Nanna: We don’t have any specific plans to write any more music. We were still pretty young and wanted different things and maybe didn’t really understand the interpersonal relationships that are needed to keep a partnership going.ĭoes the positive reception you’re getting on this tour suggest you may try making new music? Nanna: We toured nonstop and we lived together when we were home and we just got burnt out. Why did the band initially break up after Frame & Canvas came out? And we would bring other bands to play all those places, too.

And we were from the Chicago suburbs where we were putting on shows in VFW halls because bands our size couldn’t play the bars.īroach: Here’s a vegan restaurant that would do shows, a coffee shop that would do shows, a house party where we would play. We were influenced by bands like Fugazi that only played all ages shows. That’s how we went to those shows, which kind of sucked and felt very exclusive. All the kids would stand outside because there was a window (through which) you could kind of see the band. If you were a band that was touring, that’s where you would play. Nanna: You had to be 19 to get into the bars. If we hadn’t been there, a lot of the early post-hardcore bands at the time probably wouldn’t have come through as much.

We were also influenced by all the bands we were bringing through Champaign as well. I don’t think we felt the pressure, but we were practicing multiple times a week, living in the same house together, touring all the time together. If you listen to the record it feels like there’s a pressure there. So, living in Champaign, which was a little bit insular opposed to Chicago, probably had to do with the development of our sound and the writing of that record.īroach: Bob was finishing college, but any time we had a break, we toured. Chris and I came from the suburban scene in Chicago. A fascinating look at a massively influential and little explored treasure trove of music.Nanna: It’s easy to say Champaign because that’s where we were at the time.

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