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\n<\/a>\u201c\u2026we sort of think that we figured out what Bayside was supposed to sound like a long time ago, and we love the way it sounds, and everybody has that band that they love that stopped sounding like their favourite band, and we never want to do that, we always want to sound like Bayside.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Bio: BAYSIDE fans don\u2019t call their relationship with the band a \u2018cult\u2019 for nothing. After a string of much-adored releases, BAYSIDE has one of the most dedicated fan bases in rock, and the group steadfastly rewards those devotees with the music salvation they seek. Six albums and more than a decade later, BAYSIDE never lost touch with that mission and, in fact, they’ve only grown bigger while veteran bands take breaks and regroup, BAYSIDE haven\u2019t taken that route and instead, soldiered on, building up and growing more and more into themselves\u2026 to the point in which they are the most BAYSIDE they have ever been. The fact that their audience has grown is a testament to that.<\/p>\n

In Nashville TN we chatted to Anthony of Bayside about their return to Australia for Soundwave, their newest album \u2018Cult\u2019 as well as failed April Fools gags and more\u2026<\/p>\n

You’ve been added to the Soundwave bill, how pumped are you to be heading down to be a part of this massive festival?<\/strong>
\nOh yeah, so excited, Soundwave within the touring community is the one that everyone wants to be on, it\u2019s for one thing, it\u2019s great to play huge shows, those are obviously really big shows, that\u2019s great and whenever we get to see other bands that we really like, that\u2019s always an added bonus, cause that doesn\u2019t always happen. Also the tour itself, they treat you so well on that tour, it\u2019s always a pleasure, the people in charge of the transportation, the flights, the hotels, all that, we\u2019re treated so well. Also Australia in general is just one of those places that is so far for us, it\u2019s the kind of place that most bands only get to every couple of years, as opposed to the U.S. where we do two or three tours a year, and Europe we do at least every year if not twice. So it\u2019s always great to be down there.<\/p>\n

Is there anyone that you’re excited to be sharing the tour with?<\/strong>
\nI mean friends obviously, that\u2019s what I like the most, spending time with the guys in New Found Glory that\u2019s always great, Lagwagon\u2026 being able to hang out with friends is cool. Then there\u2019s some of those huge bands, like when do I have an excuse to see Soundgarden you know? We did it one year and Nine Inch Nails were on the tour and I was like \u2018that\u2019s cool\u2019 like how often do I get to see Nine Inch Nails?!<\/p>\n

Is there any talk of sideshows?<\/strong>
\nI think there is, I have heard that, but AJ who runs the tour, he does his own thing *laughs* so I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll let us know. He\u2019s the puppet master over there, he\u2019s pulling all the strings, so when he gets his master plan together he\u2019ll let us in on it.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve been to Australia previously, outside of the shows, what is your favourite thing to do down here?<\/strong>
\nOh eat, that\u2019s my favourite thing to do everywhere\u2026 every tour we go on whether t\u2019s U.S. tours going to cities we\u2019ve been to a hundred times, or going to Europe, I judge cities based on the food, always because for me what else is there to do? we only have a few hours to ourselves every day. Here in the States there\u2019s Chinese food everywhere you turn, there\u2019s Japanese food everywhere you turn but what I like about Australia I\u2019ve noticed and it being so close to South East Asia is that influence, I love being able to get all that stuff.<\/p>\n

