Speaker 1: On November twenty second, join us at the Sister Witch
Company for a pre Black Friday event and the lighting
of our Yule tree at eleven ninety three Hooks at
Road and Hooks It from five thirty to nine thirty pm.
Enjoy local vendors, light refreshments and holiday shopping. Plus be
there by seven for the tree lighting and receive an
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don't miss our magical market, psychic and small business event
at the Manchester Masonic Temple. Discover local artisans, psychic readings,
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Speaker 3: It's nine o'clock, Willuminates, Get Commander, don't get Supreme. Lina
Matzell coming.
Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody, Welcome, here we go. It is that
time again. Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live from
the studios of w M n H ninety five point
three feven glorious, Manchester, New Hampshire, bright sunny day, little
chili outside, but but nonetheless glorious. Of course, today is Saturday,
November sixteen, twenty twenty four. Jenny is not with me
this week, but she'll be back. Of course, she's got
an important event. You know, she does a lot of
great activism for healthcare, and this morning she's got something
going on with rights and democracy. So she continues to
do great work. Very proud of her. But we do
have a big show for you today coming up at
nine to fifteen am. Of course, in just a few
minutes we'll be joined via phone by Dennis Layton. Now
Dennis is from the band The Gray Curtain, and they
were on with us a couple of months ago, I think,
or maybe a month ago. It all becomes kind of
a blur. But he's gonna be calling in to talk
about the No Masters Fest. Last night was night one,
Tonight is night two going on in Wister and he's
involved in that, so he's gonna call and tell us
all about that. Second hour, we have Liz from the
Mosaic Art Collective and she's gonna be bringing a couple
of people with her. I believe that will be in
the second Jenny has currently four of her pieces showing
at the Mosaic Art Collective, so we went to the
opening for the Actually I think this one goes two months,
so it's going to be for it's going to be
until the end of the year. But we went to
the opening for that on well, it was last Saturday,
it was one week ago. Like I said, it all
becomes a bit of a blur. But so Liz and
a couple of other people from Mosaic are going to
be joining us in the second hour, and they've been
on the show a number of times now, always very
interesting to speak with them. Third hour, we're going to
be devoting to our departed friend Brooks Young, great musician
from New Hampshire here who experienced a lot of success
and tragically was taken from us earlier this week in
a car accident in Alton. So we're very sad about that,
but we're going to try to really kind of celebrate
his music and his life during the third hour of
the show today. So our number three will be devoted
to Brooks Young, and my plan is I will play
some of his music during that hour, and I might
even feature a little bit of the final interview that
I ever got to do with Brooks here on the show.
So we're gonna do that. But I also I would
love to get some people calling in. I did hear
from a lot of people throughout the week after I
posted it about Brooks's passing, So hopefully we can get
some people calling in in the third hour to share
memories of Brooks, either personal memories or you know, just
thoughts on his music. And so we're gonna really dedicate
our three the eleven am hour to that this week.
So I had the honor and privilege of interviewing Brooks
many times over the course of the years. Just such
a great person and you know, enormously talented, and he
also got to live his dream. You know, he had
a lot of success, He got to play with a
lot of great people, got to play with a lot
of his heroes, and but throughout it all just always
very humble, very he had a lot of gratitude for
the life he had built and and the career that
he had built, and you know, he started a family
and everything. So so we're very sad. It's a terrible loss.
But like I said, during the third hour, we're going
to try to celebrate his life and his music. Brooks
Young taken from us at the age of forty two.
You just never know, You just never know, so so
that will be what we're doing during the third hour today.
A couple things, let's see, I want to remind everybody.
Of course, our newest sponsor here on the show and
at the station WMNH is of course, the Sister Witch Company.
You've heard us talking a lot about the Sister Witch
Company recently. They've got actually two big events coming up
that are connected. So on the twenty second, November twenty second,
from five point thirty to nine thirty pm, they have
their pre Black Friday and lighting of the Yule Tree.
So that's going to be happening on site at Sister
Witch Company at eleven ninety three Hooks at road in Hooks.
