>>From the second floor of the Orlando Public Library welcome to Melrose in the Mix.

Our series of live recording sessions from here at the Melrose Center.

Hi, everyone.

I'm Jim Myers.

Today's session features Trash Cinema.

Longtime collaborator Dan Kirkus, who sings and plays guitar, and Brian Stabile, who plays drums, have been creating original musi together for more than a decade.

Known originally as the two piece band Yogurt Smoothness, the duo recently added bass player Kurt Lampe to the band and officially dubbed the group Trash Cinema.

Before the session, we had a chance to talk to the guys about their artistic influences, the band's formation, their songwriting process, upcoming projects, and more.

[FEEDBACK] ♪♪ >>So now you trip on ghosts, the world is sick of men.

Now that it's in no longer say the word again.

Bound to see your world in fire, you know you should know me.

We'll never come again, we'll never sleep in fire, we'll never come again we'll never trip on.

No love not as you run from the sun, you'll never cut me again.

Now you're bound to see numbe one, so tired of feeling sick.

Outside.

You'll run as fast as you could to another trip up.

Deliver me with all my broken love alone I'm not here sleeping with a fire.

♪♪ You wanna say, you wanna cry, well I'll take her from the dead.

You wanna say, you wanna cry, well I'll take her from the dead.

♪♪ So now you trip on ghosts, the world is sick of men.

Now that it's in no longer say the word again.

Bound to see your world in fire, you know you should know me.

We'll never come again, we'll never sleep in fire, we'll never come again we'll never trip on.

No love not as you run from the sun, you'll never cut me again.

Now you're bound to see numbe one, so tired of feeling sick.

Outside.

You'll run as fast as you could to another trip up.

Deliver me with all my broken love alone Im not here sleeping with a fire.

♪♪ We started out as a two piec band, called Yogurt Smoothness.

Brian and I, decided to go, like a experimental punk route, and, got our legs playing around Orlando and coffee bars and different small bars and dive bars.

Found a lot of cool people, made a lot of cool friends.

It, it was fringy.

It was, kind of weird, tongue in cheek music, but, we we had, a diehard following that was, you know, small, but enough to keep us going.

We put out a couple records, and, I recently relocated to a different town and kind of started thinking about music and in more broader terms of, like, how can this be more music for the masses and appeal and, kind of take the fringy element out a little bit to, to, be mor holistic in my, in my approach and have good stories and have, you know, more, more, rounded sound, well-rounded sound with all the elements.

And then Kurt came along, saw us playing with a subpar, bassist, but, he, said, I want to play bass with you guys.

And we were we were definitely enthused and started working on the latest material and.

♪♪ Dont let them take her somewhere far.

What is that she say shes not involved.

Want to take her shes on the circ-- Want to take her shes on the circus ride.

Around.

Welcome to the garbage.

Oh, the old man said its not, its not enough.

One, two, three, four!

♪♪ [SCREAMS] ♪♪ He didnt wait to stop the rhythm inside.

Youre not that good of a lover of life.

5-6-7, 5-6-8.

5-6-7, 5-6-8. look twice around.

Well its all or nothing.

Oh, the old man said its not, its not enough.

♪♪ He didn wait to stop the rhythm inside.

He didnt wait to stop the rhythm inside.

Youre not that good of a lover of life.

Youre not that good of a lover of life.

♪♪ One, two, three, four!

♪♪ ♪♪ Well I know what I'm saying, and I know what I'm feeling.

But you can't believe it, no you can't believe it.

Are you burning down everything?

Are you taking my fate, yeah.

Are you burning down everything?

are you breaking my face in?

♪♪ Now I'm coming for you.

My love gun loaded.

Yeah.

I've got something to say.

You won't ever forget.

Are you waking up older?

Are you [SILENCED] up something?

Are you waking up sober?

Are you faking or dying?

Yeah, you're dying.

Now you're dying.

Now you're dying.

♪♪ And I'm dying too.

And I'm dying too.

