August 17, 2025 • 13 mins
It's scary to think that British metalcore outfit Architects are just hitting their stride eleven albums in.
Having completed two Summer runs with Metallica in the lead up to their latest masterpiece The Sky, The Earth & All Between, Architects took stock of their career to date and set out to make the definitive Architects release.
“It wasn’t about just putting out another Architects record. It had to be the record—the one people talk about when they talk about our band,” frontman Sam Carter said at the time. Bandmate Dan Searle echoed this sentiment: “What we’re trying to say is that we had to make the quintessential Architects album—bringing together all our best qualities and everything we excel at.”
Their last couple of albums - For Those That Wish To Exist and The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit - had been about attempting the new. When those records performed well critically and commercially, that was their green light to pursue whatever they wanted to. So, they resolved to channel the lessons learned from innovation into making something that felt like the pinnacle of what Architects have long been evolving towards. And they achieved that emphatically with The Sky, The Earth & All Between winning over fans and critics around the world.
Now, Australian fans get to experience that rebirth in the flesh with Architects headed this way for three select dates starting in Melbourne on December 11. Not only that, they will be bringing House Of Protection, who recently wowed crowds over here on a support run with Bad Omens, and emerging outfit President, who promise to balance the trifecta. HEAVY caught up with Architects bass player Alex Dean to get the full rundown.
"It's been a little while since we've been over, so yeah, we're really stoked to get back," he enthused. "We're having a lot of fun playing these tracks. It's always fun getting out and playing new records, but it feels really like people are engaging with the songs."
Architects are a band who, despite having their core sound, have always been unafraid to experiment musically on each record. We ask Dean about that approach and how much musical growth he feels the band have left in them.
"We're always trying to push ourselves," he replied. "And I think as soon as - for a metalcore band with two guitars, bass, drums - as soon as you start adding electronic elements to it, the musical world is your oyster, because there's just so many things you can try. We've done records where we experiment a lot with orchestral sounds, and that might be something we revisit again. But we just try and do what's exciting for ourselves, really."
In the full interview, Alex expressed excitement about returning to Australia after a couple of years and highlighted the positive reception of their new album, The Sky, The Earth and All Between. He elaborated on the band's evolution in sound, emphasizing their confidence in creating music driven by instinct rather than external influences. He mentioned their willingness to experiment with various musical elements, facilitated by advancements in technology.
We spoke about what has changed with the band since they last toured Australia, what we can expect from their shows, and more.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/heavy-music-interviews--2687660/support.
Having completed two Summer runs with Metallica in the lead up to their latest masterpiece The Sky, The Earth & All Between, Architects took stock of their career to date and set out to make the definitive Architects release.
“It wasn’t about just putting out another Architects record. It had to be the record—the one people talk about when they talk about our band,” frontman Sam Carter said at the time. Bandmate Dan Searle echoed this sentiment: “What we’re trying to say is that we had to make the quintessential Architects album—bringing together all our best qualities and everything we excel at.”
Their last couple of albums - For Those That Wish To Exist and The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit - had been about attempting the new. When those records performed well critically and commercially, that was their green light to pursue whatever they wanted to. So, they resolved to channel the lessons learned from innovation into making something that felt like the pinnacle of what Architects have long been evolving towards. And they achieved that emphatically with The Sky, The Earth & All Between winning over fans and critics around the world.
Now, Australian fans get to experience that rebirth in the flesh with Architects headed this way for three select dates starting in Melbourne on December 11. Not only that, they will be bringing House Of Protection, who recently wowed crowds over here on a support run with Bad Omens, and emerging outfit President, who promise to balance the trifecta. HEAVY caught up with Architects bass player Alex Dean to get the full rundown.
"It's been a little while since we've been over, so yeah, we're really stoked to get back," he enthused. "We're having a lot of fun playing these tracks. It's always fun getting out and playing new records, but it feels really like people are engaging with the songs."
Architects are a band who, despite having their core sound, have always been unafraid to experiment musically on each record. We ask Dean about that approach and how much musical growth he feels the band have left in them.
"We're always trying to push ourselves," he replied. "And I think as soon as - for a metalcore band with two guitars, bass, drums - as soon as you start adding electronic elements to it, the musical world is your oyster, because there's just so many things you can try. We've done records where we experiment a lot with orchestral sounds, and that might be something we revisit again. But we just try and do what's exciting for ourselves, really."
