Relient K Band • Page 145

Eating pizza and french fries at my computer watching with the video angled the wrong way. The way a Saturday night should be.

 

New song!

 

it was Matt solo with just his electric guitar. Unknown if thats the song or if its just not full band realized yet. I guess we'll wait and see

 

Could be the last time we hear it. Knowing Thiessen has played originals once at a solo show and sometimes RK shows, then never again. Who knows with these guys haha

 

“I’ve got every reason to live but all I want is something to die for instead”

 

lmk if there’s any good after recordings of the show / new song. Didn’t get to check it out live.

 

Nice of them to stream that. That was fun.

 

They announced a show at the basement east. Believe it was for Saturday 8/23

 

They announced a new member as well.

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I wouldn’t really call that a new member announcement, just an article naming the two latest members of an ever-rotating live band. It’s the two Matts, and whoever else is available lol

 

The livestream looked like so much fun and they sounded so good. Hoopes guitar tone sounded especially great, even through the stream. I really hope they do a tour

 

I think there’s a good chance they will announce a tour soon. They said they were playing basement east in Nashville aug 23, and I’d bet that’s a part of a tour.

Seeing them do something like this, having so much fun doing it, and Thiessen playing a new fucking song, gives me more hope about the state of the band since the um yeah tour.

Love those boys.

 

According to a couple mutuals with Dave, he will always be down for a tour and new music, he just can’t commit to these one-off shows and festivals because he’s in Cleveland.

But I think he’s still very much their drummer, whatever that means in the RK universe lol

 

Ah alright, that makes sense.

 

I hope you’re right, but I’m not holding my breath. The west side of the country needs it though.

 

I haven’t seen a good photo of the drummer, but that bassist played with them last year at Four Chord.

 

Fourth photo

 

He’s been playing with them since at least 2022 I believe

 

The drummer may be new? The drummer at four chord last year had a full beard, so it’s hard to say for sure.

 

https://www.ticketweb.com/event/relient-k-the-basement-east-tickets/13801764

 

He's new this year. His name's Christian Zawacki. He's in The Dangerous Summer. He also played with Copeland on the In Motion 20th Anniversary tour earlier this year.

 

Just played two lefts yesterday for the first time in years. I was a massive fan in middle school (brought skittles and combos to a show lol.) it’s wild how poppy and infectious the songs were on the early records. if they hadn’t been on a small ccm inprint they could have been up there with sum 41 and all the bands that came from the blink pop punk explosion. They definitely had their moment with mmhmm but it’s wild how good of a song writer matt was out of the gate. does he have co writer credits outside of fireflies? dude could have done so much with cowriting and producing. he seems happy to be hiding away playing frisbee golf. was fun to play an album i haven’t heard in a very long time and know every word and tap along through the whole thing. haven’t really followed what they are up to for years but popped in here and it’s cool their doing shows and having fun. loved dave’s drum parts growing up.

 

well said my dude! He wrote this song with the band 408 last summer

408 Announce New Song “Sometimes Forever” Co-Written With Matt Thiessen (Relient K) And Sean Mackin (Yellowcard) - SOUND IN THE SIGNALS

 

He also did a Kelly Clarkson deep cut and some other pop artists IIRC. Not sure if it was a pursuit that was slow, or genuinely just a few contributions here and there

 

He did a couple Jack’s Mannequin songs on People and Things.