Interview w/ ENTER SHIKARI
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Interview-Enter Shikari
There are different persons in this world some are the persons who are young and not famous, and the others are young, really famous and extremely friendly, so that was the case with ENTER SHIKARI, 4 young lads from St. Albans, England who at their young age are rocking stages everywhere in the world, this time I had the chance to interview them in Vienna during their tour with THE PRODIGY, The interview was quite cool and the show even more, personally I love this band.
By: Miguel Guinness
What does Enter Shikari mean??
Rob: Shikari is the name of a boat, Rou´s uncle is a fisher and he named the boats as shikari 1, shikari 2, shikari 3. Shikari means hunter in a few different languages and we sorted out that it was kinda cool, so that is what it means.
You started like every band playing in small gigs, so now that you are making world tours with really famous bands and big places, how do you guys manage your fame at such a young age?
Chris: I think we manage it alright, we are loving what we are doing now and we are touring with prodigy which is one of the bands we always used to look up to so yeah things are great.
Rob: We are not taking anything for granted, we still keep our feet on the ground, we are still very much level headed people, we don’t think about get rich out of it, we do it because of the love for what we do, the fact that we can do it as a career and not to have another job to help us is just brilliant for us really.
Rou: What we like to say specially on this tour nobody knows who we are is kinda nice.
(Liam coming late to the interview now)
Which is your musical background, which bands inspired you?
Chris: We were really inspired by our local scene around London, there are a lot of hardcore bands and we like clubbing as well and for example Rou makes a lot of drum and bass so this kind of stuff inspired us to make our music.
What do you think about this revolution in the Hardcore sound, now that bands like you are adding electronic layers to their songs?
Rob: (laughs) That´s not a revolution but is cool.
Liam: Well I really don’t know what to say about this (laughs)
Rob: I´m really happy about the fact that people are starting to open a bit more like going a bit far away from just guitars and drums, and that they like when somebody add something else to their music, I don’t like this elitist behavior that if you like heavy metal you just have to listen to heavy metal or if you like dance music you just have to listen to dance music.
Which differences do you think are the most common between big and small crowds?
Rou: For me is about the mood of the show the vibe on it, at the moment we play for tons of fans, which just a few are fans of us so which is quite weird, generally this people just smile they are not like into dance or rock with this kind of music, but then if you play with a different type of crowd like rock am ring it´s totally different people go mental and is totally a different vibe, I don’t know it just depends for which crowds are you playing to.
Liam: Like Rou said, depends on the vibes and you know we played tiny clubs back in England and is really good sometimes to go back to that, and as we are playing this tour we play earlier but still people are coming in and we like to play the big shows when the audience is more for us.
Chris: Well big shows are more fun because you have more place on stage to play with, that’s one of Rou´s benefits to play big shows
Rou: (laughs) Yeah!!
Which special memories do you have of any place that you have ever played?
The whole band: Dresden!!
Chris: It was a really big crowd, really good vibe the german guys are really good at it, they have a lot of fun at the shows.
Rob: Some other places have been like Finland, Norway and places like that that we have never been before.
Rou: What was the question? (laughs) I must say it was Japan, Japan is always like really different than the rest, we have been in the U.S., Australia but Japan stands off because is different than anywhere else, is really good fun.
Now that people can download every CD from internet, watch videos on Youtube or Itunes. Do you think that because of that bands have to tour more now than they used to do let´s say 10 years ago?
Rob: Yeah of course that emphasize the need to tour more than other things, now is not easy for a band to live just selling big amounts of CDs, is like you said you can download everything now, so that´s what keep us doing so many shows.
Chris: Well, we have always been a live band definitely and anyway we had to go to the studio and record but when we first started as a band, we were playing shows touring, gig-ing, and we were just thinking about to record a CD in our garage so play live is have always being important anyway and now the whole internet thing and being able to download music it has affected a lot the music industry and we grew up with it but for the kind of band we are hasn’t affected us so much as have affected other people.
Liam: So I think being on tour is more important to keep your presence with your fans.
Thanks so much guys, would you like to add something?
Chris: Mmmmmm No!! hahaha
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