We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Andrew Springer a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Andrew, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.
I think that one of the things that draws each of us into music and creating specifically is that there is always something to learn, somewhere to go from where you’re currently at. For me, specifically, it has been a big journey with my voice. I’ve taken vocal lessons for this most recent EP cycle, and I saw the benefits actively paying off before my eyes over Memorial Day weekend when we were having a writing session for our upcoming full length. There’s just a million different directions that you can attack in order to improve yourself as a musician; it even transcends the craft itself and carries over to other aspects of your life. Like, I’m hyper aware of how my fitness affects my individual performance in a live setting, and I feel a lot more in tune with the food and drink that I put into my body and how that can help or hinder me.
Andrew, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
Hello! My name is Andrew and I sing for a band called Fremont Pike! We’re primarily based out of Grand Blanc, Michigan, and we play pop punk music. I think we bring to the table quite a bit in that we operate pretty much entirely independently. All of our music is written, recorded, produced with by us or within a small circle of producers/engineers (shout out Alastair Sims and Alex “Chuck” Krotz). Our drummer, Malcolm, has done all of our recording so far, as well as all of the video content you see, such as music videos, announcements, etc.
We generally commission our friends to create artwork for our releases, because we firmly believe in friends supporting friends!
We are currently in the middle of a release cycle for our second EP, Life Without a Pulse. We packed a lot of love and hard work into these three songs and we’re so happy to finally be sharing them with y’all! The lead single, Detroit Girl, was met with an exceptionally warm reception and the video has gotten over 1.3k views on YouTube; which, for us, is a MASSIVE accomplishment!
We’re planning on playing a whole bunch of shows this summer, including our debut at XLNC Fest in Bay City, MI, which we cannot stress enough how pumped we are for!
Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?
I think I speak for the whole band when I say that the biggest thing we want to accomplish from making music is to create a body of work that is as honest and true to our individual experiences as possible.
What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?
Without a doubt, it’s the ability to connect with someone on a metaphysical level. This particular scene of music was a crucial element of my personal mental health journey. I found it liberating and validating to hear someone like Dan Campbell of The Wonder Years or Pat Miranda of Movements or Eric Egan of Heart Attack Man sing a line with the utmost conviction and think to myself, “damn, okay, I can feel these things and not only not think of myself as crazy or broken, but I can also have a certain cathartic release and turn these negative emotions or circumstances into something that can help people.”
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/fremontpike?igshid=ZWQyN2ExYTkwZQ==
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076440961196&mibextid=LQQJ4d
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/fremontpike?s=21&t=bqUNpsODPbwWWZS3o72CcA
- Youtube: https://youtu.be/-jx5EjSkJKg
- Other: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3bOKTiWBJyv1mLENtt0pbG?si=i_Rk6S-eQoyFm04BYJCnVg
Image Credits
Tanita Siladi Malcolm Cottle