Pop-punk band Live The Story, consisting of Dave Fiore, Joseph Buscema, Brandon Khan and Nick Philia stopped by Club SAW Oct. 26 to perform a 30-minute set alongside bands Neighbours, Worn The Grey, and Rydell.
The band is currently on a Canadian tour with social justice group Live Different.
The Live Different tour stops in different high schools and venues around Canada and puts on motivational productions in order to reach out to young teenagers and help spread awareness on human trafficking, drug abuse, and physical abuse.
Spreading awareness and promoting a positive message is nothing new for Live The Story.
“We tell people to stay away from drugs, do something positive everyday and just be the best person you can be,” Fiore said.
Apart from touring Canada, playing wild pop-punk shows, and promoting positive lifestyles, Live The Story are set to release their third EP at the end of fall.
“Our next EP that’s coming out late fall will be called The Overcoming, and the overcoming to us is a guidebook to living a better life in my opinion,” Philia said.
“It really shows the scope of how someone can take a problem or issue and kind of move past it.”
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Although the band has recently faced some member changes, they say their music has not been very much affected by it.
“We’re a pop-punk band and that hasn’t changed. We’re not as aggressive maybe as the Everything I Am EP and our first [EP], but the general feel of Live The Story is definitely still there,” Buscema said.
Live The Story will be on tour with organization Live Different until mid-December, and they are loving every minute of it.
“Reaching out to every kid possible and just sending that positive message is just breathtaking,” Fiore said.
“To see [our fans’] faces and to see them coming up to us after our shows is just surreal almost,” Fiore said.
“They come up to us and talk to us about their problems and we just connect with them so easily cause we’ve been there ourselves.”
Although the band has been on tour for months already and are scheduled to release their third EP in late fall, Live The Story do not plan on taking much of a break from their music career.
The band plans to go back on tour once the Live Different tour ends in December.
