Freeze the Fall Reflects on Canadian Roots and Friendship at Louder Than Life Festival

0:04 Hey, you're listening to The Adventure on W4CY Radio. This is the Pipe Man here on The Adventure's Pipe Man W4CY Radio and I'm here. With Freeze the Fall. Nice. Here at Louder Than Life. Or as I've changed the name to Hotter Than Life. Like It's pretty wild to be here, isn't it? Is this, like, festival massive, or what? Is it what you imagined? It's an incredible opportunity for us. You know, we're from a small town in Canada, and now we're just, like, playing a huge festival in Kentucky, so it's very surreal. But we've been treated with just so much love and respect from everybody, and it's very surreal for us, and we're just very honored to be here.

0:57 And I got, my first question, since you're from Canada... How come you guys in Canada always are like the best musicians? Is it because it's so freezing cold you have nothing else to do but play music? Oh, man. I couldn't speak for the other musicians, but I know at least for us, like, In Canada, since the country is so big and the population is so small relative to the size of the country, there's so much vast. Like, nature. And I know for us, we are always so inspired by that. The animals and, you know, the mountains and the forests. So I know at least for us, I'd say that's the correlation between, like, the country we're from and the art that we make is the nature.

1:42 Is there anything you want to say about it? Yeah, I mean, there's... I don't know what to say. There's lots of great musicians up where we live, but they're everywhere. So, yeah. Well, see, that's cool. And so how did this all come about? Like, how did Freeze the Fall start? Yeah, so Aria and I, we went to the same middle school. And we would just see each other in passing in the hallways. We recognized each other because we were wearing band shirts that we liked. But all three of us are horribly introverted. And so it took until the last day of school where we might not ever see each other again where I went up to her and I was like, Hey, I think your band shirts are cool and I see you carrying a bass around school and I play guitar and I was wondering if you want to jam?

2:31 And then from there. Yeah, and then we met Jonah, he was playing a solo gig downtown in Kelowna, and then he wasn't in a band, so we made a band, and then, yeah, the rest is history. Nice. I mean, yeah, I mean, it's safe to say that we were pretty awkward on the first meetup, but I mean, we all got together for that first band practice, and then, honestly, it was like a pretty instant kind of friendship, I'd say. I love that. Yeah. Because that's important first and foremost. If you're not friends, no matter how great musicians you are, you're not going to have that glue. Absolutely. There is so much. I think it's important to remember that music is art, right? And art requires so much vulnerability.

3:14 And if you're working with a group, like if you're in a band like us, you have to be able to just feel really close to and comfortable expressing yourself in that vulnerable way with the other members of your band, right? So we also make an effort to really make sure that we're also nurturing our friendship because ultimately the band wouldn't be able to succeed and we wouldn't be able to do what we do if If we're having troubles in our friendship. No, no. And we see it all the time with other bands when there's conflict. It comes out on stage, you know? And listen, you have to spend so much time with each other, you better like each other. Or else we will know. It'll be very apparent you're not having fun up there. And you should be having fun. It's not just us. You made a point that I think a lot of... People don't realize, and it's so true of most artists, most artists are extreme introverts. Everybody thinks you guys are like these big extroverts because you get up on stage and you do this, but no, not really.

4:20 It's almost like you get into a zone, an out-of-body experience when you're up there on stage, right? Yeah, exactly. There's definitely a certain kind of mood you got to be in for sure on stage. And then especially after the show as well, when you're meeting with people, it's just like, it's so many people and it's, I always have so. Much energy after the show. So I find it really easy to, you know, make lots of friends after the show, but it's still. It's draining, you know, and you're exhausted. Like your body is so tired after a hundred, especially in this heat. Yeah. So it's definitely important for the three of us, knowing that we are so introverted and we do get drained. Not that we don't love interacting with people. We do.

