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Speaker 1: That is Turn This Town Around, the debut single from Lydia.

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Ready here and this is Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are

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live from the studios of w m n H ninety

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five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire, and

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of course you can stream the show from anywhere Matt

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connorton dot com. Slash Live. Jenny is here as well,

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of course and joining us via Microsoft Teams. Let's see Lydia.

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Are you there? Yes, Amia, Hello, Hey, welcome to the program.

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Good to speak with you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely so. I love that song, very very catchy.

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Of course, turn This Town Around. And this is your

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debut single, correct, Yes, it is very good. And where

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are you from.

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Speaker 2: I'm from Blackburn in England.

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Speaker 1: Okay, wonderful. Yeah no, there's there's so much great music

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coming out of that part of the world and I'm

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curious too. So this is are you? I was listening

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to a podcast of you being interviewed on another show. Now,

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are you currently in school as well? Are you in college? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I'm in college but we've just started some holidays.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, very good. So you've got a lot

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going on, You're you're obviously very busy, uh, you know,

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with your education and the music career.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Uh, but it's cool that, uh, you know, you come

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out of the gate with a very strong track, and

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like I said, it's very catchy. But I also I'm

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curious to know more about the lyrics because you know,

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the first time when we first got this song, I

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was listening to it, it's like, oh yeah, it's really catchy,

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it's fun and whatnot. But then the second time I

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listened to it, I was paying a little bit more

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attention to the lyrics, and it sounds like there's there's

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a deeper meaning to this, you know, and you're expressing

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some some concern about things. And I wanted to ask

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you about about what the song really means because I

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I kind of feel like it might not necessarily mean

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what I thought it meant the first time I listened

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to it. If that makes sense, Yeah, okay, So the song.

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Speaker 2: Is about making a difference.

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Speaker 3: The sound that you hear about in the chorus is

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actually a metaphorical sound. It's kind of a call to action,

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and it's pretty much shay in stop how you live

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your day to day life and try to live in

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a way that will help the earth rather than hinder it.

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Speaker 2: So that's kind of the message behind the song.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that, and I like that very much

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and when you say that too. But so when you

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say help the earth, do you mean in a general

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sense in terms of what you put out into the world.

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Are you talking specifically environmentally or maybe both or maybe

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a myriad of things. I don't know, Like when you

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expand on that if you would a little bit like

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when you talk about helping the earth.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So when I originally wrote the song, I had

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the idea of, like the lyrics, lights of blurring into

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one and our eyes are blinded. That's kind of the

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lights are lights from all this technology around us, and

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our eyes are being blinded because of that to the

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bigger impacts that living in this way has on the earth.

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So it is mostly environmental, but it's also thinking about

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how you can change in ways that you may not

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think will affect the environment, and just become more knowledgeable

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about the earth in general and what's harm in it.

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Speaker 1: What I think is interesting about that is because that's

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a pretty serious message, but it's a fun, catchy song

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and I I feel like that's that's a pretty effective way. Historically,

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you see this in music where uh, if you can,

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it's almost a trojan horse because maybe somebody, maybe somebody

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thinks they don't want to hear a serious, important message,

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but then they hear a song that is catchy and

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kind of infectious, and so they're getting the message without

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realizing that they're getting the message, and they're you know,

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sometimes you'll you'll hear you'll hear something that's kind of fun,

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but but there's there's a serious message in there, and

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and so by by it's sort of a I think,

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an effective delivery system for getting someone's attention and saying, hey,

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here's something I want you to think about. It's in

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It's in a package that's gonna get stuck in your head.

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going to be playing it over and over in your

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mind because it's so catchy. But there's some pretty important

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information here that you're also getting, if only on a

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subconscious level. Right, I mean, is that is that kind

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of your approach to creating a song like this, or

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you're going into it thinking, Okay, I've got I've got

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something important to say here, but I'm going to deliver

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's very much far, I thought, because I'm thinking, Yeah,

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like you said, there's a lot of times if you

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think it's just going to be all serious and you're

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not going to want to listen to it. So I thought,

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how can I make this is a perfect mix between

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being catchy being something that kind of make it so

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you want to know more, which is why I kind

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of did the whole what's that sound?

