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The Pretty Reckless performed last night at The Palladium in Cologne, Germany as a part of their support for Fall Out Boy’s tour “Save Rock And Roll“. Visit our gallery for photos! You can also watch videos after the jump.
Images by Thomas Eger from BlackChester Photography
• The Pretty Reckless returns to Manila for a solo major concert happening on April 30, 2014 at the Samsung Hall in Taguig, Manila – Philippines. The band will be back to promote their new album, Going To Hell. Tickets are available at SM Tickets outlets nationwide. You can purchase tickets online at www.smtickets.com.
• The Pretty Reckless was announced to perform at the Orange Warsaw Festival 2014 in Warsaw, Poland on June 13, 2014. Orange Festival is the biggest urban music festival in Poland that will be held on June 13-15 at the National Stadium. For the very first time the festival will be a 3-day event with 2 regular stages. The Pretty Reckless will rock the same stage than Lily Allen and Snoop Dogg on June 13! Click here to buy your tickets.
Taylor Momsen is featured in this month’s issue of Kerrang! Magazine with a brand new photoshoot! She also gave a new amazing interview that you can read while viewing the magazine scans in our gallery. Click the banner to view the photos!
Taylor Momsen has been a celebrity for as long as she can remember. She’s been in show business for 18 of her 20 years on this planet. In that time, she’s played button-cute kids in adverts and movies. She’s fronted fashion campaigns and lad’s mags. She’s been the bratty star of teen soap and the go-to clickbait girl for scandal-obsessed gossip sites. But today, the old Taylor – all those old Taylors – are being put in a hole in the ground and covered with earth. And a new Taylor is going to emerge, clawing her way through the dirt and back into the limelight. She may have been the lead singer of The Pretty Reckless for five years alrady, but now, finally it’s time to meet Taylor Momsen, 4 Real rockstar…
Photo credit to their original owners @ We don’t own anything.
Taylor Momsen is used to staring down adversity: The multi-talented singer/actress and her band, the hard-rock outfit The Pretty Reckless, had to scrap their entire first swing at their second album, Going to Hell (due on March 18th), after Hurricane Sandy tore through their recording studio. “We definitely had a few setbacks,” Momsen told ELLE.com when we rang her up on a recent afternoon. Fair enough. But still, no one can plan for laryngitis! In true Momsen fashion, the singer didn’t bat a heavily mascaraed eyelash when she fell ill: After several days on vocal rest, not to mention four long years on the road and several in the studio, the 20-year-old former Gossip Girl star chatted with us about her band’s follow-up to their breakout 2010 debut, Light Me Up.
Taylor! We’re so glad you can actually speak now. We hear you had a nasty case of laryngitis and couldn’t talk for days. For a hard-rock chick who screams her lungs out on the regular, that must have proved a bit challenging, to say the least.
It’s the last thing I ever wanted. Playing live is why we write these songs. I’m getting closer to one hundred percent and can’t wait to get in front of the fans. I’m actually on my way to the airport now.
The new album has been wrought with many delays, gthe largest being your studio getting destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. How has this affected the album? Does it make it even more satisfying now that the album is complete?
After Sandy not only did we lose all of our gear but it took time to put the studio back together. Shortly after, suddenly we also lost our producer’s wife and good friend, Lisa. We are still recovering from that time. But from tragedy came two new songs, “Going to Hell” and “F**ked Up World,” and we can’t wait for everyone to hear the record in its entirety. It really represents a moment in time in all of our lives.
I’m sure you are proud of every song on the new album. But are there any in particular that stand out as especially meaningful? And if so, take me inside the writing and recording process for them.
Picking my favorite song is like picking your favorite child. You just can’t. They’re all my favorite.
Fair enough. What was your life like while recording and writing this album? Did you have to shut everything else out in order to completely focus on the task at hand?
We had come off of touring Light Me Up for two-and-a-half years and it was awesome. I got back and shut the world out for a couple of months in order to come down, regroup and jump into the next record. I’m always writing, but this was the time that we really started to pick the songs for Going to Hell, and when I’m in that zone, I’m completely dedicated to it. I have to be alone to write so I took a few months and disappeared to write the record.
Taylor Momsen gave an awesome interview for Fiasco Plus this month, check it out what she said to them!
Also the stunning images of our beautiful Momsen posing for Fiasco are available now in our gallery!
Little has changed with Momsen since first interviewing her several years ago. She’s as opinionated as ever though perhaps more careful with her words which are, today, spoken with the cracked, frail tones of one suffering with laryngitis. “I sound like a boy going through puberty,” she croaks with a wry smile.
The most obvious place start is ‘Going To Hell’, which closes a four year gap between full albums, and is the first new material since 2012.
It took a lot longer to record than we expected because we had a lot of tragedy occur during the recording of this record. We wrote the songs and had them ready to record and everything was great, then Hurricane Sandy came in and wiped out our studio so we lost of all of our gear and the studio and we had nowhere to go so that took time, rebuilding the studio. We finally got into the roll of things again then our producer’s wife passed very suddenly and unexpectedly and that stopped everything again because she was very much like a mother to the band. We’re still not over it at all and we wrote the song ‘Fuck The World’ after that. Then (after recording) there was the business side of things to sort out.How did that kind of adversity alter making the album?
We wrote the song ‘Going To Hell’ after the hurricane so it’s affected some of the songs though the majority had been written before. The tragedy though has definitely added to the record.Going To Hell is darker than Light Me Up, what was behind that shift in sound?
It wasn’t a conscious decision to do that, it was more touring Light Me Up for two years and we don’t play with tracks so we became a really tight unit as a band. So this record is much more reflective of what we sound like live and it’s much more mature. I wrote the first record when I was a 15 year old girl and now I’m a 20 year old woman so I think that the subject matter has moved forward. So it got heavier and darker but the songs dictated that, it wasn’t intentional.Given that gap between albums and going through a time of experience and learning, do you look at your older material and feel, oh, definitely written by my 15 year old self.
No, no, I’m very proud of my work and we always write with the idea that you have to be able to song these songs 10-20 years from now and not be embarassed by them. So we have very high standards and keep raising the bar so it gets better and better.The Pretty Reckless have toured relentlessly for a long time, how do you write material when you’re in that bubble you get into on the road?
Well, as a writer you’re always writing but the good stuff comes when you’re off the road because to write you really need privacy and be alone with your thoughts so none of the songs on this album were ones written on tour.
