ONE ON ONE: AN INTERVIEW WITH AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS!

WE’RE HERE WITH AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS. WE’VE GOT ADAM [KERR] AND GEORGE [HUNT], AND THIS IS A HIVE MAGAZINE INTERVIEW! FIRST AND FOREMOST, YOU’VE DONE A LOT OF SHOWS, IVE SEEN YOU AT ATLEAST ONCE.. WHAT’S YOUR FUNNIEST OR WEIRDEST SHOW STORY?

George Hunt: Oh we’ve got a weird show story!

Adam Kerr: We’ve got loads of them!

George Hunt: I’m thinking Wiesenfeld, it’s not at the show it was after the show so we had accommodation, and me and Adam always have a room because apparently we’re noisy.

Adam Kerr: No we’re not, it's the party room.

George Hunt: So we were told we had our own apartment, because we always get the rubbish room, we got quite excited and then we went in and it was quiet. All the lights were off. I went to Adam ‘I don’t think we’re the only people in here’..

Adam Kerr: And I was like ‘nah you’re making it up man there’s no one else here’, so we checked through all the different doors like we opened the kitchen, the bathroom, and you’ve gone to open the door to what would of been the second bedroom and there’s just a face staring at you…

[Interview Moves To Different Location Due To Almost Being Run Over..]

George Hunt: So yeah we were having a look around, he said look in that door.. I looked in that door, there were people in there.. Just two faces out the door. So they were fans from the show..

Adam Kerr: So they popped their heads back in and we’ve gone ‘what the hell is going on’.. And they went ‘Great show guys.. Do you want to have a drink?’. Well.. we’re here. They driven from Poland.

George Hunt: And they were told when they got their keys to be careful because there’s dodgy people around, so they thought we were breaking into the flat. So they were shitting themselves, that’s why they were hiding in the room.

SO THIS IS A REVERSE CRAZY FAN STORY. YOU ARE THE CRAZY FANS.

George Hunt: So that’s why they were so quiet. All the lights were off, everything was quiet and they were like hiding in the room.

Adam Kerr: But it was good fun. We drank.. What did we drink.. A whole bottle of Cointreau, they had some sort of vodka type something, we had sausages.. We did a sausage review which if you’ve seen anything before you know that’s something we do on tour.. Beers or something.

George Hunt: I went to bed and you stayed up with them all night.

Adam Kerr: I think I stayed up until about 4am. Love my Polish boys, miss you guys so much.

George Hunt: I've forgotten their names but they were great. They were nice guys.

Adam Kerr: And they’ll know how drunk we were. We text Jamie and Jon and we were like “There’s people here..” and they were like “no there isn’t we’re coming over”. They came over, saw them and just left us.

YOU GUYS ARE VIBING, WE’RE VIBING, IT’S WHATEVER. CAN I HAVE AN INVITE NEXT TIME? I WANT TO JOIN THE SESSION.

George Hunt: Of course you can! If you want to come to a tiny town in Germany you’re more than welcome.

[Jon Cassidy joins the group]

IT’S FUNNY THAT YOU’RE HERE JON, BECAUSE I WAS GOING TO STARY BY SAYING, ‘JON CASS’. I’VE GOT TO KNOW, IS IT A MEME? WHERE DID THE JOKE COME FROM? IS IT JUST ‘JON CASS’ AND THAT’S IT?

Jon Cassidy: Jon Cass.. You’ve heard it here first!

George Hunt: This is an exclusive!

YOU HAVE DONE ABSOLUTE BITS WITH YOUR PREVIOUS ALBUM AND THE PRODUCTION BETWEEN ‘WHICH EACH LIES THE OTHER’ AND ‘ULTRAVIOLET’ IS DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT. THERE’S SUCH A VOLUME OF RANGE. IT FEELS LIKE YOU EXPERIMENTED A LOT WITH ‘ULTRAVIOLET’.

Adam Kerr: The biggest difference is.. Jon Cass. I’m not even joking, deadpan, on god, genuinely seriously the biggest difference is Jon Cass.

Jon Cassidy: I got to have a go on the keys this time. I got to be in the driver's seat for a while.

Adam Kerr: The first album was very much like.. I would write a song, get a structure instrumentally, and then Charlie and Jon would come on top of it. This time around, Jon was like ‘I want to sit down together and we have it really meshing like this’. And we did.

Jon Cassidy: And so it was.

George Hunt: And then we had album 2.

Adam Kerr: The lord said it would be and Jon Cass made it happen.

I SAW ONLINE A LOT OF PEOPLE HAD A BIT OF DISCOURSE, THEY WERE SAYING “THIS WASN’T HEAVY ENOUGH” AS SONGS CAME OUT.

Adam Kerr: Flipside! Flipside!

George Hunt: It’s quite heavy isn’t it?

Adam Kerr: Listen, okay - sorry the whole album isn’t heavy. I’m sorry.

George Hunt: That is your fault.

Adam Kerr: It’s my fault.

Jon Cassidy: We like to rock too much. We love rocking out.

Adam Kerr: What’s wrong with rock and roll. It didn’t hurt KISS did it.

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO GATEKEEP WHAT CAN BE ROCK AND ROLL, WHAT’S CONSIDERED METAL, BUT YOU GUYS ARE OUT HERE DEFINING DIFFERENT WAYS OF LISTENING TO MUSIC. HOW DO YOU THINK MUSIC IS GOING TO EVOLVE GOING FORWARD? YOU GUYS ARE THE SPEARHEADS.

Jon Cass: Do you recon?

George Hunt: I’ll take it.

Adam Kerr: A Day to Remember have been doing it since the dawn of time. We do it and it’s like ‘wow..’ who cares?

