WEBVTT 00:00:01.729 --> 00:00:04.290 This edition is brought to you in association 00:00:04.290 --> 00:00:07.509 with Distill Union for men's gifts, presents 00:00:07.509 --> 00:00:10.130 and problem -solving men's accessories. More 00:00:10.130 --> 00:00:31.539 from them in a bit. Welcome back to the Chatterbooks 00:00:31.539 --> 00:00:34.280 Redux podcast with Sue and Nick and today our 00:00:34.280 --> 00:01:12.510 special guest is Chantelle June. This is Nick 00:01:12.510 --> 00:01:15.689 and Sue with Chatterbox giving you all you need 00:01:15.689 --> 00:01:23.010 to know about musical entertainment. Oh yeah, 00:01:23.170 --> 00:01:40.269 Chatterbox! And now on Chatterbox, we're just 00:01:40.269 --> 00:01:42.530 lucky enough to welcome Chantelle June. Chantelle, 00:01:42.569 --> 00:01:44.829 welcome to Chatterbox. How are you? Hello, Chantelle. 00:01:45.010 --> 00:01:47.750 I'm good. I'm good. How are you? Very good. Thank 00:01:47.750 --> 00:01:51.349 you. Great to meet you. Right. We've got some 00:01:51.349 --> 00:01:53.329 stuff to talk about what's going on at the moment. 00:01:53.950 --> 00:01:56.030 Let's start a little bit earlier. Let's see. 00:01:56.609 --> 00:01:58.549 When did you start singing? I mean, did you want 00:01:58.549 --> 00:02:01.010 to be a singer as a kid or when did it all start? 00:02:02.629 --> 00:02:07.459 Yeah, I was... I was... involved in singing as 00:02:07.459 --> 00:02:13.639 a young child. So I believe, yeah, sang for our 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:20.300 symphony orchestra. And I was in choirs and we 00:02:20.300 --> 00:02:22.860 kind of traveled all over Manitoba, my province. 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:27.879 And then I joined a cover band in my 20s and 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:30.560 kind of put everything on hold for a while, just 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:33.300 raising a family. So I kind of got back into 00:02:33.300 --> 00:02:36.729 it a few years ago. Okay, what did the family 00:02:36.729 --> 00:02:41.030 think of what Mum does and things? What's your 00:02:41.030 --> 00:02:44.610 general opinion? The kids get a lot of attention 00:02:44.610 --> 00:02:48.770 from it, from their friends and people in the 00:02:48.770 --> 00:02:50.669 community for sure, so they get asked a lot of 00:02:50.669 --> 00:02:54.550 questions. That's good, that's good. So, when 00:02:54.550 --> 00:02:56.610 did it start? Was that your first time around 00:02:56.610 --> 00:02:58.689 before the family and that? When did you actually 00:02:58.689 --> 00:03:07.409 start the singing side of it? How long ago? As 00:03:07.409 --> 00:03:11.169 young as I can remember, but my first live performance, 00:03:11.430 --> 00:03:16.330 I think I was 21. Okay. So yeah, but it's been 00:03:16.330 --> 00:03:18.270 a while. Yeah, and what was that? Was that in 00:03:18.270 --> 00:03:20.810 the bar or what was the first one? Yes, it was. 00:03:21.610 --> 00:03:23.289 Can you remember how many people were there? 00:03:24.930 --> 00:03:27.610 It was a couple hundred, I believe. That's not 00:03:27.610 --> 00:03:30.250 bad for a first one. That's a good start. Really 00:03:30.250 --> 00:03:34.990 good start. I was so nervous. That's alright, 00:03:35.090 --> 00:03:40.210 I like that, that's good. And the sort of thing 00:03:40.210 --> 00:03:41.830 that got you down, was there anything in college 00:03:41.830 --> 00:03:44.710 or school, did you ever do any singing of any 00:03:44.710 --> 00:03:47.409 sort there or was it literally just when you 00:03:47.409 --> 00:03:49.110 were 21 that was it, you stepped out and there 00:03:49.110 --> 00:03:53.889 you were? That's it. Okay. No, no school, nothing, 00:03:54.150 --> 00:03:59.169 no. And when it comes to songwriting, when did 00:03:59.169 --> 00:04:01.870 you write your first song? I dare say that came 00:04:01.870 --> 00:04:05.669 a little while before. I was a teenager, that 00:04:05.669 --> 00:04:12.129 was probably my outlist. My parents getting divorced 00:04:12.129 --> 00:04:14.629 and just trying to manage all those emotions, 00:04:14.930 --> 00:04:18.449 right? So songwriting was my go -to. I actually 00:04:18.449 --> 00:04:21.779 found an old one in a box not long ago. I was 00:04:21.779 --> 00:04:26.399 kind of laughing at how it was written. It wasn't 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:29.459 bad