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2 | SFL Onstage | sflonstage.com sflonstage.com | SFL Onstage | 3 Table Of Contents Features YACHT - Perfume and Shangri-La Shrugging off misconceptions and discussing their new album. BY NORREL BLAIR .............. 10 Joel Kosche of Collective Soul Goes Solo Ziggy Marley at The Fillmore in Miami Breaking into the music business with some chops to burn. BY MATTHEW PASHALIAN .... 18 Rek’s War of Attrition HURT bassist Rek Mohr gives an account of touring and The Crux. BY CHRIS DEWUSKE .. 25 Winds Are Changing for William Beckett The Academy Is... frontman discusses his solo release. BY NORREL BLAIR ............................. 34 New Year’s Day Ash Costello on The Mechanical Heart EPand touring. BY MATTHEW PASHALIAN .............. 54 Live Reviews My Darkest Days Collective Soul....... 22 & Bush ................. 6 Lavola .................... 22 Creed .................... 12 Simon Richards ..... 22 Bon Iver at the Hard Rock Live in Orlando Shinedown ............ 12 The Pretty Reckless . 53 Jane’s Addiction .. 13 Attack Attack! ....... 53 Sunfest Photos ............................................... 22 Rockville Photos KoЯn, Lucuna Coil, Otherwise, Adelitas Way, Five Finger Death Punch, Halestorm, Eye Empire, .......... 38 Art Of Dying, Evanescence, and more! Neil Diamond at CD Reviews .....................................................62 the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise 4 | SFL Onstage | sflonstage.com photos by Tony Landa and Sayre Berman Wilco live at the Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater Like SFL Onstage on Facebook for a chance to win an autographed CD by New Year’s Day. More details on page 61! Managing Editor: Matt Pashalian / [email protected] Copy Editor: Jeff Noller Layout Editor: Chris DeWuske Contributors: Norrel Blair • Shirenna Edmonson • Dante Stone Mikayla Davis • Sayre Berman • Alex Markow • Tony Landa Jennifer Sobek • Todd McFliker • Joseph Hasbrouck Visit us at www.sflonstage.com! photos by Tony Landa sflonstage.com | SFL Onstage | 5 Nickelback’s tour with Seether, Bush, and My Darkest Days at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, FL. 6 | SFL Onstage | sflonstage.com photos by Sayre Berman sflonstage.com | SFL Onstage | 7 jumping from speaker to speaker My Darkest Days and almost getting a bit too up Bush Bank Atlantic Center Bank Atlantic Center close and personal with the fans Sunrise, FL in front of the barricades. Sunrise, FL Saturday, May 5, 2012 The rest of the band stayed Saturday, May 5, 2012 It started off with an eerie scene energetic too with jumps, spins Acting as direct support for that shined crimson lights and a and in-air kicks. Guitarist Sal possibly one of the most hated giant devil-like creature scream- Costa even gave his guitar a lit- but secretly-loved hard rock ing bloody hell spread across the tle tongue action! The only real bands, Nickelback, the UK’s Bush speakers. All this while a creepy complaint you could have was made their first appearance in tune resonated from fingertips that the band’s 4-song set was ten years on the Here and Now along the keyboard as the rest of just too short, omitting crowd Tour at the Bank Atlantic Cen- the band slowly made their way pleasers like “F* Up Situation” ter in Sunrise. Hot on the heels to the stage. As soon as vocalist and covering medleys. of a superb comeback disc, The Matt Walst hit the stage though, “Stutter/Apologize/Heartless” Sea of Memories, the band gave the crowd burst into their own and Duran Duran cover “Come the South Florida crowd a memo- screams; and this is only the be- Undone” may have served well rable, close-to-an-hour-long set ginning of My Darkest Days set! to pull in those completely unfa- that focused primarily on the The band was on fire as they miliar with the band. However, newest album and their debut wowed the already tightly packed they rocked the house with “Porn disc, Sixteen Stone; opening with crowd up front as the first band Star Dancing,” which a surpris- the monstrous “Machine Head” on stage opening for Nickelback ingly large amount of the crowd before going into the buzz saw as part of the Here and Now Tour, danced and sang along too, riffage of “All My Life” from the debuting many songs from their giving the band more energy. new album. newest CD, Sick and Twisted Af- The next time My Darkest Both the band and crowd fed fair. Walst was good in working Days is in town, they can def- off each other and front man every angle of the rather large initely bet that I will be one Gavin Rossdale got even closer stage as he hit each wing that of the faces in the crowd. to the audience during a cover of reached out deep into the crowd; —Shirenna Edmonson The Beatles “Come Together” by singing the song while making his way through the floor crowd into the mid and higher levels of the arena. This was really hav- ing a close encounter with the fans. Out of all of the openers on the bill, Bush had by far the best stage and light show that only added to their performance. