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Hello and welcome to this interview for the Rising Darkness Magazine!
Let me thank you in this way for taking the time doing this interview!
I really won't have to tell anybody who is a real Rock and Heavy Metal fan for several years about Waysted! Burt just for the younger generation I would beg you to tell us about the beginning and growing of Waysted!
Pete Way:
Waysted started twenty years ago following a previous band that I formed called Fast Way, which had included guitarist Eddie Clark and singer of the band Flogging Molly Dave King. I found the legendary Mr. Fin through famous rock photographer's father Ross Halfin. I just got fed up with UFO and they were going in the wrong direction and I wanted to use my creativity to start a new band. Now we are here today kickin' down the doors for the second time.
It is now over 15 years ago that you used to stay together at Waysted! How did it com that you decided after such a long time to start again with the band?
Pete Way:
I needed the money. Well I started doing some solo stuff with Paul Chapman former Waysted guitarist. Then I thought about getting Waysted back together again. I got in touch with Fin who had just sung on the BBC multi-award winning sitcom "The Office," Now the rest is history and now we have a great album together.
Would you say that in those fifteen years your attitude towards life has changed a lot, that you went more mellow? Do you think that this had any influence on your new album "Back From The Dead"?
Pete Way:
No I have not gone more mellow. I always have that Rock n' Roll feel which I can't get rid of.
First when I started to look at the album cover of your actual album "Back From The Dead" I was really surprised about it! It didn't look like a cover of a Rock album. So how did you come on that young lady in the middle of all this fire?
Pete Way:
Well it was the record company's idea. Fin wanted it to be plane black with the old Waysted logo on it with the title of the album, "Back From The Dead." Because of the silly way Fin and I can be at times I wanted to call it "Greetings From The OK Coral." I also wanted to have a western theme to the album because a previous Waysted album had a western title called "The Good The Bad The Waysted." When the record company gave the final approval for the album cover we tried to change it by simply adding a bull under the lady in the fire to relate to the song "Alternativa" because it is about bull fighting which he had experienced while he lived in Spain.
As "Back From The Dead" is out now for a while tell me something about the reactions of the press and of course of your fans! What did they tell you about the new material?
Pete Way:
Everybody is very positive about it! Also yesterday the head editor of Classic Rock Magazine Jeff Barton came to visit Fin and I for an interview for Waysted and he really likes it. It is ever so important to have positive feedback and that is what we are getting. The fans love it and they think it is good quality Rock n' Roll "Back From The Dead."
Will there be the chance to see Waysted soon on tour around Europe?
Pete Way:
Sure, there will be a European tour. We are scheduling dates at the moment. We already have dates for the U.K. tour, which kicks off January the 20th.
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