want to be alone.

I've got a feeling in my bones, but I don't want to hear one come here with the end.

Start out.

Get the kind of frenzy she's got.

Got thousands of dollars.

Boom.

Reason?

No.

Come on, muscle.

Nothing you can back up.

I guess I got a feeling in my bones like, I don't want to be alone.

I got a feeling in my bones.

Like I want to be love.

One without fear right here on Colfax.

An incredible Denver venue.

it's always so special when you know that a band really cares about the audience.

But I can tell you, beyond a shadow of a doubt for these men here, playing for you is the treat for their week.

It is why they show up at their nine to fives like being able to play for you is the reward at the end of a hard, hard week.

And they're going to give you that kind of show and they're going to give you that kind of energy.

So please give it up for the etiquettes.

If you lose your job and you do bad stuff.

You never do down.

It's no show without me shouting out these guys that you guys down.

You never get anywhere on rounds.

I always come around because I.

Love you out of here.

Let's get you out of here.

Never GM again.

No Lover Giroud again?

No.

Never tell you how to again.

Gravity out again.

Gravity.

Our should be nothing we love Come.

Around us Grab the camera, shake solid ground always nice icy thighs scattered nice You place your problems in your good You can fight but you never get tired.

You're not shy and always w shout.

Out again Let me show you around again the energy and give your.

Lover Giroud again Show us how to.

I get the T out to get back to our ready girl Shoot me.

No, no, no.

To tell you I can never say that again.

Black.

shoot me No.

Had to get me to lie to get get to you Our get.

give me.

No, no, no.

pieces for.

so there's three of us.

It's me, my brother Alex and James.

Alex and I, we're playing in another another group.

I'm getting some songs together.

And we met James while we were out watching some live music and we got together jam and it just clicked really well.

It was like, not like this is this band.

So yeah, we did.

On probably a couple of years under the name Split Lips, and then we were like, Okay, time to do a name change, came up with the Atkins and then so that's how we are where we are now.

But we all like a lot of the same music we love just playing spur of the moment what comes to our mind.

We started kind of neighboring in the songs and then we would write them out together.

But lately we've been doing a lot of write the song in the moment together, and that's been really cool.

It's been really freeing too.

We can do anything with this.

There's no frame to die.

We can paint whatever kind of picture with that.

And so that where all on projects right now.

So the album that we just got done recording is called Table Manners.

We did it.

We recorded it at home with the help of like friends and family.

James did a lot of the production and engineering on the album.

So yeah, we put a lot of energy And she still doing it, you know, sweating it out and, you know.

She dies.

You in one fell over sobbing.

Your name is again.

I'm glad you like to finish the tea stays caffeinated so you Charlotte saw my.

Is is the guy.

That lives boys Yes sweetie still jam baby Jim makes you feel love Makes you feel it.

Makes you feel.

And Max, you deny lie Do stay away.

Carry on.

I'll see you later.

She sighs.

He shot.

Let you take it Everything at once.

They'll never gonna let you go.

Never gonna let you go.

It's never going to go my friends And.

Bring out the peace To make one mistake Makes it hard to breathe.

It was a bloody run out of a lot guys and chatter baby teeth down.

Like a black boys to strangers who jam on baby tell me we like to hear it makes you feel worse It makes you feel like to tell my lie.

To stay.

Awake.

Have you guys She said You can't let me tell you everything I want.

You still never gonna let you.

You're never gonna let me go.

I'm never going to go to hell with it.

It makes you feel and it makes you feel Mexican.

I like to stay away, Gary laughs.

She said, Hey, you, shut up.

My day.

You say it every day.

I wanna stay home.

Never gonna let you go Never gonna let you do.

I'm never gonna let you go I'm never gonna let you go.

I'm never gonna let you go.

starting to play live shows in high school?

How did you how did you transition through tempos and like voices cracking and all this stuff to get a good show together?

Well, I think the first thing was that we were just nerds about music.

Okay?

So And each In high.

School.

Yeah, And this is in Michigan.

just for and it.

Cheers.

Take me down to the river.

A drop in a sea of done it to take me down to the ocean And I'm gone.

Nice.

Take me down to the ocean Well.

A drop in the sea of love and.

Lonely nights.

Take me out to the ocean and I'm gone.

Your lousy guide your son this time.

And it won't be long.

And in this way you change your name from the tragedy.

Your mother, my favorite friend and enchanting luxury.

I know a loaded gun.

All is tied up.

