CrashFuse
How did your band form? CE: We played in a cover band for a few years that slowly was dissolving. Through a friend I had met Chad. We jammed together and decided we wanted to take it in a new direction. We asked Nick if he wanted to come along for the ride. NW: I had nothing better to do that week. Where did you come up with the name CrashFuse? CH: My sister wrote down a couple names. [I was] like, “Where did you get them?” “Band name generator online!” CrashFuse was number one. What are your influences? CH: A lot of punk rock, alternative. 90s alt rock. Hardcore. NW: A lot of progressive rock, jazz. CE: Jazz, folk, country. We’re all across the board. NW: Petty much everything except for hip hop. How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard you before? CH: A melodramatic fusion of captivating pop and alternative rock. Are you putting out an album soon? CH: We’re working on it slowly. Right now we’re just releasing a couple singles. Eventually we’ll add those to the album. We’re chugging towards it. NW: We’ve got three or four more songs to write. We recorded five last year. When are you expecting your album out? NW: By the winter. So you’re not in a hurry? NW: It’s quality over quantity. We want to get the best product out there that we can. CE: It’s not that we’re slow at writing songs. We write them and then we rewrite them and then we rewrite them. NW: And even when they’re finished we rewrite them. CE: It keeps our live performances interesting and new for people. 2
Photograph by Gabby Marek
Chad Hornberger: vocals, guitar Colin Eberhardt: drums Nick Wnuk: bass
What can people expect from the music you are going to be releasing? CH: Our newest single that we’re releasing in a couple weeks called “The Girl,” we’re using trash cans, kind of like Stomp. A lot of different stuff. NW: I just picked up a banjo, ukelele. CH: We’re adding saxophone in one of our songs down the road. Trying to keep up to the name CrashFuse, things coming together. How do you make your shows interesting? NW: Dancing around. We have little light boxes. We stand on them. We do a lot of crowd involvement. We try to get everyone to clap [their] hands. CE: It’s a performance overall, it’s not just playing. NW: We’re working up to costumes. CH: Maybe not the costumes…
What is the best thing about being in a band in Buffalo? CH: There’s so much art and music. There [are] so many good bands that you can play with. NW: So many venues. What else do you enjoy doing? CH: I like graphic art. I do a lot of sports, as well. CE: I’m anything outdoors, whether it’s physical activity or simply sitting out in the sunshine. What was the first concert you went to? CH: Josh Groban. I got sucked into it by my parents when I was young. CE: The first one I can remember was country. It was George Strait, and Kenny Chesney opened for him. NW: Me and my dad went to a three-day-long progressive rock festival to see one of my favorite bands in Montreal. It was awesome.
If you could tour with any band and play in any city, which would you choose? CH: The Goo Goo Dolls, probably. We would definitely like to take a lot of our friends on the road with us, like Queen City Renaissance and Average at Best. I would love to play with all of them. That’s freaking awesome. CE: New York City would be cool. Vegas. I would like to play in our own home city, the Queen City. NW: [It would] be cool to have a local show that’s free for everybody just to get everybody into it. CH: If there was ever an opportunity , that would be awesome. • www.facebook.com/CrashFuse
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