Interviewing a band can be quite a boring
experience for both the band and the listener. This is mainly because the band
have usually been asked all the same questions beforehand, and there’s nothing
really new to stimulate them.
The listener gets a bit bored because,
unless you’re a big fan of the band, the ‘route most travelled’ is strewn with cliché
and predictability.
So, how do you interview a famous band and
give it a different angle?
That was the challenge that Danish comedian
Brian Mørk had when interviewing Coldplay in Denmark recently.
First off, Brian is pretty famous in
Denmark with his own TV shows and a great stand-up career. He used to write for the
morning show at Radio 100 I seem to remember.
He’s a creative guy, so his technique to
shape the interview via quoting Tweets about the band is a great vehicle. Might have
been done before maybe, but I’ve not seen a whole interview done like this .
It works really well, and you can see how
the band seem to really enjoy the process as it unfolds. (Apart from Guy on the end who never says anything in interviews anyway)
The technique creates some really great moments as you'll see, and
it’s nice how the flow of the interview shifts from 'funny' to 'genuinely insightful' time and time again.
Being for the Danish market, you can swear
as much as you like as they don’t really care about that over there. And the
content is pretty liberal (‘Raping dogs’ for example!). Not sure Jonathan Ross would get away with that these days. Not since... well... you know...
Finally, before I urge you to watch the
whole thing... remember that English is a second language for Brian. So hats off
to his laid back style, his genuine humour, and his ability to pull off a great
bit of TV.
He’s done a better job than a lot of British TV hosts could have
done.
Enjoy...
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