Awesome Fall Tour News: We Are Scientists Opening for Kings of Leon

We Are Scientists have long been woefully underrated, so I was thrilled to hear that Kings of Leon will be taking the Brooklyn band out on tour this fall, from October 10th through November 19th. Earlier this week, guitarist and singer Keith Murray called in from the road to tell us how different life is for the band in Europe versus in the States.

Where are you right now, Keith?
I'm at JFK, in Terminal 1. It's kind of weird, actually, because I've never been to Terminal 1 before. We're going to Austria, so we're in the Lufthansa terminal, which is pretty minimal and totally bereft of any chain. They've got weird vendors that frighten me. Like, there's a thing called Panini Express, which sounds like a chain, but it's not a chain.

So you guys are pretty much rock stars in some parts of Europe, aren't you?
Yeah, this will be our fourth European tour this year. Our second record, Brain Thrust Mastery is doing well enough there that the U.S. has sort of just been sport for us. In Europe, we’re one of those bands that’s forced down your throats because we’re on the radio and MTV all the time. In the U.K., we get treated very, very well\, just in general. It's always weird to come home to New York and live totally in obscurity and anonymity. Germany has also been great to us. People are pretty unanimously cool there.

Are you willing to say, right now, that Germany is your favorite country?
[laughs] I will say this. All the time we’ve spent away from America, the United States seems like Disneyland to us now. I think it’s solely due to deprivation. But we used to have this attitude like, 'One of these days we’re gonna get outta here and make something of ourselves!' Now I can never wait to come back.

You must be stoked about the Kings tour. You guys are all gonna fall madly in love with each other.
That’s sort of our specialty -- falling madly deeply in love with bands we’re touring with. When we were smaller, we had the reputation as the eager puppy of opening bands. The Arctic Monkeys had this reputation as cold and brusque. And we became best friends with them after three shows.

Nathan from Kings says he suspects there will be a lot of merriment on this tour.
That’s gonna be our last tour for this record, so I think we’re gonna wanna go BIG. I think the partying should be undue and inappropriate. For us partying means drinking until five a.m. Nothing particularly dangerous or liable to stop the tour because we’ve ended up in jail. But, in an ideal world, we do it every night. -- JENNY ELISCU