best known internationally for his science fiction novel the swarm where nature starts punishing humanity for its misty needs 1st published 15 years ago it now seems rather prophetic when you look at the current situation with climate change however right now frank said singh has put down the pan picked up the guitar and has a music project called taxi galaxy tell me why after this. function thing seen in his element on stage in front of an audience he likes to entertain but also to shake people up in 2009 the author presented his thriller limit it's a mix of science fiction crime story and science like his most popular novel the swarm published in 2004 the bestseller about a threat from the depths of the ocean has been translated into 27 languages and made its author who studied communications studies a very rich man. but chatting has still clung to a lifelong dream since the age of 15 he's wanted to be

a rock star so finally at the age of $62.00 it's time for music sexy but this time to punctuate sing has created a story for his audience one that like a spaceship transports them into an unknown world. shuts and worked on his taxi collective project with several renowned musicians his great idol is david bowie and shifting public personas have impressed and influenced the are. joined by the man who scared the living daylights out of the x. rays or do you know if you look. well thank you successful all over the world as the north are so has it really been a lifelong dream actually to do music i mean would you rather have a her. album than a best seller no i wouldn't really compare because i'm

a very lucky guy to be so successful with my books but actually i started as a musician you know at the age of 14. 15 i started to play the guitar and the very reason was because i had a poster in my bedroom showing suzi quatro. you know remember she's on your website . exactly exactly and through all the other overall i thought about how to meet her in order to enrich in her private life so that was the reason i thought they have to do that and i love also you have to become a rock star yourself i started to play guitar synths on make music ok now i have to say i thought famous author indulging him self what's he up to but i realized listening thin time album this is no self-indulgent whole this is a serious project and indeed i noticed it says written by and a range by frank said but it's true so you know when the violins come in you was

that all in your head or was that a process in the studio which learning by listening and learning by doing so what did we do when we were young and i had all these bands when i went to school and off the words we tried to stalin's like our big heroes so what we did was listening to the records again and again and again to find out how they did it or i went into a concerto classical to just have a look at when what what are the violence biologists do what are the other musicians doing and so on it's just fame to najaf to do it and you do even more actually mean there's a reference to star trek in texaco actually the design is done by you know the illustrations if you're as an illustrator really been doing everything yes yes but it's my understanding of creativity is that if you're really creative you're potentially everything your rights are you. for you're

a painter and then sussed the question and what you're really good and which you are not good at the understanding of creativity to me. is a whole so icons do anything else or are being created for let's just head right now a little bit more of taxi glassy. don't . you. see. now i was quick mention in the lyrics of richard branson yes. would you actually

like to go into space i would yeah i would. and i'm afraid of flying oh yeah so i'm waiting for the space elevator because another plate of elevators heard of it no never that it's going to be a very big it's a rope which takes you up to thirty's thinks 1000 kilometers height and then it's like an elevator and you go up it sounds like science fiction actually. it is writing is a solitary occupation yes music is a collaboration is completely the opposite did you have any not only not in the beginning. honestly. i'm a guy who loves to be among people a love to meet people i love to to to to feel in public and sit in the cafe a on a restaurant. and so far this is the only thing i don't like about writing is that for such a long time i sit there in a room of course i meet a lot of people. in my head but that's not the same so what happens is when i read

books that have to do with language. i have to deal with construction story constructions and then every 3 or 4 hours i need to break and do something totally different for example playing guitar and this is how i wrote the songs they came up by chums then i went down in the cellar room i have a studio on my solo. started to play it's played everything. guitar bass keyboards sang my best friend's drummer so we had a song and then i added musicians musicians you know you all so much to your appearing on g.w. in about a month's time on the 30th of november you most for you don't know the date but you actually did appear in a program night groove hold in english. come together and jam now what was that experience like working with the mob you're talking with we call to provide consent

yeah in english it's called it's not the truth it's called so much nicer by the way in english well of course that they just asked us they had seen the video of the project so meanwhile i had a band driven down because i couldn't through with the bad i have on the album because the musicians playing like my chorus and the former a keyboard player of david bowie which is are great on are and i have tony livin on the bass guitar but he's in boston the other one is in los angeles so you know you were the only one i was the only 100 really is sitting in cologne and i can just tell people they could see that on november 30th and off for you know what it was where i thought it was grateful i just want to walk to a couple of things the swarm was you know what you're famous for now i thought it was going to be a lot of people it was going to be film but a little bird told me just before the program you know was going to be a series it is it is can you tell. will been trying for years to film it as

a blockbuster we just couldn't get the money together so mr in 5 years ago i thought well why not make a serious because a serious something totally different 1st of all it's the age of serious at the moment. in a serious you can told the story in a totally different way more like a play so you can much much more figure out that the characters and what they do and you do not need so many special effects and that was the idea for 5 years i've been preaching go to everybody why don't make a serious now we'll do it together with creative most amount of game of thrones friend bolger and we're sitting together. yeah this is very exciting do you have a date when it might be out yes yes do you know the date when it went will be about i got you wrong no i don't know but when we're lucky at the moment we are working on the outlines which means that for each episode you need 10 to 15 pages which is

what is all about and then we get the scripts back from the scripts roger but at the moment i think we can start to film in spring which would mean 2021 ok. good luck with the music thank you very. much. the frankfurt book is upon us and every year it features a guest country and its literature this year it's norway and the city of baghdad is a particular literary hobb the country's greatest playwright had the games and spent formative years at the theater of that and there's a continuing literary tradition said to be helped by the long scandinavian winters and use of of course to reading and writing and there are other strange attributes to bag as local writer thomas. explains. thomas aspinall writes about every day ordinary experience and about his home city.

the music scene is very good literature that scene is very good because of this just feeling of despair and being enclosed in between 7 mountains and i like i really like the people. and the mentality i like the language the way they speak very very cruel and harsh and very very very annoying and very insulting very arrogant i love that. gag and is proud of its arts and culture scene which includes the writers' academy where young authors from across the country come to hone their craft and world famous writer karl rove acknowledged god was one of the school's 1st students in 1908 and thomas as the don was his teacher. these days canals god lives in sweet but the café where he used to meet up with other budding writers is still not fashionable hangout a. poet heading back for organizes regular readings here.

tonight he's presenting an anthology of work by 12 local college it's not. the only one we have to do something i mean it rains all the time there's $300.00 days of rain a year so you have to do something we have to we have to sort of. that starts or a solution i guess towards depression. going crazy and we we we we have to. be creative to sort. of survive in a country whose people have a pretty good standard of living thanks to the oil that's been flowing from norway's offshore oil fields for almost 50 years even future generations will benefit due to wise government investment of the profits yet many norwegians are of 2 minds about the exploitation of oil reserves we know that we live from this for so. few which is bad for the whole globe and this or

my much oil this living from this. growing up. surviving on this morning i think a lot of the right. facts it all all that sings music project toxic actually on our website did our dot com slash culture i'm not so from a for not. to

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