Outdoors: MuchMusic Interviewer, Avi Lewis, with, from l-r, Ace, Skin, and Mark
Photo from: Hot Spot Band Management HomePage
Avi:
It seems like these festivals, apart from great gigs, are also a place to hang out with your friends and see everyone you don't see all year. Is that right?
:
Oh yeah, yeah. It's nice hanging out with other bands, though, because you become friends with loads of other bands as well that we didn't know that well and we just liked their music, you know, so, it's cool.
:
It's also a place, where, like, like you say, you know, you don't see your friends all the time cos your on tour all the time so a lot of my friends are ready to come down for the whole thing, you know, and I just met up with them and it's fucking [bleeped out] great. Whoops- [covers mouth] can't swear.
Cuts to later in the interview...
:
In Glastonbury it's like the real hippie, hippie culture, you know, like the drug culture festival so you've got like hippies and markets and performers and theatres and things like that. This one, and Reading Festival, is very similar they are like the rock, kind of- just complete music festival. Like, if you go out in the front it's not all kind of like theatres and things like that. It's generally dance and music and everyone comes for that. It's really good. It's one of the best now.
Cuts to later in the interview...
Cass joins the group and puts his arms on Skin and Ace's shoulders.
and :
Hello/Hey
:
Hello.
:
This is Cass our bass player.
Avi:
Now do the festivals generally try to program music of a similar kind together or do they just assume that people are going to be all over the map?
:
Well it's everything. It's every festival we're doing like this one, and all the rest are every type of music because it's not so one-sided anymore. You used to have like ROCK festivals or BLUES festivals. Now it's like everybody because it's- the culture festival's-just to be there and enjoy yourself so you can hear a band you want at a certain time.
Avi:
How does it feel for you, vibe-wise, to be a harder act, you know, sharing the stage with dance acts and - [Skin cuts him off]
:
Fantastic actually. That's what we're about. We have loads of different influences in our music and on our new album you'll be able to hear that, you know. It's nice that everything is mixed up, you know. I think we're one of the few bands that can play with Sepultura and then with Massive Attack, which is what we've been doing.
Cuts to the stage where they show a part of the SA performance, three songs:
Selling Jesus, Charity, and I Can Dream.
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For pics taken off my video of this event, visit my Skunk picture gallery. I will be posting some of those pitures here intermittingly sometime, when I get the time *LOL
