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Interview: No Age (pt. 2)
Interview: No Age (pt. 2)
- Genre : More Music
- Type: News
- Author : Super Admin
- Date : Fri, 27 Jun 2008
It seems like your diverse sounds could really draw a large crowd. Any plans on joining up for a tour in the future?
No future plans right now. We’re headlining this tour coming up in the United States and taking Abe Vigoda with us. We’re just happy doing what we’re doing.
You guys have a history of not adhering to traditional venues. I remember hearing about your show at the LA River last year, is that the craziest place you guys have ever set up shop?
I've got to say, by far the craziest was when we played at South by Southwest last year on a footbridge in Austin, Texas. I think it was at 4 o’clock in the morning and there were a thousand people there on this footbridge. It was just so overwhelming to see so many people come out to a show like that and just have such a great time. They were singing along and yelling in Dean’s face. I don’t think they could hear us, but we could hear them.
Any stories of unorthodox show locations that didn't go over as well as you hoped?
Well, at the LA River, we only got to play 4 songs before the cops came and started breaking things up. But I still feel like it went well. It was still a lot of fun even though we didn’t get to play as long as we wanted.
You'll be premiering your video, "Eraser" on FNMTV this week. Maroon 5 and Rihanna are the performers, and their sounds obviously differ from yours. Were you at all surprised when you saw their names next to yours on the lineup?
Oh yeah. It’s completely surreal; it feels like two different worlds. They didn’t really talk to us, so I think it continues to be two different worlds.
Many independent musicians are staunchly committed to maintaining their outsider status, and getting the opportunity to premiere a video during a primetime slot on MTV is a decidedly insider privilege. How do you feel about this opportunity?
You’re able to affect a lot more change from the inside than the outside, that’s my theory at least. We’ll see how it goes. But we haven’t really changed what our music sounds like, and we’re not going to. So the idea is that we can either stand on the outside and kick and scream or take advantage of the cracks in the wall and get inside and still kick and scream, but do it to a more focused and attentive audience.
You guys got a lot of attention from blogs and websites that really seemed to push you to the next level. Given the shear amount of music people have access to on the web, how were you able to separate yourselves and take advantage of Internet-centric direction music fans are going in?
I’m kind of ashamed to say it, but I don’t really spend too much time looking up blogs. I mainly use the Internet to check e-mail and look up YouTube, so I don’t really know. It’s really nothing we planned or have any control over at all. That being said, I do post pictures from our tour on our blog, but I think, for me, it’s just someplace to put photos up, so I can erase my hard drive and know that they are still up somewhere.
All the songs on Nouns have a raw, DIY sound that really brings out your unique style of song writing. Did you have an overarching philosophy when you were writing and recording the album, or did it naturally evolve into this coherent aesthetic?
It's really just something we have fun doing. The only requirements for us writing songs is that we like them. If we come across something that just doesn’t sound good to us—not that everything we write is great—we have a pretty heavy editing process, but if we don’t enjoy it, or if we wouldn’t want to listen to it, or don’t like a part or just don’t think its that interesting, we’ll cut it out of the song. We’re our toughest critics.
Be sure to check out FNMTV this Friday June 27 for the premiere of No Age's video "Eraser." The show airs at 8:00 PM ET/PT.
—Jay Watford
06.27.08
1
No future plans right now. We’re headlining this tour coming up in the United States and taking Abe Vigoda with us. We’re just happy doing what we’re doing.
You guys have a history of not adhering to traditional venues. I remember hearing about your show at the LA River last year, is that the craziest place you guys have ever set up shop?
I've got to say, by far the craziest was when we played at South by Southwest last year on a footbridge in Austin, Texas. I think it was at 4 o’clock in the morning and there were a thousand people there on this footbridge. It was just so overwhelming to see so many people come out to a show like that and just have such a great time. They were singing along and yelling in Dean’s face. I don’t think they could hear us, but we could hear them.
Any stories of unorthodox show locations that didn't go over as well as you hoped?
Well, at the LA River, we only got to play 4 songs before the cops came and started breaking things up. But I still feel like it went well. It was still a lot of fun even though we didn’t get to play as long as we wanted.
You'll be premiering your video, "Eraser" on FNMTV this week. Maroon 5 and Rihanna are the performers, and their sounds obviously differ from yours. Were you at all surprised when you saw their names next to yours on the lineup?
Oh yeah. It’s completely surreal; it feels like two different worlds. They didn’t really talk to us, so I think it continues to be two different worlds.
Many independent musicians are staunchly committed to maintaining their outsider status, and getting the opportunity to premiere a video during a primetime slot on MTV is a decidedly insider privilege. How do you feel about this opportunity?
You’re able to affect a lot more change from the inside than the outside, that’s my theory at least. We’ll see how it goes. But we haven’t really changed what our music sounds like, and we’re not going to. So the idea is that we can either stand on the outside and kick and scream or take advantage of the cracks in the wall and get inside and still kick and scream, but do it to a more focused and attentive audience.
You guys got a lot of attention from blogs and websites that really seemed to push you to the next level. Given the shear amount of music people have access to on the web, how were you able to separate yourselves and take advantage of Internet-centric direction music fans are going in?
I’m kind of ashamed to say it, but I don’t really spend too much time looking up blogs. I mainly use the Internet to check e-mail and look up YouTube, so I don’t really know. It’s really nothing we planned or have any control over at all. That being said, I do post pictures from our tour on our blog, but I think, for me, it’s just someplace to put photos up, so I can erase my hard drive and know that they are still up somewhere.
All the songs on Nouns have a raw, DIY sound that really brings out your unique style of song writing. Did you have an overarching philosophy when you were writing and recording the album, or did it naturally evolve into this coherent aesthetic?
It's really just something we have fun doing. The only requirements for us writing songs is that we like them. If we come across something that just doesn’t sound good to us—not that everything we write is great—we have a pretty heavy editing process, but if we don’t enjoy it, or if we wouldn’t want to listen to it, or don’t like a part or just don’t think its that interesting, we’ll cut it out of the song. We’re our toughest critics.
Be sure to check out FNMTV this Friday June 27 for the premiere of No Age's video "Eraser." The show airs at 8:00 PM ET/PT.
—Jay Watford
06.27.08
1
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