interview with Francis (Caitlyn Bailey Davao)

1. why Caitlyn bailey?

francis: i asked myself that a long time ago while browsing through this website that had obituaries for people who had myspace accounts. caitlyn bailey was just another name i thought sounded cool, so i decided to check out her profile. it didn't have much, one picture, a lot of comments, but what really got me was that one blog entry she posted which barely had one whole sentence in it. i checked the blog comments and i saw some of the most heartbreaking statements i've ever read. from then on, the name sort of had a special significance with me and ended up becoming the band's name. we have recieved a little feedback from the real Caitlyn Bailey's friends, but nothing bad enough to make us change our name. we do intend to inform her family of our presence someday.

2. if you want to describe the band with just a few words to someone who has never heard aboutit, what would you say?

francis: we're a hardcore/punk band who wants to do what we can for the scene because we believe in it.

3. could you describe in brief what kind of people are involved in Caitlyn Bailey?

francis: we are people who come from all walks of life and believe in different things. we all happened to come together through a common love of music and decided to express it the best way we could.

4. what kind of feelings and reaction is your band and your lyrics supposed to suggest?

francis: i try my best to not crank out preachy or over the top poetic lyrics or stuff with slogans written all over them. personally, i think the recurring theme with all the songs we have are different semblances of hope and the aspects of life that test them. we have some songs that cover issues like knowing the world will end because of the acts of an apathetic human race, molestation, international political economy, pregnancy, sexuality, marital infidelity, love, life, death, hope, and everything else that comes in between.

5. what are your band influences?

francis: musically, we drew a lot from bands like Orchid, the Apoplexy Twist Orchestra and Union Of Uranus early on. eventually, this expanded to include bands like Explosions In The Sky, Envy, Sed Non Satiata, Shikari, Neil Perry, Joshua Fit For Battle and the like. with further progress, we started listening to pretty much anything we could to incorporate into our sound. we have a lot of ideas that were influenced by artists outside the realm of hardcore, so it all went downhill from there.

6. which tracks will you point out as your favorite ones and why?

francis: personally, i'd pick object permanence. it's probably the happiest song i've written for this band, lyric-wise. the band probably agrees on the instrumental aspect of it as well. our drummer does love peduran a whole lot, and our bassist loves that new tagalog song we came up with a few weeks back.

7. what is the usual way in which you compose songs or write lyrics? Is it a teamwork?

francis: i usually have a bunch of lyrics in storage for a rainy day. if not, i just write for whatever suits the song. we have a weird process of writing that involves not using any lyrics at all and trying to guess what the hell i was screaming a while ago. sort of like looking for the exact time in that led zeppelin tape where the dude says "oh sweet satan!" or something like that.

if given the possiblity to change something in the world what would it be?
francis: the need for money and power.

any last words?
francis: life is a parody of life. live, love, laugh.

http://myspace.com/caitlynbailey