AsiaOne chats with Kyle Patrick and Ethan Mentzer from The Click Five - known for hit songs such as Jenny, Empty and Catch Your Wave - about their Southeast Asia reunion concert tour happening in May.
What have they been doing since disbanding in 2013, what do they remember about their previous concerts and what can fans expect in the upcoming ones?
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What have they been doing since disbanding in 2013, what do they remember about their previous concerts and what can fans expect in the upcoming ones?
Watch more: https://www.asiaone.com/video
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00:00Something we've never done is brought someone up on stage and if there are any
00:05There are any people who know how to play any of our songs
00:09They should maybe raise their hands and tell us that at some point
00:18Hey, my name is Ethan and thanks for continuing to be fans after all these years
00:24Hey, hey everyone, it's Kyle from the click five Ethan and I are here and we're very excited to be here with Asia one
00:30We can't wait to play shows again this year. We are awakening the beast. That is the click five and we'll be back
00:38Hopefully more in the future as well
00:40So it's been 12 years since the click five disbanded for the first time
00:44So who brought up the idea of getting back together? Why did the others agree? I think Joe did I feel like we've
00:53Chatted about it over the years and there's just not been the right opportunity and this time around
00:59there was an opportunity and Joe and I chatted about it and then we
01:04Urgently sent a message to Kyle that we needed to talk to him within 24 hours
01:13I think I think Joe was was always the one that was kind of like
01:18Really pushing us doing stuff again, and I'm grateful that he's been doing that nice
01:24so could you share a bit of what you guys have been up to since Joe isn't here one of you can tell me about
01:32his
01:33Music over the last however many years I have been mostly producing
01:38In writing for other artists. That's that's mostly what I've been doing for the past
01:44Ten plus years we both learned so much from the producer that made the click five records Mike Dineen
01:51I don't know if it's his personality or what what it is
01:54but he kind of became this mentor figure for us for many years and
01:59We I think all of us kind of went into that experience making those records having never done that before
02:05in like a big studio setting where there's kind of like no shortage of awesome old instruments and
02:12Beautiful pianos and old melatrons that there's only a few of them in the world and we kind of had this like
02:18Kid in a candy store feeling in that studio
02:21That kind of sent me even further down that path of like wow being a producer is a really cool job
02:26and
02:28That's that's what I've been doing and I know Ethan's been insane for for you know all these years since then
02:33So Ethan I went on your page, and I saw you're in a band called atomic Tom
02:37So what have you been up to when the click five officially disbanded?
02:44Joe and I both moved to LA like shortly after that and
02:50Yeah, I joined a band with some friends
02:55guys that were in our circle of friends for a long time and and
03:00They had also
03:01Three of them had just moved to LA and their bass player didn't so they were looking for a bass player
03:06And so I started playing with them. I spent a lot of time
03:11kind of bouncing between
03:14Different things I've produced and I write for other artists
03:21These days I do a lot of mixing Joe's chosen an awesome rock band called Grand Canyon
03:27And they've been putting out records for the past few years
03:31With his buddy Casey, and they they make awesome records
03:35So he's been he's been doing that and also touring with Linda Perry
03:41playing guitar for her
03:43And doing a bunch of gigs
03:45Traveling with her so he's been super active. I feel like these are gonna be some of the best days of our lives for some reason
03:52These shows are shaping up to be pretty crazy and some of them are really big
03:57I'm glad I'm glad he was pushing it all these years and it finally happened. He never gave up
04:01So do you appreciate the nostalgia or do you want the tour to kind of?
04:07Lead back to getting eyes on your other project or what's that all about?
04:13Well, I think I think all of the above I think it's awesome. I
04:18Personally really like the nostalgia element of it. We're lucky to be doing what we do and that there is an audience
04:25in Asia specific specifically
04:27The fact that people are still playing our songs and we literally have done zero promotion
04:34In the past, you know ten plus years and there's still almost a million monthly listeners on Spotify on our cat
04:43This is these are crazy numbers to say out loud that especially when we just haven't really put any any sort of effort into it
04:51So it's amazing like the nostalgia element to us is kind of a thing we're having a lot of fun with and
04:56We want to like almost go deep into the center of that and you know
05:01Maybe maybe we will make some new music in the future to ask the click five
05:04that's that's something we're discussing and we're gonna play these shows in May and kind of start with that and then
05:11If that goes well, and we feel good about it, we'll like we'll we'll do some stuff
05:15It's kind of like we're trying to make it just like what's fun. What feels good
05:19what feels good and
05:22Yeah, keep the fun going so Kyle you've obviously been to Singapore and Southeast Asia, but how about Ethan?
05:29Have you been back to this part of the world since like what were your highlights from back then the last time we were there?
05:37the
05:38Casino thing I think had just been built and so we went to we went up to that
05:44Like infinity pool, I don't know. I have so many fun memories like
05:50like going to a
05:53sort of open-air
05:57Place with chili crabs. I
06:02Also remember like just like going for like a solo walk around like little India
06:08which is just a very foreign looking kind of thing to
06:12Somebody from America like we have Chinatown in many of our cities, but we you know
06:17It's like it's like this whole other thing like whoa
06:22Actually, I have this that reminded me that I have this weird memory I think it was at the indoor stadium where like
06:28people were pushing
06:30Against like the the gate thing at the front so much
06:33And then this I just remember like I'm like playing it like I think we were only like two or three songs in and I just
06:39watched somebody get pushed up against the thing and then passed out and the next thing they were like medics like like
06:47like getting this
06:49Person out onto a stretcher and taking them away and like we're just like playing it's just like what is happening
06:57I don't remember that they were okay
07:00Real rock band. Yeah
07:02And also Kyle do you remember the show that we had to stop playing and in in Kuala Lumpur?
07:08like yeah, that was
07:11Hard rock. Yeah, exactly and like some speakers fell and
07:15Same thing standing on people were pushing people were pushing like to get closer and it was turning into like a stampede
07:23The situation there if I remember was the capacity was 400 and
07:29I think there was about 1,200 people in there. I think they let in like way too many people
07:36I remember crying myself to sleep that night
07:40this is all coming back to me not not for those not for those reasons, but because
07:45we had in-ears and
07:48They never really worked for me
07:50I always had difficulty with them and make the mix was always weird blah blah blah
07:56So at that show it was so loud also like the the amount of people in the small space
08:00I ended up taking one ear out trying that and then like trying the other ear and
08:06I had this like
08:08Kind of intricate bending part in at the end of empty
08:12We have to bend two strings to be in tune with one another and I couldn't hear what up what was going on
08:17So I put my this is the dumbest thing I've ever done. I put my ear against my amplifier. Oh my
08:24Here my strings it's like such like a stupid musician
08:28Perfectionist things like who cares that nobody can hear it. Anyways, probably and I like burnt my right ear
08:35Like it still has never been the same like since that show in 2008
08:40What do you guys want to tell your fans and what to expect from the show's coming up for one thing?
08:47Something we've never done is brought someone up on stage and if there are any
08:52Any people who know how to play any of our songs?
08:56They should maybe raise their hands and tell us that at some point. Yes
09:02Yeah, make a poster that says I play guitar and what song you want to play there you go
09:07You might we might just bring you up and throw it all on you
09:11But we're yeah, we're gonna play some things. We've never played live before
09:16Some like, you know deeper cuts too, so we're just gonna have fun with it and
09:21We're gonna get people singing. So come come ready to come ready to blow your voice out
09:31You