{"id":2225,"date":"2010-05-19T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greatsouthernbrainfart.wordpress.com\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2011-04-17T18:46:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T22:46:50","slug":"cristinascabbia_interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=2225","title":{"rendered":"Blowin’ Wind With Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I have been a Lacuna Coil fan ever since my buddy Spoob back in North Carolina convinced me to listen to the band’s 2002 release “Comalies.” The minute the the opening track “Swamped” kicked in I was floored and couldn’t wait to hear what would follow. Track after track I was blown away and just had to hear more. The band had just released their “Karmacode” album so I picked that one up next and again was floored at the musicianship of this band. I also loved that they had two lead singers (male and female) which is something I had never seen before. I was a fan for life!<\/p>\n

In 2009, Lacuna Coil released “Shallow Life” and shows once again that they are a band that continues to grow and mature with each release.\u00a0 Lacuna Coil is currently out on the road supporting “The Shallow Life” album and I was honored and excited that lead singer Cristina Scabbia was willing to take the time to do an interview with me.\u00a0 The band was in Madison, Wisconsin and even through a few technical difficulties (bad cell reception on their tour bus), she was a real trooper and an absolute joy to chat with.\u00a0 I hope you’ll enjoy this interview as much as I did!<\/p>\n

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I have to start out by saying that I\u2019m a huge fan and this is my first big interview for The Brainfart, so I\u2019m super excited about this!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cristina Scabbia: Great!<\/p>\n

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You guys have been out on the road with Five Finger Death Punch. How have the shows been going?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: It\u2019s going good. We just started the tour on May 4th. Right now we are in the middle of a couple to dates with Seether, Hell Yeah, Drowning Pool and Five Finger Death Punch. It\u2019s a really good package.<\/p>\n

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The last time I saw Lacuna Coil you were here in Atlanta supporting All That Remains. Are there any plans to do another US headlining tour?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: I don\u2019t know at the moment because after North America we\u2019re going to be in South America for the first time in some places. I don\u2019t know what is happening after that because we have to play some summer festivals in Europe, so I don\u2019t know if after that we are coming straight to the US again. I hope so though.<\/p>\n

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Congratulations on \u201cShallow Life.\u201d It\u2019s such a great album. It seems that with each album you continue to reinvent yourselves. Is this a conscious effort or is it a natural progression for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: Thank you! It\u2019s something that\u2019s absolutely natural, but it\u2019s not like we are reinventing ourselves. It\u2019s a sort of evolution because I feel that if you compare \u201cShallow Life\u201d to our previous works you can still hear that the Lacuna Coil core is there. We\u2019re just incorporating more and more stuff from different other styles of music and incorporating other influences. That makes it possible that people can hear a change in the band. As it always happens, you grow up as a band and we learn how to do things better here and there.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve seen online in places such as the Empty Spiral (http:\/\/www.emptyspiral.net) Message Boards where fans talk about how you don\u2019t perform too many songs from your earlier albums. Is there a reason why you choose not to perform songs from some of your earlier works?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: It depends if you\u2019re playing a support show or a headlining show. When you are supporting you don\u2019t have enough time to play whatever you want and that\u2019s the problem. We have out five albums and 2 EPs so for us picking out songs from all this material is really difficult. The old school fans are always asking us for very old material, but every time we play the material there are very few people who know them. Most of the fans are familiar with the stuff from \u201cComalies\u201d on. We\u2019re touring to promote the latest album, so that\u2019s why we tend to pick up more songs from the latest album. We play some of the classics, but we can\u2019t make everyone happy especially if we don\u2019t have enough time.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s really hard to make everybody happy!<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: It\u2019s really hard because every time we try to pick up an old song, everybody wants another one. In Europe on the previous headlining tour we tried to squeeze in a very, very old song and the crowd was looking at us like we were aliens. Then we started to play the songs from \u201cComalies\u201d and \u201cKarmacode\u201d and \u201cShallow Life\u201d and everybody knew them.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s just natural to play the songs that the majority of your audience is going to know.<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: Yeah! Well, we\u2019re trying to make everyone happy, but it\u2019s pretty impossible.<\/p>\n

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Eh, you make a lot of us very happy, trust me!<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: <laughs><\/p>\n

