1) Do you tour in a hearse as opposed to a van?
Nope! We talked about getting one but
they're out of our price range right now. The east coast tour we just finished
was done in a truck so we don't have a van either.
2) You’ve done a number of splits. Are
there any specific bands you haven’t done a split with that you would like
to?
We've only done two so far! I guess we do
have a few more we're working on though. There's a six way split on Middle Man
that's almost ready and a split five with Greyscale that we need to write for.
Personally, I'd like to do splits with Afterlife Kids, Kilgore Trout, Dial-Up,
Caust, Off Camber, Capacities, Neck First, The Pessimist Hangs the Optimist, The
Usual, Foxmoulder, and whatever bands I like that are around right now that I
forgot. Most importantly, Yusuke, because they're the cutest ever.
3) You seem to have made quite an impact in a short time. Next February
will be two years since your demo and I’d say you’re one of the most popular
screamo bands right now. What do you attribute that to?
We started in November of 2011 so two years as a band is coming up vaguely
soon. Now I didn't know we were that popular. I mean I've seen touring bands
have higher turnout in a random town than we do in central Illinois sometimes.
Maybe it's internet fame? I have no clue. Pat and I are always online so that'd
make sense.
4) You are from Normal, Illinois, but John Goodman was in a show called
Normal, Ohio. So who would star in a show based on your Normal?
Well we're actually living in Urbana, Bloomington, and Normal. If you want
to get even more technical none of us were born there. I'm from Michigan. Matt's
from Minnesota. Nelson's from Kentucky. Yeah. The quintessential Normal resident
goes to ISU and is from the suburbs of the suburbs of Chicago. They're upper
middle class, white, blonde, and really into partying. Someone like that would
fit. By the way, Normal, IL isn't named after it being plain. A "normal school"
is an old term for a teaching college. ISU is in Normal and was started as a
teaching college, thus the town was named "Normal". If you made a joke about the
name of the town it is not original or clever.
5) You have a split with Fire Academy on floppy disk (Really?) and a record
of the Coma Regalia split. Do you have any plans for cassettes in the
works?
We actually released our demo and the new EP on tape. I think we're trying
to stick with records now but tapes are easy enough to make if we decide we want
to put something out. Oh, and yeah, we really did a floppy split. We're almost
out of copies if anyone wants one.
6) Would you ever participate in or somehow make a Middle Man Records
nationwide tour happen?
You'd have to talk to Shawn about that one! I do know that he is a very
busy dude so I don't know how it'd go down. Plus he's put out so many bands that
it'd be hard to choose who went on it. Gas Up has mentioned going out west
though. That'd be an almost national tour.
7) Having your music described as screamo
or emo violence is something that someone might not have appreciated ten years
ago, but it seems to be making its comeback. What are your thoughts on emo on
the whole?
There's cool stuff and there's lame
stuff. To a certain extent you can always find shit to get stoked on if you dig
hard enough. I feel like once you start dropping out of the scene you enter into
this self fulfilling cycle of getting bummed. With that said I'm not feeling the
twinkly scene and all this poppy emo and screamo. Slow melodic hardcore with
delay is boring. Tapping all the time is boring. Gang vocals are dumb. Writing
records that are about girls and touring is dumb.
8) Do you feel like Hot Topic is killing hardcore music?
They killed metalcore a while ago. That's all. The only hardcore they come
close to is bands from the 80s that get back together for money and that shit
killed itself.
9) Final thoughts, shout outs, etc...
?
I'm Kyle by the way. Shout outs to
everyone that has helped us out.
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