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Upon A Burning Body<\/b> strike a very dapper presence when they take to the stage, dressed in black trousers, grey shirts and black waistcoats emblazoned with their logo on the lapel, before they unleash their live show on you. They are a frantic live band, with a relentless touring schedule. We caught up with bassist Reuben Alvarez just before they went on stage in London to support Five Finger Death Punch and talked about their own cocktail, favourite place they have visited, the next album and Slipknot. Here\u2019s that interview.<\/p>\n
Already Heard: This looks set to be an epic year on the road for yourselves. You have already played Soundwave, are currently on tour with Five Finger Death Punch, you have Skate & Surf Fest coming up as well as a short US headline tour in May and a support slot across Canada with Emmure coming up. Does the rest of 2014 look set to go the same way?<\/strong> AH: Even your off day on the tour you did an extra headline show in Bristol.<\/strong> AH: And it\u2019s been a good tour so far?<\/strong> AH: Glad it\u2019s going well for you. What song do you most like to play live and what is the story behind that song?<\/strong> AH: What is the most important lesson you have learnt or the best piece of advice you have been given during your time with Upon A Burning Body?<\/strong> AH: Who is the band or artist you have most enjoyed seeing or been most impressed by live?<\/strong> AH: Do you remember your first gig with Upon A Burning Body? How has your approach to live shows changed since then?<\/strong> AH: And have you seen the positive reaction from the live show from the second album?<\/strong> AH: Apart from band, crew and the obvious laptop and phone, what is the one thing you do not go on tour without?<\/strong> AH: Alcohol features noticeably in your songs and videos. What would feature in an Upon A Burning Body cocktail drink?<\/strong> AH: And what\u2019s in that?<\/strong> AH: And there deteriorates your evening!<\/strong> AH: You are still touring your 2012 release \u2018Red, White, Green\u2019<\/i>. Not that it seems you have the time, but are there any plans in the pipeline for album number three?<\/strong> AH: So it gives you the chance to start touring that out in the latter part of the year.<\/strong> AH: Are you playing any of the new songs from that tonight?<\/strong> AH: Which question have you never been asked in an interview that you would like to be asked and what would your answer be?<\/strong> AH: It\u2019s alright it usually gets interesting answers.<\/strong> AH: Was it your first visit there?<\/strong> AH: Yes, yes. AH: Finally, which song by any band or artist best epitomises your life to date?<\/strong> As long as\u2026I feel like that\u2019s the thing that bands loose as..once you start seeing it as a job and being real bitter about it, it\u2019s just a pay cheque for you, I think people notice that and we\u2019ve always loved what we do. We\u2019re very appreciative of everything that we get, so we\u2019re always down to have a good time , to meet people and to party. You can ask fans, y\u2019know they always party with us, they always find a way, they come with bottles it\u2019s like \u201cC\u2019umon\u201d so that\u2019s pretty much our lifestyle right now. Enjoyng the ride and trying to keep it going, y\u2019know what I mean.<\/i><\/p>\n AH: Why not while you can!<\/strong><\/p>\n ‘Red, White, Green’<\/i> by Upon A Burning Body<\/b> is out now on Sumerian Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n Upon A Burning Body<\/strong> links: Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n Words by Heather Fitsell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Upon A Burning Body strike a very dapper presence when they take to the stage, dressed in black trousers, grey shirts and black waistcoats emblazoned with their logo on the lapel, before they unleash their live show on you. They are a frantic live band, with a relentless touring schedule. We caught up with bassist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,8181],"tags":[62,5878,10251,421,2756],"class_list":["post-23398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","category-post","tag-already-heard","tag-interviews","tag-reuben-alvarez","tag-sumerian-records","tag-upon-a-burning-body"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Ruben: Absolutely it\u2019s all down to our booking agent, so it\u2019s like every other month and every other day is up for grabs and so he\u2019ll book it off. If he can he\u2019ll book up every single day.<\/em><\/p>\n
Ruben: Yeah, as much as they can they\u2019ll book it. To stay busy and to stay relevant y\u2019know.<\/em><\/p>\n
Ruben: Amazing, amazing opportunity. It\u2019s a huge opportunity for a band like us to be on this tour and everybody notices we\u2019re the odd-ball. We\u2019re a bit heavier and crazy. It\u2019s awesome.<\/em><\/p>\n
Ruben: For me, let\u2019s see there\u2019s a couple I like to play, mine is \u2018Mimic\u2019. I think the reason I like \u2018Mimic\u2019 so much is that it has a lot more of the pretty sounding melody guitar melodies and I love the way it switches from really intense to great pretty, almost like Maiden high lead. Musically it\u2019s my favourite and the words too, it has great lyrics for the crowd to sing along, so yeah.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ruben: Mine is that I always try to tell kids and especially the younger kids that still have their whole lives ahead of them, is I try to tell them to pursue your dreams because that\u2019s the most important thing in life. I feel that a lot of people loose that\u2026.a lot of people that are stuck in these jobs, they\u2019ve never been outside of their country or out of their state and I\u2019m like you guys have got to see the world y\u2019know. You gotta save up and take off and go experience everything, cos how do you know what ou like or what you wanna do, y\u2019know what I mean. Always have a dream that you wanna aspire to, always have that goal, y\u2019know other than work and other than yeah I wanna retire. Have that big dream you are shooting for because I think everyone should have one.<\/em><\/p>\n
Ruben: Let\u2019s see, that\u2019s a tough one, there\u2019s so many. For us I think the most amazing moment was being able to watch Slipknot side stage, cos that\u2019s a show like no other. Being able to see them and the way they get into their show like on and off stage. We saw some stuff go on backstage that nobody saw and we\u2019re like holy crap, this is real, like they\u2019re really in the mode. They\u2019re all about it. It was our moment to be like \u201cWOW! This is amazing, we\u2019ve arrived. This is so cool, we\u2019re touring with Slipknot on Mayhem\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n
Ruben: I do and it\u2019s so funny cos our first record was so much more intense and just more technical and we started seeing like okay we have a good following, but during our shows not so many people are moving, our music is super technical and so we noticed that these parts of our songs are what get the crowd moving, so we amplified that in the second record, we were like we\u2019re going to do more of that and get more people involved so that the crowds go crazy. So now we\u2019ve started adapting our records more to seeing what works live and we know what works for us and we\u2019re just trying to amplify that every record.<\/em><\/p>\n
Ruben: Definitely, like every song on the second record gets the crowd going so much more. Its set up like perfectly to get them jumping and screaming and clapping and doing everything, anything and everything.<\/em><\/p>\n
Ruben: Without? Wipies! I\u2019m pretty sure you\u2019ve hear that a lot, most bands will say that. Wipies are like a necessity when you don\u2019t have a shower or you can\u2019t always keep clean, so you\u2019ve gotta go and do the wipey shower and burn bath, deodorant, obviously all the hygiene stuff is the most important and if I ever forget that I\u2019m like \u201cI gotta go get some stuff\u201d cos it\u2019ll get bad in the bus if not.<\/em><\/p>\n
Ruben: Ah that\u2019s awesome. We actually have our own cocktail drink that we invented and it\u2019s called the Southern Tren Killer.<\/em><\/p>\n
Ruben: It\u2019s a Jagerbomb which we call the tren and the killer is the shot of whisky you drop inside the Jagerbomb. So it\u2019s a mixed Jagerbomb as I said already and then you get another drop on top of that of whisky, so it\u2019s two shots in one and that\u2019s the killer right there!<\/em><\/p>\n
UABB\/Ruben: Yeah two shots and an energy drink, it\u2019s like you don\u2019t know what to do!<\/em><\/p>\n
Ruben: It\u2019s already done, it\u2019s already in the bag, we\u2019re just trying to finish it up. Do all the artwork and get all that stuff together and hopefully we\u2019ll be releasing it by summer, that\u2019s what we\u2019re hoping for. It\u2019s pretty soon, it\u2019s coming up and we\u2019re all excited. Everybody that we\u2019ve showed it to is pumped on it.<\/em><\/p>\n
Ruben: Yeah start prepping it, making sure we play the songs and deliver them.<\/em><\/p>\n
Ruben: No not yet, we can\u2019t play any yet, but I think for our tour in the summer we\u2019ll be doing some new jams.<\/em><\/p>\n
Ruben: Good question\u2026.never been asked\u2026.hmmmm that\u2019s a good one\u2026.let me see, I\u2019m trying to think.<\/em><\/p>\n
Ruben: Yeah I\u2019m trying to think what is a good one. I think a cool question is like the most interesting place we have been. Right now it is definitely Thailand, we just got back from Thailand and that was it insane. I got to eat insects, I ate a scorpion, did all this crazy shit.<\/em><\/p>\n
Ruben: Yeah our very first time and we\u2019re trying to get everywhere. Our friend\u2019s band I Wrestled A Bear Once \u2013 you\u2019ve heard of them?<\/em><\/p>\n
Ruben: They\u2019ve literally been almost everywhere in the world and I\u2019m like \u201choly crap you guys have played everywhere!\u201d They\u2019ve played the jungles of Malaysia and that\u2019s, that\u2019s insane. I want to be able to play there too. Y\u2019know what I mean?!<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n
Ruben: Probably by Kiss \u2018I Wanna Rock\u2019n\u2019Roll All Night\u2019 and party all day. Ha ha ha ha! That\u2019s pretty much it, that\u2019s our lives. We go to a different place every time and try to make friends and make sure everybody\u2019s having a good time and try to party and meet everybody. We\u2019re always at the merch table, trying to hang out and drink beers and y\u2019know have a good time.<\/em><\/p>\n