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Releasing The Pressure Valve With DANIEL MOILANEN From KATATONIA · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hey guys, this is more here from Catatonia and you're listening to Heavy mag
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  beautiful My thanks for joining us the same thing, thank you, thanks for
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  having me, my pleasure. So Cantonia will be touring Australia for a run
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  of dates, starting in Sydney on February the night and going through Melbourne,
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  Brisbane and Adelaide and finishing in Perth on February the thirty eighth. Mate,
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  Like, that's not too far away now you're packed and ready to go pretty
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  much. We just came back, came back from the first show of this
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  year. We did Turkey this Saturday. So I'm taking taking taking a time
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  off, day off or two and then just getting back into it. Yeah.
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  Hey, look, you guys are no strangers to tour and you go
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  pretty much all over the world. So to tell us two non essential items
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  that you always take with you everywhere you go. Non essential? Yeah,
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  I always bring a book I won't read, like I always over I always
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  overpacked books. So there's always going to be one book that I don't read,
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  but I feel like I need to bring because if I don't have it,
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  I'll just be bored. I never read it, and I recently bought,
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  like last year, one of these like Bluetooth thingies for the entertainment system
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  on the airplanes. You can connect to your Bluetooth earphones to the entertainment system.
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  Never used it because I never watched movies on a plane, so but
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  I still need them because you know, of course, but they've proven they've
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  proven to be pretty non essential physically, So not just talking about this trip
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  might but like with all of your shows, like how do you prepare yourself
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  physically and mentally for a run of dates so far from home? The first
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  thing is getting loading up on sleep. I know it doesn't really work like
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  that, but just getting sleep and rest, getting your vitamins, in,
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  getting your supplements, in doing your like even leaving home for a run of
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  days of a couple of weeks, even if you can't even if you're not
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  able to do your workouts, do your stretches on the road, you're gonna
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  you're gonna have pretty crappy sleep all throughout. If you cannot prepare with all
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  of that at home, you'll be fine, basically, So that's what I
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  think we all try to do. Just unwind, prepare physically and mentally and
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  while we're out there. The lack of sleep, the lack of like healthy
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  food doesn't really affect us as much. If we would live at home like
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  we do on tour, I don't think we would survive this. We're getting
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  too old. I suppose the big thing, bro is what can fans expect
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  from the band on this tour. I mean, this run is pretty pretty
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  cool since it's been so long since we came, so we've basically released two
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  albums since then. But the last time we did Australia we toured for Fall
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  Hearts and we've since released both City Burials and Skyboard of Stars, And I
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  mean the set this is going to be a bit different from last time.
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  Obviously. I think we're playing a slightly longer set than last time, so
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  we're trying to treat you to a proper headline experience from what we're doing now
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  with the two albums in our backs, and it's going to be from the
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  last time we came. It's gonna be pretty different so that that last time,
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  well, I think this is your first Australian headlining tour since twenty sixteen,
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  so aside from a couple of albums, might like what's changed with the
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  band since you're hear last, I mean we're not much has changed really.
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  We've been working, we've been touring, we've been just building momentum, and
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  I think we're in a place now where we're still growing and we're expecting to
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  grow as a band. So we're just trying to work as much as possible
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  and maybe that mentality has changed or strengthened in some way. But yeah,
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  I think we're stronger band now than then. We're stronger band on stage,
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  we have better material out there. It's we're a better band. So that's
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  what's changed. If anything. That chow is not long after you actually joined
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  the band, mate, So but what are some of memories of that cho
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  as a new guy. I guess just getting into meeting fans that have a
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  connection to the band like Cat. Cat fans have a deep connection to the
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  band. We we go way back in for some in some people's lives,
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  and seeing as the band has progressed musically and having those old fans still be
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  with us. I've obviously never experienced that before. So that was one of
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  the coolest things about starting starting to play with Cat and going to Australia.
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  Obviously never been to Australia. It's I wouldn't say it was overwhelming, but
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  it's it was whelming. So yeah, I mean we had a lot of
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  meeting greets on that tour. We were gonna have meeting greets on this tour
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  as well, and just meeting those fans that go so far back with the
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  band. That's still one of the best things we're playing with it with the
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  band. How would you say that you've grown into your role or your position
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  in the band since then? I mean musically, it's in the beginning,
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  it was just about getting to know the music, getting to know how Daniel
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  played his part in the band, and then trying to evolve from just being
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  a drummer playing his parts. Evolved from just being a drummer playing the new
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  parts to being a like a part of the band that isn't just a musician.
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  And I think obviously I don't write material Jonas does all writing, but
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  the way the way I approach it and the way we all approach it and
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  interpret his material or even though old man, it's it's not been a challenge
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  per se, but it has been I've had to approach my way of working
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  on my way of drumming in a different way, and that has also helped
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  me to grow into the band and gel with the guys and with the music
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  we're playing. So it's it's been a process, it's an ongoing process,
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  but I definitely do not feel like it's a new guy anymore. I could
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  You're Gonna be toure on the back of last year's album, skyboyd of Stars.
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  So how was ever saved by the fans very well? Fans and critics
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  have pretty much loved the album from what I can see, and we see.
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  The Burials was released in the middle or in the start of the pandemic,
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  so that was obviously going to be buried pretty much on release. We
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  got to do one tour for that album in the US, and we kind
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  of already knew that the album is old before we can even try to keep
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  it alive. So starting a new in a way with the release of Skyvoid
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  of Stars, I think that was a fresh breath of air for us and
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  the fans who had also maybe not forgotten about forgotten about cere burials. But
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  it's still the pandemic was so long, maybe not in time, but like
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  mentally, it just dragged on so when we finally got this release, Skyboard
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  the Stars, it felt like it had been not three years since the last
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  album, but six years. So I think both we and the fans have
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  the same feelings. So when we did release Skyvoid, it was very well
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  received, and because something that we all missed having. The fans missed us
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  releasing an album and touring for it, and we missed releasing album and touring
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  for it, and so we've been doing that in the entire year and we're
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  we're still not tired of it. I don't think the fans are. And
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  I guess these shows will show if Australia is ready, how much of that
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  album we're actually going to be playing live over here a fair bit. Fair
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  bit. Having so many albums in the back and so many hit songs,
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  I guess it's very tricky to write set lists to appease everyone. I mean
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  people, people still want to hear basically half of discouraged ones when we play
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  live, and that's just not going to happen. Not because we don't want
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  to play those songs, but we have so much material that we feel that
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  we need to play, also that we want to play, so we're doing
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  a fair bit of tracks from sky Void on this run. Actually, all
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  right, mat Well, thanks very much for you time. It's been a
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  pleasure speaking really. The Chores starts on February the ninth in Sydney and there's
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  still tickets available, so get yourself one before they will go. Yeah,
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  come come see us, come stage Drive, come by March