Matt Berninger: “I can’t get over Keith Richards’ fence”
Matt Berninger is planning to take us to church. “I feel like this is God,” The National frontman turned solo End Of The Road headliner told Uncut’s Tom Pinnock at the first of three Uncut Q&As at this year’s EOTR festival. “This is the community, this is church. The church is supposed to be a group of people who believe in trying to figure out the mystery of love and life and kindness and surviving how hard it is to be a person.” “In many ways,” he continued, “music, rock festivals, rock clubs, Royal Albert Hall, Mercury Lounge, the Buffalo Bar, those are sanctuaries of spirituality and vision. Artists are trying to figure out God. In songs, everybody’s just trying to figure out the meaning of their own life and their own heart and their own existence, the good artists, that’s what they’re all doing.” Advertisement It was a thoughtful and illuminating first crowd question, from a woman who’d met her husband at a “euphoric communal” National show and wondered who did the same for Berninger (answer: Leonard Cohen). And it followed a light-hearted chat that opened on his tourbus Star Suite that morning (“The best thing about going solo… Read More →
