At Slam Dunk Festival this year, we got the chance to sit and chat with Joe and Daniel of Transit, here’s how it went.
Hello, great to see you! How’s the weekend been for you?
It’s been great, it’s the third time we’ve played it, so we kind of know what to expect now, but every year it’s been awesome, the shows have been better, so that’s all you can really ask for.
How have the crowd responded to you so far?
Yeah it’s been awesome we were saying the first day we were a little bit nervous because we didn’t play the year before and we just put out a new record so we didn’t know how people were going to respond to it over here so it was fun to see, everybody poured in, it was great, a lot of energy, yeah it was fun.
Are there any bands you’ve been watching over the weekend?
We play the same time as Taking Back Sunday everyday so we’ve seen them a tonne of times, but it seems like one of those bands that no matter how many times you’ve seen them, you want to see them every time. But, bands I’ve seen, Bayside, again seen them a bunch of times, but they’re one of those bands.
I thought Pvris were great, Knuckle Puck’s set was great, really fun, oh, I saw Deez Nuts for the first time, I didn’t know what to expect, I just heard about them, but that was really fun.
What’s your favourite song to play live?
That’s tough because it changes on a weekly basis for some of us, but I’d probably say right now it’s the first track we play live which is called ‘The Only One’.
Mine would probably be ‘Saturday Sunday’ off our new record.
What’s the best show you’ve ever played?
Best show.. I don’t know.. one of my favourite shows was in 2011, we were touring with I Am The Avalanche, Bayside and Saves The Day we played Club Royale in Boston, we played two nights there so they were probably my two favourite shows.
Over each album, how would you say you’ve changed/progressed as a band?
I don’t know, it’s kind of tough because if you listen to some of our earlier stuff it doesn’t sound anything like the stuff we are putting out now. I think that’s just, we were a lot younger, and I don’t think it’s a sense of maturing and sound, I think it’s more that we are growing up, we are literally learning how to write songs, if you listen to our earlier stuff it’s just a bunch of parts put together, its just learning and formulating music, so I think the past three records its more so just like ‘ok we’ve kind of figured it out’.
Instead of taking weeks and weeks to finish a song, we can write one in a few days.
What helps with the writing process?
It’s different every time for all of us, I think it’s mostly just getting in the room, playing and being there all together, I think that’s what makes us make everything better, instead of just one person sitting at home writing a part, all of us just get in there and just lay our ideas out, and that’s when everything starts clicking.
If you could change one thing about the band, what would you change and why?
I wish we travelled to more countries and saw more of the world. We still have time to do that, but every time we go to a new country, it changes your whole perspective on daily life, and it just makes you a smarter person, and we have that experience, but it never feels like enough.
What else do you have in store for the rest of the year?
Play as many shows as humanly possible and start writing for the next album, slowly and with time and try and make some more memories.
