2016-06-03 Interview with Clara Amfo/BBC Radio1 & new single

[chocolateftw]

The BBC radio 1 webradio doesn't seem to be blocked by country.
Clara Amfo's show is scheduled for 10:00-12:45. (10am London time) (source)
The exact time of Aurora's appearance is unknown.
(Feel free to edit this post once more accurate info is announced.)

[Laura]

It's now been confirmed that AURORA's new single is I Went Too Far!  Unfortunately, I was unable to record the interview though.

[AURONRA]

Thank you for your link chocolateftw!

I've moved your post to the 'Bootleg Section', please no bootlegs here.

Anybody who wants to download, the link can be found here: warriorsweirdos.proboards.com/thread/87/2016-radio-interview-clara-london

[gandalvr]

Facebook post by Aurora:

So pleased that the wonderful Clara Amfo played my new single 'I Went Too Far' on BBC Radio 1 and now you can listen on Spotify and follow the Complete playlist 🐛 po.st/IWTFFBSp

This links to a Giphy that has now been deleted. Was this a promo video? Scrapped music video?

Backup of the video from the Twitter post in the first post in the thread:

[gandalvr]

Twitter post by Aurora:

The wonderful @claraamfo played my new single on @bbcr1 and now you can listen on Spotify 🐛 po.st/IWTFTwSp

Short clip from the interview, posted by WelshWarriorW:

Twitter post by Aurora:

Tune in to @claraamfo now on @bbcr1 and hear my new single 🐛

[likkevrom]

Feb 18, 2022 13:16:17 GMT gandalvr said:

This links to a Giphy that has now been deleted. Was this a promo video? Scrapped music video?

Not sure, but maybe from 0:06 in this promo video by Robin Larsen (riseofthedivine ) is from the same photoshoot / videoshoot?

Edit: seems to not be the same videoshoot, see below.

[gandalvr]

I don't have the "Half the World Away" music video to check, but I think it may be from that.

[likkevrom]

Feb 21, 2022 14:34:08 GMT gandalvr said:

I don't have the "Half the World Away" music video to check, but I think it may be from that.

You're right it is, and the clothes don't seem to match either, my bad.

[likkevrom]

Link to the original page on BBC homepage: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07c4wjp

As with all BBC Radio shows, it could be replayed for a month after and then became unavailable

The link posted earlier is not available anymore. A recording of the Aurora section can still be found on Youku. It sounds like they played I Went Too Far (Jay Reynolds Radio Mix).

See also the I Went Too Far thread in Songs & Releases. Tagging gandalvr who asked about this show here.

[forrob]

Jul 6, 2022 15:07:49 GMT likkevrom said:

Link to the original page on BBC homepage: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07c4wjp

As with all BBC Radio shows, it could be replayed for a month after and then became unavailable

The link posted earlier is not available anymore. A recording of the Aurora section can still be found on Youku. It sounds like they played I Went Too Far (Jay Reynolds Radio Mix).

Backup of the BBC Radio1-broadcast-sequence with Aurora:

2016-06-03 AURORA - Ekstra 49: Audio-Interview with Clara Amfo / BBC Radio 1 & ‘I Went Too Far’

by Rob For (posted 2023-12-02) youtu.be/xZqIIflvaLY

Transcript:

„... and now it's time to speak to Aurora. ... So it's New Music Friday on Radio 1 and you know that means we bring you brand new music and you may have just heard a little giggle - I'm sorry - as I said that, cuz that was the voice of Aurora ...”
„Hello.”
„... who has brand new music for us. Hello my friend, how are you?”
„I'm good thank you and you?”
„I'm really good. I say "Hello my friend." We've only kind of known each other for about what... 30 seconds.”
„--??-- can be friends, that's fine."

„I'm feeling a good energy from you Aurora, I feel like you're a very nice person.”
„Oh, thank you. So what are you doing in this moment right now?”
„Well, right now I'm sitting in a... in a very strange room in a Norwegian radio station and I'm talking to you through a very nice looking microphone and it smells like hot chocolate in here. 'cause I... I have a cup... I brought a cup with me.”
„Got me craving hot chocolate now, but I know we're not here to talk about hot chocolate only, we are here to talk about music. I want to talk to you about what's been going on with you over the past I guess 18 months and this new single. So let's talk about 'All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend'. This came out back in March.”
„Yes."