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Bush show without one of their biggest hits, “Glycerine,” played solo by Rossdale and given an extra kick by the full band joining in mid- way through. Meanwhile, their set closer of “Comedown” was a mammoth 10-minute version that saw the band making use of their interesting stage to play closer to the floors attendance. At the end of their set, the Bush men no doubt left all in the venue wanting more. —Matthew Pashalian 8 | SFL Onstage | sflonstage.com photos by Sayre Berman Bush by Matthew Pashalian Bank Atlantic Center Sunrise, FL Saturday, May 5, 2012 sflonstage.com | SFL Onstage | 9 YACHT BY NORREL BLAIR Recently, there has been an undeniable decline in the substance in music. While many bands tend to look toward the bland and redundant nowadays, YACHT clearly looks in the other direction. A quick glance at YACHT’s merchandise reveals perfume and a book titled “The Secret Teachings of the Mystery Lights.” As outlandish as it seems for a band, YACHT are not a cult - let’s strike that misconception off immediately. YACHT is obviously a band, but in addition is also belief system and business. Jona Becholt and the rest of YACHT have assembled quite a devoted fan-base since their genesis in 2002. Much to her surprise, Claire Evans, whose addition as a full-time member in 2009 for the See Mys- tery Lights album revamped the band’s music with a feminine quality. She’s noted seeing fans at a recent Orlando show with YACHT tattoos. While there is a very spiritual/camp essence that can be explored much more in depth by those who so wish, YACHT never forgets how to make a good hit for those who just want to dance. Their latest album, Shangri-La, is the band’s take on the concept of utopias, and builds upon the catchy, 70s-influenced funk of See Mystery Lights. It is one of the only albums in recent memory that I would describe as a true listening experience. Jona, up until Mystery Lights, YACHT with three other bands we didn’t know. or album twice, so adding Claire was was a solo act; and after you left The One of the bands was Weirdo/Begierdo, just another way to do that. After Blow, you added Claire. How did you which Claire played in. She became Marfa, we discovered we had the same meet, and how did adding Claire friends with Rob, because he had just exact thoughts and feelings about change the music for you? moved L.A. from Portland, so I kept the world, and we wanted to speak Jona: Claire and I met randomly in 2005 going back to L.A. to visit Rob. So Claire about the world through music, so when YACHT was on tour with Bobby and I became fast friends, and decided YACHT was the best vehicle for that. Birdman. We played the last show of we never wanted to be apart from then on. the tour in L.A., and we were paired I never want to make the same song If you could bring YACHT anywhere 10 | SFL Onstage | sflonstage.com photo by Alin Dragulin YACHT in the world, past or present, Atlantis Claire: Yeah, it has that quality. It’s really going to do with the music. We tried a or real, where? thick, and its unisex for sure, it’s not couple different ways to sing on top of Jona: Well, we’ve been really fortunate girly at all. it and nothing was working, but then to tour all kinds of crazy places around Claire just went into the room with the world like China, South When you go to write a new song, the microphone and started saying the Korea and the Tibetan plateau. But one where do you grab from? What do you words. It was all one take; she hadn’t place we haven’t been is space. It would try to say when you want to write a practiced it or anything. be to play on a privatized space tourism new song? ship, either by Space Ex or Virgin Claire: It depends. We work on individual Claire: I was just sitting in the studio on Atlantic. project basis, so when we make a record, the couch reading really weird stuff. I we sit down and think about what we was reading about paradise engineering, Claire: We want to be the first band on want the record to be about. We tend which is actually a philosophical the moon.

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