I just know that this isnt something you always did with the band. At one point, you're rocking out on stage at a Cruella fashion show. "The main problem with short stories for the artist is to hit the ground running visually," McCrea revealed. note: We spoke to McCrea one week prior to the midterm election.] It must be a great opportunity to have that freedom. In the scenes with Estella in Artie's shop, how was it sharing space with Emma Stone? More so, like you said, it's such a tough thing to take on, but it really has a unique style and a unique voice, and it would be really exciting to see what happens next, for sure. That just kicks the wind out of you physically and psychologically. After you lived in L.A., you moved back to Sacramento. Have you noticed the cost of being in the industry going up or down? After all, David Bowie was so influential in the 1970s, so you have to believe that there's some sort of connection there. Well, I noticed that all of the profits for Sinking Ship are slated to go toward Doctors Without Borders. Its sort of becoming the 21st century technology and service of feudalism, really. And I think it does to a certain degree, Im not sure how much. What a wonderful cast across the board. He is a scene stealer, and brought so much to the character, that the director Craig Gillespie asked him to come back and film a bonus scene about a year after filming in London. "I got to recognize how the horrific conflict laid out, how the victim often found themselves in a life-or-death struggle and quite frequently how they would wind up meeting a gruesome end in an unexpected but surprisingly satisfying way," he said. Lomax, John Avery, et al. I would have gone in a hundred times more if they asked., John never imagined he would be joining the Disney family, especially as part of Cruellas crew, but he is so glad to have become part of that history, for ever and ever. "Shingo" is the standout story of the first issue as it chills the blood and turns the stomach, with the spooky premise of a peculiar birthday performer named Shingo who doesn't demand payment, only lunch. One thing you put up on your news page was about 97 percent of climate scientists saying that global warming was real. You definitely feel that. I've got to be honest, I was a '90s Disney kid, so for me it was sort of more about "The Lion King" and the like. However, McCrea recalled how God opened a door that would eventually lead to a . What made you decide to donate to that particular organization? He was flying Buccanneers at the start of his career. "So there was considerable pressure, and every time I sent in a design or a page of a story, I waited with creeping terror for the email that confirmed, yes, I did suck, and I was fired! Writer Paul Dini and artist John McCrea chat about the excitement and challenges of short-form storytelling in Skybound's Creepshow #1. Thats the way I preserve my happiness in writing: by doing it because I want to do it, not because Im trying to finish a job. for a onetime additional fee on Friday, May 28. It was horrible. I know bands that have lost interest because of feeling that many of those things have been taken away. An introduction to the five-factor model and its applications The five-factor model of personality is a hierarchical organization of personality traits in terms of five basic dimensions: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience. I mean, what a great line. I just dont know when they became marginalized into political issues at all. In this recorded interview with ex-slave Billy McCrea, McCrea elaborates about his experiences as a slave working on a Steamboat as a cook. E.J. That's a memory that sticks out for me. I need to think of a tag line, don't I? Its creating incentive to be satisfied by a nuanced victory. I guess a lot of people still watch television. Photo by Laurie Sparham. In Flanders Fields, one of history's most famous wartime poems, written in 1915 during the First World War by Canadian officer and surgeon John McCrae. A noted pathologist and army physician, Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae was also a poet; he wrote "In Flanders Fields" one of the most famous poems of the First World War. Yeah, exactly. McCrea studied English and anthropology at State University of Sacramento . I think it was a usual audition thing. Especially if you really love music, do something that you don't like in order to make money. STEREOGUM: Its so true. Speaking of talking about something, the conversation of Everybody's Talking About Jamie arose as the film adaptation of the West End musical is coming to Amazon Prime in October. I'd never been on a movie that big before, and I imagined there'd be a lot of pressure, a lot of time constraints, a lot of frantic energy, but it was one of the happiest jobs I've had, for sure. Ive never really wanted to get my hands icky with direct support