Yesterday Was Everything Page #2

(Jesse) I'm definitely

a man of comfort.

You know my obsessive compulsive

really does control, I guess,

how I live my day-to-day

life a lot of the time.

So all of a sudden, being so

OCD and phobic of things to go

back into a van...

Sh*t there's gonna be

nine people in that van.

You know, my girlfriend

is gonna come along.

(Ryan) He's got a pretty good

hold on like, the fact that he

knows he's a little bit insane

with some of these phobias,

and he's pretty apologetic

about it and he's like "Oh I'm

sorry you guys have to put up

with me and my crazy old ways".

And when he made us move

rehearsal spaces, he was pretty

graceful about it I guess.

(Kyle) The ceiling in the space

is covered with plastic but you

can still see through

and see the insulation.

There is nothing falling from

the ceiling, it's sealed, but

just the fact that Jesse could

see the insulation with his

eyes, he never came back

to that jam space again.

And we ultimately practiced the

next three days without him.

(Adam) You guys want to

run through one more thing on

stage or are you guys good?

Well I didn't know fiberglass,

that's kind of a new phobia

I think. We didn't really

know that was a big thing

because it used

to be duct tape.

- Adhesives.

- Adhesives, yeah.

(Stu) Like, I understand why

he didn't want to be in there,

whatever, but it seriously just

roots back to touring with him

back in the day because I didn't

want to like bend over and agree

with him just because it was

something he wanted his way

you know? So like, just

on principle I was like

"f*** that, we're not moving

jam spaces, we have to hold our

ground on this sort of thing".

It might be a good thing

that I'm in here, not just

for myself, for the guys, maybe

it makes it a little bit easier

on me maybe it makes it a

little easier on everybody else.

(Ryan) Dude,

classic moment just now.

This dude just came up to

me and introduced himself to

me twice. And the first time

he's like "oh what's up man?

How's it going? I'm John,

whatever, I came here,

whatever," and then he's like...

and I went out in the van and

kinda like changed my shirt and

came back in and he's just like

"Yo! You're in

Misery Signals, right?

You got a twin brother,

I just met him over there."

At first, early on I

would have been like "Oh, no,

that's Branden, that's my

brother, I can't accept that"

but that conversation goes

nowhere, and like they feel

awkward and now I'm just like

"Yeah, f*** yeah, thank you."

(From Stage) Make some

noise for Youth Decay!

Nihilate!

And the reason why

we are all f***ing here:

Misery Signals!

[cheering]

[music starts]

This time.....

It was our summer.

It was something, no

one could take from us!

Sometimes that

night, seems so close

Like I, could hold it

You said alright,

we'll be fine.

But how

could we have known?

Do you remember?

Roll down the window

let in night air.

I always thought

we'd be together

You said we've

never gone this way before

(Branden) Dude, so insane and

so awesome but like poor Ryan is

over here in the corner

sh*t's getting stepped on and

everything is getting unplugged.

Alright we gotta pause here

for two seconds because you

guys are f***ing out of

control, and it's awesome,

but everybody's gotta take like

two steps back and you guys

gotta step down and like

everything is getting unplugged.

And I'm gonna put all my sh*t

back together and then we're

gonna play the next song.

Hold on.

(Jesse) I thought this show

would be really good but I

didn't anticipate this.

(Branden) That's probably the

most technical difficulties he's

ever had, but that might

have been one of the best

Misery Signals

shows we've ever played.

(Ryan) I'm also informed that

there's some sprinklers up here

you've gotta watch

out for otherwise they'll

get everything wet.

That might be a bad scene.

(Jesse) Once again,

thank you guys so so much.

Keep enjoying yourselves.

Just please watch

old Ry's pedals here.

(Ryan) Tonight's gonna be nuts,

it's like the venue is maybe a

little bit too small but it will

be one of those shows where

maybe that's a good thing.

(Kyle) The venue is

a lot of bit too small

Yeah.

I think we could have

filled a four or five hundred

cap room in Calgary.

That's the tricky balance

man, it's a lot less fun

if half the room's half empty

cause you can feel that

difference, and for this tour

particularly I think that's

what we wanted to go for

is like a smaller room kind of

feel cause those were like...

if we're gonna do a throwback

to those times we were

playing a lot smaller places,

smaller than this even.

(Interviewer) So as veterans,

what advice would you give

to people who are in the

early stages starting out?

The band has been

operating for ten, twelve years

now, when we sort of broke the

band and got signed and that

sort of thing we were just

touring and doing shows and it

wasn't quite as internet and

social networking

based as it seems to be.

(Jesse) What's up guys

we're Misery Signals.

(Ryan) Now, it's like, cover

a popular song and make a

cool YouTube video and

get some viral going online,

I don't really know cause

I didn't do it that way.

For us it was just get

out there and play as much

as you can and I don't think

that's gonna hurt you I still

think that's a good idea.

If you're watching

this we're already dead.

Melted away to nothingness.

We're in the desert, it sucks.

What does that sign say?

Tucson, 246 miles.

246 miles to Tucson Arizona.

So Tucson is less

than half way there.

(Stu) I can remember one year,

maybe it was 2004 or 2005 that

we were on tour for

11 months of that year.

Three days off here, a week

here, you know a few days,

but like it

was just go go go go go.

We were just focused

on that and nothing else.

There wasn't really

anything else going on in

my life that mattered.

We were just really caught up

in making this thing special.

(Camera Person) Say

something for me Jesse.

Hello.

How are you tonight?

I'm okay. Tired.

You think you want to play

in a band for your life but

all of a sudden you're on the

road for 120 days at a time,

never going home. My mother

had a son, my little brother,

he's now thirteen years old

but in those first years of

Misery Signals

he was a little boy.

And he didn't have a dad, and so

I always had this really strong

sense of obligation

to be a dad to Liam.

How do you balance touring ten,

eleven months of the year with

trying to be this father

figure to this boy?

Alright so we just arrived

in Arkansas. At the show.

When I was nineteen

through twenty one I was really

really close with my parents,

and same with like friends when

I lived in Edmonton from when

I started touring with

Misery Signals my friend

circle in Edmonton is pretty

much down to one person now.

You know the only person that

I really talk to that lives in

Edmonton is Brandon,

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