Yesterday I found myself sitting on the floor of a small room backstage at The Independent, recording an interview with one of my favorite bands.

I’m not even sure how it came to be that I was sitting there in that room on that day, except that Federated Media has been building this big “live media-cum-social media” event/website called Crowdfire for the Outside Lands Music Festival this weekend. As part of that, a bunch of folks (FM employees and FM bloggers) have been tasked with interviewing some of the musicians who are taking part. Somehow Leona got in touch with the Two Gallants, mentioned this to me off-hand one day, and seemed all too happy to have me along as her cameraman.

And so it was that I collected all my lo-fi camera gear—video recording them with my old Canon Digital Elph, and audio recording them with my Zoom H2 Handy Recorder. I enlisted Andy as our video editor, who spent most of the day splicing the video and audio and then editing it down into YouTube-able segments. The interview hasn’t been uploaded for public consumption yet, but when it has, I’ll be sure to post it here.

In the meantime, I did record a few minutes of the Two Gallants sound check before the interview, which I posted to White Noise Lounge earlier this morning.