Matt Connarton Unleashed 9-26-26 hour 1

0:04 Speaker 1: You're listening to Matt Connerton Unleashed on WMNH 95.3. Right now, exclusively on Matt Connerton Unleashed, the world radio premiere of the new single from Lydia Reddy, This Is How.

0:28 Speaker 2: You are listening to WMNH 95.3. World premiere.

0:51 Speaker 3: Their feet on sand Made their way to the promised land Many a man have played to look the fool And just like them.

1:12 Speaker 4: I followed down the whirlpool And I think this is how I die.

1:21 Speaker 3: And nobody's questioning why.

1:24 Speaker 5: Oh, why is this.

1:25 Speaker 3: How I die?

1:30 Speaker 4: I want to make.

1:34 Speaker 3: Something of my life.

1:35 Speaker 1: And I just cry.

1:36 Speaker 3: Day through, day flat. But I'll eventually die.

1:58 Speaker 4: Many a man have tried to escape their fate.

2:03 Speaker 3: I'd be a billion to one in a rat race.

2:10 Speaker 4: And I think this is how I die.

2:15 Speaker 3: And nobody's questioning why.

2:23 Speaker 6: This is how I die I want to.

2:28 Speaker 3: Make some of my life And I just cry This is how I die Oh, this is how I die.

2:52 Speaker 4: Put on my chain mail.

2:54 Speaker 6: Armor And leave you with all of.

3:00 Speaker 3: The trauma Come and make me live longer.

3:04 Speaker 4: Please make me stop suffocating Tighten my grip on my soul Pronounce my soul, Lord Be all the talk All I want, Lord And I.

3:19 Speaker 3: Think This, this is how I fight. And nobody's questioning why.

3:29 Speaker 7: How fast.

4:12 Speaker 1: Night. I love it. Hey, welcome, everybody.

4:53 Speaker 8: Here we go.

4:54 Speaker 1: It is that time again. Matt Connerton unleashed. We opened the show this week with another world radio premiere. You will not hear that anywhere else on the radio yet, at least in the United States. The new single from Lydia Reddy called This Is How. She's been on the show with us a couple of times, and we'll definitely have to get her on again. But what a great song to open up the show this week. A little bit different from her previous singles that we featured on the show. But great, great artist from the UK.

5:23 Speaker 1: Welcome, everybody. This is Matt Connerton Unleashed, and we are live from the studios of WMNH 95.3 FM. in glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to mattconnerton.com slash live or our new, well, newer, I don't want to say new at this point. It's been up for a while, but mattconnertonunleashed.com slash live dash now or just go to the live button. Click that button on the mattconnertonunleashed.com site, which is exclusively dedicated, of course, to the program.

5:59 Speaker 1: Today is a Saturday, September 26th, 2026. Hope everyone is safe and traveling safely. Of course, take it easy out there this weekend because there is a big nor'easter coming, you know, too early for snow. Thank goodness. But there's going to be a lot of rain apparently. But that will not stop us. There is a big show tonight happening in Nashua, New Hampshire that's very important, and I just want to remind everybody about this. We've been talking about it and talking about it. Come see us tonight.

6:26 Speaker 1: Jenny and I will be there at Terminus Underground in Nashua. This is the mental health benefit show to support On the Road to Wellness, which is a peer-supported, arts-based mental health organization operating right here in Manchester, New Hampshire. In fact, we had... the executive director from that organization on the show recently with us, along with the band. We'll call them P in public. It's actually a different word that starts with a P, but I don't want to get in trouble, so we won't say the actual name.

6:56 Speaker 1: We'll call them P in public, but it's actually something a little different. It rhymes with kiss, but it's not. It starts with... Anyway, you get the idea. You know who I'm talking about. They were on the show as well, because they're participating in the show, obviously, tonight. Again, it's a benefit to support to help On the Road to Wellness, a great organization here in Manchester. So that was a number of weeks ago that they were on the show with us. But tonight's the big night. And this is happening at Terminus Underground at 134 Haines Street in Nashua.

7:26 Speaker 1: It's sponsored by Wanderlust Therapeutic Services. Let me give you the full rundown here. Terminus Underground community is coming together for a special night of music, connection and support. benefiting on the road to wellness in manchester uh... mental health is something that touches every community sometimes the most important thing we can do is simply show up for one another create a safe place to connect and remind people that they don't have to face difficult moments alone join us this is an all ages show by the way which is important there are not enough we talk about this on the show all the time there are not enough all ages shows so we're always a very happy when uh...

8:01 Speaker 1: there is something happening that you know you can bring the kids to bring the family Here's the lineup. Although, I don't know, maybe not super young kids, depending on how you feel. I'll give you the lineup. So we mentioned P in Public, Stoner, Black Crust, and Hardcore Punk Band. Also tonight, Phantasm. I'll give you the description of each one. Phantasm, horror-tinged electronic dance music, blending genres like bass house, dubstep, and UK garage. Witchspire. We're going to play one of their songs later.

8:32 Speaker 1: I really like them. Southern New Hampshire, Doom and Roll, a heavy hybrid style combining doom metal, stoner rock, and sludge slash southern metal. Very descriptive. Graboid, Boston band, Boston-based punk and hardcore, and Lobotomobile. Lobotomobile, by the way, not only is it fun to say, but they've never been on the show. Actually, none of these bands have been on the show except for P and Public. But Lobotomobile, their name comes up a lot on the show. And I feel like when we had Volley on recently, I feel like the name came up.

