In a recent interview with Altpress.com, Enter Shikari frontman Rou Reynolds spoke to the website about their recent successes in the United States, some misconceptions about the band as a “political” band, among other topics. The interview is a very interesting read for fans of the band, so check out the full interview here and take a look at some snippets after the break. Enter Shikari right now is on a full US tour, and from what we’ve been hearing about the tour it’s been absolutely mental. This is their first full US tour in support of their new record A Flash Flood of Colour which came out earlier this year.

Now that A Flash Flood Of Colour has been out for a few months, how are the songs and reception feeling to you? Are they going over the way you’d hope live?
It’s really great. We just started playing them live—we did Soundwave [in Australia]  and that was the first big test. The reception for the new stuff was far more energetic than the other stuff. I think if kids are still going the most crazy for the tracks off the first record, it can be a little disheartening, but all of the new tracks were really going off [amazingly], so that was great to see. It’s such a morale boost playing fresh material when you’ve been touring the world for several years playing the same old stuff over and over again. It was exciting. We were just itching to get back out again.

Now that you’re back on another touring cycle and you’re just finishing up mainland Europe after doing Tokyo and Australia before you finally head back to the States in April. Now that you guys have gotten bigger, are you finally going to be able to bring over some of the production of your bigger UK shows to the US? What’s the plan for bringing the rage that Enter Shikari’s live show is always known for on this tour cycle?
Wow, that’s true—I guess this is our first proper headlining tour in America in the sense that we’re actually bringing our show with us. We’re definitely going to be bringing some of the production that we use in Europe. It’s going to be our first time to really have our way with the show and make it the full Shikari experience. It’s going to be wicked.

As for our performance itself, we try to just approach every show the same whether it’s a place we’ve been 1,000 times or if we’re playing to 10 people. Just give it our all and see what happens.

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