James Smith chats to The Edge about their change in direction and their upcoming shows.
Fresh off a tour with Emeli Sandé and currently supporting Aiden Grimshaw, afro-pop artist Seye is set to be huge in the coming year. Signed to Stranger Records, 23 year old Seye from Nigeria now lives in East London. It seems music is in his blood, as he is the brother of Gbenga from Metronomy. I…
Catch a Fire at the Guildhall is set to pay tribute to the legendary music of Bob Marley and the Wailers, whilst celebrating 50 years of Jamaican independence, on Friday 12 October. Part of the the Lively Up! festival, which is touring 50 musicians and dancers to ten UK cities, honouring several reggae icons including…
After playing their support slot for Wolfgang at Joiners, The Edge caught up with the four-piece.
Here is part two of my interview with Bastille at Reading Festival earlier this year. Check out part one here. If you were to have any special guest vocalists or do any collaborations, who would be the dream? Will: Rihanna! Everyone: Yep! Will: For obvious reasons. For that bodaaaaay Dan: You said it! Saw it…
At this year’s Reading Festival I managed to catch up with everyone’s favourite new band, Bastille. I found myself waiting around in the press area until it was time to call and confirm the interview. It came to 2:50 and I got a phone call asking if I could be escorted to the Festival Republic…
Alt-J ∆ are by far one of the most talked about bands so far this year, with a Mercury Prize nomination and an amazingly successful debut under their belt I wonder what the seeming force of nature that is Alt-J ∆ can do next. I had the opportunity to speak to guitarist/bassist Gwil Sainsbury over…
I met up with Frightened Rabbit’s drummer Grant Hutchinson, brother of lead singer Scott. We talk new albums, drunken festivals, steroids and dinosaurs. What have you been up to lately? We’ve finished recording the new album, we did it in Wales in a studio called Mono-Valley. That was in May, and it’s getting mixed right…
The singer-songwriter for Sheffield catches up with The Edge following her second album, Calling All Angels.
Backstage at the Vans of the Wall Stage at Boardmasters this summer I managed to catch up with the American pop-punk band Set Your Goals. Co-Frontman Matt Wilson and drummer Daniel Coddaire took 10 minutes out of their busy schedule to tell me about touring, recording and Punk Goes Crunk. How’re you finding touring this…
Following the announcement of their newest album Astraea, The Edge got a chance to chat to James Spence, the synth man and vocalist for ‘mathcore’ rockers Rolo Tomassi, about the band’s changing line-up, how they are defined and their future, You recently announced the release of your new album, what can you tell us about…
Phoebe Cross catches up with Little Comets and talks arty videos, vinyl and getting old.
After watching their phenomenal set at Strummer of Love Festival I got a chance to chill out with Dan and Will from Bastille outside their temporary, luxurious, dressing room area aka – a small caravan. It was such a poignant time to talk to Bastille, on the cusp of becoming very very popular, with lots…
The Guillemots are busy, very busy, so myself and Andy Neilson were very lucky to have been able to meet up with them last month at Truck festival. They’ve decided to release four albums in the space of a year, with the first, Hello Land! having already come out in May. Ambitious, but according to…