Piotr Grudziński interview

I had the distinct pleasure of conducting a nicely informal chit-chatty interview with Piotr Grudziński from Riverside last Saturday. The interview was just broadcast on Frans Keylard’s show Rogues Gallery.

It was all great fun and very uninformative. I haven’t done a radio interview in ten years, but as soon as i had the “tape” running, it all came back to me. Just enough edge, just enough laid back. In fact, both Piotr and i were pleased that it was fun not to do another interview around “so what’s the album about” theme. I just wanted to present the band and him for the part of the world which isn’t intimately familiar with the band Riverside, and i think i did okay. In fact, it was Piotr who brought it up after i pressed the stop button.

One thing has changed during ten years though. Back then, i used a recorder (in the Days Of Old, it was a Nagra; later it was a Minidisc). This time i recorded straight into a laptop running Audacity so i could edit it without having to transfer the audio first. Nice. For the next time, i’ve got to get me a USB microphone and a minuscule digital audio recorder, or why not an interview mic with the recorder built in?

You can download the 20′26″ Piotr Grudziński interview (128kb/s vbr mp3) in case you want to hear it (again ).