August 17, 2025 • 14 mins
Interview by Kris Peters
The Home Team are travelling to Australia for the second time - this time with Mayday Parade - for the Three Cheers For 20 Years tour, after crossing the ocean last May with Caskets (UK).
The quartet have introduced stylings of R&B, pop and funk into their music in an effort to be true to their tastes while crafting their unique sound and return to play new songs for the first time off their latest album, The Crucible Of Life, and struck a chord on their debut visit, winning fans over more at each show.
HEAVY caught up with frontman Brian Butcher to get the rundown on the upcoming tour, with the turnaround being that quick, we have to ask Butcher if he has even had time to unpack yet.
"(laughs) Oh, that trip was awesome," he smiled. "I remember it like it was yesterday. We all agreed that Australia is one of the best places on Earth, and when we got the offer to come back we were very excited, and it was an immediate yes."
The Home Team are coming out with Jack's Mannequin as well as Mayday Parade, who are celebrating their 20th anniversary, so we ask Butcher if he has always been a fan of their music.
"I grew up listening to a lot more metal," he replied honestly. "A lot of heavy music. Mayday Parade was always on my radar, for sure, but I never dove into their albums until probably last year. And I can definitely see why they are as influential as they are. I also have a close friend who is a huge Mayday fan, so when I told him I was going on this tour, he was like, here is this album, and this album did this (laughs). They are very clearly extremely influential for great reason. For that, I have a lot of respect for them, and I'm very excited to meet them."
In the full interview Brian talks more about his time in Australia and how the crowds reacted to them, going from being the least heavy band on tour to the heaviest, how their set will differ to last time, why he thinks they were chosen as supports, the reception for their recent album The Crucible Of Life and how much of it they will be playing live, their eclectic sound and why it works plus more.
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The Home Team are travelling to Australia for the second time - this time with Mayday Parade - for the Three Cheers For 20 Years tour, after crossing the ocean last May with Caskets (UK).
The quartet have introduced stylings of R&B, pop and funk into their music in an effort to be true to their tastes while crafting their unique sound and return to play new songs for the first time off their latest album, The Crucible Of Life, and struck a chord on their debut visit, winning fans over more at each show.
HEAVY caught up with frontman Brian Butcher to get the rundown on the upcoming tour, with the turnaround being that quick, we have to ask Butcher if he has even had time to unpack yet.
"(laughs) Oh, that trip was awesome," he smiled. "I remember it like it was yesterday. We all agreed that Australia is one of the best places on Earth, and when we got the offer to come back we were very excited, and it was an immediate yes."
The Home Team are coming out with Jack's Mannequin as well as Mayday Parade, who are celebrating their 20th anniversary, so we ask Butcher if he has always been a fan of their music.
"I grew up listening to a lot more metal," he replied honestly. "A lot of heavy music. Mayday Parade was always on my radar, for sure, but I never dove into their albums until probably last year. And I can definitely see why they are as influential as they are. I also have a close friend who is a huge Mayday fan, so when I told him I was going on this tour, he was like, here is this album, and this album did this (laughs). They are very clearly extremely influential for great reason. For that, I have a lot of respect for them, and I'm very excited to meet them."
In the full interview Brian talks more about his time in Australia and how the crowds reacted to them, going from being the least heavy band on tour to the heaviest, how their set will differ to last time, why he thinks they were chosen as supports, the reception for their recent album The Crucible Of Life and how much of it they will be playing live, their eclectic sound and why it works plus 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):
I'm Brian. I sing for a band called the Home Team.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We call ourselves heavy pop music and we are going
on tour in Australia with Media, Pride and Jackson.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Mannikin fantastic Brian, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Today, brother, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
My pleasure.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
So as you say, the Home Team returned to Australia
next month for Runham shows through May Day, Pride and
Jackson Mannequin, starting in Melbourne on the twelfth of September,
before heading to Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide and finishing in
Perth on September nine. Age, So it's not that long ago.
