Our Triple M Sydney Competition Winner - Hayley and her story of traveling with The Dead Daisies Part one: The Music Experience READ THE FULL STORY HERE - bit.ly/1rxuG6m Two weeks ago, I’m in the uni library writing some philosophical nonsense on decoding texts for an English literature assessment. I’m listening to David Bowie (Official) to spark my imagination ‘Rebel Rebel’ is interrupted when my headphones near deafen me from an incoming call. I race outside to take this unknown number whilst bracing the stink-eye from fellow students - my phone interrupting their studies. “Hi it’s Sophie from Triple M, can you make yourself available this afternoon for a panel interview for ‘The Music Experience’ competition you entered?” Four days later I am on a flight to St. Louis to meet The Dead Daisies. I guess you could say my first meet with The Dead Daisies was what I expected, their music pedigrees so impressive that I can barely contain myself with the thousand questions racing through my mind. We meet over a few beers in St. Louis and I am introduced to the band intermittently as they stroll in. Meeting a band at the end of their tour is hardly when they are in their prime. Jon Stevens is reserved but accommodating, Dizzy Reed I cant really understand as he mumbles back at my attempts to make banter. They retreat to do laundry on their day off, how Rock n Roll. Marco Mendoza Fan Page needs new eyeliner and I am invited to go with him, of course I accept. Its my first day of this music experience and I am shopping with Marco Mendoza. At the Chanel counter and every counter thereafter, he has people basking in his charisma. He is an intense character, engaging and full of energy. I soak it up and we chat for hours. I tell him he looks like Edward Scissorhands and we laugh. On the way back from the mall we get out of the cab and he says to the driver Do I get the 10% Californian discount? the driver looks confused. At dinner I am invited to go over and meet David Lowy. We chat about my career aspirations and my home-town and he is receptive to me. I see his eyes darting around at the band as we speak, he doesnt miss a trick.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 01:59:13 +0000
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