You released your newest album ‘Cult\u2019 last year, what does the title mean to you specifically and why was it the perfect choice for this release?<\/strong>
\nOur fans have always called themselves a cult, just how dedicated how much the fans have always been. Going back to the very beginning of the band we were part of scene where there was a lot happening in music at the time with the labels we were signed to and the bands we were touring with, we were just watching these bands shoot up from behind us, and we were always on this slow and steady pace and we watched these bands who hadn\u2019t been a band as long as we had and they would just blow up and be enormous and they would just fizzle out and go away. We watched that happen for years, and we were always that slow and steady band and I think that the people that listened to us especially in those early years sort of knew they were onto something that other people weren\u2019t on to yet, and now that we\u2019re a much bigger band I feel there\u2019s still sort of an aspect to that, there\u2019s still some of a thing where the fans feel like they\u2019re onto something, feel like they\u2019re a part of something. So when we listened back to the record, and that word has always sort of stuck with us over the years, so when we made the new record we were thinking that it just sounded like Bayside and thinking \u2018that song could\u2019ve been on the self-titled record\u2019, \u2018that song could\u2019ve been on Shudder\u2019, \u2018that song could\u2019ve been on The Walking Wounded\u2019 so it just felt like a greatest hits record or a discography but it was all new songs. So naming the record \u2018Cult\u2019 a word that has been tied to our legacy for all these years I guess was our way of sort of saying that this record sums up our legacy musically.<\/p>\n

In the ten years since \u2018Sirens and Condolences\u2019 and now six albums in, what do you see as the biggest change the band has undertaken in the way you make music in this time?<\/strong>
\nWell we all live all over the country now, we have very different lives from when we started the band obviously, just about everybody\u2019s married at this point, everybody\u2019s moved away or spends time away, has houses in different places. It used to be when we\u2019d make a record that we\u2019d all get in the same room and lock ourselves away for months or however long we were given for that particular record, some records we would write on tour and then just get in a room for a couple of days, some we would spend months working on. So nowadays it\u2019s a lot more working on our own, usually the songs start with me and I\u2019ll come up with a chord progression and a melody and general sort of direction for it and I\u2019ll record it and send it around to the other guys and they\u2019ll work on it at home and record their parts. So that\u2019s the biggest difference as far as the process anyway. As far as the mentality, we sort of think that we figured out what Bayside was supposed to sound like a long time ago, and we love the way it sounds, and everybody has that band that they love that stopped sounding like their favourite band, and we never want to do that, we always want to sound like Bayside. So as far as the mentality, we just try to be Bayside and the best version of it, we just try to improve on what we already do, we don\u2019t try to reinvent the wheel, we just try to get better at it.<\/p>\n

On the other side of that question, in the fourteen years since you started with the band, what’s the biggest thing you’ve learned from being in a band you didn’t expect to be a part of it all?<\/strong>
\nWow that\u2019s a hard question to answer because I\u2019ve been doing it for so long that whatever realisations I came to, I\u2019ve must have come to over a decade ago. I guess what I can say after this long, after fifteen years of being in this band is that the work never stops, it\u2019s always hard work, I think that when we were starting out I always hoped one day that we would make it, everybody wants to make it, and then you think that you make it and the world is yours, and that never happens, it doesn\u2019t happen no matter how money you\u2019re making, how successful you are, how many records you\u2019re selling, or how many people are coming to your shows. It\u2019s always hard work, just in a different way\u2026 we don\u2019t have to sleep on people\u2019s floors anymore, and we don\u2019t have to get in a van and drive for ten hours from show to show anymore, we don\u2019t have to stand at the merch table and beg people to buy our stuff anymore\u2026 but it\u2019s work in a different way. I thought one day when we were on a tour bus and one day we made enough money to support ourselves and when our shows started selling out I thought \u2018oh yeah, you just have other people doing that for you and everything gets easy\u2019 and that\u2019s definitely not the case, it\u2019s hard work forever. I\u2019ve had that conversation with friends who are in much more successful bands than me, Grammy winners, platinum record holders and it\u2019s the same thing, the hustle never realty ends, the hard work and dedication can never slow down.<\/p>\n

I want to get a bit of a quick fire insight into you with a few questions so here we go:<\/strong><\/p>\n

What\u2019s the first album you ever bought?<\/strong>
\nNirvana \u2018Nevermind\u2019<\/p>\n