You know, I forgive them, but they are only lesser young, ready to snap.

You know, I forgive them.

In a song.

Long enough to take me down to the ocean.

Where is your fantasy?

Your blood, sun, wild gold cloud and a while.

And I'm young.

No loaded gun, no sun slide.

And it won't be long And and I any way we can change our names.

So your I'm know my favorite things and intelligence in my head I know loaded gun is needed and yo, yo, yo yo Sarge inside had a loud bang down spring and I'm this way you change your game Stop.

You got to run now My favorite friends, bat and jelly and me.

Luckily, I young, lovely guy.

Now he just does not decide that and why be like.

And in this way you change my name to my mom my favorite thing at the end.

Luckily I young I live here and music family now?

Like, you playing with all the time.

Look at looking for inspiration.

Well, definitely a lot of the people that we see at the Squire, the Squire Lounge down the road here, what nights have been huge in getting us a lot of shows, playing shows with them and yeah, they're really cool guys, so we definitely consider them a friend, a band of friends here in town, and then the Squire and Lion Slayer, those are places we play quite a bit.

So yeah, just kind of that whole group of, of people get a good group there have been really cool to us.

And given where you are right now, what is a dream place for you to be playing at your next step here in Colorado?

I mean, we would like to take place like the Bluebird open listen my guy my back and try to imagine with their eyes he feel he lot love things.

He just little mama's on the ground running.

I get out of the mountains out of nowhere.

I go down Bluesy, tiny, tiny house is on the ground and Molly eat could die young.

That's why I'm standing here.

I need a good time.

Get down now.

This green out Love is looking at my heart Am here I see Now chase another person that I wanna be show Seems love is slipping long and some TV got not ever so little and was dancing Now move blame the sound goes out of my own You know the the keep it can get as many remind me how it is here in the end is not a bad as it must be but it rises and we can have his and he says lies again all season and shine way down The starting girl and.

Black house come up in the moonlight and dark darkness His rise up from a dream, his dark with zip no cloud in the dead night.

I love being up in the stakes.

I know how tired this man standing yellow tie on my screen.

I'll I was looking down now.

He got Let me go.

dear.

people who've showed up for you and your band that you'd love to give a shout out to.

Well, definitely the Squire.

Definitely White Knights definitely wins.

They're here in Denver.

I know that our families have helped all of us learn music.

They've been there to helps take lessons, skills, gear.

My uncle, he's been a huge He helped us use his house to record the album.

What's his name?

Brad.

Uncle Brad and Brad.

Yeah.

He's been a huge musical inspiration for for me and my brother growing up.

what have been some other challenges for you.

you know, having to, you know, just keep at the grind too.

And that takes time away from, from doing what we love to do.

So yeah, definitely.

The more the prices go up and things, it's like, All right, we got to make money for rent.

You know, I might not be able to get together tonight.

We got to work or or do whatever.

So yeah, that's been a learning experience for us as well.

Like, how do you manage your time when life is so crazy and expect so much of us would not even bring a music into it, you know?

Is the band that it gets kind of a bit off the record for the rest of the grind.

For sure.

Yeah.

Yeah, it definitely is.

I know for me it is.

And I think for the other guys too.

Yeah, it's like, All right, we got through the week.

We can do this now, you know, we can play a show, we can we're lucky, man.

Yeah, we do.

We did.

We are now the top of the charts yesterday.

With her band of Sleep.

Big Daddy washing your hands up.

Daddy.

Leavenworth, Kansas.

Your name change and you can.

Well, I'm delighted to pick up that smile and catch your last.

The rapper in Medicine Line Action Jackpot.

Tommy John Washing my hands up by my sleeping gas Washing my.

Hands are blood.

In my land.

Do so now to have you here, love Do you get back in time?

I will never love that No more loving in the way you love before I will never.

Love, Love.

That no more loving and will love before.

Love is just another civil war Breaking before the.

Atoms at the core Love is just another civil war Bigger play.

Atoms at the core.

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Matthew here.

Well, July and dancing heat map.

Yes.

My take you.

desire like they want to fight.

But how about the dishes?

Is that a sad beat I get to be?

Doesn't matter much to me.

You say you throw a punch at me.

Let's write a book I had in my chest.

Terry, I've.

Been dying of the lab.

My liver likes.

To take a photograph to my baby.

Likes you.

You clean All right.

But even if you crash, she.

Keeps alive where I belong.

I sing.

It sounds I shout out and spend the not on that one.

Who's ever gonna share her.

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