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Tea and cake with the Barenaked
Ladies Once again Barenaked-bar and ImpulsiveCompulsiveInsane were lucky enough to meet up with Barenaked Ladies at the end of their Everything to Everyone UK tour (April-May 2004). We spent about an hour chatting to Ed and Steve about the tour and the album, chocolate cake, chimps, Ali G and porn star names. Incredible what you can get through in an hour with two Barenaked Ladies! Shaun and Nic arrived at the hotel foyer of a wonderfully posh London hotel on Friday 7th May – I was a bit concerned that I'd be turned away at the door for lack of poshness! As it was, Shaun nearly left before he’d arrived when he got hypnotised by the beautiful glass and china display in the revolving door and followed it all the way round. The nicest PR guy in the world met us and we tiptoed through the plushly elegant foyer (it’s the kind of place where you feel like you have to speak in hushed tones and tread quietly!), into the lifts (that’s elevator if you’re reading in N America!) and up to the fifth floor. Then on through a maze of dark blue velvet hallways, golden toned wood panelling and shiny (but tasteful!) gilt to the suite that the band had hired to do their media day interviews in. We both proceeded to gasp and goggle like two country bumpkins at the incredible view from the huge picture window – straight out across the green expanse of Kensington Palace gardens, criss-crossed with paths and dotted with trees, with the landmarks of London on the horizon. Nic produced a huge chocolate cake (homemade by my mum!) from a giant John Lewis carrier bag, swiftly followed by napkins, plates, forks and a cake knife. As Ed commented when he arrived 10 minutes later, “You guys know how to get an interview with us!… “They’ll bring cake” OK! You can have ‘em!” It wasn’t long before we heard the door open, and Steve and Ed arrived in the suite – to be greeted with the sight of the huge cake. This was a wonderful ice-breaker, despite my worries about the incredible un-hipness of taking cake to a rock interview! I figured, if it was me and someone was going to fire questions at me for an hour, I’d want cake! I think Ty summed up the general reaction with: “That looks like good fuckin’ cake! Uh, excuse my language.” So, that’s the blah out of the way – I’m
sure you’re willing me to cut the cake, err, crap and get
on with it… So, the interview is a bit harder to split up
than the previous one, as it turned into more of a general chat
than a Q&A session. I’ve split it into the broad topics
that we covered: As there's a lot of stuff to put up, the separate parts will be put online over the next few days, starting with the UK tour and release of Everything to Everyone. |
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