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  • QUOTE (Vinca15 @ Jul 24 2007, 11:30 PM)

    i haven't really made any of my friends listen to interpol..

    same here.. a lot of times with my friends, if they don't discover bands themselves, they don't get so much into it.. whereas i am like.. a music sponge or something. haha.

    QUOTE (Vinca15 @ Jul 25 2007, 12:07 AM)

    i hope they come back to l.a. they told our radio station that they were gonna play a couple of dates, and so far only one is scheduled....i think that hopefully next year they'll have some...or at the end of the tour like last time.

    ohmy.gif ohmy.gif ohmy.gif
    where did they say that? kroq??
    but zomg i hope they have another date here!!!
    i can't go to the show in october because i'd have to drive up to LA from SD on a weekday, and no one would go with me sad.gif

    QUOTE (Juniperberry! @ Jul 25 2007, 12:22 AM)
    I think we should make some shirts like Paul's:
    i wanna be paul banks!!!

    how exciting!!
    i want one too!!

    okay so now i've figured out what songs i totally adore from OLTA:
    -the scale
    -pace is the trick
    -all fired up (vinnie, after you told me to listen to this when i was feeling really blah, i realized it really is a good song to listen to when you need to feel well, fired up! and so now i listen to it every morning on my way to class thinking, "fuck you stupid math teacher, and fuck you math boy.. I'LL TAKE YOU ON, I'LL TAKE YOU ALL ON!")
    -wrecking ball
  • QUOTE (amberdino @ Jul 26 2007, 01:53 AM)
    same here.. a lot of times with my friends, if they don't discover bands themselves, they don't get so much into it.. whereas i am like.. a music sponge or something. haha.
    ohmy.gif ohmy.gif ohmy.gif
    where did they say that? kroq??
    but zomg i hope they have another date here!!!
    i can't go to the show in october because i'd have to drive up to LA from SD on a weekday, and no one would go with me sad.gif
    okay so now i've figured out what songs i totally adore from OLTA:
    -the scale
    -pace is the trick
    -all fired up (vinnie, after you told me to listen to this when i was feeling really blah, i realized it really is a good song to listen to when you need to feel well, fired up! and so now i listen to it every morning on my way to class thinking, "fuck you stupid math teacher, and fuck you math boy.. I'LL TAKE YOU ON, I'LL TAKE YOU ALL ON!")
    -wrecking ball

    haha, omg...awww, ambie, i wub.gif u
    and yeah on kroq.. daniel said that they were gonna play lots of dates in l.a. during this interview b4 the weenie roast.
    awwww, id make it somehow, but then again, ur not crazy...laugh.gif
    oh, and all fired up wub.gif wub.gif thats exactly how i feel!!!! awwwwwww i wouldn't wanna be in ur way after u listen to interpol, hehe.

    some article from the netherlands [someone on the interpol mb translated it, again, not perfect]:
    QUOTE (fin @ Jul 12 2007, 08:01 AM)
    Big interview with dutch popmagazine OOR.
    http://www.oor.nl

    As far as Paul Banks is consurned, it's all about the music. Regarding the fact his band is gaining more populairity every day and he is idolized more often, well, he can't really be bothered. "Its something more for fans and journalists" Banks says. He doesn't wanna get too involved into those matters, only if it's blond and listends to the name of Paris and Hilton.
    By Raymond Rotteveel

    Introduction
    Interpol is ready to release it's third album and is hotter then ever. Every record the fanbase grows and becomes more loved ever since they released there first album Turn On The Bright Lights. There promotion trip to the Netherlands shows how much they have grown, 12 interviews within the next 12 hours, and then we aren't even discussing the few photoshoots the band has within these interviews.
    To make sure this will all end up well, the band is been split up in different rooms of an Amsterdam hotel. In one of them is Paul Banks. He looks fresh as the salade that has been served before him, and does not look like the well suited guy that doesn't make contact with the audiences. To be more clear, here's a well speached middle-class twentier who because of his looks (Blonde hair which comes out of his beanie) reminds us a bit of Kurt Cobain. The only difference is, mister Banks is more friendly.

