Danny Peterson, Columbus Underground:
“Danny: Is there any overlap between your visual work and your role as a musician?
Raeghan: The backbone of being a graphic designer is structure and playing with shapes and lines of the page and its spatial issues. That probably is something that is comparable to drumming. Being a drummer isn’t usually considered the sexiest job, but you are sort of the backbone of the band, and a grounding to the rest of the band. So I guess I’m drawn to the structure that gets built into both.
Danny: What drew you to punk?
Raeghan: My brothers. My oldest brother was a punk rocker. I wanted to do everything he did. He ran away from home when he was 16 and would send home [punk] show flyers with personalized notes of encouragement on them and mixtapes. I was getting bullied in school, so he would do things like come and pick me up from school with a mohawk and head-to-foot tattoos, which was very strange back then.
Even though I didn’t know a lot about it [punk], for a 12-year-old who didn’t have a lot of control over their life, it made me feel like there was another world out there. It was cool and creative and a huge contrast to the negativity I was used to receiving. Later, I started wanting to put together references that it was okay for us to exist in these spaces.”
Read the full interview on Columbus Underground‘s website here!
