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drummer and how you never would have considered replacing Andrew.Toody Cole: To us Dead Moon was an incredibly unique thing. Something that we will always treasure. Andrew is like family to us. And we always knew Dead Moon could only ever be me, Fred and Andrew. Period. End of Story. Obviously there are going to be some similarities because of Fred and I's style. But always if you go back through Fred's career, you can always hear that the next band he gets involved in came from the ashes of the previous one. We just knew from the very beginning that however long Dead Moon lasted, which was almost 20 years, we would never just take one player out, and plug another in, the way some bands do just to keep the name going, forever and ever. We expected to completely have to start all over again and we were completely fine with that.We were also talking about starting over and how you had no fear in doing so. You were prepared for whatever. What kind of freedom does that offer you?
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everything. Which I have seen a few bands do unfortunately. To me everything should be a build up. And the longer it takes to build up. So what? That just means you are still making your way up the ladder. We happened to have a jump start with this band just because everybody was curious as hell once we ended Dead Moon, so we had that going in our favour. But even if we hadn't, it wouldn't have been any big deal. It's like whatever. As long as it takes. So what? You're in it for the long run anyway. What's the hurry?I also noticed a lot of reoccurring themes on the new record of technology, paranoia, On The Move's mass evacuation and other darker themes. Can you talk a little bit about that?You know it's like George Carlin used to say " Mother nature is trying to shake us off like a bad case of fleas." The idea is that nothing is more powerful than nature. It is one of the few things. No matter how much technology we've got. We've got absolutely no control over it. Basically he got the whole idea for that between Katrina, then the earthquakes and all this stuff. He is big into the predictions of Nostradamus, which is leftover back from our hippie days, naturally. And one of Nostradamus' big things was predicting whatever… you know, earthquakes and volcanoes exploding. This and that. That they get exponentially closer and closer together until vvvvvvvvttt we are outta here. Ha ha ha..
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03 Toronto, ON @ El Mocambo
04 Montreal, QC @ Green Room
05 New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
06 Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell's
07 New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine
09 Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
10 Washington DC @ DC9
11 Baltimore, MD @ Golden West Cafe
13 Atlanta, GA @ Lenny's
15 Houston, TX @ Rudyard's British Pub
16 Denton, TX @ Rubber Glove
22 Tucson, AZ @ Plush
23 Tempe, AZ @ Sail Inn
24 San Diego, CA @ Bar Pink
25 Costa Mesa, CA @ The Detroit Bar
26 Detroit, MI @ The Cafe
27 Los Angeles, CA @ Redwood Bar
28 Los Angeles, CA @ Echo Plex tickets
30 San Francisdo, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
31 Portland, OR @ Dante's
April
01 Seattle, WA @ The Funhouse
02 Olympia, WA @ Capitol Theatre Backstage
03 Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret By Tobias Rochman
Photo by Simone Muller