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 Stone Sea.
1. How have you been doing during the pandemic and how are you spending your time?
We’ve been keeping busy writing songs and brainstorming ideas for music videos, the more we get done in lockdown the quicker we can spring to action, recording new songs and filming music videos.
2. Have you been working on new music?
We’re working on a new album currently, the sooner we can record it, the sooner we can release new music!
3. 5 albums that changed your life
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
Rust In Peace – Megadeth
Welcome to Sky Valley – Kyuss
Fortress – Alter Bridge
Winter’s Gate – Insomnium
4. 5 artists that influenced you as a musician.
We’re hugely influenced by Black Sabbath and Kyuss, but also by Nirvana, Pantera, and Megadeth.
5. Your 5 favorite live albums
S&M – Metallica
Countdown to Extinction: Live – Megadeth
MTV Unplugged in New York – Nirvana
The End (Live) – Black Sabbath
Far From Bootleg – Live from Donnington ’94 – Pantera
6. Life on the road; 5 of the craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories
At one of our gigs, a drunk guy in the audience fell against the lighting desk and snapped all of the cables going into it, plunging the entire room into darkness! We kept playing though, pretty proud of that one!
After a gig in Dublin, we were walking to get food and came across a guy playing trumpet asking for money, so we stayed to watch for a moment. Suddenly, some guy who was totally drunk out of his mind tried to steal the trumpet from the guy playing and we had to help prevent the trumpet player from getting robbed!
We were lucky enough to close the Kasbah Stage at Siege Of Limerick last year, which was absolutely amazing as the room ended up being totally packed! There was one guy at the front who was completely wasted, and was screaming at the top of his lungs for the entire last song of our set. He was surprisingly loud, I could hear him over the drums and my amp!
While travelling, we ended up being on the same bus as another Irish band, thrash metallers Psykosis, which was a pleasant surprise!
We once took part in a battle of the bands style variety competition. I was under the impression it was a rock/metal competition, but the first performance was a flute player who read spoken word poetry between flute pieces. Definitely not what we expected but it was a really interesting night!
7. 5 favorite movies
Star Wars Episode V: Revenge of The Sith
All 3 Lord of the Rings movies one after the other (we’re only counting this as one)
Monsters. Inc
The Room
Pulp Fiction
8. Best and worst advice you ever heard.
Best: “You should study music.”
Worst: “You should play your bass through your guitar amp full volume, it won’t damage the speaker.”
9. Strangest thing you ever autographed
When we played a gig to release our single ‘Seeing Red’ from our most recent EP ‘Mankind Maze’, the guitarist from the opening band, Steiner, asked each of us to sign his guitar. It was actually really nice!
10. If music was over today and you had to go into professional wrestling, what would your wrestling
name be?
I would absolutely go into Lucha Libre style wrestling under the name ‘La Criatura de Cuatro Cuerdas’, which means ‘The Creature with Four Strings’. It sounds a lot cooler in Spanish though…
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