Review Fix Exclusive: The Dreamers’ Nick Wold Talks Origin, Playing NYC and More

Review Fix chats with The Dreamers’ Nick Wold, who discusses the band’s origin, creative process and upcoming show at Berlin NYC on July 26.

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Review Fix: How did you guys get together?

Nick Wold: Nelson and I started the band in Brooklyn, and Jacob joined us in LA.  I had been in another band which broke up and was writing a whole bunch of music while living in my practice space.  We all had been in bands before, and got together to make a better, wiser band.

Review Fix: How would you describe your sound?

Wold: We try not to describe it too much and let the journalists do that for us, listen to it! It is definitely rock and roll, and pop.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Wold: For this album I wrote most of the material, and co-wrote with some amazing other artists (James Iha, Atlas Genius).  Now that we are a fully formed band we’ll be writing more all together in the future.

Review Fix: Who influences you guys musically?

Wold: We have so many musical influences, mostly rock bands of some type or another from every decade going back to the ’60s. Beatles and Hendrix, Iggy and the Stooges, then from the ‘80s we love Tears For Fears,Talking Heads and The Smiths and the Nirvana and Stone Temple Pilots of the ‘90s grunge thing.  Our album is a hodgepodge of our favorite styles.

Review Fix: How does it feel to be playing NYC this summer?

Wold: It feels great to be back. NYC is really my favorite place on earth.  I forgot how hot is here though, wowza.

Review Fix: What are your goals for the rest of the year?

Wold: We are releasing our album, a ton of videos, and we plan on continuing to tour throughout the year all over the US.

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

Wold: We love all the songs, but right now are really excited about one called “Sweet Disaster.” It was a simple song written about a night I had drinking champagne with my girlfriend, about how it feels to wash away in a feeling.

Review Fix: Bottom line, why should someone listen to this album?

Wold: It’s sincere.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Wold: More and more.  We are lifers, and  can never quit.  Now that this album is done we’re excited to start writing again.

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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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