>>Kurt actually inspired us to go with it.

We kept coming back to it, even though I had some wild ideas.

But, ultimately, that's.

That was the one that stuck.

We all kind of are movie junkies, and, we have, you know, similar music tastes too so it kind of made sense, to me, to me, the meaning "Trash Cinema" is not just necessarily the, you know, pigeon-hole definition of movies that are bad on purpose, movies that are cheeky.

I, I've started seeing kind of, social media follow that trend where everybody is just putting out content and most of it's bad.

♪♪ You and are looking for a way to escape, but alon I can not seem to let you.

But the lines are coming to this rough skin.

When I was supposed to be closer.

Dont you wait for the lights when you start to laugh.

When Im in danger witches move.

♪♪ Well now were coming for everything.

Were always running till we love this game.

And now were running to rough this day And now were running for asking.

Pull up and down the shades.

Dont die when you start to laugh.

When Im in danger witches move.

Too loud it came off turn off this different [SILENCED] Its time to change your with your magic that you wrapped up desire.

Desire.

♪♪ The song Hold Me, is is one that's near and dear to me.

Because it's it's it's largely in part to, the birth of my first child.

And, to me, when I would, when I would play it, for her, she, she loved it.

And she, she's actually aspiring to, to be getting into music now too, which is really cool.

♪♪ Hold me while the storm is raging.

No one can do anything to you, if you come closer.

And God didnt want you to come closer, but you found a way.

♪♪ Get up father at least as far as your knees.

Hide your strength and bide your time.

Wont you tell me that you love me because I wont.

But Ill come back from this destruction.

Didn't see anyone in love.

The world must be broken.

Can you tell me wasn't anyone in love?

♪♪ >>I've been coming here for almost ten years now because, I'm part of Indienomicon which is an indie game developing thing.

And so I've been showing off games here for a long time but never got to use the studios and all the other stuff just kind of having demos, and.

>>Yeah, I'm, I'm just mostly impressed with the, the spectacle of, of this place.

So I'm pretty excited.

♪♪ Oh.

♪♪ Oh.

♪♪ >>You live inside.

Never come out.

Staring at the sun forever.

♪♪ Take all your pictures down.

Find my space down in the ground.

Feel lost inside while you mess up your life.

We live in cages.

Yeah, cages.

♪♪ Take all your pictures down.

Find my space down in the crowd.

Feel lost inside nowhere to run nowhere to hide.

We live in cages.

Live in cages.

So just let go.

Let go.

Go.

Just let go.

Let go.

Let go.

♪♪ >>'Caus I used to play a lot of open mic nights, and I would try the material out, on unsuspecting, coffee drinkers, and, sometimes there were wins, sometimes they weren't.

But, when, when something would kind of stay there and and, I would add different verses or different choruses or change the arrangement.

Then I would bring it to th band setting and turn the amps up, turn the distortion peda on, and really just rip on it.

Maybe completely change the whole dynamic.

Another another common practice is like, we're tired of practicing these songs.

Let's just come up with something.

♪♪ Eight feet away cant even smile.

If only people looked away for a little while.

Cant seem to get it together.

And the pen refused to write your letter.

Something about this toxic scene.

A ratty piece of chicken spleen.

What a joke this isnt fu ring the bells until you come.

What a joke this isn't fun, ring the bells until you.

Over time and undefined Id rather be a slave in mind to pull it together.

Just a bunch of indecision smashed again.

Youre keeping on your leather.

Something about this toxic scene.

A ratty piece of chicken spleen.

What a joke this isnt fu ring the bells until you come.

What a joke this isnt fun ring the bells until you.

♪♪ Something about this toxic scene.

A ratty piece of chicken spleen.

What a joke this isnt fun ring the bells until you come.

What a jok this isn't fun, ring the bells until you.

Till you.

Till you.

>>Thanks for joining us for this episode of Melrose in the Mix featuring Trash Cinema.

We'll see you again soon for another live recording session here in the Melrose Cente at the Orlando Public Library.