INTERVIEW: British Sea Power (Clash)

"We were aware that the things we were watching were things that happened before now, and these black and white people had a right good old time lifting wood onto boats, and getting dilly dally down the promenade, and also liked to blow each other up on occasion . . ."

I spoke to Yan from British Sea Power about their latest album, their soundtrack work and ten years of being bloody excellent. Read it here.

INTERVIEW: Iceage (Clash)

"During our telephone call, I ask Surrballe Wieth if he’s pleased with You’re Nothing. “Oh yeah - very, very pleased with it,” he replies with genuine enthusiasm before going on. “But I think it seems like we did it quite a long time ago now. I think we’re already in a new place, we’re already writing a lot of new songs. We feel really great about how it turned out, it turned out exactly how it should, but we’re just moving on constantly.”"

I spoke to Iceage guitarist Johan Surrballe Wieth for this feature for Clash in the run up to the band's excellent second album You're Nothing. Read it here.

Marching to Superfuzz: An Interview with Mudhoney's Mark Arm

Click here for my Quietus interview with Mudhoney's Mark Arm about the November release of Mudhoney Live: Berlin 1988, a DVD of their first overseas show.

"I don’t know if it was refreshing, it was just kind of funny, you know, we’ve been going quite some time. At this point I’m fifty fucking years old, I can’t quite move the same, you know? It’s like “oh wow, that’s a strong young lad!"