Ted Leo interview
October 2nd, 2008 by Wade Tatangelo in News
Last week singer/songwriter/punk hero Ted Leo was chillin’ at his place in Rhode Island when I gave him a buzz to discuss his new EP Rapid Response and current tour, which brings him to Jannus Landing Friday on a bill with Against Me! (which I interviewed here).
“The song is generally just about the idea that you never thought you’d need to be afraid of the people who are ostensibly there to protect you, ostensibly there to serve you,” Leo said in regards to his new politically-charged track “Paranoia: Not Enough,” which he wrote after hearing about the police brutality that took place at the Republican National Convention. ” Throughout the past eight years, there’s an ever-spreading influence of the executive branch, steamrolling opposition and gaining all these powers via national emergency and wartime law. Now, they’re able to spy on citizens, and it all filters down to what happened at the RNC, the lawmen feeling empowered, detaining innocent people and beating quite a few up.”
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