Billy Talent: An interview with vocalist Benjamin Kowalewicz
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2014
- It was a beautiful sunny summer day in 2002 when I walked onto the lawns at Toronto’s Molson Amphitheatre for Moby’s Area 2 Festival to see a young punk rock group finishing up a song (which seemed odd as the doors had just opened). It sounded good so we applauded, to which the singer replied “Thanks! That was our soundcheck!” Word had spread that show opener Busta Rhymes hadn’t made the gig, so this was his replacement.
A few minutes later they walked back onstage and the singer announced that they were called Billy Talent, a name that I’d heard bounced around the city before. They delivered a high-energy set, receiving a large ovation from the lawn section. As they began to appear on radio and television I would smile and think about the great set they had that day, and that any success they achieved was well-deserved.
Flash forward eight summers later and I’m standing on the Plains of Abraham as tens of thousands stand shoulder-to-shoulder at the Festival d'été de Québec to watch the same band that had timidly thanked us for applauding their soundcheck. I always was aware of Billy Talent’s subsequent success, but that night I realized that they had grown into a pop-punk phenomenon.
With this in mind I sat down with vocalist Benjamin Kowaelwicz before their set at Riot Fest Toronto to talk about their amazing growth and success, as well as some of the more political aspects of their music.
Billy Talent will be releasing their first greatest hits collection simply entitled “Hits” on November 4th. The album features two brand new songs entitled “Kingdom of Zod” and “Chasing The Sun”
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I feel Billy talent is extremely underrated
In Germany they are very popular
@@timgiesbrecht3483 well, everybody in Germany knows 2 or 3 songs of them, but i don't think that this makes you very popular. I have even friends who have never heard anything from Billy Talent
Maybe because some of the Billy Talent band mates have Eastern European ethnic origin? 🤣😂
@@kofgrep what's your point
@@katiejames2448 Eastern Europeans are looked upon with contempt by those who rule this music industry from behind the scenes 🤣😂
He is comparing Billy Talent to other bands to much. Billy Talent is very unique and i think sounds like no other band
they are so underrecognized, crazy to me. They are really great.
I remember begging my dad to put Surrender on the tv when i was 2 and dancing to it. Thank you so much
Green Day is notehing like Billy Talent! I am notsaying they're bad at all but really different.
Green dad is just a pop- rock (teenage boys, girls) kind of band but Billy Talent is so much more. I think their song meanings are much more above.
PS: Don't eat yellow snow!!
Talks about surprise surprise. Plays try honesty
wow this intreview is so interesting. thank u for uploading it!
Ben reminds me of Ryan Reynolds the way he talks, it’s like I’m watching Deadpool lol
Yeah so crazy talented
Great Interview! But the much Clip parts some kind of bugging me, would loveto see Ben, if he is speaking :)
15:00 This is *EXACTLY* how I discover *Billy Talent* !!!!!
Burnout revenge!!
Same
@@cristof41 yep
@@cristof41 red flag?
@@DariusMakesContent exactly 😉
as a musician i find it really difficult to define billy talents sound, i think they have some punk elements sure.... but green day? no not at all. i remember the first time i heard billy talent i was a young teenager and it was red flag and i remember thinking this is completely different to anything ive heard upto this point and still to this day there is no band that sounds like billy talent. so why is this guy trying to pigeon hole them to one genre? theyre just billy talent enjoy them or go home
Exactly!
+MorrisUK1990 really hardd
Still now eight years later, Billy Talent, especially in the first few albums, remain entirely unique.
Why so much hate on green day for god sakes i would be honored
derpycat :3 it's not hate, Billy Talent is just completely different
I really want to see billy talent perform live but they hardly ever play near me
It's awesome Gosling does this band in his spare time. Jk, Ben owns!
Billy Tallent is Bad Ass I cant picture him singing punk ballads , Ben Orr from the Cars pulled it off , I guess he would have to change his voice unless he wants to keep the punk in his voice hes a bad ass singer regardless.
Ryan Gosling
what song is playing at 0:45
Try Honesty
V I second that. Mmhm
His voice sounds like 2 cats fighting in a bag
He says they're the biggest Canadian punk band but at least here Sum 41 are way bigger than Billy Talent. In fact almost no one knows billy talent... While Sum everyone recognises. And how are billy talent getting marketed to anyone? I can also tell that if it wasn't for youtube and spotify and all that shit I would never have found Billy Talent and half the bands I listen to today cause their music isn't available anywhere else (at least where I live) you can't go into a record store and buy a punk album cause they simply don't sell them nowadays.
Sum41 are just crap.
Where do you live? I hear them on the radio all the time here in Canada, at least as much as I hear Sum41 (who I don't really like, honestly). And I know they aren't very well-known in the States but they are very popular here and also in Europe, especially Germany.
corinna007 I live in Portugal. I heard them once or twice on a rock station I usually listen to otherwise never heard them on the radio.
pop punk ?! haha
yeah wtf
Well....you can't really tell what genre Billy Talent play...I think I would just call it Billy Talent :D There are not many groups that have as unique sound as BT has....It's the same with Iron Maiden...I wouldn't call them Heavy Metal....I would just call it Iron Maiden genre :D
the only is green day ????ß how about blink 182 and stuff :D
Ben sent out a Nard reference. Nardwuar vs Billy Talent possibility?
Pop Punk? Wow...
ikr
Lol the interviewer talks too much, and I wish they had two mics the switching was so annoying
most popular punk pop bands? they are NOT that big wtf.
>_> seriously??? they definitively are man...
In some countries, they are massive like in Germany or Australia.
They arent known at all in the states
blackstorm214 sry but i dont agree with this
They are very well known in Canada too
are punk bands and punk-rock not politically driven? like anti-flag and rise against are very political and i always assumed that was a major part in the genre and if you don't like it, don't listen to it