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La Querelle : renaître de ses cendres
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La Querelle : renaître de ses cendres
La Querelle : renaître de ses cendres
Julie Ledoux
24 juillet 2010
Issus de parcours ska et punk, les cinq membres de La Querelle travaillent de manière plutôt inusitée. À trois guitares dans un band à saveur post-rock, les néophytes du groupe peuvent bien se demander quel genre de pièces ressortira du lot. Comme nous le dévoilait Mathieu Lachapelle (voix et guitare) : « C’était louche! »
En jammant dans un hangar du quartier industriel, puis dans le bois à Mascouche, pour finir dans un champ à Chambly, les membres de La Querelle sont passés par toutes sortes de questionnements et de tracés différents. Mathieu, Jonathan (voix et guitare) et Pascal (basse) arrivaient d’un périple de dix ans avec Issue Sixteen qui les a un peu laissés sur une note amère : « On a travaillé fort avec ce band-là. On a fait des tournées en Europe. […] À Moscou, on a joué devant une salle de 2000 personnes! Ici, ça n’a jamais aussi bien marché. Dans la dernière tournée, y’avait comme un réseau de nazis qui nous suivaient et qui voulaient nous tuer… », se rappelle Mathieu. « Ça a été dur, y’avait plein de corruption policière en plus. Quand on est revenus, on était épuisés de tout ça. On était fatigués d’avoir mis tant d’énergie dans ce band-là… Dans le fond, sur le CD de La Querelle, la dernière toune, c’est un peu ça, « Montreal, Montreal » : l’idée de la fin de la tournée. »
“Sunday, bloody Sunday”… pourquoi pas?!
Tandis que Guillaume et Jean-Philippe terminent l’épopée de Seven Days Not A Week et que la fin d’Issue Sixteen laisse les trois premiers sur leur faim, un peu déçus, l’idée de recréer un band plane et la rencontre fait en sorte que les phénix ressuscitèrent de leurs cendres : « la première fois qu’on s’est rencontrés pour jouer, je leur ai dit « Ah, j’aimerais ça que ce soit U2! » […] U2 c’est un bon hybride entre des guitares hyper planantes et du rock ben mélodique. Je leur ai dit ça et je pense que ça [les] avait choqué un peu », se rappelle Mathieu. La Querelle était donc née, sous fond de confusion artistique : « Ben oui, la première fois qu’on jamme avec lui, y’avait un archet pour jouer de la guit’! On ne comprenait rien! », nous dit Guillaume, débouté.
Fierté + création = Toutes mes félicitations!
Dans le fond, La Querelle, « [c]’était une querelle de band (NDLR : la fin d’Issue Sixteen), mais c’est aussi une querelle face à la scène. Par exemple, la scène montréalaise qui est hyper trendy et super fermée, tandis que quand on est allés en Europe, ce n’était pas comme ça : on jouait avec des bands screamos et on était plutôt des punks gentils, mais le monde capotait quand même. » Si le nom du groupe est francophone – « une façon de s’associer au Québec sans dire tout le temps “on est fiers d’être Québécois” » -, les compositions demeurent résolument anglophones, avec un penchant pour les onomatopées et pour la liberté de création : « On compose juste en jams », affirme Guillaume. « On fait juste glander. On a chacun nos instruments, pis on gosse… puis on compose. Y’a personne qui arrive avec un riff », ajoute Mathieu.
G : Ben, c’est arrivé une couple de fois…
M : Ah ouin? C’était quoi?
G : Ben t’sais, sur la deux, le riff de shoegaze qui fait « ta-da-ta-da…»
M : C’est toi qui a fait ça?
G : Ouais!
M : Ben, félicitations!
