BY TALI ISRAELI
Staff Writer
A tour for the Marlboro-based band Someday Never will start on March 5 at the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 434 Aldrich Road, Howell, at 5 p.m.
The band features Doug Leibowitz, 19, vocals and guitar, Alex Bonneau, 18, vocals, Matt Sisinni, 23, guitar and vocals, Julian Dimagiba, 19, bass, and Andrew Riccatelli, 21, drums. Someday Never is preparing to leave New Jersey to start a 40-date tour on the East Coast and through parts of the Midwest.
Someday Never has said its music is a mix of punk, emo and rock with influences of hardcore music.
The band, which started with Leibowitz and Riccatelli in 1998, has played with a number of bands such as Taking Back Sunday, Underoath and Homegrown. In 2004 the band played on the main stage of the Skate and Surf Festival in Asbury Park and won the “Top Young Band” award at the Asbury Music Awards.
The band members said their chemistry comes from being best friends for years and sharing the same dream of making music their lives.
During live shows, Bonneau said, Someday Never tries to put on an actual show instead of just playing music.
“Odds are if you can get their attention with your live show, they’ll give you a second listen. Whether it be lassoing someone with the microphone cable or sharing water with the crowd, we do whatever it takes to get everyone’s attention,” Bonneau said.
Leibowitz agreed and said, “We interact with the crowd before, during and even after our sets. We want our name to stick in people’s heads as much as we can.”
Someday Never is signed with All Records and released its debut album in 2004, “Home Is Where the Heartache Is.”
Leibowitz said the title and the songs described how the band members were feeling at the time about being in their hometown.
The lyrics, written by Leibowitz, are stories of his life, he said. They are about everything from love, hate, confusion and life. Basically, he said, the songs are everything about growing up.
“If there’s anything I’d like the listeners to get out of our songs, it’s the sense that they aren’t alone. We’ve gone through the high school drama, the times when girls have broken our hearts, the feeling of losing someone or something very close to us. We’ve been through it all, and we’re just trying to put out something that people enjoy and can relate to,” Leibowitz said.