{"id":246,"date":"2011-12-03T14:08:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T22:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/?p=246"},"modified":"2012-05-02T16:18:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T10:48:45","slug":"interview-fair-to-midland-frontman-talks-about-his-on-stage-personality-touring-music-business-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2011\/12\/03\/interview-fair-to-midland-frontman-talks-about-his-on-stage-personality-touring-music-business-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Fair To Midland Frontman Talks About His On-Stage Personality, Touring, Music Business (Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Andrew Bansal\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ftm1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-248\" title=\"ftm\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ftm1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ftm1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ftm1-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ftm1-453x300.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Texas-based alternative\/progressive metal band have been around for a while now, 13 years to be precise. They are known not only for the enjoyable music they have put out through the release of four full-length studio albums, but more so for their live performances which are filled with limitless amounts of energy. Frontman Darroh Sudderth is undoubtedly the driving force behind it all.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The band&#8217;s latest album &#8220;Arrows And Anchors&#8221; came out last July, and currently the band is starting a North American headline tour. This tour made a stop at West Hollywood&#8217;s Troubadour last night on December 2nd 2011, and before the show I had the pleasure to talking to Darroh to discuss his take on support tours versus headline tours, the music business, new material, his on-stage persona, and other things. Listen to this fun-filled 9-minute chat below, and check out the band&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ftmband\" target=\"_blank\">facebook page<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n<div><object width=\"300\" height=\"300\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/media\/swf\/player\/mixcloudLoader.swf?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fmetalassault%2Ffair-to-midland-interview-with-darroh-sudderth%2F&amp;embed_uuid=c2928537-b81d-483e-ab09-5dc873a02069&amp;embed_type=widget_standard\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"300\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/media\/swf\/player\/mixcloudLoader.swf?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fmetalassault%2Ffair-to-midland-interview-with-darroh-sudderth%2F&amp;embed_uuid=c2928537-b81d-483e-ab09-5dc873a02069&amp;embed_type=widget_standard\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"opaque\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0; padding: 3px 4px; color: #999;\"><a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/metalassault\/fair-to-midland-interview-with-darroh-sudderth\/?utm_source=widget&amp;amp;utm_medium=web&amp;amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;amp;utm_term=resource_link\" target=\"_blank\">Fair To Midland: Interview With Darroh Sudderth<\/a><span> by <\/span><a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/metalassault\/?utm_source=widget&amp;amp;utm_medium=web&amp;amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;amp;utm_term=profile_link\" target=\"_blank\">Metalassault<\/a><span> on <\/span><a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=homepage_link\" target=\"_blank\"> Mixcloud<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Bansal\u00a0 Texas-based alternative\/progressive metal band have been around for a while now, 13 years to be precise. They are known not only for the enjoyable music they have put out through the release of four full-length studio albums, but more so for their live performances which are filled with limitless amounts of energy. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2011\/12\/03\/interview-fair-to-midland-frontman-talks-about-his-on-stage-personality-touring-music-business-audio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interview: Fair To Midland Frontman Talks About His On-Stage Personality, Touring, Music Business (Audio)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}