Nylon could do their research.

I had forgotten about this Nylon video. it was supposed to be an advert for last winter's inaugural Nylon Winter Music tour but I noticed all the video clips were insanely old. the 'cake dog' was from their first trip to Japan, celebrating someone's birthday (errr...Rob's?) and chronicled by Edd on a MySpace blog. (when they still posted regular blog updates. ah, those were the days.)

I don't even think Ed Mac owns any of those shirts anymore. well, if he does, they're probably falling apart from perspiration or have been ripped to shreds by overuse!

baby, it's you...sha la la la la la la...

the Manchester Warehouse Project site is down and under construction for 2010 (understandably). but they DELETED all the 2009 events! grrrr...I needed to know the 13 November line-up for an article about Prins Thomas on the Roskilde blog. so I was digging around the Web for SOMETHING about the evening and found this instead. I wholeheartedly agree with the author Piran that "I like to think all great bands have the Beatles 'Live at the BBC' in their collection. Don’t correct me." unfortunately (I forget where I read / heard it) but Ed Mac said at one point that he didn't think the Beatles were that important to him, and my heart sank :/

this is weird to me on several levels, the weirdest being that 'Baby It's You' (the Beatles version, not the Shirelles version) was *the* song of me and my exbf. another level is that I recognise that shirt and vest (and no, I'm not a stalker). good god Edd Gibson without a beard looks so friggin' young! the video on YouTube has funny comment of "love ed's voiceee =) and love watching his back too haha" as well.



note: good god there are a lot of covers of 'Paris' on YouTube! once I find a decent one, I will post it here...

Yoko Ono

admittedly, I've been on an interview drought for a while. it isn't from lack of trying. I've been trying to go for in person interviews, especially when it comes to interviewing British bands, b/c I'm worried I won't be able to understand something and can't quickly jump in for a clarification. (I'd love to say I have fully sussed English accents and understand everything an English musician says, but if the 18 hours to transcribe my marathon interview with FFires last year was any indication, I still have a ways to go.) and it's just so much more personal when you're there in the same room with them, being able to gauge their interest / disinterest by their body language.

however, I'm not complaining about something that happened to me last week.

in all the time I have been writing about music, I never thought I'd be asked to interview Yoko Ono.

apologies for it being a bit wooden, but that's what happens when you don't interview people in person...

my interview with Yoko Ono for PW

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