Buried In Verona Mourn House Vs Hurricane Split

"It's a wake-up call, and a pretty sad day for the Aussie scene as far as we're concerned, they were a pretty big part of that scene, and they did great things for it, so it's sad to see a band like that finish up.”

Buried In Verona's Brett Andersen still seems a bit taken aback by the news. A couple of days before he sits down with Time Off he heard that hardcore brothers House Vs Hurricane had decided to call it quits, and that their dates on the East Coast Rampage tour alongside Buried In Verona would be some of their last ever.

At the same time though, Andersen gets it. It's not easy being in a hardcore band, thrashing it out night after night on a stage. And money, you know, the stuff that purportedly makes the world go around, seems to be getting tighter and tighter. 

“In another regard, I can totally understand why they would, like it's getting pretty hard for bands at our level to stay a band. You do all this overseas stuff and you're just scraping by, but then debts start to run up and it becomes this really thin line between being a successful band on paper and a successful band financially. And then a couple of bad decisions have the potential to send your band down the drain.”

From a litany of experiences in Buried In Verona, Andersen's probably got enough reason to be cynical about the trappings of being part of a band. The financial stuff withstanding – though the vocalist does at one stage in the interview drolly admit, “there's a thin line between making money and not, so hopefully one of these days we can cross over that line” – these guys have been through their fair amount of headaches and heartaches. The most recent of which was having previous drummer Shane O'Brien step out of the band in a rather unideal circumstance.

“He left BIV a couple of weeks before we went to America and Europe, which didn't really help with the timing but y'know, shit happens, I guess. He had some things going on behind the scenes that he couldn't really deal with in Buried In Verona. At that time we weren't making any money, because we had to spend it on going overseas and what not. So he got an offer he couldn't refuse from Prom Queen so that's the direction he went. And he's pretty happy and we still talk. There's no beef, and it should be pretty fun to hang out on the East Coast Rampage.”

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