mint

            [2017-2019] I was stunned when tom riese and steve darling asked me if I wanted to join mint on vocals. I had never felt encouraged to take on this kind of role before, and joining up with these guys was hugely important for me in developing my voice and sense of self-confidence as a performer. we played countless nights at LAVA and cousin danny's and had two happy tours around the northeast and midwest. our first two demos were basement joints handled by our own jeff fonseca, but for the third tape we worked with the extremely cool and professional kyle gilbride. I really dug into doing the art for our merch; our flippable logo was some of my finest work! we generally kept it pretty low-key and loved to kick back after practice over a bowl of pho at thang long, but the boys were also supportive of stage shenanigans and bad behavior such as goading audience members into taking swigs from my listerine bottle. what can I say... joker mad energy had a very specific hold on me.