In the full interview, Alex expressed excitement about returning to Australia after a couple of years and highlighted the positive reception of their new album, The Sky, The Earth and All Between. He elaborated on the band's evolution in sound, emphasizing their confidence in creating music driven by instinct rather than external influences. He mentioned their willingness to experiment with various musical elements, facilitated by advancements in technology.
We spoke about what has changed with the band since they last toured Australia, what we can expect from their shows, and more.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/heavy-music-interviews--2687660/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So this is Ali from Architects, just here to talk
about our upcoming tour in December in Australia with two
great bands, House of Protection and President. It's been a
little while since we've been over, so yeah, we're really
stoked to get back.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Fantastic Ali, thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Thank you for having me, mate, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
My pleasure. So as you say, Architects return to Australia
and good fans and early Christmas. President. When you arrive
at three shows starting December the eleventh in Melbourne, then
hitting Sydney and finishing im Brisbane on December four, they
so it's still a few months away, mate, Like, do
you look that far ahead for tours or do you
sort of have so much going on you don't really
don't really worry about it till they get closer.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah, you know, we've started thinking about it. We obviously
have to stop planning fairly in advance of these things,
because yeah, there's a lot, a lot to figure out
these days. But yeah, we're currently on tour in America
Roughter Canada tomorrow for a couple of shows. But yeah,
it's quite a good way to work on future tours
(01:03):
really because we're all in the same room and we're
with our crew as well, so we can kind of
figure out the little complications that pop up weigh in advance,
and yeah, we can. We can also work on the
set and figure out what works and what doesn't work,
and yeah, it's it's it's a good way to prepare,
I suppose. And we've got UK and European headliner coming
(01:27):
up in October as well, so we'll be we'll be
gig ready by December.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
As you say, it's been a couple of years since
you hear Last Night, so what's changed with Architects at
that time?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
New records come out, Sky the Earth and All Between.
That came out earlier this year and we were in
the early stages of touring it, so we did a
headliner in March in Europe, and we did a couple
of release shows in the UK, and then we're just
as I said earlier, we're on a six week North
American tour of the record at the moment, and then yeah,
(02:01):
off to go headline at home, which we haven't done
for a long time as well, and then yeah, we
wrapping up the year in Australia. So it's just been
It's been a lot of touring for us. We didn't
we don't get out half as much as we used to,
but we've we've been blessed with some really great tours
so far. So we're very much looking forward to getting
(02:21):
over to Australia and seeing how the how the album's
gone down over there.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I speaking of the album mate you mentioned it's called
This Skuy the Earth and All the Train, which came
out earlier this year, So how was the reception for it?
Did you get the response to your iproens.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
For Yeah, I think I think it's gone down great.
You know, we like a lot of bands, we look
so much into the online data for how your music's performing,
and we're always very happy to see that our top
songs on Spotify are always songs from the new record,
(02:57):
So it feels like it's it's going down well online
and we're going out and playing these shows and people
already really know the songs, so yeah, it feels like
a big one and where we're having a lot of
fun playing these tracks. It's it's always fun getting out
and playing new record, but it feels really like people
were engaging with the songs, so yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
You mentioned you've had a chance to play a few
of them live, So are there any songs that have
gone down better than expected live or any that maybe
didn't go down quite as well as you thought they would.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
No, I mean we were playing I mean it's like
five songs from the new record and four of them. No,
they've all been No, four of them have been singles,
so people have had quite a good amount of time
to get familiar with them. But they all have their
own moments in the set, which is really cool, Like
(03:48):
they like crowd interact with them in different ways. So
that's that's been a lot of fun to figure out
kind of the best ways of playing them. And yeah,
we spent quite a lot of time working with our
crew on like making sure they sound as good as
possible and like the parts are played like, because there's
so many layers to our songs now, we we really
take a lot of time to figure out the best
(04:09):
way to perform them. And we've got a we've got
a couple of extra guys on stage who are helping
out with some additional performance parts. So it's yeah, it's
been a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Now the Sky of the Earth and all between was
your eleven studio album mate. So as a musician, do
you find it easier or harder to come up with
fresh showding material the more you're right?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Ah. I think when you're this far in and you've
made this many records, you tend to just you get
a good sense of what your band's sound is. Because
we read we we don't really look around us for inspiration.
We kind of know what it is we want to do.
