interview with Rewolf Ym

How is it that you started playing music? Any of us had different stories.... I started about age of 16 with some school friends playing punk rock

What are your names? / Who plays what? / How old are you?
Max Bass – Alessio Guitar – Cristiano Drums – Chiara Voice – Daniele Keyboards  – Matteo Guitar / Age 30-50

Have you had other previous members?
Group was founded by Cri and Ale, I joined them about 6-7 years ago

We changed 3 times the second guitar, on the keyboards and 2 times

We had another keyboard that left the group two years ago, we changed 3second guitars and we had 2 singers

Did you make music even when you were young? Yes, we all started at the time of hi-school

Where are you from? Milano - Italy

What year did the band form? About 2010

What's your style of genre? Melodic Metal with Prog Influence

What inspires you? Dream Theater

How often and where do you reherse? Once per week, more when near a live
Do you have other interests of work outside the band? We are not pro – we all have a work outside the band

Are you looking for a booking agency, and what are your thoughts around that? At the moment in our area it is very difficult to find live opportunities, so a help would help, we did not had any agency for this (if this was what you meant with booking agency)
Are you looking for a label, and what are your thoughts around that? We just recorder a EP, a label can be the next step
Who does the composing and writes the lyrics? We compose music all together, but mainly the source are Alessio and Daniele 
Do you start with the music or the lyrics? Music, lyrics are usually written later
Have you done any covers live? Mainly by Dream Theater (Regression/Overture1928/Strange Deja Vu, Another Day, Pull me under...)

What language do you sing in? English
What are the least and most people to attend one of your gigs? Between 30 and 60 – usually we play in PUBs
What ages are most of your concert attendants? Age 30-50
Do you always play the same songs live, or do you vary? The cover can vary, we add our new songs while ready 
Do you have a regular place you play live often? No – usually in the Milano city area where our fans come from
What was your first gig like? It was in Milano @ Hollywood about 50 persons

What was your best gig? We really appreciated to play in LEGEND CLUB last year – very good sound and people
Have you had to cancel a gig? Fortunately it never happens
Where have you played live this year? 
Not Yet this year - We used the last months to record our EP
What do you think about people downloading music instead of buying records now a days?  
I have no problems if people share our music – it’s a way to increase our visibility. More general this is a too big phenomenon to be stopped and even big bands have to accept this

How do you think the music industry have changed because of this? Spotify is a clear answer to this
What do you think of my work? It’s great that somebody helps to increase visibility of “minor” groups 
Do you have any role models or idols? Dream Theater are our models/idols!

Is it easier to find inspiration from older bands, or bands that are more active today? Old are still the best source of “good” inspiration, but it is important to be able to take inspiration from new sounds and new ideas

What have been your biggest obstacles? It’s very hard to find place where to perform live especially for bands like us that beside cover wants to play original music – too many tribute bands and too many place that accepts only tribute bands 
Do you have any new material? We just recorded an EP with 4 new songs
What are your web sites? www.facebook.com/RewolfYm
How can people reach you? Please contact us on facebook
What are your plans for the future? In May we will be in a radio for an interview, in June we will be on stage (La Svolta @ Rozzano MI) – parallel we will prepare new songs to be recorded next year

 

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