EastScene

Their on the rise, their wild, and their a breathe of fresh air! EastScene’s Shannah Lauren caught up with Anarbor at the 02 Academy on the second day into their Give It A Name Introduces U.K tour.  They aren’t afraid to show their true colours, which is something you don’t find in many bands nowadays. Signing to Hopeless Records in 2008, they’ve just releasing their newest album “The Words You Don’t Swallow” on April 20^th 2010, and ready to take on whatever is coming they’re way next! Haven’t heard of these guys? Check out their MySpace page.

Shannah Lauren: So you guys are in the U.K, how do you guys like it so far? One day in! (laughs)

Mike Kitlas: The beer is great!

Slade Echeverria: Free boos, it’s awesome, it’s fun!

Greg Garrity: (laughs) Yeah, a lot of free fosters!

Shannah Lauren: Do you guys feel like the venue or people are any different than back home in the U.S?

Mike Kitlas: It’s 100% different!

Shannah Lauren: Like what?

Mike Kitlas: Little things, like I went into KFC with them yesterday and I got my drink, and they gave me my f****** Pepsi without any  ice. And I was like “Can I have some ice?” and their like “Ice?! What you getting that?!”, I was like “What the f*** does that mean!” You know (laughs)

Greg Garrity: People are a lot more proper over here

Slade Echeverria: We haven’t interacted with like too many off the street people but as far as been playing, it’s been nice, people have been really nice.

Adam Juwig: They have a different lingo too!

Mike Kitlas: Yeah, you guys say like wicked instead of cool. They say smashing, they say cheers -

Adam Juwig: And shagging

Mike Kitlas: We seriously hear cheers so many times, everyone says cheers!

Shannah Lauren: You got to get a hold of the lingo though, it’ll make you feel 10 times cooler. (laughs)

Mike Kitlas: We’ll get it! Tomorrow’s a new day, we’ll probably be saying cheers tomorrow.

Shannah Lauren: (laughs) probably, so when did you guy’s release your newest album? Last week right?

Mike Kitlas: We hadn’t released our album till 4/20 (laughs) that was on purpose (laughs).

Shannah Lauren: You guys are partiers aren’t you?

Mike Kitlas: Yes (laughs)

Greg Garrity: (laughs) We actually just went to a pub

Mike Kitlas: And I’m actually really drunk, I had two beers before we went to the pub and I’m smashed right now! (laughs)

Shannah Lauren: You can actually play a live show drunk?

Mike Kitlas: Oh dude, yeah! I just smoked a f******* joint like five minutes ago, (laughs) I missed our last interview because I was smoking a joint.

Shannah Lauren: (laughs) so how do you guys feel about your most recent album compared to the formers?

Slade Echeverria: I feel like this one has a little more of our personal taste in it.

Mike Kitlas: We had to expand a lot more room in this record, like on this we have 11 songs rather than just 6 or 7.

Slade Echeverria: The EP we were just like, we have the 7 songs so we have to make them the best that we can. This one we had a lot more room to just like go out on a limb.

Mike Kitlas: Yeah, we did those slow songs and then we had the more aggressive songs.

Adam Juwig: The thing is we just didn’t want to risk anything on the EP, we just wanted to do just straight up seven rock songs and show people what we were all about. On this, it’s was like we could risk more.

Mike Kitlas: We got to show who we are as a band on this record.

Shannah Lauren: So what was your guys writing process like for it?

Mike Kitlas: All four of us write.

Slade Echeverria:I’d have to say it’s different for every song , but I mean basically like one of us will come up with a cool guitar riff or whatever or a lyric that we like,  and just kind of jam it off.

Adam Juwig: We just kind of branch off whatever, you know?

Slade Echeverria: We’re just like a jam band

Mike Kitlas: A lot of bands have their own style or their own sound, but with us, we write any f****** lyric that we like. There is no limit; we like to think outside the box!

Shannah Lauren: You guys are really progressing, and getting even more well known. Is this the first time you guys ever been to the U.K?

Mike Kitlas: Yes, and yes. Things are going really good and I haven’t been here with even my family or anything

Shannah Lauren: Are or were you guys nervous at all?

Mike Kitlas: Yeah! (laughs)

Greg Garrity: Yesterday I was so nervous!

Mike Kitlas: We didn’t know what the f*** was going on!

Adam Juwig: We already flew over the ocean, we landed our place, we played a show, there is nothing really else.

Slade Echeverria: We try to not come across nervous, you know?

Mike Kitlas: I’ve definitely felt like an American a few times

Greg Garrity: I’ve walked around by myself like twice, once yesterday, once today, and I was just completely f****** lost! Everyone’s just looking at me too

Mike Kitlas: And we don’t know who to call!

