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Isolation Station

with Joanne Ferguson

Interview

Questions & Answers

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  1. What is your name?
    1. Joanne Ferguson
  2. What do you do, for a job or hobby?
    1. I don't work, I'm a carer for my disabled daughter. I like to read, listen to music and go to festivals.
  3. What have you started doing since lockdown that you didn't do before?
    1. I've started drinking a glass of wine ain the evenings.
  4. What piece of advice can you give others in lockdown?
    1. Try look at it as though you're not restrained at home. Use the opportunity to enjoy being at home.
  5. Tell me about the song from when you were 18 years old.
    1. Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash, when I started polytechnic it was a different world and in the halls whenever this came on it was a sign for complete choas and bedlam.
  6. Tell me about the song from when you were a child that you still listen to.
    1. Blackberry Way by The Move, my parents used to say that this was my favourite track as a child.
  7. Tell me about the act/artist you've discovered in the past 12 months.
    1. Boys in the better land by Fontaines DC, I managed to miss them 3 times at Glastonbury last year as you do at Glastonbury. I did get to see them at the end of last year at the Leadmill.
  8. Tell me about a live track that stands out for you, may be from a gig you were at or a gig you wish you were at.
    1. Black Dog Live at Madison Square Gardens by Led Zeppelin, I was not there at Madison Square Gardens in 1973. I would love to have seen them live.
  9. Out of the 10 tracks in your playlist, which 1 track do you really hope people listen too and why?
    1. Levi Stubbs' Tears by Billy Bragg, it's just such a strong track and I just love Billy Bragg.
  10. Can you recommend a book that you love but you think others have not read.
    1. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban.
  11. What are you looking forward to doing most when lockdown is over?
    1. Going to see my mum, she's 80 in June.

Tracklist

  1. Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash
  2. Blackberry Way - The Move
  3. Boys in the better land - Fontaines DC
  4. Black Dog Live at Madison Square Gardens - Led Zeppelin
  5. Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics
  6. Another girl another planet - The Only Ones
  7. Levi Stubbs' Tears - Billy Bragg
  8. Oh England my Lionheart - Kate Bush
  9. Grey Cell Green - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
  10. Sick bed of Cuchulain - The Pogues

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