I put the question to the flash color quite often. Lomography is in fact my life, and that should please remain fun to be out there no matter how clear everything seems. One must work against the stop, to protect themselves proactively. Dissatisfaction is because the first step to success, only to go to start, you must already own the Red Lights Flash 's have shown us, and we also built a bridge. At the other end was found after five years of construction, then For Your Safety , an album whose title program. Please take it personally! It is a better world for those fifteen truly diverse songs in any case a good deal closer. Well, now your smile again! May's a bit more to be red?
What have Red Lights Flash made the last five years? Worked permanently at the new album? I suppose everyone of you has also anderswertige obligations?
After we published in 2004 Free ... on AF Records much we went on tour. Among other things, Rise Against , a few tours with antiflag , A Wilhelm Scream , Strike Anywhere and then have really pretty early on with the work on For Your Safety begun. We have set the bar extremely high, but because we wanted just now for eleven years playing together as a band and in that occupation and make real something that represents for us a new level.
Because we can not make the band full time, all have a life besides the band also completed studies in music and are being, or active in other areas.
are still five years a long time ...
We did, however, that the album is a perfect situation may have actually two or three pre-production done too much and as more "Less Talk, More Rock - attitude" when it becomes need. Retrospective You can stop saying that it took a long time, but we are 100% satisfied. It really is the best thing we've done before and the resonances are so far overwhelming.
Many people react by saying, RLF RLF sound like, this is a unique sound and this is the best compliment you can get as a band.
songs like "End of History" was one already on the Provocative valuable - are split EP with Rentokill from 2006. Must be such hits as long before they create it on an album, because the demand is very high-band?
(Laughs) You can say, this is a song that the old RLF in the For Your Safety - has carried over era. "The End Of History" is exactly feel the transition from the old style in the new direction where we are.
How have changes RLF in the new era, what is done differently, how to walk now approach the matter?
We can do more with song writing, the texts and the topic of how to bring together these two components as possible and touch many people busy. Also a lot with the voices.
Music is a wonderful tool to move something. We are actually using the phrase "Let Feelings Talk "has addressed the recordings wanted to appeal not only, as in the past albums, economic or social policy issues, but a bit more to reveal about us. The whole heave to another level, a more personal, more mature. You have to look
that it remains interesting. We do not want a band to be the ten years does the same. Nothing against the other bands make that have found their niche and run through the well, that's great. Not enough for us, we are guided us go in so maybe more bands in more artistic directions, as Dredg for example. We try to make a bridge, and have to For Your Safety my Opinion made it to good. It is diverse.
your latest album For Your Safety was the self-founded label RLF - Records released . What was decisive for this? You found her, despite really good contacts a label that has met your expectations, or was it a logical step to raise the DIY -thoughts also to a new level?
We simply have not found a label that could provide us with that which does not go beyond our own network. This has grown steadily, we are in contact with big bands, and become a really important person in the business.
The thing is, the resignation AF Records and Fat Wreck Chords from Europe, also Burning Heart is back from Berlin away. The situation for labels is really not good at the time, it has no money, you have / need the whole recording anyway to pay it myself, which extends hold for various productions over ten thousand €, and then they offer you that they pay the pressing , you enter any promotional budget and you have to give up all rights.
Because we are so long, and I occupied myself much with music management, that was a logical step. Especially in times of crisis you have to even off the ground, thus a logical continuation the DIY - thoughts, been with us for eleven years.
If in the future, other bands on RLF - Release Records ?
It can certainly serve as a platform for several other projects, primarily it's about once a matter of selling our music itself to that, we simply take control of the whole. We now license the album to other labels in different territories, the rights to stay here, the distribution for example, Italy's then another label, in this case No Reason Records .
Can I buy the album already in Germany?
The Album is obtainable everywhere. on Amazon can order it and it is worldwide in I-Tunes - download stores . On a distribution in Germany, we are still working, but that has, for the reasons for the time being does not even work.
RLF and Rentokill are hard touring bands. Bertl (Drummer Rentokill ) thought that it really difficult in spite 120-130 shows a year and really good slots all over Europe, as regards the financial situation. On the way work is not to think. What do you do for your own safety?
There are always two sides. To do what Rentokill , we have indeed done it all. But we have just noticed that if we continue playing as much, we will dissolve us. It is very exhausting if you're so much on the road, come home, and can not pay your bills.
