Live music and touring have been on lockdown and fans as well as artists are going through withdrawals. We wanted to come up with something fun to help bridge that distance between fans and artists right now. What we came up with is something called The Lockdown Lowdown and it’s a Q&A session with fun questions for artists to answer. They’re not your typical interview questions, so it gives you a peek inside of the artists themselves. We’re big music nerds here at I’m Music Magazine and we love learning things like this about the artists that we love. We’re pretty sure that you’ll get a kick out of these, so we hope you’ll take the time to read them. In this installment, we sat down for a fun Q&A session with Christopher Taylor.
How have you been doing during the pandemic and how are you spending your time?
Well it’s been a horrible year on so many levels. I was lucky enough to get in the studio in August last year so was able to record 3 singles with friends at the Animal Farm Studio. So a lot of writing and bit of other stuff like recording covers each day throughout June for social platforms. But really really really missed playing live.
What can you tell us about the new music?
Yep of the 3 I’ve just referred they have all been released since last November with the last one ‘By My Side’ came out 4 June Back in the studio in July for another blast of creativity!
5 albums that changed your life:
Schools Out – Alice Cooper
Futurama – Be Bop Deluxe
Steve Mcqueen – Prefab Sprout
Maybe you’ve been brainwashed too – New Radicals
August and Everything After – Counting Crows
5 artists that influenced you as a musician:
Alice Cooper
Bill Nelson (Be Bop Deluxe)
Paddy McAloon (Prefab Sprout)
Counting Crows
Madeon
Your 5 favorite live albums:
Frampton Comes Alive
Counting Crows – New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall
Thin Lizzy – Live and Dangerous
Hall and Oates – Live in Dublin
Diana Krall – Live in Rio
Life on the road; 5 of your craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories:
Funny = 1) Fixing van headlights with gaffa tape when stopped by the police and told “Your lights are out and I mean hanging out!!” 2) Sleeping in van and not realising till waking up that the car park we were in was a Saturday market and we were stuck in the middle of loads of stalls 3) Seeing the lead guitarist get a thong thrown at him and it landing around his face from the stage when we were playing a gig with a stripper
Scary = 4) Coming across a crash on the A19 at 1am in the morning and having to help crash victims
Crazy = 5) In digs we were staying at one band rearranged another bands room totally reversing everything and turning everything upside down and fastening stuff to the ceiling!
5 favorite movies:
Field of Dreams
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Jean de Flourette
Lord of the Rings (Counts as 1)
Jurassic Park
Best and worst advice you ever heard:
Best – Procrastination is the thief of time
Worst – Yep that mic is earthed – It wasn’t!!
Strangest thing you ever autographed
A fan’s tummy!
If music was over today and you had to go into professional wrestling, what would your wrestling name be?
GreyBeard
