[Article] Interview with Above + Beyond's Tony McGuiness (Ayu mentioned)

[nmskalmn]

Excerpt:

Ok because you guys played your first DJ gig in Tokyo back in 2008?

Well yea. The Madonna thing made Avex think that we were worthy of remixing Ayumi Hamasaki. I mean she is absolutely huge in Japan; she’s sold like 2 million records over there while Madonna’s only sold half a million. That gives you a pretty good idea of how big she was. They were having a big party to celebrate the release of one of our songs that was the lead single on her album. So a girl from the record label rang me up and said: ‘Do you DJ’? and I of course said: ‘Yes’. Which was a complete lie at the time. So we ended up getting the gig at the launch; up until August we were just honing in on our DJing skills. None of us had done professional DJing before and then it turned out that this wasn’t just a little party, it was a big event with 8,000 people and DJs like Tiesto!

Read it: Interview: Above + Beyond

[JackieRos]

Thats so cool!