Matt Connarton Unleashed 9-19-26 hour 3

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2:45 Speaker 6: All right, that is Bathwater. The band is Sepsis, and we've got the fine folks from that band here with us in studio. We're going to talk with them in just a moment, but welcome, everybody, if you are listening live. On Saturday morning, we have entered our number three numero tres of Matt Connerton Unleashed, and we are live from the studios of WMNH 95.3 FM in glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. And of course, you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to our new website, mattconnertonunleashed.com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera.

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4:30 Speaker 6: A little early this year. It's in September. It feels weird.

4:35 Speaker 4: We just wanted to wear shorts.

4:36 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.

4:37 Speaker 4: Oh, I get it.

4:37 Speaker 6: I get it. So welcome, everybody. Will, let's start with you. Everybody, we'll go around because we'll make sure we get everybody in. I want to make sure everyone has a chance to introduce themselves.

4:47 Speaker 4: I'm William, older middle-aged guy and guitar player in the band.

4:54 Speaker 6: All right. And you? Oh, hang on, Sam. I'm having trouble hearing you because you're on the weird mic. Oh, here we go. Okay.

5:02 Speaker 7: Is the weird mic working now?

5:03 Speaker 6: The weird mic is working now.

5:05 Speaker 7: I am Sam Bryce. I just joined on base with Sepsis.

5:09 Speaker 6: Oh, congratulations.

5:10 Speaker 4: Thank you. Thank you. Nobody knows that until tonight, though.

5:13 Speaker 6: Oh, really? Well, now everyone knows. So you spoiled the announcement. Nice going, Sam. You spoiled the big surprise.

5:22 Speaker 7: I'm already messing things up on my first day on the job.

5:25 Speaker 6: What is it with bass players? I'll tell you. I'm just kidding. I'm a bass player, so I'm excited to meet you. All right, and we'll continue to go around the room.

5:34 Speaker 4: All right. Drummer from Sepsis, Salvatore Pan here.

5:39 Speaker 6: I like how you said you're the drummer from Sepsis first. You put the band before your name. That's good. That shows dedication and commitment. Well, you have been with the band for a long time.

5:50 Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah.

5:51 Speaker 4: I'm definitely like a sepsis drumming machine.

5:54 Speaker 6: Absolutely. Absolutely.

5:57 Speaker 4: Melissa?

5:58 Speaker 8: Hi, my name is Melissa Wolfe, and I am the vocalist for Sepsis.

6:02 Speaker 6: Welcome back. And, of course, Lexi.

6:04 Speaker 9: Hi, I'm Lexi. I'm the keyboard player and screamer for Sepsis.

6:08 Speaker 6: And you've worked your way up in the band.

6:10 Speaker 9: Yeah, I started off as a merch girl.

6:12 Speaker 6: That's right.

6:13 Speaker 9: And then through a couple years of being a merch girl, I was volunteering to become the keyboard player.

6:19 Speaker 6: Now, how long has it been now that you've been officially on stage with the band?

6:24 Speaker 9: Swarmy Fest marks it officially one year as a keyboard player.

6:28 Speaker 6: Oh, it's only been a year.

6:29 Speaker 4: Okay.

6:29 Speaker 10: Yes.

6:30 Speaker 6: Okay. All right. Well, very good.

6:31 Speaker 4: Very good.

6:32 Speaker 6: And of course, tonight is Swarmy Fest. Doors open at 7, correct?

6:36 Speaker 4: Yes.

6:37 Speaker 6: Will, tell me if anything I'm saying here is incorrect. Music starts at 7.30?

6:41 Speaker 4: I'm following along. This is good, yeah.

6:43 Speaker 6: Okay, good. And advance tickets are sold out, right? But people can still get tickets at the door. Is that correct?

6:49 Speaker 4: That's true.

6:49 Speaker 11: This is our, strangely enough, this is our best year that we've had for pre-sale tickets.

6:57 Speaker 6: Congratulations. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely.

7:00 Speaker 4: Very, very cool.

7:02 Speaker 6: Let's see. And the lineup, of course, Sepsis Headlining. And let's see. We've got the Gray Curtain, Grim the Acronym, Singe 3FD, and the one that I have trouble saying, PH, how do you say it? Texera?

7:15 Speaker 4: 3F, no, 3FD, Gray Curtain, Cherry Fog, Grim the Acronym. Yep. And Singe.

7:26 Speaker 6: Oh, there's no PH Texera or whatever?

7:30 Speaker 12: No.

7:30 Speaker 6: Were they ever on the show? Maybe what I'm looking at is wrong.

7:33 Speaker 4: No, maybe it could be a typo. Could be.

7:35 Speaker 5: Okay.

7:35 Speaker 4: Internet typo.

7:36 Speaker 6: All right. Well, never mind then.

7:37 Speaker 7: Okay.

7:38 Speaker 6: Well, I'm glad you're here.

7:39 Speaker 11: I mean, I don't know who they are. Maybe somebody could tag them. We would book them. If they're good, you know, we'll book them.

7:47 Speaker 6: It might be the universe telling you to book them. I was going to say. For next year's Swarmy Fest. And, of course, for official sponsors, while this show, of course, Matt Connors and Unleashed, we're always very proud to be involved. Uh, also of course, BPS records, loud entertainment and, uh, Legion of solace. Uh, those guys were here with us in the first hour. And, um, and you've got, of course, uh, the blood, which, and reminisce. Is that correct?

8:11 Speaker 4: Um, yes. Um, I reminisce. I don't think we'll be making it tonight.

8:15 Speaker 6: Oh, okay.

8:16 Speaker 4: Uh, for, you know, like professional reasons.

8:19 Speaker 11: I did want to say though, um, we have another sponsor that I'd like to give a shout out to.

8:24 Speaker 6: Yeah.

8:24 Speaker 4: And that's, um, shred guy records. Okay.

8:27 Speaker 11: Um, If it wasn't for Shred Guy Records, we wouldn't really be able to have the coolest after party in the world. So I do want to give a shout out to Shred Guy Records because behind the scenes, they've been really kicking butt.

8:41 Speaker 6: Okay.

8:41 Speaker 8: Super awesome of them for pitching in.

8:44 Speaker 6: Oh, very cool.

8:44 Speaker 4: Very cool.

8:45 Speaker 10: Yeah.

8:46 Speaker 6: Tell us more about that. I'm not aware of Shred Guy Records.

8:49 Speaker 11: Well, so, and the reason why that is, is because it's an Ohio Midwest collective.

8:55 Speaker 4: Okay. And just from traveling, we've collected so many friends. In the Midwest. So we've started to collect sponsors in other parts of the country.

9:06 Speaker 6: Yeah.

9:07 Speaker 11: And Shred Guy Records is an indie record label there.

9:11 Speaker 4: Okay.

