Matt Connarton Unleashed 9-12-26 hour 1

0:04 Speaker 1: You're listening to Matt Connerton Unleashed on WMNH 95.3.

0:33 Speaker 2: While a new day begins Maybe through another obvious disaster This wasn't the first time But.

0:42 Speaker 3: If I lose my grip While holding on to everything that matters Well, it keep me from falling I don't need this sickness all of my life Please wipe the past out of my eyes I feel, I know it feels like, feels like I'm drowning Where have I been?

1:26 Speaker 4: Seems like I'm looking for an answer I'm still.

1:30 Speaker 5: In the same place.

1:54 Speaker 3: I know it feels like.

2:44 Speaker 5: I don't need this.

2:44 Speaker 3: I don't need this. Please wipe the flesh out of my eyes. I feel, I know it feels like, feels like I'm... I can't breathe.

3:49 Speaker 5: Thank you.

4:29 Speaker 4: Welcome, everybody.

4:29 Speaker 6: Here we go. It is that time again. Matt Connerton Unleashed, and we are live from the studios of WMNH 95.3 FM in glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. If you are listening live, today is Saturday, September 12, 2026. Welcome, of course. And you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to our, hey, go to the new website, mattconnertonunleashed.com. I know I've been talking about it for months, but it's very new now because it's finally, I can say it's finally pretty much done. You know, we'll be adding more content to it, obviously, but mattconnertonunleashed.com.

5:08 Speaker 6: You can also still go to mattconnerton.com slash unleashed. for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera. But I've been working really hard on the new site and I'm pretty proud of it. So please check it out. We've got a great show for you today, but there's a specific reason why I opened the show with drowning. by the band Chasing the Devil, and that was a last-minute decision. The reason why I decided to play that this morning, to open up, and then I'll talk about the great guests that we have coming up.

5:38 Speaker 6: So, if you are a regular, consistent listener of the show, you might remember a number of weeks ago, I did sort of a spontaneous unofficial tribute to the band because, uh, chasing the devil had announced that they're all done. Uh, they are no longer, uh, an entity, uh, after I think five or six years, you know, and, uh, I know those guys, you know, and, um, great, great guys, great band, you know, uh, always, uh, Jay Bella, whenever I see him always gives me a big hug. And, um, So I was very bummed that they were calling it quits, but that's how these things go.

6:14 Speaker 6: And so I played a bunch of their songs because we had always been the first radio station to play them. And this show, we would always do a world radio premiere whenever they had a new single coming out. And so I just played a bunch of their songs because we had a little bit of time that week when they announced that they were all done.

6:33 Speaker 7: So, but.

6:35 Speaker 6: that morning and if you were listening to the show that morning you might know that for some reason that song that i just played drowning i could not find that song it was very weird so i played beautiful nightmare which was their debut single and that was when we actually had them on the show too for an interview and um and then like i said you know uh subsequently every time they released a new single we would do a world radio premiere for it here on the show but So I played a bunch of their songs that morning that, again, I was kind of doing an unofficial tribute, a eulogy, if you will, for the band.

7:10 Speaker 6: But I could not find Drowning. It was very strange. Well, I found it this morning, no problem. So I said, you know what? It's a good high-energy song, good way to start the show. I'm going to open with that. So there it is. So I've completed the loop, if you will. on my little tribute to the band. So there it is, Drowning by Chasing the Devil, to open the show today. We do have a great show for you. I do want to remind you quickly, and we'll talk about it again. In fact, we'll be talking about this a lot in the third hour, and there's a reason why.

7:40 Speaker 6: But next week, I can't believe it's already here. Next weekend, Saturday, one week from today, again, for those of you listening live on September 12th. Next week, Saturday, September 19th, is Swarmyfest. the fifth annual Swarmy Fest, this great music festival that our friends in Sepsis put on every year. A little early this year. In past years, I think it's always been in November. This is the first time it's in September. So we're getting a little early this year, which is cool. But as always, Matt Connerton Unleashed is one of the official sponsors of the program.

8:14 Speaker 6: So this show is involved and we will be there soon. Jenny and I will be there. We're very excited about that. We always look forward to Swarmy Fest. So that is Saturday, September 19th, coming right up. Doors open at 7. Show starts at 7.30, and it is at Jewel Music Venue, which is not that it necessarily means anything to you if you don't know the area, but it's actually right across the street from the radio station, right on the other side of Granite Street. So Jewel Music Venue, It's actually 61 Canal Street is the address.

