A Quietus Interview
Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
A Quietus Interview
Hammer & Tongs: The Darkness’ Justin Hawkins Interviewed
With their fourth album, Last Of Our Kind, just released, the Lowestoft rock behemoths' singer and lead guitarist Justin Hawkins talks to Harry Sword in a wide-ranging interview, ranging from hedonism and touring with Lady Gaga to the travails of acid reflux and the "fucking genius" of David Hasselhoff
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Something To Give Yourself To: An Interview With Piano Wire
After the curtain fell on The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster's second act, that band's Andy Huxley and Sym Gharial began writing songs together. They tell Jeremy Allen about the innate weirdness of their brand of pop music and why Piano Wire are TEMBD's "spiritual heir"
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In Transit: An Interview With Danielle de Picciotto
The prolific musician, artist, film-maker, author and co-founder of the Berlin Love Parade has recently released her debut solo album, Tacoma. She tells Sand Avidar how the nomadic lifestyle she shares with husband Alexander Hacke and a return to her hometown shaped the record
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Highly Radiogenic: Langham Research Centre Interviewed
A quartet of BBC radio producers and broadcasters have taken up the mantle of the Radiophonic Workshop and set about performing classic works of musique concrète. They tell Robert Barry how vintage equipment, Daphne Oram and an encounter with John Cage all played their role
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Hyper-Personal: Holly Herndon Interviewed
As Holly Herndon releases her second album proper, Platform, Christian Eede speaks to her about drawing on personal experiences and why collaboration is important to offering an optimistic alternative to cynicism. All photographs by Al Overdrive
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A Place Outside Of Normal Life: An Interview With Keeley Forsyth
The actor and musician is soon to release new material, sounding, in the words of The Eccentronic Research Council, like it came out of "a 17th-century Lancastrian pagan folk cult". Daniel Dylan Wray talks to her before she supports tQ's John Doran on his book tour in Sheffield this Friday
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Africa In Your Cassette Decks: Awesome Tapes From Africa Interviewed
With his set at Field Day on the horizon, Brian Shimkovitz, the founder of the blog-turned-label, discusses dusting off forgotten musical gems from across the African continent and the ethics of reissuing with Annette Barlow
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A Droning In The Eire: Jennifer Walshe On The Irish Avant-Garde
A new project has begun to explore and document the wealth of experimental music in Ireland's past. Ian Maleney speaks to the Aisteach Foundation's Jennifer Walshe about ecclesiastical drone, bog-dwelling noise musicians and a hitherto uncelebrated group of queer composers
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You Have To Fight For Change: Algiers Interviewed
Politicised trio Algiers come roaring out of the American South with a righteous and heady mix of gospel, Rowland S Howard guitar noise and a drum machine. They speak to Luke Turner about the cultural void of Atlanta, colonialism, racism and the apathy of their peers
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Compelling Form: An Interview With Bruce
In the final year of his university music course, Bristol producer Bruce decided to leave behind electro-acoustic experimentation to make self-described 'bangers'. He tells Glenn Raymond why he's hoping to shake people's expectations with his mangled dancefloor constructions
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My Mind Is Going: Psychedelic Vanguard Sculpture Interviewed
Ahead of one of their all-encompasing, mind-unlocking, dance-starting, cortex-melting, immersive psychedelic events in Hackney this Friday, John Doran talks to the audio visual masters of (un)reality, Sculpture. Enjoy an exclusive audio/video transmission
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Tangled Paths: An Interview With Orphx
With the second of their Sonic Groove compilations recently released and a new album on the way, the industrial techno duo have an in-depth conversation with Albert Freeman about the oft-overlooked rhythmic noise scene and the evolution of their sound and approach to production