on candidates, but Ive made an exception this time, McCrea says in a phone call. Your home base is in Sacramento. ", Dini explained how he "read them all for the chills," but he also used them to learn more about story construction. And I guess it occurred to me that everyone should have some sort of experience that does that. I just think that we need to get shit done. "Stephen Langford and I would keep those guidelines in mind when we wrote for the TV series and now for the Creepshow comic. The part that I really love is musical, but also part of it is cultural. I think a lot of us are kind of just pinballing from processing horrible news cycles to feeling emboldened by small moments of redemption. And I am still waiting -- thank goodness!". It is hard for me to understand where we fit in. Bands are sort of flushed down the toilet really quickly by the fickle whimsy of an overfed cultural marketplace. I know its a busy year. Featuring exclusive content and interviews for Game Of Thrones, Sherlock, Marvel, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Downton Abbey, Doctor Who and so much more. I mean, I was very lucky because my character doesn't exist in any of the previous iterations [of "101 Dalmatians"]. "We are not part of a 'next big thing.' Just to have anybody remember you that long is pretty amazing. You cant ignore them just because theyre more invisible. Its not a gritty sort of subversive thing its actually a sort of coddled pudgy thing. The culture that usually surrounds me, Ive always found it very vain, narcissistic, and immature. Then, you drive to the next town. We were still there. All I'd heard was how personable and lovely, down-to-earth and normal she is. For me thats the key issue. John McCrea Interview Everybody's Talking About Jamie Subscribe to Red Carpet News: http://bit.ly/1s3BQ54Red Carpet News TV talk to Bryan Cranston, Andrew Scott, Victoria Hamilton, John McCrea, Dominic Cooke, Sheila Atim and Dan Gillespie Sells at the Critics Circle Theatre Awards 2018 in London. "It was actually my academic teachers that suggested taking up some extracurricular activities," he recalls. MCCREA: Thats the way I really feel. Menu. That the people who I think should be the most concerned and aware in our society tend to be the ones who are just sort of tuning out. Uncle Billy McCrea: When slavery was over, let me see if I can't tell you about that. The Internet is supposed to provide the ability for more musicians to put their sound out there and give people the opportunity to listen to more music. Happily, Democrats have recovered the House, but theres a lot more work left to do. Below, McCrea elaborates on CAKEs more overtly political voice, when he expects theyll release more new music (their next song will be a cover of the 5th Dimension classic Age Of Aquarius), and why it benefits workers in every industry to unionize. With a keen eye on style and trends, Artie quickly becomes a close . Register to vote, sign up for our issue eNewsletters, or take the Who are We? survey. Its like, youre in this van, and you get paid a few hundred bucks. They varying scale of the movie is really quite something to behold because its massive and its loud, and its quiet., When it comes to Disneys Cruella, there is so much about it that begs to be seen on the big screen, which is something John agrees with. So when I go to auditions I'll really stand out. The attention to detail is amazing. Thank you. McCrea is excited to see a film based on the stage version that he originated because it will then be viewed by the masses. Why did you decide to play Los Angeles for New Years Eve? It seems to be taking the audience participation - thats so integral to your live show - and bringing it to the web. John A. Lomax: Where from the boat to the bank? Is that what you are trying to accomplish - to inform debate - or is this more just about creating conversation in your community? There are some people that think its terribly hippy just to be concerned about toxins in your drinking water. Cruella Star John McCrea Reveals Just How Perfect It Was Working With Emma Stone - Exclusive Interview. Scarce heard amid the guns below. I talked with Craig Gillespie about the film, and I'm wondering, how did you get on his radar for this role? It must keep you going as a musician to have these kinds of interactions with fans and being creative in this way. Is the Cake fan base a community? John A. Lomax: Where that salt come from? I think thats amazing. Well, I dont know if youre permitted to say, but Id love to know what else you talk about in the songs you plan to roll out this year. What were you thinking about when you wrote it? Have you found a difference in the audiences throughout the rest of the world compared to U.S. audiences? What you ??? Artists havent really been able to organize, but I think ultimately we should be able to say, Altogether, wed like to say