Hell’s teeth in the dentist chair, was this a sod of a show to pre-produce! Here’s why…
Last week, when playing at The Point in this here Cardiff, the delicious Ida Maria & the delightful V.V. Brown allowed one half of & Mr. Fisk into their company & minds for 20minutes or so each. Whereas one half of had the relative luxury, & fairly quiet locale, of V.V. Brown’s very plush tour van to gently float questions in her direction, Mr. Fisk decided the best place to interview Ida Maria was in the glass walled viewing gallery directly above the stage. Which was being sound checked for the evening’s gig.
Apart from Ida having to set up the recording equipment for Fisk, apart from Fisk not having prepared any questions (hoping he could remember the ones he wrote for an interview that never happened nearly 6months previously), apart from the recording equipment battery running right out in the middle of Ida giving an extremely interesting answer to a question about female stereotypes in today’s music business, apart from Fisk twice expressing his wish to get naked for Ida (there’s a very protracted reason for this, as you’ll hear), & apart from the sound check music bleeding quite profusely into the overall sound capture (which took, unsuccessfully in 2 sections - apologies, we did our very, very best - 14, yes, count them, 14hours to recover & edit), it’s a remarkably interesting & brilliant interview.
one half of’s interview, on the other hand, with V.V. Brown, was a breeze. The only grumble we have is V.V.’s album, although written & mastered, is not out until next year & her record company have been (understandably) reluctant to hand across any promo copies (depsite a personal promise from the lovely V.V.) of the songs in order for us to play along with the interview (as is our wont). Therefore, we’ve had to use two brief samples that we already had from the LP & her current single + a free download. Still, she is a lovely, personable & level-headed young lady & we predict massive things for her.
We hope you enjoy both our efforts. Despite the pain in the arse-ness of getting this together, we most certainly did.
To the business end of the show: the competition…
Answer the following & you can win signed copies of Ida Maria’s Stella, Queen of The World, I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked, signed copies of V.V. Brown’s Quick Fix promo + a signed poster & badges.
The question, then:
Ida Maria, in her song Queen of The World ‘bumps into things’. In 10 words or less, if you were Queen of the World, what would you do?
Send your answers to DC (@) TWRHQ.com & we’ll pick a couple of winners out of a hat in a future broadcast.
Keep ‘em clean.
½DC + TWoTH + Mr. Fisk
p.s. the winner of the Anni Rossi competition (for albums, EPs + a bunch of other stuff we’re chucking in) is one PHIL M. (no address supplied, but we’ll find the bugger).
p.p.s the competition for The Kabeedies/Tim & Sam Band/Pelle Carlberg/Lucky Delucci & the previous competition for the Those Dancing Days goodies are both still running. Check back through the archives for the questions (which, frankly, are piss easy).
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Mr Fisk’s interview with Ida Marie was impressive . First he lit Ida’s fuse with his “naked” inference and then she exploded with a fascinating fusillade of observation, analysis and opinion . Ida articulated her thoughts incredibly well and in doing so made it perfectly clear that they were her own thoughts. What a nice change from the vapid, mind-numbed, illogical group-think expectorated by so many pop “artists”. Mindless, self absorbed performance is not art, art requires dedicated thought.
To his credit, Mr Fisk allowed Ida to speak her mind and elaborate her thoughts without interrupting the process . It was a very interesting and informative interview.
Even though I was only a blind “radio fly” on the wall, it was apparent that Ida Marie felt a strange attraction to Mr Fisk. the proof of this “feeling” was the hot wet kiss that Ida planted on Mr Fisk at the end of the interview. Time will tell if Ida and Nick will be sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G …
Thanks Nick , Good Job!
As usual, best to TWotH and of course you too Mr DC. enjoyed the fine music and production work, as always thank you for providing such good company while I work. Don’t drink too much, look forward to next week’s show if the world has not completely morphed back to the stone age. If this happens, I am sure that the Waiting Room staff will be sitting around the campfire telling stories, beating a log, and sending smoke signals.
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PS Forgot to add this comment a few weeks ago… you do not say “Ladies and Gentleman” too much, its a nice indication of a polite, well bred man. Would it be better to say “you guys” ?