Eat Defeat - Sound In The Signals Interview
First off thanks for the interview
Andrew Summers (Bass, Lead Vocals): It’s alright. I’m just sat in bed playing the online Pokemon card game and it’s all getting a bit much, i could do with a break.
Your new EP Time And Tide is out now. I really like that title. Why did you decide on it to represent this EP and what is some of the meaning behind it?
Ah man, thank you. It actually had a couple of working titles that I was never really happy with, we had a couple of alternative titles and even had some artwork drawn up, but nothing really seemed to nail it. I remember whilst we were recording that our producer, Andy Hawkins, made a throwaway comment about how there was a lot of nautical imagery in the lyrics (yeah, a pop punk band using nautical imagery, who’d have thunk...) and it got me thinking the title should reflect that. ‘Time and Tide’ was a working title for one of the tracks (so was ‘He’s Thrown A Kettle Over a Pub, What Have You Done?’ but that doesn’t roll off the tongue as nicely) and i thought that phrase (‘Time and tide wait for no-one’) summed up the vibe of the EP perfectly; don’t wait to do the things that make you happy and end up living with regrets.
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It just kind of sums us up really; fast bits, tons of melody, catchy as hell.
At this point you have been releasing music for five or so years. What about your songwriting process has changed over the years? Did you try anything new on Time And Tide?
I think honestly the major difference was, ironically,time. The songs were all pretty much written a year or so before we got to recording, and we’d originally planned to record them in March 2015. Due to money and member issues, that never panned out, and whilst we waited to be in a position where we could record we spent a lot more time really polishing the songs. I must have written and rewritten the lyrics for DIYTanic about 10 times, and Don’t Look Back was vocally an entirely different song until about a month before recording. Having the time to really put a lot of effort into pre-production made such a difference, and I think it really helped to solidify a consistent sound and lyrical theme for the EP.
You also shot a video for "Shortcuts". What was the video shoot like? Do enjoy the music video making process?
We did! It was a ton of fun, we actually shot it in a disused water tower which is pretty crazy. Robin Booker, who shot the video and has previously shot and edited some live videos for us, happens to be Jimmy’s brother and the water tower was their family home. I’m still not sure on how or why that’s a thing, but there you go. Robin and his dad spent so much time painting the walls of that room black, and actually painted the crazy upside down logo on the back wall themselves.
We basically just got all of our friends (Hope and Owen [guitar and bass substitutes] play in Fierce Morgan, Scott [drum substitute] runs Crooked Town Clothing, Alan [the sex appeal] plays in Cast Ashore and Joe [the manager] plays in Random Hand) involved, and so hanging out with them whilst we shot it made it a stupid amount of fun. I think that hopefully comes across in the video!
You are heading out on tour to support the new EP. What can fans expect from these upcoming shows?
We’re sadly not doing a great deal of gigs as a band, most of the upcoming dates will just be me playing solo. I’m heading out with our friends in Ghouls for a short run on the mainland, and from that you can largely expect some Eat Defeat songs, some pop covers and some mortifying stage banter. As far as the full band gigs, we’ve been going a bit beach-y to celebrate the release of Time & Tide, so you can expect Hawaiian shirts, lilos and surfboards...
I guess that about wraps it up. Thanks for taking the time to answer the questions. Do you have anything else you would like to add?
No worries! I’d just like to add that we’re now accepting Pokémon cards as a valid form of payment for merch.
Order the album: HERE.
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