Pinball, 1973 perform during Sled Island on Friday, 8:30pm at Palomino (Downstairs).
Interview conducted in collaboration with Reverie Magazine.
TRANSCRIPT:
Emily (CJSW)
My name’s Emily. I’m here on behalf of CJSW, here at the Sled Island Music and Arts Festival. I’m sitting down with Calgary’s Pinball 1973 How are you guys?
Pinball 1973
We’re doing very good. Yeah. We’re doing great. Great to be here. We’re really excited to be here today at SpanicArts at the Sled Island artist lounge. Very exciting stuff.
Emily (CJSW)
For starters, can I get you to introduce yourselves and your role in the band?
Dave
Yeah, I’m Dave, and I play bass.
Quinn
I’m Quinn and I play drums.
Micheal
And I’m Michael, I play guitar and I do a little singing sometimes.
Emily (CJSW)
Right on, how did you all meet and come to form this band?
Quinn
Michael and I have been friends since like, the fourth grade. We go back. Way, way, way, way, way back when, and we’ve been jamming with different people and like, different projects for like, probably since then, to be honest, because we’ve both just been big musicians. But it wasn’t until, I think, October of 2023, that we really were like, let’s actually do a project. Where we were like, we should actually, like, try and play a show instead of just, like, doing all these projects that never go anywhere. But we had, we had a hard time finding a bassist, because you didn’t really know any bassists, and then Dave, kind of just fell into our lap. Do you want to explain that a little bit Dave?
Dave
I love telling the story, because it is the most insane origin story I think I’ve heard for a local band. But this would have been in January of 2024 I went on one date with Michael’s now girlfriend, and then we decided we were better off friends. And then she introduced me to Michael and Quinn, and I had, I have, like, a whole bunch of band stickers on my laptop, and we were all all going to university the same time. So pull on my laptop. We’re all talking, I’m working on something, and one of them points out, like, ‘Whoa, is that a Mom Jeans sticker on your laptop?’ And I was like, ‘Man, I’m getting clocked for a virgin.’ And I just met these guys. This is brutal, but so yeah, we get to talk about music, and then a week later, we’re all at Dickens for hang the DJ, and I’m like, three, four beers deep, and Michael comes up to me and is like, ‘Hey, do you want to, like, play bass in our emo project?’ And I was like, ‘You know what? Why not? I haven’t played bass in like, six months, but I’m sure I can make it work.’ So we had a practice, like, a week or two later, and then the rest is history.
Emily (CJSW)
That’s awesome. Yeah, I didn’t know that.
Dave
No, it’s a good one. No one ever expected.
Emily (CJSW)
Can you tell me, how did you three land on the name Pinball 1973 and were there other names in contention, or was it kind of like a unanimous decision?
Micheal
I don’t think there were any other names, really. I know me and Quinn were walking—this was before Dave was in the band actually. We were walking around somewhere, either 17th or Kensington or something like that, we were talking about possible band names. And I had just read a book, a short novella by Haruki Murakami, called Pinball 1973 and I had talked to Quinn about it, because I did a project in university on the book. And we were walking, we were just discussing random options, you know, whatever. And I was like, ‘Hey, what if we called it pinball?’ Quinn was like, and he turned and he looked at me, and he went, ‘I know you want to call it Pinball 1973’ and I was like, ‘Yeah, I do.’ He was like, ‘Nah, it’s fire. Let’s go with it.’ And then there was never a discussion again about it, and we never even thought about changing the name. The only thing we’ve discussed about it is whether to include the comma, and I don’t think we’ve decided.
Dave
It’s inconsistent. I think our Sled, the Sled website, doesn’t have it, but our Sled announcement posts that we made where we like, used their format to to post that we were playing Sled, we put a comma in the name there. But it’s not on our Spotify, but it’s on our socials. I don’t know it’s inconsistent, and I don’t think we’ll ever, yeah, you know, I don’t, I don’t think it’s that big of a deal, because the reason we never put it on Spotify was because Distro Kid was like, ‘If you use punctuation, it can kind of be a problem for publishing.’ So you’re like, you know what? I don’t feel like getting in trouble with Distro Kid. So we just didn’t put the comma and and it’s now just super inconsistent.
Micheal
Dave, be honest, if you were in the band as a founding member, like from day one, and we were like, ‘Hey, what about Pinball 1973?’ Would you have been like, ‘Hell yeah.’
