Now that Real Friends is in the spotlight do you feel pressure to keep active on the bands and your personal social media sites and to have a consent connection to your listeners?
Since you all have released the vinyl of both your 2012 debut EP ‘Everyone That Dragged You Here’ along with your "Put Yourself Back Together" EP, do any/all of you collect vinyl? “Yes! Eric, Dave, and I do. I have a decent collection of about 60 or so records. I love the format and how the art can come together to make the packaging way better than any CD could offer. If done right, vinyl can be even more fucking awesome than it already is.” (Dan Lambton)
I know you guys are in the process of writing a full length. How’s that going? “It's going great. I am so stoked for everyone to hear our new music. I feel like it has so much more dynamic and depth.” (Kyle Fasel)
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How has meeting your fans and learning about the affect your music has had on their lives, changed your lives / way of thinking? “It's ridiculous (in the best way possible). We never really went into this thinking that kind of stuff would happen, we just kind of wrote songs that we liked. People come up to us from time to time to let us know that we've helped them out of certain issues at home, school, work, or what have you and it's very humbling to see that we can help people just like our favorite bands have done for us in the past.” (Dan Lambton)
“I don't really feel pressure necessarily but we do typically stay active on all social networks. I think social networks are great tools for bands. If you don't utilize them correctly I think it can get messy. You never want to be annoying or look like you are selling something all the time. It's best to use the social networks to showcase who your band really is.” (Kyle Fasel)
I read that you all get some pretty intense and personal emails/ letters from your listeners. How has meeting your fans and learning about the affect your music has had on their lives, changed your lives / way of thinking? “The impact on kids has become my motivation to keep going. Things can get really stressful at times, but knowing that I can connect with a kid through something I write, makes it all worth it. I want every kid going through struggles to know that they're not alone.” (Kyle Fasel)