Interviews
Within Temptation
Interview with: Robert Westerholt & Sharon den Adel at M'era Luna 2002 festival.
2002-08-11
What interesting places have you been during a tour ?
We were enjoying the tour in Mexico which was interesting experience and different because most of our gigs were in Belgium & in The Nederland.
When we begun with the band we had less time and less money for touring and for the band. Now things are different and we have more time to tour. Only lately we had success with a few hits and we were able to invest full time in the band by giving up our jobs.
What did you do for living before?
Robert: I was working in human resources.
Do you know what is the secrete of your success?
No, if we have knew it we would have done it before. We just play music and believe in what we do.
This is something we could not predict – we begun to play the music we like as a hobby and it just happen.
Mother Earth was released some time ago, but the success of this album just came in the last few months. Can you explain why?
We were known in the scene, but not outside. On the last few months we became more familiar to other crowed from our video clips that were running on T.V.
I saw the video from the T.M.F. music awards, it include 2 songs. Why did you make a video with 2 songs ?
The T.M.F. awards it something similar to the M.T.V. awards, but it only for Dutch bands.
The video has 2 songs because it was as we played it. We got a chance to play only one song so we made this connection of 2 songs because we wanted to play them both. It was a very nice experience.
What is the situation of the band now ?
We are looking for a record label.
What is the show you most remember ?
Every show we play is special for us, but I think that Dynamo `97 is the show I most remember. Dynamo is a festival that takes place in our country, he is very important event and we got the chance to play with more know bands.
Do you remember people from your crowd that you still remember from your first shows?
Yes, people from Belgium and Holland – people that are always there.
There is guy we always see in our show – a big guy with a tattoo of Within Temptation’s logo on his arm.
Do you still play old songs?
Yes, we play music from all of our albums.
What artist or artists gave you the urge to start and play music?
Robert: I begun to play music when I was young. I’ve listened to Marillion and later on begun to listen to bands such as: Iron Maiden, Paradise Lost. I still listen to a lot of bands every day.
Sharon: When I was younger I just sang. When I was teenager I’ve been in a band that played Van Halen style, I like Tori Amos and a lot of music in general.
Robert was the one that entered me to the metal world – this actually how Within Temptation begun.
