In the Wake with The MIC

The Mic: What got this band together and started in
this business?

In the Wake: Bryce and Jerrmey were in a band and Matt and Archie were in a different band, and at some point the two merged and became In The Wake. All four of us have always been inclined to rock.

The Mic:Who writes and produces all the material for
the band?

In the Wake: In The Wake, it is very much a collaborative effort.

The Mic:The band played in front of or with any acts
our readers would know from the Mainstream?

In the Wake: Hawthorne Heights, Maroon 5 (that was weird), Aiden, Emmanuel, Downtown Singapore, the Lions, and lots of other cool band that nobody has ever heard of.

The Mic:Where can people access your music on the web?

In the Wake: myspace.com/inthewakemusic, we are also on Last.Fm (there is a link to our page on Last.fm and people can download lots of our previously released songs.) We are on facebook, and ilike also.


The Mic:Any embarrassing moments on stage?

In the Wake: All the time.


The Mic:Any good stories you want to tell us?

In the Wake: Dear Penthouse; I could never imagine this following story to be true, but it actually happened! The other day I was cleaning my neighbors pool and...



The Mic:Who is the bands musical influence?

In the Wake: This varies for each of us, we all have different influences. To summarize, Bryce (the singer) has some brit-pop-rock influences like Coldplay and Radiohead, Archie (guitar) is heavily influenced by the likes of Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix (which is quite evident in his perfomance). Jerrmey (drums) gets down to some dirty indie shit which is quite evident by his appearance. Matt (bass) is influenced a great deal by a lot of 60s pop and hallucinogenics (i.e. Syd Barrett).



The Mic:How did the band get together?

In the Wake: Magic.



The Mic:What is your musical background like?

In the Wake: We have all played in and out of town in bands for a long time, molding our sound.



The Mic:Any other members in your family that are
musicians?

In the Wake: Matt's dad is a talented musician of different instruments, and Archie's sister plays violin. Bryce's pops and uncle both play guitar.


The Mic:What is the TOP reason why you want to play
music?

In the Wake: There are some things a girl just can't do for you, but seriously it feels good to play whether it's in a practice space or on stage.

The Mic:what's your stance on file swapping?

In the Wake: It's cool, we do it, and we highly encourage our fans to do it with our music, I mean it gets the music out there for people to hear, and if anything it will eventually result in better sales, and it's probably not going to cost you any sales because someone who is going to file swap probably wouldn't be buying a CD anyway, and the people that do want to buy CDs are still going to buy them because they just don't want to go through the trouble of file swapping or because they just like the feel of a real CD. Sometimes, after downloading music files we will go out and buy the real CD just because after listening to the downloaded files we know that it is worth buying and also a lot of the music we listen to is by musicians that aren't exactly well off so there is the issue of supporting those that deserve money, and we meet a lot of people that feel the same way and buy our CDs for the same reason.

The Mic:what is the process of making a cd?

In the Wake: Hell. Write music. Record music. Complain and argue back and forth about how things should REALLY sound and whether it done or not. Make changes. Argue. Make changes. Say this is the final version no more changes or arguing. Argue. Make changes. Get a final version, get it mastered, get it mass produced. Get drunk and sell them bitches. It's a tough process, and this is probably why a lot of really good unsigned bands don't make it past their first album.

The Mic:how do you get the word out about your music?

In the Wake: Play. Promote. Promote. Play. Word of mouth. We try to give away stuff to buy loyalty from people, that doesn't really work though.

The Mic:how is your local responce to your music?

In the Wake: Depends from show to show and place to place. We have a lot of people here that really support what we are doing, unfortunately they aren't at all of our shows everytime. That's ok, we know they love us and we love them too.

The Mic:what is the farthers you have traveled for a gig?

In the Wake: The moon, we played the moon, there weren't many people there.

The Mic:What tune on the cd are you most proud of?

In the Wake: All of them, they have been like babies to us. Wee babies.