June 18 — Baltimore, Md. Gramercy Theatre June 20 — Boston, Mass. Troubadour June 27 — Pomona, Calif. Slim's July 9 — Pittsburgh, Pa. Rex Theatre July 10 — Philadelphia, Pa. The Basement East Aug. The Masquerade Hell Aug. This fall, the band will be embarking on a ten year anniversary tour in support of the album, their first in three years.
It will be an emotional, intense but fun experience and you should attend. I was in sixth grade and I wanted to be in a band so it was called Random Task. So even though I was the drummer I started picking up the guitar they would leave in my basement and wrote most of the songs for the album that we did.
But anyway, this band Random Task, we started as basically a really bad Propagandhi rip off band and we just played in New Jersey for many years.
When Armor For Sleep got going, did you realize you were going to be in that scene that sort of developed? But we had weird fans. We were a scene band, but it was always kind of strange. What do you think you were like back then? I was way more antisocial and less self assured than I am now.
But interestingly enough through all my experiences in the band which came from those songs I wrote I became a more social person and a more self assured person. In a way that kind of was an antidote for something I was missing. When did you first think about writing concept albums? Honestly, the first couple songs I wrote for What To Do When You Are Dead had that theme of me being dead because it was a very weird time for me in my life.
Because both of those songs, the lyrics were about a similar thing and then I started thinking more that it would be cool to string this idea together and just develop it from there.
Was it directed at a situation or a person? There was a bunch of stuff going on. For me, our first album came out. We had a lot of people who were excited about it, excited about us and it was a big life change for us to be four kind of kids from Jersey who played music a lot to being on tour all the time. The Format announced their reunion on the twelfth anniversary of their breakup. More likely, though, the artists involved just missed making music.
Craig Owens told Forbes , in reference to the new D. I'm back; that I feel good. I feel good about myself. One of the reasons The Format decided to reunite was for the fans. And then it all comes out and everyone's like, 'Oh, we thought you were gonna play a show or two, maybe. It was the first time promoters gave us a chance to showcase who we were.
We started building our fan-base there and we owe a lot of the success we had to Bamboozle and Skate and Surf for giving us a chance at the beginning. We kicked around the idea of doing something just to have a book-end on a huge part of our lives that never had an ending. For the first time since we disbanded I felt like playing Bamboozle this year would be the perfect way to officially end what was so special to us and to so many of you as well. So Bamboozle reached out.
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