9:05 Speaker 1: So it is fun to say Lobotomobile. But I've been hearing about them for a long time, so really looking forward to seeing them. Genre-bending horror punk from Keen. So that is all happening tonight, doors at 7 p.m. Come see us at Terminus Underground. Again, it's at 134 Haynes Street in Nashua. And it's an important show, and mental health is important. You know, if you're a longtime listener, you know I'm someone who struggles with depression myself, and I'm no stranger to depression. no stranger to the mental health struggle known as the Big D, especially on a day like today when it's all rainy and blah outside.

9:42 Speaker 1: But that's okay. I'm happy to be here with you, and I'll be happy to be at that show tonight. So we'll talk about it again. Like I said, later in the show, we do have a few guests who are going to be joining us remotely. All our guests are remote today. Nobody in studio. it's uh it's very uh i'm all alone in this building but um i'm glad it's not halloween time i'd be afraid halloween's coming though a little over a month anyway uh but so we've got some great guests coming up but we're also going to try to feature a little bit of the music from some of the bands that are playing tonight at terminus as well so we're gonna we're gonna try to uh cram in as much as we can today in the three hours that we have uh really really quickly We have actually two kind of new sponsors now.

10:24 Speaker 1: I say kind of because one of them actually started recently, Xtrilly, which is a new rideshare service now operating in New Hampshire. You can go to X-T-R-I-L-L-I dot com. If you want to sign up, if you want to ride, go to Xtrilly dot com slash ride 953. If you want to become a driver for Xtrilly, you can go to Xtrilly dot com slash drive. nine, five, three. And, please, please sign up there. And, um, By the way, they pay their drivers pretty generously, so if you've ever done rideshare, it's definitely worth looking into.

11:00 Speaker 1: But we're very happy to have them on board with us. We have an even newer sponsor. This just happened. I won't talk about it too much, but I do want to mention Matt Connerton Hypnosis is now an official sponsor here at WMNH 95.3. I was kind of inspired by Rob Azevedo, who hosts a great show here called Granite State of Mind and is the owner and proprietor of Pembroke City Limits. When he opened Pembroke City Limits, which is a great venue here in Pembroke, New Hampshire, he began advertising here on WMNH.

11:37 Speaker 1: That was a couple of years ago, I think now, but I've kind of kept that in the back of my mind, and I'm at a point right now where It makes sense to really kind of invest some more resources in expanding my hypnotherapy practice. And I thought about it, you know, in terms of how one allocates those resources from a business standpoint. I thought, what better place to do it than WMNH, you know? I've been here for, it'll be 10 years in April. almost a decade that I've been hosting my show here. Gone in the blink of an eye, I'll tell you.

12:08 Speaker 1: It goes so quick. But to me, it just made sense. And so you'll be hearing my ad. So you might hear my dulcet tones outside of the show if you're listening to the station. But very proud and honored to be a part of... It's a great roster of sponsors that we have here at the station. You know, businesses like, of course, I mentioned Pembroke City Limits, Queen City Cabinetry, the great Mike Pellepita. They've been here with us forever. CGI Business Solutions, Diz's Cafe. There's a few others. I don't want to try to mention them all because I'll leave somebody out.

12:40 Speaker 1: I'll forget somebody and then I'll feel badly about it. But, you know, so very, very happy. And, of course, I mentioned Xtrilly, who just came on very recently. So, you know, to be kind of in the company of these other businesses here is also very exciting for me. So I appreciate all the support. And it's wonderful to finally not only host a show here at WMNH, but to have Matt Connerton Hypnosis become an official sponsor as well. It's very exciting. Speaking of exciting, so in just a couple of minutes, we're going to be joined by.

13:10 Speaker 9: Uh.

13:10 Speaker 1: let's see our first guess a tiny magnetic pats they are joining us remotely other from ireland actually so uh... assume that's where they are currently where to play this is from their new their newest releases called the astral oxy p And this is a song that, you know, I think if you pay attention to it, a lot of people can kind of relate to it. But we'll talk to more. We'll talk with them more about what the lyrics mean. But it's called Lost My Guiding Light Again. And it explores a topic that I think is relatable for most people.

13:40 Speaker 1: Most people feel this way. You know, at some point they feel lost. They feel like they've lost their way, whether it's personally or professionally or whatever it is. Like maybe they've kind of wandered off the path and they're trying to figure it out. That's what I get from the song. But we'll talk with them. Maybe I'm, you know, I mean, art is subjective. My interpretation might not match. Your interpretation might not match what the original idea of the song was. Who knows? But that's one of the exciting things about music.

14:05 Speaker 1: But we're going to go ahead and give this a spin. And then we're going to talk to the fine people from Tiny Magnetic Pets.

15:46 Speaker 10: So Miracle of days unseen Gives your life an optimist Another cautionary tale One that no one thinks to mention

17:16 Speaker 10: Feel like you've lost your guiding light. Do you feel like you've lost your guiding light? Standing on the stage Making a fool of myself as usual.

17:57 Speaker 6: Emotional car crash, all the rage It's funny what you can't get used to.

