00:00All right, it's Kevin Ryder and Megan Holliday. We are backstage at Band's Warped Tour with the band Joyce Manor.
00:06Hey, guys.
00:07What's up? What's happening? Good to be here.
00:10Oh, my God. You guys did not have to drive very far to come to Warped Tour today.
00:14I rode my bike. Did you really? I skated here.
00:17Did you really? Yeah. That's so epic. Wow.
00:20So being from Torrance and being so close, what does it mean to play Warped Tour for you guys?
00:26I know you played in 2015 and you're back again. So what does this festival mean to you guys?
00:31It was my first show in 1997 here in Long Beach. Oh, my God.
00:35First show you ever saw or played? Yeah. First. First. I mean, in 97, I was, I think, nine.
00:39All right. Nice. You saw. That's pretty rad.
00:42Yeah, yeah. Do you remember who you saw that year that was epic?
00:45Descendants, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Pennywise, enormous. Circle Pit for Brohim for Pennywise.
00:50Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. You know, at nine, it was it was kind of a lot.
00:53But I remember getting back home to my condo and knocking on my friend's door and being like,
00:58I went to a punk show. I'm like telling them about it, you know, and it definitely kind of felt
01:02like a life change moment for sure.
01:04Yeah. Did you feel at that time like, hey, I want to do this. I want to start a band.
01:08No.
01:08I want to like just be in the crowd watching it. Yes.
01:12Just would like to see more concerts at that point. I would like to mosh.
01:15Yeah. Now it's been, what, 11 years since you played and you are now a more known band.
01:19Do you feel like it's going to be a different thing here at Warped Tour?
01:23I do. Yeah. And I just didn't want to correct you or anything, but we didn't play in 2015.
01:27No. No. The last time we played was a few months ago.
01:31Yeah. This is our first Warped Tour. This is your first Warped Tour?
01:34Yeah. Always correct us. You guys, the internet lied to me.
01:37No, I'm just going to let you go. I just didn't want to differ with you.
01:40Let me just start again. Is this your first time at Warped Tour?
01:42It is. We're so excited.
01:44Oh, that's so epic. So are there any bands that are playing today that you feel like had a big
01:50impact on, you know, you guys?
01:53Yeah. We're actually playing the same time as Real Big Fish.
01:56Oh, nice.
01:57And Jimmy Eat World.
01:58Oh, yeah.
01:59Jimmy Eat World is huge for us.
02:00I absolutely love Jimmy Eat World, so I'm excited to see them.
02:03That's the answer that we're getting for most bands.
02:05We're all just huge Jimmy Eat World fans.
02:06It's that, and it's walking around this whole place, running into people that you know and other band members that
02:11you know, I'm sure.
02:12That's the fun of a weekend like this.
02:15Well, Matt's first punk show was here.
02:17Yeah. My first punk show was in the Long Beach Arena, and it was Blink-182, Bad Religion, and Phoenix
02:25TX.
02:25Oh, my God.
02:26Nice.
02:27That was 2000.
02:29That's so awesome. So you guys, you know, I used to go to this bar.
02:33Absolutely massive album for you guys, and it feels like a lot of it, you know, especially that song, the
02:38title track, written about places that are around here.
02:42Yeah, definitely.
02:43Yeah, so did these places, like, really, you know, do you just feel like being from Torrance really shaped, you
02:48know, who you are and the direction of your music?
02:50Definitely, but that song is more kind of about when I first moved to Long Beach.
02:54I moved to Long Beach in 2006, 2007, and so I used to go to this bar as sort of
02:58an amalgamation of a few bars in Long Beach.
03:00Long Beach, Ferns, the Red Room, and the V Room.
03:04Do they still exist, and are you welcome at them?
03:07Only the V Room is the only one that's still there.
03:09So they don't have your picture up, like, don't let this guy in.
03:12I don't know what's about them.
03:13I didn't go in there and be like, hey, just so you know, I got a hit song I wrote
03:16about you guys, so you're welcome.
03:17Well, now they know.
03:18You are welcome.
03:19Well, we're excited because we get to talk to you guys again in the In-N-Out Burger Sound Space
03:24on Monday at K-Rock.
03:26Yeah.
03:26You guys are going to be sick of seeing us and talking to us, for sure.
03:29Never.
03:30But it's really cool because you guys have been a band for, like, what, 17 years, something like that, and,
03:37you know, you're feeling this enormous success.
03:39So, you know, what's your mindset right now just with how everything is going?
03:44Just to enjoy it and try not to take it for granted.
03:47To definitely not take it for granted because it's, like, it's a lot at once, you know?
03:50Like, we've been touring really hard and playing a lot of shows, and it's important to just, like, take a
03:56breath and enjoy every one of these because they're really fun and they're really awesome.
04:01Yeah.
04:01Absolutely.
04:01Well, we're excited to have you here.
04:03It's Vans Warped Tour in Long Beach, and it's Joyce Manor, and we will talk to you guys on Monday.
04:09Yeah.
04:09Love to see you on Monday.
04:10Thank you guys for coming by.
04:11Thanks.
