So yeah it’s awesome to have found my place with the band. So I think they liked having that balance put into the band a few years back, I think it’s kinda helped them a lot, see I’m a bit older than everybody else as well so I kinda brought this old man wisdom with me to the band that I definitely think has helped.
They always say to me that I am like the Dad of the band you know I’m the responsible guy that goes to bed early at night and I watch what I eat, and I watch how much I drink I’m just a total Dad. That just came about from being in so many bands beforehand and just having a lot of years under my belt of being in the music industry and I think they respected and trusted me which got me to where I am now with them and I feel like I definitely fit. “Absolutely! It’s crazy that you just said ‘coming up five years’ I’d like completely lost track of time that it has even been five years! Yeah, I definitely found my place, it took a couple of years for me to integrate with the band when I first came on with the band I was just a hired gun you know? Just hired to come on tour and that was it.īut then I progressively started playing a bigger role in decision making as far as business things went and I started integrating myself a lot more. You’re coming up five years with the band do you feel like you have now found your place in many ways? That this is where you are at home now? But since 2004 you have been a permanent member of Sleeping with Sirens. You have played in several bands including Underminded, Cinematic Sunrise and D.R.U.G.S. I felt like if I tried to do anything else, somehow, someway music I always gravitated back towards that no matter what!”
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I grew up with a lot of music in my household with my father, but it was actually seeing it on TV and just being in that stage of my life of being an angsty kid and music just speaking volumes to me that I just knew at that point that’s what I wanted to do, I needed to do. “I grew up in like an MTV generation, so I grew up in the generation where there was music videos on all the time! I grew up on like Nirvana and Stone Temple Pilots, Green Day and Silverchair and all these bands that just made me want to just be an artist you know? Let’s quickly talk about your background you started playing guitar at quite an early age, besides the influence from your father, what inspired you to first pick up guitar? When I catch up with Nick he divulges that he is “hanging out in San Diego enjoying the sun” and as I look out the window at yet another chilly overcast day in Auckland, I can’t help but feel a small pang of jealously… This evolution, in the eyes of guitarist Nick Martin is a good thing and as a collective Sleeping with Sirens have embraced this growth in their sound. But with line-up changes that have resulted in a collection of musicians with a wide and varied taste in music, the evolution of their sound was inevitable. With lead singer Kellin Quinn at the helm the band has completed something of a metamorphosis through their last three albums, their latest ‘Gossip’ released in September of last year seeing the band take a completely different direction embracing a more pop based sound rather than their traditional post-hardcore one. Soon amassing a legion of fans the five piece quickly followed it up with their sophomore release Let’s Cheers To This cementing their place with breakout single ‘If You Can’t Hang’. When Sleeping with Sirens first emerged on the scene with their debut album With Ears To See And Eyes To Hear in 2010, they immediately made their mark with their high octane live performances. NICK MARTIN of SLEEPING WITH SIRENS – Geeking Out On Music An interview by Sarah Kidd.
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