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… about the best live concert Hannes The best concert experience we’ve had was definitely in Malmø in 2011. It went wrong in a really good way. Everything that shouldn’t have happened, happened. Loke I don’t recall much about that concert. Maybe that’s why everything went wrong. I don’t think we have played our best concert yet. … about not really feeling like a Danish band Malthe When you talk about Danish bands, you usually mean bands who tour Denmark. But we’ve only played a few gigs here. A lot of Danish bands draw 500 people to a show at home and maybe 50 abroad. But actually more people have turned up to see us in other countries. It’s great to be in a place we’ve never been before and find out that we have just as much support abroad as we do back home. … about recording together Loke We never intended to make an album. Then all of a sudden we had recorded something so good that it would be crazy not to let the world hear it. So we founded a band. Malthe Or we joined Hannes’ band. Loke It really was Hannes’ band. He was the one who came up with the name Lust for Youth. After he moved to Copenhagen from Malmø, we became friends and I played a lot of gigs with him, just to help. That’s just how it has always been with in our crowd - we help each other. I was spending so much time helping him with his music that I had basically become a part of it all, so we figured we might as well do it together as a team. … about playing abroad Loke Touring abroad is cool. It’s great to see places we’ve never seen before, meet new people and experience different cultures. But if we thought that some other country was better than Denmark, we would just move there. Still, it’s nice to be on the road once in a while. Hannes It’s fun to be out there for a couple of weeks, but that’s it. Loke I’d compare it to an afterparty in the wee hours of the morning. You get the best of it all, head home, and you don’t have to hang around to clean up. That’s what touring is like.
“We do have a lot of followers on Instagram and a lot of likes on Facebook. So any fame we have is Internet fame.”
… about fame Loke I don’t think anybody in the streets knows who I am. Malthe Back when I played with Oh No Ono, I had a taste of fame. It wasn’t fun at all. In fact, it was quite stressful. Loke We do have a lot of followers on Instagram and a lot of likes on Facebook. So any fame we have is Internet fame. Hannes and I come from a music scene that doesn’t produce rock stars - that’s just how it is with noise and experimental music. We’ve never really thought about the concept of fans, but things are a bit different now. None of us is interested in buying into that pathetic rock-star dream of having tonnes of fans. We never aimed for that. … about being a “band” and earning money from music Malthe In a sense we’re not really a band because nobody plays just one thing. It’s not like Loke always plays keyboards and Hannes does vocals. I’m the only one who plays guitar, but it all depends upon the music we’re playing. In the studio it’s just us and we all have the same roles. Hannes You might say we’re just a hit machine. No wait, a money machine. Loke We are probably more of a hit machine just now, on the way to becoming a money machine. But if we really wanted to earn money from our music, the smartest thing to do would be to compose ring tones.
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