May
My Kerrang review of Motion City Soundtrack’s awesome two nights/four albums at XOYO, London.
Apr
Beyond Deep Blue: Winston McCall of Parkway Drive
I had a chat with Winston McCall, frontman of Australia’s mighty Parkway Drive, and talked about hitting pots and pans on the new album, life after Deep Blue and exactly why he’s a son of a battlechief…
I heard you play one of the tracks of your new album live. It was pretty full-on…
Yeah it went down a treat huh? Just a little sneak peek for you there.
Have you guys been playing that every night on tour?
Yeah, it’s been going down really well. It’s pretty weird that you can have a new song that no one’s heard and it still be one of the best songs of the set. I’m feeling really good about the new record, it’s like “Hey heres something that you don’t know” and “Oh you’re moving more to this one than you do to anything else?!”, but yeah, that’s how we write our songs.
Apr
My review of the mighty Parkway Drive and interview with frontman Winston. Such a lovely dude.
Apr
My Fucked Up Life: Damian Abraham
A few years ago had a sit down with Damian Abraham, frontman of the award winning punk band Fucked Up. We went over almost everything about his childhood, his record collection, and the origins of Fucked Up. Here is that interview in full.
Where and when were you born?
I was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 16th 1979.
What was your upbringing like?
I was raised in a middle/upper-middle class family. My mum was a flight attendant and my dad worked in advertising, so both my parents were away a lot, but it was a very pleasant upbringing until I was about eight and then my parents got divorced, and then my mum remarried a pilot, and he was an asshole – definitely not a cool guy – and then my dad moved to England so I’d come spend time with my dad over here and then my dad moved to Australia and I’d go spend time with him in Australia. But it was a very, generally speaking, pleasant upbringing. My mom went to great lengths to ensure that my parents divorce didn’t affect my brother and I, but my stepfather was a really strict asshole, but you get the picture now… he fuels my punk rage I guess. I remember we went to see the Circle Jerks and he was like “You’re not allowed to go see some ‘cum-in-your-face-band’. We went anyway, we snuck out. In retrospect it wasn’t that bad, like certainly it’s all relative y’know, but he was an asshole.
Mar
Last month I reviewed the utterly phenomenal Touché Amoré at the Camden Barfly. I also had a good chat to frontman Jeremy Bolm about the shape of hardcore to come. For me, it’s an honour to be able to work with bands like this - they’re on the forefront of something colossal.
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