The mood in camp BAT is quite good these days. We’ve recovered from our time on tour and are ready to go again. Mistakes happen so you can learn from them. A friend of ours on myspace, Mirelle quoted Jimmy Eat World today saying ‘It’s gonna get harder still, before it gets easier’ and you know what she hit the nail on the head, that line sums our band right up. Never have things been really easy for us, we’ve always had a few testing times, a few questionable nights here and there and I’m pretty sure we’ve all questioned if it was worth doing it, being a band I mean but at the end of the day we’re still just 5 kids who get together when they can, hang out, tell lame jokes and play songs that we wrote. I remember the first gig that the 5 of us played together, it was the first time I’d had no instument to hide behind and although I was scared it didn’t bother me too much cause I was up there with my friends. I got that same feeling recently at our single release show but as our OTT intro music (the pirates of the caribbean theme tune) faded out and our first song kicked in I forgot everything I was afraid of and just had fun. That’s what this band has always been to me, an escape from the things that I worry about, it’s something I do beacuse it’s fun and because I love it. Alot of people will always talk shit about what we do because we’re just another band in what seems to be an ocean of bands and we’re probably just as formulaic and samey as alot of other bands but we play the music that we like, music we’d listen too and music that is inspired by the music we grew up listening too. It doesn’t matter what somebody I’ve never met has to say about my band cause they don’t have the personnal connection with it that say me or my friends do. What I’m getting at is no matter what happens and what people say or do never give up on something you believe in. If you dream it hard enough it can come true. Keep that in mind next time someone says you’ll never accomplish something. We’ve been a band for over 4 years now and we’ve never stoped dreaming.
