Eyas/Luna, a local hardcore band, plans to tour around the nation. 

With shows in the east coast, west coast, and in between, the band will be playing at venues with different bands throughout their self-titled tour. 

Eyas/Luna music has influences from bands such as Kublai Khan, Vein, and Distinguisher, and is described as “Northwest Hardcore” by band member Christopher Dal Porto.

“I’m the bass player and tour manager. I’m the guy who waits around at the end of the night and haggles with the bartender for $50 more money for playing and booking the show,” he said.

Dal Porto describes his experience and the difficulties the band has faced from staying local and his interest in expanding outside of the local scene.

“I got into music when I was 10, but didn’t really get into it until high school when I tried making my first band,” he said.

“I’ve been doing the local thing for a solid 10 years at least. It’s good, but you plateau a lot faster when you play in the same area all the time, even with writing new material,” he added.

Dal Porto expresses that the band would like to expand their connections with other bands and concert venues with this tour. 

“We want to tour to get discovered by the underground hardcore community and to make deals with crews and bands across the country to play cooler shows,” he said. “We’re looking forward to fortifying connections with bands that are of our caliber for future tours. Usually you get better connections for places to play, people to do videos and recordings with etc. through word of mouth.” 

This tour isn’t the band’s first experience playing out of state, having success in Washington’s neighbor state, Oregon. The band’s success relies on community expansion and engagement, said Dal Porto.

“We’ve only played two shows in Portland and we’re a bigger band there than we are at home.”

“Local shows’ success depends on how many people you know and the same applies to places you don’t live at, it’s just more reliant on the place being a cool spot where people try to check out shows there regularly.”

“You get more longevity out of your music and more like-minded people who are into it by playing in other places,” he said.

But the Eyas/Luna tour will be the biggest adventure the band faces, and involves moving around a lot of money.

“The biggest obstacle has been having enough money to do recording and transportation for the tour. Also finding bands to play in places we’ve never been,” said Dal Porto.

“Booking shows during the week is hard AF,” he added.

The last show of the Eyas/Luna tour will be at the Bad Bar in Seattle, on April 23. The show starts at 7 p.m. and will be a +21 show, so I.D. will be required at the door. For more information on their other shows, check out their Facebook page here.

Dal Porto leaves concert goers with some sound advice: “Try to crowd surf at a packed show instead of a medium sized crowd because there’s no room to drop you at a packed out show. Better survival chances.”