Billy Talent In Their Own Words: Part 3
It’s hard being in a band…all that time close together, day and night, in cramped vans and crappy dressing rooms…record company issues, personal issues, personnel problems and the general fragile stat...
27 Mar 202231min
The Concept of Selling Out: Part 2
Artists make art because they have it…there’s something in their hearts that forces them to turn what they feel inside into something the rest of us can see and hear and feel ourselves… It supposed t...
23 Mar 202232min
Billy Talent In Their Own Words: Part 2
I’ve done hundreds of interviews with individual artists over the year…it’s relatively easy...all you have to do is get one person in a room, turn on the recording devices and you’re set… When it com...
20 Mar 202237min
The Concept of Selling Out: Part 1
One of the worst insults you can throw at an artist is to accuse them of “selling out”…the most basic definition is when the pursuit of money compromises, corrupts or otherwise interrupts the pursuit ...
16 Mar 202243min
Billy Talent In Their Own Words: Part 1
The best way to construct a profile on an artist is to round up everyone together, put them in a studio and get them to tell their story themselves… But that can be difficult, especially with a band…...
13 Mar 202236min
Infamous Hotels and Hotel Rooms
In the days before Covid, I was always on the road…if it wasn’t a music conference in Singapore, it was an interview in London, the Juno’s in—wherever, or a concert in Los Angeles…this means I have se...
9 Mar 202232min
Modern Rock Feuds
There are some people who just can’t get along…it could be the result of politics, religion, philophies, property, honour, a personal slight, a perceived insult, or—well, a million things, really… Th...
2 Mar 202232min
History Concert Sound
Ever been to a concert and wondered "How do they make all of this work?". "How have I not gone deaf?" or "Why does the dude on stage wearing what looks like a pair of ear-buds?"Well we're here to answ...
23 Feb 202231min
