Ladd Mitchell of Park was recently interviewed by music publication and blog PropertyOfZack. In the interview Ladd talks about future plans for the recently reunited Park including their plans for releasing new music. You also may have seen a bit on the interview in the popular music website Punknews.org. You can check out a piece of the interview below, or find the whole thing at PropertyOfZack here.
Park has been dead for several years, which led you to Tiger Tank. When exactly did this reunion start to take shape?
December of last year. Actually, at my wedding. For months prior, I had asked Miles to practice or to get the band back together. I think he thought I was joking. Finally, we were at a bar after my wedding and I said, “Lets just do it.” When we practiced, it was like we had never stopped playing. I thought it was going to be a shit show. We had practiced here and there for reunion shows, but it had probably been two years since I played any Park songs. We had a lot of fun, then sat down after practice and decided we wanted to do it. I told them ideas I had for future plans, and they wanted to do it.Even though you’ve done reunion shows, deciding to make the band active again must have been a thought out decision.
I think we all had that connection, and that we were all curious to see what everyone else thought. It was one of those situations where I think everyone was thinking the same thing, but we were all too scared to say it. And then we eventually all said we wanted to do it. Three years again, Alex, Miles, and I talked about being a band again but it didn’t go anywhere. Life happened. Alex had a kid, I had a kid, and it just wasn’t feasible. That was short lived and we never told anyone about it. This time around, it’s been a whole different thing.Tiger Tank happened last year. Did you envision that being a one and done project, or did it just go that way?
I actually wanted Tiger Tank to do the project that Park is now going to do. I kind of thought to myself that I was pretending to be my old band. I didn’t like that, which is one of the main reasons I spoke to Miles about my plan. Tiger Tank is still a band. I think the direction we’ll go is the complete opposite of Park. We were never really a touring band. It was really fun recording with Beau Burchell in California. The Kickstarter experience was invaluable too. I learned a lot of things not to do when we do a Kickstarter with Park.
Park will be playing their next show at Fubar on August 17th as a ten year anniversary show to their album It Won’t Snow Where You’re Going. They announced their reunion on Black Sheep Radio in May.
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