Dave
This is, this is a question, mainly because the fact that, when I found out that it was named after a novella by Haruki Murakami, I had like a mild man, that’s corny as hell moment, because I do not like Murakami as an author, we’ve talked about this before. I read the first, or, well actually almost all of the 1Q84 trilogy by him, which is a massive, massive trilogy. I had the three volume, like it was a volume collection of all three books bound together, and it was like 1200 pages. So this thing is like a brick that I was carrying around basically the entirety of 12th grade, that I was reading it, and not like the back half of 12th grade. And by the time I got about a quarter, maybe halfway through the third book, I was like, ‘Man, I just cannot deal with the way this man writes women.’ He’s just, he’s odd. He’s an odd guy. So I never finished the trilogy, which is kind of like a lot of I almost had a sunk cost fallacy moment there. But so then that was in 12th grade. I met these guys, like, two years after that, yeah, and two years after that, and I didn’t know that was where the name came from, until a month or two into, I think it was like a month into playing together. I think I found out basically right before our first show. And I was like, man, whatever. What are you gonna do? Right?
Emily (CJSW)
You heard it here first. Dave’s thoughts on Haruki Murakami.
Dave
Exactly. So there you go. The new band lore.
Emily (CJSW)
This is your first time playing Sled Island. Congratulations.
Pinball 1973
Thank you.
Emily (CJSW)
What are you looking forward to about performing at this year’s festival?
Quinn
You go first. I mean, I think one thing that’s super exciting is like it’s our first Palomino show. So not only is our first Sled. It’s our first Palomino, which is just like, such a Calgary, like, staple, right to pass. It’s a rite of pass. It’s such a good venue, and it always brings in a good crowd. And Dan, who runs it, is just such a great guy. So, yeah, it’s just awesome. We’re really happy with that. I mean, it sounds selfish, but it’s pretty nice to get like, a Sled pass and just be able to see, like, all these bands. You know, it’s like, you play the festival, but you can also go to the festival and be a part of the festival. So that’s super, super exciting. That’s what I was most excited about.
Dave
Yeah, I’m, I mean, I’m super excited to see the other bands that we’re playing with. The Mummies are super cool. Once I found out who we were playing with, I listened to a bunch of DMBQ stuff, and they’re really neat, so I’m really excited to get to play with them. We get drink tickets, so that’s neat. Always love free beer. And then, like Quinn said, you know, the Sled pass. It’s selfish, but I love having this thing because I work a minimum wage job and I do not have enough money to go to as many shows as I want to. So, you know, I got my Sled pass the first day of I’ve been to three shows already. It’s great. The only money I’ve spent has been on food and beer. So wonderful times for me.
Micheal
I just think that Sled Island is such a really incredible thing to have in this city, especially. I don’t think people think of Calgary as a really great arts or music city, but I think that this is proof that it certainly is and can be and will continue growing. And I think having our names attached to that is really special, especially as I think that Sled Island will only be growing going forward. So I think that’s really exciting for me, personally.
Dave
Man, this guy always has to one up us with the nice, fancy answers. We were like, ‘We like the free Sled pass.’ And he’s like, ‘Oh, man, this is such a good thing for the city in the city’s history, and the music.’ I can’t stand you.
Micheal
Sorry, guys.
Emily (CJSW)
I want to jump off of something that you kind of touched on. A lot of people have this perspective that, yeah, Calgary doesn’t have a great arts and culture scene. You know, you made your debut in August 2023 is that correct?
Micheal
It was a little a couple months before that was our actual debut, but that’s kind of when we started playing more frequently, I guess.
Emily (CJSW)
I feel like you’ve kind of cultivated this reputation, though. I was like, you know, a Calgary band to watch and have this intimate sense of the Calgary music scene. So I’m kind of curious. Do you have any thoughts on what people get wrong about Calgary?
