Interviews
The Skinny discusses new releases and record choices with prominent artists and producers; covering everything from albums and songs to influences and matters of the heart.
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Interviews
The growing pains of Dillinger Escape Plan
SF: Drummers and injuries come and go but Dillinger Escape Plan has thrived against incredible odds, as Jamie Borthwick learns.
PQ: ""You know what we always remember about Scotland...every single time we've played there, we've seen someone get arrested."" Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Swimmer One
SF: Sometimes you've got to get your hands dirty if you want the job doing properly, so Swimmer One tell Billy Hamilton Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Hot Hot Heat - Luke who's talking
I think some of the best ideas come to you at five o'clock in the morning when you're laying in a ditch in Italy, you know? Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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From Akron/Family with love
People are deciding that we're all doing lots of drugs or that we're crazy religious types. - Matt Seaton Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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The Hives - Back to Black (And White)
SF: Remember The Hives? Your new favourite band in 2002 have returned, but don't expect just more of the same, as guitarist Vigilante Carlstom tells Nick Mitchell.
PQ:""We're just a black and white rock 'n' roll band."" Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
InterviewsPatti and Juliette: Born to Raise Hell
Mixing your drinks can yield explosive results, as Dave Kerr finds out when he's served music with a twist of politics from Patti Smith and Juliette Lewis at Jack Daniel's birthday bash in Tennessee Read more »| 07 Nov 2007
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InterviewsFOUND can prove
We don't want to compromise our sound by trying to make it more commercial but at the same time we're not interested in making music which alienates people. - Tommy Perman Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Back in a Kate Nash
PQ: Miles Johnson enjoys a cold one with the cockney songstress before she jets off for a few gigs in New York and slingshots back to Scotland for another visit later this month.
PQ: ""Lily is great but I sometimes get tired of talking about the similarities between me and her."" Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Jack of all trades
His songs may be all over the radio right now, but it's taken Jack Peñate years of gigging - and painting and decorating - to get where he is today, as he explains to Nick Mitchell.
""People want tunes now, but they also don't want it to be bullshit. They're not interested in fakeness and people looking like perfect pop stars.""
Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The OK Coral
SF: James Skelly waxes lyrical to Duncan Forgan about the rejuvenation of his band and their distrust of the great southern Metropolis.
PQ: ""You look at modern popular culture these days and you can easily tell who is sucking corporate cock or not. Sometimes you just think that civilisation is going to shit."" - James Skelly Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Iron and Wine
Scraggy bearded cult folk maverick Sam Beam gives Hamza Khan a little bit of insight into his new album and the sorry state of his Hallowe'en costume collection. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Animal Collective - Unsolved Mysteries
With pop music affixing itself to every sub-genre in sight, Animal Collective seemed a safe haven from its omnipresent grasp. But after the release of new LP Strawberry Jam, Billy Hamilton chats to frontman Dave Portner to uncover whether AC have finally succumbed to the mainstream's clutches Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
InterviewsTori Amos: "This Is My War!"
To propel one of 2007's most fiercely political albums into the upper echelons of the global charts is no mean feat. To do so some 15 years into your career, in a fickle climate in which many of your peers have been written off with the shelf life of a Ginsters pasty, is another phenomenon entirely. Never one to shy away from a battle, Tori Amos tells Dave Kerr why motherhood spurred her American Doll Posse into action Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Introducing: Genaro
It's great that people like what we do, but we'd still be creating music regardless - Derek Bates Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Ardentjohn
"We've all shared a double mattress, fuck, we must get on alright." - Al Marron Read more »| 08 Oct 2007