    Paris Hilton
    "Good!, Yes the promotion circus just got started, and we wanted to keep it healthy" he anwsers while laughing while awnsering the famous first question: how are you doing?. We meet just a few weeks after the band made there first appereance since years on the Coachella Festival in California. They we're presenting some new songs of there new record, Our Love To Admire, and we're closely watched by loads of press, but that doesn't bother Banks. But Paris Hilton been in front of that show making pictures did leave an impression. "That was awesome, i saw her standing there and thought it was great!" he says with a twinkle in his eyes "Unfortunatly she didn't come backstage. I really wanted to meet her. Maybe that will still happen. Maybe I will visit her in jail... at least I know where she is spending her time nowadays."

    Recordlabel changes
    Alot has changed since 1998, that's for sure. More then a million records are sold of Turn On The Bright Lights and Antics together, they signed to a mayor label and celebrities like Hilton have been discovering Interpol. And all of this with a sound that doesn't necesserly gets close to main-stream. But regarding these fact, the sound have not changed that much. One could even say that tracks like Pioneer To The Falls and especially The Lighthouse, two sinister tracks that form the beginning and end of the new record, might even sound a bit more experimental then they already tried on the previous albums.
    "We have tried, more then ever, to use keys on this album" admits Banks "There lays the major difference with the previous albums. We used to use those before, just to get a curtain vibe, but now we really build them into the songs. Maybe that's why the "new" sound is really big and ambitieus, but this record could be released on some obscure small recordlabel aswell. Us signing to Capitol is totally separate from our music direction. We can get ourselfs promoted better so more people will discover us, but that doesn't give me any presure to write new material. A pressure which i DID feel while writing Antics. I questioned myself: Could I really do this again? Because I knew people where expecting something from us. We had to come up with a record that was as good as Turn On The Bright Lights, or even better! Luckely this happend. And with this third album I don't feel I have to "proof" anything anymore."

    Recording proces
    The making of Our Love To Admire wasn't really smooth as far as Banks is consurned. There we're millions of idears, new songs we're thrown away because they didn't fit the new album, more studios we're "tried" to find so they feld comfortable in. But in the end they choose Rick Costey as a producer and the Electric Lady and The Magic Shops Studios to be recorded in. Which is planted in New York, the place Banks feels as home, more then anywhere on this planet. "It's always busy and hectic, but I just love that. It's a city that motivates you too do something, not a place to rest."

    Roots
    If Interpol would sound the same if they would be from Los Angeles, Paul doubts it. "Ah well, everyone is talking about "european" music. or the fact we are making "english" music, or either sound like anything like it. We hear those things ever since our debut album is out. I don't wanna think about such things. And mainly it's just journalism-talk "it sounds really new yorkish" and stuff like that. I don't see music as something which is geographicly bonded. When I grew up as a teenager and first lost my heart too music, I did not carw where the music came from. It didn't effect me. And suddenly when we're making a record we're hearing "they really sound Brittish" all of a sudden. Or they compare us to The Editors again... fuck it! Yes, a few years ago I got irritated with it, but now I just think: just talk bullshit if you wish too."

    Recording the album made Paul feel...
    Back to Our Love To Admire, and especially the hard proces of writing it.
    "You should have guessed we would get the hang of it now, don't you? But it doesn't get easier. I also thought: we have written music before, we know how to deal with expensive studios and stuff we are able to use. But it isn't like that at all. Why you ask? Well... It feels like a "project". Something big. It as to be something like building a beast. A beast which must be released. And it's wrecking to make it. Every record is more important then the previous one. And mean for me, I have to loose myself in it. I know how to make a record, but I don't know how to make a better record. And it's easy to repeat what you have done, instead of trying out new or different things, it has to bring you to a curtain edge. I ask more of myself then I possible can. In that studio... dude, I was so focussed on everything, every detail, every single note. I came out of the proces completely wrecked. But now I'm like maybe that's the way it has to be, just putting in all you got, and it will get harder every single time."

