crankset thing is best known internationally for his science fiction novel the swarm where nature starts punishing humanity for its mistakes 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 abuse it project called taxi galaxy he'll 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 funk chancing has created a story for his audience one that like a spaceship transports them into an unknown world. shattering worked on his taxi collecting 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 a x. ray so do you know if you. think 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 hit album than a bestseller no 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 where she is exactly exactly on through all the love over role and 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 and 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 to the entire album this is no self-indulgence this is a serious project and indeed i noticed it says written by and the range by frank

said but it's true so you know when the violins come in you was that all in your head was not a process in the studio which learning by listening and learning by doing so what did we do when we were young the had all these bands when i went to school and off the words we try to psalms 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 chart to just have a look when what are the violinist biologists do what are the other musicians doing and so on it's just yeah things are not off to do it and you do even more actually mean there's a reference to star trek in taxi go back see the so you know design is is done by you all 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 you're. writes are you an actor or you're

a painter and then it's just a question and what you're really good and which you're not good at the understanding of creativity to me. is a whole so icons do anything else or being creative let's just head right now a little bit more of taxi glassy. don't. you. know 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 that you have heard of it know that it's all of the a very big it's a rope which takes you up to thirty's thinks 1000 kilometers height then it's like an elevator and you go up it sounds like science fiction the way. 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 be 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. i meet

a lot of people in my head but that's not the same so what happens is when i write books that i 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 difference 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 as drummer so we had a song and then i added musicians to musicians you know you all so much you're appearing on g.w. in about a month's time on the 30th of november for you don't know the date but you actually did appear in a program night groups old english night. come together and jam now what was that

experience like working with you're talking with we call to provide consent i think yeah it's called 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 from a german down because i couldn't through with the bad i have on the album because the musicians playing like my carson the former a keyboard player of david bowie which is are great on are and i have tony levin 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 one of the originally is sitting in cologne and i can just tell people they could see that on november 30th and offer you know what it was where i thought it was grateful i just want to ask you a couple of things the swarm was you know what your friends will now oh i thought it was going to be a lot of people it was going to be filmed a little bird told me just before the program you know is going to be a series it is it is. can you tell me more we have been trying for years to film it

as a blockbuster we just couldn't get the money together so mystery 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 total different way more like a champ a play so you can much much more of figure out that the character is 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 we'll do it together with creative most amount of game of thrones from vulture and we're sitting together. yeah this is very exciting do you have a date when it might be out yes yes you know the date when it went will be about i got you wrong no i didn'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 that we get the scripts but from the scripts roger that 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 fair 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 dark scandinavian winters and juice 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 it is just feeling of despair and being enclosed in the tween 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 and very arrogant i look at it. again as 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 overcame all scott was one of the school's 1st students in 1908. was his teacher. these days now as god lives in suite at the café where he used to meet up with other budding writers is still not fashionable hangout the. poet heading back

organizes regular readings here. tonight he's presenting an anthology of work by 12 local companies. 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's that's or a solution i guess towards depression. going crazy and we we we we have to. be creative to use to support. the 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 my child is living from this. growing up. surviving on this money i think a lot of the right. facts it all that sings music project tuxedo actually on our website today there are dot com slash culture about soul from a fanatic. we

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