Bands & musicians just love interviews. They just love ’em. Especially the unsigned musicians. Why do musicians love doing interviews for local media so much? Whether doing radio interviews, TV, or on other websites. Musicians love doing them ’cause they think it’s a good opportunity to get more exposure with their music. Plus, they love giving more insight on their careers and music. Personally, I never really liked doing interviews. I don’t mind interviewing other bands for this website, but with my own music, I hate interviews, admittedly.

I did one radio interview back in 2006, and felt kind of weird doing it. I don’t really care for that kind of attention. I think the reason is, that the interviewer will treat you as if you’re some kind of celebrity, when you’re not really. That’s the thing about local media. They like to treat local “musicians” as celebrities. Us local musician aren’t celebrities, we’re human beings. I don’t need to have that, “me, me, me”, kind of attention, know what I mean? It feels kind of weird talking about yourself for like 20 minutes or to an hour, know what I mean? Interviews makes a musician kind of self centered. The interviewer asks a question about you, then you do your best to explain it.

You don’t have to get exposure and do marketing through interviews. You can see if you can be successful and make it without them. So if you get asked for an interview, don’t be afraid to turn them down. I could do an interview if I wanted to, I’m just not a big fan of them. This is why I never did much interviews over the years. I don’t really like talking about what my songs are about and all that stuff. On top of that, I don’t like how my own speaking voice sounds over them (as I admit, I don’t speak too well and could do a little better).

If I wanted to give insight on my music, I can just write all about it here or do it on a videoblog. Maybe I will do an interview for a newspaper if an opportunity ever came up, but a radio interview, I don’t think I’ll do those too much. Interviews are just silly, in my opinion. I do listen to other band interviews, don’t get me wrong. I only listen to interviews if there’s a band that I like.

There are even national bands and solo artists out there that don’t do interviews too much. You don’t have to do interviews if you don’t want to. It’s all up to you.

Kev