Interview with On Holiday from Spaces shoot at Castleberry Hill
It was the morning of indieATL’s first Spaces shoot, and the air was a mixture of stress, excitement, and a lot of dust. I mean a lot of dust. IndieATL met the band, On Holiday, at the Erickson Building, located in beautiful Castleberry Hill, southwest of downtown. Amongst the chaos of setting up instruments, microphones, monitors, and cameras, I managed to steal a few minutes of time with Eric Bouthiller and the rest of the band, Justin, Sean Robert Cuni, and Doug.
indieATL: Now Eric, On Holiday was your brainchild, right? How did you get from This Piano Plays Itself to here?
Eric: Well we still had This Piano Plays Itself going, and I’d started writing some of this stuff on the side. I just kind of wanted to do some more electronic, kind of poppy stuff. Once we broke up, I didn’t really do anything with it except record more music. And then my buddy offered us a show during Ohm Parkfest. Then I just kind of needed to put a band together, so I showed Justin a couple songs and he liked them and agreed to play.
indieATL: Cool. You guys have a very beachy, I dunno, psychedelic pop thing going on in your music. Would it be fair to say that?
iA: What were some stylistic influences that played into that sound?
Eric: Hmm, well I don’t know. I listen to a lot of The Ventures and Dick Dale and that kind of shit. Sam Cook and Frank Sinatra and there’s rap as well. So it’s just kind of a mixture of stuff that we’d kind of done before and just new stuff that we want to incorporate.
iA: So you guys are fairly young as a band, and by that I mean that On Holiday is a newer project.
E: Yeah, we’ve only played like four shows.
iA: What’s the plan for the future?
Justin: Um, well right we’re sort of having fun with it right now. There’s no real plans for touring, uh I don’t even know if we even have plan for--well, Eric has a lot of stuff built up to release an album, possibly. But right now we’re just making videos because, I mean, Eric and I have film degrees and we all have projects that we want to incorporate into the band. We want to release a couple songs at a time and have a video every couple releases, since no one really listens to full albums anymore.
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