Recent Posts Tagged With 'the big issue in the north'

• 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...

• Feature: The Band on the Wall, reborn

  Posted on Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at 02:20 in music, features, manchester, jah wobble, a certain ratio, expletive undeleted, the big issue in the north, graham massey, martin moscrop, the band on the wall

  THERE are plenty of venues in Manchester that are bigger than the Band on the Wall, and there may even be a few with a higher profile – but none of them can boast the same kind of musical pedigree. A tavern, pub and venue which, in one form or ...

• 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: 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: 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...