I have been making my rounds lately with interviews. A couple weeks ago, I was featured on Fusion Radio with Flying Bee. That same night, I had my joint, Put Em Down featured on Go Ill Radio with Timbuck 2. Last week, I had two interviews with people back in Kansas in support of the annual Thanksgiving Eve Show coming up. Splash Topeka just posted a feature/interview with me about the show, my current release schedule and what I have been doing in the last few months. Check out an excerpt from the interview below as well as the link to the full interview AND the official Celtic Fox Annual Thanksgiving Eve Takeover concert. Shout out to Heath O’Campo for the flier.
Mike Schpitz Interview with Splash Topeka “Rapper Home For The Holidays”
The last time we talked, you said Thanksgiving shows were a tradition for you.
It’s actually the third year in a row we have done the night before Thanksgiving or I think seven years in a row we’ve done either a Christmas or Thanksgiving show in Topeka, which is just like a crazy reunion when everyone’s back. It always turns out really, really big. Parents don’t stay up too late, so usually we have the show when parents go to bed and the kids that are back in town – anywhere from 18 to 40 years old – always show up for the show. Last year, we actually did two of them over Thanksgiving. We did one at McB’s the night before Thanksgiving, and then I think the night after we did one at the Celtic Fox. We thought that if people couldn’t make one they could make the other. It was pretty wild.
You must get quite a turnout, huh?
A lot of people from middle school, from high school, I mean – there’s so many people, and people who don’t even know that I do music. They show up like, ‘What? Mike performs?’ So yeah – it’s all just a really big high school reunion, just a big party.
When you’re anticipating a busy day of eating pumpkin pie and watching football, how do you even begin to work up the motivation to perform a show?
Aw, man. You know, I think it’s the energy of knowing all of my friends and family are back in town for the holidays. I don’t get to come to Kansas much – just because I’m constantly working or whatever. So when I come back, and especially when a lot of people who have moved away from Kansas are back, there’s just an energy and this really positive atmosphere that everyone’s back, everyone’s just having a good time. I think that helps a lot when I see that. I’ve been working so hard this year, so I want to show everyone what’s been going on and what I’ve been working on.
Mike Schpitz Interview with Splash Topeka “Rapper Home For The Holidays”
