I had a really great chat with Zach from Portugal. The Man a little while back. Their new album, ‘In The Mountain In The Cloud’ is now streaming on YouTube. I’ll start you off with So American!
Tag: Portugal. The Man
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Culture Cafe: 21/04/2011
Episode 51.This was Judgement Day, well according to the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. For me it was Gremlins in the system and I had to play my music and interviews from my netbook. Then my netbook crashes. Typical.
Two hours after I finished this show though, DCU Media Production Society, which DCUfm is a part of, won Best Society in a large college. The Best Society in Ireland. This is an absolutely amazing feat and I’m delighted and proud to be a part of it.
Here’s what happened on the show:
1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads:
2. Storyfold: Trick of Light
3. Brother: Homesick (This week’s Recommended Free Legal Download available from acidlove.net)
4. Art Brut: Lost Weekend
5. Manic Street Preachers: It’s Not War
6. Two Door Cinema Club: I Can Talk
7. Peter, Bjorn & John: Breaker Breaker
8. Interview with Sam from Twin Atlantic
9. Twin Atlantic: Edit Me
10. Interview with Zach from Portugal. The Man
11. Portugal. The Man: The Dead Dog
12. Frankie & The Heartstrings: That Postcard
Ok, it was longer than an hour but I really enjoyed it.Thanks to Twin Atlantic and Portugal The Man.
Thanks to everyone who got in touch and wanted me to ask Sam from Twin Atlantic some more questions. Unfortunately I couldn’t because I recorded the interview earlier in the afternoon. But I promise I will try to get him to answer some more questions.
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Interview with Zach from Portugal. The Man
The new album from Portugal. The Man, Senseless is due out later this Summer. They play their first Dublin gig in The Academy on Saturday April 9th. I caught up with bass player Zach while they were in Germany this week.We love it here (Cologne), it’s always been awesome to us. Usually the day that we get in, there’s a hotel that we really like here that we’ve stayed in since we first started coming to Europe. There’s a music shop nearby and a record store, so we come here and get all the things that we realise that we forgot. We come here to Cologne, stock up and hang out with a few friends just before we go off on a tour.
Portugal The Man have a mountainous back catalogue with E.P.s coming out between albums, meaning there’s always a new release to love forward to. What makes the band so prolific, what is it about you that makes you want to make music so much ?
Honestly, we make a lot of music cos that’s what we do. It’s our job, it’s our hobby, everything that we love to do. We don’t take time off, we pride ourselves on working very hard. John and I are from Alaska and used to build houses and work in warehouses and stuff like that. We’ve had some pretty tough jobs and we’ve always been fans of a work ethic and when it comes to the music we definitely don’t change anything. We feel very lucky, of all the bands in the world trying to do something with it and the fact that we have this chance is pretty amazing and so we didn’t were not going to mess it up. We’re going to work harder at this then we’ve ever had in our lives.