How did it feel to be offered to headline Rock Am Ring (huge German Festival) this year?
Ian: Our new album wasn’t out yet so we didn’t want to headline. It’s the kind of festival you need to play a few times before you get to headline; that was only our second time. I feel like we are at the level to headline to now. Aaron: We went on before Limp Bizkit.Iit was amazing seeing Fred Durst getting the sea of fans to wave their hands back and forth in the air. ATP: Why do you think Billy Talent hasn’t cracked the US market yet? Aaron: We’ve had a lot of love from the UK, German and Canadian record companies, we are friends with people who work there and they really enjoy our band. We never made any relationships like that in the US. Ian: We unfortunately signed to a label which we thought was a rock and roll label, which used to have bands like Led Zeppelin, when we got onboard, they were cutting down their rock band roster and putting all their efforts into their R’N’B roster, so the label pretty much turned into an urban label. We were pretty much this one weird band on thi
