End of Pipe Pre-Performance Interview
The Fire -- Earlier this week, we were able to ask Brazil-based band End Of Pipe a couple questions about themselves and their upcoming show at The Fire. Check out what they had to say down below!
Q: How would you describe your band/music style? Who are some of your major influences?
A: Our band music style is 90s punk Rock and our major influences are Farside, Bad Religion, Pegboy, Samiam, Hot Water Music and many others.
Q: End of Pipe is such a cool name, what is the origin?
A: We always searching for the barrel exit, we are surfers that's why the name. Also END OF PIPE means a great thing : Methods used to remove already formed contaminants from a stream of air, water, waste, product or similar. These techniques are called 'end-of-pipe' as they are normally implemented as a last stage of a process before the stream is disposed of or delivered
Q: How long have you guys known each other?
A: We've known each other for 20 years already.
Q: When did your band form? What inspired you to make music together?
A: End of Pipe formed in Florianópolis, SC. in Brazil in 2006, Campeche beach. It is always good to make music with those who breathe the same ideas and share many things in common.
Q: How has your culture impacted your music? Your lyrics are in English, have you always written lyrics in English or sometimes switch between that and Portuguese?
A: We were inspired by skateboarding and surfing soundtracks from the 90s and early 2000s, these are our influences. It's not because we do not like Portuguese music, it's just that we grew up with other types of music, that’s why we just wrote our song in English.
Q: What is your song writing process like? Do you write your music together
A: Usually Uirá come up with ideas of riffs and melodies and the rest of the band will give their opinion during rehearsals.
Q: How has your music evolved since your first started playing together?
A: Is perceptible our evolution throughout our releases , since the first release “ Don’t Think Twice” until our last single “Get Alive”
Q: You just released a brand new song ‘Get Alive’, along with an awesome music video earlier this month. What was the inspiration behind the song and the video?
A: The video was inspired by the 90s VHS tape time that refers to a very special moment of all of the band and practically everything that we lived from that golden age.The music says that the moments of inspirations can´t be denied, .. besides the power to say "No" that is one of the greatest wisdoms of life . finding personal evolution.
Q: Is this your first tour in the US? What are you most excited about? What does this mean for your band?
A: This is our second tour in the USA, we are very happy , it is one of the happiest times in our musical career. We will do a total of 15 concerts total and we was selected for one of the biggest punk rock festivals in the world, THE FEST that brings together more than 300 bands in the city of gainesville in Florida, we feel very honored to be the first Brazilian band of punk rock to be invited to this great festival that brings together great bands from all over the world.
Q: How was planning for the tour? What went into creating your set list?
A: I run a booking agency it’s called Foreign Bands on tour in I've been working for 6 months every day on this tour ... it was hard work.
Q: What are you most excited about performing in Philadelphia? What have you heard about the city?
A: I'm friends of a ska punk band from Philly called Behind Deadlines, I do not know anything about the city, but we're very happy to be able to play there!
Q: What can we expect from End of Pipe in the next few months? Another single? Possibly an EP or album?
A: We have a full album all composed, get ready for the best material of the band, we are very happy to be able to present some songs from the album in this tour in the USA, probably after the tour we will go to the studio to record this album so expected by us!
Check out End of Pipe, along with Burnout Star and With Friends Like These at The Fire Saturday, October 13th at 9pm. All the event details can be found HERE!
Head over to End of Pipe’s website for more info.
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