Letzte Woche hatte ich die Möglichkeit ein Interview mit dem amerikanischen Musiker Ben Folds zu führen. Das Gespräch wird in der neuen Ausgabe (#005) des Sonic Reducers (die am 4. Mai erscheint) in voller Länge enthalten sein. Im Interview spricht Folds über die zurückliegende Euro-Tour, Pläne für ein neues Album, Religion, ’The Bens’, Reinhold Messner und vieles mehr. Hier ein kleiner Vorgeschmack, den Rest gibt’s in der #005:  

Sonic Reducer: You’ll kick off a North American Tour in three days. What have you been up to since your European tour ended in February?
 
Ben Folds: Well, I have been in the studio. Otherwise I have been buying towels, shades and shower-curtains for my house. I just moved. So I’m just doing the most boring domestic housework.
 
Sonic Reducer: What did you think about the European tour?

Ben Folds: Oh, I loved it. I love playing Europe and I don’t get to do it enough. We had a great time. I got some kind of nasty cough some time in the middle of the tour. That made it a challenge, because I had to stay in bed most of the day and then go play and that’s always a drag, but I still loved being there.
 
Sonic Reducer: I was at your concert in Cologne. You said that you were sick, from your performance people probably wouldn’t have noticed.
 
Ben Folds: Well that’s good, that’s what you hope. That’s being a professional hopefully. I just stayed in bed all day long, did what the doc told me and I blew it all out in two hours and then I collapsed back to my hotel-room (laughs)….

Hier noch ein kleiner Liveeindruck von Ben Folds (live in Hamburg am 03. Februar 2007):

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