The Times tomorrow will know what to do…
Tomorrow’s
There’s also a piece regarding the exclusive BowieNet/Secret Machines interview podcast that we first told you about a few weeks ago.
The ‘Newspaper Of The Year’ will be taking the DB/SM interview to an even larger audience with its regular weekly online podcast feature, which you can reach by clicking on the image above.
Here’s the blurb from The Times Online page…
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David Bowie with Secret Machines
This week’s podcast departs from our usual formula to feature David Bowie interviewing Secret Machines, the New York-based band Bowie has tipped for success in 2006.
Secret Machines discuss landing on their feet in New York City, the first generation of synthesizers, filling concert venues with noise and their excitement at being made single of the week in The Sun.
Bowie calls Secret Machines live “a great experience, one of the best live bands I’ve seen for a long, long time.” Listen in to hear the band talk about how their gruelling touring schedule has changed their lives, what it felt like covering The Beatles and also to hear exclusive tracks from their new album, Ten Silver Drops.
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The new Secret Machines interview inside the paper, above, has much Bowie content…here are a few excerpts…
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He loves the young Americans
Secret Machines are being tipped for the top by a new chum ? David Bowie. Martin Aston shares their joy
When Secret Machines were mixing their second album in West London last year, the trio grabbed at their record label Reprise?s suggestion to stay at the K. West hotel. Now, we?re not talking of Holland Park or even Kensington, but behind the monolith that is Shepherds Bush Shopping Centre. Aficionados of David Bowie cover art will, however, understand. For above Bowie?s head on the Ziggy Stardust sleeve, on the wall, is an illuminated sign ? K. West.
Alas, neither geography nor history was on their side. ?The sign?s gone now,? laments Brandon Curtis, the band?s diminutive vocalist and keyboardist, and his bandmates ? his bass-playing brother Ben and drummer Josh Garza ? look similarly crestfallen. ?And so has the phone booth. Anyway, the street wasn?t round here; it was off Regent Street. We went there to check it out.? (Blammo Note: They were looking for the wrong K WEST. See my original news story from 2002:
David Bowie, it transpires, has in turn been checking out Secret Machines. One of his missives on www.davidbowie.com made no bones about it: ?The great news this week is that the Secret Machines have finished their new album and I hope to get a copy shortly. This may be my band for 2006. You read it here, Sunshine.?
The chummy relationship was cemented last week when Bowie?s website launched its first podcast ? a Secret Machines interview by the man himself. The band were gobsmacked; after all, they grew up in Dallas in the 1980s with copies of Bowie?s Greatest Hits before trawling backwards to discover albums such as the ?Berlin? trilogy ? Low, Heroes and Lodger.
?You?re in a band,? says Brandon, ?and this artist who?s had such an impact is taking the time to say he likes us enough to interview us; it?s such an honour.? He laughs. ?It also adds to our level of notoriety, like, ?These guys know David Bowie!? ? The band variously describe him as ?very sharp? and ?intimidating? ? as well he might be, given his influence on the group.
Ben: ?Bowie makes records that are about quality. He?s not like Led Zeppelin, caught up in the notion that they?re a blues band, or Floyd, thinking they are intellectual. Bowie isn?t caught up in trying to describe himself. We love how he never tells you what he?s thinking.?
The Bowie association can only help (his 2005 tip was the Arcade Fire, so he can be trusted), especially as they have discussed recording an album together, ?on the spot, no rehearsals even?.
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I think that last line may set the cat among the pigeons, but before you ask…I know nothing! You can read the complete Times Online interview with Secret Machines