In today’s A-Z challenge, we wanted to know more about Future Palace. The band recently released their new album Distortion on Arising Empire.
Check out the band’s answers to our 26 spot questions!
A song that made you want to make music?
Manuel: Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower.
Best rider you have had?
Johannes: Swiss Festival catering is always a dream.
Craziest moment in the band?
Manuel: Playing arena and festival shows in front of thousands of people. Always crazy
Deepest lyric one of your songs features?
Maria: At least very emotional: in our song Lately.
Easiest song you wrote?
Maria: Funnily I think Dead Inside, which has the most streams.
Manuel: Most definitely. I wrote the instrumental after a bad date, just took an hour and the song was basically finished.
Favourite song in your set?
Maria: Decarabia
Manuel: Paradise
Guest you’d most like to feature on your record?
Maria: Avril Lavigne
Manuel: Aya Nakamura
Hardest thing about being in a band?
Johannes: Waiting.
Interesting fact about one of your members?
Johannes: Manuel actually has a PhD in history.
Jokes you have in the band?
Johannes: I am the only one into German football and made it into a habit to inform and annoy everyone with results.
Key to writing a song?
Maria: It needs to have a delivery. No one needs empty words.
Manuel: Emotions. I need emotions when writing.
Longest distance you’ve travelled to play a show?
Johannes: On our last tour we had to drive back home from Glasgow. 1,800 KM.
Most inspiring musician you’ve experienced?
Maria: Aurora, Hayley Williams, Chester Bennington.
Manuel: Mike Oldfield
New band you’d recommend?
Maria: Banks Arcade
Opening for this band would be ideal?
Maria: Linkin Park or Bring Me The Horizon.
Place you’d most like to tour?
Johannes: Switzerland for mountains and lakes. Sweden for forests and lakes.
Quote that you’d like to pass on to our readers?
Maria: Always act out of will, never out of fear.
Reason for the title of your forthcoming release?
Maria: Mental health.
See us live at?
Johannes: Our upcoming headline tour across Europe and the UK starting mid-October.
The old days of music were better than the current, do you agree?
Maria: I guess you made more money and had less phones at concerts?
Unusual merchandise?
Maria: Plant seeds, I think that would be sick.
Variations you’d like to do on one of your songs?
Maria: Orchestra version of Defeating Gravity.
What do your fans mean to you?
Maria: They show me that what we create is not meaningless. I feel very home with them!
X-rays or any other treatments needed for band injuries?
Maria: Manuel hurt himself most on stage, but so far I GUESS, no X-rays.
Manuel: Just ignored it for half a year.
You’re late for a show, whose fault is it?
Johannes: Probably mine because I wrote the schedule. But we are never late.
Zoo animal that best describes the personality of your band?
Maria: Animals don’t belong in a Zoo <3