“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.”
Tag: 4ad records
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!”
Arcane Delights, Radio Show 5, 4AD Special (CAMP Radio 28/11/20)
Music In The Margins
If only I could get up before 9am…(My Record Store 2020 picks for August 29th)
“Re-issue, re-package, please the press in Belgium?”
Brendan Perry (Dead Can Dance) interview
“Homo sapiens have stayed pretty much as they were, as hunter/gatherers, except that they have supermarkets now where they gather. “
The Wolfgang Press – ‘Queer’ (4AD/Time Warner, 1991/1992)
“The city is weird now, like all cities are weird now—but Queer still thrills; it still makes me want to move.”
Arcane Delights 