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\"Wednesday<\/a>
\n\u201cI think it\u2019ll just get a little more ugly this time, we\u2019ll get a little more dirty, a little louder and heavier this time. So yeah, it\u2019s gonna be fun, it\u2019s been two years since we\u2019ve been there and we\u2019re super stoked to be coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Release: WEDNESDAY 13\u00a0has firmly cemented himself as the undisputed leader in Horrorpunk. With a vivid and vile imagination that has endeared him to countless fans of riff-driven macabre over the last two decades, WEDNESDAY 13 has been one of rock’s most prolific protagonists, spreading his credo of grave-robbing rock ‘n’ roll and Hallowe’en debauchery around the globe and unleashing a seemingly endless stream of blood-spattered albums and EPs. WEDNESDAY 13\u00a0will be bringing his gore-filled, ghoul-fest, sleazy live shows to Australia in April and will leave fans begging for more! His live shows have reached epic proportions<\/p>\n

In LA, we gave our old mate Wednesday 13 a call to talk about the upcoming Australian tour, his love of our fine country, new music, videos and much more\u2026<\/p>\n

You’re headed back to Australia to see us again, what can we expect in the way of a show on this run of shows?<\/strong>
\nOh, I mean every time we tour with a new record we kind of change it up a bit, we don\u2019t have a huge production or anything so we pretty much are the show, I think it\u2019ll just get a little more ugly this time, we\u2019ll get a little more dirty, a little louder and heavier this time. So yeah, it\u2019s gonna be fun, it\u2019s been two years since we\u2019ve been there and we\u2019re super stoked to be coming back.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve always had a great reception in Australia, what do you think it is about us down here that gets and loves what you do?<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t know, I wish I knew the secret because I would tell everybody else around the world *laughs* but Australia is amazing for us, it\u2019s probably my favourite place to tour and it\u2019s just our biggest reception next to The UK, maybe even bigger than The UK, especially over the last couple of years. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m not going to complain, I love it and I want some more of it.<\/p>\n

\u2018Monsters of the Universe\u2019 has been out for a year now, how has the last year been for you since its release?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s been great, man. You know it was a really different record and I didn\u2019t know how the fans were going to respond to it, I love the record and I was really happy with it, but again I know it was a different record, I called it a concept record so it was kind of a little bit out of the box from my normal campy, spooky kind of horror lyrics, and I wasn\u2019t sure how the reaction was going to be, but I knew it was a strong record and I was kind of hoping that people would dig it as much as I did. Then it came out and it got great reviews all over the place, the fans loved it and they compared it to my first album \u2018Transylvania\u2026\u2019 as far as one of their favourites since then. That\u2019s good, I feel like I hit a home run with it, and the songs translate well live and we\u2019ll be playing a whole chunk of this record live on the Australian tour. Yeah, it\u2019s a lot of fun, it was a really fun record to make and it\u2019s really fun to play.<\/p>\n

Other than the Aussie tour, you’re about to head out and do an acoustic run in the UK. With the new album out, have you had a chance to rework any of these newer songs into their acoustic versions?<\/strong>
\nYeah there\u2019s a couple that kind of work in new music form, some of them just don\u2019t and that\u2019s kind of my joke when I do an acoustic tour I\u2019m like \u201csome of these songs work and some of these songs don\u2019t, so I\u2019ll show you the ones that work and I\u2019ll show you the ones that don\u2019t\u201d we\u2019ll actually play a couple of bars and say \u201csee how stupid that sounds?\u201d *laughs* we can\u2019t do that\u2026 So there\u2019s a few we can pick out for that, but yeah the acoustic thing is a lot of fun for me too, I can just step back and play the songs simply and tell stories and it\u2019s a cool little campfire ordeal.<\/p>\n

Have you ever thought about doing that down here?<\/strong>
\nI would love to, as far as like this tour getting the three dates and as soon as that happened people started complaining \u2018oh you\u2019re not coming to Adelaide, you\u2019re not coming to Perth, motherfucker what are you doing?\u2019 and I would love to spend a month there, I would love to come back next time and do an acoustic run and maybe that\u2019s something we can do and I\u2019ll talk to promoters to bring us down and maybe we can do it. You don\u2019t have to twist my arm to get me to come to Australia.<\/p>\n