It very easy to find right there on Ruth three
and it's a great place to I have the honor
and privilege a couple of months ago of participating in
an event they had there where I got to do
private sessions with hypnosis clients who I met through Sister
Witch Company, who would come in and show up and say,
hypnotize me. I want to do, I want to solve this,
I want to improve this, whatever it may be. So
they're great people and so I'm really honored and proud
to have them to work with them, connected to the show,
connected to wmn H. It's a great thing. So please
support them, and you should always support local businesses anyway.
But November twenty second, the pre Black Friday event and
lighting of the Yule Tree. They will have vendors for
holiday shopping, light refreshments, and of course the lighting of
the Yule tree will be at seven pm. Make sure
you get there in time for the lighting of the
tree and then you get an exclusive ticket if you
are there for the lighting to their next event, which
is coming up November thirtieth. The next event after the
November twenty second event, of course the Magical Market Small
Business Psychic Fair. And this is from their website. This
has a little bit more details that we couldn't fit
into the ad. Come join us on Small Business Saturday,
Like I said, support your small businesses from eleven thirty
am to six pm, where you will find some of
the most amazing vendors and they're handmade items and art.
This will be a packed This will be packed full.
One hour I'm sorry, one floor only event with a
separate room dedicated to our readers and healers. This is
the time of year where small businesses need you more
than any big box store. Come meet us and watch
us light up when we make a sale. This is
being held at the Manchester Masonic Temple at fifteen oh
five Elm Street right here in Manchester, New Hampshire. So
the Magical Market, which now technically it's from noon to
five pm, but if you go to the event on
the twenty second and you're there for the lighting of
the Yule Tree, you get an exclusive ticket which gets
you in for a pre Magical Market shopping experience at
eleven thirty am on that day, so you get in
a little early and you get to do some exclusive
shopping that won't be available necessarily to everyone else. So
you definitely want to participate in both events. And of
course the thirtieth is Small Business Saturday. Support your local businesses.
Walmart doesn't need any of your money, They'll be just fine.
Support your small businesses whenever you can, not only during
the holidays but year round. You'll often hear it say
that a small business is the engine that really drives
our economy. It's very important. And like I said, Sister
Witch Company, they are fantastic people. We love them very
much and we love getting to work with them. It's
a great thing. Speaking of events too, I also want
to remind everybody of course, coming up on November twenty fourth,
it is Spelfy Fest and I'm involved in this as well,
and so is Jenny. So this is a really important
event because not only is it going to be a
day of music at Jewel Nightclub, it's being put on
by the Midnight Creatives Collective. We had Eleanor and Spelfe
joining us last week via phone to talk all about it,
and it is going to be raising money for a
great organization, the rs DSA. And Jenny is going to
be there talking about that, and I think she's opening
the show actually with her comments. She's going to be
doing a short presentation about that. I also am going
to be there. I'm going to be emceeing part of
the event, introducing some of the bands, and I'm also
going to be performing, going to do some hypnosis. I'm
not sure, but I think if she doesn't back out
on me, I think the birthday girl herself, Spelfie, is
going to let me hypnotize her and to help her
get over her stage fright so that she can actually
sing in front of people. But so we'll see, we'll
see what we what we do there. You know, if
she if she doesn't want to go through with it.
I shouldn't put it that way. It's not like a
scary thing really, but but if she doesn't want to
do it, you know, maybe we'll maybe we'll hypnotize everybody
in the room to do something silly or there's different
directions we could go with it. I'm going to kind
of read the room and see what happens, see what
I'm feeling. So that's part of the adventure of it.
But so looking forward to that doing hypnosis. There doors
open at one pm and it goes all the way
to one am, so it's a it's an all day event.
Jenny will be there, like I said, she's going to
give a talk. She's also going to have be selling
some of the amazing things she's been creating. If you
follow her online, you know what I'm talking about. So
that's all coming up I will just quickly mention some
of the bands too. There's a lot of them. Like
I said, it is a full day of music, so
if I leave anybody out, I apologize. But Deed Harrison
of course is going to be performing there. Looking forward
to that, mister Goodbars, who has been on the show.