for a 15, 16, but definitely come a long 00:04:29.459 --> 00:04:36.100 way. Brilliant. Oh dear. Well, I added a little 00:04:36.100 --> 00:04:37.519 bit. This has always been a fun. It's something 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:40.720 I've been doing in more recent times where I 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:44.100 do, I heard this on BBC Radio 2 in the UK, actually, 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:48.029 where they have a guest on and they do the google 00:04:48.029 --> 00:04:50.750 gemini ai thing and they they they put in about 00:04:50.750 --> 00:04:53.449 an artist and see what comes back if it's right 00:04:53.449 --> 00:04:57.889 or wrong radio 2 yeah thank you that's what i 00:04:57.889 --> 00:05:03.949 said oh okay thanks dear you're just making sure 00:05:03.949 --> 00:05:06.709 right uh or you're just catching up no i'm listening 00:05:06.709 --> 00:05:10.490 i mean okay you're caught out brilliant so this 00:05:10.490 --> 00:05:13.829 is it uh shantelle june is an independent canadian 00:05:13.829 --> 00:05:19.550 singer songwriter based in Manitoba, Canada. 00:05:20.589 --> 00:05:23.069 Her musical style heavily... You can deny everything, 00:05:23.069 --> 00:05:26.790 by the way. If it was anything that was tabloid, 00:05:26.870 --> 00:05:29.129 I wouldn't read it anyway, so don't worry. We'd 00:05:29.129 --> 00:05:30.250 let you know it was there, though. We wouldn't 00:05:30.250 --> 00:05:33.569 send it on air. Her musical style heavily centres 00:05:33.569 --> 00:05:37.870 on alternative indie and indie pop rock textures. 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:43.180 Though she has also explored country roots in 00:05:43.180 --> 00:05:46.699 some of her acoustic and digital releases, she 00:05:46.699 --> 00:05:54.579 has building her presence online across streaming 00:05:54.579 --> 00:05:59.180 platforms sharing both original tracks and melancholic 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:04.060 stripped back covers notable tracks no mercy 00:06:04.060 --> 00:06:07.399 like that one you and the moon to be human lonely 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:10.980 ghost wicked game cover she maintains an active 00:06:10.980 --> 00:06:13.660 independent profile sharing behind the scenes 00:06:13.660 --> 00:06:17.680 content lyric videos and acoustic snippets of 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:20.300 her upcoming projects directly with her listeners 00:06:20.300 --> 00:06:23.519 and platforms like youtube tiktok and spotify 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:27.399 how correct is that That was pretty impressive 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:30.160 actually, it was pretty bang on. Good, that's 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:33.060 good, that's good. Your track, No Mercy, what's 00:06:33.060 --> 00:06:38.920 that about? Some years ago I was in an abusive 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:44.199 relationship and so that was probably one of 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:48.699 my darker songs and I was actually talking to 00:06:48.699 --> 00:06:51.699 a close family member about it and he always 00:06:51.699 --> 00:06:53.800 reviews my music videos and everything and he 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:57.379 says I looked at the video, the AI video that 00:06:57.379 --> 00:06:59.800 you put out, he says, and I thought the song 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:05.500 was about going out to maybe take someone out. 00:07:05.819 --> 00:07:08.639 And then he says, I looked at the lyrics, he 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:11.500 says, I realized it was about justice. And I 00:07:11.500 --> 00:07:14.199 said, yeah, it's supposed to be about taking 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:18.139 your power back for sure. And because there's 00:07:18.139 --> 00:07:21.600 so many people out there that are Still stuck 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:23.860 in abusive relationships don't know how to get 00:07:23.860 --> 00:07:26.180 out. There's not a clear way and it could be 00:07:26.180 --> 00:07:30.160 so dangerous and so isolating I put that song 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:33.839 on it's probably my favorite because it