“I only live about a mile away,” he says as The New Pornographers rock out on the Q101 Stage Saturday night. “We all live around here and it's good to be home. It's been crazy because we have been away for so long. We needed this time to catch up with all of our friends and it's a relief to be able to unpack your bags and do your laundry and watch TV because that was all missing while we have been on the road.”
Kill Hannah, started by Devine in 1994, was invited to Lollapalooza to play the 4:15 p.m. Saturday slot at the BMI stage, an experience the band said they were grateful of.
“We are very grateful to be playing at Lollapalooza and at our home. We are just happy to be a part of it because it's Lollapalooza. How many times did we come here as fans and get sick and get sunburned,” Devine says, noting that the band could have played a bigger stage earlier in the day. “It was kind of a decision to play later on a smaller stage. No one wants to be that band that plays at 11 in the morning.”
For Kill Hannah, their Lollapalooza experience was nonstop, and hot.
“It's been exhausting and it's been hard for me to avoid the sun because it's every where,” Devine laughs.
Since April 1, the band has loaded 80,000 miles on their traveling van. “They calculated is for insurance purposes. It's retarded,” Devine laughs. Kill Hannah has been on the road since the beginning of April trying to push new tunes from their album “Until There's Nothing Left of Us,” released Aug. 1. The album's symbolic title represents the drive of the band, as they have been marked as the “next Smashing Pumpkins” and on the brink of breaking big their entire career.
“Ask any band and they would say they think they should have broken big by now,” Devine says. “I would never want to sound arrogant, but our last record did not get the respect it deserved. Our new album is our chance to vindicate all the years of hard work. It just has to pay off. We worked harder than anyone I know and our songs are just as radio friendly as anything else out there.
“The industry is so complicated and there is such a component of timing and luck. It's impossible to predict when or how you will break big. There are many bands who deserve more than they get and then there are those that just break big without really doing anything. This record and our song “Morphine” give us the best chance as ever to get us there.”
As the new album highlights, the band refuses to give up, as they, and their fans know the break could happen at any moment.
“That tipping point is every day from 1995 till today,” Devine says. “We have no fucking choice. This is what we have to do.”
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Buzz 4 Mat Devine!
Written by Guest on 2007-01-27 05:33:35
OMFG!
I love Kill Hannah!
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omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Written by Guest on 2007-12-07 00:32:02
i my god i love kill hannah Mat is so hot and so is Jon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1  |
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