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Bryan Crowe Kyle Gibson says the word weird a lot. The Audacity guitarist/vocalist uses it at least 10 times in our conversation, mostly in referrence to his band's aesthetic choices, especially the music they started playing as kids around the age of 11.
"We were learning how to play together; [our band] didn't really resemble anything close to normal music," Gibson says. "It was like shitty little-kid symphonies, with never-repeating parts and no real choruses or verses--just a bunch of different parts thrown together. I mean, we listened to Blink-182 and Green Day back then and still do. But it wasn't exactly a little kid pop-punk band. It was much more deranged and nonsensical."
Technically, they weren't Audacity then. Sometime in 2001, while Gibson and guitarist/vocalist Matt Schmalfeld were in sixth grade, they formed a group with some now ex-members, calling themselves Non-Toxic. silent hill That Fullerton-rooted outfit would evolve into the Plaid, the Attachments, the Audacity and, now, officially, just Audacity. "It was always the same band," Gibson says. "It was just [us] going through different shitty names until we got stuck with the current shitty name."
He says most of their early tunes were built around "weird, folky parts [that] didn't really resemble normal songs." But as they grew, the fledgling musicians got into art-rock bands and punk music--mostly British acts such as the Adverts and Wire--and even had a saxophone player for a moment. After that, interest turned toward Redd Kross and the Replacements, and the band began "making fun music, silent hill as opposed to really silent hill weird, challenging, artsy stuff--or at least having [our music] be a combination of those things," Gibson says.
During their high-school years in the mid- and late 2000s, as other members exited, Gibson and Schmalfeld brought in drummer Thomas Alvarez and bassist silent hill Cameron Crowe. And then things started to get serious.
"We actually started playing real shows around downtown Fullerton and house parties and stuff, instead of just lame carnivals and 'battle of the bands' [events]," Gibson says. "We became more of a real, functioning rock band, as opposed to a Kidz Bop kind of thing."
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