that .0006, whatever it is, of a penny Maybe wed like .005. We cant do that. Theres just nothing rebellious, as far as Im concerned, about a leather jacket. I think its time we stop strategizing individuality at the expense of humans. In a certain respect, would you consider yourselves an anomaly? So weve been giving away trees at our shows for maybe five years or so. His father was Lieutenant-Colonel David McCrae, a man known for his high principles and strong spirituality. Cheap rent. Doctors Without Borders is just such an amazing organization, so much bravery. The band includes trumpeter Vincent DiFiore, bassist Gabriel Nelson, and guitarist Xan McCurdy. I think that it has worked for us because I still find it interesting and exciting sometimes. I dont listen to a lot of rock, I guess. He tries to walk around London like a walking art piece, and I think he succeeds. Though the single sounds inspired by our current polarized landscape, McCrea reveals that hed actually been sitting on Sinking Ship for more than a decade. Not very many artists can get billions of streams, so its a math thing. doing? Conspiracy theories that the whole thing is rigged - they really run rampant. But theres something about music and music listeners that is sort of an escape from pragmatism. I think just like anybody else. I think it's the closest I'll ever come to feeling like a rock god. "Interview with Uncle Billy McCrea, Jasper, Texas, 1940 (Part 1 of . Knowing that the Power Cosmic would still reside in the Fallen One's body, Thanos had the corpse brought to the Dwarves of the Asgardian realm of Nidavellir, the greatest . McCrae began writing poetry when he was a student at the Guelph Collegiate Institute and also showed an early interest in joining the military. I think that is wasteful and disconnected from the real sort of power, which I think, is musical. Was it over the period of six or seven years since the last CAKE album? For some reason, this song worked out rather easily. Are you on the road more of the year usually than at home? There's a lot of pressure on Tony, and a lot of pressure on Craig to get it right, because this story isn't a one and done. Thats kind of huge actually. On the heels of an iPod commercial featuring the seminal hit "Short Skirt/Long Jacket", and with their most recent album "Showroom of Compassion" debuting at No. Its mostly just made things more smoother in terms of announcing shows and things like that. I dont know. Check us out on www.instagram.com/jamie.musical Interviewing John McCrea (Jamie New) Matt Seaman and Grace Myers from @jamie.musical, the Instagram fan account for the West End musical -. It was just looking around me and feeling like I [would] vomit a little bit. How The Gift of Fear Inspired Barbarian, 5 Most Memorable Rick Grimes Moments (The Walking Dead), Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The Movie Coming To DVD. That is the thing to focus on. [Ed. She is also a Freelance Writer. Is that a fair description? Mark Strong was wonderful. Would you say that we live in a culture of mass A.D.D. I think for that reason it spurred me into action after a period of not feeling particularly compelled to put out recorded music. John McCrea is the lead singer of CAKE, a group that mixes rock, funk, country, hip-hop and jazz into one gorgeous kaleidoscope of sound. "My main worry was that I was working with Paul Dini, who is no slouch in the design department himself," McCrea said. You know whats always bothered me? Intent on dismantling the Baroness' empire, Estella embarks down a dark path that leads to her villainous metamorphosis into Cruella de Vil. To combat this, he was sent to acting school. And she is just multitasking away like nobody's business. I think for musicians increasingly, it is a matter of getting to spend more hours doing the thing that you want to do which ostensibly is music and fewer hours having to wait tables, drive trucks, and/or whatever else you have to do to pay the rent. After the tour for their popular 2004 disk Pressure Chief, McCrea could . In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly It just blew my mind, and it just dwarfed my sense of time. But releasing it now feels like part of his civic duty, which also includes performing at benefit concerts for grassroots politicians like Andrew Janz and Beto ORourke. Q&A. by Matt Wolf Nov 27, 2017 "Everybody's Talking About Jamie . We have to put some of our agenda aside in order to do whats best for the group. The larks, still bravely singing, fly. Estella begins working at the store at the bottom, and she appears to be going nowhere until a happy accident leads Baroness von Hellman (Emma Thompson) to offer her a job as a fashion designer. Its like a stealth way to influence peoples attitudes. He casually reveals his track record with his early leading ladies (he got 'em all) before he married his wife of fifty years, the