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We are drunk, Uncle.
I'm Peyton. I'm will.
Hey, I'm Tyler. I play electric
guitar and backup vocals.
And I'm Jake. I play drums.
We're drunk, uncle.
And.
Ohh, I've always kind of dreamed of it.
I always wanted to have a project do a thing,
but it kind of never panned out for
like the 1st 25 years of my life.
It just never. I never let it be a
priority until these guys came along.
Yeah, same. I mean, like I grew
up listening to a bunch of like,
you know, 80s music and like a
bunch of metal and stuff like that.
And my parents took me to
shows fairly young, you know,
like middle school and stuff like that.
And I always wanted to like
get up on stage and play music.
And yeah, I can. Like,
I never figured out how to start a band.
So I tried to do like,
solo electronic music for a while and that,
like, never panned out live.
And then I met this guy.
And then, well, I joined a band before that,
but then I met this guy and we
started this band and it was awesome.
So yeah, same thing.
I just always wanted to do it.
I had a Big Brother.
Who was really into punk music
and was really good at art and
was just kind of an inspire,
inspiring person in my life.
And so I got my first guitar,
he taught me how to play
power chords and you know,
in like 1 sitting taught me a
bunch of Green Day songs and Weezer
songs and other easy 4 chord.
Stuff and I've kept playing.
I think I was like 13,
so it's been a while since then.
And during lockdown in 2020,
Jake and I are our old friends.
He was playing with these other guys
and invited me to come jam with
them and we had great chemistry,
so been playing with them for
the last couple of years.
Yeah, I my dad was a musician.
His dad was a musician.
I learned how to play guitar
through old Metallica riffs,
which was the only thing that we were
allowed to listen to at my dad's house was
just the kill them all album at Max volume.
And yeah, Tyler and I go way back.
You know, played bass for
him like at one show I think,
but way back in the day.
And then I was in a a couple bands in
Austin and moved to San Marcus for school.
Responded to a Craigslist ad with
these two jokers and ended up.
Yeah this is where we're on three
years which is an emo years.
Like 15 years.
Yeah the the EMO scene and like the punks
and ******** scene bands typically die out.
So we've we've been at it I guess
it's 2019 brought like Tyler said
brought him on around 2020 and then
yeah since then hitting it hard.
Released to split with our Buddies
breath wish out of Houston and
then released our our our freshman
LP with count your Lucky Stars.
It's called a look up was it March so.
Scott, it seems like it's been out
for like 1000 years,
but it really is only like 8 months old,
you know?
So yeah, but.
Craigslist.
It works great.
Don't don't knock Craigslist.
Yeah, we went through
like two other drummers.
Yeah, before before we we caught
this guy and we didn't think
it worked because he drove it.
We live in Round Rock,
so he's driving from San
Marcus to Round Rock.
Like that's so long on I-35.
OK.
Yeah. Yeah. So yeah,
that very inspired. Yeah for
sure. All of our,
all of I guess all of our different.
Backgrounds and all of us to some
degree are multi instrumentalists
which helps you know like guitar
was my first instrument but I
played drums in this band and.
We all help each other, like write stuff,
and we have ideas and riffs
and concepts and skeletons and.
You know, so like that,
that was cool in that regard to
kind of have everybody be a part
of the writing process and that's
just how we've flowed I guess
since we've been a four piece.
Next question.
As of right now or right now,
ohh yeah. Is Tyler the only uncle?
So by default Tyler is the Drunkest uncle,
the DRUNKEST member but the DRUNKEST
member. I feel like we
take turns at doing that.
Like and it's different stages.
We'll all go hard in different ways,
but we just got off tour a few months ago.
We were all very drunk uncles.
These two went there's, there's,
there's video footage of them like
around town in Denton at 2:00
PM being like, where's the bars?
It's like in the square in Denton.
Yeah, bad boys, atores boys.
So right now these two are holding
the Crown, although you've got a.
Sparkling water here.
Yeah, I I think it's going to default to
me here pretty soon. It did last night.
He's the youngest, so he's got a lot
of time. He's gotta catch up. Yeah,
that's true. I have the liver
of a stallion.
For now, I was gonna say
both of us got started
pretty early in our lives.
