Review Fix chats with House Handshake’s Quinton Poitras, Sarah Greco, Darrell Anderson, Tanner Link, Brennan Saul and Tate Hiebert, who discuss the band’s origin, goals and upcoming EP, “Handshake.â€
Review Fix: How did the project start?
House Handshake: We started as a house of musicians near Vancouver Canada. Sarah and Quinton we’re the first pieces but when Darrell moved in across the hall everything just clicked and we knew what we wanted to do. Something inside us told us to pack up and go back home to Winnipeg. So we did. After a few months of staying at parents place we found a house in centre of the city and by 2018 we launched House Handshake.
Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?
House Handshake: We believe that music is about the now so usually when we are writing something it’s just a jam. We throw a lot of tunes away it’s just part of any healthy jam. The lyrics are set in place by an idea and they’re written down at another time. But all the melodies and the feelings are first jammed out and felt.
Review Fix: What’s your standout song? How was it written?
House Handshake: Procrastination is a big one of ours. It was written whilst procrastinating. Quinton was doing a big job and he had all week to do it. He had it all done in the last 2 nights. He also wrote this tune in the other 5 days by jamming obsessively.
Review Fix: What are your goals for 2019?
House Handshake: We’re working towards a full album release probably early 2020 but in 2019 we are going to release out second EP ‘Handshake’. We just released ‘House’ in February you can find it everywhere digitally (Spotify, Itunes, Google Play, etc.)
Review Fix: How do you want your music to affect people?
House Handshake: We want to inspire people to be better. We want the music to cause some sort of self reflection and allow them to grow and let go.
Review Fix: What’s next?
House Handshake: Keep up with us on our social media like facebook and Instagram we have some exciting news coming up.
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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