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Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste Talks About Summer Plans and Playing Live

10:30 a.m. · July 3, 2009 · by Michael Hoven

After Grizzly Bear hits every music festival in Europe and North America they'll take their chamber pop to London and play a special show with the London Symphony Orchestra. The band previously played with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, an experience Droste told Pitchfork was as nerve-wracking because of the "new terrain." For the London show, which will feature Grizzly Bear for the entire performance, Droste plans on playing a set that includes songs that the band "could maybe only do with an orchestra" as well as touring favorites. Ultimately Droste aims at "an epic orchestra experience."

Droste's excitement at the prospect of playing with an orchestra is leavened by the ups and downs of the festival circuit. He can't really utter a negative word, but he says the band's music "sounds totally different when it's in a big outdoor crazy party land festival kind of sphere." In case this sounds pessimistic he catches himself and concluded, "But they are always fun for us to play."

[Pitchfork]