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\"\"<\/a>\u201c\u2026considering that Less Than Jake has surpassed my first marriage, Less Than Jake has survived rap metal, Less Than Jake has survived like three versions of pop punk being popular, I mean we\u2019re cool, twenty five years in, man, it feels great.\u201d<\/p>\n

From release: Twenty five years and over three hundred releases since their original formation in small town Florida, the inimitable Less Than Jake return to a loyal local audience to play five headlining dates this October. This most excellent news follows the release of their new EP Sound The Alarm, in February this year.<\/p>\n

In Gainseville, Florida and in a parking lot ready to drink a beer and chatting to us about Less Than Jake\u2019s 25th<\/sup> Birthday, their upcoming Australian tour, new music, advice, the future, and more.<\/p>\n

Twenty five years. Happy Birthday! How does it feel being in a band for a quarter of a century?<\/strong>
\nTiring *laughs* but it feels good, considering that Less Than Jake has surpassed my first marriage, Less Than Jake has survived rap metal, Less Than Jake has survived like three versions of pop punk being popular, I mean we\u2019re cool, twenty five years in, man, it feels great.<\/p>\n

Of course you\u2019re coming back to see us in Australia, how will you shape up these shows set wise?<\/strong>
\nYou know what? We\u2019re ready, Chris our guitar player and singer he\u2019s been practising some jokes and mainly sort of dad jokes that probably won\u2019t be funny,\u00a0 and we know a bunch of songs that we\u2019ve known for twenty five years and we\u2019re gonna come and have a good time. Australia has always been a great tour, always been filled with fun, always people that come to the shows and they want to party and want to have a good time and we want to have a good time, so I expect all those things will roll out justly, my friend.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve been here more than a few times, do you have a stand out memory for a previous Australian tour?<\/strong>
\nThere\u2019s plenty, one being the fact that particularly when we toured in the late 90\u2019s with Frenzal Rhomb, and those guys are amazing, those guys are funny, but being on that tour for the first time and being sort of shown around by them, the parties were momentous and I barely remember that trip but it was a great time man and it stands out as one of those quintessential tours that we did in the early days when we went to new places that we never were before. Showing up in the craziest places we could think of and we were there with friends, it was awesome.<\/p>\n

How will you celebrate the birthday here in Australia?<\/strong>
\nYou know what? Some parties and some all-out mayhem, because Less Than Jake we\u2019ve always come down and whether it be a co-headlining tour, or whether we\u2019re doing festivals, we never felt like we got a complete show with us, and this time around we\u2019re going to bring our complete sort of ride that we would do in The States and beyond. So it\u2019s just gonna be a fun time, man, we haven\u2019t done a headliner, a proper headliner in a very long time in Australia so we\u2019re very excited to do so.<\/p>\n

In terms of new music, we had an EP out earlier this year but can we expect any more new music soon?<\/strong>
\nI think in November we\u2019re going to start working on some new music, we\u2019ve been working individually on writing stuff but usually it kind of takes everybody getting together and ironing it out to see what is what. So, 2018 you\u2019re gonna hear something, whether it\u2019s one song or whether it\u2019s gonna be thirteen or fourteen songs, who knows, I don\u2019t have a crystal ball but suffice to say twenty five years in it\u2019s what we do, if we feel like one song is a strong song and nothing else is as strong then we only put out one song, in the case of having fourteen songs and felt that only seven songs worked like on \u2018Sound The Alarm\u2019 to make a cohesive idea and a cohesive vibe then we\u2019ll record it. We don\u2019t want to force a full length out of it; we can just go and record these seven songs.<\/p>\n

So over the twenty five years is there one piece of advice you were ever given early on that\u2019s stuck with you throughout your career?<\/strong>
\nYou know what? The one piece of advice was from a friend that wasn\u2019t actually in a band he turned out to be a high school guidance counselor but he was just a friend, he had said that you can\u2019t build a house on sand, you always need a firm foundation so while we were starting to become a band and tour more we always maintained the foundation of being in a band was taken care of. So that\u2019s why I think we can be twenty five years in but still a band because early on we already knew that you had to be great to your fans, you had to be accessible, and besides the whole rock star party clich\u00e9 kind of thing we were very, very self-aware of that, it was the other side of the coin, you had to care about what you do, you had to care about moving forward and do all those things. So you can\u2019t build a house on sand, there it is.<\/p>\n

Obviously over twenty five years things can change but what would you say is the one thing that\u2019s stayed the same in your time together?<\/strong>
\nThe energy that we have together while we\u2019re playing together, the band, you know? That energy it happens in sort of, like it combusts and it gets sent out to the crowd and they\u2019re singing back and giving us the energy back and it\u2019s an exchange. It happens to any great band amongst each other and standing proud, that what keeps us going, that\u2019s what keeps us pushing along and it\u2019s an important key as to why Less Than Jake is around twenty five years in.<\/p>\n

Did you ever think you\u2019d still be doing this twenty five years on?<\/strong>
\nAbsolutely not, and it goes back to my thing about taking care of the foundations because when we were started our main goal was just to play out at clubs, then we did it and that was a win, a victory, then it was OK we want to play a show out of town and when we did that that was a victory, so it was these small victories and small steps. Like dude, I never thought we were ever going to play outside of our home town let alone be a band for twenty five years.<\/p>\n

How long are the celebrations going to go for and where are you taking them from here?<\/strong>
\nRight now we\u2019re starting in the top of October, it\u2019s a short tour through California, then we\u2019re doing a show with Flogging Molly, then we\u2019re doing two festivals in California called the Punk In Drublic Fest and that\u2019s with NOFX and Flogging Molly and Bad Religion, then we\u2019re getting on a plane and coming over to Australia we\u2019ll do shows, then we\u2019re flying back and getting on a cruise ship to do the Warped Tour rewind cruise from New England Mexico and back. Then we\u2019re getting on a plane from there and going to play a late night show in New York and they\u2019ll film it, then getting on a plane and going to do two shows with this legendary band called The Descendants and then we wrap up the top of November and that\u2019s it until the middle of January \/ top of February.<\/p>\n

Lastly let\u2019s look ahead to the future, so finish this sentence for me, in 2018 Less Than Jake will…<\/strong>
\nLess Than Jake will write music and potentially record it *laughs*<\/p>\n

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LESS THAN JAKE with special guests bodyjar + foxtrot<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday October 19<\/strong>
\nThe Prince, Melbourne<\/p>\n

Saturday October 21<\/strong>
\nThe Gov, Adelaide<\/p>\n

Sunday October 22<\/strong>
\nThe Tivoli, Brisbane<\/p>\n

Tuesday October 24<\/strong>
\nThe Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle<\/p>\n

Wednesday October 25<\/strong>
\nMetro Theatre, Sydney<\/p>\n

Presented by: live nation, unify presents + Bombshellzine.com<\/p>\n

Tickets: livenation.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n

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

From:<\/strong> Gainesville, FL, USA<\/p>\n

Band members: <\/strong>Chris DeMakes (vocals, guitar), Roger Lima (vocals, bass), Vinnie Fiorello (drums, lyrics), Buddy Schaub (trombone) and Peter \u201cJR\u201d Wasilewski (saxophone).<\/p>\n

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

Latest release:<\/strong> Sound The Alarm (out now)<\/p>\n

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