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Coming In For Landing With BJORN STRID From THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hello everyone, this is your speed strip from the Night Flight Orchestra. We're
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  about to embark on an Australian tour coming up real soon. Go and get
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  your tickets now, we'll see there. It's going to be a hell of
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  a dance party. And you're currently listening to heavy Man Beautiful, my fantastic
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  introduction. Thanks for joining us, Thanks for having me. Why so,
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  as you mentioned a Night Flight Orchestra landing Australia for a run of three exclusive
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  shows starting in Brisbane on August third, before maybe to Sydney in the development,
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  But it's not far away. You're packed and ready to go yet,
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  I guess so yeah, I mean it feels like it was not just a
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  couple of weeks ago we hit Australia with Solberg, but in fact it was
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  in November last year. So but anyway, regardless, this is going to
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  be something completely different, you know. It's I'm really grateful that we're able
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  to come to Australia with the Night Flight Orchestra and we've we feel that the
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  fan base has grown a lot in Australia and so I had to poke from
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  Hardland Media to try to get us over there as well. And uh yeah,
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  we're definitely ready. We have a beautiful set list coming up and for
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  these shows and it's going to be real special. Oh so this is the
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  first time to strike. We did not plat Orchestra Mice. So question is
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  why have you neglected us for so long? The good question we wanted to
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  come, like you know, all those years, so many times you know
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  it to Australia, but it's it's I don't know, it's uh had to
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  grow grow a little bit, you know, And but we definitely felt that
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  the latest years that a lot of people come up to you when you're Australia
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  with soil working and sort of you know, saying like hey, when this
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  night flight calling to Australia, it's like it's amazing what you do, and
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  like bringing vinyls to the to these signing sessions and stuff like that. So
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  we've noticed, you know, that it's been growing a lot, and now
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  it's definitely the time I wish it was. I wish we did five years
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  ago. But at the same time, you know, it's it's it was
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  worth waiting for, I think. Yeah. So the big thing is,
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  I guess what Chanels you fans expect from me and I staid of haven't seen
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  it on these shows before. Well, like I mentioned before, it's going
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  to be a beautiful dance party, you know, it's it's it's always a
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  good time. And you know, we've been playing a lot of shows here
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  in Europe and it brings it has has very much of a unifying factor,
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  I would say, this band, and it brings a lot of people from
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  different genres that normally wouldn't go to the same show, you know, and
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  it always ends with people dancing in the end, you know, no matter,
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  no matter if you're you know, wearing a beam of patch or or
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  a prog if you're a prog dad, or if you're like a fifteen year
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  old girl who knows all the lyrics. You know, it's it's all the
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  same. It's like everybody's you know, dancing together doing the congat train and
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  and you know, if you like our albums and our songs, and I
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  mean, wait till we hear it live it it comes to they really come
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  alive, you know for sure. It's it's it's on a whole different level.
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  Yeah, and the first side of that mad like, aside from yourself,
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  it's being Iva was so weak before, like the rest of the band,
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  idn't really know what to expect from us honors, so you've given them
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  the points before you have well, I mean it's it's it's hard to say
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  to give give some pointers. I mean I think it's it's it's really you
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  know, you should really come and see us, you know on these shows.
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  It's it's uh, it's it's a totally different scenarios. This is music
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  made to be made to be played live as well, you know. And
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  and just bring your white jeans, I guess, and it danceing shoes and
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  everything's gonna be okay. It's called the Death of False stry and show by.
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  Can can you explain what that means? Well? I mean a R
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  is this sort of a title that you know, it means album oriented rock,
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  you know, and and but to us it also means airline oriented rock.
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  I guess. So yeah, I mean because we we we feel that,
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  you know, we really like our sound to be very organic, you
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  know. And it's it's not only about being nostalgic. I think we're really
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  bringing back a way of playing and composing that has been a lost art and
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  unfortunately these days you hear a lot of sort of aar music that sounds way
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  too processed and way too triggered and trying to fit in too much, you
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  know, and we we like to keep things organic, and that's why we
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  have the sort of the funny statement of death to false aar, you know.
