Winners of the Juno Award 2010 for “Best
Rock Album of the Year”, Billy Talent will be in South Africa for 3 shows
in Northam, Cape Town and Durban.
“Try Honesty” is the monster single that
broke Billy Talent and its eponymous debut album wide open to the tune of
triple-platinum sales back in Canada in 2003. It was only after
Billy Talent demonstrated its lasting mettle in the wake of 2006’s Billy
Talent II with three more platinum sales awards, a sold-out show at
Toronto’s 20,000-seat Air Canada Centre and, most unexpectedly, a No. 1
debut in Germany to match the one already notched at home that they were
finally acknowledged as one of the most popular and successful bands in
Canada.
Billy Talent have played sold-out shows in
Canada and the United States and had success in Europe as well. They have
shared the stage with Green Day, The Black Eyed Peas, Iron Maiden, Santana
and many more.
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Billy Talent bandmembers are vocalist Ben
Kowalewicz, guitarist Ian D'Sa, bassist Jon Gallant and drummer Aaron
Solowoniuk. They have been playing together for 15 years.
"We grew up in the early ‘90s, when all
these amazing bands came out – Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney
and Jane's Addiction. All these amazing things, we grew up with, and as
time progressed we explored punk – the Clash, the Pistols and things like
that. We explored that avenue and, I guess, over time, as a progression,
you kinda revert to a time when things made the most sense. And, I think,
the early ‘90s kinda shaped us and our psyches and who we are and why we
even play music." Ben Kowalewicz.
“People are always saying: ‘You sound so different from
record to live.’ And some people really like the way the records sound,
some people really like the live stuff,” says Kowalewicz. “So one thing
that, I think, we really wanted to do with our new album, Billy Talent
III, was to amalgamate both, so that it sounds really big and heavy but
there’s still, like, this feeling that’s really visceral and alive.
Catch Billy Talent live at:
7 Aug: 3 Arts Centre, Cape Town
Ticket prices: R150 Presales: www.ticketbreak.co.za
R200 Gate
8 Aug: Oppikoppi. Sexy. Crooked. Teeth. Northam
10 Aug: Wave House, Gateway, Durban
Ticket prices: R100 pre sales: www.ticketbreak.co.za
R150 gate
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