BRING ME THE HORIZON Guitarist Jona Weinhofen - "We Wrote Music To Please Ourselves More Than Our Fans, And That Could Have Backfired On Us"
March 13, 2011, 13 years ago
RockAAA.com's Emma Jackson recently caught up with UK-based BRING ME THE HORIZON guitarist Jona Weinhofen. Following is an excerpt from the second part of the interview, where he discusses the band's latest album There Is A Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen It...
Weinhofen: "Honestly I think we took a bit of a gamble with the record. We wrote music to please ourselves more than our fans, we took a huge risk and that could have backfired on us. However, once we heard the finished product, it didn’t matter whether it sounded a bit different to the older material, or the production was bigger and more experimental. It only mattered that we wrote a really good record and our fans and even people who weren’t fans before responded well to the album."
"To add to that, the praise we have received from press, peer musicians and musicians who we’ve looked up to for years like Robb Flynn (MACHINE HEAD), Wes Borland (LIMP BIZKIT) and Simon Neil (BIFFY CLYRO), who couldn’t be stoked with that!?”
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Bring Me The Horizon are currently on the road, their schedule is now as follows:
March
16 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE18 - Buffalo, NY - The Rapids
19 - Montreal, QC - Metropolis
20 - Toronto, ON - Sound Academy
22 - Detroit, MI - Royal Oak
24 - Chicago, IL - Congress
25 - Minneapolis, MN - Epic
26 - Kansas City, KS - Beaumont
27 - Denver, CO - Fillmore
29 - Salt Lake City, UT - Salt Air
30 - Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory
31 - Seattle, WA - Sodo
April
1 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue2 - Portland, OR - Roseland
3 - San Francisco, CA - Warfield
5 - Fresno, CA - Voodward Park Amphitheater
6 - Los Angeles, CA - Palladium
7 - San Diego, CA - Sports Arena
8 - Phoenix, AZ - Marquis Theater
9 - Phoenix, AZ - Marquis Theater
11 - Tulsa, OK - Brady Theater
12 - Austin, TX - ACL Live
13 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
15 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade Outdoor
18 - Tampa, FL - Jannus Landing
