THE GUESTLIST NETWORK | SEPTEMBER 2010
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PROPAGANDA EVERY WEEK AT O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON
Propaganda welcomes The Mighty Boosh’s Mike Fielding for the final week of the August take-over. We talk to the star about his fun filming the show and his DJing career.
Hey hope you are
good..so how long have you been D’jing for? I have been DJing about 4 years now. My first time on the decks was actually as a favour for a mate. He was running a night at The Tele- graph on Brixton Hill, and he need- ed someone to help out….so I DJ’d all night.
Did you get into music before acting? I’ve always been into music, My brother and I were brought up on so much music. From the Stones and the New York Dolls, to Fairport Con- vention and Neil Young. So being able to play a wide range of tunes on the decks is such a buzz.
You self title your style of D’jing as ‘pick and mix’ what can we
PHILIP SELWAY
The seeds of Selway’s solo album were to a degree planted back in 2001 when Neil Finn (of Crowded House and solo fame) organised an impromptu gathering of talent, including Johnny Marr, Eddie Vedder, Lisa Germano, former Soul Coughing bassist Sebas- tian Steinberg and Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien and Selway, in aid of charity. The resulting album - “7 Worlds Collide” - was credited to Neil Finn and Friends, but when he revived the project in 2008 the singing/songwriting was divided among the ranks, which also now included members of Wilco. As the ensemble beavered away on three
floors of Finn’s Auckland studio, Philip came up with “The Ties That Bind Us”, with which he made his singing debut (as a lead vocalist), in Auckland in January, 2009. That song, and an earlier number, “The Witching Hour”, were recorded for 7WC’s “The Sun Came Out” album, released in August of that year.
Back home, Selway asked Court- yard Studios’ resident engineer and producer Ian Davenport to help produce the forthcoming sessions. Then Selway invited Germano, Steinberg, Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Sansone to come and make
expect from your set at the 02? A handful of coconut mushrooms, shrimps and definitely a few foam bananas.
Are you excited about playing at the o2? I am very excited to be DJing at the 02 Academy Islington. I saw Kiss play at there earlier in the year and it was the best gig I’ve been to. So to follow in Gene Simmons shoes will be amazing, and they are pretty big shoes he wears.
What was your first ever gig like? My First gig was great, instant buzz, at one point there was a pelican on the dancefloor!
How was it filming on the
Mighty Boosh, I am sure you had some fun?! Yeah we had lots of fun filming the TV series. I’d turn up at the studio everyday for work not knowing what new sets i would walk into. We always have such a laugh and to be able to work with family and friends is a nice Brucie Bonus!
Who is your favourite character on The Mighty Boosh? I love the Hitcher and the Crackfox
Have you got any new TV proj- ects coming up? I am writing at the moment. I also currently have an art exhibition on @ MAISON BERTOUX. It is a tea and cake shop in Soho.
What music do you listen to in your free time? Everything!
If you could be invisible for a day, what would you do? I would wind up really annoying peo- ple like Jeremy Clarkson.
If you could take one person out to dinner tonight, who would it be? Pink... she’s a hottie, we would have such a laugh.
You can catch Mike at the Propaganda Halloween Party on 30th October at O2 Academy in Leicester.
After being Radiohead’s drummer for many years, Selway is releasing “Familial” a collection of sublimely fragile and heartfelt songs on the 30th of August. The style and quality will surprise many listeners because drummers traditionally don’t do this kind of thing. “Familial” makes Selway sound like he has been a singer- songwriter forever.
the record with him. Yet despite the rock pedigree on show, Familial is as far from a rock record as you’ll get. But neither are its ballads de- fined by folk, but something much wider and more contemporary. Curiously, there’s very little defined drums on the record, with more per- cussive loops/textures. Sometimes the beats and instrumental colours are so subtle, it sounds like the acoustic air in the room is setting the mood. It leaves space for the lyrics, which clearly come from the most intimate of places… “Familial” is released 30th August on Bella Union records…
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