You're out here last through taskets made it. He even
had a chance donepack.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh that trip was awesome. I remember it like it
was yesterday. We all kind of agreed that Australia is
one of the best places on Earth and we when
we got the offer to come back, we are. We
were very, very excited and it was immediate.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Guess that was actually your first tour of Australia, bro,
So how do you think the crowds like you over?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Heah, it was good.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We were on That tour was a much heavier bill
and we were definitely the lightest band on this time around,
I think we're probably the heaviest band.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
On the bill, so it's I mean, the reception was awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
We got to meet a lot of people who have
been fans of us for a long time, but in
the last year we've grown a lot, and I'm very
curious to see if that's translated to Australia and I'm
very curious to meet a lot more people.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Because yeah, it's it's it's been a good.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Year and I'm I'm really really excited for these shows
just because like people will finally be able to get
see us, and the rooms.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Are pretty big, which I'm pretty excited about.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
So nice.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
As we mentioned, you're ready this time with My Day
Pride through celebrating the twentieth anniversaries. That's a great achievement
for a band, like have you always been fans of this?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So I grew up listening to a lot more metal
and a lot of heavy music. Mayde Prayde was always
on my radar. I knew they were for sure, but
I never dove into their albums until probably like last year,
and I can definitely see why they're as influential as
they are. They and I also have a close friend
who's like a huge mative fan, so him and I,
when I told him I was going on this tour,
(02:10):
he came, He's like, this is their history, like this
is this is this album and this album is this
and like it was It was cool.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
But yeah, they're they're They're very clearly extremely.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Influential and for great reason. So for that, i have
a lot of respect for them, and I'm very excited.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
To meet them.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah, they could have pretty much chosen anybody to come over, right, Like,
why do you think they chose the Home change specifically?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
The good question?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You know, I don't exactly know, but if I were
to wager, I guess our sound is like different enough
but similar enough to what they have on It's it's
maybe more modern and maybe a little heavier. And I
think they're fans, like I think they will like us.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I'm like a little nervous.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I feel like this.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I think at first they might be like, what's going
on here? But yeah, I think it's a it's hopefully
it's just a matter of our sound being like modern
and weird and maybe a little new, And I'm hoping
that it's also just because they enjoy our music.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Well that's that's luckilyhood mate. I just thought, I ask you,
so just take somebody come along. And they've just made
may Day fans. They've heard nothing of the home team before.
What three songs he should they listen to in order
to get to know the band better?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
They probably loud Worthy and I'll throw right through me
from our previous album.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah nice.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Speaking of albums, bray you right to it on the
back of your latest album, The Crucible of Life, which
came out just every year ago. So did you play
many songs from that album on your last visit to Australia.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
We were just in the release cycle of that, so
we probably played all. I think we played all but
one of the songs that had been released to that up.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
To that point.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, oh no, no, no, no, I think we played all
the songs that we had released up to that point
from Crinciple. Uh. And I remember because the Australia tour
was the first time I play We played Overtime live
and that song is so much harder vocally than anything
that we've ever heard. It's a doozy and I remember
I remember, like the first show of that tour that
(04:26):
we had done in Australia was at Perth, and we
had this whole flight fiasco prior to that tour, and
so we ended up getting to the show like two
hours before it started and we were beat and I
had to go into singing.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Overtime and it was or I don't know if we
maybe we dropped it that night because I probably.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Anyways, I do distinctly remember overtime like playing that for
I'm much better at singing it now that I've done
it a thousand times. But yeah, we were, we were.
We had the album hadn't come out yet, so there
are gonna be some songs that are new to Australia
on this on this on this.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Tour, fights and how was a reception for The Creaseable Alive? Right?
Did people enjoy it as much as what you hope
they would.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, we were a little nervous, to be honest, just
going into it because the process of making the album
I sound like a broken up because I've said this
in every interview and I've said it on stage, was
very difficult. It was a very difficult album to make,
and it actually kind of plays into the title of it.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
But it.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
The reception was fantastic, and I'm really happy about that
because we took took some risks and made kind of
a weird sound, especially releasing Loud first. That's kind of
it's a bit of a black cheep on the album,
and we were I was just like, dude, if are
people are going to think this is too pop or
people are going to think it's too chuggy heavy.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Like, I don't know, people like it?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yeah, go, As you mentioned, you've had a chance to
play a lot of those songs live, So are there
any that ever better than what you thought they would
live or any that the opposite Maybe bands didn't like
as much live as you thought they would.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
So I'm gonna say a song, but I don't think
we're gonna be playing it on the Australia tour because
it's not popular enough. But we've played turn You Off
a few times, uh, and that song is fun. It's
really difficult for all the four of us, but it's
it's definitely a lot of fun. Hell is not one
(06:32):
of my like album favorites, but it's definitely one of
my favorites to play live. It's quick ass it's yeah,
it's rocking. So we will probably play Hell in Australia probably.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's so short that it's like it's easy.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah, I have to now you've said all that, man,
if you don't plays pointed.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
So overall, MA.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Like your sound blends pop punk, that's been R and
B in there, there's Park Brock there some heavier elements.
