QUEENSRŸCHE Singer Discusses 'Cabaret' Show In New Audio Interview

August 5, 2010

On August 2, Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Metal Assault conducted an interview with QUEENSRŸCHE singer Geoff Tate. You can now listen to the chat below. An excerpt from the interview follows.

Metal Assault: How's this cabaret tour going for you?

Geoff: Good! It's a real fun show and I think we're booked 'till the end of October right now, so it's going good and we're having a good time.

Metal Assault: I believe you came up with this cabaret idea, right?

Geoff: Yeah.

Metal Assault: So, how did you go about convincing the other band members? I mean, were they on board with it immediately?

Geoff: Yeah, we're always looking for different ways of presenting our music and this seemed like kind of a fun way to perform a show and find space to work on the new album as well. We hope to have that out in spring. Our show is typically a serious presentation, visually and musically. We thought it would be nice to do something different and not so serious, so the cabaret idea was born. Everyone liked the idea, got on board and having a great time with it.

Metal Assault: Were you confident that the QUEENSRŸCHE fans are going to like this show?

Geoff: Oh yeah, I think QUEENSRŸCHE fans are pretty open-minded to lots of different art forms and we like to challenge them as well and give them new interpretations of our music whenever we can.

Metal Assault: You also did a theatrical production for the "Operation: Mindcrime II" tour and also with this current tour. So would you say that theatre and QUEENSRŸCHE are pretty much inseparable when it comes to tours?

Geoff: Yeah, we like to present ourselves in a number of different ways and the theatricality has always been sort of a part of what we've done and what we like. And yeah, we go hand in hand.

QUEENSRŸCHE's Queensrÿche Cabaret tour is being filmed for future DVD release. The trek, which kicked off last month, was previously described by the group as "Teatro ZinZanni meets Cirque du Soleil, with the band performing their hits and never-heard-before selections accompanied by go-go dancers, burlesque dancers, drag queens, a juggler, ballet dancer, trapeze artist, a contortionist and others. Definitely a fun-filled evening like no other full of freaks and shrieks!"

Interview:

Photo below courtesy of The Breakdown Room

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