Micheal
Oh, yeah. I mean, anytime I’ve traveled anywhere, and I’ve told people I’m from Calgary, they just give me kind of a blank look. And I’m like, ‘Well, you know, fair enough.’ I guess, if they know anything, it’s the Calgary Stampede, or maybe our hockey team, which is certainly a piece of the tapestry of the city. It’s a big cultural thing. But once you come into the city and you, you stick around for a while, you start to notice that there really is art everywhere in this city, like we have more public art than a lot of places in Canada, across the world, there’s public art downtown, on almost every street corner. There’s murals everywhere, and there’s artists behind all those things that are from this city. And so I think that there’s sort of this, it’s kind of cliche to say. Okay, but kind of an underground art scene here that is really, really interested in growing and creating more unique arts experiences. And you’re also seeing larger scale, non underground art stuff that’s cropping up more than ever. I mean, we’re getting more venues that are available to artists around small form, large form. You’re having arts galleries that are growing SpanicArts here, where we’re sitting in right now, has become a huge part of the the Calgary art scene, and particularly the music scene, with its integration with Sled Island. They host shows here. I know there’s galleries that go up. And so I think people, if you’re coming in from the outside, and you don’t really know a lot, you’re going to see the cowboy boots. You’re going to see you’re going to see the hats. You’re going to see, though the white hats, of course, but when you look past that, you’re going to find a very, very vibrant art scene with people who are absolutely dedicated to their craft, to growing the community. And I think that’s really special. And I think that that’s something that I can only see getting larger with more people involved. And I think that’s a lovely thing. Do you guys have anything to add?
Dave
I think you took most of the words out of my mouth. So I’m just gonna say, I agree to that. And I don’t know, it’s really cool seeing the amount of DIY stuff that happens here in the art scene, because that’s, that’s where a lot of our involvement is, I would say is like helping put on how shows, or like, emailing Loophole and being like, ‘Hey, here’s this, here’s three bands we want to play with. When can we do this?’ And just doing everything from the ground up, not having a lot of overhead support, I think that’s really cool. Like Michael said, that kind of underground aspect to it. It’s kind of like you just have to know where to look, right? And once you know where to look, you’ll meet some really cool people. You’ll get to do some really cool things. So yeah, but other than that, Michael really said what I had to say?
Quinn
Yeah, Michael, hit the nail on the head. 100% he definitely did.
Emily (CJSW)
I think, very, very well said for sure. Let’s see. I saw you guys play at the BLOX in late April, and was really impressed by your chemistry as a band. You guys seem so locked in and kind of playing in perfect sync. Do you have any tips on how to build or maintain chemistry with your bandmates, especially during a live show? Are you just that good?
Pinball 1973
We’re just that good.
Dave
I mean, I remember after our first show in in February last year, people coming up to us and being like, ‘Wow, you guys sound like you could be playing Sled already, right?’ Just one of those. Like, I think a big part of it, and not to just be like, we’re just like that, but I do think a big part of it is just natural chemistry, right? We had a few questions sent to us by REVERIE magazine, like a week or two ago that just got published in their newest guide. And one of the things that I remember saying was, like, it’s easy to make music that you like listening to, and I think that’s kind of a big part of it, we all like the music that we’re making. We all like each other. And if you like what you’re doing, you know, it’s hard to to not look good doing it.
Emily (CJSW)
I feel like the rest kind of comes naturally from that.
Pinball 1973
Yeah, you know.
Quinn
I think one thing that’s important too, that like I had never experienced before this band, was like, the constructive criticism that we’re all able to give is very natural, and I think that definitely comes from us being good friends. But at the same time, I think good friends who are in a band together sometimes worry about each other’s feelings too much, and they’re like, ‘Well, I don’t want to fight with my friend. I don’t want to fight with my bandmate.’ But I think, like, we all do a good job of being super honest. And if we don’t like something that another person is doing, we just be honest. If we don’t like the direction of songs going, we’d be like, ‘Uh, let’s, let’s do that.’ But it’s never in a way where it’s like, ‘This song’s dumb. I hate this song,’ you know what I mean. And so I think one thing that really helps our chemistry is the fact that we are so open and communicative. And I think a lot of other bands just should do that. Like, I think don’t be afraid to piss off another band member. But also, don’t, you know, beat me, yeah, exactly. Be bad to your band mates. I think there’s just such a fine line that I think thankfully, we’ve found, which is like, being able to be so honest with each other, but at the same time be so respectful, which I think really does help our chemistry. Because when we’re on stage, you know, we’re thinking, in that moment, we’re bandmates, but we’re also friends, right? So I think we found that balance where it’s like, we’re not just like, oh, friends having fun and just doing whatever on stage, but we’re also not like, band mates. We’re gonna, not talk to each other in the green room and, like, go our own ways after the show. Right?
Micheal
For me, the biggest thing is just when it comes to on stage chemistry. For me, it’s all just preparation. If you get all the preparation down, if you treat your rehearsals like—I don’t want to say work so much—but certainly you’re really trying to create something in your rehearsals, especially then once you go on stage, you can let go of all the rehearsals, the practice, the worry about getting notes right or getting the rhythm perfect, and you can just enjoy playing music with your friends and everything else you’ve built up for it will come out anyways, that’s what I usually take it as, and I think it’s worked pretty well for us so far.