Shannah Lauren: (laughs) So have you guys been in a situation or anything that influenced you guys into writing a song?

Mike Kitlas: All the time! That’s like what our lyrics are based about. We don’t write songs about like girls, we don’t like make up songs about making out with chicks, we just write about what happens to us in real life. We have songs about different stuff, like when we got arrested in Texas, we wrote a song called Going To Jail.

Shannah Lauren: I was going to actually ask what that was about exactly!

Adam Juwig: I mean we aren’t going to write about some stupid ass dance party

Mike Kitlas: We write about what really happens to us in our life and that’s why we feel like kids can connect with us. Kids can listen to our lyrics, and their going through the same s***. We all want to experience things with drugs, we all want to experience things with alcohol, we all want to experience sex. You know? Temptations everything.

Shannah Lauren: This conversations reminds me something. Have you guys seen the Mayday Parade music video for Kids In Love?

Slade Echeverria: F*** yeah!

Mike Kitlas: Yeah! Dude it is out there, it was awesome! You gotta do it though.

Greg Garrity: There was like people nailing and s***.

Mike Kitlas: I respect them for that! I really do. It’s rock n’ roll, they trying to show kids what its like.

Shannah Lauren: Could you guys see yourself doing a music video like that?

Mike Kitlas: Well, we would!

Slade Echeverria: but they already did it

Mike Kitlas: We wouldn’t rip them off, we’re just about doing your own thing. And being original.

Slade Echeverria: All we can do is support them!

Mike Kitlas: I respect Mayday, they are a great rock band!

Shannah Lauren: So if you could have any tour, any band, dead or alive, who would it be?

Greg Garrity: The Beatles

Mike Kitlas: Jimmy Hendrix

Adam Juwig: Jimmy Eat World

Slade Echeverria: It was just be a massively sick tour

Shannah Lauren: So why did you name the album “The Words You Don’t Swallow”?

Mike Kitlas: We named it that because we didn’t really hold anything back with this record, and we really tried to say everything we have to say. Like we said we’d talk about growing up, we talk about our friends, our family. We talk about the f***** up s*** we see going on in the music industry, we really held nothing back with this record. And we try to get that across to kids. The words we won’t swallow, say exactly how we feel.

Shannah Lauren: Well, it’s good your not afraid to show who you are! So where are you from again?

Slade Echeverria: Pheonix, Arizona.

Mike Kitlas: Yeah, Pheonix Arizona.

Shannah Lauren: So did you guys like being a band coming from there?

Slade Echeverria: Oh yeah!

Mike Kitlas: Pretty girls, good weed. The only thing Arizona doesn’t have is a beach.

Shannah Lauren: Do you like it better on the road or at home?

Mike Kitlas: Oh, we need to be on the road! That’s the only way you live.

Greg Garrity: Like when your at home for too long, your just like f***. And then when your on the road for too long, your miss home.

Mike Kitlas: Yeah (laughs) especially when your in a different country! I mean, I just want to put some ice in my drink!

Shannah Lauren: I get what you mean! (laughs) Do you guys have any message that you’d like to send out to your fans?

Mike Kitlas: Be yourselves! And check out our record

Slade Echeverria: We’re on all of Warped Tour, well that’s going out to American fans! (laughs)

Mike Kitlas: (laughs) we just want kids to know that there is real s*** in this world, and too many bands these days put on a f****** front. Like, they’re “famous” and all this stupid shit and we’re not about that.

Adam Juwig: Everyone’s a real person.

Mike Kitlas: We just want kids to know that you don’t have to dress a certain way, or try to act a certain way. If your yourself, people will appreciate you for that. And if they don’t, then f*** them.

Shannah Lauren: That’s true. So do you have any goals you’d like for Anarbor?

Mike Kitlas: Make this our career!

Shannah Lauren: The music industry is tough nowadays to be honest, how are you guys handling that?

Mike Kitlas: Honestly, it’s the type of thing that you don’t have a steady job or anything and your only making money when your on tour. In the states, we do great, but here (laughs) we’re just like another opening band.

Shannah Lauren: If you guys tour here a couple times, then you will actually build up a lot of publicity! The first tour will always be a little rocky, but once your used to it, it will be natural and the shows will build up too.

Mike Kitlas: That’s what everyone’s told us! I mean, we figured it but the fact that we sold t-shirts last night to us was crazy.

Adam Juwig: I mean it’s a lot better than how we started out in the U.S!

Mike Kitlas: They appreciate it a little more over here. I feel like they understand music a little better.

Shannah Lauren: Thank you guys so much for the interview!

Mike Kitlas: Thank you!