Andyman: Yes we are live here in the CD101 Big Room! And we have
a visit from none other than Athlete! Let’s hear it for them! Alright, normally,
this is one of those special Big Rooms as Michael Palmero explained on the radio
earlier today. I had an agent come out to your show last night and put some
sugar in your gas tank so that you would stall out right here in Columbus and
have to come by and play the Big Room. I think it was funnier when he said it.
(laughter) Thanks. It was real nice of you guys to stop by and visit with us
here. Not a show tonight, but you’re going to be playing here in Columbus in no
time at all, it’s going to be Saturday, April 15th and you’re going to be
playing at the LC, formerly Promowest Pavilion with Switchfoot. So, good job on
getting on that tour, that’s gonna be big.
Athlete: Thank you very much.
Andyman: It’s nice to have you here, let’s give them a hand for stopping by.
Let’s just kick this thing off with a song. You want to jump right into one for
us?
Athlete: Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. Sorry. This is our first single, it’s called
Halflight.
(Athlete plays Halflight)
Andyman: Oh yeah! Athlete here in the CD101 Big Room. Joel Pott there on guitar
and vocals there and up front here in the room and it’s my right to left but
you’re the audience right in front of them, we have Carey on bass, and Steven
doing percussion through the wonders of MacIntosh. Tim back there on keyboards.
Thank you guys for coming by and being here. Lesley, Lesley who was on the air
just before us here, she said, “Andyman you have to ask them about what jobs
they had before they decided to start the band.” So what jobs did you have
before you started the band?
Athlete: Um, mine was kind of alright. I kind of got away with it I think, I was
a manager in a skateboard/snowboard shop. Carey and Steve… Me and Steve used to
job share one day a week, gardening. No gardening is glamorous, what we did,
more digging holes and moving dirt and rocks. It’s kind of like, move that pile
of sand from there to there. Now move that 17 ton of rock up that hill. That was
my worst day.
Andyman: I’d keep calling it gardening, bro. That’s good stuff.
Athlete: OK, thanks. We’ll speak for Tim, Tim used to be an actury, which
bacially means that he was very good with sums. If you get a few beers in him,
just ask him any sum and within about 6 seconds he’ll give you the answer. There
you go, he’s good like that.
Andyman: Wow. We’re going out for beers.
Athlete: It’s amusing to us.
Andyman: I’m taking some beer, we’re going out, I’m bringing a calculator and
we’re gonna see what we can do.
Athlete: You will be amazed.
Andyman: Alright, Athlete here in the CD101 Big Room. You got another one for
us? CD101.
Athlete: We’re gonna play you a song called Wise.
(Athlete plays Wise)
Andyman: A special afternoon visit from Athlete here in the CD101 Big Room. It’s
really great to have you here. Now I almost forgot to mention that the record’s
been out for a better part of the year, and it’s on Astrelworks, you should go
pick it up. It is called Tourist and it is available at a fine record store near
you, and probably online as well. If you connect to the band’s website, I don’t
know if you knew this…
Athlete: It’s athlete.mu.
Andyman: I was gonna give them an easier way.
Athlete: MySpace?
Andyman: No, CD101.com, go to the playlist and click right to you there because
we connect right through.
Athlete: Really? Hey hey! Why thank you! Yay!
Andyman: And then we get to say CD101.com. It’s a beautiful thing.
Athlete: Do it that way.
Andyman: Now, we stopped you here today, but where do you go, where were you and
where are you headed?
Athlete: We’ve been kind of all over the place, really. We started off at the
Sundance Film Festival, a week there working really hard, snowboarding. Uh, and
then we’ve just been all down the west coast, um and where else? We’ve just been
in Chicago and Milwaukee. Tomorrow Toronto. Just going around doing this kind of
thing, really. But you know.
Andyman: How was Chicago?
Athlete: It’s cold.
Andyman: It is cold. But how was the show? Were you well-received, did you have
a good time?
Athlete: Absolutely, yeah.
Andyman: Was it your first time in Chicago?
Athlete: No, we came over here and we toured, we toured with Snow Patrol last
year and we played at the Vic, and then we came back and played at the Double
Door. And so hopefully we’ll be going back to Chicago in the fall, but coming
back here even sooner.
Andyman: Oh, we’d love to have you. Now what’s been your favorite part of, now
this is probably 3 tours in the U.S. that you had? And what’s been something
that stood out? What was the most fun?
Athlete: The best thing…
Andyman: What happened Monday night? Come on, this is the good stuff.
Athlete: I’ll tell you what, we discovered karaoke in the U.S. and that’s always
good. Karaoke in Portland is always good. On Monday night we ended up at a
restaurant that I can’t remember the name of. Can you remember? No Los
something, Loscalera, an Italian restaurant, owned by a Mexican guy. We loved
his tequila. We’d love you to join in. Basically, Dave over here decided to tell
him that we were really famous in the U.K. which is kind of semi-true. And so he
decided that he’d just come and sit with us and tell us jokes and every 5
minutes order another round of tequila. So yeah, I think Dave was kind of broken
a little bit.
Andyman: Excellent. So uh, I’ll have to keep that in mind, I have a thing about
tequila too. That should probably be a conversation off the air. Why don’t we go
into a song? Athlete here in the CD101 Big Room.
(Athlete plays song)
Andyman: Excellent. Athlete here in the CD101 Big Room. Out touring the country.
Drinking tequila. I like that. It’s nice of you guys to stop by and take some
time with us here. I want to remind people that they are going to be with
Switchfoot at the LC Pavilion on April 15th, a Saturday night. The tickets go on
sale this coming Saturday at 10 a.m. Just to let you know. Also I think you’re
going to stop by Magnolia tonight, at 6:00, Magnolia Thunderpussy. And I imagine
you can pick up the record Tourist on Asteralworks, will be able to do that
tonight. Thank you Dave for helping put all this together, thank you guys, it’s
been terrific. Let’s give them a hand for that! And let’s see if we can do one
more here, can we do one more?
Athlete: Absolutely, yeah yeah. We’ll leave you with a song called 24 Hours. We
just have to check that Tim’s keyboard works first. It does.
(Athelte plays 24 Hours)
Andyman: Let’s hear it for them, Athlete, here in the CD101 Big Room, Joel,
Carey, Tim, Steven thank you very much, pick up the record, it’s called Tourist,
thank you guys for coming by, give them one more big hand.
