If you made it out to Live 105 BFD at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, hopefully you saw AFI’s Davey Havok singing in Blaqk Audio at the 22nd annual BFD event!!!
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CelebNMusic247.com was there to cover the badass BFD ALL DAY event that featured The Offspring, Fitz and the Tantrums, Silversun Pickups, The Naked and Famous, BØRNS, Blaqk Audio and more that kicked off from 11am to 11pm.
If you’re a fan of AFI and No Doubt, then Blaqk Audio was the MUST SEE performance of the day as AFI’s Davey Havok Talks Teaming With No Doubt Guys for New Band. Havok also spoke on releasing new Blaqk Audio music.
Havok spoke with us about balancing three projects with Puget — AFI, Blaqk Audio and XTRMST. Here is what he told Billboard when they asked, Where did you find time to do Blaqk Audio with all of these projects?
Davey replied saying:
“Jade is always writing, so we were simultaneously writing the Blaqk Audio record and once the XTRMST record got finished and the Burials tour ended we had time to really focus on furthering the writing and recording that record. So we essentially went straight into recording material after the Burials tour was finished. Now it’s coming out. We’re really excited.”
He adds on the direction of Blaqk Audio:
“It’s very fulfilling for me to do Blaqk Audio because I’m singing in different ways than I do with a rock band, propelled to do so by way of being inspired by the electronic music that Jade makes. The electronic genre of music is something that has appealed to us for many years, since we were very, very young. Some of the first alternative music I ever heard was very synth based. The first cassette tapes I purchased with my own money were Devo, Duran Duran, Culture Club and that British side of things. That led me to Depeche Mode and so on and so forth cause those bands were very prevalent in the United States in the mid ’80s. From there I got into punk rock and hardcore and the industrial bands like Skinny Puppy and Ministry. They had a techno element to it so they kind of paved the way for the more ’90s big beat, new beat, trance and progressive and a lot of the great mainstream artists of those times, like the Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Fatboy Slim and Underworld. To this day [Underworld’s] dubnobasswithmyheadman is still one of my favorite records.”
Here is our gallery Blaqk Audio at LIVE 105 BFD [Photos: Chris Brody/CelebNMusic247]:
