Every fan of the month has an interview with us, you can read our interview with drewhiggins in this topic:
Tell us something about yourself, who are you and what do you do for a living?
I'm Drew, 20 from Adelaide, Australia and for a living I conduct interviews with people all over Australia and sometimes New Zealand for several international companies.
As an aside, I love online gaming, long car drives, really long walks and going out to visit friends and family. I also have a pet turtle, who I named Olympus because he's huge - think dinner plate size.
You seem all into technology reading your posts in the technology threads. What's your favorite gadget?
My favourite gadget would have to be my iPod touch, because of the immense modding, the awesome multimedia capabilities and everything else it does, with a touch-screen interface, which makes it really easy for me to use.
Where and how did you gather all these knowledge on technology?
Like anything, you pick it up along the way. Technology was just something like that - if I read something, I remember it and use it later if need be. It's all come through web articles, magazines, talking to people and experimenting. If something doesn't quite work out as it should, you go back and try again.
How did you become a fan of U2, tell us how it happened?
I became a fan of U2 because of All That You Can't Leave Behind, which started my love for rock music. I recieved it not long after it had actually been released, and the songs were so different from what I was hearing on the radio and through other artists. When I Look At The World became an immediate favourite, as did Kite and Peace On Earth.
That continued through to 2002, when I heard U2 had released some new songs, namely The Hands That Built America and Electrical Storm through a U2 news website. The obsession became more and more so and I got those songs, and then I discovered the original U2, that being The Joshua Tree, Pop, Zooropa, Achtung Baby, Boy, October...and in effect, I bought every single record I could find. In fact, I'm still buying them.
Did you ever have a special U2 experience like a live concert? Can you tell us something about it?
The concert on November 16, 2006 at AAMI Stadium was a special experience. I remember Wake Up playing in the stadium and then the beginning notes to City of Blinding Lights starting and seeing this huge wall of lights, and the crowd singing along to all the songs. It's a night I will never forget, two years on.
Where do you most prefer to listen to U2?
Usually by myself, when I can have it loud. When I'm playing it in the car, someone is always likely to change the song to one they like. I notice a lot of people seem to choose the post-2000 stuff instead of the pre-2000 stuff. Very, very rarely (if at all) will they change the song to something like Zooropa or Pop.
What is your favorite U2 bootleg, and why? Do you often listen to bootlegs?
When I first found U2 bootlegs, I downloaded so many and over time have lost so many of them for various reasons and so I've kept maybe 30 in total. The one show I love for so many different things is December 27, 1989 at The Point Depot. The snippets, the crowd, the vocals, instruments, set-list and BB King as well as the most haunting version of MLK I've heard to date...just pure rock 'n roll...just everything about it.
Which member of the band would you most like to share a pint with?
Bono, because he's a funny guy. The others would all be too serious, which certainly would be no fun.
What do you think of Bono's charity works?
It is amazing that a singer who calls for action on important issues is supported by so many, whether they're everyday people like us, or those in high-profile positions, and is able to get those high-profile people to act, and is able to get ordinary people to act upon it. Using simple technology such as mobile phone text messages to support the causes and the internet gets the issues out to so many as well, so he's able to get people to get on board.
If you could enjoy dinner with three other people,living or dead, who would you choose and why?
Michael Jackson to find out about the real Man In The Mirror.
Dave Freeman, the author of 100 Things To Do Before You Die, who recently died himself. I'd like to ask him if he was still alive, what would be the 101st thing he'd do?
Amelia Earheart, the famous female airplane navigator. To this day, I'm still intrigued what happened to her.
Thanks for this interview drewhiggins!
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