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INTERVIEW WITH AMY AND ADAM [CONSEQUENCEOFSOUND.COM] They’re currently on tour with the likes of Lily, Book Of Love and Metallic Swan among others and having released their highly anticipated sophomore album ‘Cradle To The Grave’ just over a month ago they’ve been relatively quiet instead putting focus on their current touring commitments, but with no singles released from their latest album and rumours of a possible fall-out within the band, their fans are understandably a little nervous regarding the future of this young band, however Consequenceofsound.com managed to get a brief interview with two members of the band during their recent stop in San Diego, California and here’s how the meeting with Amy and Adam went.It’s been quite a busy few months for you both, after finishing up the album you headed out onto the road in support of it quite quickly, how are you guys dealing with it, aren’t you tired?Amy: Oh you know, we get by.Adam: Seriously? We don’t deal with it, I mean look at us we’re totally zombified … well obviously Amy usually looks this bad anyway but me? I’m usually very very handsome but now … well I’m a little sad when I look in the mirror now, it’s not goodAmy: We get a pretty nice long break, after tonight’s show so we’ll be off for around a month or so and then Adam can finally catch up on his beauty sleep *shakes her head*I see, and how has the tour went so far?Amy: It’s a tour, you know? There’s no mythical beauty to touring, we quickly discovered that when we took on our first tour but yeah, it’s been good. All shows have been sold out so far and the new material is going down pretty well. We don’t have any complaints.Adam: We enjoy it, I mean we’d just be sat at home playing with ourselves if we weren’t on tour.Amy: Woaaah! Seriously Adam?Adam: I’m sorry, I was trying to be funny. Of course we don’t do that *shifty eyes*Amy: Yeah, that’s weird.Haha, well that’s rather reassuring. Where are the other guys right now?Amy: They’re … otherwise occupied right now.Adam: Playing with themselves no doubt.Okay, we read a report on Culture Uncut recently stating that there was some sort of difficulties within the band, do you care to reassure your fans?Adam: We’re a teenage band, we’ve been close friends for a long time but of course there’s gonna be occasional difficulties. I mean Amy’s a vegan and we all love Bacon, do we try not to eat Bacon when Amy is around? Of course not, we hide slices of bacon all around the tour bus for Amy to stumble across and get all angry … See this bruise? That’s because of bacon.So there’s nothing for anybody to worry about regarding the band’s future?Adam: No, I don’t see why there should be any worries about that. There’s tension, those reports are true, it happens and right now, sure we’re in a tricky moment but we get onstage together for each show and try to give the best performance we’ve ever given, whatever happens away from the stage is forgotten once we step onstage, we’re professional enough but this break that we have will be great for us to spend a little time away to do our own things and then we can meet up again in a couple of weeks and sort out any issues before we head back out on the road.Amy: Yeah. So long as we’re all breathing then the band will still be around.Okay, and your yet to release a lead single from the album, what are the reasons for that?Amy: There’s a few reasons for it really. Our first record was perhaps a little overshadowed by the singles and I don’t want us to be known as a band for great singles but great albums instead. Sure there will be one single released at some point from the album, I can’t see it happening anytime soon but there will definitely be a single.Your label Nomad Records has recently gone through a major change which James Urie even spoke out against, did you agree with his reaction?Amy: Yeah, it makes sense. The label has gone through a major change, when we signed they weren’t doing all that great but they put faith in us and it paid off not only for Riot! but also for the label. I love Vin and we owe a lot to him and the label, but if you talk to him about the label he’ll tell you some pretty cool stories. But you know, the label is under new management and it’s signed great people without question, sure it’s lost its identity a little along the way but it’s not a major issue. Would I have preferred the label to have remained the way it was when we signed then yeah, I’m not gonna lie, but it is what it is.Adam: I think we’ve still got another two albums left under Nomad Records. So in the bands best interest all I have to say is, “I love Nomad Records, I love Vanity, I love Stephanie Fierce and I love Ryan Ross Hernandez.”I’m sure they’ll be happy to keep you guys under contract. Your debut album has sold over 4 million copies worldwide and your follow up has currently sold just under 1.5 million copies, do you feel suitably happy with how the album went?Amy: Without doubt. Following up our debut was always gonna be incredibly difficult but we’ve made a follow up that far surpasses our debut album in my opinion. Everything about ‘Cradle To The Grave’ is better than our debut album in my opinion, will it sell over 4 million copies? I’m not so sure, but that isn’t important, the fact is that our second album is a lot better, we don’t have so many of those short catchy pop-rock songs like Sweet Little Fantasy’s, All The Non-Believers and Something Old, Something New. But there’s a depth in our new album that we didn’t quite have with our debut album. We don’t need it to be number #1 or to outsell our previous work but there’s a growth between the two albums that I’m personally very proud of.Adam: And not to mention the fact that they have this sexy rhythm guitarist featuring more heavily on the second album, that’s worth 1 million copies alone, right?Well thank you both for your time, we hope to speak to you again soon. |
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