Kevan Kenney chats with Death Cab For Cutie's Dave Depper and Nick Harmer about the band's recently-announced tour with The Postal Service (a one-off project of Death Cab's frontman Ben Gibbard) backstage at KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas 2022.
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Host Kevan Kenney got a chance to kick back with Death Cab For Cutie while backstage in the Forum Club at the Kia Forum during 2022's KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas concert to discuss the band's recently announced joint tour with The Postal Service and more.
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"You know, I would like to say it sounds daunting," says guitarist Dave Pepper about the upcoming joint tour, "but we're just playing those two albums back to back, and those albums add up about to the length of a show that we normally play."
"A normal Death Cab show is about two hours long, and when you just do 'Transatlanticism' and 'Give Up,' it's just under two hours," bassist Nick Harmer agrees. So, [frontman] Ben [Gibbard]'s right in the zone. He is warmed up, trained, and ready to go... You ever see those scenes in 'Rocky'? We're doing a long training montage."
Looking back to 2003, the year that spawned both iconic records, both Dave and Nick see that time in hindsight as "kind of a blur." Harmer adds, "we had just been working so hard and for so long as Death Cab, and we made this record that we knew we really enjoyed but had no idea how it was gonna connect or impact on the world. Ben had also been concurrently working on The Postal Service stuff; he had no idea how that was gonna connect -- and then everything sort of happened. In a lot of ways, it felt like a gradual extension of some of the things we had been working on and the tours that we had been doing... as the year went on we knew that something different was happening."
Finally, looking back at their past KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas experiences (5 in total over the show's 30-year span), Nick remembers vividly meeting actor Colin Hanks at one of their appearances: "He was one of the nicest dudes, and that was kind of a cool moment."
Don't miss the full interview with Death Cab For Cutie above and follow along with our continuing coverage from KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas 2022 right HERE.
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