Monthly Archives december 2011

Posted in Interviews

Festivalphoto spoke to Michael Monroe and Dregen before their performance at Hard Rock Hell 2011.

Festivalphoto: You’re famous for your energetic live shows which are great fun to watch as you climb onto speakers (or anything else convenient) or throw yourself into the crowd. Do you ever get injured doing this?

Michael: Oh yeah, a lot. I broke two ribs twice last year, I’ve broken my ankle twice, yeah I do get injuries but I try to be careful.

Festivalphoto: With your habit of swinging your microphone and its stand around on stage do you ever injure your band mates?

Michael: No – only myself.

Festivalphoto: In Birmingham I seem to remember Steve Conte bleeding after taking a Saxophone to the face.

Michael: He walked into the Sax, it wasn’t me (laughing)

Festivalphoto: Good answer

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Upon receiving a recommendation from a friend, I visited Syne’s official website at http://www.syne.it/ and listened to the songs featured in the media section. Being pleasantly surprised by what I heard, I had a chat with the band’s mastermind, Fabio “FaZ” Marchisio, to find out more about this fresh Italian band with a lot of potential, and below you can read the result. And once you’re done reading, you should pay a visit to their website and listen for yourself.

Can I get a little history of the band. How did it start, how did you meet all the members? What does the name mean?
This projects started at very beginning of 2010. I had a bunch of songs and lyrics and I was trying to contact potential musicians on the scene to join the band and to learn the songs I had...