Interviewing bands can be tough. Interviewing them on-site at a music festival with alcohol and jet lag thrown into the mix and it can be a recipe for disaster.
The worst case scenario eventuates when musicians really couldn’t care less (maybe too many drugs induced), the chat becomes borderline sexist or mean-spirited after a situation is completely misread, making things super, super awkward, or when interviewers just haven’t done any research.
But for a group of music journalists in Australia, the problem wasn’t that they hadn’t done their research, the problem was that they left their research lying around for the musician to read himself.
According to FasterLouder, UK artist Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (TEED) was being interviewed at the Melbourne leg of Listen Out by Blaire Magazine when the interviewer accidentally left their notes behind following the interview.
The London-based producer found the notes, and posted them on his Facebook for all the world to see along with the caption “One of the funniest things ever to happen to me on tour!! (Don’t leave your interview notes behind kids).”
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In the notes, TEED is described as English, a soccer fan, someone who lives a “healthy lifestyle”, oh, and that’s “he’s fucking boring to interview”.
“You’re going to have to be real creative with the questions and just have fun with this one,” the notes go on. “He doesn’t five much eye contact at all, so don’t be put off. He is listening. He just doesn’t smile or something.”
The interviewer then proceeds to list off the most uninspiring and inane questions you could ask an artist, such as how the tour has been so far, and are we expecting to hear you drop any new beats?
Still, TEED took it all in his stride, commenting that “it’s all true”. Although we find it kind of hard to believe he didn’t crack a smile after reading the notes.