18:36 Speaker 7: Do you feel like you've lost your guiding light?

18:40 Speaker 5: Do you.

18:44 Speaker 11: Feel like you've lost.

18:47 Speaker 7: Your guiding light? Do you feel like you've lost your guiding light?

18:56 Speaker 6: Because I feel like I've lost my guiding light Do you feel like you've lost your mind?

20:09 Speaker 2: Do you feel.

20:10 Speaker 6: Like you've lost your mind?

20:17 Speaker 3: Do you feel like you've lost.

20:21 Speaker 10: Your mind?

20:23 Speaker 3: Do you feel like you've lost your mind?

20:49 Speaker 1: I don't know how to get you moving on a rainy Saturday morning. That has lost my guiding light again by Tiny Magnetic Pets. Whoops, something else is starting to play. I've got to pull that down. It is a rainy Saturday morning. Apparently, I'm not quite on the ball there. But let's see. We've got the fine people joining us via restream from Tiny Magnetic Pets. Good morning. Let's see. So we've got, I know, I see Paula there.

21:12 Speaker 9: Hi, Paula.

21:16 Speaker 1: Paula Gilmore, of course. Gilmore, rather.

21:18 Speaker 2: I'm sorry.

21:19 Speaker 1: The vocalist for Tiny Magnetic Pets. And then who else do we have with us?

21:24 Speaker 2: Eugene.

21:25 Speaker 1: Eugene, welcome.

21:26 Speaker 2: And Sean.

21:27 Speaker 1: And Sean, welcome. Thank you.

21:29 Speaker 8: Welcome.

21:29 Speaker 1: Okay, so Paula, now obviously you're the vocalist. And then Sean, what do you do in the group?

21:38 Speaker 2: Good question.

21:39 Speaker 12: I play synthesizers and sometimes a bit of guitar whenever.

21:45 Speaker 2: It's called for.

21:46 Speaker 1: Gotcha, gotcha. And Eugene, what's your role in Tiny Magnetic Pets?

21:52 Speaker 13: I play electronic drums and acoustic drums occasionally.

21:57 Speaker 1: Okay, excellent, excellent. And you're all, all three of you are from Ireland?

22:05 Speaker 2: Yes, yeah.

22:07 Speaker 1: Outstanding. So I want to know more about that song, Lost My Guiding Light, again. You know, I was kind of talking, as I was about to play it, I was talking about how I think it's sort of relatable in that what I get from it is, you know, kind of feeling like, feeling uncertainty, maybe in your career or something, a choice that you've made in life where maybe you feel like you're kind of.

22:32 Speaker 1: You're not sure whether you're on the right path. You're questioning yourself, questioning your choices maybe. What I'm taking from that, is that kind of the idea of the song or am I reading too much into it? Tell me about the song and what the lyrics are about.

22:50 Speaker 12: Well, what you're reading into it is basically what it's about and we're kind of glad that it kind of comes across because a lot of the time our lyrics tend to be a bit abstract or kind of leave them open to interpretation. But with Lost My Guiding Light, again,

23:09 Speaker 12: it's just basically about what you said. Everybody loses their way at some point and you're looking for that, for your guiding light. And it can be anything, whether in my case, losing the head of the bar on stage when we're playing live, I'm looking for the one where I can refocus. Or if you just basically lost your way, whether emotionally, whether spiritually, morally, and you realize you've lost your way and you're looking for a way out and you're looking for that guiding light. And that's where the title of the EP comes into because Astrolux is Latin for starlight.

23:49 Speaker 7: Okay.

23:50 Speaker 12: And it's just based on sailors using the stars to guide themselves. So they were kind of using guiding lights, basically.

23:56 Speaker 6: Okay.

23:57 Speaker 1: Excellent.

23:59 Speaker 2: Navigational star. She's got a star tattooed on her shoulder.

24:01 Speaker 7: Navigational star.

24:02 Speaker 9: Yeah, I think for Guiding Light, and your Guiding Light can be whatever it is, like something totally relatable to you.

24:10 Speaker 7: I mean, for me, music gets me through a lot of things. For other people, it.

24:14 Speaker 9: Can be simply a walk. For somebody else, it can be therapy. So that's what ultimately the song is about. Have you lost your Guiding Light? I'm trying to find that. And I think it's very relatable for the world we live in today and in current times.

24:27 Speaker 8: So, yeah.

24:29 Speaker 1: Absolutely. Absolutely. And I'm curious, too, about the decision to revisit this, because the reason it's called this version is called Lost My Guiding Light. And then parenthetically, again, is because it's actually the song goes back to 2017. Correct. And this is a this is a new version of it.

24:50 Speaker 12: Yeah, it was where this came about initially was last year we were asked to play an EDM festival here in Dublin. And we were looking at songs that we hadn't played live before, which would work in an EDM setting, but which we could play live. And we dug that one out. But obviously the way it was performed in the studio, the way it was recorded, it needed just a bit more oomph to it. Because basically what you do live and what you do in the studio generally can be, a lot of times can be two different things.

