DL: First of all, what type of band are you? EM: That's actually a sort of difficult question. I don't like to put us into a category of bands where you have to conform to a sound. We play what we like to hear, what is nice to our ears. We like to goof around and have a good time like any other guy our ages would. This started out as a hobby and I am still having a bit of a hard time taking it seriously like the business it is. DL: Tell us the brief history of your band. EM: Well, me and Cam are from Wales and we moved here a few years ago and started the band after getting ourselves settled. There really isn't all that much to say, really. I mean, after we released our EP on the internet, the rest is pretty much history. It really just, it all happened so fast its pretty hard to sit down and list a long, uh, list of accomplishments that we've done since it was just so fast. Not Panic At The Disco fast, but still it happened quick. DL: Who are your musical and non-musical influences? EM: Non-musically, I'm not gonna lie but its definitely my grandparents. Sure, I mean, they annoyed the crap out of me a lot but I know it was all in good thoughts on their part. They wanted me to do good and I totally took it for granted, you know? I try to keep in touch with them often though, since I know granny's got her paranoia going for her every day and thats not always good on the health. And as for my musical influences, it is hard to say. I can't pick just one, and I feel bad for the music I haven't discovered yet. Would it be weird to say that music as a whole is my musical influence? DL: What are your dreams and goals? EM: No joke, I am going to take over the world like Gene Simmons. DL: [laughs] Can you please explain? EM: What is there to explain? That guy has an empire all because he was in KISS. He's got his name an face on fucking everything from toothpaste to thermoses to condoms! He's mega rich, has a gorgeous not-really-wife and kids. Who wouldn't want that? DL: How do you promote your band and shows? EM: With help of the internet it is a lot easier to get information about shows out to the general public. We post a million bulletins on MySpace and we make sure there are flyers up. I'm thinking street team but I have yet to bring it up to the rest of the band. I think that could get some more people into us, just cause it would be fun. Prizes and shit for like, promoting us. But yeah, all in all its the internet that helps us the most. DL: What do you think about downloading music online? EM: Well, we all do it whether you want to admit it or not. Yeah, its not the best way to get music but I mean, coming from a guy in a band who wouldn't have gotten anywhere if it wasn't for downloading on the internet. Like, yeah I am all for iTunes and what have you but you can still get around all that. I am perfectly okay with it, and I love it when. [pause] Rather, I loved it when we were playing songs from Can't Stop, Won't Stop, which hadn't been released yet, it gave me chills hearing our lyrics being sung back at us. This music wasn't even legally released yet. And however it got out, that amazes me. But it gave me chills, the best kind of chills. And I can't get pissed over something like that. DL: What advice would you give to fellow bands? EM: Aw man, I am not the best advice giver to walk this planet. Like at all. But I guess, from personal experience just go do what you want to do. And what you love to do. Because that is the only way you'll get some place and still be happy. If you do what people who aren't you want to do, and you start doing shit that you never wanted to do just so you keep a stable fan base, you will never be happy. DL: How does music affect you and the world around you? EM: It obviously affects me in a big way. It is what my life is. I live it, I breath it, I make it. I can't think of my life without it. It makes me sound like I am addicted to a drug of some sort but this is way, way, way above that. It is a big part of my life and I think if it wasn't there, my life wouldn't mean anything. I couldn't see myself ever going off to university or anything like that. DL: What's the best and worst thing about playing clubs? EM: I love playing clubs! I don't know why they get such a bad rep all the time. I mean, sure its small and you can't play for as many people but I mean, thats the sort of show I enjoy. You're playing to the people who gave a shit enough to get your tickets before they sold out. It's an intimate setting more often than not and you meet the most genuine people, and not those people who are there to just get drunk and fuck shit up. And I think I'd rather play clubs for the rest of this career, however long it ends up being, than to be playing stadiums. [AP] |