Emily (CJSW)
That’s awesome. Can you describe your musical process? And you know, where does the idea for a song come from?
Micheal
Well, I guess so. I do write all our music guys don’t listen to the other two. It usually comes, for the most part, from some kind of guitar riff. It starts there. I will never, ever, ever write lyrics or melody before any other part of the song, because that’s my least favorite part of trying to put it together. It just takes so long. But for the most part, it’s coming up with some kind of riff and then bringing it to rehearsal, and then trying to piece it together with some kind of jam. Or, you know, I have this sort of vague direction, but I don’t know where everything’s going. And then it really helps to have two people filling in the gaps, things you haven’t seen, thought of, or thought were possible when you were trying to figure it out on your own. So basically, just putting it together with everyone there and then from that point, honing it down, either on your own or together, is big for us, and the hardest part, I think, is just getting something that feels consistent with what we’re looking for and what our sound should be. We draw inspiration from a lot of different places to two genres, especially that are intertwined but definitely far apart. In a lot of ways, emo and math rock, they go together, but there’s definitely some some big changes sonically between the two. So coming up with something that feels like a blend between those things and a blend between all our personalities, our interests, our musical opinions and talents, is the hardest part, but we usually get there in the end, just sometimes we have to throw the song away, or come back to it three months later, or get in the studio and figure it out, or just give up on it sometimes. But it all comes down to what all three of us add to the piece, I think. And it is a very collaborative experience for us. I think we very rarely ever come with something fully, fully complete and then just play it.
Dave
This one song that we’ve been working on crazy the last couple of weeks. Are we calling it “Canada Dry Mouth”? Is that still the name? Okay, our songs go through like, three or four name changes every time before we finally debut them. And that’s the great thing about having no recorded media, is that you can change the song name as many times as you want before it comes out. But “Canada Dry Mouth” released. I think that especially speaks to like the collaborative process of this whole thing, because I remember Michael showed us that riff for the first time months ago, and I think we spent like two practices kind of messing around with it. And I think by the end of the practice, the conclusion was like, I think we were trying too hard to do the math rock thing, you know, like trying to sound like you’re Delta Sleep, or you’re Elephant Gym, or This Town Needs Guns, what have you not. So we ended up putting that on the back burner, and then Michael came back with it, like two months later, I want to say, and he’d kind of like he’d tame back certain parts, and he moved certain parts around, and the song flowed a lot better. And it was way easier for us to come back to it, play to it, write parts for it, work on it. And it kind of speaks to what Quinn was saying earlier about towing that fine line between, like, constructive criticism and just being an ass to your bandmates. Is that, you know, we were able to tell Michael, you know, I think at the end of the day, the song might be just a little too much here and there. It sounds really cool. If we can come back to it at a later date and tone certain parts down, that’d be great. And that was what we did, and it’s become one of my favorite songs that we’ve written. I can’t lie, it’s a fun one, so, but, yeah, I think the collaborative aspect of it is a really big part to finding what we like what we don’t like, and then just working together as a band.
Emily (CJSW)
Right on. Speaking of songs, you have a new song out tomorrow, June 20, called “Beer Song.” That’s the name, right?
Pinball 1973
Yeah.
Emily (CJSW)
Can you briefly touch on what the song is about, and in what ways is it new or different from your older songs?
Micheal
All right, well, you guys might not believe this. The song’s actually about beer, but it’s not about liking beer. So it’s not a beer praise song. It’s actually a song about how you don’t like beer, and beer is disgusting and you have to like literally, you shed a tear when you drink a beer. Anti-beer.
Emily (CJSW)
Anti-beer propaganda.
Micheal
You know I’m saying. But here’s the thing, guys, here’s the twist, here’s the twist of it all. Y’all ever fall in love?
Emily (CJSW)
How many beers deep?
Quinn
Right? Exactly. And then it’s just the songs, just, it’s just a love song, you know, it’s a very, it’s a very classic love song, just about like loving someone so much that you’ll do the things you hate, you know, you’ll drink a beer with that person, even though it’s maybe the grossest thing you’ve ever tasted. By the way Michael wrote the lyrics, I love beer. Beer is awesome. Beer is great. Yeah, I love beer. Beers Great. I’m considering going straight edge, but the thing that’s stopping me is I like beer a lot, honestly. And I’ve talked to my straight edge friends and they’re like, ‘That’s the one thing I don’t miss.’ And I’m like, ‘Dude, no beer is delicious, man.’ I love beer. Anyways, back to the song. The song is, it’s, you know, it’s kind of your traditional emo lyrics, but I would say there’s definitely a math rock vibe, like Michael was talking about, kind of towing a fine line where there’s a lot of intricacy, there’s a lot of starting and stopping. But the chorus especially is just like punchy emo, just like lots of emotion, lots of screaming. There’s even a group vocal where we all go aaaaa. So I think, yeah, that’s kind of, that’s kind of beer song. Anyone want to add anything?
