Artist Direct Awards. Chat transcript.

On Thursday October 7th, 1999, No Doubt attended the first Artist Direct Award webcasted live on the net! If you missed it, you can still catch it here. No Doubt also got interviewed! Check out a chat transcript of that interview made by ALLOO Yannick and WITKAMP Eddy:

Chris Carter: Chris Carter upstairs: first anual Artist Direct Online Music Award with Tom, Gwen, Tony and Adrian, otherwise known as No Doubt. Hey, what’s happening? What song did you play? Look, you can tell, I couldn’t hear anything, just saw you jumping around. What songs did you playdown there??

Gwen: We did a song called “New”and then we did a song called “Sunday Morning”.

Chris Carter: ...and “New” is from the “Go” soundtrack...

Gwen: exactly.

Chris Carter: So what brings you here tonight? Are you connected to the Artist Direct? Are you fans? Why are you here?

Tom: hum... we love the internet, when we're not making music... well, ok, I do (laughs) the rest of these guys trust me that the internet is a pretty cool new invention so we’re on to it.

Chris Carter: Any other thoughts on that?

Adrian: no

Gwen: (laughs)

Tony: We like to steal governments’ secrets from the Internet, that’s what we use it for.

Chris Carter: Is that right?

Tony: that’s what we do.

Adrian: porno

Tony: ... and porn, the fine porn, but you always have to pay for that.

Chris Carter: You guys want to take a quick phonecall?

Gwen: sure!

Chris Carter: It’s Chris from Toronto online too, Chris are you there?

Chris: Hello?

Chris Carter: Talk to No Doubt, can you hear Chris?

Chris: Hello?

Gwen: Hello!

Chris Carter: Hello Chris?

Gwen: We can't hear you Chris!

Chris: Can't hear anything?

Adrian: uh-uh-uh-uh

Chris Carter: Chris? Scream!

Chris: Hello?

Chris Carter: I can hear you now, go! I'll relay the call!

Chris: Ah, man! This new technology, I don't know... Can you hang on?

Chris Carter: No, we can hear you now, go...

Chris: I'm running, I'm running to another phone, maybe it's the phone, I don't think so

Chris Carter: Oh... for God’s sake...I'll have another question, one that you can hear

Chris: Hello?
Surina from Imperial Beach asks: where do you enjoy performing the most and why?

Adrian: Imperial Beach!

Chris Carter: Imperial Beach, of course!!

Tony: We’ve had some good shows in Europe... We’ve had some amazing shows in Spain..The people in Spain are really passionate. They love to get naked and watch when you play.

Chris Carter: What size crowds did you guys draw in Spain?

Tony: hum...gosh... We played with different size crowds, I guess, we played for 10 people and played for 10 000 people, it's just different

Chris Carter: Wow!... And you said some of them were naked?

Tony: All of them! All of them are naked...

Chris Carter: All of them?
Hello?
Hello? Do we have our phonecaller?? No? OK!
Sean Kelly from Kingsland, Georgia asks who have been your biggest influences in making this record and when do you plan to go on tour with it?
I guess he is talking about the record you are making right now...

Gwen: hum... interesting question...
There are so many influences on this record...
hum... I think that probably, we’ve been listening to a lot of... hum... the Cure throughout the whole making of this album, for some reason

Chris Carter: Really?? What period Cure?

Gwen: The early days, I don’tknow...
We’ve been doing "Jumping Someone Else’s Train" for a cover during this little tour that we’ve been on and... I don’t know, I think that basicly we went out to make a record that we really loved. We want to make a record that we would really like and we want to challenge ourselves try to make a record that could in a way show we are... better songwriters now? Hopefully!

Chris Carter: ... growing and maturing as songwriters...

Gwen: We’re growing and maturing as songwriters. Yeah, that’s basicly what we're doin'...

Chris Carter: And when is it slaited to come out?

Gwen: hum...

Tony: hum... February...hopefully...

Chris Carter: Ferbruary 2000!!!

Tony: 2000, yes!

Chris Carter: That sounds funny, doesn’t it?!

Tony: it does!

Chris Carter: Hey, how is our phonecaller doing? Toronto? Is he gone?... So you work with the great Jim Garanonow right? I knew Jim Garano, God, in the old days you wouldn’t even know the Jim Garano I knew, he was drunk on my floor telling me how great the Rolling Stones were once and ....

Tony: He was drunk in our dressing room, like 5 minutes ago

Chris Carter: Get out of here! I find that hard to believe! How about one more question guys? Timothy from Ireland: do you guys write as a band or individualy, asks Timothy from Ireland?

Tom: hum... We write both as a band and individualy, and this is the first time I must say that Gwen has written a couple of songs all by herself, and there is no...

Chris Carter: Very nice Gwen!

The guys:(applauses)

Gwen: Thank you!

Chris Carter: All by yourself... What’s the name of the songs that you wrote?

Gwen: The one that I wrote by myself are called “Simple Kind of Life” and “Suspension without suspense”.

Chris Carter: Wow... crafty titles...

Gwen: thank you (laughs)

Chris Carter: So.. real quick, this whole marriage of music and the internet which has been really coming into fruision... in the last few years, what are your thoughts on that? I know a lot of new bands find it really great because they can get their stuff out there and a lot of the established bands somewhat get a little nervous about it because you know they are downloading music... What are your thoughts on the whole combo of music and the internet?

Gwen: I think that the really cool part for us is that we’ve always been really involved with our fans, I mean we use to have, you know, mail, all of our mail we used to write back to our fans, and we were always in really close contact so this way is like a direct way to be really really close to our fans and to get like right on it. This whole tour that we’re doing right now was basically... hum... you know, mentioned on the internet and people that knew about it was just because of the internet, so, in that way...yeah?

Tony: Excactly, you’re right!

Chris Carter: There you go! Hey guys, before you go, a big “we love Artist Direct”, huh? There you go!

Gwen: We love Artist...

Chris Carter: ... Direct...

Gwen: ... Direct

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