And I think you can only really get to that
(04:51):
point after making a lot of music. You start to
trust your gut a lot more. You can you can
drawn influ in different ways. Like I think whenever you
start a band like you kind of have, you kind
of pull your potential bandmates together and you go cool,
we all want it to sound like this. And then
many years pass and you kind of start refining other
(05:14):
band sounds into your own, and it's it takes a
long time to do that. But I think the thing
that we experienced most after all this time is just
the confidence in what we're doing and we know when
stuff is right, and we know and stuff isn't good enough.
And we've also kind of got the the we know
(05:35):
when to say no to things, and we know it's
all about trusting the gut right and we're never going
to put out stuff that we're not happy with. Like
we've definitely done that before, and we've we've kind of
released music maybe when in the back of our minds
we're thinking it's not quite there yet. But we now
have that skill and that trusting ourselves to know when
(05:55):
it's good enough.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You know. Oh, and I'm like it. We've got your
core sound now, like as you mentioned, but architects have
never been afraid to experiment a little bit from album
to album. So along those lines, how much musical growth
do you think you've got left in here?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I mean, we're always trying to push ourselves and I
think as soon as like for a medical band with
two guitars based drums, as soon as you start adding
electronic elements to it, the kind of musical world is
your oyster because there's just so many things you can try.
And we've you know, we've done records where we experiment
a lot with like orchestral sounds, and that might be
(06:34):
something we revisit again, but we just try and do
what's exciting for ourselves. Really, that's where it all starts,
and I think we will listen to such different types
of music now and that's always going to influence what
we're doing, and we try and bring that to the
architects sound if you like. But yeah, as well, like
(06:56):
the way musical technology works these days, you can experiment
so easily, so there's really no excuse to not just
try new things all the time and just see what
excites you.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, before the album came out, mate, you toured with
Metallica for two years, So it goes without saying that
that would have been a great experience. But what sorts
of things do you learn about yourselves and about the
band on a lengthy tour like that with legends of
music like Metallica.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yes, it wasn't. I wouldn't say it was two years
of touring we did. We did two summers work for
shows with them and they were they were off doing
other things as well, So like it was, Yeah, it
wasn't a tour so to speak, but it really the
shows and themselves really took out of our comfort zone
because playing in the middle of a stadium is something
(07:46):
completely new to us, and also just playing to like
a very super dedicated fan base in Metallica fans, like
they're kind of like no music fans that we've played
to really before, because they're very like you can sense
that when you're on stage they want to see Metallica,
and we obviously completely get that. So yeah, it was
(08:08):
it was a bit of a case of winning crowds
over from show to show. Some shows were kind of
crowds are definitely a lot more receptive than others, but
we just had the best time doing it, like we
were we were so well looked after by the band
and their crew and yeah, there We've been a band
for a long time and like at some point you
(08:29):
stop getting so phased by things. But when we got
on offer to play a Metallica was like, oh my god,
like what how has this happened? But yeah, super fun shows.
Would absolutely love to do it again, and yeah it was, yeah,
unforgettable experience, Like if you're in a metal band, you're
almost definitely going to have grown up listening to those guys,
(08:51):
So it's crazy moment for us.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, and you mentioned earlier that you're bringing House of
Protection and President with you, so tell us a bit
more about them and why you chose them to bring
all the way over to Australia.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
So House the Protection are some good friends of ours
and they feature on track on the new record, on
a song called brain Dead. They're an awesome band as well,
Like as soon as we started hearing the material they
were working on, and when the first releases came out,
like we have to take these guys out, like they're
very much doing something that I mean, at least are
(09:27):
is is like super fresh, and like they're such an
exciting live band, so we can't can't wait to stop
playing shows with them. They're also doing our UKN European
tour in October and then President are just a band
that are super exciting right now. Like they've obviously come
along and released like a couple of tracks and they've
absolutely like you know, blown up the internet. So yeah,
(09:50):
cool to be at the start of that band's journey
with them, and I think it's gonna be really fun
having them on the shows.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I ne saw three shows that all a one too,
which is great. But as a band, do you have
any saying something like that or is it just something
that the promoters do.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
You can have saying it if you want, Like I
think generally speaking, we try and make our shows all ages.
It's not like a super strict policy or anything. Funnily enough,
like at least I've noticed, like never before in this
particular toll we're doing in America right now, there are
a lot of dog kids here, which is awesome, and
they're in the front row with their massive protectors on.
