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Q: How long have you been involved in the music industry?

A: I’ve played Music since I was 9 years old. I played in a couple of small bands over the years. Now with Palomine we are a band for 7 years. We just recorded our second album with Australian producer Peter Crosbie. Our first record came out in 2007.

Last years we played a lot of shows.

Palomine is David (lead vocals), Levi (bass guitar), Ralf (lead guitars and backing vocals), Simon (Fender Rhodes, keys), Nico (drums and backing vocals)

Q: Where does the name “Palomine” come from?

A: Palomine comes from “Pal of mine”, “my friend”. But it is also a song title from Dutch indierockers Bettie Serveert. We have nothing in common with that band. Years ago, our singer David stood in front of his cd rack, gazing over the cd titles. Then he saw the name “Palomine” from that Bettie Serveert album, and he just liked that name.

Q: Where did you get the idea to pursue the ‘World is Listening’ Project?

A: Well, at the release of our First CD (Get the luxurious big bath size), we organized the release show in a coal mine. (palo”MINE”). Just for fun, and to do something special for the release of that cd. We got a lot of great comments on that show. So, for the release of this CD, we decided to take it a step further and come up with an idea that has never been done before by a band. Our new CD “Attention Alpha” is finished, but we won’t officially release it in Stores or iTunes as long we didn’t receive a video message from at least one person of every country in the world. People who make a video message for us, may download a pre-release of “Attention Alpha” for FREE, immediately, months before the official release. And we will put the most interesting video in our new music video, of the single “Never be the same”.

There are 194 countries in the world. (counting only the countries who are affiliated with the United Nations) At the time or writing this, we received video messages from 118 different countries. We don’t have a specific deadline, but counting at on average one movie a day, we will hopefully finish the project January or February 2010. And then we’ll have successfully finished a unique project and we will officially release our CD “Attention Alpha”.

At www.theworldislistening.com we present all recorded movies. You can look up the countries on an interactive map.

Q: Who would you consider to be the bands biggest musical influence(s)?

A: In the beginning, our biggest influences were singer-songwriters, like Ben Christophers en Ben Folds. Nowadays, as I’m sure we don’t sound like any other band, some genres come close, like those of Coldplay, Kings of Leon, Snow Patrol…

Q: What has been your craziest fan encounter?

A: There is this wild fan in St-Louis , Missouri . She came to Europe some years ago. On my birthday we met in Germany and she brought me a lot of gifts. We went to bars the whole night and ended up really drunk.