    Private
    In comperesing to the previous records Banks got alot more direct or explicit. With songs like "No I In Threesome" which contain pieces where he's singing about a relationship which lost all passion and getting someone new into the picture. Or the new single "The Heinrich Maneuver" about an ex lover on the otherside of America. Alot of songs on the new album contain lyrics which are about relationships and tension which comes with it. So what did Banks do these last years? "Haha, I made a mess?... Well, let's say it like this, living the life I life, been in this band, made my life really hectic. But I have written about relationships earlier. Or the dynamic which happen between people in relationships. But Our Love To Be Admire is not an autobiographic theme based on my life. There are curtain things in my life where I write about, which might or may not be written as directly as you think it would be. Mostly it are the same subjects: sex, frustration, fear and woman. These themes have always been a subject in my songs. I might have been a bit more explicit, I admit. The Heinrich Maneuver is for example a bit autobiographic. But there's more in my lyrics which I call "spiritual speculation". You look around, you watch yourself, you fantasize and write about it. But which things are really happening to me, or are speculations... well, I don't like to tell. I don't feel like I have to tell the world."

    Rest My Chemistry and partying
    One theme Banks did not mention. Drugs. In "Rest My Chemistry" he sings about either taking it, as in quiting it. There's alot of explicit lines in that song. "Uh...yeah...Maybe....Ok, if you really want to know, that's one of those songs which is indeed autobiographic. But there are two things, writing that song, and talking about it, and there's a big difference...."
    Ok, so let's try it somewhat different: How rock and roll is Interpol really now in 2007? Banks is slowly eating his salade with some juice, while meanwhile he is the writer of "Rest My Chemistry" and there are loads of stories going around which contain bassist and notoire womanizer Carlos D. "It's all good. Most of these stories are out of proportion. Most of the time it's some magazine who want to create some image for us. I recently heard about this big hiphop artist who would sleep with thousands of girls while he is touring. But now it appears he goes jogging after his show and then goes to his room to sleep. People will always see what they want too see. But to come back to your question, the lines of Rest My Chemistry, aren't made up. It's been really rock and roll in Interpol. And sometimes still is. And it's not easy to hit the brakes if your in a curtain flow which a concert or party gives you. It could just happen that you suddenly are in a strange city, in a strange house... on tour. But something happend last tour. You get older and begin making priorities. Your going to separate important issues from little things. Long term is more important all of a sudden. And if I am talking about longterm, I am meaning the band's long term future. You go and think of those things more. And then you reach a point where your taking things more serious. If I would party all night with booze and dope, I coulden't make a new record. Well, maybe if your name would be Pete Dorthy. But he's fucked up and still trying to make new records."
  • QUOTE (Vinca15 @ Jul 25 2007, 07:35 PM)
    haha, omg...awww, ambie, i wub.gif u
    and yeah on kroq.. daniel said that they were gonna play lots of dates in l.a. during this interview b4 the weenie roast.
    awwww, id make it somehow, but then again, ur not crazy...laugh.gif
    oh, and all fired up wub.gif wub.gif thats exactly how i feel!!!! awwwwwww i wouldn't wanna be in ur way after u listen to interpol, hehe.


    haha aww
    i wub.gif you too! lots!! smile.gif
    and don't worry i don't get too aggressive after i listen to all fired up, but it gives me confidence and reassurance that even if things don't go perfectly, its still alright.. strange, but i love it.
    and that concert info is really good to hear, because yeah i really don't mind coming up on a weekday - the problem is i have no one to go with at all sad.gif stupid chumps.
  • QUOTE
    How rock and roll is Interpol really now in 2007? Banks is slowly eating his salade with some juice
    could this boy get any cuter!!??

