The Strange World Of… Shirley Collins
May 23, 2023 · Don’t be fooled. In real life, she balances her sweetness with a bloodily dogged determination to bring ears to songs about past working-class lives. She’s tackled the grim stuff often: multiple murders, suicides, as well sex and lust, …
What’s In A Name? Chino Moreno Of Deftones Interviewed
Sep 29, 2020 · Chino Moreno Of Deftones Interviewed. Chino Moreno speaks to John Doran about how the global pandemic has shifted the context of new Deftones album, Ohms. All studio photos by Frank Delgado and Clemente Ruiz. I can remember when I first saw the name “Deftones” passing briefly through my field of vision in the pages of Melody Maker in 1995.
"Embrace It Or Fuck Off" - Robert Plant Interviewed - The Quietus
Nov 20, 2014 · Julian Marszalek Published 11:33am 20 November 2014. Robert Plant doesn’t so much walk into a room as bound in and fill it with both a physical presence and a palpable charisma. A big man – he could easily have been a centre-half in another life – Plant is all laughs and smiles as he arrives in his local watering hole when based in North ...
A Long Way From Accrington: Jon Anderson Of Yes Interviewed
Aug 3, 2020 · Duncan Seaman Published 11:14am 3 August 2020. All portraits by Deborah Anderson. By any standards, Jon Anderson’s album 1000 Hands has been a long time in coming. The former Yes singer actually started work on this record 30 years ago with Brian Chatton, a long-time friend from his 60s group The Warriors. Anderson had contacted Chatton ...
“It’s Not Easy Listening”: Thirty Years Of Pure Fucking Mayhem
Apr 10, 2014 · On their 30th anniversary - with an appearance at Oya Festival booked and a new album ready for release - John Doran looks beyond the murder, the suicide, the extremism and the immolation, and talks to Mayhem's founder Necrobutcher about their radical music and nothing else. John Doran Published 4:04am 10 April 2014.
My Name Is Prince: On Race, Identity & The End Of The Love Symbol
May 18, 2020 · Twenty years after Prince abandoned the Love Symbol to reclaim his own name, Soma Ghosh explores what lay behind this subversion of gender and racial identity. Soma Ghosh Published 11:22am 18 May 2020. May 2020 marks two decades since Prince reclaimed his real name after living as a symbol for seven years. “You’re different,” remarked ...
The Strange World Of… This Mortal Coil
Dec 3, 2018 · Featuring on It’ll End In Tears, Howard Devoto provides the vocal part for This Mortal Coil’s cover of Alex Chilton’s ‘Holocaust’, which originally depicted the increasingly strung-out and emotionally unhinged side of the Big Star songwriter. The album also features another Chilton cover, ‘Kangaroo’. The musical arrangements of ...
The Quietus Radio
New Voices Ukraine: Memory Leaks V – How a Single Radio Show Shaped Odesa’s Music Scene. In the latest instalment of our collaboration with Kyiv’s 20ft Radio we hear tales of taxi drivers horrified by music, “Baroque pop”, paying tribute to Twiggy Pop, and ask what is an Independent label, in Ukraine. The fifth Memory Leaks episode is a trip to the south of Ukraine in the 2000s and ...
Afternoon Delight: Brett Anderson Interviewed - The Quietus
Oct 3, 2019 · Tariq Goddard sits down with Suede frontman, Brett Anderson for a frank talk ahead of the publication of Afternoons With The Blinds Drawn, the second volume of the singer's memoirs. Tariq Goddard Published 5:56am 3 October 2019. Portrait by Paul Khera. Coal Black Mornings, the first volume of Brett Anderson’s memoir, was a haunting and ...
The Silent Partner Speaks: Vince Clarke Interviewed
Oct 5, 2023 · Jude Rogers Published 9:29am 5 October 2023. All portraits by Eugene Richards. The cover of Vince Clarke’s debut solo album feels like it’s making a statement. Monochrome, grainy, all ear, nose and throat, it’s a close-up of the face of an unlikely pop star, one who has sold roughly 30 million records over the last 42 years.