Fightstar Interview with Charlie Simpson – October 3rd 2007

Circa October 2007 – Fazer Magazine On their new CD One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours, Fightstar have raised the bar for both themselves as a band, and for their listeners. Jam-packed with stellar riffs, chunky bass, and some fine song writing, the band are poised for a big year. One Day Son…

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Torngat Interview with Julien Poissant – September 12th, 2007

Circa September 2007 – Fazer Magazine Some Montreal Magic. Interview with Julien Poissant. Conducted by phone on Sept 12th, 2007. Torngat are a part of London’s very own LOLA Festival in September. Sadly, I missed their live performance. I heard from some of the London music hipsters Torngat put on an impressive live show. Mike:…

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Caribou Interview with Dan Snaith – September 11th, 2007

Circa September 2007 – Fazer Magazine Mike: How are things? Dan Snaith: Good. We’re just driving to our venue. We’ve started our touring today. Pretty good so far. You’re doing the Architecture show in Helsinki tonight? That’s right, yeah. Nice. When are you coming back to Canada, Dan? September the 27th I think we arrive…

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Ulrich Schnauss Interview – July 2007

Circa July 2007 – Fazer Magazine Ulrich Schnauss is not really a name that gets thrown about when radio stations are pushing about the latest top 40 pablum – most of which is bottom-dredged from reality TV shows these days. I’d challenge most of this aforementioned pablum to take the ‘Pepsi-challenge’ against the musical merits…

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Buffalo Tom Interview with Bill Janovitz & Chris Colbourn – June 2007

Circa June 2007 – Fazer Magazine Buffalo Tom hail from Boston, Massachusetts. They formed in the 1980s and have recorded numerous albums. Nothing in the past eight years though.Buffalo Tom’s principal members are guitarist Bill Janovitz, bassist Chris Colbourn, and drummer Tom Maginnis. Chris and Bill took the time to sit with me for a…

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Lacuna Coil Interview with Andrea Ferro – May 2007

Circa May 2007 – Fazer Magazine Hottest Chicks In Metal tour While he’s NOT one of the hottest chicks in Metal, Andrea Ferro is 50% of the vocals in Lacuna Coil, and he took some time to chat with me a few hours before going onstage at the May 16th Opera House show. We were…

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Jesse Malin Interview – June 2007

Circa June 2007 – Fazer Magazine I sat down with Jesse Malin in a reception room at the hotel he was staying at for day two of NXNE 2007. He’s a great guy, and really likes to talk. He tends to keep adding onto his sentences when he gets going. Rather than edit it all…

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Say Anything – Jake Turner Interview – Feb 7th 2008

Jake Turner enters the back room of Cowboy’s Ranch in London. It’s close to 5 pm. He’s just gotten up and looks a little groggy. He’s telling me about not being able to sleep after some gigs, and how last night he stayed up with Jacob and Max listening to tunes all night. Jake (and…

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Billy Talent Interview with Jon Gallant – December 2006

Circa October 2006 – Fazer Magazine Jon was Interviewed December ‘06 by phone. Thanks to Warner Music Canada for setting everything up. Mike: So your band’s name is derived from a character from Bruce Macdonald’s film ‘Hard Core Logo’, right? Jon: Yes. Mike: Now that you’ve achieved a pretty high level of success for Billy…

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