    QUOTE (amberdino @ Jul 26 2007, 11:53 AM)
    how exciting!!
    i want one too!!

    okay so now i've figured out what songs i totally adore from OLTA:
    -the scale
    -pace is the trick
    -all fired up (vinnie, after you told me to listen to this when i was feeling really blah, i realized it really is a good song to listen to when you need to feel well, fired up! and so now i listen to it every morning on my way to class thinking, "fuck you stupid math teacher, and fuck you math boy.. I'LL TAKE YOU ON, I'LL TAKE YOU ALL ON!")
    -wrecking ball

    we will all have paul banks shirts!! they would be so cool and confusing for anyone who hasn't heard of Interpol laugh.gif

    I love all of those songs!!! I think i'm falling in love with every one on the album! But today i fully realised how amazing Wrecking Ball is. I especially love it at the end when Paul is singing either backwards or mabye in another language, it sounds so beautiful and it gives me shivers wub.gif

    QUOTE (amberdino @ Jul 26 2007, 04:08 PM)
    haha aww
    i wub.gif you too! lots!! smile.gif
    and don't worry i don't get too aggressive after i listen to all fired up, but it gives me confidence and reassurance that even if things don't go perfectly, its still alright.. strange, but i love it.
    and that concert info is really good to hear, because yeah i really don't mind coming up on a weekday - the problem is i have no one to go with at all sad.gif stupid chumps.

    i'm so sorry you have no one to go with! sad.gif
    milky, did you end up finding someone to go with? have you got tickets?

    EDIT: one of my friends has been holding out on me!!! she's got interpol stickers and she never told me!! luckily she has "no interest" in them so she's going to bring them in for me on monday!! biggrin.gif Ooo i love stickers!
  • QUOTE (Juniperberry! @ Jul 26 2007, 06:56 AM)
    could this boy get any cuter!!??
    EDIT: one of my friends has been holding out on me!!! she's got interpol stickers and she never told me!! luckily she has "no interest" in them so she's going to bring them in for me on monday!! biggrin.gif Ooo i love stickers!

    i know!!!! wub.gif
    he talked a lot more about his lyrics this time. thats good, i guess.
    oh, and stickers!!! biggrin.gif biggrin.gif omg, thats exciting!! my sister bought some and gave me one...idk what to do with it tho, hehe. ill prob just save it like i do with all my stickers, haah.

    i was watching interpol perform on la route du rock [2001] yesterday, for the first time [i know, i should have seen it earlier!!] and paul is totally wasted!! omg, and his singing is HORRIBLE, plus he was kind of dancing. idk. u guys have prob already seen it. but it just made me love them even more!!!
    here's the link if u guys haven't seen it:
    sexiness

    EDIT: INTERPOL on some canadian magazine
    QUOTE (personofinterest @ Jul 25 2007, 09:15 AM)

    how adorable is gaius!??!?! that lucky dog!!

    Another interview...
    QUOTE (CurePol @ Jul 26 2007, 06:17 PM)
    From The Times
    July 27, 2007


    Interpol go mammoth

    http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol...icle2146133.ece

    Frozen moments is how Interpol sees its intelligent, dark-edged brand of rock. Our correspondent met the quirky quartet

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    Sam Fogarino, drummer with the band Interpol, has lost a woolly mammoth. “It was here,” he insists to the attendant at the Natural History Museum in New York. “ Here.” She shrugs, and suggests that the exhibit must have been removed. “I think she’s lying,” mutters the rugged-looking Italian, frowning from beneath his hat, as if Tony Soprano had been cast in an American remake of One of our Dinosaurs is Missing. The missing mammoth is crucial to his band, because it was beside it that Fogarino had a musical vision about their new single, Mammoth), which led them to use photographs of these and other stuffed animals on the artwork of their album Our Love to Admire.

    Yet when they recently unveiled the new material at the Californian music festival Coachella, their music’s trademark moody darkness was ruined by paparazzi flashbulbs hounding a different kind of creature – the party animal Paris Hilton, who irked the band by standing on the side of the stage to show her devotion. Why Interpol are one of her favourite bands is unclear, but then everyone from Brad Pitt to Bono and Sadie Frost are fans of the New York quartet.