9:12 Speaker 11: That took interest in the band. You know, we're an independent band. So we don't have a record label. We're not interested in getting signed. But a lot of times, much like the past, record labels have sponsored Sepsis in the past, even though we haven't been signed to them.

9:26 Speaker 6: Right.

9:27 Speaker 10: Yeah.

9:28 Speaker 4: It's not a first.

9:29 Speaker 3: Yeah.

9:29 Speaker 4: Yeah.

9:30 Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.

9:30 Speaker 4: I don't know why that is.

9:32 Speaker 11: One of the only independent bands that I can think of and recall that record labels still sponsor us or get behind us.

9:42 Speaker 6: Why do you think that is?

9:45 Speaker 4: I think that probably because of our advertising and marketing ability to get the word out.

9:50 Speaker 10: Yeah.

9:51 Speaker 4: Yeah.

9:52 Speaker 6: No, that makes sense. And we should talk about, too, for the uninitiated. I mean, this is the fifth uh swarmy fest but why is it called swarmy fest well um because you could have called it sepsis fest it could be.

10:04 Speaker 11: William fest it could be william and the reason why it's not the reason why.

10:08 Speaker 4: It's not is because.

10:11 Speaker 11: Um it is a show that is not created by sepsis or me This event is created by The Neighborhood. It's created by some of my best friends. Of course, the sponsors.

10:28 Speaker 6: Yeah.

10:29 Speaker 11: Matt, you're a part of that recipe. Some of the guys with me here are from my video game community.

10:37 Speaker 4: Okay. They're also a big part of this recipe. Okay. New bands every year is a part of the recipe.

10:46 Speaker 10: Right.

10:47 Speaker 11: And all the features and characteristics that come with the pre-party and the after-party, along with your radio station, the physical venue, and, of course, our hotel after-party that we have all in the same block.

11:07 Speaker 13: Yeah.

11:08 Speaker 11: So it's a combination of keeping people together, everybody in the building being familiar with each other.

11:14 Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.

11:16 Speaker 11: And all of us being familiar to the point of having the ability to make adjustments as we go along and make each year better.

11:23 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.

11:24 Speaker 11: So the reason why it's called Swarmy Fest is because it's really a swarm of different collectives and.

11:30 Speaker 4: Different friends and family.

11:34 Speaker 11: And the one thing that everyone has in common is that they're friends with the band.

11:38 Speaker 6: Well, we should point out, too, because that's what you call the fan base, right?

11:41 Speaker 4: The swarm.

11:41 Speaker 6: The swarm.

11:42 Speaker 1: Of course.

11:42 Speaker 6: You know, like Kiss has the Kiss Army. You've got The Swarm.

11:45 Speaker 11: We wrote a song called The Swarm. And during the pandemic, we had the lockdowns. And that's when our lives and our online presence really started to grow.

11:56 Speaker 6: Yeah.

11:56 Speaker 11: And when we dropped our first record in 2020, the fans started calling themselves The Swarmies.

12:03 Speaker 6: Oh, see, I didn't realize that. That's cool, though.

12:05 Speaker 4: It was more like an online thing.

12:07 Speaker 6: That's really cool. See, I didn't realize that. That's really cool that it happened organically like that, though. I had no idea.

12:12 Speaker 11: Melissa had a very popular Twitch, and they all used to fantasize about, you know, someday when we all get out of prison, we're going to have a big festival. And Melissa said, well, what would we call it? You know, we said, what would we call it? You guys have to name it. So it was their idea.

12:29 Speaker 8: It all kind of first formed with the gaming community, too, because ICG was the name of the gaming community. And we put that as a Facebook group on Facebook.

12:40 Speaker 6: Yeah.

12:41 Speaker 8: And it kind of grew from there because the fans of the band started to join that group. And then they all just kind of like started combining together and it became The Swarm.

12:52 Speaker 11: That's such a good point. That's such good sepsis lore. There's probably about 16,000 people in our Facebook group, The Swarm.

13:04 Speaker 4: It's called Sepsis The Swarm.

13:06 Speaker 11: And originally, it was an Immaculate Connection gaming group.

13:15 Speaker 4: On Facebook.

13:16 Speaker 8: Originally.

13:16 Speaker 4: And fans of the band kept joining it. Yeah.

13:19 Speaker 11: And fans of the music kept joining it. And then the video game community and the fans of the bands

13:28 Speaker 11: all joined together.

13:29 Speaker 8: They really kind of named themselves, too.

13:32 Speaker 6: No, that's really cool.

13:33 Speaker 4: Yeah.

13:35 Speaker 6: So the gaming community has been really, I know we've talked about this before, but it's been pretty integral in terms of The development of the band.

13:44 Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you why.

13:46 Speaker 11: We truly are, and we embrace it, we truly are a technology or, you know, like social media band.

13:56 Speaker 6: Yeah.

13:56 Speaker 11: Texas is a computer band. We're a, you know, we're a Facebook and Instagram band. It's where we got our start. We didn't get our start in heavy metal or rock and roll. Nobody really wanted us to play in venues or anything like that. The first place we ever played was online. So when it comes to us organizing... You know, we organize on Discord. We make friends on social media. So because of us being a social media band and because of us being on video games, it's one of the last few frontiers that people advertise where every store, every flat surface has a billboard or an advertisement.

14:32 Speaker 11: You know, until recently, mobile gaming and gaming was one of those untouched places. And being with the gaming community and being on Xbox Live and Discord it taught us how to hang out. It taught us how to meet up and be communal in these groups, you know, and being gamers gave us an edge when it came to social media and how to market with the band.

14:57 Speaker 6: Okay.

14:58 Speaker 4: Okay.

14:59 Speaker 8: And even a lot of our influences come from like video games, like Halo, for example, you might hear some like little video game noises.

15:07 Speaker 6: In our music. Okay. Interesting.

15:11 Speaker 1: Yeah.

15:11 Speaker 6: Cause I was curious if that, if, if, That influences... I mean, does it consciously influence.

15:17 Speaker 4: How you make music? All the time.

15:20 Speaker 11: And I mean directly related to certain weapons in the game.

15:26 Speaker 4: Have you ever heard the sepsis song called Falling Unloved?

15:30 Speaker 6: I feel like... I must have. But I can't place it off the top of my head.

15:34 Speaker 4: It's okay.

15:35 Speaker 10: But.

15:37 Speaker 11: There are certain parts in the song. So there's a popular gun in Halo called the battle rifle.

15:43 Speaker 6: Okay.

15:44 Speaker 4: And it kind of makes this kind of rhythm to it.

15:49 Speaker 6: He does that really well, bud.

15:52 Speaker 11: And in order to stick somebody really good with it, you kind of have to know the cadence and the rhythm of the weapon.

15:58 Speaker 6: Okay.

15:59 Speaker 4: And we timed it and measured it.

16:02 Speaker 6: Yeah.

16:02 Speaker 11: And the entire song is themed off of the cadence of In the rhythm sequence.

16:09 Speaker 4: Of the battle rifle.