classically beautiful . Plus, reacting to that range, you have to make adjustments yourself as an actor. Theyre Wall Street. Our first visit there, we didnt know that we had become popular there. John McCrea stars as Artie in Disneys Cruella and in this interview we talk about the music, the sets, and the bonus scene he filmed. I dont feel like its hopeless completely, but it could be very easily. MCCREA: Well, the B-side or the A-side I dont know which side is which of the vinyl single Sinking Ship, we do a cover of the old Age Of Aquarius song from the early 70s. Apart from picking up something from Craig, you not only have Emma Stone, but Emma Thompson and Mark Strong who you can glean something from, too. Yeah, they play us on stations where many times, personally, I cant listen to a lot of the music around our music. Your 2011 album, Showroom of Compassion, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 charts. I think we need to be just straight-out blunt about whats happening. John McCrea was the first commander of the new USS Iowa. CAKE recently performed this New Year's Eve at THE WILTERN in Los Angeles. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Sergio Pereira has been writing about pop culture for over 15 years, specializing in the areas of comic books, film, television series, pro wrestling, and video games. What John loves about this is that every day it was something completely different. But as the group sets out on yet another tour that on July. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. When Cake formed in 1990, McCrea was. Well known for his smart and often caustically funny lyrics and his trademark half-spoken, half-sung delivery, McCrea and CAKE exploded out of Sacramento, California in 1996 when the single "The Distance" from their second album Fashion Nugget saturated the airwaves. The quirky, sardonic, half-spoken/half-sung vibe of Cake's music extends far beyond their recorded material. When he volunteered at age 41 for service in the First World War, McCrae wrote to a friend that "I am really rather afraid, but more afraid to stay at home with my conscience . When we are touring, yeah, it is kind of like that now. Literally, they dont have food if they stop touring. Consisting of singer John McCrea, trumpeter Vince DiFiore, guitarist Xan McCurdy, bassist Gabe Nelson and drummer Paulo Baldi, the band has been noted for McCrea's sarcastic lyrics and deadpan voice, DiFiore's trumpet parts, and their wide-ranging musical influences, including country music, Mariachi, rock, funk, Iranian folk music and hip-hop. But thats yesterdays CAKE. Did he teach you anything about yourself as a performer? Stop by the HeadCount table at Cake shows throughout the United States this year. Skybound's Creepshow takes all the fright from Shudder's hit anthology series and brings it to comic book readers who want to get the Halloween festivities started a little earlier this year. 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We were able to release Sinking Ship rather quickly in that way. It's a really good music town. We thought it wouldnt take that much effort to get this kind of community engaged. Now what about Cake fans? You've got to be hoping that Artie is going to come back with a sequel. I'll be honest it's not one of the movies I grew up watching. It had this massive scale, but I don't think he's afraid to sort of push boundaries a bit more. He dropped out in his last year to pursue music, playing solo acoustic shows. About ten years or so later I just happened to be walking in that part of town for some reason and walked by the tree that I planted when it was about three feet tall and it was about twenty-five or thirty feet tall. Did you pick up anything from him? The story is a while ago when I was a struggling musician in Sacramento, California I bought a tree for about seven dollars at a sale a garage sale or something and planted it in the median between my apartment building and the street. He is an actor, known for Giri/Haji (2019), Cruella (2021) and Dracula (2020). So we can still exist I guess.". I mean, its not like an old world village or anything, but it definitely has certain traits of community within it. From the very beginning, we had a song called Rock N Roll Lifestyle that was a little angry. Should viewers feel safe, the attention to detail in the production design, the costume design, the makeup designs the bigger you can get, the better!. Thats particularly difficult if youre playing non-commercial music like bluegrass or all kinds of valuable genres of music. He is a founding member of the band Cake. His taste in music and his knowledge of music is palpable throughout the film. First off, how familiar are you with HeadCount? Not an NFL football victory, but a tiny bureaucratic victory or a negligible victory even. No, not really, Im not an idealist. No stranger to the world of theater . Now that "Cruella" has been released, McCrea has his eyes set, long term, on a dream remake of another classic vampire thriller. You have Joel Fry jamming on the guitar, too, so that had to have been a thrill. Then three years later, we release another album, play the same festivals, and it would be a totally different group of faces. I dont feel that Im ever actually getting that much done. The band has recorded in a solar-powered recording studio since 2011, and McCrea serves on the board of directors for HeadCount, a non-partisan organization that works with musicians to promote participation in democracy. The idea is that as years pass people will send in more photographs as the trees get bigger and they get older, and we can watch them slowly die, and watch the trees get bigger. Categories Disney Movies, Interviews, Movies, Luca: Capturing the Italian Riviera & Creating Sea Monsters, The Water Man Interview: Lonnie Chavis & Amiah Miller. The thing that maybe embodies everything were talking about is the tree giveaway and the tree gallery. What a great way to introduce your character, especially with the sense of style that Artie has. "It usually takes me two to three issues of a comic before I have really nailed the design of any new character -- tidied up little details, got the overall shape." It doesnt matter what town you live in now. Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. People need to understand that its work. Yeah, it is sort of mind-blowing that music can kind of communicate over some huge cultural boundaries and differences. I just had an opportunity to visit the Google campus not too long ago. Jane McCrea was a Loyalist who was killed and scalped during the American Revolution on the way to meet her fianc in a British camp. Exactly. When they initially broke out in the 90s with the sardonic Rock N Roll Lifestyle, the Sacramento-based band mainly sought to address things they regarded as inherently shallow and insincere, like, oh, the music industry itself (How much did you spend on your black leather jacket? lead singer John McCrea sniffed at the time). Disney and Pixar's Luca is a coming of age story that is truly a love letter to real friendships, according to the Director, Enrico Casarosa. Having to somehow interface with this huge industry was very stressful and sort of unnatural for us. John McCrea is an English actor, musician, internet phenomenon, and media figure. Yeah. Tessa Smith is a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-approved Film and TV Critic. Career [ edit] In 1989, after a few years of drawing television and toy tie-ins, he illustrated Ennis's debut, the political series Troubled Souls, in Crisis, as well as its sequel, the farce For a Few Troubles More. STEREOGUM: I think youre right. Im not disconnected from whats going on. In other words, there is a massive transference of value and wealth from people who make things over to people that distribute things over the Internet. John A. Lomax: Toting salt? I think that keeps me excited about music. We can individually say, Were gonna try to extricate ourselves from this system, but it would be better if we had [unions]. He is also the author of various short stories, the fantasy comedy novel The Not-So-Grim Reaper, and the co-screenwriter of the drama film, The Lifesaver. In this film Luca meets a new friend, Alberto, but they are . Its a great organization. Thats pretty rad.. The Mighty World of McCrea includes existing work, as well as never-before-seen material, and serves as the first in a four-volume series of such collections from McCrea. I feel pretty overwhelmed by all the stuff that Im trying to do. Don't forget to subscribe and thanks for watching By: red964 - 1st December 2005 at 12:54. [Ed. Find a way to collectively bargain. McCrea isn't the only person involved with Cruella we talked to about the music. MCCREA: I think you read these news stories once in a while, like, Oh, the Korean pop star had four billion plays of their song and got maybe a couple thousand dollars. Its like that. Yes, that is me, but I am still doing my best Iggy Pop impression. I think whats really unsettling for me is that for most artists, especially artists that are not pop artists, they cant stop touring. Upon request, McCrea sung the steamboat song, "Blow Cornie Blow" for the interviewer John Avery Lomax. STEREOGUM: Yeah, at what point did you start writing this collection of songs? Check out our other videos for more exclusive interviews and west end theatre coverage, thanks for watching and dont forget to subscribe. I think its all over the map. Right? Its more a feeling that you get when you actually engage in that sort of cooperation with the natural world. International Women's Day Post-Show Event Announced For MEDEA at Sohoplace March 2, 2023 The Producers of Medea today announce a free one off post-show event @sohoplace on International Women's .