When Alex was in Hawaii, he was
interviewed by the website
The Irish News to talk about the festival Belsonic 2015, which All Time Low will attend in Belfast at the end of the month. He is also talking about other artists, such as Twenty One Pilots, and Gerard Way, whom he would love to collaborate with. You can read the whole interview below.
HELLO member of All Time Low, please identify yourself and state your current location and condition.
Hi. I'm Alex, I'm in Hawaii, and I'm pretty damn sunburned!
Are you looking forward to coming back to Belfast for the Belsonic Festival?
Yes! Absolutely – we've always had a blast performing in Ireland, so I expect nothing short of insanity.
You're playing with Twenty One Pilots, are you fans of theirs?
We all love Twenty One Pilots. They've put out a couple of great records, and they're absolutely crushing it right now. We've actually never played any shows with them, so I'm excited to see 'em kill it.
Your new LP Future Hearts was recently a number one album in the UK. Where were you when you found out and how did you celebrate?
We were home, taking a little bit of time off between tours. It was absolutely insane when the news broke, because we knew it was going to be close. We just barely managed to squeeze out the number one (they bested James Bay's Chaos And The Calm by just 278 sales) and that's such a massive statement to us from our incredible fans – that they all went out and bought the album – sometimes multiple times.
Which song on the album are you most proud of and why?
That's still a really tough question to answer, because I'm still not totally sick of the record yet! Ha-ha. That said, Tidal Waves is a song I'm really proud of, from a conceptual standpoint, to featuring Mark (Hoppus of Blink 182), it's a rad accomplishment and one of my favourite songs.
The new album also features a song written with Joel from Good Charlotte. If you could collaborate in a similar way with any other artist, who would it be and why?
Hard to say right now, but I'd love to work with Gerard Way (ex-My Chemical Romance). Dude has amazing ability!
You and Jack (Barakat, guitarist) recently hosted at the Alternative Press Awards. How nerve-wracking was it and what was the highlight of the night?
We were very nervous going in, and had a couple curve-balls thrown our way throughout the night, but overall it was a really cool experience. I hope we can do more in the future.
Your Full Frontal podcast sounds like a lot of fun to do. Is it hard to make time to record it while touring, how much preparation is there for each episode and do you agree that Foxly your creepy 'little broken boy' from the show is the ideal candidate to become an official All Time Low 'mascot' a la Eddie and Iron Maiden?
We have a good time with it, it's just so insane and weird! It's pretty easy for us now, because there's almost nothing we can't do, so we don't exactly have much of a goal going into it each time – we just press record and see what comes out.
We haven't heard from Foxly since we let him go into the wild, so I'm not sure that would work out, unfortunately. I don't think he's coming back.
Dave Grohl recently broke his leg falling off stage. What's your worst live performance and/or tour-related injury?
I cracked my head on a low-hanging speaker once, and kind of knocked myself out during the show. I fell between the stage and the barricade, came to, and managed to squeeze out the last couple lines of the song. Luckily, it was the end of the set, so I didn't have to keep going or anything. When I came off stage, the paramedics were pretty sure I was concussed, so I took a nice little trip to the nearest emergency room to get checked out. Thankfully I didn't need stitches or anything. Woo!
Which member of All Time Low has the worst personal hygiene and how aware/prideful are they of their own musky stench?
Ha-ha, no-one really has bad hygiene, to be honest. We're all pretty clean people. Zack, our bassist, works out a lot, so I'd say at any given time he could be the sweatiest person on the tour. Plus his gym clothes are gnarly. But we hose him down on the reg.
Thought for the day?
The ocean's basically just a big toilet for peeing in.
