antiMUSIC.com recently caught up with BLACKMORE'S NIGHT vocalist Candice Night. The following is an excerpt from the chat:

antiMUSIC: The Paris Moon DVD is simply excellent. I really liked Castles And Dreams, but it seems the show has just kind of gone to another level.

Candice: "Oh thank you. Yeah, it just seems with this band…it's interesting cause, it feels so strange. It's like once we do something at a certain time or a certain level, we feel we've really presented the best we could possibly do at that point and then we'll do something the next year or two years later and we'll look back and say, wow, it keeps growing in leaps and bounds, you know, depending on how comfortable we all feel with each other and of course that all comes in time. You don't just realize it until you reflect on the other things that you've put out there."

antiMUSIC: Sure. It's surprising that there's all that untapped potential that's in there that's just waiting to come out.

Candice: "It's wonderful actually. You know everybody in the band brings their own their little part really to the band, as well. So depending on who we have in the band at the time…everybody kind of brings their own identity to it. So it always sort of keeps us on our toes and always adds their own individuality to whatever incarnation of the band is for that year or that moment."

antiMUSIC: Why another live DVD at this time and why did you choose Paris as the show to put on tape?

Candice: "Well, probably because, actually with Paris Moon it was interesting. It was really kind of nerve-wracking for all of us because had never played France as Blackmore's Night. Obviously Ritchie played there in his other bands years before. But at this stage it's our 10 year anniversary of the existence of Blackmore's Night, so we really felt like after a decade we've really accomplished in this band so much and we felt so good and so comfortable with each other on the stage and with the songs that we collected and our whole repertoire. And France was a place we had never been too. And just as a challenge we decided okay, you know. We had a lot of fan mail coming from there, but still you don't know if when you arrive somewhere at a place if they're really going to get what you're doing, because when it's an un-commercial sort of music or genre that you're putting out there, if it's not commercially accepted and put on the radio every five seconds, or on MTV, or you know, in your face and rammed down your throat all the time, you just don't know if people are going to really know what you're doing and be really accepting of it."

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