Interpol's Daniel Kessler Talks About Opening for U2

You guys were supposed to open for U2 this summer before Bono's back injury meant cancelling a slew of dates. How did that affect you?

The U2 dates that were postponed was due to someone's injury so there was nothing we could do about that, and we had to shuffle our schedules and toured around the East Coast...in hindsight it was a great way to prepare for our new record.

But we just finished a few dates with U2 in Europe--and they were great. Their fans were really receptive and enthusiastic. You never know what it's like when you open for someone else's audience, and we'd seldomly done that in our career. So at the same time it was exciting and new--keeping us on our toes. It was a lot of fun.

Were you big U2 fans growing up?

That band has been a consistent mark in modern music for over 30 years; it's extraordinary what they've got going on. Night after night they've had stadiums of people all over the place going bananas.

I'd seldom been to a stadium show but I have to say, seeing these ones where there were an upward of 70 to 90 thousand people going crazy  for four people on stage is pretty exciting to be around. That energy is amazing to be around. And yeah, Unforgettable Fire was one of the first records I bought on my own, when I was eight. I've been around U2 music for the best part of my life.

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