Review Fix Exclusive: Keep This Up’s Chris Hicks Talks Origin in Music And More

Review Fix chats with Keep This Up’s Chris Hicks, who discusses the band’s origin, goals for 2021 and much more.

Review Fix: How did the project start? 

Chris Hicks: For years I have been trying to start a band and never found the right people, in 2019 I was introduced to Dan (Our Drummer) and then in 2020, Mike (Our Lead Guitarist) joined. From there we just had the right attitudes and drive to make this band work and we became Keep This Up.  

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like? 

Hicks: When writing we inspire each other with different ideas, comments and thoughts. We tend to send each other a lot of voice notes and lyrics and then roll with it and see what we can create and if it’s something we want to use. 

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

Hicks: To us, our stand out song is Punchlines. It is our debut single and was written in 2019 by myself (Chris) lyrically. The music soon came together and we were so proud of the first song we had written that we decided it would be the first song we release as a band. 

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2021? 

Hicks: Our goals are to get our EP finished, released and then get gigging. Show the world who we are and what we do. We want to be able to play alongside some amazing bands and have fun doing what we enjoy.

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

Hicks: We want people to enjoy, sing along and dance to our music. We have lyrics that can speak to people alongside music you can dance to. We want people to enjoy hearing our music just as much as we do when writing it. 

Review Fix: What’s next? 

Hicks: Next for Keep This Up, we will be hitting the studio and getting out debut EP recorded, released and then hitting the road as much as we can to show people our music. 

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 13821 Articles
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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