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CANCELLATIONS
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CAREER ENDER = TROUBLE EVERYDAY??
An interview with Kyle Costill
by J. Tagmire
In just a few years, Trouble Everyday has accomplished more than
most bands will in their entire career. Their first full length,
Days vs. Nights was well received by critics, many comparing their
sometimes danceable post-punk sound to such greats as Joy Division,
Modest Mouse and Fugazi. They’ve shared the stage with many
notable bands including Franz Ferdinand, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Saves the
Day, and they even toured the southwest with The Killers. They
frequently jump back and forth between Philly, New York
,
Los Angeles
, and London
to play shows. They’ve also been getting plenty of label attention
lately, but something else has been going on behind the scenes.
During a quiet time over the holidays in late 2005, singer/guitarist
Kyle Costill quietly formed 2 new bands, Cancellations (a mostly
solo recording project) and Career Ender (a split vocal 90’s indie
flashback). Within a month, both of these bands merged into an all
new form of Trouble Everyday with a second vocalist and a new
bassist. Their first live performance as an all-new Trouble Everyday
is approaching and even though it may not be the first lineup change
in the bands history, it’s the biggest and most exciting change
they’ve endured.
J. Tagmire - What's the deal with your three bands:
Cancellations, Career Ender and Trouble Everyday?
Kyle Costill - Well, we stopped playing with Dave Kain, and
during downtime with Trouble Everyday we kind of had some downtime
before Dave Kain stopped, and I started playing by myself, just
recording and then it kind of evolved. I ran into Rich on new years
and we started playing and Jesse got involved and Nick Kessler got
involved and we started Career Ender you know we played a show last
week and it went really well and it kind of... Me and Rich were
sitting around and we both kind of realized it was kind of
the same stuff as Trouble Everyday even though we were trying to
make it different it was just naturally becoming Trouble Everyday.
So we figured instead of me and Jesse just going on with Trouble
Everyday, because Nick was going to fill in for bass for a while, we
just decided we'll just use the name Trouble Everyday and that way I
can keep playing songs I wrote before too and keep all of our
connections and stuff like that.
J. Tagmire - What does Rich do in the band?
Kyle Costill - He does vocals and some keyboards. It's like a
tradeoff on vocals... He does maybe 7 out of the 10 songs live, he
does the main vocal part and I do the backup, but it's kind of like
a 50% you know... it's like we're both singers... I don't know it's
weird.
J. Tagmire - Describe for us, the new Trouble Everyday sound.
Kyle Costill - I think it's way more, it's almost like a
revival... it's good because it's everything we wanted out of the
first Trouble Everyday, but now it's all kicked up a notch with
energy... Rich is great live and Nick’s really good with Jesse,
Nicks really an advanced bass player and with Jesse's drumming it
just makes it tight and crisp and we all just get along... I just
think it's an amped up version of Trouble Everyday, but also more
professional at the same time.
J. Tagmire - What kind of stuff are you listening to right
now?
Kyle Costill - I just got Sirius Satellite radio for
Christmas, Megan got it for me. There's a station on there that I
really like called Left of Center. I've been listening to like Clap
Your Hands Say Yeah this band
Film
School
that we're actually getting to play with.
The Cloud Room, I've been listening to... The Breaks... it's
members of British Sea Power. I'm really into the current growth of
the current Indie scene. It just seems like with stuff like
Satellite Radio and people doing things like you're doing with this
CD it seems like almost the early 90's again when people kind of
care about it and want to make something out of nothing, you know?
J. Tagmire - What is your favorite part of entire process;
writing, recording or playing live?
Kyle Costill - Definitely playing live. Just because you get
to interact with an audience and it's like the most energy filled
and it's really the key to seeing how the songs actually are because
I might think a songs good, but then play it live and it's just kind
of like oh... you know? I think the acceptance of the audience is my
favorite part. I've never been in a good recording environment so I
really don't like recording but I feel like were excited about this
stuff and we're going to take a whole different approach to
recording. Actually invest some time and money to making sure that
our next full length is really produced well and actually has the
help of a producer, rather than just recording.
J. Tagmire - What are Trouble Everyday’s future plans?
Kyle Costill - Right now we have a single coming out in June
on Princehouse Records which is a
California
label, it's a split with Ima Robot which is Beck's bass players
band. He's like Beck’s contributing songwriter. He's been with him
since like where it's at and that stuff. Then we have a UK release
of 6 old songs coming out in May/June on a label over there and
we're going to California in march for like 5 days to just play a
couple shows in LA and hang out with the people at our label and
we're in talks right now about a full length, were in talks with two
different labels so we're kind of trying to see which one is going
to give us the best thing but for late 2006 we're gonna be focusing
on being a touring band that can actually do this for a living if
that’s possible, you know. We're all really focused on it now.
J. Tagmire - What are some of the biggest accomplishments
you’ve had as a band?
Kyle Costill - The things that I'm really proud of with
Trouble Everyday is that we started the band and recording the first
recorded and being asked to play with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and going
over to England and London twice. You know just getting the respect
of some Indie sites. I just was glad that it was perceived do well,
but I think the old lineup with TE, we kind of grew apart. Me and
Jesse had a vision of what we wanted to do and I think Dave Kain’s
was a little different... I'm kind of more excited right now about
the accomplishment of this lineup actually coming together. I think
I'm going to look back at that as the best thing that we've done
because I just see so much that can come out of it... And the
Killers thing was cool too…
J. Tagmire - What was the deal with Trouble Everyday never
playing Philly again?
Kyle Costill - Aha.. good one, that was like a personal thing
with a booking... we were being managed by some people that we
didn't feel they were doing their proper job so we fired them and as
a backlash we were kind of banned from playing certain places and
kind of talked down on. Whether it was us thinking it was that or
not, it was kind of just some message board drama that blew up from
nothing. We were just kinda fed up with the whole thing, I
personally was really fed up with it, about how if you're friends
with somebody you can get a good show, but like us, we’ve had a
strong following we were being pretty much blacklisted from stuff
that we would have gotten before but
since we weren't associated with these people anymore, we
weren't able to do it. Then when everybody freaked out about it, I
just saw it as a funny opportunity to be like “Yo, we're never
playing Philly again” and play it up. And we actually played
Philly the next day too.
On the web:
http://www.troubleeveryday.com
http://www.myspace.com/troubleeveryday
Also look for their track “Be Safe” (labeled as Cancellations)
on the Mass Broadcast Volume One Compilation.
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