We don't have to get into that.
So it's like we don't,
I don't think we have livers
of stallions maybe like,
yeah, like a work horse,
like a Clydesdale. Yeah, yeah.
I was born and bred to
live like this, you know?
Yeah, well, blood, I don't know.
Yeah.
Yeah, so next thing coming up
for drunk Uncle, we have a four
way split coming out. Kerosene
heights reached out and you know,
got us on board along with the
Rose ceremony and Thorn tyre.
So we're super excited about that.
We got a couple songs on there that
should be coming out in November 2022,
so maybe it'll be out by the time
folks are watching this and next
weekend we're getting together to
work on writing our second LP.
And so that'll probably be much later,
but new songs and things that
will be playing at shows and
stuff in the near future,
a couple new songs we're playing tonight.
So yeah, lots of stuff coming
that we're excited about.
As Tyler mentioned, Rose ceremony
is a band that is out of Austin.
They're the only other local
band on that split with us.
The other bands are from Georgia,
North Carolina and Georgia Asheville,
which is pretty cool. But Austin music
scene for emo right now is
really killer band we played
with yesterday called
Capture Phase rose ceremony.
Like we mentioned, Boyd Minuano,
there's a lot of stuff going on.
Yeah, people make me make things rookie.
Park like Austin Music scene is
blooming with the emo in regards to emo,
so be on the lookout for
all things emo and Austin.
It's it's never really
been recognized for that,
but I think that's going to change soon.
Just like rock and indie
and Blues and R&B, you got
a bunch of, you know.
Angsty, miserable young
people out here. Ohh, young
ish. And now I'm pushing 30.
Yeah, but yeah I'm cut that, cut it.
No, it's super, super excited to
have this split out because the way
that like I guess content moves.
We've talked about this like I feel like
you always have to be putting something out.
And so we're really this split is like our.
We're super excited to have
these two songs out,
but we're really looking forward to
getting back into writing because
we were playing a bunch of shows
after the album dropped with South
by and then tour and then all these
shows we've played this show we'll
play and then we're going to enter
like a little riding hibernation
mode where we're just trying to be
creative again instead of like doing
stuff instead of performing because
we've been performing so much.
And then, you know,
entering this weekend or next weekend
with our little writers retreat,
Bonnie Bear style.
It's not a cabin in the woods, it's a ranch.
And Tyler. Texas but.
There will be trees and I guess I like a
beer or two or ten, you know who's like.
We're gonna have an yeah, well, just.
I just like just a Miller high life.
Like that's as big as a grain silo. It's
like 36 feet tall and you just
kind of like head of spigot on
it. We empty it by the
end and then we beat the crap out
of it and then yeah, yeah, it's like,
it's like, what does hamsters drink out of?
It's like, well, it's coming
through the window of a range like
a big metal tube will, just like.
So that's an uninspired Rick
go take a sip from the yeah,
yeah. Hey, hey man,
you're really just off it today.
Go get a silo sit, buddy.
Yeah, so we're super excited for that.
That's probably again,
going to be a little while,
but County Lucky Stars was really great.
It's an incredible label.
If you haven't heard of it,
please go check out like every
band on the roster is so solid.
I want to make sure to call out like count.
Your lucky stars has the like
so many different bands.
They're like on the cusp,
the next wave of, you know,
obviously this genre,
but like anything like alternative,
like they have so many,
they've got fuzz bands.
They've got like, you know,
more like indie, indie, pop,
emo pop bands and they've
got like bands like us.
So make sure to check them out
and if you like, don't know where to
start with emo. That's a good place.
They've been legends, the archive, exactly.
They've been putting out stuff since
like 2010, like Empire, Empire,
which is the head of the labels band,
but Tiny. Moving parts is on there.
Free throw is on there. Snowing.
That's where you should really.
Yeah, yeah. Those like twinkling,
most screamy bands really kind
of the stuff that inspired
us. No more homework assignment
for anybody watching.
I got something I can
say and I'll pass it on.
I'll give up. No
give. Because in this life
you can't win. No. Um, so.
For anybody that like wants to do music,
you are in high demand,
like making a project.
We we put together a lot of shows,
a lot of house shows and things,
and we're always looking for acts like way
more people can't do shows than can do shows.