16:10 Speaker 6: Oh, okay.

16:11 Speaker 4: And then you have to play that? You'll never un-hear it again.

16:13 Speaker 11: So next time you listen to the song, Falling Unloved, when you hear the breakdown parts, it's literally the battle rifle.

16:20 Speaker 6: Oh, okay.

16:21 Speaker 4: Yeah.

16:21 Speaker 6: Okay.

16:22 Speaker 11: So, you know, we do like shield power-ups and like a lot of the alien weapons.

16:27 Speaker 6: Yeah.

16:28 Speaker 11: And it does absolutely translate on the stage because if you look at our.

16:34 Speaker 4: set up on stage we.

16:35 Speaker 11: Don't have traditional cabs or heavy metal speakers we all play on little nintendos on the floor and they make video game noises and yeah not your traditional sepsis lore for.

16:49 Speaker 6: You yeah yeah see a lot of this wouldn't so i'm not a gamer because so a lot of this wouldn't have even occurred to me if you hadn't explained it but.

16:56 Speaker 11: The internet is a game yeah no i know what you mean you know so it is gaming it's all of it's all that.

17:02 Speaker 6: Yeah Maybe that's why I find it all so addictive. Because the reason I'm not a gamer is because I find it too psychologically addictive for me.

17:10 Speaker 13: It is.

17:11 Speaker 6: Because the last time I played a video game was one of those wrestling games like Raw versus SmackDown games. And I remember, because I played a lot of video games when I was a kid. But even as an adult, I remember playing one at a friend's house and, you know, and it was like, we started at like 10 o'clock at night. Next thing you know, it's two in the morning. My friend is asleep on the couch and I had to be up early. And I'm like, I'm doing that thing, you know, that an addict does, you know, just one more game, just one more game.

17:34 Speaker 4: Oh, I've been there.

17:34 Speaker 6: And that was the night I put down that game controller and I said, never again. I'm never doing this again because it's just, it's too addictive for me. So that's why I avoid all of that.

17:44 Speaker 8: It can be like that sometimes.

17:45 Speaker 4: No, it takes a certain brain type, you know.

17:48 Speaker 8: Yeah.

17:49 Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm vulnerable to that. So a lot of this I didn't know, and I would have been oblivious to it. But it's interesting. So what about in terms of how you record and from a production standpoint? See, this is something we've never talked about this part. This is interesting to me. From a production standpoint, does the gaming aspect of where the band comes from?

18:15 Speaker 4: A hundred percent. Does it? Yeah. All the way. Yeah.

18:18 Speaker 11: How we work the DAW, how we approach and arrange music. It's much more arranged like a soundtrack.

18:26 Speaker 3: Yeah.

18:27 Speaker 4: And less arranged like a metal band.

18:29 Speaker 10: Okay.

18:29 Speaker 4: Yeah. You're not going to hear a lot of reoccurring.

18:32 Speaker 11: Themes or tempos or everything is a new arrangement, a new emotion, a new feeling. We try not to copy or go over too many places we've been before, too, you know?

18:45 Speaker 4: Okay, okay.

18:47 Speaker 6: Any surprises tonight in the set list? The last time I saw you, and this was before Sam was in the band, you didn't have a bass player, so you had that part covered, but you all, where was that venue again? I can't remember.

19:02 Speaker 9: The Magic Room.

19:03 Speaker 6: The Magic Room.

19:03 Speaker 4: Yeah. I was stumped. I was like, I don't know.

19:06 Speaker 9: I got you.

19:08 Speaker 6: You all played some songs I'd never heard you play before.

19:11 Speaker 4: Sometimes we do that. It was really cool.

19:13 Speaker 11: To be real with you, we're a work in progress like any other human being. We write music that sounds like it might be easy to play until you get a bunch of people together and try to do it.

19:30 Speaker 6: I pay attention to what you're doing on guitar.

19:31 Speaker 4: It's not easy.

19:32 Speaker 11: Thank you for saying that.

19:35 Speaker 6: It's true. If you were alone.

19:38 Speaker 4: It might play off well.

19:39 Speaker 11: Again, if you were alone in a room and you wanted to play a sepsis song by yourself, it might work out all right. But as soon as you start adding more people into it, it starts to get tricky.

19:51 Speaker 4: Sure, sure. And that's why we have to arrange it intelligently.

19:57 Speaker 13: Right.

19:58 Speaker 6: That makes sense.

20:00 Speaker 4: We have a language in the band, for sure.

20:02 Speaker 6: Any surprises? You never told me, though. Any surprises? I'm not saying reveal what they are. I'm just asking if there are any.

20:07 Speaker 9: I'm not playing Blacklight.

20:09 Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.

20:09 Speaker 9: We're not playing Blacklight.

20:11 Speaker 4: Yeah, we're retiring Blacklight forever.

20:13 Speaker 8: That is a very good point. Yeah.

20:15 Speaker 4: Okay. We're never going to play it again.

20:16 Speaker 9: The crowd has to like beg for it.

20:18 Speaker 4: Yeah.

20:19 Speaker 6: We're never going.

20:19 Speaker 4: To play Blacklight Invasion.

20:21 Speaker 11: It's our biggest song and we decided we're never going to play it ever again unless people go. I mean, if the police don't come, we're not playing it. And that's not just tonight. We mean any night.

20:33 Speaker 6: That's your biggest, that's the first Sepsis song I ever heard, but that's your biggest song?

20:36 Speaker 4: It's our, actually, you know what? It rivals Swarm.

20:39 Speaker 13: Yeah.

20:40 Speaker 4: For number, you know, if we want to talk about, I think Black Light's our biggest song.

20:43 Speaker 6: Cause you've got songs like, uh, you know, well, eyes of empathy, as you know, is my personal favorite and force you to lay down as Jenny's favorite, which we'll play at the end of the segment. But, um, but those are, those are songs that are very, you know, very melodic, very radio friendly. Like I'm surprised those songs aren't bigger cause they deserve to be, you know, I feel that way.

21:02 Speaker 4: About a lot of new England bands and a lot of independent bands that they're There's a lot of talented people. There's a lot of talented people.

21:13 Speaker 11: And when people are saying, who's the most underrated, you know, unheard of band? It's like the band in your backyard.

21:20 Speaker 6: Right.

21:21 Speaker 4: The band that's in your town. Right, right.

21:23 Speaker 6: Exactly.

21:23 Speaker 4: Who deserves more credibility? The bands you're ignoring?

21:26 Speaker 6: Right.

21:27 Speaker 4: Those guys.

21:28 Speaker 6: Right. Yeah. Absolutely.

21:30 Speaker 4: Absolutely.

21:31 Speaker 11: People think that music's background noise. You know, and that local bands are having too much fun to get paid for it.

21:38 Speaker 6: There's a lot of that. And why Jewel? What is it about Jewel? Great question. Obviously, so last year was Jewel. The year before, though, was Taffeta.