8:47 Speaker 6: But, yep, $ 12 for tickets, $ 12 in advance, $ 20 at the door, $ 18 plus, $ 21 with ID to drink. So one of the bands that is going to be performing at Swarmy Fest this year is The Grey Curtain. and Dennis and Troy from the gray curtain are going to be here with us live in studio and third hour of the show today. So really looking forward to that next week on the show. I don't know exactly how it's going to go yet. I've kind of left it up to William from sepsis, you know, cause they're, they're the ones who put on the show.

9:22 Speaker 6: I'm waiting for him to tell me, and this is kind of how we've done it every year. He'll tell me who he's got coming in that day on the show. So obviously, you know, everybody who's performing, they'll be in town for the show. So we'll get, we'll get some of those bands and it usually works out pretty well. It's a lot of fun, but I might not know until the last minute, but we'll get some of the bands that are going to be performing that day. We'll get them in here to talk to them, to do some last minute hype for the show.

9:48 Speaker 6: But Swarmy Fest is a lot of fun. Uh, the lineup that I'm looking at, unless anything has changed is Sepsis, PH, Texera. I'm never sure how to say that. The Gray Curtain I mentioned, Grim the Acronym, Elder P. Sloan, who was here with us on the show just a few weeks ago, Singe, and 3FD. So that's the lineup as far as I know. Again, these things have a way of changing. Cards subject to change, as they say in the wrestling business. But again, this show is one of the official sponsors, along with Loud Entertainment.

10:20 Speaker 6: So really looking forward to that. We've got to get them back on to Loud Entertainment. So that will be Saturday, September 19th at Jewel Music Venue, 61 Canal Street. Doors open at 7 p.m. Hope to see you there. And we'll be there representing. And Swarmy Fest is always a great time, always a lot of fun. The lineup is incredible. And it's going to be another great show this year, I'm sure. And like I said, if you are listening live on Saturday, coming up in the third hour, we're going to have Troy and Dennis from The Gray Curtain here with us in studio.

10:51 Speaker 6: And of course, we'll talk about Swarmy Fest as well as catch up with everything that those guys have been doing. Coming up in just a few minutes on the show, we're going to have the guys from, and I know I'm not pronouncing this correctly, and when we get them online with us, we'll You know, they can tell me the correct way to say it. T-N-C-E. I know I'm not saying that correctly. But that is the name of the project. And it actually is Charlie Wardle and John T. Wardle. And they've created this album.

11:24 Speaker 6: It's called Mystic Liverpool, The Beatles, A Psychedelic Songbook. And so they, you know, it takes some guts to do this, but it's actually an album of Beatles covers. And I'm really looking forward to talking with them. Their father is John Wardle, better known professionally as Jawobble, who has been on the show. We had him on a number of weeks ago. And what a fascinating guy to talk to. And of course, if you know anything about him, you know from public image limited courses association with uh...

11:52 Speaker 6: you know he's uh... known for uh... beat his association with the sex pistols and you know really uh... but he continues to make new music and he's involved in this project as well so we really had a go back and listen to that if you haven't checked it out it was a really interesting conversation but his sons are gonna be with us uh... charlie wortel and john t wortel uh... talking about their new project in this album so that's coming up in just a couple minutes and we're actually in a play I think we're going to play, we'll go with I Am the Walrus in a moment.

12:19 Speaker 6: We're going to play that. And then in the second hour, we have Death by Love, another great project. One of these transcontinental projects. We're going to be talking with Pete Gwellard from that in the second hour today, for those of you listening live. So, but without further ado, I think we should get to it. Let's go ahead and listen to this again. This is a reinterpretation of I Am The Walrus that I can assure you is unlike anything you've heard before, but it's very interesting and I cannot wait to talk to these guys.

12:45 Speaker 6: So that will be, we'll have them on with us in just a few minutes, but here it is again. The album is called Mystic Liverpool, The Beatles, a psychedelic songbook. This is their interpretation of I Am The Walrus.

13:11 Speaker 8: She's in another cafe, waiting for the.

13:19 Speaker 9: Bus to come. Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody choosy man, you.

13:30 Speaker 5: Bring your words to my body, will you please go now? I am the old man.