And if you're available,
you're going to catch shows and you're
going to be in demand and people
are going to want to hear your band.
Just keep doing it.
Like don't stop.
If you be consistent,
don't get stuck in like this.
Just to be perfect.
Release the thing and go into the next thing,
because you're just gonna get
better and better by doing that.
That's something we learned.
If you listen to our first EP.
We love it, but it's scrappy as hell.
It was recorded like.
In the worst ways possible.
But we love it and we've
we've grown since then.
And yeah it it really works
like that just don't stop.
And Hayden mentioned
consistency as far as that goes.
Like that doesn't necessarily mean
you have to practice like every
day with everybody but like get
on a schedule like once a week,
once every two weeks, something like that.
Because when it becomes a regular thing it,
it's not like it's it's not
like an event anymore it's just
something that you're doing.
And that helps me personally,
like solidify, you know,
the songs in my mind because if I know
I'm gonna be practicing them at the
same time every week, I can, you know,
run through the day before and, you know,
maybe I'll come up with some ideas.
And then, you know, at practice,
if we already have the songs down,
we can write new stuff.
So yeah, consistency is like a huge thing,
I think,
like piggybacking on that.
It's like integrating it into your life.
So it's just part of the like, it's.
And I think we've we've done this
to different times where it's like
try to write a song every day.
Just challenge yourself with small
things and don't overthink like
the the finished product of that.
It's just the exercise,
it's the muscle of you know,
getting together to play on a on a
regular basis, writing new things,
recording new things.
I I would definitely say that as
like a musician in 2022 versus
other times in history,
knowing how to record stuff will go a
long way because if you can you know.
Even just record yourself on your
phone and share it or whatever, yeah.
It just keeps like the the.
It's like a chain reaction,
you know, that's how we,
one of the ways that we write is to,
you know, fuel each other with ideas.
Like Jake said all four of us come up
with ideas and we just throw it into
the pot and mix it up and, you know, so be.
Prolific like that.
Just put the next thing out.
Yeah, also like something that I had told.
I remember we were kind of like almost like
bullying Joey into releasing rookie park,
stuff like don't be afraid to suck.
Like, we've had shows where we're like,
God, that was a folking, incredible show.
And then we've had shows where,
like, I don't want to play music now.
I don't want to play music.
But like, just like, man, that was.
And it's like,
we've also had practices where it's
like the energy is incredible, man,
I wish we could have captured that and been
playing in front of hundreds of people.
And then we've had practices where it's like,
I don't know, everybody's tired.
Like, don't be if you haven't
released anything yet and you're on
like the genesis of Project XYZ.
Like understand that like with any creative
endeavor with any any endeavor at all.
Like there are gonna be times especially
starting out where like something might
not sound like it does in your head.
Especially if you're working with like
you know creatives and people you know.
Not having like a ton of capital up front to
start with like the best you know recordings,
don't worry about that.
Like you know we're like
be concerned with like.
Are you proud of what you produced?
It's not it might not be polished.
It might not be perfect.
But like don't be afraid to suck.
Don't be afraid to be like oh,
that was OK because that is a part of like,
you know the process of like
we've had a label put us out.
We have vinyl, you know,
being sold like all over the place.
But like we've.
In the genesis of this project,
I was playing on a crash symbol that
was like, what was it like a 12 inch?
That was just terrible.
Our kid was like awful.
And like overtime you invest
back in the band.
Over time you have like successes and
failures and things and all of that.
Progress isn't linear in anything,
and music is a part of that.
And you're going to have these moments
where you write a song and you're like,
this is really ******* good. Like,
I'm really proud of myself for doing this.
And then you're gonna listen to
it the next day and be like, oh,
this is so mediocre and like,
I'm not a creative person.
That happens to me all the time.
That happens to everybody.
You just have to stick with it.
Like, it's it's always trust
your initial gut on it,
and sometimes you'll filter it out over time.
But you're you being creative is good enough.
It really is.
And if you're in Austin and
you're making music, hit us up.
We'll we'll do our best to like *******.
Promo you or record some things
if you need it, whatever.
Like we wanna be active in helping.
That's that.
We're drunk uncle and we're next step.