See as we went and saw Warped Tour the other day, and seeing them there, you see all the craziness that goes on and the, you know, rabid fans they have and you’re like “okay, this is really cool, this is impressive.” Jeremy: Looking at them and their progress, I mean, they’ve been around, four years, maybe, and just, wow, they’ve grown and grown and grown. How has it been working with one of the big names in pop punk at the moment? Does it make you feel like mainstream success is more possible? Jeremy: He works so hard for us, you know, we love him.īy Fil, you mean Fil Thorpe-Evans, the bassist for Neck Deep, and Gardenside’s manager. It was the type of thing where I knew I wanted a guest vocal on that part, and the first person Fil said was “well, what about Dan from Real Friends?” I was like “really? I guess so, yeah.” It came through in like a week, so it was like “wow, okay.” You know, that guy can get stuff done, I love it. Jeremy: It’s kind of ridiculous, the whole Dan being on that, our song “Into It.” It was just crazy. Not only do you have an EP out, but you’ve got some pretty impressive guest vocals on it-from Dan Lambton of Real Friends. Jeremy: Everyone’s solid, so I’m really happy about that. And Ethan’s played in bands before, too, but not as much. Jeremy: Well, for us two, Jeremy and Robby, and Charles, this isn’t our first band, so-I used to play in a band with Robby back when I lived here in 2011, so we meshed immediately. Jeremy: We’re kind of taking everything we have right now and whatever shows we can get our hands on, so, we played a good, fair amount for just kind of starting to pull it together and, you know, understand each other and get tight in that way.Įthan: But that has been surprising, for such a fresh band, I feel like by show two we were, like, locked in. So the actual band has existed for six, seven months or so.Īnd yet you’ve already put out an EP and are playing shows. Jeremy: The idea of the band, probably started in December, November of last year (2016). Jeremy: -he just moved back to California, and I was like “wow, this is working out nice.” And then Charles is a good friend of mine from a while ago, and it was just a no-brainer to have him on. Jeremy: And then Robby, I’ve known Robby for a couple of years, and he’s the best drummer I know, so. I want some buds to hang out with.Įthan: And Jeremy came up to me and he was like “hey, I want to you to be in the band,” and I was like “we’re not friends yet.” I wanted it to be a band, because-just being by yourself, I don’t want that. Jeremy: No, I never wanted to do a solo project. I ended up showing them to my friend Fil and he said “this is cool, you should do this.” I was like “okay,” and we started working on it, and it’s come to where we are now.ĭid you ever consider making Gardenside a solo project? Had to figure out what I’m going to do next and started writing some tunes. Jeremy: I was in a band for around five years, and that band kind of started to fizzle out a little bit.

Combining traditional pop punk sound with gentle, occasionally drawling vocals and a bedroom-band vibe, the Gardenside EP stays true to the band’s ideal of “sorta pop punk.” I met up with three of its four members-Ethan Carling, Robby Craig, Jeremy Harris, and Charles Crowley-at a house show in San Juan Capistrano to discuss Gardenside’s formation and future. Gardenside is a four piece band from Los Angeles, California-and despite being less than a year old, the band has already been playing shows up and down the coast to promote their five song self-titled EP. Record Hospital Gardenside Interview Record Hospital September 28, 2017

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