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SoS EXCLUSIVE: Our Interview with Sam Bradley
L to R: "Amber, Mark, Jeff, LiLi, Dave and Sam
We’ve been talking about it for the past week, and we finally got it done!!
LiLi and I were reunited for the Sam Bradley and The Men show in Dallas on Nov. 21, and we got the chance to sit down with Sam and fellow Men, Jeff and Dave, to talk about music, life and Sabers. It was kind of awesome, even though I giggled like a little school girl and LiLi made inappropriate jokes. [Li Li edit-- yeah, I word vomited. Bad.] Jen, AKA Garnet Gurl, our official photog, took plenty of pictures so that we could remember these happy/embarrassing moments forever. Yeah, that’s how we roll…
So, we bring to you, our very exclusive, very hilarious, interview with Sam Bradley!
Places to Play
Amber: Well, we’re talking about places to play, what is your favorite place so far?
Sam: I don’t know. Mmm… what was a good show? Last night [Houston] was a pretty good show.
Dave: Chicago was an awesome city.
Sam: Minneapolis, Minneapolis that was Rams Head? No, that was Annapolis.
Dave: Varsity was Minneapolis.
Sam: Oh yeah, yeah. Minneapolis.
Amber: Minneapolis?
Sam: No, that was good.
LiLi: Is that just cause it was a cool set up, the fans or what?
Sam: No, no, for me…
Jeff: We played better.
Laughing
Amber: I like that reasoning.
Sam: And also, I don’t think there were many people who came out to see us. And so, and we won over a crowd that was completely unaware of us.
LiLi: That’s cool.
Amber: Oh, wow.
Sam: So that was really good. It’s a good feeling when that happens.
Amber: That’s pretty cool.
LiLi: Now where would you like to play that you haven’t? Like have y’all looked around to play?
Dave: He said oh.
Amber: Pssh. Oklahoma City.
Dave: I want to go down to Florida.
Sam: Yeah, we haven’t done Florida.
LiLi: At all?
Collective no
After the Tour/”Fake” Sam Bradley
Amber: So after the tour. What are you guys thinking after the tour?
Sam: We’re recording an album. We may be planning a Canadian tour, but we are not sure yet. And I know we are going to record an album starting hopefully in January.
LiLi: Where y’all going to do that at?
Sam: We don’t know.
Amber: So y’all are going to all record an album versus just, like you are going to record with The Men?
Sam: I am going to record with The Men.
Amber: Cool.
LiLi: Why “the Men”?
Jeff: I don’t know. Don’t ask.
LiLi: Everybody was like, “What are we going to call ourselves? The Men.”
Jeff: It was available.
Sam: It was available?
Laughs
LiLi: Did y’all go to BandNames.com and it was like “the men, the men.”
Laughs
Amber: Awesome. Since y’all are new on Twitter, how are y’all, how has that been?
Dave: You should talk to Mark.
Jeff: Yeah, he’s the one that updates.
Amber: Mark. Is Mark the one doing it?
Jeff: Yeah. He’s really strange.
Dave: He’s taken to it.
Amber: Do you guys get it? Cause a lot of people I talk to are like “I’m on Twitter, but I don’t get it.”
Laughs
Jeff: We’ve been told that it sounds like a retarded robot.
LiLi: Are you kidding me? I love it. I’m like, Yes! I pretty much look forward to your tweets. I’m like yes. Oh there’s another one. I’m like yes. Anybody see that? But now to you [Sam], cause you actually do more tweets or whatever. Have you noticed that there is a fake you?
Sam: Yeah, yeah. I heard about that.
LiLi: And what do you think about that?
Sam: Well, I read it.
LiLi: Well, what do you think about that, cause you know you haven’t made it until you have a faker. I’m waiting for me to get a fake.
Sam: I think that’s great. No, it’s good that there is a fake me, however it’s when people think its me doing the fake me, that’s a little annoying. Like I know lots of people that think its just me pretending cause they think I have a lot of time.
Jeff: Is it friendly?
Sam: No, no it’s not bad.
Amber: No, it’s not.
Sam: No, its not bad at all.
LiLi: No, its just whoever is doing it sometimes likes to get dirty.
Sam: It’s like when I was in the Philippines, it [tweeted] “Oh nothing quite like a Manila sunrise.”
Hand gestures, drinking contests and whole lotta pics after the jump…
Bobby Live on WXPM in Philly!
You may have seen the tweets about Bobby being on the radio in Philly, and a quick search around on YouTube and I found the interview! Woot!!
Bobby talks about being on tour and playing for as many people as possible, what he thinks of America and plays Who Have You Been Loving.
Bobby is most likely coming to a town near you! Be sure to check out tour date page to see where you can see him, cause you do not want to miss him!
Kudos to TACeline for recording this and putting it out there for us!
Sam Says He Rushed & New Marcus Videos!
Do these 2 things have anything to do with one another? No. But hey, we are posting something so you are happy, right? Right!! (P.S. Lots of stuff going on behind the scenes. Don’t think we’ve just forgotten about you all!)
First up… Sam!
Sam tells ChartAttack that he felt a bit rushed in putting out his first EP, and only put out 6 of the 16 songs he recorded:
“Although I had an audience before, this was obviously a far greater one,” he says. “I was going to make an album probably two or three months later. I was ready to be heard but I maybe wasn’t ready to record.”
“I believed in the songs so much and I didn’t feel that all of them had reached their potential,” he says. “I definitely felt the need to release something. I feel like once you release something you can’t really release it again… I picked six songs that displayed some diversity and showed a little light and dark as far as the subject matter and vocal performance goes.”
You can read the entire article here.
And…
Two new videos of Marcus from Ronnie Scotts in London. Gah! Is it December yet?!?
Thanks to Katie via BritPack Dreams for the heads up on these!
So, are you going to see Sam, Marcus or Bobby while they are on tour?!? Of course you are! And we would love, love, LOVE it if you shared your pictures,videos and concert experiences with us. Just email us at shackofsoul@hotmail.com!
High-larious New Interview with Sam
Photo: jameskachan.com
Stumbled across this little gem of an interview today and had to share. Vehem Magazine selected one Mr. Bradley as their Breakthrough Artist and had a chance to sit down with him in Nashville. I pretty much laughed through the whole thing and wish it could have gone on longer (that’s what she said). Here are my fave questions but please, please go read the whole thing for yourself. TRUST.
VM: What is your kryptonite?
S: Toilet Paper for without that…
VM: To unwind, what do you do?
S: There is a real answer… But what I’ll say is have a cup of tea.
VM: Tell me something most people don’t know about you.
S: I’m a Virgin.
Read all the rest of the hard-hitting questions and answers here.
Now, don’t you know by now that Sam is hilar?? You should be following him AND The Men on Twitter….they provide gold my friends. Twitter gold.
Adorb Marcus Interview!
A new interview with Marcus Foster has been uncovered! The vid, posted by Clem Cayrol, is a mix of sit down interview style questions, spliced with clips from his recent show at Arlene’s Grocery in NYC. He talks about everything from acquiring new new instruments, riding the Greyhound cross-country and how being in America makes him say stupid stuff. The whole thing is pretty hilar!
Makes you all the more anxious to see where he is going to be playing this winter, huh?? Fingers crossed those dates get announced soon!
Don’t forget– those of you lucky enough to be in London have the opportunity to see Marcus this Sunday in Notting Hill.
Amber
Li Li
