There Are So Many Horrible Bands Who Are Going To Be Our Future Headliners

The following technology of competition headliner steel is right here within the type of bands like Sleep Token, Knocked Loose, Poppy, and Bad Omens (simply to call a couple of). Although if you happen to ask Slipknot percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan, it isn’t all that nice. In a current interview with NME, Clown began off by speaking about Sleep Token headlining Obtain 2025. Clown famous that in fact recognition of bands is as much as followers, and that is clearly what they need.

“They’ve their area of interest and so they have to be doing their enterprise nicely. The outdated me might need torn it down, however the brand new me, the true me, is rather like ‘Hey, it is all the time as much as the followers’. The followers let the enterprise folks know what to do. The followers communicate and the enterprise folks pay attention.

“They have to be highly regarded, and you have to keep in mind that there’s not loads of good music on the market. There simply is not. In my view, nowadays there are such a lot of horrible bands proper now. I’ve seen Sleep Token, I’ve watched them for a bit and I’ve downloaded their stuff. They’ve their area of interest and so they have a fan base. It would not matter if it has divided [Download fans] as a result of meaning 50 per cent are getting what they need. I now not fear about these types of issues, I simply fear about being me and about being within the second. If they seem to be a good band, and in the event that they work exhausting – because it looks like they do – they deserve every part they get.”

Clown was then requested if it is essential that competition organizers take dangers on newer bands, and that is the place issues bought a little bit adverse. Clown notes that the “days of nice music have come and gone in the intervening time,” which I could not disagree with extra – possibly it is to not our preferences, however bands like Sleep Token and that complete slew of recent steel artists are doing a little very cool stuff.

“As I used to be saying, there are such a lot of horrible bands who’re going to be our future headliners. You don’t need me to start out naming off names, as a result of we’ll each begin laughing and laughing. The times of nice music have come and gone in the intervening time. We’re seeing the backlash of the pc and we’re seeing the backlash of all people having the ability to get in [to the music industry]. However the place is all people that bought in and did it themselves? All of them want validation.

“I did not get in a band to get validated. I validated myself. When somebody stated I wanted to work more durable, I labored fucking more durable. I did not want the web, or socials, or something to validate me. We now have an actual drawback now, and bands which might be good nowadays – which is few and much – are being prepped for this future. We noticed that with Bring Me The Horizon. They’re a terrific band and I am a fan. I’ve listened to the band because the very, very starting and so they’re doing massive issues like headlining Obtain as a result of they will make that bounce.

“Nice bands are being pushed into these new circumstances. What else do now we have [without artists like that] – a bunch of crap bands that will not draw tickets. So sure, the enterprise folks have to take possibilities and push these few good bands in the appropriate route.”