Post by samson on Aug 4, 2008 14:13:52 GMT
hotpress interview with nathan...might be a bit off cos i had to translate it from portugese.......long story..............has it already been posted?
Part I
But one year after the launching of the album Nº 1 of them in Ireland and the United kingdom, Because of The Teamses, the rock musicians of the south Kings of Leon is if preparing to place 4º LP of them “ Only by The Night ”, when the Hot Press beat one papo with the baterista of the group, Nathan Followill, the band was giving to a time in the assays for the next battery to festivals, including the space as encabeçadores in the Oxegen. The Kings had recently touched also in a series of show in the United States with Pearl Jam, in which Nathan feels as if they had occurred particularly well.
“ Those shows had been incredible, ” it if entusiasma. “ Acabamos now the album, we wanted to touch each music new, but in the reality you cannot make this. E this way that brings a good result because we have that making familiar in them to some bands that we did not touch it has some time again, what we wanted to make to the front of festivals. Also, we touch two new musics during these shows, and in the other day they were in the YouTube and are what you have. It is good for giving to the fans a sample, but you do not want to deliver to the thing all. ”
When I spoke with the Nathan in the passed year, it mentioned that in one turnê previous with the Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder had encouraged the group to adhere to surfe. They had had the possibility of if shooting in the waves of this time?
“ we do not program in them very to surfar in this turnê. ” Nathan says. “ the waves were not high sufficiently, the not that we surfamos great waves, in way some. However we adore in them to be in the water, and this legal age. I still am a little bronzed. ”
The band certainly has if hasty to launch the successor of Because of The Teamses. The plain age always to have another album immediately?
“ Well, Because of The Teamses was finished a good year before the launching, ” explains Nathan. “ the delay had to the things of the recorder, in terms of them not to want its album launched with the one of the Beyonce or thing of the type, that in them did not chateou in way none, because it does not import which COMPACT DISC is launched when its is, for its true will buy it fans happens what to happen. I find that they were trying to please the public who would have to buy our album if, of the Beyonce were not launched. I do not know if we and the Beyonce have the same fans, but we will see in this album! ”
“ We could have placed the Because of The Teamses in any place who we wanted, however is between the recorder and our entrepreneurs, and the agreements that they had arrived. The goal is to obtain the possible maximum of fans. Then we were, “ if this will help then makes; we go with this. ” and this normally functioned, and finished being album Nº 1 per two or three weeks. Then this way made that to see them the decisions that were taking with good eyes. ”
Having tried different sounds in the Because of The Teamses, previous substances had indicated that “ Only by The Night ” will see the Kings of Leon in return to the roots of the Southern Rock.
“ Has a certain rock in this album, ” Nathan confirms. “ Has much more melodies, and the instrumentation will be much more present. I find that we are very together better amateur musicians. It is our room album, then definitively we had studio time the sufficient ‘ in the sleeve ’ to discover as to make this. We were always one live band; it was where we leave and is what we obtain. ”
“ But this is the first album that we do not use the Ethan Johns, then in them involves a little in the production more. Still we finish making 70% it album to the living creature, but with the certainty of that we obtain everything what we wanted, and the reply of they had heard that it so far it has been excellent. ”
Interestingly, Caleb Followill was forced to behind pass for a surgery in the shoulder little time, after one lutinha with Nathan. What accurately it caused the fight?
“ Probably had involved alcohol, ” answers Nathan. “ This was one of those things that we wake up in the other day and is ‘ because we were fighting? ’ None of us has idea. It knows, when you have brothers and alcohol, this not delay very. When Caleb was lesser, it had elasticity, and you it could place the two hands over the head and in the coasts. I find that with passing of the years, the muscle of half it that he was surrado/consumed and I find that I reached the part most fragile of it. The work only was finished, it would need surgery in any way. I only sped up the process. ”
While everything this happened, Caleb recently said the Rolling Stone that the medicine for the pain that took after the surgery if proved as a benefit to its creativity (“ Acho that we go to arrange for it a bottle of remedies for pain for all the albums ”, Nathan of the one risinho). The vocalista also commented that “ We had that to be drunk because we all have namoradas that they go our house and that they deal with people ”.
It had much drunkness during the process of production of the album?