is so 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:38.180 real and empowering Just to let others know they're 00:07:38.180 --> 00:07:44.860 not alone and that they they can They can take 00:07:44.860 --> 00:07:50.620 account of at least acknowledge and let the other 00:07:50.620 --> 00:07:53.680 person take accountability for these things instead 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:58.319 of sweeping under the rug, right? So it's a hard 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:01.699 topic, but I didn't want anyone to feel alone 00:08:01.699 --> 00:08:05.920 in that, so that's where that came from. Great 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:08.000 song. Well, good on you for doing that, because 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:12.680 you know yourself, even on each of our radio 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:15.079 stations, there's going to be someone listening 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:16.699 to each one, unfortunately, that's going to be 00:08:16.699 --> 00:08:21.399 in that situation. Common thing, isn't it? I 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:23.160 mean, obviously you've written the song, you're 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:27.240 out of it now. And my understanding is it's the 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:29.199 hardest thing is to get out of the relationship. 00:08:29.620 --> 00:08:33.039 That's the hardest thing. You've lost your friends, 00:08:33.220 --> 00:08:36.100 they've been taken away from you. What advice, 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:38.000 if it's a hard one, put you on the spot, but 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:40.259 what advice do you have to anybody in that situation, 00:08:40.299 --> 00:08:42.259 listening to this interview, listening to that 00:08:42.259 --> 00:08:43.960 song? Okay, they've got the song to listen to 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:46.519 and we will be playing it. But what advice have 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:48.440 you got when they're just sat there listening 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:50.919 to this? What can they do? What hope have they 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:55.259 got? I would say go easy on yourself because, 00:08:55.259 --> 00:08:58.240 you know, when you're in that situation, you 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:02.000 do what you have to do to survive. And there's 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:04.779 no simple, clear way to get out. So you do what 00:09:04.779 --> 00:09:07.320 you have to do and just give yourself that grace. 00:09:07.700 --> 00:09:10.799 And when you have the strength, I mean, I would 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:15.559 say definitely surround yourself with people 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:18.879 that are going to build you up because you need 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:21.879 that support. Whether you have to do that quietly 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:25.919 or not, but you need that support and go easy 00:09:25.919 --> 00:09:27.879 on yourself because you do what you got to do. 00:09:28.019 --> 00:09:29.740 And when you get that strength build up, you 00:09:29.740 --> 00:09:34.980 can get out. And it doesn't always and after 00:09:34.980 --> 00:09:38.279 you're out, but it's definitely a lot more freeing. 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:42.779 And when you have the strength to leave, it just 00:09:42.779 --> 00:09:45.299 keeps going after that. So that's what I like 00:09:45.299 --> 00:09:47.320 that music. Music is the outlet for me, right? 00:09:47.620 --> 00:09:51.200 And it's ultimately, I make sure that it is real 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:54.820 because that's, you know, we have AI music right 00:09:54.820 --> 00:09:58.429 now and it's actually. It bothers me how much 00:09:58.429 --> 00:10:00.529 I like some of the AI music. It sounds quite 00:10:00.529 --> 00:10:03.389 good, but it will never replace that human emotion 00:10:03.389 --> 00:10:05.950 and the struggles and real -life scenarios, right? 