Interview with Lloyd
Can you tell us about the formation of Neck Deep? Neck deep was a project that Ben and myself started about a year and a half ago, I was playing in a hardcore band and we used to record with Ben's older brother in his room. Whenever I was there Ben would talk about starting a pop punk project, so I wrote a demo and... we did! It just kind of grew from there.
How did you guys get to the band name Neck Deep? We were throwing a few names around and Ben offered up neck deep pretty early. I was happy with it and it just kind of stuck. I can't even remember what the other options were haha.
How did you guys end up on Hopeless Records, and what have they been like to work with so far? They've been great to work with so far! We'd started writing an album and looking at what options were available to us. It looked like we would self release it, and then we heard that hopeless wanted to talk to us. A few calls later and that was it. It was amazing really, hopeless was a label we'd always admired, to even have interest from them was mind blowing, to sign was just a dream come true.
Your band has grown a huge fan base in a pretty short amount of time, so how exciting is that for you, and what do you think it is that people are really enjoying about your band? Yeah our fanbase has grown so much in a year or so, it's really been amazing. I'm not even sure exactly what it is that people seem to like so much, maybe it's just because we're a bunch of normal, pretty nerdy guys haha. We definitely don't take ourselves too seriously, and we're always really active on social media sites like twitter, and I think people like that about us