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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wren. Do we have you, my man?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You do? You also have Jason the drummer?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
All right, all right, so we got Ren hockey keys
and on drums, it's Jason Bowman.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yes, that's right. You do not have anyone else.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
The Yagas who are making their way first time playing Connecticut. Yeah,
is it right? So Friday August first, great Little Room
to space Ballroom. I gotta tell you, guys, I've been
a fan for a while now, but I'm just seeing
that this is your first record, Midnight Minuet with Vera
farmigau Front. I mean, she's what initially caught my attention
(00:39):
and feels like that was so long ago. I feel
like you guys have been playing for a while.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
So I think what you're remembering is that we are
all part of this like adult program called Rock Academy,
which Jason is the owner. This is how we all met,
and so you've probably seen snippets of Via performing some
covers of some these songs that we've all done together
over the past, like yeah, four or five years.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
So that yeah, so that foraid into us forming a
band in the Rock Academy and deciding to make a
record and write some some new material.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Were you guys surprised that Vera Farmiga that she was
down with this level of head banging?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I'm well, I'm married to her, so I didn't know that,
all right?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And who's this now? Is this Jason? This is Red Red?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
But we're all married to her. Now gonna run a
band together? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Sure, So, to be honest with you.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
We've been together for twenty one years. I was surprised.
I think Jason wasn't surprised because Jason is the one
who assigned her these songs. Jason talked about that a little.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Bit, well, knowing Vera, knowing her character, but mostly just
hearing her voice when she You know, I can I
can generally want to speaking to someone, tell what their
vocal range is, and knowing her character, just as someone
who you know Veers a little bit like John Wick.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, yeah, that works.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
She's a person of complete focus. If she wants something
to get done, that thing gets done right. So you know,
I knew she had it in her to really push
her voice and to really do something powerful vocally. So
that's where that came from.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, I would say that it was probably the biggest
surprise to Vira.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Well, really that's interesting to hear too. I mean Oscar nominated.
It's the genre. But then again, the yagas, I don't know,
you guys kind of defy genre. I mean, thank you, yeah,
and I do mean that complimentary. It's like the keys,
for instance, Wren give it. I don't know, there's a
(02:45):
bit of an Eighties it's almost retro and yet, like
I said, it's headbang AND's she's howling the bass and
the drums. It's hard rock, but there's a retro kind
of there's an eighties vibe. Thanks in large, I believe
to the keyboards.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well, so what you're hearing is a lot of analog
keyboards that I've been collecting over the past thirty Yes,
I've that I used in my previous band called DEADSI,
and I have not changed my tools, just the playground,
if you will.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, uh what what what genre?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Like?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You guys could have been part of that burning I mean,
why weren't you there saying goodbye to Ozie a week ago?
Or were you you probably.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Were just from your from your list to God's Ears. Man,
that would have been that would have been ideal, that
would have been amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Those does seem like your peers to me, like some
of the harder you know acts that were there, that
were there because there was some some of our hardest
you know, rock and acts out there right now kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, you know, yes, every like you know, every Monday, Tuesday,
and every other Saturday. Yes, but then on the other
days where there's there's a whole other like kind of
like psychedelic electrode jazz thing happening, you know, which, which
which kind of puts us more of like in an
alt rock genre. But it's really hard, you know to
(04:11):
talk about it. I understand it myself.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, I was just watching the video for She's Walking
Down to It's fantastic video.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
It's uh that was a cool one.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, it's got a short film quality to it. And uh,
I can't wear it.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You're directed it, no kidding?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Really yeah, yeah that's something. And are you aware that
like when you play here at this space ballroom, because
ballroom can be a misleading word. Uh it this this
is I love the venue, but it's a small room.
Ballroom can give an artist. Well then again, I mean
you're you guys aren't far really in Woodstock, right at
(04:51):
least that's that's the headquarters in New York, so you
might be aware, but it's it's a confined space for.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Like, you know, the intimacy, you know, playing close to
the audience, of getting in there and being able to
touch the audience and and you know, get right in
their face.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, yeah, of course it's given at the door.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Tell me about tell me about the record, tell me
what we could expect off Midnight minuet. I got to
go and grab a copy. So I'm still an old
school guy. So if you tell me you're gonna have
it on vinyl at the show, I might just wait.
