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We met for the interview in Chinatown in London, sat down for some food in a quiet backroom, poured sake and waited for the bento boxes.
Thomas House, vocalist and guitarist in Brighton’s finest exponents of emotive whatevercore, Charlottefield, is ambivalent about his adopted hometown.
London’s Joe Flory, aka 21-year-old Primary 1, is an enigma.
It’s, a trek and a half from Prestatyn in North Wales to Berlin, but it’s a journey made by big-hearted electronic crooner, David Bozzwell.
“Field Music was starting to restrict my creativity,” says David Brewis, one third of the Sunderland group that seemed to earn the affection of nigh on every leftfield-leaning muso before announcing their shock retirement last year.
There are so many hilarious stories about Jon Richards, singer and guitarist with London trio The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers, it’s hard to remember where one ends and the others start.
“It’s hard to imagine a world where Tom Waits is a superstar,” sighs the Wave Pictures’ Dave Tattersall. “It’s a nice world, and I don’t know where it went.”
We’ll admit that this is probably not the first paper to pick up if you wanted the low-down on fresh new Jamaican music.
Slow Club are: boy shivering in Russian hat, girl shivering in tartan rug.
Be very clear: Ulterior are not your mates.
Watcha Enders. Been a while. This is the ‘no excuses’ issue because me, you and everyone from the Ends all knows this year is about getting our grind on and making some p’s.
It was hard getting back to work after Christmas so we invited Miss Polly Rae into Pigeon HQ to help whip us into shape.