Asking Alexandria is “really, really excited” for first US headlining tour in four years
This week, Asking Alexandria will launch their first U.S. headlining tour in four years.
“We’ve not done any headline shows or tours in the States since the [2017’s] self-titled album came out,” guitarist Ben Bruce tells ABC Audio. “We did a co-headliner with Black Veil Brides, and that’s the last time…We’ve been supporting since then.”
Asking Alexandria did have a stateside tour planned to support their 2020 album Like a House on Fire, but, like pretty much every other band that year, they had to cancel that trek due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We’ve been sat waiting to do a headline tour for a few years now,” Bruce says. “So we’re excited, we’re really, really excited.”
Now that the tour has finally arrived, Asking Alexandria will be supporting both Like a House on Fire and its 2021 follow-up, See What’s on the Inside, which features the singles “Alone Again” and the whistle-heavy “Never Gonna Learn.”
Asked how the whistling on “Never Gonna Learn” will be replicated onstage, Bruce says the band will be using a track instead of a live, in-person whistler, though it’s not for a lack of trying.
“We learned this the hard way,” Bruce admits. “When you’re playing live and you go to whistle down a mic, all the crowd can hear is the air from your mouth going down through the PA.”
The guitarist continues, “So, [we thought], ‘Ah, it doesn’t really work.’ Unless you got one of those big sponges like Axl Rose had on the end of his microphone, which, unfortunately I don’t think are in fashion anymore. So we’re letting the tracks to the whistling for us.”
Asking Alexandria’s tour, which will be co-headlined by Nothing More, kicks off Friday in Kansas City, Missouri.
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