Broadway Calls have had an exceptionally busy year. Supporting The Offspring at Brixton and playing both the Reading and Leeds festivals reflect a band on to something big. With new album Good Views, Bad News under their belt and string of dates supporting Set Your Goals over here in December, the punk rockers from Oregon are steadily becoming a band you’ll want to know more about.
Good Views, Bad News was produced by Bill Stevenson who has worked with the likes of NOFX, The Lemonheads and Rise Against. Stevenson was no doubt a positive influence on the record, Ty Vaughn (Vocals, Guitar) says ‘he helped me realize what I’m good at, what my strengths are, and what I need to work on as a songwriter’. The band describes this second album as ‘an intentionally shorter, more focused record’. Broadway Calls have no doubt progressed since their self-titled first album, jokingly announcing ‘we put every song we had on it’. This is not an approach the band sought to repeat on Good Views… a record they claim demands more than a few listens.
With a new album in tow the band took to our shores, to test out their material on fresh faces. If anything will open a band’s eyes it will be playing to a massive crowd of drunken Brits at the Reading and Leeds festivals, an experience they describe as ‘insane’. From the sound of it these were nothing short of dream performances for the American punk trio: ‘In the states you grow up hearing about Reading and Leeds and how it’s this huge, amazing festival, and it all true’. The band also seem slightly taken aback by the positive response and enthusiasm from the UK audiences. They put this down to the great support slots they’ve played with bands like The Offspring and Alkaline Trio, but this comes across as a modest answer from a band perhaps a little shocked by their own success.
When asked how Broadway Calls differs from others on the scene, they deliver a lot more confidence, pertaining that ‘There’s not a lot of three piece pop punk bands that can tour with All Time Low in the UK… do The Warped Tour, and then a small club tour with…Polar Bear Club’. This no doubt illustrates a band with lot of friends and a great deal of widespread appeal. ‘We’ve opened for huge bands, and played your biggest music festival. If after this next tour you still haven’t seen us, what’s your excuse going to be?’ Well…who can argue with that?
Broadway Calls will play the following UK dates:
December
Tuesday 8th Academy 2 Oxford
Wednesday 9th TJ’s Newport
Thursday 10th Rescue Rooms Nottingham
Friday 11th The Cockpit Leeds
Saturday 12th King Tuts Glasgow
Sunday 13th Academy 3 Manchester
Monday 14th Academy 2 Birmingham
Tuesday 15th Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth
Wednesday 16th Islington Academy London
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