You know, I'm a vinyl guy, and I'll.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Be going to be ready. We're gonna do vinyl. It's
not ready yet by the show, you know, as you
I'm sure you know, and you know are sick of
the term, you know, supply chain delays. But you know
there's there's a bit of a backwarder with getting getting
vinyl out. But we're in the queue.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, that's what I would I would want to get too,
because I love I'll be at the show with my
two kids. My son loves the band. My son loves
the band. My daughter's like it's the lady from the
conjuring like that she's in because it's the lady, but
she just thinks she's badass out there doing it too.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Now, So yeah, it's a bit of a mind bender,
but I think that that kind of dissolves away when
when she's on stage.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Oh no, she loves Sicondra. I mean, that's that's the
that's like what's making her gravitate to it. She loves
those movies I used to have. Interestingly enough, guys and Reren,
you might want to tell her this suit. Look, Lorraine
Warren was a regular on my show for years, for
twenty years wild Yeah, twenty years. Man. I have my
last interview with her. It's still out there. She's been
(06:34):
going a while now, but it's still can can be
found online. And I see the photo of Sarah, you know,
with her. I was glad she got to meet her.
She does element they.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Were, they were they were pretty close.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, she was a great lady. She was a very
kind woman.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah. I wish, you know, if you was available, she'd
tell you some some stories.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah I would. I would imagine she would.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I'll tell you on the first time she met Lorraine.
She came to the set of Conjuring one, and I
was doing the stay at home dad thing because we
had two new babies, like you know, born back to back.
And then she's making the film. We're on location. Lorraine
shows up and she leans into view and she says,
get those babies baptized, and that kind of freaked me out.
(07:19):
I'm like, wait, wait what Yeah, you know we haven't
already done that.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I was creeped out. Without even
putting two and two together, I was creeped out.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, wow, get your baby baptized? Oh dear.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Okay, so you guys got a one two punch too,
near as I can tell. As far as your releases
are concerned are There're two records I'm seeing now. There's
Midnight Minuet and Travona Ruda.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
No Travona Ruta is a Ukrainian folk song that we adapted.
One could say this is our our our heavy version
of We did a collaboration between our band the AGAs
and Gogol Bordello. Eugene Hoots is the singer. He's Ukrainian
as well and a friend and.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
They played They played New Haven a lot. They've been
through a few times.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, they're great, amazing. Yeah, and you know, look, with
all the turmoil overseas, we thought it'd be a good
time to celebrate their their their their heritage and do
a do a cover of a song which is almost
like an unofficial anthem for the for the country national anthem.
It's it's a it's a song about a girl falling
(08:35):
in love, but it's really uh, it's it's it's coded,
it's it's it's more about nationalistic pride and love of
country because the guy who wrote it was this bit
of a conspiracy. It's believed that he was taken out
by the KGB. So this the song has has much
(08:57):
more meaning than just a girl finding a cool flower.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And yeah, yeah, part of the set you're doing it?
Is it part of the set doing any covers others?
You're right, You're right, as I should and that'll be August,
and that'll be August first again. I'm really excited about
I'm really looking forward to it. It's a nice Friday
Friday night headbanging show. The Yagas and Ren Hawkeey, Jason Bowman,
(09:22):
thanks so much for coming on. Maybe we could pull
off a meet and greet or something and you can
tell me some of these Lorraine warrants. I've got one
or two myself. I used to be really.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, I'm sure she'd love to hear any tales about
Lorraine I do.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I actually, well, I actually had her late husband on
for many years. But that's going back to the early
two thousands. They were on every Halloween. Yeah, I mean
they're you know, they're Connecticut folks, so they were on
every Halloween. I had a really ongoing relationship with them,
and I'm still in touch with one of the members
of the family.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, we look, we're excited. We're excited to come back.
You know, Jason has he owns the Rock Academy. He
has what's called the show Band, which is the touring
like upper level circuit of the kids in the music
school that he owns, and they tour and they have
played Space Ballroom before, so we're familiar with it and
that's so when they asked us to jump on board,
(10:15):
we were excited. And so Rock Academy Show Band is
opening for us.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I see that. Yeah, Yeah, it's gonna be a great
night of rock and roll. I can't wait for it.
