It’s a pretty great feeling." In September 2006, Mayday Parade embarked on their first full U.S. "Following Warped taught us so much about touring," says singer Derek Sanders, "and now we are traveling to places we have never even played and there are kids singing songs that we wrote. It became clear that more touring was on the horizon for Mayday Parade after finishing the EP and selling over 10,000 copies while following the 2006 Vans Warped Tour. Everyone loved the idea and the name stuck. Alex, who was a fan of the word Mayday, made the suggestion that they name the band Mayday Parade in an effort to remember their time spent watching the hometown parades together from the rooftops. As a band they would spend a lot of time climbing onto the rooftops in Tallahassee, especially when the winter parade was going on downtown. The still unnamed collection of Derek Sanders, Alex Garcia, Jake Bundrick, Jeremy Lenzo, and Brooks Betts entered the studio with producer Lee Dyess and took under a week to finish their debut EP, "Tales Told by Dead Friends." While in the studio the band settled on the name Mayday Parade.
The band formed in the winter of 2005 when two local Tallahassee bands, Defining Moment and Kid Named Chicago, decided to merge. By the conclusion of the 2006 Vans Warped Tour Mayday Parade made 10,000 new fans without playing a single show. "It was too hot to sleep and except for a couple of times, we couldn't even get into the show." Their patience was certainly rewarded. Most of the time our van would be blocked in and there was nowhere to go," says guitarist Brooks Betts. When the show finally ends later that evening the boys will once again strap on their book bags full of cds and talk to anyone and everyone they can find. They already spent the last few hours walking up and down the line of kids at the entrance making new friends, and more importantly new fans. The seemingly endless line is just about inside which means only one thing for the Tallahassee, Florida based quintet known as Mayday Parade: about ten hours of absolutely nothing to do but wait.
It is not even past noon and yet the hot sun is already torturing the hundreds of cars parked outside of the Warped Tour gates in Denver.
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