Je reviendrai à Montréal…
L’enregistrement ne s’est pas fait sans peine. Tandis que leur preneur de son arrivait de Paris et repartait avec ses enregistrements pour travailler de l’autre côté de l’Atlantique, les gars rongeaient un peu leur frein en sol natal : « Quand t’as une notion artistique de ce que tu veux, tu n’as pas le choix de réagir ou d’intervenir. […] On était trop difficiles donc on lui a dit de laisser faire et on a fait le mix ici, nous-mêmes, avec Nicolas Dallaire. », nous lance Mathieu. Et qui d’autre? Oh! Simplement Ryan Morey au mastering. Un bonhomme qui a aussi travaillé sur le premier Arcade Fire, en plus d’avoir collaboré avec Malajube et autres Lhasa de Sela.
Et sans s’asseoir sur cette collaboration, les gars de La Querelle ont simplement décidé de booker eux-mêmes leur tournée éclair européenne, sans intermédiaire envahissant : « Un band, c’est pas juste des hippies qui grattent la guitare, c’est une business aussi. T’as vraiment l’impression que c’est ton projet et c’est mieux réussi, on dirait. Pas une business pour faire du cash, là! », affirme Mathieu. « Au bout du compte, t’as le contrôle absolu sur ce que tu fais. Si tu ne fais rien, tu n’auras rien. », conclut Jean-Philippe, empreint de sagesse.
Le lancement de l’album Welcome To My Battleship de La Querelle aura lieu le 7 août au Il Motore puis le groupe s’envolera pour une tournée express de deux semaines en Europe, passant par la France, la Pologne et l’Allemagne, entre autres.
myspace.com/laquerelle
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Barn Burner in top 20 of 2009
!earshot charts - top 20 loud of 2009
| Rank | Artist | Title | Label |
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| 1 | Mastodon | Crack The Skye | Warner |
| 2 | Buried Inside * | Spoils Of Failure | Relapse |
| 3 | Brutal Truth | Evolution Through Revolution | Relapse |
| 4 | Tombs | Winter Hours | Relapse |
| 5 | 3 Inches Of Blood * | Here Awaits Thy Doom | Century Media |
| 6 | Augury * | Fragmentary Evidence | Goodfellow |
| 7 | Coalesce | Ox | Relapse |
| 8 | Sunn O))) | Monoliths & Dimensions | Southern Lord |
| 9 | Obscura | Cosmogenesis | Relapse |
| 10 | Absu | Absu | Candlelight |
| 11 | Converge | Axe To Fall | Epitaph |
| 12 | Propagandhi * | Supporting Caste | Smallman |
| 13 | Mumakil | Behold The Failure | Relapse |
| 14 | Megadeth | Endgame | Roadrunner |
| 15 | Nadja * | When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV | The End |
| 16 | 16 | Bridges To Burn | Relapse |
| 17 | Voivod * | Infini | Sonic Unyon |
| 18 | Heaven & Hell | The Devil You Know | Rhino |
| 19 | Dying Fetus | Descend Into Depravity | Relapse |
| 20 | Barn Burner * | Bangers | New Romance For Kids |
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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Barn Burner : Plus rock que ça, tu meurs!
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Barn Burner : Plus rock que ça, tu meurs!
Kristof G26 novembre 2009
Barn Burner rock sérieusement, sans pour autant se prendre trop au sérieux (selon leur page Myspace, ils viennent de « Bongtreal ». C’est ce qu’on a conclu en écoutant en boucle Bangers, leur premier album (sorti cet été sur New Romance for Kids Records), dont les remerciements se limitent à un « Thanks Bros, Bands, Babes, Families. ». On apprenait il y a quelques semaines que le band venait de signer sur Metal Blade Records et que leur album sera remixé en vue d’une sortie mondiale en mars. Quelques jours avant un concert au Friendship Cove, BangBang a fait un brin de jasette à Kevin ‘Keaglesmith’ Keegan, le chanteur et guitariste soliste du quatuor.
