As Ghost prepare to bring their Imperatour to UK arenas this month, Tobias Forge reflects on the mutual love between the band and their fanbase over here.
It's officially April, which means that Ghost's eagerly-anticipated Imperatour (also featuring Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats and Twin Temple) hits the UK very soon! And to celebrate, we caught up with mainman Tobias Forge in the brand-new issue of Kerrang! to hear about how the shows went in America, and what playing over here means to him.
Of course, the Swedish titans have deservedly worked their way up to arenas nowadays, but starting out, Tobias wasn't so certain how things would go for the band. “In the early days we were told it was an unbreakable market,” he recalls. “And that when we played anywhere outside London, we shouldn’t be alarmed if someone chucks a beer bottle at us during the set…”
Tobias needn't have worried about that, of course, and these days he's well prepared to feel the love from UK audiences.
“There has never been a moment – whether supporting [another band] or headlining – where I didn’t feel we had something special with a British crowd,” he smiles. “I’m really happy that the clairvoyance of those who told us it wouldn’t work out turned out to be wrong. I’ve always felt we have a strong fanbase over there, but you never take it for granted. You have to do better every time you come and prove yourself, because that’s part of this job.”
Ghost will be hitting the UK and Europe very soon, supported by Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats and Twin Temple:
April
9 Manchester Arena
11 London O2 Arena
13 Glasgow Hydro
15 Birmingham RWA Arena
17 Rotterdam RTM Stage Ahoy
18 Paris Accor Arena
19 Cologne Lanxess Arena
21 Leipzig Quarterback Immobillen Arena
22 Frankfurt Festhalle
24 Prague Arena
27 Tampere Nokia Arena
29 Stockhom Avicii Arena
30 Oslo Spektrum
May
1 Malmo Arena
3 Brussels Forest
5 Milan Mediolanum Forum
7 Barcelona Olympic Arena Badalona
8 Madrid Vistalegre Arena
11 Vienna Stadthalle
13 Zurich Hallenstadion
15 Hannover ZAG Arena
16 Munich Olympiahalle
18 Budapest Arena
