Interview: Nathan Edwards of Carridale

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Interview: Mike of Verse The End

Verse The End is a band from Nyack, New York, every member pouring their own influences and backgrounds into the overall sound of the band. They successfully mix several sounds together, and have very much to offer. – Check them out on Facebook, and on their website.

IP: Where did you get the name Verse The End?

Michael: Pretty much when we formed the band, everyone was just kinda throwing out names. Some of the names were a little crazy and some of them were jokes, but we pretty much just wanted something that sounded cool and looked good, we didn’t really want to focus too much on the band name. We wanted to focus on getting the music written and the EP recorded. When we came up with the name, it was completely ambiguous – there’s no real meaning for it, it just sounded good and we liked the way it looked printed. I actually make up stories for some interviews, as to where we got the name from. I’ll say things like “I was reading this book, and ‘verse’ and ‘the end’ were highlighted by some student”.

Interview: Dan of Stand Your Ground

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IP Media - First off, tell us about you and your bandmates.

Dan - I’m Daniel, founder of the band and guitar player. The other members are Brandi on vocals, Jonathan on bass, Micah on guitar, and Troy on drums. We’re all in our mid 20′s (ish) [Laughter] Brandi is the youngest I believe. She’s 22, and I’m the oldest at 27.

IP Media - How did the band first get started?

Dan - We started out being in a praise and worship band, it grew from there as we all listened to heavier Christian music at the time, P.O.D. , Blindside, Norma Jean, Underoath. Pretty much any bands on Solid State Records.

Interview: Kieran of The Restarts

IP Media: If you could describe The Restarts as a band in a sentence, what would you say?

Kieran: Three piece, socially aware punk band, noisy, uncompromising, and in your face!

IP: What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s happened to you while performing (if anything at all)?

K: Once I got tongue tied at a gig at the Kopi Squat in Berlin, I was slagging off the war on terror and I got tongue tied and said “This is for Tony Bush and George Blair…after which I laughed. Later I found out a lot of people thought it was intentional sort of saying they are “one in the same” etc. I’m sorry that’s not very Keith Moon of me, but I’m sure I will remember and an outrageously CRAZY story once this gets published!

Interview: Chad Of Venia

IP: First of all, why are you guys calling it quits?

Chad: There were a few things that led up to the end of Venia, We found out around 6-7 months ago that Matt wasn’t going to be able to tour anymore. That along with both John and I leaving the band, left only Ben and Chanse in the band. Both Ben and Chanse were going to try to continue, but the distance between Minneapolis and Fargo put too much of a strain on auditions for replacements.

IP: Will your last show in May truly mark the end for Venia or could you see the band doing an occasional show or at least maintaining some level of activity?

Chad: I honestly don’t see any sort of reunion/one off shows in the future. We’re playing one last fest, and one last show. We plan on giving those two shows ever bit of energy we have left.