| Marit Larsen, guest appeance on �Nitimen� 11/01/06
thanks to Halvard for the translation Interviewer: ..and then we have two visitors in the studio, Marit Larsen & Marius Graff. They are gonna be singing and playing for us, welcome! Marit &Marius: Thank you! (immediately lauches into a guitar, mandolin and harmonica version of �This Time Tomorrow�) Applause follows I: That was great, thanks to Marit Larsen and Marius Graff! Welcome here again, Marit! And you got Marius with you, a tall guy, he�s really tall ! Marit: He�s very tall! (laughs) I: And that little thing he plays on there (the mandolin), I was so impressed he managed to hit the right notes and frets ! Very good, but�Marit Larsen, the half of M2M, and that is a fact you have to live with for the rest of your life? Marit: Yes that is right, I�ll have to. I: You became very successful, it was like�.schwooosshhhh�right to the top, and then it was all over, but you�re still friends right? Marit: Yes we are. I: and you still say �Hi� to each other and stuff? Marit: Of course we do, we are childhood friends. Many childhood friends tend to grow apart, but we have a lot of wonderful memories together. Of course. What we got to experience together was incredible. I: In 2002, if we can use this expression, you sort of �faded out�? Where did you go? M: First thing, let me say the reason I�m a known person is that I am a musician. That�s why people know me. So when I have no new music to present, I don�t see the reason why I should be in the limelight. And I just wanted to get away from it all. I just wanted to play, be inspired and have a quiet time for working. I: Hmm, ok. Did you earn a lot of money, can I ask you that? Were you rich then? Marit: I had more money than other people my age. I: So you could live a quiet life and not have to worry bout the income? Marit: Yes, I could. But I have kinda invested some of it during the years I: You have bought a guitar for example! Marit: Yes I have! (she picks up the guitar) I: Yes, let me see that! Marit: Isn�t it nice? (laughs) I: Yes, of course it is! But if you had asked me how much this guitar cost, I don�t think I would have guessed 60.000 norwegian crowns (about 9000 US dollars) Marit: But if you had played it�..(laughs again) I: I could have�but it would have sounded cheap no matter what. But this is a really nice instrument, isn�t it? Marit: It�s hand made�.with lots of mother-of-pearl inlays. I: Oh my, 60 000, that�s a lot for a guitar. You�re getting into the violin-price range now. M: Well, not quite� I: And a mandolin you bought too, that he played. Don�t he have his own instruments? Marit: (laughs), Oh yes, he has lots of them! But he really plays guitar! I: So now you have been sitting at home, writing new material? Did you feel that what you were doing in M2M really was not what you wanted to do? Marit: I was so young when we first started that it was hard to define your own preferences. As we grow older, and I think people noticed this too, we went into different directions, so it became a compromise. I: How old were you when you first started? Marit: We met when we were 5 years old. We recorded our first record at 11 and 12. Now I�m 22, so it has been a while. I: And now, if everything works out, Marion Raven - as she is called now - is going to be �big over there�, going for the international markets. What are your plans? Marit: I have been lucky to be able to make the record that I wanted to make. Not everyone is given that chance in life, so I�m really satisfied with just that. But of course I hope that I will be able to make a living being an artist, have it as an occupation, playing. Keep playing I will anyhow. I: You are very young M: I still am! I: I�m an old man, and you are young. I read this article about you where you say that you had to live an ordinary life to be able to start writing again. You talk like you were a worn out star with lots of life-experience, and you do that, only aged 22? Marit: I have been in the business for so long, so I know more than many others my age in this area. But then, in other areas I haven�t got the same routine and experience. Like doing the dishes, cooking and washing, I�ve kinda been lagging behind there! (laughs). I: To live an ordinary life again and start writing. What do you have in mind? Marit: I thought that, in M2M all there was to write about was our lives at the time. When all you see is airports, fans and journalists, you don�t have very much to write about. So to get back and be a part of the gang of friends again, see your family again, those things has been inspiring. I: Before we end this interview, what is your dream? Marit: I have had my dream come true now with this record. I: And that was it? Marit: No, I have a lot of dreams. I: So what is the next step? Marit: I have gotten myself a nice band that I hope I will be able to bring with me on a long tour eventually�. I: Do you own all the instruments in the band? Marit: No of course not, they have their own instruments (laughs) I: So then what, what is the next dream? To get the show on the road? Marit: To get out on the road, play and meet an audience, and of course hopefully be able to take those experiences with me and make another record I: Good luck, and now were going to hear the first single from your new soon-to-be released album. |