LEAVES' EYES Guitarist Talks About Upcoming DVD Shoot

October 13, 2007

LEAVES' EYES guitarist Thorsten "Tosso" Bauer recently spoke to Markus Rutten of www.sounds2move.de about the group's October 20, 2007 concert at the Metal Female Voices Fest in Wieze, Belgium which will be filmed for an upcoming DVD. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow (translated from German):

Q: It's only few days to your show in Wieze where you will record your first DVD. Are you getting more nervous as the show approaches?

Bauer: In a way, yes. We are happy to headline the Metal Female Voices Fest in Belguim, and of course, it is a special show, because our DVD is recorded on that day and we want to satisfy the visitors in the best possible way. So several factors are brought into contact: headlining a festival, a DVD production and some special visual components for the live show. It will be exciting and a lot of fun.

Q: It is known that you have a big Viking ship built just for that show. In which way will it appear and how did it come about?

Bauer: The Viking ship will be a real smash! It is 10 meters long, 4.5 meters tall and it is built under administration of Stefan "Leebee" Liebhauser who is our light man and the visual DVD maestro. The construction will be finished within the next few days. The intro of "Vinland Saga" starts with Liv saying "1000 years ago a viking ship left Norway in the spring." In dependence on that and the whole concept story behind "Vinland Saga" it was obvious to also optically represent it live. The ship will be integrated directly into the stage setting; you will sort of see a band on a ship. I think the fans can really look forward to something very special. Funnily enough, the idea occurred to us in Buenos Aires in the spring of 2006 when we were on tour in South America and we were talking about the concept for a special DVD show. Since then we've been working on it, and when we had chosen the Metal Female Voices festival as the venue for that event, we already had lots of ideas where we could play that concert. Though many promoters and festival organizers worldwide were interested, we finally decided to do it in Belgium within that outstanding festival. And as you can see the idea of the Viking ship did go down well, not only with the festival organizers — it's a small world.

Q: You recently completed a more or less extensive US tour and now you have a few weeks off, before the show at the Metal Female Voices Fest will take place. Is this tour in some way a dress rehearsal for you and did you concretely try some processes or songs for the DVD show?

Bauer: Actually there were some live-premiers in the States and Canada, and of course some of the songs we played during the U.S. tour will also appear in the set for Wieze. But there will also be some material that we've never played live before. From that point of view the tour is always a god training keeping our own live qualities in shape, but the U.S. tour was certainly no dress rehearsal for the DVD show. The more so as you are a bit limited concerning equipment and stage elements when travelling via airplane. Contrary to the show in Wieze.

Q: Besides the live show, what will presumably be put on the DVD? While you were touring with KAMELOT, there were some shootings made from the stage with a camera and you were also wandering around with a fan cam. Can you somehow anticipate if and if yes how much of that material will be included? And didn't you even talk about a double DVD?

Bauer: Besides the concert in Wieze, which by the way will be called "En saga I Belgia", there will be something like a "Leaves' Eyes movie." In that move several chapters will throw a light on the band LEAVES' EYES and, of course, the fans themselves will also not get a raw deal. Actually we filmed and documented a lot of stuff from the day we started LEAVES' EYES. But the essence of the work is yet to come. And that is cutting the information overload of some hours to an exciting film.

Read the entire interview at www.sounds2move.de.

Watch fan-filmed video footage of LEAVES' EYES performing the song "The Crossing" live at the Key Club in Hollywood, California on September 2, 2007:

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