Excerpts from an L.A. Symphony Interview
Lifest 2004
Oshkosh, WI

30CC - Your current project is "The End Is Now", can you tell us about it?

Flynn - "The End is Now" is our latest album that we dropped December 2nd, 2003. It's a body of work we put together for about a year and half, and it's an expresion of a period in our lives at that time, [as well as] an expression of our faith hope, and our vision where we are going in life. If anyone wants to add what the title is about... do that now!

Uno - Basicaly, "The End is Now" if you're asking your self what it means; well we had been going through a period of time where we were stuck in a record contract and we were going through a lot of trials. We had kind of a depressing mind state going through this. Once we got out of our record deal we got a new deal [and] we just decided to call it "The End Is Now." An end to the old and now we'll begin anew.

30CC - How do you think audiences are responding to it?

Joey - A lot of people are really loving it. It was a new sound for us, but that's what we're all about. Challenging ourselves to grow into a new sound or a mature place musically and spiritually.

Sherlock Poems - I think as well with everything you're going to have a like and a dislike. We do have a lot of people who like the record, and we have had that experience with people not liking the record, but those people who do like the record enjoy the brutal honesty of the record. Like Flynn said it's a body of work - of a time where we were going through a lot of different struggles. It's kind of like a diary really.

Uno - Just to add to that, it was a body of work and not a concious effort to set a month or two apart to record it. It was definately a very honest album of what we went through at that time. One thing about L.A.S. is that we don't write just off of what people want to hear, we write what is going on in our lives and how we feel. Just to give people an honest perspective of who we are and hopefully they can relate.

Flynn - And to give an honest perspective of our faith. I think it's even biblical if you read the Psalms. David was honest - "why," "where are you", but in the end it always points back to God, and a lot of our music expresses our anxiety, doubts, but at the end we know that we are still men looking after God and trying to do what is right.

30CC - The video, "It's Going to be Alright," what is the meaning of this song?

Joey - It's going to be alright through all the things we had gone through; heartach, sadness, and dissapointment. At the end of the day we're all following God's will and trying to find what God wants for us. Knowing that following Christ everything is going to be alright.