Alex Zane: "Scouting For Girls are starting to grate a little bit"
Orange unsignedAct continues to crush bands' dreams for our entertainment every weekend, bless its little heart. I spoke to Alex Zane about the show, Burt Reynolds and his approach to to playing Scouting For Girls records.
Hello Alex Zane. In this day and age, do bands really need reality TV exposure and a record deal to be successful?
Well, TV is just a different medium for bands to exploit. Bands like Arctic Monkeys used MySpace to launch their careers, and with MySpace you can be presented with a band as you lie in bed hungover on a Sunday morning. Orange unsignedAct does that as well at the moment.
What acts are you a fan of on Orange UnsignedAct ? I quite like Glass Shark, we've played them on the office stereo recently.
Glass Shark are really nice guys and I thought their song was fantastic. They're out of the competition now though - they had other stuff bubbling under already for them, and acts on the show have to remain completely unsigned. They chose that option rather than to continue with the TV show.
There's a great guy called Tommy Riley, from Glasgow. He's a singer-songwriter with a passion onstage you don't tend to see much nowadays. He's only about twenty years old but he swallows all the atmosphere in a room and spits it back out. I love Hip Parade as well, they're a really good rock n' roll band.
Jolly good. Now, Orange is clearly the best mobile phone network in the galaxy.
I've heard that too.
If you were to enjoy an Orange Wednesday, who would it be with and what film would you go to see?
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