“ I would use a bigger word at what ‘ much ’, ” Nathan laughs. “ Had a little of drunkness rolling ”. She was not wild, a dull drunkness, was more to feel itself well. We wanted to be there and to make a music in which its mother would dance. Definitively it was a party with some process of involved writing. We made the album in house, and is a little complicated to leave great turnê and to come back being a normal person. ”
“ Obviously, you do not want to be that face that leaves all the night in this cidadezinha and starts to write on being a drunk. We use the studio as if it was the headquarters of the club. We entered there and we produced a little, and when we had made very for one day, we started to drink. If the drink left the control did not make nothing in the remaining portion of the day, the least had the made minimum to be productive. ”
“ Many friends ours in bands are as ‘ Expensive, as vocês make this? When one is in studio is necessary to be focado. You can festar when to finish. ’ If can have optimum of the two sides, why not? Normally we are well and ‘ supplied ’ when we touch to the living creature, then why not during the writing? (laughs) It will finish sounding in the same way that the show to the living creature would sound, I I find. I will say that we make this to be equal to our show. ”
This already afeitou the quality of the show?
“ Especially in festivals and things of the type, I do not know of nobody in this world that could look at for 100.000 people and not be a little nervous, ” says Nathan. “ Acho that all have a certain way to feel themselves alliviated, exactly somebody that does not drink or uses drugs. Somebody could make yoga. I have bateristas friends that they make a mount of flexões before the show stimulating the functioning of the metabolism. Each one has its skill to have the done things. ”
“ I am not saying that we are drunk in all shows, however it has some in which I am a little drunk excessively, and is as ‘ Ah, excrement. What I make now? ’ Then I only go in front and acknowledgment to my brothers for not turning over and to look at me if to confuse I me. But he has as if nothing he had happened and perhaps the public never perceives. ”
“ What he is funny is that shows had had some [] that I did not remember nothing, and in the following day the people ‘ Expensive, the show of the last night was much fuck, you commanded in the battery ’ However it is always thus. If you leave palco finding that she made a great show, the people you will say ‘ Eh, you were ’ well. But if you to think that she made an excrement show, the people will say ‘ Expensive, that show!
Part II
Also in the Rolling Stone, Caleb suggested that some of the bands of the album must have a subject politician, particularly “ Crawl ”.
“ That left a little the context, ” Nathan explains. “ We have a friend at any time that he works for the Rolling Stone, then that to talk with it, we will say sarcastic things, and it writes down. But I find that we are much more cliente of the current situation North American politics. He knows, this is the first album in which we all have the age enough to vote. I do not know if he is to have 18 or 22 - that this sample how much you know on politics.
“ Of first you had all these bands appearing with its songs politics and the songs anti-war. E was as if all were making the same thing, and us we did not want to be one of these bands who go e, ‘ Excrement, we go to adhere to this fashion. ’ Then we only leave that the things if extinguished, and this is one year of election, and will have a change happens what to happen. He would say that we all are definitively cliente of the state politician in America now. ”
Although the Kings of Leon widely is admired by its contemporaries and older artists (they count as to fans Bob Dylan and members of Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin), same Nathan is the last one namely on the high and particular compliments. Saying on its love on the Kings of Leon, Ed ’ Brien of the Radiohead said, ‘ the baterista, it is incredible. All they are excellent, but the baterista is really special. ’
“ Is a very legal compliment, ” Nathan smiles. “ I was very surpreso. I do not find that some of us in them considers excellent musicians. I am, mine two brothers and my cousin there touching, none in the truth planned to be an absolute virtuoso or another thing. Then he is, this was definitively a shock for me. I did not have idea of that it was a fan. I love Radiohead, I hear In Rainbows without stopping during this writing almost. Ed, if you already wanted to initiate a parallel band, you only leave to know me bro. ”
Speaking of fans of profile of high importance, Nicole Kidman and its husband Keith Urban they had at the beginning attended a show of the Kings of Leon of this year in Australia.
“ Keith is our fan. During our last album, it was in the studio, the door to the side of ours, then we obtain to leave with it a little and in them we become friends. Then Nicole appeared and my fiancé finds that they are better friends now, is hilário. It always says ‘ Ligue for the Nicole and Keith and goes to leave supper ’. ”
Also sighted in a show of the Kings of Leon in the last year it was Kirsten Dunst.
“ Is, it and Johnny Borrell shows had come to one of ours, ” says Nathan. “ Conhecíamos Johnny, I find that we touch in some festivals with it. However never I spoke with Kirsten. – has a rule if expensive one of a band brings a namorada actress for its show, you can only talk with the face. This reduces the fight the minims. ”
, It seems well that it would have to diminish in this part.
