SoulDecision will kick off their stint as the headliner on this summer's Psyko Blast tour Friday night in Vancouver.
The pop trio has come a long way since they toured with the YTV concert last year as an opening act for Christina Aguilera, along with acts such as Mytown and The Moffatts.
The past year has seen them travel Canada on their own tour and make their way to the U.S. where they tirelessly pumped their album "No One Does It Better" by doing mall shows, radio performances, charity work, and meet-and-greet sessions.
Now, soulDecision's Ken Lewko says he and his bandmates, Trevor Guthrie and Dave Bowman, are just happy to be back home in Canada.
"It's going to be nice to be actually home and seeing our Canadian fans again and seeing Canadian money," he says over the phone from Vancouver.
As for what fans can expect from the show, Ken says soulDecision's performances will be comparable to their previous shows, although he is promising a few "little surprises" for the audience this time around.
Now that the group is more than accustomed to touring (having opened for *Nsync and Christina, in addition to launching their own tour), Ken says he isn't too worried about being suddenly struck with stage fright before Friday night's show.
"We've learned just to go out onstage and just relax and have a good time and to give 110 percent," he says. "We've also learned that on the road you've got to be very aware of your health, because it's so easy for you to get sick. We learned that the first time, 'cause I know the first time we went with Christina, by the second week everyone was totally sick, and that was just because no one was taking care of themselves. This time, definitely, it will be different."
But Trevor, Dave, and Ken have more on their minds than the tour. Once Psyko Blast wraps up in Toronto on June 25, the three musicians plan to take about a week's vacation before starting the entire recording, releasing, and promotion cycle again with a new album.
"The record company would prefer us to have the album ready next week, but that's probably not going to happen," laughs Ken. "We've got our recording studio set up here, and we're just going to pool our ideas and then see what we've got and then go from there and hopefully be in the studio by late August or September. I think September is more realistic, personally."
Ken says fans can expect the new album to have a "harder edge to it", although it will be similar in sound to the group's first album.
"Maybe more guitar, maybe more electronica elements and stuff like that," says Ken about possible differences between the old album and the one soulDecision plans to record. "I think songwriting-wise we've gotten more mature, lyrically more mature."
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-- AllPop
