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Dan Weise
Conducted By: Corey Evans

Well to start off, how did recording the new album go? How was it working with Sean Beavan?

Dan Wiese: Sean is the kind of guy who knows things about music that nobody else knows. The kinds of things that, at times, seem excessively technical. He can tell you why, in specific terms, one chord registers louder to the ear than another. Even though the volume is the same, and it sounds exactly the same to you. He’s also spontaneous and really open to anything that will help enhance or capture creation. It’s very educational. He was actually great to work with. He’s a jack of all trades.

Information on the new album is seemingly hard to come by on the net. Can you fill us in if there is an album title and any tentative release dates?

Current title, “for never and ever”; tentative release date, late October.

With the new album, did you find yourself exploring more musical boundaries, or sticking close to home to the sounds that brought you success on “American Jet Set” and “Here Are The Young Moderns”?

We don’t explore more boundaries. We explore within fewer boundaries.

I’m sure I’m not the only one anticipating the release of the upcoming album, are you worried about it being prematurely leaked? What are your views on that issue?

My main concern about downloading “leaked material” is that people will get older, inferior recordings of album tracks unknowingly. The band has made a lot of material available online. it worked really well for us for a long time. Now, however, the risk is that new fans, who are curious about the band for the first time, will seek out downloads to sample before buying the album, and listen to underdeveloped recordings and alternate tracks which don’t fully represent the band or simply didn’t make the cut.

Riding on a wave of popularity, I’m sure more then one label was interested in signing you, what led you to choosing Atlantic over others?

The offer from Atlantic was exactly what we were looking for. Other offers were pale in comparison.

Thanks to the help of the internet and word of mouth, Kill Hannah has itself been its own promotional force. How much different and help do you find it will be with a major label backing now?

The label backing will enable us to reach out to very specific types of people and make them aware of the band. It will also help us to bring the band on the road and play to new audiences all over the world. The rest is up to us.

With touring and rehearsing and all the other times you hear Kill Hannah songs over and over again, do you ever get fed up listening to your own music?

Nah.

A few months back you had your first touring experience, being your first time out on the road, what, if anything, happened that you weren’t
expecting?

I really wasn’t expecting us to become a better band. But we did. Entering the studio after touring was at the perfect time. We all knew what to play and how to play it. At that point, decorating the album was
easy.

In being a musician, do you feel you’ve achieved whatever it is you set out to do when you first learned to play? If not, what do you feel you have yet to attain?

Me no speaky engrish!

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