Interviews
SHORT INTERVIEW: TAROT RATS SHARPIE NIGHT
The calm before the new album storm. Monday 20 January, the Rats gather with their coloured sharpies to eat Dundee cake and sign album pre-orders. …
MACHINES DREAM – CRAIG ON RUSH
Craig did two interviews for our Neil Peart tribute show. For the first Craig spoke at length and with great passion, but we subsequently found …
PISTON – BRAD TRIBUTE TO NEIL PEART
As part of our tribute special to Rush’s Neil Peart, drummer Brad speaks passionately about his childhood hero – and the huge influence Neil and …
THE DUST CODA – ADAM ON 2020 PLANS
As part of our January new music showcase, Adam speaks from a windswept Whitstable about the band’s plans for the year ahead. Ones to watch …
FRAGILE THINGS – HUGO TRIBUTE TO NEIL PEART
As part of our tribute special to Rush’s Neil Peart, where a generation of new rock bands paid tribute to one of their heroes, here …
SHORT INTERVIEW: PISTON – JACK EDWARDS ON 2020
As part of our January new music showcase, Jack from Piston reviewed a landmark year for Piston in 2019 – and talks about the band’s …
SHORT INTERVIEW – VERITY WHITE ON PURPLE VINYL
Verity White chats about her topline plans for 2020, rediscovering the art of music on vinyl and her involvement with the new Earache Records new …
SHORT INTERVIEW: MATT MITCHELL ON 2020 PLANS
A year on from the release of ‘Black Diamonds,’ Matt talks about the song’s second chapter with the new Earache Records ‘New Wave Of Rock …
Feature Interview – Thirteen Stars: New Album Countdown
Our first feature of 2020, Hoss “the Prof” from the band talks about the band’s new album, its creative direction, and plans for the year …
2019 WINNERS INTERVIEWS: TAROT RATS – LOCAL HEROES AWARD
Tarot Rats came 3 rd in the big Band of the Year vote and started the year as Band of the Month. As the highest …
2019 WINNERS INTERVIEWS: AS SIRENS FALL – SINGLE OF THE YEAR
You just can’t argue with a song that’s had a 40 consecutive show run on my Friday rock show (breaking the previous record of 19 …
2019 WINNERS INTERVIEWS: LYNNE JACKAMAN – LIVE ACT OF THE YEAR
A feature of what we have done since the beginning, and twice voted Artist of the Month during 2019. For us Lynne’s milestone during the …
2019 WINNERS INTERVIEWS: MELISSA ETHERIDGE – ALBUM OF THE YEAR
A big year with us for Melissa. With ‘The Medicine Show’ many of our followers and the radio show listeners reconnected with Melissa’s catalogue. An …
2019 WINNERS INTERVIEWS: SCARLET REBELS – BAND OF THE YEAR
Over 50 weeks, 150 acts gave us interviews and all of them were in the very long shortlist for our 5 th annual Band of …
SHORT INTERVIEW: JOHN ILLSLEY – NOVEMBER TOUR
From Dire Straits to solo frontiers, John speaks about his solo music and November 2019 tour dates, where he reflects on his memories of the …