Interview: The Brightside Suicides play Smith’s Olde Bar tonight

Look at the Brightside

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By B. Knight-

It’s always great to capture the grind of a band that shows serious promise before they get gelled-to-perfection hair, a publicist and a Crackberry, because you can truly get a sense of who they are versus the image created for them. (Did someone say Maroon 5?) The Brightsides Suicides would certainly qualify as that gem. The five-member band from Dothan, Alabama has come to Atlanta in search of big music dreams and we’re catching them right in the middle of their REM cycle. You may have seen them at local venues such as Sweetwater, XI in Decatur or Uptown Loft as their following continues to grow. Their eclectic sound includes musical influences such as Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Marvin Gaye, the Beatles and Okkervil River to name a few. You’re definitely in for some dope instrumentation.-

The Brightside Suicides have only been in existence for a short time, but have created quite an underground buzz both in Atlanta and their home state with the EP entitled Starring in a New Diary. The bandmates gave us the scoop on why we should care and why others already do.-

I’m sure you get this all the time, but how did you all come up with the name, the Brightside Suicides?-

The Brightside Suicides: Seth, Ben and I Patrick were all trying to come up with band names. One night, I was sitting around trying to think of different contradictions and how they related to me and us as a band. The name just somewhat came to my head - Brightside Suicide. We debated having “the” in the title and thought the “the” fit and flowed better with name, so we added the “the” and hence the name, the Brightside Suicides.