{"id":14028,"date":"2017-05-17T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14028"},"modified":"2017-05-17T12:52:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T19:52:51","slug":"hollerado-return-on-their-own-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/05\/17\/hollerado-return-on-their-own-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollerado return on their own terms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tragedy can strike when least expected, as Ottawa indie rock band Hollerado found out when their guitarist Nixon Boyd was diagnosed with testicular cancer during the album\u2019s songwriting process. Vocalist Menno Versteeg says that Boyd\u2019s diagnosis was hard on the band but also helped them realize how important some things in life are.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was hard on Nixon,\u201d says Versteeg. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t an easy time, but he\u2019s better now. Nixon saw it as a wake-up call about what you\u2019re doing and that there\u2019s no point in doing something that doesn\u2019t mean something to you. That\u2019s one of the reasons why it took us so long to make this record\u2014we wanted to stand behind every single word we said and really feel like we gave it our all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ottawa indie rockers Hollerado are back with their first album since 2013 (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Versteeg also says that they don\u2019t care that it took them a long time to come out with this album, which follows up 2013\u2019s White Paint<\/i>. He says that they wanted the quality to be good and that they wanted to be proud of what they had created.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s probably a dent in our career, taking four years to put a record out, but for us, that\u2019s not what\u2019s important,\u201d he says. \u201cWe wanted to create something with a lasting impression, something that\u2019s semi-permanent, something that we really mean. We\u2019re not doing this for money; we\u2019re doing it for the people who like it, and for ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Versteeg has grown to not care about what other people think or about what critics say in reviews, but he accepts that the band\u2019s music isn\u2019t for everyone.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t care about the criticism anymore,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen we put out our second album in 2013, I was reading a review, and at that time I was having a really rough day. When I read the review, I literally burst into tears. It wasn\u2019t even a bad review\u2014I think the guy gave us 3.5\/5\u2014but I just felt that the reviewer said some things that were wrong, like that our influences were such and such band that I didn\u2019t like, and I sort of just lost my mind. Now, I don\u2019t care. The people who don\u2019t like it, it\u2019s not for them, and that\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hollerado recently toured in Europe, and Versteeg found out that it\u2019s a different world of performing over there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a lot more exotic playing in Europe,\u201d he says. \u201cThe reactions for what is good there is on a different scale. When we played in the UK, we thought that everyone hated us every single show. It took us three or four shows to realize that, despite getting the odd heckle, the fact that they stayed and watched the whole show meant they loved us. France gave us a reaction like The Beatles would get. The Germans would come up to you and be like, \u2018Oh, I very much liked your music. I will buy your CD\u2019; another guy would come up to you and say, \u2018I did not care for you one bit.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Hollerado
\nFriday, June 9
\n$22.50, Sugar Nightclub
\nsugarnightclub.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tragedy can strike when least expected, as Ottawa indie rock band Hollerado found out when their guitarist Nixon Boyd was diagnosed with testicular cancer during the album\u2019s songwriting process. Vocalist Menno Versteeg says that Boyd\u2019s diagnosis was hard on the band but also helped them realize how important some things in life are. \u201cIt was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-may-17-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14031,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14028\/revisions\/14031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}