But on paper that just shouldn't work to be But
how do you guys seem to make it work well?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
So how do you find the balance between the genres?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
That's a really good question.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I I totally agree with you that on paper itself, realistically,
we we have a pretty fine filter. We have a
we filter out a lot of things that could be
perceived as like corny or like lame or I don't know,
(07:27):
Like I think it's a matter it's a matter of taste.
It's a matter of knowing when to dial it back.
It's a matter of knowing what things just shouldn't be present.
It's it's it's a lot of saying no, it's a
lot of like, that's not good enough, we can do better.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It's a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Of yeah, it's a lot of instinct and being true
to ourselves because if something feels off, it probably is.
And yeah, we we we've always liked genre blending, but
we've never really loved when it's spoon fed or like
when it's a gimmicky, you know what I mean. There
(08:11):
are exceptions to that, Like there are gimmicks that I
think people have just done a really good job because.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Of who they are, like artists, who they are.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
In our case, we would much rather create one cohesive
work that draws a little bit from all these different
pawns and influences as opposed to trying to make music
that sounds like it's supposed to be drawing from all
those things. Right, the home team is the home team
because it drew from those things and created the home team,
not because it set out to create a.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Mash of those things, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, if you've had a band support you toward the hite.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Chain, it's funny. We actually a long time ago in
the DIY days when we were going west stores that
nobody came to in Denver. I think it was in
Denver or Salt Lake somewhere like that. There wasn't a
band called the Away Team that we played with. I
don't think they're a band anymore, but.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Well the hard Shave always wait and don't I yeah,
fair enough, So I run somewhere bray that before you
joined the band in twenty fifteen an audition, you're actually
a fan, Like you're the first person to buy their
first EP off band camp.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Like, that's a great story, man, tell us about that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I was so there.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
They're bassist at the time was a friend of mine
and he had just joined. Daniel and John, our current
drummer and guitarist, are the only original members left, and
I remember that the bassis a friend. They released that
song and I was like, oh cool, Alex's new new
(09:45):
band has a song out, and I was listening to.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Us like this is cool, this is either like this
is really good.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Eventually I got connected with Daniel because he did a
lot of like merch printing, and I printed my band's
merch through him. And when they released their EP, he
sent me a message because we had been talking with
like merch stuff. He was like, hey, man, thanks for
buying the EP. I was like, yeah, no problem, absolutely,
I like.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Your guys' music.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
So I was listening to it a bunch and eventually
they replaced that singer with a different singer who was
also a friend of mine. The Seattle local heavy scene
was very like everybody kind of.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Knew each other.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And event they did one tour with that second singer,
and the second singer said, you know what, I think
I'm gonna go back to heavy music.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Brian, he hit me up. He's like, I think you
should audition. I was like, I think I'll do that. Nice.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
So, like being a fan of the band, you would
have sung the music into shower on the toelet or
whatever before, but when you would have you would had
your Ian Wye singing it a little bit. So when
you went into the audition, did you try to sing
it your way or did you try.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
And sing it the way that it was originally?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Dude, it's so funny you say that, because the way
that the previous vocalist I identified with a lot of
his cadences. I like, I heard it, and when I
was singing it like, I was like, our voices are
actually kind of similar. And sometimes when people stumble upon
that EP. We took it off Spotify and all that,
but you could probably find it on the internet somewhere.
Sometimes people think it's me and they're like he sounds
(11:10):
weird here, like he sounds really different.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And it's not me.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
But I did identify with his vocal style, and I
could I could kind of imagine myself singing some of
those songs live. In fact, a funny story, there was
one in particular. It was the last song on that
EP that I think was my favorite one, and I
was like, I could really see myself singing of the
song live. When I joined, we never played that song,
(11:37):
but everything else you never played that song.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
That's funny. As before I Let you Go, we got
a new segment of starting called photo Bombs.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
So basically I've trod three social media before you've got
a chat, I come up with a few photos I
want to know more about. Don't worry you got abum.
I've come across this old Madia like he's having that
much of a good time. No, he's forgotten that someone's
taking the microfight off him.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That was during sound check, I can tell you. That
is in recently in San Antonio on our last US tour.
