Interview with ANTI-FLAG
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I met the drummer from ANTI-FLAG and I asked him for a short interview and he accepted in a second. These are the kind of people I like, no rockstar behaviour at all!!
By: Miguel Guinness
By: Miguel Guinness
Patrick this interview is 100% improvised so tell me how the tour is going so far?
Pat: We were just in warped tour in the states and then we came to do some festivals here in Europe, so we have been in Europe for 5 or 6 days now, but we have been on tour for about 3 to 4 months, I am tired but glad to be here in Austria.
Now you mentioned that you have been in festivals in the US and now in Europe one after another, which differences do you noticed between them?
Pat: Well in Europe the kids can drink at a way younger age, so it changes the whole feel of the festival, also in the US lot of kids have to go with parental supervision, so the European parents trust in their sons a little bit more I don’t know if that’s a good idea or not but well the festivals here have a different feel but the kids here are great they want to go and enjoy music doesn’t matter where like yesterday Hungary, today Austria and tomorrow another country, the US or Australia, Japan is all the same so it´s all good .
How was the experience to be signed in a major label?
Pat: The only difference between release our CD in major label or in an independent label it´s that you get more people to go through or more hoops to jump to and in the major you get what you want and in an independent you have to work a bit more at the end you get what you want too, just in the major labels is more people that one that you have to deal with. But no big difference.
Through all these years the ANTI-FLAG is still alive, I mean concerning veganism, straight edge, anti-establishment, etc…or has this feeling changed anyhow?
Pat: It changes a little bit in the fact that now there are better vegan food everywhere, back in the day it was more difficult to get vegan or vegetarian products, so that’s a good thing make it easier to keep ideals, so now a lot of things changed there are bigger communities and that makes it easier to keep your ideals alive, because there are a lot of people around you who believe in the same things and that’s making a grassroots movement which make your life easier.
Any plans to tour Latin America?
Pat: Well yeah we have plans to go there but at the moment I would like to be more a human being and not just a tour monkey, I like to be at home and spend time with my goldfish. But definitely we will go to Latin America a few friends of us play there already and they were excited about it.
What do you think about Christian Metalcore?
Pat: Hahaha Christian Metalcore, I just don’t get it!! I just don’t get it!! We were on tour on the states with the warped tour and there is a number of Christian/Metalcore bands and they are all good dudes and I don’t care what god you believe or what god you don’t believe because it doesn’t matter to me, but is funny that 10 years ago and if you were playing the same kind of music, you would have being praying Satan or something like that and now they are Christians, is sort of a weird thing for me, but well music is a way to express themselves doesn’t matter in what god you believe in.
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