Greta Van Fleet
Greta Van Fleet talk about their thought process making their third album ‘Starcatcher,’ how they feel about doing tour dates with Metallica and more.
Josh Kiszka:Jake, do you want to do the Greta Van Fleet? I’ll do the Billboard News.
Jake Kiszka:Hello, we’re Greta Van Fleet!
Josh Kiszka:Oh, I wasn’t ready.
Jake Kiszka:All right, well, you tell me when you’re ready. Hello, we’re Greta Van Fleet…
Josh Kiszka:…And you’re watching Billboard News!
Lyndsey Havens:Hey, I’m Lyndsey Havens for Billboard News and we are here with Greta Van Fleet. What is up, guys?
Lyndsey Havens:We’re here to talk about your stellar third album ‘Starcatcher’ out in July. Yes, stellar.
Josh Kiszka:That’s a really appropriate term for an album called ‘Starcatcher.’
Lyndsey Havens:When did you start talking about even making a third album? Like how do you know when it’s time?
Daniel Wagner:The funny thing is, is we’re always moving on to the next Yeah, we’re actually about to start the next album as we speak.
Lyndsey Havens:That’s why we brought you here today?
Josh Kiszka:There are songs that go in and out of time for us. Some get shelved, and then you pick them up again, because they make sense for that thing that you’re looking for. And a lot of this stuff just comes about and spontaneously ends up on the record that we’re working on. The ‘Starcatcher’ record was something that we were working on about the time of the Strange Horizons tour.
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Back in October, Greta Van Fleet were forced to postpone seven shows of their Dreams in Gold tour after singer Josh Kiszka ruptured his eardrum during a show in Bangor, Maine.
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However, the group revealed the rescheduled tour dates on Wednesday (Nov. 30), noting that all seven shows in Jacksonville, Fla.; Hollywood, Fla.; Tampa, Fla.; Greenville, S.C.; Raleigh, N.C.; Tucson, Ariz., El Paso, Texas; Anaheim, Calif. and Sacramento, Calif. will take place in March 2023.
“We appreciate your patience as we navigated logistics and can’t wait to see you again soon,” GVF captioned the post, noting that original tickets are still valid for the rescheduled dates.
After his ear ruptured in Maine, Kiszka said he’d been experiencing a “situation” in his left ear that’s “caused plenty of infections, tinnitus (ringing in the ear) and difficulty hearing” — leading Greta Van Fleet to postpone three shows in support of their latest album, The Battle at Garden’s Gate.
After playing at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas, in early November, the band had to reschedule four more shows. “I just wanted to express how beautiful and how awe-inspiring these couple of shows have really been, truly. Also, unfortunately, they’ve been rather painful,” he said in a video message to fans announcing the postponements. “The last time I spoke with you, I had asked for your understanding; I was dealing with a ruptured eardrum. Unfortunately, while the eardrum continues to heal, it also has continued to cause me great deal of physical pain, which has made it very difficult to perform.”
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