KRASHCITY Magazine Issue 10

KCM: (laughing) Nice to me you too! So, the band has been doing some touring around, do you have a favorite place that you have played in and why would that be your favorite place?

Tuk: Well as far as the US goes I love playing in NY .I love playing in Chicago it’s amazing. I only played LA once but we are going back soon so that will be great. We played Spain, which was really awesome too.

KCM: Well that’s great to know that you love playing NY because we want you back!

Tuk: Ok we are coming back pretty soon. We will be back!

KCM: I believe in LA you are doing a record release party is that true?

Tuk: No we are doing it in Atlanta where we are from.

KCM: Oh ok I thought it was taking place in LA, and that is going to be for the vinyl right?

Tuk: Yes. The thing is that we have another record written but we need a label so we are kind of in between that limbo part so we are trying to talk to some labels. Its ready to be recorded but we didn’t want to wait around so we released three EP’s in a year and a half and we just wanted to keep it going. A lot of it is still new to people so instead of trying to do a record without having a lot of money we just decided to re-release the EP’s so we can keep putting out stuff.

KCM: You honestly have to keep feeding the people new stuff, and speaking of fans how is your fan base?

Tuk: You know it depends. In the bigger markets we do well like in New York we do really well and that is one of the reasons why I like playing there. You know you tour a lot, you live like an animal, you’re in a shitty van, and you eat f***in subway twice a day but then you start seeing fans come around and you’re like this is why I am doing it and this is why it’s worth it. So a lot of places we do really well which I am grateful for because there is no scene for us to hold on to. So it’s kind of just us and a handful of bands across the country doing this. So you really have to earn everything you know it’s not a built in crowd.

KCM: Well that’s how you appreciate it and I have realized that the musicians that are doing it your way are the ones who appreciate the fans and they treat them with respect.

Tuk: Yes of course and we try to talk with everybody and it would be nice because that’s what we are doing it for.

KCM: What type of music were you brought up on?

Tuk: Well I am from the south and grew up below Atlanta and my mom brought me up on Credence Clearwater and ACDC. When she was pregnant with me she went to see ACDC and she said that Angus Young touched her and the sweat that dripped from his pores is where I got it from, she’s really funny. I also grew up on Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Then as a teenager I got into a lot of punk 70s bands of course and that led me to get into all that other stuff. I was into Johnny Thunders in high school.

KCM: So basically from the sound of it you were brought up in a very musically influenced household.

Tuk: Kind of, my mom was into it but it was not free like she wouldn’t make me wear what I wanted or do anything and they didn’t want me to have a guitar. She just liked these bands and it was ok to like them but not be a musician. It was kind of weird but my mom did give me a good taste in music when I was young, if that doesn’t sound too cocky.

KCM: No, no it doesn’t at all. How did you actually get influenced to pick up and instrument since you weren’t really allowed to and actually know that you wanted to be in a band?

Tuk: I don’t know I swear to God this sounds like a cliché and so fake sounding but when I was eleven or twelve I saw that movie “Over The Edge” with Matt Dillon and the part that got me was when the