S: Chasing Ghosts was recently certified Gold in Australia. It also debuted at #1 on the Australia

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Ready for a hot summer, The Amity Affliction are headed out with Substream for the best music tour of the season. Making their Warped debut, the Australian natives are excited to explore North America and party in the pit with their fans. We sat down for an interview with lead singer Joel Birch to talk about the tour and how they plan on keeping cool on the road.
JB: He's doing fine. He couldn't risk getting an infection in his eye or he would run the risk of losing eyesight. He can't be on the bus because it's kind of filthy (laughs.) And he can't get sweat in it so he's back in Australia now.
JB: Where I'm from it gets to about 40 degrees [Celsius] which is about 110 [Fahrenheit] over here. We're not too far out of our regular hotels in atlantic city comfort zone. But doing shows in the middle of the day will be very difficult.
JB: To be honest, I don't know the routing, so we're taking hotels in atlantic city it one day at a time. But I really liked seeing Ventura the other day. We had never been there. It's just good seeing new places, this is a great country.
JB: We do. Except, I hate that film clip. We didn't want to put it out, but we had to come to a compromise of sorts. hotels in atlantic city They basically took an idea of ours that we all enjoyed and they swooped in and did their own version. Basically, we rocked out the verse for the shoot and they added the pillow fighting girls and we were like "That's not us." We definitely don't have pillow fighting girls hanging out (laughs.) Hopefully the next one is us just hanging out, which is more true to form.
S: Chasing Ghosts  was recently certified Gold in Australia.  It also debuted at #1 on the Australian ARIA Chart, marking the first time a local hardcore band had taken the #1 honor. What does that mean for you and your band?
JB: It means that we got really excited for about five minutes. It's cool and it's an honor, but the music is a lot more important than that. We plan on to keep doing what we've been doing for almost ten years now.
JB: We're going home for about three weeks. Then we're off to Europe and then we're doing an Australian tour, then we're heading back to America. And then we're recording our new album. We haven't really relaxed this past year at all.