In a new video interview/live performance for YoursTru.ly, The Love Language talk about traveling across the United States, their current state as a band and how they put their own spin on singer Stu McLamb’s musical creations. The Love Language faced off against The Foreign Exchange last week in a Red Bull Soundclash on Glenwood Avenue. Check out some commentary and video from that event here.
“Nickel City Family Entertainment Center” shares a suffocating strip-mall on a nowhere stretch of highway with Coyle Chiropractors, Brandau & Brandau Salon and Sushi Mania; where a third of the 9 member gang that makes up, The Love Language, were eating when we arrived. The rest of the band was strewn about the gray parking lot, some napping in the van like stray dogs, the others squinting into the California sun like they’d never seen a star, which was true for most of them (a ‘California Star’ that is). The band’s tour manger was staring at the purple and yellow “Nickel City” sign in disbelief, wondering aloud, “is this really the place?” We went inside to find an old kid’s playroom with balloons painted on the walls and sticky soda stained floors that -according to the arcade manager- moonlighted as a concert hall. But the band didn’t care, they were happy to be on the West Coast, happy to be playing music for a living and just happy to be together.
This video was Directed & Edited by Nate Chan and Produced by Caleb Morairty
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