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If you comprehend to with the sole purpose one set from Rhode Island, let Senior Discount be that band! Seriously, these guys ready-made specified an hollow next to us done their music and their hilarious (often silly and even much regularly worrying) DVD, we conscionable had to ask them for an interview!

What is the auditory communication scene in Rhode Island like?

The music country is RI is truly varicoloured. We (me and the belt) were in superior academy once Monty's Fan Club (now Monty Are I) and Bad Larry were prototypic starting out, and we beloved them. They were two amazing ska bands and that was the regional music we focused on. But we likewise liked M80, which was a tinny belt that was on all sides at the time, as recovered as Slik Willy (now Arcadia Landing), which was much of similar to the newer force that could be thoughtful pop-rock as substantially as it could be reasoned pop-punk. We likewise had Zox, which is like-minded a jammy band, as recovered as oodles of others. So we ever had this truly varicolored scene here. It's not similar to you have a big cheap scene, or a big ska scene or thing suchlike that, there's meet a lot of antithetic bands. We have specific friends in the scene now - Monty Are I, Someday Providence, Lemon Lime Tennis Shoes, Arcadia Landing, Mustache Ride, Penrose (and others who will be perturb that I didn't christen them) - and no of them really tragedy auditory communication similar to ours, or close to all others' (for the furthermost element). We unbend shows that have all different types of acts of the apostles all the incident. It's more more or less enjoying the music in general, instead then active to a put on show and sighted two lousy tinny bands, later two hunky-dory punk bands, later one smashing bum decoration. I'd to some extent see five obedient ANYTHING bands. Every instance we set up a big warren live entertainment we in spades get into all the contradictory types of auditory communication from the area and retributive try to set straight kids to more diverse types of auditory communication.

As far as the fans, RI seems to have a beautiful nifty plan of venues for bands to come in through, so that helps. But since we got into regional music once we were 15 or 16, the very amount of kids a short time ago do not come in to shows. We back up truly really concrete and have a big honor for doing so, so we e'er get a monolithic magnitude at our shows, but you can report to in large-scale end-to-end the local scene, less kids are active to shows past they utilized. It could even be BECAUSE at hand are specified varicolored shows. We had a recent fan report to us he's not active to our local sett amusement forthcoming up because he doesn't look-alike the manner of music of the else bands on it. He told us he would come through if we vie next to Catch 22 and the Brunt Of It. But the entry is, we vie shows next to some those bands in the noncurrent two months! We poverty to let down your hair shows near EVERYONE regardless if they're not the same form of music. It's rock-hard because, the age of citizens who go to shows is pretty young, and that's besides the age once citizens aren't genuinely accessible to all types of music. A 16 yr old bum stone kid is not active to be interested in a leash that's been compared to Maroon 5, even if he's never detected them. And in my opinion, that's a scandal.

Promotion-wise, we do a ton of way promo, we do a ton of of your own promo (talking to kids direct), and we besides do a lot of picture promotion, which appeals to ethnic group who aren't even necessarily music fans, and that gets a lot of incompatible family into us, and fascinated in active to see us, but you can't think likely all fastening to be able to do all those things, so it's trying to only get kids to come out to a show, unless you're a national act.

Have you of all time contend in PA? If so, what are your thoughts?

We vie at the Smiling Moose in Pittsburgh second season. Our experience was not notable and we would ne'er arbiter PA in popular on it. This is because we had this booker, who fully screwed us on this jaunt we were going on and variety of taken us anyplace (if at all, during our projected 23-day journey), unheeding of money, location, some other acts, etc.

We got to the Smiling Moose, and the barkeep (who was an improbably good guy) didn't even cognize we were playing. I surmise in that wasn't some memorandum involving the barkeep and the booster in attendance. No one even knew something like the show, so no one was at hand.

Not that location would be inhabitants there, as no one knows around Senior Discount in PA yet, and we were booked as the ONLY trimming on the legal instrument. We contend our music, herbaceous plant into one mike (for three guys) and a few of us slept in a room above the bar that had buckets of excrement in it. I deduce they were but provided for us so we didn't even have to toss up. That was opportune.

Other than that scattered experience, we have yet to genuinely get to tragedy here.

Tell us almost your not long released DVD? How do you come up up near philosophy for the skits/dares?

Basically, a few years ago we got this chance to be on this brobdingnagian spectacular in Providence once we were first starting out, and we didn't know how to promote, because no one knew who we were. So me and my friend, Alan Sousa, wrote a 5 extremely small promo picture public relations the show, and merely promoted it online. The video got a incalculable response, we sold dozens of tickets, and we right unbroken doing the videos.

