Florence Welch, winner of the Brits Critics Choice, talks to Bob from virgin.com/music about her debut album Lungs, her festival plans for the summer and how she’d like to share teh stage with Beyonce and Beth Ditto from The Gossip…
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June 24th, 2009
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June 23rd, 2009
Florence & The Machine’s leading lady chatting frantically about her rise to prominence last year as one of the BBC’s Sounds of 2009 and the Brits Critics Choice of the year as well asdishing the gossip about what she got up to backstage at the NME tour earlier this year with White Lies and Glasvegas…
June 22nd, 2009
In anticipation of the third all-out new wave cover record of Francophonic lounge champs Nouvelle Vague, our weaving electronic paths intertwined with founding member Olivier Libaux to discuss the contemporary significance of the cover version, urges to throw a bit of original songwriting into the copyright-cleansed mix and the odd guest spot…
June 14th, 2009
Having engrained themselves into the binary coding of Scottish nationalism and pieced together more than their fair share of greatest hits compiled of ridiculously memorable singles, you’d be forgiven for thinking that brothers Charles and Craig Reid would be old hands at the promo rounds that pre-empt every record. Yet their ‘appetite to get out […]
June 10th, 2009
Near the end of 2008 one of the best albums of the year dropped and although it didn’t make my top 10 list, it did consistently come up 11th or 10b, I loved it that much. That album, Does You Inspire You, is by the band Chairlift haling from Brooklyn-slash-Colorado. If you don’t recognize the […]
June 10th, 2009
Evidently still riding off such a colossal high as playing in front of 85,000 forty eight hours previously, Billy Talent guitarist Ian D’sa and drummer Aaron Solowoniuk take a breather to talk charity work, Billy Talent III and the fad of Ramones t-shirts that’s swept the UK for years…
June 9th, 2009
‘I remember once I did a show in London, ages ago, when I was just starting out. At the time I was a student gigging in Liverpool and after a couple of months I thought “Oh, I’ll go and do a show in London”. I went down and the only people in the audience were my mum, the head of Sony and about four or five other people in the entire audience. Apparently, the guy from Sony thought it was hilarious; I barely had three songs.’ Things have changed considerably since then for Eugene McGuinness…
June 9th, 2009
Thanks to the internet, downloads have never been as rife. However, not all artists are benefiting from this boom, as older music fans struggle to keep up with new technology. Eoghan McKeever speaks to the veteran singer Tony Christie about his battle with the download market and why Jarvis Cocker should be the next Poet […]
June 8th, 2009
Post War Years singer Si took time out from tour preparations to chat with little old us about the state of music, living in a hairdressers and, of course, Jack Bauer…
June 8th, 2009
Thirty years on from Jeff Wayne’s inspirational sci-fi musical masterpiece War of the Worlds, in desperate anticpiation of his induction into the Hall of Fame at the O2’s British Music Experience Wayne speaks of his relentless drive, the effect of the record on his lifetime, floating holograms and thirty-five-foot fighting machines…
June 8th, 2009
Recently I was fortunate enough to catch up with one of the most genuine guys in the business, Tommy Sparks, just following the release of his second single, She’s Got Me Dancing, and his debut self-titled album. We talked about his new record, his plans for the summer, thoughts on the current music scene, just how important playing live is to him and loads more…
June 1st, 2009
Patrick Wolf (who has just released his latest album - The Bachelor) has never been one for convention. Three minutes before a scheduled interview time, he’s still on the motorway skirting around the sprawling Bristol outskirts. When his blacked-out, ramshackle vehicle finally arrives, he tumbles out and shoots off, later revealing he needed to purchase a guitar for the show. Extravagant? Perhaps. Diva-esque? Certainly. But as he talks of split personas, “the best sex ever” and Little Boots, holding a grudge is utterly implausible…
June 1st, 2009
While in town to play and promote his new new debut, self-titled album (reviewed here), I was fortunate enough to get a few questions answered from the exceptionally talented Brooklyn based singer-songwriter Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson…
May 19th, 2009
We Have Band, unsigned but seemingly unstoppable. I was able to have a quick phone call with member Darren Bancroft before they take off for a series of shows starting with this weekends Stag and Dagger festival…
May 15th, 2009
I was recently quite chuffed to be able to sit down and have a nice little chat with Victoria Hesketh, better known as Little Boots. Despite being an emerging artist, I was nonetheless stupidly star struck by the synth geek from Blackpool. So after messing with her head by banging on about the almost ridiculous amount of hype and accolades she’s been getting from all and sundry (she got namechecked in our interviews with electro pop heroes Pet Shop Boys and Saint Etienne), I eventually calmed down and let the very laid back Little Boots tell us all a bit about her debut album Hands, why she thinks LA is just like her native Blackpool, how much she wants to work with Brandon Flowers of The Killers, and about her new project (maybe): Coronotion Street - The Musical - In Space (exclusive!)… watch on…
May 15th, 2009
Just before they took off for the south coast to play The Great Escape festival I was fortunate enough to catch up with Cole Alexander and Jared Swilley of Black Lips. They talk about 200 Million Thousand, plans for the summer, their bizarre and not all pleasant Glastonbury experience, a bunch of weird, far right, homophobic Christians from Singapore and the possibility of including firearms in their stage act…
May 8th, 2009
Orlando Weeks - adored, reluctant frontman of the most exciting indie band in the country right now, The Maccabees. We caught up with him to get threatened with hexes and discuss new single Love You Better and album Wall of Arms…
May 8th, 2009
Following on from our feature/review of The Panics last week which you can see Here, I managed to catch up with lead singer Jae Laffer before the band start a month long tour of the UK…
May 6th, 2009
Yes, you did read it correctly: Blazin’ Squad have returned. During their five year break, the former group spent a lot of time chasing individual ambitions, but they felt it was time to come back. The new line-up, which contains half of the original members (Kenzie, James, Mus, Lee and Marcel) have a new single Let’s Start Again being released next month…
April 30th, 2009
I was lucky enough recently to get in an interview with the man of the moment - FrankMusik. After supporting Keane and the Pet Shop Boys on tour, he is apparently going to be co-producing Cheryl Cole’s solo album while she’s ‘on a break’ from Girls Aloud. Watch out exclusive little video now to find out why 80s influenced FrankMusik was formerly known as Mr Mouth and just why he’s set for big things in 2009 (even if he is a Whitney Houston fan)… Oh and keep an eye out for his debut album Complete Me (including singles Better Off As Two and Three Little Words), I’ve nabbed a sampler and it’s very nice indeed…
