I’m not an early bird. 10:30am is preferable. Wake up, lay there for a while thinking about stuff, get my lappy and check my email or read some book. Maybe make some breakky and coffee and then back to bed with the lap top. You could say I like a relaxing morning 
But when you’re asked to interview an awesome musician you just have to say yes. Even if its at 6:30am when all sensible people should be asleep or just thinking about going to sleep 
So having been the first time I’d done a phone interview, I was a bit stressed and nervous. I mean I didnt want to ask a stupid question and sound like a fool. So the night before I was up till like 1am researching and getting my questions right. When you need to wake up at 5am to warm your voice up, going to sleep at 1ish is not a good idea. Im so not the kinda person to function well on 4 hours of sleep. My brain just says NO.
So I woke up at 4:58am without my alarm going off. The internal clock is still working well. Must have been all those 5am starts I did when I worked up north on mines (ewwwwww!!). Jumped in the shower to wake my self up, cooked some porridge, made some coffee and all the while doing this I was doing my vocal warm ups. Hopefully the neighbors couldnt hear me making random noises at 5am.
I was SO nervous when my mobile finally rang. My brain had a little shut down – You know how in the movies when the power goes out and then backup power system is triggered? (Think some important government office) You know how the emergency power system doesnt power everything? Only a percentage of whats needed? Well that’s what my brain was like after 4 hours of sleep and the stress of doing my first phone interview. I just didnt wanna stuff it up ok?
My questions were all ready to go thank god. I was worried I wouldnt have enough but it turned out I had more than I needed. So yeh, 15 minutes goes really fast your interviewing people!
But all went well. My phone did its job recording the interview and the transcription should be on Teknoscape soon
