“In the seventies you had people that were the pop stars of the period like Elvis Costello, The Jam or The Clash and their subject matter was heavy and now it seeems like a lot of people aren’t saying anything that makes any real difference to me.”
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Arcade Fire – Melkweg, 11/03/05
Kaiser Chiefs – Employment
Incendiary Interview Electric Barbarian
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I usually consider the turntables as a chord-instrument like a piano or guitar. That is the basic thing of Electric Barbarian: trying to use the turntables as a replacement of the chords. Only the best scratchers can do that and improvise with it.
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Rufus Wainwright – Want Two
Incendiary talk to The Polaroids
“Up until now we’ve been a bit like a baby marsupial in its mother’s pouch. You have to know when the time is right to hop out into the wide world, and we want to do that fully grown.”
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The Polaroids – Urban Fox
I love this EP. Standing on its own two feet, meeting the world on its own terms and almost a classic.
The Dirt : Motley Crue, by Neil Strauss and the band
"I had come to discover that my favourite form of entertainment was just mixing everything and then seeing what happened to my body. " – Nikki Sixx
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Electric Six – Senor Smoke
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“We’ll karaoke all night long/We’ll Macarena to the break of dawn”. Now if that’s not enough of a warning for you, I don’t know what is.
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Radio 4 – Melkweg, Amsterdam – 15/02/2005
"This band were ready for us and I wasn’t ready for them."
"Look I’m telling you, Steinbeck’s good, but Kerouac, Kerouac’s the one… No, no, you can say what you like Richard, but you can only appreciate what Kerouac’s saying once you have done the road thing. To judge him purely on literary merit is to miss the point I think."
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