INTERVIEW
Interview by Jen @justjenrees
face the king
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Hey Guys thanks for answering a few help us to keep getting back on stage. questions about Warped Tour. One of the That has to feel pretty good! funniest interviews, expect a few laughs! Were you left wanting more after the 7 You won a competition to be able to play shows? your 7 shows at Warped, You were one We were just talking about this driving of four national finalists out of 20,000 home through the night yesterday from a bands that played. Congratulations! Tell gig. The 7 days felt like a warm up, and us a little about how that all worked. we were only just getting started. We’re Of course. Using a simple algorithm that incredibly grateful for those 7 shows, factored in socio-economic and marginal being that only a small number of bands utility – Joey was able to decipher a seever get to experience what we just did. cret to succeeding in the music business That being said, next year we want to (I wish). Good One! The truth is we enplay the whole tour. We want to play the tered into this competition by Ernie Ball. second biggest stage they have (secFans vote and decide who moves on. We ond biggest to keep our egoes in check). are incredibly lucky that our fans believed With this we aspire to bring an arena rock in us so much, and it is truly humbling sound back to these festivals. to have that kind of support. We got an email saying that we were a finalist and What stage did you guys play on? were shocked. Bands enter these comWe played on the Ernie Ball stage. Great petitions with a pipedream – a glimmer stage too. The sound guy Bob was top of hope, so to be selected was unexpect- notch and treated us like gold. The stage ed. We owe all of the credit to our amaz- manager Kyle was on point. All of us ing fans - We just write the music. They were treated like rock stars...even Dan!