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  And it might sound a bit harsh, but you know, I'm sure
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  you get the irony of it all for sure. And you recently supported Kiss
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  on their part or two shows in Sweden, man like, Oh, is
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  that that would have been a sensational absolutely sensational. Yeah, I mean I
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  didn't know what to expect. I mean, we were just super excited,
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  of course, and we got to meet the band, take pictures and shake
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  hands and they were super nice and the crew was super nice as well,
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  and we got a long sound check and you know what a beautiful venue too,
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  doll Halla. It's it's sort of like the Red Rocks of Sweden,
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  I would say, And it's sort of like a hole in the ground with
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  like an amphitheater and there's like water behind the stage. It's like unbelievable spectacular.
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  And Kiss were sounding absolutely fantastic too, so it was really cool to
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  be a part of their very last two shows in Sweden, and and and
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  and ending on such a high note. It was brilliant and ada your music
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  go down with their fans like Kiss fans and notorious for not really giving a
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  shit about ever else is supporting. I just say it for Kiss. But
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  how'd you guys go? Yeah, exactly, That's what I expected too,
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  you know. It's like, but man, people were dancing, you know,
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  And we got a lot of response afterwards in social media as well,
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  like wow, I've never heard of you. Guys were amazing, So it's
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  they were definitely not harsh. It was. It was really nice to see
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  because I didn't know what to expect. You know. It's not like I
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  expected people to boo us off, but because it's not that far off from
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  what Kiss is doing and and and and and partly I guess we we you
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  know, we started this band based on their disco era pretty much, you
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  know, and which has influenced us a lot. And uh so I think
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  we got a bunch of new fans for sure. Stuff. So on that
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  bit of a nostalgia trial, mate, like go back and talk a little
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  bit, like you started the Night Flight Orchestra with David Anderson back in two
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  thousand and seven while your tur Us with stort work. So what was that
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  musical climate like back then they gave birth to the band, Like, what
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  was what was your main inspiration behind doing something like this? Well, I
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  mean, I would say that the idea of starting a band was born in
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  two thousand and seven. It didn't really come into reality rally until I think
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  it was the summer of two thousand nine, but the idea was born there.
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  And then that we felt that there was something missing out there, and
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  and and that you know, most retro rock bands were sounding like led Zepplin
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  and Black Sabbath early sementies stuff, and we wanted to bring back sort of
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  like the late seventies and early eighties because we felt that that was the golden
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  era. Not saying that we were not influenced by you know, early seventies
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  as well, and even later eighties stuff and even nineties stuff, but but
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  that was sort of what we wanted to We wanted that to be the sort
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  of foundation for it, you know, and and everything. We wanted to
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  build a concept around it as well, you know, something like a soundtrack
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  of being in motion that was that was Those were the sort of key things
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  for us, and and we also discussed a lot and how how the band
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  would look like and what's in what style and what how how you know,
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  how the sound would be, how the production would be, and how what
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  ingredients it should have to sort of become like a full concept. But it
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  all started with us feeling like there's something missing out there, and we wanted
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  to provide that for ourselves to begin with. But then, of course,
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  you know, I think that people we also felt that people. I'm sure
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  people don't even know that they're missing this. You know. I'd like to
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  say so if I guess us the seventies and nineties, music like that would
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  have been pretty easy to the first couple of albums to sort continue down that
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  path. But you guys got six albums out now, I think, and
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  it's still going to a strong light. But what do you put it that
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  bands bands? It started in the it sounds still going up to six albums,
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  but you guys out yeah, no, But I mean I think we
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  constantly find find new inspiration. And I think we also managed to even though
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  this band is is quite sort of full of nostalgia, it also has something
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  that's very refreshing and it actually makes sense today, you know. It's something
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  something timeless we believe, you know. So it's not all about like us
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  trying to sound exactly like a foreigner in nineteen seventy eight and and and the
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  job is done. That's not what it's about, you know. It's it's
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  about providing something that is making sense today as well. And I think we've
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  found quite a unique expression, you know, even though it's quite obvious,
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  like where our influences come from, but it's it's a very very wide,
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  like a huge palette of different genres and music and artists. It's it's not
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  only it's of course a lot of the radio rock, you know, it's
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  also the British scene, but there's also a lot of Abba. I'm sure
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  he can here as well. I mean, who hasn't been influenced by Abbat?
