Review Fix Exclusive: Wasting Time’s Mike Quan Talks ‘Sick Inside’ And More

Review Fix chats with Wasting Time’s Mike Quan, who discusses the band’s origin, goals for the future and standout work.

Review Fix: How did the project start? 

Mike Quan: The project started in the early 2000s by our singer/guitarist Vlad as a creative outlet for his songs. This initial lineup of the band was active until 2009. Vlad mostly took a break from music until 2017, when he played a solo, acoustic show and got the itch to play with a full band again. He found new members to round out the lineup and we’ve been kicking since.  

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like? 

Quan: Vlad writes the main structure of a song with lyrics, melodies and chords. The full band fleshes out the final arrangements of the songs during band practice. 

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

Quan: Right now for me, “Sick Inside” is a standout song. We released it earlier this year as a stand-alone single on a whim, and it has a bit more of a classic rock-n-roll vibe to it than our other songs, which are closer to straight pop-punk. I enjoy playing the little bass solo during the instrumental break too.  

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2020?

Quan: First off, we’re releasing a single on July 24th called, “My Limited French” with a video for it out in the following weeks. We also plan to have our second album out by the fall and that will be called, “Once More Without Feeling”.  We’ll possibly perform live by the end of the year too if we’re permitted to.

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

Quan: We hope our music makes people want to twist and shout and singalong! 

Review Fix: What’s next?

Quan: We plan to write more songs, keep practicing, and push our next single and next album when they get released later 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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