To celebrate Roger Waters’ moving and highly relevant album AMUSED TO DEATH, we are revisiting a rare Roger Waters interview where he talks about the album - one of my best 100 of all time. The interview and music are particularly relevant at this time…

The title of the album reminds me of Neil Postman’s book. So, was [...]

Back in 1999 I received Moby’s PLAY album for review and was impressed and inspired by it. However, it seemed to me that the rest of the music media had overlooked or ignored it. Shortly after receiving it I was lucky enough to interview Moby in a bijou London hotel as he was packing to [...]

With the recent release of her latest record I’m reprising an interview from a few years ago. Di Franco remains one of the greatest and most adventurous singer/songwriters anywhere, and her latest release UNPRECENTED SHIT proves that, like wine, Di Franco keeps getting better with age.
Do you feel uneasy about being labelled a poet? ‘Poet’ [...]

Back in 2010 I had the pleasure of hearing Beth Nielsen Chapman for the first time and ultimately witnessed a live performance.
Much of Beth Nielsen Chapman’s new album is about love. It’s called BACK TO LOVE and six of the song titles feature the word “love” or “loving”, so it’s fitting that her upcoming tour starts on [...]

2010 Interview: Since 1999, we have written about Ireland’s Frames and Glen Hansard who we firmly believe are up there with the very best rock musicians and song writers in the world. In more recent years, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova’s first Swell Season record has at last generated the level of worldwide recognition Hansard and [...]

And another of my favourite records and another vintage interview…
My first experience of Sophie B Hawkin’s music was the album TIMBRE, which totally blew me away. I subsequently acquired her other albums and concluded that here was one of the finest pop singer/songwriters around today. I also noticed that both lyrically and vocally Sophie is [...]