“Some days would start with drinks at 10am and continue until late into the night. At times, it felt more like being in a rock band than working for a design studio…”
Category: Interviews
Peter Ulrich (Dead Can Dance) interview
“I think there were a lot of Dead Can Dance fans who imagined that we probably, you know, sat on the tour bus and just read Proust and pontificated or whatever. Of course, you can’t do that 24 hours a day.”
Ivo Watts-Russell/4AD interview, 1988
“You’re thinking about this music all the time as opposed to just simply listening to it – enjoying it or not enjoying it.”
Searching for the perfect record shop (Pt 4) : World Of Echo interview
“I think people trust record shops now more than they trust the music press. Record shops have a really strong narrative around them.”
Robert Dallas Gray (Life Without Buildings) interview
“Someone once called the record ‘mid-fi’ which is probably accurate – it was hi-fi recordings of a low-fi band.”
Graham Bailey (The Sound) interview
“I like emotional, passionate, edgy music. I don’t like “happy” music at all.
But I am happy!”
Warren Defever (His Name Is Alive) interview
“First question and I’m ready to walk into the ocean, thanks for the hardest interview ever. Let’s see who survives.”
Cocteau Twins, 4AD, The Mary Chain & Other Stories – An Interview with Colin Wallace
“I was talking to Ivo recently and he said if Vaughan (Oliver) was still alive, he would’ve designed a mask with a big vagina on it!”
Steven Brown (Tuxedomoon) previously unpublished interview, 2004
“Do you think that Nirvana was happy music? I mean music has been melancholic from Wagner to Nirvana, all of it! I really think that music is, by definition, melancholy.”
Blaine L. Reininger (Tuxedomoon) interview, 2020
“Tuxedomoon has not been easy to pigeonhole. That’s probably a large part of our appeal. “
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