25:27 Speaker 12: something that sounds brilliant on record may fall flat whenever you perform it live, no matter how accurately you perform it on stage. So we thought we'd dance this one up a bit. So we stripped a load of stuff out of it and we just kind of let the sequencers do all the work. But once we had it done, we added the coda and this is a completely different recording now. And we decided to, We would probably release it, record it properly and then release it. And again, in brackets comes from, it's a kind of cheeky reference to Bowie.

26:03 Speaker 12: We're all massive Bowie fans.

26:05 Speaker 8: Yeah.

26:05 Speaker 12: And he had a song called John, I'm Only Dancing. And then he did, a few years later, he did a completely different version of it called John, I'm Only Dancing.

26:13 Speaker 2: Brackets again.

26:14 Speaker 13: Okay.

26:15 Speaker 1: So that was our kind of little.

26:17 Speaker 2: To the man himself.

26:18 Speaker 9: You've got to remember when, like as musicians, it's very, very easy to just, like, we're fortunate we have our own rehearsal studios here in Dublin. And I guess, you know, it's very easy just as musicians just to, you know, Sean might add in something or I'll sing something differently.

26:33 Speaker 7: And we really, really love that.

26:35 Speaker 9: We are a band that likes to explore sounds and we're always, we're always messing around and we're also always changing songs and changing things up. And it keeps the interest for us And as Sean often says, you know, for us going to see artists in concert, we love when things are changed up or extended versions and it keeps the effect for us, particularly in rehearsing. I mean, um, so it's very easy for us to change songs and alter things and maybe add in a different sequence or different sounds or, um, so we've done it with a few songs and we often call them pink and white where pink will be kind of, um, one style and the white would be the others.

27:14 Speaker 9: We've done it, if you look back in our back catalog on all the platforms, you can see that we've done this. This isn't the first time we've done this. We call this one again, but other times we have done like a pink version, a white version, and yeah, it's very TMP style.

27:28 Speaker 7: It's something we love doing.

27:30 Speaker 13: It's also good to get people up on the dance floor, so that's a bonus. It's a bonus for us, so it gets people grooving.

27:37 Speaker 7: Absolutely.

27:38 Speaker 2: I love an old dance beat. It was fine. I not to laugh shoe.

27:43 Speaker 1: No, that's, that's great. Um, I, I like the perspective too of, and this is a subject that actually comes up on the show a lot, but I like the perspective of doing things differently live, making them sound different, different live these songs, because, you know, a lot of artists, uh, kind of try to do the, the opposite, uh, Um, a lot of artists want to replicate whatever they record. They want to come as close to that as they possibly can live because they assume that that's what the audience wants to hear.

28:12 Speaker 1: The audience wants to hear what's on the record. But to me, I've always looked at it as, you know, I, I want to be surprised. And when I go to see, yeah, when I go to see somebody live, I want to hear something, you know, I, I love it when there's something a little different, you know, throw me, throw me a curve. I love that personally.

28:28 Speaker 9: It's our job to entertain and, I think that's an important thing. And if we're buzzed by a change in a song, then we're hoping the audience will be buzzed by something as well. And I like a little bit of unpredictability to the point that I don't even know what I'm going to do on stage half the time.

28:47 Speaker 7: Sometimes I just take off.

28:48 Speaker 2: And do these things.

28:50 Speaker 7: So I love unpredictability. I think it's exciting.

28:53 Speaker 1: Yeah.

28:54 Speaker 12: The danger of not knowing what's going to happen is great. I've seen two of my favorite bands who you've got to show not named And I was in the audience watching to basically recreate the records on stage. And I'm sitting there thinking I could be at home listening to the record.

29:12 Speaker 1: Exactly.

29:14 Speaker 2: Instead of watching it from a million miles away and hearing the record.

29:18 Speaker 1: Yeah.

29:19 Speaker 2: I mean, Eugene and.

29:20 Speaker 9: I were just in Tiers Cologne at the last Depeche Mode concert.

29:26 Speaker 2: And they've done this.

29:27 Speaker 9: Amazing extended versions of Just Can't Get Enough. There's a huge drum breakdown and everything. And it's absolutely amazing, isn't it, Eugene?

29:33 Speaker 7: Like it's, you know.

29:34 Speaker 2: The crowd love it.

29:36 Speaker 7: And you can see the band love it as well.

29:38 Speaker 2: So, yeah, lovely. as well.

29:41 Speaker 13: I personally think the hooks still remain and your certain kind of aspects of the song remain.

29:46 Speaker 2: But you work it differently.

29:51 Speaker 13: We always said, the three of us, we attack the songs differently for life. We attack it these days like a rock band And I think that's very true.

30:01 Speaker 2: You have to perform like a rock band on stage. Whatever kind of music you're playing, you have to attack the stage like you're a rock band.

30:09 Speaker 1: Exactly. It's like Gene Simmons once said in an interview, when you're on stage, you're there to kill. I always love that quote. Hell yeah.

30:20 Speaker 2: I am.

30:23 Speaker 1: Speaking of being on stage, so you've toured with OMD a couple of times, correct?

30:29 Speaker 7: More than a couple of times. We've done about 35 shows maybe with them, easy.

30:35 Speaker 14: Yeah, we did that. We've done Europe. We've done shows with Dave Koenig from The Killers.

30:47 Speaker 2: Oh, okay.

30:50 Speaker 13: Wolfgang featured on our album and also Good Friends of Ours from Craftwork.

