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. View full article »
Yesterday I had the honor of interviewing Cartridge, an Indie band from Denmark, on live radio here in Stuttgart. It was my first on air interview ever, much less in another country where I was speaking a foreign tongue, so needless to say I was definitely a little bit nervous. That said, it went really well and I only really had a few mess ups in the outros because I wasn’t sure about timing and exactly what else to say— but my technical assistant said that all that comes from experience, and that my job was actually pretty impressive considering it was my first time. We came in and out on time, I didn’t say anything too stupid (heh), and the band was in general, a decent interview.
As I said in the last post, I’m used to asking questions and I consider myself to be pretty decent at it, but I’m usually off screen and my voice is cut out… not to mention that it’s never live! This was indeed a new experience for me. View full article »
So if you didn’t catch it the first time, I’m here in Germany primarily to study at the media school here in Stuttgart. Learning German and travelling are secondary objectives, even though I find those more interesting to talk about which is why I haven’t really brought this up before. In any case, I’ve been doing some cool things here so I thought I’d write about it.
The big main course that I’m taking is Studioproduktion Ton (Studio Production, Audio), which is a major 12 credit class that takes up all of my Wednesdays and is taught completely in German. This makes it pretty hard… Thankfully I already have a pretty good background in audio recording, so I already know about concepts like Compression and Automation, etc. But when a big complicated piece of machinery is being explained to you another language without much slack given it can definitely have its stressful moments. In any case, there are one or two other kids in the class who have been gracious enough to take me and the other Canadian and try to integrate us into the group a little better. This is the big main board, the Vista 7! It’s pretty high tech, and worth about €5,000… tread carefully.. View full article »
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. View full article »
