BLOODSIMPLE Frontman Discusses Upcoming Album

Florida Entertainment Scene recently conducted an interview with BLOODSIMPLE frontman Tim Williams. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Florida Entertainment Scene: Is it true the next BLOODSIMPLE album is going to be called "Red Harvest"?

Tim: It is very true. It's coming out on October 9, 2007, which is amazing. That's one of the things this tour did for us I think the label saw that we meant fucking business. We got on this tour [Famly Values]; we didn't pay to get on this tour. It's a big tour and once we got on it the label really started to kick into high gear, we have a radio release [the track] "Out To Get You" on August 21, 2007, so request that on any local radio station you can see. For any BLOODSIMPLE fans wherever you are, if you like the first record you will love the second record period.

Florida Entertainment Scene: Will "5 to 1" be on the new album?

Tim: That won't be on the album. We were doing the record it was the middle of winter and we were, like, "We got to get something up on MySpace. Maybe we'll put up a new song," and I was, like, "Nah let's do a cover song of THE DOORS." "'5 to 1', let's do it." We did it in the studio live those guys went in the first day and tracked the music, I came in the next day a six pack of Bud cans, I couldn't find liquor it was Jersey, so I got four air plane shots of whiskey I drank everything and did it in three takes and it was done. It was a really good experience and we had a lot of fun. We played it live in Europe though; we played two headliners in the Netherlands it was pretty cool.

Florida Entertainment Scene: Who will be permanently replacing Chris Hamilton on drums?

Tim: That is a revolving door and a revolving question. Chris Hamilton, for whatever it is and whatever was, is some big shoes to fit. We feel through our experience with Chris, he was a bro and still is and he's an excellent drummer, a professional, a true professional. I don't want another drummer until we find a bro on top of a drummer. Until then it's just going to be a revolving door. We got Will Hunt, we have this guy Bevan Davies, we have Mike Froedge and Brendon Cohen [ex-V.O.D.] any one of those four guys will be with us until one of them decides to commit full-time or somebody walks out of the woodwork. To me talent and skill is a big part of it, but you need to have the personality, I don't want to kick out another drummer or separate from another drummer, it's hard, it's uncomfortable, and it's just not healthy for people. Until we find a bro, it'll rotating cast of drummers. I consider BLOODSIMPLE a four-piece and that's it. We write everything, I write all the vocals, we spilt the business in four ways, we're a four piece, Me, Mike, Nick and Kyle, that's it.

Florida Entertainment Scene: What are BLOODSIMPLE's tour plans after the Family Values Tour ends?

Tim: I'm looking to take off because I have some things going on at home until October 1, [2007] with my luck we'll be out in late September, which is fine, there are a lot of tour options on the table nothing is solidified but we're submitted for a bunch of shit; very promising tours. We'll be busy probably until the holidays, take off for the holidays, and maybe do some shows during the holidays. Next year kick it out and go, keep go, go, go. We were supposed to play Europe in November but I think that fell through which is cool, because I think it's important when the record comes out to just hammer out the US for the rest of the year, that's where we need to be.

Florida Entertainment Scene: As a singer that has a lot of energy on stage is it harder for you to do shows outdoors in the Florida heat?

Tim: My saying is get acclimated to the fucking heat, I don't care how fucking hot it is, I wake up in the morning, I like to get up around 10:00 or 11:00, I'm not some weird rock star, I'm an adult, I like to get up early, I get up and I go out and I run a mile or two miles and I work out outside and sweat like a fucking pig, even in this heat, I ran yesterday and today, I come back dry off and warm up my voice and I go back out on stage again. I try and stay hydrated up until the show, I drink a lot of water then I just go right to beer. That's part of the gig man, I like playing outside, yesterday we played [West Palm Beach] it was a fucking oven, the show was nuts nothing like today, today was really good, we played a little early, but it was still good, yesterday was a fucking murder fest, there must have been like 75 people in the pit; literally fucking fighting, I was even like, "Holy shit." We play six songs, so I guess four songs into our set it downpours, rains fucking going sideways, we didn't stop for shit, you sign on to an outside stage whether it's hot, cold, windy or rain your there to do a fucking job and that's it, so it don't phase me, I like the heat.

Read the entire interview at www.floridaentertainmentscene.com.

Watch an interview with BLOODSIMPLE conducted by Scuzz TV in early June at the U.K.'s Download festival: