PL: For the Aussie set I don t know, you tell me, what should we play? We were having this discussio

Funeral for a Friend We re really excited about Lord Of The Fries (An Interview With Pat Lundy) | Metal Obsession
Post-Hardcore pioneers Funeral for a Friend are preparing cheap airline fairs for their biggest Australian tour to date on the back of their new album and return to roots Conduit . MetalObsession had the pleasure of speaking to Pat Lundy ahead of their tour.
Metal Obsession: Hi Pat, thanks for taking the time out to chat to MetalObsession. It s the early morning here in Australia, cheap airline fairs whats happening on the other side of the world at the moment. Is it relaxation time, or rehearsals?
MO: Your first album with the band, Conduit , has been getting a lot of solid reviews, and a lot of them claim of a return to form, especially after Memory and Humanity 2 albums ago. How big a part of this was with you joining the band?
PL: It was somewhat changed with me joining I suppose but they had written the material, so I guess I just put a little of my flavour onto it in the recording studio. They had made the conscious decision to scrap the earlier album sounds from Tales and Memory cheap airline fairs and get back to their roots.
PL: I just really didn t want to hear anything that was going to represent the stuff that was on Memory. Thats me personally, and I know the others guys that joined both agree, so kinda like everyone is on the same wavelength. Given that the bands had a few line up changes over the 10-12 years we ve been a band, I think that now the formula is a bit more solid. Its definitely working for the writing and stuff.
PL: I didn t really care to be honest. I d toured with them beforehand cheap airline fairs and supported them in my old band, and I think they know what I think of their back catalogue. And they still asked me to audition, so I don t think they took it to heart. I think they knew they were in a bit of a bad place, as a band at that time, and ya know, everyone has dark days where you kinda struggle to recall why you re in the band in the first place, and they didn t really know what they were doing and weren t very happy as a band and they d been on tour solidly for 8 years which kinda drivers anyone insane. So I can see why the setup deteriorated a bit and its been resolved since, and just looking forward to getting cheap airline fairs back out to cool places again, putting out the next record, and the one after that.
PL: Yeah man, I don t think anyone of us have done so much in the 5 states, so theres a whole new bunch of places we re doing where I haven t been to, and I don t think the other guys either, its just generally Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney. We re really excited about Lord Of The Fries though. Thats probably number one on our list of things to do. Matt s been tweeting the guys months in advance, so they ll be expecting cheap airline fairs him. [laughs]
PL: For the Aussie set I don t know, you tell me, what should we play? We were having this discussion a few days ago. Theres a few new songs off Conduit that we re going to be throwing in, and some other ones that we have played in years and years to any crowd, we kinda wanna do something special for Oz, for this being quite an intimate aussie tour. We want to bring out a few aces.
PL: On our most recent tour I think 94% of shows were sold out, with just over 30 shows. cheap airline fairs Most bands would have done 9 or 10 shows  in big rooms, and we could have done it like that, but we really wanted cheap airline fairs to do a lengthy long tour getting out to everywhere, rather than people coming to us. I suppose if you re a band and you take a year off to write a record, and you want to start a touring schedule, its important you make the effort first, and we all wanted to go to the smaller towns, especially in the UK. We re from here, and we haven t been everywhere, to go to new places in the UK is still exciting. Theres a lot places to play man.
PL: End Of Nothing is a good one to play, B roken Foundation , thats quite a heavy track, cheap airline fairs and I suppose off the new record Conduit cheap airline fairs is a bit of a banger, and we open with that on the most recent tour.
PL: When Darren left the band they played cheap airline fairs his farewell show like that, I think they did a limited pressing on DVD. Well, I have one anyway. And they did the whole front to back Casually Dressed thing. I think the next one will be Hours in 2015. And we ll do like a tour for that or something, and play that in its entirety.
MO: After the Australian tour its back to Europe for the summer there, and a lot of touring. Are you looking forward to getting the music in front of so many new faces? Would you like a break at all, or you re happy with go-go-go for the time being?
PL: Its good man, we re on a good vibe I think. We re tour fit, and it takes a while to get there in my previous experience, and I think we re working better with the flight times now. The start of the year, our first show was japan, and it was a real long flight, play 1 show, and the flight back. We kinda got battered early on, hopefully we won t have too much jet lag now, and we ll be smashing these shows. It ll be fun.
PL: We did this thing with our label out there, to get a ticket to see the show you had to buy the cd. It was a cool thing. cheap airline fairs A few hundred kids in the Quotro Club, it was a vibe. I was really glad that we did it, but it was a hell of a lot of travel for an hours set.
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