Interview

WHITE HILLS

Vendredi 26 octobre 2012

Can you briefly introduce White Hills
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and tell a bit about the history of the band ?


Dave W. : Erm... White Hills
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... We are White Hills
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! It started out as a little thing for myself to make music because I wasn't too pleased with bands that I was playing in in New York City at the time. Nobody wanted to play the kind of music I was playing so I just recorded a record myself. Didn't think of putting a band together because I couldn't. And then it caught attention of some people who really liked it. And that's pretty much it really.


You toured Europe many times in a short amount of time. How come you're so present here ?

D.W. : Because I didn't care to have a presence in America. I didn't think at the time there was an audience in America and it's more fun and romantic to come to Europe than it is to drive around in a van in the U.S. Europe is the place to be.


You're playing in Oslo tonight. It's the first time for you in Norway. How's the response to your music in Scandinavia where you haven't played as much as in Belgium for example ?

D.W. : It's great ! I think it's actually one of the better places for us. We were here three years ago. We played Stockholm and Copenhagen. But yeah, response has always been really good here, even from having come only once before. And we played Stockholm last night and there was twice as many people as there were when we were here last.



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And how is it going in the U.S. now ?

D.W. : For the last couple of years we've been doing a lot of touring in the U.S. And there are definitely more bands playing the kind of stuff we're playing. It's better but it's not like here. There are a lot of fairly larger bands that like what we do and ask us to do opening slots for them. We played with The Flaming Lips
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, Mudhoney
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, Sleep
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. In December we're gonna be opening up for Monster Magnet
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in New York City. So those things for me make it better for playing in the U.S. Because just hopping in a bus, or not even a bus, in a van, and just driving around in America is tideous but it's something that you have to do so we do it. But I'd much rather come here.


You have smaller distances...

D.W. : Well it's not only that. It's just different. It's the way people approach music. It's the way venues approach music. It's very different. The way the fanbase approaches music is very different. It's a different culture and there's a different value that's placed upon arts in general. So coming over here and doing something artistic, people appreciate it in a different way. And more people appreciate it in a way that you would like it to be appreciated. So it just makes it, for you doing it, more fun.


White Hills
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releases many records. What inspires you to create so much music ?


D.W. : Well I think that there is a perception that we release a lot of records. I don't think we released that many records. I come from a time in which, for me growing up with music, bands did release a record every year. It wasn't like you release an album and then five years later you release another record. So, to me, if you're active in doing something, why not release an album every year ? There's never a shortage of material really. There's a lot of things that we do that never ever really go anywhere. But we're constantly rehearsing, we're constantly writing new material, we're constantly recording. And so it's like if you're doing those things and those things are good and you want them out there, they should be out there. I don't think you need to wait so long. I think that within the process of creating, there's something in creating for the sake of creating. Versus like creating and nitpicking. Taking so much time to think "No, this needs to be this way and it needs to be this perfect". There's something about creation that is within a moment. And I think if you get away from that moment, you lose something within the creative process. The way that I approach things within writing music in this band is kind of like how abstract expressionist painters painted. They painted for the sake of painting. They just painted. They didn't really think necessarily too much about too many things within it. It was like "I have this urge, I want to create, I'm creating". I approach music in that same sense.



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What's up for White Hills
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at the moment ?


D.W. : We're in Europe until the end of October. And then when we go back to America we have a one-off show in Los Angeles. Then we play with Monster Magnet
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in December. But outside of that we're just gonna take it easy. It's been an extremely busy year for us, so we'll start plotting what next year will be all about, really. I think all of us need a little bit of a break.
This is the second time this year we've been in Europe. We've done two fairly large tours of the U.S. this year as well. And then a few smaller tours around the U.S. Throwing in some recording in there along the way.


Is there anything else you'd like to say ?

D.W. : To say... Yeah, lots of things ! (laughter) I think that people should live. I think people should live within the moment. I think people should spend less time on computers and more time outside. Just kind of soaking in this planet we live on and the universe that we're part of. And understand that we are very small within a greater scheme of existence. And how we're all connected, how it's all connected. People just open up their eyes a bit. Get out of the small existence in which they live in and see the beauty in everything.


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AUTEUR : Elodie
Liégeoise immigrée dans la capitale, Elodie a rejoint l'équipe en 2012 et s'est rapidement imposée comme une rédactrice compulsive en alimentant ...
Liégeoise immigrée dans la capitale, Elodie a rejoint l'équipe en 2012 et s'est rapidement imposée comme une rédactrice compulsive en alimentant abondamment la section 'News' tout au long de la journée. Plus intéressée par la musique sombre que par la pop-punk, elle réalise également des interviews d'artistes dans la confidence, au déto...
Liégeoise immigrée dans la capitale, Elodie a rejoint l'équipe en 2012 et s'est rapidement imposée comme une rédactrice compulsive en alimentant abondamment la section 'News' tout au long de la journée. Plus intéressée par la musique sombre que par la pop-punk, elle réalise également des interviews d'artistes dans la confidence, au détour d'un backstage ou d'un coin de bar. ...
Liégeoise immigrée dans la capitale, Elodie a rejoint l'équipe en 2012 et s'est rapidement imposée comme une rédactrice compulsive en alimentant abondamment la section 'News' tout au long de la journée. Plus intéressée par la musique sombre que par la pop-punk, elle réalise également des interviews d'artistes dans la confidence, au détour d'un backstage ou d'un coin de bar. ...
Liégeoise immigrée dans la capitale, Elodie a rejoint l'équipe en 2012 et s'est rapidement imposée comme une rédactrice compulsive en alimentant abondamment la section 'News' tout au long de la journée. Plus intéressée par la musique sombre que par la pop-punk, elle réalise également des interviews d'artistes dans la confidence, au détour d'un backstage ou d'un coin de bar. ...

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