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Speaker 2: You never really know, you never get the answer.

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Speaker 3: It makes you want to find out more, which would

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hopefully help the listener then want to engage in health

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in the earth more because they've had to kind of

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work to find out what the answer is in a way.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmmmmm. No, I like that. Now, what's what's your

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long term plan? Because I'm curious, obviously this is your

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day you single? Do you intend to release more singles?

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or on an album or are you just kind of

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focused on the moment with turning this down around.

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Speaker 3: So I have got other songs that are going to

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be recorded. I'm actually in the recording studio next Tuesday

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and Wednesday, and I'm recording content for my upcoming single

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the Way We're Rolling on Monday. So I've currently recorded

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fight No I've currently recorded for including the one that's

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already out. So I'm going into a come fifth. Okay,

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it's going to be a five track EP that comes out.

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That's going to be my debut EP. There'll be three

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single singles on that and then two that come out separately,

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and then following that, I've got this big idea I'm

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going to do kind of the Elements is EPs.

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Speaker 2: So Fire, Earth, Water, and Air.

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Speaker 3: Then, for example, Fire is going to be all my rocky,

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angry songs. Water is going to be my sad songs,

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and Earth is kind of going to be my kind

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of togetherness songs, and I have got some more songs

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about the Earth and that kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: And then Air, I'm not sure it'll be calm without

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I'm gonna put them all into an

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album with a few extra tracks called in My Element.

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Speaker 1: Very cool. So yeah, So when I asked you that question,

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I didn't know. I didn't know if you know, like

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so I didn't know if maybe you were just gonna

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be like, oh no, you know, just kind of feeling

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my way through it. But it turns out you've got

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a whole You've got a whole plan, which I think

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is great. And I think that that level of planning

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is going to really help you succeed, you know, because

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so many people and creative people, we tend to do this,

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will will kind of throw some things against the wall

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and see what sticks and just kind of try to

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kind of feel our way through it. But but I

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think to succeed in the music industry, it really helps

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if you actually have a plan, and you clearly have

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a plan, So I think that's I think that's fantastic.

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the next or hear the next the next bit of

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music that you put out.

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Speaker 3: Yes, So originally I had said I'll do it exactly

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two months after the first song, but then I thought

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Speaker 2: The middle of the summer holidays, so no one will

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Speaker 3: So I'm going to release it the first week that

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I go back to college, which is I'm not sure

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on the day, but it's the week commencing.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, it's around the first September. It's that week.

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I go back to college on the fourth of.

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Speaker 3: September, gotcha, So I'll probably release it on the fifth

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Speaker 2: My next song.

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Speaker 3: It's a similar kind of vibe, but most people have

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played it to actually prefer it to the first one,

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so hopefully everyone likes that one.

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Speaker 2: Cool, and then I'm just going to try to do

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them every two months until.

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Speaker 3: So for my next year, on my eighteenth birthday, instead

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of having a big party or anything, I'm going to

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put on a gig, a headline one in Manchester because

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that's the nearest city to where I live.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and yeah, I'm hoping to.

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Speaker 3: Have my first EP out and on the merch Es

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by then, so everything will definitely be out by next April,

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probably with a few from the next EP as well.

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Speaker 1: Oh fantastic. Yeah, you really do have a plan. That's

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that's excellent. I'm curious, by the way, what's your major?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So I'm currently doing two A levels and a B Tech.

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A levels I'm doing English language and psychology, and then

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for my B Tech I'm doing music performance.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so it sounds like what what we would call

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in America. That's you know, one is your major and

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the other is your minor. So you're so you're you're

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majoring and what did you say it was?

