John Higgs
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Do You Know What a Love Letter is? Mike Scott of The Waterboys Interviewed by John Higgs
Can you tell someone's life story in the album format? It was a question Mike Scott asked himself before making Life, Death And Dennis Hopper. Words: John Higgs. Cover portrait: Paul MacManus
A Quietus Interview
Do You Know What a Love Letter is? Mike Scott of The Waterboys Interviewed by John Higgs
Can you tell someone's life story in the album format? It was a question Mike Scott asked himself before making Life, Death And Dennis Hopper. Words: John Higgs. Cover portrait: Paul MacManus
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The Maiden Voyage: Bruce Dickinson Interviewed
Iron Maiden's larger than life frontman talks to author John Higgs about magical practice, the hallucinatory mandrake root, how to survive a rough childhood and why William Blake is an artist we should look to for inspiration. All photographs by John McMurtrie
A Quietus Interview
The Maiden Voyage: Bruce Dickinson Interviewed
Iron Maiden's larger than life frontman talks to author John Higgs about magical practice, the hallucinatory mandrake root, how to survive a rough childhood and why William Blake is an artist we should look to for inspiration. All photographs by John McMurtrie
Black Sky Thinking
The Beatles, Bond & A Culture War Over George Lazenby’s Hair
At the end of the 1960s, Bond was old hat as the hippies wafted their locks over culture. John Higgs, author of a new book on 007, the Beatles and British identity, explores the culture war that raged over follicular extravagance
Black Sky Thinking
The Beatles, Bond & A Culture War Over George Lazenby’s Hair
At the end of the 1960s, Bond was old hat as the hippies wafted their locks over culture. John Higgs, author of a new book on 007, the Beatles and British identity, explores the culture war that raged over follicular extravagance
Books
The Heart Of The Original: John Higgs On Alistair Fruish’s The Sentence
In Alistair Fruish's groundbreaking one-sentence novel, author John Higgs finds – rather than the cold work of a computerised neural network one might be expecting – a piece of work that is testament to, both, the future of artistic originality and the human element of those works
Books
The Heart Of The Original: John Higgs On Alistair Fruish’s The Sentence
In Alistair Fruish's groundbreaking one-sentence novel, author John Higgs finds – rather than the cold work of a computerised neural network one might be expecting – a piece of work that is testament to, both, the future of artistic originality and the human element of those works
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Conditioned To Death: An Interview With Power Trip
Power Trip's Manifest Decimation has just landed in the Quietus' list of favourite albums of 2013 so far. Toby Cook catches up with the band to discuss DIY culture, touring injuries that'll put your teeth on edge and just what on earth the French existentialists have to do with thrash metal
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The Afterlife Of Sounds: An Interview With Stephen Cornford
Repurposing discarded Walkmans, TVs and other scrap heap finds, Stephen Cornford's work erases the boundaries between music and sculpture. He tells Robert Barry why he's using it as a means to question our consumerist habits
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Winning The Fame Game With No Regrets: Beth Ditto Interviewed
As she prepares to release her new EP with Simian Mobile Disco, Luke Turner sits down with Beth Ditto and finds that, a million record sales down the line from that song, Gossip's singer is still an unreformed Arkansas punk. Just with a better mattress
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Transcendental Mediation: An Interview With The Orb
With The Orb's new retrospective box set recently released, Exotic Pylon lizard lord Jonny Mugwump speaks to Alex Patterson about industrial ambient dub, the social conditions that fed into the 90s rave explosion, and working with Lee 'Scratch' Perry