    They formed while at college nearly a decade ago and became part of the cool rebirth of the New York guitar rock scene, along with the Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Yet while Interpol may have partied hard – the bass player Carlos Dengler, in particular, was known for his way with late nights and ladies – their music had a darker side, as did their overanalytical brains. They were the intellectual group, as interested in galleries as in groupies, and they have dealt with rock-star burnout by turning not to rehab but to the arts.

    These days, the love of his life for Dengler, a philosophy graduate, is his greyhound (he admits it is a substitute baby, or perhaps wife), and his work on classical music sound-tracks for films. “That keeps me sane on the road, and believe me when I say that there is nothing in this lifestyle that is in any way encouraging that groundedness. Yes, I went insane before, several times. You’re constantly mobile and constantly being given attention, not just by fans but by the industry. The psychological adjustment that is necessary would make most people crumble. But listen, I’m not chagrined at all by my previous antics because I knew why I was doing it.”

    Daniel Kessler, guitarist and band founder, is taking piano lessons, and rises at 7am to write songs in front of arthouse DVDs. “Tonight I’m gonna rest my chemistry,” sings the lead singer, Paul Banks, on a song about giving cocaine a rest. He tells me that he has had a literary breakthrough after finally finishing Moby Dick. Meanwhile, Fogarino has got married and is discovering museums, just like he did as a young child in Philadelphia, where he grew up in a family that were “bohemian but with nothing, just one step up from white trash. The art museum there had these recreations of rooms from far-away countries and what they did to my little brain – it was almost like a voice was inside my head, pushing outward – and it led me to music. You could just sit down and jump into the frozen moment.”

    Frozen moments are what Interpol’s music is all about – the band share a love of atmospheric cinema, of songs that capture feelings rather than stories. Kessler put the band together after spending five years in New York “not finding a musician I wanted to play with – they were all too loose about their ambitions. Our personalities are very different, but when we played music we were reacting to each other in a way that conversation could not have done. In fact, conversation would have pulled us apart.”

    It’s not that they object to bands who are more conversational, Banks explains. “I like the casual, off-the-cuff tone of Arctic Monkeys or the Streets – and the Strokes – it’s amazing and sort of relaxing. But I’m a jacked-up person psychologically and I don’t feel casual, ever, so I couldn’t do that anecdotal song-writing in the same way. I don’t tell somebody ‘this is how it is’ because I don’t know how it is – I just know that my perspective shifts constantly with my mood.”

    Such lack of detail also saves the band from giving away too much about themselves. They claim to dress in designer suits every day, not just for performances, and they bemoan the casual nature of our times. As Fogarino explains with a grin: “We’re gonna have to learn these kids some sense of mystery.”

    But when a “kid” approaches with a flyer for the Editors, the uptight Banks has to laugh – because Interpol are frequently compared to the British band. He claims that he liked one song of theirs that he saw on MTV but doesn’t know much more about them, even though they both played the T in the Park festival in Scotland. The very friendly Fogarino wanted to say hello, “but for the first time I felt like I couldn’t, because too much negative stuff has been put between us.

    “But why I feel sorry for them is that we put out our first album Turn on the Bright Lights and we’re f****** Joy Division reincarnated, and then the Editors appear and they’re the British Interpol. Just leave them alone and leave us alone. If indeed they have influence from us I think that’s flattering .”

    He says he can’t listen to Joy Division any more. “I remember when I’d just met my wife, Love Will Tear Us Apart came on in a club and she wanted us to go and dance, but I couldn’t. And once I was walking around the Soho record shops in London and saw [the producer] Martin Hannett’s mixes of Joy Division songs and I felt like I would have to send in some stranger off the street to buy it for me, because the minute the bloke sees me it’s like, found out! I knew it! It’s all the drummer’s fault!”

    With four control freaks in one band, it’s a wonder they’ve released anything at all. But as Kessler says, they are actually better in a crisis, such as the day before, when they had played the David Letterman show with borrowed instruments after theirs had gone missing in transit. He says they find a strange sort of relief in such situations. Really? And what if they lost all their clothes and had to perform in pyjamas? There is a pause from Kessler. “Then there might be an issue,” he says, his Agnès B jacket glimmering in the Manhattan sunlight.

