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Audio interview · November 2003 · London, ON

The Music

Musicians Robert Harvey and Adam Nutter from the band The Music (Into The Night, Breakin') chat with Matt Schichter in London, ON.

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Episode #12 · The MusicNovember 2003 · 00:22:42

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0:13J.I.Q. the music of the song called Into Night. We're backstage here at the show in

3:57London. I'm gonna hand the mic over to the guys in just a second. But before I do that, first question of the night, the name, the music. I mean, it's pretty self-explanatory, but how'd you come up with it? A thing like, when we first started, all we wanted to do is pretty much just write me to just get out on the road and we needed to do that. We needed a name. So that was the first name that kind of came across as, well, you know, it meant something, you know, and it was the first one that kind of stood out to us, so we thought, well, call ourselves that and then we couldn't get on with Doom. You know, the music. I'm really surprised that it wasn't already taken by me. Definitely. We had to have extensive searches. We were going to be excited and we were like, oh, let's just figure out what's going on here first. Let's start off the show. It's the new single. Any story behind writing it at all?

4:43Maybe after Green, we kind of chorus grew for a while. Then we took out the studio and met to build another bit around that. We got a first bit for it and then it all just made sense after that cycle together. We kind of came together in the studio. The little intro thing, they kind of scream in the high pitch saying at the beginning, was that already part of the song or was that kind of afterwards producing something down in the groove? No, they weren't. I think so. I think it was a groove in it. It was that kind of groove that we had. That just used to repeat over and over and then we had to just kind of start breaking it down into different pieces. Oh, here it is, 88.3.

9:15The music, talking to them. The difference between you and England, we were talking a bit about it before, the UK here in Canada. What do you guys notice when you come here over to the States in Canada? What's the biggest difference you guys noticed? I think going to Canada from the States is a lot more relaxed. It's a little bit more kickback and a little bit more easier about bands. I just think it's in general because I think America is very kind of trend based or you know, a fat based, if you want to call it like, you know, but I think Canada is really open to anything. You know, that's definitely one of the main things I've found about it. Can I just see many people? So, I hope it's amazing. It's different and it's different. How's the beer? What's up beer? Canada's day as you can. Okay, yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. What's it not? I feel a little... Absolutely loads. You know, there's a lot of European based like stellar and cows, but

10:03you can put Guinness loads. Yeah, you guys are almost done with this tour. What's next for you? Break. Bit of a break, yeah, and then just writing in studio stuff and hopefully a few of your kids, deaths. So, you had to go back over a little bit and just spend some time there for ones? Yeah, it's nice. How many days are you guys going out of there? No, certainly. All of you? Yeah. That's cool. You guys still live in the family or you guys out here on places? What are you doing? The rest of them are five. I'm still living at all at the moment. It's a bit of money. We just played the audience break and the lead from within the supposed to the original single. The video, you know, being a... It's actually a fractionary. I mean, it was good. But not graphic enough, not harsh enough. We needed to be a bit more in the face and kind of match the song a little more.

10:52We wanted to really get across the shock factor. We didn't do it to be another video. We wanted to really make an impact. We'll put it on every single video. Yeah. I think it was on the net. I didn't know what was going on. I don't know. I don't know if it's still there or what, but I just heard it from a couple of people. So, what was choosing a single that was just you guys? Was the record company to mix it up? That's a word. Smaller as... But... Sometimes they'll just say, well, why not back? Because it might just be better. But we always grab the bull by the horns and say, well, that's a single. Because we always want to record and we can finish it. You've seen some of the other stand-out songs for singles. Well, it would be your favorite song now.

11:38It would be great in the south. No, it's probably bleed. Mm-hmm. That's what you guys are doing. Yeah. You guys want to be another thing off the new record? Yeah. It's really different. Yeah, we'll do a guide then. Yeah, do a guide. Yeah. You know.

16:11It's good and bad, you know. It's bad because... It's bad. Well, I don't know who's doing this. It's a bit of a... I don't know how to say it bad. It's good for the fact that you can just get music and try it. You know, like nowadays, how much does an album cost? How many dollars in Canada? Eighteen dollars. And you can download. I mean, if you're willing to go out and try something, you're not willing to pay 18 dollars to be disappointed with it. So, you'll just go on and download it.

16:56If you like it, then you might go buy, I mean, I buy them because it's like CDs. It's just a collection, you know. Which I think that might kind of help in a way, you know. Some work in music. What do you guys think of the marquee? Mm-hmm. Getting married, you think it's all just too much? Is there more in charge? How does it work over there? Mm-hmm. So, well, Tony Blair's the Prime Minister, so he's, I don't know if you've got my power on up because the thing is, I've got a family that don't really do anything, apart from, keep, keep, keep, keep, keep, keep good will to, because the Royal family would really, really, big, you know, when the wall was, you know, kind of comforting and a bit of a morale boosting kind of thing. But nowadays I think it's just kind of filtering out and people are thinking, Just after times and then I'm just doing it in.

17:41That's the only reason that you exist. That's cool. Thanks a lot. Thanks very much.

22:33See you next week.

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