FILTER: Which cities do you like visiting the most when you're on tour?
PETER HAYES: I don't know, that's a hard one. You don't want to piss anybody off, everybody's city is the best city. I like the places that bands don't get to that often, not even us, just the majority of bands don't get to the ones in between. I don't know how to explain it really, you know it's outside of Buffalo, or something like that. Sometimes that could be a little more fun, usually the club's smaller but that's great. People sometimes aren't quite as spoiled, you know what I mean? They really appreciate a band coming through. They're like "Oh wow, they went out of their way to come here" They really appreciate that. You get New Yorkers, same with london, you just get used to get every band in there all the time.
F: Spoiled for choice?
PH: It's not that impressive, not that big of a deal.
F: What do you enjoy more, playing small crowds like that or big venues with thousands of people?
PH: I guess it depends on the day, they both can be amazing, it depends on the moment. What we're always trying to get at is when you take the elements of when you're sometimes playing at a little club you can really feel like everybody's together, kind of feeling the same emotions or whatever. It becomes a little church gathering, for lack of a better word, and always the idea and the hope is to try to bring that to a place that sits 1,500 people, bring that feel, where everybody feels somehow involves. On a good day when that happens its just amazing. That's the idea, so I guess as time goes by you can work that up to 10,000 people, but it gets a little harder as it goes. You get further away from the people, you have to jump a hundred yards before you touch the first person. So it's the farther away you get, the harder it is to feel that connection.
F: Do you not like to play festivals for that reason?
PH: Festivals are different, I kind of look at them in a different way. I think that everyone should have a sort of number pad, it should be like a juke box, and the majority rules, it's like "Okay, everybody wants to hear this song, okay, do that one!" I think it should be like that because it's really about people having a good time, and they want to hear their favorite song. It should be just majority rules and I have no problem with that, I have no problem with being a jukebox, I love it! I'm like "Okay cool, a little number pops up, if they want to hear that song again, we can play it again!"
FILTER: Tell us a crazy road story from when you were on tour. 