Here’s an excerpt of the Toronto portion of part two of my Such Gold Canadian Road blog, with pictures. The first half of part 2 will be posted at Property Of Zack in the next few days. Give it a read, it was a very special day for me.
http://longdayslongnights.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/tour-stories-such-gold-in-toronto/
Well it’s been a slow process trying to put together content for the blog, but I’m happy to kick things off with an interview with my friend Brian Kraus. Brian is the frontman of the Upstate NY band Casting Curses, a contributor to the AltPress.com, and is working on an Upstate NY hardcore/punk compilation. Click here to read what Brian has to say about life on the road, life in Upstate NY, and more.
Alex from AP.Net asked me to do a piece for their “Absolute Beginnings” feature, where band members share some insight into a record which greatly influenced their music tastes - check out my thoughts on how Saves The Day’s “Through Being Cool” influenced me, as well as responses from Anthony from Bayside, Chuck from Hot Water Music, and more at the link below.
http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?p=89891462#post=89891462
I’d like to officially welcome everyone to the launch of this blog - please take the time to read the first post, “An Introduction”, as well as the story I posted in the Tour Stories category regarding Such Gold’s tour in Australia.
Make sure to like/follow/what-have-you Long Days, Long Nights on Facebook, Twitter and Wordpress (link above), and please spread the word to all you friends! Thanks!
-Nate
To kick of the blog I figured I would post an excerpt from the Such Gold road blog I wrote for PropertyOfZack.com. The entry highlights our last day in the US before embarking on our world tour, the flight to Australia, the first few days of our Australian tour with No Trigger, and features pictures I took throughout the trip, never before published alongside the story. Visit the Wordpress link above for the full post.
In 2010 I had an idea to write a book about how to survive in a DIY touring punk/hardcore band; in 2008, a man much more qualified than myself, Martin Atkins, published a ~600 page book titled “Tour:Smart”, a definitive guide on being in a touring band. Obviously this shot down my idea almost entirely. In 2011 I revisited some of my ideas for the book and determined that I could rework and make use of some of them.
The primary inspiration for my book was the desire to provide help, insight, advice and essential information to young musicians about to hit the pavement - things that I wish I had been given when I was cutting my teeth on the road. I figured I could use my (limited) knowledge of touring life as well as input from some of the other DIY touring musicians I had met and shared experiences with to generate content for the book.
“Long Days, Long Nights” is the end result of my original idea. LDLN will feature tour stories, interviews, opinions, advice and more from myself and some of today’s best touring bands, independent touring musicians, and companies in the underground, DIY punk and hardcore communities across the world. The blog’s content will be directed towards listeners and enthusiasts of creative, interesting, heartfelt, genuine and passion-driven music, as well as the musicians and industry types who both make and desire to make such music.
-Nate Derby
Long Days, Long Nights features tour stories, interviews, opinions, advice and more from myself and some of today’s best touring bands, independent touring musicians, and companies in the underground, DIY punk and hardcore communities across the world.
