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Kristian Nairn’s Sit Down With Qmunicate Magazine

DJ Kristian Nairn has been traveling all over the globe on his Rave of Thrones tour. This past Tuesday, September 13th, Nairn brought his Rave of Thrones to The Queen Margaret Union in Glasglow. Nairn sat down with Qmunicate Magazine, The Queen Margaret Union’s award-winning student magazine at the University of Glasgow, for a chat about his music, DJing, and of course Game of Thrones. Check out some of the interview below, but be sure to head over to qmunicatemagazine.com for more!

Team Pubs: You’ve played here before, how can we do better than last time?

KN: I don’t know. They were really noisy and rowdy last time and that was amazing, I really like that so I really hope it’s the same tonight.

Team Pubs: It usually is.

KN: Yeah! And that’s what you’re known for so I’m sure you won’t disappoint.

T.P.: So you’ve travelled around the world DJing

KN: Yea I have, everywhere. Literally.

TP: Where’s you favourite place to perform?

KN: Obviously Glasgow!

TP: Well obviously!

KN: But you know what, Scotland’s been really good so far. Every gig so far has been really great so far.

TP: Have you had any good memories from this run of shows so far?

KN: It all blurs into one. Seriously, honestly. I’ve been doing this for an awfully long time but it’s (Scotland) treating me really well so far, it’s up there now with Australia. Australia as a whole is really just an amazing place, it’s just filled with really cool people and they know how to party there. But if you guys keep it up you’re going to be neck and neck.

TP: So are you looking forward to having more time for your DJing now?

KN: Yes, er I mean I’m so busy at the moment. So many projects on the go. Obviously so far for Freshers’ I’m focussing more on Djing, it’s really like shooting fish in a barrel there’s just so many things happening, it is hard to concentrate. But my plans in stone is that I get back around the 20th of November, it’s a long one, and then hopefully after that I’ll get back to the studio in January and I can start to make my own music again. I’d really like to focus on that because it’s so hard to find time to get in the studio.

TP: Have you got any more acting gigs coming up?

KN: Yeah, I’m heading to New Jersy after Christmas to do a movie and then hopefully to Utah to film a Netflix show.

TP: Awesome that’d be amazing. And just as a kind of side question, this isn’t related to anything else – a little bird told us you used to do drag before DJing?

KN: Yeah, that’s how it all started, that’s how this incarnation of my life stated. Being a drag queen led onto Dj-ing

TP: Well I mean the logical progression.

KN: Yeah! (laughs)

In 2015, Kristian Nairn released Up / Beacon (feat. Leanne Robinson) and 4Love (feat. Salt Ashes), both of which received rave reviews worldwide! Both singles are now available for download on iTunesBeatport, and for streaming on Spotify & SoundCloud. Find a Rave of Thrones tour date near you at: raveofthrones.com