2003 Media Interviews
NZ Herald
16 November, 2003
Bic's French Leave
"Bic Runga's French is improving. The Paris audiences for the New Zealand singer-songwriter have already heard evidence of this in her song introductions during shows in her new city of residence.
"It really means a lot to an audience for a performer to try to speak their language, no matter what sort of mess they make of it," she laughs down the phone line".
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Tearaway Magazine
August 2003
bic runga
"What’s on the cards?
I’ve got a series of shows in Australia. And my record is coming out in
Europe. I’m [also] gonna be singing on Shayne Carter’s new [Dimmer] record. I’m
gonna do a session with him. He’s a good friend and I’m happy to be his lowly
backing vocalist. He’s gone even more seventies-Marvin-Gaye-kind-of-sexy-MF."
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Beat Magazine
23 June, 2003
bic runga indulges melanie sheridan’s ignorance
Melanie Sheridan
"The very chirpy Bic Runga doesn't mind at all that I've never heard any of her songs, and that 20 minutes ago I didn't even know I was doing this interview. "No worries, it's pretty straight forward at the moment," she says. "I can just run you through it." Okay.
"Well, I'm moving to Paris," she proclaims, "semi-permanently. My second record, Beautiful Collision, is coming out in Europe. So these shows coming up in Australia will be the last ones for a while."
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Sunday Star Times
15 June, 2003
Bic's Beautiful Success
Sarah Stuart
"Yesterday the 27-year-old flew to Sydney for a series of Australian gigs, five of which were sold out before she landed. She's been on a rapid French language immersion which has been surprisingly easy to navigate ("it's like music. It's copying sounds so my pronunciation is very good") and next month she leaves New Zealand to live in Paris, the start of a push into European charts.
She's set up her own record label Noo Shu, is producing for her first young artist, Australian Tim Guy, and is happily in love with photographer Daryl Ward. "
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Access Magazine
December 2002 - January 2003 Edition
Under Surveillance- New Artists You Should
Know About: Bic Runga
Sean Plummer
"Bic applies this same “healthy cynicism” to her career. “I think I just had one too many industry lunches,” she says of her impatience with the music business. “A lot of the time you’re surrounded by people who don’t really love music, and when you’re outnumbered, so to speak, you question where the reality is. So it’s my reality versus their reality, and if they think that Britney Spears is really really great then maybe she is, you know? And I do think she is a great entertainer and all that but it’s not even the same planet as what I’m living in.”"
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Toronto Star, Canada
January 28, 2003
Bic Runga wants the
world- Singer performs at the Horseshoe
Vit Wagner
Initially, Runga approached songwriting great and fellow New Zealander Neil Finn to produce Beautiful Collision. But Finn, who sings backup on a handful of tracks, urged her to go it alone."
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YouThink Magazine, Canada
January 6, 2003
A Beautiful
Collision with Bic Runga
Jon Das - Princess Margaret, Surrey
y: What inspired you to pursue a career in music?
B: I believe it was my sister; she sort of paved the way for me when she became
a singer. I always used to look at her and want to be just like her, I thought
she was cool.
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Campus Circle.net, Los Angeles
January, 2003
BIC RUNGA:
Her Three-Year Journey Ends In a Beautiful Collision
JOANNA VARIKOS
"What’s next for you?
Well, I’m renting this house in L.A. in December and January and it’s got a grand piano, so I just want to do a four-track LP from home and maybe pitch that to a producer. I don’t want to go through trying to self-produce or record right now. But I would go back to that maybe when this experience is a bit more distant."
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