(((o))): So, first and foremost, who are Sectioned and what are your musical backgrounds?
Five guys who want to write music which doesn't already exist, for fun. This is the second actual band we've been in (for most of us) ignoring the wee cover bands we mostly were in at school.
(((o))): How did the band come together?
Slowly.
(((o))): Please describe your sound in poetic form. (Haiku, rhyming couplets, acrostic, etc - take your pick)
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Death to false grind
(((o))): How has your local scene impacted you as a band?
It has encouraged us to write heavier music.
(((o))): You’ve got a couple of EPs out thus far. What can you tell us about those?
The E.P’s are just like the starter dish for a meal (the meal being an album which we’re a fair bit through writing). We all have different views on them but we mostly needed them to get them out the way on our quest to write better music.
(((o))): Your sound is pretty complex and diverse. Is this simply the result of your influences or a conscious attempt to sound as different as possible?
We have a sense of what we want to sound like, and are lucky enough that how we naturally write and play gets us that sound. The only conscious effort we put into being diverse is distaste for being bored. Mother of invention and all that.
(((o))): What do you think is the most difficult challenge facing new bands starting out in the music industry today?
It depends on what your goal is. I think it’s difficult when the online portal of music is saturated it makes it more difficult for you to be heard, you sort of have to bank on virality there. We try not to depend too much on either online social media or word of mouth.
(((o))): Every band has different aims. What would have to happen for Sectioned to make you feel that you’d “made it”, so to speak?
In the short term – finish this album and release it. In the long term – to be at the level of the artists that inspire us
(((o))): You’re given the opportunity to create your own All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival. What would be the first five bands on your list?
Nine Inch Nails
Dillinger Escape Plan
Pantera with cyborg Dimebag
The Mars Volta
Prince
(((o))): Are there any upcoming bands you’d like us to feature in the near future?
Take a gander at our facebook likes! Any or all of them, haha!
(((o))): What are the band’s plans for the near future?
Finish our album and find out how we’re going to release it. Tour.
