Seems like Go Radio are becoming increasingly more popular nowadays, especially since they just got off tour with big name bands such as A Day To Remember and Silverstein. Learn some more about this need-to-know group by reading the interview we got to do with them.
Tell me about what you’re currently doing.
[We’re on tour with] A Day to Remember, this band from the UK called Enter Shikari, Silverstein and August Burns Red. It’s just a whole bunch of really really awesome bands are full of really really awesome dudes and it’s the only tour I’ve ever been on where there’s not at least one guy on it that’s just mean…I don’t know everyone’s just really really easy to brodown with and have a great time. The venues are huge and the crowds are amazing every night and it’s just a really good tour to be on.
You’ve released two EP’s so far. Any talk of a full length?
Uh yeah we’re always writing and everyone’s doing their part. We’re writing for a full length now, just kinda keeping our options open for when we’re actually going to go in and do it….hopefully sooner than later is our overall plan for it. I’m really excited about it, I think everyone else in the band is too.
What plans do you have that you can share?
Nothing really that’s definite yet, I’d hate to get in to anything but uh we’re trying to stay on the road as much as possible and the only real break from the road we want is to record. We’re just trying to stay on tour and reach as many kids as possible as fast as possible.
What would you say is your vision for this band?
I’d love to carry this to radio and end up being you know, iconic. It’d be great if I was 60 years old and still playing shows with the same group of guys and still touring and making the situation all that it can be.
If you could do a dream tour with any four bands, which would you choose?
I would have to go with The Beatles and probably Bright Eyes, umm Bob Dylan obviously.
How would you say Go Radio is different from other bands out there today?
I don’t know ‘cause there’s always the view that everyone has of bands, there’s two views of bands…you either think ‘oh four guys traveling in a van’ which is more than likely true, you’re always dirty and you know kind of waiting around for the next thing to happen, and in that sense I would say we’re the same….with the exception that we try and make things happen on our own. None of us are really the waiting kind, we’re all always trying to find out what’s the next thing we can do, what’s the next thing we can make, what’s really the best thing for us as a group. I think that one of the things that separates Go Radio is we come together as a group of four guys. Through individuality, when we’re on tour or in the studio or anything like that, anything is always and will always be a culmination of all four of our minds.
Do you have a favorite place to play?
Well obviously Florida is always going to be my favorite place to play but venue wise there’s this place in Virginia called The Norva that’s amazing! It’s like four stories, 3500 cap and it’s just the most ridiculous thing in the entire world. That’s probably my favorite venue to date….it’s got a basketball court! It’s just amazing.
What do you think is one of the problems in the music industry today?
I’d like to jump on the illegal downloading train to say that that is the biggest problem but I think that the biggest problem right now I think it comes down to kids not wanting to you know like I said I’d like to blame it on illegal downloading. I think that people are being brought up to want the record, to want a copy, when I was growing up that as one of my favorite things to do was to go and get a record, I’d read the book for it, try to break down the lyrics, things like that. I don’t see that today. It’s always the catchiest things that it seems like people are always wanting and they’re not giving anyone a chance to really establish any sort of longevity. I think that if we could start getting these younger kids to see it’s not okay to not steal from the band as well as music itself. When you download, you’re stealing from the music industry and from the prosperity of future generations of music. You’re making it harder for bands to be heard because there’s not enough time to focus on it.
One your newest EP you have a song entitled “Goodnight Moon”. What was the inspiration for that song?
Goodnight Moon was first off one of our favorite songs off of the new record. Really that song is just trying to get back to something happy. Everyone has something special about their lives and stuff important to them and every time they think about it, it makes them happy. That’s what that song is for me; you hear that song and get happy! That I think is essentially trying to be our child like level of thinking.
If anything, what do you want fans to take from your music?
I guess just the message that everything is going to be okay, regardless. Yeah things can get hard and things can get terrible, there’s always going to be something that’s not perfect in your life. I hope that when they listen to our songs that they understand that we go through those things too but you know at the end of the day there is always going to be greater good than bad…it might not always be apparent but the silver lining is always there no matter how thin it is. I think that they should take that it’s always important to look to that and try to come out of it as positive as possible.
