Music in the margins
Tag: 4ad records
“Indie Zelig” : Lush, Felt, Feel, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Servants & Other Short Stories (The Philip King interview)
“‘Sad Wings Of Destiny’ by Judas Priest – that could almost be a Felt album title, don’t you think?”
Dif Juz – ‘Extractions’ (4AD, 1985)
“…the bluster of Autumn, the bending of trees, wind rippling through long grass in waves, the mesmeric unraveling of colossal cloud fronts…”
A Design(er) For Life : the Martin Andersen interview
“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…”
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.”
Piano Magic Diaries : The Troubled Sleep
“Did we want to be on a label called Green Ufos? We were called Piano Magic for fuck’s sake, so we couldn’t exactly throw stones in that glasshouse.”
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.”
Piano Magic Diaries : Writers Without Homes
“Take the head of a duck, the body of a goat, the legs of a rhino, the tail of a cat, stitch them altogether and see what you have. It may not be beautiful but it’s certainly interesting.”
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!”
