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• New Music Generator • Season 2 • Episode 10

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Tim Willett returns with new releases from artists across East Anglia and Suffolk band The Detour in conversation.

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Take it in.

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But I really think we fell by a lot of you might be afterwards by the time Crazy was always better.

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I was the news before I eat again. Cathedral of stars, calendar fingers, back put out the constellations of your heart.

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Never knew that was by this time.

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Crazy was always been.

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And a track that you may find familiar, it's uh from the show. They've been on the show. Uh the guest in the studio about a month or so ago. Uh but whilst we were off, uh that is uh the music video that you've just seen if you're watching on YouTube and uh that is uh looks like it's filmed in Abbey Gardens to me in Barrie St Edmonds. So uh if you are watching on YouTube then you've just seen the music video. If not, uh then you've just heard the track and it's available now to stream. Uh welcome to the programme. Um now uh let's address the elephant in the room, shall we? Uh I wasn't here last week and the reason or part of the reason why I wasn't here last week um is because I um don't have much of a voice, as you can tell. I've been very unwell uh in the last week. I still am uh pretty unwell to be honest with you. Um but I couldn't leave you without a show for another week. So uh apologies in advance because this is as good as it gets at the moment. Um I will try and speak as little as possible and play you as much music as possible, um, but uh obviously I do need to be able to speak at some point. So my name is Tim Willett, welcome to the program. Uh I am the host of this of this thing. Uh whether you're watching us on YouTube or uh whether you're listening to us on the radio or as a podcast, you are very welcome. And one of the positive things of not having the show on last week was the fact that people missed that it wasn't here, which is which is very good. Um so if you did tune in last Wednesday uh or whenever the show goes out and you were sad to see that the programme wasn't here, then I appreciate the comments. Thank you very much. Um you can now see clearly why um this was worse and I felt much worse uh last week. Um so what we're gonna do today is we're gonna bring you the interview that I did a few weeks ago with the detour, thankfully, when I had some voice, and we'll play you a track from their latest EP. We're also gonna catch up with quite a lot of stuff from the inbox. Still got loads of stuff to catch up on. Um but you can still send your music in to us if you want to. Inbox at new musicgenerator.com. Uh so we've got new music from um Connor Adams, uh, new travel from Hollow Waves, I'm excited to listen to, and also brand new Myopia, um, plus many more. We'll also take a look back at the NMG Awards uh performance from the past uh later on in the programme with a 15-minute set from Amethysts, uh which I'm looking forward to uh revisiting. Uh now the show's been um recorded in advance this week, so if you are watching on YouTube uh or listening on uh the radio, then I'm not live in person, but you can always get involved in the YouTube comments and you can always get us an email as well, as I say, to inbox at new musicgenerator.com. And when I was here two weeks ago, I was joined in the studio by singer songwriter George Bone. He had just released his brand new single, The Wrong Person. He played a couple of tracks live for us in the studio. So let's revisit that track now. This is George's record, his new single, The Wrong Person.

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To light up your life as bright as majorest, as long as they just might want me around, still find ways to astound. Yet still through it all their own explain it all their own for a person, choose what they say to the claim of poetics, speaks on its and plays games with my head, I'll gladly play along.

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It's too unexplainable.

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And if you want to go back and watch his live session, which I highly recommend that you do if you enjoy that track, then uh you can do so on our YouTube channel. Go and subscribe to us while you're there at New Music Generator on YouTube. We'd be very grateful. However, the last few months we've been playing eMusic released from the Suffolk-based artist, Connor Adams' latest EP. The EP is called Traffic Lights. It was released um about a month ago now, and he's been spotlighting different singles to be taken from the EP over the last few months. This I think is the last one that we haven't yet played. So this is Connor Adams and the rear view.

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Feel know what to be found, allowed, feel that I'll make out loud, I put my trust in you, and let me down now you sleep away today. Come follow all over my eyes and pray over. Come feed me, I already said a prayer along. All the running out and tell me this is where you belong. Come tell me that it's from the truth.

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That is uh the rear view, and uh all of those tracks on that EP are available now. This is the new music generator. Uh, whether you're watching us on YouTube or listening to us on the radio, you are very welcome. Uh you may have noticed the news that we posted on Sunday on our social media announcing another new media partner, so you'll be able to uh listen to this programme in another part of the eastern region from next week. Thankfully, from next week, we wouldn't want the first show to be while this voice is uh is around at the moment. Apologies for the voice, um I've been very ill the last couple of weeks. And um yeah, the voice is I've lost the voice in the process, and hopefully it will return. Uh otherwise I might have to reconsider my career options. Um this next track I'm excited to play. It comes from Hollow Waves, who are a uh Cambridgeshire indie band. They've only released one single so far, and we played it a lot on the show. I really liked it. They're a band that have come out of the ashes of in Cairo. Um, and the band themselves were in the final of the Cambridge band competition last week. Um, so this is their new single. It's out on the 4th of May. Uh, this is called Face in the Mirror, and it's the first time you're hearing it on this show.

