international news _ 19th December, 2006
Ewan Pearson’s Hamburger Horror
Text by Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com)
Rapture/ Tracey Thorne producer Ewan Pearson chatted to Skrufff this week
about his increasingly successful career and revealed that he was so poor
when he started that he made a living flipping hamburgers.
“I worked in a burger van at the FA Cup final at Wembley once when Liverpool
were playing Man U (United) and it was just miserable; that was a particular
low point,” the nowadays Berlin based Brit laughed.
“Though now there’s ever any danger of me getting at all diva-ish or
complaining about a hotel room or being too tired because you’ve just
travelled a long distance, I remember that I’m incredibly lucky and I’m not
working in a burger bar. I’m glad I did it.”
The former college lecturer and Cambridge graduate turned to the service
industry after taking a year off to make a record (‘I wanted to have a piece
of vinyl with my name on it, in a shop, that was the sum of my ambition’)
though ended up landing an album deal with Soma and carving out a musical
career.
“I was always doing music as a teenager but I never imagined at that point
making a living from it, music was a hobby; your realist head tells you that
so few people manage to make a living,” he mused, “But this has been the
year that I’ve realised I’m actually doing now what I hoped I would be
doing, a lifetime ago, 17 years ago whenever it was.
I’ve actually produced 8 tracks of the Rapture album and half of the Tracey
Thorne album and have more stuff to come next year. It’s taken a while
(laughing loudly) but it’s been great. It’s also been hard, hard work, I’ve
worked harder this year than I’ve ever worked before. From January through
to September I didn’t have any break at all and was also DJing so it’s been
pretty intense- but brilliant,” said Ewan.
You know when you hear Daily Telegraph readers going on that everybody
should have a stint in national service, well I think everybody should do a
stint in the service industry- everybody should be made to work in a burger
bar at least once,” he added, “It’s character building.”
Partial Art’s Trauermusic (including a monstrous Alter Ego mix) is out
shortly as is Tracey Thorne’s new single It’s All True (co-written by Ewan,
his studio mate Sasse and and Metro Area’s Darshan).
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