“ I do not have with what to worry me – I am not that I need surgery the time all! ”
One week after our interview, Kings of Leon is scaled to be ‘ encabeçadores ’ of the Glastonbury festival. The band touched previously in the festival?
“ That one was the first festival that we touch. We touch in the tent ‘ New Band ’ in 2002 or 2003. Then the last time was three years behind, after Oasis in palco main, and now they are ‘ encabeçadores ’. Each time we give a balance ahead, I find that you would say. Then in the next year, the only thing that is bigger of what this is in fact to touch in the top of the Pyramid Stage. ”
“ and thus happens, my anniversary is in the thursday and touches in the friday, that is my anniversary as battery technician. Also, the anniversary of my entrepreneur is in the sunday. I already decided that I go to celebrate my anniversary in the night after to touch in the Glastonbury. ”
Noel Gallagher, clearly, was a little critical on the election of Jay Z as one of the main attractions of the Glastonbury of this year. Is the Nathan a fan of rapper?
“ In fact I am fan of the Jay Z, ” it answers. “ Perhaps because I am American. But I find that it is an icon of rap, is hardcore. Then you have, N.E.R.D, that has songs of rap, but that they are not so traditional, they are not very on jewels [ostentation] and these things. Jay Z is to rapper more mainstream, I would say, and this probably is because of them to choose as an attraction hardcore rap or any thing of the type.
“ Acho that the public will be surpreso with the amount of musics that it has and they know and like, this will be interesting. I want to say, caramba, they have Neil Diamond touching this year. It has proper bling-bling well there. ”
To come back to the new album of the band, of where the heading “ Only By the Night ” appeared?
“ We were only to toa, botando the ideas pra it are. This was not an idea mine, then in the truth I do not know on the thought for backwards of this. But we accumulate that proper idea for drunks, of new. Our good and old friend alkey-hol. “
Finally, which are the memories of the Nathan touching in the Oxegen of the last year?
“ Acho that I bogged in all mud puddle that a human being could possibly bog, ” it relembra. “ Coloquei mine galochas and leaves and found all the possible puddles. I am prepared this year, then that it comes.
Part I
But one year after the launching of the album Nº 1 of them in Ireland and the United kingdom, Because of The Teamses, the rock musicians of the south Kings of Leon is if preparing to place 4º LP of them “ Only by The Night ”, when the Hot Press beat one papo with the baterista of the group, Nathan Followill, the band was giving to a time in the assays for the next battery to festivals, including the space as encabeçadores in the Oxegen. The Kings had recently touched also in a series of show in the United States with Pearl Jam, in which Nathan feels as if they had occurred particularly well.
“ Those shows had been incredible, ” it if entusiasma. “ Acabamos now the album, we wanted to touch each music new, but in the reality you cannot make this. E this way that brings a good result because we have that making familiar in them to some bands that we did not touch it has some time again, what we wanted to make to the front of festivals. Also, we touch two new musics during these shows, and in the other day they were in the YouTube and are what you have. It is good for giving to the fans a sample, but you do not want to deliver to the thing all. ”
When I spoke with the Nathan in the passed year, it mentioned that in one turnê previous with the Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder had encouraged the group to adhere to surfe. They had had the possibility of if shooting in the waves of this time?
“ we do not program in them very to surfar in this turnê. ” Nathan says. “ the waves were not high sufficiently, the not that we surfamos great waves, in way some. However we adore in them to be in the water, and this legal age. I still am a little bronzed. ”
The band certainly has if hasty to launch the successor of Because of The Teamses. The plain age always to have another album immediately?
“ Well, Because of The Teamses was finished a good year before the launching, ” explains Nathan. “ the delay had to the things of the recorder, in terms of them not to want its album launched with the one of the Beyonce or thing of the type, that in them did not chateou in way none, because it does not import which COMPACT DISC is launched when its is, for its true will buy it fans happens what to happen. I find that they were trying to please the public who would have to buy our album if, of the Beyonce were not launched. I do not know if we and the Beyonce have the same fans, but we will see in this album! ”
“ We could have placed the Because of The Teamses in any place who we wanted, however is between the recorder and our entrepreneurs, and the agreements that they had arrived. The goal is to obtain the possible maximum of fans. Then we were, “ if this will help then makes; we go with this. ” and this normally functioned, and finished being album Nº 1 per two or three weeks. Then this way made that to see them the decisions that were taking with good eyes. ”
Having tried different sounds in the Because of The Teamses, previous substances had indicated that “ Only by The Night ” will see the Kings of Leon in return to the roots of the Southern Rock.
