PropertyOfZack had a chance to interview Jordan from Set Your Goals just this past weekend on the Pop Punk’s Not Dead Tour. Jordan and I discussed how touring has ben in the last few months for Set Your Goals, reception to Burning At Both Ends, holiday shows, and more. Read up and enjoy!

For the record, could you state your name and role in Set Your Goals?
My name is Jordan, and I’m a co-vocalist for Set Your Goals.

The Pop Punk’s Not Dead Tour is three or so weeks in at this point. How have the dates been as direct support?
They’ve been really good. We did all the south and a few west coast shows. We’re starting the east coast as of today.

Since the day it was rumored, this tour just kind of grew and grew in anticipation from fans. Have the crowds definitely been anything but a letdown?
It’s been awesome. They’ve been some of my favorite shows in each of the cities we’ve played. Dallas was insane. We played in a venue called Trees and they had two trees in the middle of the venue. It held the venue up and kids were scaling the trees and jumping off of them. It was really neat. It kept leaking every so often, but it was cool.

It’s been a busy half a year or so though for you guys with Warped Tour and Counter Revolution. How were each of those individual tour festivals?
Soundwave was under the radar, even though it was the Counter Revolution. It was fun to meet up with friends bands and stuff like The Damned Things and All Time Low. Make Do And Mend were really good too. There were some bands that were really cool to see. We got to do South East Asia before that too, which was good.

This tour has been such a dream for so many kids, but has it just been a blast with these other bands as well?
We’ve grown up with the guys in This Time Next Year. Brad and I have known each other for like 14 years now. Probably as long as we’ve been listening to New Found Glory. It’s cool to be on tour with them. Man Overboard and The Wonder Years are just killing it too.

All of this has of course been in support of Burning At Both Ends. How have the new songs been going over live the past few months?
We’ve been playing this song “Certain,” which is like the main single we put out, and it’s been awesome. It’s getting a faster response than any of the songs off of our last album did. Kids have seem stoked on it.
POZ: What about the reception to the album as a whole?
Jordan: It’s good. People who are into it seem to really like the songs. I think a lot of people were expecting polished, sonically pleasing songs. Kids who like it just say that they enjoy the songs though.

I did an interview with Matt a few months ago and we really sort of dug into a lot behind the scenes. It’s no secret that there have been a ton of ups and downs for the band in the past year and a half or so. Have things been the same, or has it been looking up lately?
I think we all have a renewed spirit since the album came out. I’m stoked that kids like even the one song, but they’re getting into the other ones too now. It’s been a lot easier. We’re pretty much free now, and what could you worry about on a tour like this? It’s pretty awesome.

Do you guys see yourselves adding in new songs throughout the tour?
We’ve learned about half of the album to play. We’re rotating in two or three in each night. We’re trying out new ones here and there. We added a few songs per request from the guys in Man Overboard and The Wonder Years.

Will Set Your Goals be taking the rest of the year off following this?
We’re going to do some holiday shows in December in the California area. We were talking about coming here and we got offered some shows here, but we couldn’t work them out timing wise. We’re going to do four shows in California with This Time Next Year, The Story So Far, and The Sheds. We’re going to do a headlining tour next year that we’re routing right now. It’ll take place in the very late winter/early spring. We’re looking at February and March. That will be a full US tour.

Might there be worldwide touring before that as well?
Our year is open right now. We want to get to Japan again. With everything happening this year, it was hard to get there. We’d like to do Australia again and a Mainland European tour. We haven’t done Europe in like four years.

A lot of fans were very concerned at the time of the release that this would be Set Your Goals’s last one since things weren’t looking so optimistic in interviews. Has the future of the band been discussed more at this point?
It’s definitely getting better. We’re taking things slower too. Dan had to leave at the end of Warped Tour because his dad is sick right now. He’s taking time off. We don’t want to go through a lineup change. That record was a big bonding experience for us. To think about him not coming back would be devastating to the band. That’s not on the horizon right now. He’s going to play the holiday shows, but we wanted him to be at home so he’s not so far away. Everything else is good.