The Interview:
Appearing at the Royal Festival Hall in London for MTV Unplugged on the 23rd of August 2006 Harbor was first
performed without frontman Chris. The audience was expecting the heart-thumping
performance of frontman Chris Hinton to appear in other glamorous performance.
But instead, with Chris Hinton being “ill” that day at the last minute, Matt
Hunt took the stage, with his first performance as a frontman, this had been
chosen by fans as their best ever performance. Everyone stood still waiting for
Chris to come on stage in an explosive manner, but instead the 13-foot high
stage welcomed Matt Hunt. And the show was a success. Knowing that the show had
been a success Hunt had always known that he could perform solo. With the band
slowly tear apart to its roots, Hunt left and tried to perform something close
to the MTV Unplugged performance of 2006. Now Hunt has been even more
successful than being with Harbor.
“Definitely Not! I’d Never Reunite the Band,” Hunt said, “I know
it’s what the fans want, but it seems everyone does things in life to please
other people, but what’s the point? You should do things in life because you
want to do it, not because some random people want you to do another gig
together. I don’t play guitar because
some guy called John said ‘play guitar’, if so I’d be a very busy guy playing
the banjo and drinking every energy drink on the plant cause someone said so.
You should do it because you want to. If one day I don’t want to play the
guitar, I’ll do something else. So the moral
is; do what you want; be a rock star!”
Harbor
has been sued over copyright 19 different times, and one particular artist
‘Oasis’ has sued them 14 of those times for lifting riffs and entire lyrics of
their songs, but Harbor denies stealing them because they said “Oasis did it!
Why can’t we?” Matt continued, “I hate it when people say ‘you’re just another
band’ or ‘another Oasis’. OK some of our songs sound like Oasis, but really I
don’t think we were anything like Oasis.” Matt said. “Everyone I see or hear
was or is comparing us as a modern Oasis. Who cares?”