À Montréal en 2009, il n’y a peut-être plus beaucoup de granges à incendier, ça n’empêche pas les gars de Barn Burner de brûler toutes les planches où ils foutent les pieds. Plusieurs rockeurs présents à leur concert en mai (avec Priestess, au Il Motore) n’eurent ensuite que des bons mots pour cette découverte, qui – à ce qu’on dit – vola la vedette ce soir-là. Puis, le 19 juillet dernier, par un ensoleillé dimanche après-midi d’été sur la terrasse des Foufs, j’ai été instantanément conquis par le rock très hard de mon nouveau groupe heavy préféré. Ni plus, ni moins qu’un coup de foudre.
Il y a quelques semaines, on annonçait que notre quatuor avait signé avec l’illustre étiquette américaine Metal Blade. Étrangement, cette histoire nous rappelle un autre groupe montréalais – Priestess! – qui s’était lui aussi fait recruter il y a quelques années par une institution américaine bien connue, suivant la sortie de leur premier album. Cependant, pour Barn Burner, la nouvelle – une offre par courriel – est un peu tombée du ciel. « C’est un peu arrivé de nulle part; on avait envoyé l’album un peu partout, mais étrangement pas à Metal Blade; on se trouvait juste pas assez metal pour eux », avoue Keegan, en supposant que c’était plutôt l’œuvre d’un bouche à oreille positif à leur égard qui leur aurait filé un coup de main. Heureux hasard.
C’est en fait la continuité d’un long processus pour Bangers: l’album a été enregistré un an avant sa sortie (soit à l’été 2008) et produit par le groupe et Adrian Popovich (Tricky Woo, The Dears, l’ex-DFA1979 Sebastien Grainger…). Avant sa sortie internationale en février 2010, la nouvelle version de Bangers (avec Mikey Heppner de Priestess sur la pièce « Brohemoth») sera remixé — « pour que ça sonne encore plus heavy » assure Keegan — et inclura deux toutes nouvelles pièces. Yes.
On ne serait vraiment pas surpris de voir cet autoproclamé « enfant à trois têtes d’Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy et Fu Manchu » se mettre à tourner avec des pointures du genre, en suivant les traces de Priestess, avec qui il a plus d’un point commun – dont un son aussi rock classique que métallique. Une chose est certaine, c’est que ce ne serait pas gênant de voir le groupe ouvrir pour des bands comme Clutch, Corrosion of Conformity, Baroness ou Mastodon, ni pour des fêtards comme Municipal Waste ou Mötley Crüe, ou encore des légendes comme Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne ou le ledit groupe de Bruce Dickinson. En attendant, on ira les voir de près dans des petites salles comme le Friendship Cove, pendant qu’il est encore temps. « Soyez prêt à faire le party, le show est commandité par Pabst Blue Ribbon ». Yes we will!
myspace.com/theinfamousbarnburner
Le 12 décembre à 20h au Friendship Cove (215A Murray, près du metro Bonaventure), avec Iron Age, Omegas, Doldrum et Crude Genes.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Montreal Metalheads On Fire
By D.W. Lee 18.11.2009
There’s a new band poised to become the Montreal music scene’s next big export. And no, it’s not another ten-piece tight-pants indie collective. The band is Barn Burner, who play a brand of heavy, greasy, riff-rock more at home on the flipside of the Montreal scene – the metal underground. They’ve just been signed to the legendary Metal Blade Records, which will re-release their debut album, Bangers, in early 2010.
Barn Burner is a relatively young band; the members’ average age is 25 and they have only been together for three years. Far from being wet behind the ears, however, Barn Burner knew how to work hard and get the ball rolling right away. “I’ve been a metalhead since I was nine,” guitarist, lead vocalist and main songwriter Kevin Keaglesmith tells me over the phone. “I’ve been playing in bands since I was in high school and touring since I finished high school. [...] Everybody in this band has played in bands before, and that helped a lot.”
Barn Burner started touring with numerous jaunts into Ontario, and soon found themselves on a cross Canada tour with fellow Montreal riff-monsters Priestess – all before they released their first CD.
