This band has recently relocated to our fair city, and since arriving, has been killing it with frequent festival and headlining shows up and down the East Coast. Featured in our next print issue, J Roddy Walston gives a great interview about the development of the band, playing the festival circuit, and rock n’ roll.
This band has recently relocated to our fair city, and since arriving, has been killing it with frequent festival and headlining shows up and down the East Coast. Featured in our next print issue, J Roddy Walston gives a great interview about the development of the band, playing the festival circuit, and rock n’ roll. He also had a few great things to say about Richmond. The following is from RVA #11, out on the streets in a few weeks.
Walston, who is no stranger to the River City, remembers passing through in the early 2000’s, only to experience a city that had deep roots in a violent hardcore scene and wasn’t afraid to make that fact painfully obvious. “I used to pass through, and my friends would play in town and get beat up for no reason,” he said. “We passed through on tour, but if a Richmond show got canceled, it wasn’t the end of the world. It’s hard to convince your band to keep playing a city that continually gave them black eyes after the show.” Now that he’s lived here for a few years and befriended local musicians such as The Trillions and Matthew E. White, Walston has no problem admitting that the aforementioned shiners have been exchanged for fresh scallops. “I think Richmond has the potential to be an unbelievably amazing place — the restaurants that have popped up even since I’ve been here are just incredible. There’s no denying the fact that Richmond has heavily evolved over the last decade. That’s pretty obvious.”
In the meantime, check this video of live and behind-the-scenes footage of J Roddy Walston and the Business on tour.
