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Sitting Down with Boys Like Girls
An Interview with John Keefe (drums) and Bryan Donahue
(bass)
I saw you guys playing with Cartel two years ago at Bamboozle,
now youre on the radio and headlining tours
How does that feel?
J: Well were having a blast, its, like, what weve always wanted
to do.
B: Its been a long, fun ride.
J: Yeah, its been fun. Weve been home for a couple of weeks now
so its good to get back out there, to do some
college shows.
Wheres home?
J: Boston.
Are all of you from Boston?
B: Yeah, in and around the area.
How come you decided to do campus tours?
J: Well we were just approached, you know, with the opportunity
to do it and heard that Gym Class Heroes did
it.
B: All-American Rejects.
J: And they all said its a really good time so we figured, hey,
why not? Lets do it.
How did you guys come together as a band?
J: Uh, we just all, like, played in different bands, and I met
Bryan a couple years back, like eight years ago,
when we were playing in a band. I met Martin [lead vocals,
rhythm guitar] through our tour manager Brent,
and then I was doing some stuff with this folk singer, and thats
how I met Paul [lead guitar].Bryan was
playing with me as well, and then, you know, we just kind of
formed Boys Like Girls thereafter and started.
Whats the strangest thing that a fans ever done, for you or at a
show?
J: Well, we have this girl thats come to our show, shes here and
she uh, she makes cakes. In the shape of
penises. And I mean, thats a little bizarre. And then she wants
us to eat them. And its like
Maybe she thinks youd like it.
J: Yeah, I meanI guess I like penis cake?
Wait, so does she ask you to eat them in front of her?
J: Yeah, its, like, really weird. Shes probably gonna read this,
too, which is even weirder.
So, why are you named Boys Like Girls?
J: We just, you know, wrote a bunch of lists and names together
and then e-mailed them back and forth and it
was like, this one looks good and sounds good for us, so we
decided to keep it. It was pretty easy.
B: We used it for the first show we ever did and it kind of just
stuck from thereon out.
J: Yeah, one of those things.
Did you guys ever think you were going to get to here?
J: I guess we all had this dream to do this kind of stuff, the
fact that its happening now is pretty awesome. We
get to experience college without thecollege.
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B: Without the homework!
Did any of you guys go to college?
B: No.
J: I went for, like, two weeks and I was, like screw this.
Where?
J: It was, like, a community college. I was gonna go to music
school and then I couldnt decide what I wanted
to do so I started taking a couple of classes, and I was, like,
this sucks, this is not for me.
B: We actually stole Paul fresh out of senior year in high
school, so he never even had the option to go to
college, we were just, like, nope youre going on the road. Come
on.
Did you ever want to go to college?
J: I still want to go, I think eventually, maybe once its all
said and done, I think itd be kind of cool to, you
know, say I did that, too.
B: I took two college tours my junior year of high school, and
out of those two tours I was, like, nope, that
doesnt sound like too much fun.
What are your favorite and least favorite aspects of
touring?
J: I think my favorite is that we get to, you know, play in
front of kids every night, play music that we worked
really hard on, and get to meet so many different people, and
you get to do things like help people and stuff,
which is really, really nice, and then I guess the worst aspect
is you get homesick. Youre away from home for a
long time, you miss your friends and family.
What impact do you hope that listeners will take away from your
music?
J: I hope that we can maybe change a couple of lives, and if
that happens thats awesome.
B: Inspire kids,
J: Yeah, inspire kids.
B: to play instruments.
What advice would you give to kids who are aspiring
musicians?
J: Work your ass off!
B: Practice, and if you want it bad enough, it can happen.
Can you guys give us a run-down of a typical day-in-the-life on
tour?
J: You wake up, you go shower, and then you go do your
soundcheck, you do some press, you hang out for a
little while you eat some dinner, and play the show.
B: Do some more press.
J: Do some more press, and you do the show, and take a shower,
and either go to bed, or, you know, try to go
out somewhere with some of your friends.
Whens your next album coming out?
J: In spring.
B: In springtime sometime. We dont have any studio time booked
yet, but were thinking,
J: Theres still a lot of stuff to do, a lot of stuff to put
together, we still have, like, a lot more stuff to do, and
you go through picking a producer.
B: Its a long process.
J: Yeah, a long, long process.
When you guys do produce your new album, do you want to do it
back home in Boston? Or somewhere else?
J: I dont know, I mean weve talked about different options, weve
talked about like doing it at home, and I
think weve talked about doing it in L.A., just to get away from
home, and not be distracted with, you know,
that whole thing.
B: Each city has its positives and negatives. Home would be
great because its where we all grew up at the same
time, but if were there were supposed to be writing a record,
were supposed to be working, and theres a
chance that we might get a little distracted, you know, spend
more time at home than actually in the studio, so,
we still need to weigh all the options.
Do you guys go on your fan Web sites?
J: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we actually do all that stuff ourselves. We
have a little bit of help with like graphics and
stuff we dont know how to do. We answer messages and we have our
own MySpace and Facebooks and we try
to answer as many as we can when time permits.
Whats your favorite song on your album?
J: Ah gee, I dont know, theyre all like our children so I guess
I dont have a particular favorite one.
So what can we expect from you guys tonight?
J: I think you can expect a really good line-up of bands, were
pretty excited for all the bands. Were really good
friends with Cute Is What We Aim For, and Lights, we just kind
of heard of and were, like, oh, theyre really
good, so lets take them, and then the local opener.
B: Friday Night Boys.
J: Theyre very good, too. I think its gonna be a lot of fun, you
know, were gonna play a lot of songs, hopefully
no one gets bored, and then well see what happens.
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