You guys are nominated for three awards tonight. Nixon: I think so. Jake: I’m curious about what the awards are like; what they physically look like. Nixon Yeah, what do you get? I think we won an IndiesXM Award years ago. Jake: Was it a guitar? Sometimes they do guitars. Nixon: Do we get a sweet guitar? I think we might get an epic guitar. Jake: Like an acoustic or something. I think the acoustic guitar that I have in my apartment is an Indie.
This must be a busy week for you guys! How do the crowds differ between hometown and European shows? Jake: We try to talk a lot to the crowds at shows, but we quickly realized that that wasn’t going to work [in Europe]. Nixon: They don’t understand what we’re saying, so we talk less when we’re on stage in Germany, for example. Jake: The crowd interaction is definitely different. In Holland, everybody was going crazy, and it was fun. Everybody wants to hear something that they’ve never heard before when we’re there- sometimes I think that people aren’t How was the European tour that you that receptive to what seems new to them; they recently finished? are a bit snobby sometimes, a bit picky. Nixon: It was great. We toured in Germany and then played some festivals in Holland- they have Or they just talk during the set. Liberation Day on May 5th to commemorate Jake: Yeah or they just stand with their arms getting free from the Nazis, and they throw huge folded or whatever. In [Toronto] it seems like festivals in every city in the country. We got to people just want to be loud and just have fun; play at two of those, which is cool. drink beer or whatever. Jake: Yeah, we did a week in Germany before that, which was a lot of fun, and then we ended I really love the concept of your latest the tour in Amsterdam and then flew back to music video, “Desire 126.” I was actually Toronto. at the Horseshoe Tavern for the taping! Nixon Really? Thanks for coming! So you came straight from Holland to play a show in Toronto tonight? No problem! I saw a couple of dressed up Jake: We actually played Kingston last night. people go on stage and dance, but they
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