may not have the official title of Hardest Working Band in the World, but a glance at their schedule proves they're a solid contender for the honor. Since the April release of their eponymously titled, critically acclaimed fourth album (and first Billboard Top 200 No. 1), the Tennessee trio has been gigging relentlessly all over the world. This fall, they're set to embark on the Self-Titled Tour, along with indie stalwarts Metric and pop-punk goofballs Hellogoodbye, which will take them to arenas around the country.
Before that, the band is in England for two shows at Wembley Arena. We caught up with lead singer Hayley Williams over the phone as she enjoyed a rare break at bassist Jeremy Davis' wife's family home at Milford-On-Sea. Nervous and excited for this next step in the Paramore evolution, Williams talked about the impact of the recent record, what the band hopes to achieve on this tour, and forgetting to email your heroes.
You're going off on the Self-Titled Tour, which is the first time in a while that you're headlining these big arenas in the United States. How does big playing the big rooms differ from playing in front of, say, 3,000 people?We're so excited. A little bit nervous, too. It's been three years since we've done a proper tour in the States. Just the fact that our booking agent and our management felt like we could do an arena tour this year got us so fired up and so excited. We've been putting together a bigger production than we've done before, and a longer setlist than we've done. It feels real. And that's so crazy, because when we were in the studio, nothing felt real. It sort of felt like we were waiting for a piano to drop from the sky! It's crazy that the arena tour is happening. We're ready to show the band that we can be.
Does this tour change what you're hoping the band can become?The biggest thing for us was writing this record. I thought that we grew a lot over the last three records, but when we started to record this one, it felt different. We would listen back to the demos and just be like "That's Paramore? That's so bizarre! That's wild." It made us really excited. We had to get there and release it out into the air, into the world. That was a huge thing for us, and it surprised us, and I think doing this arena tour is the next step. We can bring [Paramore] to life. It's going to be a good way for us to find exactly what we want to be, and who we are.
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