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Date d'inscription : 09/08/2006
Localisation : Lille
 |  Sujet: mtvU tour - interview shannon Mer 29 Sep 2010 - 10:16 | |
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- KINGSVILLE — Shannon Leto has never heard of a javelina.
“So they’re, like, little vicious things?” he asked. “I hope I get to meet one.”
The 30 Seconds to Mars drummer should get to meet thousands, more or less, when the band rocks out Wednesday night at Texas A&M University-Kingsville as part of the mtvU Campus Invasion Music Festival.
The free concert is expected to draw at least 2,000 people to the rural campus, based on the 1,500 free tickets given away to students and 300 reserved seats sold so far, said A&M-Kingsville spokeswoman Julie Navejar. Because general admission is now open to anyone with or without a ticket, the crowd should be even larger.
The band received the 2010 MTV Video Music Award for best rock video on Sept. 12 for the song “Kings and Queens,” so getting the Kingsville stop on the mtvU tour was a major coup for a university revamping itself as place where students want to live rather than just visit on the weekdays.
“We’re hoping students have a sense that this little campus tucked away into a rural community is capable of big things,” said Terisa Remelius, vice president for student affairs.
New dorm building dedications are becoming a yearly routine, and even with the newly opened, modern, apartment-style dwellings, enrollment has grown so quickly that some have no choice but to live in hotels, shuttling back and forth to campus.
The Kingsville date is the only show 30 Seconds to Mars has planned in Texas following its Video Music Award. The band plays in Oklahoma City on Thursday before touring the Midwest.
Wednesday’s concert gives Texas fans a chance to join in the unique relationship 30 Seconds to Mars has with its followers. The band frequently invites fans onstage to form what it calls the “Church of Mars.” Dozens of fans in costumes rode bicycles with band members as they entered the Video Music Awards. Hundreds participated in chants and songs for album recording sessions. Two thousand fans had their faces plastered on copies of the most recent album, “This is War,” and more fan photos cover Leto’s drums.
“We’ve always been interested in the people that are listening to us, and it’s always been a shared experience ever since the beginning,” Leto said. “From the first show where we played to three people at the beginning, we would go out and talk to those three people, and it grew from there.”
Leto, who founded the band in 1998 with his brother, Jared Leto, said that at age 40, he derives energy from the crowd, trying to eat healthy and drinking tons of coconut water. He also tries to work a surprise into every show.
“Maybe we’ll have a bunch of javelinas,” he said, before backtracking and emphasizing the “maybe.”
“I don’t know, say, like 50 of them on stage, and they’re wearing Army gear. We’ll put helmets on them.” source : caller.com | |
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