Courtney LaPlante sits in her dressing room alone, doing her make-up, getting ready for showtime. Outside the door she can hear Spiritbox drummer Zev Rosenberg talking with members of the other bands on their current U.S. tour – Underøath, Bad Omens and Stray From The Path. It’s the sort of unremarkable interaction between musicians that used to take place every single night on the road. But after two years of enforced absence due to the coronavirus pandemic, there was something about this particular conversation that soon saw Courtney’s carefully applied mascara become smudged. “They were just talking about nerdy drum stuff,” she smiles. “Their favourite sticks, their favourite drummers… But it made me so happy to hear Zev talking to other people that like to do what he likes to do....
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