21:50 Speaker 4: Yes. Do you want to know why it was Taffeta?

21:53 Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, because you never revealed what happened. So I'm super curious.

22:00 Speaker 4: Because we couldn't have it at Jewel that year.

22:01 Speaker 8: Yeah.

22:03 Speaker 4: That's the reason why.

22:05 Speaker 6: See, I thought there was more of a story, though, because didn't you... He wants more.

22:10 Speaker 9: I'm always looking for the dirt with you.

22:16 Speaker 6: I'm a journalist.

22:17 Speaker 4: I want the dirt. The promoter ghosted me.

22:22 Speaker 7: Oh.

22:22 Speaker 4: That's the truth.

22:23 Speaker 8: Okay.

22:24 Speaker 4: The promoter that was working with me. I'm an artist. I'm not an event coordinator.

22:28 Speaker 8: Yeah.

22:28 Speaker 11: So I like to hire a promoter. Because I want to be able to work with the band.

22:34 Speaker 4: Right. Talk with my friends and my fans and family.

22:36 Speaker 6: Yeah, of course.

22:37 Speaker 11: You know, so substance isn't event coordinators. We're not music industry talent buyers.

22:44 Speaker 6: Right, right.

22:45 Speaker 4: You know, we're just a band.

22:46 Speaker 6: Right.

22:46 Speaker 4: We're just a local band.

22:48 Speaker 11: So it's nice to have a promoter to help you organize and deal directly with the supervisors, the doormen, and the venue owners.

22:58 Speaker 4: Yeah.

22:59 Speaker 11: You know, so I could work a little bit more with the talent and the guests and the promoter that year just hung up their phone and just didn't talk with us anymore.

23:07 Speaker 8: Wow.

23:08 Speaker 3: Okay.

23:08 Speaker 4: That's the truth. Yeah, yeah.

23:10 Speaker 6: No, I believe it. I mean, you know, there's a lot of flaky people.

23:12 Speaker 3: I don't know.

23:12 Speaker 4: I don't know what it was. I don't know what the circumstances were. They just stopped answering the phone.

23:15 Speaker 6: Because from what I remember, it was kind of last minute, the change in venue.

23:18 Speaker 4: Yeah.

23:19 Speaker 11: I mean, when we're done with a Swarmy Fest that week, I go, we book it. Like, if people want to do it again, we book it.

23:26 Speaker 4: Yep. And that's what it's based on. It's not... Based on if I want to do it.

23:30 Speaker 6: Right.

23:31 Speaker 11: If we leave the radio station and everybody goes, wow, that's really a lot of fun.

23:35 Speaker 4: You know, we want to come back. Then that's something we consider.

23:38 Speaker 1: Right.

23:38 Speaker 4: If people say we want strippers in a food truck, that's something we consider.

23:42 Speaker 1: Right.

23:42 Speaker 11: If people want to have water balloon fights and wet t-shirt concerts, you know, that's something we could do, you know.

23:48 Speaker 8: And every year they ask us if we can do it again.

23:50 Speaker 1: Yeah.

23:51 Speaker 6: So, yeah.

23:52 Speaker 11: We ask what people want to do, what they want to do again, and we try to hit the target.

23:57 Speaker 10: Yeah.

23:57 Speaker 6: Yeah.

23:58 Speaker 11: The reason why we do Jewel is because it's got a cool sound system.

24:03 Speaker 6: It does.

24:04 Speaker 4: It's moody. It's dark. You know, we're kind of a moody, dark band sometimes.

24:11 Speaker 11: So it kind of fits our sexy environment and the type of music that we're playing.

24:15 Speaker 6: Yeah.

24:17 Speaker 4: There's enough room on stage for six people. We're a larger band. They have a really nice stage.

24:22 Speaker 11: And it's the only place, Swarmy Fest is the only place that you can see sepsis play in New Hampshire. So if you're from New Hampshire and you want to see us on stage, the only time you can see us play in New Hampshire locally is at Swarmy Fest.

24:40 Speaker 6: Okay.

24:40 Speaker 8: Right in our hometown.

24:41 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. But is that intentional? Like you don't want to play anywhere else in New Hampshire?

24:46 Speaker 4: I don't want to. No, I don't.

24:47 Speaker 1: Why?

24:48 Speaker 11: Because there's not a lot of stages that can accommodate technically or professionally what we really do.

24:54 Speaker 4: Yeah.

24:55 Speaker 11: If I have somebody walk in Nothing against any of the smaller clubs, but if you have a big band and I'm playing in a closet and you walk in and I'm trying to arrange all that, you might say, oh, your band's terrible. You couldn't get that all arranged? You guys should be bigger. You guys should be better than this. You guys should have more going on. But the truth is the stage or the sound guys don't accommodate a band at this size. So if we're standing there looking like we can't move, so we have to have an environment that fits the kind of music and performance that we have stylistically.

25:29 Speaker 11: We like to, a lot of bands, they don't have spin kicks and dancing and jumping around. We do a lot of that, throwing the instruments around and doing spins and throwing confetti in the air.

25:42 Speaker 4: Yeah.

25:43 Speaker 6: Yeah, because now that you mention it, I've never seen you on a small stage, really, that I can think of.

25:47 Speaker 4: It just doesn't work well. It doesn't sound good. We've got to spread out a little bit more.

25:51 Speaker 8: We have played smaller stages. It's just tight up there.

25:56 Speaker 6: You've got a trio.

25:57 Speaker 4: It sounds great in a closet.

25:59 Speaker 6: Oh, sure.

26:01 Speaker 8: But we definitely can't pull off our cool choreography and stuff on a small stage.

26:06 Speaker 4: Right.

26:07 Speaker 1: Right.

26:08 Speaker 6: Yeah, no, and Juul is great. Like, you know, great sound system, the lighting, everything.

26:14 Speaker 4: Oh, one more thing about Juul. The sound travels out really well, okay?

26:20 Speaker 11: It handles subharmonic bass frequencies, and you can have a conversation in the back of the room.

26:28 Speaker 4: Yep, that's true.

26:29 Speaker 11: Because we're a social band, we also need a place where we can have a conversation. We just played in Brooklyn, and you're not having a conversation in Brooklyn. You're not setting up a merch table. You're not having a conversation. It is meaty in there, and it's what you'd imagine.

26:49 Speaker 6: It's packed. It's packed.

26:52 Speaker 9: Sardine style.

26:53 Speaker 4: And if you don't ask somebody to move, no one's moving. They're not moving.

26:57 Speaker 6: Exactly. That's funny. So I'm curious. So Sam, you're the new bass player? I am, yes. So how did this come about?

27:08 Speaker 7: This came about because I took an interest in the band.

27:10 Speaker 5: I was aware of Sepsis a few years ago, and it was earlier this year I just started looking more into them. And I actually am a drummer. I started on guitar. I played various instruments. But I live in Portland, Maine, and I drum in several bands. But I've always loved playing bass. actually wanted to be a bass player when I was in grade school and first wanted to be in bands. I just, yeah, I would tell people I want to play bass and I had a cheap used bass, you know, along with my guitar back then.

