HEADSTONES frontman and Flashpoint star Hugh Dillon is featured in a new interview with The Vue Weekly, discussing the band's comeback following an eight year break. An excerpt is available below:

Q: Eight years is a long time to be away in this business. How did the band get back together?

Hugh Dillon: "I had gotten a call from a friend of mine in Vancouver. His name is Randy Kwan, and he was a big part of this band—he was really the first bass player—and he wrote 'Cemetery' and he wrote 'Losing Control' [on the band's 1993 debut, Picture of Health], and I knew him from typing class in Kingston in Grade Nine and high school. Just a really good guy. And he called me and he said he's sick and he's got a two-year-old son, and he was dying of cancer. It transcended any grievances with the band or anything else, and when I called those guys everybody instantly dropped any bullshit or any things about the band because everyone knew Randy, and because it's so real. We thought maybe we could play some gigs and raise some money for his kid to go to college. And so on those kind of grounds the band really got together, we made some money for his kid to go to school and we found in the process that we had a lot of fun, we got along, and sometimes you realize you can just, out of ignorance, stay away from people who know you well and who really are your friends. We played those gigs and it was so much fun and we'd forgotten how good we were—we were better then we used to be—and once we saw the fans and got really back into it then all of a sudden we started writing songs."

Q: What next? Will you release a new album?

Hugh Dillon: "I think that's an outdated thing. Nobody wants to buy a record, nobody gives a shit. I've always been interested in making vinyl because I grew up with it, so I've thought we release an EP, do we release five or six songs? It seems like to make an actual record, nobody buys it and then you're caught with this whole expectation again, whereas I like kinda releasing a song or two and people respond to it."

Q: What about the album as a particular set of songs that fit together?

Hugh Dillon: "I still like that, I just don't like the expectation that goes along with it, and that's, 'How many did you sell?' That wrecked it for me. If I thought I could just put out an album and not have management or agents or anybody go, 'Well, you want to do this right. Let's put it out there, let's get it in these stores, let's hope the radio station plays it,' because then it's like, you put out this thing and how good it is depends on how many you sold, whereas if I'm just throwing it out there, the people who download it or look at it, they go, 'Hey, that's a great fucking song.' I think that's a good way to do it because you beat the hardest thing of worrying about something that has nothing to do with the work."

Click here for the complete interview.

The band's tour schedule is currently as follows:

December

27 - Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC
28 - Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC
30 - Century Casino - Calgary, AB
31 - Shaw Conference Centre - Edmonton, AB

Go to this location for ticket information.

The Headstones recently released a video for the brand new song 'Binthiswayforyears'. Check it out below:

Been This Way for Years - HEADSTONES from Headstones Band on Vimeo.