“We live in a world where everywhere you look, there are people saying ‘follow me here’, ‘subscribe to this’, ‘check this out’,” starts Dallon Weekes.
Hype and hyperbole are in abundance, which is why I Don’t Know How But They Found Me wanted to do things differently.
“Our initial approach when we started was to play in secret, and deny that we were even a band. We denied that this band existed at all. Fans, when they started finding out about what we were doing, would ask us and we’d say ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about’.
“They would send us pictures of us playing shows, and we’d reply, ‘No. Handsome dudes, but that could be anyone’.
“There was something about that that people gravitated to. They weren’t being sold something. They had to go out and find it. That’s a romantic idea that doesn’t exist as much anymore.”
There’s romance and discovery throughout IDKhow. Their music is a glorious clump of theatrics, emo, glam, sincerity and glittering pop. Their story is one of deliberate adventure and unexpected excitement.
A decade ago, Ryan Seaman and Dallon played together in The Brokbeks. They reconnected properly when Dallon, “started making a record on my own in between Panic! At The Disco tours,” he explains.
“I would bring Ryan in to play drums. We realised how much we missed playing music together. We missed hanging out together, so we’d book a show in secret and have a fun night playing these songs on our own, and it just snowballed. Who ever really knows why people grab onto something, but it caught fire on its own, and eventually it made sense to do it full time.”
“It started out as a fun side project just for us to be creative,” says Ryan. “There was no pressure, no machine.”