27:41 Speaker 5: And I would come up with bass lines with bands I was in and I always loved doing it.

27:47 Speaker 7: I just never played bass in a band.

27:48 Speaker 5: And I went and saw sepsis earlier this year at a show in Norwood mass. And I just struck up a conversation and was offhandedly like, yeah, I'm a drummer. I, I love playing bass, but I'm done. And they seemed open to the idea, if I were to get a bass and really take it seriously, of pursuing it. And it was about a month later, maybe, that I ended up getting a really nice Jackson bass up in Augusta. And everything just sort of fell into place. The timing of it.

28:25 Speaker 6: Yeah.

28:26 Speaker 5: I mean, I went down and saw them again. And that time I talked to him a little more and was like, OK, I think this might be feasible. I went down to a practice and it just started working out.

28:41 Speaker 7: So here I am.

28:42 Speaker 6: Excellent.

28:43 Speaker 8: Excellent.

28:43 Speaker 1: Yeah.

28:43 Speaker 7: My first gig was a few weeks ago in New York.

28:46 Speaker 5: And we were just I was like, oh, wow, about the this band does need a lot of room on stage. But that was a New York meat grinder club in places.

28:54 Speaker 4: But it's.

28:56 Speaker 13: Yeah.

28:56 Speaker 5: I've played those places before where you got the bar in the front and then another room in the back where there's like a curtain dividing it. And then there's a stage and that's all it is. That's all the room is, is the stage.

29:06 Speaker 4: Yeah.

29:06 Speaker 6: Yeah.

29:07 Speaker 7: And it was packed.

29:08 Speaker 4: Was it?

29:09 Speaker 3: Yeah.

29:09 Speaker 7: It was the owner's birthday.

29:11 Speaker 5: I found out after the place was packed to the gills.

29:13 Speaker 7: So I hit the ground running.

29:14 Speaker 3: Yeah.

29:15 Speaker 6: Yeah. Were you nervous?

29:17 Speaker 10: Yeah.

29:17 Speaker 3: Yeah.

29:18 Speaker 5: But I always get nerves even as a drummer, but this was extra just because different spot on stage.

29:24 Speaker 6: Yeah.

29:25 Speaker 5: Um, haven't played a stringed instrument on stage in a couple decades, and first time playing bass, but it felt comfortable pretty quick.

29:32 Speaker 6: Okay.

29:33 Speaker 8: Okay.

29:33 Speaker 7: So I'm digging it.

29:34 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, excellent. You live in Portland? I do, yeah.

29:37 Speaker 4: Okay.

29:37 Speaker 6: A little bit of a commute for the.

29:39 Speaker 5: A little bit of a commute, but I'm used to it, because I'm from the Midcoast area. Actually, our lead guitarist, Hot Sauce, is from Cushing, not far from where I'm from, in Warren.

29:48 Speaker 7: Oh, okay.

29:48 Speaker 5: And we have a lot of mutual friends, which I didn't know until I started talking to him.

29:52 Speaker 4: Oh, wow.

29:53 Speaker 3: Yeah.

29:53 Speaker 7: We're both from the Midcoast in Maine.

29:54 Speaker 4: Okay.

29:55 Speaker 7: So there's that connection there.

29:57 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.

29:57 Speaker 5: But I live in Portland now, but I play in several bands as a drummer.

30:03 Speaker 6: Well, of course you do.

30:03 Speaker 7: Some of them are based out of the Midcoast area in Maine.

30:07 Speaker 6: Every drummer.

30:08 Speaker 4: It's true.

30:09 Speaker 7: Drummers and bass players, but especially drummers right now.

30:11 Speaker 6: Especially drummers, yeah.

30:12 Speaker 2: It's true.

30:13 Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.

30:14 Speaker 5: A good friend of mine is also just stretched too thin.

30:17 Speaker 6: Yeah.

30:17 Speaker 7: I mean, we do it to ourselves, but.

30:20 Speaker 6: My theory about that has always been, and they've all heard me say this a million times, but when you're growing up and you start to get interested in playing an instrument, when you have to have the conversation with your parents, if you tell them you want to play either the drums or the tuba, they're probably going to try to talk you out of it and suggest something else.

30:39 Speaker 5: I had the cool parents that actually let my bands practice at my house.

30:42 Speaker 7: I started on guitar, but it was loud music.

30:46 Speaker 6: So when I.

30:47 Speaker 7: Started playing drums... They encouraged it.

30:50 Speaker 6: Really? Good.

30:51 Speaker 5: I went to UMaine Augusta in the jazz and contemporary music program and studied there as a drummer and went through the theory program and all that.

30:58 Speaker 7: Okay.

30:59 Speaker 4: Oh, excellent.

31:00 Speaker 5: I was still living there, and I was very lucky to have a spot.

31:04 Speaker 6: Yeah, no, that's amazing. That's amazing.

31:07 Speaker 4: Very good.

31:08 Speaker 6: Very good. If you're just joining us, we've got Sepsis here in the studio with us. And tonight, if you are listening live on Saturday, tonight is Swarmy Fest. Doors at 7 at Jewel Music Venue. And so you can still show up at the door and get in. Just advance tickets are gone.

31:28 Speaker 11: We make sure there's plenty of room for everybody, no matter what. Jew's a big place, and that's why we choose it.

31:32 Speaker 7: The acoustics are great.

31:34 Speaker 5: The only other show I saw there was a dubstep show, and you were talking about the bass frequencies. I definitely noticed that. We played a wrestling show there last time.

31:44 Speaker 6: You did?

31:44 Speaker 4: Oh, I think I did.

31:45 Speaker 8: That was so much fun.

31:46 Speaker 9: Cabo Wrestle.

31:47 Speaker 11: They brought a wrestling ring in, and they were jumping off the top rope and slamming each other.

31:54 Speaker 6: While you were playing?

31:55 Speaker 4: Humping each other's faces and everything. It was crazy. I've never seen anything like that. Loved it. I've just never seen anything. And then we played music. There were no other bands there. It was just the face humping stuff. And then we played.

32:10 Speaker 9: We found a way to work it in.

32:14 Speaker 4: That's good. That's wild.

32:20 Speaker 6: It was a wild night.

32:23 Speaker 4: It wasn't normal wrestling. It was like adult wrestling. Yeah, yeah, I understand.

32:29 Speaker 8: There was like burlesque.

32:30 Speaker 6: Dancing and everything.

32:32 Speaker 4: You know, body parts and all of that.

32:34 Speaker 9: Drag queen.

32:35 Speaker 6: Was that the most unique? show that you've played as a band?

32:39 Speaker 8: I'm going to say yes.

32:42 Speaker 6: Sounds like it.

