The Hacienda may be one of dance music’s most iconic clubs — but co-founder and owner Peter Hook never thought he’d be celebrating the club 20 years after it shut in a blaze of gang […]
Category: Interviews
Jean-Michel Jarre interview: ‘Electronic music is a different way of thinking’
History is supposedly written by the winners, but maybe it’s time for a reappraisal of 1976-77 – often credited to punk as a year zero for music. In hindsight, maybe the revolution wasn’t happening as the […]
Jeff Mills interview: ‘Techno feeds a basic human urge’:
The Halloween bank holiday in Dublin is always a big weekend for club gigs, but Jeff Mills is the only techno guy who’ll be turning up to his gig in a tuxedo with his 909 […]
Screen savers: Interview with house crew and YouTube aces Eton Messy
Unless you’ve been clubbing in the UK or you’ve been to dance festivals in England, you probably haven’t crossed paths with house crew Eton Messy in the flesh — but there’s every chance you’ve been […]
Richie Egan interview: ‘People really invest in the Redneck Manifesto’
At one point in our chat, Richie Egan just says “fuck thinking”. Taken out of context it’d be some nihilistic outburst or end-of-your-tether cry for help, but it’s really a positive statement. Egan is chatting […]
The tables have turned: Interview with snooker star DJ Steve Davis
There’s a long tradition of sports stars dabbling in music but it generally lands on the novelty scale — from John Barnes’ rapping on World In Motion to Gazza’s tone deaf Casio pop hit Fog […]
‘It’s music from the blood of my life’: August Wells interview
August Wells singer and songwriter Ken Griffin often gets compared with greats like Leonard Cohen, Scott Walker, and even Frank Sinatra, which sounds slightly hysterical until you hear his impossibly rich baritone. The Dubliner moved […]
Interview: Sugarhill Gang on how they made Rapper’s Delight
You’re probably never more than 24 hours away from hearing a Sugarhill Gang song. Even 10 minutes before a conference call with Wonder Mike, Master Gee, Hen Dogg and DJ TDynsaty, their song Apache is […]
Beauty through tension: Kiasmos interview
The very mention of techno music used to bring the establishment out in a rash. In its early years, techno and wider club culture was simply a byword for hedonism and anarchy, an extrapolation of […]
Sonny Fodera interview: ‘A lot of the rawness and purity of house music is being lost’
There’s been a lot of hot air in the last few years about the house revival that’s taken over the charts, festival fields and every shopping centre playlist around Ireland and the UK. In an […]
John Stanier interview: ‘Math rock is a pretty gross term… really unsexy’
Check any random definition of the term ‘math rock’ and Battles will probably pop up somewhere. It’s been a catch-all shorthand term for the band over the last 15 years, with their flitting rhythms, overlapping […]
Causing Ructions: In the studio with Matador
There was a time when Dublin’s Harcourt Street could claim to be Ireland’s techno hub. And when someone finally gets round to writing a definitive history of Irish dance music, Tripod on the corner of Harcourt […]
No Sleep till Ibiza: Darius Syrossian Interview
UK house DJ Darius Syrossian can’t get enough of Dublin, it seems. He was only here a few months ago for the Strictly Deep Christmas party at Hangar, and he’s at the Wright Venue in […]
Special K: Francois Kevorkian interview
When we’re discussing the early pioneers of disco and proto-house music it’s usually an origin story passed down over 40-odd years. We’ve made mythical characters out of Larry Levan, Walter Gibbons, Ron Hardy and others, through […]
Little Green Cars interview: ‘We know who we are as a band now’
The ‘difficult second album’ is such a cliche that it’s a bit lame to ask Little Green Cars for their take on it, but there’s a point with their new LP. Ephemera, the Dubliners’ follow-up to 2013’s […]
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