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On April 23, Nothingface returned home for their show at
Fletchers. There I had a chance to sit down and have a talk with drummer Tommy
Sickles regarding Skeletons, Ozzfest, and what the future holds for Nothingface.
It went incredible actually,
spent like a year and a half writing the record. It was the first time I got to
write music with them so I was pretty damn excited, and wrote like 23 songs and
it went really well. When we went to Vancouver, Canada and we ended up choosing
13 out of those 23, and the whole experience was very cool. It was very smooth,
like the music just flowed out of us, it was great, we have very good chemistry
together as a band.
Craziest thing live that
happened to me?
Yeah…
Well, we were on tour with
Pantera and it was one of the bigger shows, it was like huge arena. We only had
like a 20 minute set. I broke my kick jump pedal, like the actual pedal itself,
like it broke in half, and it was during the first song, and I didn’t have a
back up. That was the craziest thing because everyone is looking at me and we
had to stop the show right there, we could only play one song, that was pretty
damn crazy.
Actually we did it a couple
different ways on this new record. We write songs individually, then we bring it
to the band, then, you know, change it a little bit. Then there were songs that
we were just together like “Here Come The Butchers” we wrote together as a
band, then the song just flowed out of us, and that’s pretty much it. We each
wrote our own songs, brought them to the table, and some of the songs we did
together.
When we have the ability to
record, yes, definitely. We are in the process of getting a pro-tools rig set up
at the venues so we can actually record music while out on tour so we can cut
down on the time we take between records. It would be really cool if we had
something to start with.
I think as a band we just
wanted to totally like, just, wrote what came out of us you know. Certain songs,
like the melodic side, like the really melodic songs, this is the first
Nothingface album where there is singing throughout the whole song, which is
really cool. Matt did a really great job with the vocals on this record, it
sounds awesome. The heavier songs we went to the extreme and made them as heavy
as we could. Very cool, it just happened naturally, we’re just trying to grow
as a band. We dug deep. We had a lot of time to write, so, the band has always
tried to, you know, grow into something different. To blossom into something
new, instead of repeating the same thing over and over again.
Marilyn Manson, definitely.
Can’t wait to see them, they were always good live. Saw them a couple times,
actually saw them at Nation one time, and old 9:30 club a long time ago, during
the first record.
We’ll probably end up doing a
headlining tour or a tour with some of the bands from Ozzfest hopefully. But
there are a couple things in the works, but we don’t’ know yet, we will
definitely be doing something.
It was mostly for financial
reasons, it was very hard to keep us out on the road, because we weren’t
making that much money as far as being able to pay for everything. It was really
difficult for us, it made more sense for us to do a headlining tour.
It’s pretty easy, we’re
actually not playing anything on Pacifier anymore, it’s just so old, we’ve
just played those songs so many times. The major of our set consists of
everything from Audio Guide (To Everyday Atrocities), Violence, and Skeletons.
It’s a mixture of that. We’re doing 13 songs tonight.
Actually I was in private
school in 8th grade, and there was a drum set in the chapel. Every Wednesday we
had chapel and there was this amazing huge drum set, and it was always something
I was drawn to it. Always sit back there and try to mess around with it. The
teacher at the school actually saw me trying to play and he taught me a solo
that he had taught himself, and he wrote it. Took him like a year to write it,
and I learned it in like two months, and he was blown away. He put me in this
talent show, and that was the first time I had every played in front of people.
Ever since then, my mom stole my dad’s credit card and bought me my first drum
set, and I just got in a band two weeks later and I’m here now, it’s crazy.
Very happy, because its been a
lot of years of hard work to get to this level we’re at. We still haven’t
compromised our sound or anything, I don’t feel like we’ve sold out in any
way, shape, or form, it’s great that its consistently growing. Eventually,
hopefully, we can be one of those bands like Pantera that just breaks and just
have thousands and millions of fans that just grows. We just want world
domination, that is our whole thing. Just want to be one of those bands that
people are just like, “Man, they’re doing something original,” and just
have a huge fan base. A band like Tool you know, they have a little bit of radio
and their videos but mostly just the music aspect of it all. People are just
drawn to their artistic side, which is great. They aren’t a sellout type of
band, that just want a hit single, and everyone just jumps around to that one
song.
All the lyrics are written by
Matt so we wrote the music, so like when we wrote the music, he came back. I
think he ran out of things to sing about, and I think the way he wanted to grow.
He was really sucked into MSNBC and everything that is going on with the world,
he’s really up to date with all that stuff. I think he just had feelings
inside that he wanted to come across, and since he is in a band, that's at a
level where people are going to listen to it. He felt like musicians, maybe
other people will feel the same way. He just wants to push buttons and make
people see it his way, and try to see where he is coming from. Might piss some
people off, but, you know at least we’re saying what we want to say. I totally
agree with a lot of the stuff he says, it’s just I’m not really a political
person, or I don’t really keep up to date with that kind of stuff, it just
bums me out. It’s cool that we are taking a more broader approach as far as
expanding what our band is about. It’s great.
In general?
Yeah…
I
want to skydive. That’s one thing I want to do. (Tom Maxwell’s wife enters
saying “Do it, do it”, Tommy responds with “I want to”) I want to
skydive, and, that’s what my one thing is, is that cool?
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