MIKE: How is the Tour going?
Mark : Man its going really well, its a solid bill start to finish..Great musicians. everyone has to be on thier A game thats for sure!
MIKE: How did all of the guys for up to form Nothing More?
Mark: I have known Johnny for about 15 years or so and I met him a church camp. Johnny and I were involved in the same church. We actually played in the youth band at the time. Johnny and I started to play together with the first band I was ever in while Johnny was in another band. We started jamming and it was a lot of fun and we started getting really serious about it, even at such a early age. We kind of just played around in town untill finally we convinced Dan to join the band a couple of years later, he always thought our music was too techincal and not enough grooves for a bass player. Which was totally understandable. So Dan joined the band and he had the brilliant idea that we should play outside of our home town. So we started touring more regionally and slowly expanded and gained the fan base and recognition over the years. We kept to the DYI principles untill pretty much these past couple of years and finally started meeting people with the same vision that wanted to back us and take it national and even global. Like Will Hoffman, one of our managers and Danny Wimmer, and then going to Eleven Seven Music Group. So yeah, that kind of brings us up to date! (laughing)
MIKE: A lot of bands think that after being signed its pretty much easy street and tha'ts when instantly all the dreams come true, being a band that has its foundations in DYI and has been
signed, what would you have to say to that?
Mark: Yeah, I hear ya. Well, all I can say is things change. It definitely takes things to the next level. I am very happy for our roots and our beginnings because we learned how to work smart, and how not to make bad desicions. Labels definitely have those connections to get your name out
there. But now it's different, we live in the age of the internet and music is accessible globally. So nowadays it's easy to get your name out there. But having a hand in radio which has been amazing for us this past year as well as the whole touring aspect. Going from this person to that person and making things happen is a big thing that happens with a label. We had the same
ideas, we had these stars in our eyes, and felt that as soon as we are with a label we are going to
make it...B ut work never stops thats for sure. It changes and becomes different (Laughs)
Hailing from San Antonio, Nothing More is a four-headed musical hydra that runs on frenetic passion, unswerving DIY spirit and relentless sonic experimentation. Part schizoid System Of A Down weird-isms, part Mars Volta-esque prog rock freak out, part effortless pop nous, they seamlessly barrel from churning headbang to skyscraping chorus and back again in the blink of an eye. Capable of bombastic bounce that hits as hard as an uppercut to the jaw when they fancy it, the boys from The Alamo City are equally able to dial down their bluster into deft moments of crystalline beauty when the mood takes them. It's a gut-punching blend made all the more powerful by a keen lyrical sophistication and philosophical undertone which both belies their years and marks them out from their contemporaries.