Your name:
Michael Osborn.
Where are you
from?:
Plattsburgh, New
York. Really upstate, basically the border of Canada.
Name of
band:
City of Auburn.
Who
else is in your band?
James Motter
(Drums), Luke Weeks (Bass), Jake Potter (Guitar) and Jordan Shepherd
(Guitar).
How would you
describe yourselves?
We're probably
the weirdest group of people. We're all really into different things and our
dynamic is really complimented from that. All of us were great friends before
the band came together and playing together is really just the greatest
hangouts. We also really love memes.
Who are your
main influences musically?
We're all into
different types of music but we all have a great appreciation for alternative
rock and that's kind of always been the genre we'd play. I love bands like
Paramore, Falling Up, Subseven, Crooks UK, PVRIS, Being as an Ocean, the list
goes on.
What do you hope
to achieve in music?
I love to dream,
so If all my dreams came true I'd love to tour the world on an album that we
make together, play Warped Tour, tour with our favorite bands, be one of those
bands that can influence a whole generation of musicians in the same way that
other bands have done for me. But for now, we're recording a new album and we
are really concentrating on that right now. We're hopeful for the opportunities
it can open up.
What has been
the highlight of your career so far, and why?
We are a really,
really new band. We played our first round of shows at the beginning of this
year, we made a little weekend tour out of it. We played through Denton, Houston,
and San Antonio all in one weekend and that was seriously the greatest
experience I've ever had in a band before. Waking up knowing that you get play
music every night was the greatest feeling. I can't wait to hit the road
again.
And what’s the moment
you want to forget?
Actually, there
really has been nothing in my time in City of Auburn that has been regrettable,
I'm having a blast. But I was in an older band for a long time and we tried to
film a music video with some old friend of ours. We were in the middle of some
god-forsaken wooded area in Texas and it was around 3am in the
morning. There were spiders, there were snakes, and it was just horrible. The
music video was actually never completed and never released. That was pretty much
the most unenjoyable band experience. I have yet to go through something that
tops that ha.
If you had to
pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and
why?
I think I'm just
going to with the single off our EP 'Soul Searcher', the song is called 'In
Waiting' and I think it represents us our music really well because musically
and lyrically, it introduces that drive the other songs have and it really
opens up to that emotional output we want to portray. It give a great
representation of what we can do and the EP just expands on that. I think we're
going to have some really defining songs on this new album we're working on.
Where can we
listen to it?
Where can we
find out more about your music?
Instagram
@cityofauburn
Anything
else you’d like to say about your band/music that I forgot to ask?
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much for having us. Like us on Facebook!
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