13:38 Speaker 9: They are the old men.

13:41 Speaker 5: Do the job.

13:43 Speaker 10: Mr.

13:44 Speaker 11: City, this man's sitting pretty little, this man ain't nothing.

13:52 Speaker 8: I'm crying. I'm crying. I'm crying. I'm crying.

14:21 Speaker 9: Yeah, don't matter, could stay. Drip me from a dead dog's eye. Grab her like a fish, rock on her like a priestess. Boy, you've been a Nazi, girl, you let your niggas down.

14:35 Speaker 11: I am the Eggman. They are the Eggman. I am the Eggman.

14:40 Speaker 9: I am the Eggman.

14:56 Speaker 11: Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come, you'll get.

15:03 Speaker 9: The time before I'm standing in the English rain I am the nightmare They.

15:06 Speaker 11: Are the nightmare I am the nightmare Don't go, don't go, don't go, don't go.

15:21 Speaker 10: Expert, expert, joking, smokers, don't you.

15:24 Speaker 12: Think the Joker.

15:25 Speaker 9: Lets it shoot? See how they smile like pigs in a star, see how they snipe.

15:34 Speaker 4: I'm crying.

15:37 Speaker 9: Sippin' in a peach drink.

15:40 Speaker 11: Climbin' up the Iron Tower.

15:45 Speaker 9: Elementary penguins singin' Hare Krishna, man, you should've seen him kickin' it.

16:02 Speaker 10: Go, go, go, go.

16:47 Speaker 5: Thank you.

17:04 Speaker 6: How cool is that? That is a very interesting interpretation of I Am the Walrus. And I believe we've got both John T. Wardle and Charlie Wardle on with us. Let me get this up here. Hey, guys, can you hear me okay?

17:21 Speaker 13: Can you hear me?

17:22 Speaker 4: Yes, yes.

17:23 Speaker 6: Welcome to the show. I'm excited to talk to you today. Hey, hey, guys. So we've got both John and Charlie with us, correct?

17:33 Speaker 13: That's right. I'm Charlie, and that's John.

17:36 Speaker 6: Okay, gotcha, gotcha. Okay, so before we go any further, too, tell me, how exactly do you pronounce the name of the project? Because I struggled with that, and I was trying to figure it out. But how do you say this? Is it T-N, and then how do you say the second word?

17:58 Speaker 14: T-N, like a trot sound for the cue. but you can say key. My dad called his 10 key.

18:06 Speaker 6: Oh, okay.

18:06 Speaker 13: It's easier to say.

18:07 Speaker 14: So I'm happy with 10 key. Um, but essentially John, can you say it better than that?

18:13 Speaker 10: Uh, cheese fine. But key, I think helps people find us. I think when you say cheese, it will confuse.

18:20 Speaker 6: Oh, good.

18:20 Speaker 4: Yeah.

18:20 Speaker 10: So Chinese speaking people in itself.

18:23 Speaker 6: That's, that's a really good point.

18:24 Speaker 15: Yeah.

18:24 Speaker 16: Okay.

18:25 Speaker 6: So T and key. Um, well, I'll, I'll go with that. Uh, so excellent. Well, listen, so this album, uh, This is pretty new, right? This just came out last month, about roughly a month ago, right? Through Cherry Red Records. And I really like it a lot. It's so interesting. Well, let's start with the obvious question. What is it that brought you guys into wanting to do this sort of reimagining of these Beatles songs? Because it's a pretty ambitious thing to do, right? The Beatles are sort of sacred and whatnot.

19:00 Speaker 6: And so to take these songs and and really kind of reimagine them the way that you have. What went into that decision? Why did you decide to do this?

19:12 Speaker 13: Do you want to answer, John?

19:13 Speaker 10: Yeah, I think, to be fair, it very much come from our dad. Sort of, he sort of, he come to us with the idea, really, didn't he? We, I think we just sort of finished Songs for Workers, was just coming to the end of working on a Irish sort of folk fusion sort of project that's not out yet anyway but okay we're just coming to the end of all that type of stuff he sort of came and said what would you think about doing a Beatles thing and at the time both me and Charlie were sort of like, what? Why a Beatles thing?