George Hunt: I think people care less. It’s just music isn’t it. Just write songs to have fun.

WHEN YOU WERE PRODUCING ULTRAVIOLET, WHAT WAS THE THEMING? IT’S QUITE VISUALLY ON POINT. EVERYTHING IS PURPLE.. BECAUSE IT’S ULTRAVIOLET.

Adam Kerr: [jokingly] Everything is violet..

YES SORRY, EVERYHING IS.. ULTRAVIOLET!

George Hunt: Ultra violet..

BUT WHAT WENT INTO COMING UP WITH THE CONCEPT AND HOW DID YOU END UP GETTING TO WHERE YOU DID WITH THE FINAL PRODUCT?

Jon Cassidy: It was Charlie really, that’s a Charlie question. But it kinda came towards the end, the concept kinda prevailed itself to us over time. And then we were like ‘oh.. The album’s called ‘Ultraviolet’.

George Hunt: It was like writing the songs was the treasure map, and then we found the X and Charlie said ‘that’s what X is’ and went ‘okay!’.

Jon Cassidy: She made a powerpoint.

Adam Kerr: The secret was to keep it rocking. That really was the secret.

George Hunt: And we thought purple was a pretty rocking color.

Adam Kerr: Purples a rocking color, it’s rock and roll. KISS would like it. That’s very important to us.

I’VE BEEN ASKING EVERY BAND THIS TODAY. THERE’S GOING TO BE A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE NEXT WEEK, SPOILER ALERT. AND YOUR PHONE BATTERY, FOR SOME REASON, IS DYING. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO BE LISTENING TO AS YOU SURVIVE, OR DIE, IN THE ZOMBIE APOCOLYPSE?

Adam Kerr: There’s only one choice.. ‘Bat out of Hell’ by Meatloaf. That’s the only choice.

Jon Cassidy: Do you have enough time to get through the whole of ‘Bat out of Hell’?

George Hunt: It’s too long, you can get like four songs in.

Adam Kerr: The parameters were you get one song..

Jon Cassidy: So you get eleven minutes.

Adam Kerr: I get eleven minutes, I’ve got more battery. Name me a better song.

Jon Cassidy: I’d listen to ‘John the Fisherman’ by Primus.

Adam Kerr: That goes hard.

Jon Cassidy: Dying to Primus would be funny.

George Hunt: Dying would be pretty funny. I think going out in a blaze of glory to ‘Prima Victoria’ by Sabaton would be amazing. Or ‘The Last Stand!’. Cause we’d have the last stand wouldn’t we as our battery runs out and the zombies come. We could just fight off the zombies as we die to Sabaton. It would be pretty awesome.

Adam Kerr: The only problem is it wouldn’t be 1527.

George Hunt: We can change the lyrics to 2023.

IT WOULD HAPPEN IN 2023 WOULDN’T IT. BUT, WE’RE MAKING IT THROUGH, YOU’RE AT 2000 TREES.. HAVE YOU COUNTED THEM ALL?

Adam Kerr: There’s more than 2000, it’s a rip off.

George Hunt: Definitely more!

Jon Cassidy: I’m going to recount later after our set when I’m tired.

LAST QUESTION, I’VE GOT TO KNOW, IF YOU WERE TO BE MAKING MUSIC FOR A FRANCHISE WHETHER IT BE A MOVIE FRANCHISE OR A VIDEO GAME FRANCHISE, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO WRITE FOR?

Adam Kerr: Doom. We’d do a really good job at Doom!

George Hunt: Guitar Hero!

Jon Cassidy: I’d do a remaster of the original Spiderman trilogy.

George Hunt: Spiderman 2 is the only superhero movie worth watching. It’s the only good one.

Adam Kerr: All movies are bad. Come on, name one good movie. It always goes wrong.

George Hunt: Jon only likes films if nothing bad happens. It stresses him out when something bad happens in a film.

Jon Cassidy: I like world building, but then when it goes wrong I’m like ‘why has it gone wrong I just want to see how these people live on a day to day’.

DO YOU THINK THERE COULD EVER BE A WORLD BUILDING PROJECT WITH AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS?

Jon Cassidy: Yes.

Adam Kerr: In Minecraft.

Jon Cassidy: Imagine Cat in the Hat, but they just have fun with the cat. The mum doesn’t come back, no messes are made, they just fuck about with this cat in a hat for like two hours.

George Hunt: It’s like The Grinch but it’s always Christmas Eve.

Jon Cassidy: Yeah, The Grinch is a hard one because it’s wrong from the beginning.

George Hunt: It’s nefarious.

Adam Kerr: That’s the selling point of the film is that he’s nefarious. I wouldn’t watch it otherwise.

Jon Cassidy: Films. We should do a film podcast.

Adam Kerr: I’d love to do a film podcast. But we’d be there saying ‘these films suck and you’d be like ‘nah they’re good’ but nah they suck.

George Hunt: We should only watch Spider Man 2 over and over and over.

Jon Cassidy: When he drowns himself with the sun its fucking emotional.

Adam Kerr: Is that a spoiler? That’s a spoiler, man. I haven’t watched it.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING ME WITH THIS INTERVIEW, IT’S BEEN AN EXPERIENCE. WE’VE LEARNT, WE’VE GROWN..

George Hunt: We’re better people now.

Adam Kerr: The second time around you’ll be prepared, the problem is that no one told you that WE were coming.

HOW ARE WE GOING TO SIGN OFF THEN?

Adam Kerr: You’ve been rocking out with As Everything Unfolds and.. Hivetown? [confusion].

George Hunt: Stay safe, Stay in school.

Adam Kerr: stay horny.

Everyone: Jon Cass.

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