Yesterday Was Everything Page #9

either one of the funerals,

so for me on a personal level,

it was kind of like a

celebration of what

had happened, but then

kind of a celebration of the

future. I mean Jesse came back

with his new band, and there was

a lot of optimism. You know,

this really sad thing, but we

were trying to move forward.

We're 7 Angels 7 Plagues

from Milwaukee Wisconsin.

Let's have some fun.

With plastic face designs

(Kyle) The fact that we were

a four-piece didn't matter.

We weren't 7 Angels in it's

original inception, but the

crowd and the emotion

behind it drove the show.

I remember being on stage, and

looking over side-stage and

seeing Stuart side-stage just

in tears while we were playing.

This is what it all was leading

up to, and we were finally here

honoring the memory

of these kids.

I thank you all,

every one of you.

Jordan thanks you all, he's

smiling big time no doubt.

[cheering]

I wanna know that you'll

all be here next year.

[cheering]

Cause you know what?

As long as I'm Jordan's dad,

this is gonna happen every year.

[cheering]

Yeah, through

Yesterday Was Everything Fest,

and even the formation of Misery

Signals, everything is...

not closure, but it's,

you know,

helped us all cope

with it in some way.

Good, you? What did you guys

end up doing last night?

Not much, we got out

of the club pretty late.

(Ryan) Oh f***. This is crazy.

(Adam) JFK, what the f***

are you doing to me man?

What is this?

This is a joke right,

we're getting punked right

now, right? What the f***?

(Kyle) We had already

decided that we were going to

break up 7 Angels

and start a new project.

(Stu) So Jeff like came out,

and was in the band, they wrote

that EP, and recorded it,

and they just hit the road.

I feel like it happened in no

time, because they were in

Edmonton doing that sh*t in

June, and I feel like they were

on tour for the Misery Signals

EP by October or something.

It happened super fast.

And then luckily for

me Jeff quit the band.

For Misery Signals to put

out that first EP where a

lot of it dealt

with that accident,

that was a pretty major thing.

The song "The Year Summer Ended

in June" is probably one of the

most personal and touching songs

I've ever heard, because it's

written about our friends and

what we all went through.

(Ryan) When you're a band that

makes songs, no matter how

personal they are, once you put

em out there and they become

special to other people

for their own reasons,

they cease to be just personal.

They're still personal songs,

and they can still mean that to

you, but they mean so many

things to so many other people

that the life of the

song is beyond just

your experience with it.

I didn't necessarily write the

riffs and have that in mind, but

I know it had a feel to it, and

a texture that was definitely

drawn from the environment

that we were in emotionally

at the time. But the time

that it took it's true

form is when Jesse

wrote the lyrics.

We want to call to the

stage, our good friend,

our brother Mr. Ryan

"Junior" Kittlitz to the

play the next song with us.

[cheering]

This next song is likely the

most important song that we

wrote, or at least that I

wrote I feel, on this record.

This song is called The

Year Summer Ended in June.

[cheering]

(Stu) Who knows what turn their

lives could have taken, but at

the time, all those dudes wanted

to do was tour and play music.

...and how you're

always with me.

(Stu) In a weird, sad way,

without the accident happening,

and without Jordan and Dan

passing away, I don't know if I

would ever have played

guitar for Misery Signals,

or done all the touring, met

all the people that I've met.

I wouldn't have met my wife.

It changed my life.

It literally changed

the course of my life.

I feel so selfish saying it, but

without the accident happening,

all the good things in

my life might not exist.

Compromise asked me

to go on tour with them,

on that tour that the

accident happened.

Weird to think back on, had I

gone on that tour, I would have

been in that accident too, and

who knows if I would have still

been here right now.

Sh*t y'know, the same

thing could happen to us,

there could be another accident,

and I might not be here.

It's one of those things that's

always on your mind that it

could happen to you.

(Kyle) You hear that?

We will finish

earlier than planned.

9:
35 to 10:30 for us roughly.

So we could be out of here by

midnight and still get a decent

amount of sleep before we have

to get up. We have nowhere set

to go in Minneapolis,

so we'll be there all day.

We could even leave at six,

if we wanted to be safe.

Jesse's car broke down.

They are four and a half hours

away, which is an hour later

than we're supposed to play.

(Kyle) We don't want to leave

an hour between Waster and us

with the kids waiting.

So we should realistically

try and plan for a 10:30

stage time, maybe even 11:00.

Which sucks for a Monday night.

Wanna know what I really think

happened? They probably just

left their house super late,

that's what I think.

[laughs]

They stayed at

their own house.

(Adam) These are the new times.

Doors at 7:
15, we'll just

push the opener back to 8:15,

to 8:
45, and then 20

minute changeover for them,

with a half hour set, give

us a half hour changeover,

that puts us on at 10:00.

And we can stall from

there if we have to?

(Promoter) I was

thinking about this,

we can't really go past 10:45.

10:
30 is usually where we cut

it on weekdays, so fifteen

minutes late as it is.

(Kyle) We just had a situation.

Our singer is traveling

separately, and had car trouble.

So he's actually roughly

four hours away still.

- Really?

- Yeah

Oh my god.

We could get on by

10:
00 at the earliest.

Okay.

So, is there a curfew,

is the curfew 11:00?

- Yeah, yeah it is.

- Okay.

So I guess the best that

we could hope for is, if he

arrives before 10:00 then we'll

go on as soon as he gets here.

(Ryan) Are we sure he's not

exaggerating like "oh dude I'll

be there at 10:
00, no problem."

He said he's four hours

away about 45 minutes ago, and

it's 6:
23 right now so...

I'm just gonna have him keep

me updated as time goes on.

I don't know what

else we can do really.

If we have to

play half the album

and that's it,

then so be it.

If he goes past 10:00

O'clock we're cutting songs,

and cutting time

off the set, so-

And cutting songs from

a set of nine shows for

a ten-year anniversary

of a record.

(Ryan) Right.

It's not just like a

regular show, y'know?

Right, it's not like

we'll be back in two months.

Out of ten shows, it was

bound to happen that their car

would break down at some point.

So it's just no surprise.

I mean there's sh*t back

in the day where like,

we'd be on stage, ready to play.

And the tour manager from the

other band would be like "Start!

You guys are f***in five

minutes over already, start!"

And we'd just start without him.

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