fivewordslong
Fivewordslong are Matt Toohey and Steve Lambert, along with anyone else who helps us out along the way. We are the future of Rock N Roll. Probably.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
We've been together working on music for over 10 months now....probably actually a year, who knows. We are currently working on recording our Album. It's almost done. Its 17 tracks and called "All Robots Go To Heaven"... or something. We'll prolly end up changing our minds again. We're working on art and finalizing a couple tracks... doing some last minute tweaking. Like I said, it's gonna be like 3 bucks, we did it all ourselves on a four track and our computers. We're not trying to impress anyone with sound quality, we're just trying to prove that you can do this shit on your own and still produce good, meaningful music. And thats what its all about. Fuck money. I'll stay at Ritz Camera for the rest of my life as long as I can continue making music that I love.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
We play live in front of the bathroom mirror.
We're gearing up to start playing actual live shows by the end of the school year or something. The trouble is A) getting off our asses and practicing together, B) writing new songs that can be played live (most of our songs have like 20+ tracks of random shit buried in them to make them sound cool, making it hard to play live since we can't play ten instruments each.) and C) finding places to play/ people to play with. Too many people/places around where we are aren't too appreciative of non-punkrock bands (cause bowie is a cultural wasteland). Apparently the bands SoundofSilence and League said they would play with us. Thats pretty neat considering they are way cooler bands. This paragraph is too long.
Your musical influences
We Listen to everything and anything. Basically music is created seperately by the two of us. Most of the stuff I make is acoustic guitar driven indie/folk stuff with some electronic apects to it, and then theres the all-out, no holds barred techno that I create late at night when I am not in the right state of mind. Steve has more keyboard driven pop/punkish music, to incredibly weird nonsensical music (see the mars volta). It is our goal to use our combined musical creations to rock your freakin face off.
What equipment do you use?
Zoom MRT3, Alesis SR-16, MicroKorg, Kawai K1, Some Yamaha keyboard, Acoustic Electric, Pedals (cry baby wah, metal zone distortion, Arion Stereo Phaser, and Digitech RP50 effects pedal), Aicd Pro 4.0, A Harmonica, Bongos, and in one song: a bed, a fan, car keys and an electric razor.
Anything else?
Come and Play with us! We are constantly looking for new people to come and do songs with us. Credit will be given were credit is due. If you live in maryland and are awesome and you like crazy random experimental indie music, email me and let me know.
