E TOWN CONCRETE INTERVIEW
May 9, 2003

Ed Martin for Prophecy21.com: How's the tour been going so far?
Anthony Martini (Ant Money) Vocalist for E.Town Concrete: It's been going pretty good. We've been on it for like 5 weeks now. It's been good, every night there's been like at least 800,000 fuckin people. So its been good.

P21: How have people been reacting to the new material?
AM: Well, it's been good because a lot of people on this Soulfly tour, they don't even know us yet so it's their first time seein us, so they don't even know its new material. But as far as the fans around here, like in Jersey, really there's only been a few people that have been hatin on it. Most people have liked it. Most the people who didn't like it at first re-listened to it and were like "Nah this is alright." I think you kinda just got to let it grow on you cause its kind of different from our other shit.

P21: How did doing the track Battle Lines with Jamey and Christian come about?
AM: We we're on tour with Hatebreed for a while and I was just like, "Yo, we should do a song," and Jamey was like, "Yeah, aight." They were on Ozzfest last year while we were in the studio and I flew out to Phoenix to record it with Jamey and Christian was there so I was like, "Yo, why don't you get in on this too?" So he was like, "Alright." So, we recorded in the back of the bus and brought it back and put it in the song.

P21: How did you guys get picked up by Razor and Tie and what prompted the label change?
AM: We signed with them last September, maybe. And we didn't really switch labels, with Triple Crown we only had a one record deal. So after that album came out we had no label. Then Razor and Tie came along, we had talked to some other labels, like major labels and shit, but Razor and Tie was just the most serious, they were like hungry for it. So we we're like fuck it they have money and good distribution and that's really all you need in a label, everything else is just a name.

P21: What made you guys decide to work with Scrap 60 on this album?
AM: Scrap 60 does a lot of stuff for Roadrunner and Roadrunner wanted to sign us for a period too. So we got introduced through Roadrunner, then even after we ended up not signin with Roadrunner they were like yo we still wanna do your record. We really like the way there albums sound. Even though we don't like some of the bands we really like production-wise the way they come out sounding, it's a lot better then some other albums.

P21: What was it like getting to do the video for Mandibles?
AM: It was fun, man. We did it while we were on tour. The director Darren, did like Poison The Well and Thursday and all that, he just heard our album and was like, "Yo I wanna do a video for you guys." And he loved Mandibles, but he was like, "Yo I'll do a video for whatever." That wasn't really the song we wanted to do a video for yet, but he was like, " Yo I don't care I'll do it on any budget, I'll just do it for you guys cause I love that song so much." So we were just like, "Fuck it." We were out in LA and we just did it one morning before a show for a few hours and it was cool man real fun, like Makin The Video type shit. It was cool.

P21: Do you have any plans to re-release the Red or Green Demos?
AM: There's no real plans, but we've thought about it ya know. We've talked about maybe doing a CD with both of them on it like to show our roots or somethin. But, no definite plans yet maybe thats something that'll happen In a year or two.

P21: What bands have been some of your favorite to play with in the past?
AM: Sworn Enemy we've been on tour with them like a ton it seems like there on every tour we're on. Biohazard that was prolly the funnest tour we've ever done. Hatebreed, Candiria, Shai Hulud all those bands are good friends of ours so they're always good fun to play with.

P21: What bands have you been listening to lately?
AM: I've been listenin to a lot of emo pop-punk type stuff. I like Good Charlotte a lot, AFI, The Used. I like a lot of new bands, but not new metal. I think most of the new metal shit is pretty corny, all these bands that all sound the same and shit.

P21: How did you guys get onto the Too Legit For The Pit CD?
AM: The record company that put it out, Radical Records, or whatever, they called us cause they were doing something with hard core bands and rap songs. And I guess they just figured we'd be cool for that.

P21: Did you guys get to pick the song you did?
AM: Yeah we picked that song. I dunno why we picked that song. We all just like Nas and his verse style.

P21:What do you guys do to kill time on the road?
AM: We don't do anything man. We play a lot of video games. We play MVP Baseball like all day. A lot of sports games, football, baseball, basketball, ya know. We don't do nothing, we eat, we sleep. It's pretty boring on the road.

P21: What's been the biggest change in your life since you've become more well known?
AM: Nothing really, it hasn't been that big of a change, we're not like huge or anything. You know kids around here always knew us so it's not that different around here. It's kinda different like when we got to other states and kids recognize us. That's the difference I guess, when yer walkin around the other side of the country and kids will point at you and know who you are. That's cool cause that's something we've been working for.

P21: Where do you see the band being in five years?
AM: Shit man I dunno. Hopefully we'll be successful, still tourin and playing bigger places and having some more fans. We've just got to stay hopeful. I mean we all wanna blow up and be rich and famous, but not every band gets to do that. If we can just keep workin our way up and takin little steps and gettin bigger a little at a time then that'll be fine.

P21: What are your feelings about Birch Hill being torn down, knowing that this may be your last time playing a club that you've played so many times in the past?
AM: The Birch Hill is cool, we definitely like playing here, all the security guys are real cool and were down with all the people that work here, but the past few Birch Hill shows that we've played have been not a great experience. We've ended up gettin dicked one way or another cause we've been on tours with other bands, it hasn't been our own shows ya know, so it's kinda like we've been being treated like fucking pieces of shit. Which is annoying when most the kids from this area are hear to see us anyway. Other then that I dunno the Birch Hill is really the only club there is to play in Jersey, when this is gone I dunno where people are gonna play. That's the main thing, it's like all the clubs in Jersey have closed down. Back in the day we used to have like The Pipeline, Studio 1 and all that in Newark, Stone Pony, there were like mad clubs in Jersey, now it's like just this one and Krome.

P21: Well, the Pony is back now.
AM: See the Pony, I wanted to play there again but it seems like I dunno that a lot of kids are afraid to go down there cause its in Asbury.

P21: Where are some of your favorite places that you've played?
AM: LA and Miami. Then like Detroit is kinda like a second home all the kids out there know us. Definitely Florida though its cool cause there's the warm weather. You get to play a show and hang out at the beach and there's pretty girls everywhere. LA's fun to just cause you get to like hang out and shit on the strip with all the big rock stars.

P21: Is there anything else you wanna add?
AM: Just that if you don't already have the album go out and get it. Check our website www.etownconcrete.net . Thanks