LACUNA COIL Singer FERRO Doesn't Rule Out Acousic EP And Tour

Anarchy Music recently conducted an interview with LACUNA COIL male singer Andrea Ferro. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Anarchy Music: You know, most bands as they get more popular tend to shy away from their fans, the more popular you get, the more you seem to embrace them. How do you manage that and why is it so important to you?

Andrea Ferro: Yeah, it's good to keep your feet on reality. You don't have to think like if you achieve a little bit then you are now a complete different person or complete different entity. We're still the same people we were before. Of course, sometimes it's not possible because there's just too many people. Like, we are doing a signing every night of the Jager tour and it's a lot of new people coming to us because there's all those people from STONE SOUR coming to us and we mesh pretty well so we have a lot of new people. It's impossible for example to take pictures with everybody because the line is too long and it becomes longer with the pictures. It's not that we don't want to be touched it's just that the line is too long and it makes the signing last two hours instead of one.

Anarchy Music: Every time I see anything about you guys, it's followed by you saying how proud you are to be from Italy. I find that to be really cool because a lot of foreign bands don't really talk about their homelands for one reason or another. After a year of touring, do you get treated like a superhero when you get back home?

Andrea: Not like superheroes but for sure, the fact that we've had some success over here helped our popularity back home. So now a lot of people are looking at us as the biggest Italian export product or something like that (laughs). We gather more attention because we've had success over here. It changed for sure the perspective of the band. We get more credibility because we have made some kind of success here in the states. It helps the popularity also back there.

Anarchy Music: On this tour you're doing some in-store acoustic sets…

Andrea: Yeah, it's a special thing organized by Ovation Guitars. We do in music stores a little mini-concert, like three or four acoustic songs. Then we do a question-and-answer with the fans and a little bit of signing. It's cool because it's almost therapeutic because you go there and see all these young kids who are in the music school of the store and they want to learn. They are very curious. Like, the last day we did a signing in a guitar store that they have a lot of teaching going on. There was this band of probably 8-year-old guys. They had a band already. That's more about the music how it is in life, instead of a regular concert where you go to see the big show. It is more intimate and is more about telling what music is really about to people. It's a great experience.

Anarchy Music: Your music even though it's very ethereal, it still has an earthy texture, so I think it lends itself well to the acoustic style. Do you see doing an acoustic EP or something in the future?

Andrea: It's possible. We never really sit down and write specific songs in acoustic. Instead we always adapt a song we already had in an electric version into the acoustic. I think that one day with a little more time and after we are maybe out of the big promotion cycle of the album. Now it's a lot of promotion every day. It has to be a moment where were more quiet, maybe in a few years. Why not? We'd love to. We'd love to also do a proper tour in small theaters only acoustic maybe with a drum kit and violins and stuff like that. Real acoustic stuff.

Anarchy Music: That would be great. Your stuff is so moody…

Andrea: I think we will do it. I would love to do something like we get dressed up, something special, really special. Keep it in small places with nice acoustics. Just us and maybe a four-piece, with a cello, a big bass and a coupe of violins. We have some friends in Italy who helped us record the album with real strings who work for the orchestra at La Scala in Milan. They're young guys, they also like metal music. They might come with us for that but I don't know when. We need time. Right now we are focusing on this album and probably we're going to start writing for the next one.

Read the entire interview at Anarchy Music.