(10:32):
But the best time a little bit because it's like
pretty I didn't think our music kind of reached to
such young people, and if they're into our band, that's
that's like we're very grateful for that because if our
band can have the same kind of inspiration for a
young musician like we experience growing up, then that's that's
(10:53):
a whole different level for the band for us. So
that's it's cool to see. So yeah, we we really
love seeing that.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Patty. Now, I know we can't see you at the moment, Vabe,
but can you see my screen? Uh yes, because I've
got a little segment for you. I've started doing a
segment called photo Bombs. So basically, before we've had a chat,
I've trod through your social media and I found a
few photos that I want to talk to you a
bit more about. So I've found this one here like,
(11:20):
is that strict photography or editing or was a drum
kit at the opposite end of the room for the stage.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
That's just the medicine. Yeah, I've never looked at that
slide in that particular way, but yeah, I see what
you mean.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
But no, that is.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
That's just a compilation of shots. That would be a
very cool idea though to have. Yeah, I might have
to nick that I did from you.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
At some point I was looking at the crowd and
like half the people looking one way and half the
other way. It's like, and it's divided the crowd way
to look at it. It'll be a great little idea.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah that's a weird like trick of the eye, but yeah,
that's a cool idea.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah. Cool. And the other one I found this just
happened very often, mate, like when someone proudsurves all the
way to the stage.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
That is that is from a very long time ago.
That Yeah, we haven't we haven't played a show. We
did a couple of shows like this earlier in the year.
But they I think our fan base is like a
little bit older as well as much as you know, younger.
In what I was just saying about the the young
sys come to the shows. People don't want to do
(12:27):
this so much at our shows anymore. They're in their
late thirties, they've got bad backs, they're not playing around
this stuff anymore. But we definitely, we definitely get some
good crowdsurfing, but not they're not making it to the
stage anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And do you remember what that was in his head?
It looks like a cheddy bear, but I can't quite see.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, I got this photo. Looks like it was from
like twenty twelve, twenty thirteen or something. Yeah, but some
kind of teddy bear. I don't know if that if
that remains with us on tour and art, but yeah,
it's a great photo.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
All right, Roy, Well, thanks for your time, mate, thanks
for hanging around and waiting for us. And Architects are
in Australia studying the Elemnath of December in Melbourne. They
are a fantastic band live, so get yourself a ticket
if you haven't got one already.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Nice fun, all right, Chris, I'll be talking to you
me
So this is Ali from Architects, just here to talk
about our upcoming tour in December in Australia with two
great bands, House of Protection and President. It's been a
little while since we've been over, so yeah, we're really
stoked to get back.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Fantastic Ali, thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Thank you for having me, mate, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
My pleasure. So as you say, Architects return to Australia
and good fans and early Christmas. President. When you arrive
at three shows starting December the eleventh in Melbourne, then
hitting Sydney and finishing im Brisbane on December four, they
so it's still a few months away, mate, Like, do
you look that far ahead for tours or do you
sort of have so much going on you don't really
don't really worry about it till they get closer.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah, you know, we've started thinking about it. We obviously
have to stop planning fairly in advance of these things,
because yeah, there's a lot, a lot to figure out
these days. But yeah, we're currently on tour in America
Roughter Canada tomorrow for a couple of shows. But yeah,
it's quite a good way to work on future tours
(01:03):
really because we're all in the same room and we're
with our crew as well, so we can kind of
figure out the little complications that pop up weigh in advance,
and yeah, we can. We can also work on the
set and figure out what works and what doesn't work,
and yeah, it's it's it's a good way to prepare,
I suppose. And we've got UK and European headliner coming
(01:27):
up in October as well, so we'll be we'll be
gig ready by December.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
As you say, it's been a couple of years since
you hear Last Night, so what's changed with Architects at
that time?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
New records come out, Sky the Earth and All Between.
That came out earlier this year and we were in
the early stages of touring it, so we did a
headliner in March in Europe, and we did a couple
of release shows in the UK, and then we're just
as I said earlier, we're on a six week North
American tour of the record at the moment, and then yeah,
(02:01):
off to go headline at home, which we haven't done
for a long time as well, and then yeah, we
wrapping up the year in Australia. So it's just been
It's been a lot of touring for us. We didn't
we don't get out half as much as we used to,
but we've we've been blessed with some really great tours
so far. So we're very much looking forward to getting
(02:21):
over to Australia and seeing how the how the album's
gone down over there.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I speaking of the album mate you mentioned it's called
This Skuy the Earth and All the Train, which came
out earlier this year, So how was the reception for it?
