Interview with Shane
So for those that don't know, can you explain why Silverstein & Neil Boshart parted ways? We decided it was time for him to move on from the band. I think he was really burnt out on the touring and the travelling and the grind that the other four of us had grown to actually really love, and it was getting increasingly hard for him to deal with it. It definitely was showing every day. We wish him well with his future, his marriage and everything else.
How did Paul Marc Rousseau end up in the line up, and what's it been like to have him in the band so far? Paul Marc has been our best friend for years now. He originally came out on tour with us teching for us, doing merch, whatever he could do, and very quickly just from hanging out with him and seeing him pick up a guitar I knew he was an amazing musician. He had played in I Am Committing A Sin which was an absolutely incredible cutting edge and sadly short lived band. From there once we knew it was time for Neil to go, he was an obvious choice.
'Short Songs' is obviously something slightly different to what you guys do on a record, so can you tell us a bit about how the concept/idea for this record came about? Well in North America we have Record Store Day, which is one day a year where a lot of bands make limited releases for indie stores to sell. We wanted to do a 7" with our song The Artist on one side, and some cover songs on the other. We wanted to do three songs, but since you can only fit about four minutes of music on one side, we decided to cover three short songs. We had such a blast with those, playing them live and everything so then I had this crazy idea to maybe try and write some of our own. We definitely aren't the kind of band known for it so it was very outside the box for us. The record came out great, and everyone was really stoked on it, especially our older fans who grew up listening to punk rock and hardcore where almost every record had at least one song at 1:30 or less.