-Is there anyone you'd like to do a supporting tour with that you haven't had the chance to yet?
Zebrahead, definitely. That'd be awesome. We've been asking people over here who would take us. Take That would be pretty cool, even if we were just the clowns on the stage.

-In terms of the live show, there's a lot of energy there, particularly with the choreographed dance moves. Where did the idea for that come from?
Years ago, we started moving little by little, then "okay, move like this". Next thing, it turned into this whole choreographed thing, and each time we'd stick more in there.

It was a tiny thing at first, and then people would be like "I love it when you did this thing!" "Oh, we just moved the horns back in forth"...so, we thought we should do more of that. Next thing, we're fully choreographing our shows, and it's like - how did we get here? Well, that's how it got there.

-You mentioned finally recording the Disney songs at last. You do a lot of shows at Disneyland every year - how did that start?
Well, we new the booking guys at Disney, so we'd hit them up every time we'd run into them. We got an audition, and played at Downtown Disney for a New Year's event, then after that they asked us back. We played there for an entire summer, then they asked us to play some other events. Slowly, we've become a go-to band for them, which is awesome.

-During that entire summer, was it hard keeping it fresh, playing the same set the whole time?
It wasn't hard keeping it fresh - it was really fun. It was gruelling, physically - we did a lot of shows, and then went to day-jobs every single day. You'd get the same people showing up, sometimes it was a little weird. It helped us as performers, it helped us become really tight.

-Well, going from that audience, going to the different tours you do, has that helped keep it fresh in a way then?
Yeah, playing Disneyland compared to a rock venue is way different, and you can do different things. It's more flexible - we can say the F-word a lot more!

-You've also become the house band recently for Pick-A-Split?
Yeah, we've filmed the pilot. It looks great, it's awesome - we provide a lot of music for it too. It's a bowling variety game show...that's the best way to describe it. They're trying to pitch it right now to different networks. We'll see what happens.

-What can we expect from the band over the next six months?
We're going to release the album, step one. Then try to get back on the round whenever the next awesome tour comes up. We'll have a party too when we release the album, party's are good.

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