Playful yet Professional, Nevertheless: a Pet Shop Boys Interview
May 20, 2024 · The Pet Shop Boys know what they’re doing. Whenever Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe sit down for an interview, you’re guaranteed a dynamic that’s gold dust for journalists: Tennant delivers thoughtful reflection and piquant quotes, Lowe jumps in to offer asides or take the mick – deadpan, down to earth.
"Not Doing Things Is Soul Destroying" - Kevin Shields Of MBV ...
May 10, 2012 · And the funny thing is, we’d heard nothing yet. The galloping heart, the unbearable urgency, even that bit in the middle where it just kind of froze, tipped a gallon of petrol over itself, grinned and flicked the lighter… it turned out we’d heard nothing yet.‘You Made Me Realise’ may still be the greatest pop record My Bloody Valentine ever made, but once the album Isn’t Anything ...
Disintegration: A Classic 1989 Interview with Robert Smith of The …
May 6, 2010 · Robert Sandall, Q, May 1989 There are, Robert Smith feels, two quite distinct and separate Robert Smiths. One is meticulous, fastidious even, firmly in control of everything he and The Cure do. The other is all over the place: a binger, a self-destructive follower of the path of excess. A man who, I can’t help […]
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INTERVIEW: Wayne Bell on the Long-Awaited Release of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre score. As his score with Tobe Hooper for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre gets an official release, 50 years on, Wayne Bell speaks to Charlie Brigden about doing justice to an all-time classic, previously-unheard material, and getting his father to imitate a pig
Baker's Dozen - The Quietus
Baker's Dozen Pogue’s Gallery: Spider Stacy’s Favourite Albums As he prepares for more post-Shane MacGowan shows with The Pogues following a triumph in Hackney earlier this year, Spider Stacy takes Patrick Clarke through 13 records that shaped him, from post punk classics through to the new wave of folk music, via jazz, hip hop, roots reggae and more
30-Years On: David Bowie’s Lodger Comes In From The Cold
Jan 11, 2016 · 1977’s “Heroes” and Lust for Life were recorded back-to-back in Berlin’s Hansa Studios, it’s true, but Bowie bade Berlin Auf Weidersehn after sleepwalking through his part in David Hemmings’ Weimar decadence-by-numbers flick Just A Gigolo at the beginning of 1978. He spent the rest of that year touring the world, and drew a …
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The Maiden Voyage: Bruce Dickinson Interviewed | The Quietus
May 13, 2024 · “An Iron Maiden show is a magic ritual,” Bruce Dickinson confirms. “That’s absolutely what is going on. I look at what I’m doing – the way I behave, my placement on the stage at a certain point in the set – as almost shamanic. What you are doing is playing with the audience’s energy, raising […]
The Strange World Of… The La’s - The Quietus
Aug 30, 2023 · Indeed, like Beckett once writing in distress to a director after hearing that Estragon’s trousers only fell halfway down (rather than fully down) in a rehearsal of Waiting For Godot, Mavers would reject certain cables for being the wrong colour, cycle through umpteen guitars for one part, and fixate on certain tunings (either the ‘Pythagorean’ variant of 432Hz, or tuning to fridges, or ...
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