{"id":1235,"date":"2021-04-14T06:01:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/interview-archives-uberlinuberlin\/"},"modified":"2021-04-14T06:01:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:01:39","slug":"interview-archives-uberlinuberlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/interview-archives-uberlinuberlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Archives : \u00fcberlin\u00fcberlin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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July 31, 2013<\/abbr><\/h5>\n
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Exclusive interview: Erik from HORSE the Band’s epic rant about American idiots, Berlin and why he’s moving back here<\/a><\/h3>\n

by James Glazebrook<\/span><\/h4>\n
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Horse the Band by Adam Frame licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

HORSE the Band<\/a><\/strong> have been accurately described as\u00a0“The gratest unsuccessful band ever”, by an enthusiastic YouTube commenter with bad spelling. The Californian band welded metalcore to crunchy 8-bit electronics, inadvertently inventing the “Nintendocore” genre – a label they’ve spent over a decade trying to outrun. For their Earth Tour, they took a self-financed trip across 45 countries in four continents in just 90 days, and turned the epic endeavour into a 10 hour documentary<\/a>, probably the greatest rock n’ roll film ever made. We caught up with keyboard player, and ex-Berliner, Erik just before the band’s return to the city – read below for a fascinating and funny rant about the state of the States, what’s to love\/hate about Berlin, and why he’s moving back here…<\/em><\/p>\n

This tour flyer is insane! Who created this beautiful piece of artwork and whose innermost fantasies does it represent: yours, singer Nathan’s (depicted as a Niacin pussy ghost) or the hot lady bear’s?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We found some fan art in our Facebook messages, which we check by reading the top three messages every two years or so, so it was quite serendipitous. We tried to contact the person who made it, but Facebook wanted us to pay a dollar. Then we remembered everyone steals our intellectual property and uses and distributes it, so we decided to do the same thing to our fans.<\/p>\n

Another nice man “cleaned it up” in Photoshop and then I art directed it to the genius piece it is now. Our booking agent added the tour dates in Comic Sans, ’cause he thought it would be funny to “add to the joke”. Seems like a common theme, like everyone feels like they are inside the 10-year joke we have been crafting throughout our “career”, except, we never knew we were being funny.<\/p>\n

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For everyone who hasn’t yet had the pleasure\/pain of experiencing a HORSE the Band show, what should they expect?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Probably something not as good as before. A let down.<\/p>\n