00:10:06.269 --> 00:10:10.950 So that's kind of the main drive of my music, 00:10:10.990 --> 00:10:15.620 for sure. We're taking a quick break to talk 00:10:15.620 --> 00:10:17.860 about the things we carry with us every single 00:10:17.860 --> 00:10:20.320 day. 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And 00:13:07.379 --> 00:13:10.379 I think it was the realization that I was like, 00:13:11.259 --> 00:13:13.700 oh, I'm going to maybe want to fall in love again 00:13:13.700 --> 00:13:16.080 one day, but that's going to be hard, right? 00:13:16.299 --> 00:13:18.100 So I don't know if I want to fall in love. So 00:13:18.100 --> 00:13:19.899 that emotion just kind of went right in there 00:13:19.899 --> 00:13:22.100 and it blew up more than any other cover song 00:13:22.100 --> 00:13:27.250 I had. So I was really grateful for that. OK, 00:13:27.830 --> 00:13:30.789 I've got to ask you a couple here that I don't 00:13:30.789 --> 00:13:35.649 know about, which is news to me. So this has 00:13:35.649 --> 00:13:41.009 come up on the Google Gemini AI thing. So we've 00:13:41.009 --> 00:13:44.870 got You and the Moon and To Be Human, both interesting 00:13:44.870 --> 00:13:49.169 titles. What's the story behind those? To Be 00:13:49.169 --> 00:13:55.610 Human was... Had some people in my circle that 00:13:55.610 --> 00:13:58.509 were struggling with addictions. Okay, and it 00:13:58.509 --> 00:14:01.710 was more of a witness witnessing of that and 00:14:01.710 --> 00:14:05.409 and just how difficult it was for them to not 00:14:05.409 --> 00:14:09.049 only get out of the addictions but To give themselves 00:14:09.049 --> 00:14:11.330 forgiveness and love right because they just 00:14:11.330 --> 00:14:13.929 beat themselves up and it's never any cycle so 00:14:13.929 --> 00:14:20.090 the song at the end is is really meant to help 00:14:20.090 --> 00:14:22.629 Them look at themselves and say yeah, I can forgive 00:14:22.629 --> 00:14:27.860 myself, too which I think is very freeing. And 00:14:27.860 --> 00:14:32.960 You and the Moon was about really just a love 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:38.340 song. Having that, that's a very amazing connection 00:14:38.340 --> 00:14:41.879 that you and I'm absolutely obsessed with looking 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:45.179 up at the moon. So I said, if I fall in love 00:14:45.179 --> 00:14:47.179 one day and we can sit there and look up at the 00:14:47.179 --> 00:14:50.460 moon together, that's like my dream. So that's 00:14:50.460 --> 00:14:57.039 nice. Yeah, absolutely. Would you say all of 00:14:57.039 --> 00:15:02.200 your songs are true -life stories that have affected 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:04.519 you in some way or another, or your friends or 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:06.600 whatever? Every song you've ever written, do 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:10.379 you think they're all true -life? They're all 00:15:10.379 --> 00:15:12.740 real, whether it's my story or someone else's, 00:15:12.740 --> 00:15:16.080 for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that. Okay, 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:18.100 and when it comes to, have you done an album 00:15:18.100 --> 00:15:19.919 as yet? Have you really, have you just released 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:22.059 singles or have you released collectively say, 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:25.100 this is Chantelle June's album, it's called blah, 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:26.940 blah, blah. Have you put a whole load together 00:15:26.940 --> 00:15:28.620 yet, a collection or has it been an album in 00:15:28.620 --> 00:15:33.659 its own right? So far they've just all been singles. 00:15:35.019 --> 00:15:37.700 But I mean, I've got like 30, 40 songs that are 00:15:37.700 --> 00:15:40.519 on the waiting list to come out. So I'm just 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:42.620 trying to do one at a time. I don't know, I might 00:15:42.620 --> 00:15:45.830 do an album at one point, but. Just drop them. 00:15:46.049 --> 00:15:48.029 That's an anthology that is. It's about an album, 00:15:48.129 --> 00:15:53.850 a whole anthology there. Did I mention Good Enough? 