A lot of these artists have been on the show
here on Matt Connorton, Unleashed, More in the Light. They've
been on Let's See Leon Trout, Lexi, Lethal Waylam Park,
The Whole Loaf, They've been on the show, Dog eight Dog,
and a myriad of others. There's a ton of bands.
I'm not going to read all of them, but you
can find more information and you can get tickets at
Midnight Creatives Collective dot com and they've got a lot
of events there, so check that out. They're always doing
stuff at Terminus Terminus Underground, the great venue that they
operate in the city of Nashua. So there's a lot
going on, a lot to talk about. But like I said,
in just a couple of minutes, we're going to be
joined live on the show via phone by Dennis Layton
from the band The Gray Curtain, talking all about No
Masters Fest, which is going on right now in the
city of Worcester. Again, just to remind you too quickly
if you are just joining us in the third hour today,
it's going to be all about Brooks Young, dedicated to
Brooks Young. I hope to take some calls during the
third hour from people who want to talk about Brooks
and share memories. Six oh three two five six seven
is the studio line, but there are other ways that
you can interact to if you want to send me
anything ahead of time. If you don't want to call
in but you'd like to send something, if you go
to Matt connorton dot com slash live, there's an option
there to instant message me. There are links to the
chat rooms. There are the number there, the text line
is also there, and the studio line, so and of
course you can email me Matt at Matt connorton dot com.
But all of that information is there at Matt connorton
dot com slash live. So if you don't want a
call during the third hour, if you'd rather just email
me something that you would like share it on the air,
or anything like that, anything at all. I will try
to keep an eye on all of it. And because
we really want to honor the memory of Brooks and
like I said, such a fantastic musician and a great
person and we're very sad about this loss. I want
to say hello to a few people too who are
in the chat right now live. Be Pinard says, good
morning everyone, Good morning be Elizabeth Towns says morning, mister Connorton,
have a beautiful Saturday. Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: B Penard says. Justin Spencer from Recycled Percussion has just
completed his event in Australia. Ah. Yes, down under. Malcolm
Wood is in the Facebook live chat. Hello Malcolm. We
had Malcolm on the show recently with Legion of Solace
and they're doing great things in the music scene. Absolutely absolutely,
let's see let's do this. I think what we're going
to do since Dennis is going to be joining us,
Dennis from the band The Gray Curtain, we'll play a
little bit of one of their songs from the newest album,
The Florist, and let's see which one should we play.
We'll play something short because he's going to be joining us,
we'lllay We'll play Crippled. Let's do that one, and then
we'll have Dennis on the line with us talking about
no Masters Fest coming up, or I shouldn't say coming up.
It's happening right now. Last night was night one. Tonight
is night too in Wister, so he's going to be
joining us to talk about that. But here it is.
This is crippled. This is from the album is called
the Florist and the band is the gray Curtain.
Speaker 5: On the skin.
Speaker 6: It seems a long.
Speaker 7: Concurving Where did I?
Speaker 6: Where did I? Where I go from?
Speaker 8: The friend.
Speaker 7: Billy answers, but I don't hear them. The posts won't
stop screw.
Speaker 8: In the my head in the mock play, I am
where the body with the mam the mo? I am?
Speaker 6: Ho we do his b tell me my friend any
weird day?
Speaker 8: Why do we do this? To put me a.
Speaker 6: Crop in the my grave?
Speaker 8: For whow.
Speaker 6: Where did I come from? The song of cage bird sings?
Seeing the starts from the.
Speaker 7: Prison cos the mocks retained?
Speaker 8: Where did I go from.
Speaker 6: Master to a sleep? The water's in there with me?
Is that a present? And wait, chick, where did I?
Where did I go?
Speaker 9: Tell me?
Speaker 6: Where where did I?
Speaker 10: Where did I go?
Speaker 8: To?
Speaker 6: Momma?
Speaker 7: I am waiting money and into my heart into my store.
I am speling this man, tell me about friend.
Speaker 6: Can you hear this? I'm want me do this, then
tell me cry.
