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\u201cIt\u2019s weird because we\u2019re all between twenty three and twenty five years old, so the last five years of our lives have been a really crucial growing up period, or at least it would\u2019ve been if we had normal jobs or something *laughs* but it\u2019s been crazy for all of us to have to start dealing with real life grown up things while living this crazy transient life that we have\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

From release: Modern Baseball were in the country earlier this year on their first ever Australian tour selling out all shows. Having recently being announced on Falls Festival the band are excited to announce Falls side-shows with special guests Camp Cope. In just a few short years, Modern Baseball have gone from college freshman self-recording their first record to a worldwide phenomenon. Somehow, it feels like just the beginning.<\/p>\n

While in Minneapolis, Jake from Modern Baseball gave us a call to talk about the band\u2019s upcoming return to Australia, playing festivals, their newest album, the future, and more\u2026<\/p>\n

You\u2019re heading back to Australia for Falls Festival as well as a couple of your own shows, do you as a band prepare differently for festival sets compared to headline shows?<\/strong>
\nHmm\u2026 it kind of depends of usually if it\u2019s a festival in the middle of the tour it\u2019s not too different but if it\u2019s a one off festival we have to like arrange renting amps and all that stuff and how long we\u2019re gonna play etc, but as far as regular style band stuff goes I mean it\u2019s pretty crazy to think it\u2019s gonna be a really big crowd so we\u2019ll maybe think of something funny to do in front of people but that\u2019s about it *laughs*.<\/p>\n

Do you guys have different sets you put together for headline shows compared to festival sets?<\/strong>
\nWell I guess actually for a festival we have to play a lot shorter so we\u2019ll play the songs that we did videos for and that kind of stuff with a couple of deeper cuts sprinkled in, but it\u2019s usually the same just a shorter version.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve had such a great reception in Australia, what do you think it is about the band that people attach to?<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t know… well I guess when we talk to people after shows we find the biggest consistent theme is that people just find that the stuff we talk about really relatable like on an emotional level which wed experienced in The States before but when we came and played our shows for the first time in Australia it was crazy to have people saying the same things but on the other side of the world. It just makes everything feel really like our universe in a really good way.<\/p>\n

Have you had much of a chance to check out Australia while you\u2019ve been here before?<\/strong>
\nYeah a couple of days last time *laughs* we went surfing at Byron Bay and then we also went surfing somewhere near Sydney, we took the ferry to another beach and went surfing there, but yeah we got to do a little bit of poking around.<\/p>\n

Do you already have a great memory from a tour here that will stick with you other than surfing?<\/strong>
\nYeah we had a tonne of fun, we did our press agent Janine took us to these really cool restaurants like this one cool dive BBQ place we went to was really cool we went to it twice in a row. We took the ferry in Sydney and then just did a lot of walking around and just talked to people and in general it just seemed everyone was really laid back which is so totally different from The States, so that was just really cool in general. Oh and then I just remembered the other crazy memory, one day Janine was driving us to an interview and we were in the rental van driving to an interview and one of our songs from our new record came on the radio while we were in the car and we all just started screaming because nothing like that has ever happened to us before, so that was probably the coolest thing that happened.<\/p>\n

You also released your third album about six months ago, how has the last six months been since the release?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s been awesome, we did a big long full US tour with our friends Thin Lips and Joyce Manor and they were some of the best headlines shows we\u2019ve ever played, then we came home and chilled out for a little bit and right now we\u2019re out with Brand New and The Front Bottoms and that\u2019s going really well too, so yeah it\u2019s just been soaking in the response to the new record and everything\u2019s been really positive, it\u2019s great.<\/p>\n

What did you find you were able to do with this album you felt you weren\u2019t able to on your previous two?<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t know if we intentionally did but we worked with a producer someone that could throw ideas at us and push us to do different things and we\u2019ve never tried that before, so we intentionally tried to let go of a little control and let him like lead us in a way with a lot of the songs, it was our friend Joe who plays in the band Hop Along but that definitely helped us cover some new territory that we hadn\u2019t covered before and we\u2019re all really glad that it went that way and we want to work with him again in the future.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your favourite thing about being part of this band?<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t know, I think the fact\u2026 *laughs* there\u2019s a lot of cool stuff\u2026 I\u2019m more of a homebody, I like to be in my own house and making coffee in my kitchen every morning\u00a0 so a lot of people like to travel, but travel\u2019s not my favourite part but I do like the fact that I get to write songs and then have people listen to them and talk to people about the songs and the conversations that ensue from that are just things they can relate to and that you can relate to, so that\u2019s a really cool experience that you get to express yourself that way, it\u2019s really neat.<\/p>\n

What do you want to do as a band that you haven\u2019t yet had the chance to?<\/strong>
\nHmm\u2026 let\u2019s see\u2026 for a while it was coming to Australia but then we got to do that this year. I think one thing that we\u2019re thinking more about now, especially being on tour with Brand New because they have this crazy light show and they have these video screens, and also The Front Bottoms have a heap of lamps on stage, so we\u2019re trying to find new ways to make our show itself more exciting and to do cool stuff on stage, and then other than that I don\u2019t know\u2026 just keep making records as long as we can. We all really like bands who consistently put out good records, so we want to try do that for as long as we can.<\/p>\n

What about touring aspirations?<\/strong>
\nI think the next dream place on our list is South America, we\u2019ve been talking about that a little bit and that would be super cool. Oh we also talk about just doing a one off show in Hawaii and just flying out our whole crew for a little vacation and play one show, so that would be fun too.<\/p>\n

So in only being a band for five years, in that time what do you think has been the biggest change within the band to be where you are today?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s weird because we\u2019re all between twenty three and twenty five years old, so the last five years of our lives have been a really crucial growing up period, or at least it would\u2019ve been if we had normal jobs or something *laughs* but it\u2019s been crazy for all of us to have to start dealing with real life grown up things while living this crazy transient life that we have and it\u2019s really great because we all support each other and we have really cemented our friendships but it\u2019s also really challenging because we don\u2019t have that many people that we can relate to in trying to figure out how you grow up when you\u2019re on tour all the time and living this really weird life. So our friendships have become a lot stronger trying to figure out how to deal with that and how to live the best life that we can and be positive and deal with our own stuff.<\/p>\n

With three albums out in five years are you constantly writing, or even working on a new album as we speak?<\/strong>
\nProbably the first three or four years we were totally not able to write on the road because we weren\u2019t really used to it yet, so we would go on tour then come home, write a few songs and then go back on tour, but more recently we\u2019re finding ourselves write acoustic demos while we\u2019re on tour and then maybe jamming with the band at sound check or just like once we get back home. Yeah, we\u2019ve both been writing but we haven\u2019t really talked about what\u2019s next record wise yet, but hopefully something.<\/p>\n

Lastly let\u2019s look ahead to the future, finish this sentence for me, in 2017 Modern Baseball want to\u2026<\/strong>
\nWrite more songs.<\/p>\n

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TOUR DATES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday 4th Jan Metro Theatre, Sydney (Lic A\/A)<\/p>\n

Friday 6th Jan 170 Russell, Melbourne<\/p>\n

Tickets here<\/span><\/p>\n

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Essential Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong>\u00a0Philadelphia, PA, USA<\/p>\n

Band Members:<\/strong>\u00a0 Brendan Lukens \u2013 guitar, vocals, Jake Ewald \u2013 guitar, vocals, Sean Huber \u2013 drums, vocals, Ian Farmer \u2013 bass, vocals<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/www.modernbaseballpa.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Latest Release:<\/strong> Holy Ghost (Out Now)<\/p>\n

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