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Taking Control With BROOKLYN COMIC · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  I'll lived to you, Joel. I promised good name. My name is
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  Steve. I play bass and act like an idiot on stage. Hi,
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  and Menderson, I've been the drummer for about three weeks. Thanks for joining
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  us today, guys. Yeah, that's all right, thanks for having us,
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  Hi pleasure. So for those with Brooklyn Comic guys, first, we'll
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  start off tell us a bit about the band. The band's been around for
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  just just over a year. I started writing music pretty heavily during the Second
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  Lockdown as a as a means of just kind of aiding my mental despair,
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  I suppose, and and yeah, so basically we have one mission statement,
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  and that's to raise awareness for mental health. And yeah, I like to
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  scream into a microphone and that kind of helps. So yeah, Oh,
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  you recently premiered your latest single, Charlie's Song, So I know it hasn't
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  been that long, but how's the earlier reception being for it. It's been
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  really good so far. Yeah, we've had a lot of a lot of
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  love from it. So yeah, we're just going to keep pumping it and
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  yeah, people hopefully keep enjoying it. So tell us a bit more about
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  the song from a musical point of view and what you were going for with
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  it, well, I was listening to like a lot of balanced composure,
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  a lot of movements, that kind of thing at the time that I was
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  writing Charlie song and a couple of other songs are going to be coming out
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  this year, and musically, I just wanted something that would really build as
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  as the song kind of just progressed too in a sense, kind of like
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  symbolize exactly what the song's content is about, which is like being in a
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  situation where you're in a relationship with someone who has addictive qualities or is addicted
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  to something, and you're trying to help that person out, but you see
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  that's at the end of your own the detriment, sorry, the detriment of
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  your own mental health, so you need to take a step away. So
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  yeah, that's basically what the song is about and what I was kind of
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  going with musical as well. It comes with a pretty cool video that showcases
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  the band playing in a room with two figures in white sheets playing chess in
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  front of your life. What's going on there? I'm trying to figure it
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  out, but I had no idea. Basically, like the ghosts are like
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  a symbol forearm for the addiction that you might you might face, and they're
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  basically battling it out while we're while we're playing the song like around them.
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  So there's always going to be that, uh, that that ghost that you've
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  got in your head or uh, that's always around and it's kind of your
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  opportunity whether or not you want to you want to fight against it or with
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  it. So yeah, you're saying that songs are basically about addictions and the
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  repercussions of it, and you're also think a lot about mental health. So
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  are they have sort of things that focused to the band? Like, is
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  that like basically a common theme running through all your music heavily? Men?
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  Mental health is is is a very heavy theme. Every every song that we've
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  written is about mental health in some way, whether that be through circumstance or
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  like through indoctrination, Like there's different ways of dealing with trauma that you've grown
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  up with. So yeah, that's a it's a heavy focus on the band.
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  And is Charlie's song a standalone song or if you're part of a bigger
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  picture album or EP picture and be part of a three track that we've got
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  that. We're just pushing pushing out sporadically throughout this year, so we've got
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  that one plus two more for the rest of the year. I do want
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  to tell us a bit more about the other three songs or do you want
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  to leave that surprise when they come out? Oh, like, now we're
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  gonna have to really leave it in a surprise. We've got an acoustic track
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  that's coming out after this, which is called night Drive, and it's basically
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  very very similar, very similar concepts to how Booklyn's been in the past as
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  far as mental health is concerned. This song is about coming to terms with
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  the way that you that you're coping through a three your mental health and whether
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  or not that's a beneficial way being able to cope, or whether that's a
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  more of a more of a cover up or more of a distraction from what
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  you're trying to deal with. And then we have skin Deep, and skin
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  Deep is to put it easily enough, it's about a break up, but
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  yeah, it's there's a lot more involved with it, a lot of introspection
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  coming to terms with even though you're not at fault with a breakup, what
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  can you do to be a better person. I'm moving forward that kind of
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  thing. So, yeah, how Everson, you've been really quiet there,
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  mate. So you're the new the new card in the pack, only been
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  there three weeks. Introduces yourself and tell us what you bring to Brooklyn Comics.
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  I lay drums, It's not it now. I've known Jane for like
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  five years at this point. I used to do music lessons at the place
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  that he taught her, and I just run into him at them all a
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  couple of months ago and it was like, I want you, I want
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  you to play drums for my band. So I was in another band before
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  this, and that you know, all fell to pieces. So I was
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  really excited to get with these guys and start jamming with Brooklyn because this kind
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  of music has always been like the best kind of music in my heart and
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  what I've always listened to since I was young. Like I've got my chemical
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  romance shot on, and it's a really good opportunity for me to like step
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  back into the music industry and have a bit more of a professional go other
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  things. So very well, very excited. Where are the professionals? What
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  are you talking about? Professional? From my last yeah, loosely put guys
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  like your sound. It's got a bit of a blending of hardcore and emo
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  there most other things. So where does that come from? It's not like
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  not a likely pairing. Oh, it comes from a range of like influences
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  that I've grown up kind of listening to, anything from saying like my Romance
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  to bands like The Used and Balancing Composure. So the yeah, the elements
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  are screaming and singing and hardcore elements just based around just just music that I've
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  kind of just grown up listening to and get heavily influenced even now. Yeah,
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  Yeah, it's an unlikely blend where some stuff, you know, it
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  comes across very pop punk and then just like it goes straight into like a
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  heavy rule scream. But it's it seems to work on that point, Like
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  they are pretty much opposing genre. So how hard is like in the writing
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  and the creative stage, how hard is it to get a balanced right?
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  Like how do you know when you've gone too far with one and maybe not
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  far enough with another? Like trial and error to put it, like,
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  We've got some real like brutal songs, especially in our LASTP I got a
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  couple of like really brutal songs, which yeah, in context they work well.
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  But then like for example, playing live, uh make it make it
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  quite diversive. I suppose towards towards the crowd, depending on the kind of
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  crowd that we're playing, Like where if we're playing a show with like that's
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  more of a pop punk show, you'll notice that people are a little bit
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  kind of taken back from the heavy elements, and then they kind of come
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  back when we have like the pop punk chorus or a song like Melancholy,
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  which is like yeah, very very pop punk. So yeah, speaking of
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  shows, if you've got anything coming up that you want to push, oh
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  we do, we do. We've got an Emo night in Woongong. La
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  La LA's in Woongong next Saturday, the twenty third, and we'll be playing
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  with with the Best Season and Headstrong, So that's going to be an awesome
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  night. So I'll wait for that one. And Lars is such a great
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  venue as well, so we're really looking forward to playing there again. Well
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  where can people find out more information? I'll get tickets? Oh yeah,
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  they can just go to our Instagram, go to our link tree. The
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  tickets are there, or they can go on the yours and ours Instagram or
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  website or even ampm Emo Night. They can go on there and find the
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  tickets there as well. Yeah, well, thanks very much for your time,
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  guys. The song Charlie's song is out now and he's a crack a
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  very very different piecing of songs, but it works well. Guys. So
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  I look forward to seeing you have up in the future. Cool. Thank
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  you so much for having us mate a protostarde. See you so in the
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  screen faces black. It's never your fault. Felis time now. Maybe you
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  know what it's so been about. Your just your clothes down, feel last
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  free, the play you. You'll be strong you me you just see so
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  staring at the sun the sea. I saw you. I guess you wanted
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  more. I'll see trying to stay please the eyes again. I take the
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  life for I see your trying to slime. That makes a difference. See,
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  I feel like stop. I just start when you You'll be stronger.
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  You please be friends. I just mee someone you trust.