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 Alien Feelings.
1. How have you been doing during the pandemic and how are you spending your time?
Hello we’re Alien feelings We’re just as fed up as everybody else is waiting for all this to be over. I think above everything else, we’ve really missed gigging. It’s almost been a year now since our last show, which is really depressing because we had gotten a taste for it.
2. Have you been working on new music?
Yes, we already have our next EP planned out and are excited to record it just as soon as we get the all clear to travel down to London back to the studio. To be honest, it’s writing that’s kept me sane during this time. There’s no restrictions on my imagination, so I’ve just retreated into my own mind for the majority of the pandemic.
3. 5 albums that changed your life
We are gunna answer the next few questions separately.
Tim: Seasons in the Abyss – Slayer and L,A Woman – The Doors.
Dale: The wall – Pink floyd
About what you know – little man tate
Silent alarm – bloc party
Vivarium – twin Atlantic
Word gets around – Stereophonics
Ryan: “Dookie – Green Day” and “out come the wolves – Rancid”
4. 5 artists that influenced you as a musician.
Josh: The Beatles.
Tim: Slayer, The Doors, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Arctic Monkeys,
Dale: David Gilmore, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, Chester Bennington
Ryan: Green Day, NOFX, blink-182, Rancid, Reel Big Fish
5. Your 5 favorite live albums
Josh: Nirvana unplugged
Dale: The Wall Live – Pink Floyd
LIVE AND DANGEROUS – Thin lizzy
Ryan: Live After Death – Iron Maiden
Bullet in a bible – Green Day
The Mark, Tom and Travis show – blink-182
Our live album is better than your live album – Reel Big Fish
They’ve actually gotten worse live – NOFX
6. Life on the road; 5 of the craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories
Tim: On the way to a gig in Liverpool, Ryan’s dad Harry was driving a bus there like. On route one of Ryan’s mates was dying for a piss ( we all were really but he as damn nearly pissing himself), and Harry the Legend Just kept on driving regardless, straight cold like. haha
Ryan: When we were in London recording our E.P Bondage & Lipstick, we were in shared accommodation. But that didn’t stop us going to bed pissed, reciting Monty Python quotes, and filming our own episodes of eastenders at silly o’clock in the morning
Dale: I carried the Moon home once when playing in Glasgow (don’t ask) Almost got arrested for doing an action slide over a police car bonnet. I didn’t know they were inside ��
7. 5 favorite movies
Tim: Evil Dead 2.
L,O,T,R extended editions.
Rec. 1 + 2
28 days later.
Dale: Star wars episode 4 – 6
Jay and silent Bob strike back
Transformers the movie original 1986
Ryan: Saving Private Ryan
The Lord of the Rings (extended) Trilogy – that still only counts as one!
Alien vs Predator
Alien
The Big Lebowski
8. Best and worst advice you ever heard.
Best – As long as you’re having fun who cares
Best – don’t eat yellow snow
Worst – Eat yellow snow, it’s lemon flavoured.
9. Strangest thing you ever autographed
Dale: I’ve autographed my mate Rhys’s …. MANGINA
10. If music was over today and you had to go into professional wrestling, what would your wrestling name be?
Ryan: The Red Eyed Jedi
Dale: My wrestling name would be Dale el gran luchador en pantalones no tan ajustados. which in lucha libre style wrestling means Dale the great wrestler in not so tight pants.
Tim: Tim the angry hobbit Jones.
Cheers for taking the time to talk with us.. We have Been Alien Feelings.
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