Review Fix Exclusive: Broken Glow’s Garrett Deming Talks Goals and More

May 26, 2016 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats with Broken Glow’s Garrett Deming, who discusses the band’s creative process, goals for the future and their standout song, “Sun Comes Up.”

Review Fix: How did the band get together?

Garrett Deming: Paul (on drums) went to high school with founding members Brenner and Jon, who then recruited me (guitar/vox) in the spring of 2008 after college. The band began in Hartford, CT and has also lived in Brooklyn, NY before moving to Savannah, GA (current home) and recruiting Sara to fill in the vacant bass slot in 2014.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Deming: Generally I come up with the germ of a song, then brings it to the band for complete arrangement. Some of the songs emerge from rehearsal free-form jams, which are recorded live and then tweaked based on the live organic version. Lyrics are inspired by anything from personal struggles and observations to life events, literature or the ever-changing world around us.

Review Fix: What’s your standout song? How was it written?

Deming: That’s hard to say, but one of the crowd favorites in “Sun Comes Up” from our 2014 release Live Like An Animal. The riff emerged during an impromptu jam between Garrett and a few other local musicians, and the verses were written long before the song was completed, salvaged from the countless notebooks full of lines and phrases that the band members keep. 

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2016?

Deming: Our first goal for the year was to have a successful release for our brand new album Filament, which was realized in February as we brewed a custom beer for the release party, held at local brewery Southbound Brewing Company. We continue to play locally and regionally, and have a studio session booked for the summer at Hybrid Audio Solutions in Charleston, SC.

Review Fix: How do you want your music to affect people?

Deming: We hope that people feel the groove, and that our music inspires good energy from the listener. We’re not one of these aggressive, hate-fueled rock bands that get so much American radio airplay. Instead, we take inspiration from the originators of hard rock, the blues-oriented bands of the 60s and 70s who wrote about social change and love instead of self-deprication and nihilistic apathy.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Deming: Who can ever tell what the wind will blow their way? We just plan to keep rocking and hope people dig it.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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