I feel like it’s because everyone gets a piece of the art that they’re supporting. I know you’re really into doing things yourselves. We’re starting a GoFundMe in about a week to help fund the album because we’re very broke and tour all the time, and this record is very overdue. They did Algernon Cadwallader and a bunch of other great bands.
We’re also getting our cassettes and CDs done by Get Better Records. And Fistolo Records, who put out Mischief Brew, The Orphans, The Can Kickers, World Inferno and Ramshackle Glory, is going to put it out on vinyl. We want it to be out by August or September hopefully. We’re recording in May in a place in Philly that’s made a bunch of great records. When are you recording? When do you expect it to come out? Yeah, we played “Car Sick”, which is going to be on our new record, and we played a song called “666” which is also going to be on our new record. You played some new songs for that right? So I was like “Okay we’re not going to use that one.”
#TEEN SUICIDE BAND SOPHIES FLOORBOARD CRACKED#
Like there was one where my voice cracked and it was hilarious, like I was singing and then you suddenly hear this bird noise or something. So we did two takes of each song, they asked us which takes we liked better, and we’d pick. With something like Little Elephant, they film everyone, they catch everyone playing, and it’s really cool. They had three people with cameras walking around while we played. Like you just did a Little Elephant session, which is totally wild. Even if it’s not a career, we just want to do this as long as we can because we like making people happy, and it makes us happy.Īnd it seems like you’re getting a lot more opportunities lately. So I think we’ve progressed from a loose group of high schoolers, to a bunch of people who actually want to make something out of this. We just really understand each other to a point where it’s like I can’t play a show without this person or that person because I need to hear their part. And tour is tightening us up, and we’re really in-touch as musicians. And now we’re just touring for weeks, every month. Before now, we would play shows every weekend, but they’d all be in New Jersey. And this year we started really, really grinding with touring. We try our best to have everyone there and we don’t really add extra people to the mix anymore.
#TEEN SUICIDE BAND SOPHIES FLOORBOARD FULL#
Now it’s a band of 8 people who want to do this full time. We were just writing songs about how we felt, and playing the small crowds, staying local, and trying to figure out what we wanted to do. There was a lot less practicing and fewer expectations, because we weren’t really doing that much. Back then we were much more of a collective. The past year we’ve been very set on having a set group of people that we write, record, and make songs with. Teenage Halloween was very different back then. That show we had a banjo and the floor tom, and I think we actually had three guitar players that night. It was at Shrewsbury Christ Church with Have A Good Season like 2 years ago. I think I remember seeing you once with 13 members. Now we just have trombone, trumpet, sax, keyboard, two guitars, bass and drums and keys. So yeah, the band is 8 people, it’s going to stay like that surprisingly, we finally have a set of musicians that we’re comfortable playing with, and everyone’s in it for the long run. But it was a cool tour where we revolved with members a bit but we still got all of our commitments done. It was insane too because we had to pick up people in Jersey along the way so it was a lot of extra driving. Like on this tour for example, we did three shows as a seven-piece, two shows as a two-piece, and then we did four more as a six piece. And we try our best to be the 8-piece most of the time, but sometimes it works differently. But the band and the name Teenage Halloween is always on tour. Half of our band is at school, and two members live in New York City, so it’s schedule dependent. Yeah, it’s usually very revolving though. We’re a collective of artists that are held down by the workplace and by life, that still try to get together on a semi-timely basis to practice, write songs and do what we can.īut you’re together constantly right? It seems like you’re on tour all the time. Luke Henderiks: I would say that it’s like a cluster of very diverse people making very accessible music. So how would you describe Teenage Halloween? Me: Teenage Halloween is pretty unique and pretty hard to explain. Now, Teenage Halloween is busier than ever with a new record in the works, and tons of shows coming up. Their band Teenage Halloween has been touring like crazy since the release of their brilliant debut EP, It Was Weird, But It Worked in 2015. Over the past few years, Luke has helped build New Jersey’s DIY scene by playing music and booking shows nonstop. Luke Henderiks (pictured third from left) has been an important part of New Jersey’s music scene for years, and they’re only 19.
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