PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal
As you all know I am a huge Diablo Swing Orchestra fan, I was lucky enough to have a chat with Daniel and he very kindly answered a few of my questions
Can I start off by saying you are a rather eccentric band; could you please tell me the inspiration behind Diablo Swing Orchestra?
The basic motivation is of course to write good music that we like. It’s first and foremost a thing we do for ourselves cause we have fun while doing it. We’re not trying to be weird just for the sake for it but like to try things we think sounds fresh and that we haven’t heard before.
What is it like in the day of a life of a Diablo Swing Orchestra member?
Well, there’s no glamour that’s for sure. We don’t rehearse that often so most things with the band we do via emil/facebook since we don’t live in the same city. We all have different jobs to get by.
As a band you have undergone a couple of line-up changes recently: how this affected the writing and recording of your latest release Pandora’s Piñata?
The addition of Martin and Daniel as full time members has granted us more input when it comes to arranging songs as well as new musical ideas in general. The brass also play a big part on a lot of the songs on this album. And Petter really brought some heave drumming to the table so yeah I guess you can say it has made us sound better
Pandora’s Piñata has a bit more of a grown up feel compared to ‘The Butchers Ballroom’ and ‘Songs for the Damned and Delirious’ how do you feel your fans have taken to your slight change in styles?
So far I would say the response has been more positive than negative but of course there have been comments on that it’s not as chaotic as the last album. We’d like to think that we managed to write songs that are a bit more coherent but still contain some twists and turns.
How do you find your inspiration and decide what theme each album is going to be?
Inspiration is normally hearing a good groove of riff or just watch a really good performance and it can inspire you to write some songs as well. The overall feel of the album is not decided until we decide what songs that will end up on it.
Could you please tell me what “Exit strategy For a Wrecking Ball” is about as the tone in vocals compared to lyrics are a complete juxtaposition?
Well let’s just say that a love/hate relationship is described in that song. The contradiction in the vocals/lyrics kind of depict how hard it can be to distinguish those feelings from one and another.
Do you have any plans to tour this year, and more importantly plans to come to the UK?
We’re leaving for a latin america tour on the 23rd of may(venezuela/colombia/brazil/argentina/mexico) and we’ll hope to do a london gig later in the fall.
How do you find your fans compare from different parts of the world?
Well the latin american ones are more intense I must say But so far we’ve only had nice encounters with fans and everyone has been very polite.
Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions, do you have anything you would like to tell me?
Well, hopefully we’ll see you on tour in 2012
cheers!
P.s Who’s the cookie?
Haha, Andy’s (bass) the cookie
