One of my absolute favorite Indie-Alternative bands, the Bravery, jammed out under a giant tent atop the West parking structure at L.A’s Nokia Theater for the 2009 Spike TV Video Game Awards this stormy Sunday afternoon, December 12, 2009. They performed their hit song (and theme song for the evening), “I’ve seen the Future.” The boys hit the stage mid-show, and once again at the tail end of the evening, sharing the stage with the likes of Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Hammil, Olivia Wilde, and a slew of genius video game geeks. The crowd thoroughly enjoyed both high-energy performances, and Music Wire had a chance to catch up with the guys pre-show. In keeping with the themes of the day, we talked music and video games, and the group were an absolute delight!
The Bravery - Mike Hindert, John Conway, Sam Endicott, Michael Zakarin, Anthony Burulcich:
MW: You guys have a theme song tonight, right?
John: We do! Our song on our new record, “I’ve seen the Future” is our theme for the show tonight which is pretty cool, so we’ll be playing that. And our first single on the new record, “Slow Poison” - we’ll do that as well.
MW: Would you guys ever like to do songs for video games?
John: We haven’t written a song specifically for a video game, although some of our demos sort of sound like that, but we’ve had a few songs in video games, which is a really cool place for bands to put music out now.
MW: You guys recently wrapped up a mini-tour, right?
Anthony: We did, like, a two month before the record came out to kind of ‘re-juve’ the fan base and then that finished right around the week the record came out. We’ve been doing a lot of, like, Christmas and holiday radio shows. We’re kind of flying all over the country.
MW: When you guys are touring, do you have video games that you like to bring with you?
John: The big one on our tour bus now is a UFC game. Anthony and I have a big rivalry in that. I’m looking forward to the new MotoGP Game. I’m a big motorcyclist so that’ll be good!
MW: And what are you guys looking forward to today?
John: I think just playing and seeing who’s around. We’re pretty big Battlestar Galactica fans. I think there might be some cast members in the crowd tonight who are presenting, so maybe we’ll get to meet them.
MW: Have you discovered any new artists on sites like Pandora recently that you’re really into right now?
John: I’ve been using Pandora to find old music, like sixties garage bands. Like, type in a couple of those and other stuff comes up for modern ones. The Cynics is my new Pandora discovery.
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