Edgehill with Kevin Ryder and Megan Holiday

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Nashville band, Edgehill, joins us inside the KROQ studios to talk about the origins of their band and more.

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00:00one of my favorite things about working at this radio station at the world famous k-rock is new

00:04music and new bands and you get to see people when they're starting hell yeah and let's say

00:10hi to edge hill this is a band formed in nashville and they are in the studio with us right now hey

00:14guys how's it going it's going well thank you it's chris and jake and aiden and uh tell us

00:20about the start of your band you were in nashville yeah uh so jake and i started together um when he

00:27was a senior i was a freshman in college met at a jam session wrote a song wrote a song pretty quick

00:33went to a concert had a show booked before we had a band yeah you booked a show before you had a band

00:39yeah it was like a house show but we were yeah i guess we were just set on doing it so did you ever

00:46think like i'm gonna have to be in a van with this person do i know them well enough to make this

00:52decision no i was headed to the corporate world to sit behind a computer there was no talks of van

00:58travel no not at all yeah no but i mean when you started as a band now all of a sudden you're in

01:04this project and you've got a partner right and you have to think about it at some point no yeah at

01:09first it was just like we're writing songs together like we were writing songs before we were friends

01:14really like we were just just making stuff and becoming friends along the way um i definitely was

01:19not thinking about getting here and i met aiden when i took a gap year from college that never

01:23ended and i worked at a coffee shop that was the frothy monkey frothy monkey you know your head i really

01:31thought like you should have used that name the frothy monkey would have been great how did you get

01:36ed chill is that it was that that goes back to the booking a show before we were oh interesting

01:42building something so it was just like the neighborhood or like our friend had a house and we were

01:47hanging out a lot and it was it kind of stuck by accident is it true that you almost named your

01:52band uh the back pocket oh gosh you do research yeah

01:56there were a lot of bad band names but wait we gotta read a little bit in the back pocket why

02:04why okay that was my idea and i hate myself for it it was just terrible i don't know yeah that's

02:09really bad i really liked the band names okay uh at that point in time and uh i don't anymore

02:15it all worked out yeah this is crazy so you guys met at vanderbilt and um tell us about the house

02:24scene the house show scene in nashville that's pretty there's i mean in nashville there's always

02:29like once a week there's always a house show going on um and so i mean it really builds quite a

02:35community with between all the bands there and uh everybody's just going to see our friends play

02:40the music scene in nashville is like nowhere else right i mean it's just incredible you hear about

02:47a house show here you would go that's crazy but in nashville it's just every night all the time yeah

02:52it's some of the best bands and music you'll ever hear and there will be like 300 to 500 people there

02:57like it's like it's basically like you're playing a venue you know like when you without having to

03:01book a venue you just your homie puts on a show in the backyard and you play and people come and

03:05it's like how many of those did you guys go to for other bands a lot yeah so many still go yeah

03:10still do oh yeah and there are plenty of diy venues too like smaller places to play other than house

03:15shows but i mean houses are like the main thing i feel like yeah what's the biggest audience you've

03:20played for oh maybe brooklyn bowl last year sometime uh which is awesome because like i've seen

03:28my favorite bands play there it's like a thousand people yeah it was pretty awesome and last night i had

03:32a dream that i played for a thousand two hundred people so okay that's gotta count for something

03:37and you guys played house parties before you've really done like a proper tour yeah i mean so we

03:45had done some opening stuff like maybe two runs i think we had done um and then we wanted to keep

03:50touring and building our our support and markets and like we reached out we had created a form on our

03:56instagram story a bunch of people filled it out and we did like i don't know 30 something house shows

04:00probably yeah last year so what you're saying is that you did this before all american rejects

04:05no i mean i'm not saying anything i'm not i'm not saying anything no that's really cool though i love

04:11i just love this idea of being able to really build your fan base brick by brick and getting to know

04:16people and they're having fun they're always going to want to go out to your your house party shows

04:20and then to see you yeah yeah venues yeah you also make like long-term relationships like there's

04:25there's still people who have hosted us that i text with and talk really yeah we usually stay at the

04:30house we were playing what a cool vibe it was so fun yeah it's one of the coolest experiences

04:34yeah that's very cool we have a brand new song we're going to play here in a second

04:37and uh i love it and i love pretty much everything you guys have done and you look like you're still

04:43in high school yeah we get carded a lot yeah i believe it we're going to play a new song from

04:49edge hill coming up next on kpop we have a whole band in studio it is edge hill from nashville you guys

04:55tell us about the song uh double take that we're going to play today it was just uh it came together

05:01pretty nicely it was uh uh you know we were writing a project we write an album and you know we couldn't

05:07really find our direction came up with double take wrote it all together finished it all together

05:11it seems like it's deeply personal it uh it's a lot about like self-reflection and you know doubting

05:18yourself a lot and finally just saying like you're gonna move through it and move on and having that

05:22confidence to put things behind you it's just a i feel like it's a bizarre first step when you're a

05:28new band to write something that's that complex it's impressive i think um we're pretty reflective

05:35people for better or for worse and so it comes pretty naturally yeah all right you want to introduce

05:41the song for us sure this is double take by edge hill the 420 catch of the day on k-rock i love that

05:49so much it's called double take it's from edge hill and they are in the studio with us right now the

05:54three of the guys chris jake and aiden are in the studio with us that is a great song so good love

06:01it so much you guys are based in nashville we were talking off the air that there's a pretty good

06:05alternative music scene in nashville yeah i think maybe because there's such a big country scene and

06:12that's what everybody thinks about it that maybe like all rock and indie music has developed as almost

06:17like a counterculture to like the main broadway country interesting and there's such a there's

06:22such a songwriting vibe to that city yeah yeah definitely and i think that's a really important

06:29part of like indie music in general i think there's so much focus put on the lyrics and the songwriting

06:33and the craft of it that it's a it's a cool mix with country even though you wouldn't think that it

06:38would be yeah that's a fantastic call double take it's edge hill thank you guys for coming in today

06:43we appreciate it thanks for of course thank you

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