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repeat and make all the shows really hold up.
IE: Does this mean in three years that you guys will be playing a six night run at the Chicago Theater? DT: We will see. We hope we are at least still doing a one night. I hope the crowds don’ t leave us. It’ s been a slow steady build, man. As long as it feels good, and people are coming out, we will keep doing it. The beauty of this band so far it seems, is that the more we work and the more we get after it, the better it feels. We are all for it.
IE: I also understand that you and Susan have your own little festival you host in Florida? DT: Yeah we have been doing that the last few years. We kick off our year down there. It’ s kind of like the Wheels of Soul, except maybe eight or ten
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bands instead of just three. It is a fun way to get the band cranking again. It is going to be another busy year next year keeping a twelve piece band together. You have to get out and work.
IE: It’ s going to be in January, right? Chicagoans should go down there to warm up. DT: Yeah, true. You know, we did the Chicago Theater run last year in the middle of winter, and people seemed to appreciate us showing up in the middle of that weather. Something about that felt right, and then they brought it up again this year. You know what, we like doing that – showing up when other bands won’ t.
IE: In Chicago, the fans will always show up no matter what the weather. I know. You guys aren’ t afraid. It’ s all these false musicians who are scared of the cold. Appearing 1 / 19, 1 / 20 and 1 / 21 at Chicago Theatre, Chicago.
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personal way of saying goodbye to the Accept chapter. Does this mean you’ ll never play an Accept song live again? Udo Dirkschneider: Under U. D. O. we will never play any Accept songs again, that’ s why I’ m doing this. After the American tour, we start working on the 16th U. D. O. album, so I think we have enough stuff to do a setlist without any Accept songs. Maybe there’ s just a small door open that maybe if Accept split up, then it may be the time to play some Accept songs again. As long as Accept exists, you will never hear any Accept songs with U. D. O.
IE: How excited are you for the upcoming North American tour? You don ' t really get over to the States very often with U. D. O. Udo Dirkschneider: No, the last tour with U. D. O. was in 2013 and it was just 12 shows, and now we’ re doing 24. I’ m really looking forward to this and we’ ll see how the people react, and I think it will be a good reaction from the audience. It will be the same setlist that we’ re still doing in Europe and that will be over two hours. So you can expect a long, heavy setlist.
IE: So what’ s next after the US tour ends in early February, will you be concentrating on U. D. O. and the new album? Udo Dirkschneider: We just finished with the festival season here in Europe. So at the moment we have a break until the end of October, then we start touring Russia, Ukraine and Scandinavia again for the second time. More shows in Germany, Italy and Austria till the end of the year. After the American tour, the first of March we start recording the new U. D. O. album. So we are quite busy. In March
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we’ ll do pre-production, then we’ ll pick 15-16- 17 songs to record. The plan is to be finished in the middle of May with recording and then mixing. We’ re not that young anymore, so we take our time.
IE: At age 64, you don’ t seem like you’ re ready to pack it in just yet. Udo Dirkschneider: I still love touring and making records. Some people ask me if I know when I’ m ready to retire and I say,“ No.” As long as my voice is still working, as long as I’ m healthy to do this and as long as people still come to the concerts … I don’ t know. But as long as I have fun … this is the most important word,“ fun.” Maybe I can do this for another 10 years, I have no plan about this!
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