00:15:53.970 --> 00:15:55.370 I don't think we've mentioned Good Enough, have 00:15:55.370 --> 00:15:58.289 we? Good Enough is something that we got sent 00:15:58.289 --> 00:16:01.549 not that long ago. Could you tell us about Good 00:16:01.549 --> 00:16:07.070 Enough? That was my first single I put out. I 00:16:07.070 --> 00:16:09.409 think it was a year before the other ones actually. 00:16:10.210 --> 00:16:13.269 So it was a big deal, a big day, and that song 00:16:13.269 --> 00:16:18.580 was I had a teenage daughter, had a teenage daughter, 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:21.879 I wrote it. And she's going off to school and 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:25.159 just having a hard time, right? Like sitting 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:28.179 in, feeling like she's gonna fit in, getting 00:16:28.179 --> 00:16:33.059 picked on. And I was sitting there talking with 00:16:33.059 --> 00:16:35.320 her that evening and just trying to build her 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:38.340 up, right? And I went to bed a little later on, 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:39.960 couldn't fall asleep and the song came to me. 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:42.120 So I was like, okay, I'm gonna write the song 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:46.370 for her. and put it out there for all the other 00:16:46.370 --> 00:16:49.529 parents and kids that want to, you know, that 00:16:49.529 --> 00:16:51.990 can benefit from it too. Why pick on other children? 00:16:52.830 --> 00:16:56.070 It's what they do, unfortunately, isn't it? It 00:16:56.070 --> 00:16:58.850 is, yeah. And in a lot of cases, I don't know 00:16:58.850 --> 00:17:00.409 Chantelle, I mean we had to recognise him when 00:17:00.409 --> 00:17:03.570 he was young, but in a lot of cases it stems 00:17:03.570 --> 00:17:08.190 from jealousy, quite incredibly. I got bullied 00:17:08.190 --> 00:17:10.769 because I wear glasses, because of my surname, 00:17:11.509 --> 00:17:14.779 but look at me now. Yeah, but you've got a long 00:17:14.779 --> 00:17:16.640 surname. It's not like there's even any way out. 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:20.799 Yeah, my nickname at school was Bomber. My surname's 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:24.539 Lancaster and I used to get called Bomber. I 00:17:24.539 --> 00:17:26.099 would have said you got away quite lightly, but 00:17:26.099 --> 00:17:33.839 there you go. Well, we've already decided. You've 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:35.940 got an anthology full of material waiting to 00:17:35.940 --> 00:17:40.150 come out, so just sit in there in vaults. Might 00:17:40.150 --> 00:17:43.289 be an exaggeration. So what's next? What are 00:17:43.289 --> 00:17:49.009 you planning to bring out next? I'm debating. 00:17:49.289 --> 00:17:54.470 There's two songs. One's a little bit darker. 00:17:56.549 --> 00:18:00.490 It's about getting involved, getting into the 00:18:00.490 --> 00:18:03.410 dating world and just playing some of those games 00:18:03.410 --> 00:18:06.849 that people play, right? About that. And then 00:18:06.849 --> 00:18:09.859 the other one's called Homestick. and that's 00:18:09.859 --> 00:18:13.940 a little more upbeat happier um and about moving 00:18:13.940 --> 00:18:17.059 away from home just missing everyone back home 00:18:17.059 --> 00:18:21.740 so okay okay shantow if you could sing any one 00:18:21.740 --> 00:18:25.079 of your songs which singer or band would you 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:27.680 want to sing a song with of one of yours so it's 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:31.200 a duet or band yeah or band could be a band duet 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:37.039 uh which song sorry which band Would I have to 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:39.660 sing one of my songs? Yeah, if you were to do 00:18:39.660 --> 00:18:42.420 a duet or something or to record with a band, 00:18:42.980 --> 00:18:44.420 you had to choose as to who it would be. Who 00:18:44.420 --> 00:18:46.599 would the singer or the band be? And what song 00:18:46.599 --> 00:18:54.839 of yours would it be? Oh, man. Sorry. I'm in 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:57.819 love with Lainey Wilson and Ella Langley right 00:18:57.819 --> 00:19:01.779 now so much. So I'd love to do a duet with one 00:19:01.779 --> 00:19:07.490 of them. OK. As far as which song I'm not