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To submit your music to the show, email an MP3 or web file to inbox at new musicgenerator.com. Ensuring you include a short biography and links to your social media.

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All submissions from within our coverage area in East Anglia will be considered for airplay.

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I think I should have got those guys to do the whole show for me today. Uh, that was Hollow Waves. Uh, that's their new single. It's out on the 4th of May. Uh it's called Face in the Mirror. I really like that. I'll have to get those boys on the show for an interview at some point in the next month or so. Now, another studio guest has a new single out. Myopia were the first guests in the studio after we uh relaunched the show back in February. And at the time we premiered their brand new single, and they've sent us the next one. This one is out this Saturday, that's the 2nd of May. It's called The Way They Go Down. It's an early 2000s influenced rock track with a strongly guitar-riff and honest, harmonically satisfying vocals. The track represents a deteriorating relationship from a s from a nostalgic and content perspective, while showing the solemn and hopeless nature of loss. This is brand new from myopia. This is called the way they go down.

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Canvas of color running everything down your face. Come to the question. You die. You die.

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You're watching and listening to the new music generator, and this week's guests on Zoom are the Suffolk band The Detour. Hello.

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Hello, hello, hello.

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How are you all?

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We are good. Very good, yes.

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Good, good. Do you want to introduce yourselves from left to right or right to left and and what you do uh in the band?

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George, do you want to join first? I'll go first. My name is uh George, I'm the guitarist.

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I'm Sam and I'm the drummer. Uh I'm Noah, I'm the singer.

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I'm Brony, I'm the beta.

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Brilliant. Um and you are all from whereabouts in Suffolk?

SPEAKER_31

Uh Ipswich. Yeah, yeah. Around Ipswich.

SPEAKER_26

Yeah, okay. I'm guessing it's actually from somewhere that's out of Ipswich that you're worried people probably haven't heard of.

SPEAKER_32

Well apparently we're in Edwardston which has button hub, which is a kind of thing.

SPEAKER_26

Okay, well I've never heard of Edwardston, so there we go. I've just kind of backed up what I what I said. Um Ipswich is Ipswich is good. Um so let's start at the beginning in terms of um you guys as a band. Uh how did this band form? What's the story?

SPEAKER_31

So we can go we can go back about the four years where when it first formed it was George Ryan and I just making music messing around in high school. And then over the course of the other uh three years we we uh went through singers left and right, and then about January last year we found Noah and it's stuck since, and we've been making cool stuff since really. So that's the brief history.

SPEAKER_26

Okay. So you've been in existence as a band for what four years? Just about in May.

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Four years in May.

SPEAKER_26

When did you start releasing music then? Because I've only heard of you guys in the last few months. Uh February. What were you doing for those other years while you weren't uh releasing music?

SPEAKER_31

Uh I suppose we would just start refining our skills. I have a good way of putting it. And um making the final choices for the band.

SPEAKER_32

Yeah, well, a lot of it was because we all started learning instruments pretty much when we started the band. Because you were like a couple months into drums. Yeah. And then you started bass when the band started, and I started guitar when the band started. Yeah.

SPEAKER_26

Oh, okay.

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So I don't think we would have wanted a recording in the first time.

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So you you learned a way refining your skills before you were ready to show yourselves to the public.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_26

Okay, fair enough. That's quite late to pick up instruments, isn't it? I don't know how old how old are you guys now?

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We're 18.

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Okay, so I mean, yeah, I mean, a lot of people start learning instruments when they're in single digits, so to to pick up when you're a teenager is is fairly late. So was that did you wanna um start playing an instrument because you wanted to join a band or how did the or did you start the band because you were playing an instrument? How did it work? Which way around?

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Well, it was kind of uh not to sound you know the word, but it was kind of me. I uh I was going through a tough time in high school and my mum told me it would be a good idea to pick up a hobby, and that hobby was playing the drums, and I started drum lessons at uh high school, and I thought it was really cool, and I just took my best notes and said what would be really funny is if we all started a band. And at first I think we told Briny to play ukulele before we know what the uh full lineup of a band should be. But um yeah, it was kind of I don't know, it will sound really embarrassing, but my mum told me you play the drums because you can take your anger out of something. And it is that's that's how it started for me. But yeah.

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I don't think that's uh that's embarrassing. That's actually a very sound piece of advice. And people do use music as a therapy, so that's obviously uh good piece of advice that's uh that's helped you out. And you've met new friends and and um you know that's helped you along as well, so it's all good. Um so in terms of you said Noah was the last piece of the puzzle, how did how did you find Noah?

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Uh I I found a detour through college. Um I originally joined as the rhythm guitarist as they had a singer at the time, um which was uh that was quite uh that was quite a drawn-out effort because they put in like an ad-out in November and then like I had to keep asking over and over again. I was very eager. Um and then eventually that that singer um departed the band. Um and then we trialled a few people and we thought, oh I'm gonna give myself a go. And then um and then it kind of just ended up clicking in the end, but it was all through college because we all go to suffer one.

