tylercoates:

In the past it felt like reunion shows/tours were looked at kind of cynically. Now at least 15-20 acts playing at Primavera are bands that have reunited or come off hiatus. How do you think the public’s attitude has changed towards bands reuniting?
I think a number of things have happened, not the least of which is just that people have just got immured to it, you know? Like, “Well, this is happening, so OK.” [laughs]. And the fact that it’s a group that used to play that stopped playing and started playing again at the end of the day is kind of irrelevant to whether the music is going to be enjoyable to listen or not, you know what I mean? But at the same time, there’s certainly nothing wrong with a little bit of skepticism or even a hair of cynicism regarding it because, you know, there’s an element to it that even to me feels like… I jokingly to my friends call it “Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp” because, yeah, we don’t have any new stuff so we’re kinda bringing up old songs that we wrote when we were young and that is, I don’t know… You don’t wanna put any kind of apotheosis on it or anything.

Of course, but like you said, you didn’t break up because you hated each other. It’s easy to see that you’re doing shows again because you like playing together, so that certainly helps keep people’s opinions positive. This isn’t a Van Halen type situation.
Correct and, admittedly, there was a little bit artistic drift, you know [laughs], like we were kinda getting, stylistically, a little more disparate but we still got along. We still enjoyed writing the songs. The last album we did is definitely a little more different than a lot of the other stuff we did because we were a bit more ascetically fractious at time, but it wasn’t to the point of it being difficult. We still enjoyed writing the songs and we still argued with each other over song parts and structure and all that stuff, so it was rewarding and fun and cool. It was just that we were on the road playing shows 200 something dates a year.

My good buddy Adam Johns interviewed Matt Gentling from Archers of Loaf about their reunion tour. I wish I could say my first music interview went this well! Super proud! 

(Source: Blackbook)

yitzytaughtme:

tumblr summer ‘09 never 4get

(via topherchris)