Melancholic widescreen pop-rock

Blek le Roc released their debut album. Simais Laura met the band for an interview.
As the work was in the studio?
Lucas: We had the advantage that we have taken with a fellow producer, who of course has also said, he is not only self mitrein something, it's our thing. So we could also say, after a session, "Hey we can do that again" if they did not like. For this reason, because we could really take time. So it probably took so long. But if needs be, we can too quickly.
Tobias: But it's definitely still in the studio, sometimes exhausting, because you can get carried away quickly. It has a lot of time and, above all, endless possibilities of this and to do it. And then you can hear the centenary of the track and in the end you will notice the difference and not just when it is changed even more. You lose too much time to even just a little bit of sight and hearing.
How would you describe your music to someone who does not know you?
Tobias: It is melancholy in the first place.
Lucas: at least as mood. You could say it's widescreen melancholy pop / rock, melancholic and epic.
Tobias: Widescreen always sounds negative, but ...
Bene: Nope think I do not. It is a melancholy way, but it is now not in the direction of melancholic acoustic / singer / songwriter. The melancholy is there, but we always try to dress in a relatively opulent pack. Direction are about bands like Sigur Ros and of course, Coldplay, Radiohead, U2. For us, this is a fine line between experimental and sophisticated, easy on the choice of her sound and the pop. I think that's exactly what made us, that it has that personal touch.
Tobias: The songs are not written for a Popkonzept. While there are Poprefrains and there are bonds, but it is actually more packed in different directions. This is perhaps the most experimental music at the moment. She is inspired, but not the celebrated pop. He will be resolved in peaceful beats or guitar lines that are not typical. It is not aware of trimmed into a Poprichtung.
Is it true that has been your first gig with Status Quo?
Lucas: That was the second. That was a funny coincidence. We have had our first gig at the Great Wood and went well and everything was great. And because we wanted to celebrate the day of course, we asked whether we might be able to leave our car. With our guitars and amps and all the equipment. And the answer was "Yes, of course, you can leave that until tomorrow at the site." And then the next day at noon the call came from the organizers of the Great Wood, the opening band, that was originally scheduled for status quo and came from Berlin in traffic jams and has no chance of making it to the gig. Whether to step in and we could not. We were quite stunned! We then rumtelefoniert in the band and it was clear that we do it. 5000 people, sold out and the band after three weeks of existence, this is really something special. Since then, there was also a funny story, but you can tell for yourself ....
Bene: I had so adopted a stupid job. I was on a photo shoot for a theme park in the Allgäu. They had a roller coaster with looping backward. Then there are the photos I shot and hung down about twenty times that backward looping, and was completely through. Then the guys called me and it was relatively late. Besides, I was not driving there and had to catch the train. Someone else has checked my drums ...
Lucas: ... plane came true rock-star standard ten minutes before the show even with residual alcohol completely to the wind. And then we are high on the stage, the lights came on. Then as you look at the audience and that was really crude.
Are you relaxed in general, before performing? Are there any rituals?Bene: We are not nervous before long. But just before the gig so two or three hours before, it always starts. I will probably never drop. And that's also quite beautiful. The tension is transformed into energy on stage and then it is very different than when you play in the rehearsal room. But Lucas has a ritual ...
Lucas: I always have to throw up before a show. Since then it goes through with me. I believe that people never know that I'm nervous before the concert because I'm quite relaxed on the stage over. But before the concert then it is always the standard question: "Lucas, already puked". And if that just happened, then it fits and then we can go on stage.
And if it does not happen?
Lucas: That's actually never before ...
If you could you pick a band that plays with your time together, that would be ...?
Bene: Sure, the big ones, because that also belong to our very great role models. If someone were to ask for Radiohead or U2 or Coldplay, then I certainly would not say no.
What are your plans?Tobias: The plans continue ... so we are planning for September and October actually a tour. Now we'll have to wait and see until the plate is out there and we have reviews. Otherwise it makes no sense before large rumzufragen. So it is probably October. But there are a few things that are being considered.
Bene: We want a single nachschießen in two to three months on vinyl.
Lucas: Actually, this should now happen with the album already, but we do not want this in the whole then goes down. Therefore, it is better to spend a bit after that.
Last question: When would you not focus on music, where you're likely to be?Tobias: It's difficult to answer because you can tell, of course, if I had not done with the music, I had just a job. Yes we all have studied. But music was always in parallel and there was never a question whether either one or the other. It's also good that it has to compensate for higher education. Clearly it is with us as if we start now a stark job that you would have no more time for music. It is always balancing. The problem is not just have people, not playing in a band. But it's making us all part of the music and personality, it is simply a must. Therefore, it is difficult to say really, where would we be if we had not done it.
Bene: Yes, I would probably somewhere in Africa. No, I think then I would have probably ended with a very different energy my studies much earlier. It has just always dedicated himself to music with a lot of time and energy. And if that had not been so, then this energy would be executed just flowed elsewhere.
Tobias: But it would have lacked the balance.