Review Fix Exclusive: Run Snowball Run!’s Jeremy Robidoux Talks Future And More

Review Fix chats with Run Snowball Run!’s Jeremy Robidoux, who discusses the band’s origins and goals for the future.

Review Fix: How did the band get together?

Jeremy Robidoux: We got to know each other through musician friends, Run Snowball Run had seen a few line up changes through out 2010-2013 and alterations until we found the five of us on the same page of things. We noticed that we were similarly fueled and that even with music aside, our personalities clicked just as well as our appreciation towards music, which followed to the five of us releasing our debut EP “Lobo”.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Robidoux: When RSR discusses compositional progress, there’s a reference that recurred over the development of our relationship. Once an idea is planted in the goal to create a composition, we will have a ‘Skeleton’ formed out. Similar to an outline of the idea, the Skeleton represents the structure of the idea which resembles a guideline. The next phase comes when the skeleton is introduced to the five members for the first time, now the foundational idea is rarely started with all five members at once, often times it will have been started by 2 or 3 members (not including singular member inspirations, leading to ‘skeletons’). As it develops, we throw on meat and wiring onto the skeleton as we have a better idea and understanding to what the final product will resemble. The final steps include polishing up details and punches, lining up and isolating moments within the compositions to extract as much as we can from our creation as we wrap the skeleton and all the works with the skin and hair; formed from an idea, built from chemistry and completed with time & effort.

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

Robidoux: Maybe ‘Flip Over’, a skeleton that was created by Vince (Roy) and myself at the time. It was shortly before Antoine (Rochefort) and Simon (Bissonnette-Campeau) entered RSR. Dakota (James Cooke) added last few pieces of meat by composing and writing his addition to the skeleton. To complete and hold it all together, we had used the conversation we had before the idea of the ‘Flip Over’ skeleton was introduced, we had discussed the emotion and story behind the song and how it was the first composition after the final line up change; birthing the start of our chemistry together. We were able to divide sections including harmonies and melodies to complete the works and see the potential of having 4 active vocalists kept in line by a solid bassist accompanied by two lead guitars balancing waves and emotions & a rhythmic acoustic wrapped by post-felt drums.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2016?

Robidoux: 2016 has started off well for us, we’ve been able to break down the blueprint for our next big project. Since 2014’s “Lobo” we have been playing an average of 12-14 live shows, performances and events a year and have found the time to compose new songs and pick out 12 songs to enter the studio with. We’re aiming to release these new compositions before the end of 2016 and we have already started featuring 2-3 songs into our set lists to start the momentum of RSR’s upcoming debut album. Besides that we would like to use the rest of 2016 to polish up the blueprint to our game plan via our first official tour.

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

Robidoux: That’s an interesting question, music and compositions is up to the listeners/viewers interpretation. There’s an idiom that says “A picture is worth a thousand words.” and I like to think that when a musician invests an honest and positive energy into his work it will interact to the airwaves and sends our its own sense of a thousand stories and interpretation to whomever it reaches. We try to be honest with ourselves and what we create, we don’t want to force anything upon anyone, but we would be glad to be able to create an energy that draws a positive curiosity from anyone it reaches.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Robidoux: Keep doing what we do, enjoying what we do while respecting what we do as well as each other through-out, develop our sound, develop who we are and how we perceive things, and hopefully, somewhere between all that create an energy that influences people to want to cover our compositions rather than cover other musicians compositions and energy. All in a positive way, as much as we can in the sense of positive energy applying both individually and as a whole. Try to bring out the best out of each other and the environment that surrounds us throughout the process.