Dave
It has a trumpet. So that’s pretty cool. Yeah, we, we got a trumpet player to come into the studio and record trumpet for us. So shout out, Julian. He’s the goat. Yeah. No, I like playing the song on stage, because sometimes we’ll try to get Michael to explain what it’s about, and then he’ll just say it’s about beer, and then we go into the song. I don’t think he’s ever admitted on stage that it’s a love song, yeah? So yeah, no, but we love this song. I think we’ve played it almost every show, if not every show we’ve played since we’ve written it. Because, yeah, we just we love it so much. It’s a great song. We’re really excited that it’s our second single going into an EP right on it.
Emily (CJSW)
Alright, I have a couple more questions. Name a person in your life whose taste or critique you deeply trust.
Micheal
Oh, I know he’s sitting right there, so he should close his ears so that he doesn’t get a big head. But definitely Quinn. For me, Quinn has always been ahead of the curve in terms of what is cool in the musical world. Since basically the sixth grade, it’s been listening to really blushing right now. Oh yeah, he’s he’s lit up red. Since like the sixth grade, he’s been listening to new wave, and he introduced me to grunge and Nirvana and all kinds of stuff when I was a cringy young lad listening to exclusively Led Zeppelin and wearing a leather jacket to school. So I’m very grateful he caught me out of that.
Emily (CJSW)
So what I’m getting at is you had swag?
Micheal
Oh it was something. It was something. Tight, floral shirts. Yeah, it was an interesting period. So I’m gonna say Quinn for getting me out of that.
Dave
Probably my girlfriend. Shout Out Ellie. Whenever. I don’t know when I don’t know when this is gonna be played back to the world, but when you’re listening to this, love you because she’s a poet and just an infinitely better writer than I am. I’ve written lyrics for exactly one Pinball song, and I hate it. I think it’s the corniest thing to ever come out of my mouth, but she insists that I must go back to it and learn to enjoy the song and even rewrite the parts that I don’t like. So I don’t know having that like reassuring voice, that what I’m doing is not cringe is is really cool. So I really appreciate having her just generally in my life.
Quinn
I’m gonna have to be annoying and steal Michael’s answer. But we have been friends since like, the fourth grade. So, yeah, my taste is goated, actually, like, I did get him into new wave. No biggie. Yeah, all good. No. But Michael, I mean, like, we’ve been friends for so long, and he’s shown me so many bands, and we’ve bonded over so many bands too. Like, back in middle school, we used to argue so much about music, and, like, I kind of, at the time, I was like, oh, Michael’s so annoying. Like, he won’t like this band he wants, but I looked back on that so fondly, you know, I mean, all my music discourse and all my music, like, you know, my like, critical thinking with music has come from Michael, because he wasn’t just like, ‘Yeah, this song’s amazing.’ He’d be like, ‘No, it’s actually really badly produced.’ And then I’d be like, ‘What?’ And then I go listen back to and figure it out. So yeah, and I mean, Michael, I think collectively, we both got out of our music snob eras together, which was really huge for us. Because, you know, thank you. Because when we were younger, I was like, it’s new wave, post-punk or nothing, and Michael was like, classic rock or nothing. And like, now I think we love both of those genres. We love a bunch of different genres. We love pop music, and I’m just very thankful for Michael for always talking about music no matter what. He’s my guy, and I love Dave too, obviously. Sorry, Dave. Love you. I trust your taste too. I swear. I swear. No, there’s not natural thought.
Emily (CJSW)
That’s awesome. What’s some lore the public should know about Pinball 1973?
