Crowd Surf

WHERE DID YOU GUYS GROW UP

PAT – I grew up outside the city I was actually in Oakville. Yeah I know pretty lame for a place where you can't really find punk. But then I moved here [Toronto] eventually and I really like it.

JULIANA – I grew up in Mississauga but my whole life I was back and forth in Toronto, went to school downtown so always been around in the city.

DYLAN – I grew up in Milton, that's all i gotta say. Good ol' Milton.

HOW DID YOU MEET//WHEN DID YOU MEET

PAT – Julianna's actually my sister in law so we're related. Julianna was playing bass before and I asked her to be in my band. She kind of knew about me from other bands I was playing in.

JULIANA – I had learned to play bass guitar, I taught myself during covid quarantine. When Patrick found out I was learning to play he's like do you wanna be in my band? And then Dylan they knew from like years and years before.

DYLAN – I met Pat at a house party in Milton, nearly 15 years ago? Like 12 years ago.

WHICH SONG ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF?

PAT – For me it's Jane. I think I wrote the best lyrics on that. All the other lyrics are kind of nonsense but I really like that one. What do you guys like?

JULIANA – I also really like Jane. Not to copy your answer but, when I think about playing the parts and meeting with Patrick to go over the notes and really getting the pattern down and learning how to play it properly I feel really proud of that one the most and I love playing it.

DYLAN – Also Jane. Especially after the production. We did a lot of production on that

track now so it's completely different than when it was first released and it's just my new favourite.

PAT – Awesome. I didn't know that.

JULIANA – You've gotta think about it from the first demos

PAT – Yeah from the ones I made in my room. Demo's are up they're on all the streaming platforms. That's how we show people what we actually know how to do.

WHAT'S THE SONGWRITING PROCESS

PAT – Yeah I'm the workhorse. I just do the acoustic stuff and then after I'll make a skeleton on logic and I'll send it over to them just to hear what the demos sound like. We're doing three more songs. Nebraska, Jane and C'est la Vie. One of them is from our demo. We're just doing another single with the three songs.

WHO SUGGESTED TO REACHING OUT TO NESTOR AND ZACH

JULIANA – Patrick sent some demos via instagram to Nestor. He really digged Jane then I guess it was back and forth. Him and Zach wanted a project, and they reached out to us and we recorded some music with them. It was probably the best experience I've ever had, I could say the same for the other two. They're the nicest people, so

encouraging. You learn so much from them and they're amazing to work with.

PAT – We knew them because Juliana and I were in the Paranoid PUP music video. That's how we met them the first time. So we talked to them there and kind of became sort of friends I guess? I don't know maybe they don't really like us..

WHAT IS THE BEST BAND TO CROWD SURF TO

PAT – That's why we named the band Crowd Surf, it's PUP.

JULIANA – PUP. The first time I ever crowd surfed in my life was at a PUP concert in I think 2016 or 2019 one of those shows. Someone scratched out my contact I crowd surfed like 3 times that night. Maybe two years ago or last year P and I were at the Hamilton beer festival we saw PUP and we were crowd surfing and afterwards we like CROWD SURF that's our band name. We just love crowd surfing.

DYLAN – Probably Pup. That's all I gotta say. I mean I don't crowd surf. I kind of do the whole arms crossed at the back of the place. So I don't get hurt.

JULIANA – You gotta! We gotta throw you up there.

PAT – You gotta do it once.

IS THERE A MESSAGE THAT YOU HAVE FOR YOUR AUDIENCE

PAT– Get ready for new tracks that are coming out we are really excited. We got the demos today they sound really cool. We sound way better than we thought they were going to sound. We like having fun and playing punk music.

JULIANA – Thanks so much for your support we hope you like the music. It's been a blast getting to play shows, record and we hope you enjoy it!

DYLAN –Ditto.

JULIANA - Dylan: a man of many words.