Now in a position to take the coveted morning short after asking Lauren Laverne, Grimmy tells NME his references of nerd musical
Nick Grimshaw spoke with NME in access to its role as host of the coveted BBC Breakfast program Radio 6 Music Breakfast of Lauren Laverne, as well as for a percentage of its recommendation for the candidate for DJs Radio.
Last year, Laverne saw a break from her radio responsibilities after sharing her cancer diagnosis. Kenickie’s presenter and star announced that she had won the “All Clear” in November, before the New Day Calendar was revealed with her organizing a new exhibition in the middle of the morning and Grimshaw taking breakfast after her mandate for her.
“I just need it to start now,” said Grimshaw, Assembly NME in the 6 music study the week before his new complete program begins. “I did not intend to do it for a week, and I was actually nervous to do it because I like 6 music. I heard it, and listened to Lauren. Given the circumstances, I really wanted to do things for Lauren and for each one like me that connects every day and every day.
“Enjoyment. Before I had a week of nausea, as soon as I started, it was fantastic. They asked me to do some other week, then some other, then added from August to January. It happened naturally, and it was a joy. It was the best “welcome to the radio” for me and the maximum dream way to start one day: listen to 3 hours of incredible music. »
Grimmy: whose career has also realized that he welcomes the BBC Radio 1 breakfast program, Channel Four is recently pressed with Alexa Chung and Jameela Jamil, and the diverted podcast with Annie Mac, said it was a component of the 6 -music relative circle as a “community” than their previous efforts due to the investment of headphones and groups.
“This is the type of radio station where you put it, and you leave it,” he said. “It is made through music fans, and there is a charming curious nature. You need to know more about new music and new artists, but also to be informed of attractive visitors and will invite you to events, exhibitions and movies. It is for a listener who shares the same ideas. “
Discover our full interview with Grimshaw below, where the DJ tells us about his career and his ethics of paintings, the tension of his new role and the way in which “people can say if they don’t like music. “
NME: Hi Nick. Have you seen that other people were possessive and excited by the 6 -music breakfast program when you entered?
Nick Grimshaw: “Yes and no. I think other people were really cozy. The people, who adds me, is very emotionally attached to Lauren because she was the first user you heard in the morning. The morning radio is quite vital because it does not need to jump directly from the bed and in its paintings every day. This can be a life buoy for many other people. If something is adjusted on the morning radio, such as moving another feature of the partial hour, other people would pass crazy. “I can’t do this at 8:10 a. m. instead of 7:50 am!” “
You also throw a grenade in its corn.
“Yes, exactly!” Any replacement on breakfast radius is large because it is in its regime. This is probably the component of the maximum regime of any person: alarm, breakfast, radio, shower. In fact, there was a passionate opinion, but I like 6 because other people care. They see it as their station, as they should. I will have to say that I expected more horses I received. The listeners were cozy and understanding. Everyone holds their hand to send favorable messages: send love to Lauren, and it was encouraging to feel that other people were. »
Do you think other people would see through you if you did not have your identity data as a music fan?
“I think you can say if other people are not obsessed with music. People can say if you don’t like music. “
Tell us about your music school.
“I was 3 years old; I have an older brother and sister. It was 11 and thirteen years older than me and idolized them as a child. Idolize everything they did. Before I could perceive what they were doing and where they were going to listen to delusions or [the emblematic Manchester club] Hçienda: I would be less than 10 years old and think: “Why can’t I go?” I didn’t know what a delirium was, but I wanted to copy what they were doing.
“My brother brought me to masses of intelligent things. He was a great admirer of Joy Division, Echo & The Bunnymen, Kraftwerk, Soul, Nwa, a lot of music from Chicago House. My sister enjoyed many electronic and electronic houses and very well that guided me and joined ODB and Mariah Carey in “Fantasy. “
“I realize that I did not like my father’s music when I was little, but it’s just a primitive answer, right? I arrived at 18 and I learned that I was right. My father only liked some other people, but they were not this obsession with Bill Withers, she Fitzgerald, Bob Marley, Simon and Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra. They did not receive this obsession.
What is Manchester’s role as a musical city?
“When growing in Manchester, there was a sense of pride when leaving. I was born in 1984, so when I was in high school in 95, Britpop occurred and was the haçienda / New Order / Madchester HanPassver whose city was proud. All those who are above me were proud to move on to those shows, then it was Oasis.
“I have” perhaps “obtained” from my brother, who lived in the same block of apartments as Noel Gallagher. He talked about this organization and played with us and that my father was like “The Beatles of the poor man” “My brother was furious. This happened at the ideal time for me: enter” perhaps “and seek to have the haircut and the parka Lik Gallagher. ” ».
Nick Grimshaw at the NME 2020. Credit: Dean Chalkley
How did you make this leap to be a child obsessed with music to need to be a DJ and a duct for music?
“I was not equipped at school. It did not stand out in any matter. It was fine, but there was nothing transparent that I wanted to do. When I was about 10 years old, I idea that I can be an interpreter or a singer or in a group. My brother bought me a guitar and tried to write songs, but I had no attention and a terrible voice that made a song song.
“I was in the preteen and we had a television in space with 4 or five channels. All that the mother and dad looked was what we had to look, so I enjoyed the radio because it can have a radio in my room. It was a position in which it could happen and pay attention to what was the opposite of what my mother and my father were looking for to pay attention.