A great summer night, a Friday night, like I said
and it's the Yagas guys, thanks so much for taking
the time than you man, Okay, see you by
Wren. Do we have you, my man?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You do? You also have Jason the drummer?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
All right, all right, so we got Ren hockey keys
and on drums, it's Jason Bowman.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yes, that's right. You do not have anyone else.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
The Yagas who are making their way first time playing Connecticut. Yeah,
is it right? So Friday August first, great Little Room
to space Ballroom. I gotta tell you, guys, I've been
a fan for a while now, but I'm just seeing
that this is your first record, Midnight Minuet with Vera
farmigau Front. I mean, she's what initially caught my attention
(00:39):
and feels like that was so long ago. I feel
like you guys have been playing for a while.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
So I think what you're remembering is that we are
all part of this like adult program called Rock Academy,
which Jason is the owner. This is how we all met,
and so you've probably seen snippets of Via performing some
covers of some these songs that we've all done together
over the past, like yeah, four or five years.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
So that yeah, so that foraid into us forming a
band in the Rock Academy and deciding to make a
record and write some some new material.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Were you guys surprised that Vera Farmiga that she was
down with this level of head banging?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I'm well, I'm married to her, so I didn't know that,
all right?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And who's this now? Is this Jason? This is Red Red?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
But we're all married to her. Now gonna run a
band together? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Sure, So, to be honest with you.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
We've been together for twenty one years. I was surprised.
I think Jason wasn't surprised because Jason is the one
who assigned her these songs. Jason talked about that a little.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Bit, well, knowing Vera, knowing her character, but mostly just
hearing her voice when she You know, I can I
can generally want to speaking to someone, tell what their
vocal range is, and knowing her character, just as someone
who you know Veers a little bit like John Wick.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, yeah, that works.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
She's a person of complete focus. If she wants something
to get done, that thing gets done right. So you know,
I knew she had it in her to really push
her voice and to really do something powerful vocally. So
that's where that came from.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, I would say that it was probably the biggest
surprise to Vira.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Well, really that's interesting to hear too. I mean Oscar nominated.
It's the genre. But then again, the yagas, I don't know,
you guys kind of defy genre. I mean, thank you, yeah,
and I do mean that complimentary. It's like the keys,
for instance, Wren give it. I don't know, there's a
(02:45):
bit of an Eighties it's almost retro and yet, like
I said, it's headbang AND's she's howling the bass and
the drums. It's hard rock, but there's a retro kind
of there's an eighties vibe. Thanks in large, I believe
to the keyboards.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well, so what you're hearing is a lot of analog
keyboards that I've been collecting over the past thirty Yes,
I've that I used in my previous band called DEADSI,
and I have not changed my tools, just the playground,
if you will.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, uh what what what genre?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Like?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You guys could have been part of that burning I mean,
why weren't you there saying goodbye to Ozie a week ago?
Or were you you probably.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Were just from your from your list to God's Ears. Man,
that would have been that would have been ideal, that
would have been amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Those does seem like your peers to me, like some
of the harder you know acts that were there, that
were there because there was some some of our hardest
you know, rock and acts out there right now kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, you know, yes, every like you know, every Monday, Tuesday,
and every other Saturday. Yes, but then on the other
days where there's there's a whole other like kind of
like psychedelic electrode jazz thing happening, you know, which, which
which kind of puts us more of like in an
alt rock genre. But it's really hard, you know to
(04:11):
talk about it. I understand it myself.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, I was just watching the video for She's Walking
Down to It's fantastic video.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
It's uh that was a cool one.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, it's got a short film quality to it. And uh,
I can't wear it.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You're directed it, no kidding?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Really yeah, yeah that's something. And are you aware that
like when you play here at this space ballroom, because
ballroom can be a misleading word. Uh it this this
is I love the venue, but it's a small room.
Ballroom can give an artist. Well then again, I mean
you're you guys aren't far really in Woodstock, right at
(04:51):
least that's that's the headquarters in New York, so you
might be aware, but it's it's a confined space for.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Like, you know, the intimacy, you know, playing close to
the audience, of getting in there and being able to
touch the audience and and you know, get right in
their face.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, yeah, of course it's given at the door.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Tell me about tell me about the record, tell me
what we could expect off Midnight minuet. I got to
go and grab a copy. So I'm still an old
school guy. So if you tell me you're gonna have
it on vinyl at the show, I might just wait.
