{"id":8654,"date":"2014-03-14T15:05:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T15:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=8654"},"modified":"2014-03-14T15:05:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T15:05:11","slug":"head-hits-concrete-kicking-ear-drums-in-the-ass-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/03\/14\/head-hits-concrete-kicking-ear-drums-in-the-ass-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Head Hits Concrete :: Kicking Ear Drums in the Ass to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HHC\"<\/a><\/p>\n

by James Korba<\/strong><\/p>\n

So yeah, Head Hits Concrete are playing the Frames Arts Gallery this\u00a0Saturday March 15th\u00a0with Cetascean and guests. You should go because it’s gonna be punishing as all hell. Stylus had a chance to talik to vocalist Mike Alexander about their impending doom, I mean “tour.” Yeah, tour!\u00a0<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

Stylus<\/b>: It seems HHC has been playing a lot lately. Has this brutal winter stoked your creative fires?
\n<\/strong>Mike Alexander:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, we wrote a bunch of new songs last summer and once the weather started changing for the worse, we decided it was time to take this band to a level it hasn\u2019t been in a long time. To be a fully functioning wrecking machine complete with value-priced merchandise and a take no prisoner\u2019s attitude. We realized that this was the right time to organize ourselves to prepare for the goal of making it out on the road for a couple of weeks. So in order to dig ourselves out of the tomb, we needed to raise some funds and try some new songs as well as some oldies. So far so good.<\/p>\n

Stylus:\u00a0You plan on playing a lot of early material at the\u00a0March 15th\u00a0show? How early are we talking here?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMike A:\u00a0<\/strong>We\u2019ll be doing a few old ones going as far back as the split 10\u201d with My Minds Mine. There will be five or so songs from the split 7\u201d with Bodies Lay Broken. A little bit of each release, I\u2019d say. Definitely a few things that we haven\u2019t played in a decade.<\/p>\n

Stylu<\/b>s:\u00a0What are you looking forward to the most about touring with Cetascean? Any new recordings in the works? \u00a0<\/strong>
\nMike A<\/b>: I\u2019m sure everyone is looking forward to moments of self-doubt, distrust, alienation and social withdrawal inside that van. But even more importantly, I think it\u2019s great to tag team with a band as great as those guys. They are definitely one of the city’s finer exports. They\u2019ve toured out that way before and all the feedback I\u2019ve ever heard has been exceedingly positive. So we all have the sense that the shows will be great. As for new stuff, Mercy of Slumber Records will be putting out a tape for us since we disobeyed the rules that clearly state that you should only tour on a new release. This tour came up so fast that we didn\u2019t really have the time to figure out much more than a tape, which is totally fine. We threw our most recent 7\u201d on it along with the most recent demo material and some live stuff from 2004 on it. I think it will turn out fine.<\/p>\n

Stylus:\u00a0<\/b>Are you going to be spreading Bomber gospel throughout BC?<\/strong>
\nMike A:<\/b>\u00a0No one I know in BC cares about the Lions, so I figure it would be like the time I tried telling jokes with my other band on stage in Poland. No one knew what that hell I was talking about and it was terrible. I know a couple people along the way who will want to talk CFL which is cool, but overall I don\u2019t expect anyone to be excited about the fact that the Cup is coming home in 2014.<\/p>\n

Stylus:\u00a0Did you think you would still be doing this with HHC when you first started 10 plus years ago?<\/strong>
\nMike A:\u00a0<\/b>I don\u2019t really plan for anything that far ahead. Having said that, my closest friends are all lifers when it comes to this scene and the bands that continue to wage war on good taste. I guess it\u2019s not very surprising that HHC are all 40 year old men who would rather be doing nothing more than kicking eardrums in the ass with this music.\u00a0Do we have another 10 years in us? Who knows? For now this is what makes us happy and creatively satisfied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by James Korba So yeah, Head Hits Concrete are playing the Frames Arts Gallery this\u00a0Saturday March 15th\u00a0with Cetascean and guests. You should go because it’s gonna be punishing as all hell. Stylus had a chance to talik to vocalist Mike Alexander about their impending doom, I mean “tour.” Yeah, tour!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[447,563],"class_list":["post-8654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-iconoclast","tag-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}