Bob Vylan’s touring tempo is sort of as relentless as Bobby’s rapping, heading out to Europe quickly after, and supporting Amyl And The Sniffers in Australia subsequent yr.
“That’s very thrilling, as a result of we’ve by no means been there earlier than,” Bobby smiles. “It’s so cool that the band permits us the chance to go to locations that we wouldn’t ever go to, and meet people who we wouldn’t have ever in any other case met.”
They usually don’t appear able to decelerate anytime quickly, both.
“I feel this album has quite a lot of life in it,” Bobby says. “We have to get out and be on the street and construct up in America, and get them in control.”
Bob Vylan have already began to place the graft in throughout the pond, taking part in headline reveals in addition to slots at large festivals Aftershock and Louder Than Life.
“It’s a spot the place I really feel just like the message of this band actually must be to be shared,” Bobbie says.
“And it resonates, as properly,” his bandmate provides.
“We should be within the locations that don’t wish to hear us, or the locations that want it most – not simply the place folks already like or consider the identical issues,” Bobbie continues.
“It’s like, ‘In the event you don’t prefer it right here, return,’” muses Bobby. “I might, however I might additionally simply be right here and annoy you. Why would I not do this? I’ll return after I’m carried out annoying you.”
All this calls to thoughts the mentality of Fairly Songs, taken from The Worth Of Life, through which Bobby sings: ‘I might do that all day lengthy / Sing a track, a reasonably little track / Blah-blah, rah-rah-rah / That’s alright, however I’d somewhat combat.’ Once they carry out it reside, the stage lights change to crimson, inexperienced and white – the colors of the Palestinian flag – whereas Bobby sings the up to date lyrics: ‘Palestinian lives have at all times mattered / You had been simply by no means advised so on TV.’
Bob Vylan as an entity have at all times been an area to speak about matters necessary to them. Even with all their success, they’re about greater than music.
“We’ve been doing this our entire lives,” Bobbie says. “It’s not a factor that simply begins on the present and ends on the present. It’s actually simply a part of us.”
An instance: Bobby attended a Palestine solidarity march as a teen, earlier than music was even there. “That was 10 years or extra earlier than this band ever was considered,” he says. “We simply convey that a part of our life into the room with us.”
And when the band did begin, there was no query about utilizing their platform to talk up. “If in case you have any ethical compass, you perceive the wrestle,” Bobbie explains. “What’s extra necessary is how folks really feel going onstage and taking that a part of their lives away and going, ‘Oh, we’re not going to speak about this factor.’”
It’s been an ongoing dialogue within the punk world and past over the previous yr, amid competition boycotts, as artists both confirmed their help for Palestine or stayed silent.
“For therefore many bands, that is their be-all and end-all,” Bobby says. “God forbid the band shouldn’t be there. God forbid the cash shouldn’t be there. God forbid the group shouldn’t be there. We love what we do. We love this band, however we had been human beings earlier than this band, and we’ll be human beings after it.”
