Check out this interview that The Downtown Fiction did with BryanStars at a recent concert. TheRave.com interviewed TDF when they were there to play a show recently on the Friday Is Forever tour with We The Kings. Click here to check it out.
The Downtown Fiction recently did an interview with Teen Groove On The Move at their Six Flags concert in New Jersey. Check it out below! Check out an interview Seventeen did with The Downtown Fiction after their performance at Bamboozle. Click here for the full interview.
17: If you could create your own tour or festival line up, who would be on it? EJ: Miley Cyrus would headline for sure! The Jo Bros would probably be second. Obviously we'd be on it, and some friends that we've toured with before, like Amely, perhaps All Time Low, and The Summer Set. 17: If you could do band superlatives, like in the yearbook, what would each member get? EJ: David would get "Hardest to Wake Up In The Morning". Cameron would get "Most Likely Not To Be Speaking Because He Has A Cold." DP: And Eric would get "Most Likely To Steal The Van For Coffee In The Morning." "The Downtown Fiction recently released the first single from their upcoming debut album. The track, called “Thanks For Nothing,” is a bitter-angst filled track that lead singer Camron Leahy says he wrote after a bitter breakup last summer following the band’s tour with The Summer Set.
“When I wrote that song I had just gone through a breakup so I had some inspiration,” Leahy told Alternative Addiction. “It wasn’t really even a song I was writing for the record, I just felt like it had to be written.” Oddly enough, the song was actually written originally as a love song about the same person prior to the band leaving for tour. “I had written kind of the bones of the track before we left for tour, and that was prior to the break up,” explained Leahy. “The lyric in the song was actually, ‘the sun don’t shine when you are not around,’ and then after we got back from the tour [and had the breakup] I changed some of the lyrics around and added ‘thanks for nothing’ on the end of it. It’s sort of funny how the song completely did a 180 as far as what it meant.” The song was recorded in NY with producer Adam Richman, whom the band worked with on half of the album’s tracks. The band’s major label debut, titled Let's Be Animals is available staring April 26th." Source: Alternative Addiction. "Cameron explained how writing the first song just led to the 'happy accident' of the entire album's theme:
Let's Be Animals was the first song I wrote for the new record. I liked the theme of being stuck in a suburban town and feeling like you had limitaions and expections to get a job or go to college. That feeling that you wanted to just get out, just have fun, be liberated and be free of all that. I really liked that feeling and wanted to go with it the for the whole record." Click here to read the full article. The Downtown Fiction have only been a band for a few years, but with two EPs and a hit single under their belts, the Virginia rockers are proving that they're a band that's here to stay. The trio has been blazing up the airwaves with their debut song, 'I Just Wanna Run,' and are now in the studio writing and recording their first full-length album.
But that's not the only thing Cameron Leahy (vocals/guitar), Eric Jones (drums) and Dave Pavluk (bass) have on their plate right now. The band is also gearing up for the 2011 Glamour Kills tour with The Ready Set, Allstar Weekend and We Are the In Crowd, kicking off on February 23. While taking a break from their recording session in New York City, we got to talk to Cameron about The Downtown Fiction's forthcoming album, upcoming tour and why it's important to "go for it" in life. Read what the singer had to say in our exclusive interview below. JSYK: What made you and Eric want to start a band initially? Cameron: We were desperate to have a band, and that's all we really wanted to do, but all we had ever known was our high school music, so we wanted to do something brand new. The Downtown Fiction was an opportunity to do that. We started the band in the summer of 2008 -- I started writing some songs just on my own during the summer, and then we launched our MySpace page in the fall. We met David at Jammin Java, which is this music venue in Virginia that he had been working at. The band started in a very organic way, a pretty common tale, but we launched the site, and within a week we were already getting a lot of good feedback from people. We kept releasing songs independently until Photo Finish (record label) reached out to us. JSYK: Did you ever expect the kind of response you got? Cameron: No, definitely not, and we're still very taken aback by the response that we have gotten from this EP. It's an EP! I mean, when you're talking about a single or having any kind of radio play, you usually associate that with a band that has a full-length record out. So, its kind of an anomaly how all of this happened. It's really exciting, and were definitely just honored to have the opportunity to get our music out to so many people. We feel really lucky to have that chance. (More after the break) |
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