INTERVIEW – BABA ZULA

Celebrating their thirtieth anniversary, Baba Zula continue to seek out new approaches to music making that is marked by a refreshing unwillingness to repeat themselves. Describing themselves as sound warriors, their latest album, ‘XXX’, also reflects a willingness to confront environmental crisis and question the commodification of public life. Via email, Murat Ertel (electric saz, […]
Lazar from the Hungarian group, Dirty Slippers, discusses their plans, recording at Abbey Road Studios and their work creating the addiction and mental health support organisation, Suliturné. First off, I’m in love with Where Did The Summer Go. It’s an indie triumph with rock undertones. Nothing is wasted and all the components work. How long […]

INTERVIEW – DIRTY SLIPPERS

INTERVIEW – DEARY

deary have become one of the most talked about names in shoegaze’s recent resurgence, following the release of their debut record ‘Birding’ I had the chance to sit down with the band ahead of a sold-out show at Manchester’s Pink Room earlier this year, the band discussed their influences, working with Bella Union, how they […]
Having been lucky enough to have witnessed The Fall live several times from the early 90’s onwards, it’s easy to see why they were, and still are, one of the most revered bands to ever emerge from Manchester. “We are The Fall, northern white crap that talks back” they famously announced on their 1979 debut […]

INTERVIEW: PAUL HANLEY (THE FALL / HOUSE OF ALL / OH BROTHER! PODCAST / AUTHOR ) ON THE UPCOMING FALL FUTURES AND PASTS FESTIVAL, BAND ON THE WALL 5TH TO 7TH JUNE, AND NEW ALBUM – FALL SINGLES LIVE VOL TWO 1980-83

INTERVIEW – THE HOOSIERS

The Hoosiers deliver signature dabs of eccentricity, colour and play with such consistent buoyancy, the optimism of the late 2000s somehow finds itself firmly nestled in their most recent of releases. Their latest endeavour, a sprawling, beautifully anxious exploration of the world we now live in, aims to bring a shade desperately lacking from the […]
  To celebrate the release of their irresistible, joyous debut album ’Taiga Trans’, we sent some questions to Gothenburg band Fauna. Their co-founder and bassist, Ibrahim Shabo (Ibbe), kindly told us more about the collective and how a microwave inspired one of their tracks. Could you give some background as to how the band got […]

INTERVIEW – FAUNA

INTERVIEW – BCUC

Soweto ensemble BCUC (which stands for Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness) make politically conscious, rhythm-heavy, life-affirming music which exudes positivity. Their fifth album, ‘The Road Is Never Easy’, is set to be released on 3 April 2026 via Outhere Records and will be followed by extensive touring. Within 24 hours of emailing some questions to the […]
There’s never been a band as triumphantly independent as The Lovely Eggs. A duo consisting of Holly Ross and David Blackwell who over the course of seven studio albums, and numerous EPs in the last twenty years have managed to bring their brilliant indie pop to the masses all on their own terms.  Now with the […]

INTERVIEW: THE LOVELY EGGS

INTERVIEW: THE WEDDING PRESENT – CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF INDIE GREATNESS!

Back in 1985, the brilliant guitar pop of ‘Go Out And Get Em Boy’ was the Wedding Present’s first single, and in the intervening decades, it’s fair to say that David Gedge and the Wedding Present have done exactly that. Their blend of shimmering guitar tunes, often with a rockier overtone, and lyrics capturing love […]
Even though sales may not have matched the critical acclaim, Robert Forster’s career is enviable. Over 45 years since The Go-Betweens’s debut single and nearly 20 years after the tragic early death of Grant McLennan with whom he shared one of the great songwriting partnerships, he has been enjoying a prolific, late period surge and […]

INTERVIEW – ROBERT FORSTER