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Nick Drake: Something else for Nick? An interview with Nick Drake

Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 13 March 1971

NICK DRAKE IS A SHY, INTROVERTED folk singer who is not usually known to speak unless it is absolutely necessary. But Nick is not the ...

John Cale: The MOJO Interview

Interview by Paul Trynka, MOJO, February 2007

What drives the Velvets' viola-wielding Welsh polymath who tutored Nick Drake and Patti Smith, quit drugs for clothes and suffered 40 years of Lou Reed? ...

Belle and Sebastian: The Ever-So-Secret Seven

Interview by Martin Aston, MOJO, January 1998

"IT ALL STARTED at open stage sessions at The Halt Bar in Glasgow," recalls Belle & Sebastian bassist Stuart David. "Drunken Saturday afternoon shambles ...

Jake Bugg

Interview by Tom Doyle, MOJO, January 2013

Notts' young songwriter-voice bottles lightning, goes to Number 1. ...

American Music Club: Ace of Clubs: American Music Club

Interview by Ralph Traitor, Sounds, 16 January 1988

IF YOU’VE EVER walked down a big city street and narrowed your vision to exclude everything except the garbage, savouring the contradiction between wealth and ...

Laura Veirs: Mixed-Up Confusion

Interview by John Lewis, Hotline, January 2010

Laura Viers came to folk via punk, is geeky yet cool, young but experienced and both delicate and tough. John Lewis meets her. ...

American Music Club: Godlike genius, or what?

Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 29 March 1996

Mark Eitzel's got something. Caitlin Moran, for a start ...

Boo Radleys, The: Boo Radleys: Fab — and that's not just the Boos talking

Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 24 March 1995

So how did a, let's face it, pretty morose bloke such as Martin Carr manage to come up with Wake Up!, which is, let's face ...

Beth Orton, Terry Callier: Beth Orton: The next Dusty springs from the trailer park to centre stage

Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 19 March 1997

Beth Orton is an unlikely creature: a beautiful, long-limbed folk singer who's got the grapevine buzzing. Her pop comes from the American trailer park and... ...

Sia: She Should Be So Lucky

Interview by Dan Gennoe, The Independent, February 2004

In 2000, Sia was hailed as the best thing to come out of Australia since Kylie. It proved a lot to live up to, she ...

The Weather Prophets: Singing In The Rain: The Weather Prophets

Interview by Len Brown, NME, 28 March 1987

Songs?! Poetry?!! Something's very wrong here; THE WEATHER PROPHETS are making a splash as a high profile rock band, but there's no mention of metal ...

John Grant: Success At Last For A Rock'n'roll Survivor

Interview by Andy Gill, The Independent, 7 January 2011

Dangerous sex, addiction and self-loathing – John Grant's turbulent life inspired one of the best albums of last year. Andy Gill meets him ...

Shack: Shed Heaven

Interview by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 14 March 1998

Smack addiction, tragic death and a clueless music biz may have conspired against the fortunes of genius singer-songwriter MICK HEAD and his band SHACK, but ...

American Music Club: Psycho Thriller

Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 25 March 1989

MARK EITZEL, OF American Music Club, a self proclaimed 'fuckin mess', a man who's spoken before of being 'doomed to sing' and living in terror ...

James: Four Imaginary Boys

Interview by Mat Snow, NME, 15 March 1986

"I'D LIKE TO put a disclaimer in at this point: Mat Snow is using very long word and drawing us into an academic discussion of ...

Joe Boyd: An Interview

Interview by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 21 February 1976

Penny Valentine talks to the man in between, Joe Boyd who has recently produced Toots Hibbert, Maria Muldaur, and the McGarrigles. ...

Faithless, John Martyn, Sister Bliss: Sister Bliss & John Martyn

Interview by Dan Gennoe, 7, 21 February 2001

She's the first lady of house, he's a living folk legend. She likes gospel, he likes jungle. They are the odd couple and they're taking ...