The Archives
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05.11.09Interview: SUCKS TO LALA LANDI thought it was about time I caught up with the voice behind Sucks To LaLa Land, the one and only Keith Crain, and put to him the questions that you folks will someday need answered, maybe not today, and possibly not tomorrow, but definitely sometime in the not too distant future. Here's how it went... Smally: When did you start writing music and why? Keith: i started writing music about 3 or 4 years ago. Smally: So why Bob Dylan? And what is your favourite Dylan song? Keith: Why Bob Dylan!? Because his songs make me feel something. His lyrics are set up in such ...
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02.03.09Interview: PAUL LE KEUX1 Ok, so let's cut straight to the quick - what's the difference between Uberfuzz, Rocketships of Love, and The Grosvenor Suite? Uberfuzz is the band I started four years ago in response to there not being enough psychedelic groups in the Rugby area. Rocketships of Love was the result of me wanting to take a back seat vocally and get people I admire to sing covers of songs that I love. It is also born out of my unhealthy obsession with early electronic music like Silver Apples, Kraftwerk and early Joe Meek experimental stuff; so it’s a lot less guitar-led. ...
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10.12.0820 Questions: GIL from CODY HIGH SCHOOLSo having blown us away with "Baddest Fastest" this summer, and with rumours of a follow-up record cooking away behind the scenes, I figured it was a good time to catch up with the Head Boy who seems determined to burn the system down that is Gil De Ray. Here are the resulting 26 questions disguised as 20 for your discerning brains to digest. 1 CoDY High School - where'd you get the name from and what does it mean? Gil: CODY stands for Come On Die Young. CODY were a gang in Glasgow that ran around the Southside near where I ...
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10.08.08KALEIDONAUTS: Kris & Smally On The Making Of “Tigermouse”1 Seed Smally: "Seed" originally began as just that - a seed of a line that I had stuck in my brain that "the apple bites back". One afternoon round about the mid-point of writing the record I had a bit of time to kill so I wrote and recorded a song called "The Apple Bites Back" - it wasn't really meant as a Tigermouse track, more a stupid little song to fill some space with all the music you can hear on "Seed", and layers of vocal melodies singing throwaway lines like "I think this time I bet you wish ...