Live music and touring have been on lockdown and fans as well as artists are going through withdrawals. We wanted to come up with something fun to help bridge that distance between fans and artists right now. What we came up with is  something called The Lockdown Lowdown and it’s a Q&A session with fun questions for artists to answer. They’re not your typical interview questions, so it gives you a peek inside of the artists themselves. We’re big music nerds here at I’m Music Magazine and we love learning things like this about the artists that we love. We’re pretty sure that you’ll get a kick out of these, so we hope you’ll take the time to read them. In this installment, we sat down for a fun Q&A session with Christopher Taylor.


How have you been doing during the pandemic and how are you spending your time?

Well it’s been a horrible year on so many levels. I was lucky enough to get in the studio in August last year so was able to record 3 singles with friends at the Animal Farm Studio. So a lot of writing and bit of other stuff like recording covers each day throughout June for social platforms. But really really really missed playing live.

What can you tell us about the new music?

Yep of the 3 I’ve just referred they have all been released since last November with the last one ‘By My Side’ came out 4 June Back in the studio in July for another blast of creativity!

5 albums that changed your life:

Schools Out – Alice Cooper 

Futurama – Be Bop Deluxe

Steve Mcqueen – Prefab Sprout

Maybe you’ve been brainwashed too – New Radicals

August and Everything After – Counting Crows

5 artists that influenced you as a musician:

Alice Cooper

Bill Nelson (Be Bop Deluxe)

Paddy McAloon (Prefab Sprout)

Counting Crows

Madeon

Your 5 favorite live albums:

Frampton Comes Alive

Counting Crows – New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall

Thin Lizzy – Live and Dangerous

Hall and Oates – Live in Dublin

Diana Krall – Live in Rio

Life on the road; 5 of your craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories:

Funny = 1) Fixing van headlights with gaffa tape when stopped by the police and told “Your lights are out and I mean hanging out!!” 2) Sleeping in van and not realising till waking up that the car park we were in was a Saturday market and we were stuck in the middle of loads of stalls 3) Seeing the lead guitarist get a thong thrown at him and it landing around his face from the stage when we were playing a gig with a stripper

Scary = 4) Coming across a crash on the A19 at 1am in the morning and having to help crash victims

Crazy = 5) In digs we were staying at one band rearranged another bands room totally reversing everything and turning everything upside down and fastening stuff to the ceiling!

5 favorite movies:

Field of Dreams

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Jean de Flourette

Lord of the Rings (Counts as 1)

Jurassic Park

Best and worst advice you ever heard:

Best – Procrastination is the thief of time

Worst – Yep that mic is earthed – It wasn’t!!

Strangest thing you ever autographed

A fan’s tummy!

If music was over today and you had to go into professional wrestling, what would your wrestling name be?

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