Did you get the response to your iproens.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
For Yeah, I think I think it's gone down great.
You know, we like a lot of bands, we look
so much into the online data for how your music's performing,
and we're always very happy to see that our top
songs on Spotify are always songs from the new record,
(02:57):
So it feels like it's it's going down well online
and we're going out and playing these shows and people
already really know the songs, so yeah, it feels like
a big one and where we're having a lot of
fun playing these tracks. It's it's always fun getting out
and playing new record, but it feels really like people
were engaging with the songs, so yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
You mentioned you've had a chance to play a few
of them live, So are there any songs that have
gone down better than expected live or any that maybe
didn't go down quite as well as you thought they would.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
No, I mean we were playing I mean it's like
five songs from the new record and four of them. No,
they've all been No, four of them have been singles,
so people have had quite a good amount of time
to get familiar with them. But they all have their
own moments in the set, which is really cool, Like
(03:48):
they like crowd interact with them in different ways. So
that's that's been a lot of fun to figure out
kind of the best ways of playing them. And yeah,
we spent quite a lot of time working with our
crew on like making sure they sound as good as
possible and like the parts are played like, because there's
so many layers to our songs now, we we really
take a lot of time to figure out the best
(04:09):
way to perform them. And we've got a we've got
a couple of extra guys on stage who are helping
out with some additional performance parts. So it's yeah, it's
been a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Now the Sky of the Earth and all between was
your eleven studio album mate. So as a musician, do
you find it easier or harder to come up with
fresh showding material the more you're right?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Ah. I think when you're this far in and you've
made this many records, you tend to just you get
a good sense of what your band's sound is. Because
we read we we don't really look around us for inspiration.
We kind of know what it is we want to do.
And I think you can only really get to that
(04:51):
point after making a lot of music. You start to
trust your gut a lot more. You can you can
drawn influ in different ways. Like I think whenever you
start a band like you kind of have, you kind
of pull your potential bandmates together and you go cool,
we all want it to sound like this. And then
many years pass and you kind of start refining other
(05:14):
band sounds into your own, and it's it takes a
long time to do that. But I think the thing
that we experienced most after all this time is just
the confidence in what we're doing and we know when
stuff is right, and we know and stuff isn't good enough.
And we've also kind of got the the we know
(05:35):
when to say no to things, and we know it's
all about trusting the gut right and we're never going
to put out stuff that we're not happy with. Like
we've definitely done that before, and we've we've kind of
released music maybe when in the back of our minds
we're thinking it's not quite there yet. But we now
have that skill and that trusting ourselves to know when
(05:55):
it's good enough.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You know. Oh, and I'm like it. We've got your
core sound now, like as you mentioned, but architects have
never been afraid to experiment a little bit from album
to album. So along those lines, how much musical growth
do you think you've got left in here?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I mean, we're always trying to push ourselves and I
think as soon as like for a medical band with
two guitars based drums, as soon as you start adding
electronic elements to it, the kind of musical world is
your oyster because there's just so many things you can try.
And we've you know, we've done records where we experiment
a lot with like orchestral sounds, and that might be
(06:34):
something we revisit again, but we just try and do
what's exciting for ourselves. Really, that's where it all starts,
and I think we will listen to such different types
of music now and that's always going to influence what
we're doing, and we try and bring that to the
architects sound if you like. But yeah, as well, like
(06:56):
the way musical technology works these days, you can experiment
so easily, so there's really no excuse to not just
try new things all the time and just see what
excites you.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, before the album came out, mate, you toured with
Metallica for two years, So it goes without saying that
that would have been a great experience. But what sorts
of things do you learn about yourselves and about the
band on a lengthy tour like that with legends of
music like Metallica.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yes, it wasn't. I wouldn't say it was two years
of touring we did. We did two summers work for
shows with them and they were they were off doing
other things as well, So like it was, Yeah, it
wasn't a tour so to speak, but it really the
shows and themselves really took out of our comfort zone
because playing in the middle of a stadium is something
(07:46):
completely new to us, and also just playing to like
a very super dedicated fan base in Metallica fans, like
they're kind of like no music fans that we've played
to really before, because they're very like you can sense
that when you're on stage they want to see Metallica,
and we obviously completely get that. So yeah, it was
(08:08):
it was a bit of a case of winning crowds
over from show to show. Some shows were kind of
crowds are definitely a lot more receptive than others, but
we just had the best time doing it, like we
were we were so well looked after by the band
and their crew and yeah, there We've been a band
for a long time and like at some point you
(08:29):
stop getting so phased by things. But when we got
on offer to play a Metallica was like, oh my god,
like what how has this happened? But yeah, super fun shows.
