{"id":4160,"date":"2011-03-03T02:55:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T07:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2011-03-04T18:29:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T23:29:58","slug":"gimme-five-justin-of-justin-robinson-the-mary-annettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2011\/03\/gimme-five-justin-of-justin-robinson-the-mary-annettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Gimme Five! Justin of Justin Robinson &#038; The Mary Annettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Picture-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4180\" title=\"Justin Robinson &amp; The Mary Annettes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Picture-1-295x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Picture-1-295x300.png 295w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Picture-1-78x80.png 78w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Picture-1.png 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Justin Robinson&#8217;s may have traveled the world sharing traditional music as a chocolate drop, but these days he&#8217;s been pulling strings of a different sort as bandleader of his own crew of genre bending, crack instrumentalist<a href=\"http:\/\/justinrobinsonandthemaryannettes.com\/\"> Mary Annettes<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 They band&#8217;s tackled an EP and is looking ahead to a steady schedule of tour dates, but can their leader handle our five questions?\u00c2\u00a0 See for yourself after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. If your band were a muppet, which would it be?<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Picture-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4182\" title=\"Justin Robinson &amp; the Mary Annettes at the Visulite Theatre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Picture-3-292x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Picture-3-292x300.png 292w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Picture-3-78x80.png 78w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Picture-3.png 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe would be one of two puppets. Animal, who is crazy wild and unpredictable, and also has great hair or Miss Piggy whose swagger is always top notch. I mean, pearls on top of gloves? Who does that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. When did you decide to start this project?<\/strong><br \/>\nI decided to start this project when I was in Montpellier, France on a unusually warm March day. I was totally overstimulated and starting writing as a way of not exploding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Describe your feelings about performing live music.<\/strong><br \/>\nI like performing but most times I would like to be in the audience watching what it looks like from there.  I want our shows to be magical, transporting, experiences and I hope that comes through during the show. But I also hate watching myself perform because I&#8217;m so critical so I just hope it looks right.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Picture-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4181\" title=\"Justin Robinson &amp; the Mary Annettes at Shakori Hills Fall Festival 2010, Photo by Pete Pawsey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Picture-2-298x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Picture-2-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Picture-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Picture-2-79x80.png 79w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Picture-2.png 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a>4. Who\/what might be a few inspirations or influences that would really surprise people?<\/strong><br \/>\nOh, I&#8217;m not sure anyone could really be surprised by what my influences are because they are so numerous. But just to name a few: snails, a fantasy version of England, big hair, the way sparkly things look on TV\/stage, the harp, Loretta Lynn, Nicki Minaj, robots from the 50&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s, couture of the 1700&#8217;s in the Netherlands<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. What did you dream of being when you were a kid? (how \u00e2\u20ac\u2122d that turn out?)<\/strong><br \/>\nSo many things. A chef (that kinda worked out), a veterinarian (who didn&#8217;t?), and a visual artist. The last one is coming along, I have a new embroidery project that will be unveiled in the future (complete with pomp and circumstance)!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Hop on over<a href=\"http:\/\/justinrobinsonandthemaryannettes.com\"><\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/thepinhook.com\/events-2\">The Pinhook<\/a> this Sunday, March 6th to catch <a href=\"http:\/\/justinrobinsonandthemaryannettes.com\/\">Justin Robinson &amp; The Mary Annettes<\/a> live. And by all means, give Justin a high five when you see him!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Robinson&#8217;s may have traveled the world sharing traditional music as a chocolate drop, but these days he&#8217;s been pulling strings of a different sort as bandleader of his own crew of genre bending, crack instrumentalist Mary Annettes.\u00c2\u00a0 They band&#8217;s tackled an EP and is looking ahead to a steady schedule of tour dates, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-4160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","tag-gimme-five"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions\/4191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}