19:48 Speaker 10: And then it was sort of, to be fair, it was like, well, here's the tracks. I think they gave us about 20 tracks or something to pick from. It was like, these are the tracks that I'd recommend. The only two I'm going to say you have to do is Strawberry Fields and I Am The Walrus. And then the rest of them, he very much let us pick. And then To be fair, I get why. As soon as listening properly, especially the Harrison pieces, it was like, I get why he thinks this would be a good idea. And then saying that, it was really fun recording a lot of the tracks and playing a lot of the tracks, mixing, getting stuck in with it.

20:24 Speaker 10: It was really fun. As well as finding out more about the Beatles. It's just a fun project more than anything, I'd say.

20:32 Speaker 6: It's interesting that you mentioned your dad. He was on the show with us, I think it was a couple of months ago now, Of course, John Wardle, better known as Jawobble. And we had a fascinating conversation. He's such an interesting guy. I mean, I don't have to tell you, obviously, his vast musical career and history. Really enjoyed talking with him. So this whole thing came from him. And then, so, I mean, were you guys, to take this on, was it intimidating at all? Or did you just kind of jump right in and approach it head on?

21:07 Speaker 6: You know, you mentioned that You know, he gave you a couple songs that he felt were absolutely necessary to include. But I mean, were you nervous doing this or did you feel pretty confident that you could make something great?

21:22 Speaker 10: We didn't think too much. Of course, because it's the Beatles, if you think about it too much, you're of course going to get very nervous. Are we pulling it off right? It's the overthinking. To be fair, I think within a week, of him saying do it charlie had already sort of had the basis down for with and without you sort of turn that one round really quick yeah it sort of had the erhu part drones vocals everything sort of sorted within a week and then it was just down to putting bass and drums on so from there it really just got quick i think because in a way we turned it around fairly quick it didn't give us enough time to really think sort of overthink and start being like oh have we done it justice have we done this have we done that that we turned it around quick and really just once it was flowing, it just, everything came very quickly.

22:10 Speaker 4: Okay.

22:11 Speaker 17: Okay.

22:11 Speaker 6: When you say you turned it around quick, how long did it take to do the album?

22:17 Speaker 10: I think two, was it two months, maybe three, two or three months.

22:22 Speaker 13: And I think, I think a lot of that was mixing.

22:25 Speaker 14: I think the actual recording side was pretty like done within a few weeks.

22:29 Speaker 10: Yeah.

22:30 Speaker 14: Cause we didn't, we didn't really, I think even a song that maybe should have taken more, um, like Strawberry Fjords, which, you know, like, there's that bit where it changes kit.

22:40 Speaker 10: Yeah.

22:40 Speaker 14: And they kind of, what's the story? They mix two kind of tapes together.

22:44 Speaker 10: Two tapes, yeah. They splash somehow, yeah.

22:48 Speaker 13: Like, for sure, we could have, like, completely, like.

22:50 Speaker 14: Explored loads of different ways to do that, but I think we just removed the key change.

22:56 Speaker 10: Yeah, we couldn't work out how to do it with digital tech, how to splice them together.

23:02 Speaker 4: Oh, interesting.

23:02 Speaker 10: Where it sort of just slowly bends into a different key. We couldn't, we were just like, we'll do it. As well as having the, our mum plays the Guzheng, the Chinese harp on that, making her life a bit easier as well because the way it's tuned, then she doesn't have to retune for each section. She could just be tuned to a comfortable scale and play as well with that.

23:24 Speaker 6: Oh, that's interesting. Okay.

23:25 Speaker 11: Okay.

23:26 Speaker 6: And then how did you, how did you choose the songs? You know, you mentioned, you know, your dad picked two of them and said, you know, for the rest of them, it's up to you. I mean, how did you choose these? I assume, you know, because one of you did mention George Harrison and, and his, it's funny, it hadn't occurred to me until you said it, but he, I mean, he really did. He is the one. of the four who most brought that sort of psychedelic element. Right. So, I mean, was, was, were your song choices really heavily influenced by that kind of tilting that way and in Harrison's direction?

24:04 Speaker 10: Yeah, it's very much from the sort of psychedelic and Eastern leaning sort of stuff, heavy drones. And I know Charlie's into a lot of the, um, religious, spiritual and sort of philosophical side of a lot of it as well. And I think it was just definitely, I think once you're like with and without you, it's like, right, we know what we're going for with this. And then I think it's the, for me, it's the Eastern side and the psychedelic sort of side made sense for what we sort of already were doing in play and how it sort of fits what we allow our sound.

