as featured in Intro Changes Issue 2.5
Victor and I have been friends for a while and I've always wanted to interview him since I started doing my zine. We did this driving around on the night of April 25th after stuffing our faces with tofu dogs and french fries at Lafleur. enjoy.
IC: describe each of your current bands in a few words.
V: Nuke is heavy and ignorant, Wrong Hands is heavy and even more ignorant, and then No Bones is melancoly emo stuff.
IC: what are the plans for your bands?
V: well Wrong Hands just dropped a record and No Bones is going to Europe in the fall. as far as Nuke goes we're writing a couple of songs to put out an EP, and after that we'd like to play out a bit. Elie and I are pretty busy with No Bones already but yeah I'd like to do small tours with both Wrong Hands and Nuke, like a week here and there.
IC: when should we expect a new outing from No Bones?
V: we're putting out a 7" towards the end of the summer, so we can actually go on tour with something haha. it's gonna be six songs. they're already written but we just gotta work on them.
IC: will the next No Bones be even more emo than the demo?
V: yeah i guess. It’s definitly gonna have a way more melodic sound and the songs are way better (well, i think). We’ve been listening to tons of Sonic Youth, The Pixies and stuff like that so that probably influenced us a lot.
iC: any plans for a LP in a year or two?
V: one of my main goals is to write and record a good LP, meaning no filler songs or anything like that. it doesn't really matter with which band I do it.
IC: any plans for bands or side projects you wanna start in the near future?
V: I'd like to play another gig with United Stance for sure. asides from that, I just wanna do some small side project bands and record demos for fun and shit. being a music nerd, you can't be completely satisfied with just one band seeing as it's really hard to incorporate every influence in the same band. so you always wanna do something different. one week I only wanna play in fast bands, the other week I just wanna play in bands that sound like Breakdown. so yeah doing things like that allows me to play everything I want to which is cool.
IC: so what's the deal with United Stance? tell me a little more about that.
V: basically, Spoiler (Omegas/Justice) told me he did a band with Jonah (Fucked Up/Career Suicide) out of songs that he wrote but never used for any band, and he was gonna sing. Jonah recorded everything else, and then they got me, Luke from Waste Management and Danimal to play the songs live. we practiced the day before our only show at Not Dead Yet and it was awesome. I know Spoiler is gonna finish his vocals soon, or most likely.
IC: as far as MTLHC goes, what would you want to eradicate from the scene and what would you like to promote?
V: I'd like for it to be a little easier for new kids to get into it. a lot of times we're pretty quick to dismiss them as fake and fickle. I mean I see a lot of kids at shows that I wanna punch in the face because they're like that, but then I tell myself maybe when I started going to shows people thought the same thing about me you know? I'd also like more diversity as far as local bands go. at the same time we've got a strong local scene, our bands are quality right now. but it'd be sick if there would be more bands that are different. as far as hardcore in general the only people I want to see gone are people who outbid me on records (laughs). and I'd also like it to be easier for smaller bands to tour. there are a lot of cool bands we can't really see because gas is expensive and not everyone can really afford to tour, not to mention smaller bands don't always get enough support from hardcore kids.
IC: what's your favorite demo that dropped recently.
V: The SHIT demo was awesome, it had everything i like in a punk/hardcore demo.
IC: what bands are you most stoked to see at heartfest?
V: first, definately Final Word. as you can read on the other side of this zine they're legends as far as Montreal Hardcore goes. I mean when I listen to them it makes me want to assasinate the whole world. (laughs). asides from that I'm stoked to see Adventures because they don't really play out (ed note: who?) and also all of my friends bands, like Harriers, Esprits Noirs,all the smaller bands playing the fest.
IC: describe Phil Roy in a few words.
V: best dude. he puts a lot of time in booking Heart Fest and he is the hardest mosher to ever wear a pink shirt.
IC: we're done. any shout outs?
V: shout out to Fools Like You, and to Lafleur’s Tofu Dogs for keeping my veganism ignorant.
