Singer, Shaun Soho, Talks About The Title Of Their Debut Album: LOST IN THE CITY

Shaun Soho Let's Us In On One Of The Band's Major Influences And The Story Behind The Title Of Crash Midnight's Debut Album: "LOST IN THE CITY"

Soho:
"The band, Hanoi Rocks, was really a huge influence on us from a songwriting standpoint and myself in particular as sort of the soundtrack to a particularly chaotic part of my life.

You can hear their influence all over our album from the guitar hook in 151 to the riff in Outta Control and the little harmonica part at the beginning of Long As It's Free just to name a few. When it came time to choose a title for the album, we decided to give Hanoi a shout out with one of our favorite songs off their debut album 'Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks' -their song: 'Lost In The City.' If you listen to the chorus of this song, you'll also hear where we got the inspiration for the title of our song 'City Girl' ...although I've always thought the actual music and lyrics, City Girl, sound like if Iggy Pop was hijacked by The Dead Boys.

While the album title, 'Lost In The City,' is very much a nod to one of our major influences, it also really encompasses the story behind this band - everything we went through to get to this point and to put this album together. We were making a lot of noise around clubs in Boston and the East Coast, getting nominated for some awards and stuff and pretty naively signing a few contracts that ended up putting us in a holding pattern here for a while. It felt like a real life Escape From New York or something, Boston-style. No matter how much everyone in the band and the fans and everybody were ready for this to break out, we were stuck until everything was sorted out with contracts and stuff. The title, 'Lost In The City,' really does get to the heart of us feeling swallowed up by this place and almost wandering through all these clubs especially here in Boston and New York, I guess doing the whole 'rockstar' thing or whatever that is, meeting all these people and club managers and everyone being real cool to us and everything but when you've worked so hard on this band and this record, all we wanted was for this album to just come out so we could give it to all our fans who have been so supportive and great to us over these years. I mean this band has been through hell and back and then decided to grab a booth in the back of a bar in purgatory for the last few years. We're ready to get on the road and show everyone what this has been all about."

Here's a YouTube Link to Lost In The City by Hanoi Rocks