sure 00:19:07.490 --> 00:19:09.509 because they're not they're country artists and 00:19:09.509 --> 00:19:13.910 not every one but maybe good enough Are you I 00:19:13.910 --> 00:19:17.369 mean I read out the thing from what Jim Knight 00:19:17.369 --> 00:19:24.329 AI said And basically, I think there was a it's 00:19:24.329 --> 00:19:29.549 kind of Brushed past the countryside I would 00:19:29.549 --> 00:19:35.019 say Yes, though she has explored country roots 00:19:35.019 --> 00:19:37.119 in some of her acoustic and digital releases, 00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:40.420 would you class yourself as being a little more 00:19:40.420 --> 00:19:43.480 country than that's insinuating you are? That 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:45.819 almost insinuates that you've touched it in some 00:19:45.819 --> 00:19:49.339 acoustic stuff, but am I right in assuming that 00:19:49.339 --> 00:19:52.539 you're more country -fied than that, as a percentage 00:19:52.539 --> 00:19:56.920 of the material that you bring out? Well, everything 00:19:56.920 --> 00:19:58.619 I have sitting in my vault right now, I'd say 00:19:58.619 --> 00:20:05.000 50 % country and 50 % more pop. So I'm just trying 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:07.700 to gauge my audience at this point, which one 00:20:07.700 --> 00:20:10.759 they prefer, right? And it seems like it's harder 00:20:10.759 --> 00:20:13.720 to get into the country industry, get noticed 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:17.359 in that world, as opposed to having like more 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:20.980 indie pop. It's a little easier to gain traction 00:20:20.980 --> 00:20:22.819 because country is one of those things that people 00:20:22.819 --> 00:20:25.750 either absolute lover they they hate it seems 00:20:25.750 --> 00:20:29.210 like there's no in between yeah but um i love 00:20:29.210 --> 00:20:33.609 countries so i still make it and which countries 00:20:33.609 --> 00:20:36.089 would you would you say you were most popular 00:20:36.089 --> 00:20:39.410 in canada or would you say that you've noticed 00:20:39.410 --> 00:20:41.250 audiences getting interested in you and other 00:20:41.250 --> 00:20:44.609 countries like uh the united kingdom for instance 00:20:44.609 --> 00:20:48.910 yeah i would say the the countryside is more 00:20:48.910 --> 00:20:53.220 united states uk okay for sure yeah okay and 00:20:53.220 --> 00:20:55.880 i think i'm sure am i right in saying that you 00:20:55.880 --> 00:20:58.599 had an interview not that long ago on chris james 00:20:58.599 --> 00:21:01.440 show and rni were you did you do that i did get 00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:04.079 going there i thought you had yeah yeah so yeah 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:07.019 how did that go that was great it was great to 00:21:07.019 --> 00:21:09.519 meet him yeah we've well we've met him in real 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:11.019 life we've been around his house yeah we've been 00:21:11.019 --> 00:21:13.259 around yeah not bragging we've been around his 00:21:13.259 --> 00:21:17.240 house had sandwiches haven't we yeah and the 00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:20.250 weird kitkat i think was popcorn kitkat Oh, I 00:21:20.250 --> 00:21:22.789 don't know, that's more your thing. That's not 00:21:22.789 --> 00:21:27.089 my thing, I just had it. Okay, so yeah, that's 00:21:27.089 --> 00:21:29.450 all you had done. So hopefully this leads to, 00:21:29.789 --> 00:21:31.910 and obviously Chatterbox is quite a big platform, 00:21:31.950 --> 00:21:34.190 so hopefully that brings some more interviews 00:21:34.190 --> 00:21:37.349 and some more, and of course your songs are being, 00:21:37.490 --> 00:21:39.170 because we're putting your songs into the interview, 00:21:39.230 --> 00:21:40.710 because that's being then heard, those songs 00:21:40.710 --> 00:21:43.150 are being heard on all those stations, so let's 00:21:43.150 --> 00:21:45.910 hope that spins a little bit for you over here 00:21:45.910 --> 00:21:50.509 as well, so yeah. Yeah, that's amazing. Okay, 00:21:50.509 --> 00:21:54.829 now, if you were to come back on this show as 00:21:54.829 --> 00:21:57.529 our guest in about six months or years time, 00:21:57.869 --> 00:21:59.710 what would you like to be telling Sue