Define your genre in five words or less:
Rock.
Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like?
3 Doors Down, Eskimo Joe, The Killers, Crowded House.
What do you love about making music?
We love that the songs we make connect with a lot of people we play them to, both lyrically and musically.
What do you hate about the music industry?
We hate the fact that so much crap out there is force-fed through the radio and that bands who don’t take themselves seriously and are not in it for the passion get signed just because they know a friend of a friend who knows someone who owns a label. There are so many brilliant bands out there, some of the best I have seen, that don’t even get half a chance just because they don’t have money or know someone in the industry.
If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it and why?
Justin Bieber and One Direction (if you can call them bands). It s all a marketing stunt to make money and sell shit to teenage girls. It’s shit like that that puts brilliant bands out of business and makes them insignificant, because the labels are so wrapped up in money, it’s sick.
What inspires or has influenced your music the most?
Any music that has some sort of awesome hook or melody to it, whether it be pop, R&B, rock, or country. We then say “Wow I love that; what can we do to improve an already great song?”
What part of making music excites you the most?
What excites us is having people come and take their own personal time out to come and watch us play, with fans knowing our songs and having them sing the songs back to us. That’s the ultimate reason we keep going. Having spent so much effort writing lyrics to a song and having someone actually giving a shit and loving that song so much they learn the lyrics to something that started off in a fucking garage. It’s mind blowing.
What makes a good musician?
Someone who stays true to himself/herself and their music. Most bands nowadays sell out or change their style and influence just to please a certain crowd. People who are drawn to you in the first place are the true fans and understand more than anyone what the band is about and I think that’s awesome.
