It started as a solo thing and now it’s a band.ĭO YOU THINK YOU’LL FOCUS YOUR TIME HALF AND HALF BETWEEN THE TWO BANDS? He’s way better than our first one was, and he’s super important to the band. Dennis, our bass player, is our second bass player. Then Nick, our guitar player, I’ve known for a really long time, since the beginning. Discover yourself, put yourself out there. You’ve got all these opportunities to do it yourself. It’s really a sort of inspiring story that we tell other up and coming musicians: you can do it yourself, you can promote yourself. He’s doing all these different genres so right away I can see that he can do anything we throw at him. He was doing drum covers on YouTube and he was doing some hip hop stuff and some dubstep and some metal. I contacted him via Twitter and he’s been in the band for seven or eight months now. Our old drummer couldn’t be in the band anymore and I was like, ‘I need a new drummer’, and boom! YouTube! Like the first guy that came up. I HEARD THERE’S AN INTERESTING STORY BEHIND HOW YOU MET YOUR BAND… We dress quite smart, with suits and a lot of black, as opposed to how I dress for Bizkit. It’s a long show! We usually play until they throw us off. We play for about an hour and forty minutes. It’s about half and half and then a little bit of ‘Cover Your Heart’, which is our covers album, and a couple of the more poppy songs off ‘Lotus Island’. Live, it’s kind of mixed up between the two major albums, which are ‘Cruel Melody’ and ‘The Moment You Realize You’re Going To Fall’. WHAT DO YOU PLAY LIVE? IS IT A MIXTURE OF ALL THE ALBUMS? I’m interested in a lot of things and I try and pursue all of them. My art partner does anything that’s camera-oriented, but anything that’s painting or drawing-oriented, I do. They both have their own sort of reward, and as soon as I’m finished with one I’ve got a lot of new ideas for the other, so it’s cool to have both.ĭO YOU DO ALL THE ARTWORK FOR BLACK LIGHT BURNS AS WELL? I can concentrate on stage costumes and things like that. And with Bizkit, it’s like a house that’s already been built because we already went through the years of constructing that, so when I go back to that I don’t have to work as much. I guess if I were to build this table I would care about it a lot more than if it was built for me. It ends up meaning a lot because we’re putting so much into it. Black Light Burns is really demanding as far as the amount of jobs I have, like we’re the crew, we drive a lot of the time, we load the trailer and we even sell the merch sometimes. No, I think it works, because as soon as I’m sick of one I’ve got the other to go to. HOW DO YOU FIND TOURING WITH BLACK LIGHT BURNS? IT MUST BE QUITE DIFFERENT FROM TOURING WITH LIMP BIZKIT. The whole thing’s been snowballing and the crowds have been getting bigger and bigger and bigger, so we’re really excited about it. I am! This is the biggest one of the tour, so we’re really excited about it. We talked live shows, juggling bands and insanely high productivity levels. Punktastic went down to the Black Heart in Camden for a chat with Wes before BLB’s show in the Underworld. The mighty Wes Borland, most famous for his day job in Limp Bizkit, came to the UK with his other band, Black Light Burns a couple of weeks ago.
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