“ Has a certain rock in this album, ” Nathan confirms. “ Has much more melodies, and the instrumentation will be much more present. I find that we are very together better amateur musicians. It is our room album, then definitively we had studio time the sufficient ‘ in the sleeve ’ to discover as to make this. We were always one live band; it was where we leave and is what we obtain. ”
“ But this is the first album that we do not use the Ethan Johns, then in them involves a little in the production more. Still we finish making 70% it album to the living creature, but with the certainty of that we obtain everything what we wanted, and the reply of they had heard that it so far it has been excellent. ”
Interestingly, Caleb Followill was forced to behind pass for a surgery in the shoulder little time, after one lutinha with Nathan. What accurately it caused the fight?
“ Probably had involved alcohol, ” answers Nathan. “ This was one of those things that we wake up in the other day and is ‘ because we were fighting? ’ None of us has idea. It knows, when you have brothers and alcohol, this not delay very. When Caleb was lesser, it had elasticity, and you it could place the two hands over the head and in the coasts. I find that with passing of the years, the muscle of half it that he was surrado/consumed and I find that I reached the part most fragile of it. The work only was finished, it would need surgery in any way. I only sped up the process. ”
While everything this happened, Caleb recently said the Rolling Stone that the medicine for the pain that took after the surgery if proved as a benefit to its creativity (“ Acho that we go to arrange for it a bottle of remedies for pain for all the albums ”, Nathan of the one risinho). The vocalista also commented that “ We had that to be drunk because we all have namoradas that they go our house and that they deal with people ”.
It had much drunkness during the process of production of the album?
“ I would use a bigger word at what ‘ much ’, ” Nathan laughs. “ Had a little of drunkness rolling ”. She was not wild, a dull drunkness, was more to feel itself well. We wanted to be there and to make a music in which its mother would dance. Definitively it was a party with some process of involved writing. We made the album in house, and is a little complicated to leave great turnê and to come back being a normal person. ”
“ Obviously, you do not want to be that face that leaves all the night in this cidadezinha and starts to write on being a drunk. We use the studio as if it was the headquarters of the club. We entered there and we produced a little, and when we had made very for one day, we started to drink. If the drink left the control did not make nothing in the remaining portion of the day, the least had the made minimum to be productive. ”
“ Many friends ours in bands are as ‘ Expensive, as vocês make this? When one is in studio is necessary to be focado. You can festar when to finish. ’ If can have optimum of the two sides, why not? Normally we are well and ‘ supplied ’ when we touch to the living creature, then why not during the writing? (laughs) It will finish sounding in the same way that the show to the living creature would sound, I I find. I will say that we make this to be equal to our show. ”
This already afeitou the quality of the show?
“ Especially in festivals and things of the type, I do not know of nobody in this world that could look at for 100.000 people and not be a little nervous, ” says Nathan. “ Acho that all have a certain way to feel themselves alliviated, exactly somebody that does not drink or uses drugs. Somebody could make yoga. I have bateristas friends that they make a mount of flexões before the show stimulating the functioning of the metabolism. Each one has its skill to have the done things. ”
“ I am not saying that we are drunk in all shows, however it has some in which I am a little drunk excessively, and is as ‘ Ah, excrement. What I make now? ’ Then I only go in front and acknowledgment to my brothers for not turning over and to look at me if to confuse I me. But he has as if nothing he had happened and perhaps the public never perceives. ”
“ What he is funny is that shows had had some [] that I did not remember nothing, and in the following day the people ‘ Expensive, the show of the last night was much fuck, you commanded in the battery ’ However it is always thus. If you leave palco finding that she made a great show, the people you will say ‘ Eh, you were ’ well. But if you to think that she made an excrement show, the people will say ‘ Expensive, that show!
Part II
Also in the Rolling Stone, Caleb suggested that some of the bands of the album must have a subject politician, particularly “ Crawl ”.
