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Vicky - You guys just recently released a new record, hows all the feedback been?

Anthony - So far so good I think, people seem to like it, our fans seem to like it which is the most important thing

Vicky - Has it been selling good?

Anthony - Yeah it's been selling great it's probably our best selling one so far.

Stacey - Congrats.

Anthony - Thank You!

Vicky - What's your thought process like when writting your songs?

Anthony - It's all stream of conciousness kind of lyrically and musically. I'll pretty much just sit down with a guitar and play and play and play and whatever I play next I kind of feel should come next whatever I think feels right you know?

Stacey - Yeah.

Anthony - I kind of write my lyrics as journal entries really. I just kind of pull them out of my head but sometimes to fit them into a song i chop them up a little bit to make it neater

Vicky - Where do you draw your inspration for your lyrics

Anthony - Just from everyday life you know stuff that i've been through and stuff that i'm thinking about. I used to write strictly from my everyday life for our past albums just like every song is about a specific experience but now i write more about concepts and incidents

Vicky - Any plans for your next music video?

Anthony - We're talking about it now, we're trying to figure out what song to do and we have no idea whenever we figure out what the song is then we will come up with a concept

Vicky - What's your favorite song to play live?

Anthony - The Title track on the new record it's called "Walking Wounded"

Stacey - Is there a reason?

Anthony - It's just really energetic and it has a lot of different parts in it. It's got the real quiet slow parts. Then the fast parts and then the solos and stuff like that. Theres a big crowd sing along. So it's really exciting

Vicky - What are your plans after Warped as for touring?

Anthony - We are going to Austrailia right after the tour, after about a week after the tour ends we go straight to austrailia. Then we come home and we're headlining the victory records tour

Vicky - Where's your favorite place to play?

Anthony - I love playing in New York, since it's our hometown. I love playing hometown shows, where the crowd is great! It's always really amazing, actually the tour in the winter we are headlining the Nokia Theatre that's definitely going to be the biggest show we've ever headlined

Vicky - Have you ever been there?

Anthony - yeah we played there once before, we opened for Hawthorne Heights there. This will be our first time headlining there though and in a place that big. We are so excited about that and playing in NY means my phone never stops ringing my friends and everybody comes to the show, my mom is calling my every 30 seconds asking what time we go on. It's kind of a pain in the ass  to play at home but when we are onstage it's great!

Vicky - Yeah it holds like something thousand people in there i think

Anthony - yeah it holds 2,300

Vicky - oh wow

Anthony - yeah the nokia theatre is pretty big

Vicky - So if it sells out it's going to be huge!

Vicky - Have you been enjoying warped and would you play it again next year?

Anthony - I love it and I really hope they ask us back next year because this is the funest tour we've ever been on we've been touring for seven years and have been on hundreds of tours and this is definitely the funest tour ever

Vicky - Yeah and you guys win the extra 10 mintue thing all the time!

Anthony - Yeah we've won that a bunch of times! It's so cool just hanging out with all the other bands and stuff like that. Everyone who works on the tour here is always so nice, it's like being at camp

Vicky - What bands do you usually see on Warped?

Anthony - That i go to watch? um..New Found Glory i watch them almost every day, we're very close friends with the a lot of the bands. Alkaline Trio is one of my favorite bands so i try and watch them everyday, The Toasters I watch a lot they're like a ska band they've been around for about 20 years I used to go see them when i was like 13

Vicky - Do you have any crazy tour stories?

Anthony - Crazy tour stories...it's always hard to come up with them when people ask, people always ask us and we can never think of anything and then it happens and we're like aw man I know I'm not going to remember this when it comes the time. Crazy tour stories...the only thing I can think of right now is that we played in DC I think it was a couple of weeks ago and I was kind of egging the fans on and some of the security guards were lined up against the stage kind of leaning against the speakers with their arms crossed and they looked like they were bored, so i told the fans that if anybody can get on to the stage that they could get a tshirt. So kids just started crowd surfing and piling over the security guards it was crazy they had to call in backups and stuff because kids were trying to jump up on the stage and the security guards couldn't even keep them off

Vicky - Oh my gosh.. um if you weren't in a band what do you think you'd be doing?

Anthony - Aw man I never even think about that I'd probably be working with a band..before bayside started touring and started doing well I did merch for Brand New for a few years, so I'd probably be doing merch or be guitar teching

Vicky - So anything music related?

Anthony - I'd probably be on tour, if not playing I'd be working

Vicky - What's currently on your ipod?

Anthony - I manage a band called The Status they're from Georgia they just recorded some new songs and i've been listening to their stuff a lot, the New Found Glory cover record, and the new Eisley record is amazing

Vicky - We don't want to make this too long, so is there anything you want to add or say to your fans?

Anthony - I just want to say thanks to all the fans, we have a really rapid fanbase our fans are very dedicated, and seeing all these other bands and their fanbase and the way they interact we just really put it up against ours and our fanbase may not be as big as bands like UnderOath or something...but our fans are definitely the best supportive