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Right. Okay. So you hiding your singing voice light under a bushel, so to speak, during that time when you weren't a singer.

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Um quite the opposite, I'll be honest. But I just think they did I pro I was uh I was um I was doing musical theatre at the time, so I wasn't really the whole like screaming singing kind of guy back then. But um I've I've I've matured into a we turned we turned you into a turned me into a into a detour singer rather than a West End singer. Okay.

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Um so talk to me about the music that you've because the reason why you're on today is that you uh just released uh your EP, which I'm gonna assume by the timeline of our conversation is your debut EP. And it contains uh some of the singles that we've already played on the show and a couple of other uh tracks that uh we will um either have already played before this interview goes out or we'll also play it again um tonight. Um so tell me tell me about the the process of of of that and your songwriting. Um how long ago did these tracks that are on the EP sort of begin to form?

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Right. The oldest track is is Lost Property, which is three years old. Three years old. I think it's three years old.

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Yeah, I think so.

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Um and that just kind of started as Briney coming up with a really cool riff, and we just all built upon it from then and we've just kept building on it since we made it, and it's finally come to fruition on DP. And uh Obsolete was the newest written one with George coming up with uh the main.

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Yeah, I just started playing six chords and just started moving them around the fretboard.

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And then Headaches was basically already written when I joined the it had just it had just been finished being written when we joined our first performance of it when I was rhythm guitarist. It was called I Don't Wanna Hear I Don't Wanna Hear It. Which is a terrible name because that lyric pops up once. I mean, well, headaches happens about 18 times. Um and then talk about it.

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I mean I I think I started with um with gaps because I think I actually um my girlfriend's um brother that's the one I was looking for. Uh he plays a bit of guitar as well, and I saw him doing some chords and I just stole them and then changed it to my It's not like he played the exact same thing. It was just like one chord and he had his his caper in the same place. I'm like, I'm just gonna go.

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But I I think we heard Green Acre is like the finished version of it, and that that's when we decided it had to track on it. And it also is uh like means a lot of it's a love letter to our growing up, really. Yeah, and um yeah.

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Okay. So you're quite uh uh a wide span in terms of the the songs that you put on there, and I'm presuming that there are other songs that you've written in that time, so why did you decide to settle on the ones you did on the EP Well the good answer would be because we felt like they fit the EP, which they do, they do fit the EP the best, but it is also kind of uh it's what we had ready at the time.

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There was there is a song, there was another song, but we ran out of time, and I think we think it will be better suited to saving that one for later. Save it for later. I think we think it'll be it's a bit of a departure because these uh songs are on the EP, they're very much old detox, yeah, and we're definitely going in a new direction musically.

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So we we chose those those four tracks as it's the most clear hello, we are here that we could possibly give people, I think.

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Yeah, announcing yourself to the scene with this is yeah, this is us, have a listen, this is this is what see what you make of it. Well, it's obviously it's worked for me because I've played a couple of your tracks and and like um like what I've played, and I did see you uh play at um Berry Sound a few months ago, it feels like ages ago now. Um so for people who haven't heard you or aren't that familiar with you, uh what are your musical influences as a band? Do you share kind of common musical influences amongst you, or do you have some of you like a particular artist and some of you think that artist is awful, for example?

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I think this is another hard left to right conversation. Okay, go on then.

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I I have many particular person. Um probably yeah, but like I don't play like Flash, I really like Flash. I do play a lot of blues, but then he plays a lot of that show from behind Maiden. Yeah, uh that's a good shout, uh Pearl Jam as well.

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Okay. For me, I would say as as a like like a whole band sound, I'd I would want to take the most inspiration from Queens of the Stone Age. But as in terms of dramas I've been inspired by, I'd have to say like John Bonham, Dave Carroll.

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The classics.

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Yeah, the classics. That held us as well, keeping it simple, but still like you know, punching through my name ones.

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Queens of the Stone Age definitely have the biggest influence on the band as a whole. Um I some of the some of the stuff that I've tried writing, especially for the one that got cut at least, that's definitely like that was definitely inspired by them. But I mean in terms of singing or I mean as as you take inspiration from Dave Grohl, I'd probably take inspiration from Dave Grohl in terms of his singing with Foo Fighters rather than with his drumming of Nirvana and of Quintus Stone Age. I don't really know who else I'd really take inspiration from otherwise, to be honest with that. I don't think it's gonna sound real it's gonna sound really pre-modonna vocalist of me, but there's no one like me. Um there's there's there's people who could probably draw influences, but honestly, I can't really think of any of you guys. I can't decide your influences for you though. Oh, I mean every vocalist looks up to like Chris Cornell, but I'm no definitely not claiming to be anywhere near Chris Cornell because he was just fantastic. I should try that. I should try, yeah. I might I'm growing my hair, so maybe I'll get there eventually.

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Um well again, as as just for the case individually, I obviously don't really know who I take inspiration from. I mean um maybe like Radiohead a little bit, maybe some like audio slave sound guard and stuff like that, um, that kind of thing. Um and then obviously I agree with the others on Queens of the Stone Age for the band as a whole for like benefits, and maybe a bit of Radiohead as well. Yeah, it's quite a bit.

