The Receiving End of Sirens

Overview

Name

"I was a cook at a place called McCarthy's Pub in Massachusetts. A bunch of police cars and ambulances went screaming by and the name popped in my head. Like, thinking about how people never really think what's 'on the receiving end of sirens,' because its such a common thing just to hear the sirens. Especially if you live in a city, it just becomes this commonplace thing, nobody thinks twice about it anymore. Even though there's so much awful stuff going on in the world, and horrible things that happen to people, it's kind of like 'out of sight, out of mind.' It's just kind of a sad thing. So it's kind of a commentary on that. It also works on a couple levels. It can be taken as the Greek mythology example with the Sirens that lure sailors in with their singing, so being on the receiving end of those sirens isn't a great thing. It works both ways."

"Sometimes we just feel like playing a show near home and not announcing it as a TREOS show, just keeping it small and intimate and stuff. And you know, when you play a lot of shows you have to worry about your draw, and a lot of bands will purposefully not play their hometown area for a long time to build up a draw. It’s something that every band needs to be conscious of. And for us, we got to thinking, “We haven’t played a show in Massachusetts for a long time, kind of purposefully “we need to give ourselves a break and not saturate the market so people don’t care about seeing us anymore,” you know? And it got to the point where like, “Man, we miss playing hall shows and stuff. Let’s just do one,” and we talked to Alex from Therefore I Am because we love those guys and love playing with them, and worked it out. He set up the show and it just worked out great. People have caught on and every time they see The Red Eye of Soromon they’re obviously going to know it’s us, but it’s just something to do to be fun, you know, just be goofy about it, show people that we don’t take ourselves too seriously and that we still love playing shows like this. Playing big shows is great, playing big clubs is great, but it loses something at that level, you know? And it’s not as intimate and off-the-cuff and random as shows like these, and we love doing it, so we’re going to keep doing it as long as we’re a band, regardless of how well or how poorly the band does from here on out."

History

Formation and EP (2003–2004)

''Between the Heart and the Synapse'' (2005–2006)

''The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi'' and break up (2007–2009)

Reunion (2009–present)

Band members

• Brendan Brown – lead & backing vocals, bass guitar
• Alex Bars – lead & backing vocals, rhythm guitar
• Nate Patterson – lead guitar, keyboard
• Andrew Cook – drums, programming
• Casey Crescenzo – lead & backing vocals, guitar, keyboard, programming, screamed vocals
• Brian Southall – guitar, keyboard, percussion, backing vocals

• Ben Potrykus – lead vocals

  Timeline

Discography

Videography

• "Planning a Prison Break"
• "This Armistice"
• "The Evidence"
• "Smoke & Mirrors"