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This artist spotlight is part of a special ZapTown series in correlation with the 2009 Broad Ripple Music Fest: http://www.broadripplemusicfest.com/

Other BRMF interviews:
Heavy Hometown
Daniel Fahrner
Thunderhawk
Matt Mitchell Project
Deep Cricket Night
DJ Deanne
Stationary Odyssey
Elsinore
Phoenix Bodies
A Caesar Holiday
Grey Granite

WHO: The Post Script
WHERE:
The Monkey’s Tale – 5 p.m.
Indy CD & Vinyl – 8 p.m.
LINKS: http://www.myspace.com/postscriptband

SAMPLE MP3:

 The Postscript - In And Out Of Love: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Try desribing what The Post Script sounds like. Try it  — I dare you. Your brain might explode. A little bit of funk, a little of blues, rock, and about everything in between and you might get close. One thing for certain is that this trio is very talented when it comes to being musicians and the band can handle any style very well.

Playing last year in the parking lot outside Monon Coffee Shop, the band showed off their chops and power by turning their songs into unbelievable jams that fed off of each member and prove  they are ready to go that extra mile. They have had a year to release an album title Seasons Change and do some jaunts around the country. When you see them at the Fest this year, you can expect only the best out of this band. Blain Crawford fills in the gaps.

Last year you performed outside in some chilly conditions. This year you will be inside at Indy CD & Vinyl. Even though the band performed as if the cold temperatures did not exist, how will this affect the band this year, and what improvements do you see in regards to that?

Well, we will be playing on the Outside stage of The Monkey’s Tale earlier in the day before we play at Indy CD and Vinyl, so we will be playing in chilly conditions again.  Needless to say it is going to feel amazing to come in out of the cold and play inside in the warmth.  Last year, I think we were all just waiting for a finger to fall off by the end of the set, *lol* the cold turns us into pansies.  We do tend to go a little crazy jumping around and so forth when we play though, so that does warm us up a bit.

Are there any changes within the year that BRMF has seen you?

We have an album now, that is one big change.  We have grown a ton as a band in the last year, and have done a lot of touring down south, through the midwest, and on the East coast supporting our album, Seasons Change. Last year when we played, we had a friend of ours, Coby Slagle, join us on percussion. He actually did most of the percussion on the album.  This year we will be playing as a three piece.

With “Seasons Change,” how did the band constrict yourselves during the recording as anyone who has seen the band knows that you all really shine when you extend your songs out and let your chops show.

It got a little tricky at times.  We went into the project with a set of six songs we had decided to use to show off the pop aspect of our music, and six we wanted to use to show off the more intense, funk, jam aspect of our music.  The tricky part of the whole thing was to organize them in a way that it didn’t just feel like two separate albums, and we all feel like we pulled it off very well.  A lot of times when jamming live, we all just kind of close our eyes and let the music take over and go where it goes, so it was an entirely new process to actually compose those parts and make them sound like an improvised jam, but be more of an organized jam, if that makes sense. *lol*

Where does the fusion of styles come from and what is the inspiration behind that?

We all came from totally different backgrounds as far as our taste in music and our playing goes.  Whenever one of us brings a song to the table, it goes through a huge transformation before it actually becomes a “Post Script song.”  We think of a song as a blank canvas, and we all add in our artistic vision, we go through everyone’s suggestions, and try to focus on what is best for the song.  Since we all have such different backgrounds, we all have totally different ideas that we bring to the table, and totally outlooks on songs.  We mix in these different approaches to song writing and we come out with a “Post Script Song.”

Again, “Seasons Change” is done and available, now what for the band?

We we have already done our first short trip down south and used the National Shrimp Festival in Gulf Shores, AL as our Alabama release party.  We were very fortunate to have that timed just right, now it is just about showing our music to as many people as want to listen to it and getting it into the hands of everyone we meet.  We are also nearing the final stages of getting our website, www.postscriptband.com, up and running.  You will be able to go there to get a full lineup of all our upcoming shows, and to read up on all the latest new about the band.   We are very excited about the way everything is finally coming together and can’t wait for the challenge of taking it all to the next level.