Nickelback are no strangers to ‘hate’ when it comes to the internet. In fact, it’s a center point of their documentary ‘Hate to Love.’ There’s a lengthy section of the film dedicated to internet’s hate of the band, how they each dealt with it personally and within the band itself. ‘Hate to Love’ also looks at the band’s story from Hannah, Alberta to becoming one of the biggest selling artists in the world.
I sat down with Ryan Peake, guitars, to talk about the documentary and how it started as an EPK (electronic press kid) for their Feed The Machine album in 2017:
We saw a small clip from the EPK. They shot it really well. I had it in my head, we’re talking about our biography why not make a full documentary on the band. As we kept filming somebody went should we talk about this? Ok. Should we talk about this? And go it kind of grew into this monster that it’s kind of become without necessarily knowing we were doing this.
When talking about the various things throughout the band’s history, there’s obviously some deep things that needed to be touched upon. I asked Ryan what that was like for him:
You have to be honestly willing to it and as honest as you can. That’s the hard thing because you can be all f****** happy and everything is great if you want you or kind of show people there’s four human beings in this band and not just this behemoth Nickelback. There’s people behind that.
Out of the finished produced, Ryan says his proudest part was:
It’s the near the ending. It’s kind of that we’ve been through been a bunch of stuff. But we still find a place to come together and still want to do this. I’m pretty proud we can get past any differences we have and still kind of stick together and want to do this.
Hate to Love is in theaters this week for special screenings. Find out more at https://www.nickelbackfilm.com/.
Listen to the full interview below:
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