featured musician: DD/MM/YYYY sort of broke into song writing and writing these songs that can represent different ideas. Our last album Black Square was about these potentials of song writing that we can do, and what we can achieve using our strengths and avoiding our weaknesses. JM: Is there a new album in the works? Possible collaborations with other fellow artists?
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: MIKE CLAXTON, MOSHE ROZENBURG, JORDAN HOLMES, MATT KING, TOMAS DEL BALSO
TDB: We released a single of two songs on Invada Records in the UK: Gimme Pizza Mind and Surfed Devices, and it’s a 12” vinyl split. The other band that contributed to the split is called BEAK>, who is Geoff Barrow from Portishead’s private project. It’s kind of an interesting mix. They are really mysterious and really keep to themselves, but they’re an amazing live show and all the members of BEAK> are really awesome, so you should check it out.
JM: DD/MM/YYYY seems to be playing tons of shows throughout the year – clearly you like being on tour. Where is the most interesting place you’ve played? JH: I think one of the most interesting places was in a small town in the Netherlands. We played in a kind of crumbled castle. The only part left was the old cathedral, a half-shell ruin that we got to play in the middle of. It was really old and pretty interesting. MK: The roof was gone, it was outdoors and just the shell was left. We played on the altar. TDB: My personal memory of an interesting show was in Prague. We played at the oldest university of central Europe, and it was 40 ft away from where Mozart did a residency and wrote music. It was really old architecture everywhere in the downtown. Old is really key, we’re not used to the old styles. MK: One time we played outside in this park right on the Hudson River, and that was pretty cool because I remember looking at Moshe and behind him was the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and the whole New York skyline. MR: One time, we played on the beach in Albany, California. We were actually looking at the ocean as we played. The crowd was facing us, and we were facing the Golden Gate Bridge. Earlier that day, we got a tour from this guy named Jimbo the Hobo, and at the end of the tour, he said, “Check out my website, bumsparadise.com”.
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