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"Interviewing Bands"

I'm writing for an online magazine thats fairly big and I'm lucky enough to have the opportunity to interview the bands The Haunted, God Forbid and Mantiis when they tour in November this year. I'm really keen but I've never done anything like this before, I've never even interviewed non-famous people. I was just wondering if anyone could give me some pointers if you've interviewed people (for any purpose) in the past.

Also if you like/know of the bands and you've got some awesome question ideas then feel free to fire them at me.

Thanks in advance.

Yeah but that's a bit lame stealing other interviewers questions. I have various ideas for what to ask, it's more tips on how to deal with it, how to act and what sort of approach to take (let them do most of the talking or me trying to lead the direction of conversation, etc)

Buy decent music magazines/browse their sites and see what questions they ask.

I'm writing for an online magazine thats fairly big and I'm lucky enough to have the opportunity to interview the bands The Haunted, God Forbid and Mantiis when they tour in November this year. I'm really keen but I've never done anything like this before, I've never even interviewed non-famous people. I was just wondering if anyone could give me some pointers if you've interviewed people (for any purpose) in the past.

Also if you like/know of the bands and you've got some awesome question ideas then feel free to fire them at me.

Thanks in advance.