From punk provocateur to post-punk pioneer, John Lydon has been one of the most singular and divisive figures in popular music for over 40 years – and he reckons he’s got 40 more where that […]
Category: Interviews
Jimmy Cliff interview: ‘I wanted to accomplish a lot of things in this lifetime’
Few artists can boast about changing the face of music, but Jimmy Cliff was there at the crossroads at two points in reggae’s growth into a global movement. In 1972, Cliff starred in the ‘first […]
Interview: Dave Clarke and the art of never selling out
Near the end of my half-hour chat with Dave Clarke, he says he’s most proud of not selling out at any point, even if he “didn’t have a personal life for 30 years”. He’s talking […]
Tinfoil interview: ‘We feel techno in a very primal kind of way’
There’s a cliche of modern dance music as a solitary pursuit — of producers locked in studios fine-tuning DJ tools, hunched over screens, nano-checking every frequency for big-room optimisation. Irish duo Tinfoil’s visceral analogue techno […]
Loah interview: ‘It’s all just a big human experiment of creating stuff’
After the recent Imagining Ireland showcase at the Barbican in London, the Guardian nailed it in a review by saying “this was Ireland, but not as we are told we know it”. The concert could […]
Donal Dineen interview: ‘The middleman is a dope’
The phrase ‘What’s the story?’ may have been turned into shorthand Dublin slang over the years, but it’s a greeting that taps into cliched Irish openness and curiosity: “So, what are you all about?” Telling […]
Mango & Mathman interview: ‘Grime isn’t alien music in Ireland anymore’
When it comes to street art in Ireland, the North’s politically-charged pieces have always got the headlines, but a recent mural of Stormzy that appeared in Dublin dragged the pop culture discourse down south. Back […]
