Steve Stav has an excellent interview with musician Thomas Dolby on his website, Intermittent Signals. Stav says this interview is “in the top three” of his most interesting interviews in his 15 year journalistic career. Here are some choice excerpts:
Windpower And Floating Cities – An Interview With Thomas Dolby By Steve Stav
…My hardcore fan base has known for three, four years that I’ve been working on a new album. For some of them, I think it has been quite frustrating — “Where is it already!!” But by and large, they’ve been very patient. A lot of ’em say, “Hey, we’ve waited for 20 years; we’d rather wait another year and have him get it the way he wants it. I’m not exactly prolific… I was talking to Peter Gabriel the other day, and I told him, “You’re prolific by my standards!”…
…SS: Do you have a date set for the release of the Urbanoia EP?
Dolby: I’m actually not going to release a third EP. I’ve been working on a game with the same title as the album — that’s going to be released very soon.
SS: A game?
Dolby: Yeah, sort of an alternative reality game. Free, on the web. Instead of the EP, if you want to hear music from Urbanoia, you’ll have to discover it within the game. The game involves my entire catalog — it contains every item, character, every location named in every song I’ve ever written. It’s going to be very exciting, I think, for hardcore fans… and, from a marketing perspective, the goal is to turn some of my ‘casual’ fans into hardcore fans, to convert some of the former into the sort of nutjobs that get on the Flat Earth Society pages — and I mean that in the most affectionate way (chuckles)…
It will be on thomasdolby.com, and it won’t require any software download; it’s in a web browser…
Complete interview is here.
