Good Things 2023 will be underway next week, with the annual music extravaganza kicking off next Friday, December 1 in Melbourne before hitting Sydney and Brisbane over the following two days.
Every year the Good Things line-up manages to top itself, with this year’s show being no exception.
Headlined by Fall Out Boy and Limp Bizkit, Good Things also welcomes Corey Taylor, Devo, Enter Shikari, Hanabie, Bullet For My Valentine, Behemoth and plenty more, covering a wide range of genres and tastes.
“It was in a time where I didn’t know what to do in my life. I was not good in school, didn’t have a girlfriend, didn’t have a band.”
Andreas Kisser
But, without an abundance of heavy metal, where would ANY festival be? And this year organisers have secured the talents of one of the best in the business with Sepultura making the trek from Brazil.
HEAVY sat down with guitarist Andreas Kisser earlier this week to find out what Sepultura have planned for their visit.
“I’m excited,” he said, a massive smile running across his face. “It’s been since 2018 we don’t come back to Australia. The lockdown delayed everything by two years, and now we finally have this chance to play our new album, not only at the festival which is amazing with a very diverse line-up, but also our sideshows where we can play a longer setlist with more songs. It’s gonna be a great way to close this amazing year for us. It’s fantastic.”
We ask Kisser what the general feeling is backstage at big shows like this, with many bands catching up with each other after prolonged periods of time.
“That’s one of the best things about festivals,” he smiled again. “It’s not only the bands, but crew people that we know around the world and friends that we made in Australia that are following Sepultura for so many years. It’s a great atmosphere. Who knows, some collaborations may happen and ideas and stuff. It’s great. It’s very fertile (laughs). It’s a great situation to know people and to meet your idols.”
With Sepultura doing sideshows starting in Fremantle on November 26, we ask Kisser what fans at these shows might get that the band might not be able to explore fully at the festival appearances.
“At the festival shows we have a shorter time,” he offered, “around 40 to 45 minutes or something like that. For the sideshows we have our own headline show, so we can play our complete show the way we are presenting everywhere in the world. So we have a little more time to play newer and older songs. It’s gonna be a more complete setlist for the fans, but on the festival we are going to represent of course the whole history. We’re gonna play new songs and a few classics (laughs). It’s gonna be very well represented of what Sepultura is all about. We’re very accustomed to doing that, especially in Europe. When we do the festival run we have all types of different set times and stuff, so we’re accustomed to building… we have kind of like a spine of the setlist that we are changing according to our limitations, but we’re prepared. It’s gonna be a beautiful celebration.”
In the full interview, Andreas talks more about what to expect, what has changed with Sepultura since they were last here in 2018, his entry into Sepultura and how it came about, how their sound has changed over the years, changing with the music industry and more.
Brisbane is sold out with Melbourne and Sydney not far behind. Get your tickets quickly from http://goodthings.oztix.com.au/