24:39 Speaker 10: And then I know Charlie has some other things looking into as well on that side of it.

24:45 Speaker 6: Sure, sure. And then you guys, did you guys grow up in Liverpool? Is that correct?

24:53 Speaker 10: Sort of. So we grew up in Manchester, which isn't too far from Liverpool, but our granddad ran a Chinese youth orchestra in Liverpool.

25:03 Speaker 6: Okay.

25:04 Speaker 10: So from, I was four, Charlie was three. We were learning traditional Chinese music with him in Liverpool every weekend. And obviously cause they were in Liverpool, we'd come back to see them a lot as well. So always sort of been back and forth between Manchester and Liverpool growing up.

25:21 Speaker 6: Oh, okay.

25:22 Speaker 11: Okay.

25:22 Speaker 6: Yeah. So you guys were obviously, you know, the, the Beatles were entirely unavoidable for you. Uh, certainly. Um, and, and I mean, in terms of, I'm really curious about how you approach these songs in terms of, um, Like, would you guys already have a pretty clear idea going into the studio what these were going to be? Or did some of that sort of change and grow organically while you were recording them? So I guess what I'm really asking is, did any of these come out really kind of drastically different from what you had envisioned going into the studio?

26:01 Speaker 6: Because like I said, to a listener, it sounds like something where there's a lot of experimentation going on here. with these songs. So did any of them really kind of change when you were recording them?

26:16 Speaker 10: I don't think too much. I think because in a way the melody side was already there. So we knew going into it straight away what the melodies would be. But then I think we still kept, it was a bit more remote working than how we usually do it.

26:32 Speaker 6: Okay.

26:32 Speaker 10: But we very much kept the sort of got either the melody or a drone or something there to play to, and then would just go and play. I'd just have a little bit of a basis, a little bit of structure of what I know I need to do, go in, record the drums, and then our dad would come, just put a bass line down, and then Charlie then, knowing what the melody would be, knowing what space he's got left to then play with the who and the mooring curve, he'd then sort of know, right, I need to do my vocals there, and then I'm going to do it.

27:04 Speaker 10: whatever instrument part there. Then from there, it was probably like the editing and the mixing side with delays, reverbs, things like that. That's probably where then it might go off slightly, but we didn't come in too much like this needs to sound like this, this needs to sound like that.

27:19 Speaker 4: Sure.

27:19 Speaker 10: Because it felt like even if we did that with the Beatles, it's never going to probably get to what you want it to sound like or it's never going to sound like how they've done it. So it was very much just come in with freedom and play and then take it from there.

27:33 Speaker 6: And then working with your dad. So did, did he play all the bass on the album?

27:41 Speaker 10: Yeah.

27:42 Speaker 6: And what was, what was that like?

27:44 Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah. Every track he played bass.

27:46 Speaker 4: Okay.

27:47 Speaker 10: Okay.

27:47 Speaker 6: And what was that like working with him? Cause I, you know, obviously, you know, he's, he's, he's your father. You grew up with him, but then in the studio is, does it still feel like, like, is he dad in the studio or is it more like, okay, he's one of our peers and, when he's here in the studio with us, he's, he's a fellow musician and we're doing this project together. I mean, I'm just curious because, you know, I'm a musician, but I never had a chance to make music with a family member. I'm curious what, what, what that's like and how the, is the family dynamic still present when you're in the studio with him?

28:20 Speaker 6: Or is it just like, no, he's, he's, he's our, uh, he's a fellow musician, uh, and he's doing the baselines on the album. Like, like what's that like working with him?

28:31 Speaker 18: Yeah, it's different.

28:32 Speaker 10: I think you sort of switch off from that family side, even without realising, but you have to. Because he's very honest as well. If he didn't like something or he just thought it weren't working, he'd say that. He wouldn't hold back or anything. He'd treat it just like he's treating working with a random person for the first time or working with other collaborators he's worked with over the years. I don't think he treats it as a family thing. We have our family time and all that. That's separate.

