Within Temptation Press Conference at Hellfest 2025

0:04 Hi, you love one too. The censure on W for see Wow for you Young. Ro It's Pipeman on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio on the Pipeman Radio Tour. Here at health s twenty twenty five, and we are about to watch the press conference of Within Temptation. Stay tuned like a circle.

0:45 You know, full circle. But still there's so much still to do and to talk about and to keep on putting. It a highlight on it. For us, it was the first time I went. When I went to Ukraine, I didn't It wasn't that scared to go, because when you go into the country, you fly to Poland. To get a trained to the Ukraine, to Kiev eventually and you. Get an app and you can see what kind of dangers there are coming towards you, like if there's a meg or there's drones coming towards you, and then you have some time still to go to a shelter. The second time, I was scared shit because of the fact that they had bombed Kiev just before the other's festival was supposed to happen, and they bombed the children's hospital and there were many casualties, and they postponed the festival by a week, which I have never had seen in my cocomplete career, and anything was possible to postpone by a week, but every person on that festival said, we're gonna postpone it.

1:45 We all do anything to be there and to still have. Our music and to have like a comfort kind of thing for the Ukrainian people, for Kiv people. And I was really. Inspired by that because it was like the resilience of the Ukraine and inspire me every day. I think it's they have no choice, of course, but on the other hand, you can also roll over and say, you know, take it. All, and they don't. They really fight back with with a lot of uh honor and dignity. And to see them how they do the world as compared to the Russians. They attack every civilian while the Ukrainian only attack the military targets. It's a huge difference of how we see uh. A lot of things happening in the world right now.

2:28 So going there was a ah an honor for me to be part of that, and uh yeah, I hope to do so in the future. Again. Uh Hi, I'm I'm from m making Lasi me friends. Hello, thank you for your your humanity. We love that, uh really in you. I have a. Questioned, sorry, because your answer was pretty pretty amazing. Do they learn before yes, as an artist, how do you physically and mentally and be coop coop with the extreme with them, with the weather, yeah, with the condition on tour? And do you feel like climate change is becoming a real challenge for live performance?

3:15 That's been true. Yeah, Well that's another another topic that is close to my heart as well. Now, well, it's it's that easy for anyone to be here. Actually, they want to cancel the press conference because it's too hot here and here, but I think it's too important issues to talk about today, and. You know, I'll redo my make up later on. I don't care anyway. Yeah, I think climate change is a thing. I am not a denier of that at all. I think our album The Side of Force at the time was dealing a lot with the topics on that as well. And it's unfortunate that there are so many issues in the world right now that we don't have that we're not focused on that that much anymore, that we have to focus on dealing with worse at the time to instead of trying to face another danger for everyone, which is climate change.

4:09 You're welcome. Hell uh yeah, uh more technical d yes, problem it does that's about you. Uh, ninth after night you would uh impressive pre vocal performance. Uh it's really really really impressive. Uh how do you uh vove with that? And uh keep shaving your uh your voice with the really difficult Uh we have really cool uh really part cold lacy. And all that that? Do do you end up with that to keep really best performance night after nights and impressive? Uh?

4:50 Night of it? What? What actually became? Just from Denmark where it's like twelve degrees colder than here? Do you make a huge change? I was wearing a sweater yesterday and now I'm like, well, I'd rather where as uh a as as as possible. But to answer your question, it's, you know, not a very rock and roll answer because. All you gets and of course with the most you know, play on festivals like these, the people are expecting a good presentation of the band. It's h a lot of sleep h ok al cool free Barry. It's just me and the rest of the guys that can do whatever they want, you know, but it's for me, for my vocals. It's important to maintain my health and uh have a.

5:37 Lot of sleep, which is pretty boring. But you know, I enjoy performing on stage a lot, and so to do what I love best, I have to do. Yeah, I take such of measurements and I. Will so I'm a Lisa for the road to road. So my question is recently you collaborate with the Ukrainian artist. Yes, you sent your working on more new music. Do you have more collaborations coming up? Or who would you like to collaborate with. There's actually a lot of collaborators coming up, another problem from Ukraine which I'm. Not allowed to talk about yet, and also. With some other people, someone from Germany, someone from Sweden.

6:21 So featuring a lot of stuff at the moment, so at which I enjoy very much because you get to know other people as well outside of your own music streame. And yeah, and I love doing that. There's many people I would love to collaborate with. A lot of them are also dad. But yeah, you know, the thing is for us when we want to collaborate, it's people approach us or we have written a song that fits a sort of vocal and we'll hope to try to get that person on board. Yeah, so we'll see you are. Come hello down from all rocket Oh yeah yeah. The last time you were hearing Harris of snowing and now it's hot.

7:04 So how is it like playing for the French people? And how is it and how do you feel playing for the French? Well, the French people are like a lot of Mediterranean people. You know, they're all over the. Place when they're in the audience most of the time, they're very expressive of their love for music. And that's always the reason. Why we love playing for uh, you know, the French people, but also the Mediterranean people close are very vocal and the very expressive and you need that energy to perform as well. And the more love you get, the love more we can spread it as well. So it's a it's an interaction that this will well needed. Yeah, we're welcome. Hi, this is archy music from Mexico.

7:45 I know Mexico and I you will take the main stage. The health is yeah, despite the heat, funds are holding their ground to see you like, how does he feel too? That's that kind of emotion can repeat the last How do how does it feel to witness that kind. Of evolution devotion of the people that are in front of the states. Yeah, well that's of course amazing. Hopefully they were meant to drink a lot and still be energetic at the time that we're playing, and so hopefully, yeah, they will be still standing at the time. Any more questions you have one question your puriers. Have you related without the support of a record label? So I guess you can follow is the new process? I think already you know what you can improve in all the facts of releasing an album.

8:40 We have the support of a record label. I think doing that without a record label is that has advantages but also disadvantages, and that's something we've learned throughout the last album that we're pleased, but it also gave a lot of freedom to at least whenever you want to. Especially during Corona, we were feeling like, you know, we're allboved at home and. Needed music ourselves, but also for our fans. That's why we did the releases that we did so many before the album actually came out. And I'm not sure we've got to do exactly the. Same because it also has its disadvantages and maybe we'll do some things differently and with the next album, but we will maintain our independence. That's something that I think is still very important.

9:33 Every question that it's interesting to fast as already and then really like you Richard, who has many albums, it's like about the set list of the show. I know it's really. Difficult hopefully for us we have a big timeline tonight, But how difficult is it to choose the great list each time? And do you choose to change really really often to put the many rarities I want to say in the most show each night, or is it a choice to stay with the same set listing one through rout For a reason, we.

10:21 Do change a little bit here and there throughout the festival season, but not that much because when you're even when you're headline on the stage, it's still you want to play the best set that you have because there's still a lot of people that didn't come for you, although you're laid on the build and you want to present the album or you know, the band in a way that we'll make them interested into listening to you on the platforms as well and start following you. And so the best set list is what we're gonna play tonight is maybe not the most original one. But I think a lot of people will be happy with hearing and it will be a very tenight, cynemic and energizing one.

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