ALICE NOT JOHN Episode 10: A Fictional Radio Transmission Guest: Ben Fery (Hiatus)
ALICE NOT JOHN
Episode 10: A Fictional Radio Transmission
Guest: Ben Fery (Hiatus)
Host: Joeri Bruyninckx
A conversation I overheard in a record store:
Customer: “Do you have Coltrane?”
Record shop owner: “In the jazz section.”
Customer: “I mean Alice, not John.”
Record shop owner: “In the jazz section.”
ALICE NOT JOHN is the name of a fictional radio show. The idea is this: for every episode, I ask a musician the same 12 questions. The answers I receive are the “playlist” of my fictional radio show. The questions are these:
1) Which song always brings you back to your childhood?
Ben Fery: ‘Le zizi’ by Pierre Peret.
2) Which is your favorite shower sing-along song?
‘Hell Awaits’ by Slayer.
3) What was your favorite song as a teenager?
‘You Suffer’ by Napalm Death.
4) What is your favorite air-guitar song?
‘You Suffer’ by Napalm Death.
5) Which song do you associate with your 20s?
‘Can’t Truss It’ by Public Enemy.
6) From which song do you know the lyrics by heart?
‘You Suffer’ by Napalm Death.
7) Which song gives you consolation when you feel sad?
‘A Hell on Earth’ by Discharge.
8) Tell me about a song you think people wouldn’t expect you to like.
‘Sharp Dressed Man’ by ZZ Top.
9) Which song do you recommend to people if you think they don’t know it?
Warm Leatherette by The Normal.
10) ‘Wonderful Tonight’ by Eric Clapton is a break-up song (about a couple who decide not to tell their friends they just broke up because they don’t want to spoil a party they’re planning to go to). Strangely enough, this song often gets played as the opening song at weddings. Tell me about a song you misunderstood when you first heard it.
‘All Night Long’ by Lionel Richie: I thought he was singing the chorus in French, saying, “en Thaïlande, en Inde, en Inde, en Thaïlande, en Inde…”
11) Which song always makes you do silly dance moves?
‘Y.M.C.A.’ by Village People.
12) Which song do you quote most often? Which line?
‘Gut Feeling’ by Devo.
Joeri Bruyninckx