28:57 Speaker 10: And of course... We are family, so me and Charlie might be able to speak to each other differently compared to if we were speaking to someone else. Charlie might be able to come over, sort of have a word with me, wind me up a little bit, and then I'll wind him up. We'll mess around that way. But yeah, so me and Charlie, we're brothers. We'll argue, we'll fight. But when he comes in, very much he will sort of, he'll just treat it like he treats very professional, sort of like, not sure about this, not sure about that.

29:25 Speaker 10: Try it this way, do this, and he'll guide it that way. And I think you end up sort of still family, but you'll switch off and treat it like, treat it proper. I think that's the way he'd say it. It's all got to be dealt with proper and sort of detached from that side of things. It's doing the music. and the music's the ultimate goal focus on that and then family times family time that's separate.

29:46 Speaker 6: That makes sense. And then, so what is, so the inverse of that being, what if you have to, like, was there ever a point where maybe he played something that you didn't feel was quite working for the song? I mean, and, and did that ever come up? And then you have to, you have to approach that with him. And if so, is that intimidating because he is your dad and now you have to say to him, I don't, I don't think this is quite working. Did anything like that come up during the recording?

30:14 Speaker 10: To be fair with this one, no. But I wouldn't want to be the one to... If it did ever come up, I wouldn't want to be the one to tell him, oh, I'm not sure about that.

30:22 Speaker 15: Right.

30:23 Speaker 10: But if we did, no. I'm pretty sure he'd take it well.

30:27 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. No, that's good. That's good. do you, I mean, do you plan to work with him more in the future? Are you going to do more projects together or like, I guess what's kind of the future trajectory? Because obviously, you know, you guys, uh, well, you can, I mean, you know, you're the sons of jaw wobble and you grew up with all these different influences. So, there's so many different directions you could go, uh, in the future. And, and you're, you know, you're obviously both very talented to pull this off.

30:56 Speaker 6: So, I mean, do you plan to do more with him? Are you going to do your own thing? What, what, what's kind of the, the future after, uh, after this album cycle, do you think?

31:08 Speaker 10: Uh, well, I think it would be a bit of both going forward. We still very much do our own duo stuff as well as work with him and other people as well. Uh, we got a jazz covers thing, which Charlie can, talk about because he's doing well with sort of talking on that one oh cool that one's coming out I forgot the date so I'll let you take over Charlie.

31:28 Speaker 14: Yeah we've done it we've just released take five I'll cover take five but I mean the whole thing for that project not dissimilar from the Beatles project and I think that's a I think I'd touch on adding to what you said about Harrison John with the Eastern thing and the psychedelic thing I think if there's one thing which unifies all of our project there is a spiritual leaning to all of it and like even songs for workers or even red mist there's always that kind of that i suppose it comes with the eastern thing as well but then just mine and john's natural approach to to life as well is probably quite spiritual but i know religion's been a big thing for my dad as well it's got him off drinking turned to buddhism so i think that like it's in the there's a spiritual thing within the family um but the jazz one i would say it's our first solo project So obviously we're very excited for it.

32:18 Speaker 13: The last three projects we've done with our dad, which have.

32:21 Speaker 10: Been very helpful.

32:22 Speaker 14: We've had more or less control over, especially Red Mist and Song for Work. It was kind of like our work and then our dad would put bass on it. Whereas The Beatles was maybe the other way around. I'd say it was more of John's and my dad's where they'd go to the studio and I'd just overdub. My job was pretty simple. It was just learn the melody. And then there were some songs where the melody was a bit different, like Strawberry Fields, whatever.

32:44 Speaker 13: Anyway, sorry, I'm rambling.

32:46 Speaker 14: But for the, um, for the jazz one, uh, yeah, it's all kind of like take five reimagined, uh, playing spiritually. I mean, my, um, I think that the thing with a sound, and even though like when we say we record, we recorded in six weeks, that's not like a, I've just watched a Netflix documentary on Boeing where they're just, um, putting the planes out like super.

33:05 Speaker 13: Quick, no safety limits. And it like, they lose the quality.

33:07 Speaker 10: Right.

