Photos by Daniel Belis

Smashed Chair: What’s with the weather?

Bless the Fall: It’s pretty nice. (It’s close to 1:20 pm and it’s about 102 degrees). We’re from Phoenix. It’s dry, normally it’s like 110 and 115 over there.

SC: What are your goals for Warped Tour?

Bless the Fall: To win over every single fan that’s on the tour, so we can bring 18,000 kids everywhere we go. We just want to get through it, because we’ve heard a lot of bands just drop out.

SC: What are some of the bands that you’re looking forward to?

Bless the Fall: Let’s go check out The Used. (Someone says that The Used had to cancel for the rest of the tour). Are you serious? Aww.. man. Well I still want to see Spill Canvas, Circa Survive. The singer from Circa is amazing. He sounds just like he does on the radio.

SC: How’s your label, Science records, treating you?

Bless the Fall: It’s getting better. It’s a ball. It’s rolling and getting bigger and bigger. Hurley did a lot for us, but they’ve been awesome.

SC: Do you guys think it makes you “hardcore” to travel in a van?

Bless the Fall: It’s a badge of pride. It’s a little tough. People are like “Oh man, you’re on a van.” But we don’t want to see like we’re better than other bands, but we rented out a couple of bunks of My American Heart’s bus. We trade off every two weeks, two members. So I don’t want to seem all hardcore and then you see us getting on a bus.

SC: How do you guys keep sane while on tour?

Bless the Fall: Sometimes we have our own fight club sessions.

SC: But you broke the first rule of Fight Club?

Bless the Fall: We have different rules. We try to talk about it as much as possible, so that way as many people can come up to us and punch us in the face.

By Nathan Solis