But at the same time, we see the other side of it as people trying to please everyone who comes to a show. We’ve been to shows where we’re disappointed that they didn’t play certain things, and we get it, we understand. Just because we want to freshen up the set and play new stuff, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s best for the set. TYLER: A few songs stick out to me, and it’s hard not to lean towards new songs, but we never want to lose sight of older songs being important to people and important to us. What has that experience been like, especially bringing the new songs to life at the live shows?
You didn’t sign it, though?ĬDM: We were gonna get someone from your label to sign it, to make it legitimate, but ran out of time to ask them.ĬDM: When we talked last, you were explaining how it’s hard for you to answer the question, ‘What’s your favourite song to play live?’, because of the way that fans inject their meaning and involvement in songs after a record is released. It was one of my favourite off days of all time.ĬDM: You’re also in a land where your latest album ‘Trench’ went #1! To celebrate, we made you a commemorative certificate. TYLER: Well, Rivendell isn’t here, but we did go to Hobbiton a few years ago and it was one of the coolest things that we were able to do ever on tour. You’re in Middle Earth now, so did you make it happen? It’s incredible, I can’t believe that that’s a thing.ĬDM: Tyler, you told someone in an interview last week that one place you really wanted to visit is Rivendell. TWENTY ONE PILOTS - TYLER JOSEPH: No, I’ve seen screenshots of it though. What follows below is a truncated combination of both conversations for ease of reading.ĬOUP DE MAIN: Very important first question - did you watch the music video starring Jason Statham in cheetah print briefs (a la ‘Pet Cheetah’) that we told you about back in October? Over the course of the fourteen-track album, the journey through this world is tumultuous, there’s ups and downs, but as he realises in the closing track ‘Leave The City’, “In Trench I’m not alone,” and he’s not alone, but joined by Josh Dun, every step of the way.Ĭoup De Main spoke to Twenty One Pilots in London last year, as well as in New Zealand on the final leg of the Bandito World Tour before Christmas.
On their latest release ‘Trench’ (which debuted at #1 in the New Zealand and Australian charts), Tyler Joseph invites listeners into the innermost thoughts of his brain more than ever before through the world of Trench - with songs like ‘Smithereens’ and ‘Legend’ honouring two very important people in his life, to songs like ’Neon Gravestones’, which reflects upon on the glorification of suicide in today’s world.
It’s the band’s third time headlining Spark Arena in the space of the last three years, and their ongoing return to what is often considered the other side of the world for some touring artists, is not only testament to their hardworking ethic but also the universality of the songs they create. They manage about a minute in silence, concocting witty remarks via their pens, before they’re exchanging notes like high schoolers cheating in a test - Dun cackles when he reads Joseph’s fourth point, “Doesn’t get nearly as pissed as I do when people spell his name with two 'N's.” He confirms, “It’s true!!” Twenty One Pilots’ Joshua Dun and Tyler Joseph are stifling laughter backstage in a lounge at Auckland’s Spark Arena, as they work individually on their handwritten contributions to their Coup De Main zine - Dun’s, a captioned look into his beloved Golden Retriever Jim’s thoughts, and Joseph’s, a list of qualities that he admires in Dun.
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