Speaker 9: It's about.
Speaker 11: One the world to rible one won, the world to tyble.
Speaker 8: One bo people, a world to rip.
Speaker 6: One bar who the world to ruble one bar?
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: I do love that track. I love that band that
is called Crippled. The band is called The Gray Curtain,
and that is from the album The Florists. And Yeah,
we had Dennis and a couple of his bandmates on
not too long ago and just had a fascinating conversation
and it's such an interesting project. We're trying to get
Dennis on the line, so he is not with us yet.
So I think what we're gonna do is we're gonna
play one more track. Why not, because I do love
this band so much, We'll play one more. We'll play
a short one from the Gray Curtain. This one's called
Burn that Bridge, and this is one of their shorter songs.
They have songs. It's interesting. Some of their songs are
only a couple of minutes long, summer like eight minutes.
But we're gonna play one more and then we can't
get Dennis on the line.
Speaker 6: We will move on.
Speaker 1: But here this is called burn that bridge.
Speaker 12: The boy I condone me wroteeplings about it, a pregnant
face I.
Speaker 10: Could never please.
Speaker 4: It's a ways to in the.
Speaker 6: End o my rest, I want to read.
Speaker 8: By reason.
Speaker 6: We got to slam it rom.
Speaker 8: Le me.
Speaker 6: Rock strap slave feeling a lot.
Speaker 3: The last thing.
Speaker 8: Go stas the bold, the earth, the one way, the
way from that.
Speaker 6: Got every mon got cram before pastime.
Speaker 5: I then got anything.
Speaker 8: I mean, I don't want.
Speaker 1: That's a catchy one, isn't it. It's got a great
hook that has burned that bridge. The band is the
Gray Curtain. And I think we have Dennis on the
line with us. Dennis, are you there?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 1: I am Dennis.
Speaker 12: What have you got?
Speaker 1: What have you got going on this weekend? You've got
no Masters Fest? Right? Tell us about it?
Speaker 10: Yeah? Yeah, Well we had no Master's Fest last night one.
We had night one last night over at the Raven
and Worcester. Yeah, and we had a we had a
great turnout. A lot of people came in, a lot
of people donated. We've got about five hundred dollars worth
of donations and we're basically we're trying to raise money
for funds and awareness for for rehab programs around New England.
And today we're having no Masters Fest Night two over
at the Cabinet of Curiosities over in Colchester, Connecticut. A
lot of great talent, a lot of great bands. Great
Curtain will be playing. But we also have crow Hill,
we have Fear of the mass Is, we have Ape,
we have the Big Sun. Anyone that hasn't heard any
of these bands really needs to check them out. And
Mary Antoilette and the Runs and yeah, we're we're hoping
to We're hoping to get I'm I'm open to get
to at least the South to get a you know,
one of those cashiers checks and bring it over to
Centerlink so they can just disperse it how they see fit.
Speaker 1: So just to be clear, so are you the promoter?
Are you the main person who's been putting all of
this on this big event?
Speaker 10: Yeah? Yeah, basically you know, I so on on the fourteenth,
on Thursday, I was five years sober and alcohol and excellent,
thank you. I wanted to do. I want to do something,
you know, bigger than me, bigger than just me doing
a show, and you know, doing the whole raw raw thing.
So I'm I'm trying to help people that kind of
swim in my seat, you know, people that suffer from
depression and anxiety and alcohol abuse, and especially around this
time of year, people really need to know that people
are there for them. I've spent I've spent a couple
of Thanksgivings alone hoping that you know, a phone would ring,
or you know, someone would care enough to like invite me,
and instead, I just you know, drank by myself. And
I don't wish that on anybody. So I'm hoping that
we can, like I said, we can raise awareness that
there are these programs out there that people can utilize
to help them through the holidays.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a very I mean, it almost sounds
cliche to say it, but really is true. The holidays
can be a very lonely time for a lot of people.
