So for Chicago, I want to find the best deep dish pizza place. I really like food and getting food at places that are unique to cities. Is there anything you look forward to doing or seeing here? When you go on tour with people who are your friends, you get to see them again and hope you’ll work with them in the future. What do you miss most about that experience? You recently came back from Europe where you supported the band Lovejoy on a sold-out tour. And, now, you’re playing to a larger audience. He would put us on some really cool bills with bands that we loved. There’s a very famous booker in Toronto, and we got in good with him. My brother was also in a band and would put on shows in different bars around town, so we would play those once in a while. We played at university events and open mic nights, anything we could do to get on stage, we would take that opportunity. Yeah, we were playing shows as much as we could. There are a lot of student-run bands here at Northwestern who play at festivals and shows around campus. Then we were finally like, “Okay, I think we’re a band.” That’s amazing. Then we slowly moved on to proper rehearsal spaces where we brought in drums and other guitars. We started getting together in random rooms in our university and playing guitar. We should find other people.” Michael had some people he knew, like Nick Frosst, our singer, Jon Kereliuk, our drummer, and I pulled in the guitarist David Wood from another band I was in. We were like, “Oh, we really like the sound of what we’re coming up with.
Good Kid slowly pieced together when the band’s bassist, Michael Kozakov, and I started jamming and writing songs. Before that, how did you all come to form Good Kid? Thumbnail graphic by Iliana Garner / North by Northwestern You guys released your first song, “Nomu,” in October of 2015. North by Northwestern talked to Good Kid guitarist Jacob Tsafatinos about their online fanbase, new album and their Chicago performance on May 8. The band started as an idea in a the minds of college students, but now, it’s blossomed into a pop-punk sensation that has garnered an online following and sold-out tours in the US and UK. Hundreds of millions of streams, a bopping beat and a recently released third EP the Toronto-based band Good Kid seems to have it all.
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