Matt Pond PA

Part 1

0:00Did your name actually map on another band called? It is actually it is Matt Pond or Matthew Pond. Matthew Pond. That's a nicer way of putting it. How can the band not call Matthew Pond? It's too long to say it takes too much time. Where does the PA come from? I started playing music like seriously in Philly so it's like public address Philly. I don't know. It's the worst the most asked question. It's just it plagues me. There's no real real answer to it. Does the band feel a little jealous of this only your name? I would hope not. I mean this new band is like you know as much as possible it's like you're trying like I'm trying anyone should know that they're as much part of this as I am so I mean I would hope that they didn't.

0:49If they do then I'll get them later. When you say new band what do you mean by that? We've had a lot of members. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's been like 40 people in this band. It's pretty cool you guys have a cello when you play live I'm assuming it's on the album too. It is. Our last cellist left. She plays in the span Rachel's and she she was awesome but you know touring all the time wears you out. No definitely. Yeah. Let's play a song. I first heard of you off the OC. You watched him one night and you put him in your new ampe sure and I thought it was kick out. So why don't we play that?

2:03We're going to let out. We've done it and we cannot come to the things I can hear when we're telling the truth. Free CJIQ you just heard Matt Pawn PA.

6:05A new Hampshire song off the OC. Obviously gonna do a lot of exposure. That and the champagne supernova. Have you noticed the exposure? Or is it 13 year old girls coming up? You know it's funny. You know it's a slow build always and it's like it's actually been really cool. It's never felt over energized or not organic. So I mean you know I like the OC. I like Oasis. We're not going to play Oasis songs live but I don't know. It's been cool. The dude from the OC is like a really cool dude and he's like very supportive of us. You know I've talked to him on the phone a few times. Does he have to get your promotional play that kind of stuff or is it just kind of like a royalties? No no I mean they have to ask us first and we've always.

6:52We've always complied because what they're doing is what no one's doing. It's like they're almost building a national scene which you know. Look at death cap. Yeah but like you know people ignore their scene so much and he's like their own scene and like he's this dude that's like trying to like create a scene on a larger level and it's awesome. I mean you know my problem with Philly which is not a problem with New York is like a lot of cities don't support their scene and you have to go out and you have to support. You have to see the bands that you like. Definitely. Yeah. Now we just saw the show and you mentioned Montreal and one of the songs. Yeah I mentioned. I want to play that song by the record. That song's called Casey. It's off of a well I mean I mentioned Montreal twice tonight. Oh okay.

7:37The one kind of sounds I don't want to make it sound like you sound like another band but a little bit like Mr. Brightside. I don't even know what that band is. I'm sorry. The killers. Oh yeah. A little bit of a rough kind of. It's like just similar. Maybe you're talking about so much trouble. That song we mentioned Montreal in Casey we mentioned Montreal. I mean I grew up in New Hampshire. I used to go up. Yeah I used to go up in Trink and Montreal all the time and because it was like you know you'd be 14 and we'd drive up and they'd be like we look like we're 17 which is close enough. I was like 18 or 19 whichever it was and we all part of our asses off and it was really fun and and we have a house in St Andrews and my mom has a house in New Brunswick and all sorts of shit.

8:26Like there's a lot of Canadian influence. Cool. I'm actually kind of seeing someone from Toronto right now. So yeah yeah. Good old Canadian girl. Yeah she's a nice girl. So let's play. What's called my case. So much trouble. High behind the package stone. You're hanging out with your old friends. And then you can see the end.

9:11You can slow but it's trouble. You can't hide. We end the cuddles. We should get it out. We'll eat it all. You can see it when they don't ever call. Finger to my face.

10:03Doesn't know any. You're so much trouble.

12:32You're listening to C.J. IKEA Sydney with Mapon from Mapon PA. Rolling Stone gave you guys an awesome review on their new issue. Have you read it? You guys. It was a weird review. It was like a really good review but it also kind of put us in our place in its done reading reviews. Like I had it related to me and I was like you know I mean you can't control this stuff so you just have to accept it. And it's a lot of the time not factual or misrepresent you and you just have to close your eyes and be like okay tomorrow. You know and forget about it and just play your shows. That's what we do. Nice and they're done very well. And then these shows have been so much fun and we've actually gotten good press and that's awesome but I just can't pay attention to it.

13:22I understand. Now we've been arguing about your drummer. Oh he's an actor because he looks like one of these actors that I've seen sitting in a finger on it. He's not but he is so fucking. He is really cool. He's a really cool guy and he's kind of like the glue of all of us. Like he is so easy going that it just makes this whole process that much easier. So we just go out and while out every night and he's like the center of it all. Yeah it's cool. We do this thing on show everybody called five questions just five quick questions one more answer. Sure. First one is iPod or CDs. iPod sorry. Letting her McCartney. I can't answer that.

14:07It's the same. It's the same. You can't get into this because I love them both and I'm not going to diss McCartney because he's cheesy. He's still a good dude. I love John Lennon but I'm not going to lay out on Paul McCartney. I'm halfway. Alcohol and marijuana. For me alcohol. I'm song you've written you most proud of. Oh man. I mean I'm most proud of this new record. I can't divide the songs. Yeah I like this new record. Nice. One word Matt Pompeo. Trouble. It's close out with one song any song your choice off the new record. I mean I love Halloween so.

14:53You was on Call Halloween? Yeah. And it was just Halloween. And it just was but it has nothing to do with Halloween specifically. I had my new Matthew songs. It's randomly titled Halloween. Is it really? Yeah. There's a song called Halloween and there's like a bunch of a bunch of bands have songs called Halloween so we can take it out of context. That's awesome. Cool. Thank you.