Dave
Oh, I got a good one. I got a good one. One time earlier this year, I was on my way to my like, morning lecture, and Michael was like, ‘Guys, I put a new demo in the in the Google Drive.’ He’s got his head in his hands, he’s about to break into tears. This is so funny. So he puts a demo into our Google Drive, and he’s got lyrics, and he’s got a guitar crack worked out. He even has, like, programmed drums in the background, and I’m listening to it, and I’m like, this is actually, this is really cool. I really like this. And then I listen to it a second time and I’m like, ‘This sounds really familiar.’ This is really familiar. I listened to it a third time, and I sent it to my girlfriend. And I’m like, ‘Hey, does this sound like Scott Pilgrim Vs. My GPA by Mom Jeans to you?’ And she was like, ‘I mean, not exactly, but it does follow the same structure.’ And I was like, I send it to Quinn, or I text Quinn, and I’m like, ‘Hey, have you listened to the new demo?’ And he’s like, ‘No, why?’ And I’m like, ‘I need you to listen back to it and tell me if it reminds you of anything.’ And he’s like, ‘That sounds really similar to Scott Pilgrim Vs. My GPA by Mom Jeans.’ I was like, ‘Dude, how do we how do we tell Michael that he completely unconsciously just wrote Scott Pilgrim Vs. My GPA by Mom Jeans?’ So it was, now, is the thing? It was a really well written song, but it was almost just like Scott Pilgrim in a different key.
Micheal
So let me defend myself here. It was the first time I’ve ever written a song where I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s all coming to me.’ This is like when Paul McCartney says it came to him in a dream or something. I was like, ‘Oh, I can hear the drums. I can’t even hear the melodies there,’ and that’s because I ripped off the whole song and I had heard it before, and then they told me, and I was like, ‘Oh, I can’t come back from this. There’s no coming back from this one.’
Quinn
Do you have any crazy lore stories about Dave to get back at them for that? You got to have something.
Micheal
Honestly, Dave’s a pretty, pretty cool guy, so I don’t think Dave has done anything too bad. Now, Dave kind of holds this band up on their back.
Dave
I can’t drive.
Micheal
Yeah, that’s the biggest offense is that we’re driving them around. But, you know, we’ll take that over ripping off Mom Jeans like I did.
Emily (CJSW)
That’s really funny. Quinn, you got lore? You do backflips?
Quinn
Yeah, I do backflips. A lot of them. At Palomino I’m gonna be back flipping into the crowd. I’m like, literally, Benson. Well, my last names guys, Benson, it’s actually my last name. It’s in the name.
Pinball 1973
Yeah, Benson Boone.
Dave
Okay, actually, here’s some lore that’s, like, kind of unrelated, but I think Emily, you’ll find this funny. I, for some reason, really wanted to change my Instagram name from @quanbensonius to @bensonboyguy. And everyone was like, ‘No!’ You were one of them who’s like, never change it. But in my head, I was like, @bensonboyguy. That sounds awesome. And then I had two people go, that sounds like Benson Boone. And now my nickname is Benson Boone boy guy, and I really want to live, oh, I fully did that to myself, and I’m admitting this on air that I wanted to be Benson boy guy on Instagram. So there’s a self, there’s a self deprecating wardrobe.
Quinn
That wasn’t even Pinball related, you just like, admitted that on your own, on your own time. No, you didn’t have to say that.
Dave
So Michael feels better about the Scott Pilgrim thing.
Emily (CJSW)
Okay, last question, what’s next for Pinball 1973 after Sled?
Dave
We’re gonna start a fight club and beat the crap out of each other, and then Michael’s gonna turn it into a solo DJ project.
Emily (CJSW)
Fantastic.
Micheal
That’s pretty much it. Big things soon.
Emily (CJSW)
Big things.
Dave
Our last show guys, we’re never playing Pinball again. Nope. Only Fight Club 73. What we’re actually doing is we promise we’re gonna say big things soon, but it’s real this time. We’re in the studio, we’re cooking, we’re we’re gonna hopefully come out with an EP by the end of the summer, extended purchase, just like Quinn said. Because that price is going to be hefty on Bandcamp after all the recording we’re doing, but big EP soon, we’re recording with Jess from Great Bird studio. Shout out, Jess, she’s the best, and we’re going to bring some some heat to the airwaves, as it were.
Micheal
Yeah, what he said, what he said. Also playing a show next week at the rec room with the homies, Whack and Little Darkness Band and Airplane Parade. So if you can’t make it to our show because it’s very much sold out and you can’t buy a day pass, but buy a day pass, then come to that. Yeah, it’s on the 26th so you know, that’ll be fun. The 28th I think, sorry, oh, 28th I don’t know, June 20. We’ll be showing up at some point.
Emily (CJSW)
Right on. Well, thank you so much for your time. It’s been a pleasure chatting with you, Quinn, Dave and Michael, that’s a wrap.