July Interview

I recently did an interview with Brampton, Ontario's July. Check them out at http://www.facebook.com/wearejuly

PPND- How would you describe your music to someone who has never heard of July?

July- I would say its balls out pop punk along the lines of late 90's/early 00's pop punk, but there is a lot of modern and top 40 sneaking in there too.


PPND- What bands would you say are your biggest influence?

July- Our influences range from bands like New Found Glory, blink-182, and Yellowcard, to other things like hip hop.


PPND- You shot a music video back in March. How did it go?

July- Ehhhhh... The shooting of the video was good, the end product, not so much…


PPND- How has the response been to your debut EP "The Best Nights"

July- Honestly, it's been much better than we've expected. Everyone who hears it loves it and our local scene has been very supportive. We couldn't ask for a better response.


PPND- Do you have any plans on recording a full length?

July- For sure, we're already about 12 songs into pre pro, some of them are riffs and drums, some are full songs. We like to write as much as possible and then go through our demos and pick the best ones. We're hoping to start recording the full length by the fall.


PPND- You recently recorded of cover of Rebecca Black's Friday. Do you plan doing any more covers?

July- We were playing around with the idea of covering an older pop punk song that we all love, something off of Bleed American or Dude Ranch. Then we were playing with the idea of covering the YMCA, but we don't want people to think that we just cover bad songs, hahaha.

PPND- There seems to be a resurgence of Pop Punk in Ontario right now. Besides you guys, there's a lot of quality pop punk bands, Live The Story, UTKF, Bathurst, To Tell The Tale, Attention, are all great. No one is really that well known yet. Do you think Pop Punk has a chance of becoming more popular in Ontario.

July- We really hope so. Right now Canada (especially Toronto) is big into indie and folk. It's really hard for us few pop punk bands to get noticed when our audience and scene isn't really here. But I think that we're all doing a pretty good job at trying to make a good name for pop punk in Ontario again. I'd love it if Toronto was up there with San Diego was in the late 90s for pop punk.


PPND- What's your favourite show that you've ever played?

July- Our CD release at All Stars bar was intense, we packed the place and had people launching off stage and screaming every word with us. It was a huge party.


PPND- What's your favourite show that you've attended?

We went to All Time Low in Toronto recently, and as well as loving the concert, we walked up and down the line with an iPod playing our music and managed to sell 80 copies of our EP. We made a lot of fans and got to enjoy a good show.


PPND- Do you have any plans on touring this summer?

July- We definitely wanna tour, but we need to get the funds together and find someone who wants to tour with us. We're working our asses off right now and hope that we can get something awesome going by mid summer.


PPND- Do you have any final comments for your fans.

July- Thank you so much for everything, you've all been so receptive of everything and welcomed us newcomers into the scene with open arms. We do this for you guys as much as we do it for us, and we can never thank you guys enough.