Vocalist Sebastian Bach recently announced live dates for Australia and New Zealand this September as part of his 18 And Live World Tour 2015. He recently spoke with The Rock Pit about the upcoming trek and his career in music. An excerpt from the interview is available below.

The Rock Pit: There's been a lot going on for you since you last came to see us – TV, Film, getting engaged, two albums so we’ve  a lot to catch up on. I know there in the States you’ve been playing a lot from Give ‘Em Hell recently but only "Tunnelvision" and occasionally "Wishin'" from Kicking And Screaming. Are you going to be playing a bit more from Kicking And Screaming’ when you come over – as you mentioned it did chart over here?

Sebastian: "Anything’s possible but that album is really old to me and some of the lyrics on there don’t reflect how my life is now; there are also feelings and memories of that record attached to the guitar player Nick (Sterling) and I get sad sometimes when I think about that relationship because it was amazing playing with that little guy. 

You know everything I sing on stage I just have to be able to get into it. A lot of the fans always request the Skid Row song ‘Wasted Time’, pretty much everywhere I go people say ‘Dude, you gotta do that live’ and I try to explain to them that I wrote that about heroin, and this was in the early 90’s when there was ‘heroin chic’ when all these models were trying to look gaunt; my sister was a model and she got caught up in this when all these models were trying to look like heroin addicts and it was all cool, and I just thought it all sucked and so I wrote a song about it. So I try to explain that these days I don’t think about heroin, not in 2015, it’s not something I want to step up to the mic and put my heart into because I’m not thinking about that these days. Right now family is first to me.

I have to admit that to you. I’m very excited to get married and that’s what my life is about now. It’s safe to say on my next record I won’t have devil horns on my head! All my records are extremely personal to the point where the record company begged me to put the lyrics on the last record and I didn’t want them to because they were too fucking heavy (laughs) if they’re that heavy you don’t want anyone to read them! I just have to be able to believe in what I’m singing and if I feel it that’s when you guys feel it. There’s a song on Angel Down called 'American Metalhead' that we will change the lyrics to Australian Metalhead and then you’ll see the crowd go insane! Check that one out live – I’ll always be a Metalhead that’s one thing that’s for sure!"

The Rock Pit: You’ve changed yourself between where you were when you made Kicking And Screaming and where you are today.

Sebastian: "Yes. There’s a big difference between drinking whisky every night and drinking wine. You know when you say that I think in between Skid Row and now I’ve done four Broadway shows with a cast and crew of maybe 75, 80 people and I keep getting hired for them so it’s impossible that I’m such a complete dick that I can’t get along with 80 people, so if they can get along with me… If I’m hard to get along with its usually because I think something sucks (laughs) and I’m not trying to be mean. I just know how good ‘Monkey Business ‘ is and ’18 and Life’ – and that doesn’t suck at all, that’s just incredible music. People get their feelings hurt in rock and roll all the time, big tough guys with tattoos get their feelings hurt (laughs). Every bad boy has a soft side."   

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Bach's Australian tour chedule is as follows:

September
18 - Christchurch, New Zealand - Bedford
19 - Auckland, New Zealand - The Studio
22 - Brisbane, Australia - Tivoli Theatre
23 - Sydney, Australia - Metro Theatre 
25 - Melbourne, Australia - Forum Theatre
26 - Adelaide, Australia - The Gov
27 - Perth, Australia - Astor Theatre

A TV spot has been released for the tour, which can be viewed below:

Tickets are available at this location

(Photo: James Garvin)