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  I mean but but but still I think that that's I guess something that
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  separates us a bit more from from your average a or band that we have
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  more influences from from from Abbat, I would say, uh and uh yeah,
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  I think we we mixed it up and we found a pretty refreshing expression
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  in the end, you know, and we keep being influenced from that.
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  Well, I think another thing to me, I'm like, I watched a
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  couple of videos to me before in the interview tonight, and you don't come
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  across as being cheesy or taking the piss out of that era reviews it like
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  it's is still fun, but it's you're not You're not taking a shot at
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  it, You're actually living it. If that makes sense. Yeah, yeah,
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  I guess, And thank you for saying that. I mean, and
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  it is important. I mean, of course there's tongue in cheek. We
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  make videos that has a lot of tongue in cheek, and and and and
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  and but we're one hundred and serious about it. You know. We wanted
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  to be like really sort of being having that balance, you know, where
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  where it's okay to to to have a laugh, but the music is also
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  very serious. You know. I think it's about finding a balance that people
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  enjoy and that we enjoy, and that we don't have to be so damned
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  serious about everything. And especially with the concept, you can build a lot
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  of things around that, you know, and that's fun. It should be
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  fun. And we want to provide a show like a real rock show the
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  way it was meant to be and and and and you know, we have
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  backup singers as well that you normally don't see in in rock bands these days.
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  It was I mean even in as late as beginning of nineties you have
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  Guns and Roses bringing backup singers on tour, you know, and and and
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  then that kind of died, it feels like, and then it was almost
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  you know, only saw it with with like more commercial pop artists, you
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  know. So it's something you know, we have all these injured in there
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  and together that kind of forms like a pretty unique concept, you know,
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  and that is so much fun for us, and it seems like it's a
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  lot of fun for the crowd too. Oh yeah, And your last two
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  albums, Aromatic and Aromatic two were intended as a saga. So it's a
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  saga finished shop made or is it going to be continuing in past three?
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  And be honest, well, I mean I think the main reason why there
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  wasn't Aromantic two was that we were not done with Aromantic one, because that's
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  when right when that was released, that's when when COVID hit and we were
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  out doing a European tour and we had to go home after just one week
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  because they closed down France and Spain at the time, and that was,
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  you know, a big anti climax obviously, and then I mean we were
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  definitely not alone. There was a lot of bands out there in the same
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  situation, but we felt that we were not done. And then we immediately
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  started working on new songs and that shaped up to be an album and it
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  felt like, h but we're not done with aromatic ones. So what do
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  we do? Well, we do romantic too, so we can tour from
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  both of the albums on once you know, everything opens up, so as
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  simple as that. But I mean, like you mentioned, I mean there's
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  sort of twin albums. You could probably put them together as a as a
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  double vinyl, you know, that would make sense in the end. But
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  yeah, but we're out there now playing you know, music from from both
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  of the albums, so that's cool. Yeah, all right man, Well
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  that's the love golfin and I thanks very much for your chime in the Night
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  Flight Orchestra. Thank you August third, fourth, and fifth. So I'll
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  play the tickets to sound really well, So get yourself by now before you
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  miss out, and I'll see you at the Brisbane show. Looking forward.
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  Thank you so much for the support. All Right, brother, enjoy your
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  job. All right you two better bye.