Part 2

0:03Thanks Matthew. I appreciate it. You prefer Matthew or Matthew? I go back and forth from time to time. I like Matthew. Yeah, just because I hear the Matt so Often so constantly Well, that's the name of your band. Was that it? How did you choose that? Let's go back to that Matt or Matthew Pawn P.A When you I started this band, you know, there were a lot of people that were working with it. Yeah, and And they started trying, you know, it's like you you write this music and you write these songs and then they start adding their two cents and their 25 cents and 50 cents and so I just decided I was gonna take control and I it's unfortunate at this point because a lot of the time It's a really is a group after it's been a lot of different members of the group. Yeah, but that's the other thing is

0:49I'm not going to quit myself when people quit so I Mean it's kind of good that the band got named that because otherwise it would just be confusing Well, I heard I don't know if this I don't know what happened or where I read this about a couple years ago That you were gonna change the band name to the dark leaves. I was also. Okay. I was crazy. I thought I remember seeing those But everybody that was in that band Then quit themselves So the record got named the dark leaves yeah and the record was kind of about Trying to I mean the record is about that as much as people would like to say my songs are about relationships They're probably just as much about You know, they're not really entirely about men women relationships. They're just about kind of

1:35constant confusion You're running a lot of relationships on this record your own or just I don't know any one I don't know any other kind of there's there's only my relationship or One's relationship to the outside world or things that are going on So I don't think of them as you know, either love songs or or not love songs or lady songs. They're just kind of There's a Yes, and there's a it's just it's just kind of your relationship with the rest of the world Are there topics that you strive to write for is there a song like you want to write about you? I don't want to say a car, but I'm looking at a car right now. I'm not a car. No, not a car It was uncool I know we're not the beach boys. I mean it would be cool to it would be if I could At all it's it's really hard to be topical these days because things change so quickly

2:22You know people will say why aren't there, you know Dylan's or people like such as that and things move slower than yeah, you know, they're a war lasted You know, I mean there's a war on now but There's I mean people are just ambivalent to kind of what's going on around them, so You know if you write something topical It'll just alienate people and I wish that were possible. I mean supposedly the Nationals record is about You know our relationship with our present age, but you know, I would love to be able to do that So maybe on the next thing you should be putting out records every every six weeks. Yeah, I know You know I took I took a couple years off and it was it was hard, you know, it's hard coming back and playing shows

3:10But I love it actually I Forgot how much I love playing shows well you were just saying us how tired you are the road I guess it's another stuff. We're not supposed to talk about that. That's like behind the scenes isn't it? Sorry, so that's the other stuff. There's not the shows you're getting tired of it's it's the long drive Yeah, I mean the sound checks the long drives the the food that you know That you have to force down your throat so it's hard to eat healthy on the road it is almost impossible I mean in the stretch between Minneapolis and Seattle to try and you know look for something nice to eat and I don't know it's in the middle of Montana. It's not it's just not convenient or possible Fair enough. So yeah on the topic of releasing records though you got an EP coming out again in a couple weeks

3:58We have these strung together little singles they took a lot longer to do than We thought they have instrumentals and extra songs on them. I wouldn't necessarily call them EP's They're kind of I guess they're EP's. I don't know what to call anything. No, yeah But they're songs the group songs its groups of songs released together together so Yeah, and then I'm gonna try and finish the next record this summer. So nice. Yeah, so we're not playing shows this summer I'm just gonna hunker down. I'm playing shows with the wooden birds. Okay It's not the word what it's Andrew Kenny. He had this band called American analog set great band Wooden birds is now a different direction with him kind of it's kind of low-key country Fleetwood Mac

4:47It's kind of cool And I've always loved his music and Leslie who plays in our band plays in that band as well. So we both play in both bands and you know, so we're gonna be touring In August and then we're playing a few shows of book and social scene They're a great thing. Yeah, they are it's gonna be fun and then and then we go back on tour in the fall Nice you got some social scene-esque tours you do that a lot with your voice So I think it's more in the reverb and the double tracking of the vocals that they make it that now John Lennon I know he was never a fan of his voice like he always added effects He wanted to sound far away just because he wasn't a fan why the double tracking all the time is Not there's not Well, and I don't mean that was a bad thing. I mean it's hard to hear Sometimes in on the new record. There's not too much double tracking. I mean sometimes it's hard double tracking

5:35There's a song called New Hampshire that you know, we like the effect. I mean, I'm not like I don't like to sit and listen to myself saying I like singing I Know that my I mean I've been told by my Family members that I have the worst voice in our family. Oh, yeah, so that's good. They're family band I know we talked about it when we were young, but I wouldn't have been in the family band because I wasn't And then But yes, my mother always says your voice is strange And so you know, it's the only voice I know how to sing with and I it's I It's not an affectation. It just is what it is. It just comes out. It's your voice sounds a little raspy now It's always raspy is it okay? Yep. Yeah, it's that's just that's from singing for a couple hours every day

6:22You know fair enough so you always want strings in the band? It's a rock band, but it's got cello Not right now. Okay, so we kind of we yeah, it's it's a great thing to do It's really hard to pull off and have it sound right so you know some nights it'll sound great when it doesn't sound great your whole show is plagued by this kind of you know unfortunately not all sound men are I mean, it's a hard job to do just like any other job So you know sometimes if you neglect an instrument like that It's just the possibilities of feedback and of sounding bad and of just sounding like a big scratchy paddle You know It was just it was just it was just always a crapshoot

7:09You can see whatever you want really yeah crapshoot. We're in the States, but there's a lot less censorship in Canada Yeah, so you can say more Okay, good. We don't say any more. Thank you very much. Thank you