Lifting their moniker from the tea that vocalist Malte ‘Pedro’ Unnasch would devour whilst tracking vocals on the band’s debut EP (‘Ready To Leave’), Earl Grey‘s newly released work ‘Passing Time’, is their second EP of the year. Concerning their eagerness to keep up the momentum, the band comment that “There was just 6 months in between recording the two releases, so whilst we obviously didn’t reinvent the wheel with this one, we do all think that this EP is a big step forward. The songs deliver more passion, honesty and energy, and that’s exactly what we were looking for; I think that we finally found our sound we want to represent the band.” Here the German fusers of pop punk and hardcore answer the A-Z interview…
A Song Which Made You Want To Make Music:
– blink-182 – Dammit.
Best Album Ever Written:
-The Menzingers – On The Impossible Past
Craziest Moment You’ve Experienced In The Band:
-Getting tour tattoos.
Deepest Lyrics One Of Your Songs Features:
– We’ll pass that one to our listeners!
Easiest Song You Wrote:
-41844.
Favourite Show You’ve Ever Played:
-Wrexham.
Guest You’d Most Like To Feature On A Your Record:
– John from Trophy Eyes.
Happiest Moment In You’ve Experienced In The Band:
-Our first UK and Euro Tour with Yeah Detroit. It was the best time ever and we miss these guys a lot.
Interesting Fact About One Of Your Members:
– Tristan tattooed every band member inclkuding himself. (On Lukas’ couch)
Jokes You Have In The Band:
-Pedro is old and Moritz is going to die from smoking one day.
Kicking Off Your Set Is Best With Which Song:
– Our favorite song to open the set with is November because we originally wrote it as an intro for our first ep and it goes straight into ‘Paths’ without a break.
Longest Distance You’ve Travelled To Play A Show:
– It was the drive from Mönchengladbach to Nevers. It’s like an 7 hour drive but we managed to make it 10 hours.
Most Inspiring Musician You’ve Ever Experienced:
– Frank Carter.
New Band You’d Recommend:
– December Youth.
Opening For This Band Would Be Ideal:
– Slayer.
Place You’d Most Like To Tour:
– Australia.
Quote That You’d Like To Pass On To Readers:
– – “why don’t we go back out there and tell them what happened? – because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don’t be caught without money and don’t get caught high on any kind of high.“ – Charles Bukowski – Night Streets of Madness
Reason For The Title Of Your Recent Release:
A lot of our lyrics are about messed up situations and feeling betrayed or left alone, lost or hopeless. We deal in our songs with where we come from, what makes us who we are and what music we play. We are far from being miserable, but our music is our strength
See Us Live At:
– Gängeviertel, Hamburg this Saturday (07/11/15)!
The Old Days Of Music Were Better Than Those Current, do you agree:
– We’re in our early twenties so we can’t really tell. We surely missed out on getting completely munted at Woodstock but we guess we still have good stuff happening these days.
Unusual Merchandise:
-We made five panels earlier this year.
Variations You’d Like To Do On Any Of Your Songs:
– A symphony orchestra version of ‘Paths’.
What Bands Have You Seen Live and Regretted:
– We don’t want to bash anyone.
X-rays or any other treatments needed for band related injuries:
– We could probably all use a new liver.
You could have written any song in history, which would you pick:
– Africa by Toto.
Zoo animal that best describes the personality of your band:
– Definitely a sloth.
Watch Video ‘Haven’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXpPIWbiadA
EP ‘Passing Time’ was released October 9th, via KROD Records/Acuity.Music:
Physical- www.krodrecords.com
Digital- https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/passing-time-ep/id1039017483
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