys, thank
you so much.