Bangers was recorded at Mountain City studios in Montreal with producer Adrian Popovich who, in addition to his experience as producer to Sam Roberts and the Dears, played guitar with legendary rockers Tricky Woo. The album stayed in limbo for about a year before being picked up by Montreal label New Romance for Kids this spring, and released this past summer.
Bangers received a lot of good press. The sound of the album is raw without being lo-fi, heavy and full while still maintaining an organic feel. This, combined with the fact that the songs themselves are all balls to the wall riff-rockers, led reviewers to peg the band as old school. They were regularly compared to classic bands, for better or worse.
“We like to see ourselves as part of a new movement of this kind of riff based music,” says Kevin. “Reviews always describe us as this meets that, you know Fu Manchu meets Iron Maiden, and stuff like that. We’re not going to deny those older influences, but we’re also into a lot of modern stuff, more progressive metal and extreme death metal that I think bleeds into our music.”
As heavy as the record is, when it came out Barn Burner didn’t know if people would see them as a metal band, and certainly didn’t expect to be picked up by one the world’s foremost metal labels. “We did a few mailouts when we finished the record,” says Kevin, “and we didn’t even send to Metal Blade, because we figured they were too metal to put out a band like us.”
Barn Burner’s hardworking DIY ethic got them onto Metal Blade’s radar. “Looking back, we can kind of see how it got hooked up. But when the offer first came it seemed to be totally out of the blue.” In March 2010, Metal Blade will be giving a worldwide release to a remixed and remastered version of Bangers, also featuring two new tracks.
In the meantime, the band’s work ethic hasn’t diminished, and they’re not letting this kind of recognition change their modus operandi. “Getting on an awesome label is only half the battle,” Kevin explains. The band is continuing to book their own tours for the time being, and is already nearly finished writing a second album. “We’re still working the same way we did when we started.”
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Overtime: Girl With Health Food blog
My girlfriend started an awesome food blog about veggie gourmet recipes. I get to eat this stuff!!! lucky me. Check it out here : http://girlwithhealthfood.wordpress.com/
Monday, November 9, 2009
Terrorizer Magazine
Terrorizer Magazine
Barn Burner
“Bangers”
New Romance for Kids
Hailing from “Bongtreal”, Canada, and armed with a fistful of tunes including “Holy Smokes”, “Beer Today Bong Tomorrow” and “Brohemoth’, Barn Burner might be playing in the shallow end but they’re still excellent swimmers. Up tempo stoner rock like a cross between the Atomic Bitchwax, Fu Manchu and the Fucking Champs with the excellent muscicianship compensating for derivative inevitability.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Barn Burner sign to Metal Blade.
It's official, Metal Blade are taking the "Bangers" disc and reissuing it. You can still order the CD/ LP from us for a few months, thanks to everyone that has ordered. LP avail. beyond re-issue.
I'm really happy for Barn Burner, but you have to admit it sucks for us... the record as been a chart topper ! a review hit ! well supported on tour ! and now it's gone... BUT...BUT for the good of the band.
I remember back in May or so when the Barn Burner dudes asked me to release their record they had been shopping it around for a year already before they came to us, we almost immediately pressed it and gave it all we had because I was very impressed by the dudes and their willingness. Here is a quote from me at that first meeting "So we'll do the record push it hard, and in no time Metal Blade will come knocking for your next release"
I wasn't to off, except I never, ever imagined we would lose our record...
Metal Blade Records will be giving their debut album, 'Bangers', its official world wide release in 2010. The album has already received tons of praise from press from Canada to the UK from the album’s original release via New Romance for Kids Records.
