Post by mynick7 on Dec 24, 2014 2:09:52 GMT -5
Here's the Cliff Notes version of Simon's Kafe:
Do They Know It's Christmas? - 30 year anniversary
*"Proud to be on it and have Duran Duran featured on it." He was one of the first people to be asked to be on it - Simon and Sting. Happy to for the first version...the original.
*He remembers "bumbling out of the car at 9am, hearing Bono sing, Trevor Horn talking."
*Also remembers it being slightly nerve wracking - the scale of the thing with the vast aray of the years best artists. "Mind blowing."
2014
Favorite Album
If You Wait - London Grammar "Very ambient without a lot of rhythm."
Favorite Song(s)
"If You Wait" - London Grammar
"Uts Prutt" - Maarja Nuut
Favorite Concert(s)
Leonard Cohen - "wonderful and spectacular"
Fleetwood Mac
Favorite Film
"The only movies I've seen have been on airplanes."
Cold in July - very violent, "about really bad things" with several plot twists
Favorite TV Show
Happy Valley - "brilliant. "A movement to bring women to the forefront in television."
Favorite Books
Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Orbyn. Never Mind is the first story and it is autobiography of St. Orbyn
Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte; book adapted into the movie The Ninth Gate starring Johnny Depp
Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Flander's Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell
*"I've got away from the Kindle because when I read a book, I like to give it to someone else to read and you can't do that with a Kindle."
*He "tends to read books that has to turn the dust jacket inside so people don't see the picture on the front because it's always embarrassing."
*Simon reads "two at a go" (two at a time)
Best Duran Duran Moment/Event
Fashion Rocks - "Great power. Great kind of attention on the band."
Best Personal Moment
Celebrated his dad's 80th birthday
2015
*Getting the album out and playing shows."
*Guessing album is out in June-July
*"We have too much music. 13 strong songs and have to bring it down to 9 or 10."
*The remaining songs? "Try to use them or will sell them to someone else."
*They do have a title but won't give it away.
Misc
Will be spending Christmas at home.
Do They Know It's Christmas? - 30 year anniversary
*"Proud to be on it and have Duran Duran featured on it." He was one of the first people to be asked to be on it - Simon and Sting. Happy to for the first version...the original.
*He remembers "bumbling out of the car at 9am, hearing Bono sing, Trevor Horn talking."
*Also remembers it being slightly nerve wracking - the scale of the thing with the vast aray of the years best artists. "Mind blowing."
2014
Favorite Album
If You Wait - London Grammar "Very ambient without a lot of rhythm."
Favorite Song(s)
"If You Wait" - London Grammar
"Uts Prutt" - Maarja Nuut
Favorite Concert(s)
Leonard Cohen - "wonderful and spectacular"
Fleetwood Mac
Favorite Film
"The only movies I've seen have been on airplanes."
Cold in July - very violent, "about really bad things" with several plot twists
Favorite TV Show
Happy Valley - "brilliant. "A movement to bring women to the forefront in television."
Favorite Books
Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Orbyn. Never Mind is the first story and it is autobiography of St. Orbyn
Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte; book adapted into the movie The Ninth Gate starring Johnny Depp
Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Flander's Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell
*"I've got away from the Kindle because when I read a book, I like to give it to someone else to read and you can't do that with a Kindle."
*He "tends to read books that has to turn the dust jacket inside so people don't see the picture on the front because it's always embarrassing."
*Simon reads "two at a go" (two at a time)
Best Duran Duran Moment/Event
Fashion Rocks - "Great power. Great kind of attention on the band."
Best Personal Moment
Celebrated his dad's 80th birthday
2015
*Getting the album out and playing shows."
*Guessing album is out in June-July
*"We have too much music. 13 strong songs and have to bring it down to 9 or 10."
*The remaining songs? "Try to use them or will sell them to someone else."
*They do have a title but won't give it away.
Misc
Will be spending Christmas at home.