I believe I wasn't on stage and they were sound
checking for everything, and I think somebody was doing sound
check for me. It obviously wasn't John, but somebody had
(12:21):
gone up to my mind it was probably Ryan.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It was sound checking, and.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I can only imagine that he's doing something related to
that in this.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I was I was like backstage waiting and I was like,
oh shoot, I gotta go soundcheck.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
You hit it right into it about it and he's
got the eyes, clothes and the time's out. He's loving it.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Yeah, that's John and the other one on fans got
the same gentleman in it.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
But how cool is that guitar strap? Is that?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Like?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Is that just bullets or is it cucodole teeth and
shock taeth in there? Dude?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
So that strap is custom made by his friend in
Portland who plays in some death metal bands shout out Viall.
His name's Kyle, and he makes those straps custom made
and they're not cheap because they're very, very very well made.
He's had that one for a long time. I think
this last tour was the last one he's doing on
it because it's just kind of breaking and he's just
(13:15):
played so many tours.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
But he's gonna get a new one. He's gonna get
another one.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Anybody ever got ahead off side, like he draw blood
on himself for anyone else?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Wait say it again, has.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It draw blood on himself or anyone else? Want to
site you with that?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Oh no, I don't think they're quite sharp enough to
They're they're pretty sharp, and I if he body checked someone,
he could definitely kill somebody. But but no, Luckily, the
only casualties have been once in a while, his necklace
will go over. I think he stopped wearing this particular necklace.
Kept doing that, but it would go over, catch on
the thing, and then one time I think it broke.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Oh definitely, because costumes would make you throw with it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, he'd yeah, when we checked, we gotta check that thing.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
That thing's come on a plane.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Jeff Yo bra will thanks to play speaking with you.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Home team will be in Australia next month from September
twelfth with May Day Pride and Jackson Mannequin, so heaviest
man on the bill.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Get along and check him out.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Thanks so much,
I'm Brian. I sing for a band called the Home Team.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We call ourselves heavy pop music and we are going
on tour in Australia with Media, Pride and Jackson.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Mannikin fantastic Brian, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Today, brother, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
My pleasure.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
So as you say, the Home Team returned to Australia
next month for Runham shows through May Day, Pride and
Jackson Mannequin, starting in Melbourne on the twelfth of September,
before heading to Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide and finishing in
Perth on September nine. Age, So it's not that long ago.
You're out here last through taskets made it. He even
had a chance donepack.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh that trip was awesome. I remember it like it
was yesterday. We all kind of agreed that Australia is
one of the best places on Earth and we when
we got the offer to come back, we are. We
were very, very excited and it was immediate.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Guess that was actually your first tour of Australia, bro,
So how do you think the crowds like you over?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Heah, it was good.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We were on That tour was a much heavier bill
and we were definitely the lightest band on this time around,
I think we're probably the heaviest band.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
On the bill, so it's I mean, the reception was awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
We got to meet a lot of people who have
been fans of us for a long time, but in
the last year we've grown a lot, and I'm very
curious to see if that's translated to Australia and I'm
very curious to meet a lot more people.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Because yeah, it's it's it's been a good.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Year and I'm I'm really really excited for these shows
just because like people will finally be able to get
see us, and the rooms.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Are pretty big, which I'm pretty excited about.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
So nice.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
As we mentioned, you're ready this time with My Day
Pride through celebrating the twentieth anniversaries. That's a great achievement
for a band, like have you always been fans of this?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So I grew up listening to a lot more metal
and a lot of heavy music. Mayde Prayde was always
on my radar. I knew they were for sure, but
I never dove into their albums until probably like last year,
and I can definitely see why they're as influential as
they are. They and I also have a close friend
who's like a huge mative fan, so him and I,
when I told him I was going on this tour,
(02:10):
he came, He's like, this is their history, like this
is this is this album and this album is this
and like it was It was cool.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
But yeah, they're they're They're very clearly extremely.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Influential and for great reason. So for that, i have
a lot of respect for them, and I'm very excited.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
To meet them.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah, they could have pretty much chosen anybody to come over, right, Like,
why do you think they chose the Home change specifically?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
The good question?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You know, I don't exactly know, but if I were
to wager, I guess our sound is like different enough
but similar enough to what they have on It's it's
maybe more modern and maybe a little heavier. And I
think they're fans, like I think they will like us.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I'm like a little nervous.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I feel like this.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I think at first they might be like, what's going
on here? But yeah, I think it's a it's hopefully
it's just a matter of our sound being like modern
and weird and maybe a little new, And I'm hoping
that it's also just because they enjoy our music.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Well that's that's luckilyhood mate. I just thought, I ask you,
so just take somebody come along. And they've just made
may Day fans. They've heard nothing of the home team before.