“Up tempo stoner rock like a cross between The Atomic Bitchwax, Fu Manchu and The Fucking Champs…excellent musicianship” Terrorizer Magazine
“If Steve Harris [yes, Iron Maiden's own] moved to Montreal and started eating poutine and joined Corrosion of Conformity I’d imagine it would sound a lot like this. It hasn’t left my constant rotation for weeks, and I presume it is there to stay.” AbsoluteUnderground.ca
“Montreal’s Barn Burner is one of the most impressive Sabbath-inspired bands we’ve heard in a long time. The band’s newest offering, Bangers (New Romance for Kids), is pure stoney mayhem. Comprised of heavy, minimal riffs, driving drums and major solos, this album will satiate any metal head’s yearning for primal rock.” ChronicYouth.com
I'm really happy for Barn Burner, but you have to admit it sucks for us... the record as been a chart topper ! a review hit ! well supported on tour ! and now it's gone... BUT...BUT for the good of the band.
I remember back in May or so when the Barn Burner dudes asked me to release their record they had been shopping it around for a year already before they came to us, we almost immediately pressed it and gave it all we had because I was very impressed by the dudes and their willingness. Here is a quote from me at that first meeting "So we'll do the record push it hard, and in no time Metal Blade will come knocking for your next release"
I wasn't to off, except I never, ever imagined we would lose our record...
Metal Blade Records will be giving their debut album, 'Bangers', its official world wide release in 2010. The album has already received tons of praise from press from Canada to the UK from the album’s original release via New Romance for Kids Records.
“Up tempo stoner rock like a cross between The Atomic Bitchwax, Fu Manchu and The Fucking Champs…excellent musicianship” Terrorizer Magazine
“If Steve Harris [yes, Iron Maiden's own] moved to Montreal and started eating poutine and joined Corrosion of Conformity I’d imagine it would sound a lot like this. It hasn’t left my constant rotation for weeks, and I presume it is there to stay.” AbsoluteUnderground.ca
“Montreal’s Barn Burner is one of the most impressive Sabbath-inspired bands we’ve heard in a long time. The band’s newest offering, Bangers (New Romance for Kids), is pure stoney mayhem. Comprised of heavy, minimal riffs, driving drums and major solos, this album will satiate any metal head’s yearning for primal rock.” ChronicYouth.com
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
barn burner + exclaim
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 Barn BurnerBangers By Sam Sutherland Holy shit. Rock'n'roll is awesome, right? Montreal's Barn Burner know this and Bangers is the proof. Like Torche, minus the drone, plus Black Flag, Barn Burner craft catchy, heavy songs that play like Cheap Trick's long-lost stab at punk rock credibility. "Holy Smokes" opens the proceedings with a bang, wasting no time in getting down to total guitar-shredding business, while songs like "The Long Arm Of The Law" drive forward with more hardcore energy and "whoa oh" action than classic rock aggression. All signs point to Barn Burner having a pretty fierce dedication to partying (check out "Beer Today, Bong Tomorrow"), and Bangers is the ideal soundtrack to the kind of Sabbath-drenched rager that like-minded folks will feel right at home at. (New Romance For Kids) | |
Friday, October 16, 2009
Art + Culture = Q+A For A+C With The Infamous Barn Burner
posted on 10.15.09
by rossetto ink
One thing I love about Barn Burner is how truly humble they are, when I asked for an interview about success, Nick kindda looked at me like I was crazy, really though he knew the unspoken truth of how incredibly talented they are and how the songs they have been writing are musical masterpieces which come along very rarely as often bands mimic sounds they are influenced by rather than creating one of their own. Having been able to cross those waters I believe the sky is the limit for these guys and as we are entering an age where space travel is becoming more accessible to the average human lord only where their talent will take them. They play Oct 22 2009 at the Cake Shop Records Bar and Cafe 152 Ludlow Street New York. Get there early as they are playing at 1:00 pm and the show is free. And for the guys in between them and Priestess, you better bring your A game or game faces cause these guys play to win, even when they are not competing. Heres what the boys had to say.
Were you in bands before?
Nick - Not really, ha!
Kevin - I was playing in bands since these fuckers were wearing dirty diapers! In other words, to many bands to name, none of which are worth naming.