Whether it's a situation where perhaps they've lost people, they've
lost family members or you know, or they're isolated, perhaps
they're living in an area where they don't know anybody,
or you know, as you alluded to, they're just going
through a lot. They've got issues that they're dealing with
and and you know, it's kind of and obviously I'm
not telling you anything you don't know, but it's it
can be kind of a cycle, right because you know,
if you have certain issues that might push people away,
and then the more that pushes people away, the more
isolated you end up. And then so those issues actually
just get harder and harder. So so I think what
you're doing, you know, with that awareness through your own
personal experience and I'm sure obviously what you've observed with
others as well, that this can be a very lonely
time for people, and people do need to know that
there's that there's help, and that there's you know, and
that they have options. And it's it's very very hard
because you know, the way the brain works, we establish
these patterns in our minds that then it's difficult to
break out of them, and so it's hard for somebody,
you know, people Sometimes people will look at people who
have issues, whether it be alcoholism or a drug issue
or or anything anything that's really affecting them and say, well,
why don't they just stop or why don't they just
get help? And it's hard to break out of those patterns,
and even positive change can be very difficult. So so
I think what you're doing is is wonderful?
Speaker 13: Are you?
Speaker 1: Is there more than one organization that you're raising money
for or is it for a specific organization or how
does that work?
Speaker 10: Well, I have a list that I'm trying to raise
money for. We have a like I said, I'm sorry,
it wasn't Centerlink, it was Community Health Link. Okay, but yeah,
between Saint Vincent Behavioral Health, we have Arbor Counseling Services,
Sadiva Health of Wister, like I have Recovery Clean Slate.
I'm turning very very hard to at least raise money
for one of these programs. And it's not even that
they're asking for money. It's not that they're asking for donations.
For all, I know, these guys don't need my help,
but I do know that I feel I need to
do something, Yes, because whether these programs need the the
awareness you know, you know, for someone with a megaphone saying, hey,
these programs exist. Up until very recently, someone like me
would have needed these programs because you know, so many
people only think that there's AA and celebrate recovery alan on.
You know, there are other venues. Not that those programs
aren't successful, not that they don't work for people, but
you know, for some, you know, they need different avenues.
So I'm trying really hard to but mostly just to
raise the awareness that these programs.
Speaker 4: Exist right now.
Speaker 1: I think that's important because, as you say, not everything
works for everyone. Everyone's different, and I do think it's
important that people have options in terms of what kind
of help, what kind of treatment, what kind of counseling
they get, and so forth. And I think you know,
as you mentioned too, you don't know that these organizations
necessarily need financial help. But it's it's a pretty safe bet,
you know, when when we're talking about mental health and
addiction and all of that kind of thing. Everything in
that realm, there's never enough money. You know, these organizations
always need more help so that they can expand their
resources and help more people. So I think it's a
I think it's a pretty safe bet that they'll be
able to put the money that you're raising to good use.
So I think that's I think that's fantastic what you're doing.
And any any negative experience, you know, we talk about
it on the show a lot, and I'm sure we
talked about it when when you were here that day.
Anytime that you can take things that are negative, things
that are dark, and create something positive from them, whether
it's through music like like your band The Gray Curtain,
or whether it's also through what you're doing putting on
an event like No Master's Fest to raise money and awareness,
you know, anything positive that you can pull out of
these negative experiences. I think that's that's the best therapy.
I think when you can take take dark things and
make them positive or make something positive out of them
in some way. So have you done this before? No
Masters Fast or is this the first year?