You know, I'm a vinyl guy, and I'll.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Be going to be ready. We're gonna do vinyl. It's
not ready yet by the show, you know, as you
I'm sure you know, and you know are sick of
the term, you know, supply chain delays. But you know
there's there's a bit of a backwarder with getting getting
vinyl out. But we're in the queue.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, that's what I would I would want to get too,
because I love I'll be at the show with my
two kids. My son loves the band. My son loves
the band. My daughter's like it's the lady from the
conjuring like that she's in because it's the lady, but
she just thinks she's badass out there doing it too.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Now, So yeah, it's a bit of a mind bender,
but I think that that kind of dissolves away when
when she's on stage.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Oh no, she loves Sicondra. I mean, that's that's the
that's like what's making her gravitate to it. She loves
those movies I used to have. Interestingly enough, guys and Reren,
you might want to tell her this suit. Look, Lorraine
Warren was a regular on my show for years, for
twenty years wild Yeah, twenty years. Man. I have my
last interview with her. It's still out there. She's been
(06:34):
going a while now, but it's still can can be
found online. And I see the photo of Sarah, you know,
with her. I was glad she got to meet her.
She does element they.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Were, they were they were pretty close.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, she was a great lady. She was a very
kind woman.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah. I wish, you know, if you was available, she'd
tell you some some stories.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah I would. I would imagine she would.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I'll tell you on the first time she met Lorraine.
She came to the set of Conjuring one, and I
was doing the stay at home dad thing because we
had two new babies, like you know, born back to back.
And then she's making the film. We're on location. Lorraine
shows up and she leans into view and she says,
get those babies baptized, and that kind of freaked me out.
(07:19):
I'm like, wait, wait what Yeah, you know we haven't
already done that.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I was creeped out. Without even
putting two and two together, I was creeped out.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, wow, get your baby baptized? Oh dear.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Okay, so you guys got a one two punch too,
near as I can tell. As far as your releases
are concerned are There're two records I'm seeing now. There's
Midnight Minuet and Travona Ruda.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
No Travona Ruta is a Ukrainian folk song that we adapted.
One could say this is our our our heavy version
of We did a collaboration between our band the AGAs
and Gogol Bordello. Eugene Hoots is the singer. He's Ukrainian
as well and a friend and.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
They played They played New Haven a lot. They've been
through a few times.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, they're great, amazing. Yeah, and you know, look, with
all the turmoil overseas, we thought it'd be a good
time to celebrate their their their their heritage and do
a do a cover of a song which is almost
like an unofficial anthem for the for the country national anthem.
It's it's a it's a song about a girl falling
(08:35):
in love, but it's really uh, it's it's it's coded,
it's it's it's more about nationalistic pride and love of
country because the guy who wrote it was this bit
of a conspiracy. It's believed that he was taken out
by the KGB. So this the song has has much
(08:57):
more meaning than just a girl finding a cool flower.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And yeah, yeah, part of the set you're doing it?
Is it part of the set doing any covers others?
You're right, You're right, as I should and that'll be August,
and that'll be August first again. I'm really excited about
I'm really looking forward to it. It's a nice Friday
Friday night headbanging show. The Yagas and Ren Hawkeey, Jason Bowman,
(09:22):
thanks so much for coming on. Maybe we could pull
off a meet and greet or something and you can
tell me some of these Lorraine warrants. I've got one
or two myself. I used to be really.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, I'm sure she'd love to hear any tales about
Lorraine I do.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I actually, well, I actually had her late husband on
for many years. But that's going back to the early
two thousands. They were on every Halloween. Yeah, I mean
they're you know, they're Connecticut folks, so they were on
every Halloween. I had a really ongoing relationship with them,
and I'm still in touch with one of the members
of the family.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, we look, we're excited. We're excited to come back.
You know, Jason has he owns the Rock Academy. He
has what's called the show Band, which is the touring
like upper level circuit of the kids in the music
school that he owns, and they tour and they have
played Space Ballroom before, so we're familiar with it and
that's so when they asked us to jump on board,
(10:15):
we were excited. And so Rock Academy Show Band is
opening for us.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I see that. Yeah, Yeah, it's gonna be a great
night of rock and roll. I can't wait for it.
A great summer night, a Friday night, like I said
and it's the Yagas guys, thanks so much for taking
the time than you man, Okay, see you by
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