ALICE NOT JOHN Episode 12: A Fictional Radio Transmission Guest: Erik Heyns (Rivercrest)
ALICE NOT JOHN
Episode 12: A Fictional Radio Transmission
Guest: Erik Heyns (Rivercrest)
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?
Erik Heyns: ‘Beds Are Burning’ by Midnight Oil. As a child, I always asked my dad to put this on whenever I felt like dancing.
2) Which is your favorite shower sing-along song?
‘The Pot Head Pixies’ by Gong. “I am you are we are CRAZY!”
3) What was your favorite song as a teenager?
I had a few, but I’ll choose ‘Who Knows’ by Jimi Hendrix. It was the first time I consciously heard Hendrix, and I was instantly hooked.
4) What is your favorite air-guitar song?
‘The Gates of Delirium’ by Yes. Letting loose to over-the-top prog rock, wonderful.
5) Which song do you associate with your 20s?
‘Windowlicker’ by Aphex Twin. I knew him from ‘Ambient Works Vol. 1’, and when I bought this EP (with music video), I was an instant super fan, and still am to this day.
6) From which song do you know the lyrics by heart?
‘Get a Room’ by Jim O’Rourke. This song is on an album (‘Insignificance’) that is brilliantly crafted from start to finish.
7) Which song gives you consolation when you feel sad?
‘Tres Hermanos’ by Hermanos Gutierrez.
8) Tell me about a song you think people wouldn’t expect you to like.
‘Everywhere’ by Fleetwood Mac. I think this one also sticks with me from my childhood. It definitely gives me a weird, nostalgic feeling when I hear it.
9) Which song do you recommend to people if you think they don’t know it?
‘The Unreachable’ by Mauro Pawlowski & The Grooms. From the album ‘Black Europa’. A really strong album.
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.
‘Moa Ven Toh’ by Will Tura. I didn’t understand a word of it. Turns out the guy was rapping in West Flemish about New York. Probably the weirdest song ever to come out of Flemish showbiz.
11) Which song always makes you do silly dance moves?
‘Willie The Pimp’ by Frank Zappa.
12) Which song do you quote most often? Which line?
I don’t quote often, but I think this is worth quoting (from Tom Waits’ ‘Misery Is The River Of The World’):
“If there’s one thing you can say about mankind
There’s nothing kind about man
You can drive out nature with a pitchfork
But it always comes roaring back again”
Joeri Bruyninckx