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In 2007 you did a duet with Dave Mustaine on the Megadeth song \u201cA Tout Le Monde\u201d which was absolutely brilliant. Are there any other artists that you\u2019d like to do something like that with?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: There are a lot of artists that I would love to collaborate with, but I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s going to happen. I\u2019m sure I\u2019m going to do something in the future. So far there is nothing planned because I want to be completely focused on Lacuna Coil. I would love to work with bands like Muse. I would love to work with somebody completely different from our kind of music because that\u2019s what makes things interesting. I like Blur very much as well. I would love to be another character in Gorillaz!<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s really great to hear because that leads into another question I wanted to ask you. What are some artists or bands that we would be surprised to hear that you are a fan of?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: First of all, I am not a fan of any band in a way that I have the whole discography or I go crazy just to hear the name. I love music and I can appreciate every kind of music. I think Gorillaz is a good one. Then I would say that I like Lady Gaga. I love her transformations. Not really the music itself, which is cool if you want to party, but I just like the whole package of her image and that she can actually play, sing and write her own stuff. I like a little bit of everything. I think that music is something so beautiful that you have to enjoy it in every way. Closing yourself into one type of music only is pretty stupid. I love R&B which a lot of people might not expect from me. I love the black vocalists like Anita Baker and Aretha Franklin.<\/p>\n

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Cristina, if they were to make a Hollywood movie about your life, who would you want to play you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: That\u2019s tough because you can never remember actors you like. I can think of different actresses for their talent and others because they are beautiful. It would be cool to be connected because they are way more beautiful than me. For the beauty maybe Kate Beckinsale because she is really beautiful. Maybe talent would be either Julia Roberts or I like very much Barbara Streisand because I think she\u2019s super cool.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s so cool. I actually answered that question for myself and said Jack Black.<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: Aw, Jack Black rocks, but I would definitely hope he would not play myself. Even if I could find a lot of points in common it would be weird to be connected with Jack Black.<\/p>\n

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Whenever I\u2019m driving and Boston\u2019s \u201cMore Than a Feeling\u201d comes on I just sing really badly at the top of my lungs. When you\u2019re driving, what song do you sing not caring how badly you\u2019re singing it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: I sing everything that comes out in my mind. The problem is that I have a very shitty stereo in my car. I can\u2019t hear anything because the music comes out completely distorted, so most of the time I just shut it off and I just sing whatever comes up in my mind.<\/p>\n

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Oh that\u2019s so great. So you are the radio in your car basically!<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: Basically yeah because I have a very tiny, funny, shitty car with a shitty stereo, but that\u2019s how I like it.<\/p>\n

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What is your current favorite song to perform live?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: There is none because it always depends on the reaction from the crowd and that\u2019s what keeps it interesting. Even with songs like \u201cHeavens a Lie\u201d that we\u2019ve played so many times, not that it\u2019s boring, but sometimes it\u2019s getting old. Then you start playing it and everyone\u2019s singing the song with you and you are just really happy to perform the song.The most fun songs to perform are from the latest album just because they are newer and fresher to our ears.<\/p>\n

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If Lacuna Coil was hired to be a tribute band and play nothing but another band\u2019s songs, what band would that be?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: Probably Type O Negative. It would be really hard because Pete (Type O Negative singer Peter Steele) was unique and nobody can reproduce his voice.<\/p>\n

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Are you guys all big Type O Negative fans?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: We are fans and we are friends with them and we adore them. We toured together and had the best time of our lives and we\u2019ve loved their music since the beginning. They definitely inspired the band.<\/p>\n

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Are there any plans to cover any Type O Negative songs?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: Not at the moment. Our bass player just wrote a song that is inspired by the loss of Pete. I hope that we are going to be able to give a good tribute to a wonderful person who\u2019s not here anymore.<\/p>\n

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Cristina, that\u2019s it! I hope I didn\u2019t waste your time too terribly bad!<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: No, no, no! Don\u2019t worry. I apologize for the problems seriously and the rain is not helping with this bad signal.<\/p>\n

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Cristina, it\u2019s a pleasure to support you and Lacuna Coil. Would you like to send a message to the readers?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CS: Yeah, we want to thank them for the support because we\u2019ve been around 15 years now and that wouldn\u2019t be possible without people listening to our music, sharing the word and supporting us so we really appreciate it. It means the world to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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