Fish of Gone Fishkin spoke to MEST about their world tour with Hawthorne Heights and The Ataris. Tony also spoke about his new band London Falling and future plans for MEST.
It’s never a dull time when punk rock legends MEST come by the idobi Studios. This time, we asked the band to play us a couple songs for our idobi Sessions series…
Fish got to chat with Tony Lovato, lead singer of Mest. Lovato expanded on the history of the band, how the music industry has changed over the past few years, and the new music Mest has on the horizon.
In his interview on The Gunz Show, Mest frontman Tony Lovato opened up about the band’s decision to reunite and how the bands Mest influenced ended up inspiring him to start writing music again, as well as details on their new album.
In his interview on The Gunz Show, Mest frontman Tony Lovato opened up about the band’s decision to reunite and how the bands Mest influenced ended up inspiring him to start writing music again. He also revealed that the band’s new album will feature eleven songs and that the first ten songs are in the final stages of being mixed. The eleventh was co-written by A Day To Remember’s Tom Denney and is in the process of being recorded. Listen to the whole thing here only on idobi Radio!
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Mest will be tonight’s studio guest on DJ Rossstar’s Punk Show at 7 p.m. PT (10 p.m. ET). The pop-punk band called it quits in 2006 but singer Tony Lovato is reviving Mest by himself with a free E.P. and U.S. tour on the way. The Academy Is …, will be releasing their third full-length, Fast Times at Barrington High, on August 19 and singer William Beckett is calling in tonight to answer [almost] any questions you have about the new record and upcoming tours. If you have questions for Mest and The Academy Is, you can instant message us… Read more »
The singer with defunct punk rock band Mest was jailed on suspicion of murder in Los Angeles Sunday after police said he confessed to stabbing his ex-girlfriend’s new lover. Tony Lovato, 26, was held on $1 million bail after telling police that he was assaulted earlier in the day by Wayne Hughes, 25, in the underground parking lot of an apartment building in the suburb of Studio City. “At some point, Mr. Lovato produced a knife and the victim was stabbed,” said Lt. Andrew Neiman of the Los Angeles Police Dept. “He has been booked for criminal homicide. He did… Read more »
Two bands have been comrades ever since Madden brothers became fans of Mest’s 2000 major-label debut. In the clip for “Jaded (These Years),” Mest reminisce about what life was like viewed through innocent eyes. It could have been a cliché that dates beyond Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days” were it not for the fact that Mest singer Tony Lovato’s eyes were never that innocent. “I didn’t grow up like normal kids, who go to high school, turn 18 and leave home to go to college,” Lovato said. “I always hung out with older kids. By the time I was 12, I… Read more »
While they’re not known for stepping up on soapboxes, Nickelback will include incisive commentary about domestic abuse alongside concert footage of the band in their next video, “Never Again.” Nickelback hope to augment the impact of hard-hitting lyrics – including “He’s drunk again, it’s time to fight/ She must have done something wrong tonight/ The living room becomes a boxing ring” – by filling the screen with captions delivering U.S. domestic violence statistics and slogans about spousal abuse. Nigel Dick (Britney Spears, Staind), who also lensed the band’s “Too Bad,” will direct the video. In addition to the commentary about… Read more »
