Trashwyre

HOW WAS THE PUNK ROCK LOTTERY EXPERIENCE

DEAN: It was great

LEM: I did a punk rock lottery 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 P.R.L BAND THAT YOU KNOW OF THAT HAS CONTINUED AFTERWARDS

HEX: I'm really surprised if that's true

GABE: 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

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 2020's style.

WHAT DO YOU USE FOR DRUM SAMPLES // DID YOU MAKE THAT?

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 primarily just for clip launching. However I will be reimplementing 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 E.P RECORDINGS?

HEX: It was. 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.

WHAT WAS THE RECORDING PROCESS LIKE

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 DEAN 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 guerrilla style 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.

I'm trying to do it in an extremely in classic punk style everything is very like lo-fi. 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. It was a very nice process.

DEAN: It was very comfortable honestly. 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.

WHAT'S YOUR MESSAGE TO PEOPLE THAT ARE SEEING YOU

GABE: People should come see us because 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.”

DEAN: 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.