You can never do the same gig two times in the same place.
Eric and Daniel They talk about almost 10 years of Sadfieldsabout the new single that they will release on August 8 and why The Beast it is still, after all, its natural scene.
Sadfields comes to one of the most important nights of the independent scene in Mexico: the celebration of the tenth anniversary of The Beast in it Indie Rocks Forum! this August 8. The band will share the poster with Touché Amoréwhich he will perform in his entire iconic album Stage Fouron a date that also will gather The Bohème Life, Goats and Dirty Girlsconverting the event in a powerful and diverse celebration of alternative rock.
Sadfields shape part of a billboard that crosses generations, scenes and different ways to understand the intensity on the stage. Your participation not only adds up to a special night for The Beastbut also reaffirms the moment that the band goes through within from the national scene, ready to continue expanding your sound an audience that has grown along with they. We talk with Eric and Daniel about how the evolution of the project in the last ten years, its constant collaboration in noises in Home of The Beast and what we can look forward to your next presentation.
Indie Rocks!: First of all, thank you very much for taking the time for this interview. We would like to know, in your own words, how the project went. We know it started in 2017 and has been constantly evolving, so how did they get to what we know today as Sadfields in 2026?
Eric: Do you want to start, Danny?
Daniel: I think you have a better record of how things happened.
Eric: It’s curious because just Daniel and I were the ones who, I think, had that first spark, the most initial, so to speak. Since we were very young, almost leaving high school and entering university, we began to make our little homemade projects, listening to the bands that we liked at that time. Especially Nirvana, which I remember was a very big reference for us.
Curiously, there have always been three of us. When the project took shape as Sadfields that’s when he came in Michael Laraour bassist, who is also a lifelong friend. Since high school we got along a lot because of our references. Beyond musical ability, I think there was always a very strong intention to do something with music, and we dedicated our last years of high school and practically our entire career to that, playing wherever we could, sometimes strategically and other times just for the pleasure of playing.
Daniel and I started playing covers and our own songs, but very different from what we do today. The essence was always more or less the same, very close to grunge, but yes, I think we started there. The first release of Sadfields It was in 2017, when the three of us had already been playing for about a year and a half: Michael, Daniel me too. It’s been a long time now, almost 10 years playing this.
GO!: How have you seen its evolution both on stage and when writing? How has the process changed with each single, EP and album? In the end, one as a person is not the same as three years ago. How have you experienced that change, both by listening to your songs again and by returning to play in places where you had been before?
Daniel: Yes, just yesterday we remembered that at the beginning, when we started playing, the shows were super chaotic. There were moments almost of tourette stage: we threw the instruments and anything that was on the stage we used as a noise prop. Whatever it was.
I think there has been an evolution. At that moment, that euphoria made sense, that emotion that came out very naturally and that we also wanted to express live. Over time that has changed. Maybe now we are no longer so chaotic, or we no longer make such a mess, but I think the proposal has evolved more towards musicality and towards another type of show.
I also think that you get older and eventually you stop breaking things. But yes, you change as a person, and so do your shows. And just as you say, there is venues where you play again and it can’t be the same show. It is a personal development, a team development and also in friendship. I find it very interesting to think that you can never do the same gig twice in the same place, because even you are already a different person.
Eric: Yes, to close that idea: it seems curious to me that with songs by Homesickwhich was the first thing we did on our first EP almost 10 years ago, now that we play them I feel like you even have to get into a specific mood to interpret them well. They are more chaotic songs, more cathartic, maybe even technically worse played than what we do now, but right there is their essence.
Over the years you evolve and reinterpret your own material, and that is also the beauty of growing as a musician. Performance and music have always been key for us, especially live. I think that has defined a lot Sadfields from the beginning: it was always with the desire to play and present a great show.
GO!: His latest material, Supermoonhas been around for a while, but how have you seen that over time it has earned its place? We see it in people who keep songs in their playlistsin those who have the physical version on cassette, and also in the shows, where it already seems to be an important part of the repertoire.
Daniel: I think it has had its place. It’s a relatively long album, but that’s exactly why I feel like it has something for everyone. In that sense, it lends itself to connecting both with the audience that already knows the band and with new people who are discovering it.
And yes, I think over time it may end up taking its place within the niche, so to speak. Only time will tell, but in general it has had very good comments. I really like it when people find a favorite song that maybe I wouldn’t have imagined they would like.