We said we just want to be happy with our music, and we can only do that if we spend our lives with the band that we have passed the last years, to get across to life than 30 years.
why we focus more on the music. We want to grow it even more go into the artistic direction and then play the gigs we are personally important to us where it is and not so stupid that sounds and We have done really well for years and it was great, on a Tuesday somewhere in Nottingham fifteen people.
You have to stand out from the rest, otherwise it is one of thousands of the bands the hoof it from one pub to another. It is for a band like us in 2009 just to play 150 shows no longer possible.
is to find a satisfactory balance certainly no easy task. Does the term for music redefine itself?
Music is a wonderful art form. One has to ask the question: "How can I be even more interesting after eleven years, as I will not get bored." Since we have
really high standards for ourselves and are also very self-critical, which has certainly set us also obstacles in the path. Maybe we would when we on AF Records were asked where is this track that many games can do just that. We are there only this but a bit different and I am glad we are. It is simply much more interesting if not an album that sounds like other bands continue to grow and reinvent themselves.
This is not the easiest way is, that's clear. For us, 2008 and 2009, very hard, and it is certainly difficult for a 20 year old to understand this, but if you are 30, you know better what you can bring life to everything, and eventually is Easy-Easy-party stop over.
How are you come on the album cover. You have facilitated Durer's hands from 1508 to four fingers! I rolled up the artwork idea of the artistic side, see it the opposite of humanism, of that era, was in Dürer's most important artists and their current core issue could hardly be. I'm known for complex thinking!
Werner (bass player and singer) deals very much with art. He has always designed the artwork and merchandise lines. The
praying hands symbolizing be a weapon, what religions do to us humans, how they affect us and for how little maintenance they are responsible. They are used as an instrument to bring conflicts to swear.
Werner has built up for that disk on hand this scheme. The whole artwork, all the drawings in the booklet are pervaded by the theme faith and violence in connection with his hands.
We plan to make even just art prints of these drawings can be, which then should be available in limited quantities.
looks As the big plan for 2010. Are there specific indications for the first few months? I assume you're busy organizing the tour?
We work in Austria, Nova Music, more precisely with Thomas Zsifkovits, 1998 has already managed our first major support matters. With For Your Safety we are with him again come in contact and makes us now the shows in Austria and I think we will play in the near future also really cool stuff.
What is international, I can not say yet. We are of course tuned to tours, will do in March, Italy and France, with Uncommon Men From Mars . Then we'll see.
Is America because of your contacts must also be an issue?
difficult Ganz. We have already tried to realize, when we were on AF Records , but the cost is simply incredibly high, so that can not afford the band and no label. It would not be the thing to go over there and play shows, not only brings so. If you want to gain a foothold over there, you have eight months a year playing in America.
It is an extremely hard pavement for European bands. You can do it as a vacation, fly over a few weeks, you pay for yourself and play on it happening. Whether this progress is the band, I doubt it. And I want to do anything that the band does not work.
We are certainly not the band unplanned breaks forth where and "Fuck!" Plays. If we do something, then it must give the sense, then we have the potential for see us as a band, that it can develop something. And this is in America quite difficult because there are so few and not just American bands on the road (laughs).
It would be great if we could get a big tour. antiflag have been trying to get over, but if you have costs of 5000 € or more to pay out of pocket, then the whole thing looks quite different again. Then you can you not afford the next drive as you want it, it is difficult.
We will definitely try For Your Safety to present internationally as well as possible. That's the goal.
there's a landmark LP, a make, after the music has taken the desire to really ride?
Nirvana - Nevermind . Without this record it would not give RLF with certainty. There have been previous course Metallic a, Guns `n` Roses and lots of metal bands, but then came ... Nirvana.
Few bands can do that, something you can not plan too. For millions of people after her life is different.
I wanted to play in a band and watch the world. Just be different. Without the succes of Nirvana it had evolved in such things as Green Day, Rancid , Offspring etc. are not given. You can see the second as the punk revolution. 1977, 1991, ...
What runs in just RLF tour bus?
The new Biffy Clyro . I saw them yesterday here (Note Flex / Vienna) and once you have heard what the guys in a threesome for a sound, then you will understand why they were considered by Muse support with you on tour .
Thanks for the detailed interview!
happy until afterwards!
* respondents was Chris, a guitarist in RLF.
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