Alter The Press! - Albums Of 2009: (6-5)
6) Now, Now Every Children - 'Cars'
Alter The Press: How has 2009 been for you?
Cacie Dalager (vocals/guitar): It has easily been our craziest year. We've had a lot of awesome things and a lot of strange things happen. I think, overall, that the Paramore tour has been a good way to end the year. We had to cancel a bunch of tours due to unfortunate events like, I had to get my tonsils out a month ago, we had band problems and had to cancel a US tour, we got detained in France trying to come to the UK.
Brad Hale (drums): It got so busy, super fast, and none of us were expecting it but as far as good stuff, a lot of good press started happening, and our record was well received, which I wasn't expecting, then this tour happened.
Cacie: All of us came together this year.
Jess Abbot (guitar): Seeing it from the outside, and considering I've just joined, when I first starting listening to the band, I liked it a whole lot, but it was like a tiny thing in Minnesota and it's just an indie band that no one knows who I'm talking about. Then, being in it, it's like, 'Wow! I'm on tour with Paramore'. It seems like everything has just been crazy.
ATP: How would you say your debut album, 'Cars,' has been received?
Brad: When press started happening, I would go read a lot of it and people were writing things that I wouldn't expect to hear about us. It's funny to read reviews and hear people elaborate and say all these big words about what our record is about and how it feels etc. Just the amount of people writing about us was really nice to see because, literally, I thought only our family and friends would listen to it. To see actual magazine and blogs picking it up was really cool. We had a day in New York where we played a show, and a lot of people came out who were important, and that was one of the moments when I realized people are actually caring about what we are doing.
ATP: You're first time to the UK this year. Not being detained at the border this time! How has it been?
Cacie: It's been crazy. I feel like this is going to be one of those things when you're really old and talking to your grandkids or friends’ kids and telling them that you played Wembley (arena in London). I feel everything is going to be weird after the tour, when we go home and be like, 'Did we really play those venues and go back to our little lives and looking for jobs?'
ATP: Any interesting stories from your time spent here?
Cacie: A lot of weird interaction really.
Brad: Someone brought us a huge cake.
Cacie: For us and Paper Route. But some people have been to a handful of shows and have been super nice to us. We started this game where we put stickers on people without them noticing. There has been a lot of random things like weird bunk parties on the bus.
Brad: I just played Pokémon.
ATP: How does it feel coming to the UK for the first time and going head first into playing arena shows?
Brad: At first, we were going to do just the UK. If we weren't added to the Europe shows, and had just flown in here, it would have been terrifying; since we had the smaller shows before this, we are more prepared on what to expect.
Cacie: It's weird because the smaller shows are bigger then anything we've ever done.
ATP: Why no UK release of 'Cars'?
Cacie: No idea. I didn't know that.
ATP: Have you been working on new material?
Brad: We have a lot of ideas floating around.
Cacie: We have maybe 4-5 complete song ideas, not completely polished songs but full-completed ideas. I think we have, on top of those, 8 or 9 songs floating around that we need to figure out what we are doing. That's the only reason why I'm excited to go home, to really start working on these songs and writing new stuff.
Brad: We've been working on this stuff for a while. The album was officially, unreleased, in the US in December 2008, and we recorded it the summer before, so we are ready to move on. We've learned a lot and changed a lot.
ATP: When are you coming back to the UK?
Brad: After the new record is released, which we don't know at this point, but hopefully not too long.
ATP: What is planned for 2010?
Cacie: New record.
Brad: Working our butts off to push this next record a lot.
Cacie: Doing what touring we can and jumping onto more tours. That's my goal, the new record and tour as much as possible. Hopefully, record maybe early summer, but go home and focus on writing this record.
5) mewithoutYou - 'it's all crazy! it's all false! it's all a dream! it's alright!'
mewithoutYou were unavailable to comment when going to press.
To read our review of the album, click HERE.
Alter The Press: How has 2009 been for you?
Cacie Dalager (vocals/guitar): It has easily been our craziest year. We've had a lot of awesome things and a lot of strange things happen. I think, overall, that the Paramore tour has been a good way to end the year. We had to cancel a bunch of tours due to unfortunate events like, I had to get my tonsils out a month ago, we had band problems and had to cancel a US tour, we got detained in France trying to come to the UK.
Brad Hale (drums): It got so busy, super fast, and none of us were expecting it but as far as good stuff, a lot of good press started happening, and our record was well received, which I wasn't expecting, then this tour happened.
Cacie: All of us came together this year.
Jess Abbot (guitar): Seeing it from the outside, and considering I've just joined, when I first starting listening to the band, I liked it a whole lot, but it was like a tiny thing in Minnesota and it's just an indie band that no one knows who I'm talking about. Then, being in it, it's like, 'Wow! I'm on tour with Paramore'. It seems like everything has just been crazy.
ATP: How would you say your debut album, 'Cars,' has been received?
Brad: When press started happening, I would go read a lot of it and people were writing things that I wouldn't expect to hear about us. It's funny to read reviews and hear people elaborate and say all these big words about what our record is about and how it feels etc. Just the amount of people writing about us was really nice to see because, literally, I thought only our family and friends would listen to it. To see actual magazine and blogs picking it up was really cool. We had a day in New York where we played a show, and a lot of people came out who were important, and that was one of the moments when I realized people are actually caring about what we are doing.
ATP: You're first time to the UK this year. Not being detained at the border this time! How has it been?
Cacie: It's been crazy. I feel like this is going to be one of those things when you're really old and talking to your grandkids or friends’ kids and telling them that you played Wembley (arena in London). I feel everything is going to be weird after the tour, when we go home and be like, 'Did we really play those venues and go back to our little lives and looking for jobs?'
ATP: Any interesting stories from your time spent here?
Cacie: A lot of weird interaction really.
Brad: Someone brought us a huge cake.
Cacie: For us and Paper Route. But some people have been to a handful of shows and have been super nice to us. We started this game where we put stickers on people without them noticing. There has been a lot of random things like weird bunk parties on the bus.
Brad: I just played Pokémon.
ATP: How does it feel coming to the UK for the first time and going head first into playing arena shows?
Brad: At first, we were going to do just the UK. If we weren't added to the Europe shows, and had just flown in here, it would have been terrifying; since we had the smaller shows before this, we are more prepared on what to expect.
Cacie: It's weird because the smaller shows are bigger then anything we've ever done.
ATP: Why no UK release of 'Cars'?
Cacie: No idea. I didn't know that.
ATP: Have you been working on new material?
Brad: We have a lot of ideas floating around.
Cacie: We have maybe 4-5 complete song ideas, not completely polished songs but full-completed ideas. I think we have, on top of those, 8 or 9 songs floating around that we need to figure out what we are doing. That's the only reason why I'm excited to go home, to really start working on these songs and writing new stuff.
Brad: We've been working on this stuff for a while. The album was officially, unreleased, in the US in December 2008, and we recorded it the summer before, so we are ready to move on. We've learned a lot and changed a lot.
ATP: When are you coming back to the UK?
Brad: After the new record is released, which we don't know at this point, but hopefully not too long.
ATP: What is planned for 2010?
Cacie: New record.
Brad: Working our butts off to push this next record a lot.
Cacie: Doing what touring we can and jumping onto more tours. That's my goal, the new record and tour as much as possible. Hopefully, record maybe early summer, but go home and focus on writing this record.
5) mewithoutYou - 'it's all crazy! it's all false! it's all a dream! it's alright!'mewithoutYou were unavailable to comment when going to press.
To read our review of the album, click HERE.
