Interview With Director Peter Sheridan
Walking down some dodgy back-street in New York in 2004, I ambled across a shifty looking character selling movie scripts bound in cheap cardboard. My uncertainty of the legitimacy of
Interview with Adrian Crowley
Adrian Crowley is the source of great debate in the Totally Dublin office. See me, I say his music sounds like honey dripping from a wooden spoon. Another voice pops
Interview with David Kitt
Any Leaving Cert. English teacher, struggling to make MacBeth more appealing than sending dirty MMS messages underneath the desk will tell you that you learn most about a man by
Interview with Imelda May
Imelda May is bridging gaps and breaking boundaries all over the shop. Her debut album, Love Tattoo, is currently climbing the charts like nobody’s business and the level of critical
Music – Interview – 202s
Imagine the potential joy of a record shop lucky dip. You thrust your hand into a paper bag and might pull out any gem from any given era or genre
Polly Scattergood
From her Dickensian moniker right down to her Victorian-horror tinged lyrics (‘spit on my French knickers/and call me a whore’) London-based songwriter Polly Scattergood is gothic in the most classical
Interview with Girl Talk
Listening to Girl Talk is a bit like taking a pop music guilty pleasure, tossing in a touch of hip hop with a somewhat obscure indie rock reference, and giving
Clash City Rockers – Interview with Blk Jks
During Apartheid rock was the music of the white, but without a distinct oppression or resistance, the boundaries have been erased. The Johannesburg quartet Blk Jks is the sound of
Interview with Sneaky Sound System
Aussies are known for their laidback attitude and their penchant for partying. They’re also pretty mad for their dance music. It’s no surprise, then, that Australia’s latest export, Sneaky Sound
Monsters Vs. Aliens – Interview with Seth Rogen
Former stand-up comedian and Ali G staff writer Seth Rogen walks a delicate tightrope between the obnoxious and the endearing. A late addition to the Vaughn-Wilson-Ferrell axis of American comedy,
Music – Interview – School Of Seven Bells
What do you get if you cross two seraph-voiced beauties with a guitarist from a cult spacerock band? Well, throw in a dash of otherworldly lyricism, woozy dreampop melodies and
Fever Ray Interview
The facts: Fever Ray is the solo vehicle for the musical experiments of one half of Swedish switchblade-electronica proponents The Knife, Karin Dreijer-Andersson. The Knife create dance music with an
Interview with Bell X1’s Paul Noonan
Reading a (postively-worded) review of Bell X1’s fourth collection of wittily-worded and warmly-written songs this week, one sentence jarred with me: “Bell X1, now Ireland’s second biggest rock band.” Somehow,
Interview with Greg Wilson
Back in ‘83, Greg Wilson was the first man to mix two records together live on television under the scrutiny of The Tube audience and a smug, bemused, aviator-sporting Jools
Interview with Peter Bjorn & John
“Peter Bjorn and John are complete jokers,” a man In The Know informs me ahead of chatting to one third of Sweden’s most thrilling indie-pop three-piece. “One of the few
Wintersleep Interview
When Wintersleep’s Paul Murphy notes that “the interest level has been pretty gradual” in his Nova Scotia band it seems an incongruous statement for any 21st century Canadian widescreen indie
Interview – Rachel Unthank
Rachel Unthank and the Winterset have been challenging people’s impression of folk music ever since their debut album, Cruel Sister, won Mojo Magazine’s Folk Album of the Year in 2005.
Villagers – Interview with Conor O’Brien
Conor O’Brien, the lynchpin of Dublin’s most hotly-tipped musical act for 2009, Villagers, bears a jarring resemblance to Nebraskan angst-folk outfit Bright Eyes’ singer Conor Oberst: all choppy black hair,