What three songs he should they listen to in order
to get to know the band better?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
They probably loud Worthy and I'll throw right through me
from our previous album.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah nice.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Speaking of albums, bray you right to it on the
back of your latest album, The Crucible of Life, which
came out just every year ago. So did you play
many songs from that album on your last visit to Australia.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
We were just in the release cycle of that, so
we probably played all. I think we played all but
one of the songs that had been released to that up.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
To that point.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, oh no, no, no, no, I think we played all
the songs that we had released up to that point
from Crinciple. Uh. And I remember because the Australia tour
was the first time I play We played Overtime live
and that song is so much harder vocally than anything
that we've ever heard. It's a doozy and I remember
I remember, like the first show of that tour that
(04:26):
we had done in Australia was at Perth, and we
had this whole flight fiasco prior to that tour, and
so we ended up getting to the show like two
hours before it started and we were beat and I
had to go into singing.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Overtime and it was or I don't know if we
maybe we dropped it that night because I probably.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Anyways, I do distinctly remember overtime like playing that for
I'm much better at singing it now that I've done
it a thousand times. But yeah, we were, we were.
We had the album hadn't come out yet, so there
are gonna be some songs that are new to Australia
on this on this on this.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Tour, fights and how was a reception for The Creaseable Alive? Right?
Did people enjoy it as much as what you hope
they would.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, we were a little nervous, to be honest, just
going into it because the process of making the album
I sound like a broken up because I've said this
in every interview and I've said it on stage, was
very difficult. It was a very difficult album to make,
and it actually kind of plays into the title of it.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
But it.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
The reception was fantastic, and I'm really happy about that
because we took took some risks and made kind of
a weird sound, especially releasing Loud first. That's kind of
it's a bit of a black cheep on the album,
and we were I was just like, dude, if are
people are going to think this is too pop or
people are going to think it's too chuggy heavy.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Like, I don't know, people like it?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yeah, go, As you mentioned, you've had a chance to
play a lot of those songs live, So are there
any that ever better than what you thought they would
live or any that the opposite Maybe bands didn't like
as much live as you thought they would.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
So I'm gonna say a song, but I don't think
we're gonna be playing it on the Australia tour because
it's not popular enough. But we've played turn You Off
a few times, uh, and that song is fun. It's
really difficult for all the four of us, but it's
it's definitely a lot of fun. Hell is not one
(06:32):
of my like album favorites, but it's definitely one of
my favorites to play live. It's quick ass it's yeah,
it's rocking. So we will probably play Hell in Australia probably.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's so short that it's like it's easy.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah, I have to now you've said all that, man,
if you don't plays pointed.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
So overall, MA.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Like your sound blends pop punk, that's been R and
B in there, there's Park Brock there some heavier elements.
But on paper that just shouldn't work to be But
how do you guys seem to make it work well?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
So how do you find the balance between the genres?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
That's a really good question.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I I totally agree with you that on paper itself, realistically,
we we have a pretty fine filter. We have a
we filter out a lot of things that could be
perceived as like corny or like lame or I don't know,
(07:27):
Like I think it's a matter it's a matter of taste.
It's a matter of knowing when to dial it back.
It's a matter of knowing what things just shouldn't be present.
It's it's it's a lot of saying no, it's a
lot of like, that's not good enough, we can do better.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It's a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Of yeah, it's a lot of instinct and being true
to ourselves because if something feels off, it probably is.