“I fell in love with Radio 1, and at that time, there was an intelligent diversity of votes from the north: there was Chris Evans and enjoyed Sara Cox. The breakfast exhibition was very loose and chaotic. You would listen to afternoons, parties and concerts to which they had gone. Then I listened to John Peel at night and gives me an idea that I had discovered this little known great DJ! I enjoyed the right thing it was in his exhibition, because he never felt too “presented. ” It was just a game of his songs he enjoyed and talked a bit about the groups. It was like a genuine escape of a few hours for me in my room.
“When you arrive at 16 and you start thinking about a race and what you should do, Sara Cox was at the breakfast of Missy Elliott and Chemical Brothers. It was precisely what I heard and precisely the sense of humor that I loved.
How did you get there?
“I needed to delight myself, so I implemented for some paintings I delighted on radio 1 and received a rejection letter: that my mother strangely framed for me! I just wanted something creative, so I implemented for everything . . CDs to order the email.
“I enjoyed it, and I had no one in anyone in my circle of relatives or in my universe that has done something artistic, so I liked to know that this artistic industry existed. When I began to run there and take teams to radio interviews, thinking” maybe I could do this. ” “
Nick Grimshaw’s interview by Pouins in Bestiveal 2008 (Photo through Danny Martindale / Wireimage)
Have you had the impression that a career in music and radio was at hand for an old child?
“I don’t know. You’re intrepid enough when you’re young and you don’t think too much. Just an idea that it will happen. I am ambitious, I went and had paintings delight everywhere, I had a student radio, helped in the radio stations, painted as runners in television programs. Simply idea that everything would be useful to see other people interact.
“I ended up thinking that I had to be in London to happen because there was much less an exciting global BBC in Manchester at that time. I had to go to London to facilitate this concept of Radio 1, then I implemented for each task in London and ended up being a MTV intern. It was far from the radio but felt useful. I ended up flying for clubs and despite everything he returned. »
When they gave the breakfast breakfast paintings 1, have you had a syndrome of the imposter and the concern that all this can be eliminated?
“I felt that everything could get rid of at any time. Again, I didn’t think about that at that time. I do not forget to make my first Sunday night exhibition with Annie [Mac]. I do not forget that I have gone for five minutes and that I had to communicate about the concerts that I was and the music I was listening this week.
“I do not forget to do this, and this sensation as a delighted and overwhelming delight because it had spoken on the radio. It seemed more seismic than the breakfast concert. As I controlled to do it, it had done 3 years at night when I did not feel it came.
“When everything even though everything happened, I remembered having an idea that it was a witch because I said it and then happened. I had an existential crisis, but it seemed incredible and part of the awareness that it was what I had since then since I was thirteen years old and that I have been running since I was 17 years old. Here, I was 27 years old, after all this idea and work. ” “
Sigrid, Griff, Dan Smith of Bastille and Nick Grimshaw attend the NME 2022 (photo through David M. Benett / Dave Benett / Getty Images)
The way other people notice and consume music have replaced so much in the more than 20 years. Has the role of conversion on the radio replaced its technique for what it does?
“He has replaced a lot. When Chris Moyles had breakfast before me, there was no YouTube. In terms of what we do, I do not replace the way I communicate about things. It is to the extent that we reproduce something good, other people can fall into this hole immediately. For me as an auditor, story more in a DJ more now because I want someone to cut off.
There were many more teams in the 00 and early 2010 years, and the base is lately in a terrifying place. What has the ability of an act to break now?
“I may worry about the state of things. I do not need to look like an old fog, but in my day, you would faint and take the possibility of seeing a group. Having grown up in Manchester, living in Liverpool and then moving to London, there were many more night products where £ 6 would pay to see their possibility of seeing a group. This is the way to dream of falling in love with a new sound that you have not heard before.
“The closure of the sites is really miserable and discouraging. The speed at which this occurs is devastating. They cannot keep them open and artists cannot touch them. I don’t know what to happen, but it’s dark. “
And that’s why we want radio as 6 music more than ever?
“It is totally. We can protect other unknown people and play the songs of artists who can have a single piece and not sign with a specialty. There is so much qualifiability and we can play a lot of music. ” “
The 1975 Matty Healy, Jamie Demetriou, Nick Grimshaw and Meshach Henry attend the NME 2022 Awards (photo through David M. Benett / Dave Benett / Getty Images)
You will return to Manchester with the 6 music festival this month. How do you feel the house with this program in your new job?
“I am excited. I have not lived in Manchester since I was 17 years old and now I am 40 years old. My circle of relatives has already been in me to ask me questions about the tickets. This is where I fell in love with going to the concerts and the club’s scene. It is to be a purpose again instead of having a roast about my mother, diversity is wonderful, the genius of perffume, Sbtrkt, Marie David, Marie David, Ebtrkt, Ebtrkt, Ebtrkt, Ebtrkt David.
What are you listening to now?
“I listened to the album Kelela Live, The John Glacier Record, Decius, New Shygirl, Baalti have this song entitled” Overbit “that I like and Jacob Elana. “
“I am obsessed with Marie Davidson at this time. I asked him if we could make an exhibition from my mother’s space with Marie Davidson coming to a roast and she said: “Absolutely in no way!” I am a laugh! “
Nick Grimshaw presents 6 Music Breakfast Show (during the week of 7 a. m. to 10 a. m. on Monday, February 24 and will transmit 6 music at the Grand Manchester between March 26 and 29.