Category: Interviews

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Clara Engel interview: “I tend to connect with other people who are also outliers”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date January 22, 2021
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Clara Engel (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Aiden Baker, Amen RA, Brad Deschamps, Clara Engel, Ilyse Krivel, Jaggery, Mali Sastri, Org, Polar Seas Recordings

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Zelienople interview: “our biggest enemy is cynicism”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date January 8, 2021
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Zelienople (photo credit: Christopher Michael Hefner)

Tags Kranky, Matt Christensen, Miashma Recordings, Mike Weis, Sun Ra, Tortoise, Zelienople

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Daren Muti interview: “The purpose of a song is to balance light and shadow”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date January 4, 2021
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Daren Muti

Tags Acetate Zero, Araki Records, Daren Muti, Du Haut du Sol, Labradford

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Jamie Broad interview: “I’m not perfect and like anyone I’m trying to figure things out”

Post author By johnwitherspoon1987
Post date December 28, 2020
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Jamie Broad (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Black Dot, Blizzard, DJ 2Kind, Felcon, Jamie Broad, Jay-Z, Kayne West, Kof, Rosh, Streams

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Full Force: In Conversation with Holy Sons’ Emil Amos – Part 2

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 11, 2020
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Holy Sons' Emil Amos (photo credit: Casey Proctor - taken in Lisbon, Portugal).

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Bad Amputee interview: “trying to make something that works and does the music justice”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 4, 2020
1 Comment on Bad Amputee interview: “trying to make something that works and does the music justice”

Bad Amputee

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John Witherspoon interview: “there’s something magic about the truth”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 27, 2020
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John Witherspoon (photo credit: Rob Mulder)

Tags Alec Brits, Baxter Dury, bob dylan, Bob Harris, Bruce Springsteen, George Sephton, Jeff Tweedy, John Witherspoon, Katie Nicholas, Kevin Morby, nick cave, Noel Gallagher, oasis, richard dawson, Shane Black, Steven Gerrard, Wilco

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Hellena interview: “I am extremely proud of this work”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 20, 2020
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Hellena

Tags Chris Common, Denis Efimenko, Emma Ruth Rundle, Hellena, Ian Prowse, Lana Del Rey, Marissa Nadler, Pelican

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Bruxa Maria interview: “One should not have to like someone’s art before they can see or accept the value it has to others”

Bruxa Maria (photo credit: Julie R Kane - @FStopQueen)

Tags Bruxa Maria, Dave Cochrane, Gilld Dread, God, Head of David, Left Hand Cuts Off The Right, Robbie Judkins, Terminal Cheesecake

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Full Force: In Conversation with Holy Sons’ Emil Amos – Part 1

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 27, 2020
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Holy Sons' Emil Amos (photo credit: Casey Proctor)

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MJ Guider interview: “I didn’t set out with a specific inspiration for making the record other than my standard compulsion”

MJ Guider (photo credit: Craig Mulcahy)

Tags Bowery Electric, cocteau twins, Julianna Barwick, Kranky, Less Bells, Melissa Guion, MJ Guider

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Mitternacht interview: “we’re only ever going to do anything about climate change if we spend more time outdoors”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 11, 2020
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Tags Disco Inferno, Ex-Easter Island Head, Fennesz, Jonny Davis Le Brun, Land Trance, Mitternacht, Simon Reynolds, Speaker Music, The Necks, Tidiane Thiam, Tim Hecker

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Peter Hook Interview: “I’ve managed to take Joy Division all round the world”

Post author By sun13banjo
Post date August 22, 2020
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Banjo chats to to Joy Division and New Order’s bass viking about self belief, starting again and the absence of a happy ending.

Tags joy division, liverpool, new order, peter hook, rob gretton, the light, the smiths

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Orbital Interview: “We’re trailblazers for the next generation”

Post author By sun13banjo
Post date August 20, 2020
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Orbital’s Phil Hartnoll talks to Banjo. And talks. And then talks some more.

Tags cream, dance, hartnoll, liverpool, orbital, punk

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Dave Haslam Interview: “There is a redemptive power in music”

Post author By sun13banjo
Post date August 15, 2020
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Following the release of Dave Haslam’s autobiography Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor Banjo chatted with him about moving from post punk to dance, losing the safety net and playing The Smiths at Cream.

Tags au pairs, cream, dave haslam, hacienda, joy division, liverpool, mancjhester, new order, smiths

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Tom Robinson Interview: “I’ve got no illusions about the political left any more than I’ve got about the political right, but I do have a shrewd idea which of the two is going to stomp on us first”

With the Tom Robinson Band’s classic debut album Power in the Darkness turning 40, Banjo caught up with the man himself to find out how he feels about it all now he’s older and wiser.

Tags 6 music, bbc, power in the darkness, tom robinson, trb

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Land Trance interview: “Everything we do we feel sits in the broad continuum of psychedelic music”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 7, 2020
1 Comment on Land Trance interview: “Everything we do we feel sits in the broad continuum of psychedelic music”

Tags Aging, Andrew PM Hunt, aPAtT, Benjamin D. Duvall, Class A Audio, David McLean, Dialect, Engine, Ex-Easter Island Head, I Am Your Barber, Land Trance, Meshuggy, Monobrow, Outfit, Philip Jeck, Tombed Visions, Whistling Arrow

13 Questions Interviews

13 Questions with Gary Numan

Post author By sun13banjo
Post date August 4, 2020
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Futurist pop legend Gary Numan answers 13 questions and tells us about getting arrested in India, his worst gig and why he doesn’t need to cook.

Tags 13 Questions, gary numan, nine inch nails

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13 Questions with Mogwai

Tags Barry Burns, Dominic Aitchison, mogwai, Stuart Braithwaite

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Babybird’s Stephen Jones interview: “I am trying to look for the meaning of life but you’re never going to find it”

Post author By sun13banjo
Post date August 2, 2020
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With a new album out and a Liverpool date on the horizon, Ant23 talks to Babybird about his incredible work rate, self-loathing and being spat at by Johnny Rotten.

Tags Babybird, bandcamp, outsider, stephen jones

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