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If I had to choose two bands to blend together for the entire sound detail, it would be Radiohead and Queens of the Stone Age.

SPEAKER_26

So that kind of links me, and I guess the answer is the same to this next question is if you were to be asked to support any band in the world, it would probably be one of those two that you would choose if you could choose any.

SPEAKER_30

Probably. Either them or the Beatles, because if they somehow got back together, they'd be really, really popular.

SPEAKER_32

I think it'd be impressive if they got back together, considering two of them of course. Okay.

SPEAKER_26

You never know in this day and age, with AI we can bring them back.

SPEAKER_30

Exactly. But um yeah, probably quick or food fighters, because then that'd be like some that you know, that would be playing like some massive a hundred thousand people festival or stadium or something.

SPEAKER_26

Okay. So you touched upon that the sound of your EP is maybe slightly different to the sound that your direction that you're heading in. So how would you say that your sound is changing now?

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I'd say probably obsolete is a better reflection of the sort of new sound that we're heading towards out of the four like songs on the EP. It was like, you know, the best transition from old detour into new detour, really.

SPEAKER_31

Yeah, I would say I would say we're going from like big sludgy chords to more in-depth guitar parts.

SPEAKER_30

I think that's I think I think it's mostly just developing with our skill as well. We're getting we're becoming better musicians and therefore our musical quality and um the use of proper virtuosity of our music. Hello to this guy. Um I'd say I'd say it's just becoming more interesting to listen to because it's becoming more complex to play.

SPEAKER_26

Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, the more experienced you get, the more complex things get, and you can say evolve your sound and experiment with different things. That makes sense. Um to this EP, uh, and you just said to me um that you have been recording again recently. Where was this EP recorded? What's the story behind the production side of it?

SPEAKER_31

We uh we recorded with Kyle in in Hamper Studios.

SPEAKER_26

Oh yeah.

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Um that's how we got the sound engineer.

SPEAKER_30

The best sound engineer. We call him We call him the Wizard because he does our tracks, but um yeah, he is fantastic part of um Voyage as well, um who are a fantastic band.

SPEAKER_26

So how did you become to start recording with Kyle in the first place?

SPEAKER_30

Um well uh we played a gig in Colchester uh Three Wise Monkeys, and then the next it was actually I think. That evening we got an email saying, Hi guys, my name's Kyle. I'd really love I've heard some of your stuff, I'd really love to record you guys. And he gave us this amazing offer. And it was really one that we just couldn't turn down, especially within and in we went into it a bit like a bit worried because like we were the price was so good. The price was so good. We couldn't believe it to be true. Exactly. And then we got there and it was like we've like just stumbled upon like a butcher big or something. It was absolutely fantastic. We couldn't believe it at all. Um and I think our sound a lot of what happened with the EP that turned out so well is majorly down to Kyle and production skills.

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Kyle, I I made a joke for a long time. There's a producer in Cambridgeshire um called Jake, who I normally say I normally play at least one record a week by Jake. But I think Jake's title is in danger of being uh superseded by Kyle because the number of artists that I'm now coming across, and it's probably because he's recommending me to them that I play now with um Kyle's production on the credits is uh is increasing. In fact, as I as we're recording this interview today, my guest Dan Sutton, who was here a few weeks ago, he is currently recording with Kyle um today, I know. So um yeah, there's um there's a lot uh a lot of people working with him. And uh obviously Kyle's music with Voyage, I'm a big fan of uh Voyage is uh is really good and he's apparently as I've been told a um very talented musician. He can pretty much take turn his hands of playing anything.

SPEAKER_30

Basically, yeah. But he's he's he's absolutely ridiculous. He's such a such a talented guy. Um just a funny guy. Yeah, and he's he's lovely to he's such a pleasure to work with because he's so easy and he and he matches at least I don't know if it works with everyone, but he matches us so well and he feel like it matches our energy and yeah, yeah. Like we walked in the studio and it was like we were like within about a minute we were cracking jokes with him and it was and also he's not afraid to tell us when we do something wrong or if it sounds terrible. Like if it ta sounds bad, he'll tell us it sounds bad, and we don't take offense because we know that he's correct. Yeah, because he just did.

SPEAKER_26

That's an important thing to to to clear up is that it's you know you can you can pay X amount of money and go to a studio and a producer can go through the motions and just record you and not give you any feedback, and you can come out with something that might not be particularly good. So the best producers are the ones that aren't afraid to give you the feedback and and also you're as a band open to listening to their uh their comments and take it on board as well. Because I know some musicians can be a bit precious and don't like people giving them feedback and telling them what to do. But um if you have that open sort of dialogue, and also as you say, you just get on with them and it makes the whole working relationship really easy, then um then that's important. I think that comes across in the overall um product that you that you come out with. Um obviously I've listened to the two tracks as we're recording this uh that we've played, and I did listen to another one of them that you uh that you sent me earlier on. Unfortunately it was six minutes long, um, so I ran out of time to listen to the other one. Um so if I do play that one an hour, I need to make remember that it's six minutes and uh it's uh it's not a radio edit version, but you guys do quite like uh long old songs.

