Matt Wilson - Vox "Matt Wilson explains the life of Set Your Goals, read on if you love good music, and flipping cars?� Jordan Brown - Vox
How did Set Your Goals come together ?
Audelio Flores Jr. AKA "Junior" - Guitar Mike Ambrose - Drums Dan "Hardluck" Coddaire - Guitar Joe Saucedo - Bass
Jordan and I used to hang out and he'd send me these tracks of him messing around on guitar and I thought they were pretty catchy. I wanted to start a pop punk band with a hardcore attitude and Jordan listened to more pop punk than anyone I knew so naturally I asked him. He was playing in a hardcore band called "Time For Living" at the time w/Dan and Mikey so things just sort of catapulted from there. We recorded a demo not really thinking anything of it, just sorta messing around and booked some local hardcore shows w/our friends and all of a sudden there was this internet hype around the demo and kids wanted us to come play their city and so we pressed the demo onto CDs on a friend's label and booked some tours and one of our first tours was where we met Junior. He was filling in for LA metalcore band Make Move at the time. We also met Joe when we toured w/his old band, Set It Straight. A few lineup changes later, they're both in the band.
You guys have played the UK a load of times, what is it you love so much about playing here ? The UK is our favorite place to play over on that continent. I think we like it better than mainland Europe because it's more relatable to us. Some of the stuff is the same, everyone speaks English, and we have the best following there!
As a band that have toured all over the world, with some amazing bands, can you give us one of your crazy stories from the road ? On one of our earlier tours across the West coast of North America, we were afforded the opportunity to tour with one of our all time favorite bands, Turmoil. They'd recently reunited and only did a couple tours before retreating into obscurity for yet another undefined amount of time. Not only do they play incredible music, but it was our pleasure to discover that they were also awesome guys. Also, strangely enough, everyone in the band is named John/Jon except for one guy named Jeff! To our delight these guys were party animals and one night on the tour a couple of our dudes (I won't list any names here) got drunk and went out with the Johns (and Jeff) and flipped over a parked car in the middle of the street! I think we were in Idaho or something. That was a first for our crew...but definitely not a last!
You played the whole of the Warped Tour this year, how was that ? Brutally hot, long, and dirty. But it's always a blast. I think if we do it next year we probably aren't gonna wanna do the entire tour. Twice is enough for us.