Taylor - I've been in a bunch of other bands, most notably Black ships.
Marc - Thunder bay and Black ships
What's the hardest thing about your current level of success. As in you have a following, you tour consistently, play relentlessly in the city yet still have a regular job.
Our current level of "success" is anything to write home about (yet). but we are all stoked to be where we are at so far. We try to tour as much as we can, and we have played lots in the city, and our following seem like its growing, but we have a good way to go until we are running from hordes of babes and escaping out secret doors and using decoys to throw people off from following us. I really just want to be able to quit my job, and have this band be full time.
How did you make the jump from playing local shows to playing on tour? What the hardest part of being on tour?
Our first few shows were actually on the road (not including the 30 second set we played in my old loft). They key is having a reliable van like our old van, it was named Chubbs (RIP). Most of us have been in other bands and have already toured a lot. We've met many people along the way that help to book us shows when were starting out. The hardest part about being on tour varies from band to band and person to person. My biggest problem is having enough money to drink. Everyone has moments where they miss their babes, or their own beds, and its easy to get sick (and stay sick) on the road when you party a lot and don't eat right. But all of that shit is easy to deal with when you get to travel with your best bros everyday. Touring rips.
How much of you income(%) from your regular job is dedicated to your artistic endeavors?
- None of us really make that much money, but id say including our gear, van problems, touring and merch etc., easily 30-40%.
What advice do you have to younger bands who have not yet made it this far?
I don't think we are at an "advice" giving stage yet, but hell i will try. if you're gonna do it, love it. that's all I got.
Approximately how much do you believe you made off show, touring and Merchandise last year?
No matter how much money we have made so far, we are still decently in debt. we've made back lots of what we have put into this band, but it just goes back into the band for more stuff.
What keeps you going?
The might of the riff. Getting to travel, playing our own tunes to new bangers in new cities.
When do you believe you will have attained success?
There are many different things that could happen to think that we have attained success. One would be to make enough money on the road to not have to work at home in between tours.
When I get A LOT of free shit.
How many hours a week do you work your regular job? How many hours a week do you spend jamming, recording, writing and playing shows?
At this moment. 3 of us work full time (40hrs a week) at least, and one of us is in school full time (last semester). Total time spent on band stuff varies between 10 and 20 hours a week.
What is something you find yourself dealing with a artists you did not expect to find your self dealing with at this point?
Kevin- Still dealing with not making any money and not getting our peckers piped.
What was the last book you read?
Nick - just re-read MAD COWBOY by Howard Lyman, and just finished THE REASON I DRINK by David Cross
Kevin - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, the Devils by Dostoyevsky, and Sound of the Beast: the complete headbanging history of Heavy Metal by Ian Christe.
Marc- Kevin is gonna lend me this book about metal
What is the one other Montreal Band people reading this should check out if they haven't already?
Nick - PALS
Kevin - Trigger effect, the Castavets, MacGyver, and Mathmortician
Marc - vile intent
Lets say I heard a couple of your tracks on A+C or on your myspace page and really dug it how can I buy some merchandise?
Email us or come to our shows and bang it out with us! www.myspace.com/theinfamousbarnburner
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Barn Burner 09/2009 Loud Charts
!earshot charts - september2009 - top 20 loud |
| Rank | Artist | Title | Label |
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| 1 | Augury * | Fragmentary Evidence | Goodfellow |
| 2 | Voivod * | Infini | Sonic Unyon |
| 3 | Sunn O))) | Monoliths & Dimensions | Southern Lord |
| 4 | Man Must Die | No Tolerance For Imperfection | Relapse |
| 5 | Barn Burner * | Bangers | New Romance For Kids |
Barn Burner: A mix of boozy metal and stoner rock from Montreal
The Concordian (Montreal)
Burning down the barn
Daniel Maxham
Issue date: 10/6/09
Section: Music
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But in fact they're a local band whose first full-length album, Bangers, released this past summer, mixes elements of boogie-rock and stoner-metal, to create the perfect soundtrack for double-fisting cans of Alberta's Best with your buddies.