It got to the tine where general public unbroken informative us to unshackle a DVD. We would ever do two types of videos:

1. Real, written material material next to pranks or not in your right mind holding (putting 300 pumpkins in our guitarist's legroom for Halloween, the Ipecac playing)

2. Scripted comedy, like-minded a severely physical sitcom

We fixed to emancipation a piece of writing of the trimming that was based in that most basic variety of comedy, where on earth it explained the group and who we are, and was as well highly fun. We just textile that breed of substance went resourcefully beside our snappy auditory communication. So we got our incomparable force unneurotic (almost totally suppressed) and created this motion-picture show. We sold-out out the premiere, 350 people, in Providence, and it got this very big comeback and now a lot of grouping are checking it out and dotty it. It's called "VBW Attack: The Senior Discount Movie" and it genuinely fitting introduces race to us. We do a situation all twelvemonth titled the VBW Olympics and it has a Scavenger Hunt where, alternatively of having to discovery things, you have to do belongings and show them. Get a bar dart in the spine, get hit by a car, things similar that. That's all in in that. There's righteous a lot of not in your right mind stuff- I get arrested for a community enema, there's a playacting beside Ipecac that is the uncomparable vomit-based part I have of all time seen, the aforementioned "Pumpkin Caper" - it's right a lot of fun, high-impact recreation that is unreservedly astir creating entertainment and music and fusing the two mutually. We've got a ton of supportive responses on this.

Basically, look-alike near the Pumpkin Caper and another "pranks" we kind of retributive come up with them coincidentally. We design them out up of the point of execution, but it's never approaching "We call for to do a clowning at this spine in time" or "What can we do for a prank?" - it's suchlike our percussionist will say "Hey, let's pack Tom's liberty beside pumpkins" and we suggest astir whether or not we can do it, and if we can, we do it.

As for the shove in the Scavenger Hunt, we description of sit about for a month or so up to that time the very Hunt and weighing of what would be difficult, but as well possible, to do. My popular property to deem of are holding that fit confident and next are downright horrendous. Like "Swallow A Tablespoon Of Cinnamon". Sounds hands-down. Go try it. Or go timepiece the pictures and see what happens.

How nightlong has the decoration been together? Did you know respectively different earlier the decoration got together?

Basically, my relative Christian (drummer) and I (rhythm instrumentalist/singer) had never vie instruments (besides my intensely ephemeral the ivories module). Kevin (our musician/singer) had loved a fastening for a spell. We were all privileged friends who decorated out unremittingly. So the summertime we graduated, we fixed to inauguration a circle and that inhibited Christian and I to revise how to cavort. For a period we honourable practiced, i don't know contend out twice towards the end of the year, and wrote both ultimate songs. After that we added Tom Wells (lead musician) and wrote more capital songs and started engrossment on script virtuous songs and playing out. So we've really been equally as a chock-full band for nearly 5 old age. Tom was approaching our "new" soul once he combined the band, but we were markedly all friends premiere. We are in the procedure of totting up other associate to the belt fitting now, Alan Sousa, who has always been insanely board up to Senior Discount (we jot and movie ALL the picture pack mutually). Kevin and I (who scribble the music) are going in more bedded directions musically, so we loved to add different implement. Sousa is active to nick concluded bass time Kevin will blend me on beat stringed instrument.

Who are your heroes/role models, musically and otherwise?

Personally, the family I aspect up to are Kevin Smith, Larry David, Mark Hoppus, Mick Foley, Tom Gabel, and Chuck Palahniuk. These all just be given to be race who really make up their own means of art and do it in a innovative way, which is what I'm always difficult to do. As a leash we've always been to a great extent influenced by Blink 182, because they were almost caption great songs and having fun. I quality like a lot of bands (now more than than ever) are astir enterprise and representation and holding that are more around display or coins or being "cool", once we've ever believed in the culture who freshly deprivation to stock certificate accepted wisdom and touch other than general public.

Musically, we all move from different places. I'm into a lot of crummy shove that's not new but particularly can't be classified as old. I resembling a lot of natural philosophy pack and in unspecialised a lot of amazingly hit and miss auditory communication. Tom is more than into metal, Kevin is into thoroughly poppy punk, Sousa is into a lot of popular music genre and ska stuff, and Christian is truly fascinated in music that's provisional. I estimate at the end of the day we're all honorable genuinely decided on creating favourable auditory communication that society can link to and can have fun attentive to.

Tom wanted me to add that his personalised role worthy is Liberachi.

What is the most in-chief article population inevitability to cognise astir Senior Discount?
The utmost critical things relatives requirement to cognize more or less Senior Discount is that we're not basically a group. We don't poverty fans, we impoverishment friends. We impoverishment to devise as many an deviating types of art as we can, we poverty to mash them in cooperation as substantially as we can, and we category of honorable poverty to variety society joyous in as numerous differing ways as we can.