ION INDIE MAGAZINE July 2015, Volume 14 | Page 115

Roughly 45 minutes north of Boston, Massachusetts, you can find a local music scene rife with talent covering all music
genres. The scene in Manchester, NH, is loaded with accomplished musicians, most who toil at mundane 9-5 jobs, earning
paychecks to spend on “pay-to-play” gigs, guitar strings, amps, Jack Daniels and drum heads. All so they can rock out to the
local crowds at night, sometimes as members of two, three or even four bands. They end up becoming legends of the local
music scene, our own personal rock stars, if you will. We realize that many may never get to play on a major tour or record on
a major level, but we know that when a new band pops up, we may recognize the members from other bands in the area. Right
away we know that the new band may be epic, awesome, because we know the players. So what happens when four of these
rockers, all veterans of the local music scene, decide to pool their talent and start a band just to do it their way, just to record
and play their own music, increasing their chance at getting to the next level?
You get DIE DIVA DIE…
MM: Tell us how Die Diva Die was formed.
Jeff: Die Diva Die was formed in early 2013 out of
the ashes of MY SISTER WILL (MSW 2.0) Me,
Timmy, Steve and RYAN GAGNE HALL started
jamming and writing songs together. When Ryan
left the band we only asked one musician to join-that was BOBBY WHITWORTH. The 4 of us clicked
immediately and we carried on with the writing
process playing a handful of shows and recorded
our debut CD “The Problem with Her….”
Steve Cyr: Die Diva Die is an original band out of
Manchester made up of some of the craziest
dudes I’ve met. There's definitely a good mix of
personalities that make writing and playing a lot
of fun.
Timmy: What about it? (laughing) Well, it started
when I was going through a divorce and had been
out of the music scene for a while, so my friend
Jayce let me join My Sister Will, where I met Jeff,
Steve, and also Ryan Gagne-Hall. I think Steve
was only a seventeen year old kid at the time.
When that band had run its course, we had only
tried one new song in a year, all the rest were
covers and “Let’s play one of the band’s old
songs.” Well, I tend to write 3-4 every couple
months, so I needed new outlets. The singer had
decided he was done. So I said let’s keep going
with me Ryan and Jeff singing, it ended up being
me singing, only second time I’ve sung lead for a
band (other was EARTH MACHINE), and that’s it,
we needed a name, so…I had seen a meme that
said “Die Winter Die”, and we know a lot of divas
(one behind the drum kit), and went with that.
Then to find out there is a song called “Die Diva
Die” by some band. Then Ryan left after many
refusals to accept Steve’s unwanted sexual
advances (laughing) so I thought I’d ask Bobby--a