„Was it a relief for you to get this album out, 'cause - you know - it's the debut album, It's your baby, right.”
„I know, yeah. It was... it was quite terrifying actually. It felt really really lovely and really awful releasing it because it felt like - you know - giving my babies away and you have this feeling when you work on a song that is not really ready to be given away ever, because you could basically work on one song until the day you die because it can always evolve. I think I cried when I woke up, both of joy and of like relief.”
„Absolutely and I guess... I think a lot of the time people will see a new artist come through and I think - you know - they were just pulled out of a pop star box and it is like 'Ok there you go, present yourself to the world', but it wasn't like that for you, was it?”
„No, it's been a very strange process. There's been a lot of working a lot of traveling and - you know I have kind of been preparing an album since I was nine, 'cause I have been writing songs at home since I was nine but I didn't really become an artist before I was 16 or I guess that's when my management signed me and since then all these strange things has been happening and I feel like a snowball just becoming bigger and bigger as I roll down in a - you know - quite fun but uncontrollable journey, if that makes sense.”
„It totally makes sense. So yeah, lots of weird things have happened to you… you sang a song for a department store, which I'm sure you probably didn't know anything about.”
„I thought it was a man actually, but ... so I thought like 'When am I going to meet this man?'”
„Besides John and and learning about his life and times you... you have loads of great songs out. We really enjoy 'Conqueror' on this show.”
„Oh, thank you.”
„Good song to get you in the mood for summer actually.”
„Yeah, it feels to me as well like a very summery song, 'cause it's not really it's not really sad, like most of my songs. Is quite a relief singing that song live as well, 'cause you... you can dance to it.”
„We got to talk about your... your new song as well 'I Went Too Far'.”
„Is quite an important song for me, 'cause - you know - being a woman and being a human basically in this world it can be hard for people to understand how much they are worth and it's very important to know that you should always be around people that reminds you of how much you are worth and... and not makes you feel like you're worth any less than you are, 'cause love can be so difficult and you shouldn't forget yourself while loving someone else and that's kind of what the song is about. Is a quite important message to get out there, 'cause it's... is a problem still.”
„Aurora, I want you to be my life coach. I want you to be my... my therapist.”
„Ok I... I will ... only a hot chocolate each hour ... [There you go.] ... that's all I take.”
„Nice, but I guess you almost don't need to be, 'cause that's why you have your music out there I guess. So you're going to be bringing all this wisdom and all this beautiful music over to the UK in the summer and again in October. So you're doing Glastonbury. That's a big deal.”
„Oh yeah I know. I'm very excited for that. I'm very new to the music industry or at least I feel like I am and I don't know that much about what festivals are big and... but just this festival I've actually heard about before. I'm very excited, because it feels very huge to me and you know when I do festivals it's always a great chance for me to get heard. There's always one person in the audience even if it's a thousand or just two people, ‘cause it can... it can make a difference - you know - to to hear music live.”
„100%. Oh Aurora ---??---. You just feel so calming and just... it's just lovely.”
„Oh, thank you.”
„Before I let you go though, I have got to ask you to introduce your song. Is that ok?”
„Ok. Hello, I'm Aurora here on BBC Radio 1 and now you can hear my new single 'I Went Too Far' and it's about loving yourself.”

Song ‘I Went Too Far’

„"Is this the girl from the Christmas advert? She sounds so sweet. I can't wait to hear her new stuff." Yes, that is the girl from the Christmas advert. Her name is Aurora. That was the followup to her last single 'Conquer'.” It was called 'I Went Too Far' ... hello to Sophie. Says, "I think I've just fallen in love with Aurora." Hello to Holly. Says "Yep Aurora my life coach. She's the sunshine of my life. Play this song more." I know right, she's so cool and calm to talk to. The great thing about her, we obviously we have to cut down the interview quite a lot. She spoke for ages, but she's... she's delightfully unaware of all these big festivals and loads of like just a kind of general pop culture in general. She's just kind in her own little kind of world. She calls her fans her weirdos, which I quite like and yeah she's awesome. But yeah, that was brand new stuff from her. Aurora with 'I Went Too Far' on Radio 1.”

Sources:

Audio: v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTU5NTYzMzA4NA==.html
Photo: www.facebook.com/iamAURORA/posts/1325994177428331