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Category Archives: Interviews
Interview: Edwyn Collins and Grace Maxwell
(Photo credit: Elaine Livingston) This interview originally ran as the cover feature of the Herald Magazine on November 1st, 2014. Helmsdale is not a place you can forget. The old fishing port on Sutherland’s east coast is welcoming and bright … Continue reading
Interview: Chvrches
An edited version of this feature ran in The Herald Arts Magazine (Scotland) on March 26, 2016, under the heading: CHVRCHES: MIRACLES DONE IN 45 MINUTES… There’s an old picture of Chvrches where they’re under a neon sign that promises: … Continue reading
Interview: Shirley Collins
This interview originally ran as the cover feature of the Herald Arts Magazine on January 28, 2017, under the heading: THE RETURN OF FOLK’S GUIDING LIGHT… For almost 40 years, it seemed as if Shirley Collins had gone to ground. … Continue reading
Interview: King Creosote
This feature originally ran in The Herald Newspaper (Scotland) on August 25, 2016. Elton John was bang on, as usual. It really is lonely out in space. Take Major Tom’s solitary tin-can odyssey, or Lou Reed’s forlorn Satellite of Love. … Continue reading
Interview: Aidan Moffat and Paul Fegan
This article originally ran in The Herald Newspaper (Scotland) on February 17, 2016. There is this story that comes from The Bible, or from an old folk song, or maybe from Nick Cave’s album, The Boatman’s Call. It came to … Continue reading
From the archives: Concrete Antenna
This article originally ran in The Herald Newspaper (Scotland) in September 2016. Imagine if the walls had ears. Imagine if the walls could sing. A new construction on Edinburgh’s skyline explores those ideas, and much besides. Housed within the new … Continue reading
Interview: Emma Pollock
This feature originally ran in The Herald Arts (Scotland) on January 23, 2016… Emma Pollock has long written songs for wonders that we cannot touch. She serenaded chemical reactions – light and heat; smoke and sound – on her 2007 … Continue reading
Interview: BMX Bandits
This article originally appeared in The Herald Newspaper (Scotland) on December 30, 2015 In 1986, indie magazine Sounds reviewed the debut single from BMX Bandits. “Indigestably sickly sweet,” they wrote of the Bellshill sunshine-pop rabble’s inaugural seven-inch, E102. “These BMX … Continue reading
Interview: Julia Holter
This article originally ran in The Herald Newspaper (Scotland) in November 2015. We always speak after the leaves have fallen. The first time was in 2012, while she was doing her thanksgiving shopping. As she traipsed LA’s supermarket aisles, Californian … Continue reading