Interview with Soupy
2011 was arguably the most eventful and successful year for you as a band. With so much touring and the release of the incredible ‘Suburbia I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing,” how do you reflect on last year? Honestly, it's weird. Last year was the year when we started really doing the things that we saw bands we looked up to do when we were kids. We started playing those sized venues. We were on our first (and second and third!) magazine cover. We did all of Warped Tour. It's kind of like being on the other side of the curtain. We're starting to see how it "works" and on some levels it's disenfranchising because you romanticize it so much growing up and then you realize how much business and whatnot that you need to deal with and how many awful people work in this "biz," but then I look at the videos from our holiday show in Philadelphia and I see us on the kind of stage I used to see bands on. I see all those amazing people singing the lyrics back at us. I can look at those videos and remember that I have the greatest job in the world and feel so lucky that we got here.
In September you completed your biggest headline UK tour and then only two months later you returned with Yellowcard and Saves the Day. The Wonder Years seem to make a big effort to consistently play in the UK; is there any particular reason for this? We just want to play where people want to hear us. We're trying to make an effort to get to all of those places.