learned a lot from touring with other bands. We already knew the game quite well. The most exciting
thing was playing to bigger crowds and winning over
new fans.
These days you are headlining your own
tour – how different is it to be headlining? Is there
any more pressure when you‘re a headliner?
There are differences and yes there is
sometimes more pressure. You usually get a longer
set and full production. We have always remained
humble and enjoy varying it up. It is rewarding to
know that everyone is there to see you as the headliner but it also goes back to the whole staying hungry
thing...it's sometimes equally fun to just have an
opening half hour set and come out swinging, (and in sounds like crap. Sure the tape trading days were a
a friendly way) schooling other bands, and winning similar concept but again, they sounded like shit and
over new fans in the crowd.
you'd go out and get the new album of the band when
it was released. A million YouTube views doesn't
We hooked up through Facebook; tell us mean much as far as financial gain for the artist. Sure
what the band thinks about social media – critical you may reach a bigger audience but does that mean
they're gonna come to a show? And again some crap
component or necessary evil?
The whole music industry has com- videos have 20,000,000 views while some amazing
pletely changed. Yes a necessary tool, however it bands fly under the radar. And the million likes on
shouldn't be a replacement for hard work on a bands Facebook doesn't always translate to numbers at a
part. I can't blame young bands (because they may show. I encourage people to come to a show and fornot know better) but promoters should know better get about your stress and worries and just party and
than to just rely on Facebook to promote a show. It's have a good time.
definitely made people lazier. And no one can sell
albums like they used to since everything is digital How has the music industry changed
these days. I do support legal downloads where artists since the first Hemlock album in 1996?
get compensation. I'm not a fan of a free download of Back up on the soapbox. LOL The
a song that someone ripped from YouTube that biggest thing is the lack of album sales these days.
Bands that would have sold 20,000,000 albums are
lucky to sell a million. I think there's even less loyalty
to artists, especially as far as mainstream goes. I'm
not a fan of much current music out there.
It seems like people forgot how to write a
catchy, memorable song. Record companies are
crumbling and music stores are closing and that's sad
to me. I was excited to go flip through records and
you'd count down the days „til a new release came
out. Now you can download the album a month before its release date. The fact that buy-ons exist and
you rarely see bands take out up and coming bands
just because they like them and want to help their career is also disappointing. So if a shitty band has a lot
of money they can just buy onto tours and festivals...ehhh it's always been about money more than
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