Will the forecast of frontman Eden James come true – “one day music will be distributed like water – you will pay your license fee, in order to use it”? Eden James’ hit “Never Setting Sun” became number one in the Greek TOP 40 after replacing Robbie Williams. The band came to Athens, in order to perform at the biggest Rock Wave Festival in Malakasa park but at the performance day, a pouring rain destroyed all plans. The three members of the band – Eden James, Nathan Newman, and Simon Hall, answered to the questions of Marina Nikolova about their unexpected success in Greece. Today, one day after the memorial concert for Michael Jackson in Los Angeles, we asked “Eden James” to tell us about the influence of his music on them.

Unfortunately, the weather didn’t help and two days from the festival had to be canceled. One of those days you had to be on stage together with Tricky, Duffy and The Killers. What exactly happened?

E.J.: We were at our hotel watching the storm come in. We thought we might have to play in the rain – that’s OK, it rains every year at Glastonbury. Then we got the call that flash flooding occurred on the festival site and the day was canceled. Needless to say we were all quite disappointed.

S.H.: We’re used to rain in England (obviously) and it was surprising a festival of this size didn’t have any contingency. They told us to wait in the hotel. It was very weird, because the rain never reached the hotel and we didn’t even see it. When we understood we will not perform, I broke a bottle! It happened again the next day and although the rain was heavy, it did only last for about 30 minutes, so we expected the day to carry on, again it was cancelled.

N.N: We’re really disappointed about not playing the show but we’re working on coming back to Greece soon to make up for it…

How did the other artists react?

E.J.: I think most of us took it quite well. We saw Lauren Harris Band get dressed in their stage clothes and were all ready to go on when the second downpour hit on the Monday. That must have been disappointing. Tommy Lee wasn’t too happy about not playing either. I think he was really charged.

S.H.: Most of the artists were on tours so they had shows to play over the next couple of days so they will have been able to get it out of their systems.