Friday evening I caught up with Ritzy & Rhydian from The Joy Formidable before the sold out headlining show at Norwich Art Centre. To set the scene: Rhydian spent the first ten minutes ironing his shirt which is a first apparently. We were joined by Matt and Joel the band’s manager part way in. I [...]

Unless you’ve been on planet Mars, you will know of my love for these amazing guys. It was a real honour to be invited backstage to meet them and run what I thought would be a short five minute interview. Turns out we kinda hit it off and it ended up running for nearly thirty [...]

I was recently asked to participate in a sort of roundtable interview with electro ragers DIOYY. It was a bit last minute, as you can tell by my rather pedestrian (read: crap) questions, but worthwhile nonetheless! The other blogs present were Stoney Roads, Not Many Experts and Ears of the Beholder. As I mentioned a [...]

Everyone knows who White Lies are at this point, right? So I don’t need to bother with the obligatory press release stuff or ‘If you haven’t heard White Lies, you must be living under a rock!’? No? Good. All you need to know is that White Lies are great.
I was able to interview bassist Charles [...]

Adele’s wonderful debut dropped here back in June (and in the UK in January), but the world is still swooning over her as evidenced by her recent triumphant performance on SNL which caused her album to surge to #11 on the Billboard charts with a 25,000+ sale increase! Talk about a healthy boost!

1)You recently played [...]

When someone asks you if you’d like to interview a band consisting of former members of Jesus & Mary Chain and Ride, how do you respond? You sit down, get a paper bag to stop yourself from hyperventilating, and you try to think of questions that won’t sound extremely stupid. I’ll let you decide if [...]

I had a chance to chat with Late of the Pier’s Sam Potter a.k.a., Jack Paradise yesterday. The band were in the states for CMJ’s Music Marathon, as well as to promote their debut album, Fantasy Black Channel. The record has been out in the UK since August and has received praise from Artrocker, The [...]