Good Sleepy at Warped Tour: From High School Gigs to Major Festivals

0:19 This is the Pipe Man here on the Avengers Pipe Man W4CY radio, and I'm here with.. Good Sleepy. Nice. Well, hopefully you're not having a good sleep at Warped Tour. Yeah, definitely not. Definitely been awake. What's it feel like to be here, Warped Tour Montreal? So sick. This is my first time ever in Canada, so that's really cool, just seeing the city. Nice. And then also it's the first time playing in Canada as a band, and the reception was really good. It's actually surreal. Where are you guys from? From Massachusetts. What's your mess? So how did this journey to Warped Tour happen? How did you end up in Canada?

1:02 Yeah, who wants to answer? I don't know. I mean, it came about. We booked a little tour about it, around it. You know, we're doing, like, a couple shows leading up here. We played Long Beach in the beginning of the summer. You know, we've always loved Warped Tour. We've been going since we were, like, in high school, so we jumped at the opportunity to be here. Right. Yeah, we're stoked. Now, how does it feel that you keep playing these Warped Tour dates, you know, as a band? It's fun. It's awesome. Right? Yeah, we're stoked. It was so much fun today. It was, like, honestly, probably up there on one of our favorite sets we've had in the last. Like, year. Nice. For sure. What made it so fun for you today?

1:42 Oh, man. It was.. We opened the pageant stage, and we didn't know what to expect. We walked past the stage yesterday, and there was a decent crowd, and it's in a big crossroads, but, you know, we... walked up on stage and all of a sudden there's a couple hundred people just already waiting there for us it was really. Fun that blows your mind right it really does. And they were you know they were moving and grooving they were having a good time. See that's what it's all about like this is one big community one happy family and I don't think it matters what stage you're on right to be honest you know yeah and actually where that stage is that's a cool place to be because you have so much traffic going by between stages and people stop I have You know, and you just stop because you hear the music and you're like, oh, let me check this band out.

2:31 Right. You know, so that's totally cool. So how did you guys all get together? How did this all start? Yeah, definitely. So me and Thomas here, we started back in high school, back in 2018. We were... freshman going into sophomore year summer um started this band because we both like loved all the same music and so we're like oh naturally just start a band because we're like the only kids in our high school that liked you know emo and right pop punk and all that good stuff um we met jack through the just like local scenes like playing shows and stuff um we had him join a Other guitar players not here right now. We met him a couple years ago. Also just through the local music scene and just kind of added him too.

3:18 We were like, he's sick. Nice. Join on. Well, I'll tell you what I'm impressed about you guys is it's like kind of old school. You just put out an album in February. And you already dropped a new single last week. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've been going pretty hard with recording and stuff. So we're like, might as well just get as much music as we possibly can out there. You know? And see, that's cool because that's so old school. That's like Warped Tour back then. Yeah, yeah. You know? Because bands nowadays, it's like three years if they even put out an album. Yep. Or it's just singles. Yeah. Like I was really impressed by that, like a full album in February and now a brand new single already.

4:02 So that tells me that you love what you're doing. Oh, yeah, for sure. We do. Yeah. So what was that first moment in life for all three of you that you were like, this is what I need to do? When did you get that one experience that was like, wow, music's my life now? Yeah, honestly, probably playing our first, like, house shows in high school. Just, like, all of our friends. And just, like, they all, like, you know, remembered all the words to our songs so that it would be, like, super fun for us. And they're singing it back in our face. And I was like, wow, this is, like, this is the best. Like, that's, you know, just playing, like, a dirty basement house show and just, like, having a blast with your friends.

4:47 Yeah, that for sure. For me, too, it was definitely just... Like, my brother definitely inspired me. I used to jam with him all the time when I was a kid, so that was, like, the first way I got into music. You know, he started taking guitar lessons, and then I got jealous, and I started taking drum lessons. So Good Sleepy actually started with me on the drums until Jensky came into the band. But, yeah. For me, it was much earlier in my life. My uncle actually works for Barry Manilow. Wow. So he would bring me backstage, and I'd get to ingest what it's like to be behind the scenes from a very early age, which is kind of crazy to even say and think about right now.

5:31 And that's pretty serious behind the scenes there. No, it's the real deal. But being backstage there, at a young age, really just ingrained it in me. Like, oh man, I want to do this. Nice. But you're not doing Barry Manilow tunes. I'm not. I'm not even close to that. Yeah. Maybe you guys should do like one album that's just like a pop punk version of Barry Manilow tunes. Yeah, that would, honestly, that'd be fire. Right? Which song would you pick to do? If you're going to do one song. They have no idea. It's Mandy. There it is. Mandy is fire. Okay, you've got to play it for them after Warped Tour.

6:11 Play it for them, and then maybe you could make that happen. You could have this real cool version of Mandy. Right, right. You can't just go with Coco Cabana. I feel like that's a cop-out. No, no, definitely. Mandy is the one. Mandy is the one for sure. So, what band, we already know you, what band would you say your guys' first... or best influence were? Mine, at least, was Knucklepuck. Nice. Like, yeah, pop punk band. I discovered them, like, in middle school, and that definitely put me on, like, a trajectory to start writing music like this. I just, like, fell in love with them instantly because I was always, at a younger age, I was really into, like, the 90s rock because that's when my dad showed me, like, the grunge stuff, like Green Day and Nirvana and all that stuff, and then I sort of, like, branched out on my own.