30:56 Speaker 12: So yeah, we, you know, We're lucky. We're very lucky. But I think for basically an electronic band, but we live and die on stage. And that's what it's about. We kind of live the live performance. Making the records is one thing. And we actually perform the parts live. Obviously, there's some sequencers at work there because there's only like three of us on stage.

31:22 Speaker 1: Sure.

31:23 Speaker 2: So you have to use sequencers and other things.

31:25 Speaker 12: But essentially, when you see hands moving on stage, we're actually performing stuff And, you know, yeah, you can hear the mistakes and et cetera. Or Eugene will, drumstick will go flying and he has to walk across the stage and pick it up and the drums stop completely.

31:40 Speaker 2: That has happened.

31:41 Speaker 8: Yeah.

31:41 Speaker 12: Yeah.

31:41 Speaker 2: On stage with OMD. Don't ask me where. But it hit off the pad.

31:50 Speaker 13: And at the time I didn't have another set, but I just left the track the other day and I came back and I just, Can I.

31:58 Speaker 12: Point out, I think this was subconsciously deliberate because the night before we were in Manchester.

32:03 Speaker 2: No, we were actually in the roundhouse.

32:06 Speaker 12: Yeah, but we were in Manchester and some guy comes up to Eugene afterwards and he's seen his electronic pad set up and not a regular drum kit. And he said, so are you actually playing that or do you just press play? And Eugene was very hurt. I think it was a kind of psychological thing where the drum stick flew out of his hand so you could hear the drum stop.

32:34 Speaker 1: Well played. Well played.

32:38 Speaker 2: Stuff happens.

32:39 Speaker 13: You can't control what happens live. Personally, I don't do the same unless it's an important fill. But most of the drum fills, I don't repeat them. I just like to have fun.

32:53 Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah.

32:54 Speaker 1: No, that's, that's great. I'm curious too, Eugene. So are you, this is, um, this is also a subject that comes up a lot on the show, particularly with, uh, some of the guests that we have in our area who join us in studio. Um, are you, are you in multiple projects? Because every drummer that I talk to these days, drummers have become almost, you know, like an endangered species. It seems like, um, every drummer is in multiple projects.

33:20 Speaker 2: Yeah.

33:23 Speaker 13: I have worked with other people but the main focus is TMP but yeah so I agree with you and it's maybe it's just the fact that like you know well I program stuff I write my own songs so does Sean so does Paula so yeah but like the main focus is TMP but yeah you're right I have been asked in the past to work with different people and that's cool but yeah I always come home to TM.

33:55 Speaker 7: No. We all do. Yeah.

33:58 Speaker 12: We've all done kind of stuff with other people, but TMP is the main thing.

34:02 Speaker 2: That's what it's all about.

34:03 Speaker 1: Sure.

34:05 Speaker 8: Yep.

34:06 Speaker 2: Absolutely.

34:06 Speaker 1: And did I read something too about, um, I forget his last name. Oh, Tony Dorney of Republica. You've worked with him.

34:14 Speaker 2: Is that correct?

34:15 Speaker 10: Yeah.

34:15 Speaker 2: Yeah. That's right.

34:18 Speaker 1: Oh, Tim Dorney.

34:20 Speaker 7: Gotcha.

34:21 Speaker 12: Yeah.

34:21 Speaker 9: He, um, would master a lot of our tracks and he did Guiding Light and the last EP. And yeah, we're good friends and we're actually sharing stage with him in, when is it?

34:35 Speaker 2: Taunton in the UK next year.

34:38 Speaker 9: He's doing an electronic festival and another project he's in.

34:42 Speaker 7: We'll both be on the same stage.

34:43 Speaker 2: The festival next year is called Electronic Summer.

34:47 Speaker 1: Okay.

34:48 Speaker 2: Electric Summer. I beg your pardon, Electric Summer. Confirmed it.

34:54 Speaker 7: Festivals are great.

34:58 Speaker 12: He's a brilliant mixer.

35:04 Speaker 2: He mixed our last EP, Harmonious Grey. He did a fantastic job on both of them. Yeah, he's great. Very patient as well. Is he? Is he?

35:13 Speaker 1: That's good, yeah. What is it that he brings as far as, like, does he hear something in the music that you don't necessarily? Is he able to pull something out of it that maybe you weren't expecting? Does he surprise you at all when you're working with him?

35:27 Speaker 9: Yeah.

35:29 Speaker 2: Yes, he has done that in the past.

35:31 Speaker 13: Like, he's a real effects man, and, like, he'd add, like, dub delays and kind of dubby kind of vibe to it. where we wouldn't may have thought of it or just, uh, let something fly. And we just go, Oh, hang on. What did you do back there? And something to carry on. So he brings exciting little air candy to the table.

35:51 Speaker 12: Also, we were just talking about, uh, lost my guiding light again, uh, just before we came on air. And one of the things he did with that is he faded the drums out at the end. So it kind of ends on kind of nice kind of ambient string washes, which was, um, Really nice, really nice touch.

36:07 Speaker 2: We hadn't thought of that.

36:08 Speaker 8: Yeah.

36:09 Speaker 2: So that was good as well. So he'd do things like that.

36:12 Speaker 12: He'd put little kind of bits in there, some white noise sweeps that he's thrown in there. We don't mind people just getting involved with stuff we have.

