Jamie Lidell interview on Overload

[Ali]

Greets.

Just to let you know that there's an interview with Jamie now up on www.overloadmedia.co.uk via the following link.

http://www.overloadmedia.co.uk/archives/interviews/jamie_lidell.php

Cheers!

Ali

[invisibleplanet]

8)

/away reading

[Lady E]

aahh. that was actually like sitting and talking to jamie.

[Lady E]

"When you want to do something extreme then you can't hope that the same person who goes and buys shopping, buys eggs or whatever, is going to be the same person that's setting fire to a guitar"


yep

[Ali]

Er, yeah. Jamie kinda interviewed himself, with slight prompting!

[invisibleplanet]

aint that the way?
good to see an interview where the artiste has something of worth to say.

i especially liked his comments re: NME

originally by Jamie Lidell
Do you think the term jazz often conjures up negative associations for people?

J.L. Yeah. It's like in the NME, people will write in and say 'Blur, I like their new album' and NME saying, 'what? Even with it's fucking free-jazz fills and the sound of a bicycle pump?' So, what do NME thing about the whole Musique Concrete history? Do they think that's just a load of French geezers fucking around and doing a load of nonsense? Probably. They'll write off a whole history that I won't write off. It's all horses for courses as far as I'm concerned. Ultimately it takes a lot to just believe in what you're doing, and in a way go 'fuck everyone', but at the same time 'what do you reckon?' You've got to be in to yourself completely but at the same time you've got to be checking out people who think it's just bullshit. It's no fun playing to a load of people with their arms crossed going 'ah, bollocks', which does happen - although luckily, recently, not that much - probably because people know a bit more of what to expect now when they come to see what I'm doing. I don't really shock people in that way.

[grobelaar]

...when I grow up I want to be a music jingoist for the NME... :-)

[Lady E]

thanks for the link Ali!!

[debord]

how long did it take you in the end dude - 500 man hours?

[Ali]

Well, Jamie suggested I record the whole lot on to my hard-drive and time-stretch it so I could type out the whole thing in one take. Might have given it a go if I had more disk space! He sure can talk!

[Marolo]

cool interview Ali.

Looking forward to the Otto Van Schirach and Aeox remix.

[owain_k]

Nice one Ali, had a read yesterday !

[bitch one]

he's pretty sane for a mentalist

[marcel]

one of the best interviews ive read for a while

[CV]

Yes - Sounds like you caught Jamie in fine fettle , a clear postive message about the power of music , and a life's dedication to it... Nice one Jim , nice one Ali