Your new record, Still Searching, has been described as a ‘milestone’. Were you consciously trying to change people’s perceived image of Senses Fail?
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"Yeah, that was a goal of ours, to take our band to the next level, and set ourselves apart from other bands and other music, and just try to progress. It wasn’t anything forced, it just kind’ve happened naturally, but it was definitely a goal of ours not to make the same record twice." Lyrically, it’s very frank. Has it been received in the way you expected? "I’d say it’s been received better than I expected. I was just trying to get stuff off my chest; I wasn’t really trying to say any specific message. I don’t think there’s one thing I set out to write, but I think I just wanted to be, well, honest. That’s the main thing I wanted to do." After Taste of Chaos UK wraps up, where’s next for the band? | "It’s easier in some ways and harder in others. In America, you’llÌý tour for two and a half months, but you can tour England in two and half weeks." | | Buddy on the differences in touring either side of the Atlantic |
"We go back to America to tour with Saosin, then a little time off, then back on the road with Saosin, then to the UK again in February, then back to the States to do Taste of Chaos. We’ll be on the road for about six months!" That’s a long time to be away from home. Do you enjoy life on the road? "I do, but it gets kinda boring. I’m tired of being outside of America. We’ve been gone for about a month and a half now, and I wanna get back there. It’s just a lot harder touring over here. Well, it’s easier in some ways and harder in others. In America, you’llÌý tour for two and a half months, but you can tour England in two and half weeks, so it’s easier because it’s shorter. But there’s the time differences, and calling home, so it’s harder in that way." Does the balance between being home and tour work for you?
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"This is the longest we’re gonna be out since we started as a band, so it’s gonna be really hard. But it’s gonna payoff. You just gotta take it a day at a time. You can’t look at it and think ‘****, I’m gonna still be on tour in three months’. You have to think, well tomorrow I’m going here, and then the day after we get a day off - take each day as it comes." If you suddenly went huge, would you embrace the fame? "I dunno, I don’t wanna be famous, so I don’t think I’d embrace the fame. But I’d be excited about a lot of people hearing about our band. I’d never put a limit on how big I’d want the band to be, but I don’t really think about it that much." |
