Today from the Rock's Backpages archive, an archive piece from 1997 where Suede's Brett Anderson and Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant (with interjections from Vic Reeves) sat down to discuss the legacy of Noel Coward and changing attitudes to sexuality
In response to massive cuts to the BBC World Service, studio manager Robin The Fog took to the corridors and studios of its now-former home, Bush House, with recording equipment in hand. He speaks to Laurie Tuffrey about the resulting album, and the importance of the World Service
East India Youth's self-released, bedroom-crafted TOTAL STRIFE FOREVER was one of our surprise discoveries of this year, and swiftly graduated to regular Quietus office listening. A karaoke session later, he tells Laurie Tuffrey how the record came together