Band of the month - One Day Remains
The road to success continues for the alternative rock band One Day Remains also in 2012. In November last year, they came in second in two important contests: First at the MyCoke Soundcheck Contest and then at an international music competition of German telecommunication giant T-Mobile. Now the Swiss took all the glory at the restorm.com band-of-the-month voting. Leadsinger Pedro Rodrigues talks about the coming debut album, the reward of live performing and the remaining goals of One Day Remains.
restorm.com: 2011 has been very successful for you. What are your hopes and plans for the new year?
One Day Remains: That is right! We are glad that our songs were able to convince listeners and win us several prizes. This year we finally want to release our debut album, get a record deal if possible and may be shoot a video clip. For everything else we’ll just wait and see.
restorm.com: When will you release the new album?
ODR: The recording should be finished by the end of spring. After that, we’ll have to do the mixing and mastering and the complete graphic design. We stopped talking about a date, since we can’t keep it anyway. But we’re very optimistic that the release will happen this year!
restorm.com: What is your approach to your first full length album?
ODR: Our approach may be a bit unorthodox, but so far it worked out fine for us. We collect our ideas and head to the studio, to record the songs with our producer and invisible member of the band, Matthias Hillebrand-Gonzales. We don’t go into the studio and record 30 songs and then throw away 18. Right from the start we only take the most promising ideas. So every song we record, is our baby somehow!
restorm.com: What is important for you on stage? Would you consider yourself as a studio- or a live band?
ODR: We just want to rock and present our songs in the best possible way. Being in the studio is the working part and the live performing on stage is the reward. We are relatively unexperienced on stage, so we want to play as many concerts as possible, to reach a level that satisfies ourselves. Since we’re all perfectionists this could take quite a while!
restorm.com: You are accredited to have international potential by various media outlets. Is it your big goal to reach international success, even though the world is hardly waiting for an alternative rock band from Switzerland?
ODR: Our big goal is to be able to live from our music. We want to write and play the music that we love and possibly remain true to ourselves. Nobody knows what will happen. But we are proud about what we have achieved so far and are looking forward to the future. We doubt we’ll get the international breakthrough before the world ends on 21.12.12. May be we should release our debut album on 20.12.12, in terms of marketing that would certainly not be a bad decision.