    The album Our Love to Admire is out now on Capitol. Interpol’s UK tour starts on August 20. www.interpolnyc.com

    daniels sweater wub.gif wub.gif
    (all from the interpol message board)
  • QUOTE
    oh, and stickers!!! omg, thats exciting!! my sister bought some and gave me one...idk what to do with it tho, hehe. ill prob just save it like i do with all my stickers, haah.
    i don't know what i'll do with mine either. there's always the issue of using them somewhere and then finding a better place.

    you should of seen my face when she said she had them haha and then when she said "i think they have animals or something on them" i was too excited to even speak, i just kept nodding my head furiously and she took that as a yes laugh.gif

    QUOTE
    i was watching interpol perform on la route du rock [2001] yesterday, for the first time [i know, i should have seen it earlier!!] and paul is totally wasted!! omg, and his singing is HORRIBLE, plus he was kind of dancing. idk. u guys have prob already seen it. but it just made me love them even more!!!

    that gig was crazy! he absolutely butchered Obstacle 1! i couldn't bring myself to watch any more. He had some pretty cool moves though...
    I looked like this blink.gif while i watched it

    QUOTE
    EDIT: INTERPOL on some canadian magazine

    how adorable is gaius!??!?! that lucky dog!!

    the picture on page 1 is pretty sweet, i love Paul's shoes and socks laugh.gif
    Gaius is the luckiest dog on earth! I want him to make friends with my dog so Carlos will insist I take her on tour with them! It will work, i'm quite sure

    I like the other interview too, i think daniel may be one of the only men in the world who can pull off a cardi
  • QUOTE (Juniperberry! @ Jul 27 2007, 11:17 PM)
    i don't know what i'll do with mine either. there's always the issue of using them somewhere and then finding a better place.

    you should of seen my face when she said she had them haha and then when she said "i think they have animals or something on them" i was too excited to even speak, i just kept nodding my head furiously and she took that as a yes laugh.gif

    haha, yeah, thats EXACTLY how i feel. hehe. awww, and ur poor friend must have been scared! does she even like interpol???

    QUOTE (Juniperberry! @ Jul 27 2007, 11:17 PM)
    that gig was crazy! he absolutely butchered Obstacle 1! i couldn't bring myself to watch any more. He had some pretty cool moves though...
    I looked like this blink.gif while i watched it

    haha, omg....i know!!!
    u should have watched the rest tho!!! wub.gif wub.gif

    omg, awwwwwww, carlos and daniel were singing wub.gif haha, awww i just loved all of it, even though they totally sounded horrible. oh, and paul's dancing wub.gif his little hands and chops and punches wub.gif wub.gif

    oh, and yeah, i loved the articles.
  • QUOTE (Vinca15 @ Jul 28 2007, 09:27 AM)
    haha, yeah, thats EXACTLY how i feel. hehe. awww, and ur poor friend must have been scared! does she even like interpol???
    haha, omg....i know!!!
    u should have watched the rest tho!!! wub.gif wub.gif

    omg, awwwwwww, carlos and daniel were singing wub.gif haha, awww i just loved all of it, even though they totally sounded horrible. oh, and paul's dancing wub.gif his little hands and chops and punches wub.gif wub.gif

    oh, and yeah, i loved the articles.

    I think she already knew that was the reaction she'd get so i didn't freak her out too much... although some other people in my class might have been unnerved laugh.gif I don't think she likes Interpol she's just one of those people who ends up with lots of cool stuff

    I might watch the rest later, is there a song in particular you'd recommend??
  • ^^
    haha

    umm, idk, i think PDA was pretty crazy, hehe.

    wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif
  • ok, i finally watched them and i have to say Paul is a very cute drunk

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    i think these are from la route du rock... it's not that often that Paul dances like a loony
    (i didn't make them and i'm afraid i don't know who did, sorry)
  • ^^
    haha, omg <3 <3 <3 <3

    oh, those r priceless

    aaaahhhhhhhh, i love paul!!!