36:23 Speaker 2: It's important to be creative.

36:25 Speaker 7: Yeah.

36:25 Speaker 9: He tends to do our EPs and then our albums. Katie Tavini, who would be a very renowned master, she's doing our forthcoming album, we worked with, with Gareth Jones producing. And before that, we abused an American guy, um, chicky to mix, uh, our master, our songs. We, we use different people for our albums and then we used him for, um, the last few EPs.

36:49 Speaker 7: It's kind of the way it's been, isn't it? Yes.

36:52 Speaker 8: Okay.

36:53 Speaker 7: Okay.

36:54 Speaker 1: Wonderful. I'm curious too. So, you know, obviously a song like, uh, lost my guiding light again. Um, you know, there's, there's, uh, you know, music is subjective and of course it's however you choose to interpret it. And we, you know, we talked about what the song means, but is it ever a challenge, you know, making this kind of music, whether you want to call it synth wave or whatever, you know, this kind of electronic music without like, do you ever worry about kind of losing the humanity in it at all?

37:21 Speaker 1: I mean, obviously I'm a fan of this kind of music. I love many different genres of music, but some people who don't care for it, they, they feel like they'll, they'll tell you, and I'm sure you've had these conversations with people. They'll say, they might say, well, that's not really my thing because I don't, I don't hear the humanity in it. I need, you know, I need guitars or whatever it is that I need. Um, is that ever a concern for you as you're making this music, kind of maintaining the humanity?

37:45 Speaker 8: No.

37:47 Speaker 2: Make this for yourself. You know, make this for yourself.

37:50 Speaker 7: It's not, it's not for others. You hope others will like it. And we have a really nice fan base. Absolutely latch onto it.

37:57 Speaker 2: Come to all our gigs. It's so amazing.

37:59 Speaker 9: Um, I wouldn't, I think I could never imagine trying to make music specifically to order.

38:07 Speaker 7: To other people.

38:08 Speaker 1: Right, right.

38:09 Speaker 7: We just make it. It's a TMP sound. Like it or don't like it.

38:13 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.

38:13 Speaker 7: Keep making it.

38:14 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's the right attitude.

38:16 Speaker 7: I don't really care. If I'm 100% happy with a tune.

38:19 Speaker 9: I don't really care what other people think, not being in a bad way. But if I'm happy with it, and Sean's happy, and Eugene's happy, and James is happy, we go, right, cool, song, done, happy.

38:31 Speaker 12: Yeah.

38:31 Speaker 2: Out it goes.

38:32 Speaker 7: We're on to the next one.

38:34 Speaker 8: Yeah.

38:34 Speaker 12: And the thing is that people know, they see the word synthesizer and they just think of knobs, switches, dials. And then that instantly, that's a psychological thing.

38:45 Speaker 2: Right. It's scary.

38:47 Speaker 7: Yes.

38:48 Speaker 2: Look at the killers.

38:49 Speaker 12: I'm sure people were saying the same thing about the electric guitar whenever it happened. But also, I would point out something like Hammond Organ. A synthesizer is cold and it's a machine. A Hammond organ is like emotional feeling. A Hammond organ, the only kind of expression you have with a Hammond organ is a volume pedal and whether or not to switch a revolving speaker on and off and a bit of distortion at key things. A synthesizer, you've got kind of modulation wheels. You can bend it. You can play it like an electric guitar or a violin.

39:23 Speaker 12: It's touch sensitive. You can have all sorts of control over the expression of it. But people just hear, oh, it's machine learning. and they just kind of like write write it off as kind of cold i would say listen to the opening of uh ricochet part two by tangerine dream and tell me there's no humanity or emotion in that right right that's just saying you're.

39:44 Speaker 9: You know, Future Islands, The Killers, they're all quite synth-laden, heavily synth-laden.

39:49 Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.

39:49 Speaker 7: So they don't kind of get thrown into those kind of groups, but they have loads of synths going on in them.

39:55 Speaker 2: I have to add one more thing to that.

39:58 Speaker 13: Like, Kraftwerk were called, like, robotic, but didn't they groove on stage when they played live?

40:04 Speaker 8: Exactly.

40:05 Speaker 2: They danced, they grooved. So it was a hell of a lot of emotion in that. And that's what we do as well. Like, obviously.

40:12 Speaker 13: I play to a click track to keep us kind of in with the sequencers.

40:17 Speaker 8: Yeah.

40:18 Speaker 2: I can play around the click. I can pull it back.

40:19 Speaker 13: I can push it forward. And I don't even think it's there sometimes. So you play around things to make it move. And that's what we do. And that's what makes it human.

40:35 Speaker 1: Absolutely.

40:35 Speaker 2: I'd say anybody who thinks there's no emotion, come and watch us live.

40:42 Speaker 1: Right, right. And I would say, too, you know, to anyone who thinks that, you know, well, if it's not, you know, loud guitars and a full drum kit and all that, you know, anything that you listen to that was recorded in a studio, there's a lot of technology involved in anything you listen to. You know, and that's something people need.

41:01 Speaker 2: To remember, too.

41:02 Speaker 7: I hope that Eugene plays a full kit.

41:04 Speaker 2: I mean, Eugene absolutely can play a full kit.