SPEAKER_31

The other one we sent you is less than three minutes.

SPEAKER_26

Is it? Oh well I should have played that one first.

SPEAKER_30

We we do like long songs. Um we always we do always because we always joke about like when the radio are gonna absolutely hate us because headaches is like four and a half, obsolete's five and a half, Greenacre's disease is six, and I like probably gonna be six and a half. I really apologize.

SPEAKER_31

Okay, maybe I'm wrong.

SPEAKER_30

Who knows? Either way, but it's also we find that emotionally in a song, it's really hard to get across your point because I don't think quickly it's hard to get your point across quickly, especially when there's so much going on music that like with obsolete and green acres disease, especially, there's so much emotional value in the lyrics that you can't just we couldn't we could never especially with green ac disease without it being the one that means the most, we could never just cut a burst or a chorus because it just it just means too much, and it you wouldn't you wouldn't get the complete meaning without it.

SPEAKER_31

It's like like when we're hearing the finished product of the track, especially Green Agges disease and obsolete, and we all felt like tearing up because it's just that value we attach to it.

SPEAKER_30

Yeah. Or like when we were driving home and I just started our McDonald's track. We were, yeah. We were we were actually, I think we were it was after Berry Sound, we were going to McDonald's and Green Agges came on. I just thought it ball in my eyes out at one in the morning. One in the morning, and I just couldn't stop crying because it just it means so much to us.

SPEAKER_26

That's that sweet. I like that. It was that track that I listened to earlier. Six minutes and seven seconds, by the way. In uh to settle uh to settle the argument. Um but yeah, I'll after after this I'll go away and I'll listen to the other one, I promise. Um so the EP as where as uh as this goes out is is out now. Today is your release day, right?

SPEAKER_30

It is indeed.

SPEAKER_26

Uh so how does that feel? So uh obviously you you put singles out, but you're now putting out a whole sort of body of work. It's the first time you've done it. How does that feel to you?

SPEAKER_30

Exciting, um scary, but we want people to we want people to like it because we've we've put our heart and soul into it. But it's just we we worry people won't like it as much as we do, but we are but we are excited because it's finally us saying to the scene, we are here, we are the detour.

SPEAKER_26

Well you've had some good feedback from the two singles you put out so far, have you? So that's a good design at least.

SPEAKER_30

Definitely, definitely. We had really good reception on headaches. Unfortunately, I'm I'm a year ahead of these guys, but they've they're they're starting their exams soon, so we've unfortunately had to ramp down on content a little bit, which is unfortunate because the body of work that we're producing deserves so much more. But obviously A levels have to take a priority, so it's a bit of a shame. But we've still got gigs lined up and we're still really excited, and we're gonna you know promote it as as hard as we can despite it. It's just gonna be it's gonna be a lot more effort than it was for headaches because we don't have the filming time that we did in February.

SPEAKER_26

Talk to me about gigs then. When was the first gig that you played in your current lineup?

SPEAKER_30

Oh, with me as a singer, yeah. We would we did um my football team had an end of season two and they asked me if my band because obviously they don't even they don't know me, they don't know these guys, they'll ask you does your band want to play? And we were like, uh yeah, sure. And we were actually we're playing it again this year. Um and uh it will be our that'll be the one year anniversary of this lineup specifically. Um it was an interesting gig. Um it was quite fun, yeah. It was we enjoyed it and it was lots of really lovely people. Um experimental experimental because it was our first gig with me and we had to put it was a lot of covers, there was only a couple, there was only like two or three originals on there at the time. So, but it's it's come a long way since then. And where else have you played since then?

SPEAKER_32

It was? Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_30

Oh no, John Peel Center. Oh, we played John Peel Center, that was college related. Yeah. And then we played Exwitch Music Day, which was actually fantastic.

SPEAKER_26

I went to Exwitch Music Day last year, but I also didn't know you at the time, so I didn't come and see you. The weather wasn't very good. It I remember standing there with an umbrella for most of it.

SPEAKER_32

We missed a little bit with the rain and then it hit us.

SPEAKER_30

Yes, it hit us, but we were we were quite pleased. We were able to keep a crowd despite the rain. I think the rain made it iconic. Yeah, I'd agree with that.

SPEAKER_23

Um, that was that was that was nice.

SPEAKER_30

I lost my voice, but it was pretty bad for me. I threw my sticks off the stage several times. Yeah, my basic that was that was an interesting one, but we still there was still a really good crowd, and again it it rained again. And we we actually we have a saying that it always rains on detour gig day. It's nearly true. After that, it would have been Brighton Sea Food and Drink Festival experimental. The crowd absolutely loved it, and we and we think it was our worst gig today. Right.