33:08 Speaker 14: Um, and so it's not, I think, um, what I try and think and I think John agrees with me on this is when I'm practicing I'm practicing like relentlessly to improve my voice to improve my technique to whatever but when you're recording you have to kind of try and forget it otherwise you won't release anything you have to kind of like trust the practice that you've done and when it comes to record or even show time it's time to kind of like just play instinctively otherwise you you mess up you make mistakes but yeah so the jazz I think the jazz one's probably musically the hardest I've pushed myself John maybe you'd agree I think compositionally um rhythmically i'd say it's maybe more let's say the beatles project is like their songs and that's a different thing like you're approaching a song and you're approaching a composition you have to find your own voice within that whereas with these with the jazz project it's improvisation it's um you're finding your voice in a more instinctive way from like um yeah, which, which is, I would, at least for me, it's like much, much more difficult from a musician, musical perspective.

34:09 Speaker 13: Um, so, uh, so yeah, I'm very excited for the jazz one.

34:12 Speaker 7: Yeah.

34:12 Speaker 14: And then I think we might do the, the Irish one was a collaboration with our dad. I think that'll probably come out early next year or sometime next year. Um, yeah, next year we're planning on releasing even more. So, um, so yeah, loads of stuff to come.

34:26 Speaker 10: Yeah.

34:26 Speaker 6: I'm very, I'm very curious to hear that project actually. Yeah. That'll be, that'll, that'll be very interesting. Um, Um, do you guys have any plans to, or maybe you already are? I don't know. Do any of these, um, does any of this material from the album get performed live? I don't know if it's even, I don't know how you would even necessarily pull that off, but I'm, I'm really curious. I mean, do you guys play these songs, any of these songs live from the album?

34:53 Speaker 10: Some of the, uh, we do, uh, what's it tomorrow? Never knows. Oh, That one we can pull off as a duo.

35:00 Speaker 9: Oh, wow.

35:01 Speaker 10: Sort of get the bass looped and then we can do that. Charlie's got, I forgot the name of the pedal, but it's amazing. He can set a drone off, have it sort of separate, revert everything off the air and then play on top of it. And yeah, we've tried it. Is it with and without you? We tried a bit and it sort of crops in and out. That's probably the two. we might look at putting another one in, but those two from the album, when we're doing it as a duo, we can't, because of the loop, we can't, they're the only two we can sort of pull off well, I'd say.

35:36 Speaker 10: But the others, we're sort of always trying to find a way to bring them in.

35:40 Speaker 6: Right, right. And what about, I mean, is there any possibility of a volume two? Because obviously the Beatles have so many There's so much material that you can draw on there. I mean, is this album, again, it's called Mystic Liverpool, the Beatles' psychedelic songbook. Is this kind of it, do you think? Or have you thought about doing maybe a volume two in the future?

36:01 Speaker 10: I don't think either of us have even thought about that yet.

36:08 Speaker 6: Yeah.

36:09 Speaker 10: If it comes up, it'll come up. But I think, to be fair, we were just in a session with our dad and Mark Leighton Bennett, he plays drums with our dad in The Invaders. And we was doing, it was quite a, it was just percussion everywhere. Even Charlie ended up having to play percussion on some of the tracks.

36:28 Speaker 17: Yeah.

36:29 Speaker 10: And I think we ended up with over six hours of recording on that last weekend. We've got the jazz thing coming out. We're already working out dates to start recording our next solo project after that, probably in the winter time.

36:43 Speaker 6: Yeah.

36:44 Speaker 10: So yeah, there's a lot happening. Yeah.

36:47 Speaker 6: That's good.

36:47 Speaker 10: Yeah.

36:48 Speaker 13: So if it comes up again, yeah, we'd definitely do it.

36:50 Speaker 10: But for the next sort of six months, I'd say definitely not right now for the next six months.

36:56 Speaker 6: Your plates are very full. That's a, that's a very, very good thing. So I'm glad to hear that. I'm glad to hear that. Um, so, uh, we'll let you guys go in a moment. I was thinking about, uh, at the end of the segment playing strawberry, strawberry fields forever. Uh, you're, your interpretation of it. And I really love it. It might be my favorite from the album. But guys, thank you so much. Of course, Charlie and John Wardle from T-N, key, that's probably the best I can do with the pronunciation, but for people looking online, so it's spelled, it's two words, T-I-A-N and then Q-I-Y-I.

37:34 Speaker 6: Where's the best place to go online? Is there a particular place online that our listeners should go to to keep up with everything that you guys are doing?

37:47 Speaker 13: Instagram is the best.

