New Music Interviews
theartsdesk Q&A: Marc Almond of Soft CellThursday, 12 May 2022![]()
Soft Cell, the duo consisting of Marc Almond and Dave Ball, announced they were calling it quits in 2018. The two sold out shows at the 02 in London were supposed to be their swan song, waving goodbye to their Soft Cell days. But as their eponymous Eighties single hinted, waving goodbye is often paired with a hello. Read more... |
10 Questions for Musician JarboeFriday, 22 April 2022![]()
Jarboe is a singer and musician who first rose to prominence as a member of Swans from 1985 to 1997. During this time, she and her then partner and fellow Swan, Michael Gira, also released three albums as Skin (known as World of Skin in the USA). Read more... |
10 Questions for musician and DJ Pete TongFriday, 03 December 2021![]()
Perhaps appropriately, when I called Pete Tong for his 10 questions I was hungover, on the phone in a park after a night at a very good party. It’s a sign of the times that things are appearing to return to a relative normal, despite the threat of Omnicron and a precipitant winter lockdown. Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: jazz musician Charles LloydSaturday, 20 November 2021![]()
Miles Davis stole Charles Lloyd’s band, and much else. Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Low, the band - 'Structure is key in minimalism. Especially in pop minimalism'Friday, 19 November 2021![]()
After its mid-September release Low’s 13th studio album Hey What hit 23 on the UK’s Official Charts, their highest ranking to date. Back in early 2001, Things We Lost in the Fire topped out at number 81. Despite the increasing profile, Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk remain largely autonomous. There’s the odd change of bass player, label or producer, but their work together as Low is self-determined. They do what they want, and they define Low. Read more... |
10 Questions for Bobby Gillespie of Primal ScreamFriday, 02 July 2021![]()
Bobby Gillespie (b 1962) is best known as the lead singer and driving force of rock band Primal Scream. He was born and raised in Glasgow and met future Creation Records boss Alan McGee at school. Read more... |
Singer-songwriter Peggy Seeger: still in the vanguard of her musical dynastyMonday, 12 April 2021![]()
If American music has a royal family, it’s surely the Seeger clan. Charles, the patriarch, the composer, musicologist and teacher who could be said to have invented ethnomusicology, married first to Constance de Clyver Edson, a violinist and teacher. Read more... |
10 Questions for Vocalist-Lyricist Georgia MancioTuesday, 23 March 2021![]()
This week marks a major step in the songwriting collaboration between British/Italian singer-songwriter Georgia Mancio and Alan Broadbent, the Grammy-winning jazz pianist who has played with Woody Herman and Charlie Haden’s Quartet West. Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Daryl HallMonday, 08 March 2021![]()
Writing something people want to stream one billion times is inconceivable for most of us. But then, most of us aren't Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Daryl Hall. Read more... |
10 Questions for Musician and Broadcaster Cerys MatthewsFriday, 15 January 2021![]()
Cerys Matthews is a best-selling author, award winning DJ and multi-million selling musician, singer, reciter... and broadcaster, originally from Wales. Her wide-ranging Sunday morning radio show on BBC 6 Music has a large, loyal and appreciative audience. She also presents the Monday night Blues Show on BBC Radio 2. Read more... |
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