    EDIT: another article
    QUOTE (Desiderata @ Jul 28 2007, 06:20 PM)
    Thought police

    How did an art-rock band from New York become so popular? By not caring whether people liked them or not. Interpol frontman Paul Banks tells Tony Clayton-Lea about eradicating sensitivity and his quest for mental equilibrium

    PAUL Banks, frontman and lyricist of New York band Interpol, removes his beanie hat 10 minutes into the interview; hair flops down over his eyes, making him look a lot younger than his 29 years. A face livid with the marks of acne also suggests someone in his late teens, but it soon becomes apparent that Banks is no slacker type.

    The son of a British father whose passion for linguistics took him and his family all around the world, Banks doesn't look like the sort of guy who was born in Clacton-on-Sea. The Essex town was too small to hold the Banks family, and by the time he was five, they had emigrated to Michigan. From then on, Banks soaked up melody and music, heading to New York as a teenager, and paying the bills by working as a journalist at Interview magazine. And then came Interpol.

    Two questions have plagued the band since their formation in 1998: do they dress like that at home? And why do they sound so much like Joy Division?

    The Joy Division barb has softened as the albums have come and gone. Banks has equated influences with a readily identifiable sound, the result of which is a band that has quickly graduated to a level of popularity that shows little or no sign of stopping. Their new album, Our Love to Admire (on Capitol/EMI, to which Interpol signed after a spell with indie label Matador), will see the band step up to yet another level.

    Banks's hair falls every which way as wind blows through an open door; he looks cool without even trying. There is activity left, right and centre, and almost without broaching the topic, he looks around him and starts talking about the rock'n'roll lifestyle that Interpol have enjoyed since the release of their 2000 debut, Turn on the Bright Lights .

    "In general I'm fine with it, but there's a limited window of one's life that you're likely to be doing this - unless you're a band like The Rolling Stones, so I'm enjoying it while I have it. Being in a situation where I make a living out of playing music has been my dream since I was 15. All the things that come with it are like background noise, secondary elements to the fact that I'm living my dream."

    His family's peripatetic background has made him used to touring, about which he says, "I fell into the pitfalls of touring life the first time around - just running yourself ragged. I haven't lost any friends through that, though, so it hasn't come at any expensive price. It's tolerable and it's also a great privilege to travel the world, and it's an even greater privilege to be playing music. So it's all fine."

    According to Banks, Interpol's new album is so dusted and polished it might as well be taking pride of place on a mantlepiece. Nothing, he says assuredly, was more important than making the record.

    "Once that was complete and I felt very proud of it, I was utterly indifferent - for the first time - to whatever happened in relation to its success or to its reception from the media."

    Banks has a sensible attitude to success. You can be rubbish and make loads of money, he says, which is never a safe gauge. Neither, he claims, is fame. "I'm attuned to the more spiritual elements of life, so success for me is akin to a Zen-like state rather than money or anything like that.

    Making a record that you're proud of is a success in the short term, although in my mind I'm always wondering what I can do next. I never feel success is so accomplished that I can stop. To me, the new album is a great success. On a day-to-day, more personal level? I just try not to be a dick to people, and to enjoy life more."

    So would it be fair to say that his life ethic is no more or less than wanting to be a decent guy, and outside of that to fulfil himself as creatively as possible? "Exactly. For me, if Interpol suddenly lost all popularity for whatever reasons, that would not mean failure to me. Worrying about what other people think is a big waste of time, so I don't concern myself with perceptions of one kind or another. Am I sensitive? Yes, things occasionally wound me up in the short term, but I'm in the process of eradicating that entirely."

    Banks detects a quizzical look. "I'm not taking any classes or anything; it's just a part of the spiritual quest." Performing, says Banks, is where it's at. He talks of it in terms of "transcendental moments", "bliss" and "losing yourself".

