Recent Posts Tagged With 'interview'

• Feature: Overpaid, oversexed and over here

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 12:40 in music, chicago, interview, detroit, features, house music, 1998, marshall jefferson, expletive undeleted, big issue in the north, claude young jr, deejay punk-roc

  THE first time Charles Gettis came to the UK was as a private in the 91st Airborne Division of the US Army. His first sight of the country came through the early morning November mists covering the vast open spaces of the Greenham Common airbase near...

• Interview: Amp Fiddler

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 08:27 in music, interview, detroit, interviews, 2004, george clinton, nu-soul, amp fiddler, expletive undeleted, the big issue in the north, waltz of a ghetto fly

  JOSEPH ‘Amp’ Fiddler has a theory that conversations are the dynamic for change in our lives and I’m with him all the way. How true this is when you’re speaking over the phone, I’m not so sure. Surely you need to be clos...

• Hip Replacement: Metal Box by Public Image Ltd (Virgin)

  Posted on Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 16:51 in interview, 1979, post punk, pil, john lydon, public image ltd, jah wobble, hip replacement, metal box

  HAVING just bought the 4 Men With Beards reissue of Metal Box from Piccadilly for an eye-watering 36 quid, I’m struck by a fortuitous piece of weird symmetry when I get home from town after the usual interminable endurance test that is the number 8...

• Interview: Steve Albini

  Posted on Sunday August 23rd, 2009 at 13:33 in music, interview, interviews, leeds, 1988, steve albini, big black, rapeman, david sims, scratch acid, expletive undeleted, rey washam

  ANOTHER reprint from the annals of GRUNT magazine, this time an interview with legendary guitar-botherer, microphone enthusiast and In Utero, Surfer Rosa and Pod engineer Steve Albini. After Big Black imploded at the height of their dark, angry powe...

• Interview: Shaun Ryder*1

  Posted on Tuesday May 12th, 2009 at 14:59 in music, interview, manchester, interviews, 2003, shaun ryder, expletive undeleted, the big issue in the north, the happy mondays, amateur night in the big top

  WHEN Shaun Ryder – erstwhile actor, author, newspaper columnist, Salfordian crooner, lyrical genius and a man who was banned from Channel Four for saying the fuck-word at tea time – sits you down in his living room and says that he wants to t...

• Interview: Crow People

  Posted on Saturday May 2nd, 2009 at 13:22 in interview, interviews, 1989, doncaster, anarcho-punk, expletive undeleted, grunt magazine, crow people

  CROW PEOPLE came from some pit village near Doncaster but they seemed to play an awful lot of gigs in the ‘industrial garden town’ of Scunthorpe. I first remember coming across them at one such packed, sweaty gig in the mid-Eighties, although whe...

• Interview: Bebel Gilberto

  Posted on Tuesday March 3rd, 2009 at 08:53 in music, Brazil, interview, interviews, 2004, 2003, bossa nova, city life, bebel gilberto, suba, joao gilberto, expletive undeleted

  I’D LOVE to be able to pretend that bossa nova has been a big part of my life for years and years, but the fact is I didn’t really get it - or any of that easy, lounge stuff - until I heard Bebel Gilberto’s major label debut, Tanto Tempo, in 20...

• Interview: Bogshed

  Posted on Tuesday February 10th, 2009 at 06:21 in indie, music, interview, interviews, 1986, c86, expletive undeleted, airstrip fanzine, bogshed, the hangar

  THOUGH it’s now routinely derided by the latest crop of fat, bitter and aged pop historians – that’s my gig, thank you very much – the NME’s C86 cassette was an essential purchase for those of us not in thrall to the emerging sound of h...

• Interview: Andrew Weatherall

  Posted on Tuesday February 3rd, 2009 at 06:54 in music, Dub, interview, techno, electronica, interviews, leeds, 1993, andrew weatherall, expletive undeleted, soundclash, the northern star

  HE MIGHT describe himself as the “classic underachiever”, but Andrew Weatherall doesn’t seem to have done so badly. A music and fashion nut from Windsor with an unhealthy obsession for the minutiae of the rituals and mores of a string of differ...

• Interview: Chuck D

  Posted on Wednesday January 7th, 2009 at 07:16 in music, interview, hip hop, interviews, 1999, public enemy, chuck d, expletive undeleted, the big issue in the north, there's a poison goin' on

  I DID this interview with Chuck D in August 1999, ahead of the release of Public Enemy’s seventh album, There’s A Poison Goin’ On. Can you tell that I didn’t really know what I was talking about when it came to all the downloa...

• Interview: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost

  Posted on Sunday November 30th, 2008 at 12:42 in Film, interview, interviews, zombies, 2004, shaun of the dead, simon pegg, nick frost, expletive undeleted, the big issue in the north

  AS PROMISED, here’s an interview with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost which I wrote up for The Big Issue in the North in early 2004, just ahead of the release of their rom-zom-com Shaun Of The Dead. * * * IT’S all very well for the Americans. T...

• Interview: Sonic Youth

  Posted on Sunday October 26th, 2008 at 12:16 in music, interview, interviews, sonic youth, 1987, expletive undeleted, airstrip fanzine

  THIS is a reprint of an interview with Sonic Youth I did for Airstrip*6 fanzine in mid 1987. Note fake Americanisms and early cut-and-paste plagiarism. * * * “BOLLOCKS!” Thurston Moore, one quarter of  this week’s ‘Best Band in the World Eve...

• Interview: Brian Eno

  Posted on Sunday October 19th, 2008 at 17:13 in interview, interviews, 2006, brian eno, generative music, expletive undeleted, constellations (77 million paintings), flux magazine

  PRODUCER, artist, music theorist, writer and anagram fan Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno first came to prominence in the early Seventies as a member of Roxy Music. Using an early VCS3 synth and a Revox reel-to-reel, Eno warped ...

• Interview: Flux of Pink Indians*2

  Posted on Saturday September 20th, 2008 at 08:48 in interview, interviews, anarcho-punk, flux of pink indians, expletive undeleted, bradford 1in12 club

  UNLIKE Spinal Tap, Colin Latter, Kevin Hunter and Martin Wilson didn’t have any unexpected chart success in Japan to tempt them into reforming Flux of Pink Indians. But they did have Steve Ignorant. Although there had been many lucrative offers to ...