Eric: Yes, also we had never made a long album, an LP. And I think that confronts you with a much more extensive creative process than one imagines. I don’t think it’s changed that much since Homesick until Supermoon As for where we made them or how we finished them, because they were both worked on in the same studio, here in the city, but it was a different process.
Nowadays it is very common for bands to release music in singles because that favors the algorithms, but at that time Supermoon It was like a last bastion of saying, “this is what we think rock is right now.” It began to be composed since the pandemic, when there was still confinement and it was not even easy to see each other, and it ended up not being released until 2023. We did not skimp on the process: each song had its own difficulty and demands.
It seems to me that the album summarizes two aspects of our music very well: on the one hand, the more post-punk side, and on the other, one richer in guitars and arrangements, even with some rock ballads. It’s as if it condensed two flavors that we wanted to introduce at that moment. There are also very particular influences, such as the use of certain atmospheres closer to The Curewhich bring a lot to Daniel to the equation and also to our producer.
I think that Supermoon It is a summary of references and how we conceived the band, what we wanted to do and what we wanted to dedicate ourselves to within the genres we handle. It is a bet on these two aspects, and as it says Daniel, I feel like it does have something for everyone. Although it’s also curious: sometimes the band’s favorite songs are not the audience’s favorites. You never know what’s going to happen; You put out music, but you don’t know which one is going to connect. In the end it is a fairly strong exercise of faith.
GO!: In a little less than a month they will play at the Indie Rocks Forum! as part of the tenth anniversary of The Beast. La Bestia has been a platform that has grown together with you, because you have been on several Ruidos en Casa. How did they become part of this party and what can we expect from that show?
Eric: I take my hand to answer this question because just as you say, we have grown together in that sense, The Beast and us. It seems very cool to me that Sadfields be a band from the periphery; We are not a band from any circuit or any scene, you could say. In that sense, I have always felt that La Bestia is our scene, or at least one of the few with which we live within the scope of the music industry close to us.
The truth is, we are not a band of contacts or artistic positioning. We are quite genuine people in that sense, and it has been nice to be part of their roster of artists, of their spaces such as Noises at home. I remember that Fran I met him through Nacho of Shirota. many years ago, Nacho He had a radio show there, and I was going to buy a record of Shirota that I needed. I saw it in The Beast, introduced me to Franand from the beginning we clicked.
Later we met the rest of the crewand he has been very cool. Curiously, one of the first crew members of The Beast was an artist called Simonaa very, very good guitarist, who lives in New York but at that time she was in Mexico and was working scheduling bands to rehearse. I heard for the first time about The Beast thanks to her, and later, through toquines and all that, it was a pleasure to meet them.
We have always received support with open hands, and that is very appreciated. They are very fine in what they do. I consume their content as a genuine fan; I love it when they do things like that, like making people uncomfortable. Billy Corgan. Someone had to do it once and for all. The truth is, I love them very much, both personally and professionally. They seem very well made to me.
GO!: Will there be any surprises in this show? Any songs you haven’t played before or any special announcements we can look forward to?
Daniel: How curious that you mention it, because you did read our minds a little. There’s a surprise for that show: it starts with “can” and ends with “tion.” We hope that by that day we will have a new song, material available so that you can listen to it right there. Yes we have some more surprises for that show.
Eric: Daniel He is very modest with his winks. We plan to release a single in the anniversary week. It is titled “Wake me up”if I’m not mistaken, and it’s pretty cool. If you want, we can send you the preview so you can listen to it first.
GO!: Of course, I’d be happy to listen to it. We are already waiting for the big surprise for that day.
GO!: Finally, what else can we expect from Sadfields for the remainder of the year?
Daniel: We plan to record during the rest of the year and, if everything falls into place, release more material before the end. We would also like to have a couple more shows, maybe some collaborations or even a house show, something else with The Beast. We are always happy to be able to take that relationship by the hand and offer them something of what we do. We are very excited about this group that we have built, and we want to strengthen it with more material and more collaborations.
Eric: Yes, this year we have focused a lot on playing, maybe a little but on things that are meaningful to us. We’ve played quite a bit in Querétaro, which is now a big audience for the band. And we plan to continue like this, maybe play more reservedly because we continue writing material that we would like to release soon. But yes, we all have the willingness to continue doing what we like most.
IR!: Would you like to add anything else?
Eric: Just attend the anniversary of The Beast in it Indie Rocks Forum! on August 8. It’s going to be a great lineup, with new songs from Sadfields. And nothing, many thanks to Indie Rocks! through space; It is always very appreciated that there is interest in hearing what is happening on this side of music.
