Bob Geldof once said: “I don’t like mondays.” I totally disagree with that, I love mondays. And especially if it’s a monday like this: today Mirrors release their new single “Hide and Seek” and they’re first to answer the brand new interview category “Ten Times Top Five” which comes to you once a month from now on. Mirrors are currently touring Europe with OMD, but frontman James and drummer Josef  took the time to think about their top fives. Check it out, enjoy and have a happy monday!

Top Five records

1. Talking heads – 77
2. Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express
3. The Slits – Cut
4. Neu! – ’75
5. Carl Craig and Moritz Von Oswald – Recomposed

Top Five songs

1. Lindstrom – Where you go, I go to
2. Danny Elfman – Hitchhikeq
3. Victor Vaughn - Lickupon
4. Pase Rock – I’m So Fucking Disco
5. Cheree – Suicide

Top Five memorable gigs witnessed by Mirrors

1. Joe Strummer on Hastings Pier (before him and the pier died)
2. Kimmo Pohjonen on a farm in West Sussex playing live with farmyard machinery and live sheep shearing.
3. Killing Joke at Fuji Rock in Japan in 2008. After the show he talked to me. He told I could have one favour and that he would kill anyone I asked but that I would be eternally in his debt. I politely declined.
4. The Horrors on tour in 2007. They are the real deal. Memorable indeed
5. Grace Jones at Latitude. A genuine surprise. Spectacular.

Top Five film soundtracks

1. E.T. – John William
2. Dead Man – Neil Young
3. There Will Be Blood – Jonny Greenwood
4. The Lovely Bones – Brian Eno
5. Star Wars – John Williams

Top Five Depeche Mode songs

Never heard of them

Top Five music videos

1. Mirrors – Hide and Seek
2. Joy Division – Love will tear us apart
3. These New Puritans – We Want War
4. Bjork – All Is Full Of Love
5. Radiohead – Fade Out

Top Five band names

1. Ken Dodd’s Dad’s Dog’s Dead
2. Robot Deniro
3. Screaming Moist Accountants
4. Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat
5. Psychedelic Horseshit

Top Five cover songs

1. All Along The Watchtower – XTC (originally by Bob Dylan)
2. Across The Universe – Laibach (originally by The Beatles)
3. Song To The Siren –  This Cortal Coil (originally by Tim Buckley)
4. Tugboat – British Sea Power (originally by Galaxie 500)
5. We Love You – Ryuichi Sakamoto (originally by The Rolling Stones)

Top Five insignificant band reunions

1. Magazine
2. The Sex Pistols
3. The Libertines
4. Gang of Four
5. Heaven 17

Top Five most relevant music genres

1. Drill and Bass
2. Hand bag drop beat
3. Minimalist ska core
4. Brutal Prog
5. Wall Noise

Mirrors on tour with OMD:

15/11 Theaterhaus, Stuttgart
16/11 Tonhalle, Munich
18/11 Tempodrom, Berlin
19/11 Docks, Hamburg
21/11 Den Atelier, Luxemburg
22/11 Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
23/11 Paradiso, Amsterdam
25/11 Casino de Paris, Paris

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