Check spots are the hardest spot on a comedy show, and comedian James Mattern's new album/special was recorded during that exact spot. James returns to Between Awesome and Disaster to discuss the video version of The Check Spot which will be on Youtube June 3rd 2022, how he learned to succeed when performing during the check spot, opening for Chris Distefano, His new podcast about bombing called Thank You For Coming Out, and what happens when your heckler is a cop.
James on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/thejamesmattern/?hl=en
James' podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thanks-for-coming-out-a-podcast-about-bombing/id1608436637
See Will's band live in Brooklyn July 19th:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's New Solo Single:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kdVurvFhDbU5xhHa1G5Rk?si=bb1c4514664e47cb
Comedian Lace Larrabee and Will met in NYC 10 years ago, and this year she recorded her debut comedy album. She talks to Will about how Competing in beauty pageants prepared her for stand up comedy, the Atlanta comedy scene and being a comic based outside of NYC or LA, comedy festivals, road gigs, recording her first album, and how southerns will tell other southerns to go back up north sometimes.
Lace's website: https://www.lacelarrabee.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lacelarrabee/
Lace's Podcast:
See Will's band live in Brooklyn July 19th:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's New Solo Single:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kdVurvFhDbU5xhHa1G5Rk?si=bb1c4514664e47cb
Lords of the Trident vocalist Ty Christian's Operatic voice and business knowledge has taken his band all over the world. He talks to Will about his new course DIY Band on SpectreDigital.com, his early love of vocalists and singing, discovering metal in college thank to his roommate and now Lords of The Trident bandmate, Power Metal, working as a roadie for Steppenwolf How to use color and branding to make your band stand out, how Lords of The Trident uses the DIY approach to merch creation, touring and recording music, and how you can apply these principals to touring in Japan.
Listen to Lords of The Trident:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1C11hnl3RZ7hadyMv5g5gm?si=P9zCSl6VRvKStvVshzOSQA
https://lordsofthetrident.com/
https://www.instagram.com/lordsofthetrident/
Ty's DIY band course:
https://spectredigital.com/product/diy-band/
See Will's band live in Brooklyn July 19th:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's New Solo Single:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kdVurvFhDbU5xhHa1G5Rk?si=bb1c4514664e47cb
Dreadnoughts Lead Singer Nicholas "The Fang" Smyth's background in philosophy is interwoven into the gloriously fun Folk Punk. He talks to Will about the first single Cider Holiday from the bands' upcoming album Roll and Go to be released June 24th 2022. The sub genre of Cider Punk, UK Cider culture, balancing careers with intense DIY Touring, Philosphy, Nietzsche's connection to punk rock, Touring in Canada, a surprising gig in Northern Spain, writing sea shanty's and putting together vocal harmonies.
Listen to The Dreadnoughts
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0tfnDOJ5a2ib3mHAI4qGyD?si=mk8SDOnnS_abtrgfmCwO0g
https://www.facebook.com/thedreadnoughts
See Will's band live in Brooklyn July 19th:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's New Solo Single:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kdVurvFhDbU5xhHa1G5Rk?si=bb1c4514664e47cb
What Makes Sense frontman Radam Rebillard Thrashes with his band and makes Whisky. He talks to Will about making Whisky, selling real estate in upstate New York during the pandemic, discovering Pop Punk, being the frontman of a band and what that entails, songwriting, the formation of What Makes Sense, and the plans for more music in the future.
Listen to What Makes Sense:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2X89r7VnPlC3yrNk0GEdFd?si=o4Hb0KdvTKm9nNmmkiWl_A
What Makes Sense/ Radam on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/wmsny/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/radamreb/?hl=en
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's New Solo Single:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kdVurvFhDbU5xhHa1G5Rk?si=bb1c4514664e47cb