Lili-Anh LeMinh from the website confrontmagazine.com had the chance to chat with Gabe (and Alex) at the Ballon Festival in Canada. Check out all the Questions Gabe answered (and his beautiful drawing).
CONFRONT: Last time you were in Montreal was a while ago, what took you so long?
GABE: No one invited us! It’s really important to be invited to things. When I was younger, I used to like to crash things all the time and it was fun but you get to a certain age and you’re just too old to be crashing anything. You want to be invited. Now, I really have a lot of gratitude when I’m invited to things.
CONFRONT: But when you guys plan out your tours and everything, you can always add a date here!
ALEX: We haven’t really been on a proper tour in a long time though.
GABE: We were in talks to do a couple of tours but with this record, we were just so busy. We had a lot of requests to do a lot of stuff like this; festival where we fly out and come back. To be honest, touring just really took a lot out of us and this has really given us a different opportunity. We’re really lucky to be able to do a lot of shows like this and visit a lot of cities but not all in a row. When you’re just on the road for 6 months straight, you kind of lose your whole life. So I think we’re trying to find the balance for that. We’re experimenting now; we’re not sure if we have the formula to figure it out but we all feel much happier, which is good.
CONFRONT: Would you guys have gone up in one of these if you had the chance?
ALEX: Yeah!
GABE: I bungee-jumped at one of these festivals recently. It was my first time doing anything like that and it was crazy!
CONFRONT: Wow! It must’ve been! Now, let’s talk about what you guys have been up to since the release of your latest album last summer.
GABE: It’s been kind of a crazy year, like I said. We’ve been doing a lot of crazy shows.
ALEX: We got to tour with Justin Bieber!
GABE: Yeah and we opened for Jennifer Lopez. A lot of stuff that is really big and that we never thought we would do when we started the band. It’s great! For me, the point of doing all this stuff is to grow and learn, have experiences and we’ve really had a lot of great experiences, luckily.
