Interviews
Getting to the heart of what artists are thinking
The Strange World of… Steve Aylett
With Heart Of The Original, his radical treatise on creativity, back in print and new novel The Book Lovers out last December, cult author Steve Aylett is ripe for discovery. Aug Stone talks to him and offers ten points of entry into his back catalogue
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The Strange World of Andy Bell: Erasure & Beyond
As Andy Bell prepares to release his finest solo album to date, he guides Luke Turner through his Strange World, from his relationship to Erasure's hits, remixing Vince Clarke, touring with Cyndi Lauper, singing with Debbie Harry and a one-man play about a randy vampire.
Baker's Dozen
No Repeats: Tunde Adebimpe’s Favourite Albums
In the wake of his debut solo album, the TV On The Radio vocalist looks back to his longstanding love of mixtapes for an eclectic Baker's Dozen – taking in 60s psychedelia, hip hop, krautrock, dub, IDM, and his eight-year-old daughter's love of Lightning Bolt
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Nuclear Family Folk: MPTL Microplastics Interviewed
Ahead of an appearance at next month's Acid Horse festival, the industrial folk ensemble speak to Claire Biddles about power plant tourism, Home Counties gothic and why they embrace artistic violence (as long as it doesn't occur near the cellist). All photographs by Spela Cedilnik
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Like Starting Over: An Interview with Shack
Patrick Clarke meets Peter Wilkinson and brothers Michael and John Head in Liverpool to discuss the surprise return of their much-adored band Shack, processing the death of their drummer, newfound sobriety, and why they've never paid much mind to the misfortune that's plagued their career thus far
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Kevin Lee Kharas of Real Lies on the Joys of Doomscrolling
People say doomscrolling is tearing apart the social fabric – and they're probably right – but, says Kevin Lee Kharas of Real Lies, it's a problem he's learning to like. Here, he tells us what it's taught him about life and people
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Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
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Find a Note and Keep Going: An Interview with Dawn Terry
From the days of Bong to a host of collaborations; cranky lo fi Dungeon Synth to one of the most arresting and enveloping improvised solo drone projects around, Dawn Terry is a mainstay of the UK underground. Ahead of her performance at Acid Horse in May, she speaks to Harry Sword about Fighting Fantasy, Doom Yoga and Ukrainian hurdy-gurdy
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Brave in Particular Contexts: Mclusky Interviewed
tQ’s official Mclusky correspondent, JR Moores, catches up with Andrew Falkous for a freewheeling chat covering pesto, Genghis Khan, tinnitus and the revived rock trio's first album in over two decades. Plus, the band share the new video for brand new track 'Chekov's Guns'
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Northern Gothic: Rainy Miller Interviewed
In the first interview about his new album, the Lancashire producer Jack Bowes talks to Fergal Kinney about Preston grime, absent fathers, and why he’s exhausted with the discussion about class in British music. CW: Mentions suicidal ideation
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Quests in Time and Space: Jem Finer on The Pogues and his 1000-year Longplayer
Longplayer is a musical installation that will play for a millennia. Its composer Jem Finer speaks to Darran Anderson about how the differences between this challenge to our sense of human time is, perhaps unexpectedly, closely related to his work in The Pogues
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Find a Note and Keep Going: An Interview with Dawn Terry
From the days of Bong to a host of collaborations; cranky lo fi Dungeon Synth to one of the most arresting and enveloping improvised solo drone projects around, Dawn Terry is a mainstay of the UK underground. Ahead of her performance at Acid Horse in May, she speaks to Harry Sword about Fighting Fantasy, Doom Yoga and Ukrainian hurdy-gurdy
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Brave in Particular Contexts: Mclusky Interviewed
tQ’s official Mclusky correspondent, JR Moores, catches up with Andrew Falkous for a freewheeling chat covering pesto, Genghis Khan, tinnitus and the revived rock trio's first album in over two decades. Plus, the band share the new video for brand new track 'Chekov's Guns'
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Northern Gothic: Rainy Miller Interviewed
In the first interview about his new album, the Lancashire producer Jack Bowes talks to Fergal Kinney about Preston grime, absent fathers, and why he’s exhausted with the discussion about class in British music. CW: Mentions suicidal ideation
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Quests in Time and Space: Jem Finer on The Pogues and his 1000-year Longplayer
Longplayer is a musical installation that will play for a millennia. Its composer Jem Finer speaks to Darran Anderson about how the differences between this challenge to our sense of human time is, perhaps unexpectedly, closely related to his work in The Pogues
Baker's Dozen
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
Baker's Dozen
Beauty and Sadness: Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast’s Favourite Albums
Michelle Zauner, driving force behind Japanese Breakfast, takes David Chiu through her life in 13 records, from foundational encounters with Motown, the beauty of Pacific Northwestern indie, and the inspiration she found in Mount Eerie and Joanna Newsom
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God Tier: Tyler Hyde of Black Country, New Road’s Favourite Albums
As she moves up to co-lead vocal and songwriting duties for Black Country, New Road, Tyler Hyde selects 13 records that influence her craft, from Randy Newman to The Fall via Frank Ocean, "Blue" Gene Tyranny and more
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Beauty and Sadness: Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast’s Favourite Albums
Michelle Zauner, driving force behind Japanese Breakfast, takes David Chiu through her life in 13 records, from foundational encounters with Motown, the beauty of Pacific Northwestern indie, and the inspiration she found in Mount Eerie and Joanna Newsom
