Yesterday Was Everything Page #10

(Interviewer)

...your name, the band, and

"You're listening

to Radioactive Metal."

Can I just get you to say that.

(Ryan) Okay.

You ready for it? Whenever?

(Interviewer) Yup, whenever.

Hey what's up, this is

Ryan from Misery Signals and

you're listening to

Radioactive Metal.

Excellent.

(Camera Person) So the band

before you is going on now?

(Stu) Yes

We've dealt with this

sh*t with Jesse forever.

We've known about all

these things. Whatever.

My goal from the start was just

to try and get this thing to

actually happen, and I knew that

there would be some sacrifices

because Jesse is just

out of his mind in ways.

I couldn't do this with

Jesse on a regular basis.

Nobody would want to deal

with the stress that comes

along with it. Doing it like

this, ten shows, it's great.

It's fun.

The bullshit doesn't really have

a negative impact on me at all.

I know that it's not my

life anymore, that it's just

a one-time thing.

And when we finish the tour on

the 23rd in Toronto, that's

that, y'know, it's over.

(Ryan) We've got a line check,

so you've got a minute...

- Is there a bathroom down here?

- Yeah there's two there.

It's 9:
57

[cheering]

Good evening Winnipeg.

(Kyle) We're running a little

behind today, so we're just

going to line check B-Ball's

drums and get the support bands

up. Doors are at six and it's

twenty after five right now.

Had a little hang up at the

border, probably could have left

a little earlier this morning,

but y'know, these things happen.

This is the way of the road man.

Last night was the first kind

of, taste of reality I guess.

The reality that not all the

shows are going to go as

perfect as the other ones.

(Ryan) I'm glad last

night was kinda how it was.

Sort of a good reality

check for the band.

It was a little slower.

It was kind of a

dip in the energy.

By any other standards,

it was great. It was just

juxtaposed with some shows

that were totally off the hook.

I think it's just healthy for

everyone's mindset to have a

show like that every

once in awhile.

Especially in this situation,

because if the whole tour was so

sick all the way through, it

might be one of those things

like "oh dude, we gotta get the

band back together and do it

like this all the time" or

something. But it wouldn't be

like this all the time unless

it wasn't a special thing.

It's a cool note to end a

chapter on, to do a bunch of

really cool shows that are

really well attended and

people are going crazy.

But it's also gotta have a

dose of reality in it because,

it's over after this, y'know?

I have mixed feelings about

touring after doing it for so

long and after having the

life that I have now with

home and family.

I miss lots about it.

Never tiring of a place because

you're in a new spot all

the time. You're out there doing

it, you have one goal a day,

and that's get to the show,

get everything set up and

do the show. And

that's very singular.

And outside of that you just

wander and do what you want,

and look for your own fun,

and your own relaxation.

That's awesome because things

are complicated when you're at

home, and it's not as focused,

and you have to micro-manage all

these decisions and build

something to work towards.

It's hard for me sometimes to

manufacture those things when

I'm used to just focusing

on the band and the show.

Going in there and getting it

done, and as soon as you take

your amp of stage, that goal

is done, it's checked off.

Let's go to the next

city and do it again.

The flip side of that coin of

course is that I have to be

away from my family.

I have to be away from my

home like that I'm working on

building up, and it's

harder and harder to do.

In a way this is a throwback

to all the great shows

we did over the years, and even

the smaller, fun shows we did

back when Jesse was in the

band and we were doing

the "Malice" songs

on that record.

But in a way I've done

all these shows before.

If I were doing it just as

something I was still doing,

I think it would make me sad.

It was the last time

We lost a fight without you

And finally now

(Kyle) 10010 is the ZIP.

Got it.

(GPS) Calculating route.

Two and a half hours,

plus traffic.

(Kyle) Yeah their van

broke down about 4:00 AM

last night in Cleveland.

Yeah, brutal.

Especially since they

were only on four shows.

This is probably

gonna be the best one.

So do you want to

keep on schedule,

or do you want to move it up?

So our set time will probably

be the same regardless.

(Ryan) It's been

a lot of stuff man.

I mean, I'm kind of getting to

the point where I'm thinking a

lot about home and just

reacclimating to real life.

There's kind of a lot of stuff

hanging over my head back home

that I have to deal with.

It's been convenient to have a

tour to just escape from it and

not really think about it.

(Jesse) The whole thing has

been this constant roller

coaster of happy sad, y'know.

I think this whole thing has

been positive overall, but it's

mixed at times and it's been

crazy delving into the past.

It all happened.

The story is heavy, and I think

that the lyrics are heavy, and

why has this been so successful?

It's because people experience

heavy things in life and

they relate to those lyrics.

I don't think we could do this

without, at times, touching on

heavy things and getting sad,

getting mad,

whatever the case may be.

That record is sad, and it is

mad, but it's about catharsis.

It's about getting past all that

garbage, you know what I mean?

I think that's what those songs

have done for kids, that's what

that record did for me.

As dark as it is, it's not all

"oh I hate life, this sucks,"

you know what I mean?

It's like "this is bad, but

we're working through it."

We gotta get an O.G.

Misery Signals lineup picture.

(Jesse) Would I

do something more?

At the beginning of this,

I would have said no way.

But I cannot deny

what has happened.

I cannot deny what I see in

the kids' faces every night.

I cannot deny the

things they say to me.

We created fantastic

art together.

And...

I don't want it to end.

I don't want it to be over now.

I don't know what that means, I

don't know what that looks like,

I don't know what-

how we proceed.

But if Karl leaves, or if we

can extend this in any way,

I'm willing.

It's been sort of a long

time coming with Karl that he

hasn't contributed much to

the band, and it's decreased

as time has gone on.

After coming back and playing

these shows with Jesse, and

seeing the side of the coin

where the singer's enthusiastic

and passionate, and has

something on the line, like

Jesse is nervous before the

show and he has an emotional

attachment to it. That's what

I think a singer's main job is,

to be the gateway between

the audience and the songs.

And now that we've gone back and

done great shows and had both

sides of that,

I don't want to go back.

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