Questions That Actually Make Our Interviewees Think
We Got Tired of the Same Repetitious, Boring and Mind Numbing Interviews
earX: what was your favorite toy as a child…
ek-s: a miniature london bus
earX: who is more powerful…god or satan…
ek-s: the grey nameless…shapeless…blob in the middle
earX: if you could walk in the shoes of anyone living or deceased for a day…who and why…
ek-s: i wouldn’t want to change shoes with anybody
earX: where would you choose to go if you could time travel…
ek-s: 100 years forward because i want to see if the pictures in my head are accurate. they are not as depressing as some may think.
earX: what would be your ‘last meal’ and ‘last words’…
ek-s: SHIT! i told them not to put any bacon in my burrito.
earX: if you could play in any other band…past or present…which and why?
ek-s: here are no other bands that i would want to be a part of…past or present.
earX: what was your first recorded purchase…
ek-s: be my baby by the ronettes
earX: what would you choose to be reincarnated as…
ek-s: a human being with a little more influence
earX: if you had to lose one of your senses…which and why…
ek-s: smell. because the bad odors out number the good odors…massively
earX: what do you find scarier…love or anger…
ek-s: love and anger are connected at the hip in my experiences. perhaps loving someone grants a license to explode at that person. perhaps it shouldn’t be that way. i’m an englishman…anger terrifies me
earX: three people you’d most like to meet…
ek-s: david bowie – because of what he meant to me growing up george w. bush – to try and understand why and how? i confess…i find 5-headed signs from venus more relatable kim basinger – because of those sad soulful eyes
earX: name three of your favorite legendary pink dots songs and what makes them your favorites…
ek-s:
– ‘a triple moon salute’ – because it came closest to the sound i had in my head when writing it
– ‘lisa’s separation’ – because it’s so sad
– ‘the way i feel today’ – because it was how i felt that day
earX: most reoccurring nightmare or dream…
ek-s: a pair of scissors trying to cut a piece of string but never quite severing it
earX: what influenced the following three legendary pink dots songs…
– ‘the grain kings’
ek-s: the need for ritual in order to connect with the rest of humanity
– ‘voices’
ek-s: i wrote this when i was 12 and find it embarrassing lyrically these days. even so…i was troubled by voices in my head at that time
– ‘lent’
ek-s: miserable people who are not prepared to do anything for themselves
earX: if you were to be stranded on a desert island with only one item…what would it be…
ek-s: a photo
earX: how would you describe the legendary pink dots to a deaf person without sign language…
ek-s: i would make strange signs and wave my arms around hopelessly
