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A replay of Peaches Pit Party which you can hear on KBEAR 101 weekday afternoons 2pm - 7pm MST
The Artist Interrogations podcast. Check. Check. Check. Hey.
Hey. Hey. There we go. Oh, by the way. Am I too loud?
I can be loud. Oh, me too. It's fine. Yeah. My last name is Peach so I go by Peaches on the air.
Gotcha. I want you guys to think I was like some sort of like stripper or something like that. Hey, it's Peaches, you know. You're right before. Oh, no.
Yeah. Yeah. When I said that initially, Jolley from Bad Omen sang the whole song and I should stopped talking when he was doing it. I would have kept that forever. That's amazing.
Yeah. But how are you guys doing today? Doing great, man. It's been an amazing run. This is our been our most successful tour to date which is the most exciting thing we can announce.
I know. Yeah. It's pretty crazy that like it's you guys, Crown of the Empire, Caskets, Death by is it Death by Romy? Romy. Yeah.
Death by Romy. When did you guys start the tour? Star what was the first date? Oh my god. I have it on me.
I think it's March 6th in Orlando. You are close. March 13th in Orlando. Oh, okay. Yeah.
Yeah. For Orlando March 16th. That's what it was. Yeah. It's when we flew in and we started rehearsals.
So like I said, what's been the the best stop so far? I don't know if we all have a different answer, but we all absorb shows differently for different reasons. And for me, mine was Philadelphia. It was the biggest venue we've ever headlined in Philadelphia and it filled out and they were insane. And my family's from the area, so my my my family got to come see it.
So it was like a really nice moment for me personally. What about you? I think the St. Louis show was really good. Yeah.
Venue was awesome and, some of my family came to it and I got to be like, they've never seen us play live before in our whole band's career, so I got to be like, look what I do. Yeah. Similar similar answer. I I live in Orlando, and so I've got a bunch of friends and family out there, and it was the first show of the tour. And, it was nice to be like, look.
See? Like, I don't, you know, live in the back of a van. Things are actually going pretty well. It was great. It was great to friends and family.
Is it weird to, like, sort of brag to your friends and family that you're, like, you guys are in a very successful band? You know, you're So it's it's all different for us because, like, our our families come from different backgrounds. Like, my mom was in a band before and, like, did the whole circuit where she, like, toured and stuff. So she gets, like, going forward and the passion and the risk and all that. And I know your family's come from a more traditional background.
So usually, like, the idea is, like, alright. Well, are you gonna make money doing this? And then so to be able to get to a point where we can, you know he owns a house in Orlando that, you know, he was able to pay for with our band. We live in an apartment in North Hollywood, California which we're able to pay for with what we make and we're just blessed to be able to say that we can do that because we've been at this for 15 years and it was not always that way at all. Yeah.
It's pretty wild. They're like Yeah. Because when I saw the tours announced, I'm like, I I saw Set It Off. I'm like, who are these guys again? Like Yeah.
Yeah. And I started hearing Punching Bag and we put that in rotation. Oh, thank you so much. Of course. Yeah.
Yeah. All the all the songs, Punching Bag, Parasite, you know. Thank you. Even the remix below the belt with Point North. Oh, dude.
My boy John. John is one of the nicest I was just talking to these guys about how like they came to our studio on that tour with, Stitched Up Heart, I think. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Very, very cool.
Man. Both all of them. They're great. Yeah. I mean, it's it's how does it feel, though, to have, like, your songs being played on rock radio?
Because it's Surreal? Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, like like, I say this on stage every night because I think it's just a reminder to, like, feel the gratitude from from all the years of hard work. Now we were signed to 2 labels and we never got on the radio. And you think usually that's how that's, like, the magical formula. And then we go independent and the first song we release is called Punching Bag. And it's the first time we were on the radio.
And it was just it was it felt really good to bet on ourselves and and really go for it and and see the fruits of our labor kinda come to fruition. It's it's just been it's amazing. It's it's surreal and amazing. And just the the headlining tour that has to be like It's the cherry on top. Yeah.
Yeah. Like, just seeing like this we have our record for sold out shows. Tonight's sold out. Like, in so many metrics, this is our most successful tour we've ever done. There is a there's an interesting moment in our set every night where, you know, we've been a band for a minute.
And so Cody will ask, you know, who here saw us on the last tour? Some hands get raised up. And lately, he's been asking, who's here for their very first time seeing Set It Off? And the amount of hands we've been seeing, sometimes it's like 80% of the crowd Mhmm. Which is unbelievable.
So, we're just very grateful that something is clicking and something is working and, it's resonating with people. And how old were you guys when you guys first started the band? Oh, god. Here we go. Yeah.
Yeah. Because I was, like, 2008 and you guys were, like I was, I was, 19 years old. Okay. Yeah. We're all around the same age.
Yeah. I was about 3. So whatever math you're about to do, he was 3 when it started. Oh, that's because I I I remember, like, in high school or even middle school asking Alexandria Andrea shirts. And I'm, like, these guys are right down at their age.
I'm, like, they're not that much older than me. It's so cool. See, like, that that stuff is so inspirational to us just because, like, persistence is key. It really is. Like, because there's so many moments in this industry that you can't avoid where it's gonna feel like total failure.
Mhmm. And, like, you can take it as you can make it and turn it into a negative and be, like, oh, this is our sign, guys. Well, hang it up. This this is it for us. Or you can make it into a giant chip on your shoulder and barrel through it and that's kinda what we've done every time.
