Capture The Flag

Roughly thirty minutes after extras and friends started arriving, the band of fun-loving rockers known as Capture The Flag rolled up casually late in a cargo of cars filled with pizza and friends. Guitar/vocalists John Davis and Zach Nance both proudly sporting vintage 80’s Ratt tees and the whole band noticeably pumped for their very first music video shoot.

It’s been four months since the conception of the local pop/punk band Capture The Flag; they have already been in AMP magazine as a featured unsigned band and very recently shot their first music video.

“We think it’s great that we’ve only been playing together for a few months and we already have so many things going for us,” said guitarist John Davis during a break from filming their new video, “Take This Bottle Of Wine & Your Infidelities To Fifth Street”. The song hits close to home, as it

“If you want to know the reason why we do it, it’s about to walk into the room,” added bassist Tyler Dominy as a couple of very attractive women walk into the already crowded loft filled with the band and all the video’s extras.

In the days and weeks leading up to Capture The Flag ‘s music video shoot, the band called everyone they knew in hopes to fill the Rise Up warehouse full of young extras to create a real life house party for their video.

“We’ve been planning on doing this video for a few months now. We’ve run into a few snags; we changed the song we are doing and that was kind of stressful. Gus, our new drummer, just started playing with us a few days ago so we had to work with that too, but we got it all together and we’re really excited” said lead guitarist and vocalist Zach Nance.

Take after take, the band became more and more comfortable with the challenges of pretending to play their music in front of an overbearing lighting set up while cameras continuously invaded their personal space. The extras, which were almost completely compiled of close friends of the band, were great at being just as stoked about the song on their last take as the first. Which was definitely a task seeing as they did fifteen takes before beginning profile shots without the party crowd.

“We’re just hoping that doing this video is going to give us a lot more exposure, and we’re having a lot of fun doing it,” said Davis, “...our next goal is to put together a five-track EP which we think is going to be really good.”

The band has about ten or eleven tracks they’ve been working on for quite a while.

“John and I have been writing together since high school and we have enough songs that now that we want to start recording our best so we can really get them to sound just how we want in the studio,” adds Nance.

Capture The Flag has quickly progressed from a few friends trying to make some good music and get noticed, to a solid pop punk band with the opportunity to make it big. Due to their uncanny ability to get along with each other combined with their undeniable talent as musicians, John, Zach, Tyler, and Gus have a great band and a niche they believe they can be successful with.

“We think it would be the coolest thing to be the hometown heroes. I hope we get there, and we have a long way to go, but it’s an cool process and we’re having a lot of fun,” ends John Davis.