    "When we first started touring this album a few months ago, I was a little rusty, a little bit self-aware - and being too self-aware prevents the arrival of that blissful moment. Once you get back your performing legs you can start to lose yourself, and once you start to lose yourself regularly that's when bliss can come. The last few shows I can safely say that I've reached that level - it's really something special, but it's never going through the motions. It's always invigorating. In fact, it's never less than invigorating."

    Does the level of invigoration waver whether you're playing in front of 400 or 40,000 people? Each has its benefits, he reckons.

    "I enjoy playing in front of massive amounts of people - I even enjoy playing in front of massive amounts of indifferent people. Why? Because I feel this enormous 'fuck-you' inside of me that really gets me going. The best scenario is playing to an audience that absolutely loves us, but if that doesn't happen - like playing festivals where everyone is waiting for Metallica - I still like the fact that we're slightly annoying them."

    http://www.ireland.com/theticket/articles/...5229909281.html

    that last line, awww wub.gif
  • haha i giggle everytime i look at him dance!

    Ooo that article's from Ireland!!? Now i have to read it with an irish accent!!

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    PAUL Banks, frontman and lyricist of New York band Interpol, removes his beanie hat 10 minutes into the interview; hair flops down over his eyes, making him look a lot younger than his 29 years. A face livid with the marks of acne also suggests someone in his late teens, but it soon becomes apparent that Banks is no slacker type
    QUOTE
    Banks's hair falls every which way as wind blows through an open door; he looks cool without even trying.

    ahaha oh how i love that beanie and his sexy hair!!! wub.gif

    that last line is so cute! he really is a man after my own heart!
  • ^^
    haha, awww i love irish accents. wub.gif wub.gif i love all accents, haha

    and yeah, the beanie thing. it sounded like the interviewer had a thing for paul, the way he described his hair and stuff, and awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, his acne marks <3 <3 <3 him and julian <3 <3
  • i love irish accents!! its funny because a lot of irish men are kind of funny looking but as soon as they speak they gain this crazy aura of hottness

    oh and how could you not have a thing for Paul!!??
    Paul and Julian have soooo much in common!! No wonder we're so in love them both!

    wub.gif ahhh paul's so pretty!
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    ahhhhhhhhhh, wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif
    all my insides turn to jello when i see a pic.....ahh

    oh, and about irish accents, yes!!!

    ill post more pics:
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    only he can make picking ur nose sexy, haha.
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    i love that hat wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif

    EDIT:
    these r fabulous
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?...=daniel+kessler
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=carlos+d
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    these r ok, not as funny
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=paul+banks
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sam+fogarino
  • ^^^ laugh.gif the Daniel and Carlos (aka the ass master) ones are the best!!

    omg your sig!!! wub.gif

    awww paul!!! how does he make everything look so cool!!!???

    I got STICKERS!! My friend gave me four so i let the interpol friend have two (very generous dry.gif )
    It's pretty much the cover of olta cut up into four squares with INTERPOL written across the top... I'm not sure where to put them, there's just something about animals mauling each other that makes me feel uneasy...

    In english today we had to write random short stories and the interpol friend and i tried to fit as many interpol lyrics as we could into ours. Mine was about an extremely 'tappable' violinist who was also a mad sex fiend. It rocked and i got the most references!! cool.gif
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    haha, awww, those things r so ridiculous wub.gif

    those stickers sound cool, aww, i want some sad.gif sad.gif sad.gif

    now i wanna read ur story. it sounds AWESOME!! i tried doing that once, but i just kept coming up with crazy sentences that made no sense. i ended up writing the entire songs, haha.

    aww, and when i had to make up characters for stories or sentences, id always use julian & paul wub.gif

    <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

    more pics!!!!
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    he looks so pretty, and just to think...i could have been there!!! sad.gif

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    (some might have been posted, but it never hurts to post again biggrin.gif)
  • Paul looks cool.
  • ^^
    Paul IS cool.
  • Carlos D is cool.

    So cool. I mean, being born on April 23 automatically makes you COOL.
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