Tag: interview
INTERVIEW WITH TELLISON
Tellison are one of those bands you can’t help but like, a down to earth bunch of lads who sure do know how to have a good time…especially when they head out West. We caught up with frontman Stephen Davidson ahead of their Bristol gig and slot at Gloucestershire’s 2000 Trees festival. With a surge [...]
INTERVIEW WITH gUiLLeMoTs
As they prepare to play this year’s Dot to Dot festival in Bristol, we caught up with Guillemots frontman Fyfe Dangerfield for a quick chat. Your name relates to seabirds but you come from Birmingham…how did that come about? We needed a name and I like birds. You announced details of the new album, Walk [...]
INTERVIEW WITH JOHN BISHOP
If Liverpudlian comedian John Bishop seems relaxed onstage that is because he is. Storytelling comes as naturally as taking breath to this handsome, former semi-professional footballer with the biggest smile in stand-up. “I just want to recreate the feeling of talking to my mates in the pub. I know it sounds odd doing it in [...]
INTERVIEW WITH MY FIRST TOOTH
As they prepare to play the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Finals at the Pilton Working Men’s Club this weekend (April 2) for the chance to win a slot at this year’s Glastonbury Festival we caught up with My First Tooth to find out what makes them one of our favourite new indie/folk bands. The interview coincides [...]
INTERVIEW WITH ADELE
How did you prepare for recording the new album? To start with I was doing a lot of hopping from one studio to the next and trying to find somewhere that had a good vibe. I also met up with a lot of producers and writers and musicians and hung with them out a little [...]
INTERVIEW: EDDIE HALLIWELL SUPERSTAR DJ
“Technology has allowed DJs to become more creative artists”
INTERVIEW WITH THE STRANGLERS
Old pros The Stranglers have been going for almost four decade, the last of which they’ve been fronted by Sunderland punk rocker Baz Warne. More recently they’ve been hauled up in a rented house on the outskirts of Bath rehearsing for their forthcoming tour and writing new material. We grabbed a quick chat with Baz [...]
INTERVIEW WITH FRANK TURNER
It’s been another busy year for the non-stop globetrotting folkster that is Frank Turner. Following the release of his third solo album ‘Poetry of the Deed’ at the end of 2009, Frank’s hectic touring schedule has seen him open for Green Day at Wembley Stadium and play at almost every festival on the UK calendar, [...]
INTERVIEW WITH ALL OUR GLORY
Rising from the ashes of past musical endeavours, Merthyr Tydfil’s All Our Glory are a success story in the making. Despite only forming in June, the quintet – featuring Ben Evans, Lee Davies, Oz Jackson, Daniel Sheppard and Ty Walker – have already recorded their debut EP and performed alongside fellow Welshmen Attack! Attack! and [...]
INTERVIEW WITH LISA LASHES
Following on in our international superstar DJ interviews after our recent catch up with Paul Van Dyk, 247 Magazine decided to go a little closer to home this time and chat to one of the UK’s most successful music exports (and certainly one of our more credible ones!) of the last 10 years or so [...]
INTERVIEW WITH GABBY YOUNG
As she prepares to play a homecoming gig in Swindon, Bath-born singer Gabby Young talks to Laura Williams about her inspirational upbringing in Wiltshire, her lifelong love of music and unique approach to styling. “When I was six years old I remember telling my mum I was going to be a musician. I never really [...]
INTERVIEW WITH KINGS OF LEON
To coincide with the release of the new Kings of Leon album, Come Around Sundown, the US supergroup take us through their the record track by track. The Recording Process: Caleb: There’s a lot of vulnerability on this record and that is the fact that a lot of it wasn’t rehearsed and, I mean, back [...]
INTERVIEW WITH AGAINST ME
Butch Vig, who most people will remember as the producer of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ and last year’s ‘21st Century Breakdown’ by Green Day, recently finished working with Florida’s Against Me! on their genre-spanning fifth album ‘White Crosses’. The punk rock four-piece, who previously worked with Vig on their critically-acclaimed release ‘New Wave’ in 2007, are about [...]
INTERVIEW WITH FUCKED UP
It was a couple of years ago that Toronto-based punk rock group Fucked Up first began to draw attention to themselves in the British music press, not only for their somewhat eye-catching name, but also for the onstage antics of their lead vocalist Damian Abraham aka Pink Eyes. It was around this time that the [...]
INTERVIEW WITH ELIZA DOOLITTLE
If you don’t yet know Eliza Doolittle (and if that’s the case just where have you been all summer?) then you soon will. Her hit single Pack Up is one of those catchy summer tunes which will stick in your head for days on end and her album is bursting with classic pop songs. The [...]
