from "The Power of Tuesday" from Sub-Pulse Fall 1997 Issue #4 by Daniel Kingery
Dan: Matt and Rob were in a band, and they decided to stop being in that band but thought, "Hey, we still want to play together," so they called me, 'cause I had been in a band that they had heard. So we stared playing together. That was like three or four years ago. We needed a singer so we found Brendan, a kid who lived in Barrington at the time. They (Matt and Rob) had heard him sing in a band called the Plagiarist. We started playing around, and we were a band for about three or four months and we decided we wanted to get horns, so we found these two guys, and then we played around as a ska/punk band.
Matt: The other horn players were really bad
Dan: Then we got new horn players, as things would have it. Then we played as a band for about two years.
Matt: The new horn players were Dan and Pete. Yeah they would do annoying things like tune like this (referring to the IGATS horn player). It was neat. Then we started going our separate ways.
Dan: About three or four morths ago we started getting different musical infulences, stuff we wanted to do with our band, our time. The band decided to split up. Brendan our singer and Dan our old trumpet player are in another new band (The Broadways), and we've started a new band. We'd been writing and practicing on our own for a while at the tiem of the breakup. We changed our name and now we're Tuesday.
Matt: There was never really a break up. We just continued practicing twice a week.
Matt: We'd been together for a while and everyone was getting on everyone else's case. The reason Slapstick broke up is we basically just got tired of the music. And this goes for Brendan, too. We just got tired of what we were doing.
Here is an interview with Dan Andriano that covers some of the basics of the history of Slapstick and the beginning of Tuesday. Jump Up and Skank! it's a link to the main page of the zine but the Tuesday interview is in issue #4