Speaker 10: This is the first year. This is the first time
I'm attempting anything like this. I've tried, like, I've booked
shows before, but I've never done a benefit. So I
am a complete and total novice. But as I as
I mentioned, you know, I'm yeah, I just want to
do a good thing, you know, I want to think
of others in this time that you know, that really
need to help. It's uh, I mean, that's basically, in
my opinion, that's all that any of us should be
doing right year round, not just this time of year,
but this time of year seems to be the time
that we, you know, we all should be getting together
and you know, helping people in need. You know, I
work for meals on wheels and I'm constantly driving by
churches that are looking for help, you know, with food
kitchens and food pantries, things of that nature, clothing drives
and whatnot. You know, you know you can, you know
you can do that. You can start there and just
help somebody that has less than you, that may you know,
little things like that could help somebody with melancholia, major
depression disorder, hyper anxiety and help them realize, if only
for like one extra day, that someone does care, someone
does care enough to want them to get out of
the ditch that they're in. And you know, I don't
think we I don't think we realized that enough. You know,
I think, oh, you know, what's the you know, it's
not that big of a deal. It is that big
of a deal to just to just show somebody that
you care enough to do something like that. You know,
is it goes along the way. Because I've been the
guy in line at a food pantry. I've been the
guy homeless, sleeping on a sleeping on a bench, you know,
crashing on people's couches, you know, going to a soup kitchen,
you know, and I know that these programs helped me
through a lot. Yeah, and I I, at the risk
of sounding redundant, I just want to help. I just
want to help people that you know, have less than me.
I don't have a lot, don't get me wrong, you know,
but I I know that there are a lot of
people out there that have a lot less than me,
and I just want to help those.
Speaker 1: People, right right, I think that's fantastic.
Speaker 6: Is this going to be?
Speaker 1: You said this is your your first attempt with one.
Speaker 4: Is this going to be?
Speaker 1: Are you planning to make this an annual event? I
know you're I know you're probably right at the moment,
you're probably just trying to get through this weekend, because,
let's be honest, putting on something like this is a
lot of work. It's a lot of stress.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But but but it sounds like it's something you'd you'd
probably like to do every year.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah, you mentioned I would. I absolutely what.
I was talking about it last year while I was
on stage. I'm like, Man, wouldn't it be great if
we could do this every year around this time? Yeah,
you know, right around Thanksgiving? But you mentioned the stress,
It's like between the chemo and you know, the chemotherapy
and the stress of this show. I'm like looking at
the top of my head, I'm like, and it's tenny,
but but yeah, I'm yeah, I'm hoping that this this
becomes an annual thing and more people join in the help.
You know, I can't thank you guys enough for having
me on to talk about this. You know, I got
in about I got in about three o'clock last night,
and I was floating on a cloud.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I was so happy with the turnout. I was
so happy with the amount of donations, between the people
that were there who gave cash for donations, and and
the people that walked in and say, hey, can I venmo?
You can I PayPal?
Speaker 11: You?
Speaker 10: I said, you know, I didn't even think of that.
Absolutely yes, you know. So I'm man, I'm really hoping.
I'm really hoping we can make this an annual thing.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, short story long, I'm hoping that we can make
this an annual thing. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I'm sure you can do it. By the way,
what is the significance of the name No Masters Fest?
Speaker 10: Well, I I kind of figured it's it goes back
to you know, alcohol was my master. You know when
I when I was drinking, I could not I could
not spend a day, I could not spend an hour
without thinking to myself, Well, the package store opens in
about ten minutes, you know, the you know the I
could probably hit up the bar at some point tonight,
you know, just grab a couple of shots. I call
them like whiskey wattages, you know, Stevie ray Vaughan. You
know I would, Yeah, I would have that constantly in
my head. Alcohol was my master, you know, and I
look at all drugs, you know, and this is not
don't get me wrong, this is not my saying. You
know that alcohol is my master. You know, alcohol is
not my master. You know, alcohol is not the boss
of me. Yeah, but we all have those things. I mean,
over eaters have junk food, you know. You know, any
person that has that that addiction that they can't they
can't quite get over, you know. You know, it's kind
of like that is your master. That's the thing that
is running your life and telling you what to do.
The the significance of No Masters Fest is we're trying
to get past that. Yeah, you know, any you know,
anyone that comes to these shows has to realize that
these devices are not your master. You are the You
are in charge of your own life, and the best
way to do that is to have someone there, you know,
helping you realize that, because sometimes, especially when it comes
to addiction, especially when you have you know, some sort
of mental illness, it's it's very difficult to be able
to accept and it's very difficult to say, I am
in control of.
Speaker 1: My life, right.
Speaker 10: This is not this does not run my life right.
