But the interview was a bit complicated by the fact that their manager had originally told the NMF PR team that they wouldn’t be available for any interviews whatsoever. The PR team stalked them down during their dinner at Blu anyway. We thought we had them talked into it until I pulled out the Flip cam. Then Angel Deradoorian said they’d rather do the interview in their dressing room an hour later.
We went to their dressing room under the Sooner Theatre stage an hour later and found out they were at their hotel instead. So we lined up a mole to call us when they got there.
They finally showed up at 8:00 and we mysteriously showed up five minutes later. Their manager told us to come back in 15. We were almost going to call it quits, but were enjoying our backstage view of The Non’s show so much that we decided to wait it out and give it one last shot.
Upon making our last trek down to their dressing room, totally expecting another letdown, we were excitedly greeted by their manager. He had lined up an interview with drummer Brian McOmber and bassist Nat Baldwin.
Brian and Nat led us to a dressing room, proceeded to put on a wig and a hoopskirt that were randomly hanging on a rack, and kindly offered us a beer. I knew this wasn’t going to be a serious interview. So I threw them generic softballs and ended up with a generic interview. My bad.
To their credit, though, Brian and Nat were extremely nice. Even after I confessed that the NMF PR team drank a good deal of their rider beer (Choc 1919) the night before. They even made a point to say hi when we ran into each other again the next morning at Gray Owl Coffee and pointed out that I had on the same awesome TV on the Radio shirt as a guy in their entourage. Angel, Amber and Haley beamed when I told them they sounded amazing at their show. Now that would have made a great video.
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