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Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 8 January 2000

JOEY (No 1): "We have enough hatred and anger to fucking fuel fucking ten fucking records!" Shawn (No 6): "We're pretty angry." ...

Oasis: Titanic!

Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, March 2000

OASIS, if you hadn't noticed, have just resurfaced. But will they sink or swim? After the druggy excesses of Be Here Now, following the departure ...

Pete Townshend Online

Interview by Jason Gross, Yahoo! Internet Life, April 2000

2003 NOTE: WHILE IT'S commonplace now for artists to put their material up for fans to preview, it wasn't three years ago, which should show ...

Wah!: Wah & Peace

Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2000

NINE YEARS AGO, Pete Wylie, who is The Mighty WAH!, was considered hot. Again. He leaned on a railing in Liverpool. It gave way and ...

The Jesus & Mary Chain: The Jesus and Mary Chain: Crash And Burn

Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, August 2000

FEBRUARY 2000. Seventeen months after the corpse of The Jesus And Mary Chain finally stopped twitching. In the claustrophobic interior of London's 12-Bar Club, a ...

Richard Meltzer: An Interview

Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, August 2000

AS ONE OF the first people who decided that rock and roll was something that could and should be something that could be seriously written ...

Andrew Loog Oldham, The Rolling Stones: The Backpages Interview: Andrew Loog Oldham

Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, January 2001

Last year saw the UK publication of Stoned, a wonderfully insightful film/fashion/music overview of the first Britpop era (1960-1964) by Andrew Loog Oldham, perhaps best ...

Alternative TV: The iJamming! Chat: Mark Perry

Interview by Tony Fletcher, iJamming.net, January 2001

AS THE FIRST sentence of my mission statement makes clear, Mark Perry was a major factor in my deciding to write about music – though, ...

Motels, The: The Motels' Martha Davis (2001)

Interview by Steve Roeser, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1 February 2001

On the release of the Anthologyland compilation, Martha talks about how she maintains a musical career, then looks back: her influences, from folk through soul and the Beatles to Bowie; the first Motels moving from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and creating their own scene; her mother's death, and raising two kids; reforming the Motels with Jeff Jourard, and getting signed; her love of the process: playing, rehearsing, videos etc.; putting together the anthology, and the future of the Motels.

File format: mp3; file size: 39.8mb, interview length: 41' 29" sound quality: ** (phoner)

John Frusciante, The Red Hot Chili Peppers: An Interview with John Frusciante

Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, March 2001

WHEN FRESH-FACED, 18-year old New Yorker John Frusciante was originally recruited as guitarist by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, following the heroin-related death of original ...

In His Own Right: Ian MacDonald

Interview by Paul Gorman, unpublished, March 2001

I INTERVIEWED Ian MacDonald for my music press history In Their Own Write in March 2001. As charming, tolerant and insightful as the first-class prose ...

Stephen Malkmus, Pavement: Stephen Malkmus: Invisible jukebox

Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, March 2001

Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...

Brian Eno: "So Why Are We Doing This?"

Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, May 2001

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT, observing Brian Eno's early career as furnisher of funny noises to the original Roxy Music, to predict that three decades ...

Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music: Another Time, Another Place: Bryan Ferry relives the early Roxy years

Interview by Nicky Parade, Rock's Backpages, June 2001

NP: I know that you didn’t particularly care for the term Glam. Is that because you felt it reduced Roxy to the level of, say, ...

Brian Eno, Roxy Music: Another Glam World: Brian Eno’s Adventures in Roxy Music

Interview by Djuna Parnes, Rock's Backpages, June 2001

DP: What does the phrase "Glam Rock" mean to you? ...

Neu!: Die Neu! Artikal

Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, June 2001

The colossal early '70s Krautrock groove of Neu! has influenced everyone from David Bowie to Radiohead. Now, 30 years on, they're back. "We had no ...

Roxy Music: Re-make Re-model

Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, July 2001

"PEOPLE ALWAYS apply this word 'cool' to me, and I'm far from it, really," says Bryan Ferry. "I'm very hot-blooded. It's strange. But then there's ...

Brian Eno: Eno: The Man Who

Interview by Paul Morley, Uncut, August 2001

After he left Roxy Music in 1973, Brian Eno became a key figure in the development of electronic music – in the nineties, NME ...

Gorillaz: Hey Hey We're The Monkeys!

Interview by Paul Elliott, Q, August 2001

Four years ago Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett shared a flat and partied with Spice Girls. Then they invented GORILLAZ. The weed-soaked cartoon collective has ...

Psychedelic Furs, The: The iJamming! Interview! Richard Butler

Interview by Tony Fletcher, iJamming.net, August 2001

LAST SUMMER I was asked by Sony Legacy to write sleeve notes for re-issues of the first three Psychedelic Furs albums, along with a newly-recorded ...