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Artists go head-to-head
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Peer Review: Gazelle Twin Interviews Gary Numan… And Vice Versa
We left two of our favourite musicians, Gazelle Twin and Gary Numan, alone to answer the kind of questions they wish they were always asked, talking ghost encounters, weirdness in pop music, parenthood, the end of humanity and more
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Peer Review: Robert Macfarlane Interviews Hayden Thorpe… And Vice Versa
We left musician Hayden Thorpe and the writer Robert Macfarlane alone to answer the kind of questions they wish they were always asked
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Peer Review: Stephen Pastel Interviews David Keenan… And Vice Versa
Ahead of the release of the This Is Memorial Device album, based on the play, which was in turn based on the novel, musician Stephen Pastel and writer David Keenan interview one another, without any interference from us
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Peer Review: Gazelle Twin Interviews Gary Numan… And Vice Versa
We left two of our favourite musicians, Gazelle Twin and Gary Numan, alone to answer the kind of questions they wish they were always asked, talking ghost encounters, weirdness in pop music, parenthood, the end of humanity and more
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Peer Review: Stephen Pastel Interviews David Keenan… And Vice Versa
Ahead of the release of the This Is Memorial Device album, based on the play, which was in turn based on the novel, musician Stephen Pastel and writer David Keenan interview one another, without any interference from us
Things I Have Learned
Artists illuminate their non-musical passions
Things I Have Learned
Circuit des Yeux on the Poop Jokes of Scott Walker
A decade ago CdY couldn't understand why people compared her music to that made by a man in his seventies, but after listening to the work of Scott Walker she found much she approved of, including scatological humour. Main portrait by Dana Trippe, all other pictures by Haley Fohr
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Circuit des Yeux on the Poop Jokes of Scott Walker
A decade ago CdY couldn't understand why people compared her music to that made by a man in his seventies, but after listening to the work of Scott Walker she found much she approved of, including scatological humour. Main portrait by Dana Trippe, all other pictures by Haley Fohr
Rock's Backpages
Archive music journalism from our friends at RBP
Rock's Backpages
When Mark Met Nick and Shane: Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse
From Rock's Backpages this month, an infamous NME pop summit from 1989. James Brown and Sean O'Hagan took Mark E Smith, Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan to the Montague Arms (RIP) in New Cross. Great merriment ensued... (republished 24th January 2018)
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Rock’s Backpages: Paul Morley’s 1997 Review Of Radiohead’s OK Computer
Fifteen years after the release of Radiohead's phenomenal OK Computer, we visit the Rock's Backpages archive for Paul Morley's Uncut magazine review
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Tortoise: Shell On Earth, By Simon Reynolds
The Quietus are proud to be hosting the Village Mentality stage, headlined by Tortoise, at Field Day this Saturday. Writing for the Melody Maker in February 1996, Simon Reynolds heralded their album Millions Now Living Will Never Die as the future...
Rock's Backpages
When Mark Met Nick and Shane: Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse
From Rock's Backpages this month, an infamous NME pop summit from 1989. James Brown and Sean O'Hagan took Mark E Smith, Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan to the Montague Arms (RIP) in New Cross. Great merriment ensued... (republished 24th January 2018)
Rock's Backpages
Tortoise: Shell On Earth, By Simon Reynolds
The Quietus are proud to be hosting the Village Mentality stage, headlined by Tortoise, at Field Day this Saturday. Writing for the Melody Maker in February 1996, Simon Reynolds heralded their album Millions Now Living Will Never Die as the future...
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10 reccomended entry points into an artist’s back catalogue
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The Strange World Of… Kevin Drumm
Following the recent release of a ten-disc compilation and a ferocious sequel to his 2002 record Sheer Hellish Miasma, Kevin Drumm speaks to Daryl Worthington about key releases in his three-decade spanning catalogue, covering music from the almost absent to the blisteringly present
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The Strange World Of… Brainiac
Stevie Chick speaks to John Schmersal in order to offer ten points of entry into the back catalogue of recently reconvened cult rock band Brainiac. Main portrait by Lee Ann McGuire
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The Strange World Of… Kevin Drumm
Following the recent release of a ten-disc compilation and a ferocious sequel to his 2002 record Sheer Hellish Miasma, Kevin Drumm speaks to Daryl Worthington about key releases in his three-decade spanning catalogue, covering music from the almost absent to the blisteringly present
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Celebrating 20 Years Of Wolfgang Voigt’s Gas
Wolfgang Voigt's ambient techno project turns 20 this year and is celebrated by a new box set on Kompakt. Long term fan David Stubbs sees Gas as a bridge between Krautrock and "the great dancefloor movements of the late 20th/early 21st century"
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To The Things Themselves: The Strange World Of… Wolfgang Voigt
Following the return of his ground-breaking ambient techno Gas project with Narkopop after a seventeen-year hiatus and a renewed live presence, Wolfgang Voigt speaks to Maria Perevedentseva about three decades of collapsing the boundaries between the minimal and the maximal, and the popular and the esoteric
Anniversary
Separate The Game From The Truth: Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready To Die
On March 10, 1997, Angus Batey was due to interview Biggie Smalls, a conversation that never took place after the rapper was fatally shot a day earlier. Here, he takes an in-depth look at the "masterpiece" that was the debut album from the hip hop luminary. This feature was first published on 11 September 2014