41:08 Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.

41:09 Speaker 1: No doubt. No doubt.

41:11 Speaker 12: My main instrument is lead guitar. I'm a lead guitarist. That's my main thing. But my mood will blow with any guitar player off the stage.

41:22 Speaker 7: We actually have a lot of guitar on these tracks. There is actually a lot of guitar on them.

41:27 Speaker 9: So it's on Guiding Light again as well.

41:30 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.

41:31 Speaker 7: Check it out if you want to, everybody.

41:33 Speaker 1: Yeah, I would encourage people to check it out. I do love that song. Where does the name come from, by the way? The obligatory question that I used to always open interviews with this, but now I've learned to try to push it toward the end. But where does the name Tiny Magnetic Pets come from?

41:50 Speaker 2: Every time you think of a really cool name.

41:53 Speaker 12: And you put it out there, you find out that some American band with a legal team has got the same name, and you have to change yours.

42:03 Speaker 2: I was flicking through a.

42:07 Speaker 12: Toy catalogue, and there's a Japanese toy called Tiny Pets, and they've got magnets inside them, and they stick together. They literally are tiny plastic things. But the toy catalogue made they misprinted the name as tiny magnetic pets and i thought that's a name for a band that nobody else in the world is going to want so because it's awful so what do we call tiny magnetic pets and yeah that it's stuck and people tend to remember it um which is good but And.

42:45 Speaker 7: Robsy also called the pets their TMP as well.

42:47 Speaker 2: He called the pets their TMP. Tiny Magnetic Pets we got called.

42:51 Speaker 3: Tiny Magnetic Pets.

42:52 Speaker 7: Tiny Magnetic Prats.

42:53 Speaker 2: Prats. Tony Magnetic Pets. Pets, we got that one as well.

42:58 Speaker 8: Yeah.

42:58 Speaker 2: But, yeah, I mean, it's a name.

43:00 Speaker 12: It's no kind of ACDC or Electric Light Orchestra or anything like that or Pink Floyd, but it's a name.

43:07 Speaker 1: No, I like it. I like it. I think it's a cool name.

43:09 Speaker 2: Nobody else has it?

43:11 Speaker 1: I think it's a very cool name. As we begin to wrap up, and in a moment I'm going to play, I'm going to end our conversation with Low Places, the Decane remix. Am I saying that name right, Decane? That's Paul Decane, right?

43:26 Speaker 2: Yeah, Paul Decane.

43:27 Speaker 1: Paul Decane?

43:27 Speaker 2: Correct, yes.

43:28 Speaker 1: How did this come about, this remix? Actually, there's two of them.

43:36 Speaker 2: I don't know if it's Paul or Decane. Over to you, Paula.

43:40 Speaker 7: Oh, yeah. I was at.

43:43 Speaker 9: So friends of ours run a blog called Electronic Cafe, and annually they put on a show.

43:49 Speaker 7: We played at it a few times, and I went over to.

43:51 Speaker 9: That the last year, and Paula Duquesne was actually doing the DJing at it, and through a mutual friend of mine, Nick, introduced me to Paul, and Paul and Paula chatted, and... kind of what happens in this community everyone is very very everyone's up for doing things and uh remixes and collaborations.

44:16 Speaker 7: It's really really exciting yeah so yep we.

44:18 Speaker 9: Just got talking and um he suggested doing that he said i really like low places um and he's done on our instagram if you scroll back a little he there's a little bit where he does a little breakdown of what he did and it's really interesting on how he added the dynamics of the song and how he built it so um uh Yeah, you can, if you want to have a look at that. But anyway, that's how that came about. And I think we're doing a little bit more with them, hopefully, the end.

44:45 Speaker 7: Of this year.

44:46 Speaker 1: Outstanding. Very, very good. And before we wrap up, too, I want to make sure our listeners will know, where's the best place to go online to keep up with everything? Everything that Tiny Magnetic Pets is up to, where should they go online?

44:59 Speaker 7: Well, you can subscribe to tinymagneticpets.com. You can sign up or run every platform.

45:04 Speaker 2: Perfect. The usual suspects.

45:07 Speaker 1: Perfect.

45:07 Speaker 2: Is it tiny, many pets.com or TMP official.com.

45:10 Speaker 1: Okay.

45:11 Speaker 7: I got a pet official or TMP official.com.

45:15 Speaker 2: Okay. Join us.

45:17 Speaker 12: We're all, all streaming platforms as well. And you can visit our band camp if you want CD vinyl or any kind of physical kind of additions, which we totally recommend.

45:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, and by the way, too, I'm glad you're on Bandcamp. I'm a big proponent of Bandcamp. Very, very artist-friendly platform, which is great. And also what a lot of people don't realize, too, is when you get your music from Bandcamp, you get a high-quality file more so than, say, if you're just streaming it on YouTube or whatever. So Bandcamp is amazing. I love Bandcamp, absolutely. So I'm glad you're on there.

45:52 Speaker 2: Yeah, plus you sell merch on there as well, which is great.

45:56 Speaker 12: We sold a lot of T-shirts and a lot of stuff.

45:58 Speaker 2: Beanies, et cetera. And so, sorry, it sounds like I'm doing sell, sell, sell here.

