Saturday 12 November 2011

The Rhapsody Interviews 2006-2007

This is a collection of interviews covering the time between the release of The Back Room and its follow-up An End Has a Start. In total, this runs for around 45 minutes and it's worth your time because of the depth of the answers given. The first one is Tom and Chris talking about The Back Room, the band's early formative years in Birmingham and the way they cultivated their reputation as a band. The second is a telephone interview with Mr Smith and runs for about 10 minutes longer than the first. These interviews were originally made available as several small, separate MP3 (see the titles below for details) files but I've joined everything to make listening less of a hassle for you all. Also bear in mind that there was also a year between the two interviews being posted, which I've eliminated in the cut. Enjoy the chatter ;)

stream it here

2006 Interview
1. Original Vs. Acoustic
2. Influences
3. Birmingham
4. Imploding
5. Change
6. Darker
7. Writing
8. 40 shows in 6 weeks
9. After this
2007 Interview
1. The Making Of Music Videos
2. The Sound Of The New Album
3. On Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors
4. On The Weight Of The World & Bones
5. Dark Times
6. Lyrics
7. Lessons Learned
8. Remixes
9. On Definitely Maybe
10. On Joy Division
11. Influences
12. Album For Eternity
13. On England
14. Japanese Audiences
15. Forthcoming

brought to you with lots and lots of lemming-love :) x