Yesterday whilst sitting twiddling my thumbs at uni listening to campaigning journalism ideas, I went on twitter saw Darren Taylor the editor of Rock Sound was on there so decided on a whim to e-mail for the half D. Within ten minutes he got back to me and organised an interview for today... which I just conducted now.
I got myself into an organisation zone, made myself a REAL green tea cleared my computer of the procrastination tools (fbook hotmail etcc) and put on the dictaphone, computer sound recording device and the phone on speaker.
I tried desperately not to announce my undying love for the magazine and tell him that I know exactly where I bought my first copy, when and who was it in .....keep cool.
He provided my with some good answers. But the more interviews I conduct the more I am finding the same reaction.
Yes the internet is causing oversaturation and yes it is a good tool.
He gave my some pretty good quotes though that I can clearly see using in my project.
"so many bands with myspace pages, it’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack trying to find a good band on there"
^ That will definately be used !
" If a band has ten thousand people of myspace and they put on a show it for them it doesn’t mean that ten thousand people will show up. Sometimes it means ten people will show up. I don’t think myspace is pretty representative of how popular the band are."
Waiting on replies from Visible sound management and minus iq..............