And that and that's where the No Masters Fest comes from.
Speaker 1: I kind of suspected that that was the meaning behind it,
but I didn't know, obviously, And it's cool that I'm
glad that I was right, because I think that's a
great concept. I think that's a fantastic name to call
this event the No Master's Fest. And and I think
the way that you said that, the way that you
explained that was excellent, And yeah, exactly. You know, I'm
a hypnotherapist, and when I see clients for various issues
like you know, people who want to quit smoking and
things like that, or other types of addition addiction rather
be the physical addiction or even you know, just psychological addiction,
and you know, it's It's one of the things that
I try to impress on them is not only when
we're doing the pre talk for the session, but during
the actual session itself. I give them hypnotic suggestions that
you are in control. Nothing else can control you. You
are in control. And uh but it's you know, it's
like I was saying earlier, sometimes it's hard for people
to accept that because it's even positive change once those
patterns are established, even positive change can be difficult for people.
But I really like the way you explained that, and
I think it's very empowering. And you know, there might
be somebody out there listening who heard what you said
and is now thinking about their own addiction or their
own problems, whatever it may be, thinking about that in
a new way and thinking about, Oh, I like what
Dennis said. You know this, this doesn't have to be
my master. I'm in like you said, you're in charge
of your own life. And and I think even just
saying that to people and telling people that I think
might might help somebody, you know. So I think that's
I think that's excellent. And uh so tonight, so tell
us again for for people listening live, Uh, where where
again is the event tonight. If people want to go.
Speaker 10: The event tonight is that Cabinet of Curiosities. We had
a bit of a snap who with the venue, so
we moved it over to Cabinet Curiosities. It's over in
uh Colchester, Connecticut. Uh, you know a lot of great bands. Uh,
there's going to be a couple of vendors. Black Noise
Magazine is going to be there. Uh, there's a there's
going to be uh six bands total, and we're really
hoping you know. Uh, admission is just a donation. You
have a dollar. If you have a dollar, donate it.
If you have ten dollars, if you can spare it,
donate it.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 10: Uh, this is not about you know, an admission fee.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 10: There's going to be a box over at the door.
Just put whatever you can in the box and come
in enjoy the show.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 10: But yes, it's a Cabinet Curiosities in Colchester, Connecticut.
Speaker 1: What time does it start?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 10: The first bench should be going on around uh around
uh seven o'clock.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been of Curiosities. That's a that's a cool
name for a venue.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah, Uh, it's a it's a shop over in Colchester.
You know, they they uh they specialize in uh you
know little uh excuse me, I'm like, I'm still half
half asleep from last night.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 10: You know they uh you know, they basically just uh
you know, they're like any other story. You know, they
sell uh they sell their merchandise, and they were willing
to hold this, uh this event in their kind of
like the back rooms of the shop. You know, they're
they're getting a pa set up for us, and uh yeah,
it's honestly, I cannot I cannot wait too to jam
out with these bands, like I know, uh, I know
a lot of these bands from a long time that
have Yeah, we just have a good rapport with each other.
So it's gonna be a lot of fun regardless. And
I'm really hoping that people will come and uh enjoy
it because it's just gonna be a good atmosphere. I think.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 1: By the way, are you are you documenting this at all?
This this weekend?
Speaker 10: Is there?
Speaker 1: Are are you recording anything?
Speaker 10: Are you?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Is there will there be a video available of some
of these bands or just for people who maybe aren't
able to make it but want to check.
Speaker 10: It out after the fact, you know, I It's one
of those things I did not think of, was to
get somebody to record the whole experience, you know, next year. Yeah,
but uh yeah, but people did record. Uh. I believe
there was some recording during Big Sun last night, the
Big Son. I can't keep saying Big Son, the Big
Son last night.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 10: I'm pretty sure people were recording during Paradise is canceled,
you know, Shade Upon uh and Trouble Parachutes Aluminium they
I'm fairly certain people who are recording during those during
those sets. But you know, you you definitely just you know,
sparked an idea, you know, like turned the light bulb
on in my head. I'm like, why I didn't I
have somebody documenting all this? But it's just one of
those things, like I was, I was trying to get
the show together, you know, and try to get it
to go off without a hitch. Yeah, I just you've
got a lot on mot those things I did not
think of.
