TYLER BRYANI'S LOCKDOWN JOURNAL

Early 2020

This year was supposed to involve a ton of touring. We were supposed to tour with Stone Temple Pilots and Nickelback in America. We were supposed to go over to the UK… That’s one of the biggest bummers about this year, that we’re not going to get to play over there.

Noah [Denney, Shakedown bassist] left the band at the end of February to pursue his passion of being a drummer. He was a drummer before he joined the Shakedown, and he simply missed it. It went as good as it possibly could go. He came to us and said: “I just don’t want you guys not to talk to me. You’re my best friends,” and we all hugged it out like brothers and it’s all good. But that was a little strange too.

Then one day Rebecca [Lovell, Tyler’s wife and Larkin Poe singer/guitarist] and I went over to have dinner with Graham [Whitford, Shakedown guitarist] and Graham’s girl. We were talking about the tornado, which had just happened in Nashville. And then Rebecca and I went to the grocery store and noticed all the toilet paper was gone. I thought: “That’s strange…” The next day, lockdown happened.

March 17

I thought: “This’ll be over in a week.” Which is why Crazy Days [the first single] was written today, at the very top of it [lockdown], not realising it was going to last the majority of the year.

At this point I was only having brief moments of wanting to get out and live life the way it was before covid-19. I love being holed up in my studio. At the start of the quarantine I was honestly stoked to have an excuse to say no to social events that I had no interest in attending. When I meet people when I’m out touring, they