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MANILA, Philippines – Imagine Dragons made the most of their stay in Manila while they were in the city from August 26 to 27 for their “Smoke + Mirrors Tour.” (IN PHOTOS: Imagine Dragons arrive in Manila)
Manila culture
During the round-table interview a few hours before their concert at the Mall of Asia Arena on Thursday, August 27 guitarist Wayne Sermon and drummer Daniel Platzman told us all about their experience of Filipino culture during their short stay in the city.
“We had some balut,” shared Daniel. “It was good, it was delicious. It was a little intimidating but it was great.” Watch the video above to hear more of what they had to say about Manila.
The two also revealed that they were working on a couple of demos for songs in their Manila hotel room. “I’ve actually been writing a demo in my hotel room today, I know Dan (Reynolds) has been too,” said Wayne, before Daniel added that he’s been writing too.
Dan Reynolds is the band’s lead singer. Dan and Ben McKee, the band’s bassist, were not present at the event.
The band has been known to write songs while they’re on tour and their latest album, Smoke + Mirrors, was written while they were on their previous tour, “Night Visions.”
Highs and lows
Wayne and Daniel shared that they wrote Smoke + Mirrors on the road, because their life on tour was a combination of “really high highs and really low lows.” “It seems more therapeutic sometimes to write when you’re not feeling so great, it actually makes you feel better to express that,” said Wayne.
“There’s something so great about taking something negative and turning it into a postive,” added Daniel.
Something that really gets the band down while on tour is missing out on events in their families’ lives. “I sometimes feel like I’m a terrible brother because I don’t know what’s going on in my brother’s life anymore. And so I’ll kind of pick up on a nugget of information that I should have known about earlier… but things happen when I suddenly realize I wasn’t there for somebody I care about,” said Daniel.
Still, the band is thankful for their work and their families are understanding of the downsides to their job. “I think this is the best job in the world and the last thing we want to do is complain,” said Wayne, who hasn’t seen his sister’s kids since they were born.
“I think at the end of day, our families understand it. Our friends don’t understand it, we don’t have any friends anymore,” Wayne joked. “But our family understands.”
‘Roots’
Aside from the ones on their album, another song Imagine Dragons wrote on the road is “Roots,” which was released on August 26 on the group’s VEVO YouTube channel. Watch the video above hear what the two had to say about “Roots” and what it’s like traveling together.
The band has been promoting the single for the past week on social media, posting childhood photos of themselves up and asking their fans to post their own. The photos were compiled into one photo prior to the release of the album.
“The song is very much about the fans, it’s in a lot of ways, it’s a thank you to the fans who have been with us, new fans and also the fans that have been with us a long time ago when we were really nobody, so it’s just a thank you to everyone,” said Wayne on the song.
Wayne and Daniel said that “Roots” doesn’t necessarily mean that they will be working on an album anytime soon. “We really didn’t know exactly what to do, but it felt done and it felt like something we should put out for the fans, so we’re just gonna see what the next step is,” said Daniel. – Rappler.com
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