A Barenaked Wonderland
Time: 19.45 2 December 2004
Place: Dressing Room, Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK

THE INTERVIEW - hidden extras!

You thought it was all over... well, nearly, but not quite!

Here are some *ahem* outtakes from the interview - these are the first few questions that we asked, and I missed from the transcript due to, uh, technical difficulties...

[Nic was handing round presents, the band had all grabbed a parcel:]
Kevin: I've got mine, I’m really excited!
Shaun: Does it rattle?
Kevin: It rattles a little bit.
Steve: Mine doesn’t. Can I guess? Am I allowed to guess?
Shaun: You can try!
Steve: It's... not a book... it could be a dvd or it could be candy, I think its either a dvd or something to eat.
Kevin: I think mine is the head of a small rodent

Watch this clip

Nic: There are mince pies as well…. No nuts.
Steve: You understand our expectations are high since the chocolate cake of last time!
Nic: I think they're good.
Steve: Good
Ed: Did you make them?
Nic: My mum made them.

What made you release a Christmas album rather than just a single
Ed: We had so many original songs, I think when we started writing for this we thought we might get a song or two, we ended up with a bunch and quickly had seven original songs which was too much for an EP but not enough for a full record so we set up the single mike and did a bunch of one-takers like I Saw Three Ships, Sleigh Ride and all that... [eating pies] These are delicious!
Steve: We're used to making albums when we do recordings, not just one song and also we thought we had a full album anyway. And then with the one-takers that Ed is talking about, we treated them like it was a live show with the one mic acoustic setup - like we did on the peep show and the last tour.
Shaun: (to Steve) And you did this at your house in the summer? Did you dress it up to make it like Christmas?
Kevin: Very minimally, yeah. We had lights up in the control room.
Shaun: Did you have Turkey?
Kevin: Yes, on the last day we had turkey.
Can we open our presents now?!

So them were the outtakes!

Here's the final clip
it's Steve talking about fans trusting the band.

It really is 'Fin' now.

©2004 Copyright Nic Blackmore and Shaun Greening