Music enables the guests of Zan Rowe to relax and for her to go under their skin for her new ABC series.
For Zan Rowe, music is a great distiller of emotions, with which interviews are given on a very personal framework.
Take 5 with Zan Rowe Began on Triple J in 2006 With Radio Chats Before Moving to Television in 2022. Guests have included Guy Pearce, Keith Urban, Missy Higgins, Tony Armstrong, Tori Amos, Noel Gallagher, Jimmy Barnes, Bill-Manuel, Danniuel, Danniuel, Danniuel, Danniuel, Danniuel, Danniuel, Danniuel, Danniuel, Danniuel, Danniuel, Danniuel, Danniuel, Danniuel, Karvan, Neil Finn, Bernard Fanning, and Casey Donovan.
“The best interviews for me are those where people forget that they are being interviewed. They let their care are and I can really see that they are sitting opposite them,” she says TV tonight.
“Someone like Noel Gallagher, who has a bit of a wall for a good reason, I could just see for eight minutes in the chat, relax his shoulders, and he just gave me a look like:” Okay, I can trust you. ” And that is the best feeling of all, when you see someone setting up, and it is completely through the Trojan music horse.
“People feel that they are in a safe space because they are talking about the things they love deep. They are less self -conscious.”
Adjusting a radio series to television meant finding visuals, either as interview locations, music videos or archive images, but also capturing the emotions of the subject on the camera.
“One of the things we knew from the start is that we didn’t want it to just sit down with two seats, and that we are facing each other. In the studio for radio, when we talk about the music, we play the songs,” she explains.
“For years I looked at the faces of people and saw their reactions when they hear the music, because songs such as scents and taste are a sensory memory. You can talk about a memory that you have, but when you smell something, or hear something, it pulls something deep into the interview in the interview. Hay song, she just started breaking off.
“Filming the show, we sit down for about an hour, we have this conversation, we go through all the songs and the stories, and then we go to another part of the location we photograph, and we listen to the songs and we film that. And that not only creates a space for us to literally listen to the songs and respond to them, but also some of that energy.”
Production for season four went to the US and the UK to conquer its guests.
“It became early that if we wanted to get big names, we have to go to them and make it as convenient as possible. So it has always been on location. But the other part of it is that we are talking about musical stories and life stories, so you want texture. You want a real space,” she continues.
“One of the great joys of filming the show is that I would never go in this bar called Hidden Grooves. I would never get access to the personal studio of Noel Gallagher in Kings Cross in London and hang out there.”
In S4, Kevin Bacon is interviewed in a music studio in Williamsburg in Brooklyn., While Mel C is in a Hi-Fi-bar in a Virgin Hotel in Richard Branson in London.
“We have been chasing Mel behind for a while now. We went to London at the beginning of July,” says Rowe.
“Richard Branson has set up this really beautiful Hi Fi bar. The walls are covered with vinyl. There are all kinds of memorabilia. And because it is Richard Branson, no costs are spared. If you see the chat with Mel, there is a huge, beautiful wooden speaker between us in the shot.
Guests for S4 are also Paul Kelly, Lorde and Aaron Chen in New York.
Every guest also gets a theme, with Mel C. as the premiere episode that chooses 5 songs on the theme, which means that the concept differs from Desert Island Discs, Rowe is on.
“I spend a long time putting together and creating a theme that speaks with the guest and goes to a place that they may not have visited for or for a long time. If you ask someone, what their five favorite songs are, I don’t know about you, but my mind just goes empty!” She admits.
“Where are you starting? It’s a terrible question. But this is the turn of Take Five from 2006: there has always been a theme. I always create the theme for the guests I am talking about. Will this bring out something they have not yet spoken about? So for Melanie C her theme songs in her bones, because her music and her performance always have a huge physical.
“She was a gymnast and a dancer who became a spice girl now in clubs Djing. And so we talked about that kind of physicality of the music she loves, and that took her in a certain direction.”
Take 5 with Zan Rowe returns at 8:30 PM Tuesday 9 September on ABC.
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