32:43 Speaker 4: I'd say it's more at home for us. I want to play more shows like that. We want to play more shows like that.

32:52 Speaker 6: None of the bands I ever played have got to play a show like that.

32:55 Speaker 11: Me and Melissa have been trying to play the adult awards. We sign up every year because they do bands. Every year we sign up for Exotica.

33:05 Speaker 6: Yeah.

33:06 Speaker 3: Yeah.

33:07 Speaker 4: Anywhere with his naked people are going to sign up.

33:09 Speaker 6: Right. Well, very good. So, yeah. So if you're just joining us on this Saturday morning, tonight is Swarmy Fest.

33:23 Speaker 6: So who is on the bill tonight who's played Swarmy Fest before?

33:28 Speaker 11: So one of the key characteristics and features of Swarmy Fest is All brand new bands. Because, of course, my partners and sponsors are always the same.

33:37 Speaker 2: Right, right.

33:38 Speaker 4: So I have to have new bands.

33:40 Speaker 7: Okay.

33:40 Speaker 4: To make Rince happy.

33:42 Speaker 6: So there's nobody.

33:43 Speaker 8: Okay.

33:44 Speaker 6: Because for some reason.

33:45 Speaker 4: Rince isn't going to show up unless I bring new bands.

33:47 Speaker 1: Okay.

33:48 Speaker 10: No.

33:48 Speaker 6: No, that makes sense. So there's no repeats then.

33:51 Speaker 11: Cherry Fog, only because, unfortunately, Elder Peace Loan, unfortunately, for professional reasons, had to reschedule.

34:01 Speaker 6: That's really a bummer because they were on the show just recently. I was looking forward to seeing them.

34:05 Speaker 8: We were too.

34:06 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.

34:07 Speaker 6: Really looking forward to Singe, Grim the Acronym. I listened to their whole album online. It's really good. The Grey Curtain, of course, they were here last week.

34:14 Speaker 11: All the bands have been great at just marketing, getting the word out. I want to say 3FD.

34:23 Speaker 6: I'm looking forward to that too, yeah.

34:24 Speaker 11: They've been doing, I mean, such a great job professionally and just, you know, working the streets and working the screens.

34:33 Speaker 4: And playing and making reels. They're a lot of fun.

34:37 Speaker 6: Yeah.

34:37 Speaker 4: And they'll be kicking the show off tonight.

34:39 Speaker 1: Okay.

34:39 Speaker 4: So I'm really hoping we get some people on the floor for them.

34:43 Speaker 2: Yeah.

34:43 Speaker 6: From what I saw online, it looks like they're a lot of fun. So very much looking forward to that. Very much looking forward to that. And then it's, but it's just one stage, right?

34:52 Speaker 1: Yeah.

34:53 Speaker 6: Because I know sometimes at Jewel you can do.

34:55 Speaker 11: Yeah, we've done the two stages before, but I really, it was too much for me. I feel like, It was fun, but we had crowds moving from one room to the next room. And there was so much talent there. I felt like some of the bands didn't get the focus that maybe they deserve.

35:15 Speaker 4: Maybe that's just my observation.

35:18 Speaker 11: But I want to hyper-focus on that there's something for everybody.

35:24 Speaker 2: Yeah.

35:25 Speaker 4: And that Swarmy Fest is a fiesta.

35:29 Speaker 1: Yeah.

35:30 Speaker 4: Of sorts, a party mix. Yeah.

35:33 Speaker 11: And it's truly, truly for everybody. And this should be a song, a moment, a memory for everybody.

35:40 Speaker 6: Right.

35:40 Speaker 4: At our events, you know.

35:44 Speaker 6: Speaking of, you know, we were talking earlier about production and whatnot. Any new music from Sepsis in the works?

35:50 Speaker 4: There's tons of new Sepsis music coming out.

35:52 Speaker 6: Focus on Swarmy Fest, but I'm really curious.

35:55 Speaker 4: We're so excited. Yeah?

35:56 Speaker 12: Yeah.

35:56 Speaker 11: Yeah, we're recording the best music and about to release the best music of our lives.

36:00 Speaker 4: Okay.

36:01 Speaker 8: I think we got like three songs left until the album is finished.

36:07 Speaker 13: Two.

36:07 Speaker 6: Really?

36:07 Speaker 8: Two.

36:08 Speaker 4: Two.

36:09 Speaker 10: My bad.

36:09 Speaker 4: Okay. All right. I mean, and they're in full production. Okay.

36:17 Speaker 11: We've talked about Glenn Robinson, our producer, before, and one of our big goals.

36:22 Speaker 4: Is keeping our producer happy.

36:24 Speaker 11: If we can keep the production team happy and excited about the future of sepsis, then we can be guided to write great music.

36:34 Speaker 4: Between that and you know.

36:35 Speaker 11: That we're very peer-reviewed, we don't release music without our closest and most loyal fans.

36:43 Speaker 4: Approving of it first.

36:46 Speaker 11: If a new listener doesn't like our cymbals or our kick drum signal, tough luck a lot of times because before we release music, We have a team of people that grade it.

36:59 Speaker 4: Review it, that peer review it before.

37:02 Speaker 11: And those people just happen to be our most trusted, longest, loyalist friends and family members and also very much investors in the band.

37:14 Speaker 4: So, you know, we're not just building this band on the dance floor.

37:18 Speaker 6: Right, right.

37:20 Speaker 8: We call them Yellow Jackets.

37:22 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the term, Yellow Jackets.

37:23 Speaker 8: They're like our super fans, our subscribers.

37:26 Speaker 3: Okay.

37:27 Speaker 4: If you see, like, he's got a yellow jacket badge on.

37:30 Speaker 6: Yes, yes.

37:30 Speaker 11: Anybody that you see, if they have those jackets that say yellow jackets, they're a yellow jacket.

37:35 Speaker 6: Okay. All right. Very good. Do you have any Hornets?

37:40 Speaker 4: No, but if you wear yellow, well.

37:43 Speaker 6: Technically, there's.

37:44 Speaker 8: The murder hornets, which is like the VIP.

37:47 Speaker 4: Tier of the yellow jackets.

37:49 Speaker 6: Okay, gotcha.

37:50 Speaker 4: Yep.

37:50 Speaker 6: That was on my mind because I had to kill some hornets the other day.

37:54 Speaker 4: No, that's real.

37:55 Speaker 8: Technically, yes.

37:56 Speaker 6: Okay.

37:56 Speaker 9: That is your answer.

37:59 Speaker 11: So there's people that can subscribe to the band at various tiers to help support the band.

38:05 Speaker 6: Yeah, right through the website.

38:06 Speaker 4: Yep.

38:07 Speaker 6: Yep.

38:07 Speaker 7: Yep.

38:08 Speaker 6: Um, is that's something kind of unique to you guys too, right?

38:12 Speaker 4: Because we're more than just a band, you know?

38:14 Speaker 6: Right. Yeah.

