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ahr Daily Car Hrrl NICOLE ATKINS: ALL BETTER Things have really taken off recently for Nicole Atkins. The singer has been on a roll, recently scoring a performance on “The Late Show with David Letterman. " And Atkins and her band, the Sea, are set to perform at the Local 506 on Saturday. Staff writer Jordan iMwrence caught up with Atkins as she was traveling to talk with her about groxcingupin New Jersey, her relationship to the Charlotte music scene and awkward talk show moments. Diversions: i hear you were known to get tired of peo ple requesting Bon Jovi and Springsteen songs when you used to play bars in New Jersey. Nicole Atkins: That's when I used to play in, like, pubs on the Jersey shore. 1 don’t know why they hired me to begin with. Dive: What bothered you about it? NA: It didn't really bother me other than 1 didn't know any. I used to play just songs 1 knew. It wasn't that I didn't like Springsteen; it's just that I didn’t take the time to learn any of his songs. I know some now. Dive: I actually notice a lot of thematic similarities between your music and Springsteen s. Both of you seem to thrive on that “you can’t go home again” aesthetic. Where does that come from? NA: I can't really speak for Springsteen, but maybe it's a New Jersey thing. Where we're from, it’s a really, really cool place. It’s close to the city. But it’s still f-king New Jersey. You want to leave, but you also want to stay. I guess it’s just trying to make yourself be okay with it. Dive: You did the art direction for your EP and album, right? NA: Yeah. The artwork came from the themes of the songs on (Neptune City). The two black swans on the cover came from where 1 live, the Shark River neighborhood. It's right on this river. A couple of years ago I woke up, and there was a black swan on the river. Everybody was like, ‘Where the hell did this come from?’ They only have black swans in Australia. One day we found it with its neck snapped. 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Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat is one of UNC's most distinguished alumni. He has held major posts in the Carter and Clinton Administrations and is currently a senior partner in the firm of Covington and Burling, LLC. Eizenstat was accorded high honors for his advocacy on behalf of holocaust survivors and was named International Lawyer of the Year in 2007. Co-sponsored by: The Campus Y, the Social and Economic Justice Minor, the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, the Curriculum in International and Area Studies, the School of Law, the Department of Political Science, and the Department of Public Policy. COURTESY Of JEREMY BAIDERSON New Jersey native and one-time Charlotte resident Nicole Atkins will bring her velvet voice to Local 506 on Saturday night with her band The Sea. importing black swans and clipped their wings for their private pond. The day before this one’s wings got clipped, it flew to my town. That's why I put it on the cover with a blue ribbon around its neck, to make it ail better. Dive: Shark River neighbor hood? NA: Yeah, they derived its name from the fact that the shark attacks that inspired “Jaws’ hap pened there. Dive: Did that make you scared to swim? NA: No. I mean it’s always an underlying fear, but. no, I like to swim. Dive: You were big into the Charlotte music scene while you were there for art school. NA: The music scene in Charlotte is a really cool scene. They took me in and let me be a part of it. Some of them were pretty harsh critics of my work. They pushed me to write better songs than I already was. They gave me a good competi tive streak. Dive: Were there any bands form N.C. that inspired you? NA: The Avett Brothers. They’re two of my best friends. We went to (UNC-Charlotte) together. We both kind of started out hav ing a full go at the music thing and supported each other. If 1 didn’t have anew song, they would get on my ass about writ ing more. That was always a really good motivator. Have a good song ready so you don’t look like a jerk The Next Half Century Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat, distinguished alumnus, talks about the world Carolina's graduates will face during the next fifty years. Diversions in front of The Avett Brothers. Dive: Your Web site says that the first song you learned to play was by the Grateful Dead. Which song was it? NA: It was “Uncle John’s Band." I went to the mall and I bought a Grateful Dead song book. Dive: What drew you to the Grateful Dead? NA: A lot of things. When I was a freshman in high school I went to a show. That whole sense of community, one big party. I was really into the song “Dark Star." It’s psychedelic, dark and kind of scan. A song like that really opens a 13- year-old’s head up. Dive: i saw your performance on (“The Late Show with David Letterman"). I noticed he gave you kind of a weird handhold. Was that awkward for you? NA: He wouldn’t let go of my hand. I wasn’t expecting that. It was kind of fimny. He dug it. He asked me if I wanted to go get a steak. Dive: Did he actually buy you a steak? NA: No. Dive: That’s lame. NA: I guess that's, like, show biz speak for “good job." Dive: Well, hopefully I’ll be able to come up and offer to buy you a steak at 506. NA: Yeah, I’m keeping a note book of people that owe me food. Contact the Diversions Editor at dive@unc.edu. ifirHY SAVc r Vv;-r ' : . 1 IF* t r i iiL. WUnLu ! Jf e- f • vir .7* . * r; ’•vias’Sl ■•w * • • v . TANARUS, '■ • \ 1 V • -V: ** - v X vt . \ . \ ” /I '*r /*' r './ ir THE METAL GEAR FRANCHISE IS HERE Am. /our mobiK- phone with the tactical action find espionage of METAL GEAR You |! experience the explosive action in a whole new way. METAL GEAR SOLID MOBILE • Exclusively provided Oft veri on ; iriETAL HEAR ■■ '■■■ v r ' ; tvj lllltai Exclusively provided on £*■ . and cn on '< pq KONAMI thursday, march 20,2008 7
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