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Jun 5th, 2009 @ 11:35 am
Travis Reilly - This Is Hell
Photo courtesy of Jan Urant.
Lets get the obvious out of the way. State your name and place within TIH and what other bands you’ve played for in the past, if any?
Travis Reilly…. I sing for This Is Hell and before this band I sang for The Heist/Scraps And Heart Attacks and my first band was called Falling Behind.
When you’re not touring your arses off with some rad bands from our shores and yours, what do you get up to? Do you or any of the other dudes work full time, or is it just random bits of doing bands merch and school or what?
When we are home the other dudes give guitar, drum and bass lessons. I run a clothing line called Support Shirts with my girlfriend that you can check out at www.supportshirts.net - other then that sometimes I will sell merch for my brothers band Nightmare Of You and I’ve gone out the Cancer Bats as well.
Here comes the can of worms. Bleeding Through and Set Your Goals have both issued statements about being “fucked over” by their labels recently. With you guys being on the same label as the former, have you ever suffered in any way, or have the TK dudes been rad as fuck?
(laughing) Umm for us we haven’t had any major problems with Trustkill, but we also haven’t sold 125,000 albums like Bleeding Through has. If we were at that point maybe we’d run into some problems also? Who knows?
With the rise of myspace and everyone thinking they were able to run a clothing label, how did you manage to set yourself apart from the majority? When starting up, did the work ethic you’d picked up from the hardcore scene help in keeping a tight ship?
That’s a good question, I mean obviously being in a touring band it made it a bit easier to get the word out to people while on tour and such, we are still a small company that is mostly operating by word of mouth. But yeah I guess clothing lines are a dime a dozen today, we just try to come up with designs that we like and hire our friends who are artists to execute the designs.
New York is famed for producing solid hardcore bands. So if you had the chance to pick an ideal line up for a new band out of past and present NY scene dudes, who would you choose and why would you put them in there?
Fuck man that’s a tough question and my answers might change if you were to ask me this same question tomorrow haha… but I guess here goes…
Vocals - Chaka Malik (burn, orange 9mm)
Guitar - AJ Novello (leeway)
Guitar - Doug Holland (cro-mags)
Bass - Walter Schreifels (quicksand, gorilla biscuits)
Drums - Alan Cage (quicksand, burn)
How did you guys become good friends with the Dead Swans lads, and are there any funny/slightly embarrassing stories you can shed the light on that involve them from tour?
(Laughs) I guess we met them when we played with Nervous Wreck and Turn Cold in Brighton in 2005 I think? I just kind have stayed in touch with a few of those guys, they formed Dead Swans and they rip so we did a little tour together, hopefully we can do some more shows together. A funny story on that tour was all of us partying at a bar after the show and Benny their guitar player just took a piss in the corner of the bar hahaha.
What are your thoughts on filesharing? More specifically, what are your thoughts on sharing stuff that’s not OOP, regardless of genre? Have many people over in the US been fucked by the government yet for this?
I don’t pay attention to what the government does with people who file share and such; we for sure have other things we should be worried about though in our country. I personally download music all the time. I’d obviously prefer someone paying for my bands recordings but at the same time I understand if they can’t afford it or they’d rather spend their 10 bucks getting into our show or picking up a t-shirt you know? If I had a job where my income was steady and solid I’d have no problem paying for CD’s and such.
The interview got cut short here.
