The Mark Lawson interview

[hunter]

I'm sure you've all watched this, but I just encourage you to watch it again. I think it's probably the best Mark has done. Great questions, and Mark is really in the mood for talking.


https://vk.com/video74313997_164948555


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[quizzaciously]

I'm sure you've all watched this, but I just encourage you to watch it again. I think it's probably the best Mark has done. Great questions, and Mark is really in the mood for talking.


https://vk.com/video74313997_164948555


Edit: Fixed link font size. Don't know what's up with this forum software; when I copy links and paste them, the font size gets very small.

Yes, one of the best, if not the best interview with Mark. It's longer than a HARDtalk interview, and nearly any other interview, and it's perfectly recorded, almost like a movie, so you can see the emotions. The journalist knows what he's doing, and the questions are top-notch. Also helps a big deal that the host is British as well. To go from asking about talent shows to going to synagogue is a wide range of questions indeed. Family, politics, childhood, music, everything.

[hunter]

Yes, it was nice watch it again. In my mind, I seemed to remember that Lawson pushed Mark harder on the topic of David, and that Mark got very uncomfortable, but this wasn't really the case. It's not exactly Mark's favorite subject, but he handled the question pretty well I think.

[quizzaciously]

Yes, it was nice watch it again. In my mind, I seemed to remember that Lawson pushed Mark harder on the topic of David, and that Mark got very uncomfortable, but this wasn't really the case. It's not exactly Mark's favorite subject, but he handled the question pretty well I think.

I think Mark gets uncomfortable just talking. In general

[dustyvalentino]

Yes, it was nice watch it again. In my mind, I seemed to remember that Lawson pushed Mark harder on the topic of David, and that Mark got very uncomfortable, but this wasn't really the case. It's not exactly Mark's favorite subject, but he handled the question pretty well I think.

There was another interview, Hardtalk, where the interviewer went further about David.

[hunter]

Yes, it was nice watch it again. In my mind, I seemed to remember that Lawson pushed Mark harder on the topic of David, and that Mark got very uncomfortable, but this wasn't really the case. It's not exactly Mark's favorite subject, but he handled the question pretty well I think.

There was another interview, Hardtalk, where the interviewer went further about David.

Ah, maybe I mixed the two. Need to try to find the HardTalk one.

[dustyvalentino]

I shared a DVD I made at the time, let me know if you can't find it and I'll upload it somewhere.

[Robson]

Great. Thank you for the reminder.

[rmarques821]

Yes, it was nice watch it again. In my mind, I seemed to remember that Lawson pushed Mark harder on the topic of David, and that Mark got very uncomfortable, but this wasn't really the case. It's not exactly Mark's favorite subject, but he handled the question pretty well I think.

Funnily enough, he was much more brutal in the ML interview than the BBC hardtalk one. Here he essentially said his brother was crap at playing guitar and he didn't want to bother teaching him.

[Pottel]

is mark lawson related to Nigella?

[dustyvalentino]

No. Nigella is the daughter of former Conservative Chancellor Nigel Lawson.

[hunter]

Yes, it was nice watch it again. In my mind, I seemed to remember that Lawson pushed Mark harder on the topic of David, and that Mark got very uncomfortable, but this wasn't really the case. It's not exactly Mark's favorite subject, but he handled the question pretty well I think.

Funnily enough, he was much more brutal in the ML interview than the BBC hardtalk one. Here he essentially said his brother was crap at playing guitar and he didn't want to bother teaching him.

He was kind of hinting at John Illsley too not being very advanced musically. Which lines up with what Pick said during his string of interviews last year or the year before, that both John and David had pretty elementary skills. I can actually hear it from shows during the BIA and OES tour. John really isn't a great musician, and I'm even surprised Mark let him stay that long. I know they're good friends, but still. Musically John must have been a hindrance.

[dustyvalentino]

Yes, it was nice watch it again. In my mind, I seemed to remember that Lawson pushed Mark harder on the topic of David, and that Mark got very uncomfortable, but this wasn't really the case. It's not exactly Mark's favorite subject, but he handled the question pretty well I think.

Funnily enough, he was much more brutal in the ML interview than the BBC hardtalk one. Here he essentially said his brother was crap at playing guitar and he didn't want to bother teaching him.

He was kind of hinting at John Illsley too not being very advanced musically. Which lines up with what Pick said during his string of interviews last year or the year before, that both John and David had pretty elementary skills. I can actually hear it from shows during the BIA and OES tour. John really isn't a great musician, and I'm even surprised Mark let him stay that long. I know they're good friends, but still. Musically John must have been a hindrance.

You don't really need to be a musicoligist to work out that John was limited musically. In the early days I think that was a benefor though, those simple lines on something like Six Blade Knife fit perfectly.

[dmg]

Yes, it was nice watch it again. In my mind, I seemed to remember that Lawson pushed Mark harder on the topic of David, and that Mark got very uncomfortable, but this wasn't really the case. It's not exactly Mark's favorite subject, but he handled the question pretty well I think.

Funnily enough, he was much more brutal in the ML interview than the BBC hardtalk one. Here he essentially said his brother was crap at playing guitar and he didn't want to bother teaching him.

He was kind of hinting at John Illsley too not being very advanced musically. Which lines up with what Pick said during his string of interviews last year or the year before, that both John and David had pretty elementary skills. I can actually hear it from shows during the BIA and OES tour. John really isn't a great musician, and I'm even surprised Mark let him stay that long. I know they're good friends, but still. Musically John must have been a hindrance.

You don't really need to be a musicoligist to work out that John was limited musically. In the early days I think that was a benefor though, those simple lines on something like Six Blade Knife fit perfectly.

Got to be honest and say I'm not a fan of Worf's live playing - he just seems to be playing a different tune all on his own sometimes and it's distracting.  I always thought John Illsley read Mark's playing like a book and offered the best bass lines to accompany it.  It's certainly my opinion that like children a bassist should be seen and not heard!

[ds1984]

I like both bassist, for different reasons.

It was great to hear John back in 2002.