Below is an email interview with Aftermath. All interviews are published unedited.
- Firstly would you please introduce yourselves, who plays what and who does what?
T.J. Bailey / drums
David Duvall / bass and vocals
Patrick Duvall / lead vocals and guitar
- I looked at your MySpace page and saw your list of up and coming gigs, how important is playing live to you?
Playing live is the greatest part about being in a band. We practice our asses off so we can put on a great show, but the show becomes it’s own animal once we kick into it and we all kinda get swept into this insane vortex where we can realize our greatest strengths (as well as notice what we need to spend more time working on) in front of an audience of friends or strangers. Or a mix thereof. We really like those crowds, because those strangers typically become friends by the end of the show. This helps the experience spiral out, you know?
- ‘Shoot The Fucking Television’ is a bullet to the head of our capitalist addiction and our treadmill lives, do you see yourselves as 21st century anarchists (or have I missed the point)?
You’re thinking for yourself, so you didn’t miss a thing. Anarchy is an elusive ideal with a broad spectrum of debatable definitions. To subscribe to any of these types of anarchy to become an anarchist, you’d still rival other camps of anarchists whose doctrines didn’t align with your brand, and the realization of true anarchy would be pushed further into the future. It’s pointless. Keep your ideals to yourself and live by them, but don’t force them on anyone else. Just be good to other people, think for yourself, and never compromise your integrity.
- The tracks I have heard of yours are extremely well recorded and sound superb, are there plans for new releases?
Thank you. What you heard will be included on our 12-track debut album AM Radio. It is still unreleased, but we look forward to having it in print by early autumn. I’m currently in the process of designing the layout for the packaging of the album, and I’m very excited at what’s being created. Beyond that, we’re just keeping up on our chops, writing new material for our next release, and working our asses off to fund this madness!
- Reading your blurb I see you were formed in 2001, what does the future hold for you?
The future? Fuck, that’s intense! I guess it’ll be a variable sum of all we apply in the present? If we continue working hard at this, it’s gotta amount to something. Or nothing! It depends on what you’re looking for, you know? Big stages, mass exposure, world tours… They all sound fantastic, but there are plenty of shitty acts that boast all of these resources. Do we seek to be on the same page as them? Or even in the same book? Not at all. We just want to create music to the best of our abilities. Not to say that there aren’t any phenomenal bands that have access to all that. There are, and we’d love the opportunity, but when in comes down to it, the future will hold a little bit of our music in it. We’ll see.
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