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K.B. Hallen, Copenhagen, DEN - 13/3
Album Reviews
A Day To Remember
Previous Nextauthor BL date 22/03/10
It was bitter cold afternoon in London and I was waiting outside the venue to see Ocala, Florida act A Day To Remember. Personally I've been a big fan of the whole pop punk meets hardcore sound they have unlike fellow scribes TL and AP who I receive plenty of hassle from whenever I even mention them. Whether they like them or not they should know that A Day To Remember are quickly becoming one of the biggest names for the scene here with all their UK dates sold out well in advance and now playing bigger than ever venues. I headed up into the room at the top of the venue and sat down with members of the band on a couch to talk about a few things an hour before doors opened at the front.
Alex: Alex, I play drums.
Alex: (after me pointing the mic at him) Sweet!
Jeremy: (very quiet, didn't hear him very well) It got really sick.
Josh: You did a bad thing. Er I remember this time... I was swimming, we all went swimming at this like, cliff that you can jump off into the water in Tennessee and Jeremy pee'd on me... from the cliff. That's pretty funny I guess.
RF.net: Haha sweet... well I guess not for you at the time.
Josh: Alex, you got any memories?
Alex: I don't know, it's hard to think of...like I don't know, give me one Jeremy and I'll say it. That's the kind of... (interrupted).
Josh: Well how about, Alex, like the entire time we toured in our van in the States. We had, like a 15 passenger van, with bench seats or whatever so whoever was driving, drove, whoever was sitting passenger, like the co-pilot or whatever was there, and then it was usually was broken up into... like our guitarist like slept in the front, Jeremy slept in the next one, I slept in the next one, and then it was Neil, our other guitar player. So Alex didn't have a bench seat, so for how many years? like two and a half? (Alex: two and a half) almost three years? He slept on the floor between Tom our old guitar player and Jeremy's bunk on the floor.
Alex: It' uh, took my a good five minutes to turn from my back to my side, or to turn to my side to my stomach, or however position I wanted to lay. And there was no AC down there, and we were sleeping in the van a lot so I wake up sweating and just hating my life but... it's not really funny but looking back it's really funny so.
Alex: Yeah we're writing a lot, and I think we'll record it this summer and I don't know when it's going to be out but, it'll be good. Or at least we'll like it...that's all that matters.
Alex: I just think they're fucking jealous, that's all I got to say.
RF.net: Haha
Josh: I been going through a lot of rap too, uh The Young Money CD is really good. Um... it's not out yet but it will be out, the new Veara record. You need to check them out.
Alex: Less Than Jake, Blink 182, New found Glory.
Josh: Everyone should know our sound guy's side band, it's a straight-edge band...even though he's not straight edge. It's called xNoEntry...x. (more laughter)
Alex: There's another band you should check out called Kitty Peri (spelling?). (more laughter)
Alex: And Metallica too though, that's band is fucking enormous!
RF.net: both?
Josh: I think my favourite song that... we've ever done... I really like off the new record, a song called "Holdin' It Down For The Underground".
RF.net: What about playing wise?
Josh: Playing wise I would probably say, let's see, I always like to play one of the heavier songs I guess like "Mr Highway's Thinking About The End", that's always a fun song to play, and there's a ton of songs I like to play. Alex?
Alex: I like playing "I'm Made Of Wax Larry, What Are You Made Of?" and "Homesick", those are my two favourites.
Alex: Well I think they (as in here in Europe) appreciate it more because we're coming over from the States. And there's so many shows, like every day in the states that so you get kids, that they don't go to a show for a band that they don't want to see. And they think that "Oh fuck I'll just go to a show tomorrow cos I can." where over here I don't feel like they get as much touring and I don't know, it's kind of over saturated I guess? Something like that?
Alex: I think the best way to put it is, it should be called "Homesicker" cos it's going to be like "Homesick" but sicker... (awkward pause) ... What? (looks around the room, laughter) there's no other way I can think about saying it! it'll be the same shit just better.
RF.net: (whispers into his ear)
Josh: Rockfreaks.net! :D
Alex: Fuck yeah!
(laughter)