37:48 Speaker 14: I think TikTok is so hard to communicate on TikTok. It feels like it suppresses anything when you actually try and speak to someone. If it's a video you're playing or something, it gets out. But we're on TikTok, Instagram, X, I'm not too active on. So Instagram, but you can find our music everywhere. Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, Amazon, wherever you want to listen to.

38:07 Speaker 10: It, you can.

38:08 Speaker 6: Wonderful, wonderful. And I encourage people to check it out. And, you know, whether you're a diehard Beatles fan and you just want to hear somebody's reimagining of the songs, or maybe you're a casual fan, but you're just really curious. It's a very, very interesting album. Again, it's called Mystic Liverpool, The Beatles, A Psychedelic Songbook. And Charlie and John, thank you guys so much. We're going to let you go and I'm going to hit that track. I'm going to play your rendition of Strawberry Fields Forever.

38:32 Speaker 6: But thank you both for joining us. And we'll definitely, you know, you've got a lot of new music coming up, so we'll definitely have you back in the future. And I really enjoyed talking with you guys today. Thank you so much.

38:44 Speaker 10: Thanks for having us.

38:45 Speaker 5: All right.

38:46 Speaker 6: You got it. Take care. Bye-bye. All right, that is Charlie Wardle and John T.

38:52 Speaker 4: Wardle.

38:53 Speaker 6: And the project is T-I-N, again, I'll spell it for you, T-I-A-N, and then Q-I-Y-I. And the album, Mystic Liverpool, the Beatles' psychedelic songbook. Let's play another song from this. We might sneak a couple in, actually. I think we'll have time. But this is really interesting. Again, this is their reimagining, if you will, of the song Strawberry Fields Forever.

39:26 Speaker 9: Let me take.

39:27 Speaker 16: You down, cause I'm going down to Strawberry Field Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about.

39:45 Speaker 8: Stronger than the future forever.

40:26 Speaker 5: It's getting hard to be someone but it all.

40:32 Speaker 11: Works out It doesn't matter.

40:35 Speaker 5: Much to me.

40:52 Speaker 11: Let me take you down as I'm going down. Sure there's nothing, nothing to worry about. Sure there's nothing to worry about.

41:16 Speaker 12: The one I think is in my tree. I mean, it must be high or low. That is your card, you know. Tune in, but it's alright. That is, I think it's not too bad.

41:34 Speaker 9: Let me take you down.

41:36 Speaker 11: Cause I'm going to strawberry tea.

41:39 Speaker 5: Strawberry tea.

41:52 Speaker 16: I think I know I mean it, yes, but it's all wrong That is, I think I.

42:07 Speaker 9: Disagree Let me take you down.

42:22 Speaker 11: To Florida Strawberry Nothing here.

42:34 Speaker 19: Nothing to get about Strawberry, I feel forever Strawberry, I feel forever.

43:30 Speaker 5: Thank you.

43:37 Speaker 6: Strawberry Fields Forever. I'm going to sneak in one more. We have time. I'm going to sneak in one more from these guys. I think it's such a fascinating project. Again, it's T-I-N-Q-I-Y-I is the spelling if you're looking for it online. Charlie and John Wardle, they are the sons of Jawobble, who was on the show with us not too long ago. Really interesting conversation. But I want to play one more of these, and then we're going to Take a break, show some love to our amazing sponsors. By the way, a little teaser here.

44:08 Speaker 6: Next weekend, we'll be announcing a brand new sponsor who I am very excited about joining the program and the roster of advertisers here at WMNH. And it's a big deal. I think it's a big deal. I think it's going to be really cool. I'm excited.

44:24 Speaker 6: That'll be... Yeah, we'll save that, though.

44:28 Speaker 10: Yeah.

44:30 Speaker 6: We'll save that. I have some work to do this weekend as far as creating some... Well, we'll save it for next week, but you'll be hearing something soon. Anyway. But we will show some love to our amazing sponsors, who you already know about, but we'll remind you about them when we play their ads in just a few minutes. But first, let's sneak in one more from this project. These guys, their version of Norwegian Wood, again, really interesting. The project is called TNK, and the album is Mystic Liverpool, the Beatles' psychedelic songbook.

45:05 Speaker 6: And then stick around... Again, we're going to show some love to our sponsors. And then coming up in hour number two, Numero Dos. If you are listening live on Saturday, of course, we have Death by Love will be joining us on the line. But here it is. This is these guys doing Norwegian wood.

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