For the radio I’ve interviewed a total of five bands now. One of them was a disaster and the other ones were mostly good. First off was an Indie band from Sweden called The Horror The Horror. The music is rather generic in my opinion, but the guys were really talkative and it was a good interview. Also, their performance was really good, too! Great musicianship and a positive attitude.

The crappy one was a band called Eagle Seagull, which was an interesting band with a few really interesting songs (the rest were kind of generic, too), but the interview was horrible. Actually, the first time I interviewed them it was turning out to be a great interview! Then my recorder completely failed and I embarrassingly had to go get another one and wait to redo it after the show. So after the show, not only did they keep me waiting for way too long, but the lead singer was PLASTERED and was saying all sorts of contradictory things to what he said earlier in the day. He came off as extremely self-centred and put down his band a lot. Who does that to a journalist? I mean, I know that journalists aren’t usually treated well, but you’d think he’d have some degree of professionalism or AT THE VERY LEAST not say things that make you sound like a big jerk. I mean, you do want to actually gain fans right? It sucked.

The last band I interviewed was a small San Franciscan band (that made me happy!) called Bellavista. They put on a great show but unfortunately there was almost nobody there. I still have to put together the feature for them.

My biggest band was We Are Scientists. I was going to interview Dinosaur Jr., but they cancelled on me at the last minute.

We Are Scientists was an interesting interview. They didn’t really take it seriously, which frustrated me a little bit at first. But in the end it turned out to be a quirky feature and it’s my favourite so far. Not to mention that they put on a GREAT show and they showed wonderful musicianship. At first I didn’t like the music, but their latest CD really grew on me as I kept listening and now I have to admit that I like it a lot.

I’ve really lucked out with this particular job, and I have to say that this was probably the best opportunity that’s presented itself to me here in Germany. I can only hope and pray that it leads to something more substantial in the future. Fingers crossed!

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