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The Stool Pigeon

Stool Pigeon, The

Launched in 2005, The Stool Pigeon was an independent bi-monthly free UK music newspaper. It closed in 2013, but the title continues in an online edition.

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Grace Jones: Grace Under Pressure: Grace Jones

Interview by John Doran, The Stool Pigeon, December 2008

PLAYING BACK MY phone interview with Grace Jones, I notice that at the start of the transcript while I'm waiting for someone to pick up ...

Animal Collective: Race Against Rhyme

Interview by John Doran, The Stool Pigeon, March 2009

Animal Collective are retreating even further into their fool's paradise of a utopian never never land. Their daydream is tempting, given the alternatives. ...

John Parish, PJ Harvey: Different Voices: PJ Harvey and John Parish

Interview by John Doran, The Stool Pigeon, March 2009

Polly Jean Harvey has reunited with John Parish (who collaborated with her with on To Bring You My Love, Is This Desire? and White Chalk) ...

Depeche Mode: Universal Truths And Sounds

Interview by John Doran, The Stool Pigeon, April 2009

It's all tea and biscuits for Depeche Mode these days, and a trip back to the future ...

Pet Shop Boys: Animal Instinct

Interview by Luke Turner, The Stool Pigeon, May 2009

Pet Shops Boys done good these last three decades, and they're still playing cat-and-mouse with expectation. ...

Sonic Youth: A Rude Awakening

Interview by Luke Turner, The Stool Pigeon, May 2009

Luke Turner feels the pall in the mall as he accompanies a pre-boogie woogie jam Sonic Youth on a shopping trip. ...

Marilyn Manson: God Of Fucking About

Interview by John Doran, The Stool Pigeon, June 2009

He promised us champagne and caviar, but now he's only capable of delivering cola and crisps. To John Doran, he's become little more than the ...

Yoko Ono: Naked Ambition

Interview by John Doran, The Stool Pigeon, October 2009

THERE'S SOMETHING to be said for delayed gratification. There's no small amount of tortoise versus hare enjoyment to listening to Yoko Ono's new album. ...

Electric Wizard: You Terrible Cult

Interview by John Doran, The Stool Pigeon, November 2009

Jus Oborn of doom titans Electric Wizard promises a new album for 2010. "I want the man in the street to spit at me", he ...

John Lydon, Public Image Ltd, The Sex Pistols: John Lydon

Interview by John Doran, The Stool Pigeon, March 2010

IN CALIFORNIA WE MEET a traveller from an antique land. On two scrawny legs – KFC issue – he stands. He has a shattered look. ...

Ennio Morricone: Lightning Conductor: Ennio Morricone

Retrospective and Interview by John Doran, The Stool Pigeon, May 2010

ENNIO MORRICONE is not a slight man. He is a slim man. A man of average height. But he is not slight. ...

Chris & Cosey: From Death Factory To Fenland

Interview by Luke Turner, The Stool Pigeon, May 2011

At home with electronic and industrial music pioneers Chris & Cosey ...

ABC, Art of Noise, Belle And Sebastian, Buggles, Tina Charles, Dollar, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Grace Jones, Malcolm McLaren, Seal, Tatu, Yes: Interview: Trevor Horn

Interview by Simon Price, The Stool Pigeon, 2 February 2012

"That coldness; that precision": Simon Price meets the man who invented the '80s ...

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