8 months ago 29th Jun 15:00
Billy Talent
Billy Talent are finally returning to the music scene with their foxy new album Billy Talent III, released on July 13. As they prepare to take on the UK festival circuit and unleash their hot new single, I caught up with the guys to see how the past few years have been treating them.
Hello there pretties, what’s going on? It’s been a while since we’ve heard from you!
Yeah, we’ve been busy, busy busy, spending time with our families and writing our new record.
You’re planning to tour the US with Rise Against and Rancid this summer, how excited are you for that?
Yeah, that’s going to be all July, it’s going to be fun, we’ve done a lot of shows with Rise Against in the past so it’s just like going back and hanging with family. Im going to try and get Tim Armstrong to reunite Operation Ivy. It’ll never happen, but I’ll try.
You’re also coming to the UK for a couple of the festivals, which are you most looking forward to?
Both! Download main stage is going to be a great experience for us and doing Reading and Leeds with Alexisonfire and Anti Flag on before us, when we’ve toured extensively with them before, should be a lot of fun!
I’m excited to see you at Download, eeek! It’s my first time! But anyway, your new single Rusted From The Rain has just come out, to anyone who hasn’t heard it yet, how would you describe it?
It’s a rock song! It’s a mid-tempo song and it’s got one of the greatest guitar solos ever!
Better than one by someone like Slash?
Hum, it’s up there.
Even more exciting, you’ve got a new album, Billy Talent III, which is due for release in July, can you sum it up for us in just five words?
Very, very, very, very good.
I like it, that works! So was there any process you went through when writing the album?
Ian. I was really inspired by him. It all starts with a guitar riff, and he creates some riffs and then John and I sit together endlessly making it as good as it can be and then when that’s as good as it can be we start to get the lyrics and the melodies going and we start to play them live together and then we change them again. The amount of work that Ian did was very inspiring to me.
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