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Published: 07 March 2014

Interview with

Heather Nova (singer / singwriter)

Heather Nova, the Bermudian singer/songwriter and poet, enjoyed mainstream success in the 90s with hits like "Walk This World", "Island", etc. During her 20 years career, she never really indulged in the star system, preferring to lead a peaceful life with her husband and her son. Nevertheless, after 8 studio albums, she managed to keep and even develop a very faithful fan base, especially in Europe. She's currently touring with an acoustic concerts, revisiting songs from her whole catalogue. We caught up with her in Leuven, Belgium on February 25th.

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Published: 06 March 2014

Interview with

Janosch Moldau (vocals) from Janosch Moldau

As you may know almost a couple of weeks ago SOLAR FAKE and JANOSCH MOLDAU played their shows in Russia. We managed to talk to Sven right before the concert in St. Petersburg and now impressed by the performance of JANOSCH MOLDAU and trying “strike while the iron is hot” we asked Janosch himself some questions about his music, art and some other things. Well, everything is below, just read and enjoy!

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Published: 26 February 2014

Interview with

Samy Elbanna (guitar, vocals) from Lost Society

LOST SOCIETY is a young and upcoming Thrash Metal band from Finland. On April 4th, they are going to release their second album ‘Terror Hungry’ via Nuclear Blast. Front man Samy took some time to answer a couple of questions regarding the new album and some other topics.

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Published: 26 February 2014

Interview with

Sven Friedrich (vocals) from Solar Fake

This time I decided to be carefully prepared for the interview: I’ve read a lot of different interviews with Sven Friedrich, listened to songs and finally managed to make a list of fine questions. But as usually everything has gone in another way and new questions have been made just before the event. So everything was made to continue a good tradition of “hasty” interviews with a lot of fun and Russian-English-German switching. However I was really impressed by some answers and I hope that all the readers will find something interesting for themselves. Just read and enjoy!

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Published: 17 February 2014

Interview with

Tuomas Holopainen (keyboards, vocals, songwriting)

Whilst the Dickensian tale of Ebenezer Scrooge is a criticism of early capitalism Scrooge McDuck’s story seems to pat the entrepreneur spirit (or the American Dream) on its back, or at least it seems so from the Disney version as I remember some details of watching it when I was a young kid. Carl Barks created McDuck on the model of Ebenezer but seems to elevate the capitalist (even if one who rose from rugs to riches) from the unsavoury anti-hero by philanthropy in the process and thus apologise him rather than transform him to an extent of Dickens’ Christmas Carol. There is still a difference between being charitable and generous. The impression I’m getting though is that McDuck is more fun, and not weighing a ton in moral judgement can be its advantage. Still, I can’t say it took hold of me so I’ve never read Don Rosa’s comic book ‘The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck’ to compare and even after listening to the album and after the interview I’m not entirely seduced into doing so, on the other hand, who knows... never say never and all that.

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