The following era of competition headliner steel is right here within the type of bands like Sleep Token, Knocked Loose, Poppy, and Bad Omens (simply to call a number of). Although when you ask Slipknot percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan, it is not all that nice. In a latest interview with NME, Clown began off by speaking about Sleep Token headlining Obtain 2025. Clown famous that after all reputation of bands is as much as followers, and that is clearly what they need.
“They’ve their area of interest and so they have to be doing their enterprise properly. The outdated me might need torn it down, however the brand new me, the true me, is rather like ‘Hey, it is all the time as much as the followers’. The followers let the enterprise folks know what to do. The followers communicate and the enterprise folks pay attention.
“They have to be very talked-about, and you have to keep in mind that there’s not quite a lot of good music on the market. There simply is not. In my view, today there are such a lot of horrible bands proper now. I’ve seen Sleep Token, I’ve watched them for a bit and I’ve downloaded their stuff. They’ve their area of interest and so they have a fan base. It would not matter if it has divided [Download fans] as a result of which means 50 per cent are getting what they need. I not fear about these types of issues, I simply fear about being me and about being within the second. If they are a good band, and in the event that they work laborious – because it looks as if they do – they deserve every part they get.”
Clown was then requested if it is necessary that competition organizers take dangers on newer bands, and that is the place issues bought just a little destructive. Clown notes that the “days of nice music have come and gone in the intervening time,” which I could not disagree with extra – perhaps it is to not our preferences, however bands like Sleep Token and that complete slew of recent steel artists are doing a little very cool stuff.
“As I used to be saying, there are such a lot of horrible bands who’re going to be our future headliners. You don’t need me to start out naming off names, as a result of we’ll each begin laughing and laughing. The times of nice music have come and gone in the intervening time. We’re seeing the backlash of the pc and we’re seeing the backlash of everyone with the ability to get in [to the music industry]. However the place is everyone that bought in and did it themselves? All of them want validation.
“I did not get in a band to get validated. I validated myself. When somebody mentioned I wanted to work tougher, I labored fucking tougher. I did not want the web, or socials, or something to validate me. We have now an actual drawback now, and bands which might be good today – which is few and much – are being prepped for this future. We noticed that with Bring Me The Horizon. They’re a terrific band and I am a fan. I’ve listened to the band because the very, very starting and so they’re doing large issues like headlining Obtain as a result of they will make that bounce.
“Nice bands are being pushed into these new circumstances. What else do we now have [without artists like that] – a bunch of crap bands that will not draw tickets. So sure, the enterprise folks must take possibilities and push these few good bands in the correct course.”
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