Speaker 1: You've got a lot on your plate already just doing
just doing a two night event like this at at
different venues and everything. You know, it's it's it's already
a lot. So yeah, something to think about for next year.
But but I think it's I think it's fantastic, Dennis,
what you're doing. And uh, I'm sure tonight will be
I'm sure tonight will be very successful. And it sounds
like last night went great, So that's that's wonderful. We'll
let you go in a moment. But anything we should
know about the Gray Curtain by the way, anything anything
new uh there or you know what we played. I'm
gonna actually at the end of the segment, I'm gonna
play clip the Stitch. I really love that. That's that's
pretty pretty epic. But anything we should know about the
Gray Curtain going forward since we had.
Speaker 10: You on, well, uh, you know this, Uh, this will
be our last show of the year. Yeah, I got
to emphasize that of the year. Yes, and uh, we're
going to go into hibernation mode.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 10: We just locked in a new sense player, uh, and
we're trying to lock in a drummer. We have a
couple of really talented candidates that we have to narrow
down to one. We have one in particular that we're
hoping we'll stick around. But but yeah, we'll we'll be
going into hibernation mode and probably coming back. Uh, like
March April. My birthday is April second, so I'm kind
of you know, I'm kind of hoping to do a
show around then, but there may be an opportunity for
one more show before before the end of the year.
We're we're hoping, uh to get one more in there.
But if it doesn't happen, it's okay. You know, we've
had we've had a pretty successful year between the New
England Music Award nomination and uh, you know, the Battle
of the Bands and uh, the Halloween show over at Terminus.
You know, we've you know, we we've wrenched out and
we went to Maine this year. We never did that before.
We played Charlie's Hill over in eleven minutes. As far
as what we're gonna be doing in the future, you know,
we're hoping that the you know, to write the next
album within the next few months. You know, we have
like seven eight songs already ready to go, and we're
hoping to do a double Oh.
Speaker 1: Wow, cool, very cool, outstanding. Look forward to that. Look
forward to that. I'm a big fan, you know, the project.
It's it's unique, but it's also very accessible. That song burned,
that bridge, that's not one of the ones that we
played when you were on the show before. But man,
I love that. That's that is so catchy, you know,
kind of singing along to it in the studio. But great,
great stuff. So all right, Dennis, we'll let you go
in a moment. One more quick plug for tonight and
then I know you've got another busy day ahead of you.
But just remind our listeners anyone just joining us about
the about night two of No Masters Fest this evening.
Speaker 10: Uh yeah, it's No Master's Fest over in Colchester, Connecticut.
Over at the Cabinet of Curiosities. We've got the Gray
Curtain of course playing. Uh there's scarecrow Hill, Fear the Masses,
Mary Antwilllett and the runs Ape and the Big Sun
are all going to be playing in this in the shop,
hoping to raise awareness and funds for rehab programs around
New England. It should should be should be a great
time and we hope people will will come in just
have a great time and donate.
Speaker 1: Absolutely I predict a very successful night. So it's fantastic
what you're doing, Dennis, And thank you so much for
calling us today and always wonderful to speak with you.
And I'm sure, we'll we'll do it again in the
not too distant future. But thank you Dennis, and good
luck tonight. I know it's going to be great.
Speaker 10: Hey, thanks, thank you guys so much for having me. Seriously,
it's it's so great to be able to do this.
Thank you for allowing me to do this.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, you got it man. All right, Dennis, we'll
talk to you soon. Take care, al bye bye, all right,
bye bye. All right Dennis Layton from the band The
Great Curtain, and we will close the segment with Clip
the Stitch, another great track from The Gray Curtain, and
the album is called The Florist. I recommend you check
it out. And then coming up an hour number two,
we have Liz and a couple of other folks from
the Mosaic Art Collective right here in Manchester. But here
it is Clip the Stitch.
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