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Newish (but pre haircut) ‘New Art in Life’ interview with Robert.
(thanks to marmar1211 who tweeted the link)

Q. 1 – Did you start out as an actor or a musician?

Q. 2 – How did you break into acting?

Q. 3 – What are your passions?

Q. 4 – Explain life growing up with your family in the spotlight…

Q. 5 – What are your thoughts on the movies currently made in Hollywood?

Q. 6 – Your band Rooney just finished recording the third album, how are you planning to release it?

Q. 7 – Your Family is a Dynasty in the entertainment industry. What has it all shown you?

Q. 8 – Do you think your Family influenced your decision to go into the entertainment business?

Q.9 – How did your Family’s musical background influence the music you create?

Q. 10 – Did you face any difficulties stepping into the industry given your Family’s history?

Q.11 – In your opinion, what skills and characteristics are required to enter the entertainment industry?

Q.12 – What suggestions do you have for those trying to get into the entertainment industry?

As I wrote a while back, I found out about this book featuring a Rooney interview along with 21 other band interviews. Seeing as I like a bunch of the other bands too, I thought what the heck, I’ll get that book. Today I finally got it

I’ve only read a few interviews as of right now, but the books includes these interviews :

Before they were famous :

Fall Out Boy
My Chemical Romance
Gym Class Heroes
New Found Glory
The Starting Line

Acts that go against the grain :

CKY
The Donnas
OK Go
Fat Mike and Marko 72

Getting Serious with singers – songwriters

Gavin DeGraw
Eisley
Jack’s Mannequin
Dave Melillo

Artists talk about their craft :

ROONEY
Meg & Dia
The Academy Is…
Yellowcard

On the road to pop stardom :

The All-American Rejects
Cartel
Cobra Starship
Charlotte Sometimes
Maroon 5

I open up to page 88, and I get a little dissapointed.. Only a little though. The interview is only with Robert, and while that’s all good, I love interviews where we hear from the other guys too

The interview is from Bank Atlantic Center, Sunrise, FL, March 2008 and by Brittany Rich.

“I walked in to find Robert entertaining himself with a basket of toys that the venue had supplied. He was wearing a fake nose and a moustache mask” (page 88 – OTBAOTR)

The interview starts off and they talk a bit about the tour, how many shows Rooney’s done and where they’re going next. Continuing on to talk about the internet now and before
“Downloading wasn’t the same – a lot of people were stealing records, not buying them on iTunes, so iTunes has helped. But nowadays, it’s actually very friendly out there online, because you can get your content out in the world.” (page 89, OTBAOTR)

There’s some talk about labels. Robert says that if you want to have international success, you need the power of a major label – but if you want to “sell fewer records but make more of those records”, you can control your music so much more these days. There’s more talk about labels and how much people are willing to sacrifice for getting a record deal.

 Robert talks about releasing the unrelased songs at the end of the “Calling the World” cycle (which obviously didn’t happen, and although I would love to see it happen, it will probably be a battle if their old label “owns” the songs).

The interview ends with Robert getting asked if there’s a website people can check out, and he starts out by telling people his solobob myspace – before getting asked for the Rooney website. To which he answers “Oh, sorry” and laughs before naming the Rooney website and myspace.

All in all it’s a pretty decent interview.. There isn’t much information I didn’t already know, eventhough I did find the part about labels interesting. I wouldn’t buy this book JUST for the Rooney interview, that being said I’m not regretting that I’ve bought the book, there’s a least a few other interesting interviews – and I’m looking forward to reading the rest

You can buy the book on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

There’s some new Tyler Chesher photos up on Rooney-band.com from when Rooney was recording.

 Quite the look, huh

New post on Rooney-band.com from August 5th, 2009

“Hey Everybody,

I thought you’d like to know that after 7 years with hair down to my shoulders, I decided to cut it all off. I’m liking the change. It’s easy to shampoo and dry and it smells fresh and clean. I asked for “kid hair,” you know, the kind that bounces and belongs on the playground. Anyway, my friend Coury from Castledoor hooked me up and she’s been an angel through this process. Oh and, the stock markets up too…

Hope y’all are doing well. New album coming soon…or at least some new music. I’m happy than I appear to be in this picture.

RS”

Another video of a new song.. This song is called Suckceed. If you listen closely you can hear Louie sing back up at 3:23 – I’m loving it… <3
update july 22nd – it seems like I’m the only one who thinks I can hear Louie, so I might be wrong.. I guess we’ll have to wait until they play the song at other shows and/or the new album comes out to know for sure.