When I went over to rehearse with Solstice, the problem was that Norway probably has the highest amount of people travelling to UK for football matches. Then I learnt they were looking for applicants, so I decided to put my name forward. The next day I read on Blabbermouth that Solstice had pulled out of the festival and kicked out their singer. I remember speaking to him, I believe it was the week before at the Inferno kick off, and I said: “It’s a week, and Solstice hasn’t pulled out, looks like it’s gonna happen”. – In 2011 I saw Stian Fossum had booked Solstice for the Metal Merchant-festival. When Paul joined Solstice, he lived here in Norway. Also, after 50 gigs with the same set every night, most bands become a bit painful. Then you have to stand around for fucking hours. The merchie can’t, it depends on the venue of course, but at some places it doesn’t feel safe to just leave it all standing there. Guitar- and drum techs and those guys, they can set up and just leave. Being in the merchandise, is the least skilled job of all the crew jobs, but it’s also the hardest, as your day ends later than everybody else’s, because you have to do all the accounting each night. Every day he had to get up, do this rituals and routines, and then every night back in the bus he had to worry about not speaking too much. I did a two month tour last year, selling merch for Devin Townsend. – You know, being on tour as a singer is really difficult, you have to worry about your voice a lot. Is it just as hard as being out on the road as a singer? So here I am, tomorrow morning, a 6 o’clock i will fly off for another three weeks with the boys.
I was kind of hoping this would be my last tour, as I am going to start in a new job here, but I don’t have a start date yet. – Since I came back to Ireland a few years ago, this has been my primary job. My apologies go out to Solstice, and especially Paul Kearns who was very enthusiastic and entertaining, even though he was heading off at 6 o clock in the morning to work on the Primordial-tour, selling merchandise. This interview was conducted quite some time ago, but along with a couple of others it was never published.
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