It’s not very often that you get to meet a young band who are as passionate about their music as local four-piece band Someday Mission are. And if you’re a drummer you’ll definitely want to read on because you may just be the person that Someday Mission is looking for to welcome into their crew.
Made up of Ashleigh de Vent (vocals), Michael O’Lynn (guitar), Leigh Howard-Guerin (bass) and Jared Living-Sherwell (guitar/backing vocals) Someday Mission met, like so many great bands, at high school. Ashleigh says they came up with the name at a Simple Plan concert. ‘I came up the name and I tried to tell Michael but the music was so loud that I ended up having to write it into my phone so he could see it. I came up with the name when I realised that it was our someday mission to be a band. You hear people saying that someday I want to be in a band, that was the mission… to be a band. So therefore it was our Someday Mission.’
Michael takes up the story ‘Originally we were a two-piece and Leigh had been doing some photography for us… now he is our bass guitarist. Jared was actually the person who taught me guitar… he is an excellent guitarist. Currently he plays drums for us but as soon as we can find a full-time drummer he will go back to guitar.’
Someday Mission describe themselves as emo-punk and say they are influenced by bands such as Paramore, Simple Plan, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance and All American Rejects.
So what has been their career highlight so far? ‘We played this exclusive gig at the Athenaeum Theatre which was totally amazing, it was such a great venue to play at,’ says Ashleigh. ‘We’ve been able to sign a manager as well but I’m sure the moment we sign a full-time drummer will eclipse all these moments.’
And what are your plans for the future? ‘Short term we want to get locally,’ says Michael. ‘And then get an EP out, then a full-length album and hopefully one day have one of our songs used in ‘Guitar Hero.’
Someday Mission play regular gigs at ‘Lighthouse’, so if you want any info about seeing them live (or if you want to be there drummer) check them out at www.myspace.com/somedaymission. This is one band with a huge future ahead of them.