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Alex Ogg

News

PREVIEW: Merge Festival

Alex Ogg gives us a rundown of this year's event at the annual Bankside celebration, which begins this Thursday
A Quietus Interview

The Greater Swindle: Jamie Reid, Punk Art & #Occupy

Alex Ogg meets Jamie Reid for a conversation about his new exhibition, political art and #Occupy... "Read Tom Paine!" he tells us. Additional reporting, Russ Bestley. Photos Alex Ogg & Tzortzis Rallis
News

Now Showing: Jamie Reid Exhibition

A Quietus Interview

Dodge The Bullets: An Interview With Killing Joke

"This whimpering little nation - what’s become of us?" An old school style encounter with Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman, as Alex Ogg feels the fury of the jester of the apocalypse. Live photo by Alex Ogg
A Quietus Interview

All Of This And Nothing: The Psychedelic Furs On Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs return to the UK in late October to play their second album, _Talk Talk Talk_, in its entirety. Alex Ogg spoke to founding brothers Tim (bass) and Richard (vocals) Butler.

In Conversation

Bring The Ruckus: Indies And Majors Slug It Out

Alex Ogg, author of _Independence Days: The Story of UK Independent Labels_ gets involved in some vicious close quarters combat with Marcus Gray, author of _Route 19 Revisited: The Clash and London Calling_, before escalating to nukes
Reviews

Editors

In This Light And On This Evening

Things I Have Learned

Hugh Cornwell Of The Stranglers On The Hoover Dam

Hugh Cornwell believes that the Hoover Dam is a testament to mankind's ingenuity. And that the recent one day cricket matches were a waste of time. As told to Alex Ogg
Black Sky Thinking

Beyond Rip It Up: Towards A New Definition Of Post Punk?

Alex Ogg visits Leeds University to assess the academic response to the developing debate around post-punk and finds a little too much consensus
A Quietus Interview

Jello Biafra Of The Dead Kennedys Interview

Biafra’s back – and this time he’s packing a ‘real’ band. The former Dead Kennedys frontman is re-energised by fronting a new group, The Guantanamo School Of Medicine, who tour the UK in September 2009. Alex Ogg chews the fat with him

A Quietus Interview

Colossal Youths: Young Marble Giants Interviewed

Four decades after its release, Young Marble Giants' _Colossal Youth_ remains one of the most enigmatic releases of the period. Alex Ogg talked to Stuart Moxham from the band
Black Sky Thinking

Half Man Half Biscuit – SEOing The HMHB Back Catalogue

Reviews

The Monks

Black Monk Time reissue / The Early Years

Things I Have Learned

Vini Reilly: Always The Bridesmaid, Never The Bride

The Quietus tracks down the musician many still rate as the most expansive and creative of the post-punk era, The Durutti Column's Vini Reilly
Books

Don’t Fear The Reaper – Mick Mercer On Goth

Alex Ogg talks to Mick Mercer about his new Gothic book, Music To Die For, and asks... goth or not?
Reviews

Bat For Lashes

Two Suns

A Quietus Interview

John Foxx Interviewed – The Quiet Man Speaks

John Foxx is perhaps one of the UK's most undersung musicians. Here he talks to Alex Ogg about Ultravox!, synth pop and nearly being in The Clash.

Things I Have Learned

Lydia Lunch: My Life As A Work In Progress

Alex Ogg sets the tape running and stands back in awed silence as New York no wave shit-kicker Lydia Lunch reflects on life as a work in progress.

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