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Note: This is a continuation of a three part series on the punk rock group, the Breathing Light. TS: How have you been received in Chicago, when you’ve done shows in the punk scene, or specifically when Black people come to your shows? Has anybody come up to you, what’s been your experience with that? Camille: So, to me it’s two levels to it: so at different shows…we’ve gotten a lot of love at different shows. Then there’s been shows where we literally felt like we were playing to one person. So I mean, that’s always been a hit or miss thing, depending on the show, sometimes depending on the day, depending on the weather, or the energy of the crowd. As far as Black people coming to the shows and seeing us, we’ve gotten a lot of love, from RIP to Harem Black, when he was at a show at the Rancho House. He was amazing! He saw us there before we even played, and we just like, “Man, I been following your stuff for a while!” and he showed us so much love man. He just wanted to link up with us; he was even moshing. I just remember the floor being wet because something was dripping from the ceiling, and he was still moshing just slipped on the floor and everything. Kyle: He was like, “I didn’t know you guys were that good!” Camille: (laughs) He was the shit, man. So I mean, we’ve gotten a lot of love like that. So we do it for y’all, you know what I’m saying, to keep our faces relevant, you know? If punk music runs in Chicago’s blood, The Breathing Light is the force that drives the circulation. When we meet up on a cold Tuesday, they crack jokes about the security guards at Navy Pier speeding through crowds on their scooters, and then, just as easily transition into chopping it up about levitating vehicles being the future. The band mates met at Alabama A&M University, where it was chemistry and “brothers-and-sisters-love-at-first-sight”. They continue to ascend in the passionate, frenzied, evolving world of D-I-Y punk rock music in Chicago.
Thug Scholar: Tell me how y’all fell in love with punk music. Kyle: I had got this video game; I guess, like, around 1997. And it was a skating game, called Street Sk8r, like S-K-A-8-R, and it had H2O and Penny Wise, and a bunch of other folks on there. At the time I was really into skating, and rollerblading and stuff like that, so I figured that if you’re gonna be a part of that stuff, you gotta listen to the music that they listen to. I just would play the game and listen to the music and just got into it, but I didn’t realize it was punk until later on. In high school, I started looking up hard core punk, like, “What did that sound like?” I came across Bad Brains and Adolescents and all these other bands, and I figured out that, “Oh! That’s the same stuff I was listening to in the game.” Camille: I didn’t even know that, pretty much the same as Kyle, that the mainstream stuff that we would play, like the Clash and the Cure--I didn’t even know it was a type of punk music, for real. I've always been open to all different type of genres, so that was already a given. When I started playing with Kyle, it was a lot I didn’t know that I was already kind of attracted to. One thing that really got me into punk music, you know, for some of the songs, was the tenacity and the fastness of it; I like playing fast. And [the movie] Scott Pilgrim, I’ll be honest, that’s what really opened me up to really wanting to go full force into the punk world and understanding it. |
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