Were there any names you heard during the filming of this production that you didn’t get a chance to get round too? Any up and coming names that you had your eye on who just missed out?

For sure. The whole time we were down and producing in LA we were like, ‘We got to get Saber'. We never got Saber in time. So that was a real pity. I’ve been trying to chase Banksy down the whole time, but who can get Banksy?� That would have been my dream if we could get an interview with him. So there are those things. Neckface- we were going to do a collaboration interview with Neckface and... not Dalek… the other guy! I’m slipping! But yeah, Neck was another guy we were interested in but it kind of fell through.

Here’s kind of a lesser-known person. Very interesting, and we had shot the interview but the story just didn’t have the right cohesion, so I’m super apologetic every time I think about her. She’s a writer out from LA called Tribe, Lady Tribe. She does DJ stuff too. She goes by DJ Lady Tribe. She was referred to us by Estevan Oriole and Mr Cartoon as being, ‘Oh, she gets up, she’s hardcore’. And she was really interesting but we just couldn’t get a cohesive story together. So unfortunately we didn’t meet the mark. I didn’t meet the mark. Her interview was fine, I just couldn’t… sometimes it just doesn’t happen you know? And we didn’t just want some shit to go to press, so we cut it. And it was unfortunate that Tribe, a five foot two something girl... very tiny. Petite. She’s up there doing rooftops and climbing scaffolding. Amazing shots. If you look her up, Google her, she’s up there. But yeah she had a compelling story too, being like arrested, and threatened with getting deported…good stories.

Did any of the stories surprise you? Were any of the artists, even those who you thought you knew a bit about because they’re up there, make you think twice? Who came out and made you think about them in a completely new light?

Well one of my favourites was Herbert Baglione. Herbert’s amazing. Like I didn’t know anything about his work when I was first introduced to him. He’s like a kindred spirit. We hung out and there’s this slight language barrier, because he speaks Portugese, mostly, out of Sao Paulo, so.. He just seems like an old soul. Very calm. Very deep. And I think it shows in the clip, like, I put my heart and soul into that piece anad really liked it. It was just such a refreshing surprise to see an artist with zero ego- most of these people have zero ego- but very humble and completely focussed on what he’s doing. Shutting out all the trappings and politicking, the, ‘Will they like my stuff?’ or whatever. He’s just doing it to do it. He’s compelled to do it.

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