Could you present the members of the band (musical past...)?
On vocals we have Olaf Senkbeil who sang in a band called "Jack's Hammer" and did a lot of studio work before. Ole Hempelmann plays bass.He used to be in "Thunderhead". C.C., the drummer, I know for a long time because we were in "Fair Warning" together. Torsten our Keyboarder as well played all the Fair Warning tours.

Why did you decide to change name (FairWarning/Dreamtide)?
When Fair Warning called it a day, it felt natural for me to start a new band. While looking for members for this band it happened that C.C. and Torsten agreed to join the band. Also we feel that Dreamtide is musically different from Fair Warning and with a new bass player and singer we simply never had the idea to go on with the name of Fair Warning.

Are you still in touch with the other members of Fair Warning?
Yes, I'm in very friendly contact with Tommy and Ule.

Who compose in Dreamtime, and where do you get the inspiration? Songs are mainly written by me. Where the inspiration comes from is hard to tell. Sometimes songs come along easily and from the initial idea to the finished song it takes only a day or some hours. Then again sometimes it's completely different, there is an idea on which I spent weeks or month developing it to the final stage. When we record songs with the bands it can easily happen that a lot of things will change again.



At the end of your album, on tune is mixed in three different ways. Why?
There are three songs arranged and mixed in a different way. These versions were the original versions of the songs. Our record-companies had some doubts because they felt this was not what they call "traditional melodic rock". Nobody in the band is thinking in categories like this and nobody in the band is believing in limiting music to a certain label put on it from the outside. Music should be free. We didn't quite understand their objections, so the discussion started and to cut a long story short, we finally agreed to have both versions on the album.

What does the covers of both previous and currentalbum represent?
When we decided on the name Dreamtide, we thought it would be nice to have something like a symbol for the name. That's why we choose the dreamcatcher from native American culture. The first album was called "Here comes the flood", so we had the dreamcatcher flying in heavy weather. This time for "Dreams for the daring" we had this photo of the dreamcatcher in the snow, reflecting the daringness of dreams in a rough environment.

Why did you choose an Italian label (FrontierRecords) whereas famous label like MTM or SVP exist near you?
Frontiers showed the strongest confidence in the band when we started.

Fair Warning didn't play many shows, will it bedifferent with Dreamtime?
Well, actually Fair Warning toured with every record. At least in Germany and in Japan. We hope we will have more chances to play live with Dreamtide.

One last word for the readers and potential buyers
No matter what kind of music you prefer. Dreamtide is meant to reflect a broad variety of rock. Have a listen yourselves and decide if you like it or not.