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Paramore Ready To Tour & Make New Album –
After multiple U.S. tours that have seen Nashville, Tenn., emo rockers Paramore go from clubs to large venues, bassist Jeremy Davis is still nervous about the opening night of his band’s tour.
“I won’t be nervous after the first or second night,” Davis said, calling from Reno, Nev. “I’ve got some friends here, so I’m hoping everything goes well. But we have a whole new set that’s a really long, detailed set list, a lot of stuff we’ve never done before. I’ve very excited about it.”
Flint Journal ExtrasDavis explained that the faith-based group, led by spitfire lead singer Hayley Williams, isn’t just performing the hits like “Crushcrushcrush” and “Misery Business” from its two albums, “All We Know is Falling” and the platinum-selling “Riot!” The Warped Tour veterans are playing deep cuts as well.
“Some of the new stuff we’re playing is really cool,” Davis said. “It’s a lot more fun to play. We were playing the same old thing for a long, long time. Some are songs we’ve never played before. All the other songs that we’ve played before. The songs we did before, most of them we play different than we ever played before. We redid them, and it’s a lot of fun.”
“Riot!” was released in June 2007, and Davis admitted it’s time to start work on a new album. He said slyly that Paramore — which also includes brothers Josh Farro on lead guitar and drummer Zac Farro — has a few ideas, however, nothing is complete.
“We have some pretty cool ideas that are sounding pretty awesome,” said Davis, whose girlfriend is from Garden City. “I can’t wait to do that. After this tour, we’re going to take off for two weeks, then we have a three-week tour in South America. We’ve never been there before. We’re excited. After that, then we’ll take off and work on a record, probably.”
Those words should soothe tweens and teens who feared Paramore was ending when it canceled its European tour for the dreaded “personal reasons” earlier this year.
“There were lots and lots of rumors going around about all that,” Davis said with a laugh. “We’ve always done what everybody asked us to do and gone wherever we needed to go and done whatever we could for everyone. We’ve never been selfish before.
“After touring that long with no break and no vacations, it got really tough and physically hard on our bodies. We felt we needed to be selfish and take time off.”
SOURCE: MLIVE.COM
Paramore: After Tour, More Work Ahead –
The band’s sophomore album went platinum, much to its surprise.
It’s all about setting goals for Paramore bassist Jeremy Davis.
When the Franklin, Tenn.-based band entered the studio to record its sophomore album “Riot!,” which was released last year, the punk-pop group’s objective was simple.
“Our main goal was to come out of there, be better musicians and just to really make it an experience instead of just going in and throwing down some songs,” said Davis, calling from the V-Fest concert festival in Baltimore, Md. “We wanted to come out of the studio and for people to be able to notice a difference.
“So we spent a lot of time practicing and getting to know our instruments better and working with each other more and even adding more instruments. Literally, that worked wonders for us because we were touring for several years playing the same songs without basically having any time to get better. So that was the biggest difference, and I think it showed.”
He’s right. While Paramore’s 2005 debut effort, “All We Know is Falling,” did get the band noticed, the album failed to break the band into the mainstream. Then came the late spring 2007 release “Riot!,” which, buoyed by the success of its four singles – “Misery Business,” “Hallelujah,” “Crushcrushcrush” and “That’s What You Get” – has gone platinum.
Davis said nobody is more surprised about the disc’s success than the band itself.
“When we released the album ‘Riot!,’ we had a goal to sell 500,000 records by the time we came out with another record,” Davis said. “So it was amazing to us when we crossed 500,000 the first few months in. It was the biggest shock ever. Then we had to make new goals for ourselves, but it was pretty cool.”
One of the goals of the Hayley Williams-led band was to polish its live show. After many touring legs, including on last summer’s Warped Tour and last fall as an opener for Jimmy Eat World, the foursome is now on its last outing. “The Final RIOT! Tour” comes to Northeast Ohio for an Aug. 24 show at the Time Warner Cable Amphitheatre at Tower City.
The current set list includes all of the group’s hits, many of which are reworked.
The band is also performing Jeff Buckley’s version of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ as an intro to its own track “Hallelujah.” Davis said something else exciting for fans is the fact that the group is playing “Riot!” track “We Are Broken” for the first time. The song has been completely dismantled and changed from its studio form.
Perhaps such an adventurous performance within the live realm will lend itself to Paramore getting creative with its highly anticipated third studio album, which the band hopes to record this fall and release next summer.
Davis admits fears abound within the band regarding its next project. He said there are too many examples of one-album wonders for this quartet to take things lightly. That means there are plenty of goals left in this band’s future.
“If there was something with the next album I was afraid of, it would be that it was viewed as a fad kind of music,” Davis said. “We’re all in this for the long run, and that’s why we took the grass-roots route in the first place, to establish a good fan base.
“So I’d hate to have us fall off the face of the planet. That’s kind of one of my worst fears.”
SOURCE: VINDY.COM
Hayley Williams: ‘I’m NOT depressed’ –
Haley Williams has taken to her blog to muse about the success of her band over the past 18 months, and denies she is in any depressed.
In a blog entitled ‘disclaimer: i’m not depressed. i’m actually severely happy’, the Paramore singer says:
“i was thinkin… and i wanted to write about it. the past year and a half has not been easy or hard. honestly, i can’t remember much of it because it went by too fast for me to understand what was actually going on. it still surprises me when i hear one of our songs on the radio or see a picture of us in a magazine. i still don’t get why the hell someone would care to have one of our signatures on something of theirs haha.”
She goes on to say she “draws a blank” every time she is asked what it’s like to be famous, and is fascinated by the interest in her and her band.
“nothing changes the fact that there’s always someone out there coming up with new theories about us, new ideas so that they can get a grip or put a handle on who we are” she writes. “i might sound bitter but actually i’m just a little bit fascinated. i still haven’t really figured out what it means to be known of but not understood in any way shape or form. i could fill a hundred pages of lyrics, poetry, broken thoughts and still never be understood even the slightest. it’s a good thing. i just don’t get it yet.”
And she says she regrets ever feeling that she may have wanted to give it all up saying:
“everyone wants what they can’t have but when i look back on days i thought i wanted something completely different than all of this - i can see how stupid that was. how selfish i was to ever try putting myself in someone else’s story.”
Meanwhile, Paramore continue their North American tour with the following shows:
Montreal Metropolis (August 2)
Toronto Kool Haus (August 23)
Cleveland Time Warner Cable Amphitheatre (August 24)
St. Paul, MN State Fair Grandstand (August 26)
New York, NY Rumsey Field at Central Park (August 28)
Portsmouth, VA NTelos Wireless Pavilion (August 29)
Wallingford, CT Chevrolet Theatre (August 30)
Seattle, WA Seattle Memorial Stadium (September 1)SOURCE: NME.COM
Paramore to Perform at MTV Video Music Awards –
Washington (ANI): Rihanna, Paramore
While Rihanna will be performing her "Umbrella" hit along with a live rendition of her new hit "Disturbia", Pink will give an explosive performance with her new single "So What".
"I can't wait," People magazine quoted Pink, as saying. Rapper T.I. is also set to perform at the event after his arrest in Atlanta last year. The hit band Paramore, whose “Crushcrushcrush” has been nominated for Best Rock Video and the Best Art Direction in a Video, will also be lending their charisma to the event.
SOURCE: ONEINDIA.IN
