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In this diary...Playing Atari all night long Kristopher Roe, lead singer of The Ataris, talks about music, the new CD, and playing at Springfest
By Annie Reuter and Monica Rozenfeld/Contributing Writers
They're back! The Ataris, after hitting it big with "In This Diary" and their cover of the classic "Boys With Summer," are coming out with a new CD, Welcome The Night, in July. You can go on Myspace.com/theataris to hear clips from new CD. inside beat sat down with lead singer Kristopher Roe during Springfest 2006.
When was the last time you performed? What happened with your old drummer? October of 2004, we played our last show in Florida, some random show we flew down to do for Halloween. I just remember it was one of those things that we didn't know if it would be our last show as that band. It was me, John, Mike and our old drummer Chris. It came at a point where the band felt like it was very limited. I didn't enjoy playing music with our drummer anymore. He really wanted different things from me. He wanted to be the hugest rock band in the world, whereas I just wanted to get in a van and play shows with my friends and have fun. I didn't really feel like we had a friendship bond anymore. And our bass player went off the deep end and got involved in things that I wasn't so proud of. I hated seeing my friends succumb to those things, and it's like tough love. I had to be like, you know, this band's here for you if you want it, but you've got to sort your life out first. A year went by and I never talked to him, so obviously he chose the other elements over me and over this band, and it happens. What is to be expected of your new CD released in July? Is the sound similar to your previous record? It's completely different. At first it sounds like a different band. Musically its way more um, ah, I don't really know. There are seven people in the band, there's three guitars, cello, keyboards, and we got a new drummer and a new bass player. It's more dreamy, spacey, like a big wall of sound. It's more akin to all the British bands, like Radiohead, Muse, Snow Patrol, and Doves. We came to a point where I don't really feel the music we were creating was the music I listen to and the music that I wanted to represent me. I think that we just kind of had to step outside ourselves and be like, you know what do we really want to do and what do we feel feels really honest. And we just started writing a bunch of songs and eventually after two years off with a year of writing, rehearsing, and recording, the record just kind of wrote itself. Article Tools Return to Inside Beat |