June 1, 2009
Vice blog: Connan Mockasin interview
For my first-ever blog for Vice NL, I did an interview with the lovely and quirky Connan Mockasin.
Go read it now!
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February 4, 2009
Interviewing the Cobrasnake
For the superawesome ‘secret‘ book project on fashion blogs (lead by Kirstin Hanssen) I’m working on, K. and I ended up interviewing Mark ‘The Cobrasnake‘ Hunter during his stay in Amsterdam. Mark and Steve Aoki were kind enough to take a picture with us!
Please keep an eye out for the book, due out spring fall this year!!!
And: to stay on the subject of promoting: please check out my friend Tommy’s filmproject, Rumoer ‘66.
September 24, 2008
Interviewing Pennywise
I cannot get used to hearing my own voice on the radio.. But anyway here’s the interview I did a few weeks ago with Pennywise’s guitarist Fletcher Dragge for Kink FM!
ps: it took place in the shower…
May 26, 2008
Ladytron interview
It was a hot spring afternoon Saturday 3rd of May. Upon arriving at Amsterdam’s famous concerthall Paradiso, I was informed the members of Ladytron were out cruising the city’s centre by bicycle. Visibly happy to have been able to momentarily escape their relentless touringschedule, two of the four members later joined me on the private waterside terrace behind the venue. Accompanied by flocks of ducklings and the occasional canalboat, I briefly spoke to Helen Marnie and Reuben Wu about their new album, touring, and doing remixes.
Ladytron’s new album Velocifero (due to be released June 3rd) was recorded in Paris and co-produced by Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails) and Ed Banger’s Vicarious Bliss, though Wu notes much of the album’s production was done within the band. The title Velocifero, stated as signifying ‘bringer of speed’, also is the name of a song that was intended to appear on the album but was later excluded. “It’s still a good track, but..it just..we had so many songs to choose from. We got another twenty or something that we’ll probably make into another album. When you’re trying to narrow things down into an album you can only have so many songs, like..similar sounds. We wanted something that was quite varied, so we had to leave specific songs out.”
As happens with so many highly anticipated albums, Velocifero leaked onto the internet long before its’ schedules release. Wu and Marnie weren’t exactly schocked by this delevopment however: “We knew it was gonna happen. All these promo copies of the album were given out anyway, so it was only a question of time. In fact, we just decided to put the whole album onto MySpace very soon after that, just as a kind of streaming audio.” Wu continues to explain why the leakage failed to concern them: “The main thing for us as a band is to go out and tour, ‘cause that is the only way we can actually make money really. It’s not really from record sales.” “-Although we do expect people to go out and buy the record as well”, Marnie then quickly adds.
Beside their extensive touring as a live act, Ladytron has also built a reputation for doing live DJ-sets and remixing other artists’ work. “We’re into the idea of remixing old stuff, we did Gang of Four, we did Blondie, Soft Cell. It’s nice to be able to go backin time and work on tracks that have been recorded in the 70’s and just work on it in the present.” When asked who he would like to remix in the future, Wu discloses: “We have the audio parts for ‘Ladytron’ by Roxy Music. That would be quite interesting. I thought about what I could do with it, but I just haven’t got round to it. Maybe it’ll be crap.”
Listen to the rest of the interview on Kink FM’s New Music.
March 16, 2008
Interview with 1990’s
Talking to 1990’s (there is no ‘the’ in their name!)-three cool rockers from Glasgow, listen to the interview on Kink FM!
March 13, 2008
Interview with Hot Chip!
Lucky me! -I got a chance to interview Hot Chip for Kink FM’s New Music! I spoke to two of the band’s lovely gents Joe Goddard and Al Doyle (see very silly photo below) about fame and Hot Chip’s reputation of being a “nerd-band”. They also talk about what it’s like performing live night after night and: we get an explanation of the album name Made in the Dark. Listen to it tuesday (18 March) between 20:00-21:00 on the radio or via the online live stream or come back later to download it directly from the New Music site. Read more »
February 27, 2008
Interview with Cut Copy
The guys from Cut Copy were kind enough to let me interview them for Kink FM before their show in Amsterdam’s Paradiso. We talked about their new album In Ghost Colours, due to be released March 22 (pre-order it here), their excellent new single (see below) and much more! Check back for the airing-date!
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December 7, 2007
Apocalyptica
This is me after interviewing Apocalyptica’s Perttu Kivilaakso for Kink FM (-my very first interview…)!
Interview aired in ‘New Music’ on Kink FM on wednesday 9 january 2008 (20:00-21:00), listen to it here.
