Adam D

Just gone up on the new Red Room over at Virgin.com

Thought you’d all like to see me lookin like an ass.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and all that bollocks. I’m getting wasted. Right. This. Second.

Bring Me The Horizon

I had me first phoner interview the other day. It was Oli Sykes of BMTH – a rather controversial figure in the metal music scene since their breakthrough album ‘Count Your Blessings‘ in 2006. There was that whole unwarranted golden shower incident at Nottingham Rock City a couple of years back, and let’s be honest – we’ll never know if this actually happened – if he did do it then she should be grateful it wasn’t a Cleveland steamer.

Anyway, I was set for the interview with the sketchiest set up ever to record – phone on loud speaker + recording equipment set to record from internal mic = Sketchy. As. Fuck.

I wasn’t so much worried about the interview, just the quality of the recording and whether it would be transcriptional. I even topped up £15 on my phone as I was aware that he was in the land of kraut, despite not really being able to justify spending that much money at a time when my bank balance arsehole feels violated. The phone call ended up costing me 50p.

“Hello” – and so I proceeded to ask if it was “Oliver” – “Yeah, who’s this” – he sounded as enthusiastic as a blind person on November 5th. When I told him I was press he seemed to chirp up a little, I have an inkling they’re trying to revamp his image via interviews (a recent Kerrang! interview highlights my point perfectly). He actually came across as a really sound guy, not arrogant, more… simple.

In all I’d say that it was one of the easier interviews I’v done, only lasting about 10 minutes but got some quotable shit from it. Worth 50p anyway.

Read it here.

D