An interview with Everyday Dogs

Usually our songs stem from either myself [Jesse, lead guitarist/backing vocalist] or Julian having an idea for part of a song. This is anything from a guitar riff, to a verse/chorus combination, or some lyric ideas. The idea is then taken to the band, and as a group we’ll jam on those ideas and figure what we like and don’t like and how to transform those ideas into fully fledged songs.

There have been cases where songs emerge from some lyrical theme we want to explore in a song, like in our new song, “Black Fire”, which I wrote after reading Dracula for the first time, but for the most part the lyrics are built to fit the vibe/energy of the music itself.

We base our setlist off the venue, the length of our set, and the kind of audience that we expect. We have some originals that are staples to our live set (“Nevada”, “Passaround”, and “She’s Crazy”) and we’ll build around those with more originals or a couple cover songs that we think the crowd might really like.\

As far as transposing our songs into a live setting, the big thing is making sure we’re all comfortable with our parts, that way we can really focus on the performance element of engaging with the crowd and giving them a good show.