SEGA composer extrodinare Richard Jacques will be appearing on BBC Radio 2 later on this evening on Simon Mayo’s Drive Time, between 5:05pm and 5:25pm GMT according to Richard’s facebook page. As to what Richard will be talking about during the show, we currently don’t know…but it is fantastic to see Richard getting more mainstream recognition!
Listen in Live tonight via BBC’s iPlayer link (at the top of the page).
Richard Jacques is awesome one of my fav sega composer next to Jun Senoue looking forward to listening to this
A real shame BBC Radio 2 isn’t available in the US… Thank heaven there’s iPlayer.
We’ll find out in minutes, but I’m betting it’ll be something about this kind of thing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8465150.stm – should be good.
Listening NOW. He begins the show with Accordion Hits not anything sonic related XD
He mentioned him as a ‘talent for writing video game music’.
The art of writing music for computer games is the subject apparently! Hopefully Sonic gets a mention!
OMG, they’re going to talk about the topic within the next hour >_< I don't want to listen to this music crap they have playing, I just want the interview lol!
I Hope he talks about ASR Music ^__^
Yay, he’s on! 😀
Ahhh, HE MENTIONED HIM XD He’s now ON THE AIR!
He’s talking about the Alice In Wonderland game…… BUT HE MENTIONED SONIC! WIN!
Mentioned Nobuo Uematsu and the person who did the Halo soundtrack.
Not bad. Not bad at all. No talk of Sonic though, just Alice in Wonderland.
@ Niko-Plus
When did he mention Sonic? I didn’t hear any mention of Sonic :-S
DAMMIT HE DID NOT MENTION SONIC A SINGLE BIT DX EPIC FAIL
Yeah I Didnt hear one thing about sonic then niko-plus you must be hearing things lol
When they spoke about video game rock bands he could have mentioned Crush 40 and their Sonic tracks.
Shortest interview ever.
I met him in 2007 AND got his Autograph! He is an awesome, awesome man!!!
I think I was…… too much anticipation for sonic, I think DX
No Sonic, but apparently Richard is quite busied with the old Alice in Wonderland game. Intruiging. Nobuo Uematsu mention ftw.
he could off had a chance to promote his Sonic & his ASR music not Alice In Boring Wonderland unless sega had him on orders not to speak about it
He sounds like a really nice chap, hope to meet him one day. Wish the interview was longer, Simon didn’t sound like he was too interested :-/
I thought it unlikely that he would mention Sonic, or even Sega. He’s done lots of things, that’s only one of them.
Hate to seem like I’m plugging something, but I happened to get the interview recorded. I’ll be uploading it to Youtube within the next hour, if anyone missed it.
Bear in mind Radio 2 is marketed primarily at older generations, as opposed to stations such as Radio 1 that market to younger ones, and that Alice is the game currently in the mainstream media with the Ivor Novello stuff. Alice, being the subject the listeners will relate to (to the point of picking music specifically from probably the most memorable scene in the book/film/whatever), is the obvious choice.
Plus, face it, there’s nothing particularly special about Jacques’ work in the Superstars/All Stars series. Saying that would be like saying his stuff in Chronicles was okay.
It’s about what you’d expect from a 5-minute interview on a national radio station, on a niche subject matter like video game music.
Damn I missed it…. friggen uni messing up my radio listening times.