![]() ![]() It’s very much like a new - like you’re opening up a chapter of a book you’ve already read a bunch. So it’s so bizarre to kind of try to connect with that person that wrote those things, specifically the lyrics. I mean, you know, I’m a totally different person. That’s a cool question because it’s just so surreal, because you’re like “Wow this is fifteen years ago.” But what’s it like for you and the guys to be up there performing these songs? Do you find yourself back to where you kind of were 15 years ago, or is it like a new appreciation for those songs. Obviously though for those older fans who’ve been around, it’s nostalgic. To get the music in front of as many people as possible to hopefully be a fan. That is - although we very much appreciate and could not do this without the dedicated fans that have been there since day one, the goal is to grow and expand. It’s cool, it feels very accomplishing. That’s the main goal, is to get - especially with new music and being an active band in that sense, is we want new fans as much as possible. That’s a huge thing and great thing to see, right? And those fans are out there singing along to these songs even though they might not have been around fifteen years ago. Not only is it still resonating with fans who were around 15 years ago, but your band is still bringing in new fans. And people resonated with it 10 years in for the first anniversary tour, and 15 years in still to come out here, and sell out these shows. This has got to be a great feeling right? That you’ve got a record that came out 15 years ago, all when you were in your early-20s. Though they may no longer be signed to Pure Noise Records, as confirmed during the interview, they have no signs of drifting back into hiatus. And it was during that first leg that I got to sit down with Thomas to talk about No Really, I’m Fine and what their future as a band holds. Last month The Spill Canvas performed the first leg of the anniversary tour, and just announced a second leg to take place in December of this year. It was like, well what else can we tour, another Conduit tour? But this came around this year and it was awesome last time we did it, so why not?” As Thomas explains, “We did some runs just last year going into this new year to support Conduit, the new record. The band toured a bit in support of the record, and then when this year rolled around they decided to once again revisit their old friend, No Really, I’m Fine. Then finally, at long last, the band convened to record and release their first full-length studio album, Conduit, in 2021 via Pure Noise Records. What followed was some new music in the form of singles and an EP, a tour where fans got to request the songs to be played by The Spill Canvas, and an anniversary tour for perhaps the band’s most popular, No Really, I’m Fine, in 2017 to celebrate it’s tenth anniversary. We had a couple members that left, had a hiatus, but we used that as a barometer of ‘Well maybe would want to see more of us?’,” he finalizes.Īs fate would have it, fans did want more - and that’s what they got. “Just prior to that, we had opened up for Motion City Soundtrack, which was like our first official tour back. Playing again, touring, really came from doing an anniversary tour - the ten year anniversary of our second album,” Thomas told me last month, referring to their 2015 ten year anniversary tour for One Fell Swoop. “I don’t know if you want to call it a comeback or whatever of us as a band. Even if it took a few years and an opening slot for another band that was about to enter hiatus: Motion City Soundtrack. Even though they went on a brief hiatus around 2013 or so - which lead to vocalist/guitarist Nick Thomas taking some time to do some solo work, The Spill Canvas came back, almost better than ever. ![]() Through it all, The Spill Canvas have come out on the other side. ![]() From some radio success to signing to a major label, to having a song set to appear in a major superhero film - to having it stripped away. Over the course of their 20+ years, they’ve seen a little bit of everything. Even typing that sentence doesn’t feel or sound right. Somehow, someway, The Spill Canvas have been a band for over twenty years. ![]()
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