Here we are at last. It’s weird to think that if I hadn’t come across Simple Plan as a teenager, music may not play a very big role in my life, and everything that comes with it, which is hard to fathom. Although this was not a carefully planned out interview with witty, investigative questions but rather a spontaneous hijacking …
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Taking Back Sunday talk about “Twenty” and early Europe and Germany memories
I remember finding out about Taking Back Sunday through the CD booklet of Simple Plan’s “No Pads, No Helmets, …Just Balls” when I was about 14 years old, going on to purchase “Tell All Your Friends” a short time after. “Cute Without The E” and “You’re So Last Summer” were absolute anthems of my youth and with Taking Back Sunday’s …
Read More »Palisades talk Erase The Pain, drawing kissing dolphins and Lzzy Hale’s rocking stilettos
I had the chance to talk to Palisades vocalist Lou Miceli when the band stopped over at Download Festival before they took to the Avalanche Stage. Their latest record “Erase The Pain” has propelled the band to new heights and it is evident that they poured their heart and soul into making it. They are definitely in it for the …
Read More »Amazing line-up at Gunnersville concert series in Gunnerbury Park
The editor of Messed!Up is a huge fan of Reading Festival and have spent way too many salaries and years at the festival – but not this year (too much work in Hamburg). However, Reading festival’s promoter Festival Republic dropped the amazing news on a brand new series of tented gigs in Gunnersbury Park in London, just around the corner …
Read More »State Champs talk milestones, Halloween costumes and pop-punk legends they want to tour with
It doesn’t happen all too often that my interviews are interrupted by viking wrestlers but I guess there’s a first time for everything and who could have been a better sport than State Champs! I caught Evan and Ryan at Download Fest as they continue riding that incredible wave of their well deserved success with their latest full length Living …
Read More »“We want to be the biggest rock band in the world”: Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes interviewed
For decades, punk rock has been a way for countless people to cope with the world they live in. The music takes us to our favorite place in the back of our minds where we can be enraged, smile, laugh or cry. Bands like the Damned, Sex Pistols, Ramones, and Social Distortion have been on the frontline of our punk …
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