By MINDY NORTON
Sun Weekend Editor
Bump is set to play in Mt. Pleasant.
Music fans can expect a high-energy show next week, when the band Bump plays at Rubbles in downtown Mt. Pleasant.
The Michigan-based band, touring nationally, will return to Rubbles next Thursday, Oct. 22.
The band is promoting its third album, “Forward,” which came out in March.
“We’ve got a lot of awesome songs on it and it’s getting played all over the country,” Bump’s Yorg Kerasiotis said during a phone interview. “Basically, the fans can expect a really high energy, indie progressive rock show that they may not have seen before from a Michigan band.
“It’s really cool, we do a lot of harmonies, a lot of really big dancing rhythms.”
“Forward” has been well received, Yorg said.
“We’ve got to order more, we’ve almost sold out of the initial batch. It’s gotten downloaded all over iTunes,” he said.
The band has played at the Rock ‘n’ Reggae Festival in the area in recent years, but has not played at Rubbles in about six years.
“It’s a great venue, we’re really excited to come back and really do it up,” Yorg said.
Bump has been getting exposure nationwide, and part of that is thanks to a movie. The post-Hurricane Katrina thriller “Little Murder,” starring Terrence Howard, features two songs by Bump on its soundtrack,
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“Appollonia” and “Last Chance.”
“We’ve been trying to utilize as many routes as we can in terms of music,” Yorg said. “Obviously, right now, music is big in advertising and TV shows and movies. We just found an audition, the director loved us, and they’re using two of our songs on the soundtrack and we’re actually acting in the film as a band.
“It’s really cool.”
The movie, which is set in New Orleans, was filmed in the Detroit area. Bump has a role in the film, playing a band at a nightclub. Yorg compared the band’s acting in the film to doing a music video.
The movie also led to a memorable moment for the band - a chance to jam with Oscar-winning movie star Howard.
“He was just filming a scene and they were fixing stuff, so he had like two minutes to wait. And next thing you know, Terrence Howard jumps on stage and asks for a guitar. And what are you going to say? It was really, really something else,” Yorg said.
After forming in the Gross Pointe area, Bump has been touring for eight years, Yorg said, explaining the band is willing to do whatever it takes to find success, be that tours, albums, music videos or film work.
“Anything you’d expect from a band that’s successful, we’ll be doing,” he said.
“… A lot of bands people look up to, the ones that are great, they don’t care about the good or the bad, they’re just doing what they love, and if you do that, good things will happen.
“We’ve had a lot of successes, a lot of failures, but if you look back, it’s mostly successes,” Yorg said. “It’s been great.”
With “Forward” doing well, the band will soon be working on another album.
“Hopefully we’ll keep getting better and better,” Yorg said. “Every album will be different, but it will have that same Bump feel.”
Next week’s show will start after 10 p.m. at Rubbles bar, 112 W. Michigan St. in Mt. Pleasant.
