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“There are so many awesome festivals in the world. The biggest festivals for us are Reading & Leeds in England. It seems like the culture of European festivals is more vibrant than it is in the States. At Reading & Leeds we played five or six times and the audience at those festivals is always pretty big.”

“I like to watch other bands at festivals. Some of the bands that stood out for me in the last 10 years are Elbow and Queens of the Stone Age. The show from Elbow in Germany, I can’t really remember which festival, was amazing. I never saw them play before but they sounded só good. Queens of the Stone Age always has an amazing festival performance. They always put on shows that I always remember.”

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“I don’t really have a festival anthem. When I grew up we didn’t had a lot of big music festivals so I also didn’t have an anthem. Now, whenever I go to a festival I always check out music from someone who is performing.”

“With Jimmy Eat World I love to play ‘Sweetness’ in a festival setting. Everybody always sings along with that song and it’s a fun song to play on the drums as well. When we don’t play at a festival it is a little bit different. Technically, in a concert hall you really play for your own fans and you have a longer show. At a festival it is kind of an opportunity to win people over. We treat these shows a bit differently but the most important thing is that we enjoy to play our own songs.”

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”Normally when we are going to play a show, we are in a pretty happy mood. Grateful, that we’re there to begin with. The only thing that irritates me at festivals are other bands that play way longer than their set times are. That is always kind of lame, but we can’t really control that. Furthermore, fortunately, I can’t think of any unpleasant things that irritated me.”

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”We love to play the festivals in Europe so we are currently working on making that possible next year. We don’t have any concrete plans but we are certainly working on coming back to Europe next year.”