“ That left a little the context, ” Nathan explains. “ We have a friend at any time that he works for the Rolling Stone, then that to talk with it, we will say sarcastic things, and it writes down. But I find that we are much more cliente of the current situation North American politics. He knows, this is the first album in which we all have the age enough to vote. I do not know if he is to have 18 or 22 - that this sample how much you know on politics.
“ Of first you had all these bands appearing with its songs politics and the songs anti-war. E was as if all were making the same thing, and us we did not want to be one of these bands who go e, ‘ Excrement, we go to adhere to this fashion. ’ Then we only leave that the things if extinguished, and this is one year of election, and will have a change happens what to happen. He would say that we all are definitively cliente of the state politician in America now. ”
Although the Kings of Leon widely is admired by its contemporaries and older artists (they count as to fans Bob Dylan and members of Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin), same Nathan is the last one namely on the high and particular compliments. Saying on its love on the Kings of Leon, Ed ’ Brien of the Radiohead said, ‘ the baterista, it is incredible. All they are excellent, but the baterista is really special. ’
“ Is a very legal compliment, ” Nathan smiles. “ I was very surpreso. I do not find that some of us in them considers excellent musicians. I am, mine two brothers and my cousin there touching, none in the truth planned to be an absolute virtuoso or another thing. Then he is, this was definitively a shock for me. I did not have idea of that it was a fan. I love Radiohead, I hear In Rainbows without stopping during this writing almost. Ed, if you already wanted to initiate a parallel band, you only leave to know me bro. ”
Speaking of fans of profile of high importance, Nicole Kidman and its husband Keith Urban they had at the beginning attended a show of the Kings of Leon of this year in Australia.
“ Keith is our fan. During our last album, it was in the studio, the door to the side of ours, then we obtain to leave with it a little and in them we become friends. Then Nicole appeared and my fiancé finds that they are better friends now, is hilário. It always says ‘ Ligue for the Nicole and Keith and goes to leave supper ’. ”
Also sighted in a show of the Kings of Leon in the last year it was Kirsten Dunst.
“ Is, it and Johnny Borrell shows had come to one of ours, ” says Nathan. “ Conhecíamos Johnny, I find that we touch in some festivals with it. However never I spoke with Kirsten. – has a rule if expensive one of a band brings a namorada actress for its show, you can only talk with the face. This reduces the fight the minims. ”
, It seems well that it would have to diminish in this part.
“ I do not have with what to worry me – I am not that I need surgery the time all! ”
One week after our interview, Kings of Leon is scaled to be ‘ encabeçadores ’ of the Glastonbury festival. The band touched previously in the festival?
“ That one was the first festival that we touch. We touch in the tent ‘ New Band ’ in 2002 or 2003. Then the last time was three years behind, after Oasis in palco main, and now they are ‘ encabeçadores ’. Each time we give a balance ahead, I find that you would say. Then in the next year, the only thing that is bigger of what this is in fact to touch in the top of the Pyramid Stage. ”
“ and thus happens, my anniversary is in the thursday and touches in the friday, that is my anniversary as battery technician. Also, the anniversary of my entrepreneur is in the sunday. I already decided that I go to celebrate my anniversary in the night after to touch in the Glastonbury. ”
Noel Gallagher, clearly, was a little critical on the election of Jay Z as one of the main attractions of the Glastonbury of this year. Is the Nathan a fan of rapper?
“ In fact I am fan of the Jay Z, ” it answers. “ Perhaps because I am American. But I find that it is an icon of rap, is hardcore. Then you have, N.E.R.D, that has songs of rap, but that they are not so traditional, they are not very on jewels [ostentation] and these things. Jay Z is to rapper more mainstream, I would say, and this probably is because of them to choose as an attraction hardcore rap or any thing of the type.
“ Acho that the public will be surpreso with the amount of musics that it has and they know and like, this will be interesting. I want to say, caramba, they have Neil Diamond touching this year. It has proper bling-bling well there. ”
To come back to the new album of the band, of where the heading “ Only By the Night ” appeared?
“ We were only to toa, botando the ideas pra it are. This was not an idea mine, then in the truth I do not know on the thought for backwards of this. But we accumulate that proper idea for drunks, of new. Our good and old friend alkey-hol. “
Finally, which are the memories of the Nathan touching in the Oxegen of the last year?
“ Acho that I bogged in all mud puddle that a human being could possibly bog, ” it relembra. “ Coloquei mine galochas and leaves and found all the possible puddles. I am prepared this year, then that it comes.
