The boys are literally just down the hallway from each other. When Connor casually mentioned about owning an apartment in Los Angeles with his group of friends, his friend chuckled “Are you kidding? You can never live apart from them!”
Connor then teased Toby…
Toby: I wouldn’t even be able to drive to their house if I had my own house ‘cos I am only 15!
Connor: You can take your scooter, sweetie.
*everybody chuckles*
Toby: Thanks, that’s nice of you.
Connor: Why not? It’ll be cool!
School alone is already not easy for most of us, imagine juggling between school and touring! Due to frequent touring, all of them are doing online school.
Toby: We can’t. My mum sits down with me, and makes me not able to skip school!
Toby: But sometimes we skip days and be like umm.. I’m sorry I can’t do it I -
Riley: I have to uhh.. there’s this TV show that I have to watch
Toby: It’s educational, Mum. The TV show is educational.
Connor: The aim goal is for us to all get college education. We always gotta have a backup plan.
They can’t do too many classes at a time or else it would be too overwhelming, so their mum helps to pick up the easy classes for them.
When asked are their thoughts on being compared to bands like One Direction and Jonas Brothers, they thought that it is really nice to be compared to somebody so popular and talented. “I don’t know if we’ll ever get to that level, but Maroon 5 will be a good band for us to get compared to” added Riley, to which his optimistic big brother replied “We’ll get to that level, we will. Gotta have confidence, bro!”
“It’s really cool to work with Alex Gaskarth”, when asked about writing Settle For Less with Alex Gaskarth from All Time Low. He showed them different sides of writing. “We have looked up to him through the years, and it’s really cool to see the way he might have worked on songs with his band and stuff, and pull it into our band.”
Connor’s first experience with music was when he was 3. He got a keyboard from his grandparents, and his first song he learnt was Mary Had A Little Lamb. Riley’s first experience with music was when Connor taught him Mary Had A Little Lamb. It was nothing fancy like Beethoven, “but I played it like Beethoven” said Riley. Toby’s first music experience, on the other hand, was the ever so popular Smoke On The Water guitar riff.
What do they do during their free time, you wonder? Big fans would know – Starbucks.
Connor: We go to movies a lot, we go on long-boarding rides, we go on walks, we go to Starbucks, er… we go to Starbucks, then we go to movies, we go to Starbucks sometimes, we go to Starbucks… then we go to Starbucks again.
I wonder how many Starbucks gift cards have they got from fans already!
Toby: They are huge movie critics. I’m like that movie is great, but they’re like “I mean, that shot in the 37 seconds of that movie is horrible, I hated it!” Riley edits our music videos, and he hates videos that are shaky.
I am sure some of you Exiters reading this know what is “fan-fiction”, and have probably read or even created one. “We have read some crazy ones, that’s for sure. It’s cool when people write stories about us, but when people read the stories and think it actually happened… it’s not cool. Which has actually happened before. It has all kinds of weird things… no, THAT is fan FICTION.”
Toby: I don’t even know what we’re talkingabout…Riley: It’s where they make fake stories about you, like they say Toby only has 3 fingersToby: *puts up 3 fingers* oh my God they’re right, it’s true!
With their cheeky and wacky selves, one can imagine how fun would it be and what mischief were they up to during tour! Toby shared with us, there was once when Connor was so happy that he got milk and cookies, telling everyone on the tour bus “I got my milk and cookies, I’m gonna go to my bunk and eat them”. Toby was playing football then. You could guess what happened next… He kicked the football down the hallway of the bus and it went right into Connor’s bunk and hit the milk right out of his hands. He came out of his bunk shocked and everybody was in tears laughing. Poor Connor!
Also, “the amount of times I’ve seen Riley fall off the stage is countless. I can see these images in my head” said Connor. They shared that Riley has actually fallen off a 10 feet stage, ouch! Ironically, Riley was making fun of Connor almost tripping, but instead, he himself fell off the stage.
This is the band’s second time in Asia. Not too long ago, back in May 2013, they went to Philippines to perform at Circuit Fest. So, how different is Asia from US back home? They expected it to be really different and they couldn’t wait to go back home to tell their friends about how different and cool was it, but surprisingly, they realised it is almost the same as US here! Everybody speaks English, which made it feel like home to them. “I am a little concern that when I get home, I might drive on the left side of the road”, Connor joked. “We’re super grateful we get to do this and travel around the world, meeting different people, see how they live and stuff. It’s really cool.”
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