Review Fix Exclusive: Bad Flowers’ Tom Leighton Talks Upcoming Tour With Crobot and More

Review Fix chats with Bad Flowers’ Tom Leighton, who discusses the band, their origin and their upcoming tour with Crobot.

Review Fix: How did the band get together?

Tom Leighton: After previous projects for all three of us came to and stand still, we came together for a rehearsal and instantly agreed that we all had the same passion, drive and determination to get where we wanted to be, from then on it’s been a done deal.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Leighton: We tend to get together and just jam and see what comes out, we’ll have ideas that we’ve worked on at home and bring those to the table too but to be honest we just jam and when we come across a riff or a hook we like we go from there.

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

Leighton: Picking just one stand out song is really hard for us to do, but if we had to pick our favourite song to play it would be ‘city lights’ it was written pretty quickly to be honest, we jammed around with riffs Tom and Dale came up with and it kind of just came together, then Tom took it away and wrote the lyrics.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2016?

Leighton: We’re recording an EP as we speak so we’re looking to promote and tour that as much as we can then head back to the studio at the end of the year and start work on an album.

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

Leighton: Just want it to get people pumped and leave them wanting more when we play live! Just thinking “fuck that was good” and from the recordings we do, we want it to make people want to come out and see us live.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Leighton: Well we’re about to head out on a run of 3 dates with Crobot in June at The Crauford Arms Milton Keynes on the 21st, The Rainbow Birmingham 22nd and Islington O2 Academy on the 23rd so we’re really looking forward to that, we’re also playing Glastonbudget and Darwin Live festivals in the summer.

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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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