I am a huge Bright Eyes fan and so with two new songs on the horizon and I got in touch with Robb, the owner of Bright Eyes Record company, and who i know peripherally, and asked him to have a word with Conor for me. Robb said that he would.
Then I went onto myspace and left this message:
“Good morning Conor. My name is Iman Lababedi and I run a music blog called rock nyc.
I’ve written about Bright Eyes and your various other bands (some might claim) incessantly. And wrote a post calling Wide Awake the best album of the 00s.
I haven’t always been positive but in the end I think you are the best songwriter of your generation.
With the upcoming Bright Eyes songs (I download “Happy Accident” yesterday and it really is a pleasure) I was wondering if I could do an interview with you for my website.
I don’t know if youre in NYC -Im guessing not. But we could do it over the phone or on line (to be honest, I love on line because I LOATH transcribing interviews)
Anyway, Im sure you’re a busy guy so if you can thanks, and if you cant ill forgive you.
This was the reply I got.
Hi Iman, Gabe here with Conor’s management. Not doing any press on this particular release. In the future, check in with Press Here publicity regarding interviews:
glad you are enjoying the new songs, i am too!
Hardly a shocker but interesting mechanism there. When you step forward there is a world of people surrounding you. As it happens my friend Inge Colson works for Press Here and I was aware Press Here handled Monsters Of Folk but didn’t pursue further at that time because a) we were much smaller six months ago and b) I wasn’t a big enough fan to want to handle for an interview.
So I guess we will see the next time round.