Would absolutely love to do it again, and yeah it was, yeah,
unforgettable experience, Like if you're in a metal band, you're
almost definitely going to have grown up listening to those guys,
(08:51):
So it's crazy moment for us.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, and you mentioned earlier that you're bringing House of
Protection and President with you, so tell us a bit
more about them and why you chose them to bring
all the way over to Australia.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
So House the Protection are some good friends of ours
and they feature on track on the new record, on
a song called brain Dead. They're an awesome band as well,
Like as soon as we started hearing the material they
were working on, and when the first releases came out,
like we have to take these guys out, like they're
very much doing something that I mean, at least are
(09:27):
is is like super fresh, and like they're such an
exciting live band, so we can't can't wait to stop
playing shows with them. They're also doing our UKN European
tour in October and then President are just a band
that are super exciting right now. Like they've obviously come
along and released like a couple of tracks and they've
absolutely like you know, blown up the internet. So yeah,
(09:50):
cool to be at the start of that band's journey
with them, and I think it's gonna be really fun
having them on the shows.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I ne saw three shows that all a one too,
which is great. But as a band, do you have
any saying something like that or is it just something
that the promoters do.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
You can have saying it if you want, Like I
think generally speaking, we try and make our shows all ages.
It's not like a super strict policy or anything. Funnily enough,
like at least I've noticed, like never before in this
particular toll we're doing in America right now, there are
a lot of dog kids here, which is awesome, and
they're in the front row with their massive protectors on.
(10:32):
But the best time a little bit because it's like
pretty I didn't think our music kind of reached to
such young people, and if they're into our band, that's
that's like we're very grateful for that because if our
band can have the same kind of inspiration for a
young musician like we experience growing up, then that's that's
(10:53):
a whole different level for the band for us. So
that's it's cool to see. So yeah, we we really
love seeing that.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Patty. Now, I know we can't see you at the moment, Vabe,
but can you see my screen? Uh yes, because I've
got a little segment for you. I've started doing a
segment called photo Bombs. So basically, before we've had a chat,
I've trod through your social media and I found a
few photos that I want to talk to you a
bit more about. So I've found this one here like,
(11:20):
is that strict photography or editing or was a drum
kit at the opposite end of the room for the stage.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
That's just the medicine. Yeah, I've never looked at that
slide in that particular way, but yeah, I see what
you mean.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
But no, that is.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
That's just a compilation of shots. That would be a
very cool idea though to have. Yeah, I might have
to nick that I did from you.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
At some point I was looking at the crowd and
like half the people looking one way and half the
other way. It's like, and it's divided the crowd way
to look at it. It'll be a great little idea.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah that's a weird like trick of the eye, but yeah,
that's a cool idea.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah. Cool. And the other one I found this just
happened very often, mate, like when someone proudsurves all the
way to the stage.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
That is that is from a very long time ago.
That Yeah, we haven't we haven't played a show. We
did a couple of shows like this earlier in the year.
But they I think our fan base is like a
little bit older as well as much as you know, younger.
In what I was just saying about the the young
sys come to the shows. People don't want to do
(12:27):
this so much at our shows anymore. They're in their
late thirties, they've got bad backs, they're not playing around
this stuff anymore. But we definitely, we definitely get some
good crowdsurfing, but not they're not making it to the
stage anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And do you remember what that was in his head?
It looks like a cheddy bear, but I can't quite see.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, I got this photo. Looks like it was from
like twenty twelve, twenty thirteen or something. Yeah, but some
kind of teddy bear. I don't know if that if
that remains with us on tour and art, but yeah,
it's a great photo.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
All right, Roy, Well, thanks for your time, mate, thanks
for hanging around and waiting for us. And Architects are
in Australia studying the Elemnath of December in Melbourne. They
are a fantastic band live, so get yourself a ticket
if you haven't got one already.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Nice fun, all right, Chris, I'll be talking to you
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