and I that 00:21:59.710 --> 00:22:06.650 you've achieved? I would say it'd be nice to 00:22:06.650 --> 00:22:13.410 have another four to six songs out. And it would 00:22:13.410 --> 00:22:16.569 be great to have some good traction on at least 00:22:16.569 --> 00:22:20.289 one of them. And kind of see what my audience 00:22:20.289 --> 00:22:24.630 is enjoying, right? So I think I'm kind of just 00:22:24.630 --> 00:22:30.250 exploring right now. But once I can see what 00:22:30.250 --> 00:22:32.670 people are really loving, then I can get more 00:22:32.670 --> 00:22:36.170 of that. So I'm just looking for hoping for that 00:22:36.170 --> 00:22:38.430 that direction from them really, because it's 00:22:38.430 --> 00:22:40.769 all for them at the end of the day. Sure. And 00:22:40.769 --> 00:22:42.829 all those people partying all around Ibiza and 00:22:42.829 --> 00:22:44.549 Mediterranean as well all summer, thinking of 00:22:44.549 --> 00:22:48.309 that. Is festival something you do or you would 00:22:48.309 --> 00:22:52.269 do? Is that, sorry? Festivals, going around to 00:22:52.269 --> 00:22:54.210 music festivals and being live there, is that 00:22:54.210 --> 00:22:58.009 something you've done or you would do? It's been 00:22:58.009 --> 00:23:00.049 in the back of my mind, I've been considering 00:23:00.049 --> 00:23:03.289 it, so it might be in the near future, in a year 00:23:03.289 --> 00:23:06.480 or two. I know Canada's mega with festivals, 00:23:06.680 --> 00:23:08.940 I know it is, I spoke to quite a few Canadian 00:23:08.940 --> 00:23:11.779 artists and yeah they're doing them already and 00:23:11.779 --> 00:23:15.440 yeah it's quite a lot, quite a lot. I guess it's 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:17.539 nothing like here, we've got a few, we think 00:23:17.539 --> 00:23:20.460 we're doing well with 30 or 40, it's massive 00:23:20.460 --> 00:23:24.319 in Canada. The only problem is it's so far apart 00:23:24.319 --> 00:23:26.480 for each one, so you can't just do one weekend 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:27.880 there or do a long weekend there and then get 00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:29.400 to the next one in no time because it's such 00:23:29.400 --> 00:23:33.309 a big country isn't it? Yeah, and every little 00:23:33.309 --> 00:23:39.930 small town is doing them. Okay, right, Chantelle. 00:23:40.349 --> 00:23:42.470 I'm sure we'll chat again sometime, but before 00:23:42.470 --> 00:23:46.609 we let you go, let's talk about some social media 00:23:46.609 --> 00:23:49.569 where people can, I mean, tell them what platforms 00:23:49.569 --> 00:23:52.390 they can find your music on, you know, YouTube, 00:23:52.650 --> 00:23:55.269 Facebook, websites, anything you've got, as long 00:23:55.269 --> 00:23:59.630 as it takes the floor is yours. I have everything 00:23:59.630 --> 00:24:03.210 streaming on all platforms and for social media. 00:24:04.190 --> 00:24:06.970 Facebook's where I tend to put a lot more time 00:24:06.970 --> 00:24:10.069 and energy into these days, but TikTok, YouTube, 00:24:10.309 --> 00:24:14.650 it's all Instagram too, everywhere. It's all 00:24:14.650 --> 00:24:18.750 out there. Fantastic. And yeah, Chantelle James, 00:24:18.869 --> 00:24:22.160 it's been great meeting you. Thank you for coming 00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:23.440 on Chattergong. And wish you the best of luck 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:25.500 for the future and with your career as well. 00:24:25.819 --> 00:24:28.019 And best of luck with this latest thing with 00:24:28.019 --> 00:24:29.480 Flint Gunn. That's going to be really interesting 00:24:29.480 --> 00:24:32.640 to see how that works out. And no doubt you'll 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:34.759 have a solo song on there yourself again soon. 00:24:34.799 --> 00:24:37.200 Sometimes soon when I get sent it. But Chris 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:40.259 sends me everything anyway. Until next time, 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:44.960 Chantelle. Thanks a lot. Cheers. Take care. Bye 00:24:44.960 --> 00:25:26.450 now. Bye. You've been listening to the Chatterbox 00:25:26.450 --> 00:25:29.589 Redux podcast with Sir Nick and today our special 00:25:29.589 --> 00:25:32.589 guest with Chantelle June. 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