PropertyOfZack Interview : : The Audition

PropertyOfZack spoke with Danny Stevens from The Audition not too long ago for a brief interview. Danny and I discussed the band’s time off, the stigma of Victory Records, release plans for their new EP, touring, and much more. Check it all out below!

For the record, could you state your name and role in The Audition?
This is Danny Stevens, and I am the lead vocalist in The Audition.

It’s been a long road for the band since you got off of Victory, but is the band finally ready to jump back into things?
Absolutely. We took a little over a year off to clear our heads and to try to get out of the stigma of Victory and to try to make people forget that we were a Victory band and what comes with that stigma. We became normal people for a year, but we’re ready to jump back in.

Not to necessarily get into the Victory stuff, but when bands talk about the label, they generally only have one thing to say. Was it hard to get past it?
It was really hard. No one wants to help that label out because they’re in the business of helping themselves. Bands didn’t want to take us on tour because they did not want to help Victory, and it put us in between a rock and a hard place. We didn’t really have any options besides headlining or not touring. It was hard being attached to them.

You’ve gotten off of Victory, but like you’ve said, you were quiet for over a year. Was that just a large byproduct of being on Victory?
It wasn’t hard because of that, but it was hard because we’ve been on tour for six years of our straight and taking something like that away is very difficult. It was difficult to have a standard living situation, but that’s all over now.

Fans were a little concerned since you’ve been so quiet. Do you think you have to make up the ground you may have lost in 2011?
Yeah, definitely. I would give Twitter replies every day to tell fans we didn’t break up. We did four albums in five years. In this day and age, you kind of have to be in people’s faces or they forget about you. There will definitely be a rebuilding period, but I think it’ll pick right back up where it left off.

The band played the one Glamour Kills show not too long ago. Was that nice to do towards the end of 2011?
It was good. We’ve done a few college shows and one-offs, but it was nice to be able to get the first show jitters out of the way for our new members.

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