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Speaker 2: Again, it's not it's not really like that.

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Speaker 3: You just kind of do the three and then it's

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Speaker 1: Oh, I see it.

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Speaker 2: College it's all a bit different.

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Speaker 3: Of doing all three equally. Oh when I got to

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the university. I'll start university next year. So this time

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next year, I'll be getting ready to go and I'm

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hoping to go on to do PR and journalism.

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Speaker 1: Oh good, good, Okay, I get it. Okay, very cool,

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very cool. That's that's excellent. Yeah. Yeah, And now in

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terms of recording, uh, where did you where did you record?

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so many different ways. As I know just from talking

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to other guests who we've had from over there, that there's,

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you know, no shortage of recording studios, just like in

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America there's there's recording studios you can or you can

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record at home, or you can do it. You know,

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you can send tracks back and forth with somebody. How

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did you record Turn This Town Around?

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Speaker 2: So?

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Speaker 3: Turn This Town Around was recorded at Clubhouse Studio. When

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process of move into a new studio space, so at

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recorded it in a shed in their back garden. That

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was their temporary studio. Oh wow, but she'd never know

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because you hear that compared to the other songs I've

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got from them, and they all sound the same. Yeah,

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but yeah, we recorded that one in a shed, But

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then the other ones they've got their permanent place now

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in Blackburn.

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Speaker 2: It's absolutely incredible.

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songs in the past for years and years now, so

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we know them really well and they're really good at

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Speaker 1: Now, I didn't want to ask about your brother too,

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because I was listening to a podcast that you were

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on and you were talking about your brother. And it's

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thought was, and I don't know if I'm the first

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one to ever say this to you, but my first

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thought was, oh, is this a Billie Eilish kind of

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thing where your brother, you know, does a lot of

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the production in places, the instruments and whatnot. But but

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I but actually, but then listening to it further, it

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sounds like you work separately, right or maybe not? Is

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he involved? Is he directly involved in anything that you're

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doing musically?

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Speaker 3: So we don't write the songs together. But he is

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a better guitarist than me. He can play bass, he

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can do pretty much any instrument. He's a little bit

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better than me. So he goes the recorded studio and

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always records the instruments for me, just apart from the drums.

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a professional drummer, so he always puts the drums on

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my track.

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Speaker 1: Is it helpful having having your brother involved in the

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sense that because your siblings, you know, sometimes siblings have

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kind of a an intuitive connection when it comes to music.

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I mean, do you do you find that with him? Like, like,

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if you're trying to convey an idea to him, is

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it is it easy for him to get it because

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he's already kind of thinking, you're kind of thinking on

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that same wave length.

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Speaker 2: It usually is quite easy.

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Speaker 3: I'll just kind of sometime I'll have something in my head,

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and it's the same with some of my mates who

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are musicians.

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Speaker 2: I'll go, right, I want it stud like this, do

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do do? Do?

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Speaker 1: Do? Do do do?

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Speaker 2: And then they just play it on guitar and I'm like,

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how did you do that? I can only play chords?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know what I mean. But yeah, no,

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that that's great though. That that now does he also

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he also does his own music, correct, he does?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? What kind of music does he do? Is it

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more of a kind of a rock thing or what?

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Speaker 3: So for years he's been doing kind of indie pop rock.

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is he's kind of taken a year off music properly

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just to kind of get into UNI. But now he's

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got two years left at you and he INDI's properly

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going for.

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Speaker 2: His music again.

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Speaker 3: He's on a music management court and he's got the

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opportunity to manage himself so he can do a lot

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of it during his class time as well. So he's

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decided to do a new vibe of music because he's

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always kind of liked his songs, but it's never been.

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Speaker 2: The kind of thing he'd listened to.

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Speaker 3: He was trying to appeal to an audience, but now

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he's decided to write the stuff that he listens to,

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which is Oh Sammy, random People, kind of sleep, Token,

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Bring Me the Horizon, Don Broca, Anti Shikari.