A song you wish you\u2019d written?<\/strong>
\nOh God, there\u2019s one every day that I wish I\u2019d written, seriously I told my wife the other day that if I found a genie and it would grant me a wish, I would wish to be able to undo a song and to have written it myself, because that\u2019s how often I have that feeling. Most recently \u2018I Have Nothing\u2019 by Whitney Houston, that was the song I was listening to most recently and thought \u2018man I wish I wrote this song\u2019<\/p>\n

Who is your favourite band to see live?<\/strong>
\nThat\u2019s a good question\u2026 hmm.., a band called Rx Bandits from California, ska, reggae punk band. Them and The Menzingers.<\/p>\n

Now have you ever thought about or have actually covered \u2018Sitting on the dock of the bay\u2019?<\/strong>
\nNo *laughs* I haven\u2019t why do you ask?<\/p>\n

You know, Bayside, sitting on the dock of the bay\u2026<\/strong>
\n*laughs* no I haven\u2019t, I do like to do covers but I haven\u2019t done that one\u2026<\/p>\n

I have to ask about your amazing April Fool\u2019s joke<\/a> earlier in the year about the band\u2019s logo, heck, you had me fooled, did you cop much backlash before you revealed the joke?<\/strong>
\nWe to this day every single show someone comes up to us and asks what the new logo is going to be. The problem with that joke is that it worked too well, the problem with any good joke is that you have to try and tell everybody that it was just a joke, so the post that we made about it in terms of viral, social network analytics was our most viral thing ever, it had the most retweets on Twitter that we\u2019ve ever had, the video that we made had the most views of any video we\u2019ve ever made, including music videos\u2026 the facebook post that we made had the most likes and views and shares, it was the most analytically viral in the official sense of the term, statement that we\u2019ve ever made. Then so say hypothetically half a million people saw some form of an announcement or that joke, only about fifty thousand saw the next post when we said we were just kidding\u2026 *laughs* so seriously to this day we have to tell anyone that comes up to us at every show and asks about the new logo and we have to tell them it was just a joke. *laughs*<\/p>\n

Lastly let’s look ahead to the future, finish this sentence for me. In 2015, Bayside will…<\/strong>
\ncelebrate our fifteen years as a band all year, starting with Soundwave and then we\u2019re doing a big U.S.\u00a0 headline tour, that\u2019s our big fifteen year anniversary tour, we\u2019re going to go a big European headline tour, we\u2019re going to continue to celebrate and further our legacy.<\/p>\n

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Catch Bayside as part of Soundwave 2015 at the following dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n

SATURDAY 21 FEBRUARY & SUNDAY 22 FEBRUARY, 2015
\n<\/strong>BONYTHON PARK, ADELAIDE & FLEMINGTON RACECOURSE, MELBOURNE<\/p>\n

SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARY & SUNDAY 1 MARCH, 2015
\n<\/strong>OLYMPIC PARK, SYDNEY & BRISBANE SHOWGROUNDS, BRISBANE\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

For tickets and more information head to<\/p>\n

soundwavefestival.com<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0facebook.com\/soundwavefestival<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0twitter.com\/soundwavefest<\/a><\/p>\n

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Also at their sidewaves with New Found Glory and The Wonder Years<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tickets on sale Friday January 30 at 9am<\/p>\n

TUESDAY 24 FEBRUARY:<\/strong>\u00a0MELBOURNE, THE HI \u2013 FI (18+)
\nwww.thehifi.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n

FRIDAY 27 FEBRUARY:<\/strong>\u00a0SYDNEY, THE FACTORY (Licensed All Ages)
\nwww.ticketek.com.au<\/a>\u00a0www.factorytheatre.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nEssential Information<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong> New York City, NY, USA<\/p>\n

Band members: <\/strong>Anthony Raneri \u2013 vocals \/ guitar, Nick Ghanbarian – bass, Jack O’Shea \u2013 lead guitar, Chris Guglielmo – drums<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.baysidebayside.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Latest Release:<\/strong> \u2018Cult\u2019 (Out Now)<\/p>\n

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