And yeah, we we we've always liked genre blending, but
we've never really loved when it's spoon fed or like
when it's a gimmicky, you know what I mean. There
(08:11):
are exceptions to that, Like there are gimmicks that I
think people have just done a really good job because.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Of who they are, like artists, who they are.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
In our case, we would much rather create one cohesive
work that draws a little bit from all these different
pawns and influences as opposed to trying to make music
that sounds like it's supposed to be drawing from all
those things. Right, the home team is the home team
because it drew from those things and created the home team,
not because it set out to create a.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Mash of those things, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, if you've had a band support you toward the hite.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Chain, it's funny. We actually a long time ago in
the DIY days when we were going west stores that
nobody came to in Denver. I think it was in
Denver or Salt Lake somewhere like that. There wasn't a
band called the Away Team that we played with. I
don't think they're a band anymore, but.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Well the hard Shave always wait and don't I yeah,
fair enough, So I run somewhere bray that before you
joined the band in twenty fifteen an audition, you're actually
a fan, Like you're the first person to buy their
first EP off band camp.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Like, that's a great story, man, tell us about that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I was so there.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
They're bassist at the time was a friend of mine
and he had just joined. Daniel and John, our current
drummer and guitarist, are the only original members left, and
I remember that the bassis a friend. They released that
song and I was like, oh cool, Alex's new new
(09:45):
band has a song out, and I was listening to.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Us like this is cool, this is either like this
is really good.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Eventually I got connected with Daniel because he did a
lot of like merch printing, and I printed my band's
merch through him. And when they released their EP, he
sent me a message because we had been talking with
like merch stuff. He was like, hey, man, thanks for
buying the EP. I was like, yeah, no problem, absolutely,
I like.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Your guys' music.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
So I was listening to it a bunch and eventually
they replaced that singer with a different singer who was
also a friend of mine. The Seattle local heavy scene
was very like everybody kind of.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Knew each other.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And event they did one tour with that second singer,
and the second singer said, you know what, I think
I'm gonna go back to heavy music.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Brian, he hit me up. He's like, I think you
should audition. I was like, I think I'll do that. Nice.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
So, like being a fan of the band, you would
have sung the music into shower on the toelet or
whatever before, but when you would have you would had
your Ian Wye singing it a little bit. So when
you went into the audition, did you try to sing
it your way or did you try.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
And sing it the way that it was originally?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Dude, it's so funny you say that, because the way
that the previous vocalist I identified with a lot of
his cadences. I like, I heard it, and when I
was singing it like, I was like, our voices are
actually kind of similar. And sometimes when people stumble upon
that EP. We took it off Spotify and all that,
but you could probably find it on the internet somewhere.
Sometimes people think it's me and they're like he sounds
(11:10):
weird here, like he sounds really different.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And it's not me.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
But I did identify with his vocal style, and I
could I could kind of imagine myself singing some of
those songs live. In fact, a funny story, there was
one in particular. It was the last song on that
EP that I think was my favorite one, and I
was like, I could really see myself singing of the
song live. When I joined, we never played that song,
(11:37):
but everything else you never played that song.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
That's funny. As before I Let you Go, we got
a new segment of starting called photo Bombs.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
So basically I've trod three social media before you've got
a chat, I come up with a few photos I
want to know more about. Don't worry you got abum.
I've come across this old Madia like he's having that
much of a good time. No, he's forgotten that someone's
taking the microfight off him.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That was during sound check, I can tell you. That
is in recently in San Antonio on our last US tour.
I believe I wasn't on stage and they were sound
checking for everything, and I think somebody was doing sound
check for me. It obviously wasn't John, but somebody had
(12:21):
gone up to my mind it was probably Ryan.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It was sound checking, and.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I can only imagine that he's doing something related to
that in this.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I was I was like backstage waiting and I was like,
oh shoot, I gotta go soundcheck.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
You hit it right into it about it and he's
got the eyes, clothes and the time's out. He's loving it.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Yeah, that's John and the other one on fans got
the same gentleman in it.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
But how cool is that guitar strap? Is that?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Like?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Is that just bullets or is it cucodole teeth and
shock taeth in there? Dude?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
So that strap is custom made by his friend in
Portland who plays in some death metal bands shout out Viall.
His name's Kyle, and he makes those straps custom made
and they're not cheap because they're very, very very well made.
He's had that one for a long time. I think
this last tour was the last one he's doing on
it because it's just kind of breaking and he's just
(13:15):
played so many tours.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
But he's gonna get a new one. He's gonna get
another one.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Anybody ever got ahead off side, like he draw blood
on himself for anyone else?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Wait say it again, has.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It draw blood on himself or anyone else? Want to
site you with that?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Oh no, I don't think they're quite sharp enough to
They're they're pretty sharp, and I if he body checked someone,
he could definitely kill somebody. But but no, Luckily, the
only casualties have been once in a while, his necklace
will go over. I think he stopped wearing this particular necklace.
Kept doing that, but it would go over, catch on
the thing, and then one time I think it broke.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Oh definitely, because costumes would make you throw with it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, he'd yeah, when we checked, we gotta check that thing.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
That thing's come on a plane.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Jeff Yo bra will thanks to play speaking with you.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Home team will be in Australia next month from September
twelfth with May Day Pride and Jackson Mannequin, so heaviest
man on the bill.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Get along and check him out.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Thanks so much,
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