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 VAYA.
How have you been doing during the pandemic and how are you spending your time?
Hi there, We are well. We are focus on the post production of the second opus so not really affected by the « canceling live performance period ». We are working deeper on structures, colors and more.
Have you been working on new music?
Yes, the second opus started end of 2018 and I am still on it: it is massive! Now we have to move forward with the mastering and the physical version and I am finishing the put down how the first live show will look like.
5 albums that changed your life:
Crystal Ship , The Doors
Paranoid, Black Sabbath
Kid A, Radiohead
Les Nocturnes, Chopin
Fragile, NIN
5 artists that influenced you as a musician:
Jim Morrison
Trent Reznor
Janis Joplin
Depeche Mode
Tchaikovsky
Your 5 favorite live albums:
A Heart Full Of Dreams, Coldplay
The Mutemath Sessions, 21 pilots
Live at Wembley 1986, Queen
Live at the Bowl 1968, The Doors
Woodstock, 1969
Life on the road; 5 of the craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories
1. When the sound engineer left the place before we had to start and then came back for fighting with the guy trying to help us with the sound system
2. When we had to go to one of our hotel. The gps sent us in the middle of nowhere at night
3. When we almost enter in Bielorussia without visa by mistake. We had a hard time to avoid being in jail,
4. Mosquitos, mosquitos, mosquitos, mosquitos!!!!!!!!!
5. When you discover that you have only 30 secondes for the sound check in Canada:D
5 favorite movies:
Philadelphia
Bohemian Rhapsody
Meet the parents
Princess Monoke
Aviator
Best and worst advice you ever heard:
Best= Follow your dreams
Worst= Find a real job!
Strangest thing you ever autographed
Raphael Mtx ( for a preview band): « I had to sign on a girl’s butt.
If music was over today and you had to go into professional wrestling, what would your wrestling name be?
L.O.V.E.
With lot of hugs and kisses
VAYA’S
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