Toronto rockers Danko Jones recently released Live At Wacken on CD/DVD, Blu-Ray, double vinyl and digital. The band’s namesake and frontman, Danko Jones, spoke with Greece’s RockPages about the release and more. An excerpt follows:

Q: Your current release is Live At Wacken, and the first question that popped into my mind while watching it was this: how is it to play in a festival on broad daylight?

A: “Aahhh, fine. We’ve done it for 15 years. Hahaha! They usually start at broad daylight, at noon and they go up to 1 in the morning!”

Q: How do you introduce your band to a group of people that are gathered there maybe not to see you band, but the headliner or some others? What do you do to win them over?

A: “You just put on a show, I mean that’s all you can do. What else can you do? If they don’t like it, they don’t like it. You just play the show and hopefully they like the music and the performance and you go from there.”

Q: This year, 2016, marks the band’s 20th anniversary. Do you have something special in store for that?

A: “Well, this DVD is one of them. Hopefully, we are planning to do a special release of our record on vinyl this year and I am currently working on a book that should be released by the end of this year.”

Read the full interview at RockPages.gr.

The DVD and Blu-Ray editions of Live At Wacken includes a track-by-track commentary, an exclusive backstage interview and the spoken word performance from the 2012 Wacken Festival as bonus material.

The tracklist is as follows:

"The Rules"
"Play the Blues"
"Sugar Chocolate"
"The Twisting Knife"
"Forget My Name"
"Do You Wanna Rock"
"Had Enough"
"First Date"
"Watch You Slide"
"Full Of Regret"
"Code of the Road"
"Legs"
"Invisible"
"Sugar High"
"Cadillac"
"Lovercall"
"Gonna Be A Fight Tonight"
"Mountain"

EPK:

Danko Jones have updated their 2016 summer festival schedule for Europe, with more shows due to be announced in the coming weeks. Their schedule is currently as follows:

June
11 - Leicestershire, UK - Download Festival
24 - Bad Ragaz, Switzerland - Quellrock Open Air

July
1 - Helsingborg, Sweden - Sundspärlan     (with D-A-D and Hardcore Superstar)
8 - Gierle, Belgium - Sjock Festival
21 - Cuxhaven, Germany - Deichbrand    

August
27 -  Lierop, The Netherlands - Nirwana Tuinfeest