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US melodic hardcore quintet Touché Amoré are part of a new generation of US bands driving a resurgent hardcore movement. Vocalist and lyricist Jeremy Bolm chats to BRAD BARRETT about his band’s new LP Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me…
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011 was a tough year but some unexpected heroes emerged from the chaos. Whether it’s the 30-year-old, 210lb vegan geek Daniel Bryan winning the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, or our cover star Frank Turner’s recent announcement that he is headlining Wembley Arena next April, there has been some
heartening victories by inspiring people. Two more examples are the recently split US hardcore legends Thursday making the best album of their career and Touché Amoré delivering one of Playmusic’s Favourtie Album’s of 2011 (see our feature on page 19). It’s, however, fitting that these two bands have reached the top of the pile, as their destinies have been entwined for about a decade now. “I was a huge fan of the band when I was 17 years old and they didn’t even have a website at that point,” says Touché Amoré vocalist Jeremy Bolm. “I managed to talk to Steve (Pedulla, Thursday guitarist) and offered to make them a website.” Jeremy claims Steve couldn’t even get his head around a kid from California knowing who his band was at the time. After going to see
them during their Full Collapse tour in 2001, Jeremy introduced himself to the band, who forced him to take one of every t-shirt they had. “From that day to today, they’ve been the most kind-hearted and nicest people. Geoff (Rickley, vocalist) has been a best friend and the whole band have been like our older brothers.” In a lovely pay-off for showing such enthusiasm and passion about Thursday at the beginning, when Jeremy sent Touché Amoré’s first demo to Geoff, the Thursday frontman was genuinely enthusiastic about his young protégé’s musical dabblings. Indeed, so impressed was Rickley that he would later release their debut album …To The Beat Of A Dead Horse, on his own record label Collect (as a dual release with independent label 6131), as well as taking the band on tour with Thursday. “They showed us the ropes of being a touring band on a major tour,”
Jeremy recalls, “They taught us about using the right terms when dealing with the sound guy during soundchecks, getting paid at the end of the night, dealing with promoters. They did everything they could to help us out so
“Many people have been saying this record helped them through bad times. Some have even told me that they don’t know if they’d still be here without our band...what do you say to things like that?”
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