Singer/guitarist Kevin Keaglesmith, talks about heavy riffs, touring Canada, and his Dad.
Q: On the Barn Burner MySpace page you describe the band as "riffs…just riffs." What are some of your all time favourite guitar riffs?
A: (After much deliberation) "Supernaut" by Black Sabbath is probably one of my favourites … "Kick Start My Heart" by Mötley Crue is pretty crucial, "Raining Blood," "Blackened" by Metallica, there's so many…
Q: Your song "Beer Today, Bong Tomorrow" strikes me as an apt description of your sound and style. Do you see Barn Burner as more of a beer drinking boogie-rock band or a doobie smoking stoner metal band?
A: The beer drinking part is there, but were sort of trying to get away from the boogie part a bit, we started sort of in the Thin Lizzy, Deep Purple '70s boogie rock style, but then we evolved more towards the heavy metal side, more along the lines of Iron Maiden. Di'Anno-era Iron Maiden influenced me in a big way, and then newer stuff like Mastodon and things like that, we're getting heavier and heavier as we go.
Q: Are you guys as debaucherous as your music suggests?
A: We're definitely a party band, we like to tour and all the things that go along with touring are things that we sort of live for, so yeah definitely debaucherous.
Q: You guys are going on a small tour of Eastern Canada and playing shows in some pretty small towns, what's it like playing somewhere like Coldbrook, Nova Scotia?
A: I haven't played too many small towns with Barn Burner yet, but in another band I played Coldbrook and it was awesome; it was an all ages show and there were a lot of kids in the town who don't see a lot of shows, so when there is a show, especially all ages, it's quite an event for them. They might even be better than a lot of our bigger city shows.
Q: I sort of imagine touring Canada being a fun, but gruelling experience, like in Hard Core Logo.
A: I haven't seen Hard Core Logo in years, but yeah Canada is a bit of a wasteland to tour through, it's a ton of driving and not a lot of places to actually play.
Q: Have you ever come close to reaching your breaking point, or have you been able to stay positive?
A: So far so good. If you have too many shitty shows in a row, your moral gets pretty low but if there's even somewhat of a response it always keeps you going. It's the days off that really stunt everybody and their enthusiasm because if you're not playing for a few days and you're broke and you're trying to figure out how to eat and where to stay and stuff like that, that's when the shit sort of hits the fan. But if you're playing every night you have an outlet, which is good.
Q: Does your mom like Barn Burner?
A: I don't think she thinks I have much of a future playing in go-nowhere rock 'n' roll bands, she'd like to see me become a plumber or something like that, she's not too pumped, but she lets me do my thing. But my dad, he's a big fan, he comes to my shows and brings my uncles and buys merchandise for the rest of the family, it's pretty ridiculous.
For more information on Barn Burner, visit: www.myspace.com/theinfamousbarnburner
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
Barn Burner - August round up
BARN BURNER Round out AUG in top 5!
!earshot charts - august 2009 - top 20 loud
| Rank | Artist | Title | Label |
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| 1 | Sunn O))) | Monoliths & Dimensions | Southern Lord |
| 2 | Coalesce | Ox | Relapse |
| 3 | Blackguard * | Profugus Mortis | Nuclear Blast |
| 4 | Dead And Divine * | The Machines We Are | Distort |
| 5 | Barn Burner * | Bangers | New Romance For Kids |
| 6 | Obituary | Darkest Day | Gibtown |
| 7 | Goatwhore | Carving Out The Eyes Of God | Metal Blade |
| 8 | Blood Tsunami | Grand Feast For Vultures | Candlelight |
| 9 | Augury * | Fragmentary Evidence | Goodfellow |
| 10 | Dream Theater | Black Clouds & Silver Linings | Roadrunner |
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