PARAMORE are a band—a band that have been kept mighty busy since the release of their fourth album, simply titled Paramore, this past April. The self-titled album (one of only two albums we’ve given a five-star rating to all year) has been winning over critics and fans worldwide, which has given the Tennessee natives a chance to pull off something they never thought possible—an honest-to-God arena tour, perfectly named the Self-Titled Tour. We caught up with spunky frontwoman HAYLEY WILLIAMS as the group headed toward Manchester, U.K., to get a few more details on one of the hottest tickets this fall.
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And speaking of those hot tickets--the band and AP are giving away a pair of tickets to each of the dates! Head to our PARAMORE CONTEST PAGE to enter!
Let’s talk about the Self-Titled Tour, which is going to be Paramore’s biggest North American headlining tour to date, with support from Metric and Hellogoodbye. What does that bring out in terms of pressure? Do you prepare the same way for a club show as an arena show?
HAYLEY WILLIAMS: Oh no, no. We’ve been planning this tour for what feels like all my life. It’s a tremendous amount of pressure, but the thing that I’m hopeful about, is that we do the best under pressure—under intense pressure. We always rise to the occasion at the last minute, so I’m sort of holding out for that. But the thing is that we’ve been planning this show and Jeremy [Davis, bassist] has planned out production—he’s sort of took the reins on that whole thing—and I’ve put together a setlist that I really, really love and that the guys really love too, so imagine that? All three of us are really psyched on a setlist. Everything feels eerily good, and I’m waiting for the piano to drop from the sky, you know? It’s just nerve-wracking. There’s a lot riding on these venues, and I kind of just think about it like, “You know what? This is what we’ve said that we wanted for so long.” We wanted to do this tour, we wanted to move into these rooms and show people that we can put on a show worthy of them. Obviously, Madison Square Garden, that’s the one we talk about like, “We’re gonna have to do this, we’re gonna have to come guns blazing—with everything that we’ve got.” So that’s what we’ve been planning to do.
HAYLEY WILLIAMS: Oh no, no. We’ve been planning this tour for what feels like all my life. It’s a tremendous amount of pressure, but the thing that I’m hopeful about, is that we do the best under pressure—under intense pressure. We always rise to the occasion at the last minute, so I’m sort of holding out for that. But the thing is that we’ve been planning this show and Jeremy [Davis, bassist] has planned out production—he’s sort of took the reins on that whole thing—and I’ve put together a setlist that I really, really love and that the guys really love too, so imagine that? All three of us are really psyched on a setlist. Everything feels eerily good, and I’m waiting for the piano to drop from the sky, you know? It’s just nerve-wracking. There’s a lot riding on these venues, and I kind of just think about it like, “You know what? This is what we’ve said that we wanted for so long.” We wanted to do this tour, we wanted to move into these rooms and show people that we can put on a show worthy of them. Obviously, Madison Square Garden, that’s the one we talk about like, “We’re gonna have to do this, we’re gonna have to come guns blazing—with everything that we’ve got.” So that’s what we’ve been planning to do.
You’re in the middle of a pretty big European tour, and judging by the setlists that have appeared online, you’re already playing a pretty huge chunk of the self-titled album—about two thirds of it right now. Given that this tour is called the Self-Titled Tour, should we expect even more of the album to make an appearance on the North American tour?
Maybe, but I don’t know because the thing that we like to do is really try to give people something from every album. Like, right now we’re playing for an hour and 35 minutes, and at some point, if we keep adding songs from the self-titled record, you’re gonna lose All We Know Is Falling [songs] or you’re gonna lose brand new eyes or Riot! [songs].I don’t know that I’m willing to lose that much more of anything. I think we have to reevaluate when we get home from this tour and make sure we’ve got all the ends tied up and know that we feel really confident about the setlist. I was nervous to play this much of this record, but so far, those songs get the biggest reaction—which is insane. We haven’t had that since Riot!:You know, putting out a new album and instantly everyone loves the songs live, they work, and we pull them off. I’ve been really surprised with almost every aspect of this record, and it’s a lot of fun.
Maybe, but I don’t know because the thing that we like to do is really try to give people something from every album. Like, right now we’re playing for an hour and 35 minutes, and at some point, if we keep adding songs from the self-titled record, you’re gonna lose All We Know Is Falling [songs] or you’re gonna lose brand new eyes or Riot! [songs].I don’t know that I’m willing to lose that much more of anything. I think we have to reevaluate when we get home from this tour and make sure we’ve got all the ends tied up and know that we feel really confident about the setlist. I was nervous to play this much of this record, but so far, those songs get the biggest reaction—which is insane. We haven’t had that since Riot!:You know, putting out a new album and instantly everyone loves the songs live, they work, and we pull them off. I’ve been really surprised with almost every aspect of this record, and it’s a lot of fun.
More of the interview here: http://www.altpress.com/features/entry/were_gonna_come_with_guns_blazing_paramores_hayley_williams_on_the_self_tit
Source: Alternative Press via @TheParamoreBand
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