We chat to some of the newest or biggest or even best bands around! Plus our 2011 Q&A for bands of the past under the confessions of a former indie star moniker
Check out the following pages for excellent interviews, available from the drop downs on this very page:
From The Jam / Russell Hastings Interview - Jan 2009
* UPDATED * Mutineers - Original interview with Manchesters' Mutineers featured in December 2010, new series of questions from December 2011!
For 2011 we have come up with a brand new Q&A for bands who have parted but live on in the memories and record collections, this is.... Confession of an ex indie Star All we have to do now is try and find them!
There's three interviews and blasts for the past on the Confession of an ex indie Star page. First up is Ian Prowse former frontman of Pele completes the COAFIS Q&A to talk about Pele and also his current band Amsterdam - (February 2011). Then there's Graham Lambert guitarist with Manchester heroes Inspiral Carpets (March 2011) and finally Giles Duffy former guitarist from 1990's execllent indie band Thousand Yard Stare (March 2011).
The Loud - June 2011
Raw City - July 2011
Check out the FEATURED page for an interview with the people behind the INDIE TRACKS Festival, really good read. - July 2011 & updated again in 2012.
Jon Windle - Former singer with Sheffield's Little Man Tate and now proper solo artist. - December 2011
Check out State of indie for some rants about the music scene at the start of 2012 and also a couple of excellent Q&A's with new bands The Lines and The Set - January 2012
Alex Lowe - former singer with 90's indie stars Hurricane #1, solo singer songwriter and artist - April 2012
The Kickliner - check out the FEATURED page for an exhaustive interview with the Sheffield band plus more! - May 2012 - plus take a listen to a fine Kickliner track too!
93 million miles from the sun - check out the FEATURED page for a huge interview with Nick Mainline of Doncaster's finest shoegaze / drone rock merchants - September, 2012. Again listen to a brilliant shoegaze special while you read by clicking the jukebox.
I Am In Love - Q&A with the electro shoegaze outfit from Leicester - October 2012
** NEW ** Check out the Facebook Challenge page for some real Q&A fun! Like our old Myspace challenge, we've revisited it and got 18 questions together. These have gone to loads of the bands we've 'liked' on the shadders onmelungs facebook page, 18 standard questions but always, always different responses! Check out the page for Q&A's with...
We've teamed up with Wakefield's Long Division Festival and got a load of bands on the bill to take the Facebook Challenge... these are
This Is The Kit - April 2013
Kid Canaveral - April 2013
From Leeds... Post War Glamour Girls - April 2013
Grunge rockers Nine Black Alps - April 2013
Plus how it started in January.... although both Skint and Demoralised and Jonny Firth are on the Long Division line up!
Wakefield's finest pop meets punk poetry Skint and Demoralised - January 2013
Essex ska indie pop merchants... Missing Andy - January 2013
Atmospheric indie pop darlings....The Darlingtons - January 2013
Doncaster finest solo folk rock songsmith.....Martin Black - January 2013
Yorkshire punk / blues songsmith Jonny Firth - January 2013
** NEW ** Back on the FEATURED page is an interview with the people behind the fantastic Long Division festival in Wakefield. - March 2013
ARCHIVE INTERVIEWS 2010
Click on this page under the ARCHIVE menu for the following great interviews from 2010...
Daniel Land & The Modern Painters - April 2010
Black Soul Strangers - April 2010
The 99's - August 2010
Calamateur - September 2010
For all shoegaze fans check out the Featured drop down section and click on Shoegaze as there are the following interviews:
Rachel Goswell Interview
Annie Barker Interview
ARCHIVE INTERVIEWS 2
check out the ARCHIVE menu. This page includes some real retro & old chats with ..
Check out interviews with....
The Race
Shortwave Fade
Punk TV
Viva Stereo
TD Lind
Black Light Theatre
Craig Johnson
Mr Shy
Rob McCullock
Vib Gyor
ARCHIVE INTERVIEWS-
check out the ARCHIVE menu. This page includes some real retro & old chats with ..
Bluetones
idlewild
Athlete
Kaiser Chiefs
Pure Reason Revolution
Kasabian
The Boxer Rebellion
The Black Velvets
Oceansize
Ria Bright
20 Questions
20 generic questions but always different answers, like the Myspace Interview challenge only newer and more questions! check these out on the ARCHIVE menu... including 20 Questions 2009 & 20 Questions 2010.
Remember to check out the excellent interviews that are part of The Myspace Interview Challenge - 15 generic questions but all very different answers! Dating back to 2007 and 2008. Also available on the ARCHIVE Menu, there's loads of pages and mamonth amounts of replies!
Also in that section is the Doncaster Myspace interview challenge, just for our local friends who get a few extra questions! Also can be accessed now via the ARCHIVE menu.