Archive for the ‘punk’ Category
By
Simon Sellars •
Feb 22nd, 2010 •
Category:
H.P. Lovecraft, Iain Sinclair, Ian Curtis, Lead Story, New Worlds, Savoy Books, Shanghai, audio, censorship, interviews, literature, music, punk
The story of Savoy Books is one of the strangest in publishing history: a tale of lost opportunities, missed opportunities, repression, censorship, imprisonment … and, most importantly, an incredible legacy of work that continues to disturb, challenge and confront. All of those qualities are equally applicable to Savoy Records, the music arm of Savoy’s black empire, as Simon Sellars discovers when he talks to Savoy co-founder David Britton. The interview features sound clips from selected Savoy releases.
By
Simon Sellars •
Feb 22nd, 2010 •
Category:
H.P. Lovecraft, Iain Sinclair, Ian Curtis, New Worlds, Savoy Books, audio, censorship, literature, music, punk
The story of Savoy Books is one of the most strangest in publishing history: a tale of lost opportunities, missed opportunities, repression, censorship, imprisonment … and, most importantly, an incredible legacy of work that continues to disturb, challenge and confront. All of those qualities are equally applicable to Savoy Records, the music arm of Savoy’s black empire, as Simon Sellars discovers when he talks to Savoy co-founder David Britton. The interview features sound clips from selected Savoy releases.
By
Mike Holliday •
Nov 5th, 2009 •
Category:
Ambit magazine, Iain Sinclair, Lead Story, New Worlds, Savoy Books, William Burroughs, alternate worlds, body horror, censorship, horror, humour, interviews, punk, surrealism
The story of Savoy Books is one of the strangest in publishing history: a tale of lost opportunities, missed opportunities, repression, censorship, imprisonment … and, most importantly, an incredible legacy of work that continues to disturb, challenge and confront. Mike Holliday talks to Savoy co-founder Michael Butterworth about all this and more, including the guidance Butterworth received as a young writer from J.G. Ballard.
By
Dan OHara •
May 4th, 2008 •
Category:
Germany, Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, Philip K. Dick, William Burroughs, archival, drugs, media landscape, politics, punk, science fiction, sexual politics, space relics, speed & violence, surrealism, technology, urban revolt
Another installment in Dan O’Hara’s re-translations of archival German Ballard interviews: a 1982 conversation conducted by Werner Fuchs and Joachim Körber.
By
Simon Sellars •
Sep 2nd, 2006 •
Category:
Australia, Brian Eno, John Foxx, William Burroughs, cyberpunk, film, interviews, music, punk
Interview by Simon Sellars
John Foxx live at Shrewsbury, 1998. © Extreme Voice.
This is part 2 of my interview with John Foxx, former lead singer of Ultravox before the band’s Midge Ure era, and an on-and-off solo artist for the past 25 years. Foxx’s Ultravox purveyed a damned, dreamy, paranoid — and often playful — weave [...]
