![]() Not only in your genre but many of them, I imagine, you've met and done music and shows with.Ībsolutely. Unfortunately, with everything going on with the people that we've lost in the music world recently, what's your take on that since a lot of these musicians are write in your area. I have a question I wanted to ask you because I value your opinion on it. It's the way we rehearse and write nowadays, I suppose. We don't really plan things like that but I suppose when we started again in 2004 with Start from the Dark, John (Norum, guitar) came in, having lived in LA for a long time, with a detuned guitar and the other guys had been touring with other bands so when we started rehearsing things were slightly rawer, heavier like it was maybe when we were teenagers, when we just started. Everything is organic, everything just happens. Was that something that was planned or is that just kind of the way the music's worked out? It seems that over Europe's career the band's sound has gotten heavier over time. I think Dave Cobb's production also made it kind of fresh and that feel and it speaks to people. So we're very thrilled in the band at the reception. The reviews for this album have been even better then Bag of Bones. Since War of Kings has been out for a little while now, how do you feel the reception's been? We realize it's a big challenge but we're going to do what we can and try to rekindle our relationship with America as well.Ībsolutely. We want to do a little of that over here. We've toured a lot the last 10 or 11 years now and built up a new thing over there in the UK and Europe. I was at that and you guys sounded great. You headlined the M3 Festival here in Maryland last year. War of Kings has been doing better then some of the other new albums which is why it was specially released and it's been really good. It's been great to come back here and meet the fans and meet some new fans. We did a small tour in 2005 but before that we're talking '87, '88. It's been a pleasure, we haven't been in the States at all in 10 years. Charred Walls Of The Damned's Richard Christy.Tickets begin from Dh200 and are available from. That mix of the melancholic and positive thinking is producing a lot of great stuff.Įurope perform on Friday night at the Dubai Tennis Stadium. Maybe it’s because of those long dark winters there is a bit of melancholy lurking there in the background of the songs. There are lot of things going on there at the moment. There third album (Head Down) I didn’t like so much but they are now working on the fourth album so let’s see how what happens. ![]() ![]() It burrows from the classic rock bands but they are young and they do it great. Now their second album (Pressure and Time) I love and they have a song on there called Pressure and Time and it is fantastic. They are called the Rival Sons and there are from Los Angeles. But we want to remain ourselves, we want to push ourselves and we want to remain relevant and that’s why we are coming to Dubai too, to show the audience that it is the not just about the old songs, there are new songs as well. If we were trying to do eighties stuff then we would have stopped. We love what we do and we are still making interesting albums. Also we are somewhere in our career and not in the beginning, hopefully we have another ten or fifteen years left. We are very nerdy when it comes to music gear, instruments and microphones and on the forefront technically and songwriting wise. We tour everywhere and we do feel very lucky. If you are a good band then it’s a vibrant live scene out there for you. So now it’s all about the live shows and merchandise. But the albums don’t sell near the number as back in the eighties and nineties. It tells fans that you are alive and doing stuff and you are coming to town playing new songs. Now with Facebook we can read these messages and know what our fans think. In the eighties we had fan clubs and we hired people to open letters for us because we couldn't read them all. For one thing the internet has made us closer to fans. It s very shaky but there have been some good developments as well. Behind the scenes all was fine and and friendly. These are my peers and we grew up listening to Thin Lizzy like I did. I met Jon four or five times and we get along fine. We were surprised by that and I think it was the European media who started that because they needed that kind of thing as well. On the rumours that Europe and Bon Jovi engaged in a fierce musical rivalry? In this extended interview singer Joey Tempest speaks to Saeed Saeed about their rivalry with fellow eighties stalwarts Bon Jovi and his favorite band of the moment. Europe are performing tomorrow night at the Dubai Tennis Stadium.
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