May 7, 2009

  • If you've been following my blog, you know that Meg & Dia is one of my most favorite bands out there, and has recently released their newest album "here, here and here." Being that they are a relatively unknown band, the album "only" made 103 on the Billboard top 200 chart on it's debut week, although they did make no.1 on the Billboard "top heatseekers" chart. Getting the word out to people is what's important for the album to do even better, which is why the promotional machine for it is still rolling, and us fans have been benefiting from it. Along with the small Hot Topic tour they are doing starting this weekend, performing at "the Strand" in Huntington Beach on May 16th, and being a part of the 2009 Van's Warped Tour, they most recently had a live video chat and performance on SheTV with SugarHooker via Stickam. Of course I joined the chat room to see the interview and performance, and several of the "boardies" also represented our fandom.

    I've never participated in any of these live streaming video chat band interview things, and it was really great. They performed several songs in acoustic (Black Wedding, Agree To Disagree, and Inside My Head - Dia actually forgot the lyrics for one of the verses), and while the video stream was a little choppy, the audio was perfect. "SugarHooker" and us fans asked the band questions, and as far as interviews go, this one was very entertaining and informative. They did use one of my questions as well; and I thought it was hilarious how it was read verbatim exposing my typing mistake (at least the band laughed at my silliness). There were a lot of good dialogue from this interview and some contests to win prizes (I should have won, but had a brain fart on one of the trivia questions). There were also some hilarity from those of us in the chat room talking up a storm to each other. I believe the viewership count was near 1000 at one point, and the chat box just kept scrolling up so fast that it was starting to be difficult keeping track on what everybody was saying. All in all, it was fun times indeed.

    You can watch a good chunk of the interview in the link below, even if the archived video only covers 2/3rd of the whole thing (maybe they'll put the rest up later?).
    http://www.stickam.com/viewMedia.do?mId=183816451

    p.s. if you are a curious about what my question was, it went like this as I wrote it....
    "SugarHooker, can you ask them if they are going to perform "Fighting For Nothing" or "Here, Here and Here" at their upcoming shows? Those are amazing shows, and I thank them for creating them."
    "Songs not shows."
    "Amazing SONGS. Man I embarrass myself."