38:15 Speaker 4: We do modeling, podcasting, marketing, advertising, brand ambassadorships.

38:21 Speaker 6: I was on your show recently.

38:22 Speaker 4: Yes. I had so much fun.

38:24 Speaker 6: I got a little, yeah, no, I did too.

38:25 Speaker 1: Yeah.

38:25 Speaker 6: No, it was, it was fun to hang out with you and Lexi on there. And I, I got a lot of positive feedback about it. It's awesome.

38:31 Speaker 4: It was a great episode.

38:32 Speaker 6: Oh, absolutely. No, it was my pleasure. And you talk about, um, On that show, too, I noticed you do a lot of segments about music industry stuff that's going on, which is really interesting. So it's informative, too. Not just entertaining, but you learn a lot. Actually, I'll just ask you, the most fascinating thing to me recently that's gone on in the music industry, and I don't know because I don't always get a chance to catch it. I don't know if you've talked about it on your show, the Alanis Morissette thing.

38:56 Speaker 6: It's such a wild story.

38:57 Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know about it.

38:58 Speaker 6: Mm-hmm. Alanis Morissette is suing her former tour manager because her former tour manager tried to extort her into signing a 15-year contract at a huge salary, and her former tour manager threatened to frame her for drug trafficking if she didn't do it.

39:16 Speaker 8: Wow.

39:18 Speaker 11: That sounds like a story that me and Lexi would cover.

39:22 Speaker 4: Yeah, you should.

39:23 Speaker 6: Yeah.

39:23 Speaker 8: Send us a link or something.

39:25 Speaker 6: Oh, just Google Alanis Morissette. Oh, we'll find it.

39:28 Speaker 4: It'll come right up.

39:29 Speaker 9: We will find it.

39:30 Speaker 6: It'll come right up.

39:31 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah.

39:32 Speaker 9: We're good at finding stuff.

39:34 Speaker 6: It's wild, yeah. I've gotten two segments out of that story.

39:37 Speaker 8: I love that.

39:38 Speaker 6: It sounds like a good one.

39:38 Speaker 4: I love that. Thank you for plugging us in.

39:40 Speaker 6: Isn't that the most insane thing ever?

39:42 Speaker 8: Yeah.

39:42 Speaker 6: Because, I mean, there's no shortage of stories about, you know, Managers and accountants and all manner of people screwing over artists and stealing money from them.

39:52 Speaker 4: And you know where else that happens? Where?

39:55 Speaker 6: At the DMV.

39:56 Speaker 4: At Walmart. At the job at Target. At every layer. Farming, agriculture, modeling, construction.

40:05 Speaker 6: Oh, of course, yeah.

40:06 Speaker 4: Everybody's trying to get over on their neighbor.

40:09 Speaker 6: It's capitalism.

40:10 Speaker 4: Yes. It's scandalous. Exactly.

40:13 Speaker 6: Although I myself have never tried to extort anyone and threaten to frame them for drug trafficking.

40:18 Speaker 4: I haven't lately, no.

40:19 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, you've really got to want something to take that. Oh, you know what else, too? Apparently it was her, the store manager, it was her attorneys who was drafting those letters. It's like, how does this happen? Those letters being sent to Alanis Morissette saying, you know, you can make all these problems go away if you just play ball. But you'll see when you read about it.

40:44 Speaker 4: I never put anything in writing. No?

40:47 Speaker 1: No.

40:48 Speaker 6: That's like the opposite of what everyone else says you should do. Why do you never?

40:54 Speaker 11: Well, like we've talked about before, no fish would ever be caught if he didn't open his mouth.

40:59 Speaker 6: Right.

40:59 Speaker 1: Okay.

41:02 Speaker 4: What? No fish would ever be caught if he didn't open his mouth.

41:06 Speaker 6: Okay, explain.

41:07 Speaker 3: Okay.

41:08 Speaker 4: Meaning I don't create paperwork for people to examine.

41:11 Speaker 6: I see.

41:12 Speaker 4: I see.

41:13 Speaker 6: So if you did try to frame somebody for drug trafficking, there's no evidence.

41:19 Speaker 4: That's smart. That's smart.

41:22 Speaker 6: That was the tour manager's biggest thing.

41:24 Speaker 1: Right, right, right.

41:26 Speaker 11: Now, you've got to be able to prove criminal intent. All that stuff sounds cool on the... On Facebook, but in court, you've got to prove criminal intent.

41:34 Speaker 4: Right, right.

41:35 Speaker 6: It sounds pretty criminal to me, what she tried to do. Anyway, any kind of an ETA on the album?

41:44 Speaker 4: I hope that we could get it going before the turn of the year. Okay.

41:51 Speaker 6: Cool.

41:52 Speaker 4: Quality.

41:53 Speaker 11: We want the best quality we could possibly get. We're not experts at this, you know?

41:58 Speaker 6: Because you do everything yourselves, right? This is all DIY.

42:00 Speaker 11: I was just about to say, we make a lot of mistakes, you know?

42:03 Speaker 4: We're not experts.

42:04 Speaker 6: It's how you learn. It's how you get good at it.

42:06 Speaker 11: So a lot of our making music is being objective, like screwing stuff up and then listening to it for a little while and then letting our friends go, oh, that's not the right note, and then trying another one and showing.

42:18 Speaker 4: Rob bad cymbal stuff and him going, I'll change that one.

42:22 Speaker 6: Right.

42:23 Speaker 4: Move stuff around, yeah.

42:24 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.

42:25 Speaker 11: A lot of stuff we record, we have to do it again once we get on stage. We've got to move everything around again.

42:31 Speaker 1: Yeah.

42:31 Speaker 4: Because it translates differently in a real room, you know?

42:35 Speaker 6: Yeah.

42:35 Speaker 11: We get away with a lot of stuff on a record that's harder to get away with on stage.

42:41 Speaker 6: Do any of the songs change the way you play them live?

42:43 Speaker 4: Every time. Do they? Every time. Every time we have a brand new person.

42:47 Speaker 3: Yeah.

42:48 Speaker 4: And you know what's true, too?

42:50 Speaker 11: We have to adjust for every room. Like, some rooms are faster than others. Some rooms are harder.

42:55 Speaker 3: Right.

42:55 Speaker 11: Some rooms are like bouncier. Some rooms are like kinetic or moodier.

43:01 Speaker 8: Yeah. That's why sometimes we'll have multiple different set lists available depending on the show. We'll have a set list A and a set list B, and we'll be like, okay, we're going to play set list B today because it feels right for the mood of the room.

43:17 Speaker 4: Right.

43:18 Speaker 11: Like, oh, wow, there's a lot of thrash metal fans in here. We'll keep it up tempo. Oh, there's a lot of hip hop fans in here. Let's do romance. Switch up the songs real quick. Yeah, do something a little more bouncy.

43:29 Speaker 7: Okay.

