Whats it like to play the huge rock festivals in Europe, like the Sweden Rock Fest?
PL: We’ve never played that particular festival, yet. We’re going to. The festivals are like 50,000 people. I’ve never been to an Ozzfest so I don’t know what it’s like here. When you go to a festival, you get to check out bands that you normally wouldn’t pay to see. I think it’s pretty cool because these people aren’t all Opeth fans. There’s a good amount that are Opeth fans, then there are so many more potential Opeth fans. It’s a very good thing. I prefer it when we do a headlining show. We get more time for sound checks, plus we can play a longer set. It’s cool every now and then to do these festivals because we can catch up with all these other bands we haven’t seen for a while. RIL: Do you think there are any differences between European audiences and U.S. audiences? PL: It’s hard to say. The U.S. is such a big country. There is no U.S. crowd so to speak. It’s different from the West Coast to the East Coast. In Europe there’s even more of a difference. A Swedish crowd is calm and
