MANDA RIN
bring my laptop and constantly do emails to send to my staff back home. Friends think I'm nuts for all my constant working. I do enjoy my business. though, so it's werth it.
She spent almost a decade as the frontwoman of Bis and has been running her own badge-making company for the last seven years. Manda Rin spills on the highs and lows of her whirlwind career ahead of the , 5 release of her solo album % Last extravagant purchase 3 you made
Probably booking a flight to San Francisco for January 2009 to go to MacWorld. It's always been a dream
to see a Steve Jobs’ Apple Keynote.
so I'm prepared to camp out over night to get in. Saddo . . .
Last great meal you cooked
I made a fantastic salmon. boiled potatoes and vegetables the other night. Very healthy. and I was so proud that it tasted amazing. Then, low fat ice-cream with hundreds and thousands sprinkled on top for dessert.
First record you ever bought
It was a seven-inch of the Bangles‘ ‘Manic Monday' in RS McCoII's in the Pollok Centre.
Last time you were chatted up
I never feel like I get chatted up. but am always told that I am by friends (and my boyfriend!) I just think people are being nice and friendly.
equal no matter what anyone says. I‘d also get proper funding and research First crush into Multiple Sclerosis. Craig Hunter in Primary 5 at Giffnock Primary. I did get a kiss eventually. First song you’ll sing at karaoke Kim Wilde — ‘Kids in America'.
First film you saw that really moved you
I think when I was younger and saw Grease for the first time, that really
moved me. I'm a soppy idiot at times!
Last book you read Bringing Down the House - Ben Mezrich.
Last time you exploited your position to get something
Being able to get into sold-out gigs. I First great piece of advice you think the Breeders was the last one. were given
Treat others they way you'd like to be
treated yourself.
First movie you ever went on a date to
Ghost at the Muirend Cinema (sadly now made into flats).
First time you realised you were famous
When ‘Kandy Pop' (Bis' first single) Last time you were star struck was in the Karaoke booths in Japan. I met the Late of the Pier singer at Rockness Festival and gave him one of my promo CDs. I think they are so
amazing that I was pretty speechless.
Last time you cried When Vera died in Coronation Street.
First three words your friends would use to describe you Hard-working, dirty (minded) and First thing you do when you’ve generous. got time off work
I never get time off work at all as I have my own business (www.wee
badgerscom). If I go away, I have to
First thing you’d do if you ran the country
Give women equal rights at work, especially pay. as it's far from being
Last time you made an impulse buy and regretted it A Sony Vaio laptop. So cute and tiny,
The Wackness
The guirkiest film of 2008 recreates the hip hop-pulsating streets of New York in 1994. Ben Kingsley plays a shrink who provides therapy to a young dealer with designs on his stepdaughter, in exchange for dope.
The Verve
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but I soon realised that I'm a Mac girl through and through.
First concert you ever attended It was the Stock Aitken and Waterman tour at the Edinburgh Playhouse. I must have been only nine or ten. Sonia and Big Fun played . . .
First thing you think of when you wake up in the morning
Every morning I do the Vicky Binns aerobics DVD before a shower. so I wake up dreading that. but do feel amazing once I've done it.
Last thing you think of before you go to sleep
What million things I've got planned for the following day. and what I should wear.
I Manda Rim '3 new Sl/ig/O ‘DNA' is available to download from 78 Aug and in the shops from 25 Aug. Her album MY DNA is released on 8 Sep.