Awsten Knight of Waterparks & Dillon Francis | Full Interview on Touring, Fame, and New Music!
The Joe Vulpis Podcast
Joe Vulpis
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Artist on Artist! Awsten Knight, lead singer and songwriter of the band Waterparks and world renowned DJ Dillon Francis discuss their approaches to music, song writing, and live shows. Really interesting to see the rock world and the EDM world collide!
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| 0:00.0 | The main thing that we're trying to do is become friends with Timothy Shalame. |
| 0:03.1 | Timothy Shalame, where are you? |
| 0:04.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:05.1 | What are you doing today? |
| 0:06.4 | Do you like lunch? Let us know. He's like, I love remixes. Won't let me remix anything, which is crazy. Oh, you want you to remix it? Literally, I want you to remix everything. Cherry Red Sems been asking for two months now. I sound like that right now. The go from line. |
| 0:20.3 | Get the fuck up. |
| 0:21.5 | Please get up. |
| 0:22.7 | What's up guys? |
| 0:23.3 | My name's Joe. |
| 0:23.8 | Welcome to the fuck up. Please get up. What's up? My name's Joe, welcome to the podcast. Today's interview is brought to you by Fandul. Okay, I go right into it. You guys made a song together called Forget. Holy shit, no intro. Do I get any credit for this? And I'm looking at you, Mr. Dill. You might. We talked about this for a second. We did. Tell him the story. |
| 0:41.3 | Because... any credit for this? And I'm looking at you, Mr. Dill. You might. Wait, we talked about this for a second. We did. Tell him the story because he might just be blanking right now. You very well could be. Do you remember we were working out in the gym and I put on a song called Real Super Dark by Water Parks? And you go, wow, this song's really good. No. No! Forgettable. |
| 0:54.4 | You heard it here first. |
| 1:10.7 | Hear it next on Spotify. We were working out. Really? I put the song on. It goes, da-na-da-da-na-na-na-na-da. Yeah. And you're like, wow, this song's really good. I'm like, you should remix it. Oh, yes. I do remember this now. And then I never ended up reaching out. |
| 1:13.6 | I do remember this, though. |
| 1:14.0 | I do. |
| 1:29.3 | This is evidence of destiny. Yeah, this is manifest destiny. That is pretty crazy. I did not realize that. And then a few months later, I see a music video pop up. I'm like, no freaking way. I feel like that is just you putting it into the way. It is. It is. Because I said you said you pulled the stems from it too and you're like, I didn't really do it, but maybe if I get |
| 1:31.2 | into it. I have those stems by the way. I know you want cherry red, but I'm saying. He won't send me cherry red stems. It's not that I won't send it. What are you holding onto it for? I'm not. No, no, he's gatekeeping the song. |
| 1:41.8 | That's kind of messed up. |
| 1:42.6 | You're holding it from everybody. |
| 1:43.6 | I'm saying it's on some drive. |
| 1:45.4 | It's on some drive that I have somewhere. |
| 1:47.0 | I'm trying to's on some drive. |
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