We were lucky to catch up with Late Kids recently and have shared our conversation below.

Late Kids, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear the story of how you went from this being just an idea to making it into something real.

We actually started in the middle of covid lockdown. Myself (Travis Moore) and Ryan Bergeron had collaborated on previous projects, but it had been some time since we had worked on anything together. I think boredom drove us to start texting again and it turned out we had the same vision of a sound and style we both wanted to create. Right as the initial lockdown began we decided to get together and jam and soon after had written a few songs we felt pretty strongly about. Then came actually making the songs and at the time all the studios were closed and sort of at a standstill. This led to us doing everything ourselves in Ryan’s living room. He really studied and learned how to produce all on his own, and little by little the songs were created brick by brick. After releasing a few tracks unannounced, we picked up a few licensing deals with gaming companies and an indy film and it kind of began to grow from there.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

We’re Late Kids (aka Ryan Bergeron, Travis Moore, and Austin Koble). We were all born and raised in Austin and Cedar Park. We went to the same Baptist church growing up and jammed in the youth group band, although we didn’t figure that out until many years later. Ryan and Austin grew up buddies skateboarding around Cedar Park and playing baseball together. Ryan started playing guitar at 13, fronted a reggae rock band and a pop punk band, and wrote many songs before finding something worth releasing online. Enter me, (Travis) the group’s musical Swiss army knife. I went from child drummer to touring the U.S. at age 20 as a keys player in a country band. As we began writing the songs we realized we’d need another member and brought in Austin to play drums and sing backup vocals. The rest is history as they say.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

I think what drives us forward is our shared view of creating something that means something to people. I have toured for other bands and while it’s rewarding it’s not the same as bringing something from your own heart and soul to people. We receive a lot of really nice comments on our Youtube videos and it’s like wow, our song is helping someone somewhere across the globe deal with something going on in their life. It’s a feeling like no other because we have songs from other artists that make us feel that way and it’s just special to be able to regift that to someone else. We want to create something real that makes us happy, and if we can be happy with it, hopefully it will make others feel the same way.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

Well I have to give props to Ryan here. When we first started making music, it was purely as musicians and writers. We still relied on renting studio space to create our product. During the pandemic Ryan took on the mindset of, well if we can’t get into the studio for the foreseeable future, we’re going to have to do it ourselves. He started watching videos and reading up on how to produce and engineer and set off on a war path and came out a monster. It was no easy task, but he got there and is killing it! Great producer!

Contact Info:

• Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/late_kids
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/latekidsband
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBsIE8_7BEJtwqetJsdWFlg
• Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/late-kids

Image Credits

Kaity Cox