SPEAKER_32

Um really heavy song, we played like the trooper and stuff like that, and all these old people were just absolutely loving it. It was the weirdest, most beautiful thing.

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And then then after that, it was our it was our first ever uh headline gig at Smokehouse and sold out. It was absolutely amazing. People were singing along the headaches and it wasn't even out yet, so that was that was a really, really amazing moment. We did Debut Obsolete as well. Yeah, we did Debut Obsolete. Um we did an hour and a half set, and that was long, which was incredible, but thankfully it was a bit broken up because George wrote two catastrophic. Yes, he did. Um had some comedy on.

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Um an hour and a half set with you guys is about half a dozen songs though, isn't it?

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So yeah. Something like that. Um then we had a pub gig, and then we had a massive break. We had we had like a four-month break until Berry Sound. Okay.

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Umkey and Oh yeah, we did, yeah, we did in November. And then we had a massive break.

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But that was when we met Kyle. Um and that was that was definitely a big moment. Yeah, we were playing with the inquiries and disjunction that night, and I know the inquiries were on their single funny was on the show last week. Yeah, we're on sharing now, it would have been like pomegranates were on last yeah, pomegranates were on last night who were friends who were friends of ours, and they're really good at their news.

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Alright. Well that you uniquely lead me into my next question then, which is talk to me about some other bands on the scene that that you would recommend or that you've played with. So you've named named a couple because it I'm getting quite a lot of uh an increase now of bands from Ipswich and and that particular part of Suffolk. So there must be quite a few of you around.

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We're a strong and hearty community.

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Um I mean the the I've got a top one. I'm on time at the time. Oh fantastic band. They are absolutely amazing. Um really, really tight, really good band. I mean, in terms of popularity, um we've shared stages multiple times with Chance for Good. Um and I've known them, I've known the lead guitarist since I was like three. Um but they are an incredible band, they are fantastic, and I'm really excited for their for their new new project. Um and then uh I mean we have technically played the same festival as after drive, which we tend to tell promoters a lot because it makes us sound pretty nice. Was that O Switch Music Day? Yeah, it was uh Yeah it was because it sounds better.

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Uh um uh They haven't got any music out yet, but um we Smokehouse not they opened for us, they're very good.

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Okay, yeah um and then George and Sam are in a band called um conduit and they're they're incredible, but they haven't got any music out of it.

SPEAKER_31

It's just a fun little size. But they're really they're really, really good.

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You've named enough and and say most of those I've heard of. And if there aren't any that was or if there's some that haven't heard of us, then obviously make sure you uh you let them know where we are. Um thank you guys for uh sparing the time. Unfortunately, one of my um things that I forgot about doing this as a guinea pig interview is that Zoom, because I'm a cheapskate and don't pay for the premium version, has just flashed up on the screen, as everybody will watching this will see, telling me that we have less than 10 minutes left. So I'm gonna acknowledge that because it did just flash up over your faces for a brief second. I've got rid of it. Um so we'll wrap up there before we get cut off because that'll happen soon. Um but appreciate you um spending the time all getting together in one place and uh and doing this. It's um it's appreciated. So the EP, what's the title of the EP?

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Green Acres Disease.

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Nice. Uh it's out now, uh, and it's by the detour, you can find it in all the usual places. And what's the next gig you've got coming up?

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Uh it is the Bright and the Corners All Day. Oh nice. And on the we've got two gigs on the same day. So we've got the Bright in the Corners All Day at one o'clock in the Super Dry unit in the dry. And if you fancy the drive or you're listening from Surrey, we've got a gig in Caterum in the evening after that. So come to Caterum Rock in Surrey if you're listening from downtown. And when this goes out, it'll be what only three days. Yeah, it will be three days before that.

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Oh yes, that's yeah, well, well thought. You could have been promoting a gig that's sort that's already happened by the time this um this goes out. But yeah, the Bright in the Corners event is uh is the is this weekend coming as you're watching this. So uh yeah, make sure you go down there. There's also lots of great bands playing that, and it is all free. Lovely. Um I hope to catch up with you guys at some point again in person. I will um follow this interview by playing because we've mentioned it so many times, and as you mentioned, it's the title track of the EP. We'll play Green Acre's Disease. Um and we'll have played one before this interview as well. Probably probably obsolete. Um so um, yeah, all six minutes of it. So um if anybody uh needs to uh make a cup of tea or anything, then uh now's not the time to uh not the time to go and do that. Um thank you guys, appreciate it.

SPEAKER_29

Thank you, Tim. Thank you, Tim. Have a lovely evening.

SPEAKER_27

So that was an interview that I did with the band a few weeks ago, and it was intended to be broadcast last week before the Brighton the Corners event. So um ironically, actually, as that went out, yes, uh those events have been and gone. But hopefully those gigs went well for you guys, and let's, as we said, play the title track from the EP. This is Greenacre's Disease.

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That's what makes it These temptants I have nothing to win, just win you could have been in little things out of the body.

