APOCALYPTICA On Festivals - "It's Another Kind Of Challenge To Go And Play To A PRODIGY Audience"
June 3, 2009, 15 years ago
APOCALYPTICA have posted an interview on their official MySpace page conducted with Perttu Kivilaakso at the Stodola Club in Poland back in April. An excerpt is available below.
Q: What's the difference between club gigs and a festival for you.
Perttu: "Well, there's a lot of differences. In the festivals it's more likely that there is an audience that doesn't know us. Everything gives a different feeling, and a good feeling. Of course it's wonderful to go to play your music to a crowd who can sing everything and really participate from beginning to end. That's wonderful, but it's another kind of challenge to go to play to a PRODIGY audience who don't understand anything what we are doing, and you only have maybe 75 or 45 minutes in there and you have to convince them that we are..."
Q: You have to convert them.
Perttu: "No matter whether you heard us, but you have to dig it anyway. At least at this moment, show your fu*king hands."
Go to this location for the complete interview.
