Earlier today we announced eagerly awaited return of pop punkers Yellowcard to Australian shores. The band will be returning for their biggest tour yet (ever) in celebration of their upcoming album Lift A Sail (out through Cooking Vinyl Australia on 10 October 2014). The band’s frontman Ryan key told us that the whole band were “super amped” after a having “feaking amazing” acoustic tour here last year.
We chatted with Key while he was in Oklahoma, 24 hours deep into a 36 hour trip to Nashville where he’s relocating (from sunny California) to live. Speaking about road trip soundtracks, we decided to ask him about some of the record that changed his life.
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Nirvana – Nevermind
1991, DGC
“Nevermind was a huge influence when I was 12 or 13 I was playing guitar. I feel like I am lucky to be part of a generation that I was a part of – growing up and being in highs chool during the 1990s, In my opinion. Well maybe like classic rock, like in the 70s and 80s with hair metal and thing, but like, for me as far as life altering rock music was my music in the 90s. I was listening to this and Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream, The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magik and Greenday’s Dookie”
Weezer – Pinkerton
1996, DGC
“Pinkerton came out in 1996, when I was like 17 years old and had been in a band for three or four years by that time. This came out just after we [bandmates] had transitioned into discovering and becoming big fans of Pearl Jam’s records especially Ten, Vs and Vitology all those albums were big for me starting out.”
The Foo Fighters – The Color And The Shape
1997, Capitol
“By the time Pinkerton (which is one of my favourite records of all time) came out, that was also around the time when The Color And The Shape came out, which is also probably also one of my top 5 favourite records of all time.
Not long after [the release of The Color And The Shape ] we had all in Jacksonville Florida, where I grew up had transitioned into the warped tour scene bands all listening to Lagwagon, and No Use For A Name, and NOFX, and Bad Religion and that’s the sound that the bands within the community I was in had transitioned into – we all wanted to sound like that.”
No Use For A Name – ¡Leche con Carne!
1995, Fat Wreck Chords
“So we kind of grew out of or shifted from playing the alternative grunge stuff when were were like 13 into we want to be on the Warped Tour, we want to be a punk band/ pop punk band or whatever you want to call it’ so obviously that sort of music that influence the formation of Yellowcard, and has influenced Yellowcard’s music for so long. But like the first two record that would have got me going that way would have been No Use For A Name’s ¡Leche con Carne! and Propagandhi’s How To Clean Everything.”
Propagandhi – How To Clean Everything
1993, Fat Wreck Chords
“I had a buddy that played in a band that was already punk style and I went to see their band practice and was like ‘what was that?!’ I had never heard anything like it before and he agave me those two records [No Use For A Name’s ¡Leche con Carne! and Propagandhi’s How To Clean Everything] and I was like ‘oh my god I’m in’.”
Coldplay – The Whole Discography
2000-2014, Capitol, Parlophone, Atlantic
“I think when we started writing the new record (Lift A Sail) it’s like if all those 90s alternative rock bands I could go on and keep listing and Coldplay (my favourite band of all time) had a lovechild and called it Lift A Sail. That’s kinda my description of the new record. Sonically we were referencing a lot of Smashing Pumpkins records. Mendez (Ryan Mendez, the band’s guitarist) is a really big Filter fan so we were referencing that first Filter record for a couple of songs. I was really deep into the whole Coldplay catalogue when I was trying to expand on my ability to create melody and the ‘massiveness’, and the global scope that I think Coldplay’s songwriting is on and that’s really inspiring to me.”
Yellowcard Australian Tour 2015 Dates & Tickets
With special guests Mayday Parade & Born Lion
Frontier Members pre-sale via frontiertouring.com/yellowcard
Wed 8 Oct (2pm AEDT) to Thu 9 Oct (2pm AEDT)
(or ends earlier if pre-sale allocation exhausted)
General public on sale from 10am local time, Friday 10 October
Sat 4 Jul Perth | Metro City (18+)
oztix.com.au | Ph: 1300 762 545
Mon 6 Jul Adelaide | The Gov (All ages)
(previously Thebarton Theatre)
oztix.com.au | Ph: 1300 762 545
Wed 8 Jul Brisbane | The Tivoli (18+)
ticketmaster.com.au | Ph: 136 100
Thu 9 Jul* Sydney | UNSW, Roundhouse (All ages)
(previously Hordern Pavilion on Jul 10)
ticketek.com.au | Ph: 132 849
Sat 11 Jul Melbourne | Margaret Court Arena (All ages)
ticketek.com.au | Ph: 132 849
