No Stranger to a Breakdown: Not Enough Space on Growth and What Comes Next
Photo credit: Ryan Reid
Not Enough Space have barely stopped moving since debuting with Weaponize Your Rage last September, via Thriller Records. The Orlando five-piece have spent most of 2026 on tour: previously with Dark Divine, and now with The Word Alive. It’s one of those beautiful moments in the industry where a band not only drops a stellar album, but can back it up with an equally impressive live performance. And that formula for success is why Not Enough Space has built a devoted fan base just a year into Weaponize.
I caught up with Liv, Lizzie and Tristan from Not Enough Space outside Gramercy Theatre, a couple hours before they hit the stage in New York as support on The Word Alive's anniversary tour for the Deceiver and Dark Matter albums. We did this the old-fashioned way, pen and paper on the corner of 23rd and Lex (of course, my mics gave up the ghost before the interview).
What you're reading is the conversation as I caught it in the moment, and as you’ll see, the band is no stranger to a little equipment failure themselves.
Almost a full year out from Weaponize Your Rage, how have you grown as a band?
For Not Enough Space, this past year has really been about growth on every front. They pointed to the band itself tightening up, the bond with fans deepening night after night, and everything they have soaked up while sharing the stage with other bands on tour. The biggest lesson? They have learned just how well they work together when things go sideways. This is a crew that troubleshoots as a unit, and as it turned out on this tour, they would get plenty of chances to prove it. Which led me to my next question!
The tour van died and I Promised The World happened to be parked in the same lot. Is that fate? Any chance we get the two bands on a stage together?
That troubleshooting the Not Enough Space mentioned has been tested on more than one occasion. The van gave out in a Salt Lake City parking lot, and a couple of locals stepped up to get them running again. The band acknowledged it would be one hell of show, but the bands live in slightly different genre/styles. So, maybe a shared stage would be more a coincidence, like a festival.
And Salt Lake was only round one. The van broke down a second time in Texas. The band took both hits in stride and chalked the whole thing up as part of the experience out on the road.
I love “Solace In Silence" and its tempo changes, they seem to work well live, playing on the crowd’s energy. Any other tracks the band loves playing live with this same dynamic?
Alongside Solace In Silence, they pointed to “Weaponize Your Rage” and “Don't Be Scared” as live favorites, both built on the same kind of shift in tempos that let them steer a crowd through the highs and lows, then into the next breakdown.
What's next after this run with The Word Alive? New music? Anything you're looking to explore creatively?
With the album a year behind them, Not Enough Space are already looking forward. They are deep in the songwriting process and hoping to wrap that stage by the end of the year, which would set up them up for a fresh album cycle sometime next year.
First, though, they have a milestone to celebrate! On September 4, the band plays a Weaponize Your Rage anniversary and hometown show at The Conduit in Winter Park, Florida. You can find tickets for that show HERE.
This scene still skews male-dominated, but it feels like the imbalance is finally shifting. From an artist's perspective, do you feel it too?
Liv and Lizzie agreed that women-fronted bands are finally starting to garner the respect they deserve in the scene. What stuck with me was how they framed their own place in it. Both were clear that within the band, and out on tour, they do not think of themselves as female vocalists. They are vocalists, full stop.
From where I stood, that clarity is exactly what keeps them locked in as band, they do not get caught up in the titles nor let it define them.
You have toured the whole country now. How feral does a hometown Florida crowd get compared to the rest of the country?
Nothing beats a hometown show, they said. The band led with Atlanta, which has become a second home to them, then gave some love to Mesa and pretty much any Ohio crowd!
Okay, with songs like “New Age Cannibal" and “Kill Eat Repeat," if the band went full cannibal on tour, who gets eaten first, and who's the last one standing?
Liv and Tristan called it out almost unanimously: Lizzie goes first. The theory is that her downfall would be either be her terrible eyesight or mistakenly playing dead at the exact moment she should be running!
As for the last one standing, it came down to two candidates. Either Jacob who would shamelessly devour the rest just because “he was hungry,” or Tristan, who would patiently wait to the side until the rest of the band cancelled each other out.
Did you miss Not Enough Space on tour this year?
On August 5, the band released the official music video for “Dancing on My Grave.” Which contains plenty of live footage from tour. As the band says in the opening frame:
Here’s to every moment that’s brought us here. And every one still to come.