43:30 Speaker 6: No, that makes sense. That makes sense. So we should review for people just joining us. Swarmy Fest tonight, the fifth one. By the way, how many more of these do you think you're going to do? Obviously, it's been an annual tradition. Do you see this going into the foreseeable future? Because sometimes people, when they do these things, they kind of have an end date in their mind of... you know, I want to do this for X number of years. And then I, Matt, I ended this year for me. It was ended year one.

43:57 Speaker 8: We never expected this to be an annual event.

44:00 Speaker 4: Really?

44:00 Speaker 9: We never did.

44:01 Speaker 8: Um, but people just kept asking us to keep doing it.

44:04 Speaker 11: So yeah, it's really up to, you know, like if you guys didn't want to do it, I probably wouldn't want to do it.

44:10 Speaker 4: You know what I mean? Like I said, it's, if, if Jewel doesn't want to do it, then we won't do it.

44:15 Speaker 1: Right.

44:15 Speaker 11: If, if, Rob doesn't want to do it, and I guess we won't. But the only reason we'll do it... And here's the thing. This may not be... There may not be another Swarmy Fest. But if there is, it will be because everybody wanted to do it. It may not be next year. We hope it is, and I'm optimistic. I hope today is... I think it'll be a lot of fun. And I hope we do it again. But if this was the finale and that's all it ever was, I'd say it has been a success.

44:45 Speaker 4: And I'm really.

44:46 Speaker 11: happy but um because there's so many other people other than me involved it wouldn't be it wouldn't be accurate for me to take a position and say you know this is what's going to happen i know what i want to have happen as an individual right i'd like to see you know what i'd like to see as an individual i'd like to see swarmy fest happen in california i'd like to see swarmy fest happen in texas right i'd like to see swarmy fest um happen in chicago yeah and we.

45:13 Speaker 8: Are trying to tour more With the upcoming year.

45:16 Speaker 4: New Orleans.

45:16 Speaker 6: Yeah.

45:17 Speaker 13: Good.

45:17 Speaker 3: Good.

45:17 Speaker 8: That would be awesome if we could pull that off.

45:20 Speaker 4: Yeah.

45:20 Speaker 6: Absolutely.

45:22 Speaker 9: Traveling swarmy fest.

45:23 Speaker 11: We like to drive around. We like to do the old school band stuff, you know. For us, this is still very much our dream.

45:32 Speaker 6: Right.

45:33 Speaker 4: We're not bored of this. This isn't a.

45:35 Speaker 11: This isn't a pain in the butt for us. We love this stuff. If we didn't love doing it, we wouldn't do it. We're going to make zero money tonight. We expect that.

45:45 Speaker 4: That's a prediction.

45:46 Speaker 11: We're not doing this to pay the rent or become superstars or be better than people or rock and roll at people.

45:53 Speaker 4: So if people want to do it, we'll do it again. If they don't, we won't.

45:57 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. Outstanding. We'll remind everybody before we wrap up about tonight, but also where should people go online to keep up with everything Sepsis is doing?

46:05 Speaker 4: Sepsis.com. It's the best place.

46:09 Speaker 1: Yeah.

46:09 Speaker 4: We're trying to get rid of as many middlemen as possible.

46:13 Speaker 11: I don't want to ask Mark Zuckerberg for permission to do swarmy stuff.

46:17 Speaker 6: Right.

46:18 Speaker 11: I don't want to ask Spotify for permission to say thank you to my fans.

46:21 Speaker 4: I want to be able to.

46:22 Speaker 11: Send them a message and say, You know, our company, our community is big enough to be successful, but small enough to handle our own problems and conflict resolution.

46:32 Speaker 1: Right.

46:32 Speaker 8: You can find everything sepsis on sepsis.com. We've got all of our links there for our socials. We've got our music. We've got our merch. We even like started this discord community. You guys can join and chat with us. So there's everything over there.

46:51 Speaker 6: Even our Twitch.

46:53 Speaker 4: Okay.

46:53 Speaker 5: So.

46:54 Speaker 4: Outstanding.

46:55 Speaker 6: And of course, tonight's Swarmy Fest, the fifth annual Swarmy Fest with, of course, Cephas Headlining, also the Gray Curtain, Grim the Acronym, Singe, 3FD, and the Cherry Fog has been added. Love them. Looking really forward to that. The Blood Witch will be there. a featured dancer. And of course, don't forget the sponsors. This show, again, we're always honored that Matt Connerton Unleashed gets to be a part of this. BPS Records, Loud Entertainment, and of course, Legion of Solace. Jenny has an art piece that she's bringing.

47:24 Speaker 6: She's out in the hall there. So looking forward to seeing that. You've seen pictures of it online, but now you get to actually see it. So that'll be very cool. And really looking forward to tonight.

47:34 Speaker 10: Oh, what?

47:35 Speaker 6: One thing, I'm just curious if there's any particular reason. It's usually in November. This year it's in September. Was it just circumstance?

47:43 Speaker 11: Yeah, I was hoping that it just wouldn't be so cold. It's warmer.

47:48 Speaker 6: I know there should be some.

47:50 Speaker 11: Kind of William Savant philosophy behind this, but it really has to do with New England is unpredictable. We had a couple of Swarmy Fests where it was unnaturally beautiful.

48:03 Speaker 10: Right.

48:03 Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden it was like, yeah, right, this is New England.

48:07 Speaker 1: Right, right.

48:07 Speaker 4: Think again.

48:08 Speaker 6: Yeah.

48:09 Speaker 4: And we were all out there in winter jackets. We wanted a.

48:12 Speaker 9: Little change up in the outfits. A little bit more warmer, colder stuff, not warmer.

48:18 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, that makes sense. That makes a lot of sense. Well, thank you all for being here.

48:23 Speaker 4: Thank you.

48:23 Speaker 6: This is wonderful as always. Can't wait to see you tonight for Swarmy Fest 5.

48:28 Speaker 4: Right on.

48:30 Speaker 6: Hey, and thank you to everybody who joined us today. Of course, the good people from BPS Records, Larry from Loud Entertainment. Malcolm and Bruce from Legion of Solace. And Tuesday was also with us by phone. Oh, that's awesome. Or at least was with Malcolm, I should say.

48:45 Speaker 4: Okay.

48:47 Speaker 6: Still here, though. By phone, but still here. And she was in the chat room. So thank you, everybody. And if you missed any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit at WMNHradio.org. At my website, MattConnerton.com. And don't forget the new MattConnertonUnleashed.com. And we're going to leave you with this. This is Jenny's favorite sepsis song. This is called Force You to Lay Down, and we'll see you all tonight. Thanks, everybody.

49:08 Speaker 8: Thank you.

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56:24 Speaker 3: You're listening to Matt Connerton Unleashed on WMNH 95.3. We'll be right back. We don't wait for the light. We're not looking back. We're just waiting for the light. Ooh, I feel like I've shrunk me off Leave me here, I don't fall