Review Fix Exclusive: Livonia’s Rob Cone Talks Goals And More

April 24, 2020 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats with Livonia’s Rob Cone, who discusses the band’s origin, goals and plans for the future.

Review Fix: How did the project start?

Rob Cone: The project all started whilst we were working together in Soho. We all realised we liked the same music with the old ‘what band is that you’re listening to?’ call out in the office, which just became more and more frequent. We then went for a few beers and went to gigs together – then decided we wanted to make some music of our own!

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Cone: Usually the bulk of the writing is between myself and James who sings and writes the lyrics/melodies. It typically starts with one of us coming up with an idea on our own and then building it into a full song together. Then we take it to the other guys at practice and they make the parts their own and we tend to make changes as we go along.

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

Cone: I think our favourite song is ‘Talking’ which we released as our very first single. It talks about mental health and the importance of having friends around you and looking out for each other – which is extremely important these days.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2020?

Cone: Unfortunately we’ve had a few gigs cancelled so far due to the old Covid situation. We’re continuing to write through it so hopefully when this clears up we’ll be able to get out there and play some shiny new stuff for people and get recording. We recently had our debut EP released so we’re still buzzing about that to be honest!!

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

Cone: We want our music to be catchy and leave people singing parts of our songs over and over in their heads. Then hopefully people will re-listen to our tracks and perhaps read a bit more into the lyrics and understand that the things our songs are about are real. We’re constantly discovering new music and bands that we like and hope people are able to vibe and grow to love our music too! 

Review Fix: What’s next?

Cone: We want to keep pushing our music out there, record some more and then hopefully go on tour at some point. If we could play a summer festival that would be amazing, although may not be possible this year!

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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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