Comfort
Food and Liquor
Homepage: http://comfortin.bandcamp.com/track/food-liquor
Feature By: Jonathan Earley
MP3:
“I’m so excited with what the scene in Columbus is turning into...people are trying to come together to build something...”
C-buz: How did Comfort form?
Dustin Bowling: We started playing together summer of last
year. Nick and
I had been writing music together as a two-piece and just by chance JP
expressed that he was looking to start something. So Nick and I got JP
involved in the project we were working on and the rest is history!
CB:
How
many shows have you done so far?
DB: Not enough! We’ve played
several shows here in Columbus, Bloomington, and Indianapolis.
CB:
Will
you be touring or just playing locally?
DB: Touring,
absolutely. We
have some tentative plans in the works. You’d be surprised how hard it
is to plan these things with three dudes who work full time jobs and go
to college.
CB: Any upcoming shows?
DB: Absolutely,
we’ll be
playing in Bloomington sometime next month with Pessoa, Park Jefferson
and William Bonney. Then in June we’ll be playing at the Fork again and a
fest in Indy called In The FEST Of War that we’re really excited about
as well.
CB: What are some of your influences?
DB: Well
we’re all
pretty big movie nerds, but musically we’re into everything from The
Replacements to Blink-182 to The Boredoms. And beer. We just want to
play really good fast pop songs.
CB: What are your lyrics
generally
about?
DB: Self deprecation and girls, mostly.
CB: How
did you record your current E.P. Food and Liquor?
DB: We recorded our E.P at our practice space in
Brown
County. Nick’s dad makes dulcimers for a living and we have a practice
room above his wood shop. We set up a mixer with some crappy mics and
ran it through garage band.
CB: How does this band compare
with some
of your past projects?
NB: To put it as uncomplicated as
possible:
JP and I were in a grind band called Fantasmagoriana in high school, and
I played in several more hardcore bands after that. Nick’s old band
Young Mosaics were more in the “indie-pop” genre I guess you could say,
but we all grew up listening to pop-punk. So, Comfort is very different
compared to our past endeavors
CB: This is a pretty broad
question,
but how do feel about how things are going with the local music scene?
DB:
Great,
I’m so excited with what the scene in Columbus is turning into. I used
to be really bummed out on the music scene here, but now we have places
like The Fork doing shows along with DiHi records and before that we
were doing house shows at Haskell’s. People are probably tired of
hearing my rants at shows but I just can’t express enough how awesome I
think it is that people are trying to come together to build something
and that I can finally help my out of town friends with shows.
CB:
Any
other thoughts?
DB: Thanks so much for doing this, C-buz
is an
awesome idea. Like I said before it’s great people are getting more
proactive with music and art in Columbus. There are way too many people
to name that I have a ton of respect for that are making this possible
here in Columbus, so thanks to all of those people, everyone who comes
out to shows and anyone who doesn’t think our band sucks. I’m really
proud of Columbus.