46:04 Speaker 1: No, that's okay. That's all right. That's okay. We want our, we want our audience to know about it. Well, listen, I want to thank all three of you, of course, Paula, Sean, Eugene. Thank you all. Absolutely. We will do this again in the future because obviously, you know, you're going to keep releasing new music. And, uh, so we'd love to have you back. Um, and, uh, like i said i love i love that song uh lost my guiding light again and uh we're gonna play low low places the decaying remix i really like this too um so uh we'll let you go tiny magnetic pets thank you so much and uh we'll talk to you soon i'm.

46:36 Speaker 2: Sure all right you.

46:40 Speaker 1: Too bye-bye all right tiny magnetic pets and let's give this a spin uh this is low places this is uh the decaying remix i really like this So let's get wrecked. That's a DePaul to Kane remix of Low Places from Tiny Magnetic Pets. And thank you again to the band for joining us. We've got, let's see, let's see if he's still there. I think we've got Malcolm Wood from Legion of Solace on the line. This is a surprise. Hey, Malcolm.

51:31 Speaker 8: Yes, sir.

51:32 Speaker 1: Hey, you're on the air.

51:32 Speaker 2: Welcome.

51:34 Speaker 8: Welcome to my air, too. Yeah.

51:37 Speaker 1: Oh, you're doing your show right now?

51:40 Speaker 8: No, I'm going to be doing it here a little bit. I was just picking. Oh, okay.

51:43 Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on?

51:45 Speaker 8: Not so much. I just wanted to call and miss you guys. I actually wanted to send out a reminder out there in New Hampshire, all the way from Lynchburg, that if you are in the area of Taunton, Mass., October 30th, come check out the Green Jello, Grillo, Under the Horizons, and all those guys. It's going to be an amazing show. We're working on a lot of things. The contest is still going on. I just wanted to send out a nice little reminder and actually call you all and tell you I'll miss you too. I'm sitting here watching the show and I just I was like, man, I miss those guys.

52:15 Speaker 8: I just wish I was back up there to hang out with them. So I just figured I'd call in and send out a little reminder shot and tell everybody to go check out Leeds of the Solace and what we are, Larder Entertainment. And, you know, just come talk to us. Come hit us up. If you have any ideas, we are all open to any and everything. We just wanted to, like I said, we just wanted to call in and Give a nice little reminder and say hello to everybody out there in New Hampshire because I miss the area.

52:39 Speaker 2: Absolutely.

52:39 Speaker 1: Hey, it was great seeing you last weekend at Swarmy Fest and having you guys on the show. And, yeah, it was a great time last Saturday, Malcolm. And, yeah, you guys are doing great stuff. Wonderful to have you here. And do you want to plug your show, too? You said you're going to be doing your show soon?

52:58 Speaker 8: Yeah, tomorrow around 11 or 12 I'll be doing it on TikToks. uh, it'll be on my personal page, like I said, until I get my own page set up. Because obviously I did it wrong the last time.

53:08 Speaker 2: Yeah.

53:09 Speaker 8: Me trying to move too quickly to hurry up and set it up. You know, technology. I know.

53:13 Speaker 1: Oh, believe me, I, I, I know the pain. Absolutely.

53:17 Speaker 4: Yes, sir.

53:17 Speaker 8: So, uh, it will be Malcolm Wood, M-A-L-C-O-L-M-E on TikTok, W-O-O-D. Um, you can find me there. Um, and like I said, it's, like, it's kind of like True Fire Radio. Like I said, I've been able to set it up to where I can, uh, repost my uh my lives but i mean it kind of gives you the experience too so i kind of like it right now so far but uh absolutely tomorrow around 11 or 12 ish i'll be doing my radio shows.

53:43 Speaker 1: Okay outstanding outstanding well we'll uh we'll keep an eye out for that and i wish you continued success with that and and of course uh you play a lot of great stuff on there so i do encourage people to check it out and um we'll let you go malcolm we got to get to a break but thank you so much for calling man this was a cool surprise i appreciate the.

54:00 Speaker 8: Call Always, brother. Like I said, I love watching the show, so I've got to call in the support.

54:05 Speaker 1: Wonderful, wonderful. All right, thank you, my friend. We'll talk to you soon, I'm sure.

54:09 Speaker 8: Talk to you soon, brother.

54:10 Speaker 7: Okay.

54:10 Speaker 8: Bye-bye.

54:11 Speaker 2: All right.

54:12 Speaker 1: That was Malcolm Wood from Legion of Solace. And of course, they were on the show with us here last week. Let's see, that was during the first, yeah, the first hour. If you want to go back and check it out, I highly encourage that. And Legion of Solace, not a band, by the way, if you're not familiar, the name sounds like a band, but no, they do promotions for, you know, they do a lot of concert promotion and helping people to uh... promote their music market their music and so forth they're doing really big stuff so and uh...

54:43 Speaker 1: sounds like they had a big show coming up in taunton massachusetts on the thirtieth uh... so did you say october september look that up uh... almost be october right yeah october that would make sense because i think october Yeah, because Halloween's on a Saturday this year, so it must have been October 30th, Friday, October 30th. All right, very good. Always nice to hear from Malcolm. He's a great guy. And check out his show on TikTok. We've got to take a break, show some love to our amazing sponsors.

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