5:00 But, you know, there's like a limit to it. So we also know that it's important for us to make sure that we're prioritizing our own health and setting boundaries for like, yeah, I think it's time to. Call it, you know? Yeah, exactly. 100%. So if each one of you could tell. The listeners when you knew that music was what you wanted to do, not the band, but you guys individually. The first time I heard. The album Post-Human Survival Horror by Bring Me the Horizon. One of my favorite bands and albums. Yeah, so good. That was kind of, I was 11 and I just, I immediately was like, okay, I need to do this for the rest of my life. So yeah.

5:41 You know what's amazing, too, about the Bring Me the Horizon thing is, like, I came into them late in the game, and it was at Danny Wimmer Festival. And they were live, which is why I say. If you go to a music festival, don't just go see your favorite bands. You're going to find the bands that are your favorite bands by going and checking them out. And I went to their set, and I was like, oh, my God. But now... Of all time, Ali is my favorite lyricist of all time. Me too. And, like, his lyrics, they just, like, so speak to me and so brilliant. Now, here, I'll ask you a trivia question, then. Any of you could answer, too. What is my absolute favorite lyric of all time that is a Bring Me to Horizon lyric?

6:31 Oh. I'm going to go with the classic, I Can't Drown My Demons, I Know How to Swim. Boom. I knew it. I mean, it's like, it's so brilliant. It's beautiful, yeah. Like, it just says it all right there. Yeah, it's few words, but it gets across what everybody's thinking. Exactly. Yeah. Okay, your turn. For a Bring Me lyric? No, for... Oh, any lyric. What made you? Oh, yeah, of course, of course. Yeah, I'd say I grew up on a lot of, like, classic rock, like, 80s and 90s, and. I'd say when I was listening to and watching Foo Fighters music videos live, all of that, and just seeing the energy that they have live and just how much fun they're having. Dave Grohl's been a huge inspiration for me.

7:22 All my life. All my life? Yeah, I think that's what really got me into playing just more and playing... Yeah, just... Just really got me into music, I think. And I will say, I don't know if you've noticed or not, and you'll find out when you meet him, Dave Grohl is known as one of the. Nicest guys in rock and roll. Like, he's just cool as can be. So you picked the right person. Yeah, that's awesome. I'd say when I had that sort of moment where I knew that this is what I wanted to do is... Well, the music school that we all went to, actually, they would put on a show, like, once a year, where they'd kind of group all these different students who play different instruments all together and kind of make, like, a temporary little band. And they'd learn a song, and then they'd go perform at the local, like, community theater type of thing.

8:16 And so I was put as. A backing vocalist for Little Bones by the Tragically Hip, which is a very famous band in Canada. Yeah, I know it, too. Yeah, oh, wow, amazing. And so, yeah, I just stepped on stage, and I was like... Oh my God. It was just something so foreign to me because I didn't really know much about like this type of music and just the feeling of performing. But I just kind of had this moment where I was like, I feel like I belong in this sort of environment. And although I am so introverted, I just felt like, I don't know, I always needed to express something. And I think music is perfect for that. Well, you know why it is perfect too? Because if you are an introvert, It's really writing a song is the only way that you can express yourself without being uncomfortable.

8:59 Absolutely. You know, because a lot of the lyrics that you would write and sing, it's different when you're singing them. You wouldn't literally usually say it to somebody because you'd be too, like, uncomfortable to say it. Yeah. So that's the cool thing about music. And music is the best therapy for you, the artist, and for me, the listener. Absolutely. I mean, connection is so important to us and we just, we adore self-expression and just like humanity, just like the experience of being a person in the world. And so we love to write about that stuff and we love to just meet people through art, through music. And yeah, it's just the community element of it is very important to us.

9:41 Absolutely. So tell everybody how they reach out to you on socials, on the web, check out your music, check out any tour dates, and most importantly, if you have cool merch, buy your merch, because they can't listen to my show unless they buy your merch. Exactly, yeah. Find us at Freeze the Fall Band. That's where you'll find us on socials. You'll find our websites where our merch is at. All right, cool. Any other words you want to share with the listeners that we haven't covered yet? Just thank you for supporting us, and you guys were the ones who got us to Louder Than Life. So thank you guys so much, and we'll see you at the next one. Nice. Well, thank you guys for bringing Louder Than Life some great music from our friends from the north, and thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man.

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