Trash Wyre

TRASH WYRE INTERVIEW

So you met at Punk Rock Lottery how was

that experience?

DEAN  - It was great

First time doing it for everybody

-All

GABE

Well not for Lem

LEM - I did a punk rock lottery, I

think the first one two years before. I skipped one year because I

was too late to sign up. That one I was the least experienced in that

band. It was a mix of different like people, different ages, there

was one person younger than me, there was a woman in her thirties,

and there was the drummer who was a motorcyclist father.. And they

were insane.

IS THIS THE FIRST PUNKROCKLOTTERY BAND

THAT YOU KNOW OF THAT HAS CONTINUED AFTERWARDS

HEX – I'm really surprised if that's

true

DEAN – According to the arcade, we

actually asked them about that in anticipation of our big dream for

our one year mark playing Greenwoodstock. And we had mentioned if

there had been any other bands that have come out of Punk Rock

Lottery to you know play GWS and they said surprisingly “no most of

them have not continued past the one year mark so you guys will

probably be the first that we know of to make it to the one year mark

if you guys play GWS

LEM – We won the rock lottery

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR SOUND TO

PEOPLE THAT HAVE NEVER HEARD YOU BEFORE

HEX – Disorganized. Gabe said

Hyperpunk or something to that effect. Which Probably speaks to a lot

of the break samples that I use in addition, I used to do a lot of

this off a drum machine initially. So kind of combining that. I guess

you could call it kind of garagey . I think it's applying a few more

modern elements. Similar to the pop punk sound but more of like the

2021's style.

YOU SAID YOU STOPPED USING THE DRUM

MACHINE. IS THE THING THAT YOU'RE USING A) WHAT DO YOU CALL IT B) DID

YOU MAKE IT

HEX – Sadly no, I can learn but it

will take some time I don't have a CNC machine. It's called a SYDRA X

ORGAN. It's not a drum machine, the drums I'm currently running are

through the Ableton primarely just for clip launching. However I will

be reimplimenting the drum machine soon. It's mostly just a matter of

high footprint of equipment and the small footprint that we are

usually granted.

WAS THAT USED DURING THE RECORDINGS AS

WELL?

HEX – It was.So a lot of the drum

sounds you'll hear off of our performance even though it's being

launched from clips those are actual recordings of the actual drum

machine. So it will come back eventually.

EP RELEASE AT THE END OF THE MONTH:

WHAT WAS THE RECORDING PROCESS LIKE FOR PEOPLE THAT HAVEN'T BEEN A

BAND FOR A LONG TIME

HEX – Rapid Fire.

GABE  - I thought i was fairly easy,

I've been recording music my self for a while so I was able to get it

very quickly. Hex has also been doing music for a long time so it's a

similar boat. It's these two primarily (pointing to GABE and LEM)

that are getting new and used to the actual in studio recording

process so.

WHERE WAS THE RECORDING DONE?

HEX – We're doing mostly geurilla

style.

RECORDING REMOTELY?

HEX – mostly at rehearsal studios.

The vast majority of our work has been recorded at this place called

Ghost Note. Most of it kind of outside of a traditional studio set up

because it's being written, structured and recorded all at the same

time so that kind of gives us a little more of the flexibility to be

able to do it. I'm trying to do it in an extremely in classic punk

style everything is very like LO-FI I guess, using the most basic of

equipment SM58's primarily recording everything and whatever amps

they happen to have. It kind of creates an interesting mix to what

our tone already was to begin with,

LEM – I've done my fair bit of

bedroom studio logic pro when I had access to the infinite free trial

on my brother's Mac. That's all I had done but coming into the studio

and Hex has already prepped it's like okay here's what you have to

do: it felt very professional

GABE – It was very comfortable

honestly

LEM – It was a very nice process

GABE – Do X-Y-Z, Okay! I can do that.

HEX = The nature of the studio can be

somewhat intimidating especially if you're not used to that and

everything kind of has to happen all at once. There's sort of the

nature of the expense is by the hour or with an engineer. Feels like

everybody's watching you . So this is a lot more relaxed in that

sense. I would love to have done it Field recording style but we're

“a winter band” so as soon as we hit the summer... The ontario

Energy kind of dampens the sound a little bit.

WHY SHOULD PEOPLE COME SEE YOU &

WHAT'S YOUR MESSAGE TO PEOPLE THAT ARE SEEING YOU

DEAN – People should come see us

becasue they're going to see the greatest most chaotic most over the

top wild sound that you've never heard before. And if you have, no

you didn't. You're lying. And our message is “Be who you want to

be. Love who you want to love and fuck cops.”

GABE – Create more than you consume.

Creativity will save us.

LEM – Come for the funny mic

HEX – The telephone mic you built!

LEM – I think we have a fun little

moment on stage every time. And you can come be part of that and have

a nice time.

HEX – You can always come up to me

afterwards and be like, “y'know you'd sound so sick with a real

drummer” And I welcome that. I welcome feedback that I ignore

immediately. It's like the first time I hear it every single time.