Incendiary interview Matik
The buzz is out and MATIK very well could be Holland’s answer to French Canada’s TIGA or New York’s LCD Soundsystem
A Trip to the Tivoli with Franz Ferdinand.
“Best show I’ve seen them do since, oh hell, the first time? Probably better. Yes it’s easy to be blasé about Franz Ferdinand, but they are the real deal. Wish there were more like them. ”
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Incendiary News – August 2006
Hullo chaps!
Morton Valence – Blow Up Metro, Metro, London.
“What Morton Valence do then is make epic songs of varying length but unvarying style – whatever groove is set at the beginning of the song tends to be the same groove in the middle of the song and at the end of the song with extra instruments adding themselves to the mix occasionally to give a sense of dynamism.”
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Incendiary interview Eagle*Seagull at the Paradiso
“I really like Arcade Fire, so it’s fine if people compare us to them, but the album doesn’t sound anything like Arcade Fire to me. I think the whole thing started because of this journalist in Omaha who saw us once live and said, boy these guys are just like Arcade Fire. He has since retracted on that statement.”
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Pere Ubu – The Modern Dance (deluxe Dual Disc reissue)
In the “old days” this was the point when you flipped the (then vinyl) disc over. Make no mistake it wasn’t often you had the energy to do so. If you did, you were confronted by the Malcolm Mooney-esque screeching of Life Stinks.
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Metropolis, Rotterdam 03/07/06
“The heat is now ridiculous and the sun is in all its majesty. Like a true Englishman, I wilt. The band isn’t helped by some atrocious sound, and a rather bonkers presenter – plucked from a children’s TV slot – who has obviously never heard of them. ”
Incendiary grapple with Morton Valence
“I’m having dark visions of blokes with berets and goatee beards, smoking French cigarettes, reading Kerouac and Anias Nin, drinking black coffee in the New Piccadilly, fantasising over Joyce Grenfell and wondering why they never get shagged.
We prefer the shallow types!
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De Nieuwe Vrolijkheid “The Boekhorststraat Interview”
“That’s what Dutch people find offensive I guess. When you are not out to copy British or American bands, then there must be something fishy about it… what are you doing then?”
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