Like, no no struggle. We've gone through everything. We've had an entire team drop us. I've gone through a vocal injury. I've we've gone through all of these different things that should seem like, oh, I guess this is our sign and we've just overcome it and that's what you have to do.
It's a very competitive industry and there's a lot of bad people in it and you gotta find find your way through it and navigate it and overcome. I find it very similar to radio to be quite honest with you. Really? You don't get paid all that much in the beginning. You have to, like, work your way to the top.
I've come to learn over the years, like, my fiance is dabbling in in, like, the, like, the film worlds and and stuff like that and seeing that industry. And it seems like any industry. I get that you're just trying to climb up whether it be freelance, corporate, whatever. It's you are met with very similar struggles. Just like I always find it interesting when I first started writing songs.
I thought I was just writing about my personal life and that I could that song could only relate to me. Mhmm. Because it seems so specific topic wise because of who I'm thinking about, what I'm thinking about, and I can make the most specific song without saying a name of somebody and there's so many people out there that can relate to it. Like, we're we're not as alone going through situations as we think we are and that you can I just think that's the most beautiful thing ever? Like, it's, you know, it's just just it's it's special.
Definitely. Definitely. I mean, I think it was, like, you probably met tons of fans to think that, like, you know, they come up to you and be like, oh, I love Parasite. It's about, like, I I seen that for my ex, you know, that sort of thing. My my favorite is, like, this came to me at this came the song came to me at just the right moment.
Right. It's always great to hear. Yeah. I mean, that's pretty incredible for me since 2008 because I've, you know, I just barely unfortunately heard of you guys because I've our playlist is so bonkers on cable. Like, we'll have, like, Greta Van Fleet, and all of a sudden Lorna Shore comes on.
Oh, I love that. What is going on? Yeah. That's honestly, you could kind of group us into that sort of category because we have we've had so many different sounds. Yeah.
You're right. Which I think is great. I think that we should be more open to listening to different genres and and making a melting pot. So I love that you do that. On the the whole genreless approach, like, what Kim Dracula is doing is kinda like what Oh, so fun.
Like even Sleep Token too. Yeah. All these different, like, artists now are just going along with And you know what it's what it's doing that's great for, like, the music industry in general is before everyone tried to fit into a mold of or a formula of writing. It was like, oh, this is what's working, so we have to do this. But as time has gone on and people have received so many different genres of music, the genre list sort of style is becoming popular because we are absorbing so many different things at once.
That it's letting people go into a writer's room without a, alright, so it's gotta be this, it's gotta be this long, and they're just like, what's fun? Right. How are you feeling? It's just like it's it's just about having a good time right now, and I love that. Yeah.
It makes me so mad whenever I hear, like, about Noah from Bad Omens having to, like, specifically write Just Pretend for rock radio. Yeah. We don't want the soft stuff. Yeah. Because we try our best to play full length songs, like, we have typo negatives like Black Number 1, 12 minutes long.
Yeah. And then play some times. And we've been there, like, there's I've tried to write a song for radio, like, with that intention a a few times and it never went to radio. Right. And of course, the one time, like, you know what?
Screw it. Let's just have a good time. That's when it works out. Of course. It's the best.
Yeah. That's what you wanna put out there for sure. Yeah. Exactly. And you're sort of playing the clarinet at 2.
Not not 2nd grade. 2nd grade. But 8 years old. 8 years old. Yeah.
Yeah. That would be crazy. 2? I forgot to do. Not even speaking.
It's a Mozart junior type thing. But how did you do you guys also have other experience in classical instruments or or No. Okay. That's I mean, I just had to ask, you know? Yeah.
No. No. What made you get into that first of all? So actually kind of topical, my my grandfather, who's 95 years old, passed away right before this tour started. Oh, so He was no.
It's okay. He lived a very long fulfilling life and he gave me my first clarinet lesson. I was in 2nd grade. I was 8 years old and I heard a saxophone saxophone coming from downstairs and he was teaching my sister how to play sax. And I was like, that looks awesome.
I wanna learn. And and he was like, well, that's a little too big for you. So let me show you the shorter version of a saxophone. And he gave my first, lesson upstairs in his home. I think they were called thoroughbred books, like the beginner's book, who just learned how to read sheet music and all that, and 11 years of playing that and I, you know, I had a lot of success doing it, in the state of Florida and at my high school program and I got a little bit of money to go to to college up in Oberlin and I was pursuing classical clarinet.
That was gonna be my life. Wow. But I liked being in a band so much more. And it is different because I talked to Yeah. Tim Brennan of Dropkick Murphy's and he played accordion and it's like That's amazing.
Such a weird instrument, but it's also he also plays that in the band with the guitar and Yeah. All of them are, like, you find out they're all multi instrumental. Like, it's it's really weird. That's so cool. Yeah.
But how did you guys all meet, first of all? Like, that's another question. All in different ways. We met by playing shows in our local scene. Zach and I, met by playing, shows in our local scene.
I think for we then we would go to, like, Denny's afterwards and just, like, quote Family Guy and just laugh our off. And, Max actually auditioned for the band forever ago, but the moment we met him, we were like, okay. We feel like we've known him forever. And, yeah, we've just been doing this thing ever since. That's so cool.
Well, I'm very excited for the show tonight, guys, really. This is gonna be awesome. Me too. Great time, you know, the depot is definitely like a older venue. Like, it's Yeah.
It's a it's a fun little building for sure, but like if you guys, you know, the whole building probably shake out there tonight. Oh, I'm excited. Yeah. It's gonna be a good time. Well, thank you again for joining me today.
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