Giada Of Violet Blend Exclusive All About The Rock Interview
30th May 2025
Violet Blend photo shoot Soho, London, UK.
Violet Blend are an Italian alternative metal band, featuring extraordinary vocals, rich sonic power, and unbridled energy. I was lucky enough to grab them for a quick interview before their show in Islington.
It’s Spring lunchtime in London. We’re in Soho, one of the cultural centres of the city, 24 hours before Violet Blend play a showcase gig in Islington. I’m joined by the songwriter and singer, Giada. How you doing?
I’m doing great. I’m super excited about the show. It’s going to be great. And we are. We’re in London, which feels like our second home now. An exclusive for you, we’re mid-way through our next studio album, out early next year, and we’ll be giving debut outings to five new songs at the Islington show on Friday night.
In the build-up to the gig, you’ve had some stories out. You’ve done some research on AI (HERE). You’ve also looked at the kitchen, according to UK rock fans, as the home where they listen to rock. Talk to us a little bit about some of the research you’ve done.
Well, we wanted to understand the British situation of the audience, of the rocker viewpoint in the UK – a country that has always been the home of rock and roll. We surveyed 2,000 rock fans to better understand the situation here, because it’s very, very difficult, different from Italy. Whatever people’s personal views on the pros or cons of AI in music, 82% of people we surveyed expressed concern over the possible consequences of AI in music: 46% of people were concerned about artists having their music copied or used without royalties being paid to them; 40% said they feared more grassroots music venues would close because AI might result in fewer people going to see live bands – and 32% expressed concern over the risk of people deciding not to study music at school and college because they felt career opportunities were limited.
You talked in your survey about the survey suggested that people’s fears that AI might have a knock-on effect on people, less likely to support local venues, and less likely to support grassroots music. Do you think that’s a real ground of concern?”
Yes, I think that it is because music in it is gonna vanish if we go down this path, because AI will impact everything. It’s already here. Actually, we have the AI in our in our cell phones, we have in our computers, so it’s already here, and it’s going to be an impact on music venues, on music, on artists, because there’s gonna be a lot of bad music created by computers and less if it is art. Music is not only entertainment, it’s art, and we have to treat it like it is something important, not something that is background and that we listen to while we’re doing other things. It’s something that we should really listen to music, not just hear it, and AI will definitely have a bad impact if we make a machine do the work of an artist. We can save time with AI, but we should use it and not abuse it artistically. The hard work and originality of so many great rising UK rock and metal bands need to be supported.
Looking back, last summer, you toured a number of small, grassroots venues across the UK. So you’ve experienced beyond London, a number of them. Some words from you on how important these venues are in keeping live music alive and giving young bands that first stepping stone. And what could be the consequence of their closing? The Music Venue Trust has reported that we’ve lost many venues in the UK in recent years. How important are these venues, and what is the consequence of more of them closing?
Without question, small venues are the heart of the grassroots music scene/ So if we, if we lose them, we lose the new music, basically. So we should fight to preserve all the smaller music venues, because artists need to start from somewhere, and they start from the small music venues. And this is the only way that we have to preserve music for the future and to give artists the chance to get heard and to be listened to. If we leave the small music venues, it all becomes about the big labels, if you know what I mean. And this is the worst thing that we can do. We want to be free to listen to experience and choose the good music we like, and we want to have the right to back the exciting young bands we discover, and this is the only way that we can do it. It’s to preserve small venues and to help these venues stay open, and to help new artists and small bands grow.
And websites, rock stations, and online magazines are crucially important too. Can I say a big thank you very much to All About The Rock. It’s been a privilege to be featured on your pages. Thank you very much. I know that it’s a difficult time for rock and roll in general. When we see the pieces you have run on us from Italy, it is so important to us, and we love the support we have received from All About The Rock. So thank you very much.
Fresh off being voted Band of the Year by listeners of Great Music Stories Radio – which described the band as “one of the most exciting European acts to break into the UK scene in recent years – genre-pushing, theatrical, and emotionally real” – Violet Blend continue to gain international acclaim for their explosive live performances and genre-defying sound. The band’s blend of symphonic rock and alternative metal has earned them spots alongside major acts such as Garbage, Radiohead, and Palaye Royale.
The London show follows the band’s successful 10-date UK Calling Tour in June 2024, which solidified their reputation as one of the most compelling rising acts on the European rock circuit.
