Tell us about:

Your latest single you have released:

Tony:  “Rumination House” grew from a Johnny Marr influenced riff Pete Zeigler and Mike Ackley came to a rehearsal with. We have a lot of tracks that are upbeat bangers, but this is a diversion into a lower tempo groove with a little more swing. 

# Your favourite lyric in this song: 

Pete:  “Saints of the lost and found

Come find my keys right now, oh man”

Glenn: That would be mine as well, but I’m biased!

# Your favourite song that you have created that is an album track: 

Tony: “See You In, Hell Liberty Bell” I felt an explosion of positive emotions when recording that track in the studio. I can hear it in my playing!

Pete: Probably a tie between Rumination House and Liberty Bell, with odds to Liberty Bell.

Glenn: “See You In Hell, Liberty Bell” is a real barnburner.

# Your favourite song to play live: 

Tony: “Mr. Wonderful” for two reasons – we haven’t recorded it before, and it seems people react so strongly to it”

Pete:  Arrive.  For sure.  Always a set starter and it feels amazing to hit those first chords.

Glenn: Right now for me it’s “I Can Tell By The Cars” because it’s one of those rare ballads that works as an amazing closer.

# The song that was the longest to write and why? 

Tony: The longest songs to write are the ones we have shelved. Liberty Bell took more collaboration than the others.

Pete:  For these tracks all the songs came together pretty quickly.  Mike and I had the bones of all these well established and Glenn worked his magic with the lyrics and melody so things went pretty quickly.  We have a few that are not recorded that have been more of a struggle for sure. Maybe Liberty Bell was the longest to arrange but it wasn’t hard.  

Glenn: “Arrive” took me the longest to land on the vocal melody I was most happy with. But when you figure it out, you just know!

# Your most emotional track: 
Tony: “I Can Tell By The Cars”

Pete: I can tell by the cars

Glenn: Same. “I Can Tell By The Cars.”

# Dream collaboration: 

Pete:  My dream collaborations are probably outside of our genre and would be more like having jazz guitar lessons with some amazing player like Peter Bernstein.  I am a total nerd.  Sorry. 

# Describe the feeling you get when you walk on stage to do a show: 

Pete: Let’s do this!  

Glenn: It’s always a kind of transformation for me. There’s all this anticipation and thoughts about how it might go, but once I step on stage I definitely feel like I’m becoming the thing I need to be for the audience.

# The hardest track to play live:

Pete:  Probably Liberty Bell, but they are all pretty easy honestly.

Glenn: “Arrive” is a bit of a vocal workout.  

Essential items you always take on tour with you?

Pete:  Well, we don’t tour a lot but I guess it would be an iPad, a charger, extra strings, and some emergency Imodium. Also patience, grace, and a can-do attitude.

Describe your fans in three words:

Pete:  Well Read, astute, beautiful humans

Glenn: All that matters.

A song by another artist or band you wish you had written:

Pete:  Either Animal Nitrate by Suede or Do It Again by Steely Dan

Glenn: There’s plenty of artists I wanted to be growing up and tons of songs that make me inferior in talent, but I honestly can’t imagine being so taken by a song that I’d want to have written it myself. That’s some alternate dimension stuff!

What we can look forward to from your band this year: 

Pete: Mayhem, Excitement, a casual approach to life, and a solid 8 hours of sleep each night.  

Glenn: The rest of our forthcoming EP “Saints of the Lost and Found.”