Mustard In A Ketchup Packet: Stories From A Band That Tried

We're talkin about our transiton into a 4 piece and the challenges that came along with it. We talk about some shows and tours near the tail end of 2015, the first songs we wrote as the new "us" and learn that you can't say bad words in Utah.    Email us at mustardandketchup907@gmail.com for any old demos, talk nostalgia or send us voice clips if you remember anything you want to share during this...

(TW: Sexual Assault) This is the hardest episode we will have to do as we discuss the downfall of our singer.      Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mustardandketchuppodcast/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093797361777

As a companion piece to our 18th episode, we hang out with our friend and original bass player Justin. We talk about our early shows, our developing friendships and discuss his departure and how much of weird and interesting time it was.    Email us at mustardandketchup907@gmail.com for any old demos, talk nostalgia or send us voice clips if you remember anything you want to share during this time...

We're finally in Portland. We get a new drummer, play shows, live in a van and start touring. We discuss the troubles in moving to a new place, some highlights on those tours and try to figure out what luge is.    Email us at mustardandketchup907@gmail.com for any old demos, talk nostalgia or send us voice clips if you remember anything you want to share during this time and we'll put them on an e...

We're almost at the end of the first half of our "career" as we start heading into 2015. We talk about or 2nd "record deal", the time we played at a gamestop and reminiscence on our last hometown show before we make the move to Portland.    Email us at mustardandketchup907@gmail.com for any old demos, talk nostalgia or send us voice clips if you remember anything you want to share during this time...

It's our 2nd full length record and it is a doosey. Although at the time we had a lot of fun making this album, we reflect and disect what it all meant as we prepared our for our big move out of Alaska.   Email us at mustardandketchup907@gmail.com for any old demos, talk nostalgia or send us voice clips if you remember anything you want to share during this time and we'll put them on an epsiode! F...

Our bass player and bff Demetrik joins us today as we talk about our 2nd tour. We breakdown down some traditions we still do to this day, laugh at the stupidity of our inside jokes and question why Demetrik only got paid $17 at the time to do our merch.   Email us at mustardandketchup907@gmail.com for any old demos, talk nostalgia or send us voice clips if you remember anything you want to share d...

2014 is a big year for us. We have a new drummer, get a new van, put out another record and play one of our biggest shows at the time, The Road To Warped Tour. We talk about terrible merch ideas as well and touch on the time we almost got sued by Nickelodean.    Email us at mustardandketchup907@gmail.com for any old demos, talk nostalgia or send us voice clips if you remember anything you want to...

We get a chance to talk to our dearest friend, Nick Vasquez, who was our drummer for only a year from 2014 up until our move to Portland in 2015. Though only for a short amount of a time, his lasting impact is still with us in this band to this very day as we laugh and get a little sad as we talk about his time in depth.    Email us at mustardandketchup907@gmail.com for any old demos, talk nostalg...

We dive into the start of one of the greatest times/venues in the alaska all ages music scenes, talk about our infamous joke album "No Ragrets" and experience change when it came to the firing of our drummer at the time and welcoming our dear friend Nick into the band.    Email us at mustardandketchup907@gmail.com for any old demos, talk nostalgia or send us voice clips if you remember anything yo...

We're half way into 2013 and it's time to talk about our next record.  We go though the recording process, the songs, how we felt at the time post tour and the elusive "Cool Guy". Although a BIG improvement from our last release, still a mixed bag of irony, self doubt, proudness and reflection as we take a step back and disect this time in our lives.     Email us at mustardandketchup907@gmail.com...

Part 2 of our harrowing tale of our very first tour.   Email us at mustardandketchup907@gmail.com for any old demos, talk nostalgia or send us voice clips if you remember anything you want to share during this time and we'll put them on an epsiode! Follow us on our socials below!   Instagram Facebook

Part 1 of 2 is talking about our very first tour featuring our buddy Kevin. Not a lot of ups, but a WHOLE lot of downs as we talk about the planning, the shows, van troubles and coming to the realization that no matter how much you think you've accomplished, in the end, no one cares. 

We miraculously play 2 dates of the Vans Warped Tour in 2012. We talk about trying to scrounge up enough cash to get there, being awkward on where to go or who to talk to, and how stressed we were being able to play something that maybe felt a little off at the time.    Email us at mustardandketchup907@gmail.com for any old demos, talk nostalgia or send us voice clips if you remember anything you...

Bonus episode this week! We talked to our dear friend Luc Atencio, who was our bass player from 2012 till 2019. We dive deep into a number of things, including his music history, his audition with us after just graduating high school, his first show opening for Sublime, and get deep into how we acted back in the day in regards to communication and mental health, something that is often overlooked...

We're almost half way into 2012 in this episode and we "Luc" at the events that lead to us playing the Warped Tour that year. We also talk about the process we went through to find our next bass player and Doug tells us the story of when he pooped his pants on purpose.    Email us at mustardandketchup907@gmail.com for any old demos, talk nostalgia or send us voice clips if you remember anything yo...

On this episode we learn about some business ethics in the music world, dive into a compilation we were a part of featuring numerous Alaskan bands and discuss how we felt at the time when one of our best friends and bass player left our group.    Email us at mustardandketchup907@gmail.com for any old demos, talk nostalgia or send us voice clips if you remember anything you want to share during thi...

This week we take a look at our first full length record and probably one of the worst sounding things we've ever recorded. We listen to some of the songs, try to understand why or what we were trying to do and maybe it sounding so bad is a representation of how bad things were at the time.    Email us at mustardandketchup907@gmail.com for any old demos, talk nostalgia or send us voice clips if yo...

We're in mid 2011 going into 2012 and we start getting some of first "big" shows. We talk about our first warped tour battles, a camping trip that Doug for some reason did not bring anything for and our biggest show to date at that time: opening for Papa Roach and completely blowing it.    Email us at mustardandketchup907@gmail.com for any old demos, talk nostalgia or send us voice clips if you re...

We go deep into our first EP and studio experience. Learning the ropes, looking at how we wrote songs back then and the shows that followed afterwards. Can a metal producer/engineer turn 5 kids into a pop punk/ska power house? Spoiler: no.    Email us at mustardandketchup907@gmail.com for any old demos, talk nostalgia or send us voice clips if you remember anything you want to share during this ti...

We talk about some of our first shows as a 5 piece and some of the people that helped push our momentum forward, including our first "record label". We also dive into our involvement with the Boys & Girls Club and the number of shows they hosted to help us and the surrounding community. Nathan also takes a moment to point out how expensive a band can be, especially if no one else has any sourc...

Hello! Our first episode! We start out by going all the way back to 2008 with Doug writing songs on guitar pro, forming the band with his best friend and covering the song "Beer" at one of the bands first shows at an AA meeting. We listen back at Noise Brigade's first demo and keep asking the age old question, "what were we thinking".

We take a look at the other side of the coin and dive into Nathan's first bands and the path that lead to his never ending bond with Doug. We talk about the first "real" shows Noise Brigade had at a small local church, show etiquette and why ghosting people is not a healthy option depending on the situation. 

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