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? TS: What is the most unique thing about y’all? Let’s say I’m a person off the street and I ain’t never listened to you before, why would I fuck with you? Kyle: What’s the most unique thing? I mean, people from an outsider’s perspective, they’re always like, “No one song sounds exactly the same.” (laughs) So they’ll be trying to figure out names of all these different people they can compare us to, and none of them are ever a match. Especially the newer stuff, yeah, it’s really gonna be different. It’s gonna be harder to put a real category on us. We’re some kind of punk, and now it’s just gonna be more difficult. Camille: Word. What helps us stand out most is the music. The music is our ultimate face. You probably won’t even know who we are unless you’re actually talking with us before you know the music, you know what I’m saying? The music has a lot of different elements in it. We are classified as a punk band, but we carry so many things into the music because that’s who we are. We are this big cosmos of just stuff, like just a bunch of different stuff. That’s one of the first things that a lot of people tell me when they first listen to it, “Like, man, this really sounds different.” TS: What’s the most misunderstood thing about you as a band?
Kyle: The most misunderstood thing…well, that we’re Black. (laughs) Even from the beginning, people would listen to the songs and be like, “Uh, do you guys do drugs? Do you take drugs?” I’m like, no, I’m not doing drugs while I’m making this music. God knows what they think Black people do, but they put all that shit on us, and think we do all this extra shit and we don’t do none of that shit. Camille: I mean, yeah, that’s the one big misconception like, “Oh, they’re Black and they do rock music.” One time, we were at a bar show, and one guy was like, “You guys are playing tonight?” I’m like, yeah, we’re a punk rock band. He’s like, “Oh, punk rock?” and like, mockingly kinda said it. I don’t know if he did it on purpose for real, but I didn’t like the way he gave that back to me. I’m like, yeah, a punk band…legit. We’ve gotten those responses where people are just like, “Oh!” It’s the fact that we’re Black, and we’re not only doing rock, we’re doing punk rock. I like the response, “In your face.” Next: The Legacy of the Breathing Light...
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