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Interview by Helen Fitzgerald, Melody Maker, 19 March 1983

LAST SEPTEMBER a very strange thing happened. Three unknown scruffy Scottish urchins took the indie charts by storm with, a debut album, called Garlands, an ...

X-Mal Deutschland: Mal Function

Interview by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 19 January 1985

X-Mal Deutschland: the new wave of Germanic white gospel blues pop rock, or just a "really funny band" from Hamburg? Chris Roberts cuts through the ...

Cocteau Twins: Cocteau Cabinet

Interview by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 4 January 1986

A new year and a new starter for THE COCTEAU TWINS who team up with CHRIS ROBERTS for talk, turkey and all the trimmings. ...

Jeffrey Lee Pierce: impurely an entertainer

Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 25 January 1986

JEFFREY LEE PIERCE is a nice man when he's sober but when he's got three fingers in his mouth he's a scream. JACK BARRON held ...

Paul Simon: Still Mbaqanga After All These Years

Interview by RJ Smith, Spin, January 1987

For 20 years, Paul Simon whined and kvetched about the same things. Then he went to Africa and finally had fun. But he broke the ...

Annie Lennox: The Right Stuff: Annie Lennox on Singers

Interview by Adam Sweeting, Q, February 1987

I NEVER HAD enough money to have a record player, so I never got into the habit ol buying records, and so my only real ...

Cocteau Twins: "None Of This Should Have Happened"

Interview by Mark Cooper, Q, April 1987

Unlistenable early tapes. Refusals to appear on Top Of The Pops. Information-free record sleeves. A mistrust of people "who can play all the strings on ...

The Wedding Present: Best Defence

Interview by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 27 February 1988

THE WEDDING Present were born in 1985, achieved the level of quite exciting, and now have had greatness thrust upon them with worrying prematurity. Recent ...

Gun Club, The: Reloaded Gun Club Takes Aim Again

Interview by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 3 April 1988

SITTING AT the coffee table at his mother's West Hollywood apartment, Jeffrey Lee Pierce keeps jumping up to change records. Sly & the Family Stone's ...

The Sundays: Sunday's Best

Interview by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 14 January 1989

Late last year, Chris Roberts stumbled upon the Sundays playing a support gig in one of London's many watering holes. Stunned by their brilliance, he ...

Elvis Costello: Elvis Lives!!!

Interview by Andrew Mueller, On The Street, 18 January 1989

IN THE BEGINNING was the Word. And the word was No.No as in No Interview. Elvis Costello would be talking about his forthcoming album, Spike, ...

Mazzy Star: Give 'Em Enough Hope

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 5 January 1991

Mazzy Star's debut album, She Hangs Brightly, was voted one of the Top Ten albums of 1990 by the Maker writers. This year they look ...

Morrissey, Smiths, The: Morrissey: Lyrical King

Interview by Steven Daly, Spin, April 1991

With Morrissey's new album, Kill Uncle, about to be released and talk of a U.S. tour, England's last great pop poet is back. STEVEN DALY ...

The Sugarcubes: Sugarcubes: Shout To Lunch

Interview by David Quantick, NME, 4 January 1992

"It is too cold in this country," sighs Einar Orn. "Cold and damp." He sips at his warming Guinness. Bjork Gudmundsdottir giggles to herself over ...

Smashing Pumpkins: Fuck Off... We're From CHICAGO!

Interview by Nick Jones, Spiral Scratch, 9 January 1992

"ISN'T THIS where The Beatles grew up?" inquires Billy Corgan from the stage of the Underworld club in London's Camden Town. His 4-piece Chicago band ...

My Bloody Valentine: The Sound of the Future: My Bloody Valentine

Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 6 February 1992

"WE'D LIKE TO COME OUT FROM the shadow of the greatest things ever done," declares Kevin Shields, the soft-spoken, bookish-looking leader of My Bloody Valentine. ...

My Bloody Valentine: Beauty In The Beast

Interview by Mark Kemp, Option, March 1992

WELCOME TO "God's Own Country," as a Texas politician recently decribed his home on the range, "where the grass grows tall and the wind blows ...

Manic Street Preachers: Look Back In Bangor

Interview by John Robb, Siren, April 1992

THE BEAUTY of contradiction. Incendiary intellectuals tarted up on oxfam glam rags, sensitive made up boyos from the beer swilling valleys, the Manic Street Preachers ...

Cocteau Twins (1996)

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 8 February 1996

After a brief discussion of Scottish cuisine, Robin Guthrie, Liz Fraser and Simon Raymonde talk about the delayed release of their latest (and last) album Milk and Kisses; and about Britpop, leaving 4AD, signing to Fontana and the neglect of previous album Four-Calendar Café; plus the process of writing and recording, Liz's voice and lyrics, the strains of touring, the missing of family... and UFO sightings!

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Album covers: New tricks up their sleeve

Interview by Susan Corrigan, The Guardian, 18 March 1996

The LP cover is once again regarded as an art form. Susan Corrigan meets the designer largely responsible ...