“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
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.”
My favourite albums of 2021
“If asked, “What are your favourite records this year?” I hum and ha. Yet, ask me my favourite records of 1981 and I could write you a (small) book. “
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?”
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.”
A.R.Kane – ‘Lollita’ (4AD, 1987)
“Our music was like Hendrix and the Pistols. Jesus, we were nasty, we didn’t give a shit, we were totally self-indulgent.”
Arcane Delights 