I've written a fair few interviews down the years, mostly for musicOMH, and some for the BBC News website and what was Ceefax. Oh, and too many reviews, features and whatever else to count, remember or bother listing here.
As a flavour, rather than a complete representation, I've collected together 21 interviews that I'm still just about happy with. Lurking elsewhere are many others.
Luke Haines
Second of two interviews with the Auteurs and Black Box Recorder founder, covering wrestling, rock'n'roll and The North Sea Scrolls.
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tUnE-yArDs
Merrill Garbus on mixed cases, Swahili greetings and second album w h o k i l l.
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The Knife
Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer Andersson discuss Silent Shout, influences and meanings.
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Pet Shop Boys
Neil Tennant charts a course from hawking demos round majors to his present-day household name status.
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Matthew Herbert
The big band leader, DJ, producer, composer and label boss still finds time to do the school run.
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LCD Soundsystem
James Murphy talks analogue synthesiser auctions, lyrics, bands and DFA Records.
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Beach House
Alex and Victoria on third album Teen Dream.
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Baaba Maal
The Senegalese singer and campaigner explains how everything he does is geared to improving the future for others.
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Robyn
Back from the brink with the all-conquering With Every Heartbeat, the Swedish bombshell explains her second coming.
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M83
Anthony Gonzalez explains his fascination with stars, Saturdays and the halcyon days of his youth.
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The Divine Comedy
The second of (to date) four interviews with front man Neil Hannon, this one covering "his EMI period".
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Lily Allen
As her single Smile hits the top of the midweek charts, a new kind of pop star prepares for the limelight.
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Jónsi
The Sigur Rós front man on his debut solo album.
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Fever Ray
Leaving brother Olof in Berlin, Karin Dreijer Andersson sets out on her own with a new identity.
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The Duckworth Lewis Method
Neil Hannon and Thomas Walsh explain the origins of their eponymous cricket concept album.
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St Vincent
Annie Clark gets to grips with translating her multilayered recordings into a one-woman show.
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Joan As Police Woman
Joan Wasser on the origins of her second album To Survive.
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Camille
The French solo artist and sometime Nouvelle Vague collaborator on Anglo-French relations and writing songs in a second language.
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The Field
Axel Willner explains the origins of From Here We Go Sublime and its Kompakt-released follow-up, recorded on an island near Stockholm.
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Seth Lakeman
Discussing his fourth album Poor Man's Heaven and his move to a major.
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Damon Albarn
The Blur and Gorillaz founder talks us through his Mali Music project.
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