Singer/songwriter Luke Brian is pretty good at turning bad situations around.
Brian, front man for Night Kills the Day, was with his bandmates on their way to Canada for their tour-opening show when “we couldn?t get into Canada; they wouldn?t let us in,” Brian said. “There was something on one of the guys? records. We were just stuck in this hotel in the middle of this ghost town. So we wrote a song about it and called it ?Ghost Town.? ”
Brian applied the same mentality five years ago, when he first had the idea of starting a band with his childhood friend, Timothy Falzone.
“It?s a back-from-the-dead kind of story,” Brian said. “Tim and I had some life-changing experiences at the same time and we decided to take all that energy and use it properly.”
The end result was the formation of Night Kills the Day, a New York-based indie rock band with influences such as Pink Floyd and The Cure. With Brian on vocals and Falzone on bass, guitarist Izzy Lugo and drummer Roger Benton round out the group. Falzone said Benton is “the perfect fit,” while Lugo blew him away. “I knew [Lugo] had to be a partof this,” he said. “And [Benton] is an amazing drummer, with the attitude and drive that we had searched high and low for.”
Their debut album, called “The Study of Man … And the Developed Shadow” is the first of three in a trilogy. “I put as much as I know about myself into this album,” Brian said. “There were some times when it was difficult for me [to continue] but then again, it?s my life story.”
“I think that if you are coming out of a really dark place in your life, there?s a process of putting the pieces back together,” he said. “We spent a lot of time away from reality. I think we got better [as a band] because we got more real.”
But although they are on the right path, Brian still believes there is a lot more work to do. “Artists either create or destroy, and I think that something beautiful can happen if an artist learns to stay out of his own way. We are on that path. It?s an ongoing revelation,” he said.
IF YOU GO
Night Kills The Day with Electric Six and Test Your Reflex
» Venue: Sonar, 407 E. Saratoga St., Baltimore
» Time: 8 p.m. Friday
» Tickets: $12
» More info: www.nightkillstheday.com
