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Cendrine Marrouat: In a few months you will be touring Canada. Where will you be performing and what do you expect to achieve?
Brian Lynam: We hope to play as many cities as possible and let people hear our sound.
Paul Dempsey: So far, we will be playing in Ottawa and Toronto, and we're looking at a few more cities. We hope that people come to our shows for a start! And we hope they like our music and the live shows.
Keith Geraghti: So far, our Canadian friend is booking shows in Ottawa and Toronto. We might be performing Hamilton as well. We're waiting to hear back from a few other cities, possibly Montreal and Kingston.
There is a special conference happening for the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention in October, and that may also be a possibility in Vancouver. Hopefully we'll get lots of people to come out and see us and hope they love the live show. It'll be a great night we promise you that.
CM: As an independant band what are some of the challenges that you encounter?
BL: There are good points and bad points being indie. Good point: creative control. Bad point: cash flow.
PD: The main challenge for us is funding the whole project and trying to get our music heard. Unless you have a major record company behind you promoting your album, it can take a long time to get noticed.
Mark Leddy: One of the challenges is definitely the resources and lack of funding that comes with not having a label behind you, as well as the radio coverage. You have to prove yourself as an indie artist in order to get radio play whereas with a label, they promote you to the stations and that's very different.
KG: I think everybody agrees the funding is much harder. Being an indie artist, we have more control over what we record and the fact that we can do something like donate proceeds to an organization. If we were under a label, we probably couldn't do that as easily.
Fingers are crossed that when we hit the road some rep from a label might be at one of our shows and will like what he hears and we just might be the next little band from Dublin that becomes a little bigger. LOL
CM: Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
BL: Hopefully climbing the charts and making some great music as one of the top bands out there, and maybe having one or two #1 hits. LOL
PD: Hopefully playing keyboards with the biggest Band of 2016, Friends of Emmet! Ha Ha.
ML: Hopefully climbing the charts and making great music that everybody likes and seeing Friends Of Emmet tour across Canada.
KG: Making great music and creating some mean bass lines as we become one of the top bands, and make sure we visit as many cities in Canada as possible.
CM: Where can people find more information on you and your music?
BL: Just Google Friends of Emmet or check out our website, Facebook and Twitter.
PD: On our website and MySpace, and we are on Facebook.
KG: You can find us all over the net. We're on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Indiecharts.com. As well, many Internet radio stations are going to start airing "Coming Apart." So if you just contact us on any of our social networks, one of us in the band will be in touch with you.
ML: We're also on Reverbnation.
CM: Any Last Words?
BL: Looking forward to the shows in Canada and hope to see ya soon, all the best. Brian Lynam
PD: Just to thank you for the interview and am looking forward to our shows in Canada. Paul
ML: Just wanted to say thank you for this oppourtunity and we look forward to coming to Canada and we hope to meet as many of you as possible. Thanks. Mark.
KG: Thanks so much for the interview and we look forward to seeing as many Canadian as possible this Sept. Come out to the shows it'll be a great night of music. Thanks again. Keith
End of the interview.
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