Welcome back to Label, the stories, rumors, and legends of Toothanil Records.

I'm your host, Matt Carter, and you can probably tell in my voice, I'm smiling because it's a special day because it's a special week.

It's Furnace Fest Week, which means it's also Labeled Fest Week, which is on Furnace Fest Eve.

That's this Thursday.

And you can see five bands who've been featured on the label podcast play one super intense show together in real life.

So it's kind of a dream scenario with his own little story to it.

I had Chad Johnson on this podcast a while back just to talk about Furnace Fest and have been doing a lot of episodes leading up to that.

And I started chatting with him about how maybe we could do something cool to add more meaning to the fest and how could we be

involved, the label, you know, community. And he offered me one of the three rooms that they had in

town on hold Saturday night and said that he would trust me to put together an event. And the idea

for Laplfest immediately came to mind. So I hit up some bands and we figured it out pretty much right away.

The other two events are, of course, Norman Gene and Zayos.

I was really honored that he trusted me and us to do that.

So we just put some bands together just through text.

We skipped the managers and agents.

Everybody agreed to just take some cut up the door

and we would just do something fun.

So those bands are Emory, Hope's Ball,

as cities burn, terminal, and Mike Maines and the branches.

We just figured, man, we've got these sets

we're working on for the festival,

and it's gonna be great on that big festival stage,

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