Grab your s'mores, your bug spray and pack your bags as Riot Squad Media is about to take over Northeast Pennsylvania with Camp Punksylvania! The 3-day festival with multiple stages and amazing local acts like The Suicide Machines, War On Women and A Wilhelm Scream, will take place from 1 September until 3 September, tickets are available here. Philly's Brandon Richie joined TGEFM to discuss their upcoming appearance at Camp Punx for the latest installment of our Camp-centric Roll Of The Dice interview series. Check it out below and I'll see you at the campfire!
Thank you so much for agreeing to this interview! What should our readers know about Brandon Richie, your sound and what you stand for?
“Brandon Richie” or the Brandon Richie band is a band that is letting it all hang out.
We are here to play that sweet sweet punk rock, pop punk, skate punk or whatever you want to call it and we are here to have a blast.
Yea we sing about the mundane bs in everyone's life yada yada. But all we want is for our homies to come by and forget about all their crap with us for a few hours and create some energy. We are just some sexy gentlemen playing party punk and want some serious pit action.
You are gearing up for Camp Punksylvania in the coming months, what does the festival circuit mean to individual artists such as Brandon Richie? What should festival attendees expect from your time on stage?
Playing a cool festival like Camp is automatically going to be an amazing time and a great hang. There's also the great opportunity to connect with a larger audience, geek out with fellow musicians, and to make new friends. Festivals like Camp for me and I think many other up and coming artists, is the chance to be themselves and showcase their unique sound to a bigger group. You can expect some electricity in the air from us this year at Camp. We got the riffs and the speed. Our melodies and fast skate punk drums are gonna hit differently this time around.
Any summer camp worth its salt knows there needs to be a lot of different activities to participate in. What activities would you be in charge of if Camp Punksylvania was an actual sleepaway camp?
I feel like I want to be the lake guy. Lake guy is rad. I don't do too many lake activities in my day to day if I'm being honest.
I do like the water. So this camp better have muh fuggin jet ski.
End of the season Campfire; What song are you performing?
Dude honestly, I think me and Adam would be yelling at people on Omegle really loud distracting everyone from that one pop punk bro that thought playing “Miss You” would be mysterious and cute.
Camp Punksylvania is a smorgasbord of fantastic acts. Which bands are you most excited to see on each stage?
I am super excited to see as many of the bands that I can. But i really want to see Vulture Raid, The Jasons, Freeze MF, Bad Cop Bad Cop, Froggy and Tsunami Bomb
Was there anything I missed that you'd like to share or dive deeper into with our readers?
There are more tunes approaching.
Roll of the Dice is a short interview format with a variable amount of questions. A pair of dice is rolled and the total, between 2 and 12, is the amount of questions we can ask. All questions are given to the interviewee(s) at once, and no follow-ups are allowed. The interview may be lightly edited for content and clarity.
Bad Dad (occasionally called Ed) has been on the periphery of the punk and punk-adjacent scene for over twenty years. While many contributors to this site have musical experience and talent, Ed's musical claim to fame comes from his time in arguably the most punk rock Blockbuster Video district in NJ where he worked alongside members of Blanks 77, Best Hit TV and Brian Fallon. He is more than just an awful father to his 2 daughters, he is also a dreadful husband, a subpar writer, a terrible dresser and has a severe deficiency in all things talent… but hey, at least he's self-aware, amirite?
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