Dale Lately speaks to novelist, poet, slam-winning hat-wearer and winner of the Guardian's Not The Booker Prize 2014, Simon Sylvester about nomadic existence, writing from and outside of experience and the history of storytelling
At this year's Roadburn in Tilburg, Harry Sword finds a deviation from the sound synonymous with the festival's name and learns, for one thing, that "heavy music" has more than one meaning. All photographs by Erik Luyten, www.erikluyten.nl, all rights reserved