Q: What’s the difference between the band’s members when on stage and backstage?
Backstage after a gig? Definitely sweatier! (laughter) I can’t say that there’s any particular difference. Obviously, there can be a theatrical element on stage but I don’t feel we have any overblown persona that we exhibit on stage or in public and we later retract when in our private quarters. In fact, I feel we do much to close the gap down as that’s where we attribute a big part of the problem with our social reality; that we are a community of personas instead of persons, with social media encouraging and fueling that to the maximum. We don’t devise any representation of incarnating the transcendental, like a priest would do during a service. Those plays are reserved for others. Even if we could accept that there is a religious or spiritual dimension in a rock concert, we don’t pretend we are any different on stage. On the contrary, we expose ourselves, offering us as a tool, stripped down, being all vulnerable letting that way any emotional charge under which a song has, to pass through us.
Interviewer: Dimitris Lapousis
Publication: Art and City
Period: October 2012