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 SKAGS.
1. How have you been doing during the pandemic and how are you spending your time?
Unfortunately, though, due to the Covid pandemic we are not able to get together and start working collectively on our ideas. So, at the moment we are focusing on promoting our existing work and hope that, soon enough, will get back to our rehearsal room and get down to business.
2. Have you been working on new music?
We have already composed material for two more albums and we are looking forward to the ending of the pandemic so that we rehearse it all together and start the recording of our second full album.
3. What are five albums that changed your life?
Dream Theater – Awake
Pink Floyd – The Division Bell
Villagers Of Ioannina City – Age Of Aquarius
Radiohead- OK Computer
Gaia- Mago de Oz
4. Who are five artists that influenced you as a musician?
Neil Peart
David Gilmour
Robert Smith
Matt Bellamy
Niccolo Paganini
5. What are your five favorite live albums?
Deep Purple – Made in Japan
Metallica – S&M
Pink Floyd – Pulse
The Scorpions – Moment of Glory (Live with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)
Guns n Roses: Live Era ’87- ‘93
6. Life on the road; what are five of your craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories
Our first live show, where we were supposed to open for a famous Greek artist but ended up playing after him at midnight with nighttime birds as an audience!
While on tour, after the end of a concert, a fan followed our singer to the toilet, in order to ask for her cellphone number.
7. What are your five favorite movies?
American History X
Requiem For A Dream
Inception
The Black Swan
Lord of the Rings
8. What’s the best and worst advice you ever heard?
Worst – Your sound needs to be more pop-style in order to have more views.
Best – Continue writing songs that are from your heart.
9. What’s the strangest thing you ever autographed?
Fortunately, so far we have autographed only in CDs
10. If music was over today and you had to go into professional wrestling, what would your wrestling name be?
Sotiris – The Mountain
Chris – Drumstick Impaler
Spyretta – The Shrike
Christina – Sleazzy fingerz
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