Music Interviews
The Gizeh Records Interview Extravaganza Part One - Her Name Is Calla
- 17 Jun 08
Glissando, in Glasgow’s Bar Bloc at the end of May. Ward replied, saying he wasn’t even sure what he was doing at the end of March never mind the end of May, but he would try to make it along. Being an enterprising sort, and excited by the chance to do some actual proper music editor stuff free of the constraints of major-label PR types, he also mentioned his position at this august rag, and said that Gizeh should feel free to add Brazen to its mailing list.
Seasick Steve Is The Fucking Man
- 17 Oct 07
At this year's inaugural Connect festival, one old man in dungarees and a tattered baseball cap and his three-stringed guitar took to the stage early on Sunday afternoon and, in forty-five minutes, stole the whole weekend away from every other act playing. After a life spent lurking, Zelig-like, in the background of many of the most important musical movements of the late twentieth century (including the American blues scene of the 1950s and the Washington state alternative rock scene of the late 80s and early 90s that spawned, amongst others, Modest Mouse and Nirvana), Seasick Steve (or Steve Wold, to his mother), finally released a solo album - Dog House Music - in 2006, and, aged somewhere in his 60s (no two sources agree on an exact age) quickly began to accrue a fierce live reputation that could provoke jealousy in men a third his age.