The Vamps + The Tide in NP
Kimberley
I have only 3 words to summarise what happened: What a day.
When Calvin, Radio Heatwave’s current General Manager, sent me a text saying that they wanted me to interview The Vamps and The Tide… I literally started hyperventilating and calling up almost everyone I knew (the exact same thing happened when @justinbieber followed me on Twitter haaaay).
Being a fangirl myself, I headed over to Twitter to ask the Vampettes and Tiders if they had any questions and man, I didn’t know that their fanbases here were this crazy! (You can check out the hashtags #TheVampsRHW and #TheTideRHW to see it for yourselves)
I also spent 478316478 hours watching every single one of their interviews just to make sure I didn’t ask anything you could just find on Google.
The day of the interview came and I swear everything else on my mind was blocked out. All I could think about was how I was going to meet the 8 most beautiful beings in a couple of hours.
Next thing I knew, the boys were walking past me and all I could feel was my heart melting into this gross sludgy thing, my hands sweating, my eyes tearing, my nose bleeding…“Hi I’m Kim!” :)
You would think that interviewing crazy talented people such as The Vamps and The Tide would be super intimidating and that you would be stumbling all over your thoughts and words. But boy was I wrong.
Both bands made Michelle and I feel so comfortable, it honestly felt like we were just chilling with a couple of cute British and American boys. No big deal. My mind and heart kept going !!!AHH!!! but everything was so relaxed and natural that those few minutes with the boys flew by JUST. LIKE. THAT.
The boys were nothing but smiles and love, and everything just seemed to fall right into place. We asked them your usual questions about Singapore - what food have they tried so far, how’s the weather - made them speak some Singlish (which was terribly adorable btw), and asked them about Harry Potter, The Walking Dead, the best/worst thing about going on tour, their guilty pleasures, most embarrassing thing they know about each other…But instead of reading about it here, I think you’d rather watch what actually went down when The Vamps and The Tide came down to Radio Heatwave.
As for me, I’ll be rewatching the Snapchat stories over and over again, thank you very much. :>
Michelle
They were one step in the studio when the mood instantly lifted. There was no distance, it was like meeting people we already knew. Their youthfulness shone and their smiles showed no signs of being on a plane the day before.
The chat sessions - I mean interviews - felt like they could have gone on forever. There was nothing that could have prepared us for the playfulness oozing from the boys, especially when James (McVey) and Brad (Simpson) joked about having seen me on Tinder, ha.
Chemistry wasn’t just because Levi (Jones) and I jinx-ed or the amount of times the studio erupted in laughter. We were at ease, like a bunch of friends hanging out – just with flashing lights, cameras, and (extremely) devoted fans pressed against the studio walls.
They impressed us with their Singlish in saying typically Singaporean phrases, and expressed genuine excitement in playing for their fans here for the first time. Learning about who dunks their luggage down once they enter the hotel room and whose guilty pleasure is Reese’s peanut butter cups just made us want to get to know them more in all their craziness.
If there’s one last thing I have to add, it will be that according to the boys, Singapore is hootiful. Yes, you heard right. Hot + beautiful = hootiful.
Great big thanks to Universal Music Singapore!
Photo by Ashley Choo. This photo was shot with a Canon Eos 70D, courtesy of Cam2Rent. Quote 'Radio Heatwave' and get 10% off Cam2Rent services!