From our chat with Ian Astbury—Part One here and Part Two here—earlier this week:
…And is there a favorite song to play live?
My favorite song to play live, let me see. It’s interesting it kind of flips around. We get really excited to play the new songs. Recently we’ve been doing” Saints Are Down” from the Cult album from 1994 which I really like playing. It’s a really good song to perform live.
It’s seems like you guys really have a good time when you play “Electric Ocean.” It seems like a real energizing song to open the set?
“Electric Ocean” in that sense is very instantaneous and spontaneous. It’s a profound experience to walk on stage and perform. I’ve not known anything else, but again it’s trying to explain to somebody what’s it’s like to be a performer and go on stage. You just have to be there and walk through that threshold.
“For me, there is a transcendent theme. I go from the production room, to this environment—to the stage, it’s definitely a visceral shift. The energy with the cognition falls away and that’s what happens in a sense. You want to talk about mechanics of it, it becomes really about being connected.”
Connected, indeed. We have the opportunity for two of you to win one pair of tickets to any of these ten shows among The Cult’s current tour itinerary:
May 30, Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
June 3, Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE – Indoor Stage
June 12, Washington, D.C. – The Fillmore
June 13, Norfolk, VA – The Norva
June 15, Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues
June 16, Orlando, FL – House of Blues
June 17, Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle
June 19, Houston, TX – House of Blues
June 20, Dallas, TX – House of Blues
June 22, Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theatre
Let us know in the comments to this post which city you’d like to see the band play live—and y’know, why (briefly)—and the most convincing of the bunch will win the pair of tickets. We’re choosing one winner per city, so make ’em good.
We’ll choose our 2 winners next Tuesday, 5/29 at noon, EST.
The Cult’s brand new Choice of Weapon (Cooking Vinyl) is on store shelves now!
