Shinedown light up the rock scene

3 months ago 21st Aug 14:53

It’s refreshing to see a good rock band coming out of the US, and they’re definitely planning to give the dominant Indie scene a run for their money when their new album hits our shelves in the New Year.

Female First caught up with drummer Barry Kerch to get the lowdown on the uS rock scene, what it’s like going on tour with Disturbed and his distaste for bands whose name begin with ‘The.’

What have you been up to recently?

Its been a very exciting week as we finished out tour with Black Stone Cherry in the states and our last show was just outside Chicago to 12, 000 people and it was a festival that we were headlining so we left on a high note and on Monday we were in Hamburg, Germany to do some press and then we flew out that night to do press in Munich and now we’re in the UK doing press in the beautiful London.

You’re on your way to the UK this October to support Disturbed, how do you feel about that?

I think it’s going to be great I’m excited not only to see the countryside and new cultures but it’s going to be quite an interesting tour as they’re obviously quite a lot heavier than we are but to take the opportunity to support a band that’s already established over here in some great venues and get the chance to introduce ourselves to the European communities as a whole is going to be awesome, we can’t wait to get started!

Have you been to the UK before?

Once; about two years ago we played the London Astoria and it was a great show and there were fans there with T-Shirts they had bought online and it was brilliant and we loved it and we’ve been waiting to come back ever since and now we’re finally getting back here and there’s going to be an album released it’s a very good time to be in Shinedown.

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