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My name is Hans, from The Gathering
F: My name is Frank, from The Gathering, playing keyboards, he's the drummer
H: And we have half an hour to answer to your questions if you want, just shoot! I only speak English by the way, my Romanian is really not quite good.
Question:Everybody knows about Anneke's departure. Can you speak about her reasons?
H:That's already stated in her MySpace. The main reason is that she wants to stay more at home, with her child, and she wants to put more time in her project. And that's the main reason! Of course we tried to persuade her, maybe only make albums and not touring anymore, just to make it easier and confortable for her, but she didn't want to make music with us anymore. It's quite harsh, but that's the reason
Question: Everybody consider that The Gathering's career starts with 'Mandylion'....
H: Well, I think we started with 'Always'
Question: Yes, I know, but So, Anneke is like a trademark for The Gathering....How will that change?
H: We will. Of course it was a shock for us too. Right now we are repositioning our standards, our goals. We think a lot about it, what to do. Of course it's an heavy task, but we are The Gathering, we saw many years already, we almost exist since 18 years. A lot of things will change, of course. We are very much busy with auditions, with a lot of things right now, think a lot about voices we like already playing in a band, we had auditions already, so we are busy with it.
Question: Will you have a male voice?
H: We do not know yet. If we find a good male voice, maybe female, maybe more voices, it could be possible
Question: You are looking for a precise person, or are you open for something new?
H: Of course we are not searching for an Opera vocalist, for example. We have specific taste of course, but it's a matter of taste, we have to like it. We are not going to search for Anneke clone, that's for sure. I mean, Anneke is Anneke, she's faboulous, but we have to continue, we are not going to search for..... it will be ridicolous! It's a new start right now, a new era. Maybe it won't be that popular anymore, you know, a lot of things will happen, we know, but we want to continue, we love to make music with the four people who are still in the band, so we will continue.
Question: Maybe are you interested in a male vocalist, with a more aggressive style?
F: No, we are not going to return to the first album, I don't think so, but there are lots of possibilities..... it's a very creative new challenge for us and we are really excited to go to reharse again, to write songs, to record, so... it give us a lot of inspiration as well.
H: I think it will be a more heavy-orientated album for sure, of course... for us it's as frustrating as for the fans, you know, so it will be more heavy.
Question: Will you do a special tour to say goodbye?
H: No, because we both continue: she is in a solo career and we continue with the band, so we play these 3 gigs and we don't like to do a farewell tour, it's not like a cup of tea to do, because it's not a farewell, well maybe for The Gathering and Anneke...
Question: Did you compose something new already? Are you thinking about a new album?
H: We are very busy with it right now.
F: We have already a few songs in progress, I'm still working on writing new songs also
H: It gives a lot of ideas right now. We tried to put something negative into something positive, so to use the heart, you know. We don't like this, that this is happening. It's very strange for us because we have been on the road with Anneke for 13 years, ok this is changing but it gives a lot of inspiration and we tried to see and focus on the positive side of it.
Question: From where does the inspiration come?
H: Everything. A trip like this is really inspiring, being in Romania for the first time, it's a beautiful country. We were almost killed in a taxi yesterday, the driving is really insane. We were sitting for 7 hours from Bucarest to here like... Will I have to see my child again, you know, but we made it and we enjoyed the country, we enjoyed the people very much and this is an inspiration too
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