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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
Posted: August 25, 2008 by daleMORE.
Filed Under: Article, Band, Hayley Williams, Interviews, Stuff, Tour, Yay!
Life.
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melancholy.
we are in springfield, missouri. just left bass pro shop/outdoor world. today is one of those days, where i feel like if i were at home, in franklin… i’d just want to lay around all day like a sloth. watch a few movies, maybe grab starbucks down the street and bring it back home. maybe cook something??? okay, yeah… probably not. it’s just one of those days. instead, however, i’m sitting around on the bus. talledega nights is on the television in the front lounge and i’m in the back lounge listening to it and watching people walk on and off the bus. is this an exciting story or what?
we don’t play missouri too often. i’m excited to see how the show goes. the venue is really nice… big, as most of them have been, recently. it’s definitely weird playing these half-arenas. (”i never realized how easy it was to half an arena with a machete…” sorry. just a quick ‘Walk Hard’ reference). lately, i’ve really missed those 300-400 cap rooms. heck, even smaller than that. pontiac grille, anyone? or what about the new brooklyn tavern? i think about those shows every night when we’re playing. especially when asking how many people in the crowd have never seen us before. some of these kids are seeing us play for the first time in these huge halved arenas. how crazy is that? it’s not sad… really, although some people might think so. it’s actually pretty ridiculous, haha. they must think we are big time, or something. all this is to say, i can’t really believe where we are right now. it’s weird that i almost forgot where it started. that’s why we had to go home for a whole month and just get away from the hype. we can’t forget where it started… you know? when we do, it’s just pointless.
every band i’ve ever loved, i always saw in really small clubs. other than when i saw coldplay in ‘03 at the reiman auditorium. i don’t know really what it’s like to one day be one person out of 10 at a show and then next thing you know, be wrestling kids to get to the front in some half arena. the closest thing i know to that is seeing coheed in ‘03 at the Muse, then Rocketown in ‘04 (with AFI and Thursday!!!) and then seeing them the past couple years at the warped tour… playing to huge crowds. but at that point, our band had tour passes so i really didn’t have to work that hard to see their set. i really don’t know what it’s like to follow a band the way some of you have followed us and worked hard to stay connected with us as we’ve tried to stay connected with you. so, thank you guys… for sticking with us. hangin in the long ass lines. everything. it’s awesome. and if you are just now getting into all of this, welcome and thank you too, for all the support and enthusiasm you’ve shown.
this was almost a pointless post… but i feel really good about it.
these kind of days are really good, sometimes 
ps. dear and the headlights are amazing.
Posted: April 18, 2008 by daleMORE.
Filed Under: Band, Interviews, Stuff
Win Josh’s Guitar & New Jeremy Interview
– Want to win the guitar that Josh is using for the Jimmy Eat World/Paramore tour? Head on over to www.paramore.net/fender . Contest ends May 5th and the winner will be picked May 9th.
– Jeremy very recently did an interview with Mercury News. Here is a little snippet of the article. (If you want to read the full article, click here):
Davis knows something about an age gap himself. He first played in a funk cover band with Williams, four years his junior, when she was about 13. A couple of years later, she approached Davis about joining a new band she was starting with her friends Josh and Zac Farro. Davis was taken aback when he showed up at the first rehearsal and found that drummer Zac was 12.
“I had very, very, very little faith in everyone in the band because of their age,” says Davis, who was already an experienced musician with some Nashville session work under his belt. But he was quickly won over.
“Some of the ideas that come out of Josh and Zac and Hayley’s heads - it astounds me at times, because I remember how young they are. I just feel like they’re super-creative.”
Because of their history together, Davis has a unique perspective on Williams’ talents.
“I still feel like no one in this world has heard Hayley sing like I have,” he says. “Really, she holds back so much. There’s like a big Aretha Franklin inside of her that is just powerful, and just crazy, and no one’s really heard that side of Hayley.”
Even “holding back,” Williams has impressed nearly everyone who has come across her music with a powerful voice and stage presence. Many have speculated that the band’s recent problems stemmed from the attention Williams receives from the press at the expense of her bandmates, particularly her songwriting partner, guitarist Josh Farro.
Davis scoffs at that idea.