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Speaker 2: He's saying that he's.

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Speaker 3: Doing folk metal, which has never really been done before.

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He's trying to merge those two genres. So it's kind

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of frank ternery but also kind of metal, and it

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sounds really really cool.

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Speaker 1: Oh I'm curious, Yeah, very interesting, very interesting.

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Speaker 2: I've never heard anything like it.

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Speaker 3: I've seen heard bits like it, but never anything like

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that that he's come up with, So it's really impressive.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, oh, excellent, excellent. Now are you are you again?

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I know this is your first single, but are you

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performing live at all? Are you? Have you done this

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song live or is that? Is that part of your

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plan down the road?

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I've performed it live a few times.

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Speaker 3: Earlier in the year, I played it after All Festival,

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which is the biggest grass grassroots festival in Manchester, and

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that was really cool. I didn't expect anyone to turn

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up because I was quite early in the day as

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it was my first ever set of all originals, but

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I actually ended up having sixty to eighty people in

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the room and quite a few people that I knew

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as well, which was really nice who came to see

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me who were doing their own sets later in the day.

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Speaker 2: So I've performed there. That was the main one.

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Speaker 3: But then also I get to do a lot of

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college performances and various pub gigs. If they something, I

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usually stick to covers at pubs, but if they seem

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like they'd be nice and let me do one of

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my own, then I'll stick that in.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's cool. Do you So when you do that?

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Do you do? You do covers and then you you

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also include this song or how does that work?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'd say the average gig is two forty

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five minute sets, so usually put one original in each set. Well,

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sometimes if you can tell it's one it's a really

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hyper audience that just wants to hear bangrafter bang of

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songs that they know that they can sing along to.

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Speaker 2: Then now just call it the originals.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I yeah, I understand. Yeah that makes sense. Now,

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by the way, is there a video for Turn the

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Sound Around or is it just the single?

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Speaker 2: No, there isn't a video for that one.

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Speaker 3: We're thinking we'll get a video for one of the

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songs from the EP, but I'm not sure which one yet.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I might.

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Speaker 3: I might make a YouTube channel and do a lyric

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video for it, or maybe just even record myself lip syncing.

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So there's something there, but nothing proper.

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Speaker 1: I think doing a lyric video for turn the Sound

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Around is a really good idea, because again, that's that's

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a way too. Like I said, if somebody likes the

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song and then they watch the lyric video and then

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it's like, you know, like we were talking about earlier,

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they're kind of getting the message. There's an important message

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there being conveyed through a song that's that's kind of

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fun and catchy. So I think that's great. So Lydia,

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I really appreciate you joining us this morning. We'll let

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you go in a moment, and I think we'll to

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end the segment. We'll give turn this Town Around another

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spin for for people who are just joining us. But

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please tell us where is the best place for people

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to go to keep up with everything that you're doing,

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so they can keep an eye out for new music

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as has come in. Like I said, you've got a

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lot of new stuff coming up in the future, so

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we want to make sure people know where should they

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go online to keep up with Lydia Ready.

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Speaker 3: So to see myself, I've got an Instagram, Facebook, and

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TikTok all under Lydia Ready music ready to.

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Speaker 2: Spell r E D d Y.

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Speaker 3: I do have a Twitter, but I barely have a

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post on it, so maybe don't go on there.

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Speaker 1: Understood, gotcha? Very good? Very good? All right Lydia. We

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will let you go again. Thank you so much. We

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will definitely do this again in the Yeah, we'll definitely

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do this again in the future as you as you

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release new music. So love what you're doing. And we

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will close this segment with again we're gonna play Turn

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This Town Around, your debut single, and Lydia thank you so.

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Speaker 2: Much, thanks for having me seling you got it all right.

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Speaker 1: Bye bye, all right. That was Lydia ready and here

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it is if you missed it again, this is called

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Turn This Town Around.