{"id":12619,"date":"2017-11-27T21:47:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T10:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/?p=12619"},"modified":"2021-01-30T23:07:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T23:07:41","slug":"interview-phone-bjork-talking-utopia-tinder-slapstick-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2017\/11\/27\/interview-phone-bjork-talking-utopia-tinder-slapstick-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW. On the phone with Bj\u00f6rk: talking Utopia, Tinder and slapstick comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bjork.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12620\" src=\"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bjork.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhen the good people at Double J asked me if I was interested in interviewing <strong>Bj\u00f6rk<\/strong>, I thought they were having a laugh. The dismissive flick I gave them soon turned into a week of abject anxiety when it turned out they were for real. Last Friday, I got on the phone to Bj\u00f6rk in Reykjavik and spoke to her for 30 minutes about Utopia, love and slapstick comedy. And you can hear that interview\u00a0this Wednesday, 29 November, on Double J from 8pm AEST.<!--more--><br \/>\nOn the phone from Iceland, Bj\u00f6rk talks about leaving behind the intensity of <em>Vulnicura<\/em>, and starting a new chapter, full of love and light and comedy. I&#8217;ll also be chatting\u00a0with Australian composer Sarah Hopkins, one of the many collaborators on Utopia,\u00a0to find out why Bj\u00f6rk fell in with her unique instrument, the \u2018harmonic whirly\u2019.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/doublej\/programs\/fat-planet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Listen online at doublej.net.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the good people at Double J asked me if I was interested in interviewing Bj\u00f6rk, I thought they were having a laugh. The dismissive flick I gave them soon turned into a week of abject anxiety when it turned out they were for real. Last Friday, I got on the phone to Bj\u00f6rk in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[571,1610],"class_list":["post-12619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-planet","tag-bjork","tag-stuartbuchanan-blog","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15288,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619\/revisions\/15288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}