7:04 Nice. So I'm going to, yeah, it's definitely Knuckleback. What about you? A couple like smaller, like from the start, probably some like smaller bands. Like I love the Jack Seneff projects, like William Bonney, Merchantships, NOLA, very like smaller kind of, some of it's like Scrams. And Midwest Emo kind of stuff. Nowadays, it's definitely more like pop punk influence, like Story So Far, Hot Mulligan, love those guys. I love Story so far. They're so fucking cool. They're so good. Mine is not Barry Manilow. I'd say the first time I really noticed a band and it blew me away was Defeater. I discovered them in middle school through YouTube.

7:53 And the drummer, Joe Longabardi, is just an absolute beast. And I've looked up to him for a long time. Nice. Yeah. Well, Matt, you're here at Warped Tour Montreal. You walk into this venue, at least me. It looked to me like one big skateboard park. So do you guys bring your skateboards to go in the bowl out there? I think I'm the only one that actually skates here, right? You guys aren't really. I was really into skating. Back in the day, back in high school, I kind of messed up my back. So I can't really skate anymore. But I wish I was good enough to get in there and actually just go crazy. I've been seeing dudes doing the wildest stuff out there. There's crazy shit. Like shit I used to do that I'm not as crazy anymore that I saw out there.

8:40 And we didn't have that fancy shit when I was a kid. We used to jump off of the roofs of houses into empty pools. That's crazy. And that was our bowl. That's that sounds sick. Right. Right. And I have three boards at home now, my trick board, my long board. I also have this cool stick for my long board. It's like paddle boarding on your skateboard. No way. Yeah. Yeah. And then I have what's called surf skates. The newest thing. Yeah. We know. Cause I'm a surfer. Yeah. But I'll tell you what, when I first got on that surf skate, like I never wear pads or anything where I'm skateboarding. And, uh, I ate shit. And I don't usually eat shit on a board, but I wasn't used to it. And I'm like, maybe I should get some pads to practice on this thing.

9:29 Maybe a helmet or something. Totally. But that shit's wicked, man. It's just so wild that the trucks just go all the way down. And that's how I ate shit. By testing how far I could get the trucks to go. Yeah, see what you could do. Put you to the limits, right? So what else you got going on after this? How you top. This uh yeah it's hard to beat we're we're finishing out um with tour right now so we we did three dates earlier we're going um out to the midwest after this um So hopefully those shows are sick. I don't know if it can beat Warped Tour. Probably, you know, 99.999% sure it will not beat Warped Tour. And then we've got some more singles coming out soon. And we're going on a new album, too.

10:23 Nice. When's the new album going to drop? Hopefully next year. Probably, like, fall, I would say. See, that's fucking amazing to me. Okay? Like, new songs, new albums. Like, that's how it was when I was young, like, It had to be at least once a year for an album. Yeah. You know? And nobody does that anymore, so I'm glad you're bringing it back. Yeah, we definitely, like, watched, you know, like, see other bands that we know that, like, kind of grew up during that time and just put out a bunch of releases and just toured constantly. So we're kind of on the same sort of path. We just kind of learned from... our influences, honestly. See, that's smart, right? You know, that's the beauty of doing stuff like Warped Tour. It's, like, you do meet those bands that have been around that maybe were your mentors or your idols.

11:14 Yeah. And then all of a sudden, they're showing you the ropes. Yeah, definitely. It's really cool, like, when people, like, offer advice, obviously, because we're so interested. Like, we always want to get better and stuff. So, like, seeing what, like, you know, the bands playing the main stage did, like, talking to them and, like, You know, asking them questions. It's like, it's pretty crazy. And that's what's cool about this community is they will help you. Yeah. Okay. And what's cool about what you just said is, is that you want to. Yeah. And that's when they do want to help you. Yeah. Like if you come off like, yeah, I don't need your help, you know, blah, blah, blah, which some people would. Of course, they're not going to help you. Okay. You'll figure it out, kid. Yeah. But it's better when they take you under their wing and show you because it makes the road a lot easier.

11:57 Yeah, definitely. It's true. Anything else you want to tell the listeners that you have coming up that you want them to know about? But also, more importantly, your socials and how they buy your merch because they can't listen to my show unless they buy your merch. That's right. Thomas, you want to do that? Sure. Yeah, so we just put out a new song, Double Cross. It came out two days ago. And we got another song coming out in September, so keep your eye out for that. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter. All of our handles are the same. It's just at GoodSleepyMA. Nice. And you can buy our merch on GoodSleepy.com. SleepyMA.com. SleepyMA.com. Sorry about that.

12:39 And I love that you said Twitter because I still can't say X. I can't even use that fucking platform. How about MySpace? Because MySpace is coming back. I'd love to see it. I was a fan, but I never really got to use it. I mean, it looks cool. You don't have to put music on there and stuff. I know, right? If it's like it was, it will be kind of cool, you know? But it's just showing, like, this stuff's never going to die because Warped Tour is back. MySpace is coming back. It just shows that this is something that is real and has longevity, and you guys are part of it. So thank you for being on The Adventures of Pipe Man.

13:19 Thanks. Thanks so much. Thank you for listening to The Adventures of Pipe Man. On W4CUI Radio.