I can never pay the guys back for doing this. That's just like the hugest favor to me from Jeremy and William. What led to having the warm-up show at the Big Dipper? It’s been really fun to relearn and reinvent those songs. I think for this go around, we’re definitely going to focus on The Rising Tide and kind of more expansive sound. And then when we did the reunion tour in 20, we focused heavily on Diary and Pink. We didn’t really have a lot of time to play The Rising Tide stuff before we broke up. I think we’re all having the most fun playing this particular session are a lot of the stuff from The Rising Tide. It's so fun to play "In Circles," because the second I start my riff, everybody loses their shit. I think we've always just approached it like, "Well, if we can write one more song, that's cool. At the end of the day, we just feel lucky to have been able to make the songs that we made.Īnd we're still trying to write songs too. So it's fun to have a couple of albums that are considered to be cornerstones of the genre. So we just know that it's all a continuum.īut it's just funny that emo has gotten and stayed so popular over the last 20+ years. I can point to The Edge or Bob Stinson or any number of hundreds of guitar players that influenced me and made me want to write the way I write. We know that music is just a river, and we're just like a leaf in the stream. Nobody in Sunny Day is like, " We're architects of emo!" We laugh at the concept. And to know that those guys love Sunny Day, it's so humbling. What is it like seeing albums like Diary turn into these seminal, hugely influential albums after the fact? Sunny Day Real Estate 2022 /zr4x30TPbV- Jason Narducy September 7, 2022 We’re directing things in the driver’s seat, and it’s neat to do it with a level of control. But this time, we’ve been really intentional about it. In the past, we’ve always sort of let Sunny Day be a runaway train - it just goes where it goes and does what it does. That sort of put the kibosh on it for a couple of years. HOERNER: We've actually been working on a reunion since probably 2017. INLANDER: What made this the right time to do another Sunny Day Real Estate reunion? (The show sold out so quickly that tickets were gone before I even heard about it, and I'm literally the music editor for The Inlander.)īefore Sunny Day Real Estate works out the kinks at the Dipper, we chatted with Hoerner about what keeps him coming back to Sunny Day, the band's legacy and owning a local venue. It's a natural fit for the band, as Hoerner lives in town and just so happens to be the venue's owner. Before embarking on a major tour, Sunny Day Real Estate heads to the extremely cozy confines of the Big Dipper for a warm-up show on Sept. While the group has had a couple runion stints, their latest reincarnation (sans Mendel) looks like their chance to finally bask in some limelight. Still the band's influence resonated for decades. But the band broke up before its sophomore album was even released, long before emo became a major rock genre. Originally composed of guitarist/singer Jeremy Enigk, guitarist/backup vocalist (and Spokane native) Dan Hoerner, bassist Nate Mendel (who would go on to be Foo Fighters longtime bassist) and drummer William Goldsmith, Sunny Day crafted a sonic palette that blended soft swirling melodicism, angst-filled punk fury and extremely emotionally charged confessional lyricism expressed via Enigk's falsetto tenderness and Hoerner's gruffer edge. hardcore punk scene like Rites of Spring), the Seattle group made a few touchstone albums for the style in the form of 1994's Diary (which Rolling Stone ranked as the greatest emo album of all time) and 1995's self-titled LP (nicknamed Pink, for its monochrome album cover). While not the first band to define the genre (see: acts that emerged from the D.C. L ong before emo became mainstream parlance, Sunny Day Real Estate was setting some of the template for what the genre would become. Dan Hoerner preps for the Sunny Day Real Estate tour in his Spokane home.
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