whynow • 28th July 2022

Pixies: ‘This album has given us that same excitement as Doolittle’

In a few hours, alt-rock heroes Pixies will play their smallest UK show since the early nineties. For now, the band’s timekeeper is keen to shoot the breeze. “I haven’t been as excited about an album since Doolittle,” he enthuses in reference to forthcoming album, Doggerel.

whynow • 13th July 2022

Courtney Barnett: ‘Songs grow just as much as people do’

“It’s been really nice to get back into the world and play again,” reflects Courtney Barnett from her portacabin backstage at BST Hyde Park. We’re speaking just as the 34-year-old is about to wrap up her first clutch of European dates since 2019 with a prestigious supporting slot on The Rolling Stones bill and she’s in a relaxed mood.

Dazed • 31st May 2022

The Sex Pistols lift the lid on Danny Boyle’s hotly anticipated series

“We were all 19, 20 years old. Kids. Kids who basically didn’t have a fucking clue,” fizzes Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones down the line from his LA home. “We came along at the right time. We turned everything on its arse.”

Little White Lies • 10th May 2022

Warren Ellis and Andrew Dominik on This Much I Know to be True

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds had pursued an intrepid path before Warren Ellis added violin to 1994’s ‘Let Love In’. But once the Dirty Three founder and multi-instrumentalist Ellis established himself a de facto Bad Seed in 1997, the green shoots of a special relationship appeared.

HeyUGuys • 17th November 2021

Mike Leigh Extended Interview - on Naked, All or Nothing, Vera Drake Blu-Ray & the BFI retrospective

Mike Leigh is interviewed by Greg Wetherall for the StudioCanal Blu-ray release of his films All or Nothing & Vera Drake.

The Telegraph • 17th November 2021

The Doors: ‘Jim Morrison had a pretty tough Oedipus complex – it made him manic depressive’

Doors drummer John Densmore is pointing over his shoulder to two royal blue LA street signs situated next to his drumkit. The signs say Densmore Av and Morrison St. “You’re probably curious about that?” he says.

HeyUGuys • 4th October 2021

Malcolm McDowell looks back on A Clockwork Orange for its 50th Anniversary & 4K UHD release

Malcolm McDowell is interviewed by Greg Wetherall for the 50th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.

Little White Lies • 1st October 2021

J Mascis: ‘In the early days, venues banned us for being too loud’

For 37 years, J Mascis has pushed the alt-rock envelope with his seminal band Dinosaur Jr, backed by a Marshall stack with his trademark Fender Jazzmaster in tow. The guitarist’s blunt-edged riffs, solos and nonchalant vocals have inspired generations. Inter-band harmony, however, hasn’t been quite so sanguine.

whynow • 12th September 2021

The Vaccines are Back in Love City

EXCLUSIVE: whynow speaks to The Vaccines on the album they wish they never made, the notion of band identity, and being back in love city.

Variety • 16th March 2021

Kings of Leon Talk New Album, What’s Next and Why Solo Careers Are Unlikely

Sometimes you have to cut loose from the shackles of self-perception to really be free. Nearly two decades into their recorded career, Kings of Leon are a band now willing to let go of commercial concerns. “We’ll argue with the record label later if we don’t have the radio hit,” frontman and principal songwriter Caleb Followill tells Variety.

NME • 18th January 2021

'Robin's Wish': what the new doc tells us about Robin Williams' final days

When news broke in August 2014 that beloved actor and comedian Robin Williams had died by suicide, an outpouring of public grief soon followed. As the tributes poured in, the media was rife with speculation and reporters were quick to blame Williams’ historic issues with drugs and alcohol. New document

Curzon Blog • 11th October 2020

INTERVIEW: Václav Marhoul, director of The Painted Bird

It was September 2019 and the clock had barely caught sight of the hour mark in Václav Marhoul’s gorgeously composed but stomach-churning, nigh on three-hour realisation of Jerzy Kosiński’s brutal Holocaust book The Painted Bird when an additional, unexpected sound filled the auditorium air.

Curzon Blog • 11th October 2020

INTERVIEW: Matteo Garrone, director of Pinocchio

It would be easy to forgive anyone letting loose a sigh upon hearing the news of an umpteenth adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s iconic 19th Century creation, Pinocchio. After all, the large and small screen alike has tugged this classic Italian fairytale in every direction you might think imaginable.

NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs | NME.COM • 1st May 2020

Julia Garner: "#MeToo is so much bigger than Harvey Weinstein"

Julia Garner is an actress on the rise. From her film debut in 2011 mystery thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene to recent Netflix hits like crime drama Ozark and Seth Rogen and Emma Stone-starring comedy Maniac, her CV is increasingly stuffed with big-name collaborators.

Dazed • 20th October 2020

Interview: Stevie Nicks is still dreaming

Stevie Nicks has had “a hell of a day”. Not only is it 3am at her home in Los Angeles when we first speak on the phone, the power has gone out in her house.

The HotCorn • 28th October 2019

Director Thom Zimny on Bruce Springsteen's 'Western Stars': “I'm grateful to be part of the journey”

Bruce Springsteen’s nineteenth studio album Western Stars is the sound of a warm whisper in the ear and a reassuring arm around the shoulder. The sweeping grandeur of its strings and lush, country-inflected textures contrast with lyrics that poke at the asperities of both his own existence and those of a parade of fictional characters.

Skiddle • 1st October 2019

Charlie Cunningham interview: Fenders, Flamenco and the future

A few years ago, guitar-toting virtuoso Charlie Cunningham cashed in his beloved Fender Telecaster so that he could fund a train ticket to Seville to learn flamenco. A few years passed before he returned home. Like a musical prodigal son, his return secured a record deal and a hit album, Lines.

Dazed • 8th December 2020

Debbie Harry: ‘Maybe sexual explicitness has come of age’

Debbie Harry doesn’t believe in harbouring regrets. “I have made many, many errors, but nobody leads a perfect life,” she reflects down the telephone from New York. “So, should I regret anything? No. It is a waste of time. It really is a waste of time.” Dial back to the turn of the 70s and the life that Harry led before fronting Blondie – prior to her image being burned onto the retina of popular culture – was colourful to say the least.

The HotCorn • 21st February 2019

Roberto Saviano Interview: "I managed to ruin not only my life but that of my family as well. It’s a big weight to carry”.

Newton’s Third Law dictates that for every action, a reaction. For every atom of energy expended, a consequence. Some consequences, however, are irrefutably grander than others. “I miss the carefree, easy life that I had when I was 26, before all these nightmares began”, Roberto Saviano reflects sombrely.

NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs | NME.COM • 15th October 2020

Stevie Nicks: "In Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie and I were a force of nature" | NME

Nothing will slow Stevie Nicks down. When Fleetwood Mac concluded their year-long world tour at the end of 2019, the 72-year-old singer songwriter decamped to her Santa Monica home with the intention of taking the year off from touring. l