Time for the next edition of Metal Anarchy’s “Music In The Age Of COVID-19” series, the feature where I discuss the ongoing pandemic with various musicians. This time I have an interview with No Restraints.
METAL ANARCHY: How have you been holding up during the coronavirus pandemic?
NO RESTRAINTS: It has been hard, honestly I didn’t use that time in any productive way…drinking, watching movies and things like this, waiting for the end of the pandemic or insanity. I bought a lot of records, more than usual.
The funny thing is that I know that for many “normal people” things didn’t change a lot, they work and watch TV, but for me not being allowed to play music, perform live, go to gigs and meet friends it felt like jail, like being dead inside… basically it is the only thing that give sense to my life, and without that…
METAL ANARCHY: Have you been using your downtime to work on new music?
NO RESTRAINTS: Barely, but surprisingly right after lockdown we’ve been extremely productive with music, we wrote many new songs in relatively few time and the most of those will be on our album coming out in April.
METAL ANARCHY: What was the last show you played or attended before the shutdown?
NO RESTRAINTS: The last one we played was January 2020 in Biella, the party ended at 7 in the morning and it was totally crazy.
The last I attended instead was in December 2019 when Me & Dave (the drummer) went to Germany to see Last Resort, it was great!!!
METAL ANARCHY: Are you planning to play any livestream concerts during this time?
NO RESTRAINTS: I’m not sure about this… I saw a few stream gigs during the first lockdown, but most of them weren’t really interesting. Unless you have a proper direction and sounds engineering the result is not good. Basically the only really good one I saw was Dropkick Murphys.
METAL ANARCHY: Do you think the live entertainment industry will ever recover?
NO RESTRAINTS: Sure, at the moment it still looks hard since there are restrictions in several countries, but when this situation will be definitely over I see no reason why the situation shouldn’t go back to the way it was…maybe even better.
METAL ANARCHY: Lastly, is there anything fans can do to help your band or others that may be struggling during this time?
NO RESTRAINTS: Well basically the way is always the same, make them feel your support sharing their music, getting in contact on socials, buying music and merch… shorting the distance until we finally meet again at a concert.
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