You never seem to stop working, have you got anything in the pipeline you’re working on at the moment?<\/strong>
\nWe have a bunch of tours coming up, we\u2019ve got some US dates, that keeps us busy up until June, then we\u2019re spending June, July and August writing the follow up to \u2018Monsters\u2019 then we\u2019re going back out in September, October and November and touring again, so I\u2019ll a new album out at the start of the year and start the touring cycle all over again and that\u2019s just pretty much what it is. So, been busy busy but we\u2019re gonna spend three months writing and recording this record, we\u2019ve got a lot written for it so we\u2019re just gotta spend a lot of time in the summer instead of touring just working on it to get it finished.<\/p>\n

I know we’ve talked in the past about the prospect of movies and the visual aspect of you as an artist. Can we expect more in the way of this from you?<\/strong>
\nYeah I would love to it\u2019s just the matter of money and getting all that stuff done, I usually get most of my money back from touring and merchandise and I pretty much do all of that myself, I\u2019m not a label, I don\u2019t have a manager anymore, I do everything myself. I only have a booking agent and promoter to help me get tours so I would love to do a video where it\u2019s just full on crazy and over the top, but they cost a fair bit of money. I live in LA now and I\u2019ve made a whole lot of friends and connections so I\u2019m hoping that can help as far as the videos go, I haven\u2019t done a video in quite some time, so that\u2019s definitely on my list of things to get done, it needs to happen.<\/p>\n

You’ve also been doing this for over twenty years, and the industry and music is in a much different place now, what for you has been the biggest and most notable change you’ve witnessed over the last twenty years?<\/strong>
\nSo many to name I don\u2019t even know where to start\u2026 I mean when I first started Murderdolls as far as touring around the world it was sort of the death of Nu-Metal so I\u2019ve seen a bunch of different styles come and go and things like that. I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s definitely an ever changing landscape as far as sounds and just people and I\u2019m just glad that I\u2019ve survived sort of the atomic bomb of the rock bands because a lot of bands were around when I first started now aren\u2019t even around anymore, so I think I\u2019ve been that cockroach that survived the atomic bomb just survived it all and lived to tell the story so far.<\/p>\n

Other side of that, what’s the one thing you want to do as an artist that you haven’t yet had the opportunity to do?<\/strong>
\nMake a movie, that\u2019s the one thing that\u2019s on my bucket list that I have to do, and not just make a movie, make a cool movie and do it right and not do it half-assed and spend as much time on it as I would an album or something. So that\u2019s something on my list to do, it won\u2019t be anytime soon but it\u2019s definitely on the list.<\/p>\n

So, I just turned forty and I know you do this year too, are you freaking out about it as much as I am?<\/strong>
\nOh yeah it fuckin\u2019 sucks, I don\u2019t like it, I;m not happy about it, I don\u2019t realise I was turning forty until somebody brought it up in an interview last year and I was like \u201c WHAT? I am not turning forty, I\u2019ll be thirty nine\u2026\u201d then I realised, dude, you\u2019re turning forty\u2026 so yeah, I\u2019ve got about five more months until I\u2019m forty, so I\u2019m not very happy about it but I\u2019m trying to find ways to look at it where it doesn\u2019t bother me. So hopefully when it gets there I won\u2019t be as freaking out about it as I am now.<\/p>\n

Lastly let’s look ahead to the future. Finish this sentence for me. The one thing Wednesday 13 wants to do in 2016 is…
\n<\/strong>Sleep\u2026 I\u2019d like to have a good night\u2019s sleep for one night\u2026 it\u2019s one thing I don\u2019t really do is rest.<\/p>\n

Well it\u2019s a long flight over, you can sleep then\u2026<\/strong>
\nOh yeah, I\u2019ll be passed out.<\/p>\n

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You can catch Wednesday 13 on tour in Australia at the following dates:
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\nThursday April 14 Melbourne, Corner Hotel 18+<\/p>\n

Friday April 15 Brisbane, The Brightside 18+<\/p>\n

Saturday April 16 Sydney, Factory Theatre 18+<\/p>\n

Tickets available from\u00a0<\/strong>tickets.destroyalllines.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Presented by Destroy All Lines and Chugg Entertainment<\/p>\n

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Essential Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong>\u00a0Hollywood, CA, USA<\/p>\n

Band Members:<\/strong>\u00a0Wednesday 13<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/www.officialwednesday13.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Latest Release:<\/strong>\u00a0Monsters Of The Universe (Out Now)<\/p>\n

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