“We’ve all been in and out of different bands and things like that
for the last ten years or so,” says Nathan Warriner of the roots for
the band that bears his name. “This particular project though, has
only been going since January and we’ve had some pretty good
shows and pretty good things happening for us.
“It really has moved fairly quickly and I think that part of that
has to do with the experience, trials and errors and groundwork
that we’d laid in other bands that we’d been in before. We kind of
knew what way to plug it in properly from the get–go. It’s been
really exciting.”
The previous statement reveals Warriner’s gift for
understatement beautifully. Throughout Pulse’s interview with the
singer/songwriter, Warriner’s sense of modest ambition rang into
virtually every word that left his mouth. He and his bandmates
know what they want, and will do whatever it is that they have to
in order to get it.
But that wasn’t the case less than a year ago. Prior to
January, when the assembled members of the Nathan Warriner
Band came together, the singer had been turning in “a good
livelihood” as a solo acoustic act; securing several steady gigs
around the area and performing 100 shows this past summer
alone. However, the seeds for the band began to germinate when
Warriner placed a phone call to Peter Haverkamp with the idea of
putting together a demo in mind. “I’d been playing in a couple of
bands for the last ten years and they all came to an end – I kept
going but everyone else went their separate ways – and I started
doing solo stuff under my own name; doing some acoustic stuff,”
begins Warriner. “I knew that Pete was into the recording end of it
and I called him up to help me out. We ended up recording four
songs that I wanted to release independently as well to sell at
shows. I formed a band – handpicked the players so I knew
