OU: So, how did you two meet? SE: We met back when I was 15, back in high school, his friend Bill who is playing bass with us, was dating my friend Anna. We were going to different schools at the time. One day Anna said,” Oh, Bill and Brian are looking for a singer for their band.” I’m like,” I’ve never really sang before, but alright.” So I went over to Bill’s house, and that’s the first time I met Brian, and then that day we wrote a song together. It was crazy, I had some words and he had some music and it just flowed. BM: Well, actually the band that we were looking to have her sing for was a totally different type of thing, but when we got together we ended up writing different music, and that’s initially how we all kinda became friends. When she finished school and went off to go to college, we (Bill and I), had our other band that started taking off, because at that time everybody was in 4 or 5 different bands, she ended up doing the school thing and we went off and did our other band. This is just us getting back to the initial... OU: What you were building on... BM: Yeah, we just kinda came full circle and decided... SE: This is where we needed to be. BM: Everything fell into place. OU: So songwriting, music, and melodies are just pretty much done between you guys? BM: Yeah we both write songs and there’s a lot of different ways we’ll go about doing it. SE: We complement each other really well. If I start a song musically, he’ll help me finish it. OU: So you take turns... BM: I actually like this band better than any other band I’ve been in because I hate having to try to write everything, the words and everything, but now if I have a cool tune I’ll hum it and be like, here, see what you can do. She writes better words than me, I think. It just makes it easier on me because I can concentrate on the thing that I like, which is the melodies. SE: He writes better music than me,so... BM: I don’t think so ‘cus she writes a lot of stuff, too. She’ll be, like, I got this, and then I’ll help her come up with the next part.

OU: Your lyrics are very honest and heartfelt, and the songwriting is just so catchy that it makes me want to sing so loud in my car. BM: Thank you, for us it’s good because we have really similar tastes in music and it’s a different style of anything we’ve ever played. OU: Some bands hate genres while other bands cling to them, where do you see yourselves? BM: That’s a difficult question. SE: It’s kind of a mix between something old and something new. BM: Someone asked us,” So what do you guys sound like,” at a place we just played at, and we looked at each other and were like, man, no one’s asked us that before. It’s tough because if you say pop, people think of Britney Spears, and we’re definitely not that. If you say rock, people picture something a tad bit heavier. If you say indie, people picture the black hoodie and Converse, and thats not necessarily us either. We have elements of everything. SE: A little country here and there, it’s funny, someone always says something about a little country at every show and we’re like,”what?” OU: Maybe it’s the slide in “Venice.” SE: (laughs) a little bit of that. BM: You know, it’s generic to say, but pop/rock. We have that rock edge, but it’s catchy, you know what I mean, but it’s honest. It’s not contrived, it’s not like we’re trying to fit somewhere, which I hope in the long run is gonna make us a little different because we’re not trying to cling to any particular genre, like you said, or to what’s happening now. It was tough at first because we were like,”what do we wanna sound like?” SE: Or, who are we gonna tour with? BM: Yeah, so I don’t think we answered your question at all! (laughs) SE: Wait, what was the question? (more laughs) BM: We need to work on that. OU: Well, when you guys figure it out, let us know. OU: I know Victory Season started out acoustic, how has it been going electric? SE: I think it’s a lot more fun! I mean, it was fun doing the acoustic thing for awhile because you really get your chops down, and it’s more intimate

so I think it’s good practice for switching to a full band. Playing with the full band is a lot more fun for me because I get to play guitar now and change it up a little bit, but we still want to incorporate some of the acoustic stuff. BM: The hardest thing was having had written all the songs in acoustic fashion and then having to translate it, sometimes it could sound in-between. Sometimes you land in the middle and have to figure out... SE: How to fill in the space. BM: Yeah, it was tough, so we tried different instruments and different people, we tried doing a 5-piece at one point, finally, we just found different ways of going about it. One way was to incorporate a sampler, where we take some of the parts and add that in, or just things we felt we really wanted to have in there, and so our drummer uses that too, so... SE: He’s busy. BM: A multi-talented guy. OU: I was witness to that. BM: And then, Stephanie just really stepped it up, I mean she’s always played guitar... SE: But I had never played guitar in a band before. BM: She just said, “I’m gonna do this,” and we said do it. OU: Soon you’re gonna be wailing! (Laughs) OU: Some bands have mission statements or certain goals, do you have any? BM: Mission statements? Sounds so business-like. Must increase profits. (Laughs) For us, what we stated when we first started, was that we wanted to be able to make a couple records, you know. We just thought, you know what, these are just really cool songs. We really like ‘em, and if we’re able to record a few songs, make a couple records, and be able to tour and have the experience of doing it all together without going completely broke.(laughs) Our goal is to do it and see what people think and hopefully there will be some people out there that like what we’re doing. OU: Well, I know you guys have some hardcore fans that listen to you guys on MySpace because they can’t buy anything just yet... SE: I know, I feel bad, but we plan on getting

something out by the end of summer. We’re kinda playing around with our plan right now. BM: There are two plans right now. One would be to do an EP and have it out so we could do some touring in late summer or early fall, or right now, we are demo-ing some songs, and we have two albums-worth of material, so it’s sometimes hard to not just go do a record. SE: With the music business, it’s kinda hard to know which route to take. Regardless, we’re gonna get something out. OU: You won’t have to explain what genre you’re in, you can just hand that out. BM: Yeah, we wanna get something out because a lot of people have been asking us. SE: We’ve had to put them off for so long. BM: Yeah, so...sorry! We’re working on it. We are in the studio demo-ing all these songs, and it’s just exciting because we still love the first things we’d done, and now that we’re doing these other songs it’s good to them all flushed out, but...soon. OU: Any tour plans for the summer? SE: We want to try to go out by late August, we don’t have anything planned yet, but we’re gonna try to throw something together. Whether it be with friends’ bands or... OU: So you’re pretty much open to anything? SE: Yeah, because I’ve never toured before. OU: Are you excited? SE: Oh my gosh, I’m totally excited! I got to see him(Brian) go through all the different stages, and I’m excited to do it for myself. BM: It’s been awhile for me, so I’m excited to get back out there. OU: Any last words? I don’t think I have anything else for you guys, thank you so much! BM: Oh, thank you for being our first interviewer, if that’s a word. SE: Wait, I do want to put one more thing in! It’s Brian’s fault that we were late today. You gotta tell a girl, girls are more organized. OU: I will definitely put that in! (Huh, maybe it wasn’t June gloom after all) For more info and tour dates go to: www.victoryseason.com