When did it start-
We started on May the 12th 2003 under a different name, it was called Right Turn Danger, and we went through a lot of line-up changes. Me, the bass player and Justin, the keyboard player, started it and then we lost the drummer. We got a new drummer and then we decided about a year and a half ago to change the name to Flee the Century and go as a three piece. We have been doing this for about a year now and touring as a three piece but we still count it as we started, May the 12th 2003, even though Flee the Century didn’t start ‘til Dec. of 2004
Name-
The name, we were thinking of names to name our band, we had a lot of stupid names that we were gonna use, like hyper cube, or flying underground, or one million, actually we almost played a show under the name lands, but we thought that sounded too much like lance, like Lance Armstrong. So after trying to name our band for a month straight, Justin said somebody at work was talking about fleeing the country and getting the hell out of here and he just said why don’t you take it one step above that and flee the entire century, and the kid just looked at him and said that doesn’t even like make sense, Justin just laughed and just kept thinking about fleeing the century, it doesn’t really mean anything in particular, it’s just something that’s impossible to do, and I like the way it sounds and the way it’s written out. So we named ourselves Flee the Century.
Lyrics-
I try to make my lyrics as unmeaningful to the listener as possible, I don’t want people to read my lyrics and say oh my god that has a deep meaning or that means something to me I make sure that it can’t. Basically what I do when I write, is each line is something completely different, it’s not all one big story, or one big meaning or all comes together or rhymes, it’s all just different ideas. Basically just I come up with words that sound good with the music and I go with that, if I need some inspiration I will think about space, I’ll think about leaving the universe and things like the fountain of youth. I come up with impossible situations in my head and then write something about it, and I do that about 8 times. Each song is a complete lyrical mess but to me, I know what it means. I make sure that nobody else would be able to know because that’s not our main focus with our music, its background basically.
Live shows-
Spokane scene- when we first started as a band 2003 the scene was horrible, 10 people were coming to shows, a touring band would show up and it would be 16 people, then all of a sudden, about a year ago after we changed our name to FTC, all of a sudden this new batch of people started coming to shows, buying things. A normal 3 or 4 band show that before would draw 16 people, are now drawing 80 and 100 people. Same show, same bands, you know nothing has changed. It’s actually been really awesome, you don’t even have to promote for it, it’s just word of mouth around here, and internet, no flyers ever, and people show up. The new batch of kids, are like the 16 year old kids that were 14 years old 2 years ago and couldn’t go to shows and now can. Everyone’s totally into music here, nobody’s stuck up about music in Spokane at all, they appreciate everything and anything that people do, now it’s just a friendly community. Before if you’re in a hardcore band you don’t go to an acoustic show, now everyone’s just getting together, getting more involved. Now there’s a show every day in this town, so the scene has gotten really good, it was sucking bad before.
The all ages scene is bigger, the bar scene is still pretty big, but it’s a totally different people, it’s 21 and up, the bands that do well in the bar scene here are like punk bands, metal bands, new metal bands, stoner bands, they do well here in Spokane because Spokane is about six years behind in music, compared to Seattle, which is up to date on current music, current trends. Bands that play the Spokane bar scene still sound like Korn, Limp Bisquit, so they’re still five years behind in music, I think there’s a lot of just generic sounding music, here nothing really interesting is happening in the Spokane music scene, the all ages scene is getting better, but it’s not up to date with what’s going on currently with touring bands. As far as playing live shows, for our band, that’s a main focus, we really like to play live, and we look forward to it still even being a band as long as we have its still just awesome and fun to play live whether it’s to five people or 300 it doesn’t matter.
Tours-
Well, that’s why we are a band. Nothing makes you feel better than when you’re in Boston, and somebody says hey I liked your band can I buy a CD, that’s why were driving 3,000 miles just getting your music out, even though on our last tour, we toured for a month and half, and all we brought was 100 CDs, we sold out of them, but that was worth it to just get rid of 100 CDs, we went a month and a half losing tons of money just to get rid of 100 CDs. I think me, Justin, and Jordan all think the same way, and we all just want to tour bad and getting rid of 100 CDs means a lot to us. We enjoy touring a lot and meeting new bands meeting new friends. We’re not really the most professional band, we just go out tour and we want to sound good, but it’s just all about having fun, and living life to the fullest, that’s why we tour and we want to tour all the time.
Label-
He [previous label] contacted us, right around the time that we changed our name to FTC, and said he liked our music, said he was doing a label in Utah and was putting out records around the Northwest. We had nothing going for us anyways; it’s hard to get on a label. I\'ve actually come to the conclusion that every single person that owns a label is just an elitist piece of crap, actually. There’s some people that are cool, but everybody that I’ve come into contact with to give demos to, give no feed back at all, if it sucks, I want bad feedback too. I want you to tell us what sucks and what doesn’t. He heard us just on the internet, I think maybe Pure Volume, we had a couple songs on there, he liked it, we were planning on having that record, The Border of Light, CD anyways, so we\'re just like ‘why don’t you put that out?’ He put it out, we went on tour immediately.
Future goals-
I want to be in this band forever, so that’s a goal. The band going as long as it can, me and Justin have been friends for a long time, so even if something happens with drums or me not wanting to play bass, I think we\'ll always make music somehow together, I hope. I want to keep making music, keep making records, just try and get more people to listen to our band, tons of tours, tons of having fun.
Fans-
I think we get mixed reactions. I think people around here are starting to catch onto us, we\'re finding the same people going to every one of our shows which is the main goal, people just coming out to every single show. Out of town we haven’t toured enough to for me to really say we have any fan base in any other city besides here, maybe Lewiston, Idaho, they really like us down there. Boise’s tough to play shows at. The best places to find the best people, the best fans are the small cities, if you book a tour, your tour is destined to fail if you are a band that is unsigned, and your tour goes Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, SF, LA , San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas, that tour will not work because you play those cities and nothing happens. 10 people show up to the show and no one cares; those cities have 6 million people in them. The smart tour, if you were to go on the Western United States, would be Lewiston, Walla Walla, Olympia, Bellingham, Kelso, Vancouver, WA, and small cities like that. Where they don’t have that many shows happen, plus they don’t know much about music and they’re just totally down with the music. It’s fun. It’s funner to play to those people than to people just shrugging their shoulders.
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