Some Questions #14: The Irrepressibles!

Το συναίσθημα όταν σου απαντάει στο email σου με τις ερωτησούλες ένας καλλιτέχνης είναι πάντα φοβερό. Όσο κι αν ξέρεις ότι πρόκειται για κανονικούς ανθρώπους που κάνουν κανονικά πράγματα όπως το να ψωνίζουν στο supermarket ή να μαγειρεύουν ή να απαντάνε σε email με απλές ερωτήσεις, η ιδέα ότι έρχεσαι έστω κι από μακριά σε επαφή με αυτούς που γράφουν τη μουσική που επενδύει και ενίοτε συνταράσσει τη ζωή σου πάντα κάνει κάτι μέσα σου να πεταρίζει χαρούμενα. Και το εφέ πολλαπλασιάζεται όταν πρόκειται για έναν καλλιτέχνη με του οποίου τη δουλειά τυχαίνει να περνάς έναν τρελό έρωτα τη συγκεκριμένη περίοδο. Μου συνέβη πέρυσι με τον DM Stith και ξανασυβαίνει τώρα! Κυρίες και κύριοι, το Some Questions σας παρουσιάζει, με δάκρυα στα μάτια, την Αυτού Εξοχότητα που λέγαμε σε ποστ προ ολίγων ημερών - τον Jamie McDermott, γενικό δερβέναγα των αγαπημένων μας Irrepressibles και, απ'ό,τι φαίνεται από τις απαντήσεις του, την ευγένειά του και το πόσο πρόθυμα και γρήγορα ανταποκρίθηκε, απίθανο τύπο γενικότερα. Και τρελό φαν του Morrissey. Αρκετά από μας: απολαύστε!

Could you please tell us...

1. Three albums you’d take along on a desert island?

Anything by Broadcast, anything by Kate Bush, and anything by Aphex Twin.

2. A song you wish you’d written?

Nearly anything by Morrissey. He is a god when it comes to songwriting.

3. Your Sunday morning song?

Err.. "Keep the Dog Quiet" by Owen Pallett at the moment. Discovered him very recently. Incredible. Plus my band were dancing to it on the tour bus the other day which gives me a wonderful vision to accompany it too.

4. Your favourite b-side?

"Please, please, please let me get what I want" by The Smiths.

5. Your favourite Beatles song?

Hmmm....

6. A musician/band you think is criminally underrated?

Simon Bookish

7. Your favourite place for writing music?

Anywhere. I like to engage with my environment and create music from it.

8. What your music-related plans are for the next 12 months?

To perform this album with my Mirror Mirror spectacle. At the same time as writing the second Irrepressibles album, collaborating with other musical acts, and work on some other music that is very different to what I'm doing now.

9. What you wish to do once you retire from music?

Live a quiet life ha ha, and design and build my own home featuring many musical installations and places were children and adults can make music in the garden with specially made outdoor instruments.

10. A stylistic choice you’ve made and are now ashamed of?

I think more that people are ashamed of my sense of complete abandon when it comes to exploring anything with style. Expression is everything. I am Irrepressible!

11. Which role you would like to have played if you were an actor?

Oh I'd like to have been Oscar Wilde in Wilde.

12. A recurring childhood dream of yours?

Swimming to school.

13. If you are superstitious?

I used to be very superstitious as a child. I used to believe I had to think of all the bad things that could happen in order for the best thing to happen. If I'd thought of it it meant it couldn't happen.

14. A sentence containing the words ”some” and ”beans”?

Some beans are bigger than others...

The Irrepressibles - "I'll Maybe Let You" από το Mirror Mirror

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