\u201cOne day we just got a licence request for a song off [2001 record]\u00a0The Photo Album. At the time, we were pretty broke, so that was a considerable amount of money,\u201d Gibbard told Rolling Stone AU\/NZ Editor-in-Chief Neil Griffiths.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a watch party \u2014 it was the first time we\u2019d ever had a song in a TV show. And then all of a sudden they\u2019re talking about our band on the show. We were as flabbergasted as anybody. It just kept happening. The band became a character in the show.\u201d<\/p>\n
The OC\u00a0was one of the hottest shows on TV at the time, and Death Cab were one of a few bands that went on to become household names, including The Killers and Modest Mouse.<\/p>\n
Gibbard said that while the show helped the band garner attention, they weren\u2019t sure if it was for the right reasons.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe were a little uneasy \u2014 we were worried it might tip us in a not-so-great direction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were this indie band. We kind of go and play clubs. We didn\u2019t really ask for this.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cIt turned out to be incredibly beneficial. I get asked about it more by people from overseas than I do by people in America at this point, because the show going overseas was a lot of people\u2019s first introduction to our band. Whereas in the States, we were kind of some people\u2019s secret at that point \u2014 we were playing 800 to 1,000 cap rooms and carving out a nice little career for ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the episode, Gibbard also discussed joining Dua Lipa on stage late last year<\/a> and Death Cab\u2019s upcoming tour of Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n Watch above or listen to the full episode on\u00a0Apple Music<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Spotify<\/a> (subscribe and follow!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Death Cab For Cutie were a band on the rise in 2003, and though it wasn\u2019t part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[57416,225792,225793,57417,225794,231385,231386,146,85,46,409,221201,231387],"class_list":["post-503394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ben-gibbard","tag-ben-gibbard-interview","tag-ben-gibbard-rolling-stone-uncut","tag-death-cab-for-cutie","tag-death-cab-for-cutie-australia","tag-death-cab-for-cutie-the-oc","tag-death-cab-the-oc","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-rolling-stone-uncut","tag-the-oc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}