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Thanks to them for taking the time to chat and being guinea pigs for our first Zoom uh based interview, which I think did uh worked out pretty well, and it was handy to have that in the locker today because that was half an hour less that I've had to speak, and half an hour less that you've had to listen to this horrible voice. Uh it's the New Music Generator, we're live on YouTube and uh we're also on the radio, and you can also find the show again to download as a podcast. Find all the details of how you can listen to the show on our website new musicgenerator.com. Now we're going to concentrate on bashing out some new music from the inbox in the last hour of the programme. These guys got in touch back in February, but weren't quite ready for us to play their first effort. Um and they are now. In fact, the track came out last week. The band are called Speak Easy. Um they are a uh college band uh based at the Southwick One in Ipswich. They're about eighteen years old. They've been in the recording studio um in Margate with um that's owned by the Liberty and it's called the Albion Rooms and put together quite a few tracks now. Uh this is the first one that they've released from it. Uh they played their um biggest gig to date at the Dublin Castle in Camden recently, and have planned to play much more locally as well. And they've got a new EP coming out, so those are the tracks that I said will all feature on that EP. But this track is available now. The band from Colchester and from Ipswich, and this is their first offering that they've sent us. So this is the Speakeasy, and the track is called Back in Time.

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Don't you wish? Don't you wish we're still alive? Get a kick An electric feeling Touch a sky Crash through the ceiling I wanna go back inside, take your hand I don't wanna blow the power I wanna feel something, I wanna do it always I wanna blow it Don't you know it? It'll make you floor We don't have to pretend anymore We get had a neuromance We get a second chance I wanna go every time Take your hand make it fine I wanna blast the time I wanna feel something new I wanna do it always yeah I wanna blast to the fact it's never as it seems I'm stuck in your dreams So come and set me free I wish it was 92 All the things we do never mind the bro Just glimpse at the toe of a peek through the crack I wanna go back I wanna go back in time Make your mind Think you wanna better make it back in time make you back Take you anyway Don't you dump Thinking Take when you wanna make me back in time Take you anyway back in time Just kind of to go uh To back up what we were saying with the detour is there's uh lots of really good up and coming young bands from Ipswich Colchester that's sort of part of uh Suffolk at the moment And there's another one that's Speakeasy They are speakeasy.hq on Instagram and that track is available now it's called Back in Time and we look forward to hearing more from the band.

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If you are a musician uh producer of a band from East Anglia and you would like to get in touch with your music, here's how you can do that.

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All submissions from within our coverage area in East Anglia will be considered forever.

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Now we also in the interview we mentioned Kyle Willis, um producer uh Hamford Studio and I said pretty much things every week now we play a train from Kyle. Well because here we go with the latest offering from Ethan now. We have another one here for your consideration. Not now or an ethically female fronted rock band, and music explored parenthood, and theory and education everyday struggles and emotions in the interactive alternative rock coming up with the three wise monkeys um on June the nineteenth, and you can find more about them on their Instagram if not nail at not band. This is called Here Goes.

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But you never know So what do you do?

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You never said a word, never have to I don't wanna hurt, it couldn't be sure you do What do you want?

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What do you want? When it's time for us to lay it all out You gonna be honest or are you gonna back out? What do you want? What you want to do, and that's you not I'm ready when you are getting all the truth It's so line down all the time You cross your mind's the one that circles round mine You're the one that circles round mine You can play it if you want to, but it's not enough, I'm a liar too Tell me the truth why you want Why you want When it's time for us to lay it all out You gonna be honest or are you gonna back down? Why you want? Why are you walking Pretend that you're eager, pretend that you're not I'm ready when you are, give me all the chicken. It's so silent when this down all night crossed my mind too many times.

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You're listening to the new music generator with Tim Willard I hold my present count Mistakes that I have made Dealing with the pressure alone on the way When I'm by myself Think about the case I call it home Be a little bit Live Leave the people that you like young people with Living life with regrets Leave a people get me out of my head This is the right place with my family and friends That's another track lifted from Dead Reynolds' upcoming album which is called Yellow Weather Warning.

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We've played a number of tracks from that over on the show um in recent times. The band's music is for fans of the likes of Bring Me the Horizon, Lincoln Park, uh Those Damn Crows and 30 Seconds to Mars. They are Dom, Ben, Luke, Zina, and Roscoe. And that track as a single is available now. Uh it came out on the 24th, and um it's called Hide Away for some summer vibes, they say. Alright, we're gonna play you, if you're watching us on YouTube, the lyric video now for the new single from The Heretics. Um and this is Christian, who's the uh lead singer of the band The Heretics, who's got in touch with us. This track actually isn't released until June. So we've got a uh a good old run-up on this. 19th of June, um before uh this one gets out. So I thought um the lyrics video was included in the um press information that we would uh give that a little bit of a play. Um The Heretics of an Alternative Rock outfit hailing from the UK um from Cambridgeshire uh reminiscent of alternative artists through the late 90s, they're present including Taking Back Sunday, the Caslight Anthem, and Green Day. Uh they deliver a hit of nostalgia with their blended melancholic lyrics and high-energy melodies. Their album last year called Relentless gained success nationally and internationally with all their singles receiving airplay worldwide, and they're back with new material. They're playing tramlines in Sheffield in June, and their next local gig in the region is the Portland Arms on the 31st of July. So on the radio, you'll be hearing the new song from the heretics called Tidal Waves, and on YouTube you can watch the lyric video.

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Sleep walk your days away, watch your home go up and slow. Gotta flap back out of the world when you don't know how to go. We might not get the bloody Imagine if we didn't if we watch it all.

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Step back down your own If you go down, go down to roll me, stop you rolling, if you blow me down, go down to roll, stick in the bridge, when you feel like a slow two ones and pinnacle.

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I know we get the minute stand along when they're done.

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I know you been now it's time to put it on to make it down, go in the sweet, stop you all, stop you, go in the way, stop you Just forget the amount of details that left you in the wake.

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Forget me that's another reason not to go in that easy thing. I guess it's not just spending a moment.

SPEAKER_27

So we'll uh definitely be playing that song on the show again, uh, way before the release of that one. You're listening to the new music generator, we're here for another 40 minutes or so playing you the very best music from artists from across East Anglia. Um this next one is an NMG award-winning artist. She is from Essex, it is Evie Freyson, and uh, this is her latest offering. This is called Lady Bird.

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Your forbidden can be mine.

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But it's so tons to just cross this line.

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Your forbidden can be mine.

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But it's so something to just cross this line this coach my baby. Can have your eyes see my baby, your forbidden can be mine.

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So tells me to just cross the sign. Your forbidden can be mine.

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So to say to just cross the slime.

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From uh Evie's material that was released last year. Uh, that is really good though, and her uh trademark vocals on uh Evie Frearson and Lady Bird that track is available now. Next up is the third single that we've played on this show from Thrine, and they say just wanted to uh reach out to share the latest release called Suffocate. I put together a radio edit specifically for airplay, and I'd love you to consider it before the show. Thank you. I'd appreciate it when people do radio edits. The track is by far the best I have ever written for this anonymous project and otherwise. Suffocate is a crushing metal track that captures the feeling of emotional entrapment and identity loss, blending haunting melodies with explosive blast beats and rapid fire vocals. It builds the tense, introspective verses into a chaotic and suffocating climax. This track is available now in all the usual places. Hits thrine and suffocate. I mean this in the nicest possible way, but I think at the moment I could probably audition um to join your band and do a cover version of that song. That is Thrine, and the track is called Suffocate. It is available now for you to stream in all the usual places. While we're on the heavier end of things, let's play a track from Suffolk Band Final Transmission. This is called Diamond Eyes. The band have been around for a long time. Eight years apparently on the local scene. Anyway, this is my transmission. Suffolk based group. We're going in our time machine back to 2022 today to relive music for a band that are currently not performing live and not producing music. Nowadays you'll find them as part of ShyCat publicity. Simon and Clarice is when they played for us.

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You said how we do how you come to Son, how we do, such how we see how we do breaking us. Take all the nothing Saban preachers to give up the charge of the sets How was the time to spend to charge? My love Won't pray. My love in the moment I'll shake him breaking you. My bad is a wake for you. My love break. And I was breaking myself in two.

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My blood is awake for you.

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And I was breaking myself in two.

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I tell you what, that was a thrill, a real joy to watch that back.

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We say the pleasure is worth the pain, shouldn't be easy. Russia's real to go back again, holding a rail in service of the out of undone spaces into nowhere. The only thing she can think of is the first time binding around a clenched fist. She cries her words to sleep. She cries her words to sleep.

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Recorded at Sick Room Studios is the fourth track from the band The Dreaming Void. Here is Hayden and Pepper, and I wanted you to know the truth.

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The money's gone, the car's gone. If anyone asks, say I'm sorry for what I've done. I don't know where I'm going to, but I'll keep it.

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Thank you for bearing with the voice. Fingers crossed, we'll be back to normal next Wednesday. When the next episode will premiere on YouTube and on the radio. That was Hayden and Pepper, and I wanted you to know the truth. Chat listing available on our social media platforms, podcast available very soon. I'll leave you with this Pete Tong from Tone Blanco.

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She got a hold on me. And it ain't easy. I'm who stick laugh in the face of death and a boot it attempt to block the long shot. Wait too easy to fuck with these girls. This game with a golden toes. Falls down this all and fails. What the hell? I stayed this all gone beat on. No disdain in the program. I take this off, stop, stop, fall, fall, stop, stop, talk, stop, talk, fall, go, stop, talk, fall, go, stop, fall, gone. Just wants to approve her ring. I'm watching all the grids. I'm in it. Fine, two thoughts about that. I'm more concerned with the food I'm thinking. Maybe I can run out the back or maybe I'll work out. I said it's all gone, take on. I said it's all gone, do gone, gone